Penny Black Cards

I was just reading through UKS and found a link to a fab new blog called Penny Black Saturday Challenge so for those of you who love Penny Black stamps, check this site out.

This card is for my friend who is horse mad and has about 15 horses. So the Minding Shelty Penny Black stamp was an obvious choice. I have coloured it using my fabby Coloursoft pencils and then mounted on blue Bazzill Bling card and then on to stripy paper. Then the whole thing is mounted onto brown Bazzill Bling. I have put blue and brown prima flowers down the side with a blue pearl in each one. The greeting is a Bo Bunny rub on (I am so loving these) mounted on to blue Bazzill. I have wrapped blue grosgrain ribbon and a couple of ribbon sliders.

This card is for a mum from the nursery that Zoe attends. She had a baby girl on Tuesday a week early by caesarian. Again it is a Penny Black stamp - Nap Time - coloured in with Coloursoft pencils and mounted on cardstock from the Baby Girl Nursery stack from DCWV. The greeting is a Making Memories one (rubbish in comparison with the Bo Bunny ones) and then I have added some pink sheer ribbon. I laid this card out last night and didn't like it so went to bed. When I got up this morning I liked it and so put it all together.

A prompt for A-Z challenge

Well despite feeling poorly all day (not according to my husband!!!) I have managed to the first layout of the A-Z challenge. I am doing a A-Z of Zoe as I think it will be nice to chart a year in her life and I will ensure that I use up to date photos for each layout. I haven't really journalled this page but I have included a poem.

I have done A for Angel as Zoe is my little angel. This is only my second layout and I am really pleased with the way it has come out. It is really bright and colourful. I cut the Angel out using my Craft Robo and Hobbycraft's self adhesive glitter card. The photo is mounted on this too but in a turquoise. I have used Bazzill Bling cardstock for the base and some papers from Cup Cake, ric rac ribbon and then some Bazzill flowers and brads.

Finished Nellies

I have managed to make 2 cards today using my Sugar Nellie stamps. The first one is using Fanciful Green Filigre (their spelling not mine!!!) paper made by Paper Adventures which I got from Hobbycraft. It is lovely paper with embossed glittery swirls. The image is the Winter Sugar Nellie which I have water coloured. I have also used Bazzill Bling card and a Bling flower.

The second card is using DCWV paper from the Spring Stack with pink and blue Bazzill Bling card. I can't remember where the flowers are from. The card I cut on my Craft Robo on pearlised card and it is scalloped with hearts in each scallop. I then used ribbon inside the card behind the hearts.

I just lurve these stamps!!!!

Welcome

Hi to anybody who is reading my very first attempt at a blog.

I love visiting the UK Scrappers website http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/ - I was bought a Craft Robo (or Robo Cop as I like to call it) by my darling husband a couple of months ago and I was advised to use this website as there is always plenty of help to be found on there - and what good advice it was. I have downloaded numerous templates for the Robo Cop and have actually made some of my own after following all the fabby tutorials.

Then I started looking at other forums on the site and have got a bit addicted to the card making one. I love entering the challenges and have made several cards for them. My favourite to date was for the September challenge using a sketch from the Page Maps site http://www.pagemaps.com/. I made a monochromatic card using Doodlebug papers, glittered butterfly stamps, Bazzill card and a dreaded peel off!!

I am hoping this blog will encourage me to keep making cards so that I have something to post on to my blog. So please keep revisiting my blog to see what I get up to. I hope it isn't too boring and hopefully as my card making skills improve you will start to see some fabby cards.

Right I am off to colour some beautiful Bella stamps that I bought from First Class Crafts http://www.firstclasscrafts.co.uk/ on Friday which popped through my door on Saturday morning - what service eh?