Well it was my birthday on Thursday and turning 32 was made much easier with the help of my new crafty things, which included a cuttlebug (still cant say that without smiling) and various accessories, the Forever friends cd rom and some promarkers, i was a very lucky girl to have been given some money (which was spent before i got it lol), another gift from my wonderful hubby, was some jewellery making materials (my new hobby), and i am loving playing with all the bits, so much so that i have not had a chance to play with they other crafty things, but im sure i will get to them soon, anyway here are the pieces i have made in the last couple of days, im really thrilled with how they turned out.

My jewellery

Well here are some pictures of my first attempt at jewellery making, i am so pleased with how they have turned out, i am throughly hooked, i cant wait to order some more bits and get making, i think i have found a new addiction.

I have made this one for my dad, its his birthday on friday, its an 8" card, i really hope he likes it.

Well this i one of my first attemps at a Tim Holtz style card, i used a flowery backing paper from the Jayne Netley Mayhew 2nd cd set, the leaves are just a stamp that i have had for a few years now, and the flowers are from May's craft stamper magazine, on the tag i used a flower image from one of the many foam backed stamps i have got from QVC, i am very happy with how this one turned out.

I love this one, its a 5" square easel card, made using another digi stamp, (sorry i have forgotten the name of the image), i teamed it with some designer backing papers, peel offs, gem stones and a couple of flowers.

This one i have done using a Tilly digi stamp, and some cupcakes from the Kanban stamp range, its an A5 size card.

This one i made using Tim Holtz ink and embossing powder for the main image, and matching robot backing papers, cutting out 3 little robots from the waste, and attaching them to the bottom of the card.

This is an A4 card using some pink vellum which i stamped and embossed in opaque white, i used the same swirly stamp onto the card base itself but i embossed it in clear powder, the "mum" was made using foam stamps from QVC, i am very happy with this card, it is a variation on a mothers day card i sent earlier this year.

This one i have made using an image from the Jayne Netley Mayhew 2nd cd rom from Joanna Sheen, the card size is 8" by 8", i have been using this size a lot recently.

I love the easel card shape, and i love side step cards too, so i thought i would see how they worked together, and i am very pleased with the end result, i have used a 10" by 7" card base and images from the Kanban cupcake stamp set, i have made this card for my little girl who will be 3 later this year (July).

Well it might be April but i have started making my Christmas cards, i have 15 so far, but there's plenty left to make, i wont put the photos up til much later in the year, but it is nice to have got started, i hope that my early start, will mean i avoid the mad rush in Dec this year.

I cant believe that April is here already, where did March go?, anyway i have not blogged in a couple of weeks so i thought i would upload some new cards today.

Well, here is my first card made with the House Mouse decoupage sheets, they are so cute.

My hubby needed 2 wedding cards in a hurry, so i put these two together for him using Kanban products, i'm very pleased with how they turned out.

Another easter card.

I am really enjoying working with the easel card shape, so here is a lovely easter one, once again using the decoupare i got from the J.S site.

With this one i stamped and glazed a couple of eggs to use as embellishments on the card.

Here is another easter card.

Here's one of the easter cards that i've made this year, using some decoupage i got from the J.S web site.

This is another card made using a cupcake set from Kanban, i glazed the icing for a nice finish.

Here is an 8" by 8" fold back card.

I made this A5 Ben 10 card to send to my friends son, the decoupage image looks great, like the characters are running right off the card.

This is a sweet card i made for my little brother, i adore the Milo decoupage, the images are very cute.

Here is my first attempt at an easel card, I'm very happy with how it turned out, and i am quite sure i will be making more of this style of card.

This is another 8" by 8" card, and this one i gave to my mum for mothers day, the word mum was spelt using the amazing value for money, foam stamp alphabet set from QVC.

This is the 8" by 8" card i gave to my lovely step mother, for mothers day.

I used muted toned backing papers with colours that are similar to the colours of the flowers.

Well i cant quite believe that March is here already!, this year is going by very fast. I have been playing with my Tim Holtz TSV but im really not sure about it, i like the things that other people have managed to produce, but i just don't "get it" and as a result im really not happy with my first attempt's, this it a new style of crafting for me and its very frustrating that i cant seem to grasp the technique, i wont give up just yet, i will just have to try a few more things and see how it goes, if i manage to make something half way decent i will put up a picture.

Well here it is, the corset card i made for my cousin, we met up yesterday (a week after her birthday) and i was finally able to give it to her, we went shopping and out for lunch, it was a lovely day.

This is an A5 card using a smaller version of my favorite image.

These are the first A.T.C's i have made this year, without the right tools i wanted to try some "clarity" style work, i am really pleased with how they turned out.

This is my favorite Wings of hope card, i used lots of little strips of different coloured ribbon down both sides of an A5 card.

I tried this one in portrait and gave the surrounding glitter border a lace look using one of my mosaic punches

Another 10" by 7" card.

Here is my second card, using brown tones this time.