I'm forever blowing bubbles

I love this stamp, & decided to use a simple approach for this card.

Papers are from stash (sure they're called Sienna Collection,

but I'm too cold to move from here atm to find out)

Bubbles extended beyond main image using dots of Anita's 3D gloss,

with glamour dust sprinkled over ( it made the ink bleed though)

Detail of lower part of the card

Tfl, & for any comments you may care to leave

Teenage rocker

Not my best piece,  as this is one of the cards I made with my arm in the splint when my wrist was broken &

some of the distress ink is in the white area as I wasn't able to hold the mask still enough while I was dusting the distress ink onto the card.

Swirls around edge are made using a HOTP stamp

Boy stamp is by Inkadinkado

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Prickles in the rain

Isn't this Tina Wenke stamp cute.

I have no idea why, but when I was looking through my stamps recently, I noticed how many stamps had umbrellas featured on them - & I hate the rain!

Backgound papers are: purple - Kate Knight, pink - freebie from mag

Cardstock from stash

Image coloured with Promarkers

Raindrops - Anita's 3D gloss & Glamour Dust 

Close up of image

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Skateboard Dude

Quick card, made for a 7 yr old

Image coloured with Promarkers, white gel pen for highlights

Mats cut with nesties

Papermania papers

Sentiment ticket from Caz, coloured with distress inks

Closer view of skateboarder

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Numerical Tilda

Made for a friend's birthday.

I've had this black & white DCWV paper for a while now, but struggled with ideas for how to use this sheet.

This Tilda in the bright colours seemed to work quite well with it.

The other papers are a mix of DCWV & Papermania

Coloured with Promarkers

HOTP Sentiment

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Oriental lady

I made this for a lady we've known for many years whose family live in Japan.

I racked my brain for ideas for her birthday card & came up with this.

I masked the image & sponged the sun (2 colours), then masked the sun &

sponged the background & the backing card with 2 shades of ink. Edges inked.

Dovecraft papers (oriental)

A very simple idea really - hope she likes her card

tfl, & for any comments you may care to leave

A mouseful of cake

Well, it's not often I can think of a catchy title, but today this one just popped into my head!

Made for a 2 yr old's birthday

The striped paper is a scrap of paper & I can't bear to waste scraps, so I was quite pleased to be able to use one of my scraps - as for the rest ............... lol

House Mouse image coloured with Promarkers,

Shape cut with nesties

Papermania papers

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Rabbit love

A very late night waiting for my daughter to return from babysitting last night meant I was crafting at silly o'clock -with matchsticks lol  & I came up with this (just as well - it has to go in the post today!)

Messy Rabbit image coloured with Promarkers

DCWV papers - Garden Party

Flower stamp from Craft Stamper mag (gift) 

Ticket sentiment from Caz

Edges of image & ticket inkied with distress inks

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Ink pad storage using washing tablet boxes

I had a fab day crafting with friends in Bristol on Sunday.

Sue had this fab idea & if you'd like to see what she made, you can find it on her blog here

We made some fab storage for some of our craft stash - from washing tablet boxes!

Fab storage for my ink pads, I'm really pleased with this one

(can you tell this is my second attempt?)

Sideways view

And from the other side

This is the box I made on Sunday - my first attempt

And one from the side again (not it's best side lol)

Huge thanks to Sueplayingwith paper for the inspiration & for working out the necessary measurements

Papers used are Kate Knight by Dovecraft

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variations on a theme

I have two variations of a card for you today.

The technique for both was the same, I just varied the colours & the stamped image

This card is fo my 19 year old nephew

I used the same colours for each of the pieces of card, but there is more red on the main image

Clear Inkadinkado stamps used

Distress inks in: Barn Door, Mustard Seed & Tumbled Glass

Embossing folders: Diamonds in the rough & Script texture 

Close up of the main part of card

Close up of the ticket sentiment, from here, thanks Caz, these are great

This is the second card, made at my daughter's request for her colleague

Distress inks used are: Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, Barn Door

Embossing folders are Script texture, & Papermania's Victorian Fleur .

Ticket sentiment from Caz, as above.

Close up of the main image

tfl, & for any comments you may care to leave