Me again!

Hello, back again!

Whilst I've been off line I've not stopped buying stamps and things - well you can't can you? :o))

So being a member of Crafters' Companion I was offered Souffle the Duck CD and stamps using some of my loyalty stamps.  Too good an offer to miss.  So this is a card I've made with that.

I already had a Popcorn the Bear CD and just made this card from some bits left over from some of the decoupage.

I also had some freebie papers from Creative Cardmaking magazine, which I love, so I made this card for one of the girl's birthdays at work.  She was chuffed with it and I felt a bit guilty as I made it out of freebies, but you couldn't tell.

I even used a bit of the freebie 'ribbon' to embellish the insert page too.  Well I could afford to, couldn't I?

Then, of course I HAD to buy the new Jayne Nesterenko Duo's Stamp sets and here are a couple of cards I made with them.  They really are lovely and I am very pleased with them. 

Using the Wishing Line set of stamps,  I stamped  the trees in the background direct to card and coloured in with watercolours.  The the little mice I stamped, coloured, cut out and stuck onto the card and then I stamped the little mouse again, coloured him in, punched him out with a circle punch and then used glossy accents to give a sheen to it, and then matched the circle with the rest of the card.  I have to admit, the circle bit took me longer than I thought, but it'll probably be easier next time!  The flowers I just sparkled using Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle and then glittered as well.

I was very pleased with this one and shall experiment a bit more using other stamps.  What do you think?

Finally using the Crafting Companions stamp set I made this one.

This one is so simple but very effective.  Again this can be used in several ways and different colours but I think this looks very elegant.

Well I'm off to do some more card-making.  Enjoy your weekend.  xx

Busy, busy bee!

I can't believe its nearly two weeks since we came back from Debden but as usual too many things to do!

It was brilliant, as usual at Debden.  Thank you very much Jill for being my 'chauffeur' - it was greatly appreciated.  For a change I actually got some projects finished - usually I just play around and have nothing to show for my efforts. 

As I have said previously I bought the new Jayne Nesterenko stamps, Patchwork Polly and saw an example of a little booklet using these characters.   I thought it was a good idea to make some little booklets for my three grand-daughters, using Patchwork Polly, Peter Rabbit and the Flower Fairies.   Will I never learn?  It always takes so much longer than you anticipate, doesn't it?

Anyway I had stamped and coloured the characters I wanted to use before going to Debden so was able to get going doing the books.  This is the book using Patchwork Polly.

First page:

                                     

Patchwork Polly

Jenny

Olivia

Julie

Helene

Chloe

They are lovely stamps, aren't they? 

xx

Back again ...!

Well I'm back again, just about recovered from yesterday.  Had the chance to upload more cards and ideas from the workshop I went to.  Thought you might like to see some more:

This one I have made making this slightly differently from the sample at the workshop.  I just loved the colour.

Now this is one I've done.  Jayne Nesterenko's sample was darker than mine but I couldn't get the paper to print just the correct colour, but I do like mine.

This is one of the cards I actually made at the workshop.  This is the front of the card, opening up to show:

It is a very classy card and I loved making it.

Hope you like them.  xx

You'll never guess where I've been!!!

Hi all
I'm back! I've been to a workshop in Rugby with Jayne Nesterenko - my guru! The workshop was all day on Sunday so I had to travel up on Saturday afternoon and come back yesterday lunchtime. Do you know it takes longer to get to London from Eastbourne than it does from London to Rugby? Unbelievable.

Anyway had a really good time and everyone makes you so very welcome. There were about 20 of us and Jayne did the workshop helped by her husband, daughter and her friend. Very well organised and the cards - absolutely brilliant. When I get home tonight I'll upload a couple of the samples I've made - so very effective.

Glad I went but not sure I'll do it again - it is such a long way to go and quite expensive when you count the workshop fee, travel and hotel. But I'm glad I've done it once anyway.

I'll be back later xx

Here we go again part 2 .....

Third page:  opens from middle sideways

This is still the third page,  to give a bit clearer idea of how it  works.

And here's the last page

 

This opens up from the middle upwards and we're back to the beginning again.  Clever isn't it?  All the papers are from the Cute Companions Christmas CD and the little 'people' are from the Winter Tales' stamps from Jayne Nesterenko.