Cards, clubs and ATCs

Hello I have been busy since I last joined you, it has been a bit of a whirlwind really.  I have been designing some cards for The wonderful Toni Darroch and her fabulous company Stamps by Me for the next Create and Craft show.  I will keep you up to date when Toni will be on C&C.  I am so excited as I have only been crafting for a year and I was thrilled when Toni asked me to make her some cards for the show.  Below is a little sneak peak of one of the cards I made....

Next I have been poorly again.  I do not keep very well just like a lot of crafters out there and I love to be able to craft when I feel well enough to do so.  It is a slow process most of the time, but I get there eventually.

I had also went along to the craft group I attend on a monthly basis called Craftaholics anonymous Glasgow.  I thoroughly enjoy the group as everyone is very friendly and I have learned loads of new techniques with my lovely friends from the group.  I had shown a small group how to glitter some glasses and I had joined Jan in her Demo for more glittery stencil fun making two gorgeous cards shown below.

I just have to say a massive thank you to Jan for her help during the demo where I glittered the cards and I then had some homework to make the toppers into cards.  The tree one is now a little more vintage and masculine although it has some lovely Ribbon and loads of glitter.  And the roses topper was very simply added onto white card with a strip of the green metallic, a couple of green candi pieces placed onto the four corners and finished with a little of mica powder over the white.  I hope you like them and Jan very kindly gave me 10/10 for my homework.  I think she was being very kind.

Last but not least I have been making some ATCs for the monthly swap at Craftaholics Anonymous.  We started the swap a couple of months ago and I had never even heard of ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), therefore I had to go and google what they were.  This month the Theme was Fantasy, I first thought fabulous this will be great and then had a little panic as I didn't then know what to do.  Once I calmed down I looked through my stamps and picked a few love story ones and some Mermaids.  Here is a look at the ATCs....

Well that is all for today.  I will be back tomorrow with another blog.

See you then 

Denise xx

My first Painting

Hi and we have had another sunny day, what a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.  But back to school for Skye and all her friends tomorrow, she is looking forward to it and has had so much fun out playing over the Easter Holidays.

I have been very busy crafting with lots of crafty friends, I have had so much fun.  One of the days I had Kirsty over to my house.  I had admired Kirsty's lovely paintings when I had visited her home earlier this year.  She is a fantastic Artist, but would never admit that she was.

My plan was to paint a canvas, but I never got that far.  I was so intrigued by the acrylic doing as it was told, I never got past my first attempt.  It is only painted onto paper and I will paint a canvas very soon, well as soon as I have bought my own acrylics and brushes.

Well anyway here it is...... What do you think?

Well I shall go now and get Skye to bed, I also have to make a condolence card.  Not my favourite card to make.  I shall let you know how I get on.

See you soon

Denise x

Happy Easter

Happy Easter, I hope the sun is shining where you are.  It is here and we might need the sun cream again today.  Skye had to come home yesterday to get sun cream put on as when she was out playing she felt it a little too hot.

Wow it has been almost a month since I last posted.  I have been in the land of pain and discomfort for a while, although I have managed to make a few little crafty things.  I will post a regular post from now on if I can.

I shall post back later with a card or two I made, but for now I will post two cards I made last week at the Ross Papercraft show at Meadowbank stadium in Edinburgh last weekend.  I got to meet the wonderfully talented Toni Darroch from Crafti Devil "Stamps By Me" and her lovely Husband Tim. www.stampsbyme.co.uk

This first card is using the gorgeous Lillifly stamp by "Stamps by me".  I just love this stamp and have so many plans for it.

This second card is using Toni's new Dress stamp by "Stamps By Me" which will be previewing on Create and Craft soon.  I will be designing some cards for Toni for the show and was so thrilled when she invited me.  Especially as I am very new to the craft world.  It was such an honour to be asked as I just love what the very talented Toni can do with some paper and a couple of stamps.

That's all for me just now

I will come back real soon

Denise x

Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday to my Dad who has reached the grand old age of 74.  My Dad does fantastically well for his 74 years young and has just came back from his Commonwealth Games audition for the opening and closing ceremonies.  He said he had a fabulous time and a definite highlight.

 To celebrate his Birthday I made him a card and a little notebook.....

My Dad loves his Golf, it helps keep him fit, therefore I had to make a golf themed card.

I like the vintage look at the moment and combined that with some Iris folding of the golf bag.  Iris folding is a technique of folded paper originating in Holland in the 1700's using old envelopes.

My Dad was also very pleased with his card and therefore I was too, let's face it we like to get told our work is good no matter what we do, so I had won my prize :)

I will be bag soon with more craftyness.

Love and Sparkly hugs

Denise x

Mothers Day cards

I have found how to upload my pics now thank goodness.  It is a little lengthy but worth it.  As promised here is the pics of the Mothers Day card I made yesterday.  I hope you like it.  I love to colour, it takes me to a happy place as a child and I can get lost in colouring for hours.

 I used my large daisy stamp by Stampinks Unlimited and coloured using Spectrum Noirs.  I love blending the colours together to get a more 3D look.

My first blog

Hi and welcome to my very first blog.  A little scary but exciting at the same time.  I want to blog to show my craftiness, this will help me learn quicker and up my game as I have only been crafting for under a year in which I love doing.

My other reason for crafting is to enter some craft competitions on other blogs as I spend a lot of my time reading the crafty blogs.

I hope you can bear with me as I learn how this all works and I would love to hear from you, so please leave any polite and nice comments below.

I hope to get some pics posted also of all the craftiness I get up to.

Today I made a Mothers Day card, a little early and I hadn't really planned it.  I love to be organised but of course this means that I am only half organised as I need two Mother's Day cards.  I would always buy two cards the same as I wouldn't like to give one Mum a better card than the other got.  Anyone else feel this way, lol it sounds silly now I have written it but I get I am not the only one.
I will post a pic as soon as I figure it out.

Well I managed to figure it out thank goodness and I will be happy to receive some cheery feedback on my card.

I have used my Stampinks Unlimited large daisy stamp and coloured with my Spectrum Noirs.  I love to colour I can get lost in it for hours, it takes me back to a happy place as a child :)

I also used Diamond Sparkles by Hunkydory for the wording which I wrote.  I just love how this glitter sparkles.

See you soon

Denise x