My entry for the Fairy Fun Fridays challenge blog...

Hi everyone,

I thought I would enter my first Fairy Fun Fridays challenge blog today!  Head over and join in as there are some free digi images up for grabs if your the winners and they are all gorgeous!

Anyway, I had to make my good friend Gita a Birthday card as it's on the 2nd of April and I thought to myself, why not do an easel card!?  I love them.  They are so fun and so easy to make.  Plus they are really affective I think!

Unfortunately, you can't see from the photo that the writing is in metallic pink!  It looks groovy!!  I used the good old Hot Foil Print Wizard ;o)  Love that tool! In case you are wondering where the papers are from that I used, they were freebies from last months Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine.  They always have beautiful papers as freebies.  I used my brand new Martha Stewart Doily Lace Trim Double-Edge Punch too! And the butterflies are made with her punch and clear stamps too!

Hope you all like my easel card, I am pleased with the end result anyway!

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Tilda Notebooks and Easter Cards for Calladoodles..!

Well as some of you may know, this month I started selling my cards and notebooks at a new handmade gifts shop in Carshalton, Surrey called Calladoodles.  If you live near, go take a look!  The Website is currently under construction, but you can at least see what the shop looks like here! Clare has done it up beautifully and I was lucky enough to go to the launch on the 6th March and the place was packed!!  I'm sure it's going to be very successful.

Clare asked for some notebooks and Easter cards for the latest order which I spent all last week making, so here are some of the results for you all to see! I hope you like them, and I hope they sell well so Clare asks for more! haha

I always find male cards tricky, but I think these turned out well.....!  The Hot Foil Print Wizard came in handy on a couple of these cards too!

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, the weather was beautiful here in Bedfordshire!

My first Easel Card!

Hi everyone,

Well, this is my first attempt at an Easel Card.  I absolutely loved making it.  It was such fun!!

It's my little brothers 21st Birthday on Saturday, and my Mum asked me to make a special card for her to give to him, so I thought this would be perfect!  I love it so much though that I want to give it to him instead! haha

If you have never given this style of card a go, you really must!! Here are some instructions for you to follow (I hope they make sense!):

1) Get yourself a nice square card and cut yourself a square out of some card to make your easel.

2) Fold one side of the square card in half so you have a mountain fold.

3) Stick some double sided tape on the front of the mountain fold so you can attach the square you have cut out.

4) Decorate!!!

5) Make sure you put a Gromet or similar in the middle of the base of the card so it supports the easel.

If that doesn't make sense, there are plenty of videos on youtube to watch and be inspired by! :o)

Anyway, bedtime for me!

Thanks for popping by.

Bumblebee Transformer Card for little Jack!

Hi all!

I hope you all have had a wonderful week so far?  I cannot believe it is the middle of the week already!

I was asked by a friend of mine to make a Bumblebee Tranformer Birthday Card for her 5 year old son, Jack.  It was a mighty task!!  She had seen a few of my cartoon cards on Facebook and liked the idea of them so asked me, and I was so pleased!

After trawling through masses of unsuitable decoupageable pictures on Google Images, I finally found this one I have used on Jacks card.

I hope you all like it.  It took me a good afternoon to put it all together.  My poor little fingers are a bit sore now after squeezing them into the decoupage scissor handles for the best part of 2 hours! LOL

Martha Stewart Daisy Fan Deep Edger Punch FOR SALE!

Hi everyone,

I have been such a wally!! I have only gone and bought this punch twice haven't I!! As I got it from a Craft Fair, I can't return it so I am offering it to you for £20 P&P included!! I would ideally like payment via Paypal, but a cheque is also acceptable, but obviously I won't post the item until it's cleared..!

It really is a beautiful punch and you can do so much with it!  Please e-mail me if you are interested.  If I get no joy, I will be listing it on ebay.

An award!

Hi everyone,

I have received a lovely award from Lori!! Thank you!! xx

Here are the guidelines for accepting this award:

1 Cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog.

2 Nominate 10 blogs that make your heart smile.

3 Link to your nominees within your blog post.

4 Comment on the recipient's blog to let them know they received the award.

5 Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

So, it's a very tricky task to pick 10 blogs that make my heart smile.....there are way more than 10!  I like Lori's idea.....so, if you visit my blog, please take this award and put it on your blog with the guidelines!

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog and leaving me lots of lovely messages :o)

Please help Bella walk...

Hi everyone,

I am trying to help out a friend of mine whos little girl needs to fly to the USA for a £40,000 operation to help her walk, and was hoping some of you might be able to help if you can.

I had the pleasure of babysitting Bella and her twin brother Benjamin for the first 3 years of there lives, and would love to see Bella have this operation to improve her quality of life. She is a very happy child, despite her struggles in life and is loved by everyone who knows her.

Bella is 5 years old and lives with her Mum and Dad and Twin Brother Benjamin in Bracknell, Berkshire. Bella was not breathing when she was born, needed to be resuscitated and as a result was starved of oxygen to her brain.

She was later diagnosed with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy. One of the symptoms for Bella is that it causes Spasticity (tightness) in her leg muscles and stops her being able to walk independently. She uses a walking frame or crawls to get around.

Her parents are fundraising so they can take Bella to America at the end of April,  for what they hope will be life changing surgery on her spine to help her WALK.  So far, they have done an interview with Heart radio station and Bella will appear in the local newspaper next week, which will hopefully be successful in geting more funding.

The surgery Bella needs is called "Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy” or SDR and  has been performed by Dr Park at St Louis Children Hospital in Missouri for over 20 years with great results.

For more information on how to send sponsor money please visit Bella's Fundwhere you will find details on the left hand side.  There are also a couple of you tube video links on the site.

Thanks for reading.

Prima Ballerina

Hi everyone,

I love my Prairie Fairy Digi stamp, Prima Ballerina which I have used on my card here. Isn't she just the cutest ballerina ever?!

Thanks so much to Lori who sent me this image after I won it in her blog candy last week, and for inspiring me with her beautiful card using this image!  Pop over to her blog and take a look.  All her work is simply stunning!

I used my Hot Foil Print Wizard to do the greeting, which i'm really quite proud of considering it's only my 3rd attempt at using it!  If you have no idea what a Hot Foil Print Wizard is, take a look at my earlier post, here.

The backing paper was a freebie out of Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine, who always have a great selection of papers!  I coloured the image with my wonderful Promarkers and put the blender pen to use for the first time!  I think I got the shading pretty good?  I also used my white, and silver glitter Sakura pens for the first time and LOVE them!  The pretty lace effect ribbon was made using my new Martha Stewart punch that I bought from QVC a few weeks ago when it was TSV.  I punched one side, and then cut it the right length and punched the opposite side to create this effect. 

I have made this card for a friend of mine, and I really hope she likes it!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog!

InStyle Stamps Blog Freebie!

Hi everyone,

InStyle Stamps Blog are giving away one of the above little ladies!

All you have to do is post the picture of Miko and Lina on your blog to tell all your friends about the freebie (see blog for further details).

You have until 11:59pm to do this!

Fab Blog Candy - ends tonight!

Hi everyone,

Head over to Rosette's Blog and enter her fantastic candy which ends 8:30pm Tuesday 16th February (tonight!)

Here is what you could win: