Happy Birthday Bruv!

I found this freebie image and it was just perfect for my younger bruv who recently had a birthday. I wanted a 'fun' image and this suited what I wanted down to the ground as they say.

I coloured the image with my PM's (of course!) and used another crinkle edge card. I think that's the only two of those which is a shame. Di - where did you get them from? Lovely size for special cards for special people!

The sentiment I added on the PC when I printed out the image. I made it up myself, my little grey cell was taxed then I can tell you! LOL!

My bargain paper came out again (99p!) and the double scallop punch. I had some Nesties already done (batch made on a grey Sunday afternoon to make it easier for my poor hands). I used the Happy Birthday embossing folder and then just added the letters B R U V on the top half, added a blue ribbon (tied the cheat way!) with some lovely blue shiny card candy to the top right hand side and it was done.

Enjoy!

Look what I won....! Thanks Trina!

WOW! What can I say - another award - thank you very much Trina - your cards are brilliant and I admire your Promarker colouring so much!!! I'm a newbie at those and I'm practising hard and your tutorials have helped me along the way!

So what do you have to do?

1. Tell everyone 7 things about yourself
2. Pass the award on to 15 people

Now 15 people, that's going to be hard to narrow it down....but I'm going to give it a go!

Thanks for the Award Trina, I'm so proud to have received it from you.

1. Allegedly I could talk the hind legs off a donkey!
2. My personal blog has had over 1 million hits - I still can't believe that!
3. I'm surviving cancer - wahoo!
4. I was taught to fly kites with the help of a Kite Champion!
5. I've seen a UFO
6. I'm a closet David Cassidy fan, have been since a teenager!
7. I've met the Muppets - well not all of them at once you understand

Now on to 15 Award Winners for you to check out.

1. My lovely friend Di, check out her blog here


2. Sliekje is one very talented, and generous lady - check out her digi images here


3. Pollycraft not only has a shop site, but also a blog here - lots of inspiration to be had


4. Jane has some clever designs here for you to have a peek at


5. This Wacky Woman is a big High Hopes fan, and I am too..although I only have one stamp so far!


6. Dorcas has colouring to die for! Go and make your eyes green with envy!


7. I'm a big fan of Mo Manning, you just fall in love with her images, so much talent in one person!


8. Don't just use your Cuttlebug for die cuts and embossing, check out Ikki's Cupboard for lots of new ideas


9. How can you not love "Lili of the Valley" - all their images are so cute!


10. Georgia has some wonderful designs here - and she loves purple on her cards LOL!


11. Bright and colourful cards here from Kristina


12. Shirley has lots of cute designs here for you all to see


13. Here is Donna, another Teddy Bo and Hanglar fan


14. If you like Kitties (as I do, believe it or not!) then check out Beth's Blog here - she has quite a few in different poses!


15. Talking of kitties, who doesn't love Penny Black - they have such cute ones to Promarker in!

So that's it for now. Hope you have fun checking out a few sites I like and follow and visit often.

Enjoy!

Candles on Fire....

I thought I'd show you one of the images made up into a card this time. Yes I finally got around to making a few!

I used one of the lovely crinkle edged cards Di sent me and used one of my new backing papers (99p bargain!) cut down and used the double scalloped punch for the corners. The Nesties were cut from plain light green card (amazing how good cheap card looks when it's embossed!) and some silver mirror card with a paisley embossing CB folder.

Peel off "Happy Birthday" sentiment and then some co-ordinating Card Candy added in the corners swiftly followed by the image itself. I've got to add some Stickles glitter (recommended by Ambreen - thanks Ambreen!) and then it's done and ready for the recipient.

Enjoy!

Two Little Girls....

Two more Promarker images. More freebies - I just love freebies, it helps increase my charity cardmaking variety and also helps my poor little purse which at the moment has two buttons and a cobweb in there!

BIG THANKS to everyone who has helped me with digis and crafting stash, it is MUCH appreciated and keeps my poor little grey cell from feeling lonely!

Sorry the photos aren't that good. I did put the camera on close up setting, but it's probably me who's a bit shaky and not the camera! Sorry!

Going Fishing...!

This was another image sent from Shirley. Wow she has some great stamps - luckily she's promised to stamp me some up every now and then and send them to me which will be great!!! My eyes are green at her stamp collection!

I've also got some lovely images from my good friend Di. I've got to colour them up yet, but will do them soon and make them into cards, promise!

There had to be....kitties....!

I got these images as part of a set downloaded from the internet, all free! I think they're Fat Cats. It was in a Cardmaking magazine, and you could download them from their site.

Hope you like!

Easter - practice time!

A very good friend of mine loves the more traditional cards for Christmas and Easter and this is my take on a traditional image. I wasn't sure about the grey shadow, I was wondering about doing some 'flashes' of grey emanating from it, what do you think?

I'll have to start making some cards up soon, problems allowing of course!

Happy Birthday - oh and watch out for the candles....

This image came from Shirley - it's great isn't it. I've done a few in different colours and will decide which one suits when I come to make the card up. Cracks me up every time I look at it! My friend will love it I hope!

Little Girl and her kitty....surprise!

Well the image came with a kitty honest!! These images came from a lovely lady called Shirley, she answered my plea for a funny image, and also sent me this one and loads of others too for my cancer charity cardmaking which is nice. I'm trying to get my hair better on the girls....what do you think....?

Little Cutie!

This little cutie was another digi freebie. She's a lovely one to colour and if you look carefully, there's even a kitty in the image too....which can be any colour you like! I love her curly hair in a scarf and the determined look on her face!