It's a blue day...

...for my Daisy and Tilda cards today, I even used some of my ribbon from Crafty Ribbons (on the thank you card) love ribbon with words on it.

Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses...

...and my Tilda and Daisy cards today are all in pinks.  I am so enjoying

these images and going back to my Promarkers and colouring.

It's there in black and white......

....last week I bought the Joanna Sheen Daisy and Friends cd and my friend Gloria sent me some more of her Tilda stamped images so it would be very rude not to play.  I printed off lots of the Daisy digi stamps and decided to go for colour groups.  Dusted off my ProMarkers and set to work on the first set of black and white .....

Mojo is back in town...

and I can't seem to stop crafting.  Have to make the most of it while he is around.



still crafting

I've been concentrating on getting some of the 2012 challenges prepared for my craft group this month and have managed to get up to and including July's under my belt - sorry no pictures for now as they are all strictly hush hush.  So haven't really managed much other crafting but did manage a couple of cards for my stock....

I simply had to have a play with this stamp as soon as it arrived.

I'll try to get the others photographed during the week.

New Year - New Beginnings

I think I'll actually get round to entering some challenges this year so the Crafty Ribbons Blog Challenge of 'New Beginnings' sounded like a good place to start.  The metal bar has been sitting in my stash for a while and obviously was meant for this card.  I've made a cross over card of a sort, instead of completely crossing over each other I laced the fronts together and then slipped two tags inside the pocket.  It was a fun card to make.

and I used something new that I received over the holidays - angel glitter. 

I also entered in the Krafty Kool Kats challenge at
 http://kraftykoolkat.blogspot.com/

LadyBugs Challenge at
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

the Digi Doodle Shop at
http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/

Fab'n'Funky at
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/

and the third....

...the third special birthday next month is my younger daughter in law's and I showed you before the base card....

well here is how it ended up...

the front of the card....

unfasten the band across the middle and....

lift the first flap and .....

then lift the second flap and....

finally the actual inside of the card....

She makes cards too but she doesn't believe in the saying 'less is more' so I had to make sure I had plenty on the card.  Just as I finished it I realised I hadn't put the 30 on it so made the two pins for the front - hopefully you wouldn't know they were an afterthought.  I can now relax as I have plenty of stock cards for all the other January birthdays.

wow - another post and

the second important card for January is for my darling granddaughter Mya who will be five.  I never have a definate idea in mind when I craft - I just fly by the seat of my pants and it normally comes out fine, this one seems to have anyway....

however I am not at all sure how this next one is going to turn out.  It's for my younger d-i-l and is the third important January card.  I had this idea of wanting a multi fold front to the card with lots of hidden bits - well the base is done and below but where I go from now is in the lap of the gods, anything (or nothing) could materialise so you will just have to watch this space.

third and most important....

...we have three very important members of the family sharing January for their birthdays so I have three very special cards to make.  The first and to me the most important is my beloved Arn's birthday and I managed to sneak a few hours away from him to make this special card....

I wanted to use my favourite style of the moment - SteamPunk - and wanted it to be totally masculine so linked chain through the top decoration instead of beads and made ribbon to thread through from book print.  The two Tim Holtz word charms said it all.  Now all I have to do is make a box to pop it in and hope he likes it.  (He'd better).

A bit of this and a bit of that....

firstly a couple of cards that I made using acetate... I'm quite taken with the effect of these so you can expect more to be arriving this way soon...

then may I introduce the latest member of the crafting world...

little Grace with her first real creations, just love the intense concentration in the first picture - she was removing the backing from small squares of 3d foam, not easy for an adult but she is determined she will manage it and she did.

Then finally for now I decided to get a little bit inky and messy - not too much you understand as I dont like messy...

and I couldn't resist trying my latest Marianne die - an old model T Ford car...

nothing for a month then...

....2 posts in one day.  I have also been working on these recently.  I wanted to make card boxes for 3 of my friends as their Chanukah pressies, of course each box has to be full of cards and there are around 25 cards inside each box so you can understand that I have been a little busy lately.

Box #1

Box #2

and a change of colour for

box #3

Crafty Ribbons Challenge

Over at Crafty Ribbons they have started a challenge blog and here is my card for challenge #1

Sew...

I have just received my Joanna Sheen Haberdashery stamps and have a whole range of cards planned around these, sadly only time to make one for now so here is the Get Well card I made - and no it's not for me....hopefully my next blog will be 'live' and not pre-posted.

Just until I get back here..

...I've pre-posted another card.  I think my all time favourite colour combo is black and white with just a tiny splash of red so this card was really fun to make.  It's another one that was totally unplanned and just sort of materialised....

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together...

...well if all has gone to plan then I am back home today.

But don't you love it even more when there is no plan but it still all comes together.

Well that's this card then.  I had been wanting to make a crossover card for a while and finally last week cut the blank.  I really wasn't thinking straight when I just grabbed a random ink pad and inked all the edges - KHAKI, what the heck was I thinking and what was I going to do with that.  Ok quick search for some green paper and punched a bit of lace trim, ehm looking better but now what???  Rummaged through my folder of Tilda images and found 5 safari style images that I had coloured some time ago - perfecto!!!  Some die cut mounts and voila a card.  Hold it - need a bit more, ehm green buttons - yep looking good but..... too tired now will think in the morning.  Why do we get light bulb moments in the middle of the night - yes it needed a couple of sentiment tickets and I had some already coloured and cut just need to find them.  Now the card is finished and for once I am quite happy with it, wonder what you think...