I'm Queen of the World........................well of my little blog anyway!!!

I won an award, I won an Award, I WON AN AWARD!!!!! lalalala........(my first ever..........yahooo)

Thank you to Marleen at http://marleens-crafty-space.blogspot.com/ for awarding me with the Green Blend Award, your the best my dear.

Here are the terms and conditions of this award:

1. This award is for any co-blogging friend who has helped you develop your blog in any and all ways.
2. This award is for any co-blogging friend who has cheered you along in your blog building, craft advancing career.
3. This award is for any co-blogging friend who always stops by and is kind to you. You can count on them to always be one of the great comments at the end of your post. 
4. This award is to be given to 3 to 5 Blends whom you feel meet the listed requirements. 
5. Create a post with the terms of use and publish your Blends of choice. 
6. Blend of choice may copy the award from your blog and proudly post it on theirs. 
7. Blend of choice may continue the kindness by issuing this award to keep the circle forever growing

Below are some of the fab people who have helped me get everything moving, I have to say before I go on that if Marleen hadn't awarded this to me she would have been on this list for all her encouragement since I started blogging :)

Nikki Smith

Without Nikki's fine computer skills and marvelous 'You can do it attitude' this blog would not exist. Her talent is a little bit like rain man .......you could throw 7 things in the air and Nikki would have them made into a card before they landed!!! Very Inspirational.

Christine Saunders

Who's artistic talent just blows me away (check out her stamp sets) and who has always left encouraging messages for me.

Daniel

One of the youngest crafters I know who rocks every project he makes and always leaves lovely comments for me.

Teresa

Who's blog is just completely cool and wow you should check out her sons artwork (there is a link on her blog).

Elisa
Because she excels at her crafts and never fails to inspire.

Love ya all. Enjoy the reward (it made me giddy for over an hour............actually not quite over it yet!!!!)

Pretty in Pink

I love this vibrant little card. Its stamped in screaming pink but it just looks so elegant.

I stamped the flower from the Moments of Faith  Stamp set from Docrafts over and over again to create this lush background. The apertures are cut out with the Label dies from Xcut and the butterfly is from an Xcut dimensional punch.

I hope at some stage to do up a tutorial showing how to make this from scratch, or more importantly how to cut the aperture in your die cutting machine, but with all the demos going on at the moment it may take me a little time to get around to this!!! If you are at one of my demos and want to see it made then just say it and I will be happy to oblige :)

Happy crafting everyone.

Chocoholic

How sweet is this little mouse from the Hot Diggity Dog range by Docrafts. Like me he obviously loves chocolate and of course cheese so I reckon he should be my bestest friend ever!!!!!

When ever I color in an image I always print it out a few times first on scrap card that I have left over from other projects. I test my colors out on these images first before I commit to the actual stamps I am going to use on my  card. You might be thinking it adds loads of extra time to making the card but honestly I make so few mistakes once I have picked my colors and know exactly where each one is going and I end up being a lot quicker getting the coloring done :) Well thats my advice and I'm sticking to it........hehehe.....

I had a fantastic demo today in the Art and Hobby in Tallaght and am still buzzing from it. So no bed for me for a while!!!! Plenty of time for Internet craft hunting :)

Happy Crafting Everyone.

Hot Diggity Dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (said with a cowboy tone!!!!)

 

Just a quick post showing a simple little card tonight.

The decoupage and the papers are from the Docrafts  Hot Diggity Dog range.

I love to complete a card both inside and out (when time allows!!!). It feels like I am taking things at my leisure............hummmmm that does not happen often enough.

I am off to demo in the Art and Hobby in Tallaght tomorrow for the first time so I have been frantically making more samples.....I'll have to hang them off my bags and everything at the rate my sample making is going, maybe its time to slow down and go to bed!!!!

Happy crafting everyone.

Beautiful Butterflies

Well I just love these Butterflies from Docrafts. When I saw them originally on the sheet I was completely uninspired........too much visual stimulation I think. From the minute I took them off the sheet and began looking at them individually I started getting ideas for cards .......loads of them!!! Above are just 3 of the cards I made with them. Love them, love them, love them :)



Happy Crafting everyone.