I got an award!...

Thank You to a fellow blogger also called Sylvie for this lovely award..

Many Thanks also to MaxineD, who back in December also gave me this lovely blog award, but due to the death in my family at the new year, I did mean to put it on my blog but I forgot all about it with all the things going on at the time. So My apologies to Maxine over at Kiwime's Kreations... I hope you understand. ... and again.. Thank you for this award.

The conditions of this Award are.....
Step 1 - Make a post linking back to the person who gave you the award!
Step 2 - Share 7 random things about yourself
Step 3 – Award 7 recently discovered bloggers with this award
Step 4 – Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won the award.

Here are 7 random things about myself Lol:

• I tried to pluck a peacocks feather
• I was once chased away by said peacock!!
• I am a Gemini
• I press flowers occassionally
• Gigglebits (CBeebies) really makes me laugh! well, I am a granny He he...
• I made a bonsai card for Garret Wang (StarTrek Voyager)..to say Thankyou for getting all the cast to sign a photo for me... which I still have.
• One day I really want to see the Northern Lights!

I'd like to pass this award onto these lovely bloggers....

Diane at Just add Glue

Ann at Just for Fun

Robyn at Rainbows by Robyn

Jack at Jacks Arty Crafty Kreations

Larissa at Car-D-elicious

Laura at Ink & Sheep

and finally.... Jose at Jose's Jottings

.. right, I'd better go and let these lovely ladies know that I am passing this fabby award onto them..

catch you all soon...
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Clean & Simple weekly challange - Spring theme

Over that the "Less is More" weekly challenge blog the theme this week is 'Spring'.

Here is my card
I was given this UM rubber stamp (along with a few others that are similar) many years ago from a friend in US..(Thank you Lee if you are reading this) I have no idea what stamp company it is from I just love the image.

I stamped it using Tim Holtz Forest moss distress ink. I used a damp paint brush to colour in the leaves, a promarker (Putty) to lightly shade the flowers with a hint of pink then used a glue pen to stick some clear 'oil on water' effect foil for the wings. Here's a better view of the foil on the wings
I used a Martha stewart punch for the bottom edge.. rubber stamped the words again using the forest green ink... added the 2 types of ribbon plus a bow and mounted it all onto a white A5 card base.
I think it looks quite nice. :o)

I haven't had the chance to draw any freebies for a few weeks due to feeling poorly. I am enjoying making these cards in the mean time though.... I hope to be back to normal soon.

Thanks for visiting... your comments are always welcome.

One Layer Card

I've been off the radar for a few days due to not feeling very well. I want to thank everyone for their lovely comments on previous posts.
Hopefully I will soon be back to normal, for now I have made a few cards.

The Challenge over at 'Less is More' for this week is to make a one layer card with a theme of a flower or a tree. The first card I made I forgot all about the theme and spent ages measuring and masking stamps, it's only when I finished that I realised what I had done LOL!!.. so, after laughting at myself, I got over it and started all over again Lol..
Here is my card for this week's challenge:
Here's how I made it... the card is a cream 6" square... after masking off the edges leaving a square in the middle, I used a real skeleton leaf as a stamp by inking with a brayer - placing it inked side down - covering with paper and using the brayer again to press the ink onto the card... [I saw Barbara Gray demo-ing this on one of her fab TV shows on Create and craft and thought, what a good idea!..]. I then stamped the flower and the sentiment and doodled the frame - adding a few gems to finish.

Thanks for visiting..

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Oriental card

I was actually inspired while visiting the dentist today!! can you believe that!.. I saw a tiny little oriental card on the distant wall behind the receptionists desk.. all I could see was the black oriental bridge and some trees..(my eyes are bad Lol)... but enough for it to spark my imagination knowing what stamps I have with one of my oriental lady new digital stamps.

I have used an 8" x 8" card base, stamping several of my bonsai trees leaving the pots un inked... coloured them with promarker pens. I made the oriental style bridge (well it looks it to me anyway - artistic licence Lol).. using the large lattice Martha Stewart punch. The Roses are ones I made a while back . After adding some pink punched flowers, I added some sequins and tiny rhinestones to embellish. The lady is coloured with promarkers and then I used a glue pen to add red foil in a pattern. I feel quite pleased with myself... and I have really inky fingers Lol!!

Here's my card

Thanks for visiting today... See you soon

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Beaded Bodice card

There's a brand new challenge blog that has just started and looks very interesting to me, so I thought I'd join in with it. It is called "Less is More" - they aim to promote the making of classic Clean and Simple cards, with different challenges each week to help stimulate your imagination. The first colour challenge is - Black, white and pink.
I don't know why but this beautiful beaded bodice stamp that I have had for years popped into my head for it, so I had to use it. Here is my very first challenge card...

Like I said the stamp is called Beaded Bodice and was made by Stampendous many years ago, I don't even know if they still make it, all I know is that I love it and it will always be one of my favourites. After stamping it directly onto the card, I masked the bodice and shaded with pink pastels then added specs of glamour dust to give a sparkle to it. I doodles around the edge of the card and wrote the message myself.

I intend to join in with this challenge blog every week as it looks so much fun.. why not take a look for yourself.. here's the link again

Thanks for visiting... see you at the weekend...

Hugs!

~FREEBIE~ Sunday 6th February

Here's a card with this weeks freebie image.. I used some of the Papermania Hanoverian papers - they are so gorgeous and so girly. I coloured her in with promarker pens adding little bits of white gel pen for highlights and a stardust clear glitter pen.. oh and I added some clear glaze pen to her red boots..



I was inspired by a very old vintage photograph of a little girl for this week's freebie. I hope you like her. I haven't made a card yet but hope I will get the time tomorrow. I would love to see what you create with her. here she is - click on her to open up a large jpeg 300 dpi image.

Thanks for visiting today..
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• Please Read
• Feel free to print out and use my digital images on your own cards and cards you make for sale, please remember that these are copyrighted to me and must not be altered , given, or sold as your own individual digital images., so don't pass my images on to others, give them a link back here so they can download it for themselves

~FREEBIE~ Sunday 30th January 2011

I haven't created much this week but did play around with a copyright free dover image - creating a heart shape from a round one. I quite like it so thought I share it with you for this week's freebie.

Here it is:
I coloured a few laser print outs using Tim holtz inking all over and then blotting out the flowers so they are much lighter.. but I think I have the wrong paper... it needs to be more glossy. so I gave up with those Lol.. While looking through an oriental card pack I got years ago from C & C tv, I came across some stickers of lovely blue birds, so decided to colour my birds blue too.. Here's the card I ended up with. The backing paper and ribbons and borders are all from the same kit. the flowers are punched and layered using the Martha stewart Hydrangea punch coloured with promarkers.

I hope you have fun with this.

Thank you for all your kind comments last week. It went well in the hospital but I was left feeling quite sore for a few days, I am so glad these checks are years apart!!

Thanks for visiting.
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• Please Read
• Feel free to print out and use my digital images on your own cards and cards you make for sale, please remember that these are copyrighted to me and must not be altered , given, or sold as your own individual digital images., so don't pass my images on to others, give them a link back here so they can download it for themselves

~FREEBIE~ 23rd January - Shoes

If the Shoe Fits....

I am going to the hospital for a colonoscopy check up tomorrow and really needed something to take my mind of it.. also to distract me from being so hungry today (can't eat day before).. so I drew some more pretty shoes. anyone would think that I love shoes!... Lol
Here they are.. click on the image to get the large jpeg and save.
(I just noticed that I spelt 'shoe' without the 'o', so I've corrected it on the shoes.. but you will have to just have a giggle at the cards I've made. Lol!, so if you have already downloaded this freebie, check that it's this latest one, not the original one from a few hours ago. Sorry about that. Lol)


I've had great fun with these using promarkers and paper piecing. I printed 4 onto one A4 sheet all exactly the same size. I used one to make templates of the 4 pieces of the shoes and then the hard part was which papers to use Lol!
Have fun with these... I would love to see what you do with them. Here two cards I have made so far..
Thanks for visiting today... see you soon
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• Please Read
• Feel free to print out and use my digital images on your own cards and cards you make for sale, please remember that these are copyrighted to me and must not be altered , given, or sold as your own individual digital images., so don't pass my images on to others, give them a link back here so they can download it for themselves.

~FREEBIE~ First one for 2011

Hello again.... I saw the idea for both the dress and the shoe in a vintage jewellery magazine Lol! I like it because it can be so many colours.. I'd love to see how you use it on your projects... and the shoe too.
Here are my first freebies to start 2011 ....




... and here is a card I have made with them...
.. As you can see I cut out the dress part and layered it over some foiled paper.. then inked the edges with some Tim holtz distress inks. I cut slits each side of the belt and added ribbon with a small rhinestone ribbon slider where the belt buckle goes.
I hope you enjoy this image as much as I have..
Thanks for visiting..
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~Angie~

I added a new digi stamp over the weekend.. I have called her Angie.
Here are some of the card samples I have made using her...
She is no longer available at the Stitchy Bear Digital stamp store. She reflects the way I am feeling at the moment.. My creations tend to do that Lol! I hope you like her as much as I do.
Thanks for visiting today
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First post of 2011

A Happy New year to you, it's a bit late I know, but I hope you all had a good beginning to the year.

We had a death on New Year's Day in our family so I haven't felt like blogging over the last few weeks. Things should return to normal soon and I plan to be involved in blogland again hope to draw many more freebies for you to download during 2011.

In the mean time I want to share some cards I have made for Valentine's day using a fantastic tutorial I saw on Valita's Designs & fresh folds blog... using hearts. I will show my cards to you first and give you a link at the bottom of this post otherwise you will go there and not want to come back Lol!!.. her blog is addictive heheh Lol!... so here is a taster of how she inspired me..
I used some mini mosaics on her dress because I thougth they looked just like little sequins.. I used the Tim Holtz floral alteration die cutting red organza for the flowers.

Valita show us how to shade the heart like this.. it's great fun!

This is a simple wedding card using the heart idea... I used some lovely holographic card for her dress and drew squiggles with a glue pen and added glitter for a wonderful sparkle.. it looks like a diamonte encrusted bodice.

Well, as promised here is the link to Valita's fantastic inspiring blog with her own video tutorial for these hearts... Thanks for visiting today.. remember to leave me a comment if you are going to before to get hooked on her blog... LOL!!
Hugs to you all

Last post of 2010....~Something I made~

I wanted to make a 'handmade something special' for my friend. I found a wonderful way to use the Tim Holtz birdcage as a hanging ornament from this blog post and was completely inspired to make my own version with what I have. Here it is:
I used papermania papers for the bird and Martha stewart poinsetta and holly punches. the birdcage opens up:
I made the inside by layering 7 birdcage dies cut from mount board on top of each other after cutting away the bars.. creating a little area to fill up with embellishments. I printed tiny sheets of music and aged them with TH ink and stickles around the edges, added small amounts of green flowersoft, a few decorative brads and stars and punched holly. The crackle effect on the birdcage is die cut from wallpaper and glued on top. I added a 'D' ring to hold the two pieces together and hung a piece of scrap chain and a ribbon. The silver chain tassle is from my stash.

My friend really liked this handmade gift and I have a feeling she will be getting out again for next Christmas. Oh, and another little tip.. when you buy sizzix packs of two embossing folders they are packed in a lovely acetate pillow box... great for recycling hand made gifts like this.!!

I hope you are all having a lovely New Year's Eve. Thank You for visiting my blog today... See you all again Next Year! Lol
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One more card...

I actually found a little time to make a card using the freebie below.. here it is:

I know that the obvious colour choice for her coat is red, but I couldn't get it to look right with red promarkers... so pale blue it is Lol! I used papers from the Papermania Silent night collection and a sprig of holly from the never ending Anna Griffin kit that I get out every year and always have lots left Lol!
Thanks for looking
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Last Christmas ~FREEBIE~ for this year

I thought I'd offer you one last Christmas freebie for those last minute cards or projects. She is a quick sketch from an old victorian postcard... adapted by me. I hope you like her. I would love to see what you do with her so please leave a comment to let me see your creations.
I have also added a simple Merry Christmas banner for you to use if you want.
Here she is.
... and here is the simple banner to use on your projects...
I hope to make a card myself to day to show on here.. until then... Happy Christmas..!

~FREEBIE~ Sunday 28th November

Hi everyone,
I can't believe just how quickly the weeks are going at the moment...not long 'till Christmas now!!

Today's freebie for you is a familiar lady.. I have changed her clothes to give her a festive look.
Here she is

I have also dressed the other lady in a santa outfit .. you can find her here plus I have drawn
an extra lady to go with these here... both are in the Stitchy Bear digital stamp store.
Here's a card showing all three ladies together

I have coloured them with promarker pens. I added polar white flower soft on the fir trims and I am pleased with how dimentional it looks.
I would love to see how you use these glamorous ladies on your projects leave me a comment with a link to let me see.
Thank You for visiting.. see you soon.
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