L'il cuties

Another couple of cuties from the Crafter's Companion Everyday CD and so easy too. The words are added directly to the backing paper using the inbuilt verse writer and then printed directly onto cardstock to make the base card. The pig and lamb are both of one of the toppers sheets and nice chunky decoupage when you want a 3D look but don't have much time.

Swoon

Look at this pretty that arrived in the post from the lovely and very talented TraceyT. I adore the necklace but look at the cute tin it came in, she's one clever lady. Thank you very much.

Gem-tastic

I've gone overload on gems this week, but then a girl can never have enough bling in her life. The flower on this card was made with my Stampin' Up! supplies, Circle of Friendship stamps and the scallop and several circle punches. Then finished off with lots of gems from Paperchase - Jen I blame you for getting me hooked! The leaves are the wings of the bird from the Smoochie Manoochie Summer Doodle set, stamped onto acetate and then glittered.

These cards are made from the Everyday CD set from Crafter's Companion. The design was printed onto printable acetate before being attached to a card. The spine was made using the decorative edge on the Ultimate scoring board from Crafter's Companion, this was also used to make the matching envelopes. The cards were finished off with a Stampin' Up! stamp (Terrific Tags) and off course some gems.

Charleston Chutzpah

What a fabulous weekend I've had. I've been down to visit my friends at All Jazzed Up down in Reading. Thank you to the marvellous Shirley for letting me stay and keeping me fed and watered and to Jean and everyone else, especially Dan And Jessica (our teachers) for a great weekend of Charleston and a little bit of balboa too.

We headed down to Henley Town Hall on Saturday morning to set up and then had classes in 1920's Charleston for the day. It's hard work on the legs but terrific fun. We even managed to learn a whole routine. As the local press were coming to take a photo at lunchtime some of us got dressed up in our evening outfits, which was great as it's really difficult to get decent photos at an evening dance, with the lack of light and everyone moving about. Thanks to Mel for taking charge of my camera, so I could join in the group shot.

As Dave had made such an effort he was most popular for photos and won a prize at night .

Dan looking dapper in his day wear (he was even smarter for the evening), with the ever elegant Miss Jean and dashing Dave.

Pam beautiful in blue - I love that dress.

And of course the stylish and sophisticated Shirls with Dave.

Here's the room at night all dressed up for a Simply Spiffin' Do. Not a great photo but it looked so effective on the night. There were free cocktails served by our great bar tenders, Nick and Amy. The DJ's were amazing too with almost too much great music, thanks to Dan, Brian and Mel.

And roulette too, just for fun. Well done to Tanya for having the highest score and not letting me or Dan win!!

I've included some photos of what we get up to in class, not a lot to see but as my friends often ask me to explain what goes on on my dancing weekends I thought I'd share.

Sunday was equally wonderful with a little balboa and a lot to practise and remember followed by dinner at Jeans. Thank you to Richard as ever for his wonderful cooking and to my pal Jo for letting me help (or hinder) with the veggies!

Not long until the next All Jazzed Up event - roll on March and Bill Borgida and Julie Mertz.

My new friend

This cute little dog is my new friend. He's from the Crafter's Companion Everyday CD. A lot of my on-line friends are giving hybrid scrapping a try but as I don't have the software, the knowledge or the time to learn I thought I'd never get to play. But the CD's I have let me do my own type of hybrid card making. The backing papers are great to print direct to card and then I just print the toppers off and layer them up. So easy but so effective.


The embellishment in the smaller scallop is all done with my Stampin' Up! punches and a stamp from the Circle of Friendship set.

The spotty heart is from a set of chipboard I bought last year in the U.S. The For My Valentine is from a set of word stamps (sentiments by Impression Obsession) that I got from the lovely Wendy at Stamps & Memories. It's a set of clear stamps with lots and I mean lots (96 if I can count!) of individual word stamps so you can make you're own greetings. It's a set they've done especially for the UK market, so we get Mum and Christmas.

Smoochie Manoochie

A little birdie (thank you Tracey) told me about these stamps that are available from craftycarrot and I love them. They are acrylic stamps and in the summer doodle set there are 2 flowers, a heart, grass and the cutest little birdie. I've had great fun playing with these stamps but only one card I can show you as the rest are off to Beautiful Cards. I've stamped onto acetate and then coloured in the image with ultra fine glitter, it looks even better in real life as it glimmers and glistens.

Happy Birthday Fran. Keep an eye out for the postie and sorry it's late xxx

Fun at Farnborough

Farnborough was a great show. It was the first time at this venue, it's been held at Thorpe Park until this year. A massive marquee but once inside it felt pretty cosy although it was a little worrying when the roof rattled due to the wind or the aircraft. Here you can see the Crafter's Companion stand. I got to do the make and take and had a fab 3 days meeting lots of lovely people, nice to see you Lins. I even got to meet 2 ladies (Joan and Linda) that I'd met whilst on a coach tour of Canada. I'm already looking forward to seeing you in April - hope the dates are OK.

Here's my make and take area. Matt just doing a little decoupage - we will convert you to craft!!
Here's the cards we made, a different colour each day, so I knew which day it was. We also made a 3D envelobox to go with it. Thanks to everyone that joined for make and takes and those that bought the Ultimate I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it. All the papers, tags and toppers were printed off the florals CD onto satin paper.

Only 2 more weeks until Manchester!