Another book card

Hi all, I hope you are all well and if you have kiddiewinkles at home for the holidays I hope you are managing to grab yourself a little crafty time!!!  All is well in our little abode we have finished decorating our little girl's room and have now progressed to our son's room and although the house still looks like a bomb site and is driving me absolutely crazy, we are slowly getting there.  You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff a 9 yr old can accumulate and I have tried thinning it out but there are just some things he won't part with!!!!

Anyway, I was asked by some friends of ours to make a 40th birthday card for them.  They wanted something a little more special as the recipient didn't want any pressies.  My guidelines were that it wasn't to be an overtly girly card and she liked black and purple.  Also that she was into music such as Bon Jovi, Black Sabbath, Nickelback and Bowling for Soup.  Well this had me stumped for a little while as what the heck was I going to make and as for Bowling for Soup I had never heard of them but they wanted some reference to these on the card. 

Well I had a little think and after a session on Google finding some piccies this is what I came up with.

I used a Sugar Nellie image which I have had for some time but had never inked up (slapped wrists!!) and it was great to colour.  I used a mixture of copics and promarkers to colour in and I just love the hair!.

A little peek inside shows the piccies I managed to find on the internet.

Although they didn't want a really girly card I just had to add a few little flowers but not as many as I would have liked.

Last piccie shows a bit of a close up of the front.  Didn't think I ought to use flowers here as I would have normally done so went with stars which I think works quite well and I just love the little guitar charm which came from a pack of six I got from The Works for 99p - bargain or what!! 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Craft your days away  -  birthdays

Sir Stampalot  -  whatever you fancy

The Ribbon Girl blog  -  ribbon

A spoon full of sugar  -  Happy birthday

Well I'm off now its 11.30 p.m. and everyones in bed so its my time to craft now and I feel like doing a little colouring.  Happy crafting and take care.

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

Oh my word has it really been that long since I was last on here!

Hi folks long time no see!

I'm sat at my kitchen table in the early hours of the morning doing a little colouring of some images and mulling things over in my head as you do and it suddenly occurs to me that I don't think I've shared any photos of my sister's wedding back in March - shame on me!.  So without further ado heres a few for you to have a nosey at.

First up is a piccie of the happy couple.  Don't they look gorgeous and that little scallywag in the front looking like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth is my little angel.  She's normally quite a tomboy what with having an older brother and all, but she just loved wearing her dress and thought she was a princess all day long!

Next we have the blushing bride and my wonderful hubby.  We actually met when my sister was only a little babe and he's always been there for her whenever she's needed him so it only seemed fitting that he give her away and he was so proud.

Okay so this is the piccie that I don't like (only because it has me in it and I so loathe my photo being taken).  This is me (on the left) with my two amazing sisters love them to bits. 

Of course it wouldn't be right if I didn't show you a piccie of the table decorations and everything.  The budget wouldn't stretch to chair covers etc so we made the most of what we could on the table settings and it looked stunning.  I haven't got a close up but there were little purple and lilac gems scattered around the flower arrangements and even little Yankee Candle tealights in my favourite lemon/lavender scent.  My auntie, sister and I laid out all the tables.  My aunt did the flower arrangements and I did the place settings and favours as well as the invites.

Anyways, thats about it on the photo front.  I have been crafting, mainly colouring up images but just don't seem to be putting any cards together finding it hard at the moment, but when I do get back into it boy I will have a few images to choose from! 

If you happen to pop in on my little blog I want to thank you and apologise to you for being such a lousy blogger myself.  I will freely admit I suppose I'm what you call a stalker on the blog front - I'm very guilty of always popping by but not leaving a comment something I want to make a huge effort to rectify in the future.

Gosh but I can waffle on can't I, sorry.  If you're still with me at the end of this post I want to wish you a very happy Thursday - nearly the weekend yeh!  Take care folks wherever you are, happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

First Kiss!

Morning all, hope you're all having a good day so far.  Its beautiful down here on the south coast, crisp but not a cloud in the sky, bet you anything it doesn't last till the wedding on Saturday though!

I have a Sarah Kay card to share with you today and the image is an older one called First Kiss and its one of my faves I think its so sweet.

Quite a simple card really not much fuss on this one.  Papers are Penny Lane from My Mind's Eye and I so love these, beautiful colours with a little sparkle mmmm!  Image is coloured with copics, ribbon is from stash and of course blooms from WOC.

Okay thats it from me for now, thanks for popping in and I do appreciate every single comment I receive, thank you guys.  Happy crafting, take care

Ann-Marie

xxx

Sweet Bunny Tilda

Hi all not long now and the weekend will be upon us.  Lets hope the weather here stays as it has been the past couple of days - a little on the chilly side but so bright and cheery so you can see all the signs of spring its so pretty. 

Anyway, just thought I would share with you a little something I have made these past couple of days.  It was one of those where I just kept going back to it and adding a little more so yes its a little busy this one but I kinda like it that way.  

I went with a bit of a purple theme to this one.   Tried out my new Magnolia swirl and would you believe I have had this since Crimbo and only just used it.  Again my MS scroll heart punch has been used as has my MS heart button punch and I've glittered the butterfly to within an inch of its life!!!  A little side view piccie to show you next

Okay so all the details of what I have used.  Lets start with the obvious Maggie stamp which I just adore as I think it can be used for both Easter and baby stuff.   Coloured with copics and prismas.  Splendiferous blooms are of course from WOC and I've sprayed them with pearl glimmermist.  Papers are Prima 'Sweet Fairy' and are gorgeous.  Crystal ball gem thingies in with the flowers are actually from the artificial flower section in my local Wilkinsons and the whole spray (and it was wired) was around £2.50 and I'm not kidding you there must be at least 50 on there.  Oh and I used the fab sketch from Friday Sketchers but being me I've missed the deadline for it.

Okay, before I go I would like to enter this into the Creative Inspirations challenge which is 'In the garden'.  Well I won't find a Tilda in the garden but we do get a fair few butterflies and some pretty blooms (well thats before I manage to kill them all).  Not really green fingered me but I give it a go!

Catch ya  later peeps, take care and happy crafting. 

Ann-Marie xxx

Pink and girly birthday cake card

Happy Wednesday to you folks, hope its being a good one for you. Fairly quiet here and I'm making the most of it as the kiddiewinkles break up for half term on Friday so my peace will be shattered then!

Anyway, I have a quick card to share with you today, one which I made for my little girl's friend Molly as she went to her party at the weekend. In fact it was a crafting party and she loved every minute of it. Sorry about the colours, not sure what I've done here but the second piccie shows them off better.

As you can see I had a go at making one of those birthday cake cards and I got the idea from the mega talented Kathrin here. At first I thought it was going to be quite hard but in fact it was amazingly simple and so effective and I can see myself making quite a few of these.

Okay what did I use. Firstly I followed the fab sketch from over on Just Magnolia this week and loved this one will be using it again. Obviously the gorgeous magnolia stamp, cardstock was bazzill, papers were the Pink Petticoat freebie pad from Quick Cards this month and they are just yummy, roses were from WOC, sentiment was craftwork cards and I used my new Martha Stewart punch which I treated myself to the other day and I just adore it. Everything else was from stash, oh and I used a mixture of copics and prismacolor pencils to colour her in.

Right off to do some colouring now, catch up with you later. Take care folks, Ann-Marie xxx

Weddings - who'd have them!!!! (warning - its a long one!)

Well howdy folks its been a long time since I've been on here. I think I last left you saying I had some invites to do for my younger sister's wedding, well things have been going well and truly pear shaped on that front. I won't bore you will all the details but lets just say some old underlying family issues have now been well and truly blasted in to the fore and the "Sh.... has really hit the fan!!!! They say its one of the most stressful times don't they!



Well swiftly moving on, I did think I would show a couple of piccies of the invites. We did cheat a little in the end though as my sister decided she wanted the prefolded invites but everything else is what I added and it still took long enough!





Sorry about the plop piccies but they were taken in a hurry and everyone knows I'm photographically challenged.
Before I go I have to say a huge thank you to Donna, DK Crafts, for the fab Sweet Blogger award she kindly sent my way. Its means a lot to me so thank you and sorry for taking so long to put it up here. The rules are to share 3 things about myself and pass this on to five other lovely peeps, so here goes:-

1. My favourite colour is red.


2. I'm a BIG Twilight saga fan can't get enough of Jacob!!! (I know I'm way too old but who cares eh!!)


3. I'm addicted to the sweets Parma Violets and double lollipops.


I would like to pass this on to the following peeps:-

Debby, A Scrapjourney

Mandy, A Sprinkling of Glitter

Cherie, All kinds of crafty things

Tammi, Tropical Dreams

Sally, Scallywags

These guys are amazingly talented and I am guilty of stalking their blogs but not always leaving comments and I would like them to have the award to say thank you for the endless amounts of inspiration they give with their creations.


Phew that was a long one and if you made it to the end thank you for stopping by. I have a couple of other things to share with you so I may be back later on. Take care folks and happy crafting, Ann-Marie xxx