*Quickie Cards*

Evening all, greetings from a very blustery night in the south! I have had the rare urge tonight to make up some quick cards. I recently bought a heat gun, so have been playing around with various inks and embossing powders. Loving the sparkle and have a new love for these smaller pearlised card. These are about 3inchs square and very very cute!

If only I could buy pre-scored Kraft cardstock in ickle sizes! I looooveee Kraft, and it seems to love my heat gun to!

These card toppers are by SJ and are free to download on the UK Scrappers forum so go get them here and get crafting.
Used my trusty Martha Stewart 'classic butterfly' punch in the corner.

They are a great size for an A6 card x
..now I'm off to find a blanket, brrrrrr...

Shimelle's Sketch

Hi my lovelies. Just wanted to share this LO with you, based on this sketch from Shimelle. I was really inspired by these My Minds Eye 'Quite Contrary' papers and thought that I would use them with these pictures of Taye playing with my dads old scalectric set (have I spelled that right?)

Used a cute grand adhesion sticker from K&Co

Sorry, this picture isn't very clear, but didn't have much time to take photos with my proper camera. The little owl was cut from some cute wrapping paper and the letter stickers are.. um.. Thickers of course...
Also wanted to show you this card that I made for a commission. It was for a man who has just got a job in a big computer company! Quite like how it turned out actually x
anyway, see you soon

*Taye is 4*

Wow, what a busy weekend! Taye turned 4 yesterday! Really don't know where that time has gone. He had his party at an indoor play centre with his friends from Pre-School yesterday and had another friend party that he went to on Saturday.

He had so many wonderful presents that he was still opening them this morning. Now I just have to work out where to put everything. x

Mum made 2 Octonauts cakes, one for the party and another for home x
And on another note, here are a few cards I made before the weekend. I really want to start making more cards again.

Colour Throwdown no:124

Here is this weeks colour combination from the Color Throwdown blog I am loving the bright pink colour, making me feel very summery!

I wanted to use my new American Crafts birdcage stamp, so gave it a try but now wished I had used a darker brown ink!

Added a bright pink ribbon to the side and used 3D foam to adhere the stamped image
Check out their blog for more colour combo's every wednesday x x x

Colour Throwdown no:121

So I had a little break from JYC this morning and made this little card using the colours from the colour throwdown challenge blog. I don't usually use any type of blue, but actually found that I had lots of blue bits and pieces around my desk so it wasn't as challenging as I thought it would be!

Supplies:

Folder card: Hobbycraft

Stamp: My Minds Eye

Lace border: Paper Cellar

Letters: Thickers

Colour Throwdown no:120/Taylored Expressions no:134

So here is this week's Colour Throwdown challenge. I am loving these colours! they are quite a spring/summer mix so quite nice to see something other than christmas colours at the moment (even though I love christmas)

I used the Taylored Expresssions sketch challenge (no:134) and found it great to combine the two. Sorry but just couldn't help but use a little Kraft cardstock on the card, although you will notice that I haven't used any Thickers on it. I am making progress from my Thicker obsession!

supplies: Stamp and pom pom trim from Making Memories.

Happy B'day

Just made this quick card for my Uncle yesterday. I am so in love with Kraft cardstock at the moment. This blank card (and envelope) are from paperchase Pack of 8 for £3.75! so not so cost effective, but haven't seen any other pre-scored packs with envelopes anywhere else so just got these.

Alphabet stickers are from Papermania and the little cupcake sticker is from Paperchase, they are so cute, I think I bought 2 packets just in case I get carried away.

Colour Throwdown no:117

This is my first colour challenge, prompted by the colour throwdown blog. I love using Kraft right now so this was perfect.

I stamped a border along the bottom in an orange and layered up some K&Co and Prima flowers.

These were the colours to use.

And here is my take in the colours, I needed to make a Birthday card for a lady who loved flowers so I am happy that I could make a card from the project.

I'm Rubbish

I'ts true, i am truly rubbish at this blogging thing, but i am now going to start posting more often and take a lot more pictures! That also means that i will need to do some more crafting, but seeing as its Christmas soon (yay!) that won't be too hard. Just took a few pics of some cards i made or a friend ages ago but better late then never.



Hope you like.