More Big ....

.... Owls! (Oh, and blog candy alert!)

Did I mention I just love this stamp?!!

And I think maybe somewhere I might have said I love Basic Grey, too!!!

So why not combine them both?!!

I paper pieced the feathery bit of the owl on Bittersweet paper, and shaded the bottom of the feathers with prismas. More colouring, paper-piecing, distressing, spots, flowers, buttons, punching, stickles for one set of eyes, gems for the other. Done!!!


Thanks for looking!!

P.S. Clare Curd has some great blog candy over on her blog. Don't say I didn't tell you!!!

Baby Card and Big Sister ....

.... Sweetener!!

This started as an entry for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge the week before last, but I didn't finish it in time. The brief was to use lots of green, and I like the combination of soft green and soft peachy-pink.

It's for my cousin, who had a baby girl recently. She has called her Evie and I just love the name.
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Evie has a big sister, Georgie, and I thought I'd better make something for her, too (to help stave off potential jealousy!). I was at my friend, Liz's, house for a crop on Saturday (thanks, Liz). I had a super-productive day for me - made 1 card, 1 box for putting cupcakes in, and this notebook for Georgie:


It is actually made with identical papers to Evie's card, but the light was obviously not as good when I took the pic!!

Shaken ....

.... not stirred!

DS turned 7 recently. He is a big Bond fan - so really I had to do this card for this birthday of all birthdays!!! I drew and cut out the template and traced around it onto folded black Bazzill, cut it out and added a bit of black pp, doodling and stickling. He was impressed (phew!!!)

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Big Owl ....

.... my newest stamp!

I ordered it before Christmas, but it was out of stock. It finally arrived in January, and I love it so much. I made this card to send to Lynda along with her blog candy prize, and it was such fun to make. I coloured it with prismas, added jewels for the eyes, and that was it!!!! Oh yes, I stuck it down on some hot pink card too!

P.S. Lynda, thanks for emailing me the picture of it. I will not forget again!

Still Keeping Up With ....

.... the Daring Cardmakers!

Lythan set the dare this week:

"I just love, love, love patterned paper so this week I dare you to join me in Patterned Paper Passion. I want to see 3 different patterned papers on your card. And to be extra daring, why not see if you can use 3 different lines of paper!"

I started working on this card, for a friend's daughter, a few weeks ago at a crop. It's like one I made for my teenage daughter last year (only her's was black and grungy with a metal ballchain - you get the idea!). I decided to use all different PPs to finish this off when I read the dare. I've used paper from Doodlebug, Love Elsie, BG, and one other I don't know. The dangling number 7 is Doodlebug Sugar Coated card with a glitter-stopping coat of Glossy Accents.

No soppy stuff ....

.... here!!!

Well that's a big lie. Keryn's dare this week on Daring Cardmakers is:

"My dare for this one is the predictable, someone had to do it, theme of Valentines. Although I don't want you to feel you just have to make Valentines Day cards, feel free to make a card fitting any theme you like as long as it has a heart somewhere on it. Stamped hearts, punched hearts, diecut hearts, heart embellishments, cut from patterned paper, whatever, whenever as long as it has the right shape".

Now I just happened (yet again, cough cough!!) to have made this card a few weeks ago. Started with my new set of Hero Arts heart stamps which are very yummy, and BG Scarlet's Letter paper which was the first paper I HAD to have when I got into this crafting lark and I still love!!! And then after a lot of stamping, embossing and an awful lot of inking, I had this!!! DH will be surprised to receive such a lavish Valentine's card - or suspicious!!!! Ha ha ha!!!

It was a sunny afternoon and I hoped the light would be good for the photo - but, thanks to my neighbour's accursed new extension - I don't think I'll get good photos any more even in high summer. Grrrr! (OK, everyone Irish reading this knows there's no such thing as high summer here!)

Outside my ....

.... comfort zone!

I had a few thank you cards to make, and I decided to challenge myself a bit and use paper and colours that I normally wouldn't go for. I also decided to keep it very simple, no ribbons or embellishments at all, also a challenge for me these days!! I'm quite pleased with the result. The photo, though, is absolute pants, my hand must have been shaky.

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