Basic Grey Challenge

 The theme for this time's Basic Grey Challenge is Easter.
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Another Easter card using my neglected Penny Black duckling!!  I coloured the image using my promarkers.  The dp is Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl, whilst this is discontinued they now do it as a digital set ... I love Basic Grey Digi papers!!! I added gingham ribbon,a layered flower and a pearl, all very simple.

 Challenges:
Creative Card Crew - spring
Oldie but a Goodie - Easter Wishes
Try it on Tuesday - Easter theme
Simon Says Stamp - anything Goes
Divas by Design - stamp something
My Mum's Craft Shop - Stamp it
Charisma Cardz- Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Happy Easter
Moving along with the times - cute and cuddly
PaperPlay - Easter

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

This week's Totally Papercrafts theme is Easter.

I love this cute Penny Black duck ... only ever use him at Easter though!  I coloured the image using my promarkers.  The dp is Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl, and I added gingham ribbon, punched flowers and some flat backed pearls.

 Challenges:
Creative Card Crew - spring
Oldie but a Goodie - Easter Wishes
Try it on Tuesday - Easter theme
Simon Says Stamp - anything Goes
Divas by Design - stamp something
My Mum's Craft Shop - Stamp it
Charisma Cardz- Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Happy Easter
Moving along with the times - cute and cuddly
PaperPlay - Easter

Crafting Time DT - paint

 This week we are featuring paint on our projects. I decided to decorate a couple of stacking wooden tubs.

 I used gesso to prime the wooden tubs and then painted them with a couple of layers of pink acrylic paint. The crackled effect was created using an IndigoBlu crackle stamp and gold acrylic paint.  I added some pretty lace, seam binding and a layered flower to decorate the larger tub, and just a layered flower for the smaller one.

 The smaller one isn't quite finished - needs some lace adding to the inside ... the tubs were for my Gran for Easter, but sadly she died on Thursday night and I haven't been able to finish off the smaller tub.  I will get round to it, just not yet.

Make it Monday

A couple of cuties

I had a lovely time on Thursday catching up with my fantastic, lovely friend Ali and her husband at the NEC.  I bought a bit, including some of the latest LOTV stamps.

My Mum had asked me to make a couple of cards for the girls for Easter and the LOTV stamps were perfect for them, girly, spring like and pretty. 

Isn't this bear just so cute, holding that flower?  I coloured the image in using my promarkers and distressed the edges.  The dp is all Pink Petticoat, and again its distressed.  I added some ribbon, and a couple of layered flwoers with ickle flower brads at their centre.

Challenges:
Divas by design - distressing
Simon Says Stamp - bingo (flowers, glitter, brads)
I love Promarkers - 3 design papers

And this bunny and butterfly is adorable!  Again coloured with promarkers and using Pink Petticoat papers.  I punched butterfleis out and added some flat backed pearls and gingham ribbon. 

Challenges:
Lili's little fairies - sketch
 CES - photo inspiration

Challenges for both cards:
Anything Goes - Easter
Passion for Promarkers - Animals
Crafts and me - light airy spring colours
Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Moving along with the times - Easter Wishes
Paperplay - spring colours
Crafty Catz - Spring is in the air
Simply Create too - Its Spring
Stampin for the weekend - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Spring is in the air

Sweet Stampin challenge

Its time for another Sweet Stampin' challenge and the theme this time is Anything Goes.

 I decided to make a clean and simple card.  The image is coloured in using my promarkers and I simply embossed the white cardstock and added some spotty ribbon and layered flowers.
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Challenges:
My Mums Craft Shop - lets get digital
One Stop Craft - clean and simple

The Sugar Bowl #80

Its my turn to do a sketch for the Sugar Bowl challenge ...

 and we have the optional extra theme of spots and dots.

 I used one of the cute Mangas, Woodland Fairy, for my card, and coloured her in using promarkers.  I used some digi dp I have and matted it all onto kraft cardstock.  I added some ribbon, a knotted bow, and a layered flower with card candi at its centre.

One lucky winner of this challenge will have their choice of 4 stamps (or 6 stamps, if we reach 100+ entries) either from the new release or any stamps from the Sugar Nellie range at

What's on your work desk Wednesday

I have been absent from my desk for a couple of weeks thanks to an Ofsted inspection, and the loss of my mojo. Having an enforced break from my desk getting all my paperwork ready has left me slightly uninterested in my desk :(.    So before I go to bed I thought I would share my desk with you ... really busy in the morning so won't have time to post my desk in the morning ...




So here is the view of my little space ... Notice hubby has begun to encroach and spread out into my space!! So my pens are ready, and I have things primed ready to do arty things with, a new ribbon and blooms kit to play with...




But no incentive, mojo or desire to do anything!! Hopefully a trip round the NEC on Thursday will get me back in the mod for crafting. I have DT work stacking up and half done ... I need to be crafting!!

Have a fab Wedesday and happy crafting and if you want a sneaky look at everyone else's crafty space, pop over to Julia's for the linkies.

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Desperately seeking ...

my mojo ... it has gone walkabout and taken with it any desire to craft :(.  I have had to force myself to stay in my craft room until I finished a card today ... not at all like me!

I used Lambing pip and coloured her in using my promarkers.  I love this fresh colour combination, very spring like!  I used Basic grey Piccadily dp, a doilly, some flowers make from the Marianne Creatible chinese rose die, and some ribbon.  The leaves for the roses are made from a hydrangea flower cut up, and I added some cute lambs tail flowers and a green pin to finish it off.  Finally 3 flat backed pearls on the image.

CHallenges:
Make it Monday
Simon Say Stamp - a bit of green
Allsorts - 3 in a row (the pearls)
One Stop craft - handmade flowers
Secret Craft Saturday challenge - doillies
Totally Gorguss - spring
Creative Stamp friends - Spring
Passion for Promarkers - yellow and pearls
I love Promarkers - anything goes
Stamp&fun=creativity - Spring
Joanna Sheen - Spring is in the air

And the Sugar Nellie blog is celebrating all things Pip ... so pop over to get some inspiration from the Design Team, or pop over to Funky Kits to grab some of the gorgeous Pips.

Basic Grey Challenge

The theme for this time's Basic Grey Challenge is Mothers Day/Girlie.
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 I used Mori, from Sugar Nellie's Ribbonita release, and cloured her using my promarkers.  The dp is Basic Grey Little Black Dress and Piccadilly, and I distressed it using my TH distressing tool..  I added some patterned lace, pearls, a doily, pin and some layered flowers.  The card is for my Mum for Mothering Sunday, I haven't got a suitable sentiment, and don't really do sentiments LOL!!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes
Creative Card Crew - vintage
Everybody-Art-Challenge - easel card
Craft your Passion - easel card
Papertake Weekly - One for the girls/mum
I love Promarkers - anything goes
My Mum's craft shop - Mum's the word
Creative Inspirations - something for mum
Moving along with the times - special lady
Little Miss Muffet - easel card
Prairie Fairy - distress it

Crafting Time DT - sketch

I stamped the IndigoBlu train stamp onto kraft cardstock using archival ink, cut out using my nestibilities and distressed the edges.  I stained some chipboard cogs using perfect pearls and water to create a mist.  Finally I stamped a Tim Holtz tickets stamp to replicate train tracks.

I coloured Lambing Pip from Sugar Nellie in using my promarkers, and cut her out using nestibilities.  I added some punched butterflies, flat backed pearls, paper flowers coloured using orchid promarker and buttons to at their centres.  Finally some ribbon and a bow.

 Challenges
Make It Monday
Allsorts - say it with flowers
One Stop craft - Mother's Day with ribbon
Totally Gorguss - Anything goes with buttons
I love Promarkers - ribbons and bows
Passion for Promarkers - Mum/female relative
My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring is Springing
Moving along with the times - cute as a button
Divas by Design - favourite things (Sugar Nellie, promarkes, pearls, flowers, ribbons!)
Simon Says Stamp - Mothers Day/ special girl
Cupcake Craft - going dotty


Before I go and get some jobs done, its ...

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A card!!

My craft room got a bit of a shock ... I did some crafting this morning for the first time in 2 weeks!!!  I got the dreaded Ofsted phone call, so have been waiting for them to arrive ... it is now all over for another 3 years and life can get back to normal!!  I have some gorgeous Sugar Nellies from the Ribbonita release to get inked up and some DT work to catch up on ... but I have broken myself in gently!!

 I used krfat coredinations and kraft cardstock, and stamped the Tim holtz text stamp onto the kraft.  The butterflies are a TH movers and shapers die and I cut them out of the coredinations cardstock before matting the kraft on top.  Some flat back pearls for the bodies, and that was it really.

We have  busy day planned ... but I am making time to craft later :)

Challenges:

Secret Craft Saturday Challenge - no image, just text
Crafts and Me - things with wings
ABC challenge - k is for kraft

The Sugar Bowl #79

Opps ... totally messed my weeks up and forgot to post my Sugar Bowl card this morning.  But I have had a lot on my plate with an Ofsted inspection this week - that's my excuse! I haven't made a crd, or been in my craft room for over  week.  I am hoping to get back in there this weekend, after I finish putting all the paperwork away I needsed to get out!

Its a fab sketch by Erika,with an optional theme of spring.

I used this gorgeous Maggie (now discontinued :() and coloured her using my promarkers.  The image was cut out using my nesties andthe dp is Nitwits.  I went from fresh green and blue, quite spring like!  I added a sentiment, a layered flower and some card candi.

I have a real soft spot for Maggie and Hamish, and whilst I confess to not owning all of them, I do think they are the cutest little pair. I have made this card for my Mum from the girls .. they will no doubt do their own too ... but they like to send on from me.  Living in the lake district wellies, puddles and umbrellas are a bit of a necessity!!!  And it always makes me think of the song from Bambi - "drip drip drip little April showers"!

One lucky winner of this challenge will have their choice of 4 stamps (or 6 stamps, if we reach 100+ entries) either from the new release or any stamps from the Sugar Nellie range at

I don't usually link my Sugar Bowl cards to challegnes .. .but since I haven't made a card in over a week I thought i would be a little cheeky and link it this time ... sorry Sugar mama xx
Challenges:
 Oldie but a goodie - Mum's the word
Passion for Promarkers - Mum/female relative
Simon Says Stamp - Mothers Day, special girl
papertake weekly - anything goes
Divas by Design - favourite things (Sugar Nellie stamps and promarkers)
My mum's Craft Shop - spring colours
Stampavie and More - easter/spring
Paper Shelter - Anything goes

BAsic Grey Challenge

Its time for another Basic Grey challenge, and we have a photo inspiration challenge for you this time.  Its a beautiful bouquet, perfect of Mothering Sunday, or easter.

I have made my Mum a card for Mothering Sunday ... she has a love/hate relationship with bunnies ... they love to eat the veggies she grows!!

I used this cute bunny and coloured the flowers using my promarkers.  The dp is Basic Grey Piccadilly and I added some lace and organza ribbon and layered flowers with pearls at the centre.

And we are sponsored this time by ...

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 Challenges:
Passion for promarkers - pastel colours
Simon Says Stamp - anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Crafts and me - pretty in lace
Divas by design - spots / stripes
CRAFT - Mother's Day
Crafty Ribbons - celebrate your Mum
Cute Card Thursday - Signs of Spring
Joanna Sheen - Spring/Easter