More Button Bits!

You've just got to play with a new set haven't you? I don't like to waste a scrap if I can help it and so I made these three little ones as a batch for my basket.

The hardest part about making these was choosing which buttons fitted best!


I kept to the same colour ways to match the buttons -

Melon Berry

Raspberry Fizz

Sweet Blush

A few runs through the cuttlebug with the Nestabilities and they were done!

Every Day Button Bicycle

My baby brother turned 48 this week - Happy Birthday Martin! We don't get to see each other too often as we don't live close, so this sentiment seemed a good one.



















This is the first time I've inked up this set and I was thinking to myself - what am I going to do with that cross bar when I do a girly card? I can't see many girls cocking their legs over that bar as it's not a mountain bike! And it needs a wicker basket for the front too! Still this was for my brother so I wanted it manly, so I used ripe advocado cardstock overstamped with Background basics Retro and the last of the New Leaf buttons that my friend Chris sent me. I feel an order coming on now I have seen the lovely new release colours ;)

Clean and Simple Thank You

I'm taking part in another PTI swap over on Splitcoast Stampers and so have been practicing a few cards that I can make 6 of to send off. The cards can be Clean and Simple (CAS) cards based on a sketch from the CAS blog. I chose this sketch - fall down layout 37

The challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this fortnight is to make a Thank You card - so that was the sentiment I went for!













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I simply stamped the flower and leaves from Friends til the End onto the Bitty Dots paper and used the sentiment from Damask Designs. It does look to me like there is too much white but I suppose that is clean and simple;)


Thanks for stopping by today!

Make a Wish

I started off today with the intention to make a wedding anniversary card for my dear Mum and Dad but ended up playing with Guide Lines 2. I filled an A4 sheet of card stock with three different patterns in differing colour-ways so I have enough to do a few more cards.
















I used Lavender Moon, Hibiscus and Spring Rain inks and matching card stock. The flowers and sentiment are from Wishing You - a set with so many stamps and sentiments! It looks a bit OTT now I look at this photo and I think next time I'll use some plainer paper to offset the in your face pattern!

Thanks for popping by and I hope you've had a great weekend :)

PTI Swap

In my best Blue Peter voice - here's one I made earlier. I made 6 of these for a PTI swap on Splitcoast Stampers and I received an equal number of great cards back!

I used the Remember set for the poppies and Flower Garden Sentiments for the quote.

Pastel Panels

I saw on Nicole Heady's blog yesterday that she had her DT team do a pattern challenge and I thought "I could have a try at that".

Whilst mine is not in the same league as the clever DT, I enjoyed putting this together! I used my Bitty Dots paper and stamped the co-ordinating colour with a different pattern (Damask Designs, Background Basics Retro and Stars plus Polka Dots) and zipped along it all with my sewing machine. I used Hibicus Burst as my base - one colour card I've hardly used since I got it ages ago - it's such a pretty colour.



















This is off in the post all the way to the southern hemisphere - the furthest I think I've ever sent a card - but it's for a very special and generous lady!

A Passion for Papertrey - Blog Candy

If you head over to Steph and Kate's wonderful blog this week you can have a chance to win some great Papertrey goodies - one of them is the special anniversary set that wasn't available to buy!

While you're there soak up some of the fab work they do and maybe take part in one of the challenges.

Papertrey July Blog Hop

Tonight I thought would take part in my first Papertrey Blog Hop in spite of the time difference - well it's a Saturday night and I don't have to be up early tomorrow morning ;)

My mother in law, Pat, and I sat very companionably at the table this afternoon - she "stringing" beans from the garden and me making the card, with the sun streaming in on us - lovely!

The challenge for the hop is to use text in the piece - so I used the text dp from the Raspberry Fizz collection for part of the flower and panel and stamped the larger ocean tides petals with French script in ocean tides ink.

I decided to use my new set of Dahlia nestabilities to make the flowers and I scrunched and distressed them a bit "a la Dawn"! There is a vintage button, some twine, a bit of craft and aqua mist and some raspberry fizz ribbon to finish - phew!

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight - I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Take Along Tote

The good thing about having a week off work is that I get to do a bit of extra crafting! Today I made up a set of 6 monogrammed notecards for my friend Pam to thank her for a great weekend and as A Passion for Papertrey blog is having another great challenge to use one of Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates, I made this Take Along Tote to go with it.

The tote is the same on the other side - just enough space to hold 3 cards and envelopes each side.

I used my favourite Papertrey colours of Ocean Tides, Berry Sorbet and Spring Rain and the flower stamp is from Friends til the End.

Here it is filled on one side

And here are 3 of the 6 note cards -

So what do you think of this little package? Please let me know :)

First Cupcakes

This is a bit of an eleveth hour entry to the latest Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge. I just got a parcel of new PTI goodies and I made this card from my practice bits - I hate to throw anything away! I am almost distraught though, as my Rasperry Fizz ink has nearly run out and I don't have a refill bottle :( I just managed to stamp out the cupcake tops before it gave up the ghost.

The colours I've used are Scarlett Jewel, Raspberry Fizz, Vintage cream and Spring Moss and the stamps are from Cupcake Collection.

Thanks for looking as always!

Boards and Beams

I have had this little house already and coloured and waiting to be re-homed since I first got this Papertrey stamp set and followed Debbie Olsen's copic colouring tutorial.

My friend Penny is moving house this week so it was a good time to make it into a card for her and her family and also play with a new corner punch that I bought a few weeks ago and has lain unloved. I took the guide off and used it to make a border, keeping the little corners it left behind for decoration.

Hope the move went well Penny ;)

Arranged With Love

I've just got back from a great weekend away in the Cotswolds visiting my friend Pam - it was so quiet and I didn't hear a siren or an aircraft all weekend! What a difference to living near the world's largest airport.

To say thank you I made this card for Pam using my new Arranged with Love set by Melanie Muenchinger which is a companion set to my all time favourite flower stamps - A Year Of Flowers. I emailed Gina K and she posted it out so quickly I was very impressed indeedy.

The flowers were stamped in Memento Black ink and coloured with copic markers. I used Gina K's 120lb pure white card (well I did have to justify the postage!) to stamp onto and it's true - the copics don't bleed through to the other side and so will be great for one layer cards!

I hope you like this first effort - I'm working on a yellow version for my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary.