Birthday Boy !!

Today is my nephews birthday !! Happy 23rd Birthday Robert !! This is the card I have made him....(don`t tell him, but he won`t get his card till tomorrow !!)

The paper I have used is by Dovecraft and the stamps by Hero Arts !! I love Hero Art Stamps !!

Craft Stamper

Hope you are all enjoying you christmas hols as I am still !!( Sorry if you have already returned to work !!)

Anyway,  January`s Craft Stamper mag has a free fab Chantecleer the Cockerel Stamp which I love !! The stamp is by Rainbow Studios I was inspired by designers Rachel May, Joanne Allison and Faye Wynn-Jones to make my cards.

The first card I have paper pieced the cockerels using papers from Wildrose Studio.

 The second tag card is my favourite !! My crafty friend Anna gave me a lovely small christmas present of some tags and sentiment frames cut from craft card from a Tim Holtz die !!

For my third card I have again paper pieced the cockerel with papers from Basic Grey Wassail paper pad. The flower is just a strip of matching card which I cut into all along one edge and then rolled up !!

For my last card I have made my version of Joanne Allisons design which is in the mag. For mine I have used paper from Basic Grey Pyrus paper pad which has been woven just at the left hand corner. The cockerel has been coloured in with promarkers.

I hope you have been inspired to have a play with this fab stamp as I was !!

Little Felix

I have a smashing friend called Sue, who looks after and loves a pretty feral cat called Little Felix. It`s taken Sue years to build up a trust between them to a point were she can fuss Little Felix only to have it ruined by a dog attack in her garden earlier this year, but with lots of love from Sue, she has again built up the trust between them. Thought I just show you a little gift I made Sue, this cute wall hanging of Little Felix......

Telescopic Card

One of our card club challenges at AMOM is to make a telescopic card. These are great fun to make and if you would like to have a go, just have a look on Youtube. You will find loads of tutorials on how too.

For mine I have used stamps by Hero Arts and several spellbinders and nellie dies. They can be made with any shape, just have a play....

My top tip is: When using double sided tape, wear it on your wrist like a bangle and you won`t loose it or drop it on the floor like I use too !!


Would like to enter:
Celebrate the Occasion: Christmas ( shaped card)
Paper Take Weekly: Last christmas card of the year
Top Tip Tuesday: Anything Christmas.
Bunny Zoe`s crafts: Fancy Folds/Shaped Cards

Anything BUT Christmas !!

Well this is the last challenge for 2011 at The Crafty Pad; Anything BUT Christmas.
The challenge will end on 27th Dec and the winner will be announced on 28th Dec, so you have a bit longer to enter.

The next new challenge will be on 15th January 2012 and there are some fab new digi`s coming out soon !!

All the DT`s got to choose which image they would like to work with and I chose " Polly with Flower" This is such a nice image !!

I have paper pieced, which I love doing, Polly and the flower with paper from Wildrose Studio.
Our lovely sponser this week is

Joanna Sheen is giving a prize of £10 to spend online, now thats not hard to do is it !! So sort all your lovely new stash and see what you can come up with !!

Please check out all the other DT`s fab projects for great inspiration at The Crafty Pad. 

Would like to enter:

Sundays with Crissy: Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Anything Goes with Ribbon

Holiday Colour Combo !!

The lovely girls at Our Creative Corner have asked me to be their Guest Designer for this week !! How fab is that !! The challenge is being hosted by Anne Marie Hile.
 

" Holiday Color Combo - Create a card or papercraft project with the colours Soft Sky OR Pool Party, Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White and it has to have SPARKLE!

I  love the soft colours, but did wonder about the real red, but it looks fab on the christmas gift box I have made !!

My box has a cellophane window in the lid and the cute mice and sentiment ticket are  Debbies digi images from The Crafty Pad Designs and are called "Holly and Harvey" I cut all the snowflakes on my cricut and glitter them all with stickles to add my sparkle !! For the punched bands I used one of Maratha Stewerts punches.

Check out what all the other designers have made to inspire you at Our Creative Corner !!

Would like to enter this into :

Charisma Cardz: Last Minute Xmas Makes
Sunday With Crissy : Anything Goes

Card Club

Saturday was card club at AMOM and we made these two fab cards.

The peacock card was designed by Francoise Read a designer for Woodware and the set of stamps is called "Proud Peacock".  We did Francoise technique with painting with Sakura stardust pens. Very relaxing colouring in.....

The second card was a simplified card using the remaining images in the stamp set.

Send Someone A Smile

Well are you ready for CHRISTMAS then ?? I`m nearly there....

Right then.....this weeks challenge 151 at The Crafty Pad is: "Send Someone A Smile" We all forget to send a card or gift "just because" so this week we want you to make a card or project which is NOT Birthday or Christmas. So why not make something to brighten up someones day and you could win a prize !!

Our sponer this week is Creative Craft World and they are giving you £5 to spend online instore !! There must be a something you would like !!

I have made this week a calender for myself, well we all need a prezzie now and then !! I have used Debbies fab "Rainbow Sally" digi stamp.

The background  has been made with 3/8" strips of paper laid out in a pattern, very easy to do and you can used all your scraps of paper up !!

Rainbow Sally and the flowers have been coloured in with promarkers( must use something else next time) and I have decoupaged Sallys head to bring her forward a bit. Then glazed her shell to make it shiny.

Make something today to brighten up someones day !! Check out all the other DT`s fab creations at
The Crafty Pad, but most of all have FUN !!

Would like to enter:

Just Some Lines: Handmade Gifts
Secret Crafter: All Creatures Great and Small( including Aliens !!)
Crafty Catz: Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts: Anything But Christmas
Charisma Cardz: No Cards

WooHoo !!

Made Top 3 again at Little Claires with my card in post below !! So many thanks to the girls for picking me and looking forward to the next challenge!!

Little Claire

Little Claire is one of my favourite sites for lovely images and I love taking part in their challenges. This months is a "shaped card".

The stamps I have used to make my card are called " Pretty Garden" and has the cutest bee on !!

 The papers are by Wildrose Studio.  And guess what....I`ve made another rosette flower !!  I have used alot of sparkle on the bee`s wings and round the flowers and the water from the watering can, but sadley it doesn`t show up in the photo. I have coloured it all in with good old promarkers.

Would like to enter:

Little Claire Shaped card

Give It A Punch !!

and no I don`t mean the old man !!

Give It A Punch is this weeks challenge at The Crafty Pad. We want to see 3 punched shapes on your lovely creations !! Our fab sponser this week is:

The prize is a £10 Voucher to spend instore.

This week the team got to play with "Ruldoph & Robin"digi image which can be found HERE I have made Lorraines fab wallet and you can find the tutorial HERE to make it yourself. It would make a fab gift for someone. I am going to keep all my christmas receipts in mine !!

The team have made some really fab creations this week so please check them out as well !!

Have fun girlies....

Would like to enter:
2 Sisters: Punches and/or Dies
Alphabet Challenge: V is for Very Vibrant
Delicious Doodles: Hairy Legs
The Poodles Palour: Christmas
Winter Wonderland: Christmas/winter birthday
Simply Create Too: All About Christmas

Snow Dogs

At Scrap Club at AMOM, we always have a challenge for each month. This months was to do another LO using Christina`s design from last Scrap Club on any theme. So here is my "Snow Dogs" LO for the challenge...

This was Dec last year when we had all the snow !! My dogs LOVED IT !! The frame has been wrapped with three types of ribbon. Then I cut loads of snowflakes and glittered them.

Here is the Christina`s original LO design we did where the design comes from for "Snow Dogs" This is my LO below.