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Mostly Stampin' Up!

A simple card using Sizzix Framelits.

Cardstock is Crumb Cake, Whisper White and Marina Mist

Ink is Early Expresson, Crumb Cake and Marina Mist

Stamp Set is Happiest Birthday Wishes

And a white gel pen.

Oh no,  I think I might have discovered a new craft addiction (just what I need!).. Decopatch. How amazingly simple and relaxing.  All the best ingredients for fun - paper, glue and a paintbrush!  And no mess!  Busy doing a monochromatic picture frame as my first attempt.  I'll soon know if I'm hooked!

Oh my goodness! who would have believed a clear out from top to bottom would be so theraputic!  So far I've been through all my 12x12 papers and sarah now has about 300 or 400 of them! leaving me still an embarrassing amount! now I'm sorting all my brads, ribbons, stamps and embellies.. getting ready for my new craft home which is coming very soon now!  (cant wait to move!) its so good to to be out with the old and in with the new!  lol!

A quick wee tag

Had loads of scraps to use up so made this wee tag.

Perfect Valentines

Harvey Nicks Cupcakes

Champagne

Lots of cuddles from daughter and husband

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Perfect Valentines

Oh, and a bouquet of white roses.. lovely!

New Bella stamp - Felicity and Blair - coloured with an SU Blender Pen and Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait.  Early Expresso and Crumb Cake for the hair.

Used the Cupcake punch and the Create a Cupcake stamp set.

Punch art Owl

Came across an owl made from dies and punched shaped whilst I was bloghopping!  So I thought I would have a good - slightly different to the one I saw - but same principle.

Easy to make!

Cascade of hearts #3

Purple Hearts

Could be Valentine, Anniversary, Wedding Acceptance, or just simply to say Love.

Cascade of hearts #2

And on the same theme!   6" square card this time.

Bright Flowers again!

Made for a friend.  The papers are Pebbles Inc (I'm running out of them and can't find them anywhere - should have bought more at the time!!)

Cascade of hearts

Cascade of hearts is made with SU! Cherry Cobbler and Crumb Cake cardstock, Cherry Cobbler DSP, Crumb Cake and Early Expresso ink, Cherry Cobbler Ribbon and some First Edition DSP.  The sentiment is from Sealed with a Kiss.  I used the Heart punch for the little hearts.

I really enjoyed making this one - simple but I love the colours.  The card is 8x8" which is fast becoming my favourite size!

Using up some 1" square scraps of Summer Days paper from Echo Park.  The stamp is Pheobe Ketto (love her!)

A simple wee card!

Papers and digi on this are Pink Petticoat. I've made a similar card before - ages ago. I don't do paper piecing very often so I thought I would try it here.

Dino Birthday!

Colour this cute digi using copics.   Can't remember where I got the image from (I'll check!) but he's lovely to colour!

A little envelope mini album

Made this little mini book with three cheap brown C5 envelopes.  The gorgeous image is a digi from Saturated Canary. She's coloured with SU inks using a blender pen.

Each of the six open ends of the envelopes contains a tabbed insert - ready to be personalised!

Really loved making this! 

Brr... it's freezing out there today! 

Not that it's bothered me for the most part as I've been enjoying the lovely warmth of my craft room! Been mainly doing SU stuff (additicted!).. can't wait for the Sale-A-Bration which starts tomorrow.  I have a very long wish list!

The blue card and paper, and ink, is SU Baja Breeze - its a really lovely shade, perfect for this Gorjuss Girl - I've coloured her using the blender pen.

BFF!

Been busy doing a spot of crafting with my new best friend!

Yes, my newly discovered SU Blender Pen!!  Used it to colour these lovely Saturated Canary images using my SU In Colors!  

I just need to make the cards now.  But I think I might do some more colouring first!

First proper SU card of the year!

I've been a bit lazy on the card making front so far this year but today I can say my mojo is officially back!

I'm just loving these colours from this year's and last year's In Color collections.  Along with the paper range from the new SAB.

Products used on this card are;

• Cardstock: Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade and Very Vanilla
• Papers: DSP Everyday Enchantment
• Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Punch Bunch
• Inks: Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade, Chocolate Chip
• Punches: Scallop Border, 1" Circle, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
• Other SU Products: Crystal Effects, Blender Pen (wow! first time I've used this - it's great!!), and dimentionals  

The larger circles are cut using Nesties.

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Cute little digi, coloured with copics

Most recent make... will add some more detail later!

The card is 8x8 (I'm starting to love making bigger cards!)

Lovin' my swiss dots!

My mojo is still not quite back home (as you can see!!) but I've been trying to tempt it back. At the moment I can't see past my Swiss Dots embossing folder!

Trip to Stirling planned for tomorrow!  a wee visit to Flawless... great place!!

A quandry...

Over the last few years I've bought quite a few craft CDs.. some good, some not so good. All of them seem to limit my imagination.  A question though.. is crafting using craft CDs really creative?  ....

Oh I'm so glad I'm getting my card making mojo back! But I've not been twiddling my thumbs over the last few weeks.. knitted 5 scarves, stiched 3 felt owls, needle felted one owl, made candies with Sarah, and did a general tidy up of the craft room!  All that and spent some real quality time with my lovely family!  oh, and some scrapbooking of our Disney holiday last year!  Perfect!

Some recent cards!

Two cards for lovely new additions to the world.  November and December babies always make me think (as all new babies do) how lucky I am, and every parent is!  The feeling, every day, is priceless!

What a hoot!

no better way to describe christmas!  Then, for me, full of the cold! no good! but made these little owls.. might get back to card making soon!

Oh I know.. I'm terrible, I've not posted anything for ages!  Things have been mad!  I can't wait for the christmas holidays when things might (?!) calm down a wee bit!   All my christmas cards are now made (whew!) and I've been busy making tags and gift cards. This is just a snap shot. I've made about 40 others which I've used already. Great fun though!

Work has been great/mega busy/exhausting! and now I'm looking forward to time off and a holiday away with a bit of fun and luxury thrown in (well, I reckon we all deserve a bit of pampering!).  I have 3 more very special cards to make then all I have to do is resist ordering any more SU! goodies until the new year! 

Just the final prep for Christmas to do now.. I always love to do little crafty menu keepsakes so I need to think how these will look this year.  And the cooking of course.. special desserts to cook!   Ready for the big day when Santa comes (hyper 7 year old to deal with in the mean time!)  All fun!  Its been a brilliant year and it's great fun to look back! (and relax!!)

I like the colours on this but I think I need something else - maybe some gems on the butterflies bodies..

Gift Card Holder with a tuck in flap

This is a lovely wee gift card holder.  Nice and easy to make!

Here's what you need!

Cardstock:

18cm x 12cm (main colour)

10.5cm x 7cm (main colour - for the insert)

10cm x 6.5cm (co-ordinating colour - for the insert)

5cm x 6cm (white or cream - for the stamped image on the front)

5.5cm x 6.5cm (for the mat)

One strip of designer paper 12cm x 2.5cm

One C6 envelope

Some Stampin Up dimentional foam pads

Stampin Up scalloped edge punch

Start by scoring the large piece of cardstock at 8cm & 16cm the trim about 2mm off the length so that the first score is now at 7.8cm (this helps it all still nicely when it's folded).

Seal the envelope closed then fold in half (short edge to short edge), the trim the short edges of the envelope so they are both open.

Glue down the middle of the envelope to creat two little pockets, then glue the envelope into the cover.

Add the decor to the front down the left side only so that the flap of the envelope can be tucked under the matted image on the front.

Make the insert and pop into one of the internal pockets.

That's it!!

This is a little gift card holder - it opens to reveal two inner pouches - one for with a message card and one for the gift card.  Cardstock is SU Rich Razzelberry - gorgeous!

And a little desk calender for 2012.

Time seems not to be on my side at the moment but no complaints as its all good! 

Spend last night from 6pm to 12.30am taking calls for Children In Need - not the first time I've done it but amazing none the less!  Almost all the calls I took were lovely, generous people.. shame two were not!  Why take up the time of a person taking donations for such a good cause with their own petty small mindedness?

 Anyway :-) Been mega busy over the last few months and now looking forward to starting my new job which will no doubt bring it's own challenges!

Hope to get some more crafty time soon! But first of all I have a 7th birthday to get ready for - where does the time go!?

Save the date!

Lots of looking forward to do! GNPE

.. and a mini book.. need to finish the inside...

And some more little samples. All great fun to make using up every last scrap of paper! No waste!