tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19327215848625228152024-03-19T11:07:49.160+00:00PortValeSueSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-89002096416007574202015-09-25T14:50:00.001+01:002015-09-25T14:50:24.871+01:00Chatsworth Country Fair - 6th September 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I didn't know that this photo was going to be taken and I don't usually show photo's of myself - but I like this one!!!<br />
<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-54335188727496856702015-04-24T21:19:00.000+01:002015-04-24T21:19:58.275+01:00A Happy Birthday card for my bunny loving friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a card I made recently for my friend. I'm submitting it for this weeks <a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/">Papertake Weekly Challenge</a> -Cute as a button. Using a plain 6x6 white card - dotty paper from craftwork cards, edged on the left with Visible Image Mini Grunge Flourish stamp (free with Craft Stamper magazine May 15) - Crafter's Companion Bebunni Birthday Gerbera stamp - coloured with promarkers and cut out then sprayed with crafters companion spray and sparkle - Happy Birthday stamp by JOY crafts - Ribbon from my stash.</div>
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Here's my card for this weeks challenges. <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/">Less is more</a> challenge 'FAMILY' & <a href="http://cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.co.uk/">CAS on Sunday </a>'Christmas'. Using a landscape A5 white card from Anna Marie Designs. Penny Black tree stamp. Sentiment stamp from my collection! The two bunnies are a Lavinia stamp called ' Midnight meanderings'. All stamped with Adirondack Denim inkpad. 3 Creative Expressions dazzler gems. Whole card sprayed with Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle varnish with ultrafine iridescent glitter.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-7937666805270682002014-08-26T13:41:00.001+01:002014-08-26T13:41:15.761+01:00A recent 90th card - using scan n cut!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-43855840941366468432014-08-26T13:39:00.004+01:002014-08-26T13:39:31.201+01:00A recent 18th Birthday card <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-81122246406853828192014-08-26T13:37:00.003+01:002014-08-26T13:37:44.811+01:00One Happy Daughter!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love this photo of my daughter Sarah - graduating from Keele Uni as a doctor! (June 2013)<br />
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I've been playing with the scan n cut today...... downloading from a site called birdscards. I've learned how to download svg files and convert to an fcm file - copy to my USB card and use in the scan n cut - fantastic.</div>
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I was looking for inspiration for a 21st card. My inspiration came from <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday</a>, the title for this weeks challenge being -Tie It Up !!! Yes it's real money wrapped in cling film attached with silver elastic thread through the rolled tube!! Oops just noticed the glue attaching the metal numbers hasn't dried yet!!Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-11188205897272076112013-04-25T09:13:00.000+01:002013-04-25T17:55:28.985+01:00Can't Stop The Rain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my final card as GD for <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">cute card thursday</a> challenge.I've used Splish Splash Splosh Woodware stamps (Thanks to Stella!), coloured with Promarkers, Stickles glitter and lots of gems all mounted onto glitter card! I'm entering this card into the <a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/">Papertake Weekly Challenge - Weather With You</a> and <a href="http://www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes</a>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-16579495485214886592013-04-18T06:00:00.000+01:002013-04-18T08:47:40.115+01:00Cake walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_121846939"></span>This is my 3rd card as GD for <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.u/">Cute Card Thursday</a>. I used Papermania diagonal dots paper as the backing paper and coloured the ribbon with 'peach' promarker. The cakes are stamped and embossed in a variety of embossing powders and 'iced' with Icicle Stickles and finished with yellow stickles for the candle flame! My photography doesn't do justice to the colours!!Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-12028628018358256092013-04-11T10:11:00.000+01:002013-04-11T10:11:27.483+01:00Butterfly Kisses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my second card as Cute Card Thursday GD. I love repeat stamping! The Butterfly stamp is by Wendie Rhodes - The Metamorphosis Collection 2008, inked up on a Kaleidacolor (Calypso) rainbow dye inkpad and glittered with Sparkles Diamond PSX. The White butterfly was stamped onto shrink plastic with the larger stamp from the same collection and attached to a circle of mirri board and suspended with ribbon.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-78905721451490388322013-04-04T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-04T20:33:26.258+01:00Something Borrowed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my first card created as GD for <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday</a> and was inspired by my holidays in Torridon, Scotland. I've 'borrowed a view' of a thistle which I photographed last year! The thistle is stamped with color box chalks and the stamp is by <a href="http://www.claritystamp.co.uk/">Clarity Stamps</a> from the Scotland collection. Apart from the tartan card by Kanban everything else I used was from my stash.<br />
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I seem to have a run on masculine cards at the moment! The card is black and gold not navy as it looks here! I didn't use a template but drew one side of the waistcoat and cut it out, and using the first one as a template cut the next one slightly broader so it could be overlapped and fastened! Using a spare piece of the starry card created a contrasting pocket and placket for the front. I used brads from my stash and a creative expressions antique watch to create a brass fob watch! The chain is a piece of broken costume jewellry stained with Adirondak terra cotta alcohol ink. To create this particular card I chose to make a 'base' card from a piece of A3 card, folding the A3 card in half and cutting it to make a square card 21cm x 21cm.(approx). Then open up the card and make the card into a 'gate fold' card. This also meant that I could make a rather large card but could still use a DL envelope! I attached the starry fronts to the base card before cutting around it and creating a shaped back. You can see the shape is slightly different so the card will stand up. I am entering this card into <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday Challenge 262 - Brass in Pocket</a>, <a href="http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/use-metal.html">Divas by design - Use Some Metal</a> and <a href="http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.co.uk/">Totally papercrafts- metal</a><br />
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-72314164118381963382013-03-21T19:23:00.001+00:002013-03-22T15:39:08.473+00:00Easter Parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With bunnies made from white card and coloured with promarkers. I attached a white pompom from my stash to each one. Using a template for an interlocking zigzag card from creative cardmaking magazine issue 48, I covered the front with a flowery paper from my stash and a few docrafts flowers. Glued feathers on parts of the card just helped to soften it and give some more depth. I'm entering this into this weeks <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday challenge 261 Easter Parade</a> and <a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/">Papertake Weekly Challenge</a><br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-78440716791435054862013-03-16T12:52:00.001+00:002013-03-16T15:39:40.002+00:00Templates, distress ink pads and embossing folders for a masculine card<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">this weeks </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">CCT Challenge Anything Goes</a>. I'm also entering this into <a href="http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/">Country View Challenges</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I used the kaisercraft clock template and 'old paper' distress ink pad with blending foam. This creates a background in very little time, ink up the blending foam and tap gently over the template. Using 'walnut stain' distress ink pad, swirl over the edges of the card to highlight. Using a 'woodgrain' embossing folder on a piece of pearlescent green card I then used the inked blending foam to highlight the grain. 4 Creative Expressions 'screw effect' brads, 1 Creative Expressions 'brass clockface' suspended with a brad onto a brown card circle. Finished by wrapping hemp cord, sentiment stamped from an old See-d's collection and black gems. </span></div>
Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-56417083529058830652013-02-15T21:05:00.000+00:002013-02-15T21:05:00.445+00:00'Caught in Crystal' Wedding card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently came across my Twinkling H2Os which I've not used for ages. The papermania flowers were painted with the same colours used on the acetate. It's the first time I've tried this technique which is featured in this months papercrafts essentials - issue 91- and will definitely do it again!</div>
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I'm often guilty of buying a magazine because of the freebies and then not using them! Along with a few bits and pieces from my own stash, I've used the free Woodware stamps and papers from this months papercraft essentials.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-26186509631366668342013-01-24T15:51:00.000+00:002013-01-24T15:51:08.069+00:00Playing with mega flakes and flitterglu!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I seem to struggle for ideas when it comes to making cards for men but I was playing with Flitter Glu and Lancashire Rose Mega flakes by Indigo Blue and came up with this one! The gilding effect isn't quite as bright as it looks in the pic and I wouldn't use it again with this particular stamp!! I stamped the background using Kaiser Crafts 'keys' stamp and Adirondack felt dye pad 'latte'. The larger key is a real one! I do know that it doesn't fit anything my family owns! The other keys/keepers are brads from my stash.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932721584862522815.post-26176018460148660452013-01-23T06:21:00.000+00:002013-01-23T06:34:29.813+00:00Birthday card - old meets new!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've made this card for a friend who's 60. Using a tweed offcut, Woodware flower buttons, hemp cord, pearlescent card from the autumn collection @ Alexander Paper Supplies Dagfields craft centre, White embossing powder, Irridescent gems and Dew drop Pearlescent rust to 'edge' the card.</span>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393356745133404036noreply@blogger.com1