Care Bears....

using some inspiration from the design team I made a couple of cards just for stash....

I thought they were fun....
I hope you are enjoying your crafting today...I am having another sort out in my room and getting stuff packed up to go to the charity shop.....and then a bit more crafting....
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a flowery card.....

I bought myself Chloe's latest card making magazine at the super market as it was really cheap....so I made one of the cards illustrated with the free stamps...it took ages to cut them out by hand I didn't realise that the dies were not part of the contents....

nice and bright colours ...a cheery card.
Thanks for popping by today its lovely to know there are friends out there......

christmas card club challenge 11

it is my turn to chose the theme this week and I chose Christmas lights...in any form you like...tree lights,lamp posts,lights shining through a window,candle or a lantern...you interpret it as you wish....


I chose tree lights and inspired by some pinterest cards this is my make...

the lights are bright red mirri and as usual I have had such trouble taking a photo with the flare...
I used a set of very old Lawn fawn dies....the sentiments are Tim Holtz dies....
I hope you had fun with the theme this week ladies.....
the links to their blogs are to be found on my side bar...please pop round and have a look at their lovely makes....
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a cupcake card

my niece Elizabeth bought me the heartfelt creations sweet treats for mothers day bless her....and I have been busy playing....

lots of glitter added and a few flowers and a sweet little shaped card is made for my stash....
its a fabulous collection and you will be seeing lots more makes .....
Thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are having fun crafting....

having fun

I am having great fun making flowers..

these are from the tattered lace pressed rose collection on a very old spellbinders die that I have made into a card base...I thought the creamy white card really showed off the pretty blue....
I have been trying to cut out and make up a couple of flowers each day and put them in an A4 storage box for when I need them...otherwise I am always waiting for things to dry before I can finish a card...
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this weeks christmas card

using a die I bought that came along with the tonic magazine...when they were on Hochanda and still affordable.....

I had a lovely time with silver mirri and glitter...the down side is that it is all over the house and no matter how many times I hoover it glistens in the sunlight....
I hope you are having fun crafting...have you started your christmas cards yet?.....
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a birthday card

I am still working my way through some of my dies that haven't seen the light of day in some years as I am deciding what to keep and what to send to the charity shop.....these are keepers...

the flowers are heartfelt creations flowering dogwood and the background dies are Marianne designs...the sentiment is an ancient creative expressions one.....
I had fun using these dies again....and love the effect of stamping on vellum to make flowers....
Thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are having fun creating .....

challenge 10....children at christmas

itis Kate's turn to choose the theme for this weeks challenge.....still trying to use stash up....so I have used my Sharyn Sowell dies from a couple of years ago....and made a Z card....

Please pop round the other girls in the club...the links to their blogs are on my side bar....
I am just back from a lovely week in Hay doing the book shops and the antiques fair at Builth wells...we were so lucky with the weather it was glorious and sunny if a bit chilly...now we are back home it has never stopped raining!....
Thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are having fun crafting.

Those Tim Holtz flowers again...

you can tell I really love these dies they are never off my desk....

a mixture of wild flowers 1& 2....with just a pop of gold....
I hope you are having a lovely crafty time today and thank you for popping by my blog.

doing a craft room sort out....

I have decided to go through all my dies and get rid of those that I think I will never use again....on their way to the charity shop...these were some of the first Tonic dies I bought ...Butterfly Dreams....
I thought I would make up a couple of cards for the charity shop to show what they looked like ..

I don't know about you but I find it very difficult to actually get rid of stuff so I am doing it a bit at a time and then I feel a bit better.....such a hoarder.....

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this weeks Christmas card.....

I am still using stash for my cards...although I have to admit to falling onto the naughty step several times this month...still at least I am using up some old stuff and clearing out all those unused kits to the charity shop
Iam away this weekend at Builth Wells going round the antiques fair and visiting with our friends in Hay on Wye so fingers crossed for good weather.

this is a very old tim holtz bigz die ...Toy Soldier that I had put away in the loft and found when I brought down my big shot to use again...nice find....
Thank you for popping by my blog today and I hope you too are having fun crafting.....

Happy Birthday

its my friends 70th birthday this week so I got out my heartfelt dies to make a special card.....

all the stamps and dies are heartfelt creations just stamped in gold...going for a fairly clean look.
Thank you for popping by my blog today and I hope your crafting is going well.....