Cute Critters Accordion Card

I made a card last night with my new pencils, some Purple Onion Designs stamps and the Karen Burniston Fancy Frame Accordion die.  It was nice to make a card just for fun as I have been really busy lately making flowers for my nieces wedding so it was nice to make just for me  and the sake of playing.

The paper is Bazzill Vintage lace from Crafts U Love

Karen Burniston Dies from Crafts U Love too

Purple Onion Stamp are only available from Purple Onion Designs in USA

Papercraft Essentials Issue 107

Flick to page 73-74 and you might just catch some of my cards.

Unfortunately one of my cards was photographed totally wrong and my pivot was

not turned so you miss the magic of the card which is a real shame.  But readers of my blog

will know what the pivot is really supposed to look like.

Nice to have a few cards in print again :)

Harvey's Room Makeover

My brother in law has been living with us for some time and he moved out last week.  Operation "Harveys Room" was in full swing this weekend.  Harvey being the oldest got to choose which room he had and he chose this one.  Caidens room will get a make over next weekend.

This is the room and how it was.  We hadn't decorated since we moved in almost 9 years ago.

Harvey is 11 and loves Minecraft so we set about making it a cool Minecraft Inspired room.

Grey paint for the walls, a new carpet and some lovely stone block wallpaper.

Looking good with a new desk and chair, a blind and new bed cover

Lastly with some "Creeper" green curtains that my Mum made and the Vinyl

on the wall that I cut with my Cameo machine.  A really fabulous room don't you think?!

Happy 90th Grandad

My Grandad was 90 this past weekend and I made this this little card along with a photo frame of the boys for him to add to his collection of family pictures.

Even the little birds on the front are ready to party with their hats on.  As it happened

he didn't want a party or a big fuss but I hope all the cards made his realise how 

much he is loved.

Here is the inside of the card with the bunting and of course the obligatory number 90! 

The main card is my favourite Katie Pivot from Karen Burniston

The 90 is from Marianne as are the Birds

The Bunting was an old Joy! die

The words were Cottage Cutz

All items are available from Crafts U Love

"Owl" love you forever

I made this for Darren my hubby instead of a card for our anniversary.  We got married 14 years ago today in St Lucia and this was after 11 years going out.  So a whopping 25 years together is celebrated today!

Darren loves chocolate and I brought too many eggs for the Easter Bunny so I thought I would fill this box up for him.

The box is the Taylored Expression owl and Sack it dies.

Happy Birthday Card

I just made this card tonight for one of Harvey's friends.  Once again I found myself reaching for the Katie Label Pivot die from Karen Burniston dies.  I also used this cute owl set from Paper Smooches.

The papers are from the Lawn Fern Collection.

I am entering this into the the everything goes challenge at Paper Smooches

The banner on the front was made using the Taylored Expressions die HERE

Super simple, super fun card to make.  I hope you liked it 

Cazx

Karen Burnistons April Challenge Post

Karen's post is up on the ECD blog.  Check it out

HERE

There is a fab video from Karen and lots of inspiration from her Designer Challenge Team

Karen Burniston's April Challenge

Hello Friends, it's the Karen Burniston Challenge time again and this months theme is Mamas and Babies - Use Pop it Ups to celebrate Mum for Mother's Day OR make a Baby card. You decide! 

Go to the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog this Wednesday to see to collaborative post from Karen where she will show you what all us designers have done for this theme and I am sure Karen will have something WOW for us too.

And here is my card.  I decided on "Baby" for my card, since Mothers Day in the UK has already been and gone and I do love to create baby cards.

I used the Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs Heart Pivot die, after all a HEART is perfect to show the love we have for these sweet little bundles of joy. 

 I used some of the heart decorator dies to create the glittered heart frames to decorate the main piece.  

I made my base card from a soft blue card stock and used one of the KB Embosing folders called TRENDY TILES 1 on the edges.,  I used a white inkpad to highlight the embossing further.

The Congratulations die is from Elizabeth Craft Designs

Those cute little Hedgehogs are from Penny Black.  I love these guys.  Margaret Sherry is

my favourite Penny Black designer.  I am a little sad to see that Penny Black don't appear to have any of her designs in the newest collection :(  I hope this is a one off.

I love the dimension these cards give using the Pivot dies.  And I love how easy they are, they really are so simple.  I can not wait to see what Karen has up her sleeve for any new designs!

So head on over on Wednesday to see the complete Designer Challenge Team and their cards. I am sure your socks will be knocked off! as mine are each month.

Crafty palace had its 15 minutes of fame

My crafty palace got its 15 minutes of fame last Saturday as I was approached by the Daily Mail for them to come and take a photo.

I'll see if I can find the link to the online article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2597309/No-husbands-allowed-Think-sheds-refuge-men-These-women-built-backyard-havens.html

Was a fun experience. I even had hair and make up sent round! Lol and some tops sent round on a bike. Madness. But fun.  Lovely make up lady and lovely photographer. A day to remember for sure.

Like a bus...

No card for days and then two one after the other :)  Here is a card I made for one of my sons friends Connor who's birthday is today.  Armed with my trusty Karen Burniston Katie Label Pivot and the ultra cute dinosaurs from Paper Smooches.

Here is the inside and you can see the two dinosaurs playing footie!

And here is the outside.   I also used the number 8 from the Marianne

number set and the name was made using Lil' Inker Stitched Alphabet

The paper is Lawn Fawn all items apart from the Lil' Inker is

from Crafts U Love

Happy Birthday Kiera

It was my nieces birthday yesterday and here is the card I made for her.  Of course I had to throw in a Karen Burniston die and I used the Katie Pivot as the base for my card and inspired by all the "Card in a box" cards lately I made this one a "Box in a card".  Why make a flat card when you can a pop out card?!

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I cut the Katie Pivot from the card and folded them in half, the centre points stuck forward to create

the base I needed for my "box".  I then filled it with flowers and leaves and went to town decorating the

rest of the card with lots of other dies.

Materials Used :

Karen Burniston Katie Label 

Cottage Cutz Mr Snuggles 

Marianne Numbers

Impression Obsession Rabbits and Long Grass

Cazx

A little video - flower punch board

I made a little video yesterday showing you how I made the double punched flower.

The volume wasn't working on my web cam so I had to add written instructions to the video

which will not work on some devises unfortunately.