Spooky Halloween Makes

This is a digistamp set that I got from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff a talented lady who has a multitued of Digistamps. Lindsay has her own shop over at My Grafico. I ended up producing three items with this set and I didn't even use all of the items. My first make was a Halloween invitation card using four of the images in this set.

The paper is from my stash, not sure where from sorry. I used my ProMarker pens to colour in these digistamps. I have used acetate to give the ghost on the front and spider on the inside some dimension. This was really fun to colour.

I then decided to make a luminary using some plain vellum I had stashed in my drawer. I printed the row of pumkins on the vellum first of all and I was really pleased with the way they turned out. I got the template for this luminary at Mel Stampz please go and have a look it's worth it. I cut the ovals out using my Fiskars shape cutter and then blinged up with some black gems.

For my final make.....................it's a Halloween door hanger. I always think that our front doors are not so approachable when it comes to Halloween compared with the US, so I hung this door hanger on my front door to let trick or treaters know that I would welcome them. I used the witch from the digistamp set and my Easy Peasy letters from Sizzix.

I hope you like my makes and please pop over to Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. Also if you want to know more about using Digistamps then My Grafico has some great information from some really talented people. Sorry for the long post. Take care and I will pop back soon. Nettie.xx

ProMarker Storage made by Daddy

Sorry I have been MIA for a few days, but just been under the weather. I have a quick post for you today because I just have to share this talented creation from my Dad. I have been gathering my ProMarkers slowly for some time now and I love working with them. I'm a fairly organised person and it has frustrated me slightly not being able to see all of my colours at the same time. Sooooo I asked my ever so creative Dad to come up with some invention!!!

Eh voila the Pink Wedding Stand for all your ProMarkers!! It spins and everything...I'm sooo chuffed to bits. I can't wait to get it home to play. I'd love to know your comments on this creation. Thanks Dad you one in a million. Toodles Nettie.xx

Purple Pillow Box

I'm back for the Passion for ProMarkers Challenge again. This week it's any colours and a recipe. The recipe to follow - 3 different shapes (not including your card base), 2 papers and 1 ribbon

Instead of a card, I have made a Pillow Box. I have used an old template I had but I'm sure that you can find alternative templates on the Internet somewhere. I have used purple colours and managed to just about cover the recipe...........

I have the three shapes, a rectangle behind, a circle behind Tilda and a heart to the right. The two papers are the one at the back and then patterned paper used to make the flowers. Then my ribbon is attached to my tag.............phew made it.

As you can see I have tried to take as many pictures as possible to try and get a good picture of all angles!! I have used my ProMarkers to colour my Tilda and then used Glaze accents to highlight her key.

I may have gone a bit OTT with the flowers but I wanted to include as many different flowers as I could and you have probably guest by now that I like making quilled flowers.

Recipe:

Papers - Papermania

Purple Embellishments - The Range

Image - Magnolia Tilda with Key

Flowers - Stamps from my Stash

Letters - Anitas Sparkly Letters

Quilled Flowers - Handmade

We have had a fairly relaxing day today and now Hubby has gone off to work again so I thought I would quickly pop my make on here. Hello to my new followers also, thanks for following along!! Until next time ............Toodles Nettie.xx

Chill Out

I'm back for Round 2 at Lily-Boo Too Challenge. This month the team have asked us to follow the sketch, using a Lily-Boo Boutique image. Don't worry though if you haven't purchased any images yet, as Sam has provided us with a freebie (which is a cutie).
I have quite a few Lily-Boo images, but for this one I have chosen.................. the Little Mice collection. I love the strawberries in this images and it gave me a chance to use those Christmasy colours again, although this one is not a Christmas card..............sorry are you getting sick of them yet????
Here's a dimensional shot for you, although not too much dimension to this one except for the quilled flowers!! I thought that the caption fitted, although micey here looks a little too chilled out(snoring,would have fitted better).
Recipe:

Papers - DCWV Christmas Stack & Digital Stash

Card - Papermania

Image - Little Mice Lily-Boo's

Sentiment - Royal Brush Rub-Ons

Flowers - Handmade Quilled Flowers

Brackets - Stampendous Peel Offs

Well that's it from me again, have a good evening. Toodles Nettie.xx

Amazing Blog Candy............

Wow, Jak has been given this fantastic Silhouette SD machine to give away to one lucky person. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then please pop along to her blog and find out what you need to do. The candy ends on 29th October and the winner will be drawn on the 30th October. Good luck everybody..................Hugs Nettie.xx

Cool Aqua & Apricot PFP

I'm scraping in with this one for Passion for Promarker challenge, which is 'Cool Aqua' & 'Apricot' with the added bonus of handmade flowers. I have used my mum's Pyramid template, which she bought from a stall at Ally Pally. I have used a flowers set from Sizzix, which I have coloured with ProMarkers and embossed on the back. Of course I have used the gorgeous Tilda.....

Recipe:
Papers - From a collection from Readicut
Image - Magnolia Tilda
Punch - Martha Stewart
Flowers - Sizzix Flowers
Stamp - Studio G
Pens - Promarkers and Souffle

Now that I have scraped in with my entry I'm off to put my feet up. Toodles Nettie.xx

Christmas Carols DU2DS

Hellooo, yes I'm back with this brightly coloured card to kick start my festive makes. I made this card for the Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge, which I have never taken part in before. The challenge this week is to include 'punched' or 'die-cut' items on your make, along with a digital image. I have used punched and die-cut snowflakes on my card. I have used the beautiful 'Milly' from Digistamp Boutique, if you haven't had a look over there lately then pop over because Sally-Ann has some fabby Christmas characters. I coloured in Milly using my lovely ProMarkers.
Here is an inside view for you. Talking of ProMarkers, I have asked my dad to come up with something inventive to store mine in. As soon as I have it in my hands I will post it for you, for your comments.

Recipe:
Papers - DCWV Christmas Scrapbooking Stack
Card - Papermania
Ribbon - From my Stash
Snowflakes - XCut Punch, Sizzix Die-Cut
Swirls - Stamp from collection (not sure where?)
Image - Digistamp Boutique
Sentiments - Rub-ons, Anitas Stamp, Penny Black Stamp
Gems - Picked up from Poundland!!

Thanks for popping by and hopefully I will be back shortly with another make for you. Toodles Nettie.xxx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge 5 S Words

I have never entered the Pollycraft Monday Challenge before, but have always followed. Probably because I don't get my butt into gear and produced the card...............but here's a first. The challenge was to create a card trying to use 2 of the following 'S' words:

SNOWFLAKES
SPARKLE
SPOTS
STRIPES
SWIRLS
They have said that if you manage to get all five 'S' then you will be eligible for a free image, so I have tried my best at this. Snowflakes (check), Sparkle (check), Spots, Stripes and Swirls I have managed to get in on the paper (check).

Sorry for the poor photo's but I was hurrying and the battery on my camera died. I have used the beautiful Ginger for this image, I'm loving the leg warmers.

Recipe:

Paper - DCWV Christmas Stack

Image - Pollycraft Ginger

Lettering - Sizzix Easy Peasy

Snowflakes - Xcut Punch

I will catch up with you all later, when I have some more makes. Take care Nettie.xx

Pinata

Well, a little delayed but here is the Pinata I promised. We had a slight mis-hap with the tissue paper so we resorted to spray paint..................Never the less I still managed to fill his belly with lots of goodies.
Now Sydney asked for a Dog Pinata...................and I thought I had done my best to achieve that, but when we arrived to the party he said quote 'oh, wow that's a great cat'. So I felt I couldn't correct him.

Now everybody took part in the beating of the 'cat', including my dad!! He said that the blindfold was a little see-through, so we adapted the blindfold..............................................

And here is birthday boy himself, trying reach the Pinata let alone beat it!! I think he had a good day.............................I will leave it there, so that you can have a good chuckle. Toodles Nettie.xx

Sketch Pad Alteration

Just a quickie post from me tonight, as I only have the one picture. This is just a sketch pad for my doodle's that I altered. Not very fancy but still a make all the same.
Pinata update.............Well it's still in one piece and I have now placed the sweeties inside and sealed up the doggies bum.........he he he. He still looks sorry for himself but hopefully I will be able to wing it??? The kids are going to be blindfolded anyway right?

Recipe:

Paper - Laura Ashley collection

Flowers - Paper punches, stamped flowers and peel off flowers

Rub-On Letters - Doodlebug lettering

Frame - From my stash

Anyhoo will catch you all later and hope to be back later with the dreaded picture of my pinata..Nettie.xxx