Sunday, 6 April 2008

Sally's been creating again!

I'd like you all to meet "Maggie" she's the new range of stamps available from Bootiful Stampz.

There are 8 designs, and at the moment are only available as a PDF Download, although they will probably be made available as stamps soon too.
The set comprises of Maggie in various outfits, and one image shows Maggie with her cute doggie "Patch".
Please contact Sally HERE should you wish to purchase a copy of this download.

I've made a few cards, ATCs and toppers with the designs...








sorry ablout the glare under the Bootiful Stampz watermark, it is supposed to be a 'happy birthday' silver greeting



Thursday, 3 April 2008

Arty Girlz challenge - triangles

This week, the Arty Girlz have asked us to use triangles on our project.
I started by cutting a square of Creative Imaginations paper (Sonnets, Love)
I cut this diagonally to make 4 triangles, then folded back the corners to create further triangles, the paper has a graph paper like back to it so I covered this with a rose coloured crepe paper and then set eyelets in the ends to hold them down. I glued all this down onto a square, white card blank which had a square of dusky pink mulberry paper stuck in the middle of it first.
I added Tilda, then finished with paper flowers and the greeting.



Check this out!...



This weeks challenge over at Tilda & Friends blog is called "Check it out", the team want to see checks somewhere on our work. I have used Tilda with her summer hat, which is one of my favourite stamps.

Brand New Bunnyz!!!

Awwww just look at these beautys!!


These are the new bunny stamps available from Bootiful Stampz.
There are 6 in all and at the moment are only available as a PDF Download.
They cost £5.00 and this lets you save the file and print them off as many times as you like!
The set comprises of:
fairy bunny
fishing bunny
birthday cake bunny
flower garland bunny
bunny up a ladder
bunny saw
NOT FOR RE-SALE OR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT CONSENT!!
Please contact Sally HERE should you wish to purchase a copy of this download.

Here are 3 toppers ready to go onto cards using, fishing bunny, fairy bunny & flower garland bunny...


And here are 2 cards already made, the first features birthday cake bunny and the DIY DAD card uses both bunny up a ladder and bunny saw, this is gonna be a great fathers day card!



Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Laura's Creations

Laura is my daughter, she is almost 17 and is studying psychology, sociology and environmental science A-levels.
She has always enjoyed drawing but didn't do art at school beyond year 9.
She has recently started drawing again and wanted somewhere to showcase her fab work, so I suggested a blog! She has set this up today, I gave her a few pointers but she has done everything herself including making her own blog header too (thats my girl!)

Papertake's making waves

Over at Papertake this week, we've been asked to use scallops or zig-zags.
I did start by making a water themed card using scalloped paper for the water, but whatever I did I just wasn't happy with it, so it ended up in the bin.
I then started making this card and used my new purple cows duo cutter to make the scalloped edge to the 2 backing mulberry squares.
I shall probably add a number to the balloon when I know the age of the recipient.


Toppers, Tags & ATC's

There's a new challenge blog that launched its first challenge today!


kicking off with a really easy challenge...

"Create a Tag, Topper or ATC with the Theme of BIRTHDAY! it can be male, female, young or old. There are no other rules relating to your creation"

here is my topper, I folded this shirt aaaaaaaages ago and never used it, I found some lovely monocrome papers in a criss-cross design and a bolder striped design (i think they are dovecraft papers?), anyway, I thought they would be great for a male birthday, so decided to use them as a background for my topper, I rummaged through my stash and saw the shirt, Yay! looks great but wanted to add a splash of colour too so mounted it onto a piece of wine coloured card, then silver mirror card. So here it is, all ready to put onto a card when the need arises ;)