Baby Card

This special baby card is the most beautiful card in the world. Just ask any grand parent and they will tell you that it's true.

Lauren went for her first scan on Tuesday afternoon and came straight over to show me the scanned image.

Baby Anderson is 12 weeks and 1 day out of 40 weeks keeping warm by my Daughter Lauren. This is Laurens first baby and she just can't wait.

During the scan they noticed that Lauren has got a double Uterus.

If you click on the large scanned image you can even see the baby's eyes.

Vintage Lady Stamped Card

A Stamped Vintage Lady card, the card base is a pre printed A4 card folded in half, I still love Vintage cards and often drift back to this style when I need some inspiration, I love working with inks and getting my hands dirty, so, Tuesday I will be going to work sporting green inky fingers.

The lady is a rubber stamp by Stampsmith she is one of Shakespeare Heroins, I used green distress ink by Ranger to stamp the image then tore around the edges and used the same ink to distress by ponging the ink on the edges of the image.

It was this stamp that inspired the card as I think she is just so beautiful.

I punched out some flower shapes in cream and green card then used wet glue on the petals and dipped them into crushed glass glitter, I have 2lbs in weight of this glitter to use up ha ha ha.

This is a rubber stamp flower stamped onto acetate then cut out, I then wrapped the threaded beads onto a large gold brad and then poked the brad through the acetate and secured the beaded flower onto the card with a glue dot.

Glimmer Mists Card

This is the second Glimmer Mists background that I made, the glimmer mists by Tattered Angels is colour inks and mica powders in a spray bottle you build up the colours by spraying your paper and letting the inks slightly overlap, you can see the glimmer on the background in this picture.

I stamped the Ellusive Images Koi Carp onto stampbord and coloured the stampbord with matching inks added a bit of glitter and used Sakura pens to colour the Koi Carp.

Cuttlebug Bird Call & Glimmer Mists card

The background on the stamped watercolour paper was made with Glimmer Mists I love the way the colours have formed I started with the lights colour in this case it was gold, then misted over a blue and a black cherry colour then let it dry naturally.

Once dry I used the Penny Black aspire stamp and the bird and wording from PTI set Birds of a feather and created a picture.

I used the Cuttlebug folder Bird Call and embossed a piece of card then sponged over this with a wine coloured ink.

I used the Spellbinders Tag Trio to cut out the wording and tied this to the card with a burgandy wine coloured ribbon.

I thought it was worth adding a close up of the glimmer mist background that I made the nice thing about glimmer mist is every time you spray you know you will end up with something different I just wish I could show the twinkle it has. As soon as I layered the glimmer mist colours on this paper I saw a morning sky.

Flippin Men by La Pashe

Flippin' Bookies is one of the decoupage sheets that is close to my heart, it was designed shortly before I lost my Dad he was renowned to have a little flutter on the horses an the bookies odds board you can see the first runner is Jacks Lad.

I had bets on that I could get 2 cards from this sheet.

This is the reverse image of Flippin' Bookies I made this one up on a DL card I used the title on the Decoupage sheet as embellishment words.

Flippin' Snooker, this decoupage was added to a gate fold card, and the sentiment was added to the opposite side of the gate fold. Just a few peel off corners and borders to embellish.

I added the flip side of the image to the inside of the card, you can see from the shot I added a side spine to the card as I don't want the decoupage to be crushed.

If you are stuck for a verse to add to your Flippin' Men cards it could be well worth your while popping over to Jon's blog as he has made up some verses for you to use.

Flippin' Men Stamped Card

I'm thrilled that I have managed to create a stamp with the Flippin' Men! Flippin'Peace image.

I have been given exclusive rights to make 20 of these sets & should have them up and running by 15th January.

This is done on an A5 card I stamped the image and coloured it with Copic Markers, I actually think the image looks fabulous left black without any colour as done in the insert shown under the card.

I made an insert and stamped the back image instead of a verse along side some of the stamp wording, much easier to add a stamped image rather than a verse for men's cards.

My New Toy

After deliberating and stewing over buying this I can now confirm that I love it.

You know the problem of going to work in the dark mornings and returning home when it is dark and needing to take a picture of a card in the daylight mostly by balancing the card on the windowsil and praying that the sun (if any) won't cast shadows.

Well that was the problem I faced most days. I bought a soft box well actually 2 one with lights but then the problem was where to keep it and then the studio lights were enourmous so where the heck are you supposed to put them when they aren't in use? I ended up taking one of the soft boxes to work to use on photography there & the other was made redudant along with the lights stashed away in the loft.

So I needed something compact that would solve my lighting problems and I found it, it wasn't cheap so I had to save up my pennies and put some Christmas money towards it.

So What is it?

THIS

This shot of my new toy is took with the lights off and the door closed, I mainly take shots with the door open, as you can see it is small, it's height inside is roughly the height of a bottle of plonk (wine) and its width inside is roughly 8inches.

With a card inside ready to take a photograph

there is 2 sets of CC lights at either side at the front and a blue spot light to take shots of glitter and bling.

With all of the lights on, this was not a close up shot I cut the image down but it shows just how bright the box is.

Where to buy or get more information: http://otamat.com/Photo_Light_Boxes.html

A Beautiful War Time Card

This most beautiful old card is 92 years old and it was given to me by a very dear lady Sue Ward to whom I am extremely grateful, it arrived this morning and I carefully opened it and then just sat in awe.

It will be highly treasured. Thank you Sue.

Sue has Kindly allowed me to tell the story of the card.

"It is a small ( smaller than A6) Christmas card dated 1916 and it has the original envelope... although it is a bit worse for wear...and addressed to my "gran and grandad." The card is cream and I think the aperture sentiment is printed on lavender silk. A bit about how I came to have it. When I was 5 I was fostered by a couple with the surname Trigg...who I considered to be my "Mam and Dad" The rest of their family...bar a very few...didn't consider me as part of the family. They are no longer with us, and after they died the rest of the family, after picking over the belongings left me with a few precious photo's and this card. I did ask about it, and was told that it came from an uncle and no one seemed bothered about it. I've hung on to it because although it doesn't have any real family connection to me, I didn't like to throw it out but I'm afraid that one day that might just happen...as obviously none of my children have any connection to it. "