Sprinkles!

I'm late again with this weeks dare. Honest I was finished in time but then I got distracted *blush*. Mel is daring us to sprinkle our cards with gorgeousness, so I threw down a spoonfull of gems and glued them where they landed!


Papers and lace are K&Co, from Wild Safron, and the colours remind me of a swimming cozzie I had when I was a girl. I thought I was the bees knees in my grey and yellow striped number. It never ceases to amuse me how trends come round! Ribbon and gems from stash and faux stitching with pen finishes it off. Thanks for looking :)

Old School

We decided to have a team dare this week at DCM, and to revisit some of those preloved and sometimes forgotten treasures we have stashed in our Craft Cupboards. Now the first thing that got me into cardmaking, well the most recent time, was when I went to a calligraphy class. On the last night the tutor brought in some stamps so we could accent our calligraphy with heat embossing. That got me hooked! So this week I thought I'd revisit the technique and make sure I used nothing new!
The circles are stamps by Purple Onion. I've had them an age (does 2 or so years count as an age?)and they look fab embossed in white. Even the ink pads I used for the edges are old - about 6 years old actually, I got 4 of those rainbow colourbox cards when I first started rubber stamping and they're still going strong! The birthday stamp is Impression Obsession, A die cut alpa makes the happy letters from felt I bought maybe 3 years ago to make Christmas stockings. The paper is Christmas originally too, from an old DCWV pack. Staples were from a poundland shop which has since shut and the white ones are embossed.

I think I might challenge myself to do this more often :)

How exciting to have my card featured on Becks blog last week, I'm really loving the new stuff papermania and do-crafts are coming out with. Long may it last!

Spot the difference

It's my turn to dare this week, and it's...Journalling spots. They're used all the time in scrapbooking where it's extra personal to read someone's words and memories in their own hand. Use a journalling spot, be it stamped, premade, handcut, digital or doodled, to frame your handwritten message on your card.

I used BG Boxer, some of that new Core-denations cardstock embossed with a cuttlebug folder and sanded with a nail file, and a new set of Papermania stamps, they've really come a long way with their new designs! Finally some ribbon, teeny prima's and brads finish it off.

Thanks for looking :)

Happy Day

I was inspired to make a card by this sketch here. I'm loving bright summery colours at the moment, and the BG Gypsy papers are still a favourite, even though in crafting time they're old enough to draw their pension!
Felt die cut letters & flower, BG Gypsy paper, scallop scissors, cuttlebug embossing, ribbon and a papermania brad. Thanks for looking :)

Birthday Boy

Matt's Birthday card this year, all supplies by Zanny Zinnia, which is also where the flowers from the card a few posts down came from. I love that you don't have to commit to a subscription and their kis are yummmy! The only things I added were the white card blank, the cuttlebug embossing folder for the birthday and a pen for the faux stitching :)

Christmas in June!

Yep that's what Jo has dared us to do this week. After digging the Christmas Craft box out, which was buried right at the bottom of the pile, this is what I came up with.Super simple, Rubber Soul paper, Swiss dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Grosgrain ribbon, Hampton Stamp and the star charm from a charity shop, if I remember rightly it was part of some sort of charm/dangly thing!

The Christmas box is now safely tucked away again until Autumn :)

I've also been tagged by Lavender Rose

TEN YEARS AGO

I was at Art School in Aberdeen in my second year. I was living the student life in my first proper flat with a fab friend and partying hard. I thought I spent the summer working as a Trolley Dolly on the trains but thinking about it I think that was the Pizza Shop year. It seems so very long ago now, I hadn't even met my husband then and to be honest it's hard to remember what happened when, lol! I mean I was a teenager then, well just!

FIVE THINGS ON TODAY'S 'TO DO' LIST

Laze about for the morning, I love Saturday mornings lounging in PJ's.
Update my blog- done!
Get some washing on the line as its gorgeously sunny with a good drying breeze.
Watch Doctor Who, I love it :)
Hmmm I can't think of a fifth, I try to do as little as possible on a Saturday, does order takeaway dinner count?!

SNACKS I ENJOY

Twiglets
Worcester Sauce crisps, I'm so glad they brought them back.
Humous and crunchy crusty bread
Cake, any kind, I'm not fussy when it comes to cake!
Tesco's version of Milky Way's, I think they're better than the real thing.

THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WAS A MILLIONAIRE

First would definitely be buy a house, or buy a plot and build a house, and go on a long holiday somewhere sunny and hot, actually maybe while the builders were getting on with it. I'd help out my family, buy Matt his dream car, then I'd probably try and be sensible and invest the rest for a good return, actually I'm not sure there would be any left by then.

PLACES I HAVE LIVED

Aberdeen - Silver when it's sunny, grey the rest of the time
Pembrokeshire
Isle of Lewis
Angus - Which is now home

I'm not going to tag anyone mainly because I haven't had the chance to do much blog reading (sorry) but if you haven't done this one then do it and leave me a comment and I'll come and see!

Happy Saturday :)

Just a quickie

This weeks dare... a quick card! It took about 10 minutes in all, but that didn't include picking what I was going to use, and finding it. Cosmo Cricket papers, K&Co sentiment, Papermania brads and a sizzlits corner die.