A Birthday Boy

A Happy Easter to everyone out there, hoping you enjoy your day!! We have a special birthday today for our youngest son who is 3 today!!! I don't think he realises that it is his birthday yet, more interested in the chocolate!!!

Anyway I made him a couple of cards for his birthday, one from Mummy & Daddy and the other from his brothers and sister. I always keep the kids cards in their special box so they can always look at them in years to come. It is quite interesting to see the change in my stamping style too.

The first one is from Mummy & Daddy:-

This next one is from his brothers and sister:-

It's a pretty colourful truck, never seen one like that before!!! I am sure he is going to have a great day!!!

Some Easter Baskets

I thought it was about time I showcased some Easter baskets I had managed to whip up. I ended up using two different designs, one fitting a small packet of little eggs and the other one three medium sized eggs.

This one here I made for my lovely friend, Karen Thomas, who spoilt me by the way, and believe it or not I still have three of the chocolates out of four, not bad if I say so. The kids haven't even managed to find them yet (even though they are in the fridge!!).

Here it is:-

This was such an easy basket to make and you can find the template here belonging to Mel Stampz. I changed mine a bit by not making it so fancy and also added a handle.

The next couple of baskets are using the same template and I made them for my lovely neighbour and her daughter and the other one I made for my husband's office girls. The poor girls were salivating over a "guess how many eggs" competition they have running at the moment so I thought I would put them out of their misery and give them ones they can actually eat!!!





This one is for my lovely neighbour, Jane, and her daughter.

Here is the one for the office girls.

The next two baskets I made for my son's teachers. They are made from Makeesha's tutorial which you can find here.

I must apologise for the "not so nice" pics as I was taking these photos at night and not with a very good light. As usual I was leaving things until the last minute as I wanted to hand them out today!!!

Well there we have it, my Easter basket treats, now to go and do my own Easter shopping!!

Tucked Away Box

It seems like it's been a while since I have been here but I have finally managed to find the missing camera cord (again!!) and have now uploaded photos from the camera to my new PC. My DH set it up for me after my laptop didn't like the power outage we had.

I have so much to show so first off I will share with you a gorgeous box from Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates. You can find Lauren's site here. This box is the very cute Tucked Away box.

This was so easy to make and can fit any small gift or chocolates. I have used Not Quite Navy and dressed it up with the beautiful Urban Garden papers. The ribbon is just one I had in my stash finished off with a lovely felt flower.

Keep checking into my blog for more updates and I have a couple of 3D easter projects to show as well.

Bye for now :)

I {Heart} Hearts

When I saw this stamp set in the mini catalogue I just had to have it so here is a card I made using this lovely set.

I was inspired by a card by the lovely Kirsty Brown whose blog you can find here, but for the life of me I can't find the actual card on it. I had it saved on my computer for times of inspiration.

Here is my take on Kirsty's card:-

I have used Pink Pirouette as the base card and scalloped a strip of Riding Hood Red. I then stamped the hearts in Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip. This is such a cute card and I love all of those colours together, just perfect.

Thanks for visiting my blog and until next time, happy stamping!!

An Easel Card

I have wanted to give one of these easel cards a go for a while now and also couldn't wait to use my new sale-a-bration set, Good Neighbour. These little houses are just so cute!! The easel card is not as hard as I thought and I may even make some more but in a bigger size.

Here is my card and I know just who to give it to as we have friends who are moving into a new house as we speak so it will be just perfect:-

I have mounted the little tree in the middle so you can see that is what stops the card from sliding down. I realised after stamping the clouds that I should have used my stamp-a-ma-jig but who sees perfectly straight clouds anyway, hahaha!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Loving the Butterflies

I'm back again with some more butterflies this time. I am loving the butterflies from the new Butterfly Prints set, especially because there is no cutting out involved thanks to the co-ordinating punch. I have a couple of cards to share, the first one being a case from the current mini catalogue. I have gone with the soft colours of Pink Pirouette and Perfect Plum, a lovely combination.

Here is my take on the card:-

Now the next card is really out of my comfort zone because I don't often reach for the dark greens much, saw this colour combo so thought I would give it a go, not sure if I am 100% happy with it but it's okay. This was also from a sketch that I came across in a magazine.

Well this is it:-


Looks like we have finally have some sun come out today, the last few days have been very wet and constant showers, good for card making though. Bye for now.

Another Batch

Here are some more of the RAK cards that I sent out to members of my stamping group which I can now post onto my blog!! I was surprised how quick they were received by everyone, well done to the posties.

I hope you are not tired of the Kraft card yet as these cards were all made with the same papers and cardstock which makes it very quick and easy when you can make them altogether.

The cards that follow are ones received by Fiona, Katie and Nikki:-

Fiona:-

Katie:-

Nikki:-

And there we have it, lovely, plain and simple cards that were just a delight to make. I loved these cards so much that I decided to make some for myself!!