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

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

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

Girlie Rocker

The good bits and bad bits of life have been getting in the way of me blogging and crafting of late, but I have a card to share with you today!

This card is my Girlie Rocker! For those of you who don't know me I am an avid fan of all things 50's , I rock 'n roll dance with my partner, we have to Wurlitzer jukeboxes in out sitting room......my nickname is Jukie.......ok you get the picture! I was at Colemans' Warehouse in Rushden Northants and Debbie Moore was there showing off some of her goodies when this set jumped out at me and popped itself into my already overflowing basket.

The design template that I have used is based on the sketches you can find over of SCS in the Verve Forum. I seem to find if I don't use a sketch it takes me hours, I need to minimse my choices so that I can create something or else I spend to long trying to make a decision.

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Debbie Moore Kerry Jo
Ink: Graphite Brilliance
Cardstock: Craftworks
Patterned Paper: K&Co
Accessories: Ric rak ribbon - papermania, copics, silver signo pen, fiskars cutting template for scalloped edge.

You Rock!

It is my nephew Cillian's Birthday today, he is 16, he loves his gaming, heavy metal/rock music and forensic science............ I went with the music theme!

I haven't played with my embossing powders in far far far to long and I had a few months ago added to my collection and I still hadn't used them and I had read a few blogs etc talking about faux metal..... so I decided to have a go and these are the results.

I have loaded up two pictures so that you can see the detail, as always with these things it looks better irl but you get the jist of what I was trying to achieve and I am really pleased with the result and I think it rocks



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Recipe:-
Stamps: Papermania
Ink: Versamark
Cardstock: Kanban
Accessories: Embossing powders:- Malachite Fire Aurora, Lapis Black and Tropical Pearl by Cosmic Shimmer, Black sparkle by Personal Impressions, Black Ribbon, Black Diamond Stickles

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

True Friends are hard to find

You know sometimes you are lucky to have 1 good friend, you know the one that you can say things too, and they don't judge you, they laugh with you, cry with you, and most importantly just be with you when you need it most....I am lucky I have more then 1 such friend, and a group of us girls (OK women but are girls really!) spend far to much time chatting and laughing but we also on occasion send each other cards....it started out once a month but over time we realised that sometimes someone can do it every month and other times life just gets in the way....and that's OK.......cause we are friends.

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Recipe

Stamp - Stampabilities Know to much

Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black

Colours - Copics

Signo pens in black and white

Kanban cardstock in white,black and orange

Ribbon- unknown

Birthday Bella

It is one of my niece's birthdays next week, and I love this image from Stamping Bella, and I think its great for teenage girls and funky women....and my niece is now a funky woman! 20.....and she is not the oldest niece or nephew

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Recipe
Stamp - Bella
Graphite Black Brilliance
Colours - Copic Markers Papermania- Papermania
Glitter - Craft Planet

Accordian Card

This is my entry into this weeks challenge at Papertake Weekly. I love the design and its one I would definitely use again, although maybe instead of using heavy paper or light cardstock paper I would go for a much more lightweight option as this card is very heavy...it doesn't fall over...but would cost a fortune to post, so it's definitely in the hand deliver pile!

I used coordinating papers from the Vintage collection on each of the folds, which I matted with rose pink cardstock, I cut 1 of the roses from the paper and placed it on the rose pink cardstock, stamped the sentiment, added the ribbon and faux stitching.

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Recipe

Paper - Making Memories Vintage Collection
Stamp - Creative Expressions
Ink - Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy
Ribbon - unknown
Card - Bazzill
Template and sketch design - Papertake Weekly

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