Have a Jubilacious Time!

Hello Lovely Lovely Crafters out there, I know it's been
a long time coming, but I have been a busy little bee,
designing and designing and houseworking and making and
creating and painting and doing basically all the things we all
love to do, well apart from the houseworking bit! so at long last
a post that I have been meaning to do for sooooooooooo long,
firstly let me share my desgin cards with you, these designs are from
that Wonderful Mabel Lucie Attell CD Volume1,  Clear Stamp Set
range which is available now from Katy Sue Designs

Isn't this the cutest stamp? :0) x

And I just adore these little ladies having their very own tea
party and a natter!

Here are some other designs using the same two stamps.

Now here is the exciting news, to celebrate the Jubilee those lovely
people over at Katy Sue Designs are launching their new Mabel Lucie Attwell
CD Volume 2, along with 9 other brand new products, they will all be
available to order tomorrow exclusively on the Create and Craft channel
which will be part of a 4 day deal.  How exciting is that?!!
Now that Union Jack card at the very top is made with some of the wonderful
design backing papers that are available on the second CD, let me tell you,
you will be using these fabulous sheets over and over again they are
so universal! I mean how cool is Denim and Gingham paper? It Rocks!
also here is a little sneeky peek at one of my design cards
made from the second set of stamps, She is just too cool for school1!
So don't forget to tune in tomorrow at 8.00 and again at 1.00 to see the first
show, then again on Tues at 9.00 and 4.00, Wed at 10 and 2.00  and Thurs
at 8.00, 1.00 and 5.00, be there or be square!


You are soooo Cool I have to put my shades on!

Thanks for looking, enjoy your holiday time, Happy Crafting, Sue xx

Senior Moments!!!

Dear oh dear, is there any hope? not only did I link to an
earlier (111) post on WOYWW, I then commented on about
a dozen too!! The thing is, I was thinking why on earth has
someone posted one of my posts from November?? (seeing
my name already up there) has someone hacked into my
blog?? fear not, change my password, inform blogger?? check
my firewall!! are you all confused yet?? Yes? Let's move swiftly
on then, but I did think it was hilarious and look forward to
some more time wasting senior faux pas!
Now getting back to some serious card making, happenings
and utter fabulous creative moments and outings over last month.......
Firstly...

Look what the cat dragged in!! Fresh eggs delivered by a
rather convincingly adorable fluffy affectionate "She Devil"
that is Belle. We think, as she has a ping pong ball to
play with, she maybe mistook it for that?
Next, do remember that week, not so long ago when the Sun
came out? It did, I have piccies to prove it! Well my cousins son
came to stay, so as you do, I took him out and about. We went to
the Prom in my home town of Maldon

...visited my old home town of London :0))))))

this is where my heart is....

Views from the London Eye.... look at that sky!

Here we are, sunglasses to prove it was veeeery Sunny!

He lives in a small town in Lincoln called Brigg and has
never been to London before..... any excuse for me to
pay a visit!

These street artists are amazing :0)

Me and my Shadow, the poem on the pavement is
The Waste land by T.S. Eliot

Big Ben in the Distance

Nelsons Column

Looking out from the National Gallery and below
these mosaics are on the entrance floor in the National
Gallery.

There is a reason why I took these and will explain another
project I am working on in another post.

The Plinth

St James Park

and finally the sunsetting over Kenya?????

No Braintree, Essex!!! :0) I have run out of time again, I have French
Students at the moment and have to collect them, so will try and
fit in some more blogging tomorrow and hopefully we will get
to the cards!!! Happy Crafting, TFL, Sue xx

WOYWW

Hello Lovely Bloggers, I can't believe how long ago my last post

was!!!! I must have been having lots of fun along the way as time

has just flown by! Well it's Wednesday so that means WOYWW

if you don't know what that means you must have been living

under a blogrock!!!! It's Worldwide don't you know! click on the

link if you want to play along!

So, I am prompted to post today because this beautiful card

is sitting on my desk, which arrived in the post today, oh and what

a delight when I opened it!! It made my day :0) x so I just had to post

and show you all :0))) If you would like to know who made

this beautiful work of art (Thank you so much Coops :) head on

over to her bloggeroonie and check out her wonderful cards.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, I have some wonderful design

cards ready for posting and also some piccies of the German

students I had staying recently making Union Jack cards at a

card class I held!! Back tomorrow for your next installment!

Happy Crafting, and Happy WOYWW, Sue xx

I'm Wishing on a Star....

Hello lovely bloggers, I hope you are all fine and dandy on this
brisk, rainy/sleety/snowy day! I had packed away my winter
boots last week, only to get them back out again yesterday! I have
been a bit busy of late plus me and hubby had the lurgy! plus had
a few commissions just to make sure I wasn't resting too much!!
so have not had time to post anything but have missed you all!
anyways thought I would show you all my design team sample
cards using the fab new CD, Stamps, Stickers and design sheets
from Katy Sue Designs. They are being showcased this week on none
other than the Create and Craft Channel as their "Pick of the Week"
so tune in and have a little looksie. Some of the designs are just
amazing, you can even use the stickers on vases, mirrors etc;
These I have to say, have been my favourite products so far; talk
about being away with the fairies on this little lot of cards....
...oooh I had sooo much fun......... well here are my cards, you
can judge for yourselves!

I made a concertina box from a tri-fold aperture card and then
added the backing papers to card for the back drop.

This is a side view, I used eyelets top and bottom and then florist
wire to attach those cute little fairies onto the inside. By pushing
the wire back and forth it gave the effect of them dancing by the
moon, oh well did I have lots of fun with this one!!

The outer edge flowers and trees are all from the stickers pack.
The beautiful moon backdrop is from the CD and the dancing
fairies were created with rubber stamps onto black card and
decorated with Stickles, Crystal.

This little beauty has also been stamped with Impress Silver
embossing ink and then heat embossed with Stamp n Stuff -
Kaleidoscope, I also stamped her wing again onto acetate and
heat embossed to set, cut a little slice to fit the wing into, ooooh
how fabby doo does that look? I cut out the leaves and petals
from an old pad from K & Co pink recycled paper, made from
my own template. I did add some gorgeous flowersoft for the
centre pollen, but after I took the piccie!

Here is a little close up of that wing, I then added the little damsel
fly punched from silver mirri card and added Stickles Crystal for
glistening effect and a little pink plastic gem to represent a
droplet of water.

This fairy is from one of the Sticker sheets, so you can see that
the stamps and stickers are all co-ordinated. Stuck onto black
card for extra body, crescent moon cut from own template on
black and silver glitter card. Punch used for stars and dragon
flies. The Dream is from the Sticker pack but again comes as
a stamp too. Little silver organza ribbon to finish.

This one is from the Lunar Landscape sheets and also the
CD, I have decoupaged the fairies to make them stand out.
Sentiment is also from the LL sheets. This emerald green
really does stand out from the crowd.

Ooooh this was my favourite, I used a gate fold card and shaped
the top to form doors. Eyelets used for ribbons and tied together
Those gorgeous trees are stickers; aren't they fab? The fairies
have been stamped using the same process as the Pink Lilly card.
Can you see the little notice? It says " You have to believe to Enter
the Enchanted Wood" this was done using the PC. The believe at
the top again using the co-ordinating stamp set, stamped onto
green shrink plastic with Black Staz On.

Inside the enchanted wood is an array of stickers and background
papers from the CD, the fairies are stickers which I have placed
again onto black card for support, I have added a diamante stone
in the centre of the star and also used a new Flower Soft product
called Glitter Frosting, it is like little snowflakes of irredescent
hues of green and violet. The tree in the centre is also from the
sticker pack.

Next on the list is this centre step card. These papers were
from the CD again, they have co-ordinated them with quite
a few of the spellbinders dies so the shapes come out printed
ready for you to either cut with scissors or to use you spellbinders
dies. I love this colour. The flowers I have punched and used
black flower soft in the centres. These fairies are already printed
onto the backing papers, the CD has either plain backing sheets
or pre printed with fairies and trees.

And finally this little easel card, the Birthday wishes has been
stamped onto the backing papers and cut out.. I have also
decoupaged the fairies and tree to give them some depth.
These were tiny but the effect if so good. Lots of Stickles too
to make them all sparkle.
Well I hope you enjoyed your little journey into fairy land, I
certainly loved making these beautiful cards. If you would
like any info on any of my cardmaking techniques just drop
me an email or if you would like any info on these gorgeous
products you will find them all here.
TFL, Happy Crafting, Suexx

Love is in the Air!

It certainly is for all you romantics out there! that includes me; :0)
I can't stop singing that song either. Well here is hubby's card,
thought this little stamp, which was a freebie in the Craft Stamper
Mag for February would make a lovely bunch of balloons. I printed
the words onto card from the PC then stamped over each one and
painted them with water colours.
Well over on the Simon Says Stamp blog their challenge this week is aptly
called "Love is In the Air! and they ask you to use some Prima
products too if you have any, I could not resist these beautiful
Prima papers from their Sweet Fairy collection. I have cut out
the tag and these beautiful words from a different sheet from the
same pad, it reads, "My sweet love so precious and true, how you
flutter about in my heart making magic everlasting and sprinkling
sugar on my world" now how could I resist putting that on there,
gush gush hee hee. If you want to play along hop on over as they
are giving away a $50.00 gift voucher to spend in their fabby shop.

Here is a little close up of those balloons and also that

tag with the sentiment.
TFL, Happy Crafting, Sue xx

and they called it Poppy Luuuuuuuuuve

hee hee, hello blogland, do you remember that song by the
gorgeous Donny Osmond? ooooh well, he was my first love
don't you know! :0) I remember watching him on TOTP
daydreaming, watching him in his white flat cap knitted hat
walking through the park, aaahhhhh, does anyone else
remember that video? think that was the first single I ever
bought too! Oops showing my age now!!
Well I thought that title was pretty apt as I was asked to do
a Valentines card for my friends young son whose girlfriend
is called?....... yes you guessed it, Poppy! so thought I would
use these beautiful flowers from the Floral Cd over at
Katy Sue Designs, and make a heart shape from them.
I have also used their beautiful Ultra fine flower soft in
Black to accent the centre of the flowers, it really does
bring these flowers to life. I made a sort of triangle shaped
card??? don't ask me how it turned out that way but the
fold went a bit wrong and well, I think it is right???

Here it is from another angle, sentiment was done on PC
and the backing papers are also from the same CD.

and here it is flat, I cut out each poppy and layered them then
used some card at the back just to strengthen the flowers that
are away from the card.
Well I will leave you young ones to google that song and
hopefully happy memories for us....well....a bit olderies!
TFL Happy Crafting, Sue xx

Snow Piccies :0)

Hello lovely bloggers, thought I would share the pictures
that I took on Sunday after the heavy snowfall we had, it
was beautiful down at the prom...I hope you enjoy them :0)












TFL, Suexx