Thursday 5 May 2011

Altered notebook




Good morning, a quick post before I go to work...;-(

This post is for the papertake weekly challenge which this week is 'anything goes', so I thought it was a good opportunity to show a notebook I altered for a friend, she wanted a journal to write thoughts etc, so I hope she likes it, all she said was she loves butterflies, other than that it was up to me...

Ingredients;
Recycled notebook form staples
Papers; Nitwit download
Stamps; Butterflies Hero arts
Supllies; tattered rose distress ink and embossing powder, clear embossing powder, papermania letter tiles, maya road alphabets, flowers and brackets
Ribbon, brads and pearls from stash, Tim Holtz idea-ology tickets

Thanks for looking today and for any comments you may leave

Wednesday 4 May 2011

totally gorgeous challenge



Good morning everyone, hope everything is fine and dandy where you are. Quite a nice sunny day in Bedford, although at 8 am this mornign when I cycled to the
Danish camp (which is about 5 miles from me)and back it was quite cold, was even thinking I should of worn gloves...mind you I soom warmed up when I had to cycle up the bridge over the bypass...phew...oh well its all gonna help me get back to fitness and lose the weight i have gained since my operation, sitting about for 6 weeks has done me no favours, I can tell you.

Anyway enough fo my rabble, the card today is for the totally gorgeous challenge which is 1,2,3. I have used the new me to you range from do crafts, I love these little bears and thought they would make a lovely card for a friends Mum which she asked me to make. I also made a co-ordinating box, hope my friend likes it. My 1,2,3 is I amage, 2 bouquets of flowers and 3 letters of the alphabet.

Ingredients used
Image; Me to you stickers
Papers;Me to you 8 x 8 papers
Tools used; cricut for letters, cuttlebug for embossing, martha stewart punch and stampin up punch
Flowers from stash and wild orchid crats, brad also from me to you range at do crafts
Gems for stampin up

Monday 2 May 2011

Suzi with bunny



Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying your long bank holiday weekend. Wouldn't it be lovely if every weekend was a long one and every week was only 3 days...oh well no harm in dreaming..;-)

Anyway on to todays card, I am entering into the papertake weekly challenge which is a sketch. I have used another of the lovely wee stamps digital images, 'Suzi with bunny', probably an easter image but don't think it really matters to be honest.

Ingredients used
Stamp; as above
Papers. Nitwits downloadsDie cut, cut on cricut with sure cuts a lot
Flowers from Wild orchid crafts
Ribbon and gems for stash

Enjoy the rest of your day, thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave
Wendy x x