Please pop by and say Hi

My lovely friend Merry sent me this award a few weeks ago, a big thank you .

This award is meant for up-and-coming blogs with less than "200 followers". You need to pass the award onto five bloggers and let them know. I would like to pass this award on to the following inspirational blogs, hope you can check out their beautiful work.

Now the hard part choosing only five bloggers .

Just Cards =I love the simplicity of her cards.

Jan at chai tea 'n me > =Not a stamped cutie or any colouring in sight.The queen of tags.

Marcia Pringle = I love her cards and scrapbook layouts.

Kasia = Another gal who keeps it clean and simple. Check out her button card (posted March 13th) .I will be making one of these.Her card on March 9th also made me smile.

Sophia's Sundries = This lovely lady makes a little go a long way and is always sewing or knitting .Her items usually go to charity and in Africa and India there will be lots of very happy faces.

So ,as you can see my ladies are all very different and when they receive this award some of them might say "Gail who" . I may not always leave a comment but I do stop by on a regular basis. Please pop in and say hi to all these very talented crafters.

Happy Birthday

I've got a few male birthdays coming up and when I saw this paper I thought it would make some effective cards.I used a black card blank as a base.The paper is
'Faithful' from Bella . I used a HOTP tag template to make the oval ,a bit of twine,some brads ,stitching and a sentiment.It works for me.

bird house

I've seen a couple of the book birdhouses and thought it might be fun to make one. I actually made two last week whilst watching TV. I don't seem to have the time during the day to do any crafting .

I didn't join this one together but left it flat and stuck it to a length of wood. I'm not sure how much decoration to put on it. Some of the pages have flowers or buttons stuck inside. I quite like the clock face and the butterflies,not so sure about the blue Easter chicks.

Unstampabelles - challenge 9 - Easter + folds .

Papercraft Star - challenge 89 - Spring.

I will be back tomorrow with another card and other stuff ,the housework will just have to wait for once.

Too much chocolate is a good thing

Our challenge 41 at The Lollipop Ladies is Malteasers,with a hidden message. I must have eaten hundreds of these as child .
This was a very easy card to put together ,the paper is from Kaisercraft and was already stamped ,I just had to cut out the section I wanted .I only stuck the paper to the card edges and left the top section open to slide in my message .The flower and butterfly were part of a prize win along with the sentiment stamp,I'm pretty sure they all came from Kaszazz.For a little extra detail I used a white pen to add a few dots. The 'celebrate' sentiment is on acetate and came from Hot off the Press ( "Cardmakers Birthdays -Clear & Frosted Overlays"). I'm not sure I like the double stamped idea,it looks like a bad attempt to cover up a mistake.Anyhow it was a pig to photo as the light kept bouncing off the acetate .The clock and tag came from a cheap craft pack I picked up some time ago,
I haven't had much time to craft as the decorating seems to be taking longer than I thought ,I've also been making some new cushions .

Snakes Alive

The challenge over at TLL is colour and curves represented by the jelly snakes.

Crafting of a different nature

Happy Tuesday

I'm up a ladder today painting ,if it gets too hot I may abandon my paint and brushes and make a card .Fingers crossed ,I can see the mercury rising.

The pic is of me on a glacier in Alaska . After sledding with a team of excitable dogs who just love to run I had a quiet moment for some cuddles with this adorable puppy.

Yummy cupcake

Papercraft Star - challenge 85 -Something from the kitchen - My sweet tooth will always pick a muffin ,on this occasion a chocolate one.

The Ribbon Girls - challenge 16 - Pink, Cream and Brown .These colours conjure up lots of yummy food stuff ,cupcakes ,choccy pud with raspberry custard ,mashmallows ,I could go on.

Creations by Gill - challenge 2 - Colour- blue,pink cream,chocolate.

I trimmed down a card to make a cupcake shape and covered it with paper from Wendy Irving called 'Diamond Days ' .Chocolate card for the muffin top covered with bits of bling and flowers .I can feel my bum getting bigger as we speak.

Welcome to another challenge at The Lollipop Ladies - Tiramisu is the sweet treat ,with the addition of LAYERS.

My papers are Elegance,Tickets and Postcards ,all from Kaisercraft.The little flower was already made just waiting to be used .The section with the half circle cut out can be used for a gift voucher or cash.

Something smells a bit fishy

I did enjoy doing this despite a couple of runs ,even added my name .









Card making is not my first love when it comes to crafting and only came about due to a friend who made lots of cards and had an enormous amount of craft supplies.

I enjoyed doing this batik in the traditional way with hot wax and cold water dyes.The melted wax is poured into the tool on the right and with a smooth motion is pour along a pattern line .Cold water dyes are then used to paint the various sections. Once it's dry a good wash in hot water to get rid of the wax .I did make one mistake ,the green pot with the pink rim has run ever so slightly ,I obviously didn't have enough wax in that area.The whole thing measures 41cm x 24cm .

To make things easy you can buy a wax pen to do the outlines and also Pebeo Gutta.The fabric must be silk or 100% thin cotton.

City Crafter -week 95 - Colours of the Rainbow .pic at top
TCP Tuesday - Rainbow Inspiration - pic at top

Happy Birthday

My take on the photo from Cupcake Inspirations -challenge 145 - The medallion stamp is from Rosie's , the actual stamp is twice the length shown here so I used a little masking tape to get the size I wanted. The card squares are 4.5cm x 4.5cm , the black square is on raised sticky dots.I wanted to use some flat back pearls for the centres but didn't have just the right colour green so the gems will have to do.Sentiment from Stampit .

I've been up and about since just after five this morning .A pesky mosquito in the bedroom, poor Steve has five bites on his face .

Brush those teeth

The Lollipop Ladies are back after the Christmas break and I have joined the team - Challenge 38 is inspired by the photo - Fairy Bread - I have to confess I have never eaten Fairy Bread.

My door hanger is for the bathroom to remind little people to brush their teeth.
I started off cutting a piece of chipboard 10.5cm x 25cm .I cut out a 7cm circle. The background paper was just perfect to represent the sprinkles .The image is Tooth Fairy Cynthia from The Stamping Boutique . I've used a mix of felt tip pens and gel pens to colour her .Come along and join in ,the challenge is open for two weeks .

Love you lots

Cupcake Inspirations - challenge 144 - Photo at top of post. How cute are these cookies.

Crafts 4 Eternity - recipe 56 -clean and simple.

Mami Doodles -challenge 42 -For a loved one.

I'm beginning to like the CAS cards ,it's taken me a while to use so little ,but it works.

A quick card

Papercraft Star - challenge - 80 - Frames .I made a cute flowery frame for my sentiment.

Lucy's Cards -Inspiration week - day 1 - Picture of lavender on a white shelf,you can see the pic on Lucy's blog .

Scrapbook Boutique - Photo above for inspiration. I love the colours for this challenge.

The flower stamp is from Abi's crafts ,the sentiment stamp is very old .I will have to trawl through some old posts to find the origin.Enjoy your weekend ,off to put some flat pack furniture togther,how good is my weekend LOL.

Cute as a button

The Lollipop Ladies - . I punched two circles and made one of them into a square which surrounds the button. The paper is from Dena Designs.

Just Peachy

One picture taken in sunlight ,the other in shade -I prefer the top pic.




Papercraft Star - challenge 79 - Warmth - the colours on my card remind of the blush on a ripe peach = Summertime = Warmth = Yummy .Papers are from 'dear lizzy' and Christina Re' .The bird is a stamp from Inkadinkado and the sentiment from Ippity.

Thanks

Lucy's Cards - Sketch week -day 5.

The sentiment is from Ippity and the pink paper is so old I'm not sure where it came from .
I have a confession to make I stamped the sentiment upside down ,(I hate stamping directly onto a card for this very reason ).At first I panicked and tried wiping it with a wet one ,big mistake ,the card went soggy .After drying it off I stamped again,the right way up this time and to make everything blend together I used some brown ink and sponged over a stencil shape to enclose the sentiment. Does that make sense, anyhow I managed to save the day and it doesn't look too shabby.

Sing it loud

Lucy's Cards - sketch week - day 4

The music paper is 'dear lizzy' and the bird paper is from 'Christina Re'.The bird stamp is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Ippity .

Live Laugh Love

Lucy's Cards - Sketch week -Day 3 .Green check paper from Frenchville ,the other two are Kaisercraft.

Keep Dreaming

Lucy's Cards - Sketch week - day 2 - One of my favourite colour combos at the moment.I'm hoping to enter a card for all 5 of Lucy's sketches so I'm off to make 3 more by Sunday.

Daring Cardmakers - First Friday -Colour combo .

A little love

Lucy's Cards - sketch week - day 1 -
Joan's Gardens - challenge 1 -Hearts, pink or red, white , embossing,embellishment .I think I've got them all covered.The small heart is embossed with polka dots ,a button for embellishment.

I love the sentiment ,it can be used for valentines or wedding anniversary.

Tea and Cookies

Papercraft Star - challenge 77 -Tea or Coffee - My teapot image came from 'a piece of cake ',the doily from the Stamp Spot, the friendship sentiment is Kaisercraft I think.

Happy New Year .I hope you all had a enjoyable holiday break ,not a slice of turkey or plum pudding passed my lips but my trousers are so very tight.My fridge is still full of goodies ,this morning I saw a bowl of cherries so I think a cherry crisp is on the menu for dinner,Steve has just done a dry rub for some ribs,yum.