My craft room

I said I would post some piccies once id sorted out my PC etc so here they are. Now bare in mind this is tidy for me lol

This is my feature wall, I used my Cricut to cut out these letters using Storybook cart, the butterflies and swirls are off this too. I added some flat back gems for a bit of bling.

This is my main storage area and this holds everything from stamps,punches,papers,pens etc (basically the majority of my stash).

This is my main craft desk still a bit messy but hey thats how I work lol

This is where my now new and improved PC is housed (4 1/2 gb Ram). The RAM arriving this morning is what inspired me to do a revamp of my room lol.

 This is my shelving unit that houses my 3 favourite machines, my Cricut and Robo and below my Printer.

Just some of my A4 and A5 card stock.

This is my other desk where my laptop will now stay (Roslyn will be able to use this now aswell, she already says thats her desk lol) My large Xcut guillotine.

 My handy storage baskets with my punches and just out of shot behind my Dr Who mini ablum is my Cuttlebug.

Just showing a few scrapbook kits there in the corner and in the box files is all my magazines for easy storing.

Just a few more storage boxes including my ribbon,glitter,flowers,card candy and any lose toppers i have.

Right thats all the way around the room, I hope you have enjoyed your little tour of my crafty space.

Hugs

Marie xx

What is in a name?

I just wanted to share with you this 3d name I made for my neice's christening a few weeks back.

It was an SVG file that I cut on my Robo.

Im off to have a nosey around all your lovelyu blogs, feel free to leave me your comments.

Hugs

Marie xx

2nd Christmas card of 2011

Well I seem to be on a bit of a roll today and I have just finished my 2nd Christmas Card. I stamped this image earlier as I wanted to try it in a few colour combo's so thought I would crack on and make a 2nd card with it. Now to b honest this was a bit daunting as I have not tried this technique before - White on White.

I have used my new Penguin with gift stamp again from Pink Gem Design I have coloured him with promarkers and then added purple glitter for a bit if bling and white glitter for the snow.

I have used cuttlebug embossing folder 'swiss dots' as a backing paper and the sentiment stamp is from penelope and percy stamp set by Do Crafts. 

The snowflake has been cut from Silluette design studio using my Robo and I just resized it a few times to make the nested flakes.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

A Gem of a challenge - White on White

Simon says stamp challenge - Christmas in August

Hope you like it, im pleased with how it turned out.

Hugs

Marie xx

1st Christmas Card of 2011

Good Afternoon everyone, hope you are all having a lovely Sunday. Bit dull and rainy her in Liverpool today so it has given me plenty of time to go blog hopping and do some crafting.

I have have made my 1st Christmas card as the title suggests. I fell in love with this image over on a friends blog last week so off I went and ordered it from Pink Gem Designs, you can find him HERE.

I also bought the sentiment stamp and penguin backing paper from Pink Gem Designs (the papers are a digi and are just fab). I coloured Penguin in with my promarkers and then used a quicky glue pen on the present and tree and his hat so I could use my glitter to give it a bit of bling.

The snowflakes DP are from the CC cute christmas collection (I had this printed out to use on another project but hijacked it for this one instead).

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Christmas in August

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Hope you like it and as always any comments muchly appreciated.

Hugs

Marie xx

Music Saves My Soul Saturday (1st timer)

I found a new blog today and thought id join in with the challenge on it. The challenge is called Music saves the soul Saturday and can be found over at Marcea's blog HERE.

I know this song is a little depressing to some but everytime I hear it I just want to sing along and it usually calms me, so here is my song for this week.

Adele - Someone like you

I hope you all enjoy

Hugs

Marie xx

Retro Forever Friends CD Rom

 Hi everyone I recently got the FF retro collection CD Rom and I wanted to share my 1st project using it.

I was asked to create a 50th birthday card by my brother for a colleague he works with as she was turning 50 today. I made an 8x8in card so that there was enough space for everyone to sign it in work.

Recipe:

DP is from the daisy and dandelion A5 paper collection - pinic patch

CB embossing folder - D'vine swirls

MS doily lace punch

Cricut cart = alphalicious

FF retro cd rom collection

Peper roses made using video tutorial by Stephanie Weightman - click HERE to view video. I used Silhouette design studio to cut my 8 petal flower.

I am entering this into the following challenege:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and any comments are much appreciated

Hugs

Marie xx

Unusual Wedding card

Hey Everyone,

I was asked to make a wedding card with a twist and wanted to show you what I came up with.
A friend (another child's mum from school) asked me to make a card for her sister's wedding in two weeks, but she had an unusual request - she wanted a 'Jedward' wedding card. Her sister is called Jade and is about to become Jade Ward so they winde her up by calling her Mrs Jedward.
Here is what I came up with.

I used My Craft Studio to resize the wedding image I got from Papercraft inspirations magazine.

I used Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge to cut the Mr & Mrs and Jedward but then glittered them.

I cut the flowers on my Robo/Silluette and then cut them and shaped them into the paper roses following a video tuturial made by Stephanie Weightman from C&C.

The border punch is a MS doily lace

this is the inside view of the card, the picture of jedward is attached to a small 6x6 square card so that she can write inside it.

This is a close up of my paper roses I did glitter them too but the pic is not very clear.

Hope you like it and comments are really appreciated as always

Marie xx