Ooooh its been a while, but my excuse is that I have been away on holiday. I have been making cards, but just not got around to uploading them, - am going to have a bit of a session soon. Just a quick post with a card I made yesterday for a friends birthday at the weekend, we are off out for dinner tonight so thought I best get organised.... Stamps are from Stampin Up - I do enjoy the double stamp technique. Ribbon is from stash, coloured with a promarker, and the greeting is from Personal Impressions. The butterfly is a a die called Exotic Butterfly bought from Pink Frog Crafts and Cards, - I do struggle a little with the butterfly dies - I have to run them through the cuttlebug several times before all elements are fully cut.... Will keep at it!! Have a good day everyone - off to a Lovin' Ink Class shortly......

StampSmith Stamps

A couple of cards I made at the Lovin Ink http://lovininkshop.blogspot.com/ Class late last year, and have just remembered to upload and share them!!! The stamps are StampSmith Stamps, which give such a lovely oldy worldly look, they almost look like very old photographs

- very different to my normal style, however this is one of the fab things about Janet http://thisandthatwithclarkyj.blogspot.com/ and Michelle's http://midnight-crafter.blogspot.com/ classes.

Playing on a Monday

Made a quick card on Monday from some of my purchases at the craft show on Sunday, plus it was a great escape for a bit with all thats going on at the mo. The stamp is from Chloe's Creative Cards, and I also used a glittery embossing powder. I then jazzed it up a bit with some Silver Stickles from Ranger and a couple of diamonds from my stash - and this is the result. Am pleased with my first attempt - now need to have more of a play...

Craft Fair

Went along to the Ross Papercraft show today at Leeds Grammer School - it was really good.  Only £2 to get in, about 30 suppliers there, and the nice thing about it was, it was not too busy, so you could easily spend time at each stall having a good look around without being pushed and shoved around like you do at some shows I attend.  It was there first event in Leeds, but hopefully not the last.  http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk/

For some reason some of my pictures did not download yesterday, so have included a couple more of my cat Olivers Card to Steven......

And there's more.........

These are some cards I made late last year for Steven's Birthday and also his Christmas Card.  As you can see I am still playing with different card designs - I really think that this can make quite a simply card look really different and intriguing.  The cat card was made by Oliver our cat (he is very clever you know)  The flower/wheel type card was made from myself, there are lots of sayings on the petals which I have layered, wanted to keep it simple and meaningful.  The last card is my Christmas Card to Steven, the picture is not so clear, so will look at doing some more tomorrow to show the side detail ect.