SEE THE FLOWERS SMILING

I love this sentiment, flowers are so lovely - pity I don't get them as often as I'd like!!

I also love this stamp set so they just yelled out to be introduced to each other and made into a little card.  I don't yet have a square die to punch out the scalloped edge so I used my Friskars scissors here.  All cardstock is PTI except for the black which is DCWV.

Sorry so short today, I am moving office at work so its all packing and unpacking and moving computers and phone systems and the like and at home its mad busy making wedding invitations for my best friends daughter.  I can't believe where all the time goes - I just don't seem to have any!

Bye for now.

Zoe x

BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS

Morning all, hope you're having a good day.

Today's offering is one I made up for someone and then I promptly mislaid it so it was never used.  It's now in my stash waiting for another suitable occasion!

The base is just a basic white card and I've used brown & white cardstock with some bright patterned paper, all from American Crafts.  The flowers I've had ages and can't remember where I got these from!  I stamped the butterfly image and cut out and fixed in place with a couple of foam pads, adding some crystal gems for some bling.  I stamped the sentiment and then punched out.  A button and some twine finished it off.

I am in the process of having a good clear out at the mo.  I've got sooo much stuff and I need to organise myself properly - mislaying this card is just an example of how unorganised I seem to have become.  I can never find the thing I am looking for until its too late.  My little place to work in is overloaded and basically looks a mess!  So I've set aside this afternoon to get myself sorted - wish me luck!

Zoe x

FLOWER POWER

Hi

I made these cards a little while ago and thought I'd share them.  I stamped the white background with a flower stem and leaf stamp from PTI and then stamped flower image on coloured card stock and cut them out.  I adhered these onto the white cardstock and added a coloured gem to the centre of each and then punched a fancy border strip which I mounted onto a co-ordinating piece of card. 

All stamps and sentiments are PTI, punch used was Fiskars and cardstock from American Crafts.  Inks used were PTI Berry Sorbet and Ocean Tides for the flowers and Pearlescent Beige from Brilliance for the background.

Have a good day.  Happy Crafting!

Zoe x

SIMPLY MONOCHROME

Hi All

Thought I'd share a card I knocked up in a hurry for a friends birthday.

I stamped the background image using Momento black ink and then added some black gems.  Finished with some black ribbon and stamped my sentiment.  Plain and simple, which I like.

Have a great day.

Zoe

BEER

Scrap page again today folks and this is Jerry (my husband) who loves a beer.  On a holiday in the Canaries  this is what we were served!  It was enormous and several of these were consumed at this sitting and a few more besides! 

A very simple page layout again and a very quick post today.

Gotta dash, I am still decorating and I hate unfinished business!

Have a great day

Zoe x

BIG FAT MOOOOOO

Well Happy New Year All!  Two Thousand and Eleven has arrived and I think this is gonna be a good year!
I just have that feeling.

We are really lucky where we live, we are surrounded by fields and they are usually full of cows or sheep most the year.  The farmer had to put up another line of fencing because they were leaning over the barbed wire and eating all our hedges!  We quite often go out and feed them some fresh grass and one year we came across 'Split Ear'.  We called her that because one of her ears was cut in two and she was the most friendly cow we've ever come across.  As soon as we went out in the garden she would come over to us waiting for some food!  We got used to seeing her all summer and then one day she was gone, along with the rest of the herd.  She loved a stroke and I managed to take a pic of her one day having the tip of her nose tickled.

OK, so she's not the cutest thing you've ever seen but we liked her.  Since then, we've not come across another cow who is quite so in need of attention, although they all love a handful of fresh grass being fed to them but stroking seems to definitely be out of bounds.  This page is dedicated to Split Ear - the friendliest cow we know!

Catch you soon

Zoe
x

MAGNOLIA BUY

Hi All

I hope you all had a truly fab christmas with your family and friends and are now building up to New Year! 

As I have a few days off I'm in decorating mode and have been busy stripping, sanding, painting and wallpapering the lounge as it needed a bit of face lift.  However, I can't stay away from my little craft room for long and thought I'd share one of my makes with you.  My best friends daughter is getting married in July next year and she has asked me to make up all her wedding stationery which is I am just over the moon about.  I've made up a load of samples for her and will share once she has made her choice but to get me in the mood though I thought I'd use a new stamp I purchase recently from Magnolia.

The DP has been rubbed around the edge to soften the pattern a bit and the image coloured with Copics.  I just added a bit of glitter to the image and around the white background layer.

All cardstock and DP used on this card is from PTI.

The second card I made is A5 sized.  Here I used some Martha Stewart Punch-around-the-Page punches to make the a base for the image to sit on, a little buckle with ribbon and some flowers.  Again I glittered the image a little.

Now... back to that lounge!

Catch up with you soon, thanks for stopping by!
Zoe
x

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

It's here, its finally here!  Christmas Day and what, you might ask, am I doing in front of my PC writing this... Well I could well ask the same of you, sitting in front of your PC READING this!

I just had to log on for a sec and wish you all...

A VERY

MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY!

I do hope that you are having a truly great day and are getting all that you wished for.  We've opened all our pressies and been down the pub for a drink with some mates.  I'm looking forward to my dinner (we've got a massive rib of beef with my superb yorkie puds and homemade gravy, even if I do say so myself!)

Enjoy it and be happy!
Take care
Zoe x

SUCH A CUTIE

Hi All, hope you are having a good day. 

I never really make cards for boys so thought I'd share a card I made today using a stamp from Whipper Snapper. The sentiment is from PTI, as is the cardstock.  I've also just invested in some Prismacolor pencils and have coloured him in with both Copics and Prismacolor to try them out.  I think I love my new tools!

This is for a friend who's little chappie turns two this week.

Thanks for stopping by.

Zoe x

POOP and MORE poop!

It's all about poop today... Reindeer poop that is!  More bits for the Christmas tree or stocking today.  Again these are clearly tried and tested ideas but as I've never made any before, why not have a go!

I filled a glassine bag with Cadburys choc covered raisans and some Cadburys choc covers flakes, which come out to form nice, poop like clumps (sorry to be so basic, but that's what they look like!). 

I punched out a double sided paper border strip with a Matha Stewart border punch and added a strip of Aqua Mist  & Berry Sorbet PTI cardstock to it before I mounted with my little reindeer image.  I have no reindeer stamps yet (can't seem to find anything I really like) so have used a free clipart image here to which I added the 'Reindeer Poop' text using Word Art in PowerPoint.  I punched out some leaves and added a brad to complete my project. 

How these ever got finished I will never know.  I bought several bags of chocs to use and probably ate half along the way... I am a choc-o-holic just in case you have not realised by now and it is totally unheard of for me to have chocolate in the hosue and be able to resist a nibble or two EVERY * SINGLE * DAY!  Anyway, back to the project folks - here is a small sample of todays work.......

Don't ya just LOVE this hobby - I KNOW I do.

Not long now guys... the big day will soon be here!

Have a good one all.
Zoe x