Birthday girl

I have a teenage girl in the house. It's cliche I know, but I'm very aware of time flying past right now. I'm in Mom denial of it all...

A Happy 13th card was in order. I used one of the little tags I'd made earlier in the summer. I'd deliberately kept them back to use on cards. Making a few in advance really makes life easier.

My girl loves bright and cheerful- she's not a pink and girly girl, so I wanted something fot for my shiny new teenager.

I went for a flowery paper, and then lots of 3D glittery foan stickers (I think they're Thickers). 

I love this brdie with attitude. I made this and some other tags a while ago- take a look here for more...

I'm a fan of doodling edges in black pen- it adds definition and a bit of style. I added dots nad chevrons and allsorts to this one.

Thanks for looking!

Fairy special

I was up at an unearthly hour this morning, and took advantage by having some alone craft time. I'd already coloured this image from Lili of the Valley with Promarkers, I just needed to make the card up! Kay, Michelle and I had a crafty session on Thursday and we spent some time punching out flowers, using some of my punches and a couple of lovely Martha Stewart punches of Michelle's. It's lovely having crafty friends, we get to share!!!!

I used some purple paper from my stash and some gold Stampin Up paper to co-ordinate with the punched flowers.Lots and lots of gems, stickles and an inked and stickled 4 (the card has a soon to be 4 year old recipient), and voila. I love using lots of flowers, you never quite know how it's going to turn out, but it's lovely just sticking on lots of blooms.

This is my entry into.....

Tuesday taggers- All that blooms
Crafts and Me- Friends and family
Lili of the Valley- Sketch
Stampalot Challenge- Punch it

When stressed......get the stamps out!!!

I've had a bit of a stressful evening, well stressful in principle because my son and husband were both at their grading exam for their blue belts in Tae Kwon Do. I was at home with Little Legs, and once she was asleep I got really nervous for my boys. Ridiculous isn't it, but still, I needed distraction. SO in actualy fact, once craftily distracted I wasn't as stressed......

Distraction required, distraction arrived in the form of a list of blog challenges I'd written down earlier. I thought I'd have a go at making one card to fit several challenges at once..........

I'd already coloured a smashing Kraftin Kimmie image with Promarkers, and I wanted to use one of the new tan cards I bought for a song in Cardiff at the weekend. They've been lying on my desk ever since we got back, and I wanted to prove to myself that they were worth the 66p I paid for them (BARGAIN!!!!). The papers are from Stampin' Up, and the swirly stamp images are from Basic Grey- I looooove that stamp set, very, very versatile.

The swirls and inked edges of the main image are echoed on the couple of mini tags with the sentiment on. I added a couple of punched flowers, charms, lots of blingy gems and some punched swirls- my favourite punch at the moment, from Papershapers, it's huge and scrumptious......

I am entering this into the following challenges-

Kraftin' Kimmie- Charming (key and heart charms)
Allsorts- Tag/ticket
Totally Gorjuss- Bling it up
Stamp something- 2 of something (charms, flowers, papers, tags)
Fussy and fancy Friday- Recipe (3 images- Kraftin' Kimmie, sentiment, swirl; 3 embellishments- charms, flowers, gems; 3 Design papers)
By the Cute and Girly- Celebration (2nd entry, different craft item)
Passion for Promarkers- Anything goes

Photobook for Jack

My gorgeous nephew Jack was one this week, and as I distinctly remember sitting in bed in a caravan on holiday crying my heart out because I was so happy to be an Aunty, I can't work out where the year went! I wanted to make him something to keep and decided on a little photobook.

 

It is 4 pieces of chipboard covered in Cosmo Cricket papers and laced together with string. I then added lots of photos, buttons, ribbon and letters. I like it!!!

The last page is left for his birthday photo! You can spot photos of my 2 children and my Dad on the pages as well. I love the distressed feeling of the papers, they were very easy to work with.

I enjoyed making this- could I be ready to tackle the scrapbook I've had hanging around for aeons???????