Happy Easter

Happy Easter!  I hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend, despite the weather!

Here's a couple of cards I've made over the last couple of days:

This one is for my BIL - the dreaded male card:

I love this clock stamp by Kaisercraft.  I stamped and embossed it with Black Soot distress ink and then used Inkylicious blending brushes to add some colour -I used Pumice Stone and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

The 'Birthday' was cut out with my Cameo and the rest of the sentiment is from Stick n Stamp.  I had a bunch of bottle caps in my stash for ages so thought I'd add one for a bit of interest.  Here it is close up:

I punched a piece of the clock stamp and then put an epoxy sticker over the top.  I really like it.

A bit of string just finished it off.

The next one is for my little niece:

I'm still loving my Tatty Teddy cd - I don't usually do decoupage but I thought I'd give it a go for this one.

The background paper and sentiment is also from the cd.  He's just so cute!

Sue.x

One more quick card

We had a lovely surprise yesterday - our youngest daughter, who's been in Australia since the end of last September (seems like years though) is coming home a bit earlier than expected - YAY.

She'll be arriving back at Birmingham Airport on Wednesday evening - can't wait to see her.

I made this CAS card using my Tatty Teddy cd - which I still love.  I printed it directly onto my card.  The font I used for the sentiment is called Kirsten and is the closest I've found to the Tatty Teddy font (btw our daughter isn't really called Polly - that's our nickname for her).

Have a good extended weekend.

Sue.x

More Tatty

Another Tatty card - the images are all so cute I'm struggling to choose between them.  I've got another 5 ready to be mounted onto card, so be prepared to be Tatty'ed out!

I used a Cuttlebug folder for the background and stitched around it - not very well I might add, so don't look too close.lol

I was intending to go white on white but because the image is quite pale I thought it might get a bit lost so I just added a bit of silver mirri card.  I also used the dotting of Promarkers around the image which makes them stand out a bit more.

Finally, I added lots of Glamour Dust for a lovely frosty look to these lovely little characters.

Sue.x

A couple of Christmas cards

I haven't really much been in the mood for Christmas cards, but here's a couple I've put together.

This is just such a simple one.  I love this Anna Griffin stamp and when I found I had some sparkly gold glitter powder I thought this would look lovely just mounted onto some gold mirror card. Unfortunately, the sparkle doesn't show up too well on the photo.

This next one I used an image from the Tatty Teddy cd.  I've glittered it up and used my Nesties to turn it into a Scalloped Easel card.  The sentiment was   punched with Stamping Up oval and scalloped oval punches.  The stars are also from a punch and the little bow was done with my Bow Easy.

That's all from me today folks. We're out to celebrate my sister's 50th birthday this evening.  We're going to an Abba tribute night at the West Midlands Golf Club (otherwise known as The Lakes at Barston), should be a good fun night. 

Have a good evening, whatever you're up to.

Sue.x

I'm on a roll.....

Three cards in one weekend!  That must be a first.

Here's another card I made using the fabby Tatty Teddy cd - Isn't he the cutest bear ever???

It's a card for my niece with the very unusual name of Teide (named after the volcano in Tenerife - don't ask! My sister is very strange).  So it wouldn't be often she gets something personalised for her, I'm guessing.

I've added a bit of sparkle to the flourishes which doesn't show up too well. Oh! and the background paper is blue really - looks a bit greeny in the photo.

Well, that really is it from me for the weekend. Hubby has the week off with me this half term so maybe not too much time at my desk for the next few days. I'll have to wait until he goes to the footie on Wednesday, never mind.

Have a lovely evening.

Sue.x

Tatty Teddy again

Ooops, forgot to post this one earlier.

Such a super fast card to do for my nephew.  Typically, I was stuck for a young male card, so I opted for my Tatty Teddy cd - I just think everyone loves this bear and my nephew is a bit of a softie (don't tell him I told you, but I think he still has his Larry Lamb blanket toy from when  he was a baby - he's 24)

I used the 5 inch square top fold template from the Digital Designer software and printed the character and text straight onto 300gsm white card. That's it, job done.  I think it's so cute - I'm still loving this cd. 

Sue.x

Me to You Tatty Teddy

It's been a long time since my last post, I know.  O/H had two weeks off which has kept me away from my crafting whilst we did some DIY jobs around the house and then spent a few days away in the New Forest, which was really lovely.  He's back to work now and I've been able to steal away into my little craft room and have a play with my new Tatty Teddy cd. 

I know a lot of people think that cd crafting isn't proper crafting but I have to disagree.  There's lots of creating still to be done when making your little masterpiece by choosing backgrounds, adding papers, embellishments, sentiments, not to mention the lovely characters and then putting them into a pleasing composition.  I'm certainly finding that there's so much to play with on this cd, the number of cards you can make with it are endless.  I'm loving it.

Here are a few cards I've done so far:

This one was for my daugher.  You may not be able to see in the photo, but I've added lots of glitter to the heart. It looks very pretty.

 This one is my first Christmas card for the year.  Although it looks like lots of matting and layering has been done, it is actually only one piece of card. I used the punch feature on the cd to make it look like layers.  Again, lots of sparkle added to the tree and teddy's hat.

Finally, a quick card for my sister and brother-in-law.  They celebrate their first wedding anniversary this weekend.

I'm really loving playing with this cd and know I will get plenty of use out of it.  Money well spent I think.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a good week.

Sue.x

More Tatty Teddy

I've been umming and ahhing about whether or not to buy the Docrafts Tatty Teddy cd rom recently launched on Create and Craft.  I really do love this little bear, but do I want to spend that much on a cd when I have so many other things on my wish list?  Tough one!

Until I make up my mind, I bought this little stamp to keep me going.  I'm quite surprised at how small some of the stamps in this range are. Anyone else think this?

Anyway, he's very easy to colour.  Ice Cool grey 1 and 2 Promarkers for his fur and Artic blue for his nose. The brolly was coloured with Versacolour Orchid ink pad - the same one I used to create the background.

I've also treated myself to the Waltzingmouse Gingham &Co background stamps - they're fab and I can see them being used alot.

As you probably expected, I used my super, brilliant, fabulous, I'm so in love with it, Silhouette to cut the doily and also to make a mat for the punched out word window label (Stampin Up).  The scalloped edge was also done with a Stampin up punch - Scalloped edge.

Hope you like it and don't get too bored with all the Tatty Teddy cards I'm sure will be appearing very shortly.  I get the feeling the cd was very popular.

Sue.x

Less is more week 25 - Recipe - Button or ribbon

Hi all, hope you're well. 

Sorry I've been MIA recently.  I think it must be something to do with the summer months when my mojo goes on holiday and I lose all interest in crafting and blogging and my garden wins my attention, hands down.  After a lot of grafting this weekend my garden is looking beautiful.  I'll put some piccies on for you to see when I get a minute.

Anyway, I have managed a little card for the  lessismore challenge this week (I've missed a few weeks recently).  The theme is a recipe of button or ribbon to feature on your card.

Here's mine:

I've used my free Tatty Ted stamp from last month's Creativity magazine. Isn't he cute? 

The background paper is Pink Petticoat and my buttons are a Cuttlebug embossing folder and the heart shaped button is a Sizzix Sizzlet die which I covered in Anita's 3-D gloss.

I don't usually make A6 size cards, but the reason behind it was I found an envelope inside the Creativity magazine asking for a donation of a card to the Cancer Research charity,  so this is my donation. I'm a keen supporter of this charity as we lost our beloved dad to cancer 15 years ago at the age of 57.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to be back with Mr Mojo soon.  Take care and have a good week.

Sue.x