Top Three

WOOHOO, I've got another Winner over at Craft my Life for my bezel.  Nice to get this one too.  Just thought I would let you all know.

16th Birthday

I was asked to make a very floral, girly, card for a 16 year old.  Her mum had a lot of input into what she was wanting on the card, so this card was basically made to exactly as asked for.  

I used the Venetian Accents border die and cut it out twice, I then stuck these two border pieces onto the card and plaited ribbon through.  I then stuck a pink bow and put a pink dazzler and two stick pins to finish off the card.  I put Dannah's name down the right hand side of the card,

 using diamantes to spell out her name.

I cut out the number 16 and stuck this down with foam stickers on top of pink Happy Birthday paper.  I used a 16th Birthday badge created by Annette of Netty's Cards.  The other side of the page was a decoupaged Fairy Wishes which I got from Craftsuprint CUP345452-1483

I sprinkled some Glamour Dust over the Fairy and the rose and the butterfly (which was not part of the Fairy Wishes decoupage)

Box for card - I attached a couple of little charms at the top of the roses

I hope you like my girly card.

Celebration of World Card Making Day

I am sorry everyone, I have been MIA for quite a while now.  I haven't been very well and haven't been blogging or even making cards.  

I am doing this post to support one of my friends, Lisa, over at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles who has decided to celebrate World Card Making Day 5th October 2013, in order for her to make it a celebration she is giving away some great FREEBIES in the shape of words that can be used for celebration.

As Lisa says in her post:

"How is that for a start?!  Now I do have a little something extra planned, but this time you need to do some work yourself.  Since this celebration is all about our cards, I thought it would be nice to see one of your favourite cards that you created and posted about, from the last year.  I was going to ask you to share your favourite, but when I thought about it, I could never come up with an absolute favourite myself.  I have a range of cards that are my favourite and I am guessing that you do as well.  So, start scrolling through your old posts and find a card that you really, really like.  Come over here and link it up BUT you also have to leave me a comment on this post telling me WHY it is one of your favourites.  That isn't too difficult now is it?  Check out what you have a chance to win..."

So why not pop over to Lisa's blog and see what she has on offer and don't forget to put in your favourite cards that you have made from last year.  You never know what you could win.

Here are some of my favourite cards that I made during the year

The very very first card that I ever made.

I just loved this card as it was the first Frantage card that I have done and I really liked how it turned out, I love the sentiment as well as there is nothing more true than,

 'Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, And impossible to forget'

I have found a lot of good friends through blogging and this saying for me says it all.

Although not exactly my best card that I have done, I enjoyed making this 'Penny Slider' card.  It was so much fun to make and when I decided to have a little dinosaur popping out of one egg and the two boys popping out of the other one, 

this made the card perfect and the boys definately liked it.

My very first card made using Pan Pastels where I fell in love with what this medium could do.  

This was the first card that I had ever used acetate on and I was extremely happy how it turned out. I used the acetate and bevelled it across the front so that all the flowers wouldn't be moved or spoiled.

I have tried out 4-page cards before, but I was really pleased with how this one turned out.

Although not a card, it was presented as a card and a present.  The bottom of the Carousel could come out and the present (above) was hidden inside the Carousel.

This was when I started using my Spellbinders more often, I am trying to use them in more of my cards.  Sometimes I find it difficult how to place them, but I am finding ways of using them better.

I hope that you like my little 'montage' of favourite makes over the year, although I have much more that I enjoyed making I could probably go on forever.

sS

Free Craft Downloads

Hi everyone, once again the Free Craft Downloads site has come up trumps.  They have loads of Halloween papers available for everyone to use and don't forget about the page where you can make your own backing papers.

Here is a little taste of what they have on offer, so why not pop along and see whether or not they have anything that you could use for your Halloween cards.  They have backing papers of all different sizes, decoupage, pyramage, digi stamps all free for you to take and use as you wish, obviously following their Angel policy.

Backing papers - all different sizes and colours

Decoupage and pyramage

Backing papers - all different sizes

Decoupage and backing papers - all different sizes

Decoupage - Witches brewing

Backing papers - all different sizes

Backing papers  - all different sizes

Backing papers - all different sizes

Decoupage and Pyramage  Bea Witch

Coloured digi stamp, there is also a black and white digi stamp available

These are only samples of what is available, so why not go along and see whether or not there is something that you can use on your Halloween cards.

Bit by the Bug Tuesday - Little Monkeys Jumping on Bed

It is time for another Bit By the Bug Tuesday. The day where I introduce you all to the newest freebies over at Creative Bug on the Loose. This week we have...

Little Monkeys Jumping on Bed

Here is my card ..............

I cut out the whole of the image and set it on a V-shape to prop up the back of the card.  I coloured in the card with my Promarkers and attached the sentiment which I got from Decosse's Dynamite Doodle, Lisa very kindly sent me this sentiment and I thought that it would look good on this card.

So, what are you waiting for? To take advantage of this sweet image, head on over to Creative Bug on the Loose and follow the instructions on how to bring these cute little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed home with you. While you are over there, don't forget to check out all the great digis Naomi has available in the store for purchase and don't forget to leave her a little love too.

I've caught the Bug, have you?

Free Craft Downloads website - New Papers

The Free Craft Downloads site has got quite a lot of new papers online, there are loads of new Christmas papers, they have crafting papers, I have a sample of the beading papers below.   They have new dragon papers and more funny farmyard animals, there are new Santa Claus and Snowmen papers.  They have also put online new first names.

So why not go along and have a look through all of these papers and remember to to look at the 'make your own papers',where you can actually make papers that you want for yourself.

Christmas Baubles Papers, they have these in Small, Medium and Large and also in different colours.

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

Beading Papers, again these are in small, medium and large

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

More Christmas Bauble papers in different colours

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

Funny Farmyard Animals

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

The Big Man in the Red Suit

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

Paintbrushes, they have these papers in different sizes and also they have them going in different ways across the page.

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

Snowmen all in various sizes and various colours

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

Snowflakes, these come in different sizes and different colours of papers

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

More paintbrushes

FREE CRAFT DOWNLOADS

I HOPE THAT YOU FIND THIS SITE AS USEFUL AS I DO, THERE ARE SO MANY PAPERS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND MAKE USE OF IN YOUR CRAFTY MAKES.

IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE SITE TO MAKE AVAILABLE, PLEASE WRITE TO THEM DIRECTLY, THEY ARE VERY APPROACHABLE AND ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW IDEAS.  SO IF YOU THINK THAT YOU MAY HAVE A GOOD IDEA, CONTACT THE SITE AND SEE WHETHER OR 

NOT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO HELP YOU OUT.