Another sneak peek - First Love Ultimate Kit

I have a huge collection of dies, and when I say huge, I mean HUGE! I have hundreds and any of my friends who have been in my craft room can vouch for that fact LOL!

I have so many that half of them (probably more) have never been used, so my New Years resolution for this year is to use as many as I can, and I've made a start with today's card.

I've used the image, papers, scalloped topper and sentiment circle from Paper Creators First Love Ultimate kit - (which should be in store very soon).

I've re-sized the image (included in kit) to fit on to the sentiment circle.

Papers, Image, Sentiment, scalloped circle - First Love Ultimate Kit - Paper Creator

White Linen card - Papermill Direct

Embossing Folder - A4 Cascading hearts

Lifestyle nesting circles die

Spellbinders Borderabilities - A2 scalloped borders 1

Butterflies - CC Cutters die

X-cut palm punch - Pointed Butterfly large

Ribbon and gems - Meiflower

Woohoo! four different dies used, I'm off to a good start, I've got a couple more cards made using the papers in this kit with some more of my dies, so I'm on a roll, hehe!

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Satin ribbon flower tree and wreath

A while ago I made some Christmas samples for Meiflower to take around the craft shows and one of the things she asked me to use were the satin ribbon flowers. I ended up putting two cards together to show off the flowers, arranging some to make a Christmas tree and others to decorate a wreath.

Satin ribbon flowers and gems - Meiflower

Precious Snowflakes - Memory box die

Peel off wording

Papers and image- Fizzy moon Festive Fun Designer Paper Pack

Go Kreate - scalloped circles large frames dies

Lifestyle Nesting circles die

Universal embossing folder - Happy Holly

Die-namics - Photo corners die

Satin ribbon flowers, Ribbon, cats eye dazzlers and diamante embellishement - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Embossed Christmas Card

I really wanted to use the Crafts Too Christmas Greetings embossing folder as I have had it in my collection for a couple of years now and don't think I have ever used it, mind you I have a lot of dies and embossing folders like that LOL! every single die or folder I buy I have an idea for at the time, and then they go into a box with the rest and the next time I come across them I can't remember what my idea was!

This Christmas card was quick and easy to put together, but I love the way it turned out.

Kraft card - Anna Marie Designs

Pearlescent card -  Craft Creations

Crafts Too embossing folder - Christmas Greetings

Woodware inverted corner punch

Paper - Fizzy Moon Festive Fun designer paper pack

Wide Satin ribbon, stick on pearls and diamante ribbon slider - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Joy!

Thank goodness it's Friday! we are finally heading into the weekend, and I am soooo glad to see the end of a very busy week. Meg goes into respite today for a week, and as usual I am so looking forward to a few nights of undisturbed sleep, she goes approximately every 8 weeks, and by then I am well and truly ready for the break.

 It's also my grandson Will's birthday on Sunday, he will be 8 and amongst the many things on his present list was tea from the chippy, Tangfastics and about 27 Shark DVD's, he is shark mad at the moment and the gorier the film the better. I will be back on Sunday to show you the Shark themed cards I made for him, along with a pic of his Shark birthday cake.

On Monday Eric and I celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary, he has booked some time off work and we are going to have a couple of days out, most probably visiting reclamation yards as I am looking for some bits and pieces for the garden.

Tomorrow I am off to the craft show at Events City Manchester, looking forward to catching up with Mei (Meiflower) and Mel (Crafty Devils) as they will both be at the show and more importantly buying some new crafty goodies.

I have a couple of Christmas cards to show you today, both Meiflower samples, if you are going to the Manchester show, you will get to see them 'in real life'

Embossalicious 8x8 Christmas Patchwork folder – Cardcraft plus 

Letters made with an alphabet stencil from Every Crafts a pound 

Glitter paper also Every Crafts a pound

Buttons, ribbon and diamante ribbon slider – Meiflower

Small Snowflake punch - X-cut

Corner Rounder Punch - X-cut

Ribbons, tiny stick on gems and diamante topper - Meiflower

I'll be back tomorrow with a Paper Creator card, as it is the start of our new challenge.

Thanks for popping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Anything but a Card

The new challenge over on the My Besties blog today is

Anything but a Card

So if you would like to be in with a chance of winning $30 to spend on My Besties digi images, then just pop over to the challenge blog and link up your fabulous creations using a My Bestie image.

My anything but a card make was inspired by this post HERE, I loved the idea of turning a pillow box into a little handbag.

I made my pillow box almost A5 size, so it would be the perfect packaging for a scarf and gloves, or some make-up or jewellery.

Image - My Besties img837 - Coloured in Photoshop

Papers - It's Snow Fun - Just So Scrappy

Die for "handle" - local craft shop own make

Spellbinders Oval die

Nellie Snellen MFD007 Ovals

X-cut Border punch - Scallop

X-cut snowflake punch

Couture Creations embossing folder - Intrinsic

Ribbon, gems and diamante ribbon slider - Meiflower

Also a quick reminder that you can now buy the My Besties figurine, with a portion of the money raised from the sale going to Breast Cancer research and awareness

More details HERE

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invitation #9

The paper on today's invitation was made by rubbing a pink ink pad over the inside front of an embossing folder, before placing a sheet of pearl paper in and running it through the machine. The colour transfers to the flat parts of the paper but the embossing stays white. I love the effect!

White Pearl card and paper - Anna Marie Designs

Silver Pearl Card - The Range

Pink Pearl Brilliance Ink Pad

Die-sire Embossalicious Folder - Perfect Paisley

Ribbon and Diamante Enbellishment - Meiflower

Font - Jellyka Love and Passion - dafont

hugs,

Colette xx