Are there any at the bottom of your garden ?

Well ............ apparently there are at the the bottom of my Grandmas!

My daughter and her cousin went searching for them in the plants about 8 years ago !

They took a torch and looked in amongst the leaves !!!

What did they find .... Fairies apparently !!

This week at Polka Doodles the theme is Faires/Fantasy

I used the Sugar Plum Daisy Cd for my cards ....

yes I made two again ! 

Well I printed two sheets off to decoupage the image

so I didn't want to waste any !

For this card I tried to create a looking into the garden effect by using my dies

to make apertures and layering them up.

The paper and sentiment is from the CD too 

and I used Marianne die Open Flowers for the leaves !

I made the flowers and added Dewdrops to the center !

For this card I used my dies to make the card;

the left overs from my previous card and another papers from the CD.

Again the sentiment if from the CD, the Swirl and Leaves are 

both Marianne dies. 

To both cards I glittered up the flowers and images to add some pizzaz !

Hope you like them !!

Happy Crafting !!

Valentines

 Its Valentines day very soon ......

So the Challenge this week at Polka Doodles is...

You guessed it !!

Valentines Day !!

I got carried away and made two cards !!! 

I used the LOVE AND CHERISH CD....

Oh boy its gorgeous, hence the two cards !

I was so spoilt for choice ! 

It was purely time available that stopped me from making more !!

The first card I made was a very clean and simple one.

I used a paper from the Boundless Love section,

some ribbon and a Diamante Buckle, 

a sentiment and voila !

The second card I made I used papers from

The Two of us and Cherish sections of the Cd.

Image and paper ribbon from The two of us Section.

I also used Marianne dies for the hearts and leaves.

Added a few flowers, some Stickles glitter glue 

and again voila !

Hope you like them both!

Pop on over and join in the challenge.

No Backing Papers

Well its our first challenge over at the Christmas Card Club!

No backing papers !!!

I am so naughty as this post was due yesterday ....... sorry girls !

I was having fun ....... !!!

I did a big Sunday dinner for family and then we played games !

Great fun !

Well I had this card made before Xmas ! 

It was my card I made my Gran despite her not being here !

The photo is of her at Xmas in 2009.

I used my Marianne Anja square die, love it!

Cheery Lynn holly flourish, pearls and flowers !

Have a look at the other girls cards, you will find their blogs on my side bar.

Happy Crafting !!!

Monochrome at Polkadoodles

Ok, breath slowly Liz ...........

nope it not gonna work .............

WOW, WOW, WOW and WOW !! 

Oh and WOW !!!

I have been asked to join Nikki Halls Uk design team at Polka Doodles !

Can you hear my screams of delight !!! lol

So ........ 2013 has started with a big bang !

I will be honest I all most gave up card making for good !!

Phew thank you Nikki for giving me just what I needed to get going !!

SO.... this week our challenge is Monochrome.

Pop on over to the Polka Doodles challenge blog and join in !

Yikes This was hard to photograph !!!
The snow really made the light difficult !! Sorry !!

For my card  I used the CD Not for girls, 

a Marianne die for the leaves called Open Flowers

I made the flowers, used some ribbon and glitter glue from my stash !

Hope you like it !!!

Happy happy crafting everyone !

Something different!

Well I thought I would share my bauble I made !

I got lots of sequins, glue, ribbon and pins and................

Voila !!

Ahh........ its so good to have my mojo back !!! I'm raring to go !

Loads of ideas plus a trip coming up  to the USA craft shops !!

Motivation enough !!!!

Thanks for all your support through the last months.

 I would never have got through it,

without my wonderful Aunt Margaret and my crafting pals. 

Looking back at 2012

Happy New Year !

Well my mojo still hasn't returned,
but I have been buying some goodies
So I hope it will soon .....
I'm going to start on a cross stitch project tho
We have a baby arriving in the family this year !,
No not mine!

Anyway I thought I would look at the cards
I did this year and pick a few of my favourites!
Here they are!

Hope you liked them too !
I'll be back with my next CCClub card soon !

My cousins wedding card.

My partners daughters birthday card.

My Aunties anniversary card.

Anything but a square !

This time at the Christmas card club its Clare's turn to set the challenge !

Great one Clare I have been making a conscious effort 

to not make square cards recently !!!

So .......... I had a few up my sleeve lol !!

For the blue one above I used my XXL GO-Kreate dies to make the shape of the card,

LOTV image, Doh-Hickey tag, Snowflakes from Asda !! and papers from Nitwits !!

The red one below ...... I used my NEW XXL scalloped dies !! 

THANK YOU Margaret !! hehe she treated me to a set !!

Again image is LOTV, holly branch die from Cheery Lynn

and papers from Nitwits. 

And yes there is another below .......

A Vintage one ...... I used my Marianne Oval Anja Die

for this one !!! Cheery Lynn holly die and 

image from a CD and  lots of pearls !!

Phew ...... thats it honest !!! 

Hope you like them !!

Happy Crafting and Have a great Xmas !!!