Crafting away from home

Just made this card using the sketch provided by Karen over on the Charmed Craft Talk forum. Apologies for the quality of the photo's but I'm away from home & struggling with the lighting to get good pics

I used papers from the 6x6 stack that I bought on my trip to Paper2 in Mornington - I've sent the stack home with my son & can't remember the details!

The cute little lady is one of my Mum's stamps & I used buttons bought from the local market which is held on a Sunday morning & blooms that I bought in Big W & I coloured the image using Mum's Prisma's - I miss my Copics which are still in my craft room at home ..................

The corner is stamped Just for you.

I've Won!

Lucky me I've won an embellishment assortment for my Colour Combo card in the CBC challenges. I'm thrilled! I found out this afternoon when I was in the middle of the craft shop - how appropriate :-) Apparently you could hear me being excited at the other end of the shop!! :-)




A reminder of the card.............................

50th Birthday Card

Well I can now reveal the 50th birthday card I made for a Craft Club member as we had the birthday meal after Craft Club yesterday & she has the card now :-) Her birthday isn't actually until Saturday so the celebrations began early :-)



I used one of my Big blooms & punches & stamps to create the card.



On the way home later in the day I saw this beautiful double rainbow. I just had to stop & take a photo. By the time I'd stopped the car & got my camera out it had faded a little .......................... but it was a gorgeous sight :-)

Dotties World Challenge

Over at Dotties World the Sunday challenge for this week is to do a teenager card using a Dotties World download. Well yesterday I treated myself to the Mikey download so I've risen to the challenge & had a go. I coloured in image with my copic pens & used my nestibilities & a cuttle bug embossing folder swiss dots.

Handmade presents

Well presents have now been opened so I won't spoil surprises and I can now show you some of the handmade presents I made for Xmas. This garden book was sent over to Melbourne Australia for my Mum. Sorry the colours are bleached out on the main pic. The book can be used in a few different ways, either to put in pics of your garden throughout the year or to record plantings month by month, a combination of the two or do whatever you like .......................................

I used my bind it all to bind the book & made the covers from mountboard which I then covered. The stamp I decoupaged & coloured with Whisper pens & chalks.

Not much actual crafting today

Did a Craft Shop visit this afternoon with Maddy. We had to get some raffle prizes for Craft Club (that is our excuse & we are sticking to it!!) We had a mooch round & found a couple of bits ourselves that had to come home with us :-) You crafters know what ~I mean :-D We were quite restrained bearing in mind that we are going to Harrogate to the Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza Cardmaking & Scrapbooking show next weekend so need our pennies for then!

It's our lodger's birthday tomorrow so I had to make a card for him when I got back from Crafty shopping, before I did a viewing at the house & preparing tea & doing some ironing - you know, all the things that get in the way of crafting!!!! ........... Result follows

It's a really nice stamp & I also have the car one too which says Classic. I also did some work on another card but that one is shhhhh atm .............................. will reveal at a later date..............................