Pickwick Papercrafting

Just a quick post to explain why i've not posted anything lately! My sister and nephew are visiting from Australia so I've been spending as much time as possible with them and not made any cards recently apart from my April Friendship card for Rosie (rosieposie) over on the DoCrafts forum. I had some Doodlebug striped paper in my stash which perfectly matched some cardstock and prima flowers so things just seemed to flow. The image is a digital download from Digistamp boutique. Off on holiday soon with my sister, going to Ireland visiting friends. Must try harder when I return to post more frequently!!! ( I know I keeping saying it!)

Just a quick post to say I hope you have all had a very Happy Easter and not eaten too much chocolate!!

It's taken me a while but I've finally caught the Tilda bug, thanks to some very kind crafty friends, so when it came to making my latest friendship card (March) for Made by Hel on the DoCrafts forum, I knew I had to use my new stamp "Tilda with Tulip". I used My Minds Eye, Bloom & Grow papers in oranges and yellows and coloured Tilda in, using coordinating Copic colours, R02, YR02, Y08, YG23 for the dress and tulip. I also used my Martha Stewart punch and Nestabilities dies and finished it off with a few adhesive stones and sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

It's been almost a month since I last posted and in that post I mentionned my February Friendship card swap on the DoCrafts forum. Well, I made my card (above) using the My Minds Eye free papers received with one of my Craft magazines (I can't remember which) and sent it off to Karen. She waited and waited to receive it and guess what, she still hasn't! Thank you Royal Mail!! Well, it didn't feel right that Karen was without a card, so I made another one, very similar to the original one. I am so glad to say that this one actually arrived!

.... and I've only managed to make a few cards, one of which I can't show you yet, because it is for my February Friendship swap partner over on the DoCrafts forum and will have to wait until she receives it. I can, however, show you the card I have made for my nephew, who I can't quite believe will be a year old on 7th March. When my sister was over from Australia last year, she saw my Patchwork Pals kit and loved it, so it was an easy choice and although it isn't my design I think she will love it! Here's another Patchwork Pals card, this time for my cousin's youngest son who just loves football.

So much for my new years resolution to update my blog more frequently - I have failed miserably! I have however been busy making lots of cards, so thought it was about time I showed you some of them. As I've shown before I take part in the monthly Friendship Swap over on the DoCrafts forum - the last two months I've used the same papers (My Mind's Eye - Bloom & Grow). December's card was sent to DoCrafts member Starrz909 - the stamped image is one of the Gorjuss Girls stamps "Just a Girl", coloured in with Copic Caio pens. The flower embellishments are from Prima. So when it came to January's Friendship swap with Crafter1, I decided to use the same range of papers but this time I have used my Daisy stamp. I love this stamp and again coloured it with the Copic Caio pens and for the first time I have tried doodlingwith a brown marker pen. I really like the effect so I am sure it won't be the last time I use it. I've coloured some alphabet peel of...

When I knew it was Craft Day on QVC just after Christmas, I thought to myself, I will have to sit on my hands for the day! Well, as you can see from the photos above, I failed miserably!! The Patchwork Pals characters are so cute and I couldn't resist. I had bought the previous kit from QVC and just had to have this new one. These are just a few of the cards I have made so far and there is plenty more to make.