Nursie Nursie

Another niece turned 21......I am not old enough to have a niece who is 21well I have 3 of them who turned 21 this year so far and another one that turned 18....having said that I am not old enough to have a nephew who is 25......I wasn't even born when he arrived

Anyway Aisling is going into her final year of her nursing degree in September, and she is going to be very popular with her gentlemen patients...it might have something to do with her being 6ft tall, a body to die for, boobs in the right place, eyes that would melt your heart.......and she is really really nice, oh and to top it off she is intelligent........not sure quite where she came from must of been the milk man

The card is pretty simple, the image is coloured with Copics, and the background dp is from LLB's new collection Venaissance. I have been trying to improve my colouring technique with my copics and I found this thread (I can't access SCS at the moment but as soon as I can I will update post) on SCS invaluable. I have to say though for me the colours chosen are definitely for those living in a warm climate, so I will choose some paler ones in the future...this is all down to personal choice....and I am a snowflake!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Clearly Stamps with Character Girls in Uniform
Ink: Momento
Cardstock: Blue Mirror Card unknown
Patterned Paper: LLB Venaissance Collection
Accessories: Nestabilities, numeric rub ons, 3d foam, grosgrain ribbon, copics

Shop 'til you drop!

It was one of my friends birthdays recently....and she does like to shop........rather she likes to go shopping but she doesn't seem to buy all that much......I am strange, I can't be bothered with all the tooing and froing....if I want it, can afford, I have it.....going around town looking at the same top just slightly different in 50 shops and going back to the first shop you saw it in 5 hours earlier is just plain HELL!



Close up to see how I used Diamond Glaze on my skinnie minnie to add a bit of weight to her



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Recipe:-
Stamps: Clearly Stamps with Character
Ink: Memento
Cardstock: Making Memories
Patterned Paper:
Accessories:Prisma blooms, glitter, cuttlebug, nestabilites and Prismacolor pencils

Shimmer and Shine

On this one you are going to have to trust me...it looks a whole lot better in real life, it was a complete nightmare trying to photograph this card and try and get the colours, vibrance, and shimmer....

This card took a whole lot of work, layers upon layers of different embossing powders and I 'know' the recipient with chuck the card in the bin the day after his birthday....teenagers don't you just love them! and just to spit him....there will be no money in it!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: unkown
Ink: Stazon
Cardstock: craftworks
Patterned Paper:
Accessories: embossing powders, nestabilities, ribbon

I love the image on this card, it harks back to when children could be children and the health and safety mad world was not even on the horizon!

Our friends little boy was turning 3 and he is a real 'boy' into everything and anything and outside exploring.....



so proud of his new friend!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: High Hopes
Ink: Memento
Cardstock: Craftworks
Patterned Paper: Trimcraft
Accessories:Prismacolour pencils, ribbon, nestabilities, and some gems

Relaxing when you are over the hill!

A male friends birthday in March and this image I think suits most men his age down to the ground! I think his wife nearly wet herself with laughter when she saw it as this is the vision she sees most Sundays!

love the holes in his socks!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Clearly Stamps with Character Golden Oldies
Ink : Memento
Cardstock: Basic Grey
Patterned dp: Basic Grey
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Birthday Greeting rubon, brads and Brown ribbon

Rummaging around and look what I found....

Hi there, I am going through and getting photos of cards off my camera and going through some that were on my PC when I can across an example of the layout for the cards I did for the majority of Christmas cards I sent out last year, the layout was the same for each but the images,backing papers, card stock colours and ribbon where all different.



Close of Grandad playing Santa Clause....I love the look of the two babies in his arms!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Clearly Stamps with Character Golden Oldies 3
Ink: Memento
Cardstock: DCWV
Patterned Paper: DCWV

Accessories: Copics, Nestabilites, Ribbon, corner punch

Chirpy!

I fell in love with this card by prbloom over on splitcoaststampers, I can't stop looking at it! I hadn't used my wonderful new Inkadinkado stamp that I had also fallen in love with so I joined them both in marriage!

And I am shocked........I had a comment on my last card from the one and only LEONIE.........and she recommended my 'ickle old blog her blog
Thank you Leonie and especially for mentioning the link to the Bowel Cancer website




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Recipe:-
Stamps: Inkadinkado
Ink: Memento
Patterned Paper: Making Memories Paisley
Accessories: Ribbon - American Crafts, Waterfall Stickles, Prisma Color Pencils, Sandsodor, Nestabilities and Cuttlebug

Love to you.....

I work quite a bit away from home which means I spend a lot of time on my own in the evenings in hotels............there are different ways to spend the time, some weeks I take a pampering kit with me, so I have a facial with scrubbing, plucking, moisturizing, masks etc and then I have a moisturizing session for my body etc...so I come home all smooth and pruned other weeks I take along a few good books and some magazines, and then other weeks I take along some craft things ...the reason I don't take craft stuff every week is that it weighs a ton!

I am also still (yes I know still) cataloguing all my stamps, they are all pretty much unmounted, I have 50 or so that are still mounted and of those maybe 30 will remain mounted. But the other thousands and there are thousands are unmounted, and I am slowly working my way through them to catalogue them. I have them in plastic cd wallets, each wallet has a piece of card stock of the same size, on this card stock I stamp the images in that wallet, I write a unique identifier e.g. Female 012 and the name of the manufacturer and the name of the stamp. I then have a book (the pages can be taken out and put into a folder once I am done) which I have divided into different categories such as Female, Male, Funny, Backgrounds & Scenery, Oriental, Children, etc and I stamp the image again on a page within that category,and mark it with the the same unique identifier and details as are on the wallet. The idea being that I can flip through the book choose the stamp, go to my boxes, flick to the right category and pick out the right wallet, and also ensure that the stamp goes back into the right wallet.....but it all takes time lots and lots of time!

To add into that mix, those above are just my rubber stamps and single clear stamps.......all my clear stamp sets are stored in their sets and therefore I have another book that I am stamping all their images in....which again can be placed in a file..........you know it all sounds confusing but it works for me (hmm what does that say about me!)

Why I started this long spiel was that I stamped this image and coloured it whilst away with work! She is from Lily & Milo and I coloured her with watercolours blended with my new tombow blender.....ok how did I miss this guy! this blender works a treat and you get great results instantly!

The template is the same as before from the Verve Forum over on SCS.




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Recipe:-
Stamps: Lily & Milo - Lily Springtime, Stampendous Love Messages
Ink: Archival Ink - Jet Black, memento sky blue
Cardstock: Watercolour carstock, kanban
Patterned Paper: Making Memories Fresh Anthology Eliza 'eyelet'
Accessories: Gingham ribbon, Blue stars Paper Cellar, Watercolour Pencils, Tombow blender, Prismamarker, Cuttlebug,Nestabilities, 3 d foam dots, white and blue signo pen

Bling!Bling! 60's Car

Yep! It's another teenage boy birthday.....I have 3 teenage nephews birthdays this month, I really need to speak to my siblings.....do they not know the male cards are a nightmare let alone teenage male cards!

I was going to keep this one pretty simple as the image on the glitter looked really effective but why I put on the black base card I just felt it needed a bit extra so I added the silver dots around the card, it still wasn't enough so I thought about some gems, but gems on a male card would they work, so I had a play and yes it is an unusually glitzy card for a male teenager but the gems pick up the bling from the glitter paper and it kinda works.....and he will like it as I AM his favourite Auntie (aren't I, if you are reading this)

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Papermania
Ink: Versamark
Cardstock: Kanban
Patterned Paper: Glitter Paper
Accessories: Embossing Powder; Stampendous Detail Black, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Silver Marker Pen, Gems

I am NOT Mr Grumpy!

We have a really good friend whom we love but as with all good friendships there is a bit of banter and occasional (OK maybe not so occasional!) leg pulling. Mick is not known for his great sense of style, clothes are clothes and they cause him a great deal of consternation and I think if he could get away with it he wouldn't wear any, he is also a grumpy sometimes, not in a mean spirited way he just likes an easy life and if anything presents a challenge he tends to have a moan about it....and we as all good friends do, laugh at him Mick is also one of my avid fans and when last year I didn't sign the back of his card he got upset and I had to sign it the next time I was at his house!

I had fun with my copics, nestabilites, cuttlebug and I even used some unused dp!!!!!yeah me!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Ibrakeforstamps
Ink: London Fog Mememto
Cardstock: Kanban
Patterned Paper: Rubber Soul - Shake it up collection
Accessories: Nestabilities, Copic Markers, Silver Signo Pen, Computer for Sentiment

Munch!

August is a month for Birthdays and I am some what disorganised what with being away, family crisis, and life..

So hopefully I can put on my big pants and get over myself and get going on all those cards!


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Recipe:-
Stamp - Clear Dollar
Ink - Graphite Black Brilliance
Copics
Paper -Hotofthepress
Card -Craftwork Cards
Ribbon - yellow satin
Cuttlebug /Nestabilities

Ribbet

A really good friend of mine opened her home to me and some of our mutual friends back in July and I have not had the chance until this weekend to make a well deserved but very tardy Thank You card.

The lady in question loves Frogs, hence the theme

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Recipe:-

Stamps from Clear Dollar

Ink- Graphite Black - Brilliance

Copic Markers

Cuttlebug and Nestabilities

White Signo pen

Green Grosgrain ribbon

K&Co Berry Sweet Designer Paper