Sister 40

Aunties Birthday

17 days to go!

Wow, the time is really flying in! With only 17 days to go I find myself in cupboards that I had forgotten I had, cleaning out boxes from the last time we moved house!
This time I am being ruthless! We have a skip outside at the moment and it's well on it's way to being half full. I will be saying goodbye to my craft desk tomorrow as it wont survive the move! - how will I survive!
This could be my last night of crafting until mid July when we get settled and I get a new desk!

Pink and Sparkly

This pic hasn't come out well but I hope the card fits the bill! Pink and sparkly birthday. The bling on the bottom are Swarovski crystals and I've added holographic PeeWee glitter to the balloons.

and yes, yet another Bella!

hee hee

x

Birthday Bella again!

Help, I'm running out of names for my bella cards. It would be so easy to become addicted to Bella!

I just love the papers on this one - by Cloud 9 Design called Lustre Floral. The finish doesn't really come across in the photo unfortunately!

You Rock My Socks award!

Wow! I'm so pleased to have received this award from Sara
It's really cheered me up after a pretty awful week.

I would like to pass this on to all of my wonderful sisters in SBS9!

Wedding Anniversary

Made with Sizzix Romance alphabet and a champagne bottle. Quick and easy!

Basic Grey Archaic & Penny Black

I just love this stamp! This card was a great excuse to use Basic Grey Archaic papers and Nestabilities!

Another Bella!

Papers are by Sandy Lion - gorgeous colours!

Quick Card for a little boy

I didn't have a lot of time to make this but I think it's nice and bright!

Another Kerry Jo!

I just love these stamps!

The papers are Basic Grey "Sultry". Flowers are Prima.

Fab new stamps - Kerry Jo!

Oh WoW! my new stamps by Kerry came today. And they are fantastic. I didn't have much time to play with them tonight so this is my first attempt! This is one of a set of 12 wonderful images drawn by Kerry. Check out her blog to find out where you can get these!

I can't wait to play with the other eleven!!

Jester for a laugh! HELP!

Help Sisters! This is one of the images I received in the swap - I LOVE HIM! Can someone tell me who makes this stamp? Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Flourish

Papers are from the new DCWV extreme everyday paper stack. The stamp is Penny Black.

Circle of Friends

"This is a Circle of Friends"

Louise gave me this - thanks Louise I really appreciate it!

So now in turn I pass this on to four people I am very honoured to call friends!

Jackie

Gina

Natalie

Suzann

And I send these wishes to all my stamping sisters - you are all wonderful people! *Group Hug!*

Monkey Business!

Addictedtobella!

SBS9 Sketch Challenge for May!

This is the first time I've ever set a sketch challenge for anyone! I've been looking forward to doing this for months now until my turn in May... and you know what? I forgot! I don't think I can convince myself that this is May already! So to all you lovely SBS9 Sisters - a big apology from me for being late! And a BIG thank you to Suzann for reminding me! *blush*

Without further a-do, here it is...

... a pretty simple design I think! I can't wait to see what all you wonderfully creative people will come up with!

The Challenge will run for the rest of May - I hope you have fun with it. Leave me a message below with a link to your blog so I can see what you make of it!

Here's my starter for 10... I've called it "May all your wishes come true".

• Papers are from DCWV "Pocket Full of Posies"
• The stamp is Sugar Nellie "Christmas Fairy" - but I don't think she has to be for Christmas!
• The flower.. the gorgeous flower!!.. is a Flora Doodle which I received from my SBS9 Secret Sister!
• The circles were cut using nestabilities on a cuttlebug..

Have fun everyone!

Lucky Me!

Look what I received today! All my fav things from my SBS9 secret sister! To whoever my secret sister is I would like to say a HUGE thankyou!

tracyx

I love Ewe

Assembly Line!

It's amazing how quickly you can make the same thing over and over! Economies of scale.

I'm change of address cards for when we move in approx 7 weeks time. Better to be well organised! I still have to add the "we've moved... " message to the front of the cards.

This is my new stamp from Whippersnapper. It's so easy to colour!! I used marvy pens and a watercolour technique for these.

Teddy Again!

This teddy die is going to get a fair bit of use! I think he is so cute!

Raspberry Champagne

This is the first time I've used these new papers from Papermania. The Raspberry Champagne set are lovely!

Cute

Penny Black Cinnamon

Penny Black "Cinnamon"

Papers are Junkitz.

Nice and bright!

Teddy Birthday

Made for a friend. The teddy is pieced together from a sizzix bigz die - paper is Bazzill so the textures are lovely!

New Favourite Stamp?

Is this my new favourite stamp? I seem to use it all the time!

Mum and Granny Birthday Cards

Something different for me - pocket card

This seemed to take ages to make! The papers are Junkitz. Nice and bright I think!

New dies

Aren't these little guys cute? They are cut using the new sizzix bigz. Now all I need is some card inspiration!

Happy Birthday Grandma

This is Sarah's card for Grandma's birthday - I asked her to draw grandma! The pic is a bit blurry as I accidentally dropped the digital camera - with the telephoto lens out - and now it doesn't seem to be working (oops!). Oh well, these things happen. It was an old camera anyway (this doesn't really work as an excuse does it?). Luckily I do have a new camera!

Mothers Day (in Polish)

This is a brighter version of a card I made a while ago. This time it's for mothers day.

I had some help making this card - Sarah handed me all the little circles!

It was nice to make a card that didn't involve stamping for a change! Gave my cuttlebug a good outing using my sizzix bigz daisies #2. The cardstock is DCWV.

Catch up!

Hi everyone and thanks for all the comments on my recent posts. I've not been posting many new creations over the last few weeks as free time and creative inspiration have been at an all time low :-( I'm hoping that this will change soon though - light at the end of the tunnel and all that!! and I'll get back to having crafty fun and posting new items soon!

On a positive note - this creative drought has not impacted my ability or inclination to do crafty-shopping (yes, surprise surprise!) lol!

I've also been trying to change my blog template - not to one of those offered by blogger - but to one supposedly compatible with blogger - but no success - I get so far with all the code right to the point of saving it then it seems I'm going to lose lots of the links, pics etc that I already have. So I guess I'm stuck with this format! C'est la vie!

So I guess I would just like to say please check back on my blog regularly as I hope to be adding lots of new posts soon!

What's that I see on the horizon?? Could it be my inspiration creeping back into the room?

Thanks again to everyone for their kind feedback on my blog so far!

tracyx

Gift Bag - Anna Griffin Template

This is my first attempt at gift bags - I used a template from a set I got for Christmas from a kit by Anna Griffin. This was really easy to make - although I probably rushed the decoration a bit.. and tying the ribbon was really fiddly!!

Now all I need is someone with a birthday soon!

Gossamer - Penny Black

This is the Penny Black stamp "Gossamer". Coloured with Watercolour pencils. The papers are from Berry Sweet from K&Co.

It was all the toys out for this one - Cuttlebug, new nestabilities, curvy edge scissors and cropadile. Fun Fun Fun!

It's not a colour scheme I've used before. I like it though - it's fresh.

You Make My Day Award

I'd like to say a huge thank you to Gina who sent me this award a wee while ago. I'm just getting round to catching up with email and things!

I now have to pass this on to three people but I'm going to cheat a wee bit and pass it to all my sisters in SBS9 who are such wonderful and inspiring people! You all know who you are!

Tracy x