This was the card I made for my Brother and sister in law when they had their 4th boy last year, I started the post but didn't have time to finish it then noticed it in my blog list so thought I'd share it with you, I always struggle with boy cards probably because I have 12 Nephews and only 1 niece, making it difficult to make different cards every time, as it was so long ago I made it I can't  remember what inks and cards were used but do know that the teddy stamp is retired now.

Male Birthdays

Don't you hate trying to find stamps for all the men in your life's birthday cards, I made this one for one of my brother in law's birthday, I seem to have loads of male's birthdays in March hopefully I'll have time to make them all cards and put them on here, for this one I used bashful blue card, solver glimmer paper and scrps of whisper white, I used real red, daffodil delight and soft suede ink, dsp from Stampin up's sunshine and sprinkles designer paper pack, cloudy day embossing folder, vellum, and itty bitty banners and up, up and away stamp sets also bitty banners framelits die.

Sale-a-bration

 Finally I'm mostly up to date with my blogging Well at least with the one's from my Ipod touch I haven't checked my camera although I'm sure there's a few photo's on there that need adding here, this is a card I made (i still can't workout how to rotate the picture's on my ipod) for Mothers day using the sab hello kit, I added a strip of daffodil delight card edge cut with adorning accents edgelits die and a whisper white heart cut using the hearts a flutter stamp set and the matching framlits dies,  I also used some crystal effects on the heart which I've tried to take a close up photo off, time to take my camera back from my hubby so I can get some decent photo's.

Some Christmas bits

These are the gifts I made for my daughter to take to school for their secret santa, they were told to spend no more than £2 so I made a book using white paper and my cinch, a punch reindeer candy cane card and a chocolate ball tree.

 

 I also made these Christmas cards (which I can't get the photo the right way up lol) for her to give to her friends, and managed to use up some of the extra Crumb cake card I accidently bought too much of, not to mention retire products that needed using up, the picture under this was the inside since I didn't do much stampin on the outside I thought I'd do some inside using my dasher stamp and a christmas saying stamp that may be retired I can't remember which set it was from.

Here's a card I made for my Great Grandad, but it's still in my Car sorry Doggy I forgot to deliver or post it, for this card I used Woodgrain embossing folder, need for speed stamp set, cherry cobbler, soft suede, marina mist (i think or maybe it's baja breeze) and whisper white card, soft suede and whichever of the blue inks I used (it was a few months ago I made this card so I can't remember which) and a cherry cobbler stampin write marker.

Stampin Up Fabrics

Here's a bag I made for my little girl using some pink Flannel and Stampin Up's fabulous Fabrics, the ones I used for this bag are from the Flirtatious set.

Party Invite's

Hi, I know it's been ages since I last blogged I have been crafting just didn't get around to blogging so am now trying to catch up, here's the invites I made for my Minnie Mouse Mad daughters 5th birthday Party, which was in October, I'm still trying to get rid of all my retired card so this used up some of it, for this I used some Minnie Mouse stamps, stampin write markers, retired 2 shades of Stampin' Up! purple & whisper white card, crystal effects, versamark and basic black ink, scented embossing powder, a Rihnstone jewel, sizzlits alphabet dies (retired) and perfect polka dots embossing folder.

Party Invites

These are the invitations I made for Ella's birthday party, I used pink piroette, crumb cake and whisper white card plus some scraps of retired pink card I found in my stash (I've forgotten their names), vellum, pink piroette, melon mambo and pretty in pink ink, a Hello kitty sizzlit die to cut white paper and cheerful treat hostess dsp, borderlines stamps, retired melon mambo spotty ribbon, corner rounder punch, 3/4! & 1" circle punches and some small alphabet stamps I found in my collection.

I made 2 of these cards for my brother in Law's, they're both called Matthew and it's both of their birthday's this month (so they got almost identical cards) , I used the create a cupcake stamp set, these were 2 more of the limited supply cards I made while on holiday, I used whisper white, soft suede, crumb cake and river rock card, the paper crimper,6cm scallop circle and cupcake builder punches and peach parfait, pear pizazz, chocolate chip, soft suede, river rock and so saffron markers.

Crafty challenge

I was so busy making 2 dresses that I didn't get time to do anything else untill I had a 2 day break in the Isle of Wight for my sisters wedding, so I had the challenge of trying to limit my craft supplys and still have enough to make the 5 cards needed in the next few weeks, I managed to get 3 of them done while away , this is the first I made, for my sister and her Husband's wedding the rest will be posted on here soon, I used crumb cake and cherry cobbler ink and card, the paper crimper, crystal effects and a retired jumbo wheel, the stamps I used are from you are loved.

World Book Day

My children came home from school on Monday saying Thursday is world book and we need to dress up like our favourite character from a book, so Jasmine told me she wanted to be a cat from the Warrior Cats books, meaning I had to make a cat costume in 2 days, so above is the costume I made, if I'd had longer the ears would have been on a hood but she seems happy with it anyway.

This is Ella's costume it was a little easier she wanted to be Ruby the red fairy and since I had already made this dress for her to wear to my sisters wedding all we had to do was plait her hair and put red flowers in it, I coloured fabric flowers from my stash of retired Stampin' Up! products and put them in her hair, If I'd had more time I would have made a load of paper or ribbon flowers.

Card buttonholes

I saw this on my upline Abi's blog and had to have a go myself, so I followed her tutorial you can find it here although I added a few extra layers, I used fresh cuts (retired) stamp set with champagne shimmer paint then inked the edges to match our clothes, I wish you could see the shimmer paint in the photo's it gave them a really vintage feel.

Wedding Guest Book

This is the Guest Book I made for my little Sister and her Fiancee, for this I used vellum, Whisper White and Elegant Eggplant card and ink, frost white shimmer paint, elegant eggplant brads, self adhesive rhinestone jewels, versamark, clear embossing powder, a sponge dauber,sizzlits lots of tags die and chrystal effects so the ink's wouldn't run when I put mod podge on the protect the book, the stamps are butterfly prints and retired so swirly wheel, my sister used the same wheel and ink when she made her invites so it all matches.

Ben 10 Birthday

This is the card I made for my cousin's birthday, I was looking for make a monster card inspiration when I came across a Ben 10 one and decided a Ben 10 one would be much better. I used my circle punches for the watch and paper crimper for the strap.

This is the inside, the little Ben 10 was made with the sizzix bitty body, boy hair, swimsuit(shoe's), shorts set(t-shirt) and overalls(trousers) die's. I used Lucky limeade, basic black, whisper white, basic grey, chocolate chip and blush blossom (retired) card, assorted circle punches crop-o-dile, black marker, lucky limeade marker, white gel pen and retired Stampin' Up! stamp's for the happy birthday and birthday wishes.

More christmas pressies

Every year we buy a lovely box of Thornton's chocolate's but no one in our house like's the coffee one's, so this year I took them out, popped them in a cello bag and decorated the cello bag, so Pauline could have them to go with her christmas pressie, I used a 4x6 cello bag, top note die, night of navy & cream card from stash, Very vanilla grosgrain ribbon, scallop square punch and tags til Chistmas stamp set.

Christmas cartons

These are the sweetie box's (my 2 daughter's ones after they mangled them lol, I forgot to photo them before) I made them for my youngest daughter to give to her Nursery Auntys, I made 20 of them as I wasn't sure how many people worked there, in thje end she only needed 8 or 9 so her big sister took the rest to give to her friends at church.
For these I used Bashful blue and whisper white card, night of navy and versamark ink, heat and stick powder and silver glitter, sparkling jumbo wheel, 1" circle punch and mini milk carton sizzix die.

Teachers pressies

These are the books I decorated for my childrens teacher's, for the one above I used melon mambo A4 card, velum, dsp (retired), whisper white craft ink, melon mambo spotty ribbon (retired), decorative label punch, sizzix embosslits beautiful wings die, butterfly prints and broadsheet alphabet stamp sets.
For the book below I used kraft and pacific point card, dsp (retired), night of navy ink, wide twill tape(retired), sizzix timeless type junior alphabet dies, make a monster stamp set.

Baby boom

Everyone seems to be having babies there must be something in the water, this is a card I made for my sister who's just had her 4th child, I decided to make a shaker card using my 1 3/4" circle punch, for this card I used whisper white, bashful blue and marina mist card and ink, marina mist marker with the color spritzer tool, bashful blue striped grosgrain ribbon (retired), silver glass glitter, something sweet stamp set, the saying was from retired hostess set occasional quotes, I also used the left over edges from my dimensionals so the glitter would have a space in the card.

New Baby gift

My Nephew has just made me a great Aunt, so I though as Thanks I would decorate some clothes for the baby, her names Nevaeh so I used the something sweet, monogram sweet alphabet and (simply said retired) stamp sets and fabric paints.

Here's the card I made to go with the present, for this I used pretty in pink, pink piroette and whisper white card, pretty in pink, Rose red, whisper white craft and versamark ink's, clear and white embossing powder, heat and stick powder and dazzling diamonds, dazzling diamonds pretty in pink stripped grosgrain ribbon, heart, heart to heart and scallop trim border punches, sizzix circles #2 die and the big shot and finally a self adhesive rhinestone, I also used the I {heart} heart stamp set for the card.

Here's a close up of the heart and initial N, hopefully these won't go missing in the scbu as that's where baby is she was born 8 weeks early weighting only 3lb 10 oz.

Hopefully by now my sister has given this to Abi my stampin' Mum (thank you Sarah), Abi had a baby girl in August and I made this for her but I've been a little slow getting it to her. I found this tutorial and loved it so thought I'd make a few, I also made my sister and daughters one but used Stampin' Up! dsp for their's.

I made my own backing paper using 12" whisper white card stock and button button stamp set, you can't see from the photo's but I also decorated the other side of the card with in stitches jumbo wheel, I really enjoyed making this box, I used baja breeze and whisper white 12" x12" card, basic grey, baja breeze, pear pizzaz and pacific point ink and card, frost white (I think) shimmer paint tempting turquoise button's, top note, timeless type junior alphabet and sweet buttons sizzix die's and perfect polka dots embossing folder.