You're Egg-straordinary

I made this card this afternoon for my sweetie Greg for Easter, it's turned out so cute, I love it and I know he will. Sorry about the picture it's going dark here now and this was the best I could get in the light but you can see it ok I think. I made an oval shaped card from my Wild Cards cartridge, this is cute for Easter to look like an egg. I made that in blue and layered on some purple and green dot. I love all the colours of Easter. They remind me of Spring here and that is good as we've had enough of winter (up to 15 degrees tomorrow though so that's good!). I cut out 2 hearts from my George and Basic Shapes cartridge both in blue and a blue dot. Now is the fun part. I got some lovely stamps recently and I just loved this little bunny he's lovely. So I stamped him and coloured him in, I decided to leave him white as the brown was a bit heavy for an Easter Bunny. I also stamped a sentiment from that set down the bottom. I stamped some little eggs and a carrot and cut them out and coloured them in. I put everything on 3D squares and finished some ribbon. I did some accenting with my glitter pen on the bunny and eggs to make it sparkle. Hope you like my cute bunny card : )

Valentines gift box and tag for my sweetie ♥

I was really excited to get started on my Valentines Day projects. Now that I have my craft room it's much easier for me to start things and finish them when I can. However I had some time today and managed to get a tag and box done for Greg for his Valentines Day gift. I made the box from my Sweet Treats Cricut Cartridge out of some great double sided paper I bought a while back. I put some xoxo ribbon around that. For the tag I used my Accent Essentials cartridge to cut that out in white and matted some striped paper on top. I used the same cartridge to cut out the black and red/white dot doily flowers. I then used my new Martha Stewart stamp set I won off Ebay to stamp a red lacey heart onto some white which I cut out. I then used black ink to stamp I ♥ U on top of that. I had some nice ribbon with "to hold dear: Cherish" on it so I used that on top. I love how it turned out, I'm looking forward to giving that to Greg on Feb 14th!

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Last of the Christmas cards

The last couple of Christmas cards left now so I thought I'd upload a pic to my blog. I love both of these but the lights with the little faces in are so cute! Hope you like them!

Woof it's Christmas

I made these today, I got them done this morning and just finished them now after coming home from the gym. These are for my dog walking clients, I've made more exactly the same. They turned out really cute and I am really pleased with them. I made cards out of some cinnamon cardstock and then matted some green dot paper on top. I stamped "Happy Happy Happy Holidays" onto that and used my Cricut Sampler cartridge to cut out the little kennel. I used Joys of the Season to cut out the tree. I used some little stamps I found that I had bought a while ago and it was a cute set of small ones and it had a dog face in it so I stamped that and coloured it in and cut it out and put the dog in the kennel (the one looks like little darling Ruby). I put a wreath button on the kennel and decorated the tree with gemstones and a star. I also stamped a bone from the set and cut that out and added a gift sticker. These cards are going to go with the tins of dog treats for the dogs and the hot chocolate envelopes for their owners.

Mojo Monday #214

I decided to take part in the Mojo Monday #214 challenge using a sketch they have provided. I've never took part in a challenge before but it was fun! The challenge is to use this sketch to make a card, so I made this card tonight whilst Greg was finishing off some work. Hope it turned out ok with the flash on the camera. I used a red card blank and matted it with some starry paper. I cut out the circles and the rectangle using my "George and Basic Shapes" cartridge and matted those together. I used a scrap of glitter card to cut out the banner piece and added some stripey ribbon across the top. I stamped on the white rectangle using the little Penguin from my Penguin Pals set of stamps (I love these as you can see I've been doing a lot with them lately!) and a sentiments from an old Hero arts set of stamps I had. I finished the card by using a Prima paper flower, a snowflake metal embellishment and red brad in the corner. Hope you like my card!

Carolling Penguin

I'm almost finished on my Christmas cards now, so If I have time this week I'll try to do a couple more cards for the Nursing Home residents. This one is a long card with some music paper as the background. I used this as the cute little Penguin is singing carols and I had a scrap of it sitting in my scrap box so it was perfect! I cut out the scalloped circles and regular circles using Winter Woodland and also the tag at the top. I stamped the penguin, coloured him in and cut him out and then stamped the sentiment. I punched holes in the tag and wound some green bakers twine through it and arond the card. I used white gel pen to put dots around the scalloped circle. I love these little Penguins they make winter seem like it's not that bad : )

Warm winter wishes!

This is one I made this afternoon. I really love this Winter Woodland stamp set and I can combine it with cuts on my Cricut so it's really nice. I had a Guacamole green bazzil cardstock base that I cut on "Just because cards". I also cut the scalloped border with this. I used my "Fabulous Finds" cartridge to cut out the oval tag to which I stamped "Warm winter wishes" and threaded with some candy cane bakers twine and adhered to the back. I then stamped my branches onto some brown card stock and my little owl and gorgeous little mouse onto white. I coloured in the leaves on the branch in green and coloured in the little animals. I used some glitter pen to accent the leaves and on the little creatures. I added a snowflake button to the top and some snowman red ribbon to finish. Inside I stamped Merry Christmas as I want to send this one as a Christmas card but as the theme on the front is more wintery it was perfect to stamp that inside! : )

Christmas Smooches

I made this card for Greg, I had actually made him a card a couple of months ago but when I got this stamp set I knew these 2 little Penguins with the mistletoe was perfect. I made the card from "Just Because cards" and matted it with some green and white dot fabric paper, it's adhesive backed fabric, I found it on clearance at Michaels so I got a sheet. I matted a piece of snowflakes paper onto red and then matted the stamped image onto some more red. I coloured in the image and added some glitter pen to the girl Penguins necklace and the boy Penguins scarf. Before sticking everything down I tied some red ribbon around the dot paper and tied on a locket heart charm I already had in my stash and finished with a bow. I used my "Winter Woodland" cartridge to cut out the scalloped circles and stamped Christmas Smooches on the white one. I had to use 2 different stamps for the sentiment but I just joined them together on the clear block. I used my white gel pen to dot around the green circle and finished with a holly button. I really think Greg will love this, ir's so cute! ♥

Thanks so much..

I made this today. I made some hot chocolate envelopes last week but I wanted to try something different so I was talking about it with Greg and he found this card on my Wild Card cartridge which I like a lot better. I put it on my design studio to make it wider and a bit taller. These are going to be for my dog walking clients. I always give them a gift at Easter and Christmas to thank them for their business. I cut this one out of red cardstock (it was a Bazzil cardstock called Ruby Slipper Red - perfect as my favourite poochie is called Ruby!). I covered the inside with a scrap of snowflake paper. For the front I used my new stamps set from Taylored Expressions called "Penguin Pals", they are so cute. I coloured in the image, used liquid applique on the hat and puffed it up with my heat gun and cut it out and put that on the front. I used a border strip across the front and stamped "Thanks snow much". I put in the hot chocolate sachet and Christmas tree lollypop. I then finished off with some red and green shiny ribbon to tie it together. I actually like this one better than the first pocket I made so this week I'll try and get the others made ready to give my dog's mum's and dads. Whilst at Michaels on Friday night I found some lovely Christmas mini tins so they will get filled with dog treats for the poochies and bundled up and given with the envelopes.

Another pocket...

I finished this one this afternoon, I decided to make this one for Greg's mom as I know she liked the other one and It looked like she was hinting so I thought I would make her one as an extra Christmas gift. I hope she doesn't see this, lets hope not! I cut the same pattern out of cardstock and glued on some pattered papers. I used some Christmassy ribbon around the front and also some pom-pom trim. I cut out a scalloped square from Winter Woodland and stamped the cute little fox (I think) from my stamp set and the sledge, coloured them in and cut them out. I also stamped the greeting and added some liquid applique to his tail for the pom pom and heat set that with my heat gun. Then I added the hot chocolate sachet, cappuccino sachet and xmas lollypop and a tag.

Winter treats pocket

It's cold outside today and I was thinking of hot chocolate whilst I was walking the dogs. I always give my clients a little gift at Easter and Christmas so I thought a hot chocolate pocket would be nice with a couple of extra treats as well. I will do something else for the actual dogs with some dog treats but this is for their mums and dads. So I cut a 5"x 12" piece of card stock and folded up the bottom, I trimmed it to fit where it was too long. I covered both sides in scraps of patterned paper and then decorated the front with a little border as well as getting out my "Winter Woodland" cartridge to cut out the scalloped circles, then the "Winter Frolics" cartridge to cut out the little cup and saucer. I used my new stamp set also called "Winter woodland" to stamp on the greeting on the cup and added a little candy cane button. I then glued both sides with tape and added a brad at the top to make sure it was secured. Then was the fun part of adding the treats - a hot chocolate sachet, a xmas tree lollypop and tea bag. I decided to do a winter theme for this one as it's winter at Christmas here so it can be a wintery xmas treat for them! : ). I'm really pleased with how it turned out that I might do a few more for good friends too : )

Merry Christmas my deer friend

I hope this picture came out ok but it's dark now and I really wanted to take a picture tonight as I loved how this turned out. I made this Christmas card using the set of "Winter Woodland" stamps that Greg bought me for an extra anniversary gift. I love this set so much, its so cheerful and cute. I made this for my friend Jolanda (so I will make sure she doesn't see this!). I made a white card using my "Wild card" cartridge and then used the frame function on that cartridge to make the stripey frame. I then put some white underneath that to be snow and a snowflake background. I used my liquid applique pen to make a little bit of snow on the edge, I heated that with my heat gun and it came out all puffy : ). I stamped my gorgeous reindeer and coloured him in, I forgot how much fun colouring in is! I used my glitter pen to add a bit of glitter to his hat. I used my "Fabulous Finds" cartridge to cut out the red tags and I stamped the sentiments from the same set on those. I threaded some bakers twine through those and taped them to the back of the card. I used my "Winter Frolics" cartridge to cut out the tree and I used gemstones to decorate the tree and the tags, along with a star on top of the tree. I am really happy with how this turned out, I know Jolanda will love it!

Birdie birthday

I made this card today for my friend Melanie's birthday in November, she is a bird lover and enjoys birdwatching so I thought she would enjoy this. I got a free set of stamps from Kaisercraft and I chose the "Hey little birdie" collection which is really cute. I love birds and nature myself so I enjoyed using these. I already had the card cut out in a round shape from my "Just because cards" cartridge so I used that and put a strip of patterned paper on the bottom. I used some nice pink braid along it and then stamped the tree in cocoa chalk ink, the bird in a dark blue and the flowers in blue, pink and yellow and I cut all of these out. I coloured in the wing on the bird with my markers. I used my "Winter Woodland" cartridge to cut out the scallop in the dot paper and stamped on that.

my new stamps..so cute!

Hello everyone, I'm back! I had a week on holiday in Mexico with Greg ♥ and then I was so busy last week with working with the dogs, housework, washing, gym etc so this week I think I'm going to get some time continuing working on my Christmas cards and Christmas projects so I can then scrap my Mexico pics!!

I have been really excited to try my new stamps my lovely husband gave me as an extra anniversary gift, they are the Winter Woodlands set from Taylored Expressions, they are so cute, I couldn't wait to try them. I also got some new markers too as I have never really done much stamping and colouring and after seeing a video about it I wanted to try it again. So I got a lime green card and layered it with some cocoa brown and I used a scrap of coloured snowflake paper down the left hand side.  I stamped one of the sentiments from the set down the side and used my Cricut Winter Woodland cartridge to cut out the scalloped circles in red and then green gingham. I then used the same cartridge to cut out the white circle. I then stamped the very cute little Christmas squirrel and coloured him in using my markes, I think I have the hang of blending now which is good. I used my glitter pen to give his hat some sparkle and used some glue and fine white glitter for his hat as well. I then stamped the holly on white and coloured it in and cut it out. I finished the card with some red ribbon. I am so happy with how it turned out and am excited to try more stamps in my set.

Embossed Christmas Tree

I decided to make this one today after Lesley reminded me about the Cuttlebug Embossed Christmas tree. I forgot how nice it was so I embossed it and decorated it with rhinestones to make the tree sparkle, then I used my Cricut to cut out a tag for the bottom and stamped it with a greeting. A nice and simple one for today!