Spike and Spikette!

Hi everyone, and a happy Valentine's day!

I just wanted to share the card that I made for my hubby using Jane's cute digi-stamp 'Spike'.

I had sooooo much fun paper piecing these little monsters.

Jane has plenty more cute stamps available to buy over at Squigglefly, and she released a fabulous new collection yesterday. Check out her blog, and those of her rather fantastic DT for details of the new stamps and a chance to win a free set!

Have a great Sunday!

Meet Sasha!

I fell head over heals in 'stamp love' when I saw Olga and Sasha over at Jane's blog!

These gorgeous digi-stamps were Jane's new release over at Squigglefly on Saturday and I was thrilled to win the set at Sanne's blog .

This image is 'Sasha' (Olga is just as cute). I decided to paper piece her using Cosmo Cricket Mini-Deck Early Bird.

I am entering this card for Virginia's 'Beat the winter blahs' Challenge. I love these cheery colours and think they are a great antidote to all the miserable weather that we have been having recently. The 'wow' factor on this card is the gorgeous Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection stamp. Such a stunning image.

This card is for my dear friend Eileen. She is such a kind and supportive friend, and I feel blessed to know her.

Happy crafting everyone!

How many cats?

It's a colour challenge over at the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #67!

However, looking again at the picture I realise that I was way off with the colours that I used for my card! Oh well....

The Gorjuss Girl stamp is called Purrfect friends, and the sentiment is a 99 cent bargain from Squigglefly. They go together so well!

I wanted some of the cats to face the other way so used the 'kissing technique' to do this.

I need to say a very big thank you to the lovely Sally for giving me the low down on how to do this!

I coloured with promarkers and had lots of fun giving each little cat his own 'purr-sonality'.

If you count the cats on the card you will only find 8, but look inside and there's the last cat waiting to be found!This card is for my Mom's friend Pat. Now that adorable little monster 'Fluff' has moved in she has four cats. Fluff can only see through one eye but she doesn't miss a thing and can still climb the curtains with ease!

Happy crafting everyone!

Randon acts of kindness!

Yet again I am thrilled to have been the lucky recipient of not one but two random acts of kindness or RAKs!

The adorable Jane Beljo emailed me her sweet digi-stamp of Mia and Bosko. How kind!

I especially wanted to post this little card today as Jane has just launched her new digital stamp set called Jane's Bakery over at Squigglefly! The set is a real bargain at $3.00 as there are lots of different images to play with!

The second RAK comes in the form of the cute gingham ribbon on this card. This pretty ribbon, and other goodies, arrived with an eBay purchase from someone who trades as 'Mindysmummy'. How kind is that!!!!

I printed Mia and Bosko onto some plain white card and coloured them with Promarkers. I added some Diamond Glaze to accentuate the little heart on Mia's jersey. This was my first attempt with Diamond Glaze and I was a bit shocked at how quickly it oooooozed from the bottle! The background is the Hero Arts digital friendship stamp, printed on some textured blue card. I layered the image and embossed half the base card with my Cuttlebug.

I wanted to leave the card very simple to showcase Mia and Bosko, so just added the ribbon and those little red punched hearts.

I am going to enter this card for Raise the Bar Challenge #2 as the theme is the 'Gift that keeps on giving' otherwise known as 'RAK'!

As a final little RAK I'd like to send this card to someone who is sweet enough to leave a comment on this post. Please make sure that I can back track to your blog to contact you. I will be using the very technical 'names in a hat' method to make the draw!

Happy crafting everyone!