Blue card

Good 'Sunday morning' to everyone, I hope that wherever you are the sun is shining and you are looking forward to doing something nice today. Our weather today is rather drab and it looks like the rain is on it's way.  
My Sunday is just a typical one, ironing my sons' work uniform, maybe tidy away some crafting things as at the moment I cannot find a single solitary thing!!!  First things first though, get this posting onto my blog.

I created this card using Spellbinders Shapeabilities Medallion One, I followed making this card with Christina Griffiths, from Flowers, Ribbons and Pearls.  She put this tutorial onto Card Making World, but Christina used Medallion Seven.  As I don't have Medallion Seven, I thought that I would try it out with Medallion One.  I must admit I was quite pleased with how it turned out.

I used a 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 card (odd size I know, but this was a set of blank cards that I got from one of the craft fairs that I went to).  I cut out a smaller piece of pearlescent card to act as a layer for the card, I then tied ribbon round each corner and then stuck down this piece of card onto the main card.
I then embossed the main die onto a (nearly) 10cm x 10cm piece of blue card and then die-cut a full piece so that I could put this behind the embossed (cut out) piece of paper.  I then die-cut a white piece of card and die-cut a full piece so that I could put this behind the white card.  Once I had stuck these pieces down to where they were going, I added a blue crystal to the white die-cut and white pearls to the blue embossed pieces.  To finish of the card, I attached 9 smaller pearls down the left hand side of the card and a small sentiment in blue and white card, 'For You'.

This card didn't take all that long to make and it was a pleasure finishing it so that I could see what it looked like.

I hope that you like my 'quick make'.

My sock monkey

I thought as Creative Bug on the Loose were having a Mega Monkey Mania theme with their freebies and new images of sock monkeys that I would take a picture of one of my sock monkeys,  he was used on an advert for Tea bags.  So he really is a celebrity monkey. He has pride of place at the end of my bed along with a couple of other monkey friends.

Why not pop on over and have a look at Naomi's shop full of images, as I am sure that there will be something that will take your fancy.

'Legs a-dangling'

Hmm, it's Saturday, what could I do today??

Here he is 'posing' for the camera!!

The Outlawz - Paper a la Mode Challenge - 7th September - 13th September 2013

So onto this weeks Paper a la Mode Challenge!  7th September  - 13th September 2013

So on behalf of, Emily,Theresa, Rona, myself, Miranda, Katherine and Karen, we welcome you to this week's challenge and hope you find time this week to play along with us. 

So if you are not a member of the Outlawz, why not come along and see what challenges there are and take part in either one or all of them.  There are many prizes to win and many challenges to take part in.

Our theme this week is Back to School

Go along to The Outlawz to see what inspired our Design Team and enter the challenge







Here is my card for some inspiration

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Yellow Pearl

Here is a very quick post that I put together using 5 x 7 Enchanted Labels 28 and Decorative Labels 28.
All I did was emboss the large die from Enchanted Labels and then put on top the largest and the second largest of the Decorative Labels 28.  I tied a yellow ribbon round the smallest of the decorative labels 28 and then tied a ribbon and put that on top.  I then attached a pearl dazzler, which I coloured in yellow with my promarkers.  I then attached a few smaller pearls, again coloured with promarkers.

Sports Car Birthday Card

I was asked by a friend of mine to make a birthday card for her hubby, all she wanted on it was an older style sports car.  She came up with the verse herself as she wanted it to be something special for him.

The card was done with decoupage and once I had decoupaged what needed to be done, I then covered it Pinflair Craft Glaze in order to give it quite a high shine.  I hope she will be happy with what I have done, as it was the easiest card that I have ever made. 

Another prize

I am so excited as I won another prize over at 
A Look Through My Eyes

Thank you Deb for this wonderful prize, I won these goodies and a gift certificate to spend at Angela Holt Designs Shop, which will have to make their way across land and sea.  
Deb was celebrating her and her hubby Paul's  3rd Anniversary and the birthday of Eva who turned 1 year old and who has just recently joined their family, 
and what a little 'sweety' she is, go across to Deb's site and have a look at the wonderful pics 
that she has posted.  
Deb decided that in order to celebrate these wonderful events she would give away these wonderful prizes, I thought it should have been the other way around. lol

OOOhhh I can't wait until they arrive

(I have been trying for ever to centre these two blinkies, but it is not working for me)

The Bling Chronicles

New Papers

Good morning everyone, I just thought I would keep you up to date with the new papers that are appearing on the Free Craft Downloads site.    

New papers are dragons, pandas and rings, unicorns and lorries.  

So why not go and have a look as this is a site that should never be missed out, there are so many papers available for you to use in your crafting.  

You name it, it's there, don't miss out on any updates, sign up for a newsletter and you will get all the new papers as they come online.

This is only a part of the papers that are available, they have these papers in all types of sizes and colours, so what are you waiting for - go on and have a look.

Christmas Carousel

I have decided to enter this Christmas carousel into the 

Beyond Grey Challenge - BGC #38 Gifting Love.

The purpose of the challenge is to Create a project with a gift on it such that it can be removed (detached) without affecting your creation OR create a project where your creation is not only a means to wishing people but it is a gift in itself. 

I think that my Christmas carousel fits this theme as underneath the carousel is a hidden gift which can be removed completely, without affecting the main creation.  You can eat the contents and then put the insert back inside with no-one knowing about it.

I started off with first creating the base of the carousel and worked my way up from the bottom.  Once the base was complete, I then inserted straws which were covered with ribbon and attached 'christmassy things' around the carousel.  I put snowflake brads round the bottom of the base and used blue glitter paper to bring a bit of sparkle.  I then created the top of the carousel by creating a sort of pyramid of white glitter paper with white snowflakes around the roof.  I then used silver rope stick ons round the bottom of the carousel roof.  I used silver mirri card round the bottom of the roof in order to hide the workings of the top of the inside roof of the carousel.  Once this was completed, I then attached Christmas lights round the outside of the mirri card.  These were attached with clear thread and they were intermittently spread out with crystals and lights.  To finish off the top of the roof, I attached long strings of blue pearls round the edge.

The bottom of the hidden part of the carousel had handmade biscuits put inside (not as many as was first made, as I had to try them out first. lol)  I then made a pink box with scalloped edges and used the inside of packaging to put inside handmade chocoloates, this was finished off with a pink ribbon.  I also put in a purple heart which says, 'I love you'.