Black is best

I is for Icy colours

2010-06-25T13:54:00.000+02:00

Hi all, this weeks letter on the Alphabet challenge is I.......for icy colours.......this is my effort. I made the background of this card by making a small dolphin stencil and using a grey pencil to stencil the dolphins. I cut an oval of card and paper pricked freehand design round that and in the corners of the card. I highlighted the paper pricking with silver pen. I drew the dolphins freehand onto different holographic card drew in the details and adhered them to the front.

G is for Green

2010-06-11T13:26:00.003+02:00

Morning all, this week on the Alphabet challenge blog we are on G is for Green, here is what I have made. I drew the little teddies, cut them out and mounted them on green, then plaid paper. The corners of the images were highlighted with dimensional paint.

Been scrapping!

2010-06-08T17:04:00.000+02:00

Finally found time to do a bit more scrapping, so much for keeping up to date! These photos were taken (obviously) on New Years Day, when were staying down in Brighton, and went for a walk along the pier.

F is for flowers

2010-06-04T12:13:00.000+02:00

Hi all, we are onto F again on over on the Alphabet challenge blog. Here is my F for flowers card. I used a purple card blank, and cut the edge with a border punch, and I used the same punch to edge a piece of pearlised paper to mount on the front, which I drew round with a gel pen. I made the large flowers from glittery paper, and cut the smaller ones from pale blue paper, and the leaves from green card. Details were then added with pens and dimensional paints.

Dragonfly Skinny

2010-05-21T13:41:00.000+02:00

This week over on the Alphabet challenge blog, we are on D or dragonflies, I have made a skinny, using one of my own design dragonfly stamps. I have stamped the body onto illusion card, and made the wings using fantasy film. The background is decorated with my own design swirl stamps and accent beads. The edges were coloured with gold Adirondack dabber.

I have also realised I have not put the last few challenges onto my blog, so here is my chocolate colours ATC. This was done using distress ink on the blank, the trees were drawn with black permanent marker, and the horse was then scraped away using a scribing tool, and coloured using a brush marker.

Sympathy card

2010-03-25T16:24:00.002+01:00

Having recently received some bad news from a friend of mine, I had cause to make a sympathy card for her. It is a bit unusual for sympathy card, but I was quite happy with the result. I used some lovely black brocade card, silver border peel-offs and some lovely 3D butterfly stickers. The flowers are hand painted of course, using Liquid pearls and Pebeo volume touch paints. Small flat backed gems were added to the centres of the larger flowers.

21st Birthday card

2010-02-09T17:45:00.000+01:00

Well here we go again, today I have a 21st birthday card that I have made for a friend's son. I have used one of my own design rubber stamps, of my brother's car, which for anyone who's interested is a Panther!

Golden wedding card

2010-02-05T18:32:00.000+01:00

Goodness it's ages since I have posted! I have today made a 50th wedding anniversary card for a friend of mine. Unforunately the colour in the photo is really not good, it is actually a lot more gold than it looks, and the contrast panels are a fab burgundy card with gold foiling on it.

Thanks for looking :)

Santa on a mountainbike!

2010-01-08T08:01:00.001+01:00

Whilst making christmas cards this year, I had to make some for my guy to give to some of his mountain biking friends, so I thought it would be a bit different to design a card based on him on his mountain bike. I used a photo of him riding his bike and drew this piccy of him as Santa, delivering presents to the cycle shop that I think is his second home! :)

House

2009-12-04T19:04:00.000+01:00

Over on the Alphabet Challenge blog this week we are on H is for House, this is one of my H's. I made this little house by drawing the house on a piece of brown card, to which I added roof and brick details. The windows and door were cut from white card, coloured and adhered with micro dots. I finished off by adding the wisteria and tulips with liquid Pearls paints.

Two more houses.......

2009-10-29T18:21:00.003+01:00

And here are the last two Christmas houses for the swap on CSF, made in exactly the same way as the first one :)

12 Days of Christmas

2009-10-29T12:53:00.003+01:00

This is a picture that I drew for the 12 days of Christmas ATC swap on CSF, obviously I chose to do 3 French hens! LOL

Christmas house............

2009-10-29T12:30:00.006+01:00

Goodness, it's been awhile since I last posted here hasn't it!!!! Well having been asked to participate in the Christmas house swap on CSF, I have now made my first ever house! I'm hoping it's ok! The house was covered with a piece of K & Co Christmas paper, I then coloured the roof and drew on the tile details. I drew and coloured the windows and door, and added a few bricks. The wreath on the door is made by adding flowersoft.

Joey

2009-09-21T17:20:00.002+02:00

Hi all, I can at last post this piccy, it is a pet portrait that I painted for my guy's birthday, (which was at the weekend), it is his little dog Joey. It is painted in acrylics, with a touch of glossy accents on the eyes and nose.

2009-09-10T19:02:00.004+02:00

Goodness, can't believe I haven't posted anything since July! So here is a tag that I made for this week's Alphabet challenge on my other blog. This week it is W and my tag is Watching!
And while I'm at it, here is my V entry also.........V is for Vixen! (All of these are my own paintings)

Cupboard door!

2009-07-24T09:45:00.007+02:00

Having been going through a bit of a lull creatively, my guy asked me if I would paint this cupboard door for inside his campervan. Having had a bit of a think, this is what appeared! It is all painted with acrylics, and is in fact the first landscape that I have painted in acrylics. There are things that I'm not happy with, but I won't point them out here :)

P is for.......................

2009-07-09T22:20:00.003+02:00

Panda! I made this card using an image of a panda that I drew awhile ago, and some oriental background papers from Papermania's lovely Oriental spice pad. The card was finished off with an oriental text peel off.

N is for..................

2009-06-25T22:37:00.003+02:00

This is my entry this week for the Alphabet Challenge, we are up to N now! I have used one of my stamps for a Nightime bear!

M is for...................... Medusa

2009-06-19T18:10:00.005+02:00

This week on the Alphabet challenge we have made it all the way to M..........so here is my M for Medusa card. The main picture is an embroidery that I designed and made several years ago. I then drew the cobra with a fine ink pen, just to finish the card off. Many thanks for looking.

Still playing.................

2009-06-17T15:58:00.005+02:00

Now, you see, this is what happens when I am too busy to do any "proper" crafting...........I end up doodling........again. So here we have another sheet of doodled wrapping paper! :)

Easel card

2009-06-08T10:15:00.003+02:00

I've had these Easel card blanks for years, and never got around to doing anything with them! Last night a friend was playing with some that she had, which inspired me to dig mine out and have a go. Of course I cheated and printed out out of my landscape oil paintings that I did several years ago. edged it with distress ink and a peel off and hey presto.......job done!

And more..................

2009-06-06T20:10:00.003+02:00

I have been painting my nails again.............(the weather's not good for haymaking you see!) And in answer to zoe............I manage with the farmwork and heavy horses, because my nails have acrylic on them! They are in fact very strong :)

K is for ...................

2009-06-05T20:05:00.004+02:00

Kingfisher! This weeks letter on my Alphabet challenge blog is K. I have used a painting of a Kingfisher that I did some years ago, and then drew bulrushes in the background with a fine black pen. I drew the panel again with a fine black pen and drew a darker shadow round two sides to make it appear raised. The edge of the card was finished with a gold peeloff.

Playing again!

2009-06-04T21:23:00.002+02:00

Have been sitting chilling out this evening, so I thought I'd have another play with my nails. Again I "painted" them by hand using nail varnish pens.

Something different.......................

2009-05-30T09:25:00.003+02:00

Just a bit of fun! I am going to a Hawaiian themed party tonight, so I thought I'd have a bit of a play, and using nail varnish pens, I painted my nails with palm trees, to coincide with the theme!

J is for.....................

2009-05-28T22:25:00.002+02:00

Jack-in-the-Box,......... obviously! I couldn't think of anything else to do for J so I drew this Jack-in-the-box. He is coloured in with various water soluble pencils/crayons. I drew a border with a gold Krylon and decorated the edge of the card with a punch and adhered a bit of gold embossed card on the inside of the card.

Tribal Pegasus

2009-05-23T21:35:00.004+02:00

Okay, okay, I know I was only going to have one tattoo, but I have now just had my 10th one! Now to be fair I designed this one for a friend, but I liked it so much that I decided to get it done! :)

"Man" Card!

2009-05-21T08:06:00.005+02:00

I had to make a "man" card today, don't we all hate making them! Anyway, I decided that I would try and make a card featuring a car that my guy used to own. I therefore drew and coloured the Jag. I coloured it using Aquatone sticks, and then to make it shimmer I added a bit of clear stardust Sakura gelly roll pen, and watercoloured it out across the whole car. I have again used one of the lovely Kanban distressed card blanks, and attached the car with 3D foam pads. The greeting was then handwritten using a silver Galaxy marker. (My biggest worry was that I had got the right model of car, apparently I did! :) )

Last one.................

2009-05-18T21:25:00.003+02:00

Another simple card, using the last of the printed portraits. Made in exactly the same way as the last one. This is a little old pony named Phoebe.

Very simple card

2009-05-18T20:21:00.006+02:00

I'm still using the pictures that I printed out of some of my pet portraits, and this card is about as simple as they get! I cut the picture out, and glued it to the card blank. I added copper coloured peel offs, and used a black marker pen to draw a shadow effect round the image to make it appear raised. (The orginal painting was done on wood, which is why the grain can be seen through the painting) The pony is Foldor Skylark, another one that I bred myself, and who is now showjumping locally and also doing very well apparently.

And another................

2009-05-14T17:11:00.003+02:00

Another print of a painting I did some while ago. This one is a watercolour and ink portrait of a horse that I bred a few years ago, when I was breeding horses. Her name is Foldor Zenna, and she now lives at a local riding school, and is doing very well showjumping at various shows during the summer months.

Heron panel card

2009-05-14T12:36:00.003+02:00

Another simple card today, this time using a print of one of my paintings. I matted the piccy on gold mirri card and attached it to the card blank using 3D pads. I then created the two side panels using gold peel offs, and drew the bulrushes in with a black pen. I finished it off by drawing a black shadow around the bottom and side of the panels.

More wrapping paper.......................

2009-05-08T12:25:00.002+02:00

Well I'm afraid I'm still not feeling very creative, and so I have been doing some more doodling, and have made another sheet of wrapping paper...........................

F is for....................

2009-05-03T09:55:00.004+02:00

This weeks challenge over on my Alphabet Challenge blog is F, so here is my multiple F entry, a Fat book page with a Feather, Filigree, Foiling and Flowers!

And now for............................

2009-05-01T09:45:00.003+02:00

..................something completely different! This is a painting that I did one winter many years ago now, (way before we had blogs!), of the back of our house. It has been hanging in my MIL's sitting room, and it just occurred to me that it might make some nice Christmas cards!

Something different......................

2009-04-27T23:21:00.004+02:00

Well, I've not really been feeling very creative recently, and this evening I needed a bit of wrapping paper, so I started doodling on an A3 piece of paper on my desk. I just thought I'd do a few flowers and leaves, but then I just sort of kept doodling, and this was the result!! Just in case it looks pinky to you, (as it does on my lappy) the paper is in fact pale yellow!

E is for..................

2009-04-24T19:51:00.003+02:00

It is E week on the Alphabet challenge blog So I have done Encaustic art and Elephant! I drew the elephant, and coloured him with watercolour pencils. The panel was done with unusaully, (for me) colourful encaustic waxes, mounted and attached to one of the distressed card blanks.

Last one.................?

2009-04-20T21:31:00.003+02:00

...........at least for today! Same old, .............encaustic panel, triple matted and attached to another distressed card blank.

Red planet!

2009-04-20T19:54:00.002+02:00

And another one, simple card, encaustic panel matted onto gold mirri and attached to distressed card blank with 3D pads, and peel off sentiment added to finish off.

And....................

2009-04-20T19:03:00.003+02:00

..........another one.........bet you're getting bored now! Another of the encaustic panels, with more of the holographic silver fish. (Even if they look blue in the scan!)

And another.................................

2009-04-19T23:38:00.003+02:00

.........not pink this time! Another of the encaustic art panels I did the other day, with some hand scribed holographic card fishes.

Encaustic card...............bit pink!!!

2009-04-19T20:20:00.003+02:00

The other day I had a bit of a play with my encaustic art waxes, and this is one of the results! It was done on a piece of black encaustic card, mounted onto black and then cerise, (not really pink) mirri card and attached to a Kanban silver/black distressed card blank.

Eyes ATC

2009-04-14T22:28:00.003+02:00

The theme this week on Think Monday Think ATC is eyes, so I had a bit of a doodle, I just wanted to show how you could give expresson to just about anything, just with eyes! The eyes were drawn in sharpie marker, and the background was coloured with Lyra Aquacolour crayons.

Chick ATC

2009-04-13T22:18:00.005+02:00

Several weeks ago on Art Creations Friday the challenge was to use this lovely background, I didn't manage to do the challenge at the time, but I have now used the background for this ATC for which I also used two of my own design Easter chick stamps

A couple of cards............

2009-04-10T08:56:00.003+02:00

Well it is Friday again, so this is my entry for the Alphabet challenge which this week is C. The cat is actually made out of felt, with embroidered detail. The patchwork background is simply made by cutting squares from patterned paper, which have been stuck to the card blank................the stitch detail was added with pen afterwards.

The second card is an Easter card that I have made using my new Easter stamps

B is for Bunny

2009-04-05T17:15:00.003+02:00

This weeks challenge over on my Alphabet Challenge blog is .........B, so this is my brayered bunny ATC. The stamps are again from my own range which can be found by clicking the sunflower, over on the right.

Mother and child Arch

2009-03-16T09:54:00.003+01:00

The challenge on Gothic Arches this week is Mother and Child. I decided to use a photo of my son's old pony, with one of her foals. I used a lovely piece of background paper from Papermania behind the image. I then stamped one of my swirls stamps, and traced over them with black stickles. The edges were finished off with Adirondack acrylic dabber.

Wings tag

2009-03-10T08:14:00.004+01:00

The challenge this week on Tag you're it this week is Wings. I used my butterfly stamp again which. I stamped it onto DCWV OUAT paper and highlighted areas of the butterfly with crystal lacquers. The background of the tag was coloured with Color box Brocade ink pads, and I added my painted flowers and finished the edge of the tag with Acrylic dabber.

Fantasy Arch

2009-03-09T22:32:00.005+01:00

This weeks challenge on Gothic Arches is Fantasy, so I have used my Pegasus stamp, on some hand made paper, which I have glittered with irridescent glitter. The background arch was made from burgundy card, which I covered with lace paper, edged with gold acrylic dabber, and sprinkled randomly with a mixture of green and gold glitter.

Dragonfly

2009-03-09T22:14:00.005+01:00

The challenge this week on Wednesday Stamper is to make a skinny, and the Tanda Teaser is Up in the Air, so I decided to combine the two, and made this skinny. I have used my swirl stamps in the background, highlighted with a white gel pen. I then added accent beads and acrylic dabbers. I then used my dragonfly stamp and some fantasy film and illusion card to make the dragonfly.

Eyeball card

2009-03-01T23:59:00.003+01:00

Now this is definitely a bit outside the box! The theme for this weeks challenge on Step Outside Your Box Saturdays is eyes. Well I was looking through an old sketchbook, and found this picture that I had drawn about 30 years ago!!! I scanned it and tweaked the colouring and then mounted it on a card, which I finished off with peeloffs.

Stripes challenge

2009-03-01T22:05:00.003+01:00

The Challenge last week on Created by Hand Challenge was Stripes. Here is my offering, an ATC on which I have drawn a caterpillar............the background was brayered, and the edges were distressed using a distress ink pad.

A Bird in the hand..................

2009-03-01T10:00:00.003+01:00

The Tanda Teaser Challenge this week is to encorporate a bird image into your work. I used my heron silhouette stamp onto a brayered background. I also used my barbed wire stamp down the edge of the card. I cut around the edge of the barbed wire and used a black pen to shadow the wire. I covered the inside of the card with some decorative paper, and used the same paper to mount the heron panel, along with some gold mirri card. The leaf was also cut from the same sheet of paper.

Silhouette ATC

2009-02-28T21:38:00.004+01:00

The challenge this week on Wednesday Stamper challenge blog is silhouettes. I made this ATC by brayering the background, and stamping my own heron silhouette stamp. I used a black pen to extend the design to the top of the ATC. I edged the card with a black marker, job done.

Perch card

2009-02-23T00:51:00.005+01:00

The challenge on Daring cardmakers challenge blog this week is fish and/or frog. I made this card using a print of a perch that I had previously painted. For a background I painted a little lake bank scene. I cut the scene out as an oval and edged it with a peeloff once it was adhered to the card. The fish was adhered using 3d foam pads and the card was edged with black distress ink and finished with peel offs.

A bit late.............

2009-02-22T19:04:00.003+01:00

I know this is a bit late, but last weeks challenge on Art Creations Friday was to use this stunning background paper. I have used it to make a simple skinny. The weeds were added with Galaxy marker and the fish were hand drawn onto holgraphic silver card.

Coffee and Cream

2009-02-22T18:59:00.003+01:00

The theme for rubber stamped ATCs on CSF this month is coffee and cream, and here is my offering.................yet another outig for the butterfly and flowers I'm afraid!

Tag...............

2009-02-22T18:53:00.003+01:00

This is what happens when I tidy my desk!! I found this little strip of lovely grunge paper and couldn't bear to throw it away, so I made this tag, again using some butterflies which I had previously made using fantasy film and crystal lacqeurs and my butterfly stamps. The tag was finished off with flowers that were drawn on using Adirondack pens.

Buttefly card

2009-02-11T16:44:00.004+01:00

Still playing with my stamps, and my cuttlebug..

Two more swirls cards

2009-02-09T19:05:00.003+01:00

I am still playing with my swirls stamps, this time using them on square cards. I again embossed them, and cut around them. I lined the card with nice paper onto which I also stamped my butterflies and dragonflies, which I cut out and adhered to the front. I also cut out some corners from the same paper, using the cuttlebug.

And more..................

2009-02-05T23:47:00.004+01:00

Tall swirl cards, made in a very similar fashion to the last two :)

Swirls cards

2009-02-05T08:41:00.003+01:00

At last I have found time to play with my new Swirls stamps. Having stamped and embossed them using some cosmic shimmer powders, I cut around the swirl to give a more interesting front edge to the card. I then made an insert using patterned paper. Using my cuttlebug, I cut and embossed some butterflies from the same paper, and attached these to the front. The green card also had a strip of the paper and peel offs added to finish, whereas the purple card had a couple of bindis and a hand written greeting added.

ATCs

2009-02-02T11:53:00.003+01:00

I had a little bit of Creative Impressions paper left on my desk, so I thought I'd make a couple of ATCs, I used another of my swirl stamps and a couple of stckers from the same range as the paper. the edges were again distressed with inks.

Dog FB page

2009-02-02T11:44:00.003+01:00

I have joined a Fat Book list on Craft Swap Forum, which involves making a dog page and a cat page. This is my dog page, I have used a couple of my own stamps, which are available from my website And the edges have been aged with distress ink.

Cherish card

2009-01-31T00:26:00.004+01:00

A simple card this time, because I was playing with my Bug again, this time using the Cherish sizzlets alphabet. I cut out the Happy Birthday and then made the card around that. I used another piece of the Creative Imaginations paper, and one of my new swirls stamps, available from my website , stamped in Fired brick distress ink. The edges of the card were then distressed using the same distress ink pad.

A4 card

2009-01-30T17:13:00.004+01:00

Well, this is my first attempt at an A4 card! I had to make a large card, because I wanted to use the barbed wire and ivy design, which is my latest tattoo design. This one is actually a fraction smaller than the actual tattoo. I made a panel for the card, using a fabulous piece of Creative Imaginations paper, edged with peel offs. I then coloured the tattoo design with prismacolor pencils, cut it out, (very fiddly) and mounted it onto the card. I added some glitter where the excess glue was. The edges of the card were coloured using distress inks. I then cut the lettering out using my Cuttlebug and "Endless Love" Sizzlets alphabet dies. I drew black shadows around the letters, once they had been adhered to the card.

Step outside your box.....................

2009-01-26T17:22:00.003+01:00

The challenge this week on Step outside your box Saturdays this week is written word........no flourishes allowed! I have written the word harmony on an ATC, using harmoniuous colours! Rather has the feeling of one of those Zen gardens I thought.

Something different.............

2009-01-16T11:36:00.004+01:00

Not much to say about this really..........a friend asked me to do a painting of a pied wagtail............so here it is!

Gothic Arch challenge

2009-01-14T21:45:00.003+01:00

This weeks challenge on Gothic Arches this week is Grunge......so I have taken the plunge and made my first ever gothic arch! I used somefabulous Bo Bunny paper, and drew the barbed wire on freehand. I then stamped my own design rose and dragon stamps and mounted them on. Highlighting has been done with a sumogrip pencil and white gel pen. I then wrote the words and blackened the edge with a galaxy marker to finish off.

Small world of Inchies and twinchies

2009-01-14T14:26:00.002+01:00

This weeks challenge on Small world of Inchies and Twinchies is blue.......so I have made an ultra simple inchie, using blue holographic card. I debossed a dolphin, bubbles and word freehand, and then rubbed silver pen into the debossing!

Art Creations Friday challenge no. 8

2009-01-14T01:03:00.003+01:00

I have actually made a skinny for the Art Creations Friday Challenge I printed the lovely background image and stamped my own design rose and swirl stamps. I used distress ink round the edges, added a die cut butterfly and some chipboard words.

Animal ATCs

2009-01-12T00:24:00.004+01:00

The theme for the Rubber stamped ATC swap on Craft Swap Forum is animals, so these are what I have come up with. They are stamped using my own design stamps and Tim Holtz Distress inks.

Winter Moo

2009-01-11T18:55:00.003+01:00

The challenge on Make a moo or two this week is Winter frost.........here is my interpretation, I have used one of my own stamp designs, embossed with white powder and then details added by hand. The edges have been finished with a silver Krylon pen.

Moos

2009-01-11T15:54:00.004+01:00

Having had my arm twisted to participate in the moo swap on CSF, I have been playing, and made these moos. The top row are actually silver holographic card, with silver peel offs and flowers which have been debossed with a scribing tool. The others have been done with my painted flowers and my dragon stamp, again finished off with peel offs.

Anything goes.................

2009-01-07T20:41:00.003+01:00

The "Anything Goes" Challenge on CSF this week involves using black, white and one other colour..........I have chosen gold. I have again used my "bug"..........love it! The card is finished with peel offs and painted flowers.

Cuttlebug birthday card

2009-01-04T22:32:00.003+01:00

I have today been playing with the new alphabet dies that I was given for Christmas, and I have made this birthday card. It has been finished of with peel offs, flowers that I cut, by hand, out of some paper that I had coloured with alchohol inks, and my usual painted flowers.

Retriever card

2009-01-03T23:45:00.002+01:00

Another card, using one of my dog stamps. I have also played with my cutttlebug to cut the letters for the greeting. The card has again been edged using the Multi Shaper punch.

GSD card

2009-01-03T00:40:00.002+01:00

I've used another of my stamps for this card, the German Shepherd Dog from my dog plate, again simply matted and the card finished off using peel offs and the Multi shaper punch.

Elegant card

2008-12-31T19:09:00.003+01:00

A simple little card today, which I thought might be suitable for the MTTC challenge this week. I have used my lily stamp, which I have decoupaged. I have also cut the edge again with a Multi Shaper punch. The card has been finished off with peel offs and a hand written greeting.

Gold thankyou card

2008-12-29T17:50:00.003+01:00

I made this card for someone who likes gold, and of course as I like black, I mixed the two. I have again used one of my own stamps, the Design Rose, and a Multi Shaper punch.

Rose card

2008-12-24T16:44:00.003+01:00

I am now getting carried away doing these tall slim cards, this one is made using some fabulous rose backing paper, more gold peel offs and my Design Rose stamp on shrink plastic.

New year cards

2008-12-24T11:16:00.003+01:00

Having run out of time making Chrissy cards, I have had to make a few New Year cards, quite simple again, using my stamps and peel offs. The rose has actually been stamped in gold on black shrink plastic.

Another horse

2008-12-17T13:36:00.003+01:00

I am so enjoying playing with my new border punches and border peel offs, and this is another card using them along with one of my horse stamps again. The Krylon pen has again been used to finish off the edges.

Horse card

2008-12-16T00:24:00.004+01:00

I made this card using another of my stamps, coloured in with Lyra Aquacolour crayons, and some more lovely background paper. Again finished with peel offs and border punch.

Peacock...............again!

2008-12-16T00:01:00.004+01:00

I was trying to use some more of my stamps, but ended up back with the peacocks! Have stamped and embossed the head with cosmic shimmer embossing powder, and mounted on some lovely DCWV paper, and edged with a fancy punch and peel offs.

Feather plaque

2008-12-14T15:10:00.006+01:00

Having had a little bit of playtime today, when I should have been making cards, I happened upon an mdf plaque that I bought recently, so I decided to do something with it! I coloured the plaque with Adirondack acrylic dabbers , eggplant, black and gold. I then triple thick embossed it with clear UTEE, adding a sprinkling of Malachite Fire Aurora cosmic shimmer embossing powder on the third go. I then inked my peacock feather stamp with a gold encore ink pad and stamped into the still molten powder.

Leaf card

2008-12-10T11:35:00.004+01:00

I've tried something a bit different for me this time........ as you can see I have been playing with my cuttlebug again, and used one of my paintings as a sort of focal point! The greeting was hand written, and the edges of the card were distressed with Ranger distress ink. Don't know if I'm very happy with the result, but hey ho!

Christmas cracker ATC

2008-12-07T22:28:00.003+01:00

When my friend produced some crackers for a Christmas party we had on Saturday, I couldn't get over the lovely cream and gold decoration on them, complete with stuck on gems. So after pulling the crackers I have made this ATC........unfortunately the foiling hasn't scanned very well!

CSF Christmas project 2008

2008-12-02T18:36:00.003+01:00

These are the triangles that I have made for the CSF Christmas project. We are in teams of 4 and have each made 2 letters for the word Christmas, which we then swap. We have also all made our own S so that when we each receive all the letters we are able to make a banner decoration. I have used all my own stamps and embossed them in gold. The decoration on the letters is hand drawn, and the edges of the letters are finished with gold Krylon.........the edges of the triangles are finished with gold acrylic dabber.

Another alternative christmas card

2008-12-01T00:30:00.003+01:00

I made this Christmas card for a friend who, like me favours the darker things in life............the background was embossed with a cuttlebug folder which I then stroked with a gold ink pad and embossed with black embossing powder. The greeting and Madonna are two of my own designs, and I finished off with a black ribbon.

6 Geese.................

2008-11-23T15:20:00.003+01:00

........a laying! This is a Fat book page that I have made for the 12 days of Christmas Fat Book swap on CSF. Very simple, I drew the image, and coloured it in using Aquatones, scanned it and then added the words on the laptop, before printing it out and mounting it on antique gold card.

Window bauble card

2008-11-20T21:08:00.003+01:00

I bought these lovely card blanks from the NEC the other day, and couldn't wait to have a play. I used my own design bauble and Merry Christmas stamps. The main image baubles were embossed and decorated with crystal laquers. I finished off with gold peel offs.

And another "foiled" card

2008-11-18T00:27:00.003+01:00

This time I have used the gold magic card, with my Pegasus stamp. The panel is mounted on a piece of Kanban distressed scroll card, edged with gold Krylon pen. The edge of the square card has also been done with the gold Krylon.

Feather thankyou card

2008-11-17T22:46:00.003+01:00

Just made another card, this time using some fabulous magic foil card that got at the NEC this weekend, which when stamped with versamark and clear detail embossing powder looks like it is foiled. I used my own design peacock feather stamp. The greeting is written by hand with a silver Krylon pen, shadowed with a black pen, and the card is edged with silver krylon also.

Unicorn canvas

2008-11-12T10:02:00.005+01:00

Another canvas, this time using my new Unicorn stamp. The background is painted with Adirondack acrylic dabbers. The unicorn itself is stamped on textured "old" gold paper. The swirl is stamped with olive green stazon, a couple of times, and then embossed in gold. The words were written on freehand...........(I know, you can tell!!!)

Christmas card

2008-11-06T08:57:00.004+01:00

Having had a bit of a mad session making heaps of ATCs, I decided to put some to use making Christmas cards.........here is one. I have used my Madonna stamp, which has been embossed in gold and mounted on some fabulous Dovecraft Christmas paper, and edged with Krylon pen. The background is a piece of black card, embossed with my cuttlebug, and then embossed with gold detail embossing powder, (a brilliant idea by Kay :) ). The card was edged with starlite black brilliance ink pad, and finished off with peel offs.

Christmas Moos

2008-11-01T09:47:00.003+01:00

I've joined this months Moo swap on CSF and these are my Christmassy moos. They have all been made using my own design stamps, on watermark silk white card, and embossed with gold powder. The edges were finished with a Krylon pen.

Teddy Christmas Card

2008-10-30T23:54:00.002+01:00

Well I've actually made a Christmas card for a friend who loves my teddy designs, so although it's not very Christmassy I hope she likes it!

Last one.................

2008-10-23T18:36:00.003+02:00

I promise.....no more peacocks, only I wanted to blog this one, as it has a different layout. I cut a section from the edge of the card, before attaching the peacock panel. I used the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder to emboss a matching piece of card, which I attache inside the back of the card. Then I cut a strip from the section that I had removed, and attached this to the inside back of the card, with a peel off Happy birthday on it. The edges were finished off with gold peel offs.

And.....................

2008-10-23T09:28:00.003+02:00

.....another peacock card. I have used the cuttlebug on a piece of gold mirri card for this one, and......my stamp again! The edges have again been finished with krylon pen and gold peel offs.