Great Britain

Loving all things Red, White and Blue I've enjoyed being able to get hold of various stamps and papers with a Great Britain/London/Keep Calm/Union Jack theme that have become very popular in the crafty world this year.  This card was made for a friend of my OH's, and I am sure he will like it when he sees it in a few days time.

Materials Used:
IndigoBlu - Jack A6 stamp, Pomp & Pageantry stamp set (using the smaller Union Jack and the Great Britain logo stamps)
Artistic Outpost - London Underground stamp set (using the Keep Calm and Carry On stamp)
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Claritystamp - white double sided coated paper
Ranger Adirondack due inks - Denim, Cranberry
Gold mirror card from stash

DIY Birthday

Its my OH's Dad's birthday next weekend, and he loves woodwork, so I thought the toolbox stamps from Joanna Sheen would fit the bill, so with some promarkers and a little bit of time last night whilst the football was on I set to work... :-)

Materials used:
Joanna Sheen stamps - Old Tool Box, Elegance Satin card
Promarkers - various colours
Craftwork Cards - A5 white card blank
Spellbinders - Labels 25
Mirri card from stash

Tea and cake anyone?

Cakes not cards today :-)  Strawberry cupcakes with white chocolate frosting, and chocolate paste flowers.

Having been to the Cake Decorating and Baking Show at the Excel Centre last weekend I felt inspired to have a go at making some chocolate paste flowers to decorate cupcakes, which obviously means you need to make cupcakes too! How is that for an excuse!

Recipe Book: Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery - strawberries & cream cupcakes
Magazine: Cupcake Heaven 2 - white chocolate frosting
Tracey's Cakes - white chocolate paste, milk chocolate paste
Blossom SugarArt - petunia cutter and mould, edible dusts and paintbrush
PME - edible red pearlescent spray

Walk Like An Egyptian

Materials Used:
Debbi Moore CD - Egyptian Promise
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Joanna Sheen - Gentle Gloss Photo Gloss paper
Mirror card and gems - from stash

Happy St George's Day!

Its Monday the 23rd April, so Happy St George's Day everyone!

Materials Used:
Serif - Craft Artist Professional (to create the image and text)
Craftwork Cards - A6 white card blank
Joanna Sheen - Gentle Gloss Photo paper
Red mirror card from stash

Going Gothic

Something a little different for me today, and I'm still not sure about it... I really like the look of all the grungy and steampunk cards and altered art, but I always end up making things with "pretty" and "clean" looks, but as I rather like the images on so many of the Debbi Moore CDs I couldn't resist giving this Gothic inspired one a go!

Materials Used:
Debbi Moore CD - Twilight Queen
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Joanna Sheen - gentle gloss photo paper
Adhesive pearls from stash

FORE!!

Over the weekend I had a bit of a move round/tidy up of some of my craft stash and 'found' some papers that are just the thing for cards for men, which was quite handy as I have been trying to make more male themed cards recently.  Its a pad from We R Memory Keepers with some cars and the odd plane, and many others that could be used for all sorts of occassions (as well as on cards for girls!!!) as you can see from the ones I ended up using here.  Anyway, I decided to get some stamps and Promarkers out this evening to have a bit of a play, and this is what I came up with.

And I thought it was fitting for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #181 A Man's Card

Materials used:
We R Memory Keepers - Travel Light paper pad
Sugar Nellie stamp - Home Grown Manga "FORE!"
Spellbinder - Wonky Rectangle
Promarkers (and Flexmarkers) - various colours
Craftwork Cards - white card blank, Birthday message
 

Just Fur You

Materials Used:
Hunkydory Kit - For The Boys
Craftwork Cards - white 8" x 8" card blank
From stash - silver mirror card

Sail Away

Another couple of cards from my recent card making sessions. I had chance to photo them all at the weekend in daylight, so I'm catching up and adding them to the blog! :-)

Materials Used:
Hunkydory Kit - For the Gentlemen (toppers and background card)
Craftwork Cards - white card blanks
From stash - silver mirror card

Racing Green Take Two and Three!

Another couple of cards using the Hunkydory For the Gentlemen kit

Materials Used:

Hunkydory Kit - For the Gentlemen

KraftyHands - Wheelz CD Collection for the chequered background paper

Craftwork Cards - white card blanks, Birthday Wishes Message

From stash - gold mirror card, Happy Birthday peel off

Racing Green

I try not to buy card kits too often these days, but all too often some come along that you just can't resist! LOL! :-)  So, recently I bought a mega Hunkydory kit and have been having  a bit of a play with images for the gents!

I also thought this was a card suitable for the Joanna Sheen It's A Man's World Challenge
Only now I can't make the Mr Linky thing work on the challenge site :-(
Ah well, I'll try again tomorrow... Hooray it works today (Tuesday)

Materials Used:
Hunkydory Card Kit: For The Gentlemen
Craftwork Cards: black card blank and card
Gold mirror card
Cricut: George and Basic Shapes - I cut an oval frame in black, cut it to fit the card and put the 'birthday' part of the bunting along it

It's A Man's World

At last can share with you my samples for the Kraftyhands It's A Man's World CD as it has just been released :-)

It has images for Golfers, Fishermen, Chefs, DIY enthusiasts, Plumbers, Mechanics, Doctors, Business Men, would be BBQ'rs.... and Gardeners

Greenhouse Gardener

Number 1 Gardener

Happy Birthday Plumber

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands CD - It's a Man's World
Craftwork Cards - white card blanks
Silver Mirri card - from stash
Printable card - from stash
Ribbon - from stash
Spellbinders - classic circles
Cricut - Cricut Craft Room, George and Basic Shapes - for the greenhouse
HougieBoard - to make the World's Best Gardener rosette
and a packet of seeds!

I made it onto the Kraftyhands Design Team!

Yay! Along with some other lovely ladies I got a place on the Kraftyhands Design Team! How exciting!

Kraftyhands produce some fab CDs for us to craft with - from girly things, to floral things, images for the younger members of the family, and even CDs to help us create cards for the men in our lives!

Keep a look out for a couple of CDs designed to help us out with those 'man' cards that will be on sale soon, and for some samples that I helped to create :-)

If I Had A Single Flower

My new Spellbinders layered flowers dies arrived :-) so I decided to have a play!  I have to admit they are a bit tricky to get the card out of the dies and there are lots of fiddly bits to poke out to clean them up, but they are pretty - I think next time I will try Sue Wilson's tip for the more intricate dies and use some baking parchment between the die and and card to help release all the bits.

I thought these die cuts went well with a lovely stamped quote from Claritystamps and I wanted to create something quite simple, so here is my card which I think works well for the The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #176 No Image, Just Words

Materials Used:

Spellbinders - Layered Flowers, Labels 18

Claritystamps - If I had a Flower

Crafters Companion - pastel collection ribbon

Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank and card

Pink card - from stash

Happy Mother's Day

I know its not quite Mother's Day, but I know that Mum won't be looking so its quite safe to share!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Quixotic Paperie Sketch Challenge #4 Feb/March
Oldie But a Goodie Challenge - Mums The Word
   - old stuff from stash used for this challenge - Happy Mother's Day stamp is at least 3
     years old, and the K&Co paper is even older!

Materials Used:
Joanna Sheen stamps - Haberdashery/Sewing Machine stamp set
Happy Mother's Day stamp - unknown (though I think it may be MSE)
K & Co - patterned paper from stash
Promarkers
Spellbinders - Labels One
Gold mirror card
Craftwork cards - 8" x 8" white card blank

Good Luck!

Here is my card for the The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #175 - Green for Go

Materials used:
Core'dinations cards - green, brown
Cricut - Gypsy Font, Gypsy Wanderings
DCWV - green and brown stripey paper
Green gems - from stash

Peaches n Cream Wedding Day

Here is my card for the Lili's Little Fairies Peaches n Cream Challenge

Materials used:
Lili of The Valley stamps - Wedding Couple, sentiment from For You Circular Sentiments
Promarkers
Crafters Companion - snow white centura pearl printable card and paper
Pink Petticoat - printable designer papers
Spellbinders - Foliage, Fleur de Lis Squares, Circles
Marianne Design Die - Chinese Rose

The Paper Shelter - Challenge #53 Fancy Folds

Here is my card for The Paper Shelter Challenge #53 Fancy Folds

Materials Used:

Paper Shelter printed image and paper - Retro Space Girl

Lili of The Valley - sentiment stamp

Crafters Companion - pale blue ribbon

Blue mirror card and blue square gems - from stash

Hunkydory white card

Spellbinders - Circles

Shades of Grey

Something simple in shades of grey promarkers

Materials used:
Kanban stamp - mannequin from the Jasper set
Promarkers - Ice Grey 1-5, Crimson
Craftwork Cards - white card blank
Sentiment - printed, Chocolate Box font

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Nature, Bugs & Bees

Here is my card for the Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Nature, Bugs & Bees

Materials used:
Butterfly sentiment stamp - Graphicus oriental set
Butterfly stamp - Sheena Douglass Paint Fusion Butterfly set
Ladybird stamp - unknown
WOW embossing powder - gold rich super fine
Spellbinders - Lattice Motifs and Accents
Promarkers - Salmon Pink, Carmine
Paper and card - from stash
Craftwork Cards - white card blank