Cards

Digi Paper & Digi Image by Pink Petticoat, Buttons from the Fabric shop, Thimble Embellishment from Dunhelm Mill, Magnolia DooHickey Tilda Doily Die Cut purchased at The Glitterpot.

Pyramid Boxes

My cousin Angela sent me a fabulous Pyramid Box made using the free template from Pink Petticoat filled with some yummy chocolates and I was inspired to do the same and give them to my husband for a Valentine's Day gift. Here are my versions made with Pretty Doodles and Little Big dots papers from PP and filled with heart shaped chocolates from M&S. Speaking of M&S, did you hear that they are taking over Poundstretcher?
They're going to be called StretchMarks !!! Boom, Boom!

Miss Shoe

I have made loads of cards recently but they have all been rather last gasp so have gone straight into the envelope and straight into the pillar box. Although I wanted to get this one off quickly too I did find time to take a snap or two in the afternoon sun. It's for my daughter who started at University last week and the Pink Petticoat papers match the decorating scheme she has chosen for her room, black, white and fuschia pink.The main image (Also PP) was coloured with a gelly roll sakura pen for lots of gloss.

Halloween

I have used an original template designed by Linda to make my card today - I *heart* this layout so much, and thought it was perfect to make a non-scary Halloween card using my new "Broomstick Milly" from Spiral Whispers Dotty background from PP (Lola's Boudoir Rainbow) bats, zig-zag square and corners are Cuttlebug and Sizzix shapes.I used a silky black ribbon to start with but had to change it to a chiffon one as it looked too heavy. I've got some more Millies to come - I love them so much.

Hmmm! Not a happy bunny!

When I matched up the brown of the Bazzill Bling card to the background of the Bon Bon Daydream Glittered Cardstock in the shop the seemed to match beautifully but of course as soon as I got it home it didn't match at all. But that's not really what I'm unhappy about - I've made this card for a girl at work who's just had an operation and she loves owls - but I can't give it to her because the blessed brown card that I've cuttlebugged won't stay stuck on to the Glitter card. I've noticed before with things that I've embossed with the cuttlebug folders didn't stay stuck but I thought it was because I was using cheap Asda roller strip sticky stuff and this time I used my 3 times the price, scrapbook adhesives permanent E-Z runner but still it keeps falling off. I don't know what to do. Anyway here is my stash from Saturday when I went to the Glitterpot with Linda, George, Other Linda and Donna. What a wonderful bunch they are - I had the best time.

Waste Not, Want Not

I always cringe when I hear people on Create and Craft or QVC saying that Crafters never waste anything, but actually I am getting a bit that way myself. I made a bit of a c*ck-up when I printed out this card, thinking I had covered over the Tangerine completely with the blue, but clearly I hadn't! I toyed with throwing it away as it didn't seem to be much use but in the end I fashioned this card. Not fabulous, but not too bad I suppose! All by PP as usual. BTW the lady I made the cards for on Monday, loved them and within 10 minutes of receiving them had already written out one, addressed and stamped the envelope and had it in the post!

My baby's sick :(

My daughter has got flu so I quickly rustled this card up to send to cheer her up in lieu of being there to mop her fevered brow. I love these Dottie Images from Charmed Cards although I think I should have printed this one a wee bit larger. I was in a hurry to get it in the post so didn't have time to re-do it. Background papers by PP (of course) from The Lola's Boudoir Rainbow collection.

Bottoms Up!

I am frittering away far too much time with these Dottie Images - I love them to bits. I think I may have to get all of the sets. As usual the background paper is from Pink Petticoat The ribbon I used to tie up the hammock on either side came from Liberty's, a present from my daughter. She knows what I love :)

Dotty about Dottie

Bit of a grotty photo but I love these little character downloads from Charmed Cards You can buy all sorts of different ones (This on is from the Dottie at Home Collection)and there is a male character too, called George. Most of them are just black & white outlines for you to colour in yourself but I've just bought the Christmas ones which come with a coloured in set too which will save a lot of time. The background papers (as ever *yawn* :) ) from Pink Petticoat I just love the versatility of printing off what I like rather than buying a slab of papers and hating half of them.

Another Graduation Card Post

Another Graduation Card this time using the Pink Petticoat Just for Ewe download and PP papers from the Doodle-iscious CD this time in Turquoise. I left it quite plain and centalised this time which I'm not sure about. With all the last four cards I've made, I printed it off enough of the background paper/images to make two or three cards. With the others I've made them all the same but I might vary this one a little bit. Reposition the image and add some brads or ribbon.

More of the Birthday gift cards

The lady I am making the cards for heard on Friday that one of her Grandaughters got a 2:1 degree so I thought I'd make a couple of Graduation cards she could use. The image is from the Turtle-y amazing download from Pink Petticoat coloured in PSP and the papers are from the Doodle-iscious CD (Also PP) in Tangerine and Mocha. I'll put up the other card tomorrow.

Bit of a flurry

I'm making a few cards to give as a gift to one of the ladies at the Rest Home I work at who has a birthday on Monday. I finally seem to have got my mojo back after months of not making much. The main reason is that I have turned my daughter's room into a craft room so it's easier to get on with things. It's a big room so there's all her stuff up one end and all mine up the other so she doesn't mind when she comes home. At the moment my desk is my husband's Black and Decker pasting table, but it's good and sturdy. The downside of course is that he won't be able to use it for the desperately needed wallpapering. Oh well!
As mentioned in my previous post I only have a small number of punches so I thought I would try pairing an oval scallop cut out with a circle. I don't dislike it. The stamp is Curly Sheep by Inca, the paper as before from the "O Christmas Tree" CD by Pink Petticoat.

Yee hah!

I love how this little card turned out - very plain and simple, but I like it. I have used this little matting combo a lot, mainly because I only have a small number of punches but I love the way it looks, so will use it a lot in the future too. The paper is a download from Pink Petticoat "O Christmas Tree" and the Cow rubber stamp is from A-muse. I have pinched the idea for the computer generated sentiment from the co-ordinating A-muse stamp which was naughty but the shop where I bought the cow only had about 6 A-muse stamps in total, so buying it wasn't an option. We are poorly served for American crafting stuff in the UK, and the prices are astronomical, despite the very favourable exchange rate :( Not sure where I got the ribbon from, but I should get some more, it's cute.

Birthday Bubbly

I haven't had much time again to make any cards so as usual the best laid plans ...... (for that read "I haven't made any Easter Cards!") However it is a card making chum's birthday this Easter Weekend and so I had to stir my stirrups and make her a card. It is using Pink Petticoat Lola Rose Bubbly (Just as well the PP lady Liz keeps coming out with new one's as I lost the first lot when my computer crashed - blessed zip downloads making me want everything straight away and not backing it up!)The joy for me of using image stamps is that I can colour them on the computer using PSP which is what I have done here. Colouring with pens, paint and crayons is not my strong suit but I love that if I make a mistake in PSP I can just undo and start again. I have picked out the colours and prints to colour in the image from the Lola's Boudoir collection (thankfully I have that on CD!) and I have used the same for the background paper. I have made the bath bubbles sparkly using Icicle Stickles, although I was a bit sparing with them as my first attempt made the ink run :( The Sentiment was of course computer generated too and the ribbon came from Liberty's

More Mothering Sunday

So I made this little card for my daughter to give to MIL on Mothering Sunday - I got the fab idea and template for the shape of the card from Taylored Expressions - but as you will see if you click the link mine doesn't have the same je ne sais quois as Taylor's - still it turned out pretty good and MIL was delighted of course.The patterened Paper is Pink Petticoat. I did the doodling on the leaves with the thin end of my Whispers brush pens and then decided to go over it with the thick end - should have left it be I think! I need to practise the doodling, it adds a nice touch but I would prefer it if mine flowed a bit better.

Learning from my mistakes!

I made a series of Thank You cards for myself too, and although they didn't turn out quite how I'd envisaged them, I am rather pleased with the outcome. As you can tell I love Pink Petticoat papers and normally if I was making A6 cards I would print off an A4 sheet, cut in two and fold to make two cards out of one pattern sheet. The pattern sheet I chose however was designed in such a way that I thought it would be a shame to cut it in two as it would spoil the flow of the design, so I decided to cut my card to A5 size first and print the whole design, just smaller. It wasn't until I had cut all my card and loaded in the printer that I discovered that printing at A5 wasn't an option so I had to choose the nearest size to it, which left a bare stripe down the right hand side of the card, which when folded would be at the bottom. I thought about cutting the white bit off but then I thought it would look nice with the "Thanks" sentiment rubber stamped there in black ink, it was just perfect. Each card had a different PP Christmas image stamp punched out, matted on a larger circle of turquise pearlised card and finally matted onto a white scallop which I edged with matching turquoise ink. It was very quick to churn out half a dozen cards, much quicker than it took me to write this convoluted explanation.

Thank You Cards

I whipped up these cards on Boxing day for my daughter to write her Christmas Thank Yous. They are all variations in a theme using the Lola's Bodoir collection from Pink Petticoat . I was rather pleased with them I have to say.

Here's a better look at my favourite one of the series

Cheque Mate!

I needed to make the rather boring cheque we gave to our 16 year old niece for Christmas look a bit more glamorous , so I printed a Pink Petticoat design on one side of a piece of card (not shown here) and a Christmas Lola image stamp(also by PP) on the other side that I had coloured in PSP and "glittered up" a bit with some stickles. I folded the card into three and cut out a scallop shape with a punch so that Lola could peep through, and doodled around the edge of the cut-out. After popping the cheque inside with a greeting, I wrapped ribbon around the outside to fasten and added yet another little PP image stamp, again coloured in PSP. Et voilà - a gift!

Children in need

I am enjoying making cards for non traditional occassions and this one is no exception. It will be "Children in Need" day next Friday and I couldn't resist making a Pudsey Card. All cut out on the craft robo, the bandage is using Pink Petticoat Lola's Boudoir paper and the white highlights are a sakura souffle pen. Not sure if the googly eye gives him the right expression or not but it's all glued down now!

Merry Wishes

The spring card seems to be popular at the moment so I thought I'd have a go at one. I used a craft robo template from Patricia at UKS cut out on Pink Petticoat doodle-iscious Christmas and Christmas Rainbow papers in Poppy and Gold, with the central image stamp from the same collection. I have used a scallop punch and also craft robo shapes from Cuddly Buddly to make the scalloped layers. I also pierced small holes in the gold scallop using my pokie tool, but it doesn't really show up in the photo that well. I rather like the way this has turned out.