My First Easel Card.......

This is my very first easel card... and I am totally addicted.

This card is for the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Pearls & Lace

The Secret Crafter ~ Bingo (Pearls, Swirls & Flowers)

Allsorts Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Catz ~ Favourite Things

Totally Papercraft ~ Ribbons and/or Bows

Materials Used:

Stamped image ~ Penny Black ~ in the garden (T for Transparent)

Image stamped with Memento ink Tuxedo Black and coloured with Pro Markers.

Die Cuts ~ Flourish #10, Flowers layers #9 and Framelits circles, scallop.

Purple backing paper ~ Bazzill

Floral background paper ~ Forever Friends Spring Time 6" x 6".

Ribbon buckle and self adhesive pearls ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment ~ Lili of the Valley.

Ribbon, felt and lace from crafty stash.

Thank you for taking the time to pop by my blog, your feedback/comments are much appreciated.

Love Em x

Hello...

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Sorry it has been such a long time since my last post.  I caught the dreaded cold that seems to be going around everywhere at the moment.  Feeling a lot better now though =D

I wanted to share with you a new project I have on the go.  For my 'day' job I run my own business doing printing (mugs and other gifts) and embroidery.  It's a great job and enables me to stay at home and work which is very convenient when you have a little one, for those unpredictable days off school sick, etc.  The only thing is sometimes it's just not creative enough for me.  I have had the idea for quite a while to design my own mugs.

I have started to turn the 'idea' into actual products ~ Yippee!!

Here is the first design

You can find these for sale in my e-bay store (click the link on your right) or you can contact me direct.

I am working on some Mother's day designs now and will share as soon as they are ready.

Hope you are all having a lovely half term break.

Love Em x

Monochromatic

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Polka Doodles ~ Shades of grey sketch

The Secret Crafter ~ Let them eat cake

Sir Stampalot ~ Monochromatic

Materials Used:

Polka Doodles stamp set free in the latest Simply cards & papercraft.

Heart Doily, ribbon and sentiment from crafty stash

Pearl effect ribbon fastener ~ Wild Orchid Craft

The background patterened paper I stamped myself using the heart and cupcake from the free stamp pack.

Images stamped with Momento Ink and coloured with Promarkers

Thank you for popping by my blog today.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Love Em x

Being brave......

I have been very brave and doodled on my card today, it is such a hard thing to do.  Just to doodle on the card and not worry that the lines aren't straight ~ well they definitely aren't!

Today's card is for the following challenges:

cupcake craft challenges ~ Something new (my new stamp that I haven't used yet).

allsorts ~ Paper piecing

lili of the valley ~ My favourite LOTV stamp

Materials Used:

All background papers used and floral embellishments were recycled from last years calender ~ Free with Cardmaking & papercrafts last year in association with My Minds Eye ~ Bloom & Grow.

Image ~ Lili of the Valley

Stamped with Memento ink and coloured with promarkers

String, ribbon, pegs and sentiment from crafty stash.

Now to leave you on another yummy little treat.  There will be plenty of these going on! Sorry blame the new years resolutions that WILL be stuck to lol!  I have always had the desire to do loads of things ~ new crafts, sewing, more baking, etc,etc the list goes on and on......

This year the excuses stop and they actually get done.  My list is huge so I won't bore you with them, but I will be sharing on here. 

Another huge project that we are undertaking this year is re-decorating our home.  This is our 4th year in this house, when we initially moved in we had to complete gut the house and decorate, but you know what it is like there are jobs all over that never get finished. 

 This year our home WILL be finished for Christmas!!! 

Yummy Rock Cakes ~ first time made but definitely not the last.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, please feel free to leave a comment I love to hear from you.

Love Em x

Vintage butterflies....

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Daring cardmakers ~ Colour combo

Totally papercrafts ~ Sketch

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything goes

Materials Used:

Kraft paper ~ Papermania Kraft Basics

Patterned background paper ~ Tilda Papercraft Springtime

Cream embossed paper ~ K&co Romanza Ivory

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Butterfly punch ~ Martha Stewart.

Lace, buttons, string from crafty stash

Flowers ~ Prima

Pearls ~ Wild Orchid Crafts

Ink pad ~ Versa Color brown.

Yesterday after I picked the little one up from school we did some baking and here's a yummy pic...

Hazelnut and Chocolate Filo rolls courtesy of the Hairy Bikers ~ Delicious! and really easy to make with little fingers.

Thank you for popping by my blog today.

Love Em x



First for 2012....

Happy New Year everyone.

My first card for 2012!

Let's hope that there is time for plenty more this year.

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Daring Cardmakers ~ Spots and Stripes

Totally Papercrafts ~ Time to party (balloons)

The secret Crafter ~ Anything goes

(Apologies for the photograph it is very dark and gloomy in Devon this morning)

Materials Used:

Striped paper ~ The Glitter Mat Stack.

Polka Dot paper ~ Wild Rose Studio gorgeous polka dots.

Purple card stock ~ Bazzill

Image ~ LOTV Maisie 2 balloon

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Buttons and ribbon from crafty stash.

Image stamped with Memento ~ Tuxedo black and coloured with Pro markers.

Thank you for popping by my blog.

It's the little ones last day off school today, so I feel some play time this afternoon and maybe a little baking.

Hope you all have a great day and wrap up warm.

Love Em

x

Top 5 cards from 2011!

Well it's time to join the lovely Debby again for our top 5 for 2011.

How impossible is this!!! But I have managed to narrow it down to 5, yes just 5!!!

Here goes......





These are my top 5 cards for 2011.  Predominately LOTV images but then they are so gorgeous I can't resist them.

Wishing all my lovely fellow blogger's a very Merry, Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Bring it on 2012 here we come!!!

Love Em x



Missing cards from 2011

I am just clearing out the photo's off the computer to put them on my portable hard drive ~ ready to clear the way for 2012 photographs.
 I have come across some cards that I have made for various occasions this year and I never blogged them.  So I thought I would share them on today's post.

From back in August for my Aunt's birthday

From September ~ my Aunt's 25th Wedding Anniversary.

Another card made for my Aunt's 25th Wedding Anniversary.

From September ~ My cousins birthday.

From way back in July for my Mum's birthday.

From November for my Cousins new baby boy.

Thank you for popping along to my blog.

It is back to work like normal for us, working on Valentine's gifts now.

Hope you are all having a lovely break.  I will be back in a couple of days to share my favourite cards from 2011.

Love Em x

My favourite 5 Christmas cards for 2011

Today I am playing along with the lovely Debby to pick out my top 5 Christmas cards from 2011.

So here goes... not an easy task.

No.1

No. 2

No.3

No.4

and finally no.5

Hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas.

I will be back with my favourite cards for 2011 on New Years Eve.

Love Em x



Wishing You All A Very Merry Christmas......

I would like to take the opportunity of this quiet spell between work and the final preparations of the 'big' day to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. 

There isn't much crafting going on around here at the moment due to work being so busy in the Christmas Madness.  Getting last minute orders processed in time for our useless postal system to try and jokingly attempt to delivery them on time

 (can you tell the emails have started already, headed 'Where is my item')

I have one thing to share and that is my little ones Christmas present to her teacher 'Mrs Williams'.  She decorated it all by herself (with only a little help).

Hope you are organised and not stressing out to much with the huge lists of things to do.

I do love this time of year and can't wait until this evening when work commitments get turned down a notch or two and I can start to get very festive.

I hope you all have a truly magical day

Love Em x