Dala Tilda

I have made this card for my Aunt who's Birthday it is this week. I have completely CASEd (Copy And Selectively Edited) a gorgeous card made by Julie from Julie's Japes. I hope you don't mind Jules! I have added a Craftwork Cards embossed frame to a pistacio card blank and added chalk to the embossed flowers and wrapped a piece of ribbon around. I stamped Tilda out and coloured her in with watercolour pencils, cut her out and added her to the frame with 3D foam pads. Prima flowers added to the bottom corner with ribbon and a CWC message oval added with 3D foam pads to finish.

STAMPS: Magnolia. INK: Stazon Jet Black. CS: Papermania. ACCESSORIES: Flowers embossed frame by Craftwork Cards, Prima Flowers, Organza ribbon by Ribbon Oasis, Craftwork Cards Mini Message, Pebbles Inc chalks.

Christmas Card Competition

Elzybells Art Stamps is holding a great competition with excellent prizes. To be in with a chance you have to make a Christmas card using Elzybells images. For full details please see here <--- click!

Thirty

This card is made for my Sister in Law who is 30 today. I received this lovely image from Sheila and also some from Alex too (thank you both very much). I coloured her in with Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor and mounted her to pink and black CS. I have wrapped two pieces of organza ribbon around a white card blank before adding the image on top. I have dipped some chipboard numbers into glitter and added them to the card with 3D foam. I have finiahed off the card by adding a CWC message and gem stones. She will receive it tomorrow when I see her, I hope she likes it!

STAMPS: Rubber Romance. CS: Craft Creations, Bazzill Basics. ACCESSORIES: Craftwork cards chipboard numbers, Doodlebug Designs Sugar Coating Glitter, Craftwork Cards message, Ribbon by Ribbon Oasis, Papermania Adhesive Gems.

Kerry's Ribbon Challenge

To celebrate having over 10,000 hits to her blog, Kerry is giving away some gorgeous blog candy. Please visit her blog she makes gorgeous cards. The challaenge is to link her blog to yours and also make a card using ribbon as it is her favourite accessory! I love ribbon so it wasn't too difficult to fit some on a card. Here is my entry.

I have made the card using one of my new Elzybells winter images available from Elzybells now. I have stamped her out and coloured her in with Copic markers, rounded the corners with a corner rounder punch and mounted to pink CS then added to base with 3D foam pads. I have made the base by layering up dark and light pink CS on to a white card blank and the running a piece of Bazzill Bling through my Cuttlebug using the Snowflakes embossing folder. I have wrapped a piece of ribbon around this panel before adhering to the card. The message is stamped on to a QuicKutz tag and tied on with more ribbon. Gem stones added to finish.

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Papermania, Doodlebug Designs, Bazzill Basics. ACCESSORIES: QuicKutz tag die, Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder, Woodware corner rounder punch, Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis, Papermania Gem Stones, Copic markers.

Juggling Eskimo

My first Christmas card of 2008! I have made this card with the gorgeous Juggling Eskimo stamp from Elzybells. I have stamped him out and coloured him in with Copic markers and mounted to light blue CS then added to base with DST. The base is a white card blank which has been stamped with two sizes of Elzybells snowflakes in blue chalk ink. I have then gone over these with my Spica glitter pen but sadly you cannot see this in the photo. I have then punched out two snowflakes using my X-Cut punch and added them with gem stones. I have then finished off my adding a CWC message to the bottom with foam pads.

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: X-Cut Snowflake punch, Craftwork Cards message, Papermania Gem Stones, Copic markers, Copic At You Spica glitter pen.

Birthday Girl

This card is made using the gorgeous Birthday Girl stamp from Elzybells. I have stamped her out and coloured her in with Copic markers then mounted her to mauve CS and added to base with DST, the corners rounded with a corner rounder punch. The base has been made by layering mauve CS on to white card blank then adding a layer of light mauve which has been put through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I have then stamped the greeting seperately and mounted to more mauve rounding the corners, this has been addded with 3D foam pads to the card. I have then added Dew drops to the corners to finish. I really like how this card came out in the end!

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Bazzill Basics. ACCESSORIES: Swiss Dots embossing folder, Woodware corner rounder punch, Robins Nest Dew Drops, Copic markers.

Wedding Wishes

This card is made using the gorgeous Bride & Groom stamp from Elzybells. I have stamped them out and coloured them in with Copic markers, mounted to black CS and added to base with 3D foam pads. I have made the base by layering up Doodlebug papers with black CS. I have coloured in the dots on the black paper with a Copic marker to compliment. The message has been cut with QuicKutz dies, the message stamped from the Everyday Greetings Set and gem stones added to the sides.

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Copic markers, QuicKutz bookplate die, Papermania Gem Stones.

New Home

Bank Holiday Greetings! I hope everyone has had a nice bank holiday!! I have been busy in my craft room for most of mine. I received a gorgeous package from Elzybells on Friday so I just had to have a play with the cuties! Here is my first card, the image is from Julia (thank you so much Julia) I have since ordered him as he is so cute! I have coloured him in with Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor then cut him out and mounted to yellow CS and added to base with 3D foam pads. The base has simply been made by layering a strip of Doodlebug polka dot paper (loving this stuff!) on to a yellow card blank. I have stmped the greeting from the Everyday Greetings set.

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Stazon Jet Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs.

Love Birds

Another card made with the Cute Bird Set by Sally-Ann Hancock for Spiral Whisper. This time I have stamped the large branch, the boy bird and the girl bird out and coloured again with Copic markers. I have then cut them out and mounted to brown CS and added to base with DST. I have made the base by layering brown CS and some of this gorgeous swirly paper by Doodlebug on to a white card blank and wrapped around some organza ribbon. I have added the Craftwork Cards message on top of the ribbon and added gem stones either side. To finish I have added Prima Flowers with brads. Don't they make a cute couple? :0)

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craft Creations, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Organza ribbon by Ribbon Oasis, Papermania Gem Stones, Doodlebug brads, Craftwork Cards Oval Message, Prima 'Bubbles' Flowers, Copic Markers, Sakura white gell pen.

You're Tweet-errific!

Here is another card I have made for Spiral Whisper this time using the Cute Bird Set by Sally-Ann Hancock. I have stamped out the girl bird and coloured her in with Copic markers then cut her out using Nestabilities dies. I have then added her to the base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering yellow CS on to a white card blank, the greeting has been printed from my PC (Dreamed About You font) and made into a little tag buy rounding the two corners with a punch. I have then finished off the card with gem stones. Simple as that!

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Nestabilities dies, Papermania Gem Stones, Woodware corner rounder punch, Copic Markers, Sakura white gell pen.

Congrat-ewe-lations!

I have two ladies to thank for this card idea - Julia and Katherine. Julia sent the most gorgeous folder full of images (one of which is used in the card) and on the front of itshe also had this image with some gorgeous lime cardstock and flowers and Katherine has recently made a gorgeous card using this lime CS and polka dot paper so thank you ladies! I have made this card for my cousin who passed her A Levels with excellent grades.

I have coloured the image (an old Elzybells image) with Copic markers and mounted to lime CS rounding all the corners with a punch. I have added the panel to the base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering up lime CS with DB lime polka dot paper on to onto a white card blank. I have then made the sentiment on my PC and also mounted to the CS and rounded the corners, added with 3D foam. I have then added Prima Flowers with white brads. I hope she likes it!

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Prima 'Bubbles' Flowers, Doodlebug brads, Woodware corner rounder punch, Copic markers.

Martha Ballerina

Another DT card for Spiral Whisper, this time using the Martha Ballerina stamp designed by Kerry Steptoe. I have stamped Martha out and coloured her in with Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor adding touches of glitter to her tutu with my Spica pen (I got mine from All That Scraps in the US). I have then mounted her to 2 shades of pink CS and added her to base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering up pink CS and Papermania paper from the 'Sweet Nothings' pack and wrapping organza ribbon around. I have stamped the greeting on to pearlescent card, added an eyelet and attached to ribbon with thin satin ribbon.

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper, A Muse. INK: Stazon Jet Black. CS: Craft Creations, Bazzill Basics, patterned paper by Papermania. ACCESSORIES: Organza ribbon, satin ribbon from Ribbon Oasis, Quicklet, Copic At You Spica glitter pen, Woodware corner rounder punch.

Milly With Balloon

My second Design Team card for Spiral Whisper using the gorgeous Milly with Balloon stamp designed by Janet Roberts. I have stamped Milly out and coloured her in with Copic markers then cut her out and added Stickles to her balloon. I have added her to the base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering up pink CS on to a white card blank, I have then added s trip of DB patterned paper matting with more pink CS. I have then added a Craftwork Cards message and gem stones to finish.

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Craftwork Cards messages, Papermania Gem Stones, Icicle Stickles, Copic markers.

Martha Fairy

This card is my first proper Design Team card for Spiral Whisper. I have used the gorgeous Martha Fairy stamp designed by Kerry Steptoe available from Spiral Whisper now. I have stamped Martha out and coloured her in with Copic markers adding glitter to her wings with my Spica pen. I have then cut her out and mounted her to a circle cut from embossed card with my Nestabilities dies with 3D foam pads. I have added the Nesties to the base also with 3D foam pads. The base is made by layering up dark purple card and embossed card on a white card blank and wrapping ribbon around. I have then finished off the card by adding gem stones in the corners.

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs, Bazzill Basics. ACCESSORIES: Circle Nestabilities dies, organza ribbon, Papermania Gem Stones, Copic markers, Copic At You Spica glitter pen.

Sorry I'm Late ...

Shame on me, I missed one of my friends Birthdays recently so this is the card I have made to say sorry. She is on holiday at the moment so she will get it on her return. When this set came out I fell in love with it and loved all the samples by the ATS DT and this card is inspired by those. I layered SU! Bashful Blue CS on to a white card blank then a layer of white CS followed by a strip of Piggy Tales paper accross the bottom wrapped around with some blue grosgrain ribbon. I have then stamped the cute snail with Airondack ink and hand drawn a little trail for him, coloured in with Copics. On a seperate piece of card I stamped the balloons and cut them out adding glitter to them with my Spica pen. I have then stamped the greeting seperate too and rounded the corners to make a tab. The obligatory 3 gem stones added to finish!

STAMPS: CC Designs. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craft Creations, Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink, patterned paper by Piggy Tales. ACCESSORIES: Woodware small corner rounder punch, Grosgrain ribbon by Ribbon Oasis, Papermania Adhesive Gems, Copic At You Spica glitter pen, Copic markers.

Have a Bee-utiful Day!

When I bought these stamps a while back I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, this card hasn't come out exactly as planned but I still think it is cute and I know the recipient liked it so that's good enough for me! I stamped out the beehive on to some white CS and then added the bees above. I coloured them in with my Copic markers adding glitter to the bee's wings with my Spica pen. I then made a trail for the bees by piercing holes into the card. I mounted the panel to black CS then to yellow and added to a small white card blank. I stamped the sentiment on to yellow then rounded two of the corners to make a tab and added this to the card. 3 gem stones added to finish.

STAMPS: A Muse. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craft Creations, Papertrey Ink, Papermania & Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Woodware small corner rounder punch, Copic At You Spica glitter pen, Copic markers, Papermania Adhesive Gems.

Monkey Birthday Frame

So this card was a nightmare from start to finish!! It is for my cousin who was 13 last week. So I was going to put a 13 on the card somewhere then my mum informs me that maybe he isn't 13!! Well I didn't know what to do then, add it on and make a terrible mistake if he isn't 13? So I left it off. I then didn't know what to do for him, I know he likes football but I did that last year, oh the stress of it!! Then I remembered that Natalie kindly gave me a couple of these monkey images a while back (thank you so much Natalie!) so went with one of these. I coloured it in with watercolour pencils and mounted to blue CS, this was then mounted to the base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering brown CS on to a white card blank and adding a strip of darker brown down the edge and adding 3 blue brads.

STAMPS: Stampendous. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Papermania brads.

Monkey Love

I have made this card for my Aunt and Uncle who's Anniversary is coming up. I have been completely inspired by a card made by Kerry from A Load of Old Pickle (see links list) - thank you for the inspiration Kerry and I hope you don't mind!! I have stamped out 'Changito's Love Balloon' and coloured in with Copic Markers. I have then cut out and mounted to dark red CS and attached this to the base with 3D foam pads. The base has been made by layering up more red CS on to a square white card blank then adding Doodlebug white embossed card on top after wrapping a piece of black organza ribbon around first. I have then cut out an oval tag using a QK die and stamped the greeting on and tied to the ribbon. 6 gem stones added to finish.

STAMPS: Stampendous, Papertrey Ink. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Anita's, Papermania, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Organza ribbon by Ribbon Oasis, Dog Tag die by QuicKutz, Papermania Adhesive Gems.

I Love Your Blog Award

I have received this great award from Natalie, Sarah, Lia & Sue this week - thank you so much ladies, it is really appreciated. So, I am now supposed to give it to 7 people who's blog I love. Well that is not going to happen!! I love too many blogs for that so I would like to give it to everyone on my links list.

To My Secret Sisters ...

Apologies AGAIN! I will be contacting you with your SS by the end of the week!!

UPDATED: I will still try my hardest to get your SS out by Saturday but I know a few of you are going away on lovely holidays (hope you have a great time!) so the deadline to send the stuff wont be for a while yet so don't worry at all :0)

My Shopping Trip

So after having a bit of a rubbish week last week I decided I needed cheering up a bit! Today I went on a proper shopping trip to Crafts U Love and The Craft Barn for some retail therapy. I have never been to either of these shops before and it took about 45 mins drive to Crafts U Love then another 30 mins to get to The Craft Barn. It was really nice going to some proper craft shops. Where I live there is only 2; one in a department store selling Do Crafts stuff and another really small one (which is packed full though). I thought you may like to see what I bought ... (I have left the pic small so you can click on it for a better view)

It was strange going into Craft U Love (good strange though) after having been a customer of their online shop for so long it was strange walking around it! It was a bit of a long drive but worth the journey, what a lovely shop!! Lovely customer service and I could have spent all day in there (and spent a fortune too!). The Craft Barn was lovely as well, managed to pick up some Prima Flowers and they have TONS of paper! What I really liked about both shops was that they had loads of handmade cards all along the walls which was really nice.

I will be back tomorrow will some cards!

We Have Winners!

Sorry it has taken me so long to announce them but ... they are finally here ...

For challenge 1 & 2 my mum picked the winners but had such a hard time she picked a runner up too. These people will receive 10 stamped images of their choice that i have from me.

* The winner of Challenge One (sketch) is Kerry from A Load of Old Pickle

* The runner up is Sue from Slumber Cards

* The winner of Challenge Two (monotone) is Julie from Julie's Japes

* The runner up is Tara from Tara's Designs

* The winner of Challenge/candy Three is comment no 15 which is Zoe from A Personal Touch

Could Kerry and Zoe please e-mail me their addys and Kerry, Sue, Jules & Tara let me know what stamped images they would like.

Thank you all who entered my candy challenges and made this year a great blogging one for me :0)

Happy Birthday Brother

I have made this card for my brother who's Birthday is today. I have stamped Beerafella out on to papertrey Ink CS and coloured him in with Copic markers and 'grounding' him with an A Muse oval. I have then cut him out and added him to the base with DST. The base has been made by layering up shades of blue CS on to white card blank and adding a strip of brown which has been wrapped round with ribbon to secure a ring pull in place with brads. I have then added two photo anchors with brads to the top left hand corner and covered a Craftwork Cards message with brown chalk ink then added this with 3D foam. I hope he likes it!

STAMPS: Beerafella by Stamping Bella, Essential Ovals by A Muse. INK: Airondack Pitch Black, ColorBox Creamy Brown, ColorBox Ice Jade. CS: Craft Creations, Papertrey Ink, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Anita's grosgrain ribbon, Papermania brads, Papermania photo anchors, Craftwork Cards Circle Message, Copic markers.

The Message I Didn't Want To Post ...

but I know a lot of my regular visitors wanted to to know. I got my results through this week. I passed my assignment and also my practical exams but sadly failed my maths exam. This is the first thing I have failed in three years so I am obviously quite upset but you know what? I am just going to retake it and pass next time. My life has never been easy and I never wanted it to be so this is just one of those things that I gotta brush myself down and try again. Out of my class of about 80 or so people only SIX passed so it is not like I am the only person who failed.

So for all those of you who were going to send me a card ;0) You can still send one but hold off till next month now!!

On a postive note, I had an interview for a job and got it! They were checking my references and had to have a criminal records check and a health exam but have now passed all these so the job is mine :0) Unfortunately I will have to start a little later than planned now, not till the 16th September but it will give me a bit of time off which is nice. I wanted to say thanks for the support you have shown, you know who you are and hopefully I will be able to give you some good news when I re-take the exam.

Blogoversary Round Three!

Last but not least is my blog candy part three. I wanted to post this on the actual blogoversry of tomorrow but I will be working till 8 so won't be able to. My other challenges close tomorrow at 12 noon but this one will remain open until Friday 8th August 2008 at 12 noon (GMT) to celebrate the last day of my nursing course and having almost 60,000 hits to my blog! I will pick the winner using Random.org

So what do you have to do? All you need to do is to add a link to your blog saying I have candy then leave me a comment here to say you have done it. If you do not have a blog just leave me a comment to say you don't have one!

What you could win is:

12x12 Papermania Sweet Nothings paper pad
Papermania Sweet Nothings Cardstock Alpha stickers
Papermania Adhesive Gems in Pale Pink
Anita's grosgrain ribbon in pink & lilac
Papermania pigment ink pad trio in purples
Copic Ciao marker in Cool Shadow
Rachelle Anne Miller Lily & Milo stamp

Good Luck!

** THIS DRAW IS NOW CLOSED **

Martha With Teddy

Isn't she so cute!! She is available from Spiral Whisper. I have stamped her out and coloured her in with Copic markers, cute her out and rounded the edges with a corner rounder punch. I have then added her to the base with DST. The base has simply been made by running a panel of CS through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder and adding it to a white card blank. I have then added 3 gem stones to the corner of the image panel and a Craftwork Cards message to finish.

You still have time to enter my challanges - please see below. I will be adding my final one shortly!

STAMPS: Spiral Whisper. INK: Airondack Pitch Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Copic markers, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Craftwork Cards Circle Messages, Papermania Adhesive Gems, X-Cut Corner Rounder Punch.

Elzybells Flower Girl

I have made this card with another of my new Elzybells stamps. I have stamped her out and coloured her in with Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor. I have then mounted her to orange CS and then added to base with DST. The base has been made by layering up reddy/pinky CS on to a white card blank. I have then added a strip of Doodlebug polka dot paper - can you tell I am loving this at the mo?! when it came out I bought one in every colour!! I have then added gem stones in the corners to finish.

STAMPS: Elzybells Art Stamps. INK: Stazon Jet Black. CS: Craftwork Cards, Doodlebug Designs. ACCESSORIES: Papermania Adhesive Gems.