I'll be back

I haven't given up with my blog, but with Christmas and a dear friend of mine in hospital there has not been much crafting done - however I have been given some new toys to play with so watch this space!

Stamping Fun!

Hi, Brr is still cold isn't it!! here are a couple of my latest.  I found a fantastic American site, but it was real agro trying to get hold of them, now I have I LOVE the sets!

New Ideas!!

I saw this on Create and Craft today and had to have a go!!, take your acrylic stamp block and push it onto your Big and Juicy pad. 

 Lift it up and spritz with water and then push down onto some paper

 It makes a brilliant background and also you can stamp out some beautiful coloured shapes!!

..hours of fun because each blot is different!

This is another idea I saw.  When I bought these templates /masks I was a bit disappointed with the results I got, but to my surprise I found out that you can emboss with them as well!!

Take one template

Make a sandwich of Tab 1, cutting plate, template, paper, no more shims mat and then the other cutting plate,

 Hey Presto!!

13" of snow so a-crafting we must go!!

I'm not going to be outdone by Eileen and her big and juicy!!

Sharing ideas

Hi, Eileen took one of my ideas and expanded on it to make an even nicer card! so not to be out done I've taken  my idea, inspired by her idea to come up with another idea :)

My second card I'll show you was just a bit of playing around, I hope you like it!

I also had a play around with my hydrangea big and juicy and some Lavinia stamps

more playtime

I have got some cool holographic paper, so I decided to put it to work with a flower stamp and hydrangea big an juicy stamp pad.

I was naughty and got some more nestabilities and also a black embossing pen with some super sparkly black embossing powder, this makes layering easier with an awkward shape. 

 so so naughty. I got this embossing folder and went over it with purple twilight and then edged in black sparkly embossing

For this last card I used my lovely lavinia stamps and my big and juicy spice for the leaves.  Fairies coming home after a hard days work!

cards begun!

I have been fiddling around with some new stamps and have come up with these two pictures, but I have not had a chance to mount them on anything yet - still I thought you might like a look.

 I love the fairies hiding in this butterfly!

I am going to finish the birds wings with mica powders to make them reflect and also to make it a bit more "Magical!" the stamps are from an Inkadinkado set