Time to come back :-)

Hi all,
Well after a rather hectic and stressful summer term at work I took some time out from blogging and other stuff to recharge my batteries and find my mojo and also to redecorate my house and my craft room :-)
So here are some of my recent cards















Off to a craft show today with some friends and looking forward to some bargains.x

Happy Birthday June

Hi all, hope you all had a fab weekend. Me and hubby went to the local festival on Saturday and had a great time and yesterday was chilling and finishing my die storage which I will share later this week.
Anyway today's card is for June a lovely lady in Bristol who I meet with once a month and it's her birthday today.












Yep and you guess by the sentiment she won't have it today, oops. But hopefully as long as Royal Mail play ball it will be in her hands tomorrow.

Ingredients - 'Bree' from Greetings Farm coloured in promarkers
Sentiment 'snarky lady' Lil Inker set
DCWV 'adhesive paper prints' paper
Card, heart clip, twine and pearls from stash
Oval and scallop nestabilities
MFT 'notebook edge' die
Memory Box 'walking cat' die

Have a great day all,shame I am back to work x

Happy birthday Amanda

Hi all, so here's my card for today and it's for the lovely Amanda who you can go and wish happy birthday to here



Overdosed with the spray and sparkle and there is a layer acetate in the card


Added some seashells to the fish bowl for a 3D touch


Now I really enjoyed making this card and using my new MFT dies and stamps. I found the inspiration for this card on Pinterest and added my own twist to it.

MFT stamp set ' You're Fintastic' and matching MFT 'fishbowl' dies.
Kraft and coloured card, charm,fish bowl embellishment, pearls and acetate all from stash.
Shells from a seaside shop in exmouth.
And lashings of spray and sparkle on the water.

Hope you are all enjoying this lovely weather, have a good week x

Retirement card but different to the norm!

Hi all, well I need to make a retirement card but didn't want to go down the normal route as she is retiring early not through choice but a need to look after her family so this is what I came up with









Can you tell I went a bit mad with the sparkle lol
Enjoyed making this and using my sparkle medium and have learnt to spray the spray and sparkle outside as my craft area needed a scrub after all the extra sparkle! Looked like a fairy had visited :-)
Anyway hope you all are having a good weekend and enjoying the weather.

Ingredients for card - Indigoblue freebie stamp and used with archival ink.
Card for base,layer and leaves from Annamarie designs
Spray and sparkle ( in a abundance! )
Stencil "mini art is" and used with Cinnamon sparkle medium which I love
Ribbon from my secret Santa
Flowers from florist and sparkle medium added
Pearls from stash and a Woodware punch for leaves x

About time I added something to my blog!

Hi all, well where has the time gone, been three months since I last blogged so hope I can remember how to.......lol
I have been crafting though not as much as normal due to various reasons but am now hopefully back on track. So these are just a few of the projects I have done over the last few months.












So hopefully will be hopping by soon to catch up on your blogs,enjoy the weekend x

Altered Mirror

Thought you might like to see my altered mirror that I made last week when my crafting buddies came to play. It started off as a plain wooden Ikea mirror and with the help of some embossed card, acrylic paints, mod podge and Artisan water oil paints turned into something rather different.












And just to prove my buddies were working rather hard here's a pic of them and our finished masterpieces which just needed to dry for a few days before adding the final gloss coat.






Aren't they all fab. Really enjoyed doing that and the mirror will be going to my mum for Mothers Day for her hall.
We also made our Faux leather covers using Sheena's tutorial but will blog that later as need to finish the inside first which could take a while lol.
Hope you all have a fabulous Sunday and happy crafting.x

Cards and a hello

Hi all
Well I am being certainly bad at this blogging lark lately. Have popped in and visited some blogs but that's about it!
Have managed some cards and I just have to add a final coat to a mirror I altered and that's about it. Haven't really done much with my scan n cut too though the last card I used the machine to cut the layers and sentiment .Not sleeping well lately and that tends to have a knock on effect on my crafting.
Anyway here are some of my recent cards.



























Have a great weekend all x