Bye Bye - Off to Granny's

I thought these images from Digital pencil Too would make a perfect GrandMother card, it reminded me so much of my 2 girls running over to their Nanna's to raid the cake tin lol!

On another note it would also make a great fun wedding cardwith a note saying and they lived happily ever after.

Attention to detail...

I matched the inside of the gatefold card in the same theme as the front edging the insert with red gingham amd using the scallop border punch to give a fancy edge.

The little flowers were punched out from a corner punch I have, I dotted the centre of the flowers in red glued them in place and using a white pen dashed some faux stitching.

I love the detail in these images the Bye bye girl has a ladybug backpack and the Bye bye boy has a car backpack cute, cute, cute.

Jack 20 Weeks Old

It has been a little while since I gave you all an update on Jack's progress and as I had him for a few hours tonight I thought I'd share a couple of pictures with you.
He arrived to us like this...

And in no time at all with a bit of prodding and poking (wink) to help him wake up, we had him

like this....

and this...

he really is a happy little chap

Navy Iced

Navy and ice white card.

The tree is a stamp from the set As lovely as a tree from Stampin Up, stamps onto navy coloured card then heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then punched out the border using a Martha Stewart Border Punch.

The white iced card is embossed with the cuttlebug folders Vicyoria and Snowflakes.

I layered all the card together then finished with a Snowflake charm a ribbon and Stickle Ice glitter glue over the tree.

Gingerbread Man Winners

The winner of the Waltzing Mouse Gingerbread Stamps are...

Joan Cummings

Debs Ankin

Cally Ancell

Marge E Robertson

Ladies please contact me jakheath@gmail.com with your address details and I will have a set of the stamps sent out to you.

Congratulations and a big thank you for supporting me in my fundraising.

Coexist - Fur Fear

I have to say this is one of the scariest projects I have done the digi image is by Mo Manning and is called Coexist and doesn't it just make you say "awe"?

Well I have been dying to give this one a go but I have a fur fear, no not really, just the thought of how to tackle colouring it sent me in a spin. I wasn't going to let it beat me so here is my result.

Teamed with 2 pretty papers a ribbon and a button to finish.

Attention to detail...

So I thought I would give the attention to detail to the fur.

I did colour with Promarkers but I just wasn't getting the effect that i was after so I remembered what Jim Harker (artist for La Pashe) told me.

He said "there is no law against mixing mediums" so that is exactly what I did, I used watercolour pencils on top of the Promarkers and I have to say that I am quite chuffed with the result

I'd love to hear your comments on this one, I love reading them

Jordan Multitasking - Joint Effort

Can you remember Lauren? "eldest daughter, Mother of Jack" well from being old enough to pick stuff up she has always had to have a try of everything she saw, as she got older I was always threatening to chop her fingers off if she touched my craft stash and I thought she would grow out of it "but"no!

This time she asked if she could colour in one of my digi stamps from Digital Pencil too as Jack lay sleeping on Friday afternoon I asked what she was going to colour it in with and she pointed gingerly to my Promarker stash, I said she could but only if she returned each one to when she got the from as I have them all in order.

I was so impressed that I thought it warranted a card being made.

Now I think the girl did good, first try of Promarkers too, it just goes to show that you don't need to be an expert when teamed with a good image by Mo and a set of Promarkers.

Last Chance - Gingerbread Man Stamps

It is the last chance today to enter the draw to win the Gingerbread Man stamps from Waltzing Mouse stamps, Claire Brennan donated 4 of the stamps for a very worthy cause. click here for details on how to enter.

Friend to Friend

A chocolate card base and pretty paper and some cream card embossed using the Victoria A2 Cuttlebug folder.

Attention to detail...

A fancy paper fold with a double sided paper, a diagonal concertina fold.

The flower was a mishap, I cut off the stem and the centre bud dropped out so I used a bead and a gold finding to replace it.

Paper- Bella Bleu (Stampin Up), Card - Papermill Shop

Embossing - Victoria A2 Folder (Cuttlebug), Stamp - Stampin Up

Nestabilities Tags, Ribbon, Flower and findings - My stash