Boo Bear - Happy 7th Birthday

Happy Thursday!

Today is a special girl's birthday who turns 7 :) Her favourite colours are pink and purple, so I've created a birthday card that I *hope* she'll like.

Boo Bear Birthday Card


Stamps: Family Accessories and Typeset Numbers.
Cardstock: Pretty In Pink, Almost Amethyst and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Almost Amethyst and Pretty In Pink.
Accessories: Stampin' Pastels - Close To Cocoa, Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, SU Bone Folder and 3D dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.

Enjoy your day.

Bye for now,

Alex

Another week...

Hi all,

It's Monday yet again, the weeks are really flying by and it's not too long till it's Christmas!

I recently had a birthday card to make for a special girl and was told that she loved Build A Bear. So with this in mind, and with her favourite colours, the card below is what I came up with:



Stamps: Typeset Numbers (retired).
Cardstock: Lovely Lilac, Pretty In Pink and Whisper White.
Ink Pad: Pretty In Pink.
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, 1/2" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon - Pretty In Pink, Sponge Dauber, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and Dimensionals.

NON-SU: Cuttlebug Embossing Folders - Happy Birthday and Swiss Dots. Sentiment is computer generated. Go Kreate Die Cut - Boo Bear.
Card Size: A5.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Alex

Grad Card

Hi all,

Hope you're all well and looking forward to another long Bank Holiday weekend. Thought I'd show you my latest Boo Bear card with the theme of graduation seeing as it's exam season. I have used Boo Bear a few times before now, but by choosing different coloured cardstock, choosing to chalk the edges or outline in pen creates a different look. Hope you like:

Hope to make a boy version one day soon :)

Bye for now,

Alex

Sweet Sixteen Card

Hi all,

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. It's gone way too fast as usual and I can't believe it's fast approaching Monday morning.

Over the weekend I've been busy doing various things and I managed to make a girlie 16th birthday card for a friend to give to her daughter as she'll be turning sweet sixteen. She loved the original Boo Bear card that I did back in January and so I tried to replicate this card with a few tweeks here and there and came up with the below card in A5 size. Hope you like:

16th Birthday Boo Bear Card


Thanks for stopping by, hope you like the card.

Alex

Boo Bear...

Hello all,

I was hoping to post my Boo Bear card this morning, but according to some early email messages, a few still haven't received it, despite posting them out on Saturday! Apparently, up north, they've had more snow last night, so that's why poor Boo Bear is being delayed! So, out of the six of us, three of us have Boo Bear cards. The remaining three will hopefully receive him/her soon. Oops, a hint *wink wink* I turned my Boo Bear into a girl :) I'll wait till I hear more news from the remaining recipients before I post mine here.

Until then...

Alex

Friday's Ramblings...

Hi blog,

So, at last it's Friday! Been busy cardmaking and was recently asked by a friend to make a card for her soon to be 13 year old daughter :) I was given the theme of red/blue/sporty and so I got to work and made a card I'm really proud of (hope my friend and daughter like it as much as I do!) Anyway, I'll post it late Monday just in case between now and then the daughter accidently sees her card online!

On the Boo Bear front, yay we finally got post! All the Boo Bear Cards are now in, and I'll be swapping them all out tomorrow morning to catch the lunchtime post. Hopefully the recipients should get them by Tuesday and once I know they've been received, I'll post my card that I made for this swap as there's a few of you dying for me to reveal more than my sneek peek that I posted the other day :)

Hope to craft lots this weekend... Until then...

Alex

Boo Bear...

Hello all,

WOW with all this snow, it's been lovely sitting here at home with all my crafting goodies surrounding me. I've been busy making cards for a Boo Bear Card Swap that I'm hosting over at SCS. I've been hosting card swaps for the past year now, and have hosted around nine in total, I love it! :)

Anyway, I hosted the Boo Bear Card Swap whereby I bought this adorable die cut and made enough Boo Bears for everyone that participated in the swap. Five each were given to the six of us and it was up to individuals to interpret and make a card using the said die cut.

Well the due date was on Friday just gone and I've got all but one card in. The other one is on it's way, just that due to snow, I've not seen the postman for the past two days! So, when I receive all six sets in, I'll be swapping and posting them all out to the recipients so that everyone gets a selection of different Boo Bear cards back not including their own.

Anyway, I wanted to give you a sneek peak of my Boo Bear Card, and hopefully in due course, I will post the whole card up for you all to see.


Okay, I think I've teased you enough now, so I'll be off.

Until next time...

Alex

Slideshow

Hi all,

Well the other day I was looking online at all my favourite blogs I visit for inspiration and I saw that some blogs have a snazzy slideshow on their blog which displays their cards or scrapbook layouts. Got me thinking that I should do that too, seeing as previous to this blog I have made lots of cards, not necessarily with SU products, but with other brands instead, e.g. Penny Black, Doodlebug, Woodware, just to name a few.

So, after clicking a few buttons here and there, I've finally got a slideshow :) The top one is just cards that I've recently made over the last few months. The second slideshow are the cards I made for Christmas 2008.

The first slideshow was pretty simple and took a little bit of time. I added cards in batches so it didn't feel so bad. However, I learnt my lesson for the second slideshow, and thought I'd upload all 33 at the one time. Oh dear! Didn't realise, that once I started I couldn't stop. It was taking forever, so much so, that I was still here till nearly 1am the other night! lol.

So, after all the sleepless nights I've had this week trying to do this slideshow, the least everyone can do is scroll down to the very bottom of the page and take a look :)

Enjoy!

Alex