At Last ………………

Hi everyone. At Last a post.

I have been busy drawing out the designs for my Digi images which will be available soon through Scrapbook Sisters ( I will have to get Julie to show me again how to do a link!).  I have thoroughly enjoyed doing them and once I got started I couldn't  stop! Anyway I have been making a start on the cards I need to get done for various birthdays coming up in September – so here is the first one.

This is for my sons Girlfriend Rachael's  Birthday. I decided on a very feminine pretty card.

Sorry about the shadow and the pictures have come out a little dark. The fairy stamp is from Lili of the Valley stamped onto white card and coloured with Copics. The background paper is ordinary copy paper coloured with Spun Sugar Distress Ink pad using Cut & Dry pad and over stamped with French Script stamp from B Line Designs.

The flowers were made from torn strips of the same paper. I used little white pearls for the centres and edged the flowers with Glamour Dust. The leaves are petals  from white flowers and coloured with Copics.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Sorry ……….

Hi everyone

Sorry for the lack of posts lately but have been busy at work and busy drawing out my Christmas designs for my Digi stamps to be launched at my next class at Scrapbook sisters in September. I must admit I am having fun doing these as Christmas is my most favourite time of the year.

Julie did show me how to do a link but I’ve forgotten what she did. What am I like!! Absolutely hopeless when it comes to computers.

I have a lot of cards to do for September Birthdays – it seems to be a popular month in my circle – mine being one of them.

I shall be at the Scrapbook Sisters September crop which I am really looking forward to as I haven’t been able to get to the last two due to work.

Anyway I am sharing with you a couple of cards I made for Scrapbook sisters shop using the Nitwits die cuts sheets Julie gave me to “see what you can do with these” as she often does. I am not normally a lover of die cut sheets but I must admit I did fall in love with the images on these. The quality of die cuts and the backing sheets is beautiful. The images are so cute and the colours are beautiful.

This first one was an acetate card and I used glossy accents to give the effect of water droplets sprinkled with a little Glamour dust.

Card no.2 I made the main card from one of the Nestabilities Labels and I decoupaged the bunny. His head was then attached to the main card with a fine wire coil so his head bounces.

Card no.3 was again decoupage and the corner of the card cut away.

Card no.4 I suspended the butterfly on a strip of acetate to create some movement.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x

Favourite stamp

Apologies for the lack of posts lately but I had been preparing for my class at Scrapbook sisters. I will share these with you at a later date. So in the meantime I will share a couple more cards featuring my favourite stamp with you ‘Paris’ by Stamps Happen.

I stamped them on to watercolour paper and water coloured them using the Adirondak and Distress Ink pads. The brooch was centred with tiny beads and I cut out some strands of a pink feather and added them with Glossy Accents. Now I have my Copics I will have a go this week and colour the same image and see what I end up with. I will also hopefully do the same with a couple of my Fashion Stamps I designed.

Hope everyone has a good week. Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Don’t put off until tomorrow……….

This is a card I made for my neighbours Granddaughter who was 4. I had to make it in a bit of a rush as I thought I had more time than I actually did. Set the scene – just got in from work and a knock on the door- there stands my neighbour “ I’ve come to collect the card” It was a work in progress but no where finished. When do you actually need it I asked “ By tomorrow morning first thing” was the reply. Horror as I realized that I had tea to get and then ferry my son around. Anyway managed to get it done but I would have done it differently if I had more time. You know what the saying is ‘Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today’!

Apologies for the photos, but it was late and the lighting in my kitchen is not too good.

The Cinderella Coach and Castle stamps are tiny clear stamps I purchased from Scrapbook Sisters. Sorry can’t remember what make they are. Coloured with Copics and glittered with Glamour dust. The flowers are from the Nit wits decoupage sheets also available from Scrapbook Sisters.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x

30th Birthday

This is a card I have just finished for my sister to give her partners daughter. She is 30 in a couple of weeks. We are all off to her Birthday Bash on the 24th where I am told  the order of the evening will also include old fashioned ‘Party Games’ – sounds like it could be fun! It has been shall I say a number of years since I played ‘Pass the Parcel’ and ‘Musical Chairs’ and so on. I will report back after the event.

Anyway getting back to the card. I made it in the form of an Easel Card but using circles as the base.

The papers are from Tim Holtz ‘Vintage Shabby’ paper stack. This pad is absolutely scrummy. I have kept all of the papers ( which are more like a light weight card really) in the grey tones and just added the colour with the butterfly. Of course there had to be a butterfly somewhere!

    

The centre of the flower was made with folded scalloped edge circles. MMMM might have to include this in one of my classes.  The outside petals where cut from a template I made and layered with the ends of the petals curled in towards the centre of the flower and the whole thing secured with a clear diamante brad through a silver tone flower embellishment.

The butterfly was stamped twice on to acetate using Stazon and coloured with Cranberry alcohol ink on the reverse side.

Finished of with layered semi circles. The ‘30’was cut using Tim Holtz Vintage Market Alphabet  die. Now I’ve got to make a card from me. I’ll have to get my thinking cap on.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Birthday Boy

I have been very busy but I have a card to share with you… This was for my friends husband who is shall we say 30 ++++etc . I didn’t want to do a usual card so I chose this stamp by Penny Black.  It was of course coloured with Copics. I drew the check on the background card and coloured to match his trousers. The toy plane was covered with Glossy Accents and added the wording to finish. Hopefully it brought back memories for him!

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Naughty

I've been very naughty and have not done any crafting for a week! Have been clearing out the last of my parents house as the sale was completed on Monday and looking to exchange this coming Monday. It felt really strange standing in the empty house for the last time today before I took the keys down to the estate agent. A lot of memories came flooding back of the happy times we all had there. The end of a chapter and hopefully the beginnings of a new happier one for my son and I. Talking of my son, he’s off to his girlfriends Prom on Tuesday so off we set off to get him a suit after I had to pay a visit to the dentist as I have a gum infection and look very much like Miss Piggy at the moment. Armed with antibiotics and pain killers we set off for the shops. He ended up with a suit, shirt, tie, shoes and he wanted a waistcoat. With purse a lot lighter I marched him up to the hair dressers to see if they could sort out his mop. When he got home he was itching to try it all on, and he looked so smart. I thought this is my little boy all grown up !

Hopefully next week I will get cracking again with some crafty posts.

Gayle x