Nestabilities Storage

I am forever getting into a mess with my nesties all over the place, so today I made a storage solution for them (not a new idea but this is what I did). I bought a black chipboard album from Artist Trading Post for £5.95.
There are 6 sheets of black chipboard along with 3 book rings. So it allows you to make 12 pages in total. I then bought some self adhesive magnetic sheets from eBay and cut them to size for the pages (except for the front and back pages) and stuck them onto the chipboard sheets. This is where the nesties now live - with the description of them hand written with an Inkssentials opaque white pen

I then chose some lovely basic grey papers for the front and back of the book and cut them to size.

I then used versafine ink in sepia green to add Tim Holtz scratches, dab on some sequin waste and stamp the word inspire onto the front page. Shock horror that a Sweet Pea stamp (which you can get from Crafts and Me) is the main focal point - and obviously I had to use nesties to cut her out and layer - finished off with a fabric flower and brad.

And as I have a brain like a sieve and can never remember the cutting and embossing sandwich instructions, I decided to put these onto the back of the book - with the background paper stamped once again with Tim Holtz stamps and maintain the butterfly theme on the back.

Simple as that!

A Sprinkling of Fairy Dust!

This is the first time I have entered the Sweet Pea Stampers challenge, but as I appear to be addicted to these stamps, I decided to have a go. The theme is a sprinkling of fairy dust. I coloured her in using my copic ciaos, added crystal stickles to the end of the wings and flowers and ran a sakura pen through strands of her hair for additional shimmer. Because she turned out so lovely I wanted to keep the card simple, so added some lilac daisies, a little phrase and edged the card with distress ink.

Commissioned Cards

This past week I have been asked to make a couple of cards so here they are. The first one is a 21st Birthday card and the second is a Baby Dedication card.


I love Sugar Nellie Stamps and this is one of my new ones. I have also used some gorgeous paper roses that I got from Crafts and Me.

I don't have any baby stamps so the image is from the baby love CD by Joanna Sheen. in both cards the ribbon dies are by Marianne Designs

Sweet Pea DPOV

Well.... Life has not been easy of late. I have a dog that should be a cat - she has used at least 4 lives now... anyway. I got some lovely new stamps from sweet pea. and as the weather was lovely I spent time in the garden with my pups appreciating time with them. I bought 5 stamps from sweet pea (which is my favourite flower by the way) and as you are limited for what you can do in the garden, I stamped some images of one of them and took them into my garden with my copic ciaos and coloured them in... and tonight I finished them off. The blue one is my favourite..

Bits and Pieces

Yes I have been crafting lately, just not been finding the time to blog! So here are a few bits and pieces. This is the card I made my mum for Mother's Day.


This ATC I made and sent to a friend in Switzerland

And I made 5 of these bookmarks today with some new stuff that arrived in the post :)

Amazing Inspiration

So my poor blog has been neglected lately for a different type of altered art - home improvements on my basement and dining room. This past weekend however I was fortunate to attend the trade show at the NEC. Whilst there I was so inspired by Tim Holtz, Claudine Hellmuth and Suze Weinberg that I have a feeling it will not be neglected for much longer!

My First 2010 Creation

Happy New Year everyone! 2009 was not one of the best years for me, so 2010 is going to be brilliant!

And here if my first creation of the new decade. A friend asked me to make a 75th Birthday Card for her Dad with a wine theme.

The image was stamped and embossed in gold and coloured with Copic Ciao pens. I aged the card with distress ink pads, and embellished with some papers and 3D stickers.

It also has a matching insert :)