What makes my job special

a customer of mine (whos become a friend) dropped in with these for me tonight - just for being her SU demo. Isn't that just the nicest thing? i didn't cry but if our kids hadn't been there i would have.
if your reading this Fiona - thanks again, your a star

This is a valentines card for a sick wee boy in America- its hard doing a male valentine- i went for real red and bashful blue with whisper white

This is a small party invite - just 3inch square. it uses real red. bashful blue, pear pizazz and so saffron - a nice quick card you could make a ton of quickly

brayer background

i've been playing around with brayer tecniques- i loved the effect this one gave. i punched out a circle from a sticky note to make a mask and brayered over the top

the colours are slightly darker in real life. I used wild wisabi and not quite navy cardstock on a bashful blue base
the stamp sets are just believe and oval all

going green

i love making these buttons using my circle punches- i can get buttons the exact colour to match my project- a nifty trick to save money (and then spend it on something else crafty!)

this page uses the Just Believe set of stamps- i embossed the circles and punched them out and embossed the grassy stamp in the corner. i used certianly celery 12x12, old olive a4 for the matts and the spotty paper is pear pizzaz - the celery paper matched the celery background perfectly but looked a bit pale against the olive so i opted for the slightly darker pear - i love how the stamping up colours work together so well.

this card used marina mist as the background and certainly celery and old olive - very simple and quick to make - i think the tearing took longer than the stamping- i hate wonky tearing!!

thanks for looking

Birthday cards

this is a project i forgot to upload yesterday for the bloghop, i used the stamp-a-majig to make the border and razzleberry ribbon for the roses. razzleberry and wild wasabi cardstock

this was an unfinished project from the london convention- my first experience of the watercolour paper and i was impressed with the effects- a must buy on my next order

why do birthday parties come in clusters? i have 2 boys so the majority of the cards i have to make are for boys (but how i enjoy a nice girly card when i get the chance)- these 2 are for my youngest sons friends.

joe card- baja breeze, night of navy and cherry cobbler

fergus- wild wasabi, pacific point, real red, so saffron

Sale a bration blog hop

Hi welcome to the Sale-a-bration blog hop, there are dozens of Stampin Up demonstrators taking part today, so enjoy all the inspiring projects. i will add links to the beginning of each loop at the end of the post.
you should have hopped here from http://kimfeecrafter.blogspot.com/
the first project is a covered notebook, i used baja breeze, rich razzleberry and whisper white

This card uses Rose Red and baja breeze, the greeting is from Ocassionally- a very useful set with all sorts of greetings, i cut the flowers out and mounted them on 3d pads to add dimension.
The patterned paper id from the super value 12x12 paperpads which come in the colour families

Here i used Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizazz and a wee bit of Baja breeze (again!!)

Rich Razzleberry and patterned paper from Greenhouse Garden (i love the pattern on this so much- its very classic and looks great on 12x12 pages as well as cut up into small pieces)

Rose Red and Pretty in Pink

i love this last one - the photo dosn't do it justice, it uses Cherry Cobbler and Pear Pizazz, the ribbon is truely lovely in real life- and comes in a huge roll.

the next blog to hop to is http://www.lindseyscards.blogspot.com/

if you've finished this circle i have listed the starting points for all the circles here

http://sarastamper.blogspot.com/

http://my-next-chapter.blogspot.com/

http://karenbaker.wordpress.com/

http://creatinwithkirsteen.com/

hi, welcome to this bloghop using some of the FREE sets you can earn during Sale a bration, you should have hopped over from http://kimfeecrafter.blogspot.com/

hand made christmas trees

i've not had time to craft this week so far, been busy with school concerts and playgroup christmas parties, hopefully i will have time over the next few days as i have no cards made yet. i thought i'd share these decorations i made last year but never blogged this wooden tree is my favorite decoration (my merry christmas banner is a close second) it really catches the light with all the glitter along the egdes of the papers

and 2 polystyrene cone trees- i love using up scraps of patterned paper on these, the more different patterns the better

off to bag up the teachers pressies - they have bath fizzers, bath salts and soaps- all home made. i'll share pictures once they're done