Dinkies Squirrel

Weekend is nearly here WHOOPEEEE !! I've got a busy weekend, christmas crafting tomorrow and then Sunday off to the NEC for loads of fun and shopping !!

Now if you not able to go this year to the NEC and feel like a treat, why not check out the new four release stamps from Little Claire.

 

 One of them is this super Dinkies Squirrel stamp , great for male or female cards !!

Wanted to make my card look a bit  like a tree, so lots of embossing and an embossed raised frame round the three squirrels.

Next.... lots of colour for my female card !!

Made a background with bight distressing inks and them embossed. Again made a raised frame round my three squirrels. 

If you are going to the NEC then why not say hello to Steve on the Little Claire Stand A45 !!

Would love to enter:

Love Rubber Stamps: anything goes

Through The Craftroom Door; always anything goes

 

 

 

Special little one...

My word it has been very frosty again over night.....perhaps christmas is just around the corner !!

No christmas card from me today, but an adorable baby card using again the new Little Claire Elephant club stamps.

Lots of lace, faux stitching, dies and coloured with spectrum noir pens !!

 

Would love to enter:

Papertake Weekly; anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers; dies and /or punching

 

 

 

Chip butties

Now you must be wondering why on earth I am doing a post about chip butties ??  Well I haven't had one for years and years and they bring back memories of when I use to work in a hairdressers over thirty years ago,  we had a pub down the road from us and in the winter we use to go down and order chip butties for out lunch !!   How warm and cosy were they....

Anyhoo how they came about today is the reason I am blogging about them.  I'm now a mobile hairdresser and mainly my ladies are older and house bound for one  reason or another.  Hilda is 96 and the power was being cut off while they do some tree trimming so she has no electric today. The last time it happened and she was off for several days,   nobody gave her a thought and she went without a hot drink and hot food for several days !!   She is a proud lady and wouldn't ask for help....

 

This time it wasn't going to be the same, hence I took her a flask of tea and fish and chips for her lunch.  Still nobody other than me has called on her......

 

Please, please please give an elderly friend or neighbour a thought when its cold or the power is off...it means so much and brightens their day .........

 

hugs Diane xx

You are......

going to adore this months Little Claire's Elephants club stamp set !!

 They are adorable and suitable for birthdays, baby cards etc. My first card I have used the larger elephant stamp with loads of stars and pearls and coloured using spectrum noir pens !!

 

 

The second card I have used the smaller stamp of the same image,   but you don't have to make a small card,  I've stamped the image three times !!

  I drew round the letters onto a piece of white card, then coloured it with the same pink spectrum noir pen as I used for the elephants and cut them out so you could see the spotty background paper through them.  Then raised this panel with 3d foam tape.

 This card would be lovely for any mum young or old !! 

 Loads more inspiration by the team to be found on HERE

Would love to enter:

Penny Black and More: anything goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: animals

My Craft Creations: always anything goes
Through The Purple Haze; anything goes

Photo Weave

Something a bit different this morning guys !!

I saw a photo weave technique in a book in a charity shop which had all sorts of pop up and outs for your scrapbooking pages and knew I had go give it a go.

You need two photos the same,  one in colour the other black and white.   The instructions were very vague, but on my second do and then undo and start again,   I got it all most right and I'm so chuffed !!

My friend Carol and I had a great day in Brighton and although the weather was very murky it was quiet warm, we even had an ice cream on the pier and just people watched.....

I've used some net ribbon, made my own shell embellishment with paper clay and coloured, then finished off with my most favourite thing...frantage !!

Christmas Countdown !!

Morning guys..

  my turn for the Little Claire friday project and I have a Christmas Countdown for you to make using  the Christmas Snowmen stamp set !!

You will need:

cardboard

green, white and black card

Dovecraft Back to Basic Christmas paper

Die cut letters and numbers

wooden peg

red ribbon

glitter(stickles)

3d foam tape

1: Cut a  piece of cardboard 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" and two pieces of your pattern paper one 3" x 5" and 5 1/4" x 5" and then glue to front.

 2: Cut a 4 1/4" scalloped circle in green card, a 3 1/2" plain circle of white card and another one 3"

3: Stamp your snowmen onto the 3" white circle, colour in and then mount onto the 3 1/2" circle, then mount onto the green scallop circle. Now add a black wiggly line to edge and some stickles.

4: Just lay your scallop circle onto the front of your covered board and glue your die cut letters around top. Don't worry if you haven't any die cut letters because you could stamp or hand write them instead. Now draw a wiggly black line all round edges.

5: Now attach green scallop circle to front using 3d foam tape.

6: Cut 12 pieces of green card  3 1/2" x 3" and 24 pieces of white card  2 3/4" x 2 3/4".

7: Glue a piece of white card to the front and back to each of the 12 of green card leaving a just over 1/2" at top. Now draw a black wiggle line round edge of white card.

8: Now add die cut numbers 1 - 12

8: Flip them over and add die cut number 13-24

9: Cover front of wooden peg with pattern paper and add a big red ribbon bow

10: All you have to do now is clip your countdown numbers to the front of your board and it is complete !!

Here's another one using the other snowman stamp in the set and using red card instead of green.

 You don't have to make a Christmas countdown, why not a birthday countdown or holiday one ??    You're sure to find the right stamp for any occasion on the Little Claire website !!

Would love to enter:

Crafty Catz; anything goes

Divas by Design: anything goes

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Daisy

is a campervan and a fab Little Claire stamp which you can find HERE !!

I've always wanted a campervan to pootle about in.....I would have made a great hippy !!

Anyway back to Daisy....I've made a sun ray background with 40 strips of paper from the Minds Eye collection called Lost & Found and inked all the edges ( nearly lost the will to live doing this ), but I love the effect.

This has then been layered onto a piece of script paper from the same collection and then mounted onto a scallop card base..

Daisy has been stamped and then paper pieced, fussy cut out and mounted onto 3d foam tape, then stamped the "Just For You" border. inked , then distressed the edges.

Finished off with a shabby chic flower made with the paper and some lacey ribbon.

Oh for flower power days......not sure about the free love thing though

Would love to enter:

Amusing: anything goes

Scribble & Scrap: #30 anything goes

Artbymiran: anything goes