What a great weekend.........

Evening everyone, and welcome back to my little piece of blogland.... 

A big hello to my new followers.

Hope you've all had a great weekend......mine has been fabulous!  I met up with loads of crafty friends in London and Kent......Janet Lofthouse, Elaine Maisey, Eileen Godwin and Zoe Russell, and had a fab day at Eileen's workshop with all the other lovely crafters. It was such good fun, and we laughed a lot! 

The card I'm showing tonight is one I made yesterday at the workshop.

I've used Pan Pastels on White Linen by  

Papermill .....see how lovely it is close-up, just like canvas.

 The Pan Pastels blend so well on the linen cardstock.

I've used Sheena Douglas stamps for the flowers.

I love these colours, and I'm quite pleased with the card itself....

Hope you like it.

Catch you soon

Barbara 

xx





I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-
Simply Create Too
Sister Act Card Challenge
Stampin with the Dragon
Crafty Calendar Challenge
Kraftyhands Challenge
My Sheri Crafts
One Stop Craft Challenge
Our Creative Corner
Stamped Blessings
Glitter n Sparkle

Happy birthday Alan......

Hello again everyone, thanks for calling in....hope you've had a great weekend, despite the weather.

It's my lovely man Alan's birthday today and we've had a fabby day with all the family here, including baby Eva......she is 4 weeks old tomorrow, can't believe where those weeks have gone! Life is so very busy at the moment.....

Anyway, I won't ramble on, just want to show you the cards I did for Alan.

 Alan certainly fills my life with colour, and more importantly, laughter!

Scraps of inky card...I never throw my inky bits away .

All cardstock is from Papermill Direct
The base card is 'hammered' white.

This card is from Finn to Alan ....the background is Pan Pastels.

My chocolate strawberries always come out on special occasions ;-)

Mmmmmmmmmm, they were scrummy!

Our gorgeous little Eva, she's even more scrummy than the choccie strawberries.

When they arrived, Eva was dressed beautifully, then alas she embarassed herself and had to be changed into a babygro. She looks lovely in anything though, I could squeeze her to bits!

Well, that's all for tonight, sorry it's been a long post....catch you all in a couple of days xx




I'm entering the first card into the following challenges :-
Totally Papercrafts
Addicted to CAS
Hiding In My Craftroom
Paper Creator's Crafts
The Crafting Cafe  (Lady luck certainly smiled on me the day I met Alan!)

Happy Birthday Dave......

Good evening to all my followers, new & long-standing....thanks for popping in tonight.

I'd like to show you a card made for Emma's dad, Dave....he's 60 today and definitely wasn't looking forward to it....We have this bit of misery going on between us 'cos it's my turn in August, and neither of us want to be 60! haha

I made a card that didn't have a huge 60 on the front, as I think he probably had lots of these.......

Kraft, black and cream 'linen'  cardstock all from

Papermill Direct 

 The 'wire' stamp is from Inkylicious, the wine set & scrolls are by Creative Expressions and the grunge corners are from LOTV

Central image cut with a Spellbinder label die.

Gorgeous 'fine detail' gold embossing powder from 

Oak House Studio

Computer generated sentiment.

The inside!

I coloured the image with Adirondack ink and promarkers.

Well, I sincerely hope Dave has had a fab day, with all the family, on holiday.....no doubt we'll go out next week to celebrate his 'milestone' birthday......and (not) look forward to mine!

Catch you all soon,

Barbara xx

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-

The House That Stamps Built 

Stampavie and More 

Loves Rubber Stamps 

My Craft Creations  (60th birthday)

A Cheeky Little Card.....

Evening all, hope you've had a great Tuesday. It's been very hot in Wiltshire today, but I've still managed to get loads done....washing, ironing, gardening and I've made 2 cards and a tag. So, I'm feeling pretty happy with myself tonight ;-)

Anyway, this card is for the same customer as yesterdays post.......her daughter is 40 on Saturday, and to celebrate, she's doing the 'Moon Walk'. I thought the bra card would be perfect, 'cos I think they walk wearing their bra on show..... I've had the templates forever, but this is the first time I've used them.

I love animal print, and I used to have a bra similar to this.....That bloomin' fluff irritated me to bits!

This is the  reverse of the card, a sexy little thong! (haha)

The 'jewels' were part of an old necklace.

Well, that's it for tonight everyone, hope you like my fluffy little number!

Would love you to leave a comment if you've enjoyed looking.

( The customer loved the cards by the way )

Barbara xx

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-

Anything Goes Challenge Blog

Creative Card Crew

Papertake Weekly

Through the Craft Room Door

Lexi's Creations

Make it Monday

My Craft Creations

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Sunny Day........

Hi everyone, just popped in with a quick post for today, as we're going to have a ride out in the 'cabbie' (my gorgeous 'Summer' car ) it's such a fab day here in Wiltshire.

The card I'm showing today was an urgent order for a really good customer, and happy customers mean more orders, and dosh, of course ;-) so I didn't mind being in my craft room on Bank Holiday Sunday.

The 'white linen' and lilac cardstock is from

 Papermill Direct

Look out for lots of new offers from Papermill coming soon

The charm is one of a batch I bought in Italy last year..... I'll be sad when they've all gone

I've used & blogged this design a few times, but still think it's a classy, elegant look, and seem to come back to it time after time, when I'm stuck for ideas.

Hope you like it enough to leave a comment, I appreciate them all.

Catch you tomorrow with a 'fun' card, made for the same customer as this one.

Enjoy the rest of your Bank Holiday 

xx

Lavinia Stamps - Challenge No. 3

Morning everyone, and a warm welcome to my new followers..Hope you're all enjoying some Spring weather wherever you are.

I'd like to thank you all for the wonderful messages and good wishes for our gorgeous little Eva, on my last post.  I was overwhelmed by the amount of followers who spared time to leave a comment and really appreciate them all xx

Anyway, today I'm showing you my design team card for the 3rd Lavinia Stamps Challenge....the theme this month is 

PASTEL COLOURS

Please pop over to Lavinia Stamp challenge blog and checkout the prize.....it's a gigantic £40!

I've chosen to use the 

Cherry Blossom Stamp

White Linen, pink and brown cardstock, all from 

Papermilldirect 

( as you know, I never use anything else )

I made the embossed background on a scoring board.

The sentiment is a wood-mounted stamp, but I can't remember where it came from, sorry.

  I've inked with TH distress ink, worn lipstick.

I really do like making simple cards, with lots of white on them....in saying that, I also love getting messy and inky and filling the page with colour, so best of both worlds, I suppose ;)

Please pop over and see the rest of the design team creations, they're fab!

Catch you all soon.

Barbara xx

Baby Eva is Here!.......

Good morning everyone, and welcome back to my blog after almost 3 weeks......can't believe I haven't had time to blog for so long, but life has been very, very busy here.

Firstly, I'd like to you to see the main change in our family, and indeed our whole lives.....this adorable, gorgeous, beautiful little girl who was born on 15th April 2013....our first grandchild!

Thank you Nick and Emma xxxx

 Eva Louise

( Isn't she just fabulous ? )
As well as Eva arriving, Alan has been working in South Africa, I have been helping in Adam's shop, and I even managed to squeeze a brilliant day in, at Ally Pally with some great crafty friends ....Phew, it's been all go, go, go!

Today I'm showing a card made in celebration of our lovely little grandaughter, hope you like it....
It's part of a blog hop from Crafting Cafe with the theme of CELEBRATION.....more details below.

All cardstock is from Papermill

This is a Lili of the Valley stamp, 

one of my favourite baby images.

The image tag is from Sizzix, the butterflies are from Marianne & Cheery Lynn, and all the rest are Spellbinders.

Loads of lace and feathers and liquid pearls.....Oh and it's an easel card, in case you hadn't noticed.....should have taken a side view but I forgot, sorry.

Now if you're following the blog hop, here is the list of contributors....

1. Nikki - http://what-nikki-did-next.blogspot.co.uk/

2. Lindsay - http://craftymonster81.blogspot.co.uk/

3. Katie - http://katiescraftroom.blogspot.co.uk/

4. Dawn - http://dawn-dawnscrafting.blogspot.co.uk/

5.Barbara - (that's me) - http://glitterarti1.blogspot.com .....

6. Amanda - http://mandmadecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/

7. Debbi - http://cards--galore.blogspot.co.uk/

8. Andree - http://acecardsandree.blogspot.co.uk/

Well, I hope you enjoy the 'hop' and have a good weekend too, apologies for this long post....I'll be back in a couple of days with something new. In the meantime, I'll just leave you with a couple of more photos...oh heck, I'm going to be one of those boring grandma's ;-)

Proud mam and dad xx

xxxxx

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-

 Crazy4Challenges   (code C4C183 )

DigiDesignChallenge

Mark's Finest Papers

Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Totally Gorjuss

Simply Create Too

Make It Monday