pocket card

Had another great crafting day last week with Karen and Alisha. Worked on cards with pockets on the front a great idea for making a card to include tickets or vouchers as a pressie.

Thoroughly enjoyed making this card and using a stamp for a background technique.

Not sure who this card is for yet, but am sure it is one style I'll reuse again and again;)

a few recent crafting times

Here are some tags I made recently. These are just really experimenting with new stamps and different techniques.

A friend was really generous recently and gave a sizzix texture boutique embossing machine. I've had fun making her a thank-you card, and Ioana dn her friend have loved making mother's day cards with it too!

Mother's Day gift

For the first time in many a year ;) I made part of my Mum's mother's day things. I made her card and also decopatched a trinket box too.

I also gave her a fridge magnet I made from a fragment and alcohol inks, but I forgot to take a photo of it...

Tim Holtz day part 2

Here is another photo without  the 'modern art' ;)

The middle card used perfect pearls for stamping, and I've added a metal charm which has been embossed with distressed embossing powder for a rusty effect.

Tim Holtz Thursday craft day

On Thursday I went round to Kaz's with Alisha for some crafting from our new Tim Holtz book, 'Compendium of Curiosities'. Kaz's craft room is like a fully stocked craft shop!Tried out lots of techniques including a jet of air and alcohol inks! (Bright 'splodge's' below middle)
This turned out most like modern art, both Luke and Ion thought this was the best one....not sure;)

I think I like effect of the mask (top right corner)best, along with the batik embossing (bottom right).

Enjoyed also making the alcohol inks on the fragment.
A great day!

heart card for FS.UK challenge blog

Last night whilst reading my dd's devotional bedtime book, it was all about fan mail and suggested writing a letter to Jesus. I told her we could craft this afternoon to make a card to both write a letter in.
Fits in perfectly with this challenge! Made my card and still have to write in it.
Used some of goodies from the Tim Holtz QVC TSV that arrived yesterday ;)

My Christmas mini album.

I've finally finished making this album that Chris gave for Christmas. Will be nice to a way to recall all the snow as well as the Christmas fun we had.

I loved how the album came ready to go, so was easy to make a memory book.

The LOs also gave me a chance to play around with my new collection of stickes!

Strange to see myself sleding AND in a snow globe LOL!

One memory I want to keep of this Chrismas is Iona and her facepaints.......