Catch up and awards

I hope now that everything is back on track, and my  Husband and I have had the most fantastic holiday in Rome that I can get back to crafting, I have sat there and looked at my bits and bobs so often, but my head has been so full of other rubbish I could not seem to create anything.


Having had this holiday, I thought I would get things going by having a go at Scrapbooking it and I have had a great deal of fun doing it so far, I'll post some pages from it when I've finished.  These are a couple of recent cards - so I think I'm getting there :)

Thanks Dee for your award - it has cheered me up no end!!

Step 1 - Make a post linking back to the person who gave you the award!
Step 2 - Share 7 random things about yourself
Step 3 – Award 15 recently discovered bloggers with this award
Step 4 – Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won the award

http://deescraftycove.blogspot.com/



1. I have a husband (Nick) 

2 I also have two brilliant sons Matthew & Christopher

3.I run my own business - nothing to do with crafting!!

4. I have 2 tatty poodles called Mack and Mable

5.I love cooking and entertaining

6. I am the worlds messyest crafter

7. I am a sucker for dark mint chocolate

I don't know 15 Crafters I am afraid but this one has given me so much inspiration she is worth the other 14 names

Eileen Godwin http://eileenscraftyzone.blogspot.com/

YAY an award!!

This year has got off to such a rubbish start, the reason for the lack of crafting and absence of posts that it has been lovely to be given an award for my blog.  Here is a card I've made for my son's girlfriend's 21st.  Since taking the pic I've added some bling amongst the ribbon - so now the card has cost me even more of a fortune - but really fun to make - I hope she likes it!!

It is always nice to know that people are looking at what you do.  My niece does but never comments and so it was not until recently that I discovered that she appreciated my cards too!!

The lovely Shaz from calligraphy cards has given me an award.

Thank you so much

There are a couple of conditions for the award

You have been TAGGED and want to participate?

Then create a post where you post the 'LOVE BLOG' image.

You should also blog the persons link that gave you the award and inform her/him that you accept the award.

You can then choose 3 - 5 favourite blogs which you also link in your post, then each blogger will inform you that they have been tagged.

Dear bloggers:
The aim of this action is that we bring unknown, good blogs to light, so I would ask you not to blog fellow bloggers that already have 3,000 followers  


I don't follow many blogs at the moment - but here are the two I most enjoy looking at


Eileen Godwin (such an inspiration!)
Dee (really cute cards)

                          

Inspirations

The house is in chaos, I am having my kitchen re-fitted so I have to be on hand for the builders as well as do my own work! The kitchen will be wonderful when it is done, but in the meantime it looks like several world wars have taken place, so I have found refuge in my craft room!

I have been taking inspiration from all sorts of places for these cards, so I can't take all the credit for the design! I saw the lady from Clarity Stamps use the cling film technique to get a spooky background, here is my first go, I quite like it, but I think that it would be worth experimenting with colours - watch this space.

This butterfly and flourish came out better than expected, I made it on the fly having seen something similar in a magazine. I love this flourish, but it is a shame that I can't connect it to make a string if you see what I mean, instead I have to go for one off drama.  The other nice thing about the stamp is that it still leaves a beautiful impression when you just take a portion of it on the side of the card.

  These "mountain" cards are again Clarity Stamp inspired.

On this months Craft Stamper magazine there was a watch and sentiment as a freebie, so I used this with some distress inks and a Tim Holtz mask to create the card below.

Matthew's Stamps

Hi, My eldest son Matthew gave me the most beautiful stamps for Christmas (amongst other things) and finally I have a chance to blog the results!

Firstly, here is the catapillar, I have mixed him with another toadstool stamp so he is not on his own!

\These fairies were sitting on thin air on the stamp, so I gave them a beautiful chair, using the same toadstool stamp.  This gave me a chance to have a go at masking, which I usually avoid!!  The fairies are coloured in using the water colour pencils which were another christmas present (aren't I the lucky girl!!) and then I mica'd the wings to give them a beautiful glint at the card turns.

Christmas!

My eldest son Matthew has given me some Alice in Wonderland stamps for Christmas - he also gave me a pretty fairy boarder and two lovely fairies sitting gazing (and a necklace) what a spoilt Mum I am :)  here they are "raw" I have coloured them in using some watercolour pencils (thanks Eileen for telling Vicky about them!) now I need to think how to best mount them - I'll post it when it is done.

Christmas!

My eldest son Matthew has given me some Alice in Wonderland stamps for Christmas - here are 3 of them, he also gave me a pretty fairy boarder and two lovely fairies sitting gazing (and a necklace) what a spoilt Mum I am :)  here they are "raw" I have coloured them in using some watercolour pencils (thanks Eileen for telling Vicky about them!) now I need to think how to best mount them - I'll post it when it is done.

Christmas!

My eldest son Matthew has given me some stamps for Christmas - here are 3 of them, he also gave me a pretty fairy boarder and two lovely fairies sitting gazing (and a necklace) what a spoilt Mum I am :)  here they are "raw" I have coloured them in using some watercolour pencils (thanks Eileen for telling Vicky about them!) now I need to think how to best mount them - I'll post it when it is done.