couple of quick makes

Life has been a bit hectic of late. Riley and Poppi were a bit under the weather last week and we are having a bit of building work done, so I seem to be spending my life hoovering and having that awful dust taste. You hoover up, turn round it seems to have settled again. Oh well, it'l be worth it in the end - cant wait!!

Found the time (and dont pass out in shock) to actually make 2 cards. My card box is empty, so I desperately need to make a few. It is my friends birthday this week, so just had to use the pink petticoat turtle images, for his card. The second one was a joint effort between me and my step daughter, who came to stay at the weekend. She is 11 and was very proud of efforts. I think she enjoyed it, she did make one of her own, but we forgot to take a photo.
Hope you are all enjoying the glorious weather. Mich x

Supplies are: Pink petticoat images and papers. Ribbon, photo hangers, Buttons, blooms and velvet - Poppicrafts. Hand doodling, faux stitching.

FLORAL RIBBON TUTORIAL

A while back a couple of people asked me to do a tutorial for the ribbon flower card that I made. This is my first tutorial so here goes:

1. Cut 8 lengths of ribbon at 8cm. I chose 10mm mini floral satin.

2. Add sticky dots to the bottom end of the ribbon. You could also use a tape runner or double sided tape.

3. Loop the top end of the ribbon round to sit on top of the sticky dots on the bottom end of the ribbon

4. do this to all 8 pieces of ribbon.

5. Punch a 5cm circle from plain cardstock. Alternatively, you could hand cut a circle, as it will be hidden underneath the flower anyway. Cover the circle with glue dots or DST, ready to adhere the ribbon.

6. Arrange the looped ribbons around the edge. I found it best to lay them down lightly first. Then when you are happy with it, push them down to adhere properly. ( sorry about the blurry pic)

7. This is what the reverse side will look like. You can then opt to add more ribbons to this side in the same way if you wanted it to be layered.

8. I chose to add a 2" chipboard flower, 2" spotty bloom and 1" pink bloom to the top and a 3" chipboard flower to the bottom.

9. I made a hole straight through the middle and held it all together using a green jewel brad.

I hope this was of use to some of you and look forward to seeing your interpretations. Supplies are: Ribbon, blooms, chipboard, brad and photo hanger - poppicrafts. Papers - Pink petticoat.
TFL and have a great weekend.
Mich
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HAPPY 60TH DAD!!!!

My dad is 60 today! So I just wanted to post a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him. He is the best dad in the world, and in the words of Riley "We love him all the way round the world and back again" So, thanks dad for always being there for us all. Enjoy your special day. We are all going out for a meal tomorrow evening to celebrate. Our friends are coming over to babysit. It will be the first evening Ive been out without the children for about 4 years, so I hope they are good for the babysitters?????

Hope you all have a great weekend.

TFL

Ribbons and brads - poppicrafts, Papers and image Pink Petticoat. Faux stitching and a bit of inking.

A few more Daisies!!

Made these yesterday for a little order of get well cards. My stamping is still a little smudgey (is that a word?) but I enjoyed playing. I will keep practising.

Daisy Stamps, brads and blooms - Poppicrafts, Ribbon - Poppicrafts and Ribbon Oasis, Papers - Pink Petticoat and Papermill shop.

Thank you to the wonderful Terrie B for my fantastic "you make my day" award, you are so very kind and always make my day too, I really appreciate that you always make the time to leave me such lovely comments. - big hugs to you!!!!

Unfortunately I just dont have as much time as I would like to blog hop right now, but I do zoom around as much as possible and i dont always have enough time to leave as many comments as I would like to - sorry!!!. So I would just like to thank everyone for leaving such fantabulous comments on my blog, they really are very much appreciated.

TFL xx

Card Order

Sorry I havent blogged for a bit, but weve been out and about as Riley has been off school, so I have been making the most of these precious times. Allthough I must say I had forgotten, how much he needs to be entertained. We went over to my friends on Monday, had lunch, went to the park, they both played for hours with my friends children. No sooner had we pulled off the drive to come home and "What are we doing now then mummy? Im bored" Honestly I do envy their energy levels.

Anyway, I have made time in the evenings to plough through a current order of 20 cards. Supplies are: Pink Petticoat, Basic grey and DCWV papers. Brads and eyelets - Poppicrafts. Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis. Thanks to everyone who has added the Poppicrafts banner to their blog roll. I appreciate the time that you have taken to paste it over. Will be back later to post some more of this batch. Hope you all have a great weekend! x

Quick makes...

Made a few quick cards. Makes me feel like ive acheived something when a make a little batch in an evening. Used more Pink Petticoat papers. I love the new sweet cupcake range and will play with them some more. Also the new Henrietta download, how cute is she???? I will be playing with her later too. Shes really versatile, so that you can make her your own. http://www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk/ you must go check her out if you havent already.TFL, must dash, got to go get my little lad from school.

Playing with flourishes

Sorry to everyone who keeps popping over and seeing there hasnt been a posting for while. I have had a few problems with my back and havent really been very inspired to do much at all of late. Anyway enough of that, I have been playing with my new set of stamps. STAMPS? I hear you say. It is true I am not really a stamper and havent stamped for at least 5 years. When, from memory it was only anitas stamps that were readily available. But I have been browsing the net and of course asking my blog buddie, Terrie B and just love the autumn leaves flourishes and swirls. They are more me, so without further ado I gave them a try. All this acrylic stamping is so much easier than guessing where your image may turn out. I have a long way to go before I am a pro, but I enjoyed it anyway - Oh yeah except for running off to the sink every 5 minutes to clean them. Perhaps my next mission in life will be "the self cleaning clear stamp". I also had a play with these new hydrangea blooms that I now have in stock. (A pack of 60 is just £1.65). Who know I may even jump on the Tilda bandwagon next....

So I made these for mum, as her card box is getting a little empty and without a doubt, they are definately her cup of tea.

Thanks for looking, supplies are: Brads, eyelets and blooms - Poppicrafts. Papers - Pink petticoat and basic grey. Ribbon - ribbon oasis.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot - later this week there will be another Poppicrafts competition with more candy to win.

Little Notelets!

Made 20 little weenie notelets yesterday. The requirements were "keep it simple, with not much on them" Hmmm, simple eh? I found it really hard to not add oodles of ribbon and colour etc... But I think they turned out ok. To me they look a bit unfinished, as they are not in my usual syle, but its good to be challenged sometimes I guess. Which reminds me, I must start joining in again over at papertake weekly and Daring cardmakers. I havent done so since before Christmas... which is a tad naughty, but ive been really busy doing other stuff. Hope everyones enjoying the fantastic British weather today - YUK!!!!!

Supplies are: Blooms, brads and eyelets - Poppicrafts, Papers - DCWV and Pink petticoat, Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

A couple of bits and bobs

Made a couple of bits and bobs over the last couple of days. The first was a nice little plain and simple book for my mum to keep all her little seed packets in AND she requested it to be plain so she could decorate it herself. Do we have a crafter in the making I ask myself. To be honest its so she can write on the cover and the envelopes. She is fantastic at calligraphy, but not many people seem to do it these days, which is a shame! I simply covered some 2mm chipboard, cut a bit bigger than the envelope size. Punched the holes and used some binding rings. Put a couple of eyelets in the covers and tied with "a mothers love" twill.

I also made 3 cards yesterday and have decided today I shall join most of the other bloggers out there and use up all those papers that we seem to save for no apparent reason. So over the next few weeks, you will probably see some rather dated papers being used up - I apologise now!!!

Supplies are: Brads, Eyelets, Rub-ons and blooms - Poppicrafts, Papers - DCWV and Pink petticoat, Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

TFL and thanks to everyone who left me info on the round stamps that I am looking for - I am perusing ebay daily to see if I can find them, now I know who they are made by. x

A few cards!!

Just want to thank everyone who has entered the valentine competition so far. I have had a great response - so keep them coming ladies!!!!! You never know, it could be YOU!!!!

Made a couple of cards this week and have started on a couple of projects, which reminds me I havent posted the pics of my mums scrapbook for christmas yet. Hmmm, I must do that tomorrow!!

Oh yeah thats what I was going to ask - I hardly ever stamp, but I have seen some circle stamps with birthday sentiments written round the edges and through the middle. I have found the Autumn leaves ones, but their not birthday sentiments, If anyone has a clue what I am talking about, could you please, please tell me who makes them.

Anyway supplies for the cards are: Papers - pink petticoat, Brads and eyelets - Poppicrafts, Ribbon - ribbon oasis.

thanks for popping by...

Where. Oh where has my mojo gone????

What a disaster!!! Well not really, it is only a card after all, but I think I have lost my thread somewhere..... Mind you I havent made a card since before Christmas and with a million and one things on my to-do list, I'm not surprised. You know when you get those great days, when you have loads of ideas and make a few good cards and then theres days like today, when you just know your cards not going to turn out how you expect. Well I decided to make a card for grandad, whos 81 next week, I didnt really feel in the mood and thought he likes reading and gardening, so i'l make card with a couple of bookmarks. This is what I came up with and I am not thrilled with it, to say the least, I dont know if I'm the only one who gets this, but I was pushing the pieces around the card blank and getting nowhere, so I just stuck it down.Oh well, nevermind maybe tomorrow i'l feel inspired again and come up with something else. :(

P.S. If anyone finds my mojo... PLEASE GIVE IT BACK!!!!

OOOPS - Long time, no blog!!!

Oh how time flies!!!! Sorry guys, havent blogged for ages. Just been so busy (as we all are at this time of year) Have a few cards to show, but I am such a doughnut - I made a couple of notebooks for Rileys teachers and gave them to them before taken the photos. Also I finished my mums scrapbook, which I couldnt show anyway as I know she frequents my blog,(she knows she is getting it - so its ok to mention) but I forgot to take the pics of that aswell and now ive wrapped it!!!!!!!

Anyway here are a couple of cards for my parents and the teachers and children at school. As I am being a naughty blogger right now its probably best if I wish you all a great big Magical Christmas now and I hope you all have a really FABAROONIE time.

Best wishes,

Mich

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