CCT In The House

This is my card for Cute Card Thursday this week where the theme is "In The House". It's a bit of a different style for me and a bit of a mish mash of different stamp companies.

The background papers are Making Memories and the paper on the sofa is Laura Ashley. The stamps are from Sugar Nellie (pen pal), Alota Rubber Stamps (sofa) and the dog is from La Compagnie des Elfes.

Tilda & Co ~ 27~ Thinking of You

"Challenge 27... Thinking of Others

Now this could be an altered gift, a Card Set, ( not just a card on its own) It could be a Mini Book, it could be anything! As long as it is a gift for somebody, as we all send out little raks to crafting friends or gifts to them, and then there's our family's – so i thought it would be nice that this week, we are “ thinking of others” and what we can make for them to put a smile on there face.

As Always your work must include at least 1 Magnolia Stamp"


I decided to make a friendship wallet for stamped images. The idea being that the wallet can be sent as a RAK and then passed on with the next friend's images inside.


This is the picture of the inside with the stamp pockets closed.


Here you can see the stamp pockets open, obviously full of Magnolia images as this is a Tilda & Co challenge.


A close up 0f the darling little charm that accents the flower, how sweet and thank you to our wonderful "boss" for sending it, along with the flower, ribbon and some of the fab papers.

PTW Katharina's sketch #5

This is my simple (and quite different for me) entry for the PTW sketch challenge this week I needed something quick and easy to do in my half an hour window and luckily this lovely sketch from the wonderful Katharina fitted the bill perfectly!

If you're seeing that funny ripple on the card it is down to the card being lined and pearlescent, poor little camera couldn't cope lol.

Cute Card Thursday #11

This is my take on the Cute Card Thursday sketch by the wonderful Katharina.

I seem to be stuck in a Tilda phase at the moment...lol. I decided not to use a sentiment and went for buttons rather than flowers. I am waiting for petite oval Nestabilities so used the X-cut shape cutter and scalloped edged scissors for the image and frame. I mixed contemporary and traditional Laura Ashley papers on my card.

It drew blood.

This weeks PTW challenge is to create a box from two sheets of card. I'm not quite sure where I went wrong with the measurements but mine looks nothing like the examples by the DT!!! Oh well, it is a box and I did use the measurement given so please excuse the "odd" shape.

Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong and I even pricked my finger with one of the needles from the BIA kit (it's a huge needle!), and please also excuse the blood on the lid! Good job I was making this for me and not as a gift.

Anyways, I am using this to store the glitter glues that I never use. I couldn't decide which way round it would sit on my shelf so I made two labels, just to be on the safe side lol. I went for a hinged lid for ease of access and knowing me I would only go and lose the lid if it wasn't attached!

I used:

Paper - Laura Ashley - Dovecraft (again!)

Bookplates - Thick Cuts die

Cardstock - Papermill

Brads - Papermania

Ribbon - Local craft shop

A Quick Make

I have been making a few quick cards today just to try and stock up a little. I love having ready made cards at the ready for all those unexpected or forgotten events.

I like cards without sentiments. It makes them very flexible, sometimes there is no occassion, just a quick letter to write or a note of thanks.

My Dad loves to receive cards and keeps them all out in the house (or perhaps he gets them all out when we go to stay lol).

I used:
Paper - Laura Ashley
Cardstock - Papermill
Stamp - Penny Black

Tilda & Co 14 Stitch Me Up.

This weeks challenge over at Tilda & co is:

"Stitch Me Up
We would love to see your work involve Stitches!!! ,
Now This could be as simple as Hand stitching , Machine Stitching or even Faux stitching,
Whatever your stitching is try to make sure it is the main focus of the work to get the Stitching Point across."

This is my entry. I have hand sewn the buttons and flowers. I used faux stitching on the paper and cardstock.

I used:

Papers - Laura Ashley - Dovecraft

Cardstock - Papermill Shop

Flowers - Prima

Buttons & Brads - Poppicrafts

More snow, a small rant and last night's card.

An hour later...

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The craft shop in Worthing has changed hands and everytime I go in there I'm overcharged, told that she hasn't any money to buy stock (the products I would like to see in stock apparently won't sell because her customers are "old fuddy-duddies") and scolded for "not" supporting my local craft shop (I payed Blade Rubber Stamps a visit whilst killing time in London and was stupid enough to mention it to her) so yesterday I hopped on the train to visit Harmony Crafts in Shoreham-by-sea. Diane, the owner was friendly but not pushy and has some amazing stock, things I want to buy, oh and I didn't get over-charged, in fact I picked up some Alchemy embossing powder at 50% retail! I also picked up the new Laura Ashley papers from Dovecraft, Tim Holtz Black Soot distressing ink and some Jolly Nation stamps (which are a little blocky in my opinion).

I bought this Toybox stamp in February on the aforementioned trip to London but have never used it. I decided to give it a go along with my new embossing powder last night. It looks stunning IRL but the photo doesn't capture this.

Hopefully I'll find some more time to play over the next week as the children are on their hols for a fortnight.