Aunty Carol's Publications

Freebie Saturday

2012-01-21T05:07:00.000-08:00

Morning everyone, as you know I've been spending some time designing new sheets for card makers which will be going into my homeprint studio etc. This week I've designed a backing sheet and sentiment sheet for you all. I have designed for the DIY people we all know and hope these will prove useful to you.

Wishing you all a happy creative weekend.

New blog design

2012-01-19T14:57:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know I thought it was high time i updated my blog design! Please accept my apologies for any changes that haven't been completed yet, but I hope to finish it this weekend. Hope you are all well and enjoying your crafting. I have been busy with new designs and will post a freebie for you all on Saturday.

Grand Nephews birthday

2012-01-08T09:32:00.000-08:00

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend and enjoying a break from your usual weekly routine. Tomorrow it's a grand nephews 1st birthday, he is such a happy smiling boy. Here's the card I've made him, please excuse the photography, unfortunately I fell over on friday when I popped to my local post office and am unable to bend easily as I'm all bruised and caught my back! Oh well I 'll just have to be more careful and watch where I'm going! lol

I added the topper with dimensionals and then put some stickles diamond on the no. 1 and used a coral colour stickles to represent the flames coming from the rocket. I add the rocket with dimensions to the frame with an extra dimensional at the end to keep it level.. The base card is cream colour and 5X5inch square.

Happy New Year

2011-12-31T07:24:00.000-08:00

It seems hard to believe 2011 is almost gone, but what a year, our son married his wonderful wife and our daughter has announced she's expecting her 1st baby next June, what more could we want than our family to be happy and luckily healthy. Here's wishing you all a happy, healthy and creative 2012. To start you off here is a new backing sheet for you. As usual its designed for A4 portrait.

Just around the corner

2011-12-19T14:19:00.000-08:00

How are you all doing with your Christmas preparations? Gifts wrapped, food bought etc if you are then well done, Ive still got the fresh food to get.
I love reading Snowcatchers blog and she posted a wonderful Christmas story that I think you'll all enjoy so do pop over and have a read. Here is the link for Just around the corner enjoy.

Birthday cake

2011-12-18T14:33:00.000-08:00

Sorry for such a gap in posting, I've been busy with custom orders and of course Christmas preparations. I celebrated my Birthday a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful day. I was very spoilt at lunch time while I was at my lovely daughter in laws. Her Mum ( now a dear friend of mine) made a wonderful birthday cake. As you can it was very popular with my lovely grandaughter! lol and we both got in a lovely mess eating our cake! lol

Bonfire night

2011-11-12T15:07:00.000-08:00

Happy weekend everyone, here are a couple of photos from las Saturdays bonfire night at my son and daughte in laws. We had a great evening with 4 generations of one family all enjoying the fireworks and as you can see sparklers. The second photo shows the toffee apples that DIL made for us all, she had also made some wonderful pumpkin soup and homemade bread along with other delights.

Take care all of you

Carol

Wine bottle tag

2011-11-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

Andrea Walford has started a new challenge, called Makeover Monday and I thought you might like to see my take on it.

The joy of this challenge is using things from your stash. The card stock I've had for years! so I'm not sure where I bought it! lol The striped paper is from a pack which is I think from Docrafts but not certain. I used the SU punch for the envelope and label and Xcut christmas tree punch. I added the envelope to a strip of gun metal colour metallic card stock and added 2 silver peeloff christmas trees.
To make the tag top I used a photo corner punch and cut the corner to the first punch line, hope that makes sense! lol

Happy Halloween everyone.

2011-10-31T12:30:00.000-07:00

Wishing you all a spooktacular Halloween, thought you might like to see our wonderful trick or treating grandaughter.

Surprising Nana & Grandad!

Ready for yesterdays party.

S on S Xmas toppers

2011-10-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, at last I've been able to make a sheet up for you for sheets on saturday(S on S). I hope this comes in handy for all your Christmas cards. As you can see I've included 2 of each design. The boot is for a quick card with just the 'fur' to layer which would look nice with glitter on. The frame has 2 extra layers to give more dimension.

Wishing you all a happy and peaceful weekend.

I've been featured!

2011-10-20T14:05:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I was lucky enough to be featured on a wonderful blog by Karen. Her blog has a regular post called 6 on Saturday and she was kind enough to include my cards. Do pop along and have a look at her blog which has a link to her wonderful jewellery.
I hope to post another freebie this weekend, so until then.

Cat in Christmas tree freebie

2011-10-17T15:28:00.000-07:00

At last I've had time to design a new sheet for you. Unfortunately I don't know the original artist of the topper so cannot give them credit. Hope this comes in handy for you, just click the image to enlarge and then save to your computer and print. I'd love to see your results.

As you can see there is a choice of backing paper to go with the cat.

Cute Bear

2011-10-01T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone

I know this isn't a card but wouldn't this lovely cute crochet bear look wonderful on a greeting card to match the hat. The instructions are from this fantastic blog if you crochet do pop along and have a look.

Whoops!

2011-09-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

Where does time go? Sorry I haven't popped in for a while, I'm still about but not able to sit at the computer for as long as I used to as my back has been playing up. :-(( I have managed to make a few cards recently and thought you might like to see one. Here is the card I made for my husbands birthday.

I hope to get some new sheets designed soon for you all and will upload them as soon as they're done. Have a nice weekend everyone and lets hope this lovely sunshines stays for the weekend.

Dual backing sheet - Freebie

2011-09-11T14:25:00.000-07:00

Firstly I hope this weekend hasn't been too upseting for those of you that have family involved in the 9 eleven attacks. My thoughts have been with you.
This week I've designed a backing sheet with 2 colours to give you contrast papers for your creations.

1st Christmas vellum!

2011-08-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and that the weather is being kind to you. My thoughts are with those that have been affected by hurricane Irene.
Yesterday all my family were together celebrating my mothers 80th birthday, it was so nice to catching with all my nieces and their families etc and have 4 generations sitting together.
Now the celebrations are over I've had time to do some designing today. Here is a little offering using tiles from PSP Tubez (with license). I've divided the A4 sheet giving you the choice between traditional and modern designs. Have fun using them and as usual click the image to enlarge it and then save to your computer for personal use only.

At Last!

2011-08-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

I've had time to actually make some cards here's one I've made using one of my design sheets.

This card is now in my Etsy shop and is my first item! I hope to add more items tomorrow and will show you them when I can.

Freebie Design sheet

2011-07-23T15:04:00.000-07:00

Hope you like this weeks offering. There are 2 sets on this sheet, dog on the moon and dog in puddle. hopefully this will be useful for you. Wishing you all a great weekend.

Freebie - Oval latte

2011-07-10T15:24:00.000-07:00

I've designed this backing sheet to be used for all occasions and hopefully you'll be able to use it in your creations.

S ~on~ S backing sheets

2011-06-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

At last I'm able to offer you some sheets on saturday. I hope you find these backing sheets useful. As usual they are designed for A4 paper size.

I would also like to let you know I now also sell design sheets etc in the Digital Crafting Mall which has some exciting new designers so do pop along and have a look. Wishing you all a wonderful happy and peaceful weekend.

Sons Wedding

2011-05-27T15:10:00.000-07:00

Hi just popping in to let you all know the wedding went really well. Here are a couple of photos for you. The first is of Dave arriving in a 3 wheel replica Morgan car and his best man arrived in a Westfield open top car.

This next photo is of Dave and Michelle with my lovely grandaughter the flower girl. :-)

and here they are arriving at the reception in the Tuk tuk that Michelle arrived to church in.

Free backing sheets

2011-05-17T12:06:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, so sorry I haven't been around much, but as you know my son is getting married this Saturday and he moved yesterday! To say his stress levels have been up is an understatement! lol I've managed to find a few minutes to myself and make a couple of backing sheets. Hopefully they'll come in useful for one of you.
As usual I've designed them for an A4 sheet. Just click the image to enlarge and save to your computer then print as you would normally.

Happy Easter

2011-04-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

Wishing you a Happy Easter and lovely weekend. I'm sorry to say there won't be a freebie sheet this week as I'm flat out with working on the last minute bits for my sons wedding which is in a few weeks time. I'll try and get a freebie made for you for next Saturday. Bye for now

S ~ on ~ S Whoops

2011-04-16T07:34:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great weekend with the sun shining, This week I've used a design from Sweet T designs entittled Whoops did I do that! lol I think the design can be used for anyone in the family.

S ~ S motor racing

2011-04-09T11:34:00.000-07:00

For this week I've used this great racing car image and for a change made a pyramage topper for you to use. I've also added some 'bottle caps' for you to embellish your card. Have fun and I hope you all have a good weekend.

S ~on~ S Canal boat

2011-04-03T07:51:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I'm sorry this is late yet again. It's more like sheets on Sunday lately isn't it! lol This sheet isn't very complicated I'm afraid, but I'm not feeling very well this weekend. I've got an awful sore throat, cough and cold, heaven only knows where I got this one from!

S~on~S Warhammer- space marine

2011-03-26T13:28:00.000-07:00

This week I've designed a sheet for the Warhammer fans in our families, hope it comes in useful for some of you.
Have a wonderful weekend and don't forget to put your clocks forward tonight if you're in the UK.

My apologies

2011-03-20T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I'm so sorry you haven't had Sheets on Saturday for last week and this week, I'm away on holiday at the moment in Lanzarote enjoying the sun! lol Although I hear it's nice weather at home at the moment as well! that's typical! lol I'll post a freebie sheet for you all when I get back. bye for now.

S~on~S fishing?

2011-03-06T11:30:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry this is so late this week. As you can see you have 2 sheets, I designed the pyramage some time ago so I hope the quality is ok. The topper is designed to fit an A5 card so the topper layers needed their own sheet. Hopefully this will come in useful for some of you.

Tulip card

2011-03-03T12:14:00.000-08:00

At last I'm able to show you a card I've made using one of my recent S~on~S. This tulip card was made using this sheet. I used leather texture A4 card stock to make the DL size card and cut the background to fit leaving the side border. I will be adding some stardust stickles glitter to the edge of the tulips as I think that will look nice.

S ~on~ S Sport

2011-02-26T08:25:00.000-08:00

This weeks offering has one topper and a couple of extras to embellish you card. The image I used is from freedigitalimages. net . Have fun and I hope you are all OK especially those in New Zealand, my thoughts have been with you all.

S ~on ~ S fantasy

2011-02-19T13:22:00.000-08:00

Sorry this is so late this week, we had a family invasion which was lovely. I'm so lucky to be able to have 4 generations of my family sitting together regularly for lunch.

Thought I'd do something a bit different this week and have made a sheet using a fantasy design I did for a challenge paper some time ago. I hope this comes in useful for some of you. Have a lovely week.

Freebie backing sheet

2011-02-17T15:01:00.000-08:00

Hi hopefully you're all hving a good week and managing to find some crafting time. This weeks freebie backing sheet has a 'built in' border and is suitable for numerous occasions.

S ~on~S tulips

2011-02-11T15:23:00.000-08:00

This weeks sheet has been designed for the ladies with a DL shape card in mind. I've added a couple of extra butterflies for you so that you can embellish you cards.

Freebie

2011-02-06T11:28:00.000-08:00

I've finally had some time for designing and thought you might like this backing sheet. Hope it comes in useful for some of you.

S~on~S micro scooter

2011-02-05T12:56:00.000-08:00

Where have the last few days gone?!! I'm so sorry this is late this week. I've designed something for our younger generation using some graffiti of a micro scooter that I photographed. As you can see there are 2 toppers with the scooter layered up, One of the scooters has a grey border, this is purely to aid cutting. I've added a basic numbers backing sheet that hopefully will be useful for you as well. I'd love to see your creations using this or any other of my designs leave a comment with a link to your creations.

Valentines card

2011-01-29T15:26:00.000-08:00

Here is the card I've made using this weeks freebie sheets on saturday. The card base is a 5"x&7" card.

I add a small piece of the backing sheet which I gave a scallop edge using the SU edge punch. The topper I layered up with SU demensionals with the exception of the 'curl'. To give it a more curled look I add a SU dimensional to the widest part and then add 1mm foam pads at the edges. Hope that makes sense! I used a heart corner punch on the card base and added a piece of the backing sheet behind the heart with double sided tape and then add glitter over the tapes into the hearts. Glitter was also added to a pale pink heart and then attached to the card with a 1mm foam pad. Below are some closer shots to show the layering and glitter corners.

S~on~S Valentines

2011-01-29T04:16:00.000-08:00

As valentines day is fast approaching I thought I'd design a valentines sheet for you, or your children to use. I've designed it to layer it up and have included some extra hearts for you to randomly decoupage on the design or to use as a border. The image is by Simon Howden.

Dirt bike cards

2011-01-27T15:02:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, I thought I'd show you a couple of cards made using a dirt bike sheet I've designed. The first card was made by Marie for her grandson. She used the backing sheet and added the topper with dimensionals, then finished the card with peeloff sentiments etc.
For the second card I used SU ink (banana and apricot ones, sorry I can't remember the exact names of the colours! ) to daub a 'ring of fire'. I added the topper flat to the card and added the decoupage bike for dimension using 1mm foam pads. The fibres were from my stash.

S~on~S Denim toppers

2011-01-22T05:10:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, this week I've designed something a little different and if you get a moment could you leave me a comment as to whether you'd like more or less of this kind of sheet. Thanks ever so. I hope to post a card this afternoon that I'm making using elements from this sheet so catch you all later. Have a wonderful weekend and I hope the weather is being kind to you wherever you are in the world.

As promised here are the cards that I've made with the above sheet, both cards were really quick to make so are ideal if you need a card quickly.
Recipe
The 1st card I cut out leaving a tiny border around the pattern and then used a corner punch. I added this with SU dimensionals and used 2 brads that were bought some while ago at the Lakeland store. For the 2nd card I cut a tag from the denim border using the SU punch and added some ribbon from stock. I then used a sakura crystal pen to add a dotted corner on the top of the card.

S on S ~ Elephants

2011-01-14T13:46:00.000-08:00

I think I've neglected children for too long! so this week here's a sheet for a little girls birthday. I have only added the elephants to decoupage and then hopefully the backing pattern can be used in your cards. Have fun and I hope you all have a good weekend.

Paint brushes ~Cards

2011-01-08T14:49:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of cards I've made using todays sheet.
Recipe
Card 1
I used the smaller topper and added a SU round tab from the backing sheet, and attached it with an Anita brad. Then added a peeloff sentiment and stars and added the topper with dimensionals. The card base was a 5" square card.
Card 2
I used the larger topper and cut along the top of the side box area (somewhat crookedly! ) and passed a strip of backing sheet through. The ribbon I added on top of the strip was from my stock. I made the 'flower' using a SU boho punch added a brad from stock. The card base was a 4" square card.

S on S Paint brushes

2011-01-07T15:17:00.000-08:00

This week I've designed a sheet for you that can be used for any occasion, hence leaving the sentiment areas blank. If any of you would like the image to have a different coloured background than cerise please leave a comment and I'll do it asap.

SonS cards

2011-01-04T14:22:00.000-08:00

Hi, hope you're all recovering from your New year celebrations and I'm sure a lot of you are like me and back to your usual routines, well at least I'm trying to get back! lol Here are a couple of cards I made with Saturdays sheet, hope they can help with layout ideas etc. I think the cards are self explanatory, I used a 1/2" punch for the circles on the top card and added some ribbon from stock and added black peeloff strips down the side of the 2nd card backing layer.

S on S ~ Whoops?

2011-01-01T14:14:00.000-08:00

Welcome to 2011, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves celebrating the end of 2010 and welcoming in this new year. I thought I'd start the new years Sheets on Saturday with this wonderful image that I found on the www. The idea for a sheet saying whoops is from the tradition of making new years resolutions and then a few weeks on breaking them! lol

Happy New Year

2010-12-30T15:29:00.000-08:00

Wishing you and yours a Happy, peaceful and prosperous new year. Many thanks to you all for joining me here for the last year and I hope you join me for 2011 when I hope to bring you more projects and freebie sheets.

Car punchart

2010-12-27T15:02:00.000-08:00

My niece recently passed her driving test with only 1 minor, great pass Georgie, thought I'd share the card I made for her with you all. I got my inspiration for the card from Stamp with Anne

I made the blue car 1st then changed my mind and made the car with the added initials number plate.

Recipe

Stampinup punches

Wide, large, and and small oval punches

modern label tag punch

1/2" and smaller circle punches (not SU)

For the sentiment

word window

Modern label tag punch

papermania clear stamp

SU black ink

I also used the Tailgating SU wheel and coloured in with water colour pencils.

Snow scene cards

2010-12-26T15:34:00.000-08:00

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and Santa bought you all that you'd hoped for, I had a wonderful time with my family and enjoyed dinner with my sister and her family this evening. The cards above are from the snow scene christmas freebie sheet I posted on the 8th December, thought I'd show them to you while it's still the Christmas season! lol

Merry Christmas

2010-12-24T15:25:00.000-08:00

Mery Christmas everyone, I hope you have a wonderful time, I'm lucky enough to be spending christmas day with all my family round for Christmas dinner, so cooking for 10! lol

Freebie sheet

2010-12-23T14:58:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, hope you're all well and getting ready for the holiday celebrations and not suffering too much with the extremes of weather. I've just made this sheet and thought it might come in handy for some of you for a new year card or ready for next year! lol

S on S Thanks

2010-12-18T06:47:00.000-08:00

This week I have 2 sheets for you in readiness for all those thankyou cards that you'll be wanting! The first I've designed for the children to use/ help you with and the second is showing a tired out dog as I'm sure I'll feel similar after Christmas! lol Hope they come in useful to you.

Santas gift

2010-12-15T14:26:00.000-08:00

This week I've designed a slightly different topper for you so that it's quick to make, with easy cutting and only one layer! Ideal for last minute cards. As you can see there are 3 different sizes of topper and just a border/narrow backing paper.

S on S Gradient flower

2010-12-12T13:35:00.000-08:00

This should be sheets on Sunday! lol I'm so sorry this is late, but the time is just flying by now and I'm still not ready for Christmas! lol After printing this weeks sheet, I think it may be a bit dark, but I'm going to make it up into cards tomorrow to see how it looks, hope you can find it useful. I'll do my best to add some of the cards I've made from previous sheets this week so that you can see them.

Christmas midweek freebie

2010-12-08T13:31:00.000-08:00

This weeks sheet is of snow scenes. For the holly framed photo I've add another frame to add layered up, cut out the centre but save the hat in the middle for the snowman scene! Again I've added the hat and the banner for you to layer up. I've left a slight edge on the banner purely for you to see where to cut. The border I've left as plain a plain sentiment border which you either cut following the line of the text or cut straight. Hope the sheet is useful for you all.

S on S Mod mix

2010-12-04T04:55:00.000-08:00

Morning everyone, thought I'd make something a little different for this Saturdays offering, as usual I've designed it to be printed on A4 landscape. As you can see from my cards that I've made using this sheet my printer isn't working properly and won't print anything other than green and yellow tones! lol I must say I like the colours my printer has used and if any of you would like me to make the sheet with these colours just let me know and I'll see what I can do! lol

Recipe for the cards

for the flower one I cut out the peices from the sheet and added a SU punches 3 flower for the centre with a brad from my stash. I used gold peeloffs and coloured the flowers with SU Gable green and the leaves with Sage shadow.

For the butterfly card I cut out the peices as you can see and layered them onto a papermania scallop edge card. nd added some star dust stickles in the centre of the butterfly. I also drew in the butterfly antennae I think using the gable green.

Now you know how bad my printer is as these colours match the colours on the sheet that it printed out! lol

Christmas midweek freebie

2010-12-02T13:03:00.000-08:00

My apologies for posting this so late today, but I was actually able to get out and catch up with shopping etc. I've been iced in for the last few days. lol We didn't have a huge amount of snow compared with other areas in the country, but each layer iced solid and the road and paths/pavement became lethal! Hopefully the weather is better where you are and warmer! Anyway enough rambling, for this week I've done a topper sheet for you with a decoupaged bauble and plain topper using the image of a wonderful snowman called George by Costellajen. Hope these come in handy.

Just a note

2010-12-01T15:04:00.000-08:00

Hi just popping in to let you know I'm running late this week and will post the Christmas freebie sheet tomorrow morning. Bye for now.

JAI #45

2010-11-29T08:38:00.000-08:00

Just add ink have a super sketch challenge this week. Pop over and see it here. Here's my entry for it, hope you like it.

S on S Teenage fairy

2010-11-26T14:38:00.000-08:00

I realised this week that I've been neglectful in making sheets for teenage girls. I hope this weeks offering will go towards correct that! I started making a card using this sheet and will addt it tomorrow when its finished. In the meantime so that I don't keep you waiting here's the sheet. As usual it's designed to be printed landscape A4

Here's the card I made. I used bronze coloured peeloffs for the corners and the edge of the angel hair oval. The backing sheet was cut using a magnet punch that you can make various shapes with. I added stardust stickles to the punched out stars, corners and the flowers in the fairys hair. I also coloured parts of the corner peeloffs to match the blue angel hair.

Happy Thanksgiving

2010-11-25T12:47:00.000-08:00

Popping in to wish all my American visitors a Happy Thanksgiving.

Animal Christmas

2010-11-24T13:40:00.000-08:00

Here's the 2nd weeks , midweek christmas freebie. I've designed the labrador topper as a pyramid and the rabbit can either be 4 different toppers or your can layer them up to make a fancy border/frame round the picture.

Boats

2010-11-22T14:50:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of cards I've made using this weeks S ~on ~S. The lanscape card, I used some of the backing sheet behind the frame and then put the centre piece on SU dimensionals to make it pop a bit an I also added a couple of the oars that were on the sheet. For the portrait card, I cut the pattern from the smaller background piece that was with the toppers and decoupaged the boat onto the plain topper. I'd made the card I think the border would look nice if I'd edged the border with some black ink. Maybe next time! lol

S on S Boat ashore

2010-11-19T14:52:00.000-08:00

As I'm posting Christmas sheets during the week, I'll keep the Saturday sheets for other occasions. Today I've designed a sheet with our older male family members in mind. The image I've used I found on the www and umable to credit to the designer. The boat layer is sized to fit the complete topper not the one with the added frame. Hope that makes sense!

Christmas freebie

2010-11-17T14:15:00.000-08:00

Here you go folks a topper sheet to get you started on your midweek christmas freebies, I've left 2 blank so you can add your own sentiment. As usual designed to be printed landscape on A4

S on S Pandas relaxing

2010-11-13T03:50:00.000-08:00

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend. I'm pleased to say it's dry here for a change, it's been raining all week! lol Sadly at this time of year a lot of people get poorly so today I've designed a get well card that will work for both men and women. As usual I've designed it to be printed landscape on A4 paper. Unfortunately I do not know the photographer so cannot give them credit.

As Christmas is only a short time away, I'll try and post a christmas sheet as well during the week in the run up to Christmas. Let me know if you have any favourite messages you'd like me to put on sentiment tags, or if you'd like the message in another language.

JAI #42

2010-11-08T11:48:00.000-08:00

Here is my entry for the Just add ink challenge. As you can see I've used the sheet I posted saturday . I punched out a snowflake trying to get a christmas tree in the centre from the background sheet and used the swirly background for the side border. The irridescent peeloff borders are from my stash. as is the 5x7" card.

a new crafting pal!

2010-11-06T14:37:00.000-07:00

Evening everyone as plammed I managed to get some crafting done this afternoon and thought you might like to see my new crafting pal/critic! lol Our cat kizzy was determined to sit with me and knows I don't like her on my table so went on my shoulders instead! I'll show you the cards I made tomorrow as the photo wasn't too good with the flash going off on my camera.

S on S Hever at Christmas

2010-11-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

This weeks sheet is using a wonderful photograph of Hever Castle in Kent UK at Christmas time, all I've done to the photo is added a frame for the topper. As a child I visited this castle many times and have since taken my own children there when they were little., I'm pleased to say they enjoyed it as much I did. . I hope to be able to do a lot of card making tomorrow so that I can show you some cards made using this sheet. Hope you all have a nice weekend with better weather than we've had! Bye for now.

Clydesdale Christmas

2010-11-02T13:51:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of cards I've made using the latest Sheets on Saturday (S-on-S) After taking the photo I decided the DL card needed a bit more so I added a peeloff holly leaf and a couple of 1mm gems that I coloured using permanent marker. I,ve shown the gems in the second photo. I;ve also made some 4x4inch cards using the sheet and when I get a moment I'll upload a photo for you all.

S on S - Clydesdale Snow

2010-10-30T03:54:00.000-07:00

I just love this image of clydesdale horses in the snow and I think its too good to change much so have just made some toppers, sentiments and a couple of borders for the sheet. If I get time later I'll make a vellum sheet for you to go with this. Have a great weekend all of you and if you get time to leave me a comment I'd really appreciate it so that I know I'm making sheets that are useful! lol thanks everso.

House mouse

2010-10-28T13:46:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, just wanted to show you these cards I made using Joanna Sheens wonderful decoupage sheets. I love this house mouse series they just fit with so many different occasions. The first card I made for my sisters bithday and the second is a thankyou card for the nursing staff at West Cornwall hospital where I had an eye operation 10 days ago and the last is for my nephews birthday.

DIY cards

2010-10-24T06:42:00.000-07:00

Here we are as promised. This week I've made 2 cards using yesterdays sheet as the thankyou card was made so quickly! lol Here's how I did them.

Birthday card
I used an oval template that I made from another piece of card and sponged this using whispers ink for the green tones and an inspiration ink for the sky. I then added a fine bronze colour peeloff around the oval. The sentiment topper was made using SU designer label punch with a peice of pearlescent green card and the small sentiment. I then attached this to the strip with SU dimensionals.
Thankyou card
I used the fiskers running water border punch on the striped paper and add the the sentiment to a peice of green card and attached with 2 SU dimensionals.

S on S DIY decoupage

2010-10-22T14:32:00.000-07:00

This week I've used a wonderful image but sadly cannot give credit to the artist as they're unkown. I'm sure we all know a DIY enthusiast or perhaps have a helpful friend that needs a thankyou card for fixing your house repairs. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and as usual I'll post a copy of the cards I make using this sheet.

S on S Christmas chimney

2010-10-16T04:13:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I hope last weeks sheets weren't too late as I scheduled the post before I went away. I've had a wonderful week in sunny Lanzarote with DH and both of us have reharged our batteries as they say! lol Although we wish now we'd booked a f ew more days out there, oh well next time eh! lol
This weeks offering for you is a christmas scene with a selection of different sized toppers for you so that you can use some on tags if you wish. When I get a moment I'll make some cards using the sheet and will post them for you all to see. Hope you're all having good weather like we are here today and best wishes for a lovely weekend.

S on S Cows

2010-10-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone hope you're having a great weekend and I hope this gets to you on Saturday when I've planned for it to be posted! lol As I've ignored the men lately heres a sheet for the farmers etc in our families and I've also added 2 backing sheets for you as well as the single toppers. With luck you'll find them useful.

sheets on saturday

2010-10-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

Hi
just a quick note to let you all know your s-on-s should be up later today. Have a great weekend.

Glamour puss

2010-10-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

I've made this card for the challenge over at creativecraftchallenges There's some fantastic DT cards there. The topper and backing paper are a Kanban design. I used a border punch on the side and added black glitter to it.

Halloween turtle

2010-10-04T15:03:00.000-07:00

Here's the card I made using this weeks free sheet. I also added the witch and pumpkin from halloween confetti using 1mm depth foam pads. For the 'x' pattern I cut a slither of the border and then cut it into 4 pieces. For the border around the topper I used bronze fine line peeloffs and the base card is white 5x7".

S on S Evil Turtle!

2010-10-02T06:38:00.000-07:00

For this weeks Sheet on Saturday I've design an invertage topper for you , the image is by Dolphy and I think it goes well for halloween. What do you all think? I'll be showing you a card using the sheet later. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

JAI #36 Sketch challenge

2010-09-26T11:19:00.000-07:00

As promised here's my card using this weeks sheet. I've made it to enter into Just add Inks sketch challenge. The only addition is the ribbon which is from a hanging loop inside clothing that I cut out as I don't use the loops on hangers for all my tops!

S on S Relax

2010-09-25T04:13:00.000-07:00

This week I'm posting 2 versions of the sheet as I like the sepia tones as well as the yellow. Hopefully both sheets will be of some use to you all, if you have time I'd love your comments on my sheets. I'll be posting my card/s tomorrow as I don't think I'll have time today. Babysitting later, which I'm looking forward to. :-))

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Birthday Car

2010-09-23T14:35:00.000-07:00

September is a busy month for our family with lots of birthdays, heres the card I've made for my BIL birthday. The card is 5x5 cream with black shimmer brads at the side of the pyramid topper.

JAI 35 - Theme challenge

2010-09-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

This week at Just Add Ink the challenge is a theme which is sympathy. I have made this tag card to attach to a bouquet of flowers. The peeloff is from Anitas range and I used whispers brushstrokes and a blender pen to colour the rose in. The flower is from a £1 shop/dollar store 'silk' flower that I took apart and re-assembled adding the red brad for the centre. The pearl and gold beads are from a cake decorators shop! I thought they'd look better on a card! lol

S on S Duck & caller

2010-09-18T04:04:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd do a sheet for our men again. Hope you like this weeks offering. As usual click the image to enlarge before saving/printing and print on landscape A4. I hope to show you some example cards using this sheet later today. The sentiment circle fits a 1 1/2" punch.

As promised here are 2 cards I've made using this sheet. The larger card is 5x7" and the sentiment topper is cut with a 1 1/2" punch and placed on a SU scallop circle punch and then 1 3/4 " circle punch. Then I used SU dimensionals to add to the card. The ribbon is from my stash. The second card is 4x4" and I used some scraps of ds paper that I've torn and then stamped some branch images using whisper inks and then used a bit of chocolate chip sponged where the duck is sitting so that he isn't sitting in thin air! lol

Maisie

2010-09-14T15:04:00.000-07:00

Thought some of you might like this photo I took today, Maisie decided she was fed up with Marie crafting and after jumping up and down for a while she jumped onto Maries lap to stop her! lol

Jacks Card

2010-09-13T12:15:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I just wanted to show you this wonderful card that Jack (a young neighbour) has made for his Dads birthday. He

came up with the idea of using a picture of the lorries that his father drives and was able to remember the company name so that we could find a picture. Jack is very new to card making this being his second card, as you can see he has decoupaged the lorries really well. For the inside Jack has added an insert of patterned paper with a lorry that matches the front of the card

S on S Xmas geese

2010-09-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

Ok here's the freebie for this week, I'm sure some of you like me have started to think of making Christmas cards so every now and then I'll post a Christmas sheet for you all to use . I love the image I used but unfortunately I can't give the designer credit, as I don't know who it is. As usual I designed the topper and backing sheet, and to print it click the image to enlarge it and then save it to your pc.

I've also included my take of the card I made using the sheet and the insert which I've included for you. I made the card using a 5 3/4" (14.5cm) square card and the paper lace and bow are from my stash.

Wedding

2010-09-11T07:15:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, just a quick post to show you the wedding card I made using the last JAI sketch challenge, (see previous post) Thought you'd like to see how different 2 cards can look even though the layout is the same.

Thanks - JAI 33 challenge

2010-09-05T03:44:00.000-07:00

Hi I loved the sketch challenge on Just add Ink this week and here's my interpretation of it.

Recipe

The cardstock and ds paper are Stamin up along with the scalloped circle and heart punches. The heart is from the punch that has the 3 hearts on it (sorry forget its name! lol) I added Anitas 3d gel to the heart and drew dots on the square using a white gel pen. The designer paper I used a fiskers border punch and then ran the strip through my crimper.

S on S Circles

2010-09-03T15:07:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd post this early as I've been late for the last couple of weeks! lol I've designed this sheet with men/boys in mind, the ones you just don't know what to do card wise! lol Hopefully this will be general enough to suit most people. I've also added a couple of cards I've made using the sheet showing how I've used it for the different age groups.

Colt card

2010-08-31T12:13:00.001-07:00

Here you go as promised a card made using the last free sheet. I didn't realise until printing that the circle in the bottom wasn't too clear so I put a sticker over it! I layered the topper onto gold metalic card and adding it using SU dimensionals onto the card over the silver and gold zigzag peel offs that I added diagonally to the cream card.

S on S Colt

2010-08-27T15:46:00.001-07:00

Posting this a bit ealy this week as I'll be out most of tomorrow. Hope this weeks offering is useful for some of you. As usual I'll post the card I make using this sheet. Have a great weekend.

Liams Card

2010-08-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I just wanted to show you this wonderful halloween card that a friends grandson made. He wanted to use my punches and made 2 smashing cards. I'm unable to show you one of them as its a card for his Mums wedding and she may pop here and see it! lol Here's his brilliant halloween card. He used the star punch to make the hat and witches nose and I think he used a circle punch for the black cloak and the moon etc. The cat and stars are peeloffs.

JAI #31

2010-08-22T12:56:00.000-07:00

Here is the card I've made for the Just Add Ink Challenge. Hope you like it. Unfortunately the picture makes the chocolate chip look greyish. I used the sheets in previous post and sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink. The tags were cut using the jewel tag punch from Stampin up and I added a few seed beads from my stash. The flowers were cut out and I put Anitas 3d gel glue on them. (same as Stampin up Crystal effects) Then I added them with 1mm depth foam pads.

S on S Colour challenge

2010-08-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

Hope you like this weeks design. I've made it to fulfill a colour challenge on Just add Ink and will be making a card using these sheets so that I can post it in time. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and not too much rain! lol As usual click on the design to enlarge it then save and print on A4 paper.

S on S Poor Daffy

2010-08-13T14:57:00.000-07:00

This week I'm pleased to say I have been given permission to use this great Daffy duck get well image. The orginal idea is Jazzy Carols, many thanks Carol for letting me use it to make this weeks sheet. I'm sure I'll be using this again to make a different sheet and of course will post it here for you all to use.

S on S Garden scene

2010-08-06T15:29:00.000-07:00

Just love this acrylic on canvas painting by Karinabrady and will be making a card tomorrow using the sheet I've designed. Hope you'll find the sheet useful. Have a great weekend.

Mid week Freebie

2010-08-05T03:21:00.000-07:00

Had a little time for designing yesterday so am able to treat you with a midweek freebie, its a couple of toppers with a backing sheet and border on the one sheet for you. Unfortunately I do not know the artist so am unable to give them credit. Have fun and hope you're having a good week, don't forget I'd love comments you all to leave some comments now and then!

S on S Present

2010-07-31T05:44:00.001-07:00

This weeks offering is using an image of a present, unfortunately I don't know the original designer of this so cannnot give them credit. I hope you like the way I've used the image and as usual I'll be posting a card later to show you how I've used this sheet. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Here we are as promised the card I've made using this weeks sheet. I used Dovecraft corner punch on the second layer and the plain backing paper was from a pack of card sheets from Grafix for Kids. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

S on S Bike on the beach

2010-07-24T12:45:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry this is so late today, Iwent out this morning with my son and his family thinking I'd only be an hour or so and returned 8 hours later! lol Had a lovely day though and was spoilt to lunch out and dinner this evening. :-)

This weeks sheet is made with my Mum in mind as her 2 favourite things are cycling and the beach and even though she's in her late 70's she still cycles! I hope I'm that fit when I reach her age. As usual the sheet has been designed for printing on A4.