Magazine Reads

My Crafts Beautiful MArch Issue arrived today and I am very excited about it. I am of to bed soon to have a read and see what it is all about. The Valentine papers are gorg! and I love the look of this tasty Cards & Cupcakes book!

Bought this on Sunday while shopping in Asda as couldn't find the LGC Beads issue. i have had a thoroughly good read of this and enjoyed a few projects. Not as good as I thought it would be. Trying to figure out what sort of card designto do for DH this year! Bit tricky!

I bought this Papercraft Inspirations at the weekend for some reading materil and thorougly enjoyed it. The free stamps are just lovely and can't wiat to have a play! I particulary enjoyed the questionnaire with Dawn Bibby!

Order from Crafts U Love

This is an order I placed with craftsulove.com of papers and stamps. I received these last weeka nd have begun to use the wonerful patterned papers. Not used the stamps yet for anything but, have stamped some images out for the Image Swap for February! Great bargains I got of the stamps though, 99p!

Wallhanging

I made this Floral Vintage wallhanging using some papers bought from Dobbies and the floral paper was free from the Papercraft Essentials issue this month. I put it all together on a circle shape and attached all together using a pink organza ribbon and made my own wire flower handcrafted flower, which I kept subtle so the floral paper could do most of the talking. i added on flower embellishments to finish!

ATCS

Above are a couple of ATCs that I made for a swap I signed up for over on the Crafts Beautiful Foum hosted by Snaggles (Pips). The theme of the swap was Butterflies so, I used my favourite butterfly stamp and embossed them and cutaround and sticky fixed to some free paptterned papers from my Cardmaking & Papercrafting magazine! I added on ribbon roses to enhance the deisgn and butterflies. I hope that these have gone to a good home!

Mermaid Cards

This is a general card I made for someone special dear to me on the Crafts Beautiful Forum. I signed up to a swap on the forum and made this card especially for hr as I knew she would like it! It also fits in with the theme of the swap she is hosting! This is a decoupaged Mermaid adhered onto lace ribbon and patterned vintage paper!

I made this Mermaid card using a decoupage design like the one previously! I made this for no particular reason but, having posted this on the papercrafting thread on Crafts Beautiful Forum I have recieved lots of feedback and is all good; so I am now going to choose someone who has posted on this thread of mine an send as a RAK with some goodies! The comments made are remarkable and are very encouraging too! I used free patterned from my Cardmaking & Papercrafting Magazine Feb. issue! and added on 3 different organza ribbons to add texture!

ATCS

These are my ATCs made for the january ATC Swap that Cambiel (Chris on CB forum) is hosting! The theme was Fantasy. These Decoupage designs were perfect for this swap. I really enjoyed making these and hope that they have gone to a good home!

Apologies

Just want to pass on my apologies for not being around much on here and not blogging as I would usually do! I feel terrible but, a lot of personal things have been going on with me and I have been going through a bit of a difficult time! It's been since before New Year that things have been a bit difficult for me and I just need my time alone with family and myself! I hope you understand that I am not able to say what my persoanl issues are but, it's something I do not want to talk about as it is very emotional and a situation that it is very delicate! Anyway, passing on my apologies to you all who read my blog regularly!

Take Care and God Bless

Natalie x