This must be one healthy little lady, they say that blueberry’s are good for you and this little lady has them in abundance.
Blueberry Girl from Mo’s Digital Pencil
I think had it been me picking the blueberry’s I’d of had the evidence all around my mouth ha ha.
Image coloured with Copic markers
I simply love this, have you ever seen such a big one before?
I’ve seen ones half this size but this one is humongous. It is a Haggis of course, I friend of my husbands was in Bonny Scotland visiting his Mother and brought it back for us.
I like to slice it up, freeze it in portions and have if fried yum yum yum!
Another image that has been coloured for some time just awaiting some inspiration and then I found the background from HOTP just by chance by flicking through one of their background paper pads.
This is from the Ragamuffin Range from Saturated Canary Digis
I added a prima blossom some haberdashery trim pearls from Mei Flower, buttons and ribbons.
I added some ink to the pre embossed blossoms on the card edge to prettify them.
I hope where ever you are that your weather is being much kinder than what it is in the North East of the UK, it’s blowing a Hooley here we've had snow sleet electricity cut and even a bit of sun this morning, crazy weather.
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.
Its that time again for the Just Inklined Blog hop and this month I am the host and I have chosen Pleats as the theme.
The blog hop start with me so you are at the right place, I know all of the girls have been working hard on their projects so remember to leave them all a comment for a chance to win a spot prize.
The image I used is called Poppy Cluster and it’s gorgeous, it is one of the new digital stamps and can be found here
So on to the pleats, I used a Martha Stewart border punch on some red card and scored lines on my ScorPal and carfully pleated and added it behind my image. I used Copic markers and Prisma pencils to colour the Poppy Cluster.
I used some prima resin poppies and a Cheery Lynn flourish die.
I also used some gorgeous pre-pleated ribbon from Ribbon Carousel behind the image.
Hope you like it and got a little inspiration, you now need to hop over to the wonderful Tammy’s blog as she is next on the hop and don’t forget to leave comments.
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.
We had a wonderful night out last night, Great company and great food. The boys hris and Russ could hardly get a word in edgeways for Sheena and myself and the chat just flowed, I love nights like that.
We all had so much to talk about and boy did we laugh, Sheena and I decided on the same meal of Lamb until we were asked what we would like then all Sheena could see in her mind were the wee bah lambs that she had just made into craft stamps ha ha, so pork it was for Sheena, if you haven't seen her latest rubber stamps you must go and check them out here, they are brilliant.
Ok nails are done, I have to say they are much better than they were but not as good as I would have liked.
As you can see from the pictures below I didn’t have much for them to work with. I struggle to grow my nails with the psoriasis and I would have like to have kept them totally natural but because I wasn’t totally happy with the result I painted them.
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Ok thats it, we’re off out for our meal with Sheena and husband Russ and i’ll try to get some pictures if we come up for breath.
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.
If you’ve been watching the world weather or if you live in the UK you will know that we are having a very unusual March here.
The sun is splitting the trees and it’s hot hot hot. I sat in my car at lunch time and I baked, it didn’t take me long before I gave up and went back in doors. In fact I got a taxi drivers suntan all red down one side. I’m hoping it stays this way for a little while because it’s lovely to see so many people out and about.
our Jack got his first pair of sun glasses and he told me they were his “cool dude glasses” and who am I to argue?
I thought I should show you the proof in the pudding and let you decide.
Digital Scrapbook page made with My Memories Suite
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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.
I have another from Victoria Case to show you today.
I think this would make the perfect good luck card, You can still purchase some of Victoria’s digi’s from http://home.earthlink.net/~vtcase/id15.html in fact I have just bought Cowgirl and Cherry on Top
Isn’t she gorgeous?
Coloured with Copic Markers and Prisma Pencils
I used stickles glitter glue to accent her hat and trim. I also used Thickers letters (glass slipper) for the lucky word and a real casino chip to embellish and a beautiful ribbon to finish.
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Its times like this when I wish my Dad was here to see this, he would have been well amused with this card, he’d of loved the character and the wording is something that would have come out of his lips.
Introducing Oscar is a Mo Manning image and can be purchased from Mo’s Digital Pencil
Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and teamed with Limited Edition papers.
The wording was from an old K & Co scrapbook pad.
I think this would make the perfect man card some wording like “am I really that old?”
So I am sporting deep purple toe nails for this season.
