wallpaper card

Brown cs with a layer of gold mirri board. Punched corner pieces in the top two corners to hold wallpaper which had been stuck onto scrap card. Stamped the bingo card from Creative Expressions and used distress inks on it. Made 2 little ribbon ends from the wallpaper hanging out from the bingo card. Stamped a bingo number and distressed it and added to card. Glazed over some of the numbers on the bingo card. Added a few peel offs.

May your day be truly magical

Just a quickie made with die cuts and MS punch

Medallion made from kitchen roll

Two sheets plain white kitchen towel. Cut 4 scalloped circles with the cuttlebug, folded them to make a slice shape, cut them in half and refolded into slice shape. Edged with spritzed distress inks. liberally spread with stickles to use up a nearly empty bottle, think it is too much myself but hey if you gonna bling you might well mega bling !! Adhered felt shape to the middle and of course... blinged that as well..

Memories another challenge from Tuesday Taggers

Black cs. covered with SU paper and corner piece made up with other side of SU paper. Erasmic Soap Topper slotted into corner piece. Printed sentiment from computer. Die cut black corner shape. Distressed everything in sight !! lol

The sponsors for this challenge are

The Craft Barn

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers

SU paper Rub on flowers cuttlebug sentiment black cs distress ink around the flower

just like an egyptian ...

Navy blue cs punched with MS punch at both sides

CS folded in half and then one half folded back on itself
Cut out lace pattern for the base and folded to make all round pattern
Cut out a cuttlebug shape and embossed and then distresed with distress inks
Peel off of Pharoah added.
Added a sentiment and placed onto a tag also tied on a bit of ribbon and stuck them on card
Added 3 star peel offs
Printed the paper for the inside of the card off my computer. Also printed sentiment for the inside which cannot be seen
Added some punched butterflies and gold trim

wings n flower made for Bizzy Becs challenge

the cs is folded in half and then folded back on itself I then stamped with a MS punch down the side. Added backing paper from Graphicus Guild. Made a butterfly (I think its a butterfly) from Alterations Die Cut. Glued bead accents to the body. Punched some flowers from kitchen roll and dabbed with distress ink. I printed the sentiment into white cs and then die cut with a cuttlebug top note and also coloured with distress inks.

Crafty Quotes ... love these

To craft or not to craft, that is the question:
To layer, perchance to mat,
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to decoupage
or embellish,
To trim, perhaps to weep to wet the mulberry,
Spirelli or spin, or seal, or stick,
Or stamp and emboss,
aye there's always the rub (on transfer)
Or simply dust.

I got up this morning, but haven't yet dressed
My dishes aren't done, and the house is a mess
Have not done my work, or fed the cat
Just on line for a second, and popped into chat!Theres so much to say, so much crafting to do
I'm sitting here now with glitter, scissors and glue
But O'dear me, i'm finding it hard
When all I need is to make my next card.....
I know tomorrow, I'll make a fresh start...........
Just You wait till you see My New Work of Art!!!!!!

She learned to stamp on Monday
her embossing was quite fine.
She forgot to set out dinner....
so away out we went to dine.
She brayered backgrounds Tuesday
she says they are a must....
they really are quite lovely
but there was no time to dust.
On Wednesday it was birthday cards
she claims that chalking's fun
shading, blending and water-colouring
but the laundry wasn't done.
Her card swap was on Thursday
she had to use green, blue and red,
it was obvious she was really engrossed
when she failed to make the bed.
It was Shaker cards on Friday
using techniques that she just adores,
what a pity she then failed to notice
the crumbs dropped all over the floors.
I found a maid on Saturday!
My week is now complete
my wife can stamp her hours away
and the house will still be neat.
Well, already it is Sunday
and my forehead's feeling damp
cos I've cursed, and raved and ranted
for the Maid has learned to stamp!!

I started out with just one topper,

and then I bought some more.
I decided that a shoebox would make
an ideal store.
Then as I added inks & pens,
my craft collection grew.
So I bought a roomy plastic crate,
it would last for years, I knew.
Embossing then became my thing,
with powder & a heat gun.
Metallics, tinsels, pearls & clear,
I soon had everyone.
By now my lovely plastic crate
was spilling everywhere.
And my glitter glue collection
lay scattered on a chair.
My husband started muttering
and said things had to stop.
So I bought a huge old wardrobe
at the local charity shop.
But after a while, I couldn't shut the door  
and I put shelves in the spare room
to accomodate yet more.
Our house is now for sale,
something larger being sought.
By the way, did I show you,
The latest stamp I bought!

A Craftaholic’s Prayer


Dear Lord,
I’m going to need some notice
Before my days are done.
You see, I’m a craftaholic.
A fact not known to some.
My craft room, it is bulging
All corners, crannies and nooks
There's loads of boxes under the bed,
I hope no one ever looks
I tell myself when shopping,
“No more craft bits today,”
But the craft shops are like magnets
Drawing me their way.
I’m totally at their mercy
Just "need" a dozen of each.
Then I hurry home to hide them
Before the family starts to preach.
So Lord, I’ll need a little time
To dispose of all this stuff.
And Lord, can we just keep all of this,
Between the two of us

Come on baby ... light my fire !! Entry for Tuesday Taggers Challenge and One Stop Craft Challenge

The base of the card is black cs. I also used brown and grey cs for the matting. I used white card for the cuttlebug die cut and double embossed. I coloured the stamp of the dragon with pro markers. and made the little heart on the cuttlebug which I embossed and coloured with distress inks. Found some paper for the footprints and edged with peel offs. Other peel offs have been used as well. Cut out background for the sentiment and printed the sentiment off computer using Annabelle font. Added a bow every decent dragon has a bow !! lol

The challenge for this week at Tuesday taggers is sponsored by TandaStamps

here is the link:

www.tandastamps.com/

Frosted window technique

Stamped Tabbykat's Mardi gras stamp twice once onto card and then onto acetate. Coloured with pro markers - deep colours on the card and lighter hues on the acetate. Stamped acetate was then fixed onto the stamped card with foam pads. Embossed a piece of card in the cuttlebug and then die cut the top note shape. Adhered the embossed card onto gold mirri board and then onto card base. Added a bow and sentiment.

This does have a lovely frosted effect in RL but alas I have never bonded with cameras so you cant see the effect  in the photo but give it a try ... its different !!

Pharoah on Vellum Border

Egyptian topper placed onto a vellum border I made with pricking and embossing tools. Corner punched the bottom right hand corner of the card with MS punch. Gold foiled sentiment layered onto black cs.Added a couple of peel offs coloured with Micron Pen.

Cupcake made for Birthday Challenge in Tuesday taggers.. and I won !! hooray

The backing paper is one of Joanna Sheen designs. The scallops were cut on the cuttlebug the big one was embossed with cuttlebug folder and I rubbed it over with a distress ink. The cupcake is a digi stamp which I coloured with promarkers. The cake case is glittered and the cake top is covered with little tiny bead accents stuck on with glaze. I made the sentiment on the computer and then printed off and adhered to gold mirri board.

Acetate butterfly and distressed frame

Stamped the butterfly image onto acetate with Black StazOn and glittered using quickie glue pen and glitters. Cut out backing board and used distress inks around the edges. Used foam sticky pads on the backing board and put in some beads. Fixed acetate to the foam pads and then cut out a frame on the cricut. Also distressed the frame and added a flower also distressed ... of course :)

Mardi Gras ~ Acetate and Glitter

Used a mardi gras stamp by Tabbykat Designs and stamped on acetate with black stazon. Used quickie glue pen on the back of the acetate and sprinkled different coloured glitter on to certain sections. Making one coloured section at a time. Adhered some backing paper onto card and then folded my acetate over the backing card and stuck at the back. Stuck my acetate piece then onto some card stock and added peel off strips.

Rock Chick

Black card stock cut on Cricut Expressions using SCAL2 . Made card into a tri fold - it was 4 sections at first. Musical Instruments taken from Silhouettes CD. Rock Chick made in PSP. Attached a couple of gems and a place to write a message on the back of the card.

Some tags I made for Tuesday taggers Challenge

Georgina issued a challenge for tags this week

You can see Georgina's beautiful work at http://mysecretplace-georgina.blogspot.com/

My tags were cut out on Cricut, kissed with distress inks and also stamped with a distress ink and then glittered with stickles. Added a bit of string and a tag is born....

Hollywood Gift Boxes and 2 cards

I made the cards from a Joanna Sheen cd and a Jayne Netley Mayhew cd. Matted all the layers onto white cs. Glazed the rabbits eye and glittered the flowers. Put the sentiments on with PSP.Made a matching insert for each card
Also made 2 little gift boxes and put on some Hollywood Stars namely Bette Davis and Kathryn Hepburn

Blue/White Side Stepper

Printed the background paper off the puter and adhered to thick card.

Added all sorts of blue bits n bobs and cuttlebug shapes I had lying around, glittered some bits and added ribbon... embossed with heat gun on the back label

and thats it .....   :)

Good Luck ~ Pilot

A male card made to represent a past era. The image was printed in different colours and sizes. The smaller front picture has been embossed with clear embossing powder with a heat gun to give an old leathery effect. After layering and matting the pictures together I layered again onto green cs and then a silver mirri board and then adhered to the card and added a peel off border. I made the sentiment in word and printed and mounted to the card and added 3 pearls just for effect.

Bon Voyage

I used a stamp from the Graphicus Guild and stamped onto parchment with a Black StazOn ink. I then went to the reverse of the stamped image and embossed the white areas with an embossing ball tool to give a wintry effect. (I hope) lol
I then attached the parchment to black cs with 4 square black brads and then layered this onto my card. Added a sentiment and went to make a cup of tea !! hahahaaa

Flutterbies

simple to make butterflies were on the cs

cut out butterfly at the top and sentiment

Hollywood !!!

Audrey Hepburn is stamped with Black StazOn onto plain Vellum and then I put some coloured Vellum behind her and some black card behind that - all held together with two red heart brads. Everything after that is matted and layered onto either black or gold card. Added a strip of bling down the side and a gold tassel. Also added some gold peel offs down the edges of some layers and for the sentiment.

With Love

Green iridescent card punched down opening side with ms punch. Flowers printed from MCS Countryside Garden CD. Corners punched. layered onto silver mirri board. Cut out some of the flowers and decoupaged and also heat embossed with cosmic shimmers embossing powder. Sentiment made out of a scrap piece of card with corners punched by a round corner punch and then peel offs added.The card also has a matching insert.

Movements of fashion

Cream card base scalloped along front outer edge with MS punch. Layer of brown cs then a layer of Joanna Sheen Paper. Then a layer of brown plaid paper again scalloped with MS punch. I then added a layer of white cs and silver matt board. Added the picture and also added a cut out from my cricut machine using SCAL2 and I glittered the same.

another male card .....

Picture printed from Carousel CD on photo paper. I faded out the edges of the picture and added the loco to make it look as if it was coming out of the front of the picture. Also made the background to the soldier from the loco by tiling it before fading the edges. I glazed the soldiers goggles and the light on loco. I layered the pictires onto green suede and that was layered onto silver matt board. The sentiment was printed and adhered with sticky pads.

My first proper decoupage (ie more than 1 layer) lol

The decoupage was a 3D sheet which was a freebie from printableheaven.com I printed onto photo paper and cut out the pieces I wanted.  I punched the edge of the card with an MS punch and then layered a piece of black cs on top and punched that also. I layered the decoupage onto white cs. Added some gems. The sentiment was also from the freebie sheet I layered this onto white and black cs.

3 Fairies -

Pink Fairy - I used MS punches to make the lacy border and the heart embellishment. The fairy was printed from the CD and layered onto black cs. I added glitter to the fairy, 3 gems across the top and printed off a sentiment.
Blue Fairy - I made the background on photo paper and rubbed a variety of blue inks onto it. I then stamped some leaves with black stazon ink and white colorbox chalk ink. The fairy was printed from the CD and layered onto black csand I added a bit of glitter to her wings. I printed the sentiment and layered on to black and white cs and added a heart peel off.
Gold Fairy - I made the background on photo paper and stamped an all over image with versamark. I then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Added a bow and embossed a background for the sentiment from white cs embossed with cuttlebug.
The fairy was printed from the CD and I added gold glitter to the background. The sentiment itself was printed and I just dotted and dashed around the edge with a black pigma micron pen.

3D Tiger Grrrrrr....

This tiger is taken from the Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection.... a 3D card my first try at 3D and he sure does stand out, will certainly make some more ... elephants are next heheheeee I have glazed his eye and it shows up lovely in RL but not so good on the photo but then again I cant take photos for toffee lol

Hollywood !! lets take a trip to Hollywood !!

Thought I would go all Hollywood next ... marilyn is printed onto vellum and has a matching insert for the card. Added some glitter and va va voom !!

Curls and Swirls entered in Tuesday Taggers

The background of swirls was printed from  a Flourishes CD by Debbi Moore. The fairy is lightly coloured with very fine mica powders and then triple embossed with clear embossing powder to give it a nice glaze, not noticeable in the camera shot - unfortunately. Layered a strip of paper across the card, added a button and raffia, layered and matted the fairy picture onto white cs. Stamped a birthday sentiment.

This challenge is sponsored by Crafty Individuals

and there link is in the sidebar

Just a note about ....My Topnote

This is a 'take' on a card made by Kathyc. I just loved her card so much and wanted to make a similar one.

Strips of paper glues to a scrap of card. Using the card I cut the top note from a nestability on C/Bug. Penned in the stitches. Made a flower again from nestabilites and cut on C/Bug. Stamped over it with versamark and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Added a button and a sentiment.

pretty flower made mainly on the C/Bug

Do you like my flower ? :)   I love it

Quite simple to make yet very very effective
I made mine out of card but it would be even simpler if you made it out of paper or vellum.... and still just as effective
Of course once made you can then pretty it up even more with sparkles, glitter, gems etc etc
There are 2 vid clips explaining how to make the flower and they are below for you to have a go  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=Wq13kni7eBA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=A3alEQUGx04&feature=related

I am moving on from Spring to Swing !!

I used alcohol inks and blending solution to cover the base of the card. I printed off the Deco Follies digi stamp and coloured with pro markers and sakura gel pens. Mounted it on gold mirri board and centred on the card. Added a few punched butterflies and peel offs.
Thank you for looking ...

Spring card - I made this for another challenge and also for my step daughter's birthday

Hope you like it ... I made this while it was snowing so roll on Spring !!
The card is totally digital. Everything came off my puter. The butterfly was made slightly larger to the one printed on the background. I stuck it on top and attached with sticky tags. I heat embossed is 3 times to make it nice n shiny. The sentiment was put on with safmat.

Entry for Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - Using 3 colours

white on white .... well almost lol

I am on a roll with the quick and easies ...
Have a card sale coming up on Saturday so I am doggedly churning them out
I quite like this one ...  it is 'stylish'  (thanks Marion) for that term  :)  xx

Cute as a button ....

I have been through the button tin.... as if I havent got enough accessories I then resort to the button tin...... hmmmm

What do you think ? rather plain but I didnt feel like going mad ..... if you know what I mean I was cooking tea at the time and wanted to do something simple but effective. I hope its effective  :)

Make a medallion out of a corner punch !!

This is really kewl
Yes you can make a circular medallion out of one of your corner punches
and its easy peasy
Look at this made in minutes.....

Obviously the more corner punches you have the more

patterns you can have... this is the first one I tried

and just stuck it on a card for you to see ...

here is the link to the tutorial:

http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/circle-frame-tutorial/

Baby Wipe card ... lol

The card on the left - the background to the butterfly was made with a baby wipe. Just fold your bw into 4 and put drops of ink along one folded edge with reinkers or whatever inks you have ... I didnt have reinkers so used alcohol inks) and smear the edge of your bw across your card. I then stamped the butterfly and coloured with sakura gel pens. Matted onto white cs which had been embossed on cuttlebug. Added a bit of stickles and punched my corners.
The card on the right - was printed from a My Craft Studio cd, the corners were punched and then I sponged with color box and distress ink around the edge of the base card. Printed off a sentiment and layered on top.
 

How to make your own Flower Soft .....

I came across a video today on how to make your own flower soft
If you like that sort of thing this is great and will save you a fortune
I have never tried flower soft but do think it would be a nice
commodity to use on christmas cards ....  might have a go when the time is right
If however you are a Flower Soft fan...... then this is for you :)
Get stuck in heheheheeeeee
http://hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com/2009/10/make-your-own-flower-soft.html
Let me know what you thought, better still did you try it and leave a link to your project .....
I got this link from a great little group called Hobby Crafters there is a link to the group on my fave places if you would like to join us ......

Spring fold card

I have always wanted to make one of these designs, but they looked so complicated. Guess what they dead easy peasy !!!   lol
Here is the tutorial that I used:   http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/spring_card/
and here is my card ....  do have a go if you havent already  :)

Ssshhhh..... it s a secret

This is Hubby's Valentine Card finished it today so now I can hide it heheheee
Gatefold card on white cs. Silver mirri board at the back. 3 square apertures to the right front. Red mirri board and a peel off to the left hand side. Mounted three cuttlebug hearts in the apertures made with nestability. I then covered those hearts with some shrink plastic hearts that I made and glittered to add more of a 3D affect in the apertures. There is also one at the top right of the card. Stamped I Love You message.

My Design for Digi Stamp Challenge at Crafty Cardmakers

This is my first Design Team Card that I have made for Crafty Cardmakers. The design they chose was Digital Stamps.
I downloaded the digi stamp from Fred She Said Designs and layered together. Fixed the digi stamp to white cs which I had previously scored twice and placed green cs between the score lines. Printed off a sentiment from Word and layered this onto mirri board and matching green cs. Added some gems !! Rounded my corners with a corner punch.
Hope you like it ......

Shrink hearts - Valentine on overload

I wanted to make some phone/purse charms and also some embellishments for hubby's valentine card so reached for a nestability heart and cut some out on shrinkies paper (clear)
Punched a hole in the ones for the charms and stamped with versamark. Covered them on one side in embossing powder and heated with heat gun. With them being clear the embossing powder shows through on both sides.
Made quite a few charms and then a few more without the punched hole for the valentine card....
Here they are ....

I have been downloading incire patterns for my SCAL/Cricut

and I ended up with bookmarks !!    lol
I have downloaded some Incire Patterns off the net to use with SCAL programme on my Cricut and decided to make some bookmarks with them. I added some peel offs and tassels and was quite pleased with results.... love my Cricut !!

Quick and easy card !!

This is a very simple and quick card to make

Score lines either up  down or across your card depending

on the size and shape of your card.  Mat some paper inbetween the score lines.

Then I added a stamped sentiment on shapes made on the cuttlebug.

oooh and added a bit of ribbon !!  lol

Made in minutes .....

altered tin notebook

So here I am still on the theme of notebooks or notepads whatever you want to call them.
I bought a few of the tin notebooks in the january sales, you know the sort they have a thin metal cover usually a gold colour, but very flat and bland ...
So I decided to try and jazz one of them up. I used Adirondak Alcohol Inks and a blender mixed up my inks and began to podge all over until I had the desired effect.
Left the inks to dry which didnt take long just a few minutes. Then stuck on the butterfly embellishment and a gem ...
Certainly looks brighter than when I bought it .....  lol

I made a note pad today for a change ideal for by the phone or in your bag

I didnt feel like making any cards today so I went into the world of notepads.
Never made one before so it was full of disasters but I got there in the end.
The outer part (front and back) is made from strong card which I scored to one edge so the notebook would open better.
The papers inside were cut a little bit smaller. I stamped a tree on the front mainly because it was the first stamp I found  ...  lol  I stamped with versamark and then embossed with gold sparkle embossing powder. I stamped it onto a bit of lighter card and used a Martha Stewart punch for a bit of further decoration then stuck it onto the strong card. I added a bit of ribbon and was quite pleased with the result. Punched the holes for the ribbon of course .........
Ideal for by the phone or in your bag

Double edged gift tags with a spellbinder middle

Well I couldnt get motivated today to do any cards
I have started to design some notebooks and have been playing with ideas
but they are not ready to show yet ... lol
Then I got fed up with that and decided to try and do some double edging on the cuttlebug.
I  needed to make a couple of tags for a birthday present.
I cut out the tag with some home made embossing card - do you know how to make that ?  I can put some instructions up later on if anyone is interested.
Anyway I cut out a scalloped cirle and left the cut out in the die, then got a smaller sixed circle and laid it on top of the die still in the original die cut and by using a tan mat embossed the smaller cirle inside so as to make a double edge.  I then cut an even smaller circle out for the middle of the tag and this time did the embossing with part of a spellbinder stencil.
The end result is here and was rather pretty I thought .....

How to make a Tri Fold Card

Cindy has asked about making the Tri fold cards .... I love those tri fold cards and on my slide show you will see I made a black and white polka dot one ...  I have given you a link here which will show you how to make the tri fold card with thanks to SCS ..
The card itself is quite easy to make  - it is all the decorating you have to do to the card, but you make it as fancy as you want you dont have to go to great lengths if you dont want to... if you do, it doesnt have to be done all in one day .. take your time and enjoy !!
hugz elly xxx
Tri-fold Card