Nordic Pines

Good morning people of the blog-o-sphere!! How windy was it for you at the beginning of the week?

To tell you the truth, people of the north east blew it all out of proportion (excuse the pun..), as we didn't have it half as bad, nay, quarter as bad as people on the south west coast. Wind speeds nai on 100mph - CRAZY!

I hope this post finds you all safe and warm!!

It's time for me to provide a little inspiration for ya using products you can pick up at My Mum's Craft Shop. Let's go..

So this girl, is the adorable Birdie Kiddo from Stampendous. The expression on her face melts my heart. I wish a Robin would come land on my hand so I could have a chat!! She's been coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and I've added a touch of Frosted Lace Stickles to the fluffy bits of her hat, coat and gloves - more for texture than glitter.

I've added the smallest cluster of three snowflakes from the MFT Snowflake Splendor set with Summer Sky Memento ink around the image before die cutting her with a circle.

So my paper is from a new collection by Bazzill Basics - Nordic Pines. I love them. It's my first pack of Bazzill papers and I have no idea why I waited so long to buy them - they're so thick and luxurious. Gorgeous colours and designs. Yum!! I've paired them up with some pink cardstock, some pink ribbon and a button to make this card a little more 'girly'. 

For a finishing touch I die cut some snowflakes with the MFT Let it Snow dies from vellum and attached them with some dark pink gemstones from The Hobby House. These dies have to be amongst some of my most used! I LOVE snowflakes and they're perfect for those Christmas creations!

Don't forget to head over to the My Mum's Craft Shop blog to get daily inspiration.

You've two days left to join in with the Halloween challenge - and the new challenge will be live on 1st November! 

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges:

- Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Goes

- Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

- Top Tip Tuesday - Seasons

- Live Love Crafts - Think Pink

Thank you for stopping by today. xo

Gorjuss Note Book

Good morning. :)

I don't think I've shared this notebook here on my blog yet, so I thought I'd stop by and show you all today. While I'm waiting for my Sunday dinner to be cooked - by the kitchen fairies! ;)

I bought a bunch of kraft covered notebooks with the idea to decorate them all pretty for my customers. The two I've made so far went down a treat. I'll be back tomorrow to share another more Christmas-y one. 

So I used a Gorjuss Girls decoupage set from a bigger A4 pack to decorate the front of this card. I also used the papers that came in the pack, as they matched perfectly.

I stamped 'notes' onto a little book plate style die cut which also came in the pack with some Lawn Fawn alpha stamps. 

This is quite a decent sized notebook - it measures around 8"x5". Plenty of room for scribbles.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

I'm going to have a nice relaxing Sunday making Christmas cards now that I've sorted out my CV and made a note of a bunch of numbers of Funeral Directors I want to ring on Monday.

xo

Exciting News! :)

If you follow me on FB, either on my personal profile or my page at Cartolinas from Lou Mac you will know that I have evetnually found out the results of my Foundation Embalming exam!! 

I PASSED!!

I was over the moon when my tutor rang me yesterday. I almost swore down the phone I was that excited, but I contained myself. Only just! ;) Heh.

So after finding out that fantastic news, sorting out my car insurance (which I was dreading due to the three points I picked up in June), making a note of a bunch of Funeral Directors to ring around on Monday, working on updating my CV and tryna sort out the rest of my stash I want to sell on Facebook.. I thought I'd take a little time out while I eat last nights congratularory left over pizza and type up this post. Hah.

*takes a breath*

This was one of the first Saturated Canary digis I ever bought, and I never even got to colour her up last year - so I made it my mission to get her onto one of my first Christmas cards of the season this year.

I won. :)

HAPPY POST THIS, NO? :D

So I always struggle with purple, and decided to challenge myself to use it, as I wanted to use up some of my older papers from Cosmo Cricket - Mittens? (not 100% sure of that) collection. So purple and green it was!!

I decided to try a different combo for what I had hopes to be brunette hair. I believe the colour I added to my standard combo of Cinnamon, Cocoa, Walnut and Umber was Burnt Sienna. As you can see, it turned into more of a red head colour - but I still loves it!! You can see my old combo for brunette hair on her little shoes, which.. colored like that remind me of cinnamon swirls. Mmm!!

I used a sentiment from an Amy R set alongside some mittens from a SU! set. I die cut my sentiment panel using a larger circle die and then a scalloped circle die from Papertrey ink - the perfect size.

I love creating these larger (for me) cards these days, as I can use more embellishments, a larger sentiment, colour a bigger image, show off more papers. It's great. I added a bunch of embellishments from The Ribbon Girl, Petal Lu and Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges:
- Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes #30
- Scrapping 4 Fun - Holidays or Christmas
- Aud Sentiments - Christmas Sentiments

Thank you for stopping by today and listen to me rabble on. I'll wrap it up now and get the rest of the stash I'm selling photographed and uploaded. xo

Halloween at MMCS

Good moooooorning!!

Well there isn't much of October left, is there?! It'll soon be the end of the month, and before we know it, Halloween will be upon us!

For something a little different I thought I'd create a gift bag this week for inspiration over at My Mum's Craft Shop!!

I used a bunch of My Favorite Thing goodness and really loved how this miniature project turned out.

Here's a quick and concise list of the products used:

- Scalloped Treat Box

- Washi Patterns

- Pure Innocence - Pretty Pumpkin

- Dainty Bows

Super cute, and super quick!! 

Thanks for stopping by. xo

Give me a 'P'

It's Tuesday again, and that can mean only one thing! It's time for another challenge over at Passion for ProMarkers. 

This weeks challenge has been set by our very own Julie. There is a £10.00 voucher for Dies to Die For up for grabs too. So what are you waiting for?!

Give Julie a 'P'

Yip!! We wanna see stuffs on your card that begins with a P. Literally. Anything.

Let me kick start your P brain.. HAH!! 

Polaroid, Princess, Pearls, Pink, Purple, Park Bench

I've used the gorgeous Princess Tia, she is a clear stamp available. from Some Odd Girl. I've coloured her in with pretty pastel colours, for me. I like how she turned out, but if I was to do it again I'd probably try and add more interest to her dress and practice my folds!! 

I added a die cut bench behind her, punched some little flowers and added pearls to the centre and that was about that.

My Polaroid patterned paper from My Minds Eye already had a sentiment in the top left corner, so I tried to grow my design around that!

Hope you likey. Head over to the Passion for ProMarkers blog and see if the other ladies can inpsire you P brain. I can't wait to see what you all come up with!!

Hugs. xo