New Baby Girl Exploding Box

It's seems to be all babies lately, this time a baby girl is imminent for my daughter-in-laws sister and as I really enjoyed making the baby boy box I decided to do another...

Materials used -
Stamperia - Baby girl 12x12 paper pad 
Die-namics stitched scalloped dies -  rectangles, squares and circles
Die-namics stitched scalloped frame dies - circles and squares
Fiskars - Sunburst border punch
La La Land - heart fence die
Martha Stewart -  Grass border punch
Memory box -  Contempo bird dies
Poppy Stamp dies - Grand Madison door, small Madison window, small flowerbox (also upside down for door step)
Nellies Choice - stamen punch
Flatback pearl leaves from Wild Orchid crafts
XCut - butterfly palm punch
unknown make tiny flower punches
Buttons Gallore & More Buttons - Baby girl
Dress it up buttons -
Jumpin Around (rabbits)
New Arrival Girl
Stuffed with Love (Teddies)
Garden Gnomes
Out Foxed
Forest Babies (hedgehog)
Dog gone
Nine Lives
Gardening
nature backing paper, bees, ballons, letterbox, house number plaque and curtains - computer made
Brick wall - Magnolia rubber stamps
Baby, teddy, rabbit, door handle and door knocker - dolls house miniatures
Pram - own design. Please don't ask for template it was done purely using a spellbinders circle die for the body of the pram at the size I wanted then I winged it from there hahahaha
The bag however I did make a template for -

The overall printed size for the one I made is 7.5cm high and 8cm wide

Thank you for dropping by. Take care & keep smiling :)

Engagement Card or book - For my son Alex and Phoebe

(name) and (name)

Sitting in a tree,

K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

First comes love,

Then comes marriage,

Then comes baby

in a baby carriage.

This is the poem\song that inspired this card. I did intend just to make a simple open and shut card with my revised poem inside, but I started thinking and it kind of ran away with me. I had just got my Tim Holtz "Crazy Bird" rubber stamps (where I got the opening line for the revised poem) and thought it would be fun to use them for this card...

 If you want any details about stamps, dies, etc please feel free to email me for details.
Thank you for looking, and take care & keep smiling.

Tilda and Edwin friendship card

I made this card for a friend who has been ill and is currantly living in a nursing home. I wanted to make something cheery and bright. I was going to upcycle the Chasing butterflies card I made, but decided the colours weren't bright enough ...

Front image -
Magnolia Chasing Butterflies background and Summer background.
Helloooo - computer generated hand cut and then glazed with Sakura clear glaze pen.
Lace and cross stitch sewn by hand.
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Inside image -
Magnolia Chasing Butterflies Chasing Tilda, Chasing Edwin and Summer background
Butterfly - Cheery Lynn Designs small exotic butterflies dies coloured with Tim Holtz Mustard Seed and Wild Honey inkpads and sprayed with Glimmer mist Dazzling Diamonds
Flowers - punches from EK Success and Tonic Studios
Foliage - Cheery Lynn mini fanciful flourish die.
Cross stitch - hand sewn

Sentiment page -
Sentiment is computer generated.
Clouds - Memory Box mini clouds die
Cross stitch - hand sewn

All ovals are Spellbinders Grand caliber ovals and scalloped ovals. All images coloured with Derwents coloursoft pencils and Sansodor.
Gingham backing paper made by me on my extremely old graphics program and printed on hessian paper.

Thank you for looking. Take care and keep smiling :)

Tilda Birthday card

This was the first Tilda card I made, and I made it in 2004. Don't know why I never put it on my blog !!! Oh well better late than never :)

 Take care and keep smiling :)

Moomin Birthday card - for Phoebe

My son's girlfriend Phoebe is a bit of a Moomin fan, so I had to make a Moomin card. I always try to make a box for the cards I make but on this occasion I altered a Cadbury's chocolate biscuit tin and lined it, so now she can use it as a sewing box, trinket box etc. or she can just keep the card in it :) ...

 The Moomin or should I say Snork maiden I sourced from the internet, printed - traced - transferred and then went over with a waterproof ink pen and then coloured. Her arm was done separately and glued on after I  added the small tulips and handbag. The tulips both large and small are from Magnolia's Easter Collection, the small ones are taken from The Tilda with Tulips stamp. The handbag I made myself adding the Vivienne Westwood logo, as Phoebe has one of her handbags. The boutique window, topiary pots and canopy are all Magnolia stamps. The cobblestones is by Water colour cobblestones. 
The backing paper is from the Basic Grey Euphoria collection with Inkadinkado Gem stones flourishes clear stamps. Some of the "gems" were coloured in with felt tips pens and then gone over with a clear glaze gel pen.
The die cut is a Spellbinder die but I can't remember which one which I pierced.
Take care & keep smiling :)

T'was the night before Christmas card for my Son

Here is the card I made for my son and his girlfriend. I'd had the idea for this card last year but didn't get around to making it, I'm glad I waited as they now have a kitten called Fig, and I coloured the kitten in the House Mouse stamp the same as their kitten ...

Fig 

 This just might be the first card I've made that actually turned out better than I expected. Hope you liked it too :o)
Take care and keep smiling