Mondays Makes

Evening all, well I should have know nothing much would get done last night! My youngest was awake until 10pm, so i got to finish one card. I love this image called 'buds' by Maurice J Manning. I coloured the image with pro markers, i did some shading on it, but you cant seem to see it in the photo.

I feel it is such a peaceful image. I used the faux silk effect again on the background (i have put some instructions on a lower post) and just put some flowers around the edge to finish it off. Here is a closer one of the image.

Christening Card Found!

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a lovelycrafty weekend! I cant believe another weekend is over. Back to the school run, ballet run, washing, cleaning just being a general housewife/mummy.

Anyway, today I have done nothing much, other than swap all my general card stuff over with the christmas card stuff. We have a small house (one bed) and there is not room for 4 people plus toys for two children under 4 and my craft stuff, so i keep most of it in a small cupboard we have hence having to swap things over. I have to move 2 high chairs, one guitar amp, and a mound of other stuff to remotely find my stash!

While i was moving everything I came across this card I made before i had my youngest daughter, at the time of making it I was planning on using this idea as my invitations for her christening, but then i thought better of it, quite a bit of work went into this! Its a simple diamond fold card on one sheet of card stock, i will put the measurements on tomorrow. I have decoupages the forever friends bear and coloured it it. I did use i piece of pink bazzill stock for the blanket! I thought it was very nice and i'm so happy that i found it again!

As hubby is off out tonight i'm going to have a card making session with my mum, although not sure if i will get anything finished tonight! but hey ho thats the way it goes! Hope you all have a lovely evening

See you all soon

Todays Makes

I have been a bit busy today! my youngest has had me up since 5 am as she is unwell, waiting to go to the doctors now, we have an appointment at 8:30pm.

Anyway, as there was nothing much on TV i decided I would watch a bit of create and craft, must say i wasn't really watching it, I was concentrating more on trying to make cards and make sure hubby didn't lay in too much. But i decided to e-mail in, i have done a few times before but never had a mail read out before! well this morning i did, and then i went on to win a card, cant wait to get it through! its so nice to have someone else's work to look at sometimes!

Well as I said i have been busy making. This one is made with an A5 card

blank and using a technique called faux silk.

All you need is tissue paper, a stamp and some inks. I have used what I believe is a wood-ware stamp set, just love the images, reminds me of my eldest!

To do this technique you need to stamp the images onto the tissue paper, if you plan on colouring ensure that you use a water proof ink pad. For this I used Archival black.

Once you have stamped the paper you can colour the image(s) in, I have used pro-markers to do this. Allow the pen ink to dry and the scrunch the paper up, then open, but don't remove too many creases.

Then go over the top with an ink-pad or sponge to enhance the creases, I did this one with a cats eye ink. It picks up on the scrunching.

Cut a piece of card stock to the size of the area you want covered with the paper, I then covered the area of card with tombo (any glue stick should do it) and stuck the tissue paper down. I found it easier to have the tissue paper larger than the area I wanted covering so i could leave the tissue paper down and stick the card over, so you don't loose to many creases.

And there you have a Faux Silk Background! I hope this all makes sense, this is my 1st time of posting instructions! if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

The other card i have made today is with a set of poppy stamps i have. I brought them at the beginning of the year and have never sat down and used them. When i found them in the draw it made me think about 11/11 and so i felt i had more of a reason to use them. Its nothing special, Its done on an odd size card, i stamped onto one card and cut it out. Very simple inking up with different colours and sponging the ink around for the sky and grass. I didn't know what sentiment to put on, so i decided 'just to say' as then it can just be a little note-let.

Ok so im out of here for today! Planning on christmas cards tomorrow! will post what i get done!

Nancy May Bentons Birth Announcement, stampin' up club and more..

As some of you may know, back in April i had my 2nd little girl, Nancy May, I just wanted to show you all the birth announcements I made for her. I had such fun in with my mum one night doing them. I did wreck 3 of my new ink pads, but hey ho, they are there to be used!

They were so simple but looked so effective. Knowing that people will just read them and chuck them I didn't want to make them to big (yes i don't like waste), they were A6 in size. I made up the card blanks with white card stock and using my cats eyes just blended the inks direct from the pad to get a purple/pink with a hint of green background, then the image was stamed onto acetate and just stuck with double sided tape over the back! On the inside it just had the basic information that i felt people would need!

I just wish i had the time and the patience stamp and colour this image, i have seen a number of variations on it but i can never seem to get the colours right, i think its also because i can be heavy handed when i colour sometimes.

Here are one of the cards I made at my first Stampin' up meet! it was a funny night as i got lost on the way to the venue, i did get there eventually! had a wonderful night and cant believe some of the lovely stuff in the catalogue! This was one of my favourites, took me completely out of my comfort zone, scrunching paper, tearing paper, and mixing colours that i wouldn't dream of!

Were there again in a couple of weeks! cant wait to see what i bring home this time!

some recent makes

Just some bits and bobs i have made recently. Very into digital stamps at the moment, less mess and less to get out the tardis! There is one drawback, I hate the waiting for them to dry from printing! Listening to create and craft this morning they said a few minuets for things to be dry to colour with pro markers, ha ha ha ha, mine need to be left at least 2-3 hours, so I have got cleaver and print what i want the night before so it is dry for the next evening!

Loving the Maurie J Manning images, they are all so beautiful, i think that when ever i go to the web page i have a spending problem, i just add things to my basket!

The card above is one that i have made for a friend who is expecting a baby at the beginning of december, she wanted a personalised card for her 1st christmas. The image is a MJM image called First Christmas, what is so lovely about it is that you don't have to only use it for christmas, when printed just cut off the tree and bauble part! oh how much fun can be had with that! I have coloured her with pro-markers and used peel offs for the greeting!

I Love this wedding image, another MJM. this one is called 'bride and groom'. once again i have coloured this with pro-markers, I have used a subtle pink on the grooms shirt and on the back of her dress. I decided to get the nestabilities out on this

one, its been a while since i have played with them! I felt it just made the card a bit more romantic, for something smaller, what with the postage charges as they are!

This is the A5 card i made using the same image, again, she is coloured with pro-markers, but i have put glitter in the creases of her dress! just felt it added to the feel.

You can find all Maurie J Manning's images at http://digitalpenciltoo.com/.