Morning all,

I have been so bad with my blog posts lately that I have set myself a challenge to post more. I have been using my FB page to show my work and keep forgetting to post here :( Naughty me lol.

I have a quick card to show this morning, its my Sister's other half's birthday today and I totally foget until my neice remninded me this morning so I dropped the kids off at school and headed home to knock up a quick card for him. He is a big Everton fan so went with that.

I have used Alphalicious cricut cart for the letters and an old stamp I have for the sentiment. The badge and backing paper where both made in My Craft Studio.

Hope you like it

Hugs

Marie 

xxx

Holy Communion commisioned card

Evening folks,

I was asked to make a Holy Communion card by a friend of mine for her Son for Saturday.  I havent made one before so after a bit of deliberating I decided to make a bookatrix card.

The BP is a digi paper from Pink Petticoat ages ago. The cross is a cutting file on the Silluette and I used my Xcut nesties scalloped square for the sentiment.

I have just used the smaller 'book' for the inside so that it matches the front of the card.

Its very 'simple' layout for me but I am pleased with it. I hope she is too.

Thanks for looking

Marie 

xxx

Couple of commissioned orders

Afternoon everyone, well ive been super busy with things Mother's Day over the last few weeks so I apologise for my lack of posts, I will share my mother's day creations with you later today. But first I wanted to show you what ive been working on this last few days.

This is an A4 gatefold card that I have made for a commissioned order. I am absolutely loving the new Do Crafts Tatty Ted Spring Chic CD Rom. The images and papers are just so cute and I love the sprint/summer colours. They are fab arent they??

I have used a butterfly stencil to create pop-outs for the inside of this card. Im really pleased with how its turned out.

I have also been making some Tea light candle box but with a twist. Instead of the candles I was asked to leave the box empty so that it could be filled with chocolates for Easter. I have been asked to make a box each for a young girl and boy, so here's what I came up with.

Again I have used the new Tatty Ted CD Rom as there is a section not only for Mother's Day but also one dedicated to Easter and some of the images are just so sweet.

Anyway hope you like them and enjoy the rest of your Friday folks.

Hugs

Marie 

xxxxx

Baby Girl exploding box

Good Morning, I have been working on a few things over the last week but thought I would show you this baby girl exploding box I have made as I had not made a exploding box for this occasion before.

This is the very top of the box

side view using paper from FF hugs and cuddles 6x6 paper pack

 side view using paper from FF hugs and cuddles 6x6 paper pack 

This is how the box looks when the lid is removed

 Close up view of some of the embellishments I have used

This lil cutie is from Pink Gem designs baby decoupage (digi image)

This is another of Pink Gems baby digi's I just love them they are so cute.

Well thanks for looking and any comments truly are appreciated

Hugs

Marie

xxxx

New baby boy card

Happy St David's Day everyone.

I thought I would share with you this new baby card I have made for a commissioned order.

The lady who has orderd it wanted me to use a picture of the new baby as the focus of the card but also wanted to include some details about the baby. This is what I came up with.

 I have created a tag that sits behind the picture and when you pull it out it has the babys name, weight and date of birth on it.

I have used CC centura pearl card as the base and then backing papers from Pink Gem Desgins. The baby in pram is also from Pink Gem Designs. The sentiment is frommy Silluette library.

I hope you like it.
Hugs
Marie
xxx

Liebster Blog Award

The lovely Louise over at Lou's card creations has awarded me with this blog award

 The idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.

2) Post the award to your blog.

3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.

4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

"Liebster" in German means "dearest", so to carry on the

  Liebster tradition, I am going to pass the award on to 5 people who's blogs have been an inspiration to me and my crafting. 

I have decided to pass on this award to the following people (not in any particular order!)

Tracey

Becky

Christine

Zoe

Bee

Ladies I love looking through your cards and creations so wanted to pass this onto you guys.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday 

Hugs

Marie xxx 

New xcut dies and card

Morning everyone, Just thought id quickly show you a card I made for order earlier this week. I got 4 sets of the xcut nested dies off my sis for Xmas and I havent gotten around to using this petal shape one before and I really like it. Let me know what you think.

 

I have used pattern papers from the fizzy moon celebration collection 6x6 pack and then just a plain card behind to make the nested shapes. The decoupage is from the me to you cd rom as is the happy birthday sentiment. I have used some letter stickers from my stash for 'wife' and then put some ribbon behind it to make it like a 'banner/ribbon'. I have also added some of me handmade paper roses topped with crafters companion glitter spray.

Here is a close up of the paper roses. I love making these. I make them in white and then use my pro markers and speccies to colour them the exact colours to match my projects.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Marie

xxx