One man's junk.....

You know what they say.. one man's junk is another man's treasure.... well I found these little treasures last weekend...AT MY LOCAL TIP!!! I'd taken all the grass cuttings etc to the tip and as usual took my purse with me as our Local Recycling Centre sells all the good stuff that people take up there to be chucked. I don't often find anything of interest but my eyes came out on stalks when I saw these. They are Schreiber units and are in really good nick.. Guess how much they were? TWENTY FIVE POUNDS FOR THE PAIR!!!! so I bring them home (no mean feat - we got both of these in the back of a Citroen C4 Grand Picasso) and my Mum - who was visiting at the time- and I gave them a good clean, removed the light strip and Presto!! I now have a really great storage unit for all my Crafty Stash.

All those plastic boxes in the corner used to be stacked where this unit now stands and there were a couple of shelves that were bowed under the weight of all my stash (I took these down)and now everything looks neat & tidy. Now all I need to do is tidy up/chuck out the stuff in a wardrobe full of the boys old toys and my garage/stash room will look great!

Catch you later!

Heather
p.s This ISN'T all the stash that I have! You should see the opposite wall!

A Christmas baby....

Who wouldn't want to celebrate the birth of a Christmas baby with a pram like THIS?!!! I can't get enough of this pram. My Mum had a Silver Cross pram for 3 of us, wearing out and replacing 3 sets of wheels, looking after it really well. She got rid of it then promptly got pregnant with my youngest brother! BUMMER!!!(not the birth of my brother, getting rid of the pram!)
I used an Easy Easel base and Papermania Honey & Hugs Feative Frolics papers. I added red cardstock for the pram and as an accent colour for matting and layering and for the punched border. The pram base was cut from silver mirri and the pram body was cut from red pearlescent cardstock from The Paper Mill. I drew around the body of the pram and the hood then cut it out by hand to save paper (you don't need the wheels)
I added holly leaves (waste from an MS punch) to the hood of the pram along with some red gems for berries and added some punched holly leaves and a Papermania mini poinsetta from last Christmas' stash. A couple of green candy dots on the wheel hubs complete the pram. I mounted the pram onto a shaped panel which was adhered to the card with foam tape. A layered Poinsetta and bow were added to the card beside the pram. 'Little One' was cut from more red pearlescent card and layered with silver mirri. This was adhered to the border along with some punched holly leaves and more gems.
Carts used:
Pram- Mother's Day
Shaped panel- Winter Woodland
'Little One'- Stamping Solutions
Thanks for looking & have a great day!
Heather xxx

A Christmas Day Birthday....

I'm still in Christmas mode,but wanted to make something other than a Christmas card. So I thought..what other occasion could I use Christmas paper for? How about Birthday, Christmas Day baby, winter wedding etc, etc. So here is the first one that I came up with.. a Christmas Day birthday card. I used an Easy Easel base and beautiful Papermania Henbury Lane Poinsetta papers. I added a shaped panel featured on previous cards, cutting out an aperture and adding a layered sticker from last years Christmas stash (the colours just happened to go!) I added punched ivy leaves, red satin ribbon bow, a punched border and a plaque holding the sentiment. 'Happy' & 'birthday' are computer generated onto Safmat by Letraset and 'Christmas Day' was cut from a red peel-off material sheet. A smattering of gems complete the card.

Carts used:

Shaped panels- Winter Woodland

'Christmas Day'- Lyrical Letters

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather

Luke.....

No. 2 son is off to his friend Luke's 18th Birthday party this afternoon and he asked me to make a card. Luke shoots for the country and he is hoping to represent the country at the 2012 Olympics. I decided to use a cartoon figure as the focal point rather than cover the card in guns & bullet holes! I used an Easy Easel base and papers from DCWV Natural stack. I downloaded the hunter from Google Images (a great scource of images if you're stuck!) and printed it out 3 times onto matt photo paper. I decoupaged it using the other two images. I cut the name & number from papers from the stack and 'Happy Birthday' from orange mirri. I shadowed all the elements with brown cardstock. A crosshair was cut from black mirri.The 'stop' was edged with a Fiskars Greek Key border punched and then adhered with foam tape to the card base.The hunter and '18' were adhered with foam pads and 'Happy Birthday', 'Luke' and the crosshair were adhered flat.

Carts used:

'Luke' & '18'- Robotz

'Happy Birthday'- Stamping Solutions

Crosshair- Indie Art

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

Poptastic Birthday!.....

Our No.1 son is twenty tomorrow! Happy Birthday Krishnan! Crikey, how time flies..one minute they're this helpless little thing, then in a blink of an eye they're a legless big thing! He's discovered vinyl LP's (I've got quite a few) and he listens to them when he's home from Uni..so I thought that I'd shelve the guitars that I usually use on his cards and go down the LP route instead.
I used Imaginesce papers and black mirri (I LOVE THIS STUFF!) for the LPs. I layered the paper panels and added some candy dots coloured with a permanent marker to get a near perfect match. The LPs were 3 different sized circles layered on top of each other. I cut 'SON' from holographic card & '20' from blue mirri which I embossed after cutting. These were adhered onto the LP with foam tape.

The inside was decorated with a border, matted sentiment panel and an LP and a '45. 'Happy Birthday' was cut from more black mirri and adhered to the sentiment panel.

Carts used:

LPs & '45- Winter Woodland

'Son' & '20'- Don Juan

'Happy Birthday'- Stamping Solutions

Thanks for visiting!

Heather xxx

Whimsical Toadstool Birthday!.....

Here's yet another shaped easel card for you-the last one for now...PROMISE!!! I'm having to delve into my card archives for things you haven't seen 'cos I've been so busy prepping Christmas cards I haven't had time to make anything else! I'll have something fresh to show you tomorrow. This was another card that was part of my last workshop. It's a really cute card, suitable for a small child or an adult who likes whimsical things. I used Dovecraft papers (this one has little white daisies on a green background so it looks like a field of daisies!) I cut the mushroom from Bazill cardstock scraps and added a cute ladybird to the stalk. Some grass roughly cut from green paper and some teeny-tiny Prima flowers complete the mushroom. I cut 'Happy Birthday' from red card, shadowed with white then adhered to a daisy border cut from white textured cardstock. This was adhered to the base of the card with foam pads. A layered bloom was added to the large white spot on the mushroom, and the finished mushroom was adhered to the front of the card after I drew around it and cut away the excess. A liberal sprinkling of glitter completes the card.

Carts used:

Mushroom- Paisley

Ladybird- Doodlecharms

'Happy Birthday' & daisy border- Stamping Solutions

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Shaped wedding easel.....

Here's another shaped easel card for you..this one was a workshop card...and I'll have another one to show you tomorrow. The white heart was cut from pearlescent card and the heart beneath it was cut from silver mirri & embossed with a Fiskars Texture Plate. The white heart was adhered to the silver heart with foam pads. I drew roughly around the heart onto a square tent-fold card, leaving the fold intact, and then cut it out by hand. I folded the top section of the heart upwards and creased it firmly. The base of the card was covered with patterned paper (Papermania) and trimmed with silver peel-offs. 'Mr & Mrs' was cut from white pearlescent card with a silver shadow, and then adhered to the base of the card with foam pads to create the 'stop'. The white heart was then adhered to the folded top portion of the card with PVA. The heart was trimmed with a sheer spotted bow, a paper rose & some pearl strands.

Carts used:

Wedding heart- Love Struck

Mr & Mrs- Sweethearts

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx