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

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

It's Bert Birthday!

Well it is tomorrow....and I better get this posted or Bert will not be happy with me!I know, I know, it's either feast or famine round here, but hey that is what life is like!lol Bert is actually Roberta, and she is a wonderful friend, we don't see each other all that often but when we do we just pick up straight from where we left off.

I have the dentist this morning....to finish off a root canal...yuck...its the last tooth at the top right next to my throat....nice...who knew you could get so many medical instruments in your mouth at once!



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Recipe:-
Stamps: Forever Friends Do Craft
Ink: Momento
Cardstock: Kanban
Patterned Paper: Cherry Arte
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Anita's 3 D Clear Gloss Finish, Prima Flowers, button, Dovecraft star border punch

oh....I am going to be in sooooo much trouble!

...my SIL Petra is going to kill me when she gets her Birthday card....as with all families we like to ummm take the mickey, pull each others leg, or whatever you want to call it in your country but generally make fun of each other! Now I am the Baby in my family and in OH's, and I don't make the most of it ....well not much anyway! But I am rather short ....and I partnered up with a 6ft plus family....so they all make fun of my lack of height...
and I have to retaliate in some way...

anyway Petra also likes Penguins....she lives in Canada, so some would say that it's an appropriate animal.....

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Recipe
Stamp - Ibrakeforstamps
Ink - Graphite Black Brilliance
Pencils - Prismacolor Pencils
Black Velvet ribbon
Cardstock - Kanban
Callouts- Computer Generated
Humour - mine I am afraid

Sympathy Card

It’s never a nice thing to have to create a sympathy card, made harder when its for a dear friends family, but unfortunately life throws these things at us sometimes and we just have to bit the bullet and get on with it.

I wanted to create something that was masculine (as Merv had been a man’s man) but yet pretty and comforting for Joan.

• The final card size is A4 (14.8cm by 21 cm) folded in half.


• Working from the base of the card, I cut some paper from the Dovecraft Masculine pack (14.5cm by 20.7cm), which I adhered to the base card with DST.


• I measured and cut (11.1 cm by 15.4cm) some coordinating paper from the same pack, mounted it onto some cream cardstock leaving approximately a 1 millimetre border around the edge.


• I stamped my image (Amy Smyth Made It – The Garden Variety – Inkadinkado) using Brilliance dewdrop ink pads, in crimson red, graphite black and pearlecent ivy green, coloured the image in using Prismacolor Pencils and Gamasol, and highlighted the flower heads with Judi Kins Diamond Glaze. The image was cut out, mounted on coordinating paper and mounted again on cream cardstock.


• Once I mounted the image onto the second piece of co-ordinating paper, I tied a piece of cream organza ribbon around this whole section, which I then mounted onto the base card.


• Finally, I stamped the sentiment (Stampendous! – Encouraging words) using Brilliance dewdrops Coffee Bean, and mounted it on some foam pads to give it some dimension.

* inside the card I have created a insert using cream parchment paper, and created a verse using the stamps from Stampendous! – Encouraging words.

Recipe

Inks- Brilliance Dew Drops – Coffee Bean, Pearlecent Ivy Green, Crimson Red & graphite black
Stamps – Amy Smyth Made it – Garden Variety –Inkadinkado, Stampendous! – Encouraging words.
Papers- Dovecraft – Masculine
Cardstock- Kanban cream
Everything else – Organza ribbon, Diamond Glaze- Judi Kins, Prismacolor Pencils, Gamasol

Move it Move it Mooooooooooooooove it!

As the as a military brat I have many memories of the military on parade, so when I was I stamped the image of Noah and the animals following him it took me back to my childhood!

Image was stamped onto white card stock, coloured using a combination of copics and prismacolor pencils smudged with mineral spirits. The dark brown mat is actually foam mounted onto the image to give it depth, with some gold doodling around the edges to soften the edges. The callouts were computer generated and printed out onto white card stock and then mounted onto the frame. The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped onto matt cream cardstock, mat brown card stock was threaded through holes that I had created using a slot punch, both the faux ribbon and the sentiment were also doodled to help bring the whole image together.
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Recipe
Stamps - Noah's Parade High Hope Stamps , Happy Birthday Sentiment - Printworks Great Birthday
Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black
Callouts - computer generated
Cardstock - Kanban pearlescent cream and mat brown, white and cream
Copics, Prismacolor pencils, mineral spirits, Prismacolour metallic gold
Oval Nestabilites and Cuttlebug
Slot punch