Alma's Sewing Room....

A card from Pion papers.
You must all know by now how much I loves these papers. So this one is a real favourite of mine, I do seem to enjoy doing cards based on sewing. This is really bizarre because those who know me will tell you that I do not enjoy sewing at all. So anyway here's the card...

A French Country Card....

Bonjour mon ami.
Get me going all french!!  Must be the effect this Graphic 45 paper pad has on me. I do love this strikingly good paper range. It's bold and striking and a favourite of mine.
Anyway here's one I made earlier.....

Hope you like this one, it's done on an 8" x 8" card and the frame is raised as is the cockrel and the sunflower faux book page. I cut out the sunflowers from a sheet of them (phew! just can't stop this fussy cutting). I must be mad, but it's easier with a knife than scissors I think.

Got a Pion card for you tomorrow, using Alma's Sewing Room papers. Here's a sneaky peak....

Has this tickled your tastebuds?? let me know I'd love to hear from you

A Card For....

A Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday Victoria

I have used the fabby Prima Doll stamp again along with a couple of  Grand Nestie Circle dies and some glittery My Minds Eye paper. Woodware Pearl border,some mini roses, ribbon and some pearl card. How addictive are these dolls, I've never made sooo many girly cards.

Time For...

Tea and cake. Here's a little cake stand I've made. It looks so sweet and since putting it on show four people have asked me to make one for them. The only trouble is you can't get many cakes on it. I would have to refill it.

Another Great....

Workshop today at Pink Tulip. Our ladies completed the last three months of their Graphic45 "A Place In Time" calendar. I do hope they were all pleased with the results. It was great designing the calendar as the papers are so easy to work with. The calendar I made can be viewed at PTC

A Favourite Card....

This card is one I taught recently. I have used the Indigo Blu Square Peg, Round Hole stamp for the background on the message and the circle. The butterfly is from a Chocolate Baroque set, the message is PaperArtsy and the flowers are Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms stamp set (it does have a matching die set too). The card is currently on view at Pink Tulip if you want to take a look.

Prima Doll Stamps...

Here's my first attampt to design with the fab new Prima Doll Stamps.

There are six in the range and PTC have a limited stock so get in quick if you are interested.

For this design I have used on of the tags from the Prima Tag Pad, stamped some Prima stamps and added a little Dusty Concorde Distress Ink. I stamped the doll onto white card and again onto the green patterned paper. I cut out the dress and stuck it onto the cut out image of the doll then stuck that onto the tag. I added  some doillies to the edge and added a chipboard button and ribbon. The skin is coloured with a Putty ProMarker pen. I cut a little flower from some braid and coloured her shoes and hairband.

These stamps have grown on me and are real fun to work with. They are an ideal choice for girly cards and don't you just love a tag that is already printed for you.

Hope you like xx 

Indigo Blu Cards....

Thought you might like to see the three cards that have been made for Kay at Indigo Blu

Hope you like them, the one below is my favourite.

I don't know if you can see it but the car has been layered .

I Would Love....

To have some more feedback from you guys, if you can. Let me know what you would like to see here on the blog. As you know I am still very much a beginner at this blogging business but am getting there slowly. So give it a go you lovely peeps and talk to me, I can see that you are out there and logging in to read what's on here on my status, I would love to hear more from you
P xx

Jofy Stamps.....

From PaperArtsy. You may remember a short while ago I mentioned these stamps now being stocked at PTC well here is a sample of one of the sets

The name Jofy stands for the name of the designer Jo Firth Young.

Tracy at PTC has designed a fab, funky canvas with this range of stamps and she will be doing a class on 18 th May  so if you are interested contact Pink Tulip Creations

Prize Winner Photo....

                                    Here's Rebecca with her prize for winning the blog challenge

Great Day Out....

With friends, at Ally Pally. Had a fab day yesterday ( despite the knee and  back pain I've got) thanks to my two travelling companions.  They were my carers for the day.
Have bought one or two new goodies to play with, we'll you have to don't you, can't travel that far and not come home with something. I will create ASAP and put some piccies on here for you to browse at.
I managed to give Indigo Blu my card samples at last, only three of them but it's a start, so I do hope Kay likes them and that they are the kind of thing she is looking for. Wish I wouldn't keep doubting if they are good enough and just go with it! So we will see
Anyway, I'm off to my craft room now (7am) to have little play with the new stash before I get off to PTC

Pink Tulip Creations....

New Facebook Page.
PTC has now started  a Facebook page so take a peak and see whats going on. Sheila will be putting on updates of new products, classes etc. and some pics of our fab customers enjoying themselves in our new workshop.

Who's Going....

To Ally Pally.
I'm going on Sunday this time, a rare occurrance for me,  I always go on a saturday but I have a scrapbooking class at PTC on Saturday and didn't want to let the class down.
So who of you are going?  perhaps I'll see you there!!

The Prizes...

For Rebecca Dixon's Winning Picture....

She gets a Tim Holtz District Market Bag and a PaperArtsy Stamp

                                  Runner Up Carol Woods gets a Graphic45 Altered Art Box

A Consolation Prize....

One for each of the blog challenge entries that didn't win, courtesy of my grandaughter Niamh, aged seven.

After reading my blog, and asking me if everyone who entered got a prize, she stated that each person should get a creme egg because their work was so good. So Barbara, Eryl, Sam and Zoe here are your creme eggs.

Creative Expressions Winner...

Is little old me!!!  YAY!!!!!!
I just happened to join in on Creative Expressions first blog hop (which is also the first blog hop that I've done) and I've won a prize. Well  done me.
Apparently I've won some ribbons, a damask heart stamp and a button embellishment.

When I get my prize I will make something and blog it on here,  so stand by for something with a heart, ribbons and a button. ;-)

Pink Tulip Pictures....

Our own Pink Tulip Banner made by one of our customers

Jayne Bedford

Pink Flowers in Abundance

Cheers!!

A Pink Tulip Tool Kit Bag

Behind the till at the opening of the new Pink Tulip Creations

We had a fabulous day

The Other Entries....

Here's the names of the other challenge entries...

Barbara Williams

Chris Abberley

Eryl Walker

Eryl Walker

Zoe

Sam Stoneman

The Results.....

And the winner is.........
Tah Dah.......

With a unanimous decision by the judges for the amazing fussy cutting and all the knife work involved in the making of this picture.

Well done

REBECCA DIXON

But, the judges were so overwhelmed by the work done on these entries that they asked if  they could have a  runner up too. So runner up prize goes too........

So well done to Carol Woods

the judges were impressed by this entry for it's originality and of being of use not just ornimental.

 The hand inked tissue flowers were admired .

As I now have two prizes to give I will blog the prizes later (when I have found another one)

Thank you all again for your participation in this challenge. I am truly amazed at your projects and will be back soon with another challenge 

It's D Day....

The day has finally arrived!!!
9.30am is the opening of the doors to the new Pink Tulip Creations. Sheila and the team have worked like Trojans to get it all done and it looks amazing. We hope you like it too and can join us

A Thank You...

Well, I have been overwhelmed by the amount of hard work that has been put into the blog challenge entries and thank you all for your stunning work

Last But....

Not least.... Is a framed picture

All the little flowers have made individually cut and layered on the picture and it's hard to photograph all the details of this very pretty picture

Next One...

The next entry is a card...

My photography doesn't do this card justice. It is a heavily decorated card with lots of die cutting and faux porcelain flowers

Entry number six...

For this entry we have a faux book...

A beautifully layered recessed project

Number five...

Okay ready for the next one...

this round box has been painted and covered with papers and loads of flowers with floating butterflies on the inside of the box

Entry number four...

here's the next one for you to look at...

this project is made using the Pink Tulip birdhouse clock kit and has been made and decorated really well

Challenge Entry Number 3...

here's more photos of this one...

I think you will agree that this is a beautiful exploding box