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

Happy Father's Day

I miss you every day, the pain never goes away, but now the happy memories are stronger then the sad. I can't believe that 4 years ago today I had what was to be my last conversation with you, we didn't know it at the time. I have lived with a lot of 'if onlys' about that conversation but I know that you knew that I loved you and I know that you loved me and I guess that I have to hold on to that.

Don't remember me with sadness,

Don't remember me with tears,

Remember all the laughter,

We've had throughout the years.

Then when the summer sunshine

Awakes the flowers in bloom

I'll walk that light from Heaven

Around the corners of the room.

Do the things we did before

The same in every way

Just whisper a little prayer for me

At the dawn of every day.

Just think of me as present

Don't think of me as past

For my love is a blessing

In death it still can last.

Forget your troubles and your worries

They are mine forever more

I'll watch and care and love you

From Heaven's open door.

And when your road gets rough and rocky

Or you're down and need a crutch

Remember I'm right beside you

Just an inch to short to touch.

With Sympathy...

Never the easiest of cards to make but ones that mean so much to those who receive them. Two close friends are going through some rough times at the moment, one has just lost a father, the other is preparing to lose theirs soon.

I was worried because I work away a lot from home that when the time comes I would not be able to take the time I would want to on the card for our second friend so I made one just in case (hoping that I won't have to use it anytime soon, but realistically knowing I will)

I used a layout from Splitcoaststampers sketches challenges to help in the process, the cardstock is all from the new range of DCWV La Creme, the image stamp is one of the new ones from Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen range, and I think the sentiment is from Stampendous. Both cards are slightly different but on just.

I put a poem inside each of the cards on a parchment insert that we used on my Dad remembrance bookmark, I will be sharing that poem with you on Sunday (Fathers Day). It is beautiful, and 4 years on I still have that bookmark on my desk and each and every time I sit there I see my Dads and occasionally I read the poem again and it manages to make me smile and cry all at the same time!

Pink Explosion!

It was my god-daughters birthday earlier in the month, Ellie is a girlie girlie, pink loving, sparkly wearing 6 year old! and what kind of godmother would I be if I didn't make her a card to help her celebrate her pinkness! I might add that along with the card I bought her some positively pink outfits and sparkly hair accessories to go with them! oh and she is a budding crafter so she got loads of stickers and glitter and oh a whole host of fun stuff!

I got my Copics out for this image along with a bit of glitter provided by my American Crafts Glitter Marker Pure Glitter, there are actually 3 different stamps used on this card, the girl, the pig and the fence, so I had to do some masking.

The is a bit pink, well the whole card is a bit ott on the pinkness but you are only 6 once

I dusted off some of my flowers..... and stuck a button and threaded some DMC thread through it, added some more ribbon, a tag embellishment and some flower gems.

Very pink very girlie and the young lady loved it! It was completely over the top sugary sweet but I think it worked!

Thanks for looking.

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

Beer and a Pretty Girl what more could a man want...

..........the easiest way to a mans heart!

A close up of girlie....!

(The puckering is not that bad on the actual card, it was because I used silicone glue as it was the only thing that would stick with all the glitter on the card stocks that I used)

Inside of the card....

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Recipe:-
Stamps: Clearly Stamps with Character
Ink: Memento
Cardstock: DCWV
Patterned Paper: Various
Accessories:Copics, even more glitter

Newsflash

I have some news......here are some clues............




need another one?




no?




Well some of you lovely people that check out my blog on occasion (Thank You!) will know that my partner and I have been in the process of attempting to emigrate to Canada for the past 4 years.....OK to be fair 3 years and 9 months, with a good bit of work done before that, but our paperwork went into the High Commission 3 years and 9 months ago.....anyway you get the picture we found out yesterday that we have been accepted! Yes, we are our way...well not quite but we have done it...........this is such an amazing thing for us, we have been through some rough and rocky things in the past, but this has been a dream of ours for so long.....all the more poignant as the last conversation I had with Dad 4 years ago on Fathers day was about following our Dream of going to Canada and that no matter what happened we were to keeping going
....look Dad we did it!

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

Sorry for the news black out for 5 months, my Mam's death really knocked me for 6 and I am not out of the woods yet. Last week as a trial, it would have been my parents 48th wedding Anniversary on the 17th of March, I am Irish so St Patrick's Day means a lot, and it was the 1st year without both of them, the 19th of March would have been my Mams 67th Birthday and the 22nd of March was Mothers Day..........so I have had any wind I had in my sails knocked out of me!

My mojo has packed up and left me, I have made a few things but nothing of much merit. I have started to ease myself back in though by reading blogs etc that I haven't done for months. So I am hoping that I can return soon.

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