what has purplewellies been up to now?

Happy new year!

Happy New Year card done for card swap on yahoo.

5x5 white card blank

image from Crafters Companion (altered by me)

sentiment from delicious doodles

promarkers

red glitter cardstock

red stripy paper

gold wrapping ribbon

gold mirror card

 

entered into challenge:  delicious doodles - 68 lets party
                                       digi darlas - 94 anything goes

Merry Christmas pt 1

Shiny

A special birthday card today, quick and simple with a few gems, ribbon and peel offs.

where's Rudolph?

Something a bit different today, at work we get to pick which charity we raise funds for, the current charity is alzheimer's society, so I made a few bags of Magic Reindeer Food up...... 75 to be precise, and it raised £37.50 - a much needed boost to a wonderful charity cause.

 

not a tidy desk by the time I finished *lol*

 

 

Labels made in CAP

clip-art image off the web

verse off the web

polybags

red ribbon (off a christmas present from last year)

couple of handfuls of straw (clean) donated by Diva, Miss Marple, Hetty & Agatha

 

for the food - porridge oats, glitter and bird seed

 

 

entered into:  pink gem challenge blog - anything goes

                     digi choosday challenge - food, glorious food/anything goes

Ahoy there!

commission done for a grandson's 4th birthday, who loves pirates.

 

 

A5 white card blank

pink gem designs - pirate digi images

Emma Ball background paper

promarkers

chipboard letters/number

Creata dark mirror board

oooooooooh shiny!

Went to Heanor Antiques Centre today, on the look out for Christmas presents..... didn't find any but did come across some more vintage christmas ball-balls - £2 a bag, there were some other colour combo's but none had the white pictorial ones in, which match my ball-balls from last year ; )

 

I thought the cone shaped one was made of wood, but once I had a closer look I realised it was tightly tied cotton, same as the two small ball-balls.

wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey card

A quick and simple card for a male relative or friend.

 

 

5 X 5 white card blank

'birthday time' backing paper & matching tag

Creata dark mirror board

button from stash

brown twine

autumn colours

there's a new challenge over at bugaboo stamps blog and it's photo inspiration time.

 

Mmmm, your 'e thinking road.....cars.....transport?

 

and I'm thinking......strawberries!?!?!?!?!?!?  No silly! the colours.............

 

 

 

image Flower Faerie

pro markers

red felt flowrs

buttons

backing paper from 'The Loving Life collection'

 

 

 

entered in:  catch the bug - photo inspiration

 

 

 

testing.......testing

poppy day

One of my favourite flowers is the poppy, the other is tulips - I love this poppy image, not sure where I found it, think it maybe the Graphics Fairy, but I use it every year for a poppy day card.

 

 

coloured in with promarkers

Creata red mirror card

white 5 x 5 card blank

little red gems

 

entering card into: delicious doodles challenge : Clean and Simple

pretty in pink

A quick birthday card today -

 

Teddy Bo & Co paper/sentiment

The Digi Garden 'Jennys polka dot top' dig

fluffy flowers

A5 pink card blank

pink crad scrap

birthday card

Love the colours on this card, all from Websters Pages collection pad. I scanned this one in, think I prefer taking a photo.

its getting nearer.....

Still not mentioning that 'C' word even though we are in the middle of recruiting christmas temps at work....and there's a random christmas song played in between normal songs on the instore music system......oooops.

 

digi image - DigiStamp Boutique 'simply for Chritmas'

paper from stash

Creata - dark mirror board

      embellies from stash

 

 

entering this card into - polka doodle's challenge 'christmas is coming'

it takes two

 

A belated wedding anniversary card for my oldest friend, we don't see one another nowadays but I always think about her and her family, and we do the 'card' thing every year.

 

 

 

 

Stella & Gus marriage digi and sentiment from Bugaboo Digi Stamps

mini playing cards from Xmas crackers

Papermania stick on gems

Nitwit 'Cottage Charm' papers

Creata dark mirror card

 

 

entering this card into: anniversaries abound - Digi darla's blogpsot
                                     anything goes - digi choosday digital challenge


bestest friends

5x5 card

Lilli of the Valley precoloured image

Hot Off the Press 'Soft Nostalgia' papers
insert stamped with 'hugs' from Stamping All day

Fairy for you

I found my (forgotten) sleeve of Flower Faeries the other day, so I used one of the images to make a vintage birthday card.

 

random backing paper

white card onto a A5 pink card blank

doilie

sentiment from "Soft Nostalgia" by Hot off the Press

butterfly from "Cottage Charms" by NitWit

 



two in a minion

eeekkkkk! another minion request *lol* for a grandson turning two.


Found the image on Google, again used CraftArtist to print and do the wording, decoupaged it up and then used tiny silver & blue star peel offs to brighten the background up. Was originally going to stick some metal star embellishments on until I realised that it wouldn't be safe for a two year old.

one in a minion

 

I was asked to a minion themed birthday card for a 12 year old lad.

 

Panic!!!!

 

Minion overload followed............... but here's the result - 

 

 image came from Google search.

 

 

printed off the image twice to be able to decoupage it up, and used CraftArtist to do the background and the wording.

 

the good, the bad and the plain scary

Some of my cards are really not for sharing - more like sticking in the bottom of the box and leaving there for all eternity.
There they lay, hoping that one day a fairy will come across them and wave her magic wand and turn them into something beautiful and pretty, and most of all- a card that someone will love and cherish...........

mooching around the web tonight I came across this website craft fail. It does what it says on the tin.

maybe I'll unleash my horrors on the world........ maybe not.

feeling blue

I haven't done a challenge card for quite a while, so after making this card yesterday I decided to have a look through all the blogs and came up with two challenges which I could enter the card in.

 

 

5x5 white card stock

papers from Simply Homemade magazine

white candi

promarkers

peel off sentiment

peel off pens

'Sally's party dress' digi stamp from The Digi Garden

 

(coloured the candi with the same promarker as the the bow & shoes, the peel off was coloured by using a blue peel off marker)

 

entering into:

pink gem - anything with a B     (blue, bow)

nutcrafters - spots &/or stripes



tag you're it

Over on card exchange uk, the new swap was for a card featuring a tag, I received a gorgeous purple tag & flower card in return.

everything from Hot off the Press 'Soft Nostalgia' kit

 

one for the road

Comissioned 60th birthdy card, with leopard print.

 

5x5 white card stock

Kanban leopard print card stock

Eastern Treasures ribbon (bow)

Bugaboo DigiStamp image (tequila)

peel off numbers with gems stuck to them

gems

Creata dark mirror board

promarkers

one purple, two purple, three purple....card!

digi stamp & sentiment from Bugaboo

paper from stash

Creata dark mirror board

gems

promarkers

peel off

silver is shiny

I was asked to do a Silver Wedding Anniversary card. I didn't want to do anything overly fussy so I kept in clean and simple.

 

5x5 white cardstock

Fanciful Flourish clear stamp

embossing ink

Silver embossing powder

silver ribbon

gems

peels offs

 

 

scrapper dapper doo

A male birthday card (or a for a lady who has a thing about morning suits and moustaches, I guess *lol*)

 

5x5 white cardstock

image from Joanna Sheen atc cds

graph paper from a digi kit

backing paper from Prima 'botanical'

paper with flourish and border on from old music book

candi coloured with promarkers

pen nib

computer generated sentiment

black on white

Quick card using offcuts from a Debbi Moore Cd paper, love the sentiment.

my zen is not tangled

I Sky+ed Mel Heaton's Zentangle show on C & C, she was so enthusiastic about them I thought I'd give it a go, so I grabbed some scrap paper and a biro and had a play.......

 

Originally I drew 3 shapes, a box at the top of the pag, bottom left a flower and then to the right a wonkier flower, I was having fun filling them in so I decided that I would join them together, when I'd finished I realised it looked like a chick!

 

How cool is that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

cup o'char me dear?

Birthday card for a lady who loves a cup of strong tea with the teeniest tiniest bit of sugar ;)

 

"Joy of coffee" digi stamp from DigiDarla Designs

paper from Crafts Beautiful back issue

"Eastern Blooms" by Kate Knight pink chipboard flowers

promarkers

Creata Dark mirror board

5x5 white card stock

computer generated sentiment

shabby sunflower

Loved making this card but now its finished, not so keen on it, there's something missing but not sure what.......

 

5x5 pale yellow card

different shades of yellow promarkers

white flowers

old postcard

brown ric-rac

doilie

peel off sentiment

"The Loving Life Collection" paperstock

green dress maker pins

b for birthday

Took inspiration from an old copy of a card magazine for this card, little bit bluer than I intented!

 

 

 

Papers from NitWit 'cottage charm'

&

Prima 'botanical'

craft stash

sundae my prince will come

A pretty pastel card, perfect for cooling down on hot summer days....

 

A5 white card blank

Websters pages "Best Friends" paper & sentiment

Doilie

Pearls

Fliss

My next door neighbour little girl is going to be 5 soon, so wanted to do a fairy card for her.

 

5x5 white card

stamped image from Wee Stamps

promrkers

papers from the Loving Life Collection

peel off sentiment

white flowers coloured with promarkers

 butterfly

buttons

 

entering Fliss the fairy into the following challenges

 

polkadoodles - birthday girl

teeny tiny

With off cuts of card and papers, I did these 2 mini cards. Am using some mini envelopes from last christmas for them to go in.

 

 

 

 

 

Both cards used:

 

Nitwits "Thimbles n threads" paperstock & stamps

buttons

promarkers

stazon ink (red)

pigment ink (black)

deepest sympthy

For me, a sympathy card is the hardest card to make and sadly I had to make two last month.

good times

 

 



Needed to do a special card for a friends 50^th but was struggling to find something – when I saw this at Bugaboo Digi Stamps, it just screamed D at me *lol* So perfect!

 

5x5 white card blank

green backing paper - Kaisercraft "Gypsy Sisters"

pink paper from stash

Digi image & sentiment from Bugaboo Stamps

gems

peel offs

to wit to woo!

A set of 5 atc's made for "Words of Wisdom" theme swap over at Peel Off Crazy, it was a 3 for 3 swap, but I loved the papers so much I didn't want to stop, they practically made themselves.

 

Kaisercraft "Gypsy Sisters" paper & sentiments

white flowers promarkered

Glitteration peel offs.

 

If only I could have found 3 flying ducks for the bottom one!

 

Dropping in to say hi to blogland, using computer at our local Library as we decided to say goodbye to that wonderful (not) institution that is Sky and are sticking with Freeview at the moment becasue, well, its free *lol*
We don't use our phone and nobody rings us *sob story* and the broadband package was free so we decided to stop Sky completely, and just watch 'noraml' tv for a while. (ie till we get bored!) Radical!

Only problem is that I can't upload any photos etc at the moment.

Its like pre war!

feeling blue...

Not much crafting (or anything else) being done as I'm not very well at the moment, Andrew thinks I have a virus, I think if I was a horse I would have been shot a long time ago and the doctor - well he doesn't think anything as I haven't been able to get an appointment with them, have been trying since tuesday morning. I can have a pre booked one for Friday 28th though.......errr let me think......no.

an englishmans home is his castle

Inspired by a card whilst flicking through back issues of Crafty Stamper, I made this card for a colleague at work who is moving.

 

 

 

5x5 brown cardstock

brown packing paper

brown twine

button

Sizzix backing paper

stamped image by The Octopede Factory

alphabet stamps

black Stazon ink

promarkers

 

entering this card into anything with a B @ glitter n sparkle

 

purple murtle of course!

Another card, a different main colour - purple! Couldn't pass this weeks challenge by at Polka Doodles. Murtle would never have let me hear the last of it!! (and by pure coincidence I'm wearing a purple top)

 

5x5 lilac card

white flowers coloured by promarker & acetate pen

purple satin buds

Stamped image & sentiment by DoCrafts in purple Stazon ink

backing paper from Kaisercraft - christmas

purple mirror  board by Creata

embellishments

entered into purple challenge @ polkadoodles

all white?

Suffering from a bad epsiode of Depression this last week, resulting in a panic attack at work (they are so patient with me) and the Negative and tears spewing forth,  I have increased my meds up to try and combat it. I know they are starting to work as I am now feeling rather spaced out. (in a good way!). I should get used to the higher doseage soon.....

To occupy myself I made a card, ironically as the colour associated with Depression is black, I plumped for a challenge using white on white. Sounds simple. It wasn't.

Anyhoo, after two false starts, this is the card I came up with, the topper being part of one of the others I scrapped.

different shades of white card

white tissue paper

dove stamped with black Stazon ink

white embellishments.

 

enetered into white on white challenge @ delicious doodles



Middleton top - middleton moor circular

This walk was again lovely, the weather looked iffy, but the dark clouds just looked menancing and when it was time to picnic, the sun came out. It was only 4 miles, and we picniced back at Middleton Top before we got back to the car. We didn't seem to be walking very long, but looking at the map, it was quite a way! the instructions can be found HERE and its walk 1.
It was quite easy to follow till it got to the buildings of Middleton Mine - they'd all been demolished but it was common sense to which was the 'main' entrance road onto the site which we had to head towards.
Lovely views which you don't get too see if you stay Carsington side/on middleton top trail.

 

the moor was covered in Cowslips, I have never seen sooooooo many.

 

 

 

looking back to the engine house at Middleton Top

 

 

experimental test site....... for fences. Yes, seriously!

 

 

Middleton mine.

 

 

last but not least, we were being watched!

 

 

from here to....... maternity

Have to say, chocolate helps with any pain......... : )

White 5x5 card blank

Bugaboo 'back pain' digi/sentiment

Teddy Bo & Co back paper

Creata Dark mirror card

embellishments from stash.

promarkers

 

entered card into mono - mainly one colour challenge @ nutcrafters 

the colours of Fall

Over on Peel-off-crazy, May's Monthly Make theme was Fall/or colours of Fall, I was thinking about an altered matchbox but hadn't really given myself enough time to do it in, so stuck with a card.

Debbi Moore cd "Autumn Glow" image & sentiment

Prima 'botanical collection' papers & sentiment base

Glitterations flourish peel off

small gems

Creata dark mirror card

 

the colours come together nice, but the blue stands out, it reminds me of those cards that little corner shops used to sell with random images on, which didn't quite match the card, which old aunties or grannies used to send on a birthday. (no offence meant to any old aunties or grannies reading this post! I'm thinking circa 1978ish!)