Hello ...Me again

Thought I'd show the cards I made for my wonderful Mum and Mum in law for Mothers Day. Both are easel cards, the decoupage images I used were from Joanna Sheen Nostalgia by Fay Whittaker.
I really love these, they are so easy to cut out and look far better in real life. 
The little girls were for Mum as she has 3 girls, and the boys for MIL as she has 2 boys, quite apt I thought.

A touch of crystal glitter on the dresses, red glitter on the bows, and red ultra fine flowersoft mixed with glitter around their hats. On the base I used some prima flowers distressed with Tim Holts ink. I know it looks cockeyed but it was just a very odd angle I took the photo, lol..


The base image is an insert from a disk by Donna at Bearly Mine designs, printed and decoupage, there are some lovely inserts on the cd, and wonderful service from Donna. By the way check out Donna's candy on her blog.


The story goes,I ordered the disk, about week later I still hadn't received it, so I got in touch with Donna who told me she'd posted it the day I ordered it, so it must have got lost in the post, without question she said she would send out another one to me..which I received within 2 days, guess what a few days later the original one she sent arrived,(it took almost 2 weeks to get here) I emailed her to let her know I'd received it, when I got home that night I had an email from her saying not to send it back and to keep it..but I'd already sent it back to her. I think I'll be buying more of her papers and inserts soon. Check them out here. As far as the post office is concerned well........... your guess is as good as mine as to where it was for 2 weeks..wasn't at the local sorting office as I phoned them to check.

 Again on this one I used one of Donna's inserts, decoupaged it and used some small roses. The smaller image is the whole of the insert used on the card.


Oh guess what.... Whoopee.. I won the Ribbon Girls Candy,
thank you, gorgeous pink ribbons, some button & stamps all lovely, lucky me..   



Would love to know what you think...

A Card for Tony

Hi there, me again...last year we celebrated our Ruby Wedding, this is the card I made for Tony.
Got the shape from watching Nancy Watt on C&C. It ended up quite large and heavy good job I could hand it to him. I used the silver foiled hunkydory card mated onto silver mirri board, then on black pearlised card. Made the clasp from the circle nesties, added some ribbon & pearls and punched the edge. 

This is it closed.



On the inside I decoupaged the lady and glittered her up a bit, matted it onto silver mirri then on black pearl card, then onto more mirri, then some white pearl card finally onto black pearl card again....phew..see what I mean about heavy..lol..






On the base I printed the sentiment and cut using nesties, and more of the silver foiled card.


Apologises for the photo's seems like I can never get them right...


Tony liked it, hope you do too..

Hi everyone, a card and a few thank you's..

Well, I've just about finished catching up with all the blogs I follow... I hope....I am amazed at all the beautiful cards you make, it takes me forever to get to see them all and leave comments, so if I've missed anyone out, sorry. I haven't had much time to keep up with my commenting recently, so I have to read through all the posts comments just to see if I've already left one, and when some have hundreds of comments ...it takes me forever,.... if anyone know a quicker way of checking it out, please let me know I would be so grateful. The garden has taken over recently, I've nearly finished all the planting, digging, and cutting back, I've only got a bit more jet washing of the paving, then I can start enjoying it, that's if the weather gets better. Have been so lazy, instead of making cards in the evenings, I've just sat a watched TV, just not used to all that gardening, I've also got a pain in the neck (no not my hubby) so I can't sit at the PC or my laptop very long either, don't like this getting old....

A couple of Lovely Awards.... it's taken me a while to post about these.....

Nicola kindly gave me the Blog support award and Sassy the lemonade stand award, thank you ladies I appreciated them so very much. Most of you will already be followers of these two very talented ladies, but if you haven't visited their blogs recently please go and check them out, you won't be sorry, they are both amazing.

As I've already passed on the lemonade stand award and as I truly appreciate everyone who visits and leaves me such lovely comments I'm passing these onto all my blogging friends, so if any of you would like to accept theses awards with appreciation and love from me, please take them for your blog.

Here's a card I made very quickly a couple of months ago, I got a phone call from my nephew Joe to say he'd passed his driving test, he never told anyone he was taking it and passed first time. I was seeing him the next day so had to make a quicky card. I printed the words directly to the card using GCF, decoupage the car which was a La Pashe sheet, also decoupaged the torn L plate. And if you're wondering what the next big challenge is....inside it said .....paying for the insurance....

Would love to know what you think....

Joe's 21st

I find cards for men difficult at the best of times, and this one was for one of my very special nephews, Joe was 21 back in April, and I wanted something different for him, this is what I came up with, finished it at the last minute, and had to give it to him that evening, I've only just managed to borrow it back to get a photo of it.

The front.....
As a youngster Joe loved the Star Wars Movies, Tony & I used to take him to the West End to see the films when they were released, so I put a photo of him as a child into the banner as a character from Starwars. He's just bought himself a new Mini, so I used an online graphics program and put his photo on one, printed it off a few times then decoupaged it, with quite a lot of layers. All I needed was a background so put another photo of him on a graffiti wall. Mated and layered it all onto silver and black miri card.

At the moment Joe works in a pub and I need something for the inside of the card, I had two images in mind, but I couldn't decide which one to use, so I used both of them.

I decoupaged a barmaid from a sheet I had and on the other side I used one of the Flippin Men sitting on a beer barrel, which you could spin around to see his back.

I didn't like the checked cap on the man so coloured it using a felt tip. This was a big card, A3 folded, just trimmed down on the length a bit. Weighed a ton, good job I didn't have to post it.

Would love to know what you think...

For My Mum

First of all I'd love to thanks everyone for leaving me such lovely comments, they are all really appreciated.

I know it's ages since I put a card on here but the weather has been so good lately, on my days off work I've been trying to sort out our garden... I've been slow in trying to catch up on all the blogs I follow, almost managed it last week but some of you are so quick, I never seem to have the time to catch up.... and I haven't had much time to go on the forum, but I have managed to make a couple of cards recently, I just haven't got round to posting them, still trying to grab one back to take a photo of it as I didn't finish it until the last minute.

I had a great day Saturday at a play day organised by a forum friend, we made a lovely stationery box and a beaded flower, will definitely make some more of them, I'll post some pics another time. She provided everything we needed for the makes, we had a lovely lunch and great company, it must have taken ages to prepare everything so well and taken a lot of effort. So I would just like to say to her, thanks a million for a fantastic day.
But for now here's a card I made for My Mum.......


This was for Mums 82nd Birthday....before I started making cards I was never really bothered about the picture on the front of the card, I always concentrated on the verse inside, I still spend ages looking for a verse that will tell her how much I love and appreciate her...but don't think I can show it here..

Anyway..I've had this decoupage sheet for ages, I added some flowersoft to their flowers and hats, and printed the sentiment, the little angel pin on the sentiment was Mums, she was having a clear out, and asked me if I wanted it to use on a card.... now she's got it back... I wasn't going to add the little flower gems, but the border punch got stuck and I tore the corner of the punching so I put a little flower gem on it to cover it up, then I as I was sticking down the flowers I managed to mark the ribbon with the pinflair glue, I tried to remove it but it left a mark , so I had to add some more gems to hide the mark.... sometime things never go according to plan,



Would love to know what you think...

Art Nouveau Lady

Made this for a forum friend, who had to have some hospital treatment recently, also to thank her for a lovely craft day she held a couple of weeks ago, where she not only supplied us with all the goodies to make a lovely card and a box, she laid on a lovely buffet, and was a wonderful tutor. I must get the photo's from my sister who came with me and show you what we made there. I can post the card now as I know she has received it.





I was having a play with backing papers again, matted them onto brown pearlised card, then onto gold miri card. The image was from a sheet of wrapping paper I bought ages ago, which I cut up and decoupaged. Printed the sentiment in gcf, added some bits and pieces, oh and used my nesties.



Hope you like it.

Grown up fairy..

I love fairies and thought this one was an adult one, so I decided I'd use it for my niece Rachel.

I've had this image for a while, it was a sheet by Audrey from The Lilac Garden. I increased the resolution and made the image larger, and added a few more layers to the decoupage, then gave her a touch of glitter.

Now I don't normally use backing papers, but thought I'd give it a go on this 8 inch square card. So from my stash of hardly used backing paper pads, I used a purple script paper and a blue floral paper which I inked a bit with a purple ink pad. Made the tag, printed the greeting on it, then coloured it using the same the purple ink pad. Added a few pearls, brads, ribbons and some flowers.

Hope you like it..

For the No. 1 Arsenal Fan

My nephew is Arsenal Crazy, always has been, he's been working for them part time since he was 17, he coaches kids at the Arsenal on Saturdays, and at the Arsenal Soccer Schools during the school holidays and after school, so what do you do for his Birthday well it has to be an Arsenal Card.

I couldn't decide which image to use, so thought I'd make an A4 card and use both of them, did quite a few layers of decoupage & mounted them onto miri board. The verse I used on the inside was one Louise Emma posted on the imag-e-nation forum ages ago, I adapted it a bit for The Arsenal. Thanks for that Lou, I knew it would come in handy.

Oh and when it open it played Match of the Day, lol

He liked it, hope you do too.

Cartoon Time and a bit of a waffle

Wasn't going to put this on here as the photo's are terrible, then thought what the heck.. Made this for Mason, my great nephew back in January. I'd got the flu and felt awful, got home from work about 4 and had to be at his party by 6. I'd finished the card, only had to print the insert.

1st attempt.... The paper slipped and I had to do it again
2nd attempt... It printed OK, then I realise I'd made it in portrait and it should be landscape.
3rd attempt... Re sized it, moved everything around, re did the border it looked fine...I printed the top half, looked good, folded it the other way printed it, went to stick it in the card then realised that I'd put the fold to the wrong side.... so the top of the insert was upside down.
Now your probably thinking why did she fold the insert in half to print...well I was using an A3 sheet folded in half as I've only got an A4 printer, and why did I do an insert, with so much on it, well....I'd got all these other images that I wanted to use..my brain was just not functioning, I got it right in the end though.

Now for the photo's, It was dark, I was already late for his party...I snapped away, with a light shinning on it, didn't have time to look at them on the PC, so it ended up with me not getting even one that was halfway decent, shadows everywhere or too light. I really shouldn't have got up that day. I'll have to ask if I can have the card back and try and get a better photo. Anyway I've put 2 pics on here one very light and grainy the other full of shadows and grainy, can't make up my mind which is the better of the two, it's a shame I never got a better picture.

Now Mason just loves Tom & Jerry and 101 Dalmatian's, so I thought I make a card with them on it. Found the images on google, decoupaged them, then I searched for a background I could use as I didn't want them to be floating around in the air.

I had a photo of Mason and he was laying in almost the same position as Jerry, so I tried to cartoonize (think that's a word) the photo, decoupaged it and put him next to Jerry on the card.

As it was an A4 card I had a bit of space left so I added a few more decoupage Disney characters. Designed the greeting with design Master and cut them with Robo from sparkly silver paper with a blue miri card mat.

He was well chuffed.. Look Mummy that's me with Tom... he love the inside too, so it was worth all the faffing about, and he's still got it on a shelf in his bedroom.

Here is the original photo of Mason,which I used to make the cartoon image with

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Bookatrix Fairy

My niece asked me to make a card for her friends little girl, as I hadn't made a bookatrix card for a while I thought I'd do one for Leila and it gave me the opportunity to use this lovely fairy, been dying to use the image but never had the right person to send it to.




This is the first time that I've used my nesties, I've had them for ages but never got round to using them, now I think I've figured out what sandwich to use in my big kick I think I'll use them more.


I can't wait to get my new camera then maybe my colours will come out right, it really was a pretty pink...I know.. a bad workman always blames his tools...
& I just can't decide what camera to get.

Hope you like it,
Your comments are always appreciated,

A couple for the men

Well what can I say about cards for men....not a lot...here are a few from La Pashe sheets.

This was for a friend who lovingly restored a 1930's AC car, his was white though with red leather interior.

For my brother in law,

who whenever you phone, is always in the bath!! he doesn't drink though.

Comments always appreciated...

For Louise Emma

Made this for a lovely lady who used to be a member of a forum I belong to. Hope you had a great birthday Louise. Check out Louise's blog here, lots of lovely cards to see. Didn't want to post it here until I knew she had received it,

The sheet came from Nikky, have a look at her site here. I was a member of her group, but unfortunately I couldn't commit to sending her a card a month made from her sheets due to other commitments I had, which is a shame as she makes some lovely sheets. Anyway I checked with her and she said it was OK for me to still use her sheet, so thank you Nikki for the sheet, it made up lovely.

I wanted the dress to have more layers than the original sheet had, so I cut out a few more layers and added a bit of sparkle.

Hope you like it.

Been AWOL, but here are 2 the same but different

Been neglecting everything lately, my blog, blogging and the forum, but have made a few cards, just need to put them on here. I've managed to flick through the blogs I visit, leave a couple of comments (I've slapped my own hands) have had a quick look at the forum and now have sorted a couple of cards for here.


Had to make a card for Dawns Birthday and one for a friend, I made the one with the blue mirri card first and liked it so I decided to make another card using the same image but with a purpley-pink miri card and glitter. Boy was the balcony fiddly to cut out, as was glittering all the feathers, fringing etc.


Cutting out the flowers was fiddly too, and unfortunately I chopped off a bloom on the pink one,I was going to stick it on but I lost it, hope they didn't notice.



Both were 8" square cards, with quite a few layers. Didn't put a greeting on the front as I thought it would spoil it, so did it on the insert instead. Shame about my photography though.





I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

A few more Christmas cards

La Pashe again,

The same but different

DON'T LOOK AT THE NEXT CARD IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY SWEAR WORDS...

Found the image on the web,

but I knew my nephew would like it....

Comments always appreciated.....

Cool Santa

What do you do for a 21 year old nephew, traditional, robins, holly, religious, cute, no, no, noo....me I had no idea, went through all my sheets, Cd's etc. zilch...so I googled everything I could think of, sexy Santa girls, well I did that last year, Santa playing football, nothing..Arsenal Santa's nope.., cars.. now that might work, I finally found this little image, a bit 60's well yeah, A hippie sort of Santa and a cool Rudolf....plus a car..

I roughly cut up the image in my graphics program, and decoupaged it into a few layers, those antlers were fiddly, especially as I had decided to change the blade in my craft knife, silly me....grabbed hold of the blade and snapped it in two, the top part stuck right into my finger, ouch *###* so I had a plaster and sellotape wound around the top half of my finger to stop the blood going all over the card, every time I pressed down on the knife, it bl**dy hurt like crazy, but I persevered and this is what I managed to do.

After I decoupaged the image I glittered it up a bit. Then took an A5 topper from the Artylicious Seasons Greetings cd into my graphics programs and changed the colours a bit. Copied that into Greetings Card Factory and did the greetings and name. Once printed, I glittered the tree with black stickles then glittered the greeting, name and snowflakes with a glue pen and glamour dust. Added the image to the backing sheet and mounted it onto silver miri card. As it was larger than a folded A4 card, I cut down to size an A3 white perilised card, (Yes it's white) ...And managed to get no blood on it..

Hope you like it...

Comments always appreciated

Rembember When...Mum

I first saw these Remember When Christmas sheets at Ally Pally and thought wow..so I bought a set of each, then I saw them on C&C, they were much cheaper on there so I got another set. I like to make my close family special cards so decided to use these sheets for them. I liked the tree sheets, made them up and showed Tony, he thought the tree was great but said he didn't like the background he suggested I cut the tree out and use it in front of the curtains from another sheet, so that's what I did.

Problem was I only had 2 sets of each and I wanted to make 3 cards similar, as I wanted to use the images for my sisters cards. Well Dawn came to my rescue, I swapped some of my sheets with her so I got another 2 pairs of curtains and another tree, she got a snowman, a fireplace and a shop, we shared out the kids, fair deal I thought.. as one of the cards was going to be for her anyway.

So here is the card I made for my Mum, the decoupage is A5 size but as I used 2 sheets it was longer and wouldn't fit onto a folded A4 card....I had to make a larger card.

I mounted the decoupage onto some red miri paper, then onto some silver holographic card, this was then mounted onto a holly embossed red card. I went down to craft creations and bought some A3 stardream opal (whitish)card and cut it to size. I used stardust stickles on the snow, the snowman and the tree, red and silver stickles on the tree decorations. I cut the Merry Christmas on Robo, using a silver sparkly wrapping paper and mounted it on to a mat cut from red miri paper, then added a couple of peel offs along the sides.

Once again the colours in my photo aren't quite right white is not white, red too red, I think I need a new camera, Santa???

Mum loves it, she even took a plate off a stand and put the card on it.

What do you think?

On the Loo..Flippin Men

Well I've nearly finished the Christmas cards, thank goodness for that. So now, I should be able to post some cards on here. Mind you I was in so much of a rush to send them out that I forgot to take photo's of some of them, and I think I forgot to put names on some too, Doh...

But for now here's a man card...made for my sisters partner.






I love the image on this one, so easy to cut out. My great nephew who is 3 wanted to keep it, it kept him in fits of laughter for ages, he kept opening the card and cracked up as he could see a bum, he cried when he couldn't take it home, he wanted to keep it....


The sheet was from the La Pashe Flippin Men range, I bought the large white aperture card and the flippin men sheets from the Imag-e-nation shop.

When made up the decoupage is huge, A5 size. I used the big kick to embossed some brown card, to make it look a bit likes tiles. Made the greetings with my Robo, didn't add too much to the card as I didn't want it too fussy.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...