ONLY JOKING

Still catching up with my Christmas makes.  Today it's the turn of my Christmas crackers. I filled them with a hand stamped joke courtesy of Stamps by Me, yummy chocolates and a lottery ticket - unfortunately no jackpot winners!

Today I'm showing a couple of frames I made - one for a gift and another a commission.

This is the last of the lamps I made for gifts - the smaller version with a birdcage image.  All products used were as originally stated.

The final unicorn bottle lamp using a slightly different design on a larger bottle.

This is a larger bottle lamp with another type of unicorn (they are so popular at the moment!).  This one was made for a friend of a friend using the same products but with a larger bottle.

Today I'm showing the lamps I made for my two younger nieces.  They are mad about unicorns so these rice papers were ideal for them.

Another day, another bottle light!  Flamingos this time!  This one was made for one of my older nieces using the same products as before.

Christmas was a bit hectic to say the least so trying to catch up with my blog posts.  This one is dedicated to the decorated bottle lamps I made for gifts - I had excellent feedback from the people I gave them to and must admit, my photos do not do them justice! This is the only festive one I made for a friend who loves her Christmas decorations - when I'd finished it, decided to make one for myself.  Used the beautiful Stamperia rice papers and Indigo Blu metallic paints.

Needed to make a few gift cards this year to send money for all the teenagers so here are a couple I managed to photograph. I love this die from Tim Holtz - it can be used on it's own but I decided to add it to a card to make it a bit more substantial.  Dug out my festive Pink Petticoat papers for these.

This is the second design for my 2018 Christmas cards.  More dimensional and a lot more work with ink blending etc.  Needless to say, these were hand delivered!

Chose to use two different designs for my Christmas cards this year.  These are the ones I needed to send in the post so had to keep them simple and quite flat.  Varied the background colours (Pixie Powders) and sentiments accordingly.

Catching up with my makes as I've been busy making presents, cards and decorations.  Here are two cards I was asked to make for a new baby.

This is the final card I have made (for the time being!) using the beautiful Lavinia stamps. This time, I chose to use green Brusho with some blue ink pads and the Fairy Hive stamp with the fairy foragers.  Back to Christmas card making!

Another fairy card and another very quick post!  Hope you like it.

Another card with another fairy from Lavinia Stamps.  Same techniques used with Pixie Powders and inks.   Sorry these posts are so short but busy making Christmas cards and presents which I will show when they are eventually finished!

Another quick post today sharing another fairy card I've made using Lavinia stamps and brushos/pixie powders and inks.  Must admit, this is my favourite out of all the cards I have made so far with these stamps.

The card I am sharing today is the first of a few I have made using my Lavinia stamps and using blending techniques with ink.  Hope you like it.

This is the final sample I have to show and have made something quite simple. This notebook is made from three pieces of greyboard.  I am sorry but I forgot to measure it when I made it, however, if you start with the size of notepad you are going to use and add about an inch around it, that will give you the measurements for the front and back piece.  You then just need to cut a thin piece for the spine which should be the same length as the back and front - hope that makes sense! I covered my greyboard with a piece of pink double glitz card and then layered that with pattered paper from the pink Garden Blooms pad.  I then die cut the letters to spell out notes and added some dots around them with a paint pen. Again, I covered the inside with patterned paper, leaving a slit for the pad to be inserted.  I cut a piece of the pattered paper and scored around three of the edges to make a pocket and then glued it to the inside. ...

Nearly at the end of the samples now and this is the final card I have to show. I've used a scalloped card and layered it with blue double glitz cardstock (rounded at the bottom).  I took a piece of the blue Garden Blooms paper pad and tore it at the bottom right hand corner, gently rolling it apart and then inking the edges.  I took a scrap of contrasting paper from the pad and glued it behind.  I then layered this onto the card.  I fussy cut the birdcage out of another sheet of paper, shaped it gently and then added it over the original image with glue gel. Again, using scraps from the paper pad, I die cut some flowers and made an arrangement in the bottom left hand corner with die cut leaves, berries and some smaller flowers I had in my stash.  As usual, I added glue gel thinly to the card and covered with Ice Crystals. Finally, I cut down one of the beautiful inserts and layered it onto the same blue double glitz card and fixed it i...

Back to cards and this is a simple one to make... I started with an 8" x 8" Mont Blanc base card and cut three different designs from the 12" x 12" pink Garden Blooms pad .  Please note that if you have a variety of the smaller pads, there is no need to cut them down.  I distressed and inked the edges, then added faux scribbles around them using a pattern marking tool and a pen. I then stamped a sentiment in brown ink onto one of the postcards , inked the edges and shaped it slightly before adding it to the card.  I die cut some flowers from scraps of the paper pad adding pearls to their centres and then arranged them in the top left hand corner with die cut leaves , stamens , die cut birdhouse , wheat and  micro beaded berries .  Finally, I added a thin layer of glue gel with my finger and sprinkled Ice Crystals over the whole card. Finally, I added one of the beautiful inserts to the inside of the card.