Hanging birthday planner...no excuses now!

Hello!

I don't know about you but I'm useless at remembering birthdays until it's too late, and when everyone now expects handmade cards that's no good! I saw a project somewhere a few weeks ago, no idea where though, and I totally loved it, so here is my take on it...

I have used mainly Sale-a-Bration freebie items to make this. Free DSP, free coloured string, free Banner stamp and punch.

I used the Bigz Alphabet Framelits and some of the Bermuda Bay DSP and  for the lettering and Petite Petals and Bitty Butterfly punches for the date tags. Each tag has the date and name of the birthday boy or girl on the front, and on the back I've put their year of birth, if known, to help remember 'big' birthdays.

I have hung this on the door to my airing cupboard...it brightens the hallway and I can't possibly miss those important birthdays! (I hope!)

If you would like to get your free Sale-a-Bration items simply visit my online store...for every £45 you spend you get to choose a free item from the Sale-a-Bration brochure and with 10 items to choose from you are bound to fall in love with something! 

Thanks for having a look today and please do come back tomorrow as there is another Pinkies Blog Hop to enjoy!

My Diary

Hello!

I spent most of yesterday and last night designing and making a card for a commission order. I will blog it later this week, hopefully, but unfortunately I didn't get time to do anything else!

So today, I'm going to show you the diary that I made for myself. I don't know about you but I can't keep track of my life without one and as I made them for my friends I thought I deserved one too!

I used a sentiment from Express Yourself and yes, it is for me! I sometimes need reminding that I am actually amazing, even if only in my own little world! The frame of the sentiment is from Hello Lovely and I punched the panel out with the Decorative Label punch.

The butterflies are from Papillon Potpourri and are punched using the matching Bitty Butterfly punch. I added little bits of ribbon, lace and twine for interest, and part of a die cut from the Lattice Bigz Die.

Supplies used

A quick update on my foot...it was still a bit swollen this morning, and quite bruised, so I decided the gym would not be a good place to go, so I went swimming instead. It made quite a change! I may have to swim more often!

Have a good Wednesday!

Pretty butterfly birthday

This card is another one of the commissions I was busy with last week...

I have again used Twitterpated...can you tell I love it?! The sentiment is computer generated and the embossing is using the Fancy Fan EF.

I finished with a couple of pretty butterflies from the Papillon Potpourri set and some Pool Party Seam Binding. By the way, today is you LAST CHANCE to get the Papillon Potpourri stamp set and the Bitty Butterfly Punch at 15% off! You can grab it for yourself in my shop, and while you're there, why not check out the clearance rack and grab yourself some real bargains!

If you would like to purchase any of the products I have used here, please do visit my online store where you can also be entered into this month's Mystery Hostess club for your chance to win this month's hostess freebies!

Alternatively, please feel free to contact me with your order, or any queries you may have. 

Challenges

Friday Sketch Challenge - #53

The Paper Players - Tic Tac Toe (ribbon, patterned paper, birthday)

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

Sweet Stampin' - Things With Wings

Thanks for popping by today, and have a lovely Monday! :)

Heartfelt Sympathy

Hello!! How are you all, my lovely followers? I am hopefully back in the world of blog after a lovely few days break. I took Keiran camping last weekend, then we went to Bolton's Food Festival on Monday, and today we have walked for miles and finished off with a lovely Indian meal, slightly spoiled by the entire lot of drivers from our local cab firm having a row in the very beautiful restaurant! Still, we got our meal free! ;)

So once Keiran went to bed, I decided to fit in some much needed crafting, and came up with this...

I have used the gorgeous Hostess only set, Simply Sketched and stamped it in Calypso Coral, then filled with Crisp Cantaloupe.

The embossed panel is created using the new Pretty Print EF from the upcoming Seasonal catalogue (available to order from as of 29th August...not long now!) I gently coloured the edges with Crisp Cantaloupe using a Sponge Dauber, as I also did on the main panel. I finished with a butterfly from Papillon Potpourri.

Supplies

Cardstock - Whisper White, Calypso Coral

Stamp - Simply Sketched

Ink - Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe

Embossing - Pretty Print EF

Punch - Bitty Butterfly

Other - Sponge Dauber, Stamp-a-ma-jig

If you would like to get your hands on any of the Hostess sets, or any of the new upcoming products, please do contact me for details of how!

Challenges

Colours and Sketches - #39

Dynamic Duos - #67

Anything Goes - In The Garden (add some butterflies)

Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for bearing with me recently. I hope I will be a little more on the ball again now!

Sti[ppled Blossoms for the first time!

Good morning all!

How has your week been? Looking forward to a nice sunny weekend? I will be working, but we've had a wonderful week of sunny afternoons after work, particularly yesterday! My friend Emma and Keiran's second cousin Sophie came round for a bbq and water fight! I got soaked and thrown in the pool by Emma's other half Jamie! Much fun!

Anyway, the reason you're here is for my cards right? So here is a card I made the other night for my friend in Holland who sadly lost her Dad in the last week.

I used my lovely new Stippled Blossoms stamps and my Stamp-a-majig to make sure everything lined up perfectly. I stamped the flowers in Pretty In Pink and Chocolate Chip and the leaves in Wild Wasabi. 

The butterflies are from the lovely Papillon Potpourri bundle and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments and the new Six Sided Sampler. Did you spot the little butterfly inside the card?

Supplies

Stamps - Papillon Potpourri, Stippled Blossoms, Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Six Sided Sampler

Ink - Pretty In Pink, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi

Punches - Bitty Butterfly, Elegant Label

Ribbon - Wild Wasabi Stitched Grossgrain

If you would like to order any of the products I have used, or any of the other fabulous new products, please do contact me and I will be very happy to place your order for you.

Please click on the catalogue link on my sidebar to browse the yummy new catalogue, or for £4.95 inc. p&p I can send you your very own copy to drool over and write your wishlist in!

Challenges

Try Stampin' On Tuesday - #126

Addicted To Stamps and More - #53

I'm off now...have a fab Friday!

Flutterby Birthday!

Good morning :)

Here is a really quick and easy card I made in about 1 minute flat!

Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive ink, Papillon Potpourri, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly punches and Adorning Accents Embossing Folder...that's it!

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Challenges

Flutterby Wednesdays - Clean & Simple

Divas By Design - Happy Birthday

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Hope you have a lovely Monday :)

Hexagons for Less Is More!

Good morning LIMettes!

Well, I couldn't believe it when I saw the theme over at Less Is More this morning...

HEXAGONS

Why the surprise you ask? Well, over at Sketch Saturday, we also have a hexagon theme, and here is the card that I made for that, which I shall be entering into LIM!

I have used a lovely Daffodil Delight card blank and matted it with some of the lovely Natural Composition Speciality card, which has a lovely shiny embossed look to it. The hexagons are cut from the Hexagon Embossing Folder and then each piece is rubbed with Island Indigo ink and a Sponge Dauber. The butterflies were cut from International Bazaar DSP and the antennae were made using Baker's Twine.

Supplies

Cardstock - Daffodil Delight, Natural Composition Speciality card

Designer Series Paper - International Bazaar

Embossing - Hexagon EF

Punches - Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly

Other - Baker's Twine

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Right, I'm off to take our holiday dog, Archie, for a walk and then we have to get ready for a colleague's wedding....busy weekend as usual!

Hope you have a good one! :)

Twitterpated Butterflies

Hello all!

I had a busy day yesterday getting my new online Stampin' Up! shop up and running, so now you can shop with me, day or night, use your debit or credit card, and have your lovely goodies delivered directly to you from Stampin' Up! You can find my shop here.

So now it's time for today's card...

Isn't that designer paper pretty?? It's called Twitterpated and it works so beautifully with the Papillon Potpourri stamps and the matching punches.

I used the Needlepoint Border Embossing folders for some texture and the butterflies were stamped in Pretty In Pink and Island Indigo. The Island Indigo was stamped off first to create a more subtle effect.

Supplies

Cardstock - Whisper White, Pretty In Pink

Designer Series Paper - Twitterpated

Stamps - Papillon Potpourri, Fabulous Phrases

Punches - Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly

Embossing - Needlepoint Border Embossing Folders

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do visit my shop or contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order £250 of products and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £155 of goodies for only £99!! Contact me or see here for more details!

Challenges

Freshly Made Sketches - #87

Addicted To Stamps - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - CAS

Have a lovely Thursday, and don't forget to tell me what you think of my shop!

A 90th Birthday

Hello!

I have a card for a commission to show you today, using gorgeous vellum Papillon Potpourri butterflies and Secret Garden flowers...

I have used a lot of embossing, DSP, dies and inks on this card....probably one of the fussiest cards I've made in a while!

Supplies

Cardstock - Whisper White

Designer Series Paper - Subtles, Brights

Stamps - Papillon Potpourri, Secret Garden

Ink - Perfect Plum, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Old Olive

Embossing - Versamark, Whisper White & Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss, Woodgrain EF

Punches/dies - Bitty Butterfly, Elegant Butterfly, Secret Garden, Bigz Alphabet Typeset, Word Window, Elegant Label

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order £250 of products and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £155 of goodies for only £99!!Contact me or see here for more details!

Challenges

Papercraft Crew - #42

2 Sisters - 1-2-3 (1 flower, 2 DP's, 3 butterflies)

4 Crafty Chicks - Birthday

Crafty Catz - 3-2-1 (3 butterflies, 2 DP's, 1 flower)

Cupcake Crafts - Lots of Layers

Let's Craft and Create - Diecuts

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes

Love To Create - Flowers

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Embossing and Texture

Thanks for stopping by today. 

We had a fab day yesterday, and even managed to fit in a Dinosour safari!

Yes that is a Velosiraptor in the background! It is a life size statue in the front garden of a house quite near us!

 I have a day of gardening today after church...hope to get all my seedlings out if possible! Have a great Sunday! :)

Retiring Butterflies

Good morning! 

Are you enjoying the bank holiday and the extra day off work? I am! 

I do have a card for you that I made Saturday night to fit in with the Less Is More colour challenge this week...

If you remember from my post on Saturday, the challenge is to use two opposite colours on the colour wheel...

For this one I have used Yellow-Green and Violet-Red (Old Olive & Rich Razzleberry)

I really love this buttefly set, in particular this traditional looking butterfly, from the Papillon Potpourri stamps...so elegant!

I was inspired somewhat by Rebecca's card here. I had already chosen my colours, stamps and paper, but was going in a totally different way with my layout until I saw her card...isn't it gorgeous??

Supplies

Cardstock - Whisper White

Stamps - Papillon Potpourri, Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Ink - Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry

Designer Series Paper - Brights

Punches - Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly

Die - Apothecary Accents

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order £250 of products and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £155 of goodies for only £99!!Contact me or see here for more details!

Other Challenges

613 Avenue - Anything Goes

Die Cutting Divas - Anything Goes

Love To Create - Punches/Dies

I hope you enjoy the rest of the long weekend...back to the grind tomorrow!

Colouring on Black

Good morning!

After showing you the effects of colouring on Crumb Cake card, I thought I would share the same effect on black! 

For this card, I stamped my image from Flowering Flourishes onto the Basic Black card using my Whisper White Craft pad. I then used my Stampin' Write markers to colour over the white ink. I think it's a lovely and striking effect! :)

Supplies

Cardstock - Basic Black

Designer Series Paper - Brights

Stamps - Flowering Flourishes, Elements of Style, Papillon Pot Pourri

Ink (markers) - Lucky Limeade, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral

Ink (craft pad) - Whisper White

Punch - Bitty Butterfly

If you would like to order any of these beautiful Stampin' Up! items, please do contact me. 

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order £250 of products and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £155 of goodies for only £99!! Contact me or see here for more details!

Challenges
CAS on Sunday -#7

Let's Craft And Create - Flowers

Thanks for saying hi today!