Piggy Bank - Oink Oink

As some of you know, my gorgeous baby dog passed away before Christmas. A friend of mine who used to be a vetinary nurse came over in the middle of the night and stayed up with me until I could take my precious Chi to the vets, Her little 3 year old son slept in my bed whilst we cried and talked and waited.

It transpired that he didn't have a piggy bank... and I had one I bought at the NEC so I made him one and Santa dropped it off on Christmas Eve, It was the first thing I made after that awful day. Decoupatch is very therapeutic. Just grab a cup of tea, put on the TV and get the brush and glue, rip the paper and start sticking... of all the ones I have made they never look wrong - they always seem to look perfect.

When you feel down and not feeling creative, this is the perfect answer to keeping your hands busy :)

I thought about putting googly eyes on it but thought that may look a bit creepy :)

Get inspired with yellow and green

The theme this week at Crafty Purple Frog is "Get Inspired with Yellow and Green"... so I did :)

The focal stamp is by crafts and me and I used floral stamps by Lavinia stamp and Inkylicious and the moon is by Clarity Stamp. The background is brayered. I made 4 of these cards in different colours / styles so expect to see a variation on a theme coming soon. :)

I stamped the girl then masked her off whilst I brayered the background. I then coloured her with copic ciaos and stamped the foliage. Then mounted the piece with a few embelishments.

I am also entering this into:

Crafts and Me - Shades of Spring

Happy New Year!

Wow - it has been a while. This is the first card I have been able to make since my beautiful Chi Chi passed away. The theme this week with Sweet Pea Stampers is Black Tie New Year! So come and join us and create something new for 2012 xx

Scary / Halloween Inspired

Hi everyone, so the theme this week at Sweet Pea Stampers is Scary / Halloween. I love Halloween! So I took advantage of using one of my new Sweet Pea Stamps that recently arrived from the US - The Ghost by Rebecca Sinz. She is coloured with the grey tones of pro-markers.

The background is black card which I added fusible webbing to, heated it to go all web like and added silver embossing powder on the top. The border is a punch by Martha Stewart and a little ribbon and silver flowers and my Halloween inspired card was done :)

Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1

I am so excited - Friday 18th November at 12:01am - I have a date with the Cullens! Cinema ticket booked and now counting the days... a few hours kip and then I am going back to the 10am showing with a friend. I definitely have OCD - Obsessive Cullen Disorder :)

Emboss It

This week at Sweet Pea Stampers, the theme is Emboss it... So I bought the Cuttle Bug Forest Branches Embossing folder to go with this lovely image. I used Tim Holtz Core-dinations card and sanded it to show the core of the card. I then distressed the edges of the card and the image and used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to edge the image.. The corners are made from a Spellbinder die I cut into 4 and used a Die Cuts with a View Faux metal tag - "Dream". Added 2 gem brads to that and this is the result :) Simple but lovely.

I mounted it on silver card and used pewter corners to compliment her hair.

I am also including this for In a Sweet Pea Dream - because ANYTHING GOES :)

Heard It's Your Birthday!

So the fab theme this week at Sweet Pea Stampers is I Heard It's Your Birthday! So here is my DT sample to inspire you to join in the fun.

Recipe:

Peacock Blue Pyramage by Crafty Purple Frog

Black A4 Card (scored)

Foiled frames by Kanban

Rainbow paper (shimmer is lost by the photo) :(

Paper flowers and black pearl

Silver mini brads

Blue Marabou Feather

Real Peacock feather I found at Warwick Castle the other day (the small one on top of sky blue one)

Also Entered into:

Crafty Purple Frog - Birthdays