punch art

I was asked to make a birthday card, the only thing I was told was it needed
a duck on, guess what went through all my stuff only to find I appear to be
slightly lacking in ducks.  Ten google  minutes later found this really cute
punch art duck. It is definitely a  she, she has lovely sparkly eyelashes.  I
really wonder how I managed before google images!!!!

let me know what you think

ali  xx

it only took two years

wouldn't want you to think I was not organised but...  Two years ago  I went to
a  customer loyalty event arranged by my friend http:www.monicas-passions.blogspot.com
Monica.  We made or didn't in some cases a wreath with Stampin up material
to be fair I didn't like the material pattern.  So for two years I have said must
do something with the wreath.  This year I have finally finished it what do you
think?

See you soon
ali x x

where does the time go!

This is a project I started last year and as always ran out of time.  I used
the 25 and counting set from stampin up you will also notice that 5 is
missing that's because I managed to loose it but I will cut out a 5 and
replace it before it goes into the frame.
I wanted to do this to put on my fireplace for over christmas let me
know what you think!

see you soon
ali x

Back to business

Here is another card I made for a  customer she wanted a 50th birthday card
for a friend, as I hit 50 at the beginning of the year I decided to make her one
I would have liked you don't need reminding really do you? I found something
on google images I liked and jazzed it up  a bit used some of my precious tulle
love this but once its gone there is no more.

Let me know what you think

love ali x x

so sad

People say never give your heart to a dog, but its hard not to when you have
a Gernan Shephard, After 12 wonderful years we lost Murphy this week.
To say I have lost a best friend is the understatement of  a life time and it
will take some time to recover from this.

My friend Monica who also lost her dog the week before sent me this card

I didnt make her a card because I couldnt come up with an idea for it obviously
she is a lot more creative than me ( definitely!!) and this is beautiful.

Thanks to everybody who has sent me messages it is nice to know that it
isnt only us who thought he was amazing he made so many friends .

ali  xx

Lovely sunny afternoon

For a day that started with weather so miserable it came out absolutely smashing
cant quite believe its bank holiday.  Hope the weather holds for tomorrow.  Here is
a card i made for one of my customers grandson.  I have made cards for liam since
he was 5 and gone through all his intrests its now football chelsea  i understand.

see you soon
ali  x x

A MANS CARD!!!

Like ,most crafters I struggle to make  cards for men, but here is one I made that
was cased from google images,  I used my lovely new set from stampin up
which is gorgeous.  I plan to get a lot of mileage out of this one.
 let me know what you think

see you soon

ali x x

Good news week

Some good news for a change my friend became a grandmother again last
week I wanted to make her daughter a card and this is what I came up with.

I cased this totally from an old stampin up catalogue but I think it is missing
something dont know what though.

see you soon
 ali xx

lovely sunday

What a lovely sunday after what can only be described as a ropey start
Went to a smashing card class were we made 2 lovely cards as well as
a fab decorated box.  Of course I haven't taken a picture of any of them
yet.  Here is a card I made before with a  stampin up set I haven't really
used yet Just Believe and now its retired I am still deciding whether or
not to keep it still don't know

52 (C) C T Challenge

I know its early, but if you've got a lot of cards to send out you have to start
them early dont you !!!.  This isn't the first card i've made but its the first one
inspired by the christmas card challenge blog I gather they have been at it since
 the beginning of the year i  am always behind!  I did enjoy it though.

see you soon
Ali xx

A LITTLE RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING!!!

I know its been a couple of months since i last posted life has definitely got
in the way, my mum has been poorly, and it ended with a hospital stay she
is now hopefully on the mend.  She is staying with us for the moment so
crafting time is restricted but I am fitting it in where I can.
 Here is a card i made for one of my friends she wanted an anniversary card
for her husband as always MALE CARDS are such a hard thing to do for
me anyway i hit google images and found something to work from unfortunatly
i cant know find it again to give credit to the originator but I did put my own
twist on it anyway

Let me know what you think

love ali xx

I cant take photographs!

If you haven't already guessed I  am not very good with a camera. These
photographs prove this I guess.  My friend wanted a baby shower card, it
was really hard to make this is what I came up with she did like it so it must
have been okay

Any input would be gratefully received

love ali x

Don't really like butterflies

 I have a confession to make, I don't really like butterflies you wouldnt guess

looking at the cards I make.  Here is  a card  featuring butterflies  that I made

It hasnt come out as planned and  am not too sure what I think about it 

Let me know what you think

ali x

Freshly Made Sketch challenge

 

 

 

I haven't been doing any challenges recently, but when I saw this weeks sketch

I thought I would have a go as I have a few cards to make this week  I finally

used my lovely lace embossing folder I've had it ages but never really used it

till now.  I really like how it turned out my only complaint would be you

cant see the shade of blue properly its stampin up Island Indigo which at the

moment along with pool party is my favourite blue.

 

Let me know what you think

 

see you

ali x

 

 



Peppa Pig

One of my friends saw the Minnie mouse card I made and wanted to know
if I could do peppa pig, always one for a bit of a challenge I had a look
on line and had a play.  It took a couple of goes and a lot of improvising
bit you can see the finished result. 
I was quite pleased with how it turned hope you like it

see you later

ali x

Yellow orb in the sky!

 

 

Hope you are having a good bank holiday weekend?  After the awful weather
we have had the last few weeks, the lovely sunshine has been blissful. I am
having a great weekend with my lovely niece Rebecca she has stayed over
with us, as she wanted a cookery lesson!! She now knows how to make
lasagne and garlic bread plus the easiest cheesecake in the world. Besides
the cookery lesson we have also done a little crafting here is  a card I
made for a friends grand daughter you can probably tell she likes mickey
and Minnie mouse.  I love the internet you can find lots of tutorials
on how to make things and that's where I got this from and inspired by
that I also made the cupcakes. 

Hope you like the card

see you soon 
ali x

LONG TIME AGO

Long time no hear, you say, I have been away on holiday for a week and its
taken a while to get back into the swing of things.

My friend Monica had a card that someone gave her, that gave me the
idea for this card for one of my mums friends.  Many moons  ago when
I first got the bug for card making I made a card of acetate which I really
liked, so obviously I never made another one, until now that is.  This
is different anyway, I am pretty sure that one would not have had
the same feel, I didnt have my big shot or that many punches so I would
have used bought embellishments instead .  I trimmed the base with this
lovely daisy ribbon that I got on holiday, can you believe in the little
town we were there was a craft shop!!!!!.

hope you like this

ali x

this started as a birthday card for my dad , but realising it could look okay if
I put it into a frame, went to our local b & m and got a frame.  I stamped all over
the frame inside with my french foliage set, then i got various stamp sets out to
stamp the pictures.  Went out with plenty of distressing .  Let me know what
you think   Sorry about the picture still havn't worked out how to change photos
round

see you later

ali x

gasp! shock! horror!  3 in three days you can now expect freak weather at
the very least.  I only found out yesterday it was one of my friends at work
50th birthday on thursday .  So when I got home from work last night first
job was make a card to give her.  Didnt know her favorite colours but I know
she likes bright colours so I went with this scrap of the Sale a bration paper
from Stampin up.
Hope she likes it, I had to keep it simple cos the brain doesnt work that well
after a day at work!!

see you soon

ali x

Another post so soon I here you say.  Here is a  card I made for  A customer
of mine .  The pin wheel die is a new addition to my craft stash and its sat
for a while because I didn't know what to do with it.  I saw a card on google
images and cased the idea totally

let me know what you think

ali x

Its spring at last

Where does the time go, cant believe its been so long since i've blogged
no excuse other than busy at work.  I have been crafting but dont seem
to have been blogging what i've been making.
This is a card I made for an anniversary card guess which one!!!!  I think
I cased it from one on the stampinpretty.com  blog which i really liked

I will try and blog more regularly but i will not make any promises

see you later

alison x

A Christening Gift

We have been invited to a christening on sunday and
rather than get a card and inspired by something  i
had seen on several blogs i decided to to make a 
keepsake.  I know its a lousy picture but today we
have either had blizzard conditions or bright sun
neither of which has been very good for taking 
photos i am really pleased with how it came out
and will be making more given the chance 

see you soon 

ali x

freshly made sketches challenge

Thought i would have a go at this weeks freshly made sketches challenge as
i haven't done one for ages this didn't take too long deciding what colours
to use seemed to take longer.

Let me know what you think

love ali

its raining again!!

Here is a card i nearly forgot to make, one of my card customers gives
me a list at the begining of  the year of cards she would like, and i make them
in plenty of time and i nearly missed this one, i pulled out a little doll
embelishment that i have had for a couple of years and made the card
round that i quite like the finished product. I hope you have noticed the
photographs are gettting better found the best place to take them

see you later

love alix

busy busy busy

Its been a while i know, i have been making cards but got a bit lax at blogging 

them partly because they were for people who sometimes follow my blog.  This 

card is for my stepmum for mothers day.  I have been buying my stampin up 

supplies  from my lovely friend monica since i started crafting and she put some

lovely bits to play with this time.  I really really want this dress die its currently 

at the top of my wish list but it will have to wait for a while i am trying to use what 

i have rather than buying even more. Having used the die cut i now want it even more

The next card i copied from a card i saw on a blog  i think it was kates krafts   

I had very different plans for my mums mothers day cards but i really liked what

i saw on the blog so i more or less copied it with a bit of a change. The one thing

i did like was colouring my new flower ribbon from stampin up you cant see it 

very well but i just did the tips of the ribbon it gave it a really nice look 

let me know what you think 

love ali

its snowing again!!!

can  you believe the weather at 12.30 it started with  a little bit of powdery stuff
its half past four now and we have about 4 inches of snow obviously because of

the weather i had to do some crafting.  Its my partners birthday on Friday
and i wanted to do something a bit different for him.  My lovely friend June
let me some stamps with pheasants  on and this is the result the layout is from
one of the challenge blogs mojo monday i think it doesnt look very straight

but i think that is the angle of the photograph.  The second one is for a customer
and this  design I  found on google images really love the colour scheme which is
crumbcake and black.

Will have to go now and take  the dog out in the snow

see you later

alixx










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working hard

I  know 3 posts in one week you can tell I have not been at work much this week. 

My mum wanted a card making for one of her friends who has just had an operation

so I gave masking a try I think i used the wrong colour, and it would have looked 

better in a paler colour.Never mind  I will be trying again.The second card I have been

working on is one for my partner from my son I saw this on Pinterest and loved it and

as so far this is the third card i have made for my partner, and i still haven't made one for 

me although that will be my next card i feel.

let me know what you think 

ali x

star trekking across the universe

its my sons birthday this weekend, as you can guess from this card  i have made

he is a big star trek fan, I was going to make this one from us however late 

last night my partners son asked me to make a card for rob from him so 

decided to make it from him, i knew it would be really easy to make and

to be truthful the hardest thing on this card was the comm badge on it .

Here is the second card i made today this was plan b for him it is a chalkboard 

card, I have been itching to make one ever since i saw them on various blogs

really enjoyed making it and i dont think it came out too badly only thing i am

not sure about is the bunting on it, but it needed something there is still tomorrow

if any one has an idea to finish it off

see you soon 

ali x

cant believe it

I wanted to show you the card i made for my mum to 
give my partner unfortunately this is not going to happen 
because i put it into the post already, its my age!!
Instead i will show you two cards i made over the 

weekend .  This is a card for one of my customers kept it 
fairly simple.  The next one is for one of my friends who 

has just moved. 

let me know you think

till next time

valentines day

Here is the first valentines card i have made this year,  I was asked if i could make
a Dr Who valentines card not the usual request i know, but i like a challenge.  The
problem is making it special without it seeming out of place on a valentines card
i did my usual and went on google images and came up with this quote from the
Dr plus a cartoon tardis  the idea came from a blog  i read sometimes " Sarah's stamping and crafting studio" http://craftingandstamping.com/
it is a fairly close copy of a valentines card she made but i  liked the idea of using
the lovely flocked acetate so I copied away.

Would love to here your comments

ali xx

Back in the swing

I have finally found a spot to take photographs with 

the best light downstairs in the lounge as it turns out. 

which is fine but my craft room is upstairs so you spend 

hours making the card. Its taken off and on three days

to finish this one, I've seen the layout on line somewhere

but cant remember where!! its my age lol. 

Let me know what you think 

love ali xx

its a boy take 2

when i made my first dresser card, i wasn't sure that i liked it, so i had a think
and started again, this one i do like its a lot simpler but i still prefer it just wish
i hadn't wasted 4 sheets of card trying to make the first one!!!

let me know what you think

ali  xxx

make a monster

I treated myself to stampin up's make a monster set last year, its one of my
favourite sets but i haven't used it much but i needed a card for a small
boy so out it came.  Its not really a good picture and it came out nothing
like I planned lets hope he likes it

see you next time

ali x

its a boy

Its taken me since the first of January to finally manage to post pictures on blogger
cannot believe its taken this long however i did take a break over christmas. Here is
a card i have been working on for a friend who has just had a baby still not sure
about it so i will probably be making another one it will  be similiar cos i really like the
idea but this hasnt worked as i wanted to

let me know what you think

ali x

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