Stampingbella stamps for the family

 I cannot believe its almost 9 months since I put up a post on my 2nd blog, its been a busy 9 months and luckily I have now had my 2nd covid jab and hopefully within a couple of weeks I will have full immunity and then maybe I can start to relax more.

Anyway I happened to see some really love family sentiment and stamps from Stampingbella, luckily 2 of my stamps have arrived and I was able to go ahead and create the two cards below, but unfortunately the other four that I also ordered at the moment seem to have gone astray somewhere in the post, I just hope they arrive soon as I naughtily spend more than I should on them and I'm not going to be very happy if they don't arrive as they are really lovely.

 

 I stamped both the stamps onto white card then used my copic pens to colour both, afterwards I used a rectangle die to cut them both out. The sentiments were then also stamped onto white card and mounted onto blue card.

The base cards are 6"x 6" white cards with scalloped edges, I used blue card for a first mount on both of cards then I used some backing papers from Sue Bottles which I printed and cut to fit the base mount and afterwards I placed both of my mounted images towards the left with the sentiment in the spaces on the right.

I sincerely hope you like the end result. 

3 Birthday cards for great grandsons

Todays post is show you some gorgeous stamps I bought and they are made by Polkadoodles though not easy to get hold off in the UK

They are titled at the top "In a Pickle" left bottom "Hanging around" and the one of the right is "Sink or Swim" I love the way you can tell a story with them, theyve all be stamped onto white card and coloured with my copic pens, and they were all cut out with the Spellbinders dies.
Each of them I have used Graphic 45 papers and two with the "Dreamland" one and the other is from "Childrens Hour" I love the designs of them and hope they at least cover the images in someway.
Hope you like them.

Friends Always by Pink Ink designs

I fell in love with the image below, Im a right fairy believer since I was a little girl and love reading stories about them so it doesnt take much imagination as to why I wanted to colour this to.

I stamped the image onto a sheet of printing as I didnt have a book page big enough to use, I then used my colouring pencils to colour it and they are Karisma, Caran Dache Luminace, Prismacolour, Arteza, Karima and Lyra, I have quite a selection of different makes and they all have a different way of laying down.
Hope you like the end result.

Hi to all Crafters, 2 different uses of pencils

Good Morning Crafters, its been at least a couple of months since I wrote up and published a post for here, I seem to have lost my mojo to be honest and just been creating a bulk lot of different cards for birthdays, anniversarys and even Xmas Cards. But I did decide last week after seeing a card created with pencils on craft card that I would give it a go.
Also if your anything like myself and hubby we are starting to get a bit stir crazy having to self isolate and not being able just to get in the car and go of and do a decent shop, I have had terrible time trying to find delivery slots for our food, but luck was in I did find one last night and now have to wait until the 10th May before it eventually arrives, luckily I do a months shop and a time so have enough goodies in the fridge, freezer and cupboard to cover our needs till the shopping eventually arrives.

The above image the poppy is what I saw on the card and the one I decided to use for my own cards
I have also used a selection of pastels for the craft card and for the white card I used polychromos pencils.
The two craft card images I created by using a Heartfelt stamp which I stamped onto the craft card by Crafters Companion and then for one I used just a white pastel pencil by Derwent, and to be honest because I don't have so many colours I used what I have to colour the other these ones are by Creata.
The white card images are a download from Fred she Said and I printed it twice onto the white card which for these two I used card from Rymans, its a 200gsm smooth card though it probably would have been better on a slightly rougher textured one but it worked.
I then used several different pencils by Polychromo, Karisma and Caran Dache Luminance, I love each of them for different reasons, some are waxy and others smoother, its how they lay down and shade.
Now I have to create 4 cards with the images, not sure how I shall eventually do that but I suppose I had better put my designing head on.

Since writing my last post

Since writing my last post in November I have become a Great Grandmother to my forth great grandson and hes the son on my youngest Granddaughter shes created a beautiful little boy Elijah Anthony, and he weighted in at 8lbs 5ozs quite a big boy for her first baby but being  a young lady Im sure she coped well.

Being selfish I was hoping that it would be a little girl but no it seems like my Grandsons (5) and Granddaughters (2) and now 4 Great Grandsons, its not to be, maybe one day in the future one might appear.

My goodness what a long time its been

I cannot believe it taken me so long to write a post for my 2nd blog, so much has happened in the last 6 months, the dog has improved quite a bit but is still a dog with hyper activity problems hes always on the go, but very clever as you see in the photos below.

He wrapped his pulling string around the shelf all by himself, not sure how he worked it out but I think hes a very clever lad.
We have had a rather stressful month and this is because I agreed for the local Housing Association to renew my kitchen but I wished now I had met someone who had already had it done as Ive lost quite a lot of storage space, plus which my hubby has had to put extra shelves in them for those that I do have just didn't have enough storage at all, and on top of this we have had to pay for a tiler to finish of tiling the space that they didn't do, this alone was £250.00 that's on top of the new blinds, new carpet runners, and paint and paid for someone to come and do it as the HA doesn't do that now, as I said I wished I hadn't had it done as to be honest the standard of the cupboard finishes leave a lot to be desired and to honest I cannot see them being as hard wearing as the last ones we had, and they lasted 15 years.
But I suppose you cannot expect anything else from HA they are not going to buy the best grade of cupboard for the likes of us are they, and the thing I find most upsetting is that told me that I would love them, but guess what I'm not all that enamored with them for sure and the biggest heartache is the fact my once upon a time slot in cooker (halogen) is now a stand alone one with a 3cms gap all around it even at the back, and guess what all the rubbish drops behind it and we are going to have to pull it out regularly to clean up all that, not much fun with us in our 70s.
Anyway I suppose I will just have to grin and bear it, though I have made a huge complaint to the HA and I will follow it up in a couple of weeks to see if they are going to do anything about it.

Sorry again for the delay in posting

As you are aware we are struggling a bit with our new puppy, hes so full of energy and if we are not careful a bit lapse in the house training, though on the most hes pretty good especially if I dont forget to leave him means of getting outside into the garden, unfortunately hes so quick to escape our clutches that we have to peg him in when taking out other dog out for a walk, of well lets hope he improves with age like a good wine, and hes still only 5 and half months old what do you expect.
Anyway I have tried to get ahead with a few Anniversary cards and here they are

These have been created with Spellbinders dies and The Paper Boutique paper pad, there is now 12 of them altogether and Im quite pleased with the end result, as you can see some of them dont as yet have the sentiment on, I did finish them off and put inserts into them before putting them with the rest of my stash of cards.
I will try to come back soon, but please be patient with me, Im also have physio to help with my Vertigo and only get a couple of hours a day to get any crafting.

Happy Easter to you All

Sorry Ive not been around for awhile but I do want to wish you all a Happy Easter and show you why I haven't been online much of the last couple of months and this is the reason why.

This is Bertie and hes been hard work to house train, and even though hes almost there, if hes playing and having fun he wont think twice to just going to the loo just wheres hes standing. Anyway we are getting there thank goodness.
And these are my great grandsons from my eldest grandson out enjoying the daffodils with their cousin's.

I hope to be back soon but at the moment I dont get as much time to do much blogging.

Happy New Year to All

Good Afternoon Crafters, I sincerely hope you all enjoyed your Christmas ours was very quiet, just myself, hubby and the dog, who thoroughly enjoyed opening her present we had bought her.
Now I have something I want to share with you, just before Christmas I was inspired to see that Hunkydory had bought out some beautiful stamps and co-ordaining dies and I thought I would give them a go.

They are called edge dies and I find them so useful for quick cards, as you can see I have used each of the stamps twice and then coloured them with a mixture of alcholic pens and polychromos coloured pencils.
After I finished coloured the stamps I used some backing papers from my stash to pop behind the coloured images. For the time being I have left of any sentiment so that I can put that on when I need to used them.
Here are the Stamps and Dies I used

Moonstone Spring Blooms Dies

Moonstone Spring Blooms Stamps

Im really pleased at how well they stamp and are really easy to use, if you click on the links below each of the dies and stamps they will take you directly to the Hunkydory website for you to buy them.
These cards are to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://colouringinscrapland.blogspot.com/ 
https://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ 
https://cutencraftychallengeblog.blogspot.com/ 
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/ 
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/ 

Dr Digi's Birthday Cards

I think this is most likely going to be the last post here on my No.2 Challenge this year, can you image how quickly this year has gone by Im having a problem coming to terms with that fact as its only a matter of 3 weeks now before we start a New Year and big problems with this damn Brixit Im not looking forward to all the discussions that are likely to take place before it actually happens or if it does.
Anyway here are the last two cards I managed to get done, as Im now going to take break till 2019 so you wont find anymore posts here till then. Here is No. 1 and underneath No.2 hope you like the results, not sure who they will eventually go to but I hope they like them and dont get to hung up with the what they stand for.

As you can image this is a right Hangover one

And this one is to mark someone we know though Im not sure I can give it to her, mind you, you need more than the air freshener after she has used the loo, you need to open doors and windows luckily she is only a visitor so not a everyday problem,

I think they are a right laugh and I printed them onto white card and then used two different sets of dies to cut them out. The papers are from Craftwork Cards paper pack and I used a Martha Stewart border punch to give it a bit more definition.

I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas, see you in the New Year.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/ 

https://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com/ 

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/

https://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/

https://digichoosday.blogspot.com/

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/

 

 

Its been 3 weeks now since I posted anything

I dont know about you but I completely forget to update this blog as I do have a lot to do with my other blog No.1 so occasionally I remember that I ought to add a new post, so today I have my second set of letters for you to see for my No.3 great grandson, he will be 1 on January 1st so Im well ahead of myself.

As you can see I have actually used a couple of the letters that I used in my first set of letters but Im pleased with the end result, I hope you are to.

Creating something special for my great grandson

For the last week I have been creating something special for one of my great grandsons, as he was 3 on Saturday, I managed to get a number done for him first and then I went on to create a set of name  plates for him, hope you like them

This was firstly printed from the Karen O'Gorman Flora and Fauna book of ABC and she has a  Number Plates book to, she has created some beautiful colouring images, and I bought some downloads then printed them and coloured them as above.
I used combination of Prismacolour, Karisma and Lyra pencils.

Update on my garden and latest Xmas Card

Good Morning Crafters, I know I know Im so lack at writing up posts for this Challenge Blog I dont know about you but there comes a time when you are not quite so enthusiastic as you used to be at keeping these Blogs up to date, Ive rather lost my mojo on it.
But on the whole I have been busy with my No.l blog as I had to carry on with writing up the Challenge blogs for The Paper Shelter and of course Pink Gem Designs, also I had visitors at the beginning of August and now here we are almost into September, where has the year flown to?
Anyway I promised you a update on my fence and the garden in front and Im thrilled to show you its really going well even my forsythia has decided to grow again so before you can say jack robinson know doubt it will be as tall as the fence.

Even the grass is doing well, though with a lot of water and loads of grass seed, mind you hubby has a nasty habit of clipping the roots if he goes mad with the strimmer, I now prefer to use the shears to clip the long pieces. The slop of the grass is very dangerous to be honest and with us both in our 70s its a real hazard when cutting it. At the top on the left is where we keep our bins and last year I managed to get hubby to agree to create a little path so we dont have to balance on the grass to fill the bins and our dog loves to strut along it like lady muck, not sure why but she does make us laugh, shes patrolling her domain.
Here is a photo of my fushia's which are also my delight, I do love to see all the colours I hope you like them to.

I was rather surprised at how well they survived the very cold winter we had at the beginning of the year but luckily they did so did the front ones to.
I think its time now to show you the latest Xmas cards I created a few weeks ago, I have been busy with others but never got around to actually photoing them.

These are both created with Chloes stamps and I actually coloured them both with my pencils.
These cards are to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
http://christmasatsweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
https://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com/
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/
http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/
https://www.ellibellescorner.com/
https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/