I've been tagged

Ive been tagged by my lovely SBS sister Ev and since my beautiful 3 year old is up (waiting for Daddy who is 3 hours late thanks to the trains!!!) I have asked her for some facts about me (already dreading it!!!!)

So these are Ellie's 6 facts about me:

1. I have brown hair


2. I like playing hide and seek (I don't, she does!!)


3. My craft stuff is really hers - WHAT!!!


4. naini (my mum) lives up a fell with sheep (yes to clarify, my mum does live in the Lake District in a house with my dad - the sheep live in the field!!)


5. Mummy like to make cards - but not with Beth (little sister)(this is true as Beth (20 mths) loves scissors!!)


6. Mummy doesn't like Lazy Town (OK this is not craft related but anyone with small children that is subjected to CBeebies or Nick Jr is going to have to agree with me on this one - it is a total load of rubbish - try explaining that to a 3 year old who wants pink hair and to be like Stephanie.)

So there you go - a little bit off the wall but that is my gorgeous one!! (Not as bad as I thought it might be!!)

Ellie and

CCT challenge card

This weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge is this fab sketch by Katharina.

I love this sketch and am going to make a few more tonight!!

This is my card for the challenge.

I have used pink pearlised cardstock for the card and layered papers from Papermania's Raspberry Champagne Creative Tones. The brown papers are from DCWV Pocketful of Posies stack. They were offcuts that I have used as ribbons and the bottom contrast on the card.

The image is Tilda in a Heart dress and she is matted onto pearlised cardstock as is the sentiment.

Hope you like it.

A Quick card

With an ATC swap from my SBS sister Tracy I got this gorgeous Hippo image. I have watercoloured her and used Papermania's Retro Floral papers.

I was given a quilling set by a dear friend(??!) and so the quilled petals are my own first attempts. Not too bad - just not the same size or shape!!

What do you think?

Papertake weekly challenge

This is my entry for Katharina's sketch on the Papertake weekly Challenge blog.

The image is Penny Black's The Three Meows.

I have layered and matted various papers. I have to say it not a colour scheme I would naturally choose, but it seems to suit this stamp really well. I also can't make my mind up whether I need a bit of omphh in the colour now I've done it.

What do you think?

card for several challenges

This is a card for several challenges. I have made it using the my paper world sketch for this week.

The Tilda and Co challenge was to use beads - I have strung some beads on silver elastic down the left hand side of the card.

It also qualifies for sbs18 challenges as it for my mum - I just hope she likes it!!

CCT/Friday Sketchers card

I have not been doing much crafting over the last few days - lots else going on in my life. As time is in short supply I have combined 2 challenges into 1 this week. Cute Card Thursday's challenge this week is to create a card with a vacation/travel theme. They are offering a fab Tilda stamp as a prize.
The Friday Sketcher sketch this week has proved quite a challenge for my tired brain. I have really struggled getting stuff straight - everything is slightly slanted - a bit like me at the mo!!!

My older daughter (3 years old) thinks Tilda is stood in front of Blackpool Tower - so this is card is really titled Tilda does Blackpool (not Paris)!!

Hope you like it.

Ismaki Sketch 19 and other cards.

I decided to have a got at doing the Ismaki sketch this week as the layout is well out of my comfort zone - not keen on diamonds!

Thanks to the papertake challenge I am in a lime/green and lilac/purplie mood so my card would qualify for that challenge (but I've already done one!). I also managed to get a sparkly bit on the card, fulfilling the extra on the isamki challenge.









I have use Papermania's Pastel papers and Olivine Elegance papers as the backgrounds, and mounted a K&Co Grand Adhesion glittery flower onto K&Co papers. I have used some small glittery flowers on the points of the diamond.

Maths is not my strong point so getting the dimensions for the diamond right was quite hard - lots of altering!






I have been a little stamp happy over the last few months and not really used embellishments as a focal point for my cards. When I saw these grand Adhesion embellishments I just had to have them. They work really well with the Creative Tones papers from Papermania and pastel coloured pearlised card. I have just finished the detail off by adding gems.

Sadly they are 3D so they didn't scan into too well.





















Hope you like them,

Tilda and Co challenge

Challenge 19*
It's time for a bit of black and white theme, ideally no other colours to be used on you work.
(but if you are struggling with this then your magnolia image ( or 1 of if using more than 1 )may have 1 more colour of your choice.

I loved this challenge - it gave me the opportunity to use these papers from DCWV Glitter Stack. I have been struggling with what to do with these papers!!

I have used 3 papers and layered them to create a flowers and stars and a path.

I chose 2 Tildas - Summery Tilda and Tilda with Flower (in Wellies). I have given them black hair - can't make my mind whether I like them with black hair! and shaded their dresses/flowers/wellies.

I stuck a thin satin black ribbon onto white organza and made a bow.

I am amazed at how effective this card looks.

Hope you like it.

PS - not sure I like Tilda's feet - they look just a bit big to me!!

Papertake weekly challenge.

This weeks challenge is another colour combination!

Luscious Lime and Lilac - or any shades of green and purple!

The challenge this week is sponsored by Katty at SkattyKats.

I really enjoyed making this card - its a while since I used embellishments rather than stamps, and made a card that didn't have a cute image!!

I love these Creative Tones Papers by Papermania. I have used paper from the Amethyst Infusion as a background and cut corners out of the Olivine Essence papers. The glitzy flowers are from K and Company. They are layered and have lovely gems at the centre.

Sadly scanning the card has not done it justice as the gems didn't allow the lid to shut properly.

Hope you like it.

1st ATCs

Not the best pic ever - but these are the 1st three ATCs I have ever made - thanks to Jaqui, Ella Bella and Samantha.

I can't believe how hard they were to make - there is no space to put all the little fiddly bits! The challenge now is to find smaller images - yes I am going to make more.

Image -Tilda with heart present

Papers - Papermania Retro Floral

DCWV Pocketful of posies

Quilling- fromVicky - I took it off a topper that I was unhappy with - not Vicky's quilling, just

what I did with it!! It looks better on this.

What do you think?