Love Is In The Air :D

It's that time of year again: my mom and stepdad had their anniversary yesterday, my sister and B-I-L today (20 years already, that time has flown by!). Anyway, of course they were expecting, and received, a home-made card, even though I'm a little out of sorts as I've quit smoking and was finding it quite hard at the weekend without work to distract me and colleagues to keep me on the straight and narrow ;o) I've been smoking for twenty years (started a little before my sister's wedding in fact) so it was never going to be easy, but it had to be done ;o)

The top card is for my sister and her hubby, the bottom one for my mom and stepdad. My stepdad recently bought a boat so I thought these two Magnolia cuties quite fitting ;D

I also made this for the new challenge on Double Dutch (in a very beary mood this weekend, because I was like a bear with a sore head probably ;o)), which is to pick your favourite challenge from DDC#1 through to DDC#50 and recreate it.

Materials used:
DoCrafts stamp, Doodlebug rub-on letters, GDC "Ella Blue" papers (how gorgeous?!), flowers made with EK Success punches, rose, Heidi Swapp Ghost Shapes, Stamping Bella pebbles

Magnolia stamps, Doodlebug rub-on letters, GDC "Ella Blue" papers, Prima Marketing flowers, Stamping Bella pebbles, string, QuicKutz label die, charm

DoCrafts stamp, GDC "Ella Blue" papers, Heidi Swapp Ghost Shape, charm, string, Making Memories bling brad

That's all I wrote, I'm off to not smoke and not eat anything either, because at the moment, if it ain't nailed down, I'll eat it ;o)

Have a lovely week, thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Erica

Teenie Tiny...

Isn't this little bag the cutest? Got the pattern via Create4Fun, along with the sketch for the card. Also made a gift card holder for the new Double Dutch challenge, so all in all I had a busy day on Sunday! As of course, on Saturday nothing went according to plan and I didn't produce a single thing...isn't that always the way? I'd cleared the decks, so to speak ;o), by doing the housework on Friday night and so I had all day Saturday after my riding lesson to make cards. Zip, zilch, nada, niente, absolutely nothing came out of my hands, and out of sheer frustration I gave up and took a nice long nap instead ;o).

List Of Ingredients:
Magnolia stamp, CC Designs sentiment, Autumn Leaves paper, Prima Marketing flowers, brads, button, ribbon

Magnolia and Whiff of Joy stamps, Papertrey Ink sentiment, MME paper, Prima Marketing flowers, Basic Grey pearls, McGill leaf punch

Magnolia stamp, CC Designs sentiment, Autumn Leaves paper, Prima Marketing flowers, Stamping Bella baubles

Have a great week everyone, thanks for stopping by, your comments are much appreciated!

Hugs,
Erica

Tea For One, Two, Three, Four, Five...Six! ;o)

Hi everyone, I made this teabag holder (originally by Beate) last weekend, it had been on my list of "crafty things to do" for a while (you do not want to know how long this list is ;o)) and I finally got around to it. It's on its way to someone special as we speak, she'll be able to have tea for six as I couldn't just put two tea bags in of course, that would be stingy wouldn't it! I even bought tea with yellow/green/pink bags to match the paper...yep, just call me crazy *lol*

This card is for the new challenge over on Double Dutch, which is a sketch :D.

List of Ingredients:
CC Designs stamps, Papertrey Ink sentiments, Doodlebug paper, EK Success Retro flower punches, Nestabilities, Stamping Bella baubles, glitter stones, ribbon

Whiff of Joy stamp, Elzybells sentiment, K&Company paper, Prima flowers, brads, spacers, QuicKutz leaf die, stick-on pearls

That's it from me for now, going to have a nice relaxing weekend and catch up on all the shows I've taped, maybe do some card-making... Hope you all have a great weekend too, thank you for stopping by and see you next week!


Hugs,
Erica

It's Project Week!

Well, that's how it's turned out anyway ;o) I made a few little projects and finally finished my Explosion Box, which I started when I visited Moon. She had pre-cut, pre-scored and pre-stamped everything, all I had to do was colour in the images and put everything together! That's my kind of workshop, easy does it! I'm not totally satisfied with the lid yet, obviously it needs a text and something else...but what that is will come to me when it isn't such bloomin' hot weather perhaps! (I'm having a brain-melt ;o))

First of all I made this trio for the new challenge on Double Dutch Challenges, which is make an ATC or an Inchie and Twinchie :D

How cute?!? Got the pattern for this watering can by sending an e-mail to contact@create4fun.nl, you can request it from them if you put "Watering Can" in the subject line! It is so easy to make and will hold a small gift :D

Well here it is :D. Please excuse the awful photographs, if there is an easier way to snap this, please let me know ;o)

List Of Ingredients:
Magnolia stamps, Doodlebug papers and rub-ons, Kaisercraft pearls, brads, charm, QuicKutz label

DoCrafts stamp, Papertrey Ink sentiment, MME paper "Pretty Please", ribbon, Stamping Bella baubles, scrapper's floss, Prima flowers

CC Designs stamps (sentiments also, by AmyR), Daisy Bucket paper, Prima flowers, buttons, Stamping Bella baubles, brads, spacers, QuicKutz swirls

That's all she wrote for now, I'm going to melt some more ;o) Lovely heatwave we're having, I'm enjoying it while I can because...I have a new job! I start on 27 July, it's only for four months but still, it's a start right :D!

Have a great week!

Erica

Secret Cards

Don't you just LOVE Valentine's Day?!? I do, even though I don't get any "romantic" cards (well, maybe this year, fingers crossed ;o)) I love to swap Valentines with friends and family. Silly, maybe, but why not let someone you care about know that they're special to you, right? ;o) Take my friend Moon, for instance. I've never met her, we know each other only from the internet (forums, blogs, e-mails etc.) and from talking on the phone about three times a week! Isn't it funny how you can get on so well with someone you've never met? Well, I may have made her a card for Valentine's, but I wouldn't be able to show it here obviously, so I might do that next week :D.

In the meantime, here's the notebook I made for the new Double Dutch challenge (anything but a card) and a card I made a few weeks ago for a swap (someone sent me paper and embellishments and I had to make a card with it and send it back).

This is Studious Sally, a real smarty pants who skips grades like most girls skip rope ;o) She is 13 years old and starting university in September! Sally is as organized about her life as she is about her studies, and she's already bought all her books, notepads, pencils and everything else she'll need in September... She also always carries around a ruler, pencil, sketchbook and brush, for she is a great artist too and likes to wander round the woods and meadows, sketching the wildlife. Oh, to be that young and accomplished...let's hope she doesn't forget to enjoy normal teenage life every once in a while ;o)

Have you met Sonya yet? With her sled she helps out those who need her most: people struggling home through the snow with bags full of shopping, kids who are so poor they don't have sleds but do like to play outside in the snow, ski-ers who've broken a limb and need to get down off the mountain: Sonya's always there! I don't know how she does it, but she's a miracle worker ;o)

Materials used:
Magnolia stamp, PaperSalon sentiment, Three Bugs in a Rug paper, Prima flowers, Stamping Bella baubles, ribbon, brads

That's it for now, gotta run, Desperate Housewives is on in a minute! Be back tomorrow with the second story and material list ;o) (oh, to be hooked on TV shows ;o))

Hugs,

Finally...My Project ;o)

Well, here it is, the project I've been going on about ;o) The idea for the booklet is an old one, with the sticks, but I hadn't tried it before: it's so easy to make! I'm quite happy with how it turned out, it was a lot of work but fun to do :D

Materials used:
Sugar Nellie stamps, K&Company paper, CC Designs sentiments, Prima Flowers, QuicKutz dies leaves, tags, flowers, Bazzill ribbon and large flower, Stamping Bella baubles, Doodlebug brads, pins, spacers

Thanks for stopping by, see you next week! I have the week off, so hopefully I can show lotsa cards next time ;o)

I'm In Lurrrrve ;o)

I only got this Elisabeth Bell stamp (by Whiff of Joy) in the other day, but she's already one of my favourites :D! I can almost smell the cookies...

The colours are a bit off, the card is purple, not dark blue-ish as it is in the picture ;o)



Also still in love with these cutie-patootie Forever Friends bears, and they're just so easy to colour (I like easy, I'm very lazy...)



Well, that's it from me for now, I have two more days of work and then...11 days of vacation, yay! I'm going to lock myself in my craft room and only come out for meals (maybe not even that, it would be a great way to lose some weight ;o))


Materials used:
Whiff of Joy stamp, Daisy Bucket sentiment, Imaginisce "Out On A Whim" paper, Prima flowers, Making Memories bling bling brad, buttons

DoCrafts stamps, Hero Arts sentiments, MME paper, Prima Flowers, Stamping Bella baubles, ribbon, brads, spacers, buttons, QuicKutz tag toppers

Thanks for looking, see you next week :D!

See through cards and stuff ;o)

I've been a busy bee, made lots of cards over the last week :D! This being jobless is horrible, and I had to cheer myself up last week after so many rejections, so I threw myself into card-making and this is the result:

This is Dreamy Dana, high-powered lawyer by day, but in the evenings and weekends she gives herself over to her hobby, visiting Fantasy festivals and organising trips for the members of her Fantasy club. She'd love to be a full-time Fantasy Fairy and give up lawyering, but that won't pay the bills now will it ;o)

Meet Silly Sally, her neighbours think she's weird because she talks to the tulips and daisies in her little garden, and even to the weeds (she'll say: go away, bloomin' weeds ;o)). But strange or not, she has the most beautiful flowers in the whole neighbourhood...not so silly then eh ;o)

The idea for this card came from PaperCrafts Magazine

The idea for this card came from PaperCrafts Magazine

Materials used: Magnolia stamps, Hero Arts text stamp, Hanglar&Stanglar stamps, Panduro stamps, Rusty Pickle paper, Stamping Bella Baubles, Crate paper, Daisy D's paper, Making Memories Noteworthy paper, Chatterbox paper, Prima flowers, QK dies REV flower, QK labels and tags, QK Studio alphabet