hi everybody

a quick post to thank Sandra for nominating me for a Liebster award. how thrilled am I about it :)

What is the Liebster Award? Here's some info....

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. once you've been nominated, you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs. It was thrill to discover that I had been awarded this award. 

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCEThank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog.  give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers.  leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

1. Janet 
2. Pamela
3. Andree
4. Lynn
5. Helena

Hope you like them 
Crafty Hugs
Tracey xx

Fabulous 50 - Commissioned Card

Evening Crafters hope you are all well.  Not managed to post anything lately as I have been busy making commissioned cards and my first 3 DT cards for Jems Designs. Its been really exciting.

I can't show the DT cards for Jems Designs yet but I can show you the four commissioned cards that I have made recently.

This is the first of the four , which is for a lovely lady who loves shoes.  As you will be able to see it is for her 50th Birthday. Hope you like it:-

Materials Used:-

The image used is from Jems Designs CD Fancy Footwork

 Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I will post another one tomorrow.

Crafty Hugs
Tracey xx

Quirky Card

Good Evening crafters hope you are well on another wet and windy day.

A quirky card for you to see today.  I was asked to make a 50th Birthday card for a Granddad who likes fishing.

Materials Used:-

For this card I was asked to make a 50th with Fishing as the theme.  Unfortunately I don't have a cute fisherman so used google search engine and typed in cute fishermen to find this image.  I thought it was really cute.

Dies used :- Spellbinders - Labels 1 and Fancy Tags

                   Quickutz - Fish , Fishing Rod and net dies

I used my cricut to cut the 50 and put glitter onto it.

Thanks for taking a look..

Crafty Hugs

Tracey xx

Design Team Call

Good evening everyone hope you are having a wonderful crafty day.  Great News for me today, I been chosen to join the wonderful Jems Designs Design Team.  I really am so excited can't believe it.

  Below are pictures of the cards I entered.  Unfortunately they are not very clear pictures as the lens must have been steamy when I took them on my mobile and unfortunately I didn't check the pictures before I posted the cards.  Never mind, I hope you like them.

The image is take from the Jems Design CD fancy  footwork.

This image was taken from Yesterdays Dreams CD

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.  

Please would you leave feedback I really would love to hear your thoughts.

Crafty Hugs

Tracey xx

Another day another card

Afternoon everyone hope you are having a lovely day.  Really horrible in Preston today, rain rain and more rain.

Anyway hope you like todays card, this is my second wedding card I promised to show you.
Quite a simple card today, not too much fuss just a little bit of glitter.

 Materials used:-

1. C5 card
2. I used pearlescent card for the background which I embossed with Spellbinders Grande Impressabilities - Butterfly Garden
3. On the right hand side of the card is a strip of paper,this is from a sample cd I got from a magazine. On top of it is a piece of wide satin ribbon and then a narrow piece of ribbon on the top.
4. The Bridge and Groom are from the Bella Italia kit from Kanban.  I have added the liquid pearls, glitter and gems to the image.
5. For the sentiment I used my computer to print it out and then cut it out using spellbinders die - labels fourteen.  I Then added liquid pearls and two large flat back pearls to finish it off.

Hope you like it. Enjoy your day.

Crafty Hugs 

Tracey xxx

Belated New Year

Belated New Year to everyone. This is my first blog this year due to being poorly , not a good start but onward and upward (fingers crossed).  I hope you are all having fun crafting, especially being stuck inside with this snow.

A have been making a couple wedding cards commissioned by a friend today.  This is the first.

Materials Used:-

1. 8x8 card
2. Hunkydory Background card
3. Pearlescent Card - cut using Spellbinders Grande Shapeabilities - creative book pages then embossed using Spellbinders Grande Impressabilities - Butterfly Garden
4. Wine Glasses - Stamped and embossed with gold embossing powder.  Glazed with glossy accents adding just a little sparkle using glitter glue.  Small bows placed on the glasses and embellished with gold heart confetti.
5. The heart sentiment was made using my computer to type the sentiment and then an old heart die (think its an xcut) to cut it out.
6. The Lily was made using my cricut machine and then chalked to add the pink and glittered to add the gold sparkle. I used Crealies Creative Shapes - CL CS 12 to cut out the leaves and finally added some stringed pearls.
7. The Corners were cut out using Shapeabilities - Venetian Accents
8. Wedding Rings Embellishment added to the top right hand corner.

The Bling - I used pearls, peeloffs and confetti to add the extra pazazz

Thank you for taking a look at my card and I hope you liked it.

 I would really appreciate any feedback if you have time, good or bad I love to know other peoples opinions.  Tomorrow I will post the second card commissioned for the same wedding.

Crafty Hugs 

Tracey xxxx

Christmas card Number 5

Good afternoon crafter's hope you are all well on this wonderfully not wet afternoon (in Preston that is). Another Christmas card for you to see today.

This has been made for a friend of mine but I have also made one nearly the same for my mum and dad so I hope they like it.

The card is an 8" X 8" card.

For the image I used my favourite Santa stamp.  I'm sorry I can't tell you who the stamp is made by as I can't remember where I got it from.

The background card was one of hunkydorys from there Christmas collection.

 I have used marianne dies to cut the snowflakes out of white and silver card, I then topped them with mother of pearl sequins.  I must admit I have used a lot of these this year as I do like to add them on my cards.

The sentiment was printed using my computer.

To make the white poinsettia's I used one of my old dies from quickcutz.

The Bling Appeal

I used sequins, peeloffs, blue jems, card candi and stickles to add the bling that I love on my cards.


Thank you so much for taking the time to view my blog, I know we are all very busy people especially with the run up to Christmas. I hope you like this card as much as I do,  I think this is one of my favourites for this year.

Challenges 

Crafting Hugs
Tracey  xxx