I've used the No Greater Love Clear Stamp by The Crafts Meow today for my card, i love the endless possibilities to the use of this stamp. I kept the card monotone but I think the world is your oyster in the colours that could be used with it, I’m thinking Christenings, in blue or pink, Confirmations, Weddings, Easter,and on and on and on.
Pearls dotted around are from Mei Flower and i used a Spellbinders piercebilities die.
Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter Weekend, we have Mam coming for her dinner, which will be lovely.
I had a late start this morning and just can’t seem to get motivated today, but I did motivate myself enough to get a card made.
Meet Easter Thoughts from D’Arcy’s Diaries
Such a pretty little thing, I used the Spellbinders nestabilities egg dies to cut out the image then edged it with lace.
The image is coloured with Copic markers.
I used the Mei Flower Gems to highlight the Prima Blossoms, Mei Flower have free shipping this weekend so go and stock up.
What are you doing this Easter? I’d love to know.
I don’t know about you but my dies and not just the spellbinders ones end up rattling around in a draw and I have to rummage through them to find the one I want, I have some of the smaller ones in an album but the larger ones and the border dies left me with a storage problem.
I was contacted by a company which asked if there product was something that I’d like to take a look at, so i popped over to check them out and soon realised that they could have the answer to the die storage problem.
So I was thrilled when I realised that it worked.
I know it looks like a black A4 a piece of black card but it is in fact an A4 sheet magnet, as you can see you can fit loads on it and better still it has enough pull power to keep them in one place, I even stood the sheet up to make sure they wouldn’t fall of, I then give them the shake test and they still held fast, the reverse side of mine is red but they come in a few different colours so they could be colour co-ordinated to the dies.
The Company is called First4Magnets and it does just stop at sheet Magnets, take a look at the size of these ones in their craft magnets and because they also do self adhesive ones they would be fabulous for the like of handbag card closures.
I was so blown away with the size of some of them that I added a 5 pence coin next to them to show you.
I know that Chris (long suffering husband) has his eye on some of them for his model making.
Another card to showcase from the Victoria Case Stamp images, I didn’t think I would get a card made today as I’ve been cooing over my new great niece Amelia Grace, I hate to say it but I forgot to take my camera with me but I’ll take so pictures later to show you, she’s such a doll.
She’s a bit cheeky don’t you think? Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma pencils and edged with Spellbinders edgabilities.
I sort of sensored the close up with my watermark ha,ha.
I also used a memorybox flourish die and twistered it to make a corner and added gems from Mei Flower to the flower centers then used my trusted Cuttlebug to emboss the base card with a sizzix embossing folder.
Geesh it’s been hot, I managed to get my washing dried outside today, I love that. Tomorrow I’m going to treat myself and have my nails done as the sunny weather makes me want pretty nails. then tomorrow night I’ve a date with husband Chris and we are going out for dinner with Sheena Douglas and her lovely man Russ.
So onto my card, keeping in the theme of sunny days and thinking of afternoon teas I reached for the new Nitwit collection of Time for Tea and came up with this.
Isn’t it pretty? I used one of the spellbinders oval frame dies from the pierceabilities range, I played around with the time for tea collection in my graphics program to make the center piece.
I used the Mei Flower gems top and bottom of the card,I love the graduated sizes of them all on one card.
Finished it off with a pretty sheer lemon ribbon and a Prima stick pin.
Mother duck said “quack, quack, quack, quack” and only five little ducks came back.
Mother Duck, a newly released digital stamp from Just Inklined
Such a gorgeous image this one, I coloured it with copic markers and teamed it with Stampin Up papers a pretty ribbon and pearls from Mei Flower
The eggs are a spellbinders die that I dotted and distressed.
Some images just scream elegance and this is one of them, it is by Victoria Case and it is one that she gave to her facebook friends, I truly wish that Victoria would reopen her digi shop because her art is stunning. Although you can still buy a few of her dig’s from here
I used a craft knife on the wings of this beauty and lifted them up off the page I placed a second image underneath where the wings are all coloured up so that you couldn’t see the gaps.
I used my airbrush for the background and covered over the image with a mask
Soft shades for colours for this Angel as I wanted is to be dreamy, I used the Spellbinders edgeabilities and the Memory Box flower wreath and made a wire net flower and butterfly.
You know when you have a colour layout in your head but you never can quite find the shade you are looking for? well this happened to me months ago so I laid the image to one side and every now and again i would pick it up and try to match it again and end up laying it right back down and using another image.
I picked up a paper pack at Harrogate on the The Hobby House stand and I knew instantly that it would be perfect for this image.
Winifred from Mo’s Digital Pencil
I used pearls from Mei Flower to accent the card, their pearls are second to none and the range is amazing as well as their prices. the flowers are made from the brown paper and the larger one with my Tonic Studios pinking shears.
I used one of the spellbinders frame dies to cut out the image and finished with a pretty bow.
It’s that time again and this Months theme for the Blog Hop is A bit of Verdigris (the colour green)and Debby is the host and that is where the blog hop begins.
You should have landed on my blog from Pops if not hop back there.
I kept mostly to green with my card and I used Window Seat from Mo’s Digital pencil for my image, she’s perfect for teenage cards.
Coloured with Copic Markers and Prisma Pencils then matted and layered on top of a leafy embossed background done with the sizzix die on the Grande Calibur by spellbinders.
The flowers are from Orchid Crafts
Next up is lori and I know she will spoil you with something amazing.
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This is such a sweet image that I thought it would be perfect for Mothering Sunday Cards and you could even colour theme is to your Mums Favourite colours.
Lazy Daisy Digi stamp from Just Inklined
Coloured with Promarker pens and Prisma pencils, The borders are from Spellbinders Edgebilities, some pearls and blossoms and a pretty ribbon to finish.
I used backing papers from My Memories Suite Digital scrapbook software you can save a fortune doing this. 
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We have two babies that will arrive into our family in the next couple of weeks so I thought I’d best get cracking with something pretty. One of which will be Kim and David's, I guess most of you remember the tragic loss of their beautiful baby boy Layton and I know many of you gave so generously when I did the fundraising for meningitis in his memory.
I love Mo Manning's baby images, so beautiful and this one is no exception.
Baby Boy b is from Mo’s Digital Pencil 
Coloured with Copic markers and prisma pencils the swirly embossing is a sizzix embossing folder and as this is an 8 inch card I used the Grande Calibur from Spellbinders to do the embossing. I don’t have a raspberry plate so I used the cutting plate and the B plate for the Cuttlebug.
The gorgeous ribbon is from Ribbon Carousel
I’m not sure if it’s the new specs but everything is looking cleaner and fresh since I got them, so todays choice of image is perfect.
Spring Bringer by Wee Stamps, I just love the faces on these wee darlings.
I kept the colours in line with Spring and added pearls glitter (which isn’t showing, but know her wings are sparkling) and used a ribbon from the march collection of Ribbon Carousel and Grande Calibur Borders and foliage from Spellbinders
I’m struggling with my blood count uh! I’ve had a terrible sand paper rash for about 4 weeks now, it’s all over my chest forehead behind my ears little bit on my nose and over my back, we think (doctor thinks) it may be to do with my bloods. I had both a letter and a telephone call again from the hospital so I have to go back again and I am starting to resemble a very well used pin cushion.
I know, I know, I bought one but I just couldn’t do it, so I set to straight after dinner and got cracking making a card for Chris’s Mam & Dad, I may keep the other for his Dads Birthday or Fathers Day.
A bit of a filigree feel to this one.
Soft, dreamy and clean, I used a heart corner punch (corner adorner) really old punch, my ScorPal for the embossing, love the ScorPal, Moroccan spellbinders die on the Grande Calibur, Memory Box Heart die, some ribbons and pearl pins.
I also used my Stampin Up heart punch and a bit of matting and layering.
