Lolita

This is Lolita: a raggamuffin waiting for the fairies, from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary shop.  She is coloured using my promarkers and flexmarkers, and then cut out and matted using my nesties.  The spotty dp is Pink Petticoat and I matted the squares onto lavendar cardstock.  I added some lacve, gingham ribbon, a bow, button, swirly corners and gems.  The flowers are punched and gems added to their centres.

Challenges:
Fabulous Friday - fancy trim
Allsorts - lavendar and lace
Totally Gorguss - bingo - lace, buttons, gems
Pink ink -sketch

Anyone for cocktails??

 I'm not a cocktail drinker .. .wouldn't know how to mix one ... but at August Bank Holiday I was served a Vodka Martini ... WOW .. .blew  my mind, it was gorgeous (just rather more than I could drink!!)

 This week's Less is More challenge is a theme ... cocktails!!  I stamped this set of glasses from a Papermania Christmas stamp set in my new SU stamps and matted onto co-ordinating paper.  The sentiment was the hardest part ... I wanted to stamp cheers, but the stamp was too big (typical!!) so I went with this sentiment from a Whimsy Christmas Ticket set.  Well cocktails are naughty .. but very nice!!  I deliberately stamped it at an angle!

We are off to Blackpool to the sealife centre and to see the illuminations with the girls .. .no doubt there will be fish and chips somewhere along the way!!

Basic Grey Challenge

 Its time for another Basic Grey Challenge, and the theme this time is ...

Fall/Autumn/Halloween

I used Best Witches from the Simply Sassy range over at Sugar Nellie, and coloured her with my promarkers.  I used my octagonal nesties to cut her out and deliberately off-centred her on the shape (hubby mentioned that the shape was wonky ... what does he know??!!)  The dp is Basic Grey Eerie, and I matted it onto distressed cardstock.  I added some purple webbing and some orange lacey ribbon, before layering up a flower. 


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Challenges:
Cupcake Craft challenge - halloween
Everybody-Art-Challenge - halloween
Creative Card Crew - Spooky fun
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween/goth
Stamp with Fun - sketch
Crafty creations - 3 dp, 2 embellishments, 1 image. 
Fuss and Fancy - fall/halloween
Just Us Girls - halloween colours
Craft Your Days Away - Halloween colours
One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween 
ABC challenge - Boo

 

I also had a go at making a quick card, again using Basic Grey Eerie, and the text from Wlatzing Mouse Stamps Hocus Pocus set ... I promised myself that I wouldn't add any embellishment ... still embellishment free, but it is killing me lOL!!!

Hazel

I love autumn, and so do my girls ... especially all the mushroom and toadstools that appear in our garden.  We believe in fairies and that these mushrooms and toadstool s are their homes!  Beth especially loves the idea of fairies living in them and often goes and whispers to them!

So just for my little one, here is one of our garden fairies, Hazel, from Sugar Nellie's latest release of fairies.  She is coloured using using my promarlers and flexmarkers, and I glamour dusted her wings.  All faries need sparkle!!  The dp is MME Stella Rose and I stitched it all using my machine.  I added some raffia lace and some flowers to finish it.  I need to find a suitable sentiment now.

I am applying for the Craft Garden Design Team, and this is the card I have made using the inspirational picture.  I took the colours, textures and season as inspiration.

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Its FRIDAY!!!!  And that means its time for another Totally Papercrafts Challenge.  This week's theme is

 ACETATE

To make the card blank i cut a strip of white cardstock 15cm x 13cm, and then scored the long edge at 13cm to make a square card.  The cardstock was mbossed with a snowflakes folder.  I attached a piece of acetate (13x13cm) to the folded edge, and then added a strip of punched cardstock and some ribbon.  The branch is a Marianne Creatible die and I inked the edges of it with silver ink. I used TH fragments for the baubles, stamping snowflakes in stazon on to the backs of them, and adding circles of patterned paper.  I tied them onto the branch using white embroidery thread. 

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Challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - tree-mendous (spruce branch)
Do you Stack up - use your scraps

Puss in Boots

 Another CHristmas card ticked off the list ...

This is Puss in Boots from Sugar Nellie's Homegrown range, and I think those little robins are VERY brave!!  I coloured the image in using my promarkers and then glittered the hats and stockings.  The dp is Basic Grey Jovial, and the die cut holly is from Memory Box.  I used my machine to stitch round the dp and as Christmas = gingham .. .so some fab red gingham ribbon needed to be added! I added some flat backed gems and a Craftwork cards sentiment to finish it off.

 Now I coloured the puddy cat in black so he looked like our kitten, who is more likely to party with the robins than his big sister who would, well eat them as snacks!!!!

Challenges:
Passion for Promarkers - Christmas critters
CRAFT - recipe - 1 ribbon, 2 shapes, glitter
Charisma Cardz - in stitches
Wild Rose Studio blog hop

Colours of Autumn

A quick post before an hour in my craft room before I start work.

This is Gothica from Krista Smith's etsy shop, and I coloured her using my promarkers.  I have no idea what the dp is ... I nabbed it from the girls craft stash!!!  I added some gingham ribbon and buttons with twine tied through.  Right off to craft and play :)

Challenges:
Stampin for the Weekend - colours of autumn
Pink Elephant - yellows, oranges, harvest
I love promarkers - colours of autumn
Simon Says Stamp - halloween/goth
Fab n Funky - fall colours
Fuss n Fancy - halloween/fall
Crafts and me - orange
Saturated Canary - sketch
 

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday

 Hubby is home all week having had minor surgery and whilst I am sympathetic, well there is a limit to it!!  We have all been there and had something that involves a little incision and some pain, but its not like child birth, root canal treatment ... well in his case perhaps it is!!!!!!

Anyway its Wednesday so time for the weekly snoop courtesy of the lovely Julia ... this is my desk as i left it ... yes i am a tidy being and need to be organised and neat in my crafting ...

My lovely, and amazingly talented crafting buddy Debbi did a fab tutorial on these Finnish stars ... they look AMAZING and are so easy to make!!  I really shocked myself, and having got the big one made, did the whole resizing to do a ickle one.  The potential for these is amazing ... I am thinking very pink, girly, dream-catcher-ish, with ickle charms hanging from them, and BIG and GLITZY with lots of sparkle for Christmas.
Here's a closer look see ...

 And the rest of my space ... a tub full of Spellbinder diecuts (snowflakes and holly accents) ready to be put on cards, a coloured Old St Nick from Sugar Nellie (must get him on a card soon!!), and more paper to cut up and turn into stars.  The wooden stamp is driving me mad ... inks too much in some places and not enough in others.  I have tried blotting but haven't had much success ... any ideas??

And i have to show you this ...

 ... the other side of my room .. BUSES!!!!!!!  I wish he was back at work!!!

Have a happy and creative Wednesday everyone,

Christmas tag

I am really getting into making tags ... love them!

The poem, Twas the Night before Chrismtas is stamped onto linen cardstock and then distressed using my TH tool and walnut stain ink.  The dps also got tthe same treatment.  I die-cut the poinsetta flowers and layered them up, and added a bit of lace for texture.

Challenges:
Scrapbook Sisters - Christmas flowers
Just Add ink - die cut
Craft Your Days Away - Tag it
Diecut Dreams - Use a poem
Papertake Weekly - get in shape (tag, rectangle, square)

Travel Lite

 Just a quick post before I start work ...

Here is travel lite from Sugar Nellie, she is coloured in promarkers and then I inked the background using distress inks.  The dp is DCWV Linen CLoset, I had to breathe deeply before cutting into these papers!!. I stamped the effiel tower and postcard from a TH stamp set onto the dp to add that travel feling. Finally ribbon, a sentiment, ribbon and buttons to finish it off.

Challenges:
CraftyCatz- 1 image, 2dp and 3 buttons
Fab Friday - recipe - ribbon, inks, buttons, flowers
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Make it Monday
Divas by Design - button it