The winner is.........

Hi all!

It is the time to announce the winner of my big stash giveaway worth £30!

All of the names went into a hat and I got my partner, David to draw the winner! !

The winner is!!!!.....

POLLYCAT (dc).

Congratulations on your win and thank you all for taking part!

Keep an eye out for the next draw!!

It arrived!!

It arrived!!!
Finally!!
I got it from America and it took a month to get here and I have wanted it for years.

Tim Holtz Paper Tool

Just for those who were asking for it,

here is the short video I made showing the TH paper distresser tool.

So here it is! :D

Next two Christmas cards.

Morning all!!

These two cards were made yesterday but this is me just getting the chance to post them here!!

The blue card:

Stamp by fairy doodles. Stamped with memento tuxedo black and coloured with promarkers.
Flowers by wild Orchid Crafts.
Paper edges distressed with the Tim Holtz tonic thread cutter.

The red card:

Stamp by Penny black from the new range.  Stamped with memento tuxedo black and coloured with promarkers.
Flowers by wild Orchid Crafts.
Paper edges distressed with the Tim Holtz tonic thread cutter.

I like these two cards and enjoyed the fact that for once I got to make two in a morning!!!

After these were shown on Facebook, I have had three offers, one from a shop to sell my cards for me.

Something to ponder.

First Christmas Card 2014

Stamped image part of new Penny Black range.
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Image coloured using promarkers and fine nibs.
Sentiment stamped from daily and dandelion Christmas set.
Used Tim Holtz paper edge distresser on paper edges.

New Giveaway! worth £30

Hi all!

I thought I would do another giveaway as I needed to clear out a box to make space for my new stuff.

All you have to do is;

1 - Follow my blog.

2 - Post a comment to say you would like to enter.

3 - spread the word! (If you can).

So we have three packs of sequin ribbons, 5 packs of sticky gems, three packs of magic fibre, two packs of magic foil, 4 Christmas "make your own musical cards" sticky sound units, decorative staples, Christmas ribbon pack and an Anita's mixed gems wheel.

Winner drawn and announced on Saturday 20th September at 6pm gmt!

Late night colouring.

I couldn't sleep last night because of the pain in my back and foot so I ended up colouring with promarkers!

Massive Craft Sale!

Hi all!

Me and Dad found loads of craft stuff lurking in his back room left over from when Mum was alive.

I have not got the space for it and he deserves a wee treat for himself so we decided to sell it off!

We have tools, papers, inks, embellishments the LOT!

Over fifty items for sale so far and there is more to get added.

We will have a craft robo, foilit machine with laser printer and stamps added at a later date too.

Go have a nosey over on my craft sale page!! 

Click here to have a nosey

New Goodies

This is what my postman brought me this morning.

I was determined to create a mess later on in the day however a trip down a flight of stairs has saw the end of that temporarily!!!!

September's friendship card swap

With being signed off from work with my back playing up again, I managed to make another card!

This time it was for the friendship card swap on Docrafts forums! :)

Love to shop decoupage with highlights of sakura glitter pens.
Distressed love to shop papers and decorative paper flowers with buttons as centres.
I also used the Dovecraft paper lace heart as a backing also.

Sentiment and card base edged with metallic silver pen.

Thanks for looking!!

My First Ever Tutorial Video!

Hey everyone!

I decided to make a youtube video of how to colour stamped images in the style of forever friends bears.

I had a few people ask me how to do it and it is not the kind of thing you can explain over typed text.

So, I grabbed the camera and made a very quick and rough around the edges video.

Be kind *hides*

Link HERE.

They fell in.....honest.

Well I had an appointment in town this morning and stupidly went for a nosey in Millers art store at the paper craft section.
They had the DC stuff in and some stuff may have well ended up in my basket.
Oops.
Buttons, berries, decoupage and stamps!!

I found the buttons and berries for £1 a pack which I thought was good value!!

Some of the newer stamps are lovely too!

Oops.....bought something else

I really shouldn't leave money in the banks because those late night purchases all mount up!

I am a photographer and have loved this penny black stamp since I first saw it so treated myself.

Not cards but still crafty!

Hi all.

I didn't get the chance to do any paper crafting today, but I manged to get more of these done!

Thought I would try selling them on Facebook to see what would happen and have had a really good outcome so far!!

I only use silver components and glass beads :)

The spiders were more for myself!! :)

Promarkers and stamping.

I couldn't face getting paper all over my just hoovered carpet last night so I ended up colouring with promarkers some stamped images!

Penny Black stamp with Momento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with promarkers.

No idea where this stamp is from as it is not labelled!!

Thanks for looking!

Perfect Pearls take one!

Well I came across some perfect pearls in the craft stash and I had to look up to see how to use them. I decided to try the resist technique using personal impressions and V&A stamps.

Range of colours I have.

Versa mark watermark ink pad then two colours of pearls and stamped again with versamark to take off some of the powder.

Straight forward stamping with a clear sticky ink and going over with various colours!

Both of these were done using the same pearls colour! 

In the first one I coloured the paper with distress ink and then used the purple powder to make it shimmer and used the same ink pad to take off some of the powder leaving the impression of the stamp.

On the second one, I simply covered the paper with a clear sticky ink and used the same powder and took off some of the powder with the ink and stamp as before.

Exact same as above, just using green instead of purple.

A simple stamp and colour with the bronze.

New cosmic card.

New card made in the wee hours when I couldn't sleep.
Distressed edged papers with scissors.
Perfect pearls used on purple circle and topper backing paper with stamps from perfect impressions and V & A.
Martha Stewart punches used for butterfly's and yellow edge butterfly's. Decorative dots were random embellishment from Mum's stash.
Used glossy accents on dots and elements of topper.

Lots of layers!

Hi all,

After yesterdays two cards, I felt that I could do better, so I took some inspiration from fellow DC members and went for it.

I had saw people distressing the edges of their paper and it just seemed to give a more authentic feel. Most were using the Tim Holtz paper distresser, but I decided to try with scissors!

The overall card. 

Decoupage image topper accented with antique velvet distress inks.

Paper edges distressed with household scissors.

Purple circle sprayed with cosmic shimmer spray.

Little flowers punched and hand made by my mother. <3

I have hundreds of these cute embellishments but never use them!!

Among the boxes of embellishments were a little jar of these paper shimmery raised dots. I have no idea where they came from, I think Mum got them in a wallet swap!

White flowers punched and hand made by my mother. 

Cosmic shimmer circle, just adds a little more colour and splash to the card!

Well, I hope you like the card, I am very happy with it! This is more like the kind of card I should be making if I just put the time into it!

Well, how ese will I use all of my papers up? :D

Cosmic shimmer card!

I made another card and decided to use cosmic shimmer for the first time :)

Needless to say, my wooden chopping board did not survive.....

It might have blue shimmery stuff on it now :/