Black & Bling

I used my Pazzles to designe and cut the number aperture then added plenty of gliter and gems also added the name using Forth Dimension stamps

Guitar Mad

I used MCS, holographic and some ultra fine glitter to make this card

Humphrey's corner

To create this card I used
Humphrey's Corner CD from Crafters Companion
I printed the greeting direct to the card using MCS

Graduation Card

Hi all a grad card I designed on the pazzles also adding the name as the scroll

Not much crafting

Hi all I have been visiting My Grandsons down south to help out as one was in hospital and the other was going in to have his adnoids removed.
I spent Four days in Darlington Memorial hospital playroom with Harry building lego, painting, glueing and watching the BFG. Harry is fine now and so is Aedan whom I brought back up to Scotland with me for a quiet recouperation away from noisy little brothers and to spend time with his two grannies.

No excuses

Well what can I say I have neglected my blog for a year.
I have been totally busy with Card Commissions, family,work and Farmville, yes I got myself addicted to it! virtual farming who'd have thought I would be doing that lol.
I have also been creating some new designs on my Pazzles and working hard on Weddings stationery for this year. I will post some of my creations as soon as I can.
I will be back

3D greenhouse

I was asked to make a card with a greehouse so designed this using my Pazzles. I used backing papers from Crafters Companion CD. I stamped and hand coloured the plant pots and used a few Flowersoft stems

Named Cards

A few of the Named cards I design for any occasion I use my Pazzle and embellish with decoupage, ribbon etc

Beatrix Potter

A few cards using Crafters Companions Beatrix Potter CD some brilliant images to suit all on this CD

Party Invitations

A few samples I have designed for any occasion as Black is still a very popular colour and I have designed Wedding stationery in black also

Mother's Day

A few cards I made using the Card Creations CD Beautiful images to work with

Mother's Day

A quirky card I made using Nikki Hills Back to basics CD I also used a spring to give it a nodding head I made quite a few in this range for Mother's Day

Red n Cream double ribbon

This was wedding stationery I recently finished and have permission to show it from the bride. I do not show stationery sets before the wedding has taken place. But I do show my samples

Filigree Finishes

Some of the Wedding Stationery I have been working on I have a few wedding Fayre's all around Scotland this year

Also many Commisions for weddings

Rangers Birthday

I used a graphics program to make the footy shirt with the name on (Tutorial at top of the page for making and folding the shirt) I used VersaMark for the water marks in the background and co ordinating card for the mat and layering and finished with a die cut football

Hairdresser

I used the MCS Cd for this it is for a Hairdresser who loves to dye his hair bright vibrant colours

Get Well

I used Polka Doodles Cd back to nature for the images and decoupage and printed the greeting and added some glitter.

This is the first time I have worked with Polka Doodles and they are deffinately so easy to use Nikky Hall is a great illustrator/designer and have ordered several more of her Cds

Mandala Stamps

I used MCS for the background images and one of my mandala stamps. I stamped it five times for the layers on different shades of purples added iridescent glitter and ribbons

Wedding Stationery

Some Invitations I have recently completed I printed the initials stamped the wording and added two ribbons and gems

Footy Invites

Football party Invites I used MCS for the backing, border and wording

Footy Invites

Football party Invites I used MCS for the backing, border and wording

One too many

I used MCS for the border and printed the bottles for the decoupage.

I used cuttlebug alfabet for the wording and numbers and printed the greeting

BEN 10

A Ben 10 card using free download images from one of the craft magazines

I used Green card and printed the greeting

Footy Fanatic

I used Crafters Companion Hobbies Male Cd for the images

Builder Birthday

I used Crafters Companion Occupation Cd and printed the greeting

Harry's card

I recently had a visit from Harry my grandson who wanted to make cards, he wanted a jungle card for daddy.

I used Crafters Companion Guys, and Occupations Male Cd for the images I did the decoupage and let him do the glueing, inking and stamping in Harrys words winking and stamping He's only 3

2010 in the Pink

Some of the New year cards I have been working on cut and designed with Pazz;es, I used irredescent pink card, printed the greetings and added punched snowflakes, ribbon and glitter

Butterfly book

Butterfly Book I used the Bind it all, Organza ribbons and MCS no stamp required to fill the pages with Butterflies to be left or coloured in

Karate Christmas

One of the reasons I enjoy making personalised cards is that you cannot buy these from the shops and you can play until you like the end result this was for a Karate club. I used Sharn Duncan Oriental CD and just popped hats onto the two end karate figures

Fairy Birthdays

A4 card I used the pazzles to cut out the swirls and then coloured the cut outs and used them as well. I got the decoupage image using MCS and added a few flourishes and wording

Doggy News

A card for a Male who like to read news papers and loves dogs I got the image from one of the decoupage Cds and changed the colour slightly, printed the greeting and matted and layered both

Born to shop

I made a few birthday cards in between the christmas cards which lightened the load!

this card I used Crafters Companion Hobbies Female decoupage I used a stamp for the boutique background and a few other stamps and coloured with a mixture of chalk and ink

A4 lattice heart card

Another Lattice heart cut with Pazzles I used punched snowflakes, holly leaves, pearly doodles and gems and printed the greeting in colours to match

Fireman Sam

I added a christmas hat and Christmas lights using MCS to the decoupage on one of the many Decoupage Cds I have and to finish added white pom poms

Penguin footballers

For my grandsons they are all football crazy hense the footballs.

I used Cuttlebug embossing folders crafters companion xmas cd and die cut footballs.

I printed the greetings straight onto the card and embossed with pearlised powder, then finished with punched snowflakes and a little glitter

Christmas card cheats

With all the orders I had to do I had to cheat a little for my own! I had bought a Xmas card kit a while back full of pre printed cards and toppers, all I had to do was put them together and print out the greeting to personalise them I made 80 lol

Christmas Stockings

An A4 card I used a graphics programm to manipulate the image to turn it all black n white but leave the garland and stockings coloured and added names to each of the stockings.

I also printed extra stockings to decoupage finished with Ribbons and glitter