40th Birthday card order

I was asked to make a card for a 40th Birthday. The guy works with my husband & wanted to remind his wife that she was 40............... I hated being 40 so this was a challenge, but I was very pleased with how the card turned out, I also made a keepsake box for the card, but I forgot to photograph it.

Cupcakes Anyone?

Crazy for cupcakes has another outing, I just love this set, this time I have added some paper piecing. The cardstock is all stampin up, The letters and the scalloped circle, ribbon slider are all from the Cricut cartridge Mini Monograms.

Monday again................... !

Monday again ................ Where do the weekends go?

Many thanks to everyone who has sent get well wishes to Abi, she is still in pain but on a scale of 1 - 10 she says she is about a 5 now but still taking the codeine. I think Abi will be very pleased to get back to normal & be more mobile again.

As she has been sleeping so much I have been able to make a few cards.


Stampin up Both way blossoms

Spring solitude by Stampin up

Spring solitude by Stampin up

These cards are inspired by Dawn and they are simply made using a cats eye ink pad, the stems are stamped using Stampin up set Stem sayings.

I was asked to make some Birthday cards, the brief was a little girl who is 2 years old and loves mario, Princess's, fifi & babies, here is what I came up with.

So sorry for the lousy photographs but I still cant use my laptop & my usual photo editing suite.

Catching up

I'm having a nice catch up day at home today, I do have to pay the price however and work tomorrow.
I have eleven cards to make today for a card order that is being collected tomorrow. All of the cards need to be personalised with either names or ages so I have dusted of my Cricut to have a play with.








The brief for this card was a red guitar.............. Well I googled images to decoupage and nothing was suitable and eventually I found this template on a craft forum. I was very pleased with this card as I was originally stumped.


The two wedding cards are a scrap box design, I cut 5cm squares in co-ordinating pinks & whites and then ran them through an assortment of cuttlebug folders, an similarly with the strips.

Playing catch up

I feel that I have spent the whole day playing catch up, I blitzed the downstairs of my house, I was having a major pang of guilt as I completely ignored the layer of dust on Tuesday when I was off work, so today I couldn't put it off any longer. I then spent the next couple of hours bagging up 50+ bags of snowman poop & reindeer poop as little treats I am making. I have just tried to take some pictures but the light is so bad I will have to add them tomorrow.
I then moved onto my next list, ( I have lists everywhere at the moment ) Card orders from Paul's friends at work.




These were both made using the Cricut & the Cuttlebug, the embossed hearts are from a Stampin up set Happy hearts.

Then a few more of the family cards for the grandchildren. as we are going down to see them on Sunday, these included two Baby's first Christmas cards, it was then that i realised that I actually had 5 Baby's First Christmas cards to make, not all family I might add.

The above three cards are all made using the Nit wits collection "twas the night before Christmas".
I will pop back tomorrow with more cards from the next list.

21st Birthday

This is a very simple style, which s-i-l favours, the card is a very dark blue pearlescent shimmer card. The playing cards are from a set of mini cards that I found in our local game shop.
The letters are cut from the Cricut George & basic shapes cartridge.

My nephew is 21 next week and I have to make two completely different cards for him, one from us and a second from my sister-in-law.

The second card is still a work in progress, as its a board book which I love making and I have some pictures from birth to twenty one to add. I am quite safe posting the cards on here before his birthday, as he is not a blog fan.

Feeling my age today

I'm definitely feeling my age today as Dan darling son is 17 today, so this time 17 years ago I had already been in labour for 30 hours and he was born at 12.36pm.


The tag card was made using the beautiful Cosmo Cricket papers called cogsmo, I just love the vibrancy of these papers.






All of the pages are bound together using the Bind it all and just a couple of toning ribbons to set the spine off.

I'm lovin Sugar Nellies

I am lovin my Sugar Nellie's, I have been stamping them onto my watercolour pad and sitting watching the rain whilst colouring them.

I have just taken delivery of the Halloween set of Sugar Nellie's so my challenge next week is to make some cards with them, in the delivery I ordered a "sweet Ebony" but i'm now not sure if I like it.


The background paper is Laura Ashley, backing card is Bazzill & the greeting is a Hero Arts stamp.


The backing paper is again from a Laura Ashley paper pack, the backing card is bazzill & the greeting is a Stamping Up Rub on.

The backing paper is from Dovecrafts masculine paper pack, the stars are cut with a Sizzix paddle punch from Bazzill bling card in 3 colours & the guitar is covered in 3d gloss.


I know this one isn't a sugar nellie but I made it tonight after seeing a card with these words in Marks & Spencers window, I thought it was so simple & very effective, I will make it in boy colours tomorrow. The font is cut on the Cricut from the mini monograms cartridge.

I want to say a big thank you to Robyn
The pink stamper
She has saved me a fortune, I watched some of her videos in bed the other night and she made some quick cards using the Cricut Mini Monograms cartridge. She used the scalloped circles. Now I have been toying with the idea of buying a couple of sets of Nestabilities to make the scalloped layers, I just love that effect. Well she makes her scalloped layers using her Cricut, it just goes to show how much I have looked at these cartridges.
So thank you Robyn.