My lovely followers x

Monday, 19 November 2012

Autumn is still here.....

Afternoon everyone, hope you're having a good Monday.   
I had to pop into college this morning for a couple of hours work, but was soon home and back in my craft room....yeah!
I thought when I made all of those Autumn cards a few weeks ago, that that was it for this year, but I've noticed on a few of the challenge blogs they're still asking for Autumn cards.....so, here we are, but definitely my last.......it's more like Winter here today anyway, and the leaves are long gone from the trees in our village.
Anyway, here is the card....hope you like it.
I treat myself to a SplodgeAway Mat recently, to see what all the fuss is about. It has definitely made a difference to my inking and blending, and made a sometimes tedious job so much easier. Think I'll be using it on most of my cards in future.




I made the backing card with Distress Inks, and Cosmic Shimmer mists then ran it through the Bigshot with a leafy mask. 


The ribbon started out as bright white, which I ink-dyed then stamped on.





The sentiment is from Creative Expresasions, combined with my lovely tree stamp from Inkylicious. (you can see the lovely 'glimmer mist', sparkling on the sentiment)




 I'm entering this card into the following challenges


Creative Stamp Friends are asking for 'Your Favourite Colour', and of course you know that these Autumn colours are my favourites

Gingerloft is asking for a 'Touch of Gold'


Thank you for popping by today, I'd love it if you could leave a comment xx
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

It's that time again........

Morning everyone and a big warm welcome to my new followers......now only 2 needed to reach that magic number of 200......excited.com!
Today sees the start of our next twinchies challenge and the theme this fortnight is 'USE ONLY TWO COLOURS'.
Firstly though, I'd like to say well done to last fortnight's winner
Julie B
Her winning twinchie can be found Here

My twinchies were rather a hurried affair this time, as we've had Alan's parents here for a week, and they only went home today. So....it was straight into my craft room and voila!  (of course, being a procrastinator, as you all know, it never entered my head to make my twinchies BEFORE they arrived last week!)
Please checkout this fortnight's challenge at
Show Us Your Twinchies 






Background colours made with Dylusions Inks, butterfly from Craft Stamper mag.




This stamp is from Elusive Images. Stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with WOW embossing powder.





These words are little buttons, coloured pink with an inkpad



Thought this was very topical for Remembrance
week. I decoupaged the bottom left poppy.







Thanks for looking, hope you can leave a comment.
Back tomorrow with something new.
Barbara
xx
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Friday, 9 November 2012

Quick, quick, quick.......

Just another quick post today, sorry for rushing again, but needs must. Just wanted to show you a couple more clean and simple cards I made for two challenges.
The first one, to enter into the weekly challenge at 
http://panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk/


I've used a twinchie as the topper, and double-embossed around it.













This card was made for the challenge at
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/



Do you like them??   ....hopefully I'll be back with something completely different tomorrow xx



 I'm also entering these cards into the following challenges :-
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Thursday, 8 November 2012

Lili of the Valley Christmas......

Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog. Just a very quick post tonight as we have visitors and I'm busy in the kitchen ;-(
I made this Christmas card a couple of weeks ago using a Lili Of The Valley image, cut with a hexagon Spellbinder die.
It's just a simple layout, as you can see, but hey-ho, sometime you just have to make a few quick cards, so simple is best.

Hope you like it, I'll be back tomorrow with something different.
Enjoy your evening,
Barbara
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Clean and Simple.......(but messy)

Evening everyone, and thanks for popping by. A big welcome to my new followers....just need 6 more to reach 200, whoohoo!
Tonight's cards were made along the 'clean and simple' lines, but believe me, it was anything but simple and I did waste a lot of card trying to get the colours perfect. In fact the best colours were on a piece of scrap paper, which typically I can't use anyway, but hey, that's crafting!





I've used a new stamp bought recently from
Inkylicious ,  and I love it already.
The sentiment stamp is by Stampin' Up.




I highlighted the little bird with TH Fired Brick distress ink.  



I do like these colours together, even though they're not my usual faves Sympathy cards are sometimes difficult to find a suitable colour for.



I was pleased with the way the coloured panel turned out, especially with the thin green edging



Hope you like them...
Back tomorrow
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Thursday, 1 November 2012

Twinchies 'R' Us.......

Morning everyone,  it's Thursday, and almost the weekend, whoohoo!
This is the last of todays posts, phew....it's always busy on the 1st of the month.
If you haven't already joined us at  
Why not....????
Last challenge's winner was Val....you can find her winning twinchie Here
Well done Val, another fantastic winner's badge for your blog, how lucky are you ??
The theme this fortnight is Hot Colours/Fireworks and here are the twinchies I've made ...







Loads of Cosmic Shimmer, Tim Holtz Distress Stains, Promarkers and Glamourdust






Inks and Glamourdust





Good old Craft Stamper stamp....these stamps were just made for twinchies ;-)   Loads of lilac 'Wow' embossing powder and of course Glamourdust........
This is a Catherine Wheel....BTW haha
Well, that's it for today, hope you like my little peices of 2" x 2" of art....I'd love you to leave a comment
Catch you tomorrow
Barbara xx
I'm entering this into the following challenge
http://sarahhurleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 

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Spoooooooooooooooooooooooky!

Morning everyone, welcome back to my blog.
 Just wanted to show you my DT card for  
The theme this month is Halloween/Fall and I chose to use one of my little twinchies to make my card.
Now I've got to admit I DON'T like Halloween and I can't see why anyone would want to make or receive a card with ghouls, skulls, witches etc, so I'm pleased it's over....however I did put MY feelings to one side to make this card. I think it's just a teeny bit more humorous than some.
Please pop over to The Cupboard Trilogy and check out the other creations from the fabulous Design Team, and maybe have an entry in the challenge.

The brick background is an embossing folder from Creative Expressions, think it's the first time I've used it, but I love the effect for a Halloween card.
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of it,
Barbara 
x

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Cards-Galore November Challenge.....

Morning all, on a wet, blustery day.....just right for staying home and crafting, which is just what I'm doing today :-)
The challenge over at Cards-Galore this month is 'Silhouette'......nice and easy, so we do hope you can come and join us.
Here are my Design Team creations, both are Christmas cards, which is great as I'm still behind on my Christmas card making.


    




Pan Pastels and an Inkylicious tree stamp.  The sleigh and reindeer is a die-cut.





This lovely little reindeer is a Stampin'up stamp, with Marianne dies and a Martha Stewart punch for the flowers.


I've also used Glamourdust on the reindeer antlers.




Hope you like it.
Barbara
xx
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Monday, 29 October 2012

More Simple Christmas Cards.....

Hiya everyone, welcome back to my little corner of blogland, for
just a quick post ;-)
Got a couple more Christmas cards to show you tonight..... again, just very clean and simple design.
I bought this set of holly stamps from the internet, but don't know who the maker is, sorry, isn't it a lovely design though??




The card is a 6" x 6"  square, so you can see the holly stamp is quite large.




I used Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent PVA for the berries.



I'm a bit fed-up with this one, as I've not lined up the top layer properly. I'll rectify it with my steel rule and a sharp blade.





Same stamp, different sentiment, and red 'jewels' for berries.





The holly bush in our garden is a varigated specimen, so I've added yellow Promarker to leaves on my image.   The berries are fantastic at the moment, birds are loving them ;)




The spotty card is from old stash, but I thought it matched the holly stamp perfectly

Hope you've enjoyed looking at tonight offerings, would love it if you could leave a comment. 
Catch you tomorrow,
Barbara
xx
I'm entering these cards into the following challenges :-
Hotshot Crafts 
http://diekreativenstempelfreunde.blogspot.co.uk/ 
 http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/
http://fashionistachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 


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Friday, 26 October 2012

1 Stamp, 3 Simple Cards...........

Evening everyone, and welcome to my new followers....only 10 to go before reaching 200, whoohoo!
Thanks so much, to all those who pop back on a regular basis to checkout what I've been doing and thanks too for all the amazing comments you leave.....blogging wouldn't be half as much fun without them!

This week I've made 68 'stock' cards,  lots of repetition, but everyone of them different ;)  It's my last big craft fair tomorrow, and I'm taking over 300 cards ;)
The cards I'm showing tonight were made with my favourite stamp of the last 4 years......I bought it off Ebay, along with my trusty old  wooden scoreboard, and together they've been the best craft purchases I've ever made, for a total of less than £5!    A few 'jewels' and a bit of Glamourdust and da-da, done!
I didn't want traditional colours for these cards, as I love the shocking pink and black together on crisp white card......what do you think??








Matrtha Stewart corner chomper


 The sentiments are from a set of magazine freebies ;)







The Glamourdust appears on almost every Christmas card.....it's compulsory! haha








Hope you've enjoyed looking at these very, very simple cards.....although I love getting messy with inks etc, I still revert back to 'Clean and Simple' on a regular basis. 
I'll be back on Sunday, in the meantime, have a great weekend,
Barbara xx

I'm entering these cards into the following challenge :-
 http://hotshotcraft.blogspot.co.uk/
 
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Guest blogger......

Morning everyone, from a very dull, damp Wiltshire -  I'm sure I heard on the radio last week that we were going to have an Indian Summer, this week with temps up to 22 degrees.....well, it's not happening yet, but I live in hope!
Anyway, you might remember me saying a few weeks ago that I won a challenge over at 
http://citycrafter.blogspot.co.uk/ (a USA challenge blog)
The lady who runs the blog, Kirsty, kindly asked if I would be their guest blogger this week. Of course I accepted and my 'prompt' was to take one of my previous cards and revamp/update/change/improve it in some way....I chose a card I'd blogged on Sep. 19th and decided to made it a bit more grungy and 'dark'!

This is what I came up with :)






This was the original card, quite girly and 'pretty'.




Original ribbon and flower detail















I just touched TH black soot  over the roses, to 'un-pretty' them


This is the 'changed' card. Much more black distressing, ribbon and lace, with black 'jewels'....and with a Rock Chic sentiment, it looks a bit more raunchy!









Hope you like what I've done, and if you get the chance, pop over to 
and read my guest spot....pleeeeeeeeeeeeease xx
That's all for now, off to make a few more Christmas cards....catch you all tomorrow,
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Saturday, 20 October 2012

Pearly snow........

Hello everyone, an early post from me today, as I have a busy morning ahead sorting out my craft room.....AGAIN! I just don't enjoy crafting when it's in such a mess, but unfortunately this seems to be the majority of the time these days.   Then it's crafting to prepare for thr craft fair next week.

I've made lots of individual Christmas cards this week with this cute snowman stamp, (bought secondhand off a facebook group). The edge of the card was covered with Cosmic Shimmer pearlescent glue blobs of various sizes, tricky to do in places, but I like the effect on black card. What do you think??
Might be back later, depends how much I get done.
Have a great Saturday

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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

And Now For Christmas.........

Hi everyone....well it had to come to Christmas card making, didn't it & time is quickly moving on. 
Although I've made quite a few during the year, it's all systems go this week and next, as I have my last craft fair of the year next Saturday, and I always sell loads ;)
I do like simple cards, like the ones I maade a few days ago, but I've bought so many Christmas stamps & dies this year that I thought they should get a little airing.
So, here are two of the new ones, made with a stamp I bought off Facebook. Sorry, don't know the make, but I thought it was quite a cute image.

   


Spellbinder labels die and Martha Stewart punch.





Crunchy snow.





             I like the little sentiment, 
      Merry Chrismoose




Memory Box dies.



That's all for now, catch you tomorrow,
Barbara x



I'm entering this card into the following challenges

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012

An Alternative Wedding Card........

Evening all.....another post from me..... 2 days in a row, whoohoo!
 Tonight I want to show you a wedding card I've made for Emma's brother & girlfriend's wedding in a couple of weeks time.   Tom and Laura are both very artistic and I don't think a traditional white card would suit on this occasion.  They love colour, texture and just something 'different' to the norm, as their wedding day will show, no doubt. We aren't going, but I'm so looking forward to seeing all the photos of the day. 
Anyway, here is the card




Guess which colours I chose?
(Haha)






The heart charm is from my jewellery making stash


I've used...... Pan Pastels, Distress Inks, Grunge Dots embossing folder, and a leafy stamp. Spellbinder label die, Marianne heart dies, and Cheery Lynn tiny butterflies. A 'love' charm and loads of Cosmic Shimmer' mica spray.....Oh and some white ribbon, dyed with distress inks






                      What do you think......will they like it??
                                           Do you??


                     Would love you to leave a comment.
                                 Catch you all tomorrow
                                          Barbara xx




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

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Monday, 15 October 2012

New Twinchies.......

Hello friends, (and the odd family person who checks in) hope you're all fit and ready to face another week.
Apart from this morning, when I have dentist AND doc's to visit, I have a full week of nothing but crafting to do...yeah!
 Just wanted to brag a bit though first....Alan and I go into Bath every Sunday to meet up with Nick, Emma, Adam & Sophie, to do a (very popular) pub quiz. Last night there were about 15 teams.......and we won! £66 lovely smackers :)  I've been told I need to revise a bit of Literature this week.....so if I'm missing from here or facebook, you know what I'm doing....NOT! :)
Anyway, onto this fortnight's twinchies but first CONGRATULATIONS to
Sue P
for winning the last challenge.......you can find it in the winners gallery

This fortnight the theme is 'Spooky Stuff', and have to say I do NOT like Spookyness & Halloween, and I DON'T do these types of card......I just can't understand why anyone would want to make or receive a card with skulls/graveyards/ghosts etc on them. (the twinchies could be used as toppers for kids cards though)
That's just me , of course, I like 'nice' things, not ghoulish!
So anyway,  here are my efforts :-






This is a CAT!   (just in case you didn't know)





Imagine all these Bats, with evil eyes,  flying towards you....yuk!


This is my favourite
x
















Got to admit I nicked this idea from somewhere, but I've forgotten where. Hope you realise that the layers are meant to be 'mummy bandages', haha








Well, that's all for now, hope you like my little twinchies. 
We'd love you to join in our challenge at
Show Us Your Twinchies
It's just for fun,  but we give the 'Mother-Of-All-Winners-Badge' for you to proudly display on your blog!! What more could a girl want??
Catch ya later,
Barbara xx

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