DDCC challenge #34

This week's challenge is to make a love themed card without using red or pink.

I chose purple as my colour!! Think I might have gone a bit mad on the purple!! I coloured Tilda and Edwin in using my promarkers, and sat them on a bench from Magnolia - don't they look cosy! I used coredinations carstock and embossed and distressed it. The other papers are from my cardstock. All the edges have been inked in purple ink from Papermaina (I use alot of their little pads for distressing). I added ribbon and wire from my stash and the large heart ribbon slider brad from Papermania. The sentiment is from a PB transparent set.

Check out what the other DT members have come up with.

A bit of a long post

... but got quite a bit to share!

Firstly thank you so much to all of you that have left a comment for Ellie about her card. She is over the moon and has asked several times today "has anyone else looked at my card?" It has really perked her up. She is getting better and has managed to get out of her PJs today and go outside and play!!!
Next - THANK YOU BECKY for the lovely card and images.
Sadly Ellie has her eye on quite a few of these, and what she doesn't want she is 'giving' Beth!! I am gong to really enjoy colouring and creating with these as I don't have any of these stamps ... yet!!

Dave, my lovely, wonderful etc hubby finished the technical bits of my craft room (small, compact and bijou!), and after a few coats of varnish it is finished and I have moved in ... it looks like this ...

The work bench ... which also hides a single bed under it.

Lots of storage space

Some of my stash stored away!

He has made a shelving unit to store stamps, ribbons etc.

Anyway finally onto the card!! I got to craft in my lovely room this evening and this is what I have created ....

The CCT challenge this week is autumn and I have combined it with the Dutchdare challenge of only cardstock. I do love this Sugar Nellie image and have coloured her in acqua Promarkers. I used Coreindations cardstock and embossed some of it using my Pumkins folder. I distressed both the background card and the little rectangels to give them that aged feel Autumn has. I added olive green ricrac, ivory lace, Magnolia leaves, copper wire and ochre Prima flowers - pretty much the Autumn colour range. Sadly the wire hasn't shown up as well as it does on the card itself.

Have a grat evening - it has started to rain here, there's a surprise!

Sledging Tilda

I adore this Tilda, but often only colour her blue. The Basic Grey Challenge this week was a colour combination, so I decided to have a go at being different. I chose the brown and cream combination, and so watercoloured Tilda in browns and creams. I used Co'ordinations textured cardstock for the backing and embossed it using my cuttlebug Snowflakes folder. Then I distressed to get the creamy colour. The dark brown paper is from Basic Grey's Archiac pack. I added a gold snowflake charm and cream prima flowers, with copper glitter added to them, and some copper wire.

I used the Sketch Saturday sketch this week, replacing 2 of the squares with flowers.

I am really pleased with how this turned out, particularly as I am not feeling that creative.

Christmas Cute Card Thursday

This week's CCT challenge is to use animals on Christmas cards. I love this little hedgy and it is a fab stamp to colour. The image is coloured in waterolour pencils and I have used papers from my stash, ric rac, wire and prima flowers.

Hot chocolate for Autumn

It is very autumnal here today (windy, the leaves are falling, and its raining!). So I have used the view from the window of trees and the fells to inspire me. The Whiff of Joy challenge is to use stitching, and I love a bit on stitching, and the My Time to Craft challenge is to use leaves.

I have used this gorgeous image - imagine drinking hot chocolate on a breezy, wet autumn day- scrummy! I have picked colours and textures that remind me of autumn. I used Basic Grey papers and card from my stash, and I distressed the edge of the image with brown ink. Plenty of faux stitching on the papers and the Magnolia leaves even have stitching on them. Finally I added some lace, prima flowers and copper wire loosely coiled to give the impression of swirling leaves.

Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow so we can go out somewhere.

Tilda challenge - a sketch

This week's Tilda and Co challenge is a sketch, and I can't resist a sketch. I am on holiday at the mo,dog sitting for my Mum and Dad so I am working with a limited stash so not as much variety of papers and stash to play with.

Anyway I rotated the sketch due to the images Ipicked and came up with these ...

For this one, I watercoloured Tilda using my Promarkers and matted her onto cardstock. I used K and Co papers and faux stitched them. The ribbon and ric rac ae from my stash. The ribbon already has the stitching on it. I finished it off with some Prima flowers and a bit of red wire.

For this one I watercoloured Tilda and matted her onto cardstock. I used K and Co papers again, and faux stitched them. I added lace, Prima flowers and red wire.

Sorry the photos aren't brill - something to do with the light here in theLake district, as in there isn't much as it is raining!
Thank you for looking.

Tilda and wire

I haven't done a Sketch Saturday challenge before, so this is the week to start!!! I love the sketch and have had a lovely time creating this card (no children/husband/phone interruptions - bliss!!)

This has to be one of my favourite Tildas at the moment - I adore her little pigtails and dungarees. I have coloured her using my aqua promarkers and then matted her onto brown cardstock. The dp is Nostalgic Warn from Papermainia and brown cardstock. The green is from my scraps tray, and I used lace rather than scalloped paper. I went a bit mad with the faux stitching and did it all by hand rather than using my cutterbee - thats probably why there is a single stitch the same length! I finished it off with some Prima flowers and copper wire.

All that glitters!

This week the theme for the Cute Card Thursday challenge is
Lots of sparkle!
You can add bling, glitter, baubles, stickles, anything that makes your card sparkle!

I have used this adorable stamp by Penny Black, Hedgy and Snowy. I water coloured the image and then added stickles (lots of it as Ellie helped squeeze the bottle!). I added the turquoise using the tip of some wire. The papers are Dovecraft and from my stash. I used my Swiss Dots and Snowflakes folders to emboss the plain papers. I threaded tiny silver beads onto blue wire and curled it (that was a laugh!), and added some square and circle gems. Not sure where I got the snowman word from - it was lurking at the bottom of my Christmas box!
I followed Claudia's sketch from her blog candy for the layout.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This week's PBSC is to decorate the inside of your card. I have done a rapid re-think on hubby's birthday card (one I had made hubby is winging its way to BIL as forgot his birthday oops!!). I had planned to make a bus orientated card as hubby is a little bus obsessed. I had gotr all the pop up bits cut and scored ready to put a bus on - now its a hedgie!!

I have use Katharina's sketch 27 for the layout on the front, and the papers are all K and Co Hopscotch. The braid and wire is from my stash.

Inside I have used blue card and Hopscotch papers. The bow is made using the left overs from the braid on the front.

Gold peel offs finish it off. Just hope he's not too disappointed that its not a bus!!!

Thank you to all of you that have sent best wishes to Ellie - she is still poorly - her tonsils are getting worse still at the moment!! But bless her, she is trying to play and it hasn't affected her ability to talk (sadly!)! I have managed to knock this card together while she is dosed up with painkillers, antibiotics and is having a sleep. Hopefully I will get some sleep later!

CCT meets Dutch Dare

I have combined the Dutch Dare challenge of no square edges with the CCT challenge of having food on your card.I have used one of my new Tildas for the card - still not sure what she has got in her basket, recognise the mushroom, but not much else!!! She is watercoloured using water colour pencils. I have used a set of Making Memories papers I don't often use, particularly for cards with female images on them. I have played around with the layout a bit and tried to do something

a bit different for me. The flowers are prima and the lace and wire from my stash.

New Tildas!!

I love my hubby!! He has got me the Magnolia StampClub as a "I love you" pressie. I am partially suspicoius as he was educating me on what they call flowers, chocs etc in Germany when husbands buy them - something to do with dragons - hmmmm!

Anyway, it was a huge surprise when it dropped on the mat this morning!! The girls went to Tumble Tots and while Ellie was doing her 'stuff' (her words not mine!!) I eazi mounted them all and then inked them up when I got home. They are fab!

So I have put the girls to bed early and had a play.

I have used Katharina's fabulous sketch from this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge with this fab stamp. I coloured her using my Aqua Promarkers and matted her onto K and Co papers. The lace is from my stash and the flowers are primas. I love this layout as it isn't too fussy and lets the image really stand out.

This is the card I am going to send to my Mum and Dad for Harvest. I love this Tilda, but not sure what flowers she is holding, so i have given her sedum as mine is blooming in the garden. Edwin is holding some veg ... I think! I have again used K and Co papers, and the images are watercoloured using water pencils. I added faux stitching, ric-rac, copper wire (I am getting the hang of it more now!) and some Prima flowers.

Tilda and co challenge

This week's Tilda and co challenge is ...

Chocolate, Pink & white...

So go as Chocolate Crazy as you like.

I am not a big fan of chocolate, prefer cheese and crisps. However my closest friend, Christine, is so I have made this for her. This Tilda looks a little like her daughter did when she was small.

I have watercoloured this lovely Tilda given to me by Vicky in pinks. I have used brown cardstock and embossed some of it using my flowers folder, and papers from Basic Grey's Twoo Scoops pack. The lace and wire is from my stash, and the text from a K and Co paper.

A simple card with little fuss and no flowers!!! (some of the poor people that get conned into buying my creations don't like flowers!!)

Sarah Kay challenge

The Sarah Kay Challenge this week is ...

Trio of Papers

This week we would love to see what you can come up with the use of your Sarah Kay Stamps,and 3 Patterned/Designer Papers.

I have kept the layout of this card simple and not really embellished it as I have picked some quite 'busy' papers. I have used aqua promarkers to colour the image, and K and Co papers. The lace and wire is from my stash.

ABC challenge G is for ...

This week's ABC challenge is G is for Gift. I decided not to make a gift but to use this gorgeous PB stamp called Much Gifted. I just love the duck sat on all those gifts! I have made this card for a bloke, so no flowers or lots of embellishments.
I used K and Co's Hopscotch papers and cut a check band instead of using a ribbon. I attached the image using brads and added a peel off sentiment and some gold swirls just to finish it off. Having gained the courage to wire after seeing it used on my SBS sister Becky's blog, I have had a go - not too bad for a first attempt, but I still need a bit of practise!

If you have time, why not have a go at the challenge.

Samantha's challenge

A friend has set a group of us a challenge to creat a card using some bits and pieces she posted to us. I think we all had an 'EEK' moment when the envelope arrived!
In the envelope there was the flower images, the butterfly image, the tag, the swiss dots embossing, the silver brad and a peach flower (now sadly crumpled and chewed by a teething nearly twoyear old!).
I used the papertake weekly challenge sketch this week as my layout. I coloured and cut out the images and matted them onto to some K and Co cardstock. The butterfly is mounted using foam pads to add a bit of depth. I used DCWV matt atack and English Comany papers for the backing papers and added a green prima flower to replace the peach one. Wire is my latest craft purchase so I have put some of that on.