Snuzzle Love

I abandoned my big little girl at school this morning in tears ... she didn't want me to go, not at all like her :( So I have made this for her when she gets home. Ellie has a bunny she was given when she was days old that she is inseparable from. Auntie JoJo has done a stirling job at patching, but bunny is very loved and tired now, but Ellie still loves her very much. This image is my girl and her bunny.
I have followed the sketch over at Everybody Art Challenge, just replacing the circle text element with a stamped sentiment and bow. Ellie loves my flower box so I have put a few roses on and a charm for her ... just wonder how long it will be before they are taken off and added to something she is making?! I have been playing around with my nesties, exploring matting different shapes together, and I like this one, the circle fits well in the label, so be warned you might see a few of these!! The card fits this week's Wags n Whiskers colour challenge, pink and green, and Stampavie and More's flower power challenge.

I am slowly getting back into card making and blogging, but my mojo and inspiration is a little tired still, bit like me!!!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Wags n Whiskers Snuzzle love
Colouring Media: promarkers and copics
Papers: K and Co Charlotte
Embellishments: from stash

Dark Royalty

A friend came round to craft this morning, as I hadn't got any children so no Mums and Tots. While she stamped up nearly every stamp I own (and I own a fair few!!) I had a go at colouring this Sweet Pea Stamp in. They are growing on me, and I might be adding to my collection of 2!
I made the card up this afternoon for these challenges:
Sweet Pea Stampers - Under the Sea
Papertake Weekly - Do Something Else - I never add removables to my card, but I have added a tag that comes away
Simon Says Stamp - buttons, bow and bling
Eveybody-Art-Challenge - song title - Waterboys Song of the Mermaid
Truly Scrumptious - sketch and removable part - tag

I coloured this mermaid with my pens. I chose these papers as they remind me of the colours of the sea, and some look a little like anemones. In real life she is not quite as pale ... the light is weird here today. I added bows to the ribbons, and a button. I used papermania shimmer dots to make the swirls ... they are fab, clear domes with glitter in them. I thought they looked like sparkly bubbles. I made the tag and stamped Happy Birthday on it, it pulls out.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sweet Pea Dark Royalty
Colouring Media: promarkers and copics (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey Wisteria (Secret Crafter)
Embellishments: all from stash

April showers

Well less of the showers and more of the torrential rain!!!
I have spent the morning crafting, finishing off cards, and making some DT projects, but I have this to show.
It fits these challenges:
Everybody-Art-Challenge - spring
Raise the Bar - April Showers
Totally Gorguss - sketch
Magical Crafts - animal antics

I love this gorgeous HM stamp, that mousey looks so happy singing in the rain ... wouldn't be if he were here right now!! He'd be positively soggy!! I watercoloured him and added stickles to the rain drops. I kept it all simple and kept to the sketch (for a change!!). Just a bow and some gems for decoration, and I doodled the sentiment.

While I have been busy this morning so have the girls ...

Do I need to be worried ... that is my distress ink they re using?!!!



Ellie is offering a little (and I mean little as its my stash she's going to be raiding LOL!!) on her blog if you can guess what she has made!!



Recipe:
Stamp(s): House Mouse
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers:Basic Grey Wisteria
Embellishments: ribbon and gems from stash

Sparkly Spring

I made this card last night for the follwoing challenges:
Papertake weekly - sketch
Passion for promarkers - Spring and an animal
Polly craft challenge - sparkle
Everybody-Art-challenge - Easter
Simon Says Stamp - Easter/Spring and glimmer
Stamp with Fun - Easter
Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge - Easter/Spring
Our Creative Corner - Easter
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Spring is in the Air
Allsorts Challenge - Spring is in the Air
Stampin for the Weekend - Easter
I coloured the image using my pens and added finme glitter glue to the flower and round the edge of the image. I love this sparkly paper from DCWV Nursery stack, and is so spring like. The flower is glimmered with gold glimmer mist and I added a sparkly brad from the bottom of my stash! I am sending this to my neice for Easter ... they do the chocloate bit of Easter but not the religious bit so I tend to make Spring cards for them.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Pollycraft Spring Thins Follow the leader
Colouring Media: promarkers
Papers: DCWV Pocketfull of Posies, Nursery stack
Embellishments: flower, brad and raffia from stash

Shabby Chic

With not much help from my lovely puddy cat I made a card last night ... there is shredded tulle in the bin and have chewed papers ... hmmm nice!!!
I have used the sketch from Whiff of Joy Challenge, the shabby chic theme over at Simon Says Stamp, and snowflakes so the EAC and Stamp with Fun challenges are covered. The Colour Create challenge this fortnight is Kraft, blue and white .. .I don't have Kraft but think the browns on the dp are Kraft coloured. They also want texture .. the dp is well textured!

Its a little difficult to see, but I stamped a swirly stars stamp all around the edges of the blue cards stock and then distressed the edges. Uru is watercoloured and cht iut using my nesties. I distressed the background using antique linen and added some ice gold stickles. I used another pieces of un-chewed tulle and threaded it through eyelets in the sentiment. A flower, punched snowflake, spacer and brad, with a snowflake charm finish it off ... oh and some ice gold stickles round the edges to fit in with the glittered paper.
Think its shabby chic!


Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Uru with bird
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: MME Christmas signature stack
Embellishments: prima flwer, snowflake charm, tulle a, spacer and brad from stash

New Year party card!

I have finally got into my craft room having spent alot of time playing with the girls and taking off all those annoying tags that hold toys in place in the packaging!!
I have combined a few challenges with this easel card ...
Simon Say Stamp - party! (well it will be given at a party!)
Cute Card Thursday - New Year
Stampavie and More - New Year
Stampin' for the Weekend - calendar
Create4fun - sketch
Stamp with fun - New Year

I made an easel card so I could use a calndar tab on the bottom part. Tilda is masked onto the bow ... and then cut out so there are no hearts. I added a bow and some gorgeous tea roses.
Here's a close up of the sketch.

And a close up of Tilda - I do like some of these new Tildas ... but a couple are a bit on the dodgy side for me!! She is masked onto the spoon (I think its a spoon!) and the hearts cut off.
Off to watch the girls open more presents ... last lot thank goodness!!!
Catch up with you later.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Tilda (Winter coollection); sentiment Hero Arts
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Blush
Embellishments: ribbon and flowers from stash

Dutchdare Card Challenge

The challenge this time is a colour inspiration, and here is the picture.
I went for a Christmas card in these colours (although I admit to muting the colours!!)
I watercoloured Uru and matted him onto black cardstock. I used the Whiff of Joy sketch from this week, and matted theses gorgeous glittery papers on to black cardstock. I added a sparkly flower and a Christmas tree charm.

I am entering it into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - So Charming
A spoonfull of Sugar - non-traditional Christmas colours (teal/green/black aren't to me!!)
Creative Card Crew - Christmas
My Time to Craft - Winter Pals
Stampavie and More - Christmas
Everybody-Art-Challenge - stitching (around the image)

Do check out the other DT cards.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Whiff of Joy Uru and bird
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: My Minds Eye Laundry Line
Embellishments: prima flower, ribbons, charm and brad from stash

Brown and blue

I did some colouring last night with my distress inks and when I colour in batches I tend to use the same colours ... browns and blues in this case. I coloured them to go with the gorgeous My Minde Eyes papers I have. But they fit with a couple of challenges - yeah!!!
A spoonfull of Sugar's challegne is brown plus pink or blue, Everybody-Art-Challegne is Christmas, as is the Papertake Weekly Challenge.
I have used the same layout for both cards.Tilda is watercoloured and cut out using my nesties. I stickled her hair band and bits around the flowers. I distressed the image rather than put it on a mat. I matted the dp onto blue cardstock and added blue ribbon and a bow. The sentiment is stamped in blue ink.

Same goes for this one ... except it's the halo and stars that are stickled.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda with Vintage Roses, Tilda Christmas Angel
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: MME
Embellishments: ribbon from stash

A couple of cards

Dear hubby is in late - he's dining in London tonight, so I ate with the children and settled down in my craft room when Ellie and Beth went to bed. Here are the fruits of my labour:
The first combines the Passion for Promarkers colour combo, Marsh green and burnt umber, with the Papertake Weekly Challenge sketch - another fab one by Dawn.

I coloured the image (thanks Jen!!) using my promarkers and then matted onto green and brown cardstock. The dp is Basic Grey Infuse, and I matted it onto cardstock, folded the corners and added brads. Iadded organza ribbon and green ric rac and a ric rac bow. Very fitting for the weather at the mo!!!

The next card uses the Everybody-Art-Challenge sketch, Allsorts theme, card for a child, and the baby's 1st Christmas theme over at A Spoonfull of Sugar. I made this card for Maddy.

I have kept it very simple - I think little ones need strong colours and not too much detail. I love this LOTV bear, and I coloured him using distress inks. The dp is DCWV and I added loops of red ric rac rather than flowers or snowflakes - a bit more touchy feely for a little one. Some gold distressing and stickles finishes it off.

My craft room feels like a stranger to me at the moment - what with having been poorly and working extra hours (thinking of the crafting stash to buy when I have time!!) I have hardly been in there. Hopefully this weekend I will have time to get in there and catch up with the Christmas cards LOL!!!

Anyone for hot chocolate?

I have made this card either for Christmas or for a friend's birthday in December ... so no sentiment yet.
I used the sketch from Passion for Promarkers, the colour combo from Whiff of Joy and Everybody-Art-Challenge distressing.
Henry is coloured in using my promarkers and then he was distressed using weathered wood and antique cream. The papers are distressed and lightly inked, and then I heat embossed the edges to add a sheen. Rather than adding flowers (it will be for a bloke) I stamped swirls in antique linen and embossed them. Finally I added an orange ribbon.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): WoJ Henry with hot chocolate; TAC scroll
Colouring Media: promarkers
Papers: MME Wild Asparagus
Embellishments: ribbon from stash

Its nearly Christmas!!!

After making all the Halloween projects I thought I needed a bit of sparkle in my life (in more ways than one!!) so I made a couple of Christmas cards last night. I have used a great free download from Martine for the papers - it is really scrummy and I will be printing off more of it!.

I combined the A Spoonful of Sugar Sketch with My time to craft (Cute and quick - this was quick!!) for my first card.I adore this cute Gillian Roberts image and got it from Bunny Zoe's shop with my candy win. I have watercoloured him using distress inks and then stickled the dots on the stocking. I used snowflakes rather than bows and added a glue dot to the centre and then glitter. Sorry no sentiment .... those sentiments are being very elusive ... I am beginning they have gone to the great filing cabinet in the sky - eek!

For the next card I managed to combine a few challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - sketch by Domi
Whiff of Joy - die cuts
Everybody-Art-challenge - punches and shapes
Creative Card crew - scallopsI watercoloured Henry and cut him and the mat outr using my nesties. I glittered and glossed him. I punched snowflakes and stickled them. I stuck glue dots onto the buttons and dipped them in glitter - twice!!
Here's a close up of the glitter!My craft space is now a shimmer of glitter!!!
As both cards are CHristmas cards I am entering them into this week's Stampavie and more challenge.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Gillian Roberts Stocking; Whiff of Joy Henry with Bauble
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Martine
Embellishments: punched snowflakes, ribbon from stash

Halloween

I am not a big Halloween card maker ... don't really send Halloween cards. However one of the little boys I mind is a big fan of the spooky night and can't wait for the trick or treating. So I have made a card just for him!!
I have made the card using the following challenges:
Everybody-Art-Challegne - sketch (rotated and shapes altered slightly!)
Passion for Promarkers - any colours, 3 shapes, 2 papers and 1 ribbon
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Halloween
Creative Card Crew - Celebration

Isn't he a cutie!!! I coloured him using my promarkers and then used my nesties to cut out the circles to create the moon. I used the ickle bat that is part of the download on the sentiment.
OK I confess I was having a senior moment and have ended up with 4 shapes - perhaps the square is a squashed rectangle or the oval a stretched circle!! But I really like it so I'm not altering it now LOL!!!

Off for a quick coffee and a bit of blog hopping before collecting the girls from Pre-school - hopefully the rain will go away this afternoon!

Nikki and Lacey are launching a new range of stamps, Wags 'n' Whiskers stamps, on October 9th with a fab blog hop. Look here for more details. They also have some fab candy on offer.



Recipe:
Stamp(s): Digital delights by Louby Loo download
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Papermania and freebie download
Embellishments: cord from stash

Pollycraft cards

I got back into my craft room last night and made a couple of cards using my promarkers.
The first is for the Pollycraft Challenge, Black White and 1 other colour, and I have followed the Everybody-Art-Challenge sketch.
I chose blue as my other colour and coloured Sherbert using my Promarkers. I have kept it simple, using this fab BG paper, black cardstock for the mat and white brads and flowers. I stamped the sentiment straight on to the dp.
The second card used the A Spoonful of Sugar sketch and the Stamp with Fun and My Time to Craft autumn theme.
I coloured this gorgeous elf in using promarkers (not overly happy with the top, but it was quite dark!), and I think he looks autumnal. I followerd the sketch apart from mis-placing the image, and I wasn't brave enough to take him off! Instead of flowers I used buttons and brads.

Right off to do breakfast, the school run, Mums and Tots ...!!

Recipe:
Stamp(s):Pollycraft Sherbert Daydream, Woodland Elves Innocence
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Periphery; MME Bloom and Grow
Embellishments: Poppicraft flowers, gems, buttons nad brads from stash