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Some more MCS card

2012-01-25T13:55:00.003Z

So much for me trying to post more regularly! lol Time just seems to get away from me! And I seem to make a stack of cards and then photograph them all in one go. Anyway, here are some more MCS back catalogue cards
If you're wondering why I have been using some of the older MCS CD's, it's because they have some shows coming up on Create & Craft when they will be selling some of them and I have done some of the samples for them. As we know everyday more and more people are finding the wonderful hobby of cardmaking and MCS are aware of this and are wanting to show the new crafters their back catalougue of CD's.

Imagine

2012-01-19T09:50:00.004Z

Here is anther MCS card, this time using the All About Words CD. I love the colours on this card.All the embellishments on this card are paper, even the flowers, ribbon and the gemstone. You can't see it on the photo but I habe put some glitter in the middle of the flower and on the petals.

MCS

2012-01-17T16:03:00.001Z

Here is another card from the MCS back catalogue
Again this one is from the One For The Girls CD. I've used the same techniques are the previous card from yesterday

MCS

2012-01-16T19:56:00.002Z

Here's another card from the fabulous My Craft Studio
I've been looking back at some CD's that I haven't used in a while and decided to make a few cards from them. Here is the first one, it from the MCS For The Girls CD. I've kept this one simple, just a bit of matting and layering and added some ribbon, a hat pin, a feather, some glitter and 3D glaze and some pearls. Come back tomorrow for some more from MCS

MCS card

2012-01-12T12:09:00.003Z

This card is from the new MCS Setting The Scene Shop Fronts CD As you can see again, the CD isn't just about shop fronts, it's so much more. I think it's a lovely image and can be used for so many different occasions.This is a close up of the dress. I've used silicone glue instead of foam pads so I could curve the skirt to look more realistic.

MCS card

2012-01-08T14:41:00.003Z

This card is for my next door neighbour to give to his wife for her birthday. I've used the MCS Setting The Scene Shop Fronts CDYou can't really see it on the photo but the shop front is raised with acetate behind it so it's like a window, and the door opens so you can see inside the shop.

Here I am again!

2012-01-06T11:51:00.006Z

I know, I know, don't faint lol, here I am again! Here are a few cards I made yesterday using the new Sugar Nellie images from Funky Kits.
I've coloured all the images with my Copics. I've also used a Nellie die and the papers on the 1st free are from the Basic Grey Sultry paper pad
The papers on this one are from a free stack from Papercraft Essentials. The sentiments are from Stampin Up stamps.

Happy New Year

2012-01-05T15:51:00.010Z

Happy New Year to anyone that reads my blog, I know I have been a very, very lazy blogger lately, but there really has been so much going on with me and my family. Thankfully things have settled down a bit now. I really will try to blog regularly from now on, honest! Here are my latest sample cards for MCS, these are from the Setting The Scene Shop Fronts CD that was launched last Friday. There is so much more than just shop fronts on this CD, I love it! This one is a simple, but I think, very pretty card. Create and Craft must agree as this was used in the promo! It is simply a topper and some papers printed out and matted and layered. I have put some ribbon behind the topper and some buttons down the side

This one is a 3D wedding shop, which looks quite difficult to make but isn't, the instructions on the CD are really easy to follow. This one was also used on the promo.
This one is a 3D tunnel card in matching box, again used in the promo.
This one is another simple one with an image and papers and some jems, ribbon and a hat pin added.
This one is a town scene, you can build your own street however you wish, there are so many different houses benches, lamp posts etc to choose from.

Now this one is my favourite of all the images on the CD, there is so much you can do with it. The following 3 cards all use the same image in different ways, and all 3 of them have been shown a lot on the shows, especially the 1st 2. I have been so chuffed with all the amazing comments I have had from the presenters about these cards. The 1st one is simply printed and matted and layered, with a bit of ribbon and glitter on. Oh, I added the little cat as well.

This 2nd one I have printed the image and cut it into 3 and distressed using Tim Holtz distressing ink, then dropped some water on to further distress it. The papers are also from the same CD, I think this is my fave paper.
For the 3rd one I've gone for black and white again. Again a topper and paper from the CD and I've added a feather, a hat pin and some ribbon.
I can see this being a very popular CD of choice for alot of people. I can see me using it for mens cards as there are alot of images on it that can be used for anyone. Wow, that was quite a long post for my 1st one in a while! I hope you haven't nodded off dear reader. I promise I will be back soon.

latest cards

2011-11-25T12:43:00.005Z

I haven't had much time to come online lately, with emptying my Great Uncles house and visiting my Aunt in hospital who has just had surgery to remove a tumor from her gullet, it has been non stop for me. I have managed to make a few cards in the evenings and here they are:
These are for my mums birthday. The one above is using an image and papers from MCS The Artist Collection CD 1 Smudge. The image is coloured with Copics and the flowers and ribbon are from my stash.
This one also uses the MCS Artist Collection but CD 2 Cromford Bear. I've decoupaged the image inside and added a message a few embellishments from my stash.

Cromford Bear

2011-11-16T10:24:00.003Z

Today's card is using an image and papers from MCS's The Artist Collection volume 2 Cromford Bear. I think he's adorable! The image is coloured with Copics.I think this is one of my favourite cards I have made lately. It will have to go to someone special I thnk!

Baubles

2011-11-14T15:13:00.006Z

A Friend of mine was showing me some blank baubles she was buying to make up so I asked her to get me some so I could have a go. Here are a few of what I came up withI've had great fun working with them, and I think they look really good. I've also made boxes for them so I can give them as gifts.I've used various images inside the baubles, the snowflakes are cut from acetate on my robo and then glittered. All the boxes are made using paper from MCS Christmas discs.

Back from holiday

2011-11-08T11:15:00.005Z

Well I'm back from my holiday and I really must get back into being a regular blogger. Things have been a bit mad for me over the last few months and I've had other things on my mind but hopefully all will be back to normal in a few weeks time.

Anyway here is my first card after my hol.

The image and papers are from the My Craft Studio, The Artist Collection Volume one Smudge CD. Isn't he adorable! I've coloured him with my Copics and added some ribbon, flowers, gems and a hat pin from my stash.

And another one

2011-10-15T09:00:00.000+01:00

Yet again another card from the fabulous Tinkering With Steampunk CD, I really am loving this CD! This time I've done one of the fabby frame cards. I've embossed some of the embellishments from the CD to add a bit extra to the card.
I know this picture is a bit blurred but I wanted to show that I had wrapped some cotton around the bobbin embellishment.

Todays card

2011-10-14T10:49:00.003+01:00

Again I have been playing with the fabulous Tinkering With Steampunk CD and this is todays card

I've done this card a bit girly using ribbon, a feather and a hat pin, just to show that Steampunk doesn't have to be all about distressing. Again the wheels/cogs were cut out on my Robo and heat embossed.

This card is winging it's way to someone that liked it today.

Another Steampunk

2011-10-13T10:35:00.003+01:00

Here is another Steampunk card I have done, again using the MCS Tinkering With Steampunk CD
The distressing is done with a Tim Holtz brushed corduroy distress ink pad. I have heat embossed the topper and embellishments and the cracked them and inked up again.

Steampunk

2011-10-12T11:44:00.004+01:00

This is my first go at a Steampunk style card.

It's using the new My Craft Studio Tinkering with Steampunk CD

I've taken some of the jpeg images of weels from the CD and cut them out on my Craft Robo and then heat embossed them to make them look old and rusty

Cromford Bear cards

2011-10-07T10:28:00.003+01:00

I've been playing with a free download of Cromford Bear from the Platinum members My Craft Studio club and I've fallen in love with him! Can't wait for my CD full of him to arrive, I can see him being used soooo much. They are all coloured in with my Copics and the papers are all from various MCS CD's

2011-10-04T14:19:00.005+01:00

Here are a few quick and simple cards that I have made this morning using a set of Anitas stamps that I bought last year and haven't used as yet!! Some of them have a little bit of water colouring on them using AquaMarkers

And more hand coloured cards

2011-10-03T11:33:00.003+01:00

These cards use images from the My Craft Studio Setting The Scene CD and are all A4 in size.

Some hand coloured cards

2011-10-03T11:09:00.009+01:00

Here are some cards I've done lately coloured using ProMarkers, AquaMarkers, FlexMarkers and Copics. These are all using Polka Doodles Stamps.
This one is A4 in Size These are A5

These ones are 15cm square

And for those that only ever do A6 cards these show you that you can still achieve a great result in a small size

Christmas table set

2011-08-25T14:27:00.004+01:00

I've been playing again and have come up with these little things for my Christmas table this year.This is the cuttlery holder closer up

And the place card
And the wine glass sleeve

And finally the Christmas tree decoration

All the products I have used are from Stampin' Up
The papers are from the Jolly Holidays collection, the stamps I have used are from the Welcome Christmas and Four Frames sets. All images are stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink and the card stock is Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla.
I have also used the extra large scalloped circle punch, between the layers of the tree and the decorative label punch. The ribbon is the 3.2cm wide Old Olive striped grosgrain ribbon.

Yet more Stampin' Up cards

2011-08-01T15:12:00.009+01:00

I've been playing with my Stampin' Up stamps again, this time using Welcome Christmas and Lovely As a Tree, and these are the cards:

The design of the first card was "borrowed" from Jules

I've stamped all the images in Basic Black and used some glitter on the trees.

More Stampin Up cards

2011-07-15T14:08:00.004+01:00

I've made 5 of each of these designs using the Welcome Christmas stamp set and the Perfect Punch stamp set and coordinating punches.

The images are stamped in Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler ink.

And a third post!

2011-07-12T14:22:00.004+01:00

Again I have used Stampin Up products. This time the Greenhouse Garden set.
The images are all stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink and the papers I have used are Stampin Up's Jolly Holiday papers. The sentiments on the first and third cards are from Stampin Up's Perfect Punches stamp set, and I have used the coordinating punches.

The sentiment on this last card is from Stampin Up's Punch Bunch stamp set, again using the coordinating punch.

And that is it for today. And I really will try to keep my blog updated from now!

Another post using Stampin Up products

2011-07-12T14:13:00.003+01:00

This time I've done a set of cards using the Motorcycle stamp.
The image on this card is stamped using the Stampin Up crumb cake ink pad, the paper is from a My Craft Studio CD and the sentiment is from Stampin Up's oval all stamp set.

The image is again stamped with crumb cake. And the paper and buttons are from my stash.
Again, this image is stamped with crumb cake. I've got the row of bikes by masking the image and overstamping and I'm quite pleased with the result!
This time the image is stamped with basic black and again I have masked it, but this time I have cut the image into 3 pieces which is popular with wall art at the moment so I thought I'd try it on a card!