Showing posts with label handmade card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade card. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Bitten By The Bug!

After the card making class I can't stop thinking about crafty stuff! So to break myself back in slowly I bought a couple of kits (wwwarrrrghhhh! kiiiiiits!) to get me going again. This one will be for my OH birthday - he's a fishing freak!

Kanban Card Making Kit - Fishing Shed

This one will be for general friendship cards and a wedding card for a close friend.


Basic Grey Blush Card Kit
With ickle pickle around it's hard to get time to craft so I'm off to Mums on Friday - she'll watch ickle pickle for me whilst I get crafting. I cannot wait!

Crafty Chick Is Back!!!

After a looooooong time off (had a baby, moved house etc. etc.) my FDF suggested we go to a card making class at http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/ so off we went! Here are the 3 cards we made during the 2 hour class:


Woodware Clear Magic Stamps - Birdsong
Woodware Clear Magic Stamps - Elegant Cameos


We used gilding flakes on the back of stamped images to create the main elements of each card. Then we did simple matting and layering along with punched out flowers, brads and ribbon to finish of these scalloped cards. What a great couple of hours!!!

Saturday, 9 August 2008

New Treats!

Wow, went halves with my FDF on some "Wafugami" speciality papers at a bargainous price! $19.99 (that's around a tenner!) and we got 16 packs of different colour combo/designs of these gorgeous delicate papers. Each pack contained at least 12 sheets... just look at my half of the stash... all laid out... they are all double sided, and some have the most gorgeous metallic or pearlescent sheen to them... mwah!

"Beautiful exotic paper in handy 6"x6" size pieces. Great for collage, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, iris folding, cardmaking, altered arts and more! "

To top it all off, the packs each had the most fantasticly sumptuous names!

  • Lime Gingham Combo
  • Light Pink Gingham Combo
  • Red Gingham Combo
  • Light Blue Gingham combo
  • Bubblegum
  • Gold Metallic/Solid Combo
  • Metallic Shades of Greens
  • Metallic Shades of Red/Pink
  • Horizon Wave Art Combo
  • Summer Daze

Yummy! These papers are, for want of a better word, lusherly! But will they get used, or become part of my "look don't touch" craft stash museum? Will have to wait and see!

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Go Girl!!! Tummy Rub!!!

Wow, today I received a very special ATC - my Freaky Deaky Friendie's top notch niece wanted to make me summat for my new flat, and bearing in mind she is just 11, what an awesome ATC she has created for me! Not only that, but it is the first one she has ever made too :D

Go Girl In Your New Home

I feel privileged to be the recipient of her first artist trading card, and not only that, I know the time and thought that went into making (corners!!!) I had a sneaky feeling I was going to get a lickle summat, so I had made an ATC to give to my FDF's niece to say thanks muchly! Couldn't resist adding some beads and wire!

My FDF had made me the bestest new home card too! Getting quite a collection now :)

Ooh, crafty individuals backing paper and flutterbies :)

Oh... and the other day my pinky winky friendie shared with me the most gorgeous piccies of her doggy woggy, I just have to put one up on my blog to show the world how cute Matilda is! Her latest trick is "tummy rub" - all you have to do is call out those two words and she rolls on her back ready to have her tummy tickled! I want a doggy woggy!

Hands off my bag!!!

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

On the Scrapheap, Tea Time (and a card for a poorly girl)

Been crafting like crazy today - finished off Scrapheap Challenge ATCs for ATC Addicts R Us (just in the nick of time too!) Used my "border" Paper Artsy stamp for the first time, as well as some epoxy postage stamp stickers my FDF got me for Crimbo. Been waiting for ages for an ATC that they would work with, and finally got my chance - yay!

Exploring

How Much Longer

The Great Escape

Got my first new home ATC from a member of ATC Addicts R Us, Tea Time at Jo's... very clever idea, and a totally unexpected piece of mail :)

Anyone for a cuppa?

I had a card to finish off today as well, to send to Mumsy's work colleague's daughter who is very poorly in hospital at the moment. I hope she likes the card and that it will brighten her day, even if just for a few moments, when she opens it and reads our messages.

I used the bird stamp, as I hope over the coming weeks she will be able to fly away from the hospital and feel free again.