Anything But Square

Second post of the day woohoo 

I have found another challenge over at The Crafty Pad and this time it is to make a card from anything but square,

I chose to make a spellbinders Nestabilities - Blossom 4 i folded a sheet of base card in half and placed the biggest of the dies so that a little of the tallest part was hanging over the edge of the fold then ran through my bigshot, Then i used a single piece of card and used the largest die again to make my actual topper part.

I used red ink and a cotton pad (i dont have any of the distress inks) and dabbed the cotton pad in the ink and went round the edges of the topper part of the card and also the bottom layer of the card , as you would if you were using distress inks.

Next i to folded one half of the folded card in half this is what you are going to stick the topper part to, I have used the stamped image Strawberry Tilda coloured in using pro and flexi markers, i then stuck the image onto the topper piece of card so it can form an easel card, I snipped off a tiny bit at the bottom to make it stand straight.

Lastly i used the 2nd smallest die and cut it out also going round the edges with the ink and cotton pad and added foam pads and With Love, and stuck it so my card was standing up.

Please let me know what you think xxx

Taking Part of a Very Special Challenge

I am taking part in a very special challenge, It's for a cause close to all our hearts at some point in our lives Breast Cancer.

The Challenge is over at The Crafty Pad where you will find all the details, and there is even a PRIZE. You have until 29th September 2012 so still plenty of time to enter

Once you have finished you upload to your blog and link to The Craft Pad and viola you are entered 


The very talented Dawn Lancaster's mum has been fighting cancer over the past few months and is at the moment under going chemotherapy...

Dawn has decided that to honour her mum and everyone that has ever had to fight breast cancer she is going to shave her head, raising money for the charity Breakthrough Cancer ...

You can also make a donation to  Dawn-Lancaster (her name will take you to her page to donate) even if it's a £1 it something towards a very worthwhile cause.

I lost my mum to cancer 4 years ago this year so taking the time to take part in this challenge means alot to me.



so what are you waiting for!!!


Here is my Design I hope you like it xxxx

Card and Gift Box

My Eldest son came to me and asked if i could make a card and gift box for one of his friends birthdays so i came up with the following items xx

Robin Hood Edwin

Here is post 1 of 2 today haha, I have made 3 robin hood edwin cards today Please leave your thoughts on them they are always gratefully received 

Printer Tray Project

Hi and welcome to my second posting of the day 

I had got a Printer Tray from That Craft Place a fabulous online group/store and didnt know what to do with it till i bought a craft mag with free papers here is the result xx

 I used Pro marker to colour the frame brown, added metal corners, some flower embelishments also metal butterflies and a metal circle and the tags are also part of the free gift with the papers xxx

Loo Roll Magic

Hi and welcome back to my blog sorry i havent updated for a while i have been having some down days.

My latest make is made from empty loo rolls lol i have a huge stack of them lol 

Here how i made my finished project

I took 3 Loo roll tubes and squashed them, Make sure if the is any stamp on them the squash with the stamp mark in the middle as you can see in top right pic.

Next go round the edge with your chosen colours and also a strip on the inside edge of the rolls too, (i am only doing 3 pages here) you may make as many pages as you wish, also punch holes i have done mine at the long edge but it can also be done on the shorter edge, I have dotted a little bit of glue on the inside of one end as i want to put tags inside when i have finished.

 Next choose your paper i used the papers i got free in a crafting mag

I cut out rectangles to fit the roll but left an edge (stick one side of the paper then punch and repeat on the other side)

 I added Magnolia stamped images also in shades of green

And for the reverse I used butterflies in coordinated papers and cosmic shimmer on the first one, White metal corners and punches flowers coloured in shades of green with cosmic shimmer centres, and one the last i added a postcard image also from the free papers so a message can be added. To hold it all together you can use ribbon or metal rings it's up to you.

Thank you for taking the time to look through my latest make xxxx

Winner of fun challenge

I have earned a Badge for winning a fun challenge,  On a fabulous Group on Facebook called Cards Galore why not come and join us HERE

Scrapbook Challenge ''Anything Goes''

Here i am again, well i do have a lot to catch up with hahaha

I am entering a great challenge on Cards Galore on Facebook which is to design a scrapbook page, i would like to enter the following piece although i have done a whole scapbook here (i needed to make it for my sister). It is made from a couple of brown bags xxx

Your thoughts would be gratefully received xxxx

Altered Cd

I'm a member of a lovely group on Facebook they are called Creative Moments Bloggers Network,   you can visit them Here  They are running a challenge, the said challenge is to alter a Cd. 



I would also like to enter this piece into the Flora and Fauna challenge over at crafty-emblies Why not pop over and have a look at all the fabulous works of art on there xx

Here is my entry

Pleas let me know what you think xx

Absent

I have been away from the internet for a few weeks now due to needing to get it fixed, I so missed logging on hahaha who would have thought how big the internet would become SOOO big lol oh how i have missed it, 

Anyway i have had time to try a couple of new things which i will be loading on here for you later on today .

Please take the time to look through my blog and comment if you wish xxxx