See it, Pin it, Do it - February

Fiona from Staring at the Sea has started a new blog meme SIPIDI or See it, Pin it, Do it.  We all have loads of stuff on our Pinterest boards, so the idea is to actually get inspired by them and then share what you have made.

I have quite a few jewellery pins, especially memory wire bracelets and I needed a new bracelet to wear to a ball to match the pearl necklace and earrings that I would be wearing.  I took inspiration from this pin and this one to create this -

Made with freshwater pearls and gold spacer beads

 

Thanks for setting the challenge Fiona - I am looking forward to actually making some of my other pins.

Bike Ride

The January week 4 challenge on UKScrappers was

• Use a black & white photo
• Frame the photo
• Use inks/mists
• Use bling
• No more than two flowers

This is my take on the challenge using a photo of me in the box on the front of my Dad's bike.

The papers are Prima 'Bloomin Retro' from a very old Sarah's Cards kit.  I framed the photo with a square frame cut with nestability dies and made the file tab using my WRMK envelope maker.  The ink splats are from the Stampin' Up set Gorgeous Grunge and the swirl was made using a photocopy of pre-done swirl and then pricking out the pattern (thanks Anita M for that idea).

The journaling reads 'We were living in Winchcombe Road at the edge of the town centre.  Dad's pushbike had a box on the front of it and he use to put me in it and take me for rides.  Dad says I use to scream with laughter but my memory is that I was screaming with fear that I would fall out.'

Week 4 - 52 cards challenge

The week 4 challenge was to take inspiration from this picture

I loved the white on white, the lace of the doily and the little pop of colour, so these are my cards that I hope reflect that.

The floral hearts were a monthly freebie from DigiStamp Boutique, coloured with promarkers and then matted onto two hearts cut from white cardstock with some Cheery Lyn doily heart dies.  I embossed the background with a heart embossing folder.

For my Christmas versions I made wreaths of punched holly leaves (Woodware), the red berries are flat backed pearls (Sarah's Cards) and the embossed background is a Sizzix folder.

All the sentiments are by Stampin' Up.

Live well, Laugh often, Love much

Another class taught by the lovely Anita M last year.

I'm afraid I have no idea what the papers are as I failed to keep the strips, they might be WRMK????

Thank you Anita for another lovely class xxx

The Dreaded Male Cards

I found some male cards that I made end of last year lurking in my 'to be blogged' folder.  I don't know why I have always struggled with making male cards - it might be because my favourite embellishments are butterflies, blossoms and bling and they don't go down too well with the men LOL!!

I thought I would share them just in case anyone else is struggling with making them.

Warning - this post is picture heavy!!

All the stamped images are by Penny Black, except for the last card which is a digi-stamp from DigiStamp Boutique.  The papers are all kit leftovers or free papers from magazines except the two footballing dogs and the crossword hedgehogs and they are by Wild Rose Studio.

Christmas Day - a layout

This layout was a class by Anita back in January last year, but sadly I had to miss the class as I was ill and then I spent most of last year taking the page kit to crops with me and not getting round to doing it.  Anyway it is now finally done!!

 

The papers used are Fancy Pants 'St Nick' and the photograph is from our Christmas cruise taken in 2012.  This is Anita's layout.

Thank you Anita for another lovely page - sorry it took so long to get it done!!

Cool Yule Penguins - Beat the Christmas Rush

This year I am going to take part in Beat the Christmas Rush and make some production line cards so that I don't have to rush around so much towards the end of the year.

I recently treated myself to a lovely penguin stamp and die from Papertrey Ink and as soon as he arrived I wanted to get him inky and use him. 

I ended up making 6 cards -

The penguin's hat is a separate die and stamp so I used Stampin' Up markers to make each hat a different colour to match the cardstock mat.

The 'cool yule' sentiment is by Personal Impressions

The embossed background was done using a snow flurry Cuttlebug folder