Bosses Birthday card

I needed birthday card for the boss this week, my mojo is virtually non-existent so I CASed this card I had pinned on Pinterest by Nichol Heady

I’m really quite pleased with the result

New Craft Room

A good while ago I said I’d post pictures of my craft room when it was finished ... well after a very busy Christmas break decorating ... its not 100% complete but its nearly there!

Before

There really wasn’t much wrong with my room before but it was very dark and I had some serious lighting issues out of daylight hours.

                 

So Christmas Eve, we started stripping ... wallpaper

During

We took the walls back as far as we could, but they were still in terrible condition so we had to re-paper.  Hubby (Mick) did almost all the work ...

Glossing

Re-papering and painting

Re-flooring

With the new furniture built and a few items put back on the wall

                           

After

                           

The room is so much lighter now and once I get used to the space and move the rest of my stash in (I can’t wait to get organised) I know it will be even more functional than it was before.  We’ve still got some work to do, Mick is going to attach a small shelf going all the way round the room, then build me a new ink storage unit and I’m hoping a ribbon and button one too – then we replace the Ikea 4x4 unit for an Ikea 5x5.

What a fantastic Christmas Present!!!

More Red & White

I’m still not tired of this colour combo ...

And this little card has been made up in time to participate in A Passion for Papertrey’s challenge ... to create a Christmas/Holiday card using red and white :O)

These were made up to go with the tags I made last week, and they look so much prettier IRL

Stamps: Tag It #8 and #3, Love lies here
Cardstock: SU Real Red, crumb cake, PTI Stampers Select
Mediums: SU Real Red, PTI Fresh snow
Embellishments: Pure Poppy satin ribbon, rhinestone and stickles
Tools: Big Shot,snowflake from Doily Detals collection, 1 3-4 circle from 1 3-4 limitless layers, 1 3-8 Stampin Up punch, Dimonsionals

I had great fun putting these together

Come back later in the week and I’ll show you some more red & white cards ... I really have got carried away with this colour theme ...

 

 

Waltzingmouse Christmas Tag Challenge

I’m still on my quest to complete my Christmas Tags and a one I’ve made today could be entered into the Waltzingmouse Christmas Tag Challenge.

I’ve used a fabulous 2011 Heirloom Ornaments die cut (the largest), sponged in white, stamped with WMS Text-It and snowflakes from PTI Tag Its #8 in whisper white and real red.  The small feature label is stamped with one of WMS 2011 Holiday Ornaments stamps and the sentiment is from PTIs Holiday Button Bits. The ribbon is stampin up ruffle ribbon coloured with red copic marker.

I’m loving this look, just a little vintagey … I’ve a fair few of these on the go.

My new hobby

The reason I’m not paper-crafting as much, and rarely posting now … I even struggle to keep up with the blog hopping I used to do (for hours on end)

That although it doesn’t look like it was my second attempt at crocheting (btw its a scarf, but doesn’t it look pretty all rolled up like that)

I can make one of these babies up now in 2/3 evenings.

I’ve just learnt how to make flowers! I love the flowers – and so simple ...

In between those (and there have been a few more scarves in other colours) I’m crocheting a Babette blanket, which is 100s of granny squares in varying sizes.

I got the inspiration to give crocheting a go from KatieJane (Am I a dreamer), just seeing and reading about her creations and how quickly they were appearing on her blog – I just had to give it a go!

I really can’t tell you how rewarding it is to see something grow so quickly and to know you’ve created it – If you haven’t yet discovered crochet and fancy giving it a go, you only need to start with one hook and a ball of wool. There are loads of tutorials online, but I’d recommend Crochet Geek, her tutorials are amazingly easy to follow.

Red & White

Red and White seems to be my Christmas theme this year, I think almost every card I’ve created has been based around these colours.

I am a traditional girl, my tree is red and gold … the ornaments not the tree :O) and it just doesn’t feel right using colours other than the red, green, white, gold, silver ...

With that in mind I’ve made a start on my tags

What do you think? I recon once I get a bit of an assembly line going I could get a few of these made, I might change a few elements now and then

These tags are made of nearly all Papertrey ingredients I think it was just the ribbon (SU) and bakers twine (stash) which weren't.

And yes, that is my tree – its actually been up for over a week already ... I Love Christmas and my tree.

I’ll upload some pictures later this week of the tree and I’ll be back tomorrow with some pictures of the real reason why I haven’t been posting for a while ... my new hobby, just for Katiejane:O)

My First Waltz

Woohoo my first Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz! This month the theme is Winter/Christmas! I didn’t know which set to use, I’ve bought a few recently so I went with a few ...

Stamps: Musical Backgrounds, Text-It, Compliments of the Season, Very Vintage Labels No.4, 2011 Holiday Ornaments from Waltzingmouse Stamps
Cardstock: SU Real Red, PTI Stampers Select
Mediums: SU Real Red, Soft Suede, PTI Fresh snow
Embellishments: Pure Poppy satin ribbon and buttons
Tools: Big Shot, 2011 Heirloom Ornaments and Labels 4 dies from Spellbinders, Dimonsionals

I really enjoyed making up my own DSP over the weekend I had to give it another go ... I LOVE this look and I will be creating a lot more cards like this in the lead up to Christmas

I’m off now to go visit all the other entries ... I just know there will be loads of Christmas inspiration!

Have a wonderful week!

Everything Eleanor CASE

I Love the Stampin In up set ‘Everything Eleanor’, very single stamp in the set is just gorgeous … the beautiful swirls, the huge frame and stunning flower heads ... but when it arrived I was completely stumped on how to use it ... I’d completely lost my mojo so I CASed a beautiful card by Monica

Stamps: Everything Eleanor
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, soft suede
DSP: Mocha Morning
Mediums: Rich Razzleberry, Black Onyx Versafine
Embellishments: 5/8 Basic Black satin and 1/8 Rich Razzleberry taffeta ribbon, Basic pearls
Tools: Paper snips, Tombow liquid glue, Dimensionals

I always find CASing a card gives me LOADS of inspiration – watch out for a few more Everything Eleanor cards coming soon

I’ll be back tomorrow with my very first WaltzingMouse Waltz card.

Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge #73

Woohoo its the weekend, we’re home and I can finally play with the WMS stamps I recently received and enter my first Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge!  My problem …  which set to use first, I’ve bought a few recently and they were all desperate to see ink ...

Stamps: Musical Backgrounds, Text-It, Compliments of the Season, Very Vintage Labels No.4, 2011 Holiday Ornaments from Waltzingmouse Stamps
Cardstock: SU Real Red, PTI Stampers Select,
DSP: SU DSP Patterns Stack: Neutrals
Mediums: SU Real Red, Soft Suede, Versamark
Embellishments: Seam binding ribbon coloured with copic pen, silver elastic cord
Tools: Big Shot, 2011 Heirloom Ornaments and Labels 4 dies from Spellbinders, Dimonsionals

 
I knew with this card I was going to use red and white but as the card grew I added soft suede to give it that vintage look.  I especially loved making up my own DSP with the Text It and Musical Backgrounds stamps … Mmmmm don’t you love the shabby look.

I’m hoping to spend a few more hours in the craft room - Have a great week!

Butterflies and bling

Sorry I've been so quiet, its been a combination of illness and not enough time to get crafty :(

I'm back now with a card I've made for a friend who loves both butterflies and bling! As soon as I saw this picture created by Fiona Duthie I knew I had to recreate it on a smaller scale as a birthday card for Jo.

Cardstock:PTI stampers select and All the Stampin Up colours from the subtle, brights and regals collections
Embellishments: Basic rhinestones
Tools: Big Shot, Stampin Up sizzix embosslet folder, tombow liquid glue, glue dots

I can't believe how well it turned out - so good I really didn't want to give it away ...



I really do have to make another, either this scale or the larger ... for myself!!!