Cute and girly

I have not been working today, so after a brisk trot home from Pre-school, I spent an hour in my craft room making a card for some challenges:
Stamp with fun - Stripes
Pollycraft - Summer Blooms
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Say it with flowers
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Cute and Girly
Passion for Promarkers - Fantasy/Mythical
Just Magnolia - One for the Girls
Creative Inspirations - fairies
I am loving this latest Magnolia collection, and used my promarkers to colour this sweetie in. I used my nesties to cut the matt out and then inked the edges. I love these BG papers and they are so pretty and girly. I raided the last dregs of my Poppicraft flowers for the blooms and added some organza ribbon. I need to find a new outlet for my flat flowers ... any suggestions?

The card is for a friend's birthday on Thursday. I am hoping she won't notice the wonky bits, yes there are wonky bits as walking home meant walking across Rape seed fields and through a small wooded area ... fab for the hayfever!!! I have sneezed all morning!

I am plannnig to catch up with some DT work later on ... just putting my feet up with a cup of tea before the school run!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Fairy Tilda
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Eva
Embellishments: from stash

Finally a card for a challenge or 2

I have a stinking cold and cough, with hayfever thrown in, so crafting is not happening at the moment! It has taken me 2 days to get this card completed!
It fits these challenges:
Passion for Promarkers - in the garden
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Papertake Weekly - sketch
I love these manga stamps from the Secret Crafter and have coloured Mollie using my promarkers. I followed the sketch from Papertake Weekly, just swapping the text for a flower. I stamped the sentiment down the side of the image. Its from a papermania Clare Curd set, and I have to admit to being dissappointed, it never stamps crisply, even though I have cleaned it, selloptaped it etc to try to get a crsip image.

We have the Jolly Joust at Preschool today ... that promises to be fun!!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Secret Crafter Mollie planting
Colouring Media: promarkers (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey (Secret Crafter)
Embellishments: flowers from stash

My first hAnglar Stanglar card

Yresterday my lovely postie dropped my Magnolia kit, 2 hAnglar Stanglar kits and magnolia Ink through my letterbox!!! Created the problem of having to decide what to play with first!!!
So having spent some time eazi mounting them ... I shut my eyes and picked ... this little cutie.
I have coloured her using my pens and then created the background by using the chisel end of my blender pen and then going over with satin and Tea green. I lightened up patches with my blender pen and added shadows. I stamped the swirl round using one of my pattern stamps and Duck egg promarker. I added some pearls and some punched flowers.

The card covers the following challenges:
A Spoonfull of Sugar - sketch
Papertake Weekly - cutie pie
passion for Promarkers - create your own background only using promarkers
Creative Card Crew - Happy Birthday
My Time to Craft - pearls


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Hanglar Stanglar
Colouring Media: Promarkers (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey Wisteria (Secret Crafter)
Embellishments: from stash

A bookmark

I have made a bookmark as part of my Mum's birthday present, and it covers the following challenges:
Totally Papercrafts - sketch
A Spoonfull of Sugar - bookmark
Katharina's Whiff of Joy Guest Design call.
I watercoloured Melinda using my distress inks and cut her out. The pink cardstock is cuttlebugged with the writing embossing folder, and inked over the top. I made paper beads using the dp.

Sorry this is a short post, the girls have dental appointments this afternoon, so its teeth cleaning and off we go.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Whiff of Joy Melinda reading book
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Porcelin
Embellishments: ribbon and button from stash

Super Ryan

It seems ages since i made a card ..but its actually only a few days!! This fab stamp arived this morning (thank you Lacey!) and I just had to ink him up!!
The card fits a few challenges -

Wags 'n' Whiskers - tags/bookmarks
Papertake Weekly Challenge - sketch
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Recycle

I coloured Ryan in and matted him onto brown cardstock. I used these fab Archiac papers ... the dinos seemed a bit superhero-ish, and I also struggle to use this sheet. I added tags ties with raffia from a bunch of flowers I recently got, and wrote my own sentiment. I wrapped the raffia round the dp as well. Finally a button to finish it.

I'm off to make a chilli and hopeully will find my way into my craft room later on. I am going to do some serious catching up on the blog hopping front too!!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Wags n Whiskers Super Ryan
Colouring Media: Promarker (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey Archiac (Secret Crafter)
Embellishments: raffia from bunch of flowers, buttons from stash

Vintage with flowers

I love a bit of vintage ...
Willow is coloured in using my new distress inks ... these new colours are fab!!! I then applied the cracked glass technique to the image, cracked the glass and rubbed vintage photo into the image. The image is distressed with antique linien and vintage photo. I distressed the edges of the paper and added vintage photo ink and then clear embossing powder and heated. The dp is also faux stitched. Finally some raffia, pearls, glittered roses and a bow.

The card covers the following challenges:
Simon Stamp Stamps - vintage with flowers
A Spoonfull of Sugar - distress inks, pearls and glitter
Whiff of Joy - sketch
Stamp with Fun - stitching
ABC Tutorial Challenge - cracked glass; ABC challenge - New (inks and pearl strings)
Cute Card Thursday - ribbon fantastic
Saturday Spotlight - Get messy

Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Willow
Colouring Media: distres inks
Papers: K and Co
Embellishments: all from stash

A challenge card at last

We're back from a few days away and feeling slightly more refreshed!! Beth's impetigo has almost gone and Ellie is off school for the week so lots of nice thingss planned.
The children are still tired from their time away and chose to have a chill time this afternoon in front of the telly ... they ended up watching it through their eyelids!!!

So I made a card for some challenges:
Quixotic Cards - tag it
Simon Says Stamp - Whats love got to do with it
Just Magnolia - Love
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Allsorts - recipe - 3,2,1 ... I used 3 flowers (and buttons!), 2 patterned papers, 1 ribbon
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Springtime
Passion for Promarkers - buttons and bows
Papertake Weekly - Check this out (checks/gingham)

I colouredTilda in and then cut her out. I matted her onto oval dp and scalloped oval cardstock (I love my nesties!!!). The dp is edged with pink ink. I added yellow ribbon and a bow. I punched flowers out of the dp and added white buttons. Finally a tag stamped with the sentiment.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Happy Tilda; PB sentiment
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Forever Friends
Embellishments: punched flowers, ribbon and buttons from stash

Saturday's creations

What a busy week ... and no time for crafting! I have finally made a couple of cards this morning while hubby took the girls for their swimming lesson.
The first card is made using the following challenges:
Friday Sketchers - sketch
Just Magnolia - hearts and flowers
Stampavie and more - Love/valentine
Cute Card Thursday - flowers
Fuss and Fancy - hearts
Colour Create - soft pink, soft blue, silver and white
A Spoonfull of Sugar - freestyle

I coloured Valentine Tilda using copics and edged the image in silver ink. The papers are by Papermania and the sentiment stamp by Penny Black. I heat embossed the silver heart (s freebie from a magazine last year) and added lace and flowers from my stash.

This card follows the sketch at Whiff of Joy challenge, and the baubles theme at Bah Humbug.

I watercoloured Henry and then added gloss to the bauble. When the gloss was dry I stickle d the bauble and added stickles to the edge of the image. The papers are Basic Grey Wassail, and the sentiment Hero Arts. I added organza ribbon and some punched and layered snowflakes.

Pretty in Pink

Last morning of freedom!!! And I got a card for a few challenges made :)

Stamp with Fun - sketch
A Spoonfull of Sugar - layers
Passion for Promakers - girly
Papertake Weekly - Pretty in Pink
Creative Card Crew - punch it

This cute pixie is coloured using promarkers nad layered on to dp and green cardstock. I layered the small squared onto cardstock and dp and added a punched flower and gem to each. I punched a couple of swirls and added pink gems.
Is as pink as I can get LOL!!


Recipe:
Stamp(s): CC Designs Heidi
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl
Embellishments: gems and punches

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

Some cards ..at last!

I haven't done much crafting over Christmas, just some DT stuff to get myself ahead, but no challenges :(. I had intended to do some at the weekend at my parents but I forgot the stuff to stick with and the snow was a bit of distraction!

We were forcast light snow and sleet overnight - 7" and rising at the last look!! It has snowed heavily during the night and is still snowing heavily .. so I haven't worked today, and the girls are at home so we have had a bit of a play in the snow, crafting, more snow, and now they are crashed in front of a DVD!!
And I have had time to make these ...

The first card is for my SIL - baby due very soon.
I combined the following challenges:
Passion for Promarkers - sketch and love theme
A Spoonfull of Sugar - hearts
Charisma Cardz - celebration
Fuss and Fancy - New
Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings
Cupcake Card Challenge - baby card
Stamp something for the weekend - New Beginnings
By the cute and girly - New

Will ow is coloured using my promarkers nad then I cut her out as she was rather large for the circle!!! I used papers from the DCWV Nana Nursery stack and embssed some pale pink card with my hearts folder. I added some ribbon and a heart charm. I am going to add baby's name when she arrives ... got 6 so far!!!!

This card combines
Stamp with fun - sketch
My Time to Craft - blue and brown
Stamp Something - new somethings (my stamp)
One Stop Craft Challegne - things beginnig with B (blue, brown, bow)
I love this Tilda from the winter kit ... she has a right attitude!! I coloured her using promarkers and had a play with my blender pen. i made my own flower and added some ribbon and pearls. The papers are Basic Grey Wisteria. No sentiment yet as I am not sure what I am going to use it for.

My final card uses the following challenges:
Totally Gorguss - Thank you
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Hearts
Creative Inspirations - thank you
My Time to Craft - blue and brown
Cute Card Thursday - sketch
One Stop Craft Challenge - things beginning with B (blue, brown, bow)
This has to be one of my fave gorguss girls and I coloured her using promarkers. Again she is cut out to fit the sketch! I rotated the sketch and added a bow and sentiment. Again I used my lovely Wisteria papers

I don't often set New Year's resoultions as they are always broken ... but this year I am gonig to use all the stash I have so I can buy new and have space for it!! And make the kind of CAs cards I like rather than really fussy ones all the time ... need to make a few of those as I have a rather large flower collection!!

Look what I made .... eventually!!!

So it has taken me nearly a week to produce what I am showing today .. good job I can link them to some challenges!!!

The first is an easel card for my Godmother ...it is her birthday at Christmas so she always gets a Christmas themed card ... kills two birds with one stone so to speak.
This card covers theses challenges:
Just Magnolia - Christmas
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Basic Grey Challenges - cream, pink and blue
Allsorts - pearls and swirls
Totally Gorguss - Free and Easy
Create4fun - easel card
Magnolia Down Under - bedazzledThis gorgeous Tilda is coloured using distress inks and then I inked the edges of the image and dp. I added stickles to the image - might have just got a little carried away ... having added baby blue ... I had to add some cotton candy!!!
I used organza ribbon and added a fab tea rose, glimmered and glamoured and some punched swirls and some flat backed pearls.
Here's the sketch element.
Here's a close up of the image and sparkle.

This is for a crafting friend ... and I used these challenges -
A Spoonfull of Sugar - monochrome
Papertake Weekly - no red or green
Passion for Promarkers - Christmas theme, but not a card
Friday sketcher - sketch
Simon Says Stamp - snow
Whiff of Joy - sparkle
Uru and his littl friend are coloured using Promarkers and then stickled. I kept the papers simple and just added lace and punched snowflakes which were liberally stickled too!! I added fluffy stuff to make the snow under Uru's feet.
The box/bag is made using two bottoms for a gift box I use and adding vellum inbetween ... so you can't see your pressie!! The box/bag is tied using some gingham ribbon, so all you need to do is untie the ribbon and take the lid off ... just need to think about how to post it now LOL!!
Ellie has finally opened the last of her birthday presents we can start on Christmas!! I bought a whole salmon today that is now filleted and in the freezer (guess what the girls chose for Christmas dinner!!) and the cat is happy!! Oh and cubed 5lb of topside for hotpot on Christmas Eve ... not just for the 4 of us I hasten to add!!
So we are off to get the tree tomorrow, and the Christmas music will come out, and I need get wrapping those pressies! But the cards are written and posted!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda with Present; WOJ Uru with Bird
Colouring Media: Distress inks; promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses; Periphery; MME - Christmas Glitter stack
Embellishments: all 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!!!

DDCC challenge 64

This week's Dutchdare card challenge is Felt Like it. We would like you to use felt somewhre on your creation.
I struggled with this one ... felt is not a material I use, but I finally found the felt butterfly lurking at the bottom of Ellie's craft bag.
I coloured Tilda using Promarkers and then cut her out. I matted the dp and added a yellow ribbon, and the felt butterfly.

I followed A Spoonfull of Sugar's sketch, and as it is a thank you card it fits Simon Says Stamp's challengend Pile it on's challenge, Thank you, and Passion for Promarkers is a colour challegne - canary and grass ... and Tilda is coloured in those.

Do take a peek at the other DT members' blogs and join in yourself.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Dragonfly Tilda; Penny Black sentiment
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: K and Ko
Embellishments: ribbon and felt butterfly from stash

A couple of cards ...

I have had a couple of hours in my craft room this morning to create, before we go away for the weekend.
The first card is to go with a tub of biscuits the girls have made.
It covers the following challenges:
Friday sketcher - sketch
Just Magnolia - monochrome - I chose greens
A spoonful of Sugar - kiten/cooking
Magnolia down Under - distressing

Tilda is coloured using distress inks. I masked her onto the plate and then cut her out (well after the cat walked across the image with muddy feet!!). I used these gorgeous K and CO Charlotte papers and matted them onto green cardstock. I made my own flower and added ric-rac and a charm. The sentiment is supposed to be at angle.

Then I had to make the compulsory Christmas card LOL!!
It covers the following challenges:
Cucake Challenge - sketch
Whiff of Joy - red, cream and 1 other (teal)
Passion for Promarkers - animals
Papertake Weekly Challenge - spots and stripes
Simon Says Stamp - All that Sparkles
Henry is coloured using promarkers and cut out using my nesties. The papers are MME - I had to take some deep breathes before I cut into them!! The flowers are from a prima Christmas bauble and the ribbon from my stash. I just need to add the sentiment - going to do a few computer generated ones.

Have a great weekend, and don't forget to take a peek at my candy.

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