A birthday card for Pat

A close family Friend celebrates a big birthday this weekend, so a special card was needed for Pat to celebrate her day.

The products used were some flower stamps from the Dreamees Sweet Stitches stamp set  and some Sue Wilson Dies, and two shades on brown dye based ink and some brown WOW glitter powder.

Taking the light shade of brown I created a background of flowers stamped randomly over a 7" x 7" card. I then stamped more Flowers on card with the darker brown and carefully cut round the images once they were dry.

Using the Sue Wilson die cut shapes I cut a shape with an aperture in, I cut again in plain brown card stock to use as matt. On the white aperture section I stamped again the medium sized flowers using the paler brown colour. The plain brown die cut shape was cut in half and them matted onto the inked section. The happy birthday phrase was stamped using dark brown ink and fixed behind the aperture using 1mm 3 d foam pads .

Using a Sue Wilson Strip dies , I cut a section using plain brown card stock to place on the lower section of the card.

I added WOW glitter powder to the cut flowers and curved the petals, to add dimension before fixing on to the base card. The whole piece was matted onto brown card and fixed to the base card to finish.

My new material favourite - Vinyl

I have been trying something new out this week to hopefully help a friend with her growing business - it worked well for a first attempt and has definite potential.

The friend I'm helping out is adding cut vinyl detail to be wine glasses , if any one is interested in purchasing take a look at her Facebook page Truly Scrumptious Sweets & Treats for lovely sweet gift ideas.

I just experimented using my Cricut Create and Gypsy device to cut some welded lettering and some Disney cuts on the other side of a plain white mug. Like I say for a first attempt I was really pleased, whilst we can not sell products with the Disney detail, brilliant idea for just presents for friends which moved me on to my second mug creation below.

It was one of my friends birthday this weekend and to say she is Disney mad is an understatement. Wanting to experiment again using the vinyl I created Mandy her own mug with Mickey design.


























To compete the birthday gift I created a Mickey style birthday card using Cricut Mickey and Friends cartridge and some new clear script stamps by Lawnfawn - 'scripts sayings'

Happy Anniversary Grumpy

Time to make an anniversary card for my Husband as we celebrate our 16th year of marriage together.

I decided on a Happy & Grumpy theme for the card, me being Happy and my Husband being Grumpy.

Using the Cricut cartridges 'Happily Ever After' and 'Mickey font', and the Cricut Gypsy device I welded the shadow letters of Happy and Anniversary together and then the H and letters E & R from Anniversary to the dwarfs prior to cutting the main dwarf images out in black card stock. The layered sections of the dwarfs were cut from coloured card stock and the layers were fixed together using double sided tape.

The words Happy and Anniversary were then cut in both light green and orange card stock and fixed to the black shadow section alternating the colours.

The toppers created were fixed to a white Bazzill card stock and matted onto both orange and green card which in turn was fixed to the base card. Photo corners were cut in orange card stock using  a die-namics corner die , these were fixed to all four corners.

To bring in more of the red colour from Grumpy , I cut small hearts in both green and red card stock and fixed them randomly around the dwarfs like confetti.

Lets hope Happy (me)  and Grumpy enjoy our anniversary.

Birthday Wishes to My Dad

A special card needed this month for my Dad.

He loves his crosswords and cuts them out of his daily newspaper to tackle at a later date, much to my mum's disgust as he has a huge pile to still do. He still tries to do them at the moment using a magnifying glass because his eyesight is poor. When I saw a new Docrafts clear stamp recently of a crossword puzzle I purchased it immediately.

Using Clarity Stamps/Barbara Grays Letterbox letters , I created the Happy Birthday Dad section on piece of card and added the individual letters accordingly. I cut this section out close to the stamped boxed lines.

I laid this on my card as a position guide and then stamped the crossword stamp called Docrafts Mr Mister Crossword, I stamped this onto a cut sheet of card measuring  7" x 7" , I created a matt to overlap the images, in a random pattern, surrounding the main message section.

The message topper was fixed using 1mm double sided tape. The whole piece was matted onto black card stock and fixed to the base card.

Wishing my Dad a wonderful birthday.

A birthday card for Mark

My youngest sons birthday was in May. Whilst in a well known card store, he showed me a card he wanted - 'I want one like this mum' was his request.

Never to be outdone on a challenge I set to work, using my Cricut machine , Cricut Gypsy and my Mickey Mouse cartridge.

I took the image of Mickey and attached a football from the soccer cartridge this was what the shop bought card had on Mickey kicking a ball.

I created the stars with words in using the Cricut Gypsy device and cut them in the red, black and yellow colours. When all my pieces were fixed together I created the white background with the wording around the edge of the card - this I created using the Serif software package.

The main background section was matted on to red card and fixed to te base card. The stars, main topper and small Mickey heads were all fixed to the card using double sided tape.

Mark has a wonderful birthday and was delighted with his card that he requested. I wonder what challenge he will set me next year.

RAK - Random Act Of Kindness

I have been busy making some toilet roll covers and decided to treat a couple of my friends to what I called RAK - Random act of kindness.

I packaged them of with a simple note. They were all gratefully received.

Tatty twinkles cards

April and May have been busy months so I'm a bit behind on my blog updates.


The following cards were created using a selection of tatty Twinkles stamps.

Lovely stamps to stamp and colour.