Dasher again!

Here's Dasher again.  This time, stamped in Cherry Cobbler (which is an almost perfect match to these papers from Basic Grey - love the tartan!!)  The greeting is from Contempo Christmas. Holly is a Quickutz die I've had for ages.

Stampin Up Dasher

This is Dasher.. from Stampin Up! Using up the scraps of Early Expresso and Old Olive on papers from Basic Grey Jovial.  Used some of the shaved ice as snow... boy, is that stuff messy! and I thought glitter was bad!! Great fun though!  

More toys!

Can't wait to try this Shaved Ice by Stampendous! 

 I think it will add a lovely snow effect to Christmas cards!

Amazing Service!

 I can't beleive how quickly this arrived! I only ordered from Charmed yesterday and the postman has just delivered it about 5 minutes ago!  Really am impressed!

I've not bought any Basic Grey for ages.. had a look at some of their recent releases and just had to get them!

So here is..

Sweet Threads (got this is 6x6 and 12x12!)

Out of Print

Jovial

Just looking through these gorgeous designs.. drool, drool and double drool! ;-)

And the parcel contained a lovely wee freebie of Prima flowers and some lush grosgrain ribbon!

FAB!

More playing required!

Trendy Trees

Ok so I seem to be following an owl trend!

This card is made with;

Stampin Up Trendy Trees

SU Owl Punch & Boho Blooms

SU Papers and Inks from Neutral (Early Expresso) and Brights (Old Olive)

A little bit of SU linen thread

The greeting is from SU So Happy for You

.. and the wee heart is gilded with Crafty Notions gold gliding flakes

Matryoshka Woody

After getting my craft room to an "almost" tidy state I found loads of card kits that I've bought over the years (because they are very tempting!!) but to be honest, I never use them!  So, as they are taking up SO much room and I need to make space for loads of new stuff I'm going to try and use them up!

Here is the first very quick make.  I do love the colours!  

The ink used on this one was a Versa Color Bamboo.

Loads of owly bits left so might make some more!!

What to do?!  Housework done!  Might make some Christmas gift bags now!  New stuff to play with! Pics to follow soon!

Do you ever get the urge to shout about how great life is when there are too many reasons to list?   Makes me realise how very lucky I am!  And I'm reminded daily!

Profound,  I know!  lol!

All these new crafty goodies are making me excited for GNPE!! not long now! 

Been playing with my new SU stamp set... and now all my new goodies have arrived I know what I'll be doing this weekend! .. well not on sunday though as we're going to a ceilidh! Brilliant fun!

Woo Woo!

All excited! the first of my two orders of SU! goodies came!

Two lovely stamp sets... Delightful Decorations and Dasher!  Loads of lovely paper and inks.. and the Spiral Border Punch.. and the lovely freebie...

It's really gorgeous!!

Stampin Up Good Neighbors

Another quick one.  The houses are cut out and stuck on to the cream card - I left spaces between the houses and the roofs which looks much better than in the photo.

Stampin Up! products again (Love them!!). This time its cardstock from Neutrals and Subtles, and the papers from Elegant Soiree.  Inks used are Baja Breeze, Marinal Mist, Wild Wasabi and the clouds are Bashful Blue.

Not a great pic this time.  But here are a couple of quick thank you cards and tags.

Using some scraps!

New Home Card and Gift Tag

Something different and definately not Christmas!

A new home card made from my new Pink Paislee papers. Love the colour combinations and the matching bazzil cardstock.

Made a wee gift card from the scraps!

Feeling sorry for the postie!

Lots of new goodies to play with - the poor postman must be tired out!

I went a bit American Crafts daft!

And got some lovely papers from Pink Paislee!

Just waiting on my two SU! orders and some goodies from ebay!

Here are some pics of the gorgeous colours! (180 sheets of 12x12 gorgeous textured cardstock!) 

Brights...

Tropicals... 

Christmas...

Three little christmas cards;

SU Contempo Christmas Stamps

SU Cherry Cobbler and Elegant Eggplant cardstock and ink

I have to get more Cherry Cobbler!  I NEED it!

And on the same theme, here it is in blue. Think I prefer the reds and creams.

I tried to take this pic without the shine of the gold mirri card but failed! Anyway, you get the idea! Something different for me.  I've had this die for ages and don't think I've ever used it!

Waste not...

A couple of wee tags made with the scraps of the cards..

Decided to use some die cuts on this one that I haven't used for ages!  The holly leaves are SU Old Olive (I love this colour!!)

A simple christmas card.

First make of the day.. I'm just totally lovin' cream and this gorgeous rich red!  How many weeks is it until Christmas??  ;-)

Quite a productive morning so far! Been doing a bit of tidying in the craft room!  I'm pleased to say I can now see my desk!  And now.. what to make??

Take one brown paper takeaway bag! (unused!!)

cut off the handles

cover with cardstock and lovely papers from Craftwork Cards

add a Merry Christmas greeting

make a tag

and glue it all together!

what do you get?

a Christmas gift bag!

Inspired by making the bag at yesterdays SU workshop I decided to use a slightly larger brown paper bag - after cutting the handles off it measures about 7" by 6".

I could easily get hooked on making these!  Good job I've got plenty brown bags (bought them to make paper bag books!)  I think I need to get some slightly smaller ones too!

These craftwork card papers are gorgeous - pearlescent. Not sure if the still do this range though - I found them in my stash when I was having a good look around! It's amazing what you find!

Time for a cup of tea now I think!

Loads more christmas cards made! It's great to have such inspiration! I can't wait for the next SU! catalogue to come out... if its half as good as the US catalogue it will be very hard to resist!  That's if I have any pennies left from the GNPE!  Now looking forward to a lazy Sunday.. well lazy-ish!

What a lovely SUnny day!

A perfect day to spend engrossed in making SU! Christmas cards in the company of like minded ladies!

Lots of lovely Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, heat embossing and stamping.. and throw in huge amounts of sparkly glitter.. punches.. and what do you get??

Nellie Snellen: Brave Captain

This little guy is new from Nellie Snellen - he's called "Brave Captain.  He's really great to colour and the quality of the stamped image is fantastic.  Coloured him using pro-markers and Marvy Twinklette pigmented glitter markers (which I have just noticed should be stored horizontally - might explain why the colour didn't flow too well - oops!) 

The papers are by MME - the True Blue collection which are lovely! And the sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up.

Might do some more later!

Love this cheeky wee robot! He's coloured with copics.  Just a quick make. Been busy making baby cards as I'd run out! Made 6 but they are all repeats of previous designs so I'm not going to photograph them.

What to do now?
I really should tidy up all the tags on my posts, make things easier to find!

Not had a great deal of time to make anything today.. been busy, but good fun!  Did manage to make these little birthday gift tags with some of the paper scraps I bought at practially giveaway prices at my local paper mill!!

Great colours! and brilliant quality!

So here are the tags..

And here is the other reason for my inability to craft.. a loose tooth!  in the end,  pulled it out!  She's still smiling (although, almost vampire-ish!), and happy (although there was a fair bit of blood.. wee lamb!)

Handmade

Ok, so they are not that great.. but they are made from scratch, totally original! Fimo beads.. first attempt. And made this little bracelet for Sarah... they might as well have been diamonds from Tiffany!  The "thank you Mummy", huge smile and big kiss were way more than I expected! 

Aren't kids just wonderful!  I'm a very lucky person!

Cheeky Monkey note book

A wee note book - measures approx 7.5cm x 11cm - and contains 80 sheets of paper. Love this little monkey - not used him for ages!

Rock Star!

Another fairly quick make - coloured using Copics this time - so easy to work with! Love this combo of the orange and blue!

Spectrum Noir

Just back from a lovely lunch and settled to do some crafting! Couldn't help myself though.. been trying to resist buying some of the new Spectrum Noir range.. and I was doing so well! But, sadly, I failed.  And after a mammoth task to find anywhere who still had them in stock I managed to get one of the sets of 24 and an individual set of 6.. so that's 30... only 138 to go!

This wasn't meant to be an easel card but I stuck the butterfly paper on upside down on the original card so I had to improvise!!  Still that's what makes crafting unique.  Still practicing with the promarkers so I thought I would put this little Gorjuss Girl to good use.

The papers are April Showers from 3 Bugs in a Rug, and the card stock is American Craft (from the Tropical collection).

Just practicing with the promarkers and I thought I may as well put the image on a card!  A quick wee make. 

New stash!

Some lovely new beads!  The spiders web agate in the middle is absolutely gorgeous in real life!

Silver lentils with Swarovski crystal hearts and bicones.

Flower bracelet.  A quick wee make!

and some earrings...

I've not made earrings in ages but I love these silver and tanzanite swarovski beads... so I just had to make a quick pair of earrings!

Before .. and after!

All the bits...

and the end result!

Cute little holiday mini album - lots of little secret pockets and tabs.. thanks to Gill for this one!

more Fimo on its way...

Sarah had great fun playing with the Fimo the other day.. its all baked now and we're going to get a canvas to put it on .. as a piece of modern art!!  Actually,  I think its probably going to look really good!

So, in the spirit of all things creative, more Fimo is winging its way to us!  And I'm going to use the book I have...

.. to see if I can master the techniques of Millefiori (thats "thousand flowers" for those who didn't do high school italian!).. I know that I really need a pasta maker to make this easier so I'm just going to have to improvise!!

Watch this space.. needless to say, if the results look like Primary 1 plasticine, I may not post the pictures!! lol!

Beading! watch this space!

Ok so I haven't made any jewellery for ages for various reasons but now starting to think about it again (lots of online orders winging there way to me as I type!) and I'm excited to say that the Scottish Bead fair is on in August in Perth.  It's a great show and I'm looking forward to it for (I think) the 3rd or 4th time?!  Just need to save up the spending money! (isn't it amaazing how much it's possible to spend at these shows!) Hoping to make a weekend of it and enjoy either Perth or Pitlochry! 

It's all too exciting! lol! Something to look forward to every month until Christmas! (which I can't believe is so close!)

A bit of DIY!

Given the price of these, I thought I would have a go at making some myself! Quite pleased! And I have enough beads to make hundreds!

Some Christmas Tags!

Using up the teeny tiny scraps!

For the boys!

A quick little make. Don't do boys cards very often!

Fizzy Moon again. This is the "Little Messages" stamp set. Cute. I think I've worked out which colours to use now.  I have to say though,  first time I saw this paper collection I thought it was ok. But I'm really not that keen now. The colours seem quite dull.  Really need to think about what you do with the card layout to brighten it up a bit.