UK Soldiers in Afghanistan

I was asked by a Michelle Bayliss if I would mention that she is organising Cards for our Troups in Afghanistan If you can support this I'm sure our soldiers would appreciate the thought.

This is what Michelle has to say.

" I am collecting cards for the UK Soldiers in Afghanistan. If you have any cards lying around that you may not use or that may be suitable, and would like to donate them, please email me at michelle.bayliss@gmail.com and I will send you my address Many thanks Shell "

Project of the Month Hop

This is the first of the Blog Hops for Mo's Dream Team

We will hold this every third Thursday of the month , we aim to give you a little inspiration and hopefully a few Oooo's and Awe's along the way, The Dream Team is made up with some of the most talented ladies so be sure to give them all a visit.

The theme for our projects this month is:

"Favorite Mo Stamp, along with Favorite Color Combo"

So this is one of my favourites.

Kai in the Snow

Take 3

As you can see I printed 3 images coloured 1 totally then the other 2 coloured the parts in the image that would be closest to me.

This gives you a better view of how I layered up the Kai image.

Attention to detail...

I used a peeloff (eek) which was clear with a silver outline and added it to the coloured card and cut around it for the larger snowflake, for the smaller one it was a Kurtake punch then coated it with glass glitter and added a pearl to the centre.

A couple of smaller snowflake to the bottom corner and a little snowman charm to the ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed a view of how I used the image.

For more fabulous inspiration that you are just not going to want to miss go and see Elaine Hughes project, all you have to do is click HERE and I'll take you over there.

In addition to the Blog Hop the challenge team have also been busy, so check out

Mo's Chalenge Blog

Winter Door with Wreath

I coloured this digi Stamp (Door with Wreath) by Mo Manning with Promarkers the wreath is part of the drawing but I think you'll agree that it looks 3d it literally pops.

The base card was embossed with the snow fall embossing folder, I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the dotted paper. The image was die cut using the Quickutz cookie cutters some red seed beads a blue satin ribbon and a die cut snowflake, to finish a sprinkle of crushed glass glitter.

Attention to detail...

On this close up shot you can see the crushed glass glitter and the seed beads that I added for berries I dotted a little glue about the image and again added the crushed glass glitter to mock falling snow.

Poinsettia Baubles - Free Download

I thought I would make another Christmas Bauble and Bow free download as the other seemed quite popular, I hope you like this one too.

You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share, claim them as your own or sell them, instead link back to my blog for people to download them.

They are copyright.
Just click on the image and this will bring it to full size on your screen then save it to your computer.
The sheet will print to a normal size A4 sheet, once saved to your computer double click on the file then from the top menu on your computer click, file then print this will then print out the image

Halloween Classic

Playing again with the Halloween stamp set.

Black base card stamped with a Penny Black crest stamp, shapes one black and one white cut with the Nestabilities Labels and the white one stamped using the Halloween stamp set from Waltzing Mouse Stamps the wording says Witch's Brew.

I black ribbon and white button to finish.

Attention to detail...

This is the inside of the card, I added a little packet with some witch's brew (teabag) inside and a little stamped verse from the Waltzing Mouse Stamp set again using the Nestabilities label set to cut the shape and a couple of black snaps to finish.

Baby Sitting Jack - 12 weeks old

We had the privilege of having Jack overnight last week, Mum & Dad went out for a meal which meant that Grandad and myself had the chance to get lots of cuddles with this little lad.

I did the during the night shift and Grandad did the early morning shift leaving me in bed for a little while longer.

Grandad and Jack have lots of conversations and this one amused Jack greatly as he went from this........

to this.....

The chat obviously tickled Jack, check out that curly nose ha,ha,ha.

Noelle Bearing Gifts

The card is A5 size but in a tent fold the pretty papers are by Graphic 45 they have some wonderful 12x12 papers well worth checking out. I used the digi stamp Noelle Bearing Gifts by Mo Manning and coloured the image with promarkers the Nestabilities shapes and ribbon tag are both by spellbinders. all layered up and tied together with old gold satin ribbon.

Attention to Detail...

I used a little snowflake punch to punch out the border from glittered gold card, actually the glitter card was from last years Christmas crackers I new it was saved for something.

Spooky - Halloween

My lovely talented friend Claire from Waltzing Mouse Stamps contacted me and asked me to pick a stamp set of my choice, this was so difficult as all of her stamps are a must have, but, I soon fell in love with this creepy set, I know my Grandson Jack is not yet walking but time goes by so quickly & I feel that he will be needing to be trick or treating in the very near future.

So here it is my very first Halloween card ever!

All stamps are from Waltzing Mouse Stamps the words are die cut using the Cuttlebug and the googly eyes were bought from a haberdashery

"Claire.... I hope it tickles".