little girl birthdays

Two cards for my Grandaughter and my great niece with a pop up butterfly inside I am afraid they are a bit blurry! not very good camera skills sorry! hopefully you will get the gist! I used lovely squidgy stickers of bickys and bits, the bickys looked so good I could eat them LOL!

An afternoon of cards Phew!

A thank you card for Lucy

Home made master board with sea horse and freebie shell stamp

Lucy's class stamping on patterned paper.

A birthday card for my mother -in -law

Lucy's class Domino accordion book

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stamped, flowersofted and stitched card

Shirt cards

Brother-in-laws 50th birthday card

I started this card with Gold backing card layered with glossy card stencilled with filmstrip with spiced marmalade distress ink pad, added cuttlebugged altered images film strips in gold, brown and orange. topped with crafty individuals The dapper snapper image

 (no. C1-157)  in sepia archival ink pad, and daubed with spiced marmalade,peeled paint and weathered wood  distress inks then layered on a gold piece of card, backed a couple of star brads with the scaps and coloured stick on 50 and birthday letters with orange peel off markers, my brother in law is a keen photographer so i hope he likes it!

very quick birthday card

Lucy's class projects

1.Altered coaster hanging;  Plain coasters, punched holes either end, tied with pro markerd white ribbon , background colour kalidacolor Riviera, stamped with various bird images directly onto surface with blue stazon, TOP added promarkerd lace round frame and MIDDLE a  heart frame from poundland,BOTTOM Crafty individual bird stamp then added a broken belt piece as a tassle,  hanging

ALTERED MIRROR FRAME An experiment that went right!

The photo's really didn't do this project justice, This was a very cheap mirror in frame that had loads of blemishes and knots in, so I used it for practise but I really quite like the result, I thought it looked a bit hippy..ish! I stamped directly on to the frame then coloured in with pro-markers, added two grunge paper flowers coloured with stazon and distress inks, highlighted random bits with glossy accents and added a few flat back gems to the cente of some of the small flowers and some flower embellishments to the larger ones, there was a notch on the inside edge, I found a tiny silver coloured dragonfly and stuck it over the notch,I got the idea for using the mirror from Lucy Edmondson, who made a beautiful Alice in wonderland theme,and also my good mate Jude Grant who also made a gorgeous Alice mirror! I have a couple more mirrors to do I am looking forward to having ago at altering them!

Three more random birthday cards!

My photography is a lot to be desired sorry!

Birthday card

Whoops sorry these are a bit dark!! have already sent the card so can't redo them never mind hopefully you can get the gist!!

Lucy's un birthday card

Whats on my dining room table Wednesday ( Huh! I dont have a desk! ) LOL!

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 AFTER..............................................................tucked away the dining room end of my lounge

OOOH! lovely red wrapping paper!!!!

I made this card for my sister-in-law, I had some beautiful red cherry blossom wrapping paper(from paperchase) given to me by my youngest son Adam ,on mother's day. ooh it is so lovely I didn't want to cut it! is there anyone else out there as daft as me? just besotted with pretty paper and things?  I cut out a couple of branches and blossom from the wrapping paper, and glued ithem on front, matted and layered co-ordinating paper,Happy birthday stamped on,  stamped chinese dragon and glitter glued it, found some flowers snipped the stems off and glittered them and stuck them on with silicone glue (LOVE IT)! punched holes for ribbon used re-enforcers and coloured them red with pro-marker, I only had silver edged blak organza ribbon so I pro-markered the silver edge too! added a couple of red beads, I used wrapping paper for inside too and glittered the flowers, That sounded long winded! but... it's the way I tell it!  Ha Ha!

Cupcake card

Downloaded cupcake template from VALITA REYNOLD'S Blog, cut out in various coloured cardstock,just added ribbon and tags "VOILA" ,   I will be making this one again!  ooooh! I could just eat that cherry on top! (but it's cardboard)  Doh!

Teen girl card (Nah!!)

Brayered backing Card on to silver mirry card, doggy stamp free gift from craft stamper, po-markered, added a few embellishments (not my fav Card!)

Simple grunge paper brooch (idea from Lucy Edmondson)

I cut out flower shapes from template  from internet, outside flower coloured green with peeled paint distress ink, inner flower coloured with ameythist pro-marker, center - scrap of lace gathered up, finished with a green bead, glued and stitched together, the hardest part was the sewing!

Judith's mousey stamp -(my new )-pro marker practice!

What a beautiful stamp this is !so cute!

Lucy's class - Brayering (think thats how you spell it!)

Had so much fun trying brayering last week for the first time, need to practice more but I love it love it love it!  So effective!

Distress ink birdy birthday

Crafty individuals bird stamp CI-230,   ( my first) distress ink pads newly bought from farnborough, weathered wood and peeled paint, bead loops from an old broken belt from my friend glued  with glossy accents, stamped happy birthday and a couple of flower and butterfly embelishments,  leaf backing paper.

Birthday altered CD attempt!

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