Cards from my time MIA

Hello bloggers,

I was MIA for a little while because life got soo busy here I hardly hat time to blog or craft much. I did get a few cards done, but not had a chance to show them yet. I want to "get them out of the way" now *lol* so here there are without much ado.

This card was made for Georgia (also known as 'lil G) to cheer her up, hope it did! One of Mo's wonderful images again, coloured in Copics, background and sentiment stamped with PTI stamps, other bits from stash.

These flowers were really hard to photograph! They were made with my cricut and a file I got here. They were quite easy to do and once I had sourced some proper floral tape for the wire stems it got together really quickly as well.

This card went together with the flowers as a thank you for a friend who helped me out with my kids. I made it at a craft get-together I go to once a month where we had a theme of playing with shapes and rather not too many embellies. Quite liked this simple look!

Here I have a little quicky card I loved doing as I rarely have the chance to make a card for a teenage girl! A friends niece is in hospital with tonsilitis (?) and she needed a card, so I dug out this Magnolia Tilda and used PTI stamps and ribbon from stash. Tilda was partly paper-pieced and partly coloured with Copics.

This card is my birthday card for one of my dearest crafty friends, Julie. I sent it a tad late on the day before her actual birthday and it arrived too late, but I heard she liked it still *lol*

Mo image again (it's called "Kissy") coloured with Copics, Hero Arts swirl stamp for background, sentiment and button are PTI and some lovely old lace I got from a kind crafter!

These last two are identical and I made them for Julie and Lesley. I love the PTI set I used for them and what better way to use them than for a couple of crafty friends who'll "get" it?!

Hope you liked my quickfire post and as always I look forward to your comments! Thanks for stopping by!

Quick couple of cards...

I made these the other day and I quite like them. Tried a bit of distressing edges on the Tilda card and the other was to use up some scraps I had and try out a tip I saw online about using the 5-petal flower punch from SU to make different flowers. I liked it a lot, very easy to do and you wouldn't know it is from the same punch...

And I noticed that my Versafine inkpad has taken a beating. I forgot to put the lid back on a few nights ago and only replaced it the next morning *oops* and now it won't stamp that well anymore. Might have to buy a new one which is unfortunate, I am on a buying ban until I complete 50 cards! So far I have 6...

Well here they are, hope you like them:

I used Basic Grey "Urban Prairie" papers, Sizzix leaf stem die, Nestabilities Labels 3, Papermania brad, Craftworkcards dome paper circles and a sentiment from a set by My sentiments exactly (You can see my Versafine packing up there...)

I used the Urban Prairie papers again for this, edges distressed, Tilda image is coloured with pencils and blended with Sansador, flowers are Prima and attached with Papermania brads, a charm from my stash is hanging by a chain from one. The butterflies are cut out of a sheet of the paper and I added some faux stitching.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Just Magnolia challenge...

The Just Magnolia challenge blog has launched with a fab prize for their first sketch challenge! I thought I give it a go as the sketch is really lovely.

I did turn the sketch on it's head but I think it works just as well that way.

And this is my card...

Hope you like it, I am quite pleased with it. I used Basic Greys Scarlett's letter paper, a patterned card blank I got sent so unfortunately I don't know the make, some Prima flowers with bead spacers and brads for the centers, Bazzil Basic and Bazzil Bling for the base, ribbon is from stash, sentiment from Hero Arts clear Design set stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia, Tilda is coloured with Copics.

Thanks for looking!

A few new cards and projects in the making

Good morning everyone!

Had a really fun evening with the Stampers ten yesterday! Lovely girls and we made a sweet card and tag that was quite different from my usual style so I will hang on to that for a while to hopefully make me venture out of my comfort zone a bit.

I have been a busy bee yesterday and on the weekend as well so have a few cards and an unfinished project to share with you. Any suggestions for improving the later are gratefully received!

But here goes:

This card was a comissioned first birthday card for a little girl. The lady I did this for doesn't like images on the cards very much which is always a bit of a challenge for me. I used Basic Grey Cupcake papers, Distress ink in Fired Brick and PTI sets "Bitty Baby Blessings" and "Simple Alphabet" and finished with Stickles and red Half Pearls.

For this card (also comissioned) I used PTIs "Life" set and Pebbles Inc Ribbon, Ballet Blue and Fresh Snow ink on SU cardstock. Quite simple but I like it...

This card is for the spotty Tilda Challenge over on DoCrafts. I made the spotty papers with PTI set "Polka Dot Basics" and punched and shaped flowers from the same paper. You can't really tell from the picture, but the base card is chocolate brown. We had to use three colours on the card and I chose chocolate brown, pink and green. Not so sure if I overdid the spottiness of the card a bit *lol*

I used Nestabilities curved rectangles, a Tilda (obviously...)that I coloured with copics, my own paper creations were made with SU in Regal Rose, Versafine in Vintage Sepia and Antique Linen Distress Ink. Flower Punches are Woodware and Circle Punch for the centers is SU circle in 3/4". The sentiment is a "Innie & Outie" from My Sentiments exactly.

Hope you like my creations and for a better view try to click on them!

Last but not least a desktop organizer I created using a "Timeless Template" by Lauren Meader for PTI. I assembled it and added Basic Grey "Scarlett Letter" papers but am not sure yet on what embellishments to use. But I think it looks great already! Have for the moment put divider cards in and might use it to organise my addresses, but also noticed it is a perfect fit for 6 x 6 lose papers. Might need to do more of these...

Thanks for visiting and have a beautiful day!

Fabulous blog candy!

Don't you love Magnolia stamps? I know I do! And over at Rosaswelt - Pretty Pressings you can win this great set of stamps on the picture!! So head over and try your luck!

Magnolia vs Stampavie, first time for me...

I made a card today for the 80th birthday of a gentleman in the USA... I thought the sketch for this challenge was quite nice for this. I am not sure now if I really like it, though... It is all black and white with silver apart from a bit of yellow thrown in for the stamped image and the kraft cardstock. 


"Magnolia vs Stampavie sketch challenge"
Card recipe:
Paper: Dovecraft Charcoal prints
Inks: Versafine (Onyx Black), Distress Ink (Vintage Photo, Mustard Yellow, Tatterd Rose, Black Soot ), Brilliance Starlight Black 
Stamps: Waiter Edwin from Magnolia 
Other: Ribbon from a christmas cracker decoration, Ranger Glossy accents, Papermania brads, Nestabilities curved rectangles, Nestabilities double ended tags, computergenerated sentiment, big button cut off an old cardigan, kraft cardstock (PTI)

Ooops, just noticed that it had to be a Thank You card to be able to enter it... Oh, well, never mind!

Had a fabulous crafting day yesterday!

I met with 3 amazing girls, Julie, Sarah(Kozmik) and Kathleen yesterday at the Glitterpot. We had the chance to see a great demo for the Bind-it-all and pick up a few goodies then headed over to my place for some lunch and serious crafting. Ok, we did chat quite a bit as well, but amazingly we did craft as well. I really enjoyed myself and if it wasn't for the long distances (poor Kathleen had nearly 3 hours train journey each way!) I would like to do this at least once a month!

I had prepared a little something for each of them but forgot to take pictures *doh!* Kathleen did bring some great instructions for a storage system and choccies, Julie made each of us a lovely paper book that I will have to take a picture of later and upload for you all to admire as well and Sarah had a box of gorgeous yummy belgian choccies for each of us. Throw in some cake and cups of tea and coffee and you can imagine that we had a fantastic day.

We stamped quite a bit and exchanged tips and I gave a little introduction to working with copic pens and then we made little books with the BiA and I have to admit that this was great fun and the results were so good in relation to how little work it was really... Thanks to Michelle Saxon who did the demo at the Glitterpot we were all inspired and she had made it look so easy (which it was, really...).

Here is my effort, which I also will be entering in this weeks Magnolia challenge over at DoCrafts. The theme is Winter Wonderland and we were supposed to use two colours only (shades of grey and purple in my case, I cheekily forget about the brown for hair and sledge). 

Tilda and sledge are coloured in Distress Ink, Papers are from Papermania, The snowflke embellishment I got from a lovely DoCrafter and I added a tiny purple gem in the centre. I cannot remember where the ribbon is from... 

 Let me know what you think!