Green!!

I started making this card on Sunday for a couple of challenges ... finally having finished it ... it fits 12!!!! YAY!!!
So this card is for the following challenges:
Cupcake challenge - green
A spoonfull of Sugar - Easter
Stamp Something - green and cream
Fuss n Fancy - Green
1 Stop Card Crafts - spots and dots
Passion for Promarkers - sketch
Creative Card Crew - going dotty
My Time to Craft - lovely lace
Simon Says Stamp - Green
Whiff of Joy - easel card
Crafty Cardmakers - a Feminine Celebration
Raise the Bar - going green

I coloured Melinda in using my pens and matted her onto cream cardstock. All the cream cardstock has its edges inked and I rounded all the corners. I stamped swirls over a piece of cream cardstock using thyme brilliance ink and themn clear embossed and heated them. I added some lace, some mulberry flowers coloured using my emerald promarker and a button.
Now I know it doesn't lok very Eastery but I tend to use cards with flowers on rather than eggs for Easter ... don't like to limit my stamps!! So this is going to my Auntie for Easter .. lilies are very Easter!!

The recipe I have used is from Katharina's Guest Design call ...So I am going to have a go at it.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Melinda with bouquet; WOJ Swirls
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: MME Bloom and grow
Embellishments: flowers, lace, brads and button from stash

Rainin' Daisies

Gosh its chilly here today ... but we have a fixed boiler so the heating is on and the girls had a bath last night!
They are both back in school and preschool and I have a few days of free mornings :) so lots of crafting to do LOL!!
I have made this card for a few challenges ...
A Spoonfull of Sugar recipe 3 pieces of dp, 1 ribbon, 3 flowers, 3 buttons
Winter Wonderland sketch (and it doesn't have to be Christmas!)
Cupcake Challenge - going Girly

I watercoloured this gorgeous PB stamp and then inked the edges and added some pink stickles. All the dp is matted onto inked cardstock. I added clear buttons to the ickle flowers, and some gems to the cut out bits on the image.

My fabby blogging buddy is launching a new challenge blog for all your cute bear stamps and decoupage. She is looking for DT members so if you want to find out more just click the link.
Off to get Beth from preschool and had a warm afternoon!!
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Rainin' Daisies; Penny Black sentiment
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Blush
Embellishments: gems, buttons, flowers nad ribbon from stash

A couple of baby cards

A couple of friends are expecting babies in the new year, so I have made their cards, and it was great using none Christmassy colours!! One knows that she is expecting a girl, and the other is unknown!
As both are new baby cards I am entering them into this week's Cupcake Challenge, time for celebration.

I used Willow for the first, and lavender and green as it will fit for either a girl or a boy. The layout is from this week's WOJ challenge.
I watercoloured Willow using distress inks and then used nesties to cut the mats and shapes. I added some ricrac and glimmered flowers, a couple of pearls and a charm. I didn't add a sentiment as I had used text papers.

The next card is for the baby girl, and I used the sketch from Just Magnolia, and the Magnolia Down Under challenge to use your Christmas stamps for another purpose.
Tilda is coloured using distressinks, and as I had my nesties out I used a shaped square for the sketch. The flowers are glimmered and I added lace and a WOJ sentiment.
Off to look after the children ... no outdoor play today, the garden is like a skating rink.

More Christmas cards!

I can't believe I started these cards on Friday and only finished them this morning!!
They fit the following challenges:
Just magnolia - sketch (rotated) (2nd card)
Friday Sketcher - sketch (f1st card)
Charisma Cardz - Christmas
Roses on Paper - Romance/swwet
Cupcake Craft Challenge - red and green
Stamp with Fun - Christmas
Pollycraft - Christmas
Corrosive Challenge - red and green
I watercoluredTilda and stickled her. The white raffia has been glimmer misted as have the snowflakes.

Tilda was watercoloured and I gold heat embossed the edges of the image and papers. The flower is glimmer misted, and I distressed the tag.

I have kept the embellies reasonably flat ... gotta think of posting them!!

Sorry for such a short post - life is hectic with the run up to Christmas ... most of the children I mind have upped their hours ... liking the money, but not the lack of time!!!! I am contemplating buying Christmas cards (shock horror!!!) and have 4 Christmas stamps not yet inked up :(.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda with Vintage Roses, Tilda with present
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: MME Christmas glitter stack
Embellishments: all from stash

A bit of sparkle

I've made a card .. its taken since Sunday night but here it is!!!
I masked Tilda and added the bench and then watercoloured the images and the background. I stamped the snowflakes in silver and then embossed them, and added some gems. All the papers and cardstock have been distressed and inked in red ink. I added the prima flowers, some wire and ribbon to complete the card.

This card covers the following challenges (all links in my sidebar)

Roses on Paper - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp - All that Sparkles
Stamp with fun - Scene
Winter wonderland - jingle bells
Cupcake Challenge - sketch
Basic Grey Challenge - colour inspiration
Creative Card Crew - ribbons and gems

I have a stinking cold and cough and am off to bed to get some much needed rest ... children don't adapt to grown up illness well LOL!!!!! Oh and hubby's don't either LOL!!!!!!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Tilda with Bell; magnolia snowflakes
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Wassail
Embellishments: Prima flowers, wire, gems and ribbon from stash