Tim Holtz wild flowers.....

I really do love these flower dies they are just so lovely to cut,colour and make a card with..I have used them with Stamping up stamps and dies....and a LOTV sentiment....
I hope you are having fun crafting today...and thank you for visiting my blog....

Christmas card club challenge 9

this week it is Zoe's choice of theme....cosy cute christmas....

I just love these Tim Holtz crazy dog stamps...the tree and parcels are Marianne designs and the sentiment Dylusions.....
Please pop round the other girls blogs,the links are on my side bar.....

Thanks for popping by today.....

an easel drawer card...

I have never made one of these before but having seen one made by Pauline I decided to do a bit of research on youtube and have a go.....it was fairly complex to make and getting the dimensions just right so that the drawer opened smoothly was a bit tricky....
I think I got it better on my second attempt

I even made the bow for the handle from hot glue....I am really rather please that I managed to make these and now have them for when I need them....
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floral pretty card....

using some older dies.....

these background  dies from Marianne designs....the flowers are heartfelt creations flowering dogwood stamped onto vellum....the sentiment is so old...a creative expressions one....

I did get my inspiration from Patricia who encouraged me to get out these old dies.....

thank you for popping by my blog today ...I hope you are having crafty fun....

Care bears....

 I was tempted and bought this splash crafts care bears usb after seeing some lovely samples made by Pauline......http://craftingwithcotnob.blogspot.com/

this is the first of my makes and sent off for already.....
I hope you are having a lovely day crafting ...and thank you for popping by my blog today....

this weeks christmas card...

still using stash....

last years July purchases actually used for the first time...Sheena's christmas rose set of stamps and dies....wish I had never bought them ...I just don't understand dies that don't actually fit stamps no matter which way you use them....I have tried die cutting then stamping...and the other way all I end up with is inky fingers and a mess....determined to use them.....
hope you are having a lovely day crafting and thank you for popping by today....

A masculine birthday card....

I do find it difficult to make cards for men and when I saw this woodware stamp I thought it would do  the job.....

I stamped the backing paper with the small stamp in the set ...and framed the main image which I embossed with black embossing powder... with a white boarder to make it pop out a bit....the sentiment it a marianne design die....
Thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are enjoying your crafting today.....

Birthday cards....

the very last of the Dawn Bibby cupcake collection...I really have sent all the rest to the charity shop....

the happy birthday die is from Die-Namics....
I hope you are having a lovely day today...its washing for metoday so no crafting till this afternoon...
Thanks for popping by my blog I really appreciate it .

challenge 8,christmas card club

this week was Christmas /winter scene and chosen by Shaz.....
I decided to make a magic window card...it has a winter scene on the front and opens to reveal a photo of Richard and myself....a bit of fun for my great nieces

I do love these cards...they are fun to make....
If you would like to see the cards made by the rest of the girls the links to their blogs are on my side bar......
Thanks for popping by today I hope you are having a lovely day.

a couple of easter cards....

I dont send many easter cards now as most of my elderly relatives are no longer here...and they always liked to receive them....

I have used the tattered lace spring wildlife cd for the backgrounds and charisma images.....I thought they made fun cards.....
thanks for popping by today.

on the naughty step

I gave in to selly telly and bought the tattered lace large stepper die....in my defence I did have a £10 voucher to spend....

it does make a very tall card so now to make either a box or an envelope for it to fit into.....
the flowers are from the tattered lace pressedrose set although why they called it that when there isn't a rose in it is beyond me....
I am back in my craft room having fun...I hope you are too....thanks for popping by today.

a couple of thank you cards...

another stamp that has sat unused since buying it....not that old but really I must use some of this stuff.....

its a Phil Martin stamp....Bohemian Vintage Banner embossed onto kraft card with prills for the centres of the flowers...and a lot of ink splattering....I kept it flat for posting ...
I hope you are enjoying your day today and maybe doing a bit of crafting....

playing with inks...

I had bought a whole load of alcohol inks a couple of years ago ...I really thought they would have dries up...(as had all my crafters companion spectrum noir refills)...but no they were fine and after watching a couple of youtube demos I decided to have a go at a messy background....I used a sheet of  Yupo...goodness knows when I bought that....

doing the background was fun but stamping on top was a nightmare...I used versafine...which didn't dry...so I put clear embossing powder on top and then discovered that yupo doesnt take well to heat...it being plastic.....my what a learning curve this has been...at least these unused stamps from Indigo blu finally after about 5 years in a draw got inked up....will I be doing it again well yes as I really like the background effects.....
I do hope you are having a lovely day whatever you are doing...and thanks for popping by today.

a fun christmas card...

although I have to say that buying these dies was a nightmare...I bought them from e bay thinking they were from a firm based in the uk..which was their claim.....no .....when the paypal receipt went through it was to China...the first lot of dies they sent me was an alphabet set not the dies I had order...then followed a long and protracted e mail exchange trying to get the correct dies...which arrived 10 days later and turned out to be cheap knock offs...a lesson to me ...only buy from the firms I know and not from e bay.....the cheek of it was they were using the original packaging in their advertising....rant over....

well at least I made a card from them and got a free set of alphabet dies but I really will be more careful...they weren't even cheaper than the originals which had to come from Holland...lesson learnt
thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are enjoying your weekend

problems with blogger...

for those of you who are wondering why you are no longer getting comment left by me it is because after the last update blogger now doesn't let ipad and apple users leave comments if you have an embedded comments box on your blog....easily solved...
go to your blog settings...
click on settings
click on posts,comments and sharing...go to the comments section
and look for comments ....
comments location
click on the box that says embedded and using the drop down box choices change to
Pop up window....and save your changes
this will allow comments to be left again...it only takes a moment to do..

thanks.....

birthday cards using old stash...

well these are a couple of cards made with the Dawn Bibby cupcake collection...nice to use up old stash....

I hope you are having a lovely day what ever you are doing ....thanks for popping by my blog today.

my last card for uncle Mark....

sadly this is the last card I made for my dear old uncle Mark ...he dies very peacefully on Monday and I shall miss him...the last of my aunts and uncles and the links to my parents....

I used heartfelt creations stamps and papers and the sentiment is from Phil Martin .....
I shall be going to the funeral today to say goodbye to a real gentleman...