Short and Sweet

Just a quickie today folks you'll be pleased to hear! My workdesk today for all you WOYWWers is in it's usual messy state...

...there are some Christmas papers ready to make some samples with for Kirsty's Christmas CD. For those that have commented previously on my "push back" technique - it's all in boxes so is it really classed as push back?!

Anyway, I hope to spend the whole day today making cards, Connor's Grandma is very kindly taking him today as it looks like he has chickenpox so can't go to nursery - at least it gets it over and done with!

Choo Choo!

Here's a card I made for my friends' wedding anniversary using a DigiStamp Boutique image...

The image was coloured with my new AquaMarkers, still getting to grips with them, but I like the pastel look they've given me for this card. The papers are Basic Grey Cappella.

And, as promised, a pic of Connor's birthday cake, plus a bonus pic of another cake as it was also a couple of friends birthdays the same weekend...

Connor's train cake (credit should go to Annabel Karmel really as we copied it from one of her books)

Katy and Jon's birthday cake - the cake was Chocolate Guinness cake (Nigella Lawson's Feast) topped with a chocolate buttercream and numerous sweets!

That's it for today, I've been sadly lacking on the card making front this week as I still haven't sorted out my desk from the weekend (everything gets piled on it to make room for the sofa bed to fold out) but Tim is about to start a run of nights so plenty time for crafting....and bought my ticket for GNPE yesterday - hurrah!

Knackered...

Firstly, my card for the Compendium of Curiosities challenge over at Studio L3 which this week is to use the Multi Medium Collage technique on page 66 of Tim's bible.

Here's my take on it...

I had a wooden heart that I covered with a page from a book then inked with Distress Ink. The book pages came as part of a kit, when I looked through them, I found this page which was a bit rude! I picked a bit of the "preamble" ;o) as this is a wedding card for some friends of ours. The rest of the card was made up using Basic Grey Kioshi papers.

So, we've had a pretty busy weekend, yesterday was the wedding for the aforementioned couple - a lovely day and no hangover this morning! And this weekend was Connor's 1st birthday, scary how fast that year has gone, and how much he's changed from a helpless baby to a cheeky little imp! Here's his 1st birthday card, made using papers from Kirsty Wiseman's new CD "Call of the Wild". Look out for her Christmas CD (yes, I know) coming out on Create and Craft on the 9th August!

My mam and I made a fab cake for his party - pics to follow (I neglected to take any, tut tut, so will have to wait for pics to be sent to me!).

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Halloween is Hoppin' at Tiddly Inks

Here is my card for the Halloween in July Tiddly Inks blog hop. I've used the Betty Belfrey image, coloured with ProMarkers and Stickles. The papers are Basic Grey Eerie (I'm using this paper A LOT if you hadn't noticed!) and I've gone to town with the Distress Inks (Shabby Shutters, Victorian Velvet and Black Soot). Enjoy the hop!

Whose team are you on?

Edward or Jacob? (or possibly Jasper after the latest film?) My friend Katy is Team Edward so her birthday card had to include the cold one...

This is a Greeting Farm image (unfortunately I think it was limited edition) that I bought months ago, specifically for Katy's birthday card - now that's forward planning, for me anyway! The pic doesn't really show off his skin in it's full twinklyness. He's coloured with ProMarkers, the papers are Basic Grey Eerie and the oval is sprayed with Dyan's Pomegranate Ink Spray and Red Firefly Cosmic Shimmer Mist. Prima flowers, gems and a Kirsty Wiseman sentiment finished it off.

And so onto to my desk for WOYWW...

Not very exciting I'm afraid - a big mess at the back that I'm intending to sort out (at some point in time) and some Tiddly Inks images at the front. I've finally coloured Gossmere as Frankensteins Bride so just need to make her into a card and the other images are from their new collection for their Halloween in July Blog Hop on Thursday. Really looking forward to it!