Followers

I am not sure what’s going on with blogger, but I haven’t been able to see my Followers gadget for a month now, I believe some people can, while others like me can’t which means that people can’t become Followers ….. I’m not the only one and there are a lot of people in the same boat but it is frustrating, it’s taken two years and a lot of hard work to build up my little group!  I am e-mailing Blogger but as yet don’t have a solution!  I’d be interested if anyone else has the same problem.

Tattered Florals Thank You Card

The idea for this card was inspired by a card in the new mini Stampin Up catalogue (below).

I’ve used a DCWV patterned paper on the front.  The flower is made using my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and a heavy sprinkling of glitter. The centre of the flower is part of a Primark necklace that I have taken apart for the bits.

A Little Bird Told Me …… Card

This card measures 13cm x 13cm and is made used a white linen effect card.

The owl stickers used on this card are from Paperchase and cost £1 a pack.   I’ve cut a square from a sheet of a A4 stripy glitter card and then sat the owls on the lines.  To fill in the gaps I’ve added a few very tiny daisies made using a punch from Hobbycraft and stuck clear flat backed gems in the middle of them. The centre panel is matted on silver mirror card.

Little Mermaid Cards

Three cards today all measuring 5ins by 5ins and made using white linen effect card.

I am sure I was a mermaid in another life or if I wasn’t I will be in the next!  These cards are made using hard plastic bubble stickers from Poundworld.

From one pack I have made  three cards, with a few stickers left over, which is a good return for my money.

The blue background doesn’t show up very well in the pictures, it’s a glitter card that looks like the sky but which works equally well as the sea. However it is a “bum” to glue anything to …….

….. so I have used Ranger Glossy Accents to add some extra gumption to the stickers, which has worked very successfully.  The final touches are made using either clear flat backed gems, or sequins with a gem centre.

Mouse Card

This card measures 7ins x 5ins and is made using white linen effect card.

Hmmmmm, not sure about this, I saw a printed version, and thought it would be easy to translate into a bit of paper piecing with googly eyes, but I think it needs a bit more fine tuning ……

The mouse looks terribly sad for one …. the parts are rather crudely cut out as this was my first attempt ….. You can’t tell by the photo but, the nose is all shiny as I’ve used glossy accents on it  and I’m not to sure about the positioning of the ears ……. as I said at the beginning,  hmmmmmmm!

Scary Skull – Halloween Hairclip?

Why do I have a such a thing about skulls lately? However, at least I have recognised I do, and have learnt to live with it!

My lovely, lovely follower Carly sent me a huge box of stuff a little while ago and in the week I went delving in it and hidden away in a folder was a pack of these puffy sticker skulls, to be honest I’ve seen them in the shops and have not been that inspired, but something twigged in my brain … at first I thought of making a brooch/pin, but as I got more and more carried away I could see that they were too wide and would probably not sit straight … BUT after a my weekly trawl through Wolverhampton's finest poundshops I found these very large hairclips …..ah ha!

Anyway, I stuck the skulls on a double thickness of card using Ranger Glossy Accents because it dries really hard, I also used in on the back of the  card  and back of the stickers to strengthen them and to go get rid of the tackiness of the adhesive on them.

The whole effect is finished off with a few very sparkly flat backed gems on the bow and hair of two skeletons and in any small gaps. I have attached the whole thing onto the clip using foam pads as I have found many a time they are almost impossible to remove and no need for drying time.

Using stickers in this way has made me see the potential of some of the others I have stored away.

Our Father’s Day Card 2011

My Father In Law has taken up wine making and as a Father’s Day present we all clubbed together to buy him a fruit press, hence the card!

I’ve used a digi scrapbooking set from Scrappin Doodles called A Bunch of Grapes. I’ve only done a simple decoupage layer for the exclusive part of the card,  the other bits like the grapes, glass and feet have been accentuated with Ranger Glossy Accents.

A Happy Days Mooching

We nipped over to Bridgnorth yesterday, a lovely old town about half an hour away, it is so beautiful, all olde worlde, it even has a little funicular railway going up the sandstone cliff from the Low Town to the High Town, so cute!

…. And naturally, I had a mooch round the charity, antiquey and gift shops.  I found this old, slightly battered spotty suitcase for £1.25 in Oxfam, it’s to die for!

Then  I found this quirky baking tray in another funny shop, it cost £3, over the odds I think, but I was thinking about putting shabby chic papers and sculpted flowers in the bottom of each section maybe?

And this was my indulgence …… have you ever seen anything so beautiful? 

Teddy Card

This card measures 5ins x 5ins and is made using white linen effect card.

While I was in the Czech Republic a couple of months ago I managed to find a couple of packets of these stickers for about 50p a pack in the local tobacconist! They are printed and layered on acetate and are very sweet.

A lot of the stickers I buy are often too small to use singly and would be lost on their own on the size of cards I usually make, but in a group of four they look pretty OK!

Papermania Butterfly Cards

Both these cards measure 11cm x 5cms and are made using a ribbed effect Kraft card.

I’ve used a ribbed Kraft card as the base for these two cards and part of a 12 x 12  text patterned  paper in the middle, (sorry I don’t know who made it, but it might be Stampin’ Up), which I have mat and layered on gold card.

The flowery part is a self adhesive 3D border from Papermania, (PMA 8021201 Butterflies) and cost £1.99 (not really very cost effective as I only got two cards from one pack).  I’ve finished both cards off with a few pearls placed here and there.

The butterflies are exquisite and I wish they were available separately to buy as I would buy a pile!

Bird Card

This car measures 11cms x 7cms and is made using ribbed effect Kraft card.

Sometimes the way stickers are presented in their packet is enough inspiration for me …….. why waste time fiddling about with where to put them when it's staring you in the face!

This pack of foil stickers only cost a pound from a funny little shop near Brixham Harbour, Devon,  I’ve had them hidden away for ages and decided it was about time they were used.  Taking a look at the packet I just decided to replicate the birds positioning on this card. Simples with no fiddle farting whatsoever!

CSI Birthday Card

This is an A5 card made using white linen effect card.

This card, made to go with the theme of my nieces CIS birthday party may look simple, but in fact took me over 2 hours and a lot of computer jiggery pokery to get right.  I created the design in Publisher and used a picture I found on Google as a reference as to how and where to position the various parts and which fonts to use.

I saved the completed work as a jpeg which meant that I could then shrink it down in size to make two laminated identity cards to follow the theme even further.  All of this was such hard brain work!

Pendant Tray Project Using Accessorize Stickers.

This was a bit of an experiment, I had a packet of Accessorize cat stickers staring at me (£1.75 per pack) on my desk and I got to wondering what they would look like in a pendant tray….

I’ve used a very small print paper for the background and doodled some equally tiny faux stitching round the edge, then added the cat and hearts.  All that was left to do was fill the tray with Anita's 3D Gloss Finish, which should be left for about twenty four hours to set really well. The results look like a little porcelain plaque/tile.  I am dead chuffed, and now intend to look at all the other Accessorize stickers I have to see what else I can use.

Gardening Inchies

Guess who’s got the Inchies Bug?

Sometimes I make something and decide it doesn’t look quite right, so I leave it on my desk and go back to it the next day.

I dug out these  gardening charms and thought I would keep the inchies fairly plain and just doodle a background …. but there was something missing …. I resisted as long as I could, but what they needed were punched daisies and some bling in the guise of flat backed gems!

And The Winners Are …

I didn’t use my salad bowl in the end …. I thought I’d be different and use my teapot …. after all anyone can use these random name selector thingies!!

So if you can see your name amongst these …. e-mail me at nellxxxx@aol.com and I’ll send you your Coppernob Crease Mouse! http://www.coppernob.biz/temp/index.html

Hero Arts - Music Of The Heart

This card measures 5ins x 5ins and is made using black ribbed effect card.

I’ve set myself a little task, I have any awful lot of unused stamps and stamp sets, which I know is a terrible waste, so I am going to see if I can try to use them all (once) before the end of the year ….. I’m not sure if I’ll make it, but I like a challenge.

Today's card uses one of  Hero Arts Quarter Elements sets, Music From The Heart (LL576), I’ve used some really odd colours (for me) and the only card blank that seemed to go was black, which is a also bit different.  I wanted to use black embossing powder on the stamping, but I used a StazeOn  ink pad which seems to dry too quickly for the powder to stick …. or is it just me?

Blog Candy Crease Mouses

Thank you all for leaving so many lovely comments this week.  I will be putting everyone’s name in my giant fruit bowl and drawing out five later on today and then I'll let you know where Coopernobs Crease Mice will be winging their way to!

Little Monster Card

This card is made using some hard plastic bubble stickers from a pack found in Poundshop.  I was a bit dubious at first, as I thought they might be hollow with a just small adhesive rim round the edge to stick them on by, but the adhesive film goes all across the back, making them a doddle to use.

 

All the dinosaurs in the pack are so cute and are ideal for making a quick job lot of children’s cards.

ArtEmboss Foil and Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Hair Bands

Hmmmm, seemed like a good idea in my head, but not so good in reality……!

Thanks to Angie I now know that this material is called ArtEmboss Foil and I can now order some more because after yesterday I have used up the last bit I had.

I had a (mad) idea for making foil flowers using my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and putting them on hair bands, but if I am honest this is not a very strong or durable project as the weight/thickness of foil I’ve used is quite soft and malleable and as a result can be easily squashed, altered if the wearer is not careful or fiddles with it (also making them unsuitable for young children), but it was an interesting experiment ….. and OK as a one off wear.

I’ve attached the flowers with a hot glue gun onto  Poundworld hairbands (3 for £1).

The flowers look humungous in the pictures, it’s just the closeness and the angle I took them at …. they are not really as huge as they seem!

Floral Butterfly Card

This card measures 5ins x 5ins and is made using white linen effect card.

I was going to leave this card very plain and only added a few gems to the centres of the flowers of the My Mind’s Eye Stella and Rose paper (Gertie), but as I took the first photograph I changed my mind …..

…. and added four double layered butterflies with gem centres, punched using a Woodware punch. I’m not sure ……I still prefer the unembellished one, which I would use as a notelet.