Craft Show & Cards Made

This weekend was pretty much a waste when it came to designing and keeping up with computer goings on. Saturday and Sunday were such a blur with not much computer time. But on Friday my hubby took me to the Stitch and Creative Crafts Show in Braintree, Essex. He got me the ticket for Valentine's Day. Once at the show he then proceeded to give me money to spend...woo hoo! Wasn't that nice of him? Guess that means I'll keep him another week...lol.

It was really crowded and the aisles were pretty narrow. Since I'm in a wheelchair it was pretty hard to get around and there are a few more things I wanted but didn't get but I figured I would just order them online...lol. I will say though, if you get a chance to go to one of these shows if you're in the UK, then GO! It's crowded but you can get some really great prices at these shows. Here's my stash on my craft counter (don't count the back wall stuff, just the stuff on the green craft mat):

Here's what I snagged

• 3 Ranger Distress ink pads in Crushed Olive, Tumbled Glass and Tattered Rose (£3.50 each!)
• Ink Blending Tool with Refill pads (these were special buy the tool and get the refill pad pack for half price.)
• 5 sheets of foam pads in varying sizes (£1.00 a sheet)
• 2 Stickles in Silver glitter and Diamond glitter.
• 5 sets of mini clear stamps and 1 wood min alpha stamp set (these were in a box £1.00 each)
• 6 packs of large stick on gems (buy 5 get one free so £5.00)
• 6 packs of mini stick on gems, pearls plus a set of 2 baby boy rocking horsetoppers. (all embellies at this stand were buy 5 get one free and they were again £1.00 each.)
• Last but not least, I got 4 Spellbinder Nestabilities at just £13.00 each. I don't have any of them so this was a nice way to start a collection. I got the regular oval set, sm scalloped squares, sm scalloped circle and the basic flower set.
  

Thank you my Hunny for my goodies! I specifically get the blue baby boy horse toppers for a card I made for a family member that just had a baby last week. Here's a quick peek at the card...my blog posts go to my Facebook and this couple is one of friends so I hope they skim over this part and wait to see their card in person...lol.

I made the card starting with Coredinations cardstock. IT's a whitewashed white finish on a light blue core then I added papers from my Pink N Black Printable cardmaking kit but I opened them up in Photoshop first and colourised them blue. I took more of the cardstick and cut the square using my new scalloped square Nestabilites and added 2 toppers. The rectangle one I ran twice through my Cuttlebug to get a rectangle by lining the card up in the die. In the square I added the felt rocking horse topper and the sentiment is the same cardstock that I sanded down to get the blue core to show through then stamped the sentiment. I also sanded the scallop edges. Lastly I added some butterflies and the ribbon.


This next card I made using the other boy felt topper. I made it for my stash. This is a white 8 cm square card and I added layers of paper from a stack called Spring Sophisticates by Paper Wardrobe that I got from The Range. Again using the same Nestabilities as before. I added heart shaped gems, a bow, the topper and some peel off silver corners.

Thanks for looking all!

Blog Candy & More Cards

Over on the left you will see I signed up for some blog candy. These look great so I hope I win..lol. To get in on the action just click on the image below or on the left to go to Sarah Wright's blog:


I also have a couple more cards to show you as well. I had a play with free papers and embellies that I got in one of my craft magazine awhile back. I tend to use my own printables but I wanted to get a few cards together quickly for my stash:





THANKS FOR LOOKING!

Pink N Black Cards

Here are a few cards made with my Pink N Black Card Making printables. I hope you like them!

This first card I started with a black DL card I then added a couple of papers to the background. I then cut out some toppers and placed them on top with 2mm foam pads. I cut out my matching alpha and added the letter using alternating 2mm and 1mm foam pads to get different levels of dimension.

This one is just papers and tags from the kit arranged on a basic white A6 card using jewelled brads...so easy!