What's In A Title?

The blog title is my take on my favourite quote from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novel, when Bella realises she is in love with vampire Edward. My version is slightly less impressive than that in the book but never the less true:


"About three things I was absolutely positive, first I was an obsessed crafter, second, there was a part of me - and I didn't know how potent that part might be, that thirsted for beautiful craft materials, dies, stamps, papers, cardstock etc, and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with scrapbooking and cardmaking"







Friday 28 June 2013

Like Father, Like Son

Another scrapbook page for my friend's baby album.  The page is mostly decorated with small pieces of washi tape from my stash.  It's amazing how much washi tape you acquire and it lasts ages.  I used a Prima stencil to add a few areas of colour on the white cardstock and I die cut the birds using a Sizzix die, one from canvas and one from paper (as I had run out of canvas).  The baby is a baby no more as he has just had his first birthday so the album, complete with all the layouts is now in the possession of my his mum and dad and I am looking forward to doing his year two album.  

Monday 24 June 2013

School Nativity Accordion Card

My friend Kathy and I are totally in love with Karen Burniston's amazing accordion die.  All of Karen's dies are really hot and very much in demand at the moment and I think Kathy probably bought the last one in stock in the UK and I had to buy mine from a lovely lady in America via EBay.  Kathy is really creative and mentioned making a Christmas nativity themed card using the gorgeous stamps from Lili of The Valley.  We joked about having a race to see who could finish one first.  Kathy is brilliant at colouring with her Pro-markers and always seems to know which colours will work the best but it always takes me ages to chose my colours so naturally Kathy finished her card whilst I was still dithering over which shade of green to use!  Anyway, colours picked, four hours of colouring, some shading with Prisma pencils and a little bit of glitter glue and this is my finished card. I could have further embellished the card but I think the design is the main focal point so I don't want lots of embellishments to detract from that, perhaps I might do more embellishing on my next card.  I have to say they are a nightmare to photograph but so amazingly different to normal cards and I can't wait to make some more.  





Sunday 23 June 2013

Pop n Cuts Girl with Cake.

I made this card for a friend's birthday and it is another collaboration between the amazing Karen Burniston's Pop n Cuts dies and The stunning stamps of Lili of the Valley who are based about a ten minute drive from my home.  I coloured the images with Pro-markers and added some glitter glue to the icing on the cake.  The papers are from an old Papermania set and the flowers inside were cut with a Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die.  The flowers on the outside were hand cut and rolled using a quilling tool.

Saturday 8 June 2013

Pop n Cuts 1st Birthday Card

Last year I treated myself to the starter Pop n Cuts die, designed by Karen Burniston and manufactured by Sizzix.  I think I made one card then it went in a drawer and wasn't used again until I found it whilst having a tidy out a couple of weeks ago.  Now I am in love with all things Karen Burniston, the Pop n Cuts stuff in particular and her Accordion Flip Album die which I am also using a lot at the moment.  I have done a lot of Karen's classes in the past and have always been amazed at how all the interactive parts work but she has definitely outdone herself with these dies and all the co ordinating sizzlits etc.

Last week I went to the open day at Lili of the Valley in Farsley, Leeds.  I am lucky to live about ten minutes away which is great for my stamp collection but not so good for my bank balance!  I bought some stamps from some of their latest collections and some of their paper pads.  I also won a prize which was fabulous, it doesn't get any better than free!  I used some of the papers on this card and two of their stamped images, one on the front and one inside.  I coloured the images with Pro-markers and added some Glossy Accents to the sweeties to make them slightly 3D.  

Check out some more Pop n Cuts designs on Karen Burniston's blog... http://karenburniston.typepad.com/i_am_not_lefthanded/