happy birthday lucy

hi world,

it was daughter no 3's birthday on monday.... yup valentines day! she used to hate sharing her day with the rest of the world when she was little. but now she's a big girl she thinks it is quite cool.

this is the card i made her. it is very similar to the last one i posted, my cards have definately changed since i brought the bigshot.

in this months craft stamper there was an article about dye-ing ribbon with alcohol inks. i decided to use it on lucy's card.

i was really pleased with the results.  i also made a background card with the same colours and over stamped on it with archival ink. i used watermelon, pink sherbert and sunshine yellow.

i think the little girl stamp is from kars and coloured in with aqua promarkers. but i left the ribbon at work so could not use it.

the shape on the base is mounted with foam pads because there is a hidden card inside . .  it's lucy's bump card, (she is expecting a baby in may). there is a pull tab to reveal it.

the sentiment just says happy birthday, but the hidden card says . . .   to my yummy mummy. she loved the card but i think she liked all the valentines stuff from her boyfriend more. how they change lol. 

congrats gary

hi world
what's happened to my blog?
dont know what everyone else can see but i seem to have lost the pictures,
not sure how i got them back, so i hope the stuff i am putting on here is ok!!
i actually managed to play with some of my new crafty stuff today.
my daughter's partner has a new job in london, well done gary!

here is the card i made him

the background is sprayed with cosmc shimmer and a music mask ( you cannot see much of it). the stamps are from crafty individuals (i brought them at artisan show), time to celebrate is a free stamp from craft stamper a while ago.
the label is covered with distress inks and stamped with other stamps i brought at artisan. there is a real stamp on the label. i hope it goes well for him.

i also made another card for my daughter's work collegue.

the background is distress inks, mustard seed, rusty hinge and barn door, the same process as the ones i did before, very quick!!! i stamped the cat on the card and on another piece of card and then cut it out, i layered it with foam pads...simple.

 this is the first time lucy has asked me to make her a card , she usually buys them, hope she likes it, it will cost her £1 for breast cancer research.

i'm so excited

i'm so excited this week,

all because of craft stamper magazine.

on thursday i received my subscription gift, a beautiful set of floral stamps from elusive images.i think this is the best set of stamps they have had for subscribers and it arrived in about 4 days. can't wait to use them,  just need to get some ez mount.

today i came home from work to another parcel from craft stramper, only i wasn't expecting this one . i had won a  set of mabel lucie attwell stamps. the set consisted of 6 unmounted cute kiddy type stamps, so watch this space for some stuff done with them.

now i really need to get some ez mount .... now dont think i can wait until i go to 'make it'.

thanks craft stamper. . .  here are some atc's i made recently to sent to their childhood swop.  just coz i haven't any other pics to show 

see ya