Gemstones

Yesterday i took delivery of the most gorgeous set of stamps you ever did see, actually two sets :). They were Inkadinkado Gemstone Insects and Gemstome Birds. On this card i have used one of the butterflies from the insects set.

Smile

When i received this image to work with from Leo at Craftytemplates, i just couldn't stop smiling, you can probably see why. I just printed it out and coloured it in with my Promarkers. My Brother-in-law is a builder, so i knew i would have someone to send this card to. The cute little spanner is a brad and was included in the kit, as was everything else i used, except for a piece of gardening string.

Easter at the Cafe'.

Regina Easter, the owner of The Cutting Cafe' designs the most fabulous templates and printable stamps. I only received this set of Easter printable stamps in my email inbox this morning, but i couldn't wait to start playing with them and made these two very simple cards. I printed the sentiments onto Safmat by Letraset. This set is now available from The Cutting Cafe'.


The image on this one is by Sarah Kay and coloured with Promarkers.

It's another Boy.

One of my online friends, Sam from UKScrappers has just given birth to a gorgeous baby boy, his name is Harry, (short for Harrison). We all knew she was having a boy, which meant i could make her a card well in advance, but i couldn't show it on my blog as she is a reader. She should have received it in the mail by now, so i can now share it, it's a slightly different version of the one i showed on here the other week. I also made her 4 year Son a 'Big Brother' card, so he doesn't feel left out. I used Cricut Design Studio to make both.

It's Craftytemplates time

The March card kit is called ‘Working 9-5‘ and has been designed to work along with this months Crafty Templates subscription set which this month is all about different jobs and professions i.e, nurse school teacher, builder, beautician, hairstylist etc. The papers and cardstock have been picked out to work with the cards. The set includes a comprehensive selection of Bazzill cardstock colours and lush papers from BoBunny, Sassafras Lass, DCWV and October Afternoon.Here's one of the cards i made using the kit and the templates Leo sent me.

Enjoy your day

I've been busy behind the scenes, i moved everything out of my craftroom, and back again, but in a move organised fashion. I filled five large black sacks with rubbish and i still have lots of sorting to do.
I had a sewing machine for Christmas, (actually i got it in October), it hadn't even come out of the box yet, but i now have a home for it, yippee!!, so i had my first go at machine stitching onto a card, only a straight(ish) line , but as i get more used to it, i may even attempt to go round corners. :)


Anyway here's the card featuring my machine stitched line. I used this fabulous set from The Cutting Cafe', called SENTIMENTS STEMS AND FLOWER TOPS . I stamped the Happy and Birthday onto the leaves.

I've been tagged!

One of my fellow Cutting Cafe' design team members, and a very talented lady, Donna has tagged me, i needed to show you the 4th photo in one of my files and explain it. This is the 4th photo in my Turkey 2008 file, and it's my Son posing at the Temple of Apollo Side Turkey and was taken last summer. My Brother and his family moved out to Turkey to live, almost two years ago and this was the first time we'd visited them. We are off to stay with them again this summer too, i'm so excited!!


Now i'm gonna tag four more fellow bloggers to do the same, Kim, Gwyneth, Karen, and Caryn. Hope you don't mind playing along ladies.

Thanks

This morning my lovely postie delivered to me the Calligraphy Collection cart. I was so excited , i starting cutting from it within half an hour of opening it. I cut the word, the frame and flower from it but the bird is from the Home Decor cart. I also used my new Sizzix embossing folder, which came today also.

More from The Cutting Cafe'

I really don't know how Regina does it, she just keeps on churning out these fabulous printable stamps, i wonder if she ever sleeps. LOL


For this card I printed out the Huge Flower 2 printable stamp on four different coloured papers, cut and paper pieced them together. I changed the settings on my printer to print the image smaller, as the original image is 10" high, which i great if you wanted to use it on a scrapbooking page. The sentiment is from the newly released All Occasion Circle scallop word set 1 printable stamps. These have been sized ready to punch out with either a 1", 1.5" or 2" circle punch.




Today i received my Fiskars Apron Lace border punch i had ordered from the US last week, i was so excited to have this in little baby in my hands, i just had to get right on and use it.

Mini magazine file

I have seen these cute little magazine folders with cards in them everywhere, but the only templates i could find were for use with a A4 or 8 1/2" x 11" piece of card. I needed to make mine using a piece of 6" x 12" and wanted to keep it in one piece, so i tweaked the template i found and made this one. It holds five 4"x4" cards and envelopes and is made using the February cardmaking kit from Sarahscards.