Royal Jubilee card Published!!!!

Hello everybobs !...  well the card this week is a very special one in deed... it has been made for HRH the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee...



I was approached from committe members of the town partnership of where i live to make the card to send to the Queen for her jubilee.... On disclosing the mamoth task Id been given the lovely peeps over at Docrafts sent me a parcel to help me out.... full of the gorgeous Portobello Road goodies.. I quickly got to work with planning it but didnt rush it as i needed to get it just right,,,

I decided on an easel card design to give me more 'floorspace' to fit in all the elements i wanted to use.

I hope her HRH likes it as much as the people I made it for!!

My card and story has also been published in the Mays copy of Creativity although i have yet to see the article yet as i havent been able to grab a copy as my local stockist hasnt got it yet - i cant wait!



playing with beer tins again!!

hello everybobs ! - these 2 cards have been made using my style of the moment which is beer can diecuts..  My other half kindly donates the beer cans and i recycle them into little pieces of treasure lol.

The crown card is made using sizzix bigs 'crown' die and portobello road papers and is the card Ive made whilst making my photo tutorial on beer can diecuts which you can find under my tutorials...

the butterfly card is made using tim holtz's fanciful flight sizzix bigz die and spring drop papers by first edition and is my DT card for this weeks challenge over at 'stampin for the weekend' xx

thank you for looking x

mam's little birdie...

Hello everybobs..x  this card has been made for my dear mum to give to her mum (my nanna) for her birthday.  Nanna lives in the north of England where mums are Mams! Hence the spelling..

The image is a Helz Cuppleditch 'a little bird' coloured with my promarkers and the papers are 'up and away' by first edition..

thanks for looking everyone xxx

Tim Holtz sewing room '2'

Hello everybobs xx this card is one of my fave cards to make with the brilliantly versatile tim holtz sewing room die. Its like being a little fashion designer hehe!!..

i used good stiff brown card for the dummy which i distressed to add depth. I also utilised a bit of the tim holtz birdcage die to make the skirt. this was teamed up with my all time favourite first edition papers, this one being 'Isabelle'.

The tape measure was made using my newest stamp by maya road which i just purchased.. and the sewing background was made by stamped images from seedee morsels along with a freebie nitwits sentiment.



TARGET REACHED AT SLIMMING WORLD !

Hello everybobs xx  I would just like to share an acheivement with you all ! I have been slimming since Sept 11 after seeing my holiday photos eeek !!
this evening at slimming world I achived my slimming target weight and recieved free lifetime membership
I have gone from 13st 4 lbs and a size 18 in the pic below last sept

To a slinky 10st 7lb and size 12 now xx

thanks for letting me share xx

Ready Teddy GO ! DT card

Hello everybobs xx  this card is the DT card ive made for the stampin for the weekend challenge site of which I am the host  for this callenge ! The challenge is called ready teddy Go and you have to include a teddy bear stamp or Digi image.

I made this card for my Daughter Natalies Birthday and she loved it!

The image was coloured using my Promarkers as usual and I teamed it up with papers from First Edition called spring feast... (I love those papers). the card, sentiment and borders were distressed with bundled sage Distress ink to make it all tie in nicely. Flowers were from my flower box mostly bought from haberdasheries across the contry lol

DT card - 'Anything goes'

hello everybobs...  this card is for the design team on the 'Stampin for the weekend' challenge blog

the Image is from the stamp fairy and papers are from the papermania capsule collection 'lemon sorbet' as are the ribbons and buttons. ive used large scalloped circle nesties for the matting and finished off with googly eyes, pompoms and a lil bit of stickles xx thanks for looking

kaylas walkies...

had a lovely walk with kayla in the sun x

Beer Can Birdcage

Hello everybobs x  this card is for a friend of mine turning 40 today and has a surprise party tonight (no she wont be reading this lol).. ive been attacking the beer cans again..(come on hubbie drink up i need supplies) this time using tim holtz caged bird die and teamed up with first edition birdsong papers. i love the way using tin caches the light.  ive found if you pop the tin in your cuttlebug with the die underneath and the patterned side of the tin facing upward the die sort of bevels the tin as it cuts it making it safer to have as an embelishment.  anyways hope you like this one as much as the jalopy x

engagement flowers

hello everybobs...x this card ive made to celebrate the engagement of one of my younger cousins (congrats graham and amanda!!!)

the background is made using a cuttlebug folder which was inked with tattered rose distress ink before embossing. the flowers were made using different sized papermania flower punches and the leaves are by sizzix sizzlets.. again distressed with tattered rose. frame was made using a papermania border punch (leafy lace)

Tim Holtz Beer Can Jalopy



Hello everybobs xx well i was cutting it fine this time...i had a card to make for my dad and i as usual had left it till the last day for posting hehe... problem was my mojo had gone into hiding... and i found it in the strangest place.. the recyling bin.......   i just happened to knock it on the way past and out fell one of my hubbies empty beer cans.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i thought on picking it up... i wonder.....

well ten mins later after hacking off the top and bottom and laying flat the tin i was whizzing it through my cuttlebug along with dear old timmies sloppy jalopy die...  the siver was... well.. ok but not quite what i was after so out came the good old promarkers and a bit of Umber did the job nicely.. the ink sort of flooded and pooled as i was colouring and left the tin with a lovely marbled effect that i really liked!!!  I stuck the extra bits on using black foam pads for visability sake which worked great... 

Now i had my lovely lil car i needed a suitable background.. I also had a reel of sticky backed alaminium tape i wanted to play with so i experimented with that first...  to start with i ran it through the bug with a tim holtz checkered embossing folder... it didnt go all the way down the strip but it was easy enough to put the other end of the strip back in the folder and emboss the other end as the squares matched up nicely.  i used the same promarker to then colour in the foil... a perfect match!

for a paper i used a square from a 12 x 12 papermani portobello road paper which i heavily distressed using about 3 different inks to tie the whole lot together. the sentiments were from the same range... again distressed to match..  to finish a little bit of ink to the edges of the card and bobs ya teapot!!!

im sure my dad will like it!! and he should get it in time as it was in the post with the ink still drying lol

entered into a couple of challenges just for fun x

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ - ends 20th march

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/ - ends 14th march

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ ends 12th march

mothers day love...

Hello everybobs....!  this card has been lovingly made for my dear mum for this mothers day x

the background has been made using a cuttlebug folder that was rubbed with distress tumbled glass distress ink before embossing the card. the frams was made by using a MS stamp around the edge punch set then the center cut out and a beveled edge made on my box board. the butterflies were edged using the TG distress ink again. same with the flowers which were distressed before putting together.

Happy Blogiversary to me !

Upon checking I just found out its my 1st Blogiversary today of all days hehe!!

It took me an age to actually get around to making a blog as i found it all a bit 'tecnical' for the old grey matter to begin with - but once i got my head around it i loved it!!

So heres thanking all the 40+ thousand peeps who have followed my first year and roll on many more xx

hello everybobs x



todays card is for the stampin for the weekend Design team... this challenge is a bingo challenge and my 3 requirements were ribbon/bows, lace, diecuts..!!

portobello mini

Hello everybobs... this card has been made using papermanias Portobello road collection..matched with the papermania classic cars stamp set (mini) which has been coloured using promarkers to match the theme of the papers. Ive done this card especially for my son who will be 19 in march!!

DT colour combo challenge

hello everybobs xx

todays card is for the stampin for the weekend challnge site where i am a design team member and this weeks challnge is a colour combo of pale to darker blue with cream to brown tones.. we were also kindly given images from Bugaboo digi stamps as our sponsor this week ! i couldnt resist this lil fellow! I teamed him up with my favourite first edition papers this time using 'animal antics'.  if youd like to find out more about the challnge please click the following link http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-3-photocolour-combo.html

valentine heartwings

hello everybobs.... this card has been made for one of my hubbies work partnersfor valentines day for his wife.. hope she likes it xx

papers are from first edition and the dies are scrolwork and heartwings both from the tim holtz range of sizzix bigz dies.

DT card - 'embossing'

Helo there everybobs.... ! todays cards is the design team card for the challenge blog 'stampin for the weekend' and the theme for this challenge was embossing. teh DT members were also given some lovely digi images to work with from the stamp fairy and i chose to use thie cute lil barry angel bear !

he is coloured using promarkers from the cool grey range and ive teamed him up wonderfully with papers from first edition called 'up up and away' whihc are my personal faves at the moment. !

thanks for looking and any comments will be loved as always xxx

'Out with the old' - Design Team card...

Hello everybobs !  This card is my Design Team card for stampin for the weekends challnge which this time is themed 'out with the Old' - to use and old image or stamp from your stash. I decided on one of my old favourites from Mo's digital images teamed with these lushious papers from first edition called 'Dreamcatcher' which matched up beatuifully with the flowers and butterflies on the image.

if you would like to join in with the challenge please find us here...

http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-24-out-with-old.html

Hello everybobs !  this one has been made especially for my dear mum and stepdad who bought me this wonderful tim holtz die for christmas !! i have been after this one for a while as i love the idea of all the lil dresses i can make hehe x the lettering is also another pressy and was the tim holtz 'once upon a time' letter die x again another fab present.  the papers are from first edition packs 'desert bloom' and 'summer breeze'.  so thank you for your gifts and hope you like my card x

Hello everybobs ! this card is my Design team card for the stampin for the weekend challenge blog' 'anything goes' challenge. the card was made 3d by inserting W folds into the sideand the stamps used were from the papermania country companions range xx

made using 'THAT' bauble stamp of 2010..added with papermania silent night papers xx

CHRISTMAS TIME DT CARD

hello everybobs ! and happy christmas to you all...

this card was made using papermania christmas candles stamp which was stamped in versamark clear ink then gold embossed. The colouring was promarkers as usual and the papers are papermania silent night papers which i adore as i love the colours.  the card was used for this fornights design team card for stampin for tte weekend challenge site

'Friends' DT card

Hello everybobs !  this card is for the stampin for the wekend challenge site and is my Design team entry.

The challenge was called 'Friends' and i couldnt resist this uber cute magnolia tilda and edwin image. coloured using promarkers as usual ive done it to match the papers which are from the brilliant First estive Joy.  i do love First edition papers they are a joy to work with!

a card for Smoo !!

Hello everybobs ! this card is for my daughters firend who goes by the unusual name of smoo ! the image is my fave KennyK coloured using promarkers with a distress ink background. The paper is from the Lawrence Lewellyn Bowen range with a hand made sentiment.

Helena's Heartwings...

Hello everybobs....x  this card was made for one of my daughters friends for her birthday - hope she likes it! the image is made using the tim holtz heartwings die which i love...its so girly..  the papers are from first edition called 'up up away ' which i just bought yesterday to add to my collection of first edition papers which im loving at the moment - they are such nice quality and dont cost the earth either

Christmas Gingerbread...xx

Hello everybobs...!  this card is made using those cute liccle hanglar peoples awww i love em so cute x coloured using my promarkers as usual...  and ive teamed the images with papers from first edition called festive treats -- i love those papers too... have been stroking them for weeks now getting the courage to cut into them !

entered into these challenges....

http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-83-multi-sponsor.html ends mon 14th

http://diekreativenstempelfreunde.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-37.html ends 13 nov


http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/non-traditional-christmas-colors.html ends 21 nov


http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/ ends 9th nov

NEW tutorial - how do decorate candles...

Hello everybobs !  - if you want to learn how to decorate candles, especially using printed images - then check out my tutorials on the right hand side of my blog for a step by step photo guide xx

'sketch' design team card

Hello everybobs..... this card is another for the Design team over at 'stampin for the weekend' challenge site. the image is a lovely christmas bird from Kanban stamps. as usual I couldnt resist making the image 3D by layering up on the bird and the holly. The papers are some i fell in love with last year 'Silent night' by papermania. they have a lovely rich oldy worldy christmas theme about them.

thanks for looking in xx

SPOOKY DT card

hello everybobs... this project is for the 'stampin for  the weeked' design team.  the new challenge this fortnight is spooky! so out came the orange purple and green yayyy... this card is made as a pop up frame card which gives depth... the background was made using a handmade stencil, shaving brush and orange distress ink. tilda, house cat and pumpkin were coloured using promarkers