The Crafty Pad Designs Shop 25% Off Sale

Hi all I hope you're well,

Just a quick reminder that 

The Crafty Pad Designs shop closes on the 7th Jan! 

Debbie's images will still be available for purchase at

Card making Downloads but for now you can get an awesome

 25% off at The Crafty Pad

Here's a reminder of a couple of my favourite images 

& what I made with them!

Flowers For Mum

You can read more about it here!

Butterflies With Verse & Borders

You can read more about this card here!

Pocket Watch & Elements

You can read more about this acetate card here!

Thanks so much for stopping by & don't forget to bag yourself

a bargain before the shop is closed!

Debbie, I wish you all the best in your new adventures with the family

& I hope one day you will open up  The Crafty Pad Designs

again &  can play with lots more fab images!

Thank for the great time I had on your design team & I'm delighted

to have met some lovely ladies there too!

Watch Out For The Crafty Pad Showcase!

Good Morning Blog Land!

It's my turn to showcase a Crafty Pad Image to remind you all 

to enter your Crafty Pad Creations in the 

 May Crafty Pad Monthly Showcase.
Remember, this runs until the end of the month.

Don't have a Crafty Pad Image???
You can pick up a freebie from the Challenge Blog here

I've waited ages to share this card with you all!

I have to say I am rather pleased with this one if I say it myself!
This is the first time I've tried this out, it's an
Acetate Tent Card
& was inspired by my good friends Ali & Debbie
Thank You Ladies!

The clock face is the Pocket Watch image from this set at 

The Crafty Pad Designs

The Sentiment Ticket is also from The Crafty Pad Designs.

I printed out  Design Papers from 

Bearly Mine Designs 

onto both sides of some super smooth card.

Next I printed all of the elements out on the card.

I cut out the elements & inked using some distressed inks

Not sure if you can see it in the photo but I liquid embossed the face with

Anita's 3D Glaze, when it had dried, I put it in the freezer.

This allowed me to crack the glaze, giving a cracked glass effect

On the back, I used the pocket watch image again but I blanked out the middle 

then added the birthday greeting.

You can see another Crafty Pad Designs Sentiment Ticket there too!

I made the circle sentiment in my graphics programme

The font is 1942 Report & you can get it free here

I thought this gave the card an added vintage feel.

A closer look at the sentiment ticket.

Here's an angled view.

I added some Funky fibres in co-ordinating colours.

Before I go I should also remind you of our Sponsor this month!

Crafty Individuals

Who are offering this wonderful prize

Wish I could enter! lol

I hope to see you over there!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew Dimension

Creative Craft Challenge Distressing

Die Cuttin Divas Buttons, Banners & or Birthdays

Party Time Tuesdays Vintage or Shabby Chic

Tuesday Throwdown 3D

Tammy Scrapin Corner Distressing

Great Impressions Anything Goes

Joanna Sheen Challenge Happy Birthday 

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges A Birthday Card

Little Claire's  Male Theme

Chocolate Coffee & Cards For The Boys

Delicious Doodles Try Something New

Paper Play Challenges Destruction (Distressing, grunge, cracked glass)

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Let's Get Inky

Southern Girls About The Boys

SJ Crafts All About The Boys

Crafty Creations Male Birthday Card

Flutterby Butterfly!

Hi all,

I have a different kind of card to share with you today!!

It's an acetate stepper card!

I can't claim all the glory for it as I saw a tutorial here & basically cased the idea!

I am rather pleased with it, as it the recipient

I made it for a variety of reasons which I won't go in to

but the main purpose was to raise a smile & let someone know 

I am thinking about them!!

The card, butterflies & sentiment are all Hunkydory.

The Acetate is 220gsm

If you look closely, you can see that the butterflies all have acetate wings.

The ribbon was from my stash & I tied a triple bowin the best

Jak Heath stylie!

A side view for a better look at the construction!

Thanks for looking!

As this is a kit card I don't think I'll enter it in any competitions 

but I just wanted to share it with you all!