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International Swop Buddies- Cricut MB

This month my swap buddie is Shan (MomofKtimes2). We have been exchanging messages and among the things I sent to her was this butterfly that I made. I stamped the butterfly on to parchment paper using Stazon Opaque Cotton White ink, then embossed the pattern. Although it does not show on the right wing I pricked through the vellum. (you can see it on the left wing)

The antennae were made using wire and beads and the body has pearl beads along it. I then added a bit of 'stickling' to finish.

I love working with parchment and although it can be time consuming the results can be amazing.

This is the other card for the Christmas in July swop.

Christmas in July Card

Here is my card for the Addicted to Cardmaking Monthly Swap on the Cricut message board http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/fb.aspx?m=2335764
I cut the circular card using the Cricut Expression and added a peel off around the edge. Then I cut the flower petals from vellum using the teardrop shape from TBBM, stickled the edges and added a ribbon. To make the card stand up I trimmed a tiny bit off the back of the card.

I have been away for so long and thought it time to update my blog!


Been really busy finishing a scrapbook for my youngest daughter and her husband's anniversary. Did not have time to take any photo's of it and now they are on holiday so I will have to wait till they return. Now I am working on an album for my SIL's 8Oth birthday in October.


I bought some Flowersoft recently and have been using it on the October cards for the Addicted to Cardmaking swop on the Cricut message board.


I really enjoyed making the August and September cards. I think the September ones (FALL) are one of my best attempts but I will not put them here as the others in the swap have not got theirs yet and I don't wan to spoil their suprise.

And then I spent a week on the Isle of Wight and visited the Lavender Farm at Staplehurst Grange. The perfume from the flowers was amazing.

I visited my sister-in-law.

It's been a busy month

My stepson John married Maria

great blog

http://whiteribboncards.blogspot.com/
I love her style. Susie has blog candy which ends today, but go look at her site it's well worth a visit.

18th Birthday card with champagne bottle

This was my first attempt using Paper Dolls. I cut the hair from velvet paper for texture. The lapels are glittered and cut from the Wedding cartridge. The bottle, a dingbat, it is 9.5" high and was cut with SCAL and the label is computer generated. (I forgot to put the wire on for the photograph).
The boy and the bottle are free standing, although they look as if they are on card.

Lacy's Shoe

This is my design for Lacy's shoe challenge. I enjoyed the challenge as I did not have a cart with a shoe on it. Scroll down for a shoe cut file. Sorry I cannot find the original file for this shoe.

OOYCZ 2nd Challenge

When I saw these photo's on my daughter's fridge I knew I had to use them on a scrapbook page. Thanks to his dad I got copies. My daughter wrote the tag for 'Smiley Riley' and I did one for 'Love me Love my boots'. The papers were made using Photoshop Elements and the embossing was done with the Cuttlebug Paisley folder. I copied the boot and as there was only the left one showing I matted two to look like a pair. I was supposed to use ribbon but the embroidery silk matched so well I used it. All the cutting was done with my Cricut E.
I think I managed to fulfil the challenge except I did not use my alcohol inks. (maybe next time)

My Layout for OOYCZ challenge on the Cricut MB

The first page is a picture of me and my brothers and was taken at my youngest brother's wedding. I love the way one brother has his jacket buttoned up wrongly, and the way my hair was fluffed out by the wind. The groom's long hair and my older brother's pose as he was trying to keep his tie down. The second page has school photographs of my brothers and an older picture of me outside Hampton Court Palace.

This card is for a guitarist friend. The guitar is from free clipart on the web, the plectrums are from TBBM, embossed and the letters are from PS.

It's a cake, but not a cake.

I had been making this 'cake' as a birthday present for my granddaughter and was in the process of decorating it when I saw on the Cricut message board that Okie had made a cheesecake cake box. Thank you Okie, it was just what I needed so I downloaded the cut file. Then I added a cut out scalloped circle to the top and a scalloped edge around the lid. Now I just have to buy some gifts to put inside. One of the cake pieces is smaller than the others as I miscalculated the sizes, but I am very pleased with the result.

The middle picture is the true colour, and I used blue and cream pearlescent card, with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder on the flower.

The cartridges used were Plantin Schoolbook and Accent Essentials. The cake is 6" and the box is slightly larger.

You can get the cut file for the box from Okie's blog:- http://okieladybugsscrapnmore.blogspot.com/

My welded cricles

Capadia, on the Cricut Message Board, is a marvel at designing and she worked out how to weld an embellishment inside a circle. This is my attempt and I am very pleased with the result.
You can get the cut file by clicking on the title.

70th Birthday card

A friend, who I first met when I lived in Kos, is celebrating his 70th birthday this week. He and his wife love watercolouring and they have done many beautiful paintings. I made this card, with him in mind, as part of a challenge on the Cricut Messageboard. I forgot to take a picture of the inside but it says
" Fabulous at 70", and he is. Happy Birthday John.

Card for a boy

I got this image from a CD that I bought on EBAY from 'michael.dunkley'. The CD was called 'Pergamano, cardmaking pattern CD 400+ patterns'
I love doing parchment work so I thought it was well worth the 99p.
Then I found that it had hundreds of black and white and coloured images on it. Fantastic value, thankyou Micheal.

I hope my friend's son will love this card.

A girl can never have enough shoes............

I got fed up with waiting for Cricut to come up with a decent pairs of shoes on a cartridge, so I decided to make my own using the Design Studio software.

The shoes will need a little trimming at the top and you can trim the width of the heel with your scissors one they are cut out. Then just add some bling and you have a pair of high heeled shoes to add to your cards and scrapbooking pages.

If you like them please leave a comment.

You can get the cut file here:-

http://www.mediafire.com/?xdvzz1mtnm2

Another Black and White card

This card was made using offcuts of wallpaper which I silver 'stickled' but as it is on black the silver turned green. I added the doodling and the flower gems and wrote 'for you' using a fineliner pen. The main flower is made up of 3 layers which were diecut with my cuttlebug.
Wallpaper is a great resource for patterned paper.