Tri fold wedding card

Something that's not a usual wedding card but it's for an unusual wedding, american influences inside for the bride. PTI shutterbug camera and I think an old G45 sheet!

3 x2 photos

When you have a fussy underweight child whose weight is not even on the charts for his height you are happy when he eats anything....even if it is a coffee mocha cupcake :)

I finally found somewhere in town that prints 3x2 photos, since my kodak printer died I had no way of printing unusual sizes. 

Well needless to say he ate the bun...paper and all

Paper is some old basic grey and echo park and jillybean letters.

Grow up? When pigs fly

Inspired by the recent Finnabair workshops and so disappointed I missed out on it, I decided to try a messy layout today of me and Amy. It's titled, grow up? when pigs fly with acut out G45 pig. The hot air balloon is a Maya Road stamp I got in cardznscrapz for €2.45 and gives a very crisp image when stamped. The photo was actually a mistake as it cut off half my face so I thought by squishing things together it wouldn't be as noticeable!

Scrapping with Phil

..kinda sounds like Tuesdays with Morrie just as therapeutic.

Had such an urge to write Little Boy Big Boobs but I couldn't lol

I think this is the first time I cursed on a layout but it was written on a post it so I had to! It's titled Oh Shit, keep calm and carry on!

Altered spoon

This months challenge on Cardznscrapz was to alter a spoon. I kept putting it off because in my head I had the idea "a spoonful of sugar" but no images to suit. The spoon is part of a mission where I stole it from work, badly...in front of a canteen of people and dropping it 3 times. Such a bad thief! 

Using metal markers I coloured it in and covered the spoon part in graphic 45 paper and the fella....well he was just an old stamp and never been used! Glossy accented the glass on the jars and wrapped wire all around the handle. A fragment with the G45 paper behind it on top of the spoon finished it off. It looks ridiculous but then again it's a spoon with paper on it so of course it's going to be!

Smash*ing fun

What's another way to spend my money & torment myself for not having enough time to do it? Smash* books ticked all that criteria. Really haven't a clue what I'm doing but it's fun to smush everything in :) I did a swap recently with Aideen who was very generous starting me off my smash stash. I decided the theme of the book should be a time capsule do I'm taking a capture of the fufu's in 2012!

 

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The pain of scrapbooking

To say that cutting out so many circles with a crappy I brad hole puncher in 3 different sizes was so difficult is an understatement....as I mash the iPad with my hands because my fingers no longer work I just hope my pain paid off :) inspired by pinterest I made about 8 cards along with this, I love the spectrum of colours!

 

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Fuzzy cutting wedding card

Anne spotted my cutting today (Got the new Tonic TH scissors ahhhh) and said a cross communication between Americans and fussy cutting is sometimes called fuzzy cutting :) So here is my fuzzy cut card with PTI camera & new flower  stamp. I think it took no more than 5 minutes but like how it turned out! I wanted to personalise it but the person who ordered the card didn't know the names of the couple...should be a good wedding!

New pti stamps

So I saw a picture today that says a friend helps you to craft shop, a good friend helps you to hide it! Convinced Emma is my enabler, I only had my pti order today & was putting another in for inks!

 

This is the new pti shutterbug die which has the cutest pull down tag like a Polaroid. I don't think I've ever loved a stamp set as much!

 

This lo on the other hand.... Really thought I wanted blank Cardstock but I'm not feeling it. It's missing something, I'll have to try again I think!

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Ohhh new scrap stash!

The whole window shopping online is very dangerous when all you have to do is push confirm to buy...a few drinks saturday night and I bought a little (if Derek can't see this, I bought a lot!) I got a chance to scrap in peace & actually enough it for the first time in ages.

Paper is echo park & I got a huge stash of coloured card stock by Papermania. My hexagon stamp is pti ( my stamping is so fricking bad!) and a few hand made embellishments such as the banner, flag & ribboned buttons

 

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Anniversary card

Again one of these days that isn't really sprung on me... 4 years on 08.08 and I decided at the last minute to make a card. Pti Rosie posie stamp and hand cut wobbly hearts but it's what's on the inside that counts right?

 

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Don't craft while hot & angry

Wish I lived by my own rules because now I've ended up with mediocre stuff like this *sigh 

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Mini Album- Playing catch up

I've had these photos building up for a while and wanted to do something special with them. I seem to be in a mad mini album rage these days, banging them out in a few hours because I know if I leave it I won't come back to it. I used the same accordion basis that I posted in the last post and with a few adjustments, I can see it very easy how each album can vary even with the same style.
I used Do-crafts Happy days 12x12 pack with a background of Kraft and some embellishments from an old Bo Bunny pack. Die envelopes are Papertrey Ink and I borrowed it off Emma at the weekend and must have rolled about 100 of them! Everything is coming in a little envelope from now on :)

P.S He who shall not be named videoed the first attempt....in camera mode so I sacked him and videoed it myself, pulling tags one handed is hard let me tell you!

Graphic 45 Album

I wanted to make an album for my friends babies who are one soon, so the perfect chance to buy and try graphic 45 ABC primer. I thought it was a little morbid (? strange word to describe it but it was for a baby album and seemed an odd choice) but after cutting it all up I think it worked :)

Excuse the bad videoing job....men eh? Now he wants to claim this as his own because he videoed it! 

This is the tutorial I kind of used to make the bind, I say kind of because I didn't measure anything!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGcGsfZyo5w&list=PL78F926650E2A32BB&index=1&feature=plpp_video

Engagement card with a twist

I can't seem to make a straight forward card these days! It is for my sister who got engaged last week.
It's a card that opens up and has pockets on the inside to hold tags with questions on it like "How did he propose?" "How she said yes" "the ring" "1st plans" etc and left some spare ones so she can fill them in herself. And tada an engagement memory box

Sorry for the crappy photo, taken on the ipad at night doesn't make for good photos!

Stocking up my card pile

Tim Holtz Tree die embossed with a chequered die, hand cut hills and a PTI greeting stamp

PTI tree die and buttons, same as before. Waltzing mouse sentiment

A Rosie Posie PTI stamp (love this set!) and covered in glossy accents

My new waltzing mouse stamps, perfect for Eli scrapping and boys cards. I stamped a load out and coloured them in with watercolour pencils. Such a cute set and perfect for little boys!

Baby card & album-déjà vu

 

All my friends seem to be dropping babies like they are hot, so I've had to set up a baby card & present production line & make each of them different in some way!

The album is made from the new Papermania paper pack, I feel it's very retro & 1950's style but really versatile. The stamp is the same as before, coloured quickly with watercolour pencils.

My standard baby stamp layered up and mounted on some embossed paper. My poor cloud has seen better days I think!

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Woo woo I'm published

I've never even had a LO published and now I have a full article in crafting Ireland. proud as punch!
Issue 11
(I'm on page 47 ish!)

Rainy, wet summer tag

 

While crafting yesterday with Anne (it was so nice to be responsibility free and drink my tea without random bits of plastic food being dunked in it) I found it hard to get down & actually do something. I made this tag just before I had to run off to reality again & just love this stamp, he looks like most of the people in Ireland looking out at the rain since..oh I don't know the 1800's. My fence pti die and new do crafts bunting stamp, love this :) the rest if the stamps are too floral for me but think the bunting is worth it! Tied with a strip of burlap, not as technique filled as I like but Percy cheered me up!

 

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A baby girl card with a difference

Out of a cigar case of all things :) It's an altered version of an altered paper duvet... less grungey and more girly. I had to cover the health warning on the side with a strip of paper saying "welcome to the world" The card can be used as a name tag for a room which means it won't be thrown in a box (or well depending on how much the recipient likes it :) )