How many flowers..........

...... can you make with a couple of punches?

I have been playing with my punches a lot lately (I think I may have already mentioned this!)and came up with this masterpeice .... well I think it's a masterpeice anyway :)


All you seasoned crafters probably know all these tricks of the trade but I thought i'd post a few pictures to show you how I got the shapes. This is what I started with, 3 flowers punched with the 5 petal flower punch. i had the 1/2 inch circle punch close at hand!

I inserted each petal into the circle punch as shown below and this is what you get, you can chop as much or as little of the petal off as you like. A little tip for you ...... you know the nail buffers you get at the beauticians ...... well, i use that to rub down the edges to smooth them out :)

Next i stuck a flower to a piece of paper, put it back in the punch and rotated it, nice effect don't you think?

So, this is what you end up with and if you also use the boho blossoms punch you can have even more flower shapes to play with.

I think i'll making more of these little gems :) I hope you will too. Leave me a comment and let me know how you get on. xx

been to the zoo lately?

No? Actually neither have I. I think the last time was when we were in Dublin for the day .....yikes.... that has to be at least 3 years ago.

Anyway, you'd be forgiven for thinking I had been given my inspiration this past week. I had been asked to make a few kids cards. Now, this is relatively new to me, i've only ever been asked to do grown up stuff before. I think i managed to pull this off ... I know Christian's Mum just loved it.

Basically it's just a development of the post before. Using the punch art with the sweet pea papers only with a giraffe added thios time ..... so cute. I know i'm still using peel offs but I do still have some left and its a shame not to use them. I've also taken to inking the edges of things, messy, messy, messy but I do love the effect.

Really getting back into my crafting now and loving every minute of it. I have orders for another 4 specific cards to make over the weekend ...... hmmmmmm ....... hope the housework doesn't get in the way!

Have a great weekend ...... laters xx

Monkey Business

Is it just me or is there gremlins in Blogger today ..... took me a couple of attempts to get this wee guys picture up. Anyway, he's here now and how cute is he? I'm so so chuffed with him.


I was checking the blogs I normally look at and spied a picture tutorial for the monkey on Julies blog http://juliesjapes.blogspot.com/ Forgive me, I do not know how to do links back properly, it is in there somewhere. My friend had asked me to make a card for her grandson and this is it .... cool eh? I know Cody will just love it.

I see a giraffe of Julies page as well, maybe I should try that one too :)

That's it for now, i've just popped home at lunch to finish this off ...... hope Fri 13th is just another day .... mines going great :)

Have a grand weekend everyone x

Tickles .......

Did you ever make a card, or something else for that matter, that tickled you so much you didn't want to part with it?

Well, it has NEVER happened to me before. But ....... during the week a friend asked me to make her a card cos her wee sis had gotten engaged and she couldn't find anything she liked or that she thought was suitable. This is what I came up with ....


....... I was so happy with the way it turned out I didnt want to part with it. Of course I did and it has since been delivered and the recipient was completely overwhelmed. That has made the tear of separation bearable lol ...... i think I might actually make this again for someone else.

I've been practising some new techniques so stay tuned to see how i've been getting on.

TaTa for now x

Mistakes .......

..... I make mistakes ALL the time!


Some are just terrible but I think the one in the picture below turned out just grand :)





I had a completely different vision in my head when I began making this card but after stamping in the wrong place, not stamping hard enough and adding the teal strip to the wrong end i've managed to come up with something i'm actually quite proud of.

I will forgive myself this time as my craft time has been quite non-existent this past while what with holidays and the general routine. I am a wee lil bit out of practice but I have enjoyed so much making a mess!

I have also managed to get myself a copy of the new US Stampin' Up catalogue. I can't wait for ours to come out, i do so hope we get build-a-brad in ours. A nice teal stamped centre for my medallion would have been just great on my card, not that i don't like it just the way it is!! There's also this kool, kool tool in it simply called a paper tearer. It makes a real raggedy edge and a beautiful vintage finish. Please, please, please can we have these ...... oh, and all the new colour add on kits too ...... please?!?!?

Ta, ta xx

Girls on Tour .....

... no photograph for this post ..... no time .... we leave in 9o mins time and still i have not packed my suitcase!!! Yikes!!!

Im so so so excited to be going on hols with my pals, 4 girls let loose, oh wat fun we will have! I have been to get my nails done ...... inspired by my elegant eggplant ribbon (which i brought to the salon!) i have them the most gorgeous purple colour with white and silver art.

So must dash, still have a few jobs to do ....... back in a week, maybe ;) xx

Stardust and Moonbeams

Tomorrow is my niece's 2nd birthday.

Lil miss Lucy is such a girly girl, already loves her shoes, handbags and sunglasses! So, I had to produce something to reflect her little personality.

Any of you that know me personally, know that i'm a real sucker for anything magical or fantastical. That's why when I saw this stamp set from Elzybells I just had to have it. Stardust and moonbeams, so cool and so perfect for this project. Although I generally love my SU products I think they fall down in some respects in that they don't really have anything funky or modern, especially for little people. Maybe as the product range expands there will be some of this kind of stuff. I have a nice mix of stamps now that are really quite versatile, what I need to invest in though is an alphabet set so i dont have to use peel offs. Not that theres anything wrong with peel offs, they do a grand job actually.

I love the shimmer ive sprayed on this too, only thing is, i sprayed the card once it was finished and sort of warped a bit, maybe i used too much or maybe i should have sprayed the pieces individually before assembling the card, i dunno. It still loks cool tho and im quite sure it will go down a treat.

Party tomorrow with a bouncy castle *excited* fingers crossed the weather behaves itself.

Back soon x