Saturday, 30 June 2012

Miaowy Birthday

Just a quickie post ... movie night tonight and it's ready to start - tonight's choice is Rum diary, looks like it might be a laugh.
ETA: the movie was just 'average' - I wouldn't bother if I was you!

Masked off my kitties so I could make a group of 3 from the same stamp.  Chalked my sky and paper pieced my wee kitty, and then popped image up on dimensionals.




Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Mmmmm, cupcakes!

I'm not sure when it happened, but cupcakes used to be called 'buns' here!  Now there's 'cupcakes' everywhere!  Our local shop does the nicest chocolate ones too ... guess where our first stop was after our weigh in at Slimming World tonight!  Very naughty, but very yummy!

These lovely die cuts came in a package from Mags, they're even nicer in real life with all the shiny silver bits.  Sentiment stamp from Paper Smooches.


Sunday, 24 June 2012

Xmas Card #08

I got this gorgeous snowflake die a while ago ... this mightn't be the best way to use it, but I was dying to give it a go!
Coloured my wee bunny with copics, clear gloss on his nose and blinged up my snowballs with some glitter.

Sick Kitty

I 'found' this stamp recently at the back of my stash and thought he deserved a wee inking.  I don't make many one layer cards, so I'm quite pleased with how this turned out.
Coloured with pencils, paper pieced his wee bandage and blinged up his nose with some black glitter.




Saturday, 23 June 2012

Don't look now!

Hee, how's this for a fun card!  I bought this wee stamp from Hambo aaaaaages ago cause I thought he was so funny, and then when he arrived in the post I was stumped as to what to do with him!  I mean, what do you do with an image of a flasher?!! So he's sat unloved and uninked in my crafty stash, til now....
This card is for a friend of ours who's going for a wee surgical op in his, ahem, 'nether regions'!  Ta Da, suddenly this image is just perfect!  Do you like the addition of the wee saw brad?  It was nearly going to be a pair of scissors, but I thought a saw was even funnier!  I know, I'm evil.  But boy did I have a good laugh making this!

Paper pieced his robe, and cut a few stars with a Taylored Expressions die.  Sentiment / letters from Paper Smooches.
I've noticed that I'm always complaining in my blog about the weather, so from now on I'm looking for the positives!  Hmmm - hard to do when it didn't stop raining yesterday for even 5 minutes!  Well, at least I haven't had to bother watering my garden!  And the Six Mile Water was in very impressive form today ... usually its a nice ambient river, but today it was a total torrent.  A wee man (isn't there always a wee man no matter where you go who knows everything?!) told us the water had dropped about 4ft from yesterday!



Saturday, 16 June 2012

Happy Anniversary

Right, that's it, I'm officially fed up with our weather! Our garden had been blooming lovely after a wee bit of sunshine a week or two ago, and then a couple of nights ago we'd an awful wind and it destroyed our delphinium which was about to produce its best blooms ever, and whacked down our lovely lupin.  And it's done nothing but rain for days now.  I'm putting in an order for some decent weather, might even get my sandals on. (well, maybe under my wellies - Ha!)

I like a nice cuppa tea!

I must admit to being a bit of a tea-addict (wouldn't thank you for a cup of coffee), so I loved having a play with these decoupage sheets that Mags B sent me in a recent candy parcel - thanks Mags!  I didn't realise my pic was so out of focus and I also forgot to take an angle pic so you could see all the layers.




Friday, 15 June 2012

Woof!

Sorry, no craic in me today at all.  I'm loaded with the cold and have wee piggy eyes and a big red nose ... yes I look delightful but thankfully it didn't spoil my birthday yesterday! Another year wiser (ha) and feelin about another 20 older!
I've always fancied having a go with one of the sketches over at Sketch Inspiration, so this is my first effort.  Takes a bit of thinking to change a scrapbook LO into a card LO!

ETA I won at Totally Papercrafts!



Oh Christmas Tree

My lovely bloggy buddy Dotty Jo sent me this cute wee penguin stamp for my birthday ... cheers Jo!  Can you believe I had to have a think on how to colour a penguin. Doh.  Added some of my fluffy fibres to his wee hat and plenty of sparkle to the baubles and snow.



Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Father's Day kitty

Hmmm, not sure about this one!  It looks fabulously sparkly in real life as I added half a tonne of glitter to his balloon, but I think it needs something, I'll have to have a wee think and maybe add some die cut stars or see what else I can find.
Image from Penny Black, coloured with pencils.