Another Tilda card.

Here is a card for another of my little cousins. This image is so cute and was dying to be glittered up! 

I think the magnolia papers are just adorable and will probably be using them a lot!
I wish the letters stood out more, and I tried to glitter them up to make them stand out more. I should have put them on some card to make them pop out more, but never mind. I'm sure little "squidge" (our nick name for her) will love it. 

Tilda and Butterfly

For my cousin's birthday I thought my new magnolia stamp was perfect for her.

I'm entering this card into the challenge over at Flutter by Wednesday- polka dots. 

I used my cuttlebug dotty die for this and the adorable Tilda is holding a butterfly. 

It can also fit with this weeks challenge over at Cute Card Thursday, which is to use pearls or pins. I have used 3 little pink pearls. 

Lily of the Valley stamps!!

Hello everyone! 

I have had a lovely day crafting. I spent yesterday feeling completely dreadful and barely moved off the settee, but today was a better day so I got some crafting done.

The day started off well with a crafty delivery from the postman. I ordered some of the GORGEOUS Lily of the Valley stamps, after seeing them used on so many lovely cards on blogs. I also had a few sneaky purchases from the Glitterpot, which included a few more Magnolias, a new embossing folder and some much needed Bazzill. 

I was then having a nosey round some blogs and saw that Lily of the Valley had released some more adorable girl stamps, so of course it was essential that I ordered some!! I can't wait to get them. The service is great and very fast so I'm sure I won't have to wait too long. 

I had an order from someone for an anniversary card for her parents so I got on to making this, with the adorable "love Grows" stamp. 

I decided to have another go with my promarkers and am reasonably pleased with how it's come out. I do need more practise and I find it tricky to work out what colours I need and with how much darker they look when they are wet. 

So if any of you have any tips for me after what u've seen please do! 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Stamp Something- Which is to use something punched or die cut (I have used die cut swirls)

A spoonful of Sugar- who's theme is "splish splash". Now I really have stretched this theme I know, but as she is watering the plant, I thought that would be ok, with a theme of water. (if it isn't ok, then I understand if you want to cancel my entry). 

I hope you all as well as possible and have had some sunshine today! 

Gardening Tilda

Hello everyone! 

I'm just so in love with my new magnolia stamps and am loving using them on the 8x8" cards. I adore the new papers as well and am forcing myself to actually use them, as then i'll just HAVE to buy more! 

I hope you like it:

I've coloured the images with water colour pencils. I've still not quite got the hang of markers, and not quite enough of them to blend the colours properly. I do feel like I have a bit more control over the pencils and a water brush.
I've added some light blue chalk as a sky too and I like the effect, so will probably do it more.
I've cut out and mounted Tilda to give some dimension to the card, as well as the sentiment. I made that with a doodlebug stamp for the outline and the sentiment is an Elzybells stamp. 

I'm entering this into the papertake weekly challenge as it's an "anything goes". 

Have a good weekend everyone xxxxx

2 order cards.

I did just put these in the last post, but I wanted to enter that one in some comps, so I have made a new post now! lol 

I'm not feeling so well today, so i'm off to settle down and watercolour some images to try and take my mind off it. HAGD! xx

Magnolia card

I was so eager to use my new magnolia stamps I treated myself to as well as the 8x8" cards, so I had a lovely few relaxing hours of crafting. 

I love the new magnolia papers too, but find it hard to use them, I just want to look at them! lol 

Here is a close up of gorgeous butterfly Tilda, all glittered up. 

I used a variety of flowers from my stash, and added card candi from Craftwork cards as the flower centres and added yet more glitter. 

I hope you like it!

I hope you are all having a nice day, despite the rain! (that's if you have rain like we have here in the south!) 

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Magnolia stamp lovers

A spoonful of sugar

long time no craft.

Illness has a lot to answer for! The winter was a very difficult time for me and the ME got much worse. I then started to get a lot more pain than I was used to, so I recently went back to the doctors to see if there could be something else. 

I was then diagnosed with Fibromyalgia too. It was bittersweet as it meant I knew why I'd been in so much more pain, but it then adds something else for me to cope with and another thing that can't be cured. 

Anyway, let's get on to happier things! I've been slowly crafting again and have a few scrapbook pages to show you all. 

I had my niece, who is now 11, with me for some of half term, so we worked together on these two pages. 

Here is a close up of the title. I love the stickers from doodlebug. 

The journalling die cut is also from doodlebug. 

We had such a fun day at the halloween festival and Emily, my niece, came up with great ideas for the pages and how to match colours etc..
We did this next page about the great selection of pumpkins. Some of them were huge! 

We both love these doodlebug rub ons. It suited the fun theme of the page. 

Here are the pages together. 

I hope you like them. I'll add some cards soon as I've made a few cards too.
I hope you are all as well as possible xxxxx

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Long time no blog! Things have either been busy or i've been too ill to even move off the sofa. This relapse lark is not much fun. 
I have been doing a bit of manic crafting for a craft fair, but it was a waste of time as hardly anyone turned up, it was in an awful venue and on a freezing cold midweek night, so i sold nothing :-( 
I'm trying again on the 7th at a pub that has much more passing traffic and regulars etc... and near to lots of homes, so so hoping i sell a few bits as i need some more money for prezzies! 

Here are a few of the things i made:

 

 

Inside pages: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another album:

 

 

 

A fold out album:

 

 

Inside pages: 

 

 

 

 

 

Chipboard tree decorations:

 

 

 

 

Little gift box:

 

 

That lot exhausted me so i've not made anything more for a few days. BUT as i've been snowed in and i adore Christmas, i have got my tree up and am working on making this a festive little haven. 

I'm sure some of you have had snow worse than i have but it's been weird as two days ago we had hardly anything then now we have this:

This was the view from my front door this morning! 

 

 

 

walking in a winter wonderland! 

 

 

The village pond: 

 

 

Seagulls on the pond, and i'm not even that close to the sea! lol 

 

Millie moo moos running in the snow. 

Right, well i've probably bored the hell out of you all now with hundreds of photos!

I hope you are all as well as possible x