Tracey hey - Friendship

Tracey hey - Friendship

 If you look up cute in the dictionary you are likely to find Alpaca pals by Tracey Hey. I absolutely adore her stamps.

This card uses the "be fierce" set and sentiment from "hey cutie" 

I coloured the image with my copics and then took ages deciding on how to put it together but quite pleased with the outcome!

The honey combs were from a competition prize I won ages ago but hadn't used (think I will now!!) Then added the sentiment and some gems. The flowers were from wild orchid crafts

Used:

Stamp and sentiment - alpaca pals

Flowers: wild orchid

Colours: copic

Honey comb: from stash

Papers: from stash

Gems: hobbycraft

To enter in:
Cute card Thursday 

Birthday Card - Circles

Birthday Card - Circles 

I had a card request for a 65th birthday card for someone who loves to see the birds come to his garden. I made one card but my husband said it was quite child like so I had to make another and this was the result:

I used stamps from Simply Cards and paper craft and coloured them with Copics. I used some paper from my stash that i think was Hobby craft. Then I used a circle die (which I sorted out on the weekend yay!) to cute the stamped images out and printed a sentiment through my IPad. I want to do more of this so if anyone knows of any apps I can use on the IPad and be able to print please let me know. 

For entry in: 

Cute Cards Thursday

Summer Challenge part 2

Summer Challenge part 2

I hope you've seen my previous post about my summer challenge to use up some of my stash and use some things I hadn't used before!

Well part two was from Papercraft essentials magazine and was a cut and emboss folder with stamps and papers.

I only managed to make three cards with this but theres loads of paper left for future projects. I'm not the biggest fan of embossing sothats why I didnt do a lot of them.

I made three....two from examples in magazine and one made up as I went along! I never seem to get a nice card when I'm following a magazine example I don't know why!

So these are the final three....wonder what is next! 

Tracey Hey - little more love

Tracey Hey - little more love

I am a massive fan of Tracey Hey - alpaca pals stamps and she recently brought out a new range......I had to phone the bank manager to apologise in advance!!

When I saw this sentiment I knew I had to have it! Luckily my lovely dad said he would buy me some crafty things as a well done for my show entries so I got two sets of stamps which I love!

I also bought this week my first Tim holtz distress ink spray. One little spray is all it took for this background....definitely going on the wish list for more haha!!

I wanted to keep the card simple because of that sentiment! So here is the result:

Items used:

Background: distress ink spray peacock feathers 
Stamp: Tracey Hey - Alpaca Pals - be fierce

Lili of the Valley - Christmas Tree

Lili of the Valley - Christmas Tree

Lili of the Valley has released their first Christmas selection of 2019! So when payday came I treated myself to some! 

This is the first of the Christmas cards I made with one of the images: 

Digi Stamp: Lili of the Valley 

Colours: Copic 

Sentiment and tree: from a magazine
Tartan paper: crafters companion
Other papers: free from magazines 

Lili of the Valley - Under the Weather

Lili of the Valley - Under the Weather 

Yesterday was a complete wash out here so what better to go home and colour in that Lili of the Valley James with his big umbrella!! 

I wanted to make him into a Get Well Card with the sentiment "Under the Weather" so I die cut him out with a nesting die. Found some paper in the stash - the one i chose was a bit dark so I added a light blue cloud paper across the middle to brighten it a bit. Then I added a sun and clouds using Whimsy Stamps die. 

Products used: 

Digi Stamp: Lili Of the Valley - James 

Sun and Clouds Die: Whimsy Stamps

Papers: hobbycraft and Works

Entered in:

Cute Card Thursday 

All Dressed up Birthday Card

All Dressed up Birthday Card 

Now that Royal Welsh Show is over and i'm up to date with orders and personal cards I have some time to make cards just for making cards sake!!! 

So I decided to make a card for the All Dressed up Facebook competition "Pearls/ & Or Gems" and I loved it so I thought i would enter it in the All Dressed up blog challenge too! 

The image was one I saw a few weeks ago and loved so knew I wanted to make a card with it. I coloured it with my copics and then added pearl drops. 

A few weeks ago I met a friend in town and she was heading to the haberdashery to give some of her old jewellery but after a conversation I ended up having it off her. In the box was some pearls and heart earrings so I added a few of these to it using a glue gun - which im not a fan of but it is the strongest glue! 

Image: All dressed up Fairy Swing 

Colours: Copic 

Papers: from stash - most likely the Works 

Pearls: from old jewellery 

I would like to enter this in All dressed up Blog 

Lili of the Valley - New baby

Lili of the Valley - New baby 

What says Cute and baby better than a Lili of the Valley digi stamp?! 

This was for an order for a new baby girl. Isn't it just so cute? 

Digi Stamp: Lili Of Valley 

Paper: The Works 

Stamp: Lidl 

Die: Nesting scallop circle 

Colours: Copic 

My Summer Challenge

My Summer Challenge 

If you follow me on Instagram you will guess that I have been buying quite a lot of craft stuff! I am trying to get better at this and really think if I need something. I also buy a lot of magazines and am trying to look at them and see if I will actually use the free gift - as that's all I really buy them for!

I am lucky at the moment to have space to store it but if i need to downsize im going to struggle. Also, my goal this year is to do a craft fair at the end of the year! So to be able to do this I need to build up a stock of made up cards - even though I do like to make cards to fit the recipient. 

All this has led to me setting myself a summer challenge! My challenge this year is to go through my "stash" and make up cards using what I have got in there. This also ties in with another challenge I set myself to go through my magazines and make cards out of those magazines before putting them into storage in the shed! (I will take over the whole house before long haha!) 

I started the challenge this week starting with a "Luxury Glitter decoupage kit" from Papercraft Inspirations magazine issue 189.

The kit had 4 pre printed cards and then decoupage pieces to go with these cards. If i'm being honest these cards are a bit flimsy but they still look nice.

There was more "toppers" than needed for the decoupage cards so I made a few extra ones with some papers I had in my stash (mainly from the works) and was surprised about how many cards can be made out of one little kit.

Polka Doodles - Drummer

Polka Doodles - Drummer 

My brother-in-law is a drummer in a band and so as I like to try and make my cards personal to that person I wanted a drummer or a drum kit. I did have an image in my head of a festival card but I couldn't quite get it onto paper! Then I came across Polka Doodles drummer in one of the work and play sets - perfect! I also now have more digi stamps to play with! 

Image: Polkadoodles 

Music background paper: Polkadoodles 

Die used: Nesting stitched stars - Creative Dies

Topper: Happy Birthday - Express yourself MIP

Pearl dots: hobby craft 

Punch: star punch - hobby Craft
Coloured: Copics

To enter in following competitions: 

Digi Choosday  (I Only published this today 30/07/19 but its showing date of when I drafted it!)