Its my Birthday today...

Its my birthday today 21 ....again lol!

I've received some wonderul cards,even my dad made me honey and banana bread, after 48 years of marriage, its the first time he has cooked, as my mum is unable to at the moment. This is a massive a2 card, my daughter made and all 3 of my kiddies wrote in, its wonderful!

My 14 year old son made me this fantastic decoupafe card, as elephants are my favourite wild animal.

This is my cake and banana bread yummy!

And my 3 bunches of Roses from my 3 children.

This is the gorgeous card and gift I received from Louise, of dottie fame,my best friend!! This has the most gorgeous flocked paper on and ofcourse Lou has added her touch of genious by lifting the leaves up from the paper!

its got a secret pocket in which had a gift from Naughty Lou, this will be going towards my Farnborough fund, as going to the 'Make it' show on sunday!

Karen sent me this gorgously creative a5 card,with so many things to touch and stoke , its wonderful

And the wonderfully healthy Juliet! Sent me this fantastic card,you cant see in the picture but it has acetate and yarn aswell as real stitching on it and the colours are just gorgeous!

Thankyou everybody for thinking of me .xxxx

Joanna Sheen Sweeps the board!!

Joanna Sheen has won
Best Craft Website
Best Online Retailer
& Cardmaker of the Year
In the Craft Awards!
Welldone to all at Sheenie Towers!!!
I am so proud to be a part of Joanna Sheen, the awards are so well deserved, she is a wonderful lady!!

Wedding card...

This is a large a4 card,using an image from the new Lets play dolls house cd from Helping hands templates,this image is designed to fit into the church when made up from the template, but this shows you dont have to only use them with the templates.

I used a piece of 12x12 scrapbooking paper for the backing and matted and layed using embossed parchment.

Dotties world Sunday challenge...Stitch in time...

It has been a horrendous week,so my appologises i was late with my card to Adele over on dotties world,as it is her challenge this week.
Adele wanted us to use stitching,machine or hand.
So I hand stitched the crosses down the side of the ribbon,I used the image from the new 'Holly and Madison' collection available at Charmed cards,checkout the blinkie. The sentiment,flowers and brads are all from Hot off the Press,also available at Charmed. I added colour using my ever faithful Whispers Brush markers ( ok, ok i havent got any copics!! Yet!!) Great Challenge Adele.xx

Brand new cd out now!!

Helping hands templates have released another wonderful cd, which is available now!!

I will be posting some pics very shortly of my samples.

Guest Designer for Crafty Templates...

I was asked by Leonora of Crafty Templates to be their guest designer for February,Leo sent me a wonderful kit,which comes out monthly and i always love to buy,along with the monthly templates,which are sent as a download when you subscribe to Crafty Templates This card was made combining two of the templates for the large hen and smaller chick...

Everything in the card is from the kit,apart from the brads

I used the wing on the mother hen to make a pocket to hold the little chick with greeting and attached them together with the ribbon from the kit.

This is the purse template, all apart from the brad & the £10 note is from the kit

And finally this is the wonderful sunshine template,I just used my ink pads to shade the card and sunshine and a micron pen for the greeting...

Thankyou Leonora for the opportunity to join in.xx

Now comes the water!!!!

This is the field at the back of my house!! With the river Loddon in it!!!!

This is the entrance to the farm!

The road out!! The building is the Magpie and parrot pub!

My slide show with music

Sunday Dotties Challenge..Luuurve..New collection from Lou.. Now available..

Wow wow wow! Louise has done it again, just when you think she couldnt think of something better, she has come up with the 'Holly and Madison' collections the images are wonderful,completely different to Dottie.
Karen has set the challenge for 'Luurve' this week over on Dotties World, so it was a great excuse to use this image For this card i used this wonderfully sophisticated image, cut out and aperture and used invisible thread to hold the hearts i punched out.

I added detail to the back,although this collection doesnt have the back detail unlike 'back to front dottie'

This is the very minimal inside of the card!

Cheskout the Dottie blinkie to get the images as soon as they are released!.xx

Another card from New collection Holly & Madison now available..

This another image in the new collection 'Holly & Madison' available from Charmed Cards and Crafts now!
After months of Christmas cards,this collection is sucha a breath of fresh air,thye are soo adaptable sure to be a huge hit in the craft world!
Click the blinkie to go get some!!

I used card,paper and embelishments from my Hot off the press stash,but they are also available from Charmed Cards and Crafts. And Whispers Duo Brush(watercolour) Pens to colour her in.

Blog candy give away

Jen a fellow Design team member for Helping hands Templates is offering some wonderful blog candy over on her blog, her blog is wonderful go and have a look.
Jen-Phoenix crafts

Birthday screen

I made this screen using an image from Helping hands new cd 'Scenes to decorate' and a ws screen template.

Friends like you.....

This is another card i made to go with my challenge over on Dotties world for Mid-Week Mojo Having mastered the technique of this 3d card,i thought it shows the new Back to front images from charmed cards off perfectley!

As this folds completely flat it goes into a normal sized envelope and saves postage too....

The sentiments are from the Hot of the press goodies i won,the clear overlays,never used them before i got them in the pack,but i love them and can see them becoming a firm favourite of mine!

I used whispers water pens to add colour to dottie,i love the bright crisp green of the card so matched Dottie accordingly!..xx

Spring is nearly Here...Just a note

Its my turn to set the challenge over on Dotties World this week,dont laugh but i thought we need cheering up and thinking of all thing new and colourful in Spring,so it thought of..
Spring is nearly Here.....
I want to see shades of yellow and green,including a Charmed Cards Download...... The card i made using the a download from the New 'Back to front Dottie' Downloads,available from charmed,click on the blinkie.
I paper pieced Dotties dress and the daisies,joined the back and the front together then added to the front of the acetate square with pva,so it then goes clear when dry.
The just a note and flowers are from Hot off the press
This is the back of the card,where i have cut a matching aperture so you can see straight through the card to the front image.

On your wedding Day...

This is a large A4 card made using some of the Hot off the press papers from my newly acquired goodies,i used two sheets(i know how could i use my new papers!!)and decoupage a layer of flowers at the bottom,also using the lovely Cross from ArtyFarty,I am a big fan of Caroles templates,this is sucha simple but beautiful template.

HOT OFF THE PRESS

When i came first in the Joanna Sheen section of Cardmaker of the year competition,i also came 3rd in the hot off the press section,i have just received my box of goodies,all the way from the States,cost them $37.50 postage!
It was a lovely suprise,as had forgotten about it,there is a pillow packet of ribbons,a very thick scrapbook,brads,8x8 papers,quotes,instant card art pads,blank cards and envelopes,loads of all colour co-ordinating packs...Thankyou Hot of the press

Thankyou..

These beautiful freesia flowers were sent to me by my dear friend Louise, she sent them to cheer me up,but made me cry anyway!
I havent been blogging much as my mum is ill with two forms of cancer this time,having survived Hodgekins lymphoma 9years ago. I am finding it very hard to cling on to what the purpose of life is, my children keep it real.
Louise is a sucha a dear friend and i have never met her, we met through the web and our love of crafting and my goodness she is an amazing talent, thankyou Lou! And thankyou to Linnie, Rita & Margo for your support,i do soo appreciate youxxx

18th Birthday-Girl about town

The challenge over on Dotties world is a recipe:-
1 Ribbon
3 buttons
A flower,Handmade( whoops i did 3)
And ofcourse a charmed Cards Download
I used the download from the new collection 'Girl about town' available at charmed Cards.
I cut the numbers after re-sizing on word and then ran through my Big shot using the Swiss dot embossing folder from cuttle bug,also available at charmed.
For the black buttons, i used black shrink plastic with a flower die in my big shot again. The lemon flowers i made using a punch and adding layers of petals,then a pearl embellishment in each one along with the swirls on the card.

Been Havin a play...

I have seen this idea in the January 'making cards magazine' and have been wanting to have a go. I picked the most difficult card to work with lol,shows every mark!
Any way very pleased with the result! It is ideal to beat the Royal mail with the postage to, as it folds down flat to fit in an ordinary size envelope so will be a normal stamp!!!

The embellishments are fro 'Hot off the press' in the wonderful box of goodies i have just received for coming third in their section of Card making and paper crafts Card maker of the year comp, having already come first in the Joanna Sheen Section

Two more Joanna Sheen Cards

Joanna Sheen has put these cards of mine on the Joanna Sheen Website. The swan card is a large A4 card

This is an a5 card. These are using the images from the new Cottage Gardens cds

Especially for you...

This is a large A4 card using the new 'Mansion'Template from Helping Hands Templates and the images from Joanna Sheen new Cd Cottage Garden. I added flower soft to the house which carries the colours acroos from the images perfectly!

Inside i used images from both the new cd of Joanna Sheen and the new CD from Helping Hands Templates, i used the snapshot tool on word and shrunk the images down to size then added to the house.

As seen on TV!!

On Sunday 18th my first sample cards were shown on Create & craft Tv also Ideal World for Joanna Sheens launch of the new Cottage Garden double cd, Nigel,my mate,was also presenting.
These were the one that were shown, as Joaana did 5 demos didnt leave a lot of time for showing samples.

Notelet Set

This is a decoupage a5 card

And this is a large A4 card.