Cards and Chat

Lovely ribbon brooch tutorial giveaway

2011-03-24T10:02:00.000Z

Hi everyone

Check this link brooch tutorial and giveaway.
Amanda is giving commenters 3 chances to win
a brooch in a colour of your choice !!
Thanks amanda they are lovely
Hope I win one.
Hugs
Janette x

Snowman covered choc bars

2010-12-14T18:38:00.000Z

Cute cute CUTE !!! I had saved this snowman graphic 2 years ago on my pc and then lost it....know that feeling...LOL.... anyhow I came across it again when sorting out the external hard drive files....YEAH.... So I set about making some....boy did I have trouble finding fleece....anyhow I did get some....so I made the hats by stitching a fleece tube and then adding some elastic cord with beads on the end...I wanted bells but the ones I had were too little or way too big :( so beads it was.... once these were attached I then cut the fleece into strips for the top of the hat..... the scarf was just a strip with a know either end and then 2 snips to make the tails........

Wrapped and ready

2010-12-14T18:33:00.000Z

How exciting....all wrapped up and ready to go to my craft buddies...you will see a theme develop over the preceeding posts LOL...can you guess what ?? x

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Penguins,penguins everywhere LOL..... I had decided to do penguined themed baggies for my bestest craft buddies for christmas this year....I made the card back in August LOL....was weird doing xmas with the sun shining but hey !! I then set about finding some penguin items to go in the baggies.... hope they like them x

Penguin tag for bag

2010-12-14T18:28:00.000Z

This is the tag I made for the bag...I cut a large snowflake using the sizzix #2 die and then stamped and cut out the penguin from a SU set ( thanks Mary ) and attached the penguin to the snowflake using a SU crystal brad......

Penguin card

2010-12-14T18:25:00.000Z

OMG..... now isnt this just the most adorable little penguin card you have ever seen.... I love him....I have seen and saved on pc LOADS of ideas with the top note big shot die......I just knew for my craft buddies that I wanted to do this card this year. I lost the file on the PC so wasnt able to do this last year...but hooray I found it again in August this year so I made them there and then LOL..... it uses SU punches again and I just love how it turned out dont you ??? x

Penguin magnet

2010-12-14T18:22:00.000Z

This is the cute little magnet that went with the socks....I just realsied I didnt get a pair for myself...silly me !!

Pebguin socks

2010-12-14T18:19:00.000Z

Good old ebay more penguin items found, these socks have a cute fridge magnet of the same penguin too :) into the bag they went....

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I was looking on ebay for some penguin themed items and saw these and figured they would be good to go in the baggies too.....they are pop a point rubbers...always good for crafters...doing sketches and making plans of things to make LOL....

2010-12-14T18:13:00.000Z

So of course when I saw these I had to have them to pop in the bag too....I had seen them on Stephs blog but do you think I could find them NO... and I looked everywhere and then in a little sweetie shop up the road from me there they were.... I was in line to pay and I caught sight of them and I was so excited I couldnt wait to get to the till and just hoped there were enough packs for them....phew there were so in the bag they went ......

Mikado biscuits covered

2010-12-14T18:10:00.000Z

Isnt this guy cute ?? I wanted to cover a choc bar to give to my buddies as part of their gift but having made the cover I couldnt find a bar to fit.... ( dont ask ) ..... so I bought the biscuits and decided to cover those instead.... I used SU punches to make the hat,face,beak,feet and wings, brads for the eyes and oval nestie for tummy that I then embossed.The white edge on his hat is an EK success edger punch and the snowflake is MS punch and a SU brad. I really enjoyed making these :) hope the girlies like them too....

My gifts to my friends

2010-12-14T18:05:00.000Z

Aren't these just gorgeous....they are penguins filled with smarties....they were on offer in the range and they just had to be bought to go in the penguin themed goody bags :)

Sids treat

2010-12-14T18:01:00.000Z

This is what they looked like when I bought them from the shop my Leo loves them...so I figured Sid would too. I had found a border terrier stamp last year sometime and this was a perfect opportunity to use it.....hope you enjoy them Sid.... x

Sids treat xmas 2010

2010-12-14T17:58:00.000Z

Hershey treat chocs all wrapped up and somewhere to go !!!

2010-12-08T20:53:00.001Z

I have wanted some of these chocs for ages they come from USA.... but they are quite heavy to be posted so when my friend went to NY I asked her to bring some back for me :)
I have seen loads of treat holders on blogs where they are covered with dsp and wrapped up so here goes....
I craft on a Tuesday am with some lovely ladies and I thought they would be the ideal recipients of such treats.....
The supplies are mostly SU the colour is Sage Shadow ( sadly retired ) I used clear baggies from ebay and variuos punches and embossing folders.
I took pics step by step so you have to scroll on down to see the finished items.
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Leo's snow beard

2010-12-04T17:45:00.000Z

He did have more snow than this on his head but he shook himself just before I clicked !!!
He loved the snow burrowing his face right in it and jumping like a lamb LOl x now after a night of pouring rain its ALL GONE :( x

Snow scene Thursday 1st December 2010

2010-12-04T17:43:00.000Z

This was my back garden on Thursday am before I went to work LOL....I should have taken a pic of my car before I had to dig it off the drive....

Choc Chip christmas card

2010-12-04T17:41:00.000Z

I have made this card using choc chip and very vanilla card the bridesmade papers and serene snowflakes stamp.
I wanted to do "From our house to yours" and theme them to suit the recipients
lounge colours LOL.... luckily 3 of my friends have brown and beige cream decor.
I have one to do black grey and silver and one blue and silver....
I used large choc chip envelopes and ran the flap through an embossing folder...

I won a competition !!!

2010-11-24T14:40:00.000Z

At the last SU extravaganza day Jenny had a crafters choice competition. You had to make something using mostly SU products...this is what I came up with...I had seen lots of these little people on the net using the larger petal die as well as the SU new petal punch so I set to work...it took me ages to find where I had hidden my booglie eyes LOL....and because it was the day before halloween it was very topical and I WON...woo hoo to me......I got a gift certificate for £25, thanks Jenny......

Halloween gifts for my friends :)

2010-11-24T13:09:00.000Z

These are the bags I made for my crafting buddies...still keeping up with all the occasions this year phew only one more to go !! Seriously though its great to use the stash of goodies I keep hoarding LOL....I keep telling myself I must use these.... and I do !! I cut the shape using nesties die then embossed with the web folder, punched an oval out for the handle and as you can see from the tag I layered it onto a scalloped black oval...waste not want not... I used the tiny tags word BOO that was tricky as its such a tiny wee cute stamp :) I also punched out a black tag to layer behind it.I merrily went ahead punching lots of them and then realised that I hadnt done the holes for the thread DUH !! its much easier to make the holes in the top of the tiny tag punch whilst it is still in the punch, hold it upside down and just before you punch the tag shape use your pokey tool to make a hole at the top and voila hole ready for thread......or brad or both as I used. I then used the black stripe ribbon and frayed the edges to give an effect ? and tied the bag closed. I filled the plastic baggie inside with assorted sweets in black and orange.....
hope you likey what I have shared today :)

What shall I make with this lot then ?????

2010-11-24T12:43:00.000Z

oooh what fun I had punching and cutting all these shapes......

2010-11-24T12:41:00.000Z

This view shows you how the bats are suspended. I punched 2 bats and attached together with the thread inbetween using a mini glue dot.

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Another halloween dsp not sure of the make of this but I found it in my stash !! Gradually getting through my stack of hoarded items LOL....

2010-11-24T12:18:00.000Z

Another version this one uses SU retired halloween dsp...love the mosaic effect of this paper but its all gone now :(.......

Suspension card

2010-11-24T12:11:00.000Z

I knew I wanted to make suspension cards for halloween this year as I loved the idea of bats being suspended upside down LOL....

The paper is from the doodlebug collection a few years back. I used glittery black thread which I taped inbetween the paper layer and card layer. I used my circle scissor cutting thing to make the openings.I used a red glitter pen for the eyes on the bats.....

Inside card

2010-11-24T12:08:00.000Z

This is the inside of the cards. I used the web embossing folder from sizzix. The little spider is from a cuttlebug 3 x 3 halloween die I love the rhinestones for eyes...I tried red stones but they looked evil. Happy halloween stamp is from SU teeny tiny wishes.I used the word window and modern label punch to mat and layer the words.

Late Halloween share

2010-11-24T12:05:00.000Z

This is the collection of halloween cards all together...spooky eh !!!

Baby cards

2010-11-19T20:33:00.000Z

I love elephants and when I saw this set on ebay I had to have it.....!! ... do you know that feeling ??I 3d the ears arent they cute....I used SU pink pirhouette and bashful blue...they are both really good baby colours....the ribbons match perfectly as does all the SU goods....thats why I love them so much.

Its a blue blue christmas..................

2010-11-19T20:29:00.000Z

Marina mist blue that is....its one of the new SU colours and I love it !!.I used some of the marina mist DSP as well as white card run through a sizzix embossing folder.

2010-11-19T20:26:00.000Z

This card is using real red and basic grey...I used the bauble from contempo christmas and textured the grey card.I used real red satin ribbon and used my bow maker to make this bow....

Christmas cards in sage shadow

2010-11-19T20:22:00.000Z

These cards are made using soft sage SU retired colour and always artichoke and certailnly celery.I had lots of DSP left in these co-ordinating colours so decided to make some xmas cards again 3 x 3.

more cards

2010-11-19T18:53:00.000Z

These ones used the same technique as navy ones....I used real red and crumb cake this time. The one sheet wonder is a fab way to make your own DSP and then cut to the size you want. Currently I am loving the real cute 3 x 3 cards esp as you can get 8 from 12 x 12 card......

Its beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS !!!!!

2010-11-19T18:44:00.000Z

These cards use night of navy and crumb cake card stock from SU. I stamped serene snowflakes in both colours all over A4 whisper white and then cut up layers to fit the cards I was making.I used a SU snowflake punch as well as a martha stewart punch. The merry was from the tiny tags SU set.

1st year anniversary

2010-10-14T10:44:00.000+01:00

My other friends are celebrating their 1st wedding anniversary. I knew I wanted to make the card I had seen in the new SU catalogue so here we go..............

I love this punch from SU...I have seen flowers made from the wing and robins made using a part of the wing to make the redbreast...the branch can be used as accent behind flowers also...very versatile....
SU now have self adhesive rhinestones....and pearls......
Hugs
Janette x

25th Anniversary card

2010-10-14T10:40:00.000+01:00

I have a few anniversary cards to make this week....a few are a little late....sorry.....

My friends Carole and Paul are celebrating their 25th Anniversary.....I saw a card like this in the new SU catalogue and knew that I wanted to make it as its different....
All supplies are from SU...gotta love that company..... the colours are Choc chip,ruby red,old olive and pretty in pink. The bird and branch are on a punch !!

Lloyd's 18th card

2010-10-14T10:36:00.000+01:00

My next door neighbour's boy is 18 today....Happy Birthday Lloyd.....
This is the card I made him...I used SU brilliant blue, basic grey and black. I coloured the bike to match the picture below....using a prismacolour pencil....I coloured the peel offs with a black peel-off pen.I textured the grey card with an embossing folder.....
Hope he likes it....
Hugs
Janette x

18th Birthday

2010-10-14T10:33:00.000+01:00

This is what I based my card on.....do you think it matches hee hee !!

Gifts for a friend and baby

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Zach Album

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This is the album folded up I love this cute little elephant x

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This is what it looks like open the blue spotty layers are for pictures and the other bits are for some journalling.The colours are So saffron night of navy and bashful blue. Real boy colours :)

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I wanted to make a little gift for baby Zach and came up with a mini album....each page has an initial and the nursery wheel from SU each page opens to reveal space for a picture.

Baby boy card

2010-09-13T19:08:00.000+01:00

This is the card I made for my friends little boy Zach.....I love the tiny tag set from SU

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This is a card I made for a friend that had a tough time having her son a few weeks back. Inside the sentiment is * every minute *

I love this wide striped ribbon from SU and am SOOOOOOOOOOO pleased that it will be available in loads more colours next month I will of course have to have them all !!

Kelly tri-fold

2010-09-11T17:13:00.000+01:00

This is an upright view of the card I made for Kelly...Simon wanted me to make her a card because my cards are better quality than the shop ones....BLESS !!

Kelly card

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This is laid down shot of the card I made from Simon to kelly....I am not sure if it has a name but it is a tri-fold sort that has the edge cut off at a diagonal.I used a piece of A4 and about 8cms up the right edge I marked and then cut the diagonal up to the top left of the card.

Kelly wallet

2010-09-11T17:06:00.000+01:00

Simon wanted me to make a wallet to hold the money in for Kelly.....luckily we had 5 crisp new £20 notes to go in so it was a nice easy job to make and again I chose the colours of Pink and Black.

Kelly presents

2010-09-11T17:01:00.000+01:00

Yhis was the ensemble that I gave to Kelly my sons girlfriend who was 18 yesterday. Simon bought her a camera which he gave before their holiday to Turkey and then he surprised her with a train ticket to Southampton and £100...... !! lovely son :) x

Kelly easel card

2010-09-11T16:59:00.000+01:00

I wanted to make an easel card for kelly for her 18th in similar colours to the ceramic shoe.....she loves shoes !! I used a Martha Stewart large doilt punch to do the white strip for the easel to prop against and then the spellbinders nestie label to hold the word congratulations in the SU modern label punch.

Kelly cake

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My friend Carol made this yummy chocolate and orange cake for me to give Kelly for her 18th. Love the diamante sparkle 18 and the edible glitter and silver balls.....

Kellys 18th

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This is a wallet of make-up brushes as Kelly likes her make-up.

18th Birthday Card

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This was the ceramic shoe with bottle of pink lambrini in it for Kellys 18th birthday.

Happy Birthday Leo

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Happy Birthday Leo.....7 years old today :)

We went to Lulworth Cove yesterday to celebrate as that was the best forecast weather wise.We went in the sea, had fish and chips and ice-cream for desert...yummy yummy !! x

Congratulations

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This one uses the star and circle punch again and the SU star wheel.....

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This one is for a girl using the SU butterfly punch and scallop circle punch

Graduation Card

2010-07-31T16:41:00.000+01:00

I was asked to make a graduation card for a friend so I figured whilst doing 1 I may as well do a few so here they are.This is using a star and circle punch.The words are from SU Live your dream set

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OMG look at Leo...this is one of his fave positions to sleep in the sun......when I first saw him like this I thought something had happened to him.....so I rushed out to check he was ok as he suffers from a canine epileptoid cramping syndrome.He was fine just a bit miffed that I had disturbed his sunbathing time LOL x

Mini marshmallows

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mini marshmallows in front pocket

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This is inside the front flap

Birthday Cake Mix bag

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This is the cake mix bag that Sharon made me for my birthday.It uses Sweet Pea SU papers...love them.....

The front pocket held a box of mini marshmallows and the inside flap had 3 test tubes of sprinkles and choc chips :)) I made the muffins and they were yum yum yummy.....

Thanks Sharon

Hugs

Janette

BD thank-you cards

2010-06-30T14:21:00.000+01:00

These are the cards that I made for Sharon and Jenny for my lovely birthday gifts...I must take some pics of the cake pack that Sharon made me...its brilliant.....

Thank-you cards

2010-06-30T14:19:00.000+01:00

This is the card I made for Jenny to say thanks for the extravaganza in May....I gave it to her without taking a pic and only just now got round to doing it LOL !

Another BD

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This is the lovely card I received from Sylvia from card Creations.

More cards

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This is a card I received from Tina from Card Creations group.
Look at all that decoupage...I just wouldnt have the patience to do that.

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This is a cupckae card I received from Jane...wouldnt you just like to eat this right now !! the sprinkles look so real.
They are dimensional as well....she used silicone glue and added the martha stewart glitter sprinkles to the top.

Leo surfing

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This is Leo on the board, not quite sure if he likes it or not ????

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Leo likes to get in the pool when we are in there and he wondered what it would be like to get on the body board LOL x

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Talk about a dogs life eh !! I wonder if sometime he will fall out of the door ?? x

More cards

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This is the buckle card I received from Sharon.It uses sweet pea papers and the lovely bird, the blue layer across the bottom pulls out and that show it keeps the left front closed.

another BD card

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This is the lovely blue butterfly card I received from Mary.

Birthday 2010

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This is the card I received from Jenny all in lovely pinks with some silver shimmer in there too.

More DS cards

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Dorset Stampers Birthday Cards

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these are some of the cards I received from The Dorset Stampers group I belong too. Thanks girls lovely selection

Birthday Afternoon

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This is me and Oscar in the pool on my birthday afternoon.He loved it we tried to get him to stand onthe body board but he kept sitting down.Lovely to see everyone but we had several visitors all in one day...busy busy busy.

It's my birthday..................

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........and I'll do what I want hee hee......

Well, we took Leo out for a walk and had a bacon butty and latte on the beach......lovely sunny day :)
Took a dp of tootsies in the sea....brrrrrrr it was a bit too cold for me but Leo went straight in and laid down in the sea...he loves it so much......

I love to see doggies running free tails wagging ears flapping in the breeze..... PERFECT....

I have had some lovely cards which I will show when I take them down....

Tha grandkids came over and Marley the doberman.....MAN is that dog ever HUGE......Leo could duck under him no trouble LOL...it was real funny seeing them chase each other....

Hmmm wonder what the afternoon will bring ??
Hugs
Janette x

SU extravaganza May 2010

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Well the day is over :(
What fun we all had....the hall was perfectly decorated the attention to detail was amazing, the prizes fab, the projects were lovely and the free stamp set LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT !!!!
I will take some pics of the projects and upload later.
We did 2 projects in the am and 1 in the afternoon....not sure which is my fave...hmmm...I think the DVD project as it used the lovely free stamp set we all got :))
Hugs
Janette x

Jenny and Jo :))

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This is Jo ( left ) and Jenny ( right ) the 2 ladies that hosted the extravaganza......thanks girls the hall looked perfect and all the *extras* were amazing.

Table prize patrol

2010-05-29T18:34:00.000+01:00

This is apic of the table prize it was some dsp sweet pea papers and a cute little box filled with ribbon and some sweet pea flowers all packaged up in clear bag with tag and another sweet pea flower to boot.... LOVE IT :)

Raffle prizes and prize patrol prizes

2010-05-29T18:32:00.000+01:00

This was the table with all the prizes on :) sadly I didnt win one of them but Jenny and Jo are so generous as they do a table prize in the morning and the afternoon with a 1:6 chance of winning...never mind......

Water bottle

2010-05-29T18:29:00.000+01:00

This was the water bottle again with our name in a frame and matching dsp......tooo cute eh !!

Extravaganza May 2010

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We each had a name place card using the bird on a branch punch and a little milk carton birdhouse filled with sweeties and using the same punch again.

Jenny's SU extravaganza May 2010

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This was a view of the room from where I was sat. All the tables had balloons tied to blue buckets with sand in them and the had fan flowers and the table number on them all co-ordinating.

There was also a handmade box on the table of sweeties and that was matching dsp too and on the front was the punched bird on a branch.

Butterfly Card

2010-05-26T14:15:00.000+01:00

I made these cards using a gorgeous texture plate and SU pink pirouette and riding hood red CS, white taffeta ribbon and crystal brads.The butterfly, words and little pink flowers on the die cut shaoe were from SU too gotta love that company.....

Hugs

Janette

Wedding card

2010-05-19T12:18:00.000+01:00

I was asked by a friend to make a wedding card for her and I had been looking at lots of cards on the web using the heart punch from SU to make a bride and groom and I wanted to have a go myself.I made the *couple* and the heart nesties and a base card but I just couldnt pull the card together because of the colours she wanted....so jenny to the rescue...she suggested making it into an easel card and putting some white dsp along the bottom edge to pull the colours together and voila this card was born ( thanks Jenny ) I think it looks brilliant and the tiny tag with Mr and Mrs on it just sets it all off perfectly....what do you think ?????

Hugs

Janette x

Melon Mambo BD card

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I only used 3 tulips on this one and I think it looks less crowded...I used twine to tie the stems this time and put the sentiment in the middle....