Last night's crafting

I have a busy day so far ... the garden beckoned this morning, so now we have an empty compost heap, mulched beds and 3 planters planted with flowers. The garden has alos been swept and all the outdoor toys scrubbed and dried ... oh and I also cleaned inside the house and have sdone some ironing. So now I am having a cuppa and got my feet up while Dave takes the girls to a party.
I made a couple of cards last night so I thought I would share them with you.

This card covers these challenges:
Just Magnolia - Punch it out
Cute Card Thursday - mono mania
Totally Papercrafts - distressing
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Allsorts - petals and pearls

I coloured this gorgeous Tilda in promarkers and distressed the background. I distressed the edges of the papers and cardstock. I flipped the sketch and added some studded ric rac to the panel and a twine bow. Finally some flowers, a pin and some pearls. I punched some swirls out and a large punched flower to put under the cherry blossom.

My next card covers these challenges:
Wags n Whiskers - Scallops
Fuss and Fancy - Sketch
Totally Gorguss - texture
Allsorts - Petals and Pearls
Stamp Something - stitching
I coloured this gorgeous Wags N Whiskers image using my promarkers. I cut her out and sat her into the oval. I love this Wisteria paper and used co-ordinating cardstock and flowers to complete the sketch. I added pearls to the flowers and corners nad for texture some raffia lace. I faux stitched round the edges of the dp.

My lovely friend Samantha has awarded me these two awards .. thank you hunni.
I am going to pass them on to my fabby DT teamies and all my followers.

Tulips anyone?

We have braved the weather and gone for a walk up the lane to feed the ponies. Ellie went on her scooter and Beth sat on her bike and we pushed her!! Its a bit blowy and bothe Beth and I have had asthma attacks thanks to the wind.

To recover I have made another card (having wrestled my inks away from Ellie!!)
This card covers these challenges (I haven't joined in some of these challenges for ages)
Stamp Something - Pink Somethings
Basic Grey Challenge - sketch (I had to squidge bits and stretch bits to make the image fit!!)
Roses on Paper - layers
Magnolia Down Under - Thank you

Tilda is watercoloured and then matted, along with the dp onto green cardstock. I love this BG paper 9need to get more!!). As we are on holiday I had no ribbon to match so I used the dp as the band in the middle. I punched some flowers and leaves and added some pearls. I didn't add a sentiment as I wrote thank you on the tag on the flower.

Ellie has a little guessing game on her blog - you can win some ribbons, flowers, images from my stash (yes she decided to give away candy from my stash!!)

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tulip Tilda
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic grey
Embellishments: pearls from stash

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

Snuzzles and cuddles

Its Saturday morning and I have been up since the crack of dawn thanks to our 'delightful' cat who has obviously read somewhere that owners like their cats to bring very alive shrews (or mice) into the bedroom to torture!! She stalked off to my craft room to kill the first and we managed to liberate the second ... but by 6am I was wide awake ... so I thought i would have a go at making some challegne cards before cracking on with some DT work.
For both cards I have my latest stamps .. both from Wags 'n' Whiskers .. and bought before Lent!!!

The first card covers these challenges:
Wags 'n' Whiskers - favourite things ... stamps, charms, flowers, distress inks ...
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Stamp Something - touch of Spring (I think the papers are spring like!)
Totally Papercrafts - Lots of Spots
Fuss 'n' Fancy - Dazzle us
Cute Card Thursday - metal mania
Totally Gorguss - Flower Power
I masked the wings off and stamped the image, before watercolouring it using distress inks and distressed round the outside in tumbled grass (new and just a bit fab!). I rotated the sketch and the sentiment is Magnolia, with the not masked off. Sorry I have just noticed the charm is twisted ... opps! I added some gems in a sort of swirl, some flowers and spacers and a charm.

Now I bought this image as it reminded me of one of my favourite things ... younger daughter Beth and her favourite teddy Harvey (no pink bow!!) ... oh and she is wearing her favourite colour ... pink!!

Onto the second card ...
Friday Sketchers - sketch (rotated)
Wags 'n' Whiskers - favourite things (see above)
Cute Card Thursday - metal mania
Totally Gorguss - Flower power
Allsorts - tag/label/ticket
Totally Papercrafts - Lots of Spots
I LOVE this image ... it is Ellie and her bunny! I watercoloured the image and distressed the edges. I faux stitched the dp and added a Tim Holtz ticket for the sentiment. The flower is layered and I added a charm to it. Finally some white organza ribbon and a ickle bow.

Here are my gorgeous babies with Bunny and Harvey ... you can't really see Bunny ... trust me she is well loved and very patched!!! (Auntie JoJo will confirm that as she's the one that gets to patch Bunny!)
Ellie on New year's Day 2005 with Bunny - they were both 3 weeks old!!
and finally Beth in April 2007 with Harvey ... the day she got him.
The girls were supposed to be going swimming ... but that has been cancelled ... so hubby is on playing duty so I can craft :)
I will be blog hopping later ... got lots to catch up on as I have had a really busy week and not much 'pooter time.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Wags 'n' Whiskers Bear Hug, Snuzzle Love; Magnolia sentiment
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers:MME Pretty Please
Embellishments: ribbon, charms, spacers, brads, flowers from stash

Ellie's birthday card

My big little girl is 5 on Monday, so hubby has taken the girls out this morning so I can get her birthday card made.
As ever I have managed to combine a few challenges!!
Simon Say Stamp - So Charming
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Just Magnolia - a card for someone special
Charisma cardz - Dreaming of Summertime - I think the colours and papers are summery
Stamp Something - Glitzy somethings
Cute Card Thursday - Swirly Girly
Colour Create - lilac/purple, acqua, white and black
Allsorts - Purple
Magnolia Down Under - Bedazzled - I think there is sparkle on this!
I masked Tilda onto the steps and watercoloured her, before cutting her out. The dp is matted onto purple cardstock and acqua cardstock. I cut two circles out of Coredinations gemstone white cardstock and embossed one using the birthday folder and wrote Ellie on the other using a Sakura Stardust pen. I added some purple ribbon, purple gems, these gorgeous gardinia flowers which were glimmer misted and glamour dusted before having tulle added to them, and finally a princess crown charm.
To hold the image part of the easel card up, I glued and then glamour dusted a big black brad, and added some more purple ribbon.

Here's a close up of the iamge - I think she looks like my Ellie.

And here are those flowers - aren't they delish!!
Here's a pic of my two beautiful girls - don't they look angelic ... but please don't be fooled!!!

And here's my little one this time last year when she had her tonsils out - she got 49 gorgeous get well cards from you lovely bloggers ... and still looks at them and still has the cards and pictures she made with the lovely things you sent her.
We are now off to the school's Christmas fair, before getting ready for party 1 ... roast lamb for 9!!! Just hope the tin is big enough for it LOL!!!
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Tilda in Cherry dress, old steps
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Wisteria
Embellishments: flowers and tulle from Tabby Crafts, rest from stash

A few challenges

This card is well out of my comfort zone ... not sure I do bright and zingy very well LOL!!! I have used the following challenges for it ...
Basic Grey Challenge - green, red, blue
Just Magnolia - Bright and Zingy
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Stamp Something - bling
I coloured Tilda in using promarkers (I got another lot and some copics today from Wendy at Secret Crafter - should have just bought them all at once and be done with it!!) and cut her out. She is sat on the tag, and I used my sizzix branch die for the bit at the bottom. I punched flowers to add to the branch and added some gems.
It is certainly bright, but not sure the branch works! Love those papers though - must invest in some more.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Love me Tilda
Colouring Media: promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Romani
Embellishments: sizzix branch, punched flowers, ribbon and gems from stash

Where does the time go?!

I can't believe it is already Sunday afternoon ... where does the time go? I have finished off a couple of cards I started last night - hubby's finally got round to placing a light in my craft room so I can colour properly - well I would be able to if my water brush was behaving!!!
We took the girls to a miniature railway yesterday, as it was Dave's big boss's retirement do ... just a round trip of 6 hours on the train!!! The girls loved it as they got to go on 4 trains (we had to go into London and out) and they could colour and draw, unlike being trapped in the car for hours!! Here's a pic of them and a little train!! Beth loved going on the trains and Ellie spent her time catching fairies in the woods ... we now apparently have 12 living with us. I wonder how good they are at ironing, washing up ...!!!
I made it into my craft room last night and coloured the images for the two cards I am going to show, and chose the papers.

The first is for the following challenges:
Just Magnolia - sketch
Roses on Paper - orange, brown and green, plus sketch
Stampin' for the weekend- orange, brown and leafy green (glad you're back girls!)
Stamp Something - Brown plus

OK in the sketch the image is circular, but Tilda didn't look right so she's oval!!! I watercoloured her and distressed the background. I used my favourite autumnal papers and matted them onto green and brown cardstock. Rather than used flowers I stamped some leaves and gold embossed them, and cut them out.
Roses on Paper are doing a DT call if you are interested.

The second card is for Alison Acton (one of Whiff of Joy's artists) as sahe and her husband are expecting their first baby really soon. Katharina would like everyone to send her a card and there is candy up fro grabs.
I used the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, Buttons and Bows, Cute Card Thursday's Charms, and the Papertake Weekly sketch.

I used this gorgeous PB image as I love it for baby cards and watercoloured it. I matted the dp on yellow cardstock and added some ribbon, buttons and an ickle flower. The sentiment is from WoJ's baby sentiments.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda with Basket, autumn leaf; Penny Black Baby Hammock, WoJ baby sentiments
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Mellow; DCWV Nursery Stack
Embellishments: ribbon, buttons, flower, charm from stash

Henry and his bauble

My Henry Mouses arrived and I couldn't wait to get the mounted up and inked up!! Whih to choose first though?! I adore this little cutie, he looks so pleased with himeself!!
I watercoloured him and cut him out using my nesties, then inked up the edges. I distressed the papers and used a gold pen to faux stitch them. I punched a couple of snowflakes and added some green ribbon. The bauble is glossed and then gold stickles added, and I added fluffy stuff to Henry's hat.

I have used this week's Papertake Weekly sketch, the recipe over at WOJ challenge, Stitching from Simon Says Stamp and as I have used my favourite Christmas papers I am also entrying it for this week's Stamp Something.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Henry and bauble
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Daisy D
Embellishments: punched snowflakes, brads, ribbon from stash

Penny Black Saturday Challenge sketch

Domi has done a fab sketch for this week's PBSC. I have combined it with the colour challenge over at Cute Card Thursday (pink and green). As it has my favourite embellishment, punched flowers, on it I am entering it for this week's Stamp Something.
I watercollured this cute teddy and cut it out. Imatted the dp up and distressed the edges. I added white ric-rac and white organza ribbon, some punched flowers, and brads.
However, I am not a fan of round cards as I can never get them to stand up properly. So ...
I put it onto a card.
I embossed the white panel using my Swiss Dots folder.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Unwrapped
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: DCWV Nursery stack
Embellishments: punched flowers, ric-rac, brads, ribbon from stash

Oriental

Oriental is well out of my comfort zone ... in fact this is the first oriental card I have made!! Simon Says Stamp challenge is oriental, and I used this week's Sketch Saturday sketch and Stamp Something's theme, favourite embellishments. My favourite embellishments are flowers (especially punched ones!) and ribbon, both of which are on this card.
I stamped the image using versmark and then added gold embossing powder. I matted it onto an embossed panel of gold and then black cardstock. I stamped the stamp using versamark round the edges of the red cardstock, and then added the ribbon, a couple of large punched flowers with gold brads, and smaller punched flowers with gem centres. I was going to add a sentiment but it didn't look right ... so that went in the bin!
I am hoping to get more crafting timer this afternoon, but the girls have invited me to a barbeque ... barbequed conkers and holly leaves are on the menu ... can't wait!!!!
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Lavinia Cherry Blossom
Colouring Media:
Papers: cardstock
Embellishments: punched flowers, ribbon, brad and gems from stash

ABC challenge ... D is for ...

DIECUTS

This week we would like to see your diecuts, punches etc on your card.

I coloured my image in using copics and promarkers. I used my nesties to cut the image and mat out. I distressed the image using shabby shutters and broken china, and then stamped the swirls in broken china. I punched the flowers using 3 sizes of punch.
I followed the Spoonful of Sugar sketch, used the colour inspiration from the Basic Grey challenge, and used my favourite stamp (Stamp Something)

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Gorguss Girl Flower Power; swirl stamp from stash; sentiment PB Salutations
Colouring Media: Promarkers and copics
Papers: Basic Grey Urban Prairie
Embellishments: punched flowers, pearls from stash

Get well card

I have combined 3 challenges for this card:

PBSC - Get well card

Sketch Saturday Sketch

Stamp Something - 3D

I watercoloured the image a couple of times and distressed the edges with distress ink. My waterbrush is misbehaving at the moment so the hedgie looks a bit blotchy! I cut and decoupaged the hedgehog and 3 of the daisies. As Ellie was hanging around I let her glitter the daisies which is why they are GLITTERED! I matted the image and papers onto orange cardstock and added the sentiment.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Hedgehog bouquet
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: DCWV Pocketful of Posies, Nursery stack
Embellishments: Prima flowers, brads from stash, computer generated sentiment

Christmas card

I really must crack on with my Christmas cards so I have combined the CCT challenge, Stars at Night, and the Stamp Something sketch to make this Christmas card.Stamp: Sugar Nellie Santa with Lantern TAC scroll set
Papers: DCWV, which I faux stitched on to
Ribbon: from my stash
Gems: tiny Papermania adhestive stars
Text: Papermania sticker, rather than text