July Kit - Summer house.

I have been a tiny bit busy today making my first ever altered chipboard house. I bought a lovely little house a few months ago from Angela at Angelcrafts.biz, and up until this afternoon I had no idea what to do with it.

I had been sitting playing with the new kit and thought.... OMG why didnt I use this before now!!! I used the buttons on the roof, and the two pretty pins as the chimney.... isnt it soooooooooooooo pink looking!!! Emily said that the May Arts ribbon reminded her of grass and this was stuck in my head... so now my house has a pretty hedge edging to it :D Oh to grow flowers that MASSIVE!!!

I have a bird house chipboard kit to use as well, and already have plans to use the kit for 2 months time for this !! 

Some gorgeous Kit cards from subbers.....

Aren't these cards theeeeeeeee most adorable, and there will be more to follow!! I am blogging some of the cards made by kit subscribers, and boy am I impressed by the makes so far!!!

Monthly subscription card makers kits

The first kit YAYYYYYY!!!

Our first kit is Crate Paper - Bliss. oooooo I love the feels of the paper and the bazzil, the reverse side of the papers has co-ordinating colours. The bazzil is textured and ooo so nice to touch.

With the kit is a pot of black glitter, who needs dull colours when you can have gorgeous sparkly elegant black. There are 9 card blanks with envalopes and 4 card bags.

3 x 12" ribbons , May Arts ribbon fresh in from the states, black and a gorgeous sparkly pink ribbon with silver, they just tie in so nicely. co-ordinating buttons, gems, pins and dew drops. and a beautiful Prima Pearls part pack.

Wedding Invitations and stationery

I have been busy making sample wedding invites and menus. Having a play with cards that are not Tildas was a huge challenge for me lol, I have got into a Tilda rut and this was just soooooooooooo much fun. I am taking the samples to a shop on Thursday, so tomorrow after I have been out to lunch with a friend, I will make the favour boxes. Ooooo happy dayssssss, I really am enjoying working for myself.... although I reallllllllly must be more disciplined.

Card Makers Subscription Monthly Kit

I have been rather busy behind the scenes at home, and have recently gone self employed. I am taking samples of my wedding stationery to a local shop for it to be sold, how exciting!!

I am also now offering monthly subscription card makers kits, every month on the 15th of the month a gorgeous box will be posted. The box will contain lots of bazzill, patterned paper, card blanks, envelopes and card bags for you to to sell your cards on once made.

Included with this kit will also be buttons, brads, flowers, ribbons, layering mats and a variety of other things. Some months the kits will be 6x12 and other months A4 or 8x8, kits will be delivered in a box so that papers are uncreased.

The kits will be available for £12, this includes free postage within the UK.

I am a scrap booker at heart and understand that value for money and strokability is a huge factor.

Thoughts and requests will be listened to and I have set up a facebook fan page so that ideas can be jotted down. Here is the facebook link :)

Oooooo I am rather excited!

Another wedding card, well they do say June is the wedding month. I used papers from my old stash pile, wild roses, woile ribbon and die cut paper.

Tilda and Bride is coloured with promarkers, Antique pink, ivory, and sandstone/tan for the hair. flowers highlighted with Stickles.


Thanks for looking xx

Beautiful Ballerina

I just love the new range of Tildas that are available, this one is ballerina Tilda and she looks soooooo light on her feet.

I have coloured her using Promarkers, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, charms and ribbons from Craftyfeeling.co.uk and paper and bling from my own stash.

Hippo Birthday

Here is my Gloria the Hippo card. isnt she soooooooo sweet in her swimming costume.... No Gloria, your bum doesnt look big in that!

Make a wish card

Ok Ok Ok So i appear to be in love with Side step cards just now, they are just sooooo pretty and quick to make, easy to decorate and look yummy.

I have coloured Tilda with wand with promarkers and covered the card in little tiny flowers from Craftyfeeling.co.uk. I have since added stickles to the insides of each flower, and wanted to take a photo of it but it was grabbed by a friend. Sorry :( would you mind using your imagination with this one please :)

Promarkers used

Tildas dress - Tea Green

Skin - Soft peach for cheeks, blush for highlights and Satin for skin.

Hair - Tan with sandstone highlights

Wand - Tulip Yellow

Stickles for added bling

Tilda wedding card

My new Tilda stamps arrived last week, and in amongst the chaos that is my life, i managed to get a small amount of simple quiet time to make a card.

Here is my side step card with wedding couple, and roses from Craftyfeeling.co.uk When my blooms kit arrived and I opened the box to find the roses I just KNEW what needed to be done with them.

Image is coloured with promarkers

Skin - Oatmeal (slightly darker than I usually use) and soft peach for the cheeks

Tildas dress - Apricot

Edwins shirt and trousers - Ivory

Hair - Sandstone with Tan highlights

Flowers - Antique Rose with crystal stickles highlights.

New crafting space

What a busy month I have been having, things have been toooooo hectic here and I am so sorry for not updating sooner. Not everything has gone well, the guy I was dating is now only a friend..... hey ho a single gal appears to be my role in life.

I have happily remained good friends with him, and am glad that we got past the temper tantrums. He came over 2 weeks ago and built me a crafting area, knowing how important it is to me and my sanity.

The house has been a major disaster as I have also been decorating Katies room, had her at hospital for more steroid injections, decided to clear out clutter, started and walked out of the job from hell, and heck things are just starting to calm down and I have had time to get back to my cards. So here is what happens when you take a month off from crafting and finally get back into it

Apologies ladies for my lack of blogging updates this week. I have 2 very good excuses for my lack of postings.

The first is that I have been busy redecorating Katies bedroom, it has gone from young teen slop house, to young lady super sophisticated. I scrapped, I papered badly, I bought new bed and furniture, I built new furniture, I moved old furniture downstairs for friends to collect to give to their kids, and wow I even lost quite a bit of weight and hip area doing so. I am shattered but happy in the knowledge that I can build units and have a reasonably good taste in décor.

My second bit of news is waaaaaaaaaaaaay more exciting, and I intentionally mentioned the first as friends are now tired of me grinning and blushing.

I have started dating again!!! yes i know minor miracle, for those who dont know me, i last dated in 2007 and before that, well ummmmmmmmmm yeah ok lets just say its a minor miracle. I have been swept off of my feet and taken out to dinner, lots of hugs and hand holding. You cant make cards when hand holding.

Anyhoo I will update with a card as soon as I can, I managed to ink up one of my new tilda stamps today and fully intend to make a cute over the top card to suit my mood :)

CC Designs Brigitta

I bought this gorgeous little stamp from Silly Monkey on friday, It arrived yesterday afternoon and I just had to ink her up.

All blooms are from Craftyfeeling.co.uk and the dewdrops come in the kits each month. The sentiment is Stampin Up.

Some exciting news update.

I had a very, very exciting email a few days ago. I applied for a design team spot on Sarah Paris, I received an email telling me that although I didn't get an official spot on the DT she would like me to concentrate on the fairies and mermaids and using them on my blog and for facebook :D

So here is my first venture into Digi stamps, please be gentle with me, my digi skills will improve as we go along.

The mermaids I have used can be found here and are an absolute steal at only £3. As well as 5 gorgeous mermaids, you will also get a handsome seahorse, a shell, fishy and starfish :)