Mothers day card

Happy mothers day to everyone, hope you are all being spoilt rotten :)  I know I have been with the cards and gifts I've received from my lovely hubby and daughters.

Well I got up today and remembered that I hadn't done my mums card, I know what a plonker.  Luckily I had an idea in my head but couldn't use the SU embossing folder I really wanted to as its still in transit and won't be here until Tuesday so pretty difficult don't you think?  So I settled for the next best thing and used one from my own stash.  I ran it through the big shot and hey presto a lovely embossed piece of Whisper White card.

Now, when we were at Leeds training the other week, we were given the opportunity to "play" with the big shot and some of the new dies from the mini catalogue.   I fortunately chose the butterfly embosslits die on pg 9 to practice with so had them already cut out ( this is another item in transit, can't you tell I'm very organised...lol) so decided to use them on the card as well.  The colour combo is Whisper White and Pretty in Pink along with the Rhinestone Jewels.  The sentiment is from Occasional Greetings and is stamped in Melon Mambo.

I just love the way this picture shows the depth of detail on the butterflies, the sign of a good quality die.

I'm off to enjoy the rest of my day and a glass of wine.  Thanks for visiting and take care.  I'd love it if you left a comment, good or bad :)

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Double tri-shutter card

It was my good friend, and upliner, Victoria's birthday on Thursday and she turned 40 so I wanted to do a special card for her so decided to do a double tri shutter card AKA Tri shutter album.  I got the instructions from Scrapthat's blog and they are so easy to follow.  I didn't take it round until yesterday as she had a "family" day on Thursday, and with the launch of the mini taking precedence yesterday, haven't posted it until now.  The card is very very long to say the least and so I tried to take a picture using my panoramic setting on the camera.   Now I have used this setting before and got excellent results but did that happen this time.... oh no and I didn't realise until I looked at it last night so it was too late to take another.  Never mind you'll get the gist of how it should look ...lol

For this card I have used Perfect Plum 12x12, Sahara Sand and Early Espresso card stock, Woodland Walk DSP, Just Believe, Vintage Vogue, Occasional Greetings, Silhouette Sentiments (hostess set), Curvey Verses and Greenhouse Garden stamp sets, round scallop and boarder punches, very vanilla ribbon, crimper, paper from the subtle paper stack, white gel pen, Stampin write markers and basic pearls jewels.

As you can see a lot of products were used to make this card all of which are SU.  If you would like to purchase any please contact me.  You can browse both the mini and main catalogue by clicking on the pictures on the right hand side of my blog.

Thank you for stopping by and please leave a comment as its nice to know who's popped in for a peek.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Pink and black

I can't believe its been 10days since I last posted.... where does the time go. I've not done any crafting this week as I've not felt up to it but have managed to make one today. My friend always asks me to do the cards for her families birthday and, as its her birthday on Monday, plus two of her relatives, I needed to make 3 cards for this weekend. This is the first one I've done which is for my friend. All materials used are SU products.



I'm entering the following challenges:

Stampavia - Black, White and one other colour
Cute Card Thursday - Texting Crazy
Dutch Dare - Anything Goes
Daring Cardmakers - Its a girl thing
Fussy and Fancy - Pink and black
The Stamp Man - Take 2 colours

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog,

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Bright butterfly card

This is not my usual style but I think it works quite well, its nice and bright.



The ingredients for this card are:
SU - Flight of the Butterfly and Occasional Greetings stamp set, CS Only Orange and Green Gallore, DSP Tea Party, plain and scalloped punch, Inks So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie
Own stock - Acetate

Challenges I am joining in with are:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Bright and bold
Cupcake Crafts - Acetate
Flutter by Wednesday - Butterfly
My Time To Craft - Butterfly on the card

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment as I love to read them.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

What a week...

Phew, I hope the worst is over. Got rushed into hospital last week and ended up having surgery on Thursday. Hopefully I'm on the road to recovery now, fingers crossed. Needless to say I haven't done much crafting lately, I'm just glad I got the wedding card done early, but here are a few of the cards I have managed to make.









Thanks for stopping by and having a look

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Hello everyone,

What a wet week its been, I think I'm going to need a canoe to get to work soon if the rain keeps coming. I hope it clears up for next week as both hubby and I are off work and we are at a wedding on the 19th, so keep your fingers crossed.

I've decided to join in a couple of challanges to inspire me as I'm in one of those zones where my mojo has packed its bags and gone on holiday..lol Here are the cards I've made so far, I'm hoping to join in a few more as the week goes on.



For this one I've used all SU products apart from the little gems at the bottom. The centre image is punched out using the scolloped boarder punch and I've rolled over the white flowers from the pretties kit to give them some colour. The stamp set used is Occasional Greetings

Challanges are:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Pollycraft - Ribbons and bling
Cupcake Crafts - Dazzle us
Little paper shop - Colours red, yellow and blue



Again all SU products with the image coming from True Friends stamp set

The challanges I'm joining in with are:
Crafty Angels - favourite stamp
Spoonful full of Sugar - Floral
Kaboodle Doodles - 3 papers, 2 Embelishments and 1 image

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Tracy -x-