Magnolia Fun

I felt like making a Magnolia card and thought I would ink up this little cutie. I got it from here

A nice sunny and happy card dont you think??

Oh well, got to go and get Caiden soon from nursery. These five morning are lovely, or would be if I wasnt so busy!! been on a course this week, helping in year one recovering Monday from the Beaver camp! Today is the first real day at home this morning.. done a bit of house work and also working out all the materials I need for the make and takes for my 3rd October Stampin' Party!

Purrrfect end

Perfect end to the day. Took kids and Milo for a walk to post office and then to park. Kids home, tea and bed and then I made a card just for fun!

Here is a magnolia image, I got it from http://www.sirstampalot.com/ aww this kitty is soooo cute! Big ol' baggy bagpuss!

The flowers are here the girl with kitty is here

Birthday Wishes

Here is another adorable Popcorn bear which I got from http://www.sirstampalot.com/ How cute is he? Coloured with promakers. Simply mounted onto some paper and card, nestie, ribbon, button and viola!





Weather hasnt been too bad today, which is a shame in a weird way, as we cancelled our Beaver beach trip due to weather and now it was OK. Still we have a fun packed evening planned for tomorrow night, bringing some fun from the beach into our scout hut. I have designed a "coming in" activity which involves the boys trying to find small stamped fish (A SU set from the mini) all around the hall. I hope it works ok. Sure it will. Must not forget the blutac for it! And there are more beach themed games and ice-cream too :)

Sweet Kitty

How cute is this stamp? Another Magnolia from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/




Papers are from Stampin' up! and are called Rainbow Sherbert, I love this set. Beautiful zingy and fun papers and colours. Code 113641 12 sheets, 2 each of 6 designs, all double sided for £7.75 from moi! - remember you dont have to spend a lot to order, if you just want one pack of papers I can order those for you, not a problem.

So, heres the card.





The flower is Craftwork cards, candy dot too. The Ribbon is Woodware and I coloured the design with Watercolour pencils.

Wild about you

Here is another brayer card made with Magnolia images again. Love em!

The "grass" is an old stamp I have had for years, its Stampourri lavender, not sure they are still around? I went to my shed, searching for something I could use, surely I had something that would pass as grass as I know the lions like long grasses in their homeland. And yes! I found it :) This time as well as the orange, yellow and red I used 2 shades of green too, both from SU.

Kim would be proud

I have a friend called Kim, if I mention her surname a few of you might just recognise her, infact a lot would. Kim Reygate, she has written a few crafting books and makes the most stunning backgrounds with inks and brayers.

I have had my brayer for years.. It has ink on it, so I have used it on something, cant remember what, but today I inked it up again and made this card. Kim would be very proud of me and my card!

I really enjoyed making this and of course it was a perfect background for these safari Edwin stamps. When I saw the savannah scene stamp I instantly knew I would do this. I didnt have any background paper to match, so I very scruffily wheeled a Stampin Up! wheel across the background to cover with vines and leaves.

All stamp were from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/

I did the sky with summer sun, pumpkin pie and ruby red ink pads from Stampin Up! and the ground was creamy caramel with a hint of really rust. I have a SU offer on the first 3 coloured inkpads. If you order all three I will send you 12 corresponding A4 cardstock sheets FREE! (4 of each colour, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie and Ruby Red)

Here is Mini Popcorn

This Mini Popcorn was done with the shrink plastic in the oven, colouring a little better this time. I have shown a "before" picture, so you can see the colouring is light and how much it darkens and deepens.



Before shrinking, very light!



After Shrinking the colours are bright and vibrant!



The simple finished card.

I NEVER would have thought just a few months ago I would be touching flowers like this silk one, but its actually quiet cute on this card. I got some bargain ones from my Studio cards catalogue.

Popcorn stamp from www.sirstampalot.co.uk you can will be able to see all my Popcorn cards at Sirstampalot when I have made a bundle I will be sending them up to them.

Cazx

Mini Popcorn

So here in the flesh is the idea of shrink plastic Popcorn. First one that I tried with heat gun went terribly wrong. The trouble with working with such a large piece of shrink is when heating with gun sometimes part of it will curl and stick and thats what happened with the first one. The second I chucked in the oven in a pyrex dish and it worked just fine. One thing I would change is to colour it softer as it has gotten a bit too heavy and bright.






Paper, wheel are Stampin Up! The popcorn bears are from www.sirstampalot.co.uk

Cazx

Have you seen these?

These cute little sets are from www.sirstampalot.co.uk and caught my eye this morning, they are sooooo adorable!

Another Magnolia

Here is another card I managed to make today. I really must find the camera but I havent come across it yet ;(

Roses for you

Here is a quick card I have made for Sir Stampalot to take to their next show at Port Sunlight.

I have used the lovely Magnolia stamp with Tilda holding a HUGE bunch of roses. Once again excuse the card grainy picture but I still cant find my camera.

Beautiful Butterflies

I love the butterfly collection from Magnolia and when I got this stamp from Sir Stampalot I couldn't wait to play, however, since I have a big comission to work on I had to make a deal with myself to make the bulk of the comission first and then play. So with just 2 cards and 4 tags to go I treated myself with a little play. This card is being sent to Sir Stampalot for them to take along to their show. SSA have these in stock so check them out www.sirstampalot.co.uk





Please excuse the photo being a bit blurry, I took it on my flip camera as I cant find my camera.



I will be back with an update on some fabby new adorable designs in another post.

Flitter and Flutter to....

www.sirstampalot.co.uk as they have the new Magnolias in stock!!!

Prep for classes done so I will have some cards to share tomorrow and hopefully one for today too as I have been colouring the adorable Rachelle piggys... tooo cute! Back later K?!

Eagerly Awaiting the Chasing Butterflies collection??

I know I am! Chasing Butterflies is the latest collection from Magnolia and I know Sir Stampalot are waiting for theirs to come really soon! So to get us in all in a waiting for Magnolia frenzy I thought I would make a couple of cards. I was lucky enough to get the Spring Kit, some of of Chasing Butterflies collection are in the spring kit. I will post on my blog when SSA get theirs. The are around 6 that I still "need" from this collection myself, so I will be stalking their website daily!

This one is made with Tilda holding bee, the lovely flower from a past collection and the small bees. The paper and cardstock is SU.

This one is made with Tilda holding Ladybird and standing between the butterfly grasses. I added clear gloss to the bugs, gives they a great 3d feel. Papers are SU.

Blog Candy ; Just a couple more for another addition to the stash! Kay from Toodles and Binks has kindly offered some Toodles and Binks stash for me to add... so come on ladies, post about my candy on your blogs and the candy will grow!

Twilight ; I am on the fourth book now, I am soooo desperate for a happy ending. My happy will be Bella and Edward together forever... but I have a feeling its just not going to end like that! :( DONT TELL ME THOUGH!! LOL

Easter Weekend ; typical have a few days off and we are all bunged with cold, however thats OK we can live with that, so Darren has to get a fluey type thing that makes him bed ridden Easter Sunday and zombie like on Monday so we didnt do anything ;(

AWOL ; I will try not to, but it might be inevitable that I will have to go AWOL from posting cards for a while. I have a BIG comission for Cardmaking and Papercraft and I need to get it done, hence all my cardmaking time will be for work and not fun.

Fancy Hat Tilda

Tilda is all dressed up to the nines and looks all posh in her pritty hat, perhaps she is going out for dinner, I would suggest the Pigeon and chips! (LOL Joanne, Shaz and Nat!)





I got this lovely Tilda and the lovely bow she is sitting on from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/

The flowers were made with a embossing tool and the Stampin' Up! boho blossoms punch, you get all three of these lovely flowers on one punch! and the best thing is they have a stamp to match too ;0) - made the same way as on my video tutorial.



BTW do you want more of these videos?

Cazx

Single Colour cards & a little challenge

I havent made one of these for a while and decided to ink up my new Magnolia stamp and make a single colour card. I used the cute tilda blowing hearts and stamped it with Stampin' Up! ink Ruby Red and then used my waterbrush to gently use the ink outline to colour the image in, just in parts. A little paper pricking, punching and flower making and I am done.

This is a really quick and effective way to colour. Why not try it... if you have made a single colour card leave me a message with a link and you can win some stamped images (of this Tilda)

I will close this little challenge in one week.

Take a seat... this might be a long one

Lots to share today. Cards, family stuff and other bits. SO I think I will start with my stuff about Harvey. As mentioned before Harvey started Beavers and Monday just gone he was invested into the group and here are a couple of photos. He remembered his promise wonderfully!

So here he is saying his promise with "tictac" Jack the beaver leader.

And here he is afterwards with his scalf and woggle! He is so proud to be a Beaver and wanted to wear his scalf and woggle to school yesterday. We are proud of him too! Love you Harvey!





ject I made - very simple and the photos are terrible! But I made this little wallet with Pollycraft Images, cards, envelopes, ribbons and background papers as a small birthday pressie for one of Harveys friends sisters. He was taken as a guest by Ben his friend for his sisters birthday to see Alladin in panto - which he incidentally loved! January is a very hard month money wise so I decided to make a little cardmaking kit.

Yesterday Eloise came up to me with a Thank You card that she had made with the kit and I was thrilled that she had loved it! here is her card.

I had a class yesterday at Crafts U Love and I had to make cards using the 99p Rhonna Farrah stamp from Autumn Leaves and here is what I came up with. I used the triple flowers on the front of the small folded lunch bag, covered with papers... the next picture is the inside... I used a single flower for the inside. All funky colours to match the papers I used. I left the right hand side open and a credit card sized gift card fits perfectly!

We also made the card above using the fancy bird and swirls stamps. We made our own flowers using the 1 1/4" scalloped circle punch.

Lastly here is a Magnolia card I made "just for fun" The main image was from Crafts U Love. The wording and ribbon from Sirstampalot. I coloured her in with my Stampin' Up! ink pads and a waterbrush.

Saturday 7th Feb I have two classes at Crafts U Love with some fun glitter techniques and folds. Pop onto their website www.craftsulove.co.uk to see more info.

A card and Thanks

Aww thanks for your nice comments on my shimmery Tutorial... I might just give you some more of those if you are nice ;0) LOL

Here is another Magnolia Card - all stamps are Magnolia and are from www.sirstampalot.co.uk who have got now got the wonderful new New Year stamps in stock.

Cracker

I love this cracker, its a posh one isnt it? mine never have posh ol' dangly bits like this!

I coloured this image in Sunday night. Monday Caiden decided to put it through the trimmer... BUT I managed to save it.... Can you see where it's cut? I'll send 10 images (5 cracker, 5 girl) to first person to tell me where it was cut.

I got these stamps from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/

I have another card to share later, dont want to spoil you all by adding two to a post do I?

And now for something completely diffferent...

NOT!!

More Magnolia I am afraid.

- Magnolias are mostly from Sirstampalot,

- Craftwork cards words are from The Glitter Pot,

- The lovely red flowers are from Crafts U Love ,

- the beautiful red and green papers are Stampin' Up! these are so lovely! I need to order me some more actually..... they have been discontinued, but are still available until stocks last. If you like them I strongly advise ordering them before they go!

- The pink papers are from Sirstampalot.

- The round additions are zoomz from stamp galaxy so there really is a bit from all my fav places!