Forever Friends Birthday

Hi folks. Hope you're enjoying the weekend so far.  I was hoping to get into the garden this weekend (I've got some Lupins to plant), but it's so cold I've decided to give it a miss and stay in my little craft room instead.

Here's what I've been up to so far.  It's quite a simple layout again. Here's what I used:

Forever Friends stamp

Adirondack Ink: Espresso

Promarkers: Ivory, Satin, Vanilla and Oatmeal

Crafts Too embossing folder

Rectangel and circle Nesties

Paula Pascual sentiment stamp

Anita's ribbon

I stamped the image with Espresso ink and am much happier with the result. I think black is a bit harsh for some images.

Thanks for dropping by and for any comments you may leave.  Bye for now.

Sue.x

Another valentine

Afternoon folks, hope you're enjoying the weekend!

I've another Valentine's card to share with you - I know I said I didn't have many stamps that fit into the love theme, but I thought I this Forever Friends stamp would fit the bill.

These are the ingredients I used:

Scalloped heart and hear shape cut out on the Silhouette
Heart paper - Pink Petticoat
Cuttlebug heart embossing folder
Forever Friends stamp
Promarkers
Sizzix label
Do craft word stamp and Vintage photo distress ink
Versafine red in
Ribbon from stash

I'm going to enter this card into the aspoonfullofsugar challenge.  The theme is - you guessed it - Valentine's!

I'm off now to start the dinner - yummy. Looking forward to Sunday lunch!

Bye for now and thanks for stopping by.x

Sketch and Stamp Challenge 53

My first challenge entry for a while is this sketch on the sketchandstash challenge blog.

And this is the card I made for it:

The second part of the challenge is to use something new or neglected from your stash.  I've used a new Forever Friends stamp that I bought from the Glitter Pot sale after Christmas. A bargain at £2.24.

I stamped the image and then cut out with a circle nestie and coloured with Promarkers (Vanilla, Ginger and Peach). I used scalloped nesties to mount and the background papers I've had in my stash for ages and finally a few Prima flowers with buttons from Papermania capsule collected for the centres.

Thanks for dropping by and have a good week.x

Forever Friends - Congratulations

Don't you just love it when one of your lovely family members rush in and say 'have you got a card for .............'. This card is the result of just such an occasion. My daughter's off to a wedding reception tonight and sprung it on me just before she went off to watch Birmingham play Sunderland that she needed a card. I'm really flattered that they think my cards are good enough to send to their friends, but a bit of notice would be nice!!!

Anyway, the clean and simple look had to be choice for this card. The card base is a nice pearlised texture so I matted a piece of ivory/gold coloured card which has been through the Wizard in a Cuttlebug Heart folder on top. I was lucky to have a piece of ribbon in my stash that matched (it's beautiful ribbon from Anna Griffin). The stamp is from the Do-craft range of Forever Friends stamps, which has been coloured with Prisma pencils.

Have a good weekend everyone.X

Forever Friends

Hi folks, sorry I haven't been around much lately, we just seem to be so busy at the moment, there have been so many birthday celebrations and a wedding to go to it's been a bit of a whirlwind. I'm looking forward to a few peaceful weekends after this one. I'll be round to visit you all then.

I've got a couple of cards to show you, and as you can see these little bears are a favourite of mine. I thinks I will get my money's worth out of these.

For this one I used:

Forever Friends stamp

DCWV Textured card which was run through a Cuttlebug folder and then sanded to reveal the white underneath.

Faber Castell pencils to colour the FF image

Nesties

Martha Steward punch

Ribbon from stash

Crystal Hearts from Papermania

And for this one:

Forever Friends stamp, Pink Petticoat papers, Sentiment done on the 'puter, SU border punch, Prisma pencils.
Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.X

Distressed Forever Friends

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. Glad it Friday at last. I'm off to London tomorrow on a Hen weekend so just wanted to post this card before I go.

I had a go at the distressed look as I treated myself to a Tim Holtz edge distresser and a blending tool. I don't think I was brave enough with this to give it a real aged look, I think I need to practise more. This is what I used:

Forever Friends stamp

SU sentiment stamp

SU Scallop Edge Punch

Tim Holtz edge distresser, blending tool and Distress Inks

K & Co Paper

Nesties

HOTP swirl stamp

Raffia and a piece of dried flower from stash

The image has been mounted on 3D foam so has caused a bit of a shadow at the bottom, so please just ignore that, it wasn't supposed to be there!

Hope you all enjoy whatever it is you have planned for the next few days.x

Have a Happy Day

Ooops, has it really been that long since my last post! I've been back from my hols for over a week and I'd just like to say thanks to you all for wishing me a happy hol, had a brill time, lovely villa with it's own pool, feeling nice and chilled now.

I've been busy gardening since we got back, hence no blogging (well we have to make the most of the good weather when we have it, don't we? Unfortunately it looks like we're back to the same old British weather, didn't think it would last).

Anyhow, back to business, I've been wanting to have a go at making a card using nesties after seeing some fab ones on my blogging travels, so here it is, it was so easy and this is what I used:

Large Scallop Circle

Large Circle

Forever Friends stamp

EK Success Daisy punches

Faber Castell Pencils

Clare Curd Sentiment

DCWV textured pink card and deep pink cardstock

Ribbon and Pearl beads from stash

I really liked doing this one and I'm sure I'll do more as I think the nestie size and shape make such cute little cards.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday, can't wait till tonight to see the Apprentice final, Wednesday evenings won't be the same without my fav programme.

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