My Craft Studio samples

I was asked last week to make some samples for the Ideal World Pick of the Day.
This was for Cd's from My Craft Studio. This first card was shown during the show today.

Here are the other cards I made and sent in.

Firstly a shaker card filled with heart shaped sequins.

This image is printed onto pearleacent paper with ribbon and gems.
These images have been cut and layered to give a pyramage effect with added lace and ribbon.

This is a large gatefold card with lace down the opening.This one is far from my usual thing. I've torn both the image and the backer to give a vintage feel to the card which uses several images from the Cd layered onto one another.This again uses several images layered using the graphics programme.

Layering and a touch of lace and gems complete this one. A baby card with patterned card and a button detail added.I changed the colour on this one and made an envelope to match.

The item on tv was for a 2 Cd set, I only received one of them to make my samples with. The other one contained lots of super ideas and images for creating wedding stationery and some really beautiful samples were shown.

Baby Knitting

I've just finished a couple of baby jackets for a friend whose partner had their first baby on Christmas day.
The girls on the Bubbly Funk forum wanted to see them so here they are.

The pink one is my very favourite baby pattern and I must have knit it up in various colours well over a dozen times now, starting with my own babies.

The lilac one is a pattern I have had for many years but only just recently used, this is only the second time i've knit it. I love the picot edging on the bottom, cuffs and neckline but I hate sewing it all in place!

Mick took them to work with him this morning, I hope they fit. It won't be too much of a hardship to knit something bigger if not.

I'm having a go at a pram blanket now, knit in squares and stitched together, for another friend whose partner is expecting their first baby in April. I'm giving myself plenty of time as I want to knit other things for them as well. All white or cream this time as they don't know if it is a boy or girl.

A few florals

I bought a new Forever Friends stamp last week and have been having a play colouring it in with Promarkers.
I really enjoy colouring this little bear as he is so easy to get into some simple shading. I'm still learning with my promarker pens, but have found a combination of colours I like for these images. I've teamed him up with papers from K & Co and some fabric flowers and brads. The flowers in this first one and the papers, I think, were a gift from Lynn. I know she'll correct me if I am wrong.

This last card uses a stamp I bought way back in October but has just had it's first inking. I can't remember the make but she is coloured with Promarkers. Again it is teamed up with paper from the same Sparkly Sweet designer pad by K & Co. The bench from Magnolia I know was from Lynn as I think were the flowers with their shiny beaded centres.

Any of these cards , but particularly the last one I think is suitable for the 'Blooming Gorgeous' theme on the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog this week.

21st Birthday ribbons

For this I used the circles of pearlescent card left over from a couple of Christmas cards. Naughty me hadn't put them away!

The card is a 6 inch square in soft white.

I've put a bodice style peel-off onto cream pearlescent paper and cut it out. Onto the back of this i've stuck lots of short lenghts of organza ribbon in pastel colours and used foam pads to secure it to the pink circle.

The greeting is a peel-off as well.

Pearlescent pink pearly self adhesive dots have been used in 2 corners to take away the bareness.

A Round Tuit!

Can't believe it was early December when I last Blogged so I thought i'd better get around to it again.
I have good excuses really for not blogging.

In mid december I went into Hospital for planned surgery, however when the Consultant did her rounds I discovered i'd had a hysterectomy as well as the planned repairs 'down below'.
I was in Hospital for 5 days but really was not up to crafting or much else before our computer went on the blink.

On 27th December my Dad passed away so that really took any inclination I had for crafting and anything else right out the window as you can imagine.
Since then time has passed in a blur of travelling and arrangements but is slowly beginning to get back to something like normality. I still can't concentrate much on crafting but do have a card to get on here at some time which i've done for my niece's 21st birthday which is tomorrow.
I've made a calendar as well but that's not goint to be shown because I forgot to check the pages were in the right order before I bound it and had to prise the whole thing apart and try again. Consequently the wires are a bit squiffy so i'll keep it to myself.

More shakers

After making the shaker card for the Crafter's Companion challenge last week I decided to make a few more.

This first one is again an 8inch square card. I've used pearlescent pink card for the background and pearlescent blue card for the matting and circle on top of the acetate on the shaker element. The stars backing paper is from the Cute companions Cd.

The Christmas tree stencil, from Dreamweaver, has been embossed and then inked with Brilliance ink. The silver stars inside are from my stash and the snowflakes are from Nesties and have been cut in the same blue and pink card with the addition of a glittered silver snowflake, all held together with a pale pink brad.

The sentiment is from Lakeland.

The stars and sentiment look pink but it must just be the reflection from the pearlescent card.

These next two are A5 in size and use the same stencil embossed and coloured with Brilliance inks in purple and pink. I've used glittered snowflakes from Craftime and peel-off sentiments. On one I have used silver paper and the other pink pearlescent paper for the backer. The circles are pink pearlescent card or purple matt card. Silver trees and stars under the acetate are from my stash.

Dotty organza ribbon from Ribbon Rasis and lace complete the cards.

I bought the stencil with the idea of using it with glitter on double sided sticky sheets but haven't got round to that - maybe next year!

Crafter's Companion #11

As usual this time on the Crafter's Companion blog challenge there is a sketch but also a few requirements.

The card must have the colours blue/silver/white and some ribbon as well as a shaker element.

Now the colours and ribbon were ok but i've never tried a shaker card before. This is my second attempt as the first wasn't quite right somehow.I've used a large 8inch square white card and covered it with matt silver paper. The star panels are from the Cute Companions Cd and have been layered with the same silver paper. Silver ribbon overlaid with white lace with a touch of silver has been placed over these.

The shaker element uses an image from the Popcorn Christmas Cd printed onto card and layered onto the same 2 backing papers. The top of the shaker is acetate held in place with a ring of blue pearlescent card. Inside are holographic silver snowflakes.

A peel-off greeting and snowflake cut with Nesties topped with a white brad complete the card, which is for my Grandson's first Christmas.

I just have to make 2 girly versions now for my Grandaughters!

Secret Advent

Over on the Bubbly Funk forum we are doing a Secret Advent calendar swap thingy again.

This is the lovely pile of goodies delivered to me last week in readiness for 1st December. Each is individually enclosed in a super little pillow envelope wrapped with silver thread and tagged with the date to be opened.

The big one is for Christmas day!

A big 'Thank You' to my secret partner, I won't find out who she is until I open a card with the final gift. That won't stop me from guessing though!

An Award

The lovely and very caring Gez sent me this award. I hope she won't mind me saying this but she has come along way in her crafting and is a very multi-talented person.

I have to share 5 facts about myself and then pass the award to 7 other deserving people so that we can find out a little about them as well.

1. I love chicken.

2. I'm addicted to facebook.

3. I have a phobia about certain reptiles and can't even bring myself to type the word 's***e' Ughh makes me go cold to think about it!

4. I never drink tea while I am out but rarely drink anything else at home.

5. I'm a very messy crafter!

Well a very random few facts about myself, lets see what my awardees come up with. It's so hard not to take hints from the person who sent it on.

Hazel - My Crafty Outlook

Karen - Karen's Carry Ons

Lynn - Craft and Waffle

Net - Caique Momma

Janice - Serial Crafter

Have fun ladies!

Wedding photos

A selection of photos from the wedding of our Son, Lewis to Lisa on 17th November.

Little Faith getting ready with her Mummy.

Faith waiting with her Daddy. Baby Oscar with his Daddy. So cute in his little pink shirt and waistcoat.Lisa with her Dad and the 2 Faiths arriving in the limo.The happy couple with their family.Champagne for the bride and groom in the limo.Goodies for the girls as well. Back home. Baby Oscar is fast asleep.Cutting the cake with both girls looking on and waiting for a piece!

They took this one themselves the next day, I just love it.

Wedding cards

Here are the Wedding cards I made but couldn't show last week.
This first one I made for Faith to give to her Daddy. I used a Popcorn Bear pyramage image from a Crafter's Companion Cd. It's layered up onto a matching backer and silver card. The sentiment is a peel-off on pearlescent paper.

The insert is printed fom the same Popcorn Bear floral cd.
This is the one we sent.
It has layers of silver card, pink pearlescent paper and cream pearlescent paper. The heart stamp is from Elusive Images and has been stamped with pink Brilliance ink and layered onto silver card cut slightly larger than the image. Tiny silver seed beads have been threaded and hung from each heart to give some movement to the card.
The sentiment is from the same stamp sheet and has again been layered onto silver card.
Tiny self adhesive crystals have been put in the corners of the sentiment plate and top cream layer.


The decoration for the envelopes are from Crafter's Cmpanion Cd's. The bottom one obviously matches Faith's card but i'm not sure where the other is from - maybe one of their Cute Companions Cd's

Can you guess the theme of the Wedding was pink and silver?

New Nesties.

I've spent the last couple of days making Wedding cards but can't show them yet as the Wedding isn't until next week and my Blog feed goes straight to facebook where it could be seen by the recipients.



Instead I thought I would show the embellishments I made with my new nesties. I bought the snowflake set of dies and had fun using just 2 colours of paper and a few gold star shaped brads.

I can see i'm going to have fun with colour combinations when I finally get around to using them properly. I'm thinking purple/silver, blue/silver at the moment.

Crafter's Companion #10

This week on Crafter's Companion challenge blog we have another sketch as well as some items to be used.

These are: the colours Red/White/Gold, Ribbon, Gems and Embossing.

I made mine into a square card and used an image of Popcorn Bear along with a paper strip from the Christmas Cd. The main colour of my card is red with mats of red, gold and white. The embossing on the white mat is done with Swiss dots on the Cuttlebug. The ribbon is white spotty organza and the gems are in the corners of the gold mat. A lousy photo i'm afraid but it has been raining most of the day and the light is just awful.

Crafter's Companion #9

Over on the Crafter's Companion challenge blog this week it is Yvonne's turn to set the sketch.
This is what she has come up with, something quite different to the usual I think and a bit more challenging because of the shapes.

My new Cds arrived yesterday, they are the Hobby and Occupations from Crafter's Companion. I found the perfect image on them for my nephew's 9th birthday.
I hope Yvonne doesn't mind but I messed around with her sketch a bit by rotating it and flipping it to fit the decoupage on.I've used the comuter games decoupage from the Hobbies Cd printed onto card and layered up using a mixture of DST, foam pads and silicone glue to give different dimensions to the pieces.
The base card is white size A5 onto which i've put blue holographic card.
The stars have been printed onto a slightly smaller paper and the shape cut out to make a window through which to show the holographic card.
The ribbon has been fastened around the base layer and an oval of blue pearlescent card added. This has a peel-off greeting and message decorated with a pale blue brad.