Recycle VHS Case - Mini Album

Fridays recycle team challenge inspired me to create a mini photo album using an old VHS video case using The Lemonade Fizz CD and " you are beautiful " and other small stamps in the Stamp soup collection for the sentiment and front cover : I loved making this photo album and is a first for me ! Why don't you pop over to the Polkadoodles Challenge this week where "anything goes" for this for you! Until next time "carry on crafting folks" lots of love Nelly x

Off the page Wedding!

Nelly - This week I have used Wedding Car Digi Image. Papers and sentiment using Love and Cherish CD Coloured with Marker pens.

I created the card by placing the coloured image on the front facing centre fold and drew and cut  around the right side of the coloured image folded this back and trimmed it away from the card.  I covered the front with a design paper from the CD, Next opening the card  fully (front facing) i adhered the coloured image into place. When opened it sits off the page and   you can still see the whole image ( fig2) Decorate as desired.

Lots of Love GDT Polkadoodles challenge week

Shush its a secret ! I've made this for my Husband (still sticking with the male theme lol! Its a heart shaped stepper card using Twiggy and Toots Digi image for this week Challenge theme over at Polkadoodles, the heart shapes are cut also from th epapers in the set and palced randomly on each layer, the papers are using the distress ink bundle found HERE  and the sentiments can also be found HERE.  Have some fun and enter this weeks challenge, ill be looking for you :-)

Winter Birthday Boy!

Just love crafty Fridays ! this week theme over at Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge is a " Winter Birthday" now having mainly males within my family I've set myself a goal to focus on Male themed cards this year, which is not easy as we all struggle with this, don't we?  so inspired by the star shaped easy card which you can find  the how too video HERE  don't be put off it is much easier then it looks!!  This style was perfect to use the  Little Dudes Digi bundle as you get the added bonus of papers too, and i coloured him in using pro markers!  Give this a go and enter the challenge competition Ill be looking  and commenting on your makes !!!!

Heart themed notepad Bookmark

Happy Friday all! this weeks theme was " Hearts" and thought i would do something different this time: using all the papers from the  Distress ink paper bundle printed and folded into  quarters, using a  heart shaped die ( or cut by hand)  carefully place approx 1/2 inch  before the folded point , print and cut cut several pages, when opened it looks like a flower!! Cut the front and back heart from a cereal packet and covered this also using the papers, glued onto a strip of hessian and carefully adhering the folded  hearts shaped pages  you have a notepad on the go in your favourite diary/notebook : the sentiment is using my " go to" sensational everyday stamps which is a " must have set"  flowers are used using punches from my stash and the left over scraps, go on give this a go its quite simple and useful project! until next time Happy Crafting all :-)

Thanks for everything

Hi Everyone:

How exciting I'm a new guest designer with Polkadoodles and we are going to have lots of fun ! This first post is a Thank you card which is adorable don't you think?, the image is  from the Twiggy and Hoots Digi stamp and you can find it by clicking HERE,  Taking the  image into Serif and  using the circle punch tab I punched two circles into the image !  So easy and so much you can  do with this image . The sentiment " Thank you for everything can also be found on the  Winnie celebrations 2 collection there is so much to choose from in this collection! The backing paper is also found on the website by clicking HERE This collection will coordinate with your Tim Holtz distress or oxide inks. I hope you like my first project and is inspirational. bye for now, Nelly

Foam Roses

Well what can i say is been almost a year since I blogged ! ...naughty Nelly :-)  I intend to correct that  from now on ill post on a Wednesday evening my crafty make for that week:

So just for starters (to right the wrong) I have a quick post of some white roses ( my favourite rose) made form Foamiran : Foam was cut into petals and coloured lightly with a green pastel oil crayon, finger rolled and adhered with hot glue. I  hope you like them as much as I  do....now im off to plan next weeks post ....erm what shall i make?

Foamirian flowers and stamens.

Hi Everyone,



 Recently i attended a foam flower making beginners class  and i acquired another addiction :-)  i decided to share my journey with you!  the pictures below are not the flowers i made at the class, instead i opted to have a go myself.

I started by making the stamens: i first took some cotton thread and brushed the cotton with clear drying pva glue, next i placed liquid pearls on the ends and dipped into mirco beads and left to dry.

I didn't want to use my finer foam just yet as I'm only practising, so i cut 1mm foam into love heart shapes (10 petals in total, i coloured the ends with Faber Castell Gelatos in Raspberry, then i warmed on an ordinary iron on silk setting, rolled and shaped each love heart by hand, ensuring the very top of the petals was rolled tightly, gently stretch out taking care not to stretch out the tips of the petals or they will go smooth again.

Once my stamens was dry i wrapped fine wire around them to make the centre, i had also cut a fine fringe from a strip of foam and rolled also with my stamens.

Next i glued the pointed tips of my love hearts only onto the created stamen centre, working 5 petals around the centre and 5 more around the outside.

next time i hop to show a step by step guide . hope you like the flower :-)

Nellys Crafty Card Attack: CHIN CHIN ! clean and simple

Nellys Crafty Card Attack: CHIN CHIN ! clean and simple: Surprise!!!....been a while since i posted a  clean and simple, one layer cards so here you go.... using the "uncorked"stamp set !...

CHIN CHIN ! clean and simple

Surprise!!!....been a while since i posted a  clean and simple, one layer cards so here you go.... using the "uncorked"stamp set !

Fun and Festive Altenew cottage

Hi Everyone, ,

Yeah its Friday and at the moment not raining! I've had the Altenew cottage sometime now and when I saw Sue Wilson's festive collection i just new how i wanted to use this  with my Altenew stamps ! so today i have used the cottage stamp ! I have decorated the card using the holly die also by Sue Wilson. Go on treat yourself :-)

Altered box with Altenew daisy stamp decoration

This post is a little picture overload so ill just keep it breif and let you look ! I desperately needed something to store my framlit, thin dies and storage is so expensive so i used everything  from my food cupboard, scrap card trays and stash box ! oh except for the Altenew daisy stamps :-) thanks for looking, id love you to leave a little love on my post. when i get time i will post instructions....bye for now and happy crafting folks!

3 tier Box of soup stamps :-)

Afternoon all. been a a week since my last post so quickly wanted to show you all a 3 tier box card i made and decorated using the Polkadodles stamp soup stamps and printable papers from the CD you can find them HERE!  I stamped the images using various colours of memento dye inks pad.  the boxes inside are deep enough for my favourite chocolates to go inside , i have been informed it fits 4! you know the ones in the gold wrappers with almond nut coating  lol!  hope this inspires you, bye for now and Carry on crafting folks!

Love him Minions!

Good Morning everyone, A quick post from me today, Its  is my Hubby's Birthday so i thought id share the card I made for him using avery elle balloon die and heart stamps by Bo Bunny,  the I love you die is from my favourite things, I love this shape card and can be so versatile.

until my next post "Carry on crafting Folks!"

Altenew Pine Tree

Hi all,

This card has been made using the Altenew pine tree stamp: Its quite a small stamp approx 2  inches, so I layered one stamp down and masked the tree and built it up to be a little taller, I did a second generation stamping in the background, then applied a circle mask and applied  stormy sky and faded jeans distress inks using the brush technique, I going to do more of this design using other coloured dye inks and will add them to this post later.

Until  my next post "Carry on Crafting folks!"

Cool it down! ; Christmas Robins

Hi Everyone.

What a warm beautiful day it is here in Nottingham!  This Card was already planned for my Chat and craft Class today and I'm feeling rather amused that it is probably the warmest day of the year and we're making a Christmas A4 stepper card !
The bauble ornament was a free gift from a craft magazine i bought some while ago, its a Desire one!  magazine, the robins are coloured with pro markers and are cut out from a craft UK stamp set, the die cut snowflakes are from spellbinders.  i have snipped into a snowflakes frame die from memory box to create the borders, the string and bows are also a memory box die. the snowy background has been stamped in versmark and emboss with white embossing powder.

The season greetings sentiment is taken from tonic cracker die set. stickle glitter glue to give it all some festive sparkle.

Off now to create some more lovely cards with my craft group.
enjoy the rest of this lovely Sunday, sunny day!

until my next post "carry on crafting folks!" 

Say it with Roses !

Hope you have all enjoyed the Bank Holiday! another quick post from me again using the Altenew Beautiful Day stamps! this time using  shades of reds.

Happy Crafting Folks!

Altenew: Its a Beautiful day ! same but different

Hello everyone,  Its another Bank Holiday here without the sunshine,  Not very bright pictures but its getting quite late and dull here. Today I didn't have a chat and craft class so decided to have a play with my new favourite stamps Build a flower set by ALTENEW, I set myself a challenge to use the same ingredients and make 2 different cards! I'm quite happy with the end results and thought id share them with you for some inspiration.

I've used shades of brown dye ink for the sepia look to the flower and leaf  images, leaf die, stitched triangle die, twine and background paper, finishing the card with "Just because"  sentiment.

Enjoy the rest of the Bank Holiday weekend and Happy Crafting Folks!

Lucky Horseshoe Wedding Cards: Handmade chat and craft projects

Happy Wednesday everyone, as promised I'm Blogging the chat and craft class card up for you all to see, we have matted and layered using the pin dot square dies from tattered lace, the horseshoe  and rings were die cut using the set Britannia die set and we layered these 3 time using a contrast colour in the middle.we  placed these around the sentiment that I created in serif, embellished with a lucky white feather, punched hearts  and gems. hope you like this card. I made this card in various colours.

Happy Crafting Folks!

Bye for now