Feel Better Soon Dad!

Dad had an operation on his eyelid earlier this month and I made this little card to wish him well.  I heat embossed the Lovely as a Tree Stamp in Early Espresso and then sponged a variety of colours to create the moody sky and grass.  The get well stamp is from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Stamp Set.  I think you'll agree that the embossed trees and watercolour style background gives a lovely depth to the overall effect! 

Katie Crafting In The Garden!!

This afternoon my son's girlfriend spent a couple of hours in the garden making a birthday card for her Mum's 50th. I directed her a little here and there, but she did a sterling job despite being full of cold and feeling rather unwell. Well done Katie! Oh and thanks for the cups of tea Jacob!

Cupboard Trilogy Spring Flowers!

If we aren't going to get much sunshine we need to make it up ourselves, and this month's Challenge on the Cupboard Trilogy does just that with Spring Flowers.

So when we feel down in the dumps from the lack of that illusive yellow ball in the sky, we only need take a look at the DT examples in the Cupboard for a bit of cheer! Click here for some floral cheer!

Lets hope we'll be getting more of the real thing in time for the Bank Holidays this month!

See you soon

Karen x

Angry Birds Punch Art!

I had a lot of fun with this one!  I have to admit I copied the design of each Angry Bird but I adapted it and this is what I came up with!  As the name suggests there is a lot of punching involved with punch art and this design was no exception.  I used a variety of Circle Punches; a Heart Punch used upside down for the yellow bird, which is unfortunately discontinued; the Owl Builder Punch which is where you get the little circles and the heart shaped noses and for the rest of the shapes I had to cut them out by hand.  The celebrate is part of the Outlined Occasions Stamp set which is also discontinued as it was part of 2012 SAB (I do have a spare one which I can sell if anyone is interested).

Punch Art is great fun and the only limit is your own imagination and creativity (and patience whilst dealing with tiny bits of sticky paper!)  Have a look at my post Twit Twoohoo; Owl Fun and see how versatile just one punch (Owl Builder Punch) can be.  Have fun!

Happy Birthday to my Step Dad.

It's my Step Dad's birthday tomorrow and he's the Maintenance Manager at a big hotel in Great Yarmouth, so when I saw the amazing stamp Tool Shed in the current Stampin Up catalogue I just had to get it to make his card! 

The actual design is cased from Pinterest but I'm not sure who originally designed it. I added a few of my own personal touches of course, including the charming little brads I happened across in Craft & Candlelight on Bramford Road, Ipswich. Do pop in there for a look. Diane is lovely and will always order something for you if she doesn't have it, so long as it is available! Of course, if you would like anything from the Stampin Up catalogue you can give me a call!

Cupboard Trilogy Design

January's design on 'The Cupboard Trilogy' was 'Anything Goes'. The Design Team made a project of their own choice and the challenge was to do your own take on it whilst keeping the same layout. 

I did a card for my son's 18th as my DT entry.  I had planned on posting this whilst the challenge was still active but due to being unwell I've only just got to being able to sort it.  Of course that means I'm feeling a fair bit better now which makes me smile! 

I will hopefully be blogging a bit more often if my health allows. I have a crafting weekend coming up so should certainly have a lot to report from that! 

See you soon my lovelies.

Karen x

Karen, where are you?

Well yes, I admit I have been missing from this blog for far too long but I haven't been missing from my craft room! And rather pleasantly, my craft room is really quite cool, with the exception of the halogen lamp I have to use so I can see enough (does anyone know where I can get a reasonable priced daylight lamp that doesn't throw out enough heat to put the sun out of business?!).

Anyway, the Stampin Up new Autumn Winter catalogue is in my hands along with a couple of the pre-release items available to us Stampin Up Demonstrators. Well there has to be a perk or two doesn't there?! So having had a play with 'one' of my favourites, I've produced a pretty little card that I thought I'd post for you to see!

The stamp set is called Perfectly Preserved but I've only used 2 of the 14 stamps in it! The papers are from a discontinued set of dsp called Pocketful of Posies. Rich Razzleberry and Bashful Blue are the colours I've pulled in along with Whisper White.

The Country Celebrates my Brothers '40th'

A Picture from the TV

Baby Bearded Dragon

See what happens when your birthday coincides with the Queen; everyone else celebrates your birthday too!!!  I couldn't resist staying in theme with this Union Jack card, although I'm not convinced that the Queen will have been given any dragons for her birthday! Here is a picture of the little baby Bearded Dragon lizard we gave my brother as his birthday present.  My mum was very relieved that he doesn't live at home any more and that the lizard will not be staying at hers as they used to when he was younger!

(Did you spot the 'Parlour Prints' stamp embossed onto the 'Not Quite Navy' card stock?)

A Special Friend's Birthday Card.

My wonderful friend Emily had her birthday on Saturday and I had a lovely time on Friday afternoon making a special card for her.  She loves dots, as you would easily work out if you saw the accessories in her beautiful home - lots of red dots, or multicoloured dots everywhere.  Perhaps that's why we get on as I have been known to be called Dotty myself!  Anyway, I thought I'd put a picture of the card up now that Emily has received it.

Oops I missed a birthday!

 

I totally knew I had my twin cousins' birthday last Friday but having been busy making cards to put in the tea shop that sells them for me, I neglected to make the important ones for my loved ones. I was organised for Mothers Day and did the 2 mum's cards in good time but today I had to knock up 2 late cards and they'll be posted 1st class tomorrow. Shameful! Here's a pic of one of them!