Dunkers ATC swap - August - cats & dogs

Here is a shot of the combined ATC's prior to sorting for this months ATC swap xx

My swap makes for September's Paper Foilles swaps

Put my name down for 3 swaps in Septembers swaps on Paper Follies and here they all here

Hope you like them and thank you for looking xx

Done my ATC swaps for September - already !!!!

Here are my 4 ATC's for Pauls ATC swap for September. The theme was

My Favourite Stamp and as I've used this one quite a bit lately, I thought I would use this one. Its from the Fairy Doodles set. The flowers and wings are coloured with sakura glitter pen and the rest is coloured with various Adirondack pens and water-coloured

Hope you like them and thank you for looking xxx

Male birthday card

Made from Robert Adam's amazing CD's. Made the envelope and insert to match

hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Black & Gold inspired birthday card

I have made this for a man to give to his sister for her upcoming birthday. The stamped image is from the Dawn Bibby range and embossed with Blonde Moments Suet Gold Lustre powder. The topper has been coloured with Sakura Brights pens.

Sorry about the photo - its difficult to photo mirri card and I'm rubbish with a camera :-)

Hope you like it and thank you for looking x

Crafters Companions Fire Engine card

I was asked to make a birthday card for a little boy called Tane who will be 1yr old next month.

I used the fire engine image from Crafters Companions Boys collection CD and made a stepper card (think that's what its called anyway). Hope you can see the effect

I used some mirri paper for the window and put a length through the ribbler to make the compartments where the hoses would go to make it look like chrome.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Tonights card

I made this earlier this evening. The backing strips are from a Papermania Creative tones border pack and the rubber stamp is one of Dawn Bibbys.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Forgot one ....

Results of my marathon craft day ...

and now ................... I am going to bed as I am cream crackled.

Hope you like everything I have done today

Strictly card Dancers card

Made this this evening for a couple to give to their daughter-in-law. The images are from the Card Creations Strictly Dancers CD.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cupcake cd Birthday card

I have made this using one of the CupCake Crafting CD's (forgive me, I can't remember which one right now lol). Its for a mans sister

hope you like it and thank you for looking xx

I was set a challenge by my neighbour .......

My neighbour, Carol, her friend Donna, my mum and me all went to the Stamperama show in Stevenage today and a good time was had by all.

I kept well within my budget and was really good. Carol bought loads as did Donna and my mum.

On our return, Carol came up to my flat and we did a bit of crafting together. Having stamped an image from her new Penny Black set, Carol set me a challenge of making up a card from the challenge so here is what I did.

You can't even see the mistake lololol

A card from one sister to another

I was asked to make a card for a lady to send to her sister who's husband is back and forth from hospital and is not very well at all. The husband has been receiving loads of cards (as you'd expect) but the lady wanted to send one to her sister as she is really struggling as well. She wanted something "light" just to let her sister know she is thinking of her everyday.

I had some daisy backing paper and it goes so well with one of the decoupage popcorn teddies from Crafters Companion. The lattice was cut with the craft robo

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

My ATC storage folder

I did this a long while ago but as I was showing you the books I have covered recently, I thought I would add this too. It was covered with odd bits that you end up with and not knowing what to do with them

My last covered book for the evening

Just covered with some spare papers and stick on embellishments

Another scrapbook covered .....

Seeing as I had a spare scrapbook and my desk is a mess anyway from covering the last one, I thought I would do this one as well.

Bling up your bins ..................

Why have boring bins when you can bling up a cardboard box and have bins like this? lol

The top one is the box that my shredder came in and I tore off the top flaps and added a few sheets of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper - it sits at the edge of my desk just nicely and takes a normal pedal bin size bin liner

The 2nd one originally held my kettle / toaster / sandwich maker and I covered it with some sticky back plastic from Lidl's that cost me £1.99 for the roll. The rest is on the front of my fridge in the kitchen. I use this bin for recycling.

As I have very limited space here in my panic room (home) I have no choice other than to see my bins so thought why not bling them up so they don't look too bad.

I like them and I hope you do too xxx

How do you store your received cards?

From this .....................................

To this ...........................................

If you get a card from a friend "just because" or a RAK, where do you store yours? I bought an ordinary child's scrapbook for £1.50 from a shop today and just by using 2 sheets of backing paper, an odd piece of vellum and some rub-ons, I turned it into a lovely book to store my cards to keep them safe.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Dachshund card

I have a stall at a dachshund dog show in October so thought I had better get a wriggle on and make some themed cards for my stall - so this is the 1st one I have come up with. Isn't this a sweet little image of a "black and tan mini smooth" (see I am getting the lingo now lol). I used some Daisy & Dandelion backing papers and a couple of paper flowers.

hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Birthday card for Sarah's nephew

This truly was a great card to make. it is made using the images from the Robert Adams Pop-Up-Cards 1 CD and the effect is just stunning. The dinosaur really looks like it is stepping off the card and it was a lot of fun to put together

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx