Easter card with Tilda in aqua

Here is another card using the cut file from MagicWanda, details of her blog are posted on the chick card. My dear friend Enfys sent me some stamped images of Tilda and I finally plucked up the courage to use them. She has started me collecting Tilda stamps and I did buy 3 at the craft show in Olympia at the weekend. One day, and with a lot more practice, I hope to be able to colour the images as good as Enfys.

Easter card with Tilda in pink and purple

This card is using the same cut file as above but I used different colours on Tilda's clothes. I did buy 3 new stamps but forgot to get this one - next time,lol - and now I need to get some of the other stamps in the Magnolia range. Don't forget to visit MagicWanda's blog http://myscraphappyplace.blogspot.com/ and while you are blog hopping
visit Enfys blog at http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/ You will love both blogs.

6 step stair card

I made this card for my nephew. The cut file was from Capadia, but I needed an extra step and it was quite easy to add another. So a big thanks to Capadia for sharing her file. The sentiment is not clear but says 'Hope you have a TOADALLY wonderful day'.

http://rosaswelt.blogspot.com/2009/03/hudge-magnolia-blog-candy-give-away.html

Check out this awesome blog candy of Magnolia stamps on Claudia's blog. Click the link in the title of this post to take you there and, while you are there, have a look at her great work. Good luck to all including me!!!

Red, White and Blue

This was my take on the Red, White and Blue challenge on the UK crafters thread on the Cricut message board. The rose is a die cut that I recoloured and added stickles to the edges of the petals. Inside the card is a photograph in a frame.

Floral Easter Egg card Front

This is a card front I designed for a swop on the Cricut messageboard. The main front is a mesh of flowers, with the individual flowers fixed on top. Each flowers has a stickled centre. If you would like to make one I have added a link to the cut file below. You will see in the file that the base for the card front is the on the first page, along with a tab to enable you to join it to a card back, the position of the tab is showing in the photo. The reason I have made it this way is because it was for a card front swop. I have placed each flower type on seperate pages with a matching egg shape on the last page. I hope you like it and will leave a comment below.
You can get the cut file here :- http://www.mediafire.com/?52rymmeyxj2

Daisy and Dandelion

These pups are so cute and if you go to the Docrafts website you can download some FREE decoupage and background papers. I love these pups and if you are in the same card swop (GRKIDDO one) as me you might get a card using them soon! Check out the other cuties, loving Candyfloss and Marshmallow too. Click on the title to go to the website.

Great blog to visit and she has a blog candy giveaway

If you want to see some lovely cards go visit Nikki's site and make sure you scroll down and see the card she made with Daisy and Dandelion. She also has some blog candy up for grabs.

My first stamps cut with the Cricut

I finally took the plunge and cut some stamps using the Cricut stamp sheets. Firstly can I say you must have a really sticky mat or, as someone on the Cricut MB did, spray the back of the material with repositional glue otherwise the material will move, I managed to stop the machine before any real damage was done!!! The settings I used were Pressure - 4 -high, Speed - 3 med, and Blade depth 6 although it would have cut using 4 - or 5. The results were quite good, it cut like butter, but I made the mistake of putting the designs too near the edge of the material so the scallopped edges are not perfect. The flower was cut using the cuttlebug and a small Sissex Bigz flower die, so if you are too nervous to cut with your Cricut then use your dies as they were much easier. The shapes above will be useful as background stamps. I only bought the refill stamp material set so I only have one sheet left but I will definitely be buying more.

Christening card for Great Nephew

I do not have the Wild Card cart yet! so I made card this using SCAL. The back of the card is Aqua and I used the Swiss Dots folder, ny favourite, on the mat and balloon. Teddy is a stick on that I have had for ages and I added a tiny bow to his neck.

Cheers - Beer card

Here is a card I made for my nephew's recent birthday. The glasses were cut out of (*acrylic*)sorry I meant acetate using the Cricut and SCAL, then coloured with alcohol inks - I think I used Rust. To make the froth I used Liquid Applique which my dear friend Elaine sent me from America. Heating the liquid with my heat gun to made it frothy. This would be a great technique for sheep. The wording was computer generated. Hope you like it, cheers.

My Beautiful Granddaughters

I am so proud of my granddaughters (they are cousins not sisters). The first layout includes a picture of Hannah taken last year. Hannah is at university in London studying art and design. She has just been selected out of 2,500 students for a degree course. Only 6 out the total students applying get on this degree course. She is a fantastic artist and I know she will do well. Congratulations Hannah.

The second layout features Sammy who is at present travelling the world. Sammy has just spent a month in Africa helping out at an animal reserve. She has posted several photos, on her Facebook travel site, where she is among the lions and they will make great scrapbook pages and I intend to make her an album for when she returns home. She is now in India for 2 months helping out at a school for young children and has seen the Taj Mahal among other wonderful sites. I am so proud that she has taken on this venture and wish her well in her travels.

My Card Swop on Cricut MB

I love making cards so I have set up a card swop on the Cricut MB. Please come and join us. Here is the link to the post
http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=4080325

Look at the crochet flowers Bev had made and she has Blog Candy!

Check out these lovely crochet flowers on this blog http://bevscrafts.blogspot.com/
and she has some great candy up for grabs including the Stewart Lace Doily punch. I so want this punch! Click the title of this post to take you straight to the blog.

SemiCircle Bag Book

When I saw this book in a magazine and decided to make one using DS and the Cricut E. The card stock I used was 260gsm which was covered with a flowery paper, but I cannot remember the maker. Some of the embellishments are K & Company and the flowers on the front are from a bag of mixed handmade paper flowers that I have had for so long. The butterfly is from a girls hair decoration, I use these a lot as they are cheap to buy.

There are 4 pages and on each a photo of my friend's children when they were younger. The embellishments on each page were cut on the E using various carts. The holes were punched with the Crop-0-Dile and the rings are the kind you hang keys on. This book was for my friend's daughters birthday.
I hope you like it.

If you would like the cut file here is the link, and I would appreciate you leaving a message on my blog.
http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmq2rydzih

Handbag card

This is a card I made for my MB secret sister. I designed the bag and cut it from brown card with the Cricut, using SCAL. The flap was cut by hand and stamped it with Cotton White Stazon ink using a stamp from the Lace set from http://www.thestampman.co.uk/ called Aspects of Design 09 Lace Sheet 1, adding some stickles and a few flowers.

Here is the cut file if you have SCAL.
http://www.mediafire.com/?gjmtmqkndte

Lunch with Enfys

On Monday I met up with Enfys. We had a lovely time chatting away and found we had so much in common. It was very interesting to hear about what is involved with her card designs for Papercraft Inspirations, there is a lot more to it than just sending a card for publishing. Look out for the next issue as she promises something special. We both agreed that it would be lovely to live nearer each other so we could craft together but we are going to stay in touch and hopefully meet up again next time she come 'down South'. Thanks for a lovely day, Enfys.

Christmas page for 8" x 8" baby Album

It's the first time I have made an 8 x 8 album and only my second baby album, it is also the first page that I have finished for the album. I have used the tree from the SU Snow Swirled stamps that I bought from Gina, aka GRKIDDO, and a dear friend, who is an SU demonstrator in the USA. First I stamped it on vellum with Stazon Cotton White ink, then added gold pen to the dots.

A neat tip I learnt from Stephanie of CreateandCraft.TV was to cut a V in the wedged nib of a Calligrapher pen, it makes it so much easier to put a border round the page. I only have Gold and Silver pens at the moment but will certainly be investing in more colours

I must add that I scraplifted the page idea but can't remember where from.

Further pages will be added as they are completed.

Thanks for looking.

Valentine Wedding Card

My niece is getting married on Valentines Day so I made this card for the occasion. I used the Wedding cart for the dress and hand made the tuxedo. The hearts on the insert were cut using PS and then I embossed the edges and added a computer generated verse.
Thanks for looking.

Check out this blog for some great designs and Blog Candy

Lovely stamps blog candy here http://grammashouseofcards.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-time-for-fun-its-time-for-valentine.html