My first snowman shaker card

Hello everyone and a big yeh its Friday no school run for two days and if we wear the kiddies out enough a possible lie in!!!

 

Just popped in to show you my first snowman of the season and he's so adorable too and I made him into a shaker card.  I can be quite picky about snowmen and Father Christmas stamps.  This Whiff of Joy stamp is the only snowman I possess and as yet I have no Father Christmas stamps.  I've got a picture in my head of what it should look like but haven't found one yet that lives up to it!

 

Anyway, enough waffle here's my card:-

 

I used a Whiff of Joy image and would normally have coloured him in icy blues/greys but fancied a change so he's been coloured in traditional colours with Distress Markers.  Papers are an old Anita's Classic Christmas red paper pad.  So far this year I have not bought any new Christmas papers (well except digi papers but they don't count right?!?!).  They've all been matted on to kraft and the shaker frame is made from kraft also.  Didn't use glitter inside the shaker but went for little tiny stars as I find glitter especially the extra fine stuff can stick to the acetate.

 

 

A bit of a side view.  Flowers are a mixture from stash and WOC.  The pine cones are some we found on our trip to the park the other day and the branches are a Tim Holtz bigz die.  The gorgeous pearl swirls are from my candy box I won from Laine.

 

Lastly a little close up.  Sorry the picture is not that good but I kept getting shine from the acetate when taking the photo.  

 

Challenges I would like to enter:-

 

Bunny Zoes  -  winter

 

Papertake Weekly  -  ribbons and pearls

 

Sweet Stampin  -  snow people

 

Stamping Sensations  -  traditional christmas

 

Have a great weekend folks, good luck if you're out Christmas shopping but if not I hope you manage to sneak in some crafty time.  I may get the Christmas decs down on Sunday depends on whether I manage to get the inside of my downstairs windows cleaned in time.

 

Take care.

 

Ann-Marie

xxx

 

Where does the time go......

I know whats with the title but tomorrow (Monday 8th) is my boy's 11th birthday and 'where does the time go' is  something I find myself reflecting on quite a lot really especially around these times.  Sometimes when I sit back and watch my babies whether they are playing, sat watching telly or just having a conversation with someone I find myself thinking its going by all too fast.  Thats something I cannot change but I do intend to make the most of every single moment and instead of wishing it wasn't going so fast to actually enjoy seeing them grow and be proud of the little people they are becoming.

 

Okay enough of the philosophical ramblings from me.  I have another card to share with you all and yep you guessed it its another Christmas one, I just love crimbo cards you can really go to town with the glam if you want to! 

 

 

I made a criss cross card this time and used a Whiff of Joy image by Elisabeth Bell.  The fab papers are a download from NitWits and I love the rich colours.  I've used copics to colour the image.

 

A piccie to show the insert.

 

Lastly a close up of the image.  The gorgeous holly leaves and berries was a bunch I found in Hobbycraft last year, hoping they have similar this year.

 

Challenges I would like to enter:-

 

Papertake Weekly  -  Anything Goes

 

Simon Says Stamp  -  Glimmer and Sparkle

 

Okay thats all from me.  My son has literacy homework to do and somehow it involves the fairytale "Rumplestiltskin" which was never a favourite of mine so I cannot remember the whole story so off to do a little 'surfing' to see if I can fill in the gaps, geez it comes to something when the parent has to do research first to help the child with homework!!!!!!

 

Thank you for popping by it means a lot and thank you for listening to my ramblings.  I never really know whether folks want to hear stuff that doesn't relate to craft so if I've bored or offended anyone with my personal 'stuff' I apologise.

 

Take care folks and enjoy your Sunday.

 

Happy crafting.

 

Ann-Marie

xxxx

 

 

 

Cookie's made with love

Okay, so who decided blogger needed a facelift - I don't likey!  Being the creature of habit that I am things like this just irritate me I like the choice of whether or not to change.  You'll laugh as I get quite irrate when I get computer updates and it changes things as well. I'm am sure in a few days I won't even notice but I'm not a happy bunny right now.

Anyway, moving swiftly on I wanted to show you a card I'd made using the great sketch over at Whiff of Joy Challenge blog.   I've used an older Whiff of Joy image and she's so sweet, coloured with copics and prismas.  The large flower and metal corners are from WOC and papers are an old My Minds Eye pad.

I didn't intend for it to have so much depth but by the time I'd added the lace circle and string of pearls its made it fairly deep.

Okay, fairly short from me today.  We had a girly sleepover last night and my aunty came over and we did nails and stuff and my little Emilie joined in too and she had such a good time she really is turning into a girly girl.  So this morning we ended up having a really unhealthy but oh so yummy breakfast.  We had pancakes and got the chocolate fountain out as well with strawberries and bananas I was in chocolate heaven I tell you.

Challenges:-

Whiff of Joy Challenge blog  -  fab sketch

Right I'm gonna toodle on off now, got an evening of Britains Got Talent and colouring.  Take care folks and have a great weekend with whatever you're doing.

Happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

First attempt at a book card!

Hello everyone, I hope you've all had a good start to the week.  Its pretty miserable here with lots of rain, yuk!  Anyway, I thought I would share with you my first attempt at a book card that I've seen around a few times.  I so wanted to have a go but put it off thinking it would be really fiddly and time consuming, well how wrong was I it is so simple and yes it takes longer than your usual card but boy is it worth it.  I enjoyed doing it so much I've got another couple planned for some birthdays/anniversaries coming up. 

Anyway, first piccie coming up is the front cover and I've used Whiff of Joy guardian angels stamps and coloured with copics and prismas.  Papers are GCD studios 'Ella Blue' and are just devine so desperate to get another pad of these.   I have distressed these all with Tim Holtz walnut stain.  Flowers are obviously from WOC.

An inside view now.  Again Guardian Angels stamps and lots of distressing going on.  Tag and dragonfly are cut with a Magnolia die. 

 

Finally,  a closer view of the book  part of the card.  The link for the instructions is HERE and although its not in English the pictures are pretty self explanatory.

Last picture I promise!

Right okay I'm off now I'm meant to be doing housework, mmm housework v crafting yep you can guess which is going to win!!!  Catch ya later folks.

Take care

Ann-Marie

I'm on a roll ...

Well evening folks I've actually managed to make a second Crimbo card and before August is out too!!!

Its going to be short and sweet from me as I've been lent True Blood dvds to watch and I want to curl up with some choccie and have a mammoth watching session. So onto my card, I just love red and black together, not really sure they're Christmas colours but hey I like them.

Its another easel card again, I seem to be addicted to making these just love them, but do find them hard to photograph. Anyways, second photo shows a full on view.

Info on stuff used - image from Whiff of Joy coloured with copics, paper is last year's Papermania "Joyeux Noel", flowers a mixture from Wild Orchid Crafts and Hobbycraft, sentiment is Inkadinkado and ribbon from stash.

I have used the fab sketch from over on Sketch Saturday challenge but not sure whether I've left it to late to enter but I will have a go, either way its a fab one and one I will use again.

Off now to have some choccie take care wherever you are and have a great weekend.

Ann-Marie

xxx

Black & White with a dash of red!

Afternoon folks happy Wednesday to you all and what a glorious sunny day it is here feels really spring like although the wind is a bit nippy still.

Thought I'd show you another four drawer box and easel card I made following Kirsten's tutorial again - if you fancy a go the link to her blog is here. So love making these at the moment. Gone with a black and white theme with a splash of red. This one is a commission for a 40th birthday so I hope they like it! It always worries me doing commissions just in case its not what they want but I didnt really have any guidelines for this one so I had free reign!!

I used a Whiff of Joy stamp, coloured with my beloved copics and cut out with nestabilities. Cardstock used is Bazzill, paper is from Papermania Capsule collection and the rest is from stash. Used a sketch from Friday Sketchers and you can't see it on the piccies but I've actually used eyelets unders the bows and the ribbon is actually threaded through them.
Anyway, thats about it from me today folks. Still have my mother's day cards to do yet but at least its Thursday tomorrow and both my kiddies are at school all day so I should get some time to play.
Hope you're having a great day whereever you are and enjoying some spring like weather!
Take care,
Ann-Marie
xxx

Lady in Purple!

Well hello all, I can't believe it has been that long since my last post, I'm so sorry what a very bad blogger I am, and even worst I've not managed to blog hop too much either and leave all you gorgeous crafters any love so again I apologise profusely. What with new school starting, birthdays and a household with the lurgy I've just not managed to do much and to top it off my mojo decided it was going to take a walk for about a week! But hey its back and so am I, so today I've finished another Crimbo card.
I've used my favourite Whiff of Joy Christmas stamp coloured with my copics. I used an old Friday Sketchers sketch and tweaked it a little. The papers I think are from Hot off the Press but I've had them a while so don't quote me on that. The flowers were die cuts I've had for a while and just added a few gems and voila done!
Well gotta dash must pick up my little princess from preschool, I wonder what state she will be in today. Yesterday they were making some things but had used pink food colouring, well you should have seen the colour of her hands and do you think I could get the darn stuff off.
Take care and happy Friday to you all, hope you have a great weekend!
Hugs
Ann-Marie
xxx