Super - Doopah Light show

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Last Wednesday I met my friend Ailsa in town so we could have a mooch round the new Cath Kidson shop that has opened there. It's all lovely stuff but bit too pricey for my liking. For example they had hot wheat bags at £18 - I have been pricing them because I had a slight accident with mine recently (I had gone to bed and was feeling a bit chilly so called down to my husband who was still downstairs to ask him to pop it in the microwave for me, and just lobbed it over the bannisters. The bag split, there was wheat all over the shop and the subsequent vacuuming warmed me up sufficiently that I no longer required the hot wheat bag) Anyway hot wheat bags anywhere else are about £6, so I maintain my position that CK are a bit pricey.

We then went and had tea and cakes in "The Mock Turtle" which is a wonderful old fashioned teashop with homemade cakes, proper tea in a brown betty teapot (tea leaves, strainer,the lot) It is a wonderful experience but not to be repeated too frequently as it is hazardous to the waistline.
We then trotted a long to the new(ish) library because Ailsa hadn't ever seen it which is where this post becomes relevant to my card blog. I bought the card in the video for my niece who has her 6th birthday tomorrow. I was going to make her one but thought that this looked far more fun - a bit pricey at £4.50 bt worth it for the novelty I think. I did make a card withmy craft robo using a pattern from the Just Cutters CD, for my daughter to give her but the photo doesn't show it off to its best advantage, and it has been posted now so no time to re-shoot. Please excuse the background noise to the vid, I had the telly blaring away watching "Grand Designs" and the strange noise at the end is a creaking floorboard as I walked across to turn off the camera!

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.

October Octogons

Here's a couple of cards I ran up on my craft robo using a template from UK Scrappers designed by Etui. The cutout is surprisingly robust despite looking so delicate, but even so, being an incompentant fumble fingered fool, I managed to rip a part of the design when pushing out the waste on the turquoise card. But as they say , nothing is wasted in card making so I snipped out the centre and hid the gap with these enormous petal shapes, which despite what the photo shows, match the card colour perfectly. On the yellow one I have succumbed again and used a gold peel-off "Happy Birthday" Even though I am a bit snooty about peel-offs, I am beginning to warm to them and think that maybe they do have a role to play :)The inserts are cut from Pink Petticoat doodle-iscious papers. You will be able to see the cut out design far better if you click on the photo for a super-duper enlarged version.

Happy Birthday Ailsa

I have used another of Shirley Anne's wonderful templates (which can be found at UKS) to make a card for my friend Ailsa whose birthday it is tomorrow. However I don't think I made a good colour choice really and it doesn't suit the template. I should have made the leaves in a different colour and I've used a peel-off "Happy Birthday" which normally I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole, (I got the sheet of peel-offs free with a rubber stamp I bought) because I cut out the happy birthday that is part of the template in the same shade of blue and there wasn't enough contrast. I've no idea where I got the wooden, gold painted stars I've put in the centre of the flowers. I've got a HUGE plastic bag full of them that I seem to have had forever (possibly from before I even started cardmaking!)Still it's too late now to start re-doing it all. It is also my dog's birthday tomorrow but she isn't getting a card, I think she'd prefer a biscuit. The papers are Pink Petticoat as yesterday.

Glamorous Grannies

One of my internet chums Pam has just become a Grandma for the first time last week, and another, Darylynn, expects Granny-dom to be granted any moment. The babies are both boys which gave me an excuse to use this wonderful craft robo template by Shirley Anne of UK Scrappers. The papers I've used are Pink Petticoat Doodle-iscious Rainbow in Duckegg Blue. I don't know of anyone expecting a girl (or even anyone else who is expecting) but I have got to try out the matching "Baby Girl" template by Shirley Anne really soon. It is a breeze to cut out and assemble.

Boo!

I picked up this wonderful Craft Robo template of a Halloween card by Susan F at UKS I was originally going to back the cut out with orange but the I found this amazing luminous green paper at 3p an A4 sheet in my local Art supply shop.

Oh Tannenbaum!

I ordered the new Pink Petticoat doodle-icious Christmas and Rainbow collections in the week and I thought they were just the thing to pair with this beautiful filigree Christmas tree craft robo template from UKS. I dotted the tree with loads of Papermania adhesive gemstones so represent fairy lights (I've actually stuck on a few more - loads more! - since I took the photo) I am well pleased with how it turned out although the delicacy of the cut-out made it tricky to adhere to the card. TheCountryRose who designed the template has shared an angel and a reindeer design in the same filigree style, I think you may be seeing more in the next couple of days.