happy birthday princess.

 Good morning crafters.

Popping in with my share for today.

i have another completed card to show using one of the curvy girls from stampingbella: curvy girl loves the beach.

just a really fun image to use and i have teamed the image up with some of bella's sentiment stamps on the background and i have stamped them randomly, again i have used my distress inks and glitter pens to colour the image and added some of my maja design papers and distress ink pads to complete.

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

cheers to you. birthday card

good morning crafters.

popping in to share one of my latest completed cards, a birthday card using a Stampingbella image i coloured up a while ago:

Opal the optimist, i have used my distress inks and glitter pens to colour as well as a little frantage, mulberry roses and two dies to complete.

i have been lucky enough to have two holidays recently hence no post for a little while and i am trying to catch up and complete greetings cards using the images i have already coloured.

With Halloween & Christmas just around the corner hopefully i will be creating some seasonal greetings cards over the next few weeks.

but in the mean time

thanks for stopping by

enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

new Waldorf doll in progress

 hi and good morning to all

popping in today to share a new very special Waldorf doll that i have slowly been making this year.

on this post the doll is still at a work in progress stage with a few more things that need to be added.

the completed doll will be shared at a later date.

in the doll making process i do still however have a huge problem with crochet and crocheting a weft but after watching a you tube video by polly wally do dah i have come up with my own variation. i have knitted/made a skull cap and i've carefully sewn the weft onto the cap using some of the techniques from the video and then once the wig was completed i have pinned and sewn the cap onto the doll and i am so pleased with the finished result. 

one day i will share the process with you all...in the mean time i need to find a hard ball that is a similar size to the dolls heads i make to enable me to easily sew the weft onto the knitted skull cap, and then pin and securely sew the wig onto the doll..

the wig needs to be trimmed..

todays doll has been made using a pattern i have from a north coast dolls workshop i attended last year, i am so glad i went. i met some very lovely ladies and Meglene is a very patient and lovely teacher.

with her new glasses

thankfully i have all sorts of stuff in my stash from various crafts i enjoy and i have made a simple pair of glasses.

her glasses are made from pink coated florist wire..

so for now i will close off and say:

join me again soon to see the completed doll.

enjoy your day and craft happy, Ann

Merry Christmas & SB challenge

 good morning crafters

well it's the middle of July and for most crafters that can only mean one thing:

getting ahead with christmas cards. 

i have to say it's not something i normally do but i couldn't resist joining in with Stampingbella's current challenge: Christmas in July

i've chosen to use glitter and shimmer card to give it a luxury christmas feel and i've teamed it up with some of my fave dies.

it's funny sometimes when i make cards they aren't the vision i had originally, i had planned on using christmassy papers and got side tracked with the glitter card. 

the image has been painted with distress ink and the baubles and star have been highlighted with glitter pens and i've masked my image to stamp the christmas sentiment.

some of the items used:

distress ink, spellbinder, joycraft & creative expression dies, sakura glitter pen, memento ink, stampingbella stamp: savannah has a star, magnolia sentiment stamps, white base card, gold glitter & satin card from sizzix.

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

Happy Birthday

 good morning crafters

popping in with a personal share today, a birthday card for my beautiful granddaughter Ruby.

a fabulous young lady who turned 12 yesterday and for her card i've used one of my saturated canary stamps: little ladybug and my colouring medium is: distress ink. i would normally die cut Ruby's name and add it to the card but i think the colours used for this card spell out her name beautifully.

i'm never quite sure how the paper will handle a bright red and i decided not to colour wash the background just in case the red bled, i need to add glossy accents to her eyes and wings, i'd ran out and had to order some more and sadly it won't be delivered in time for this post, so i am sharing minus the glossy accents but i will share the completed card at the end of an up coming post...

some of the items used:

distress ink, tonic dies, sakura glitter pen, mulberry roses, satin ribbon, memento ink, saturated canary stamp, sizzix sentiment stamps, spellbinder dies, mft sentiment stamp, white base card, off white card, granddaughter & personalised stamp from 

stamping-all-day and maja design designer papers.

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

happy birthday

 hi, and good morning to all

today's share is a little shabby chic creation using one of the first stampingbella stamps i bought a good few years ago: Faith the fairy

i just wished she'd have wings but hey oh she is gorgeous. 

the colour choices have been kept limited as i wanted an aged/vintage feel to the card. the image was coloured with my other images from my recent colourings that i shared but forgot to add it to the snaps i'd taken.

the card has been created by cutting down my designer and card stock papers to size, die cut my circles, scrapped all the edges of the papers and matted them together, stamped my sentiments, slotted my image behind my cut outs before i taped everything onto my base card. to complete i have attached my lace die cut and adhered my mulberry roses to finish.  

last sunday's shopping spree at a local craft fair at bolton wanderers stadium (craftarama) was great i managed to pick up a few things like card blanks, new stamps and also a new stamping platform and i know i probably spent more than i intended, i bumped into the lovely Jen Nelson whilst browsing on dies to die for stand and i knew if i stayed there any longer i would have spent more but i managed to stock up on what i needed, yay.

on to what i have used.

inks:

fade resistant dye ink: memento - expresso truffle

Tim Holtz:  distress ink

vintage photo, tattered rose, worn lipstick, broken china, walnut stain

papers:

fabriano artistico watercolour paper 140lbs, 

reprint hobby: roses

off white card

7" x 7" white base card

stamps:

stampingbella: faith the fairy

mft: something for everything

sizzix: sentiments

dies:

tonic circles

dohicky: vintage lace

miscellaneous:

mulberry roses

double sided tape

tacky glue

suppliers i use:

stamps:

dies to die for

sevenhills craft

stampingbella

Stampingallday, personalised stamp

papers:

craft heaven shop

ken bromley art supplies

carroway cottage: mulberry flowers

also you can buy from:

other on line stores and craft fairs in your area

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

birthday wishes

 good morning to all

popping in with my second share for the weekend and today's image is from lili of the valley (retired) a very adorable girlie image for all budding ballerina's. a very pink and girlie card using some gorgeous papers by reprint hobby again i've kept the card fairly simple and i've used a couple of dies, some satin ribbon and completed it with some flat backed pearls.

on to what i have used.

inks:

fade resistant dye ink: memento - expresso truffle

Tim Holtz:  distress ink

vintage photo, tattered rose, worn lipstick, spun sugar, victorian velvet, walnut stain, 

papers:

fabriano artistico watercolour paper 140lbs, 

reprint hobby: roses

6"x6"  white base card

stamps:

lili of the valley: ballet shoes - retired/discontinued

sizzix: sentiment stamp

dies:

my stash

miscellaneous:

flat backed pearls

foam pads

double sided tape

suppliers i use:

stamps:

sizzix

Stampingallday, personalised stamp

papers:

craft heaven shop

ken bromley art supplies

also you can buy from:

other on line stores and craft fairs in your area

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann