Circles

 Its the weekend .. .and 3 parties today so busy, busy, busy! Hopefully after all that excitement the girls will sleep tonight!!

 I've sneaked up into my craftroom in between washing and ironing to make a card.   I went for something a bit different for me ... the polka dot circles are created using the inverted polka dots from the Of Beat psatterns set from Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  I cut and layered them using my nesties.  I cut the off square again with my nesties.  I stamped this Hero Arts collage stamp onto the card blank and then placed thae cardstock over the top.  Finally I added some polka dot ribbon and tied a knot.

 Challenges:
Less is More - polka dots
Scrapbook Sisters - Circles
Waltzing mouse sketch challenge - sketch

Sweet Stampin DT card

 This week's Sweet Stampin challenge is  

HALLOWEEN!

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.

I used Silhouette - skull tree for my card.

Now I am not a big fan of Halloween cards ... so this has been a bit of a, well challenge!!! Sorry its not the best pic, but i had to take it at an angle so my reflection wasn't on it!!

The image is printed onto acetate.  I created the background by using distress inks on a peice of carstock.  I punched a circle and tacked it down so I would have a white moon.   I roughly stamped round the edges using a Lavinia bamboo stamp, before sticking the image over the top of it.  I airbrushed some white raffia lace black and stamped a WMS sentiment, again stamped onto a background created with distress inks.  The dp is Basic Grey Eerie.

Challenges:
Creative Stamp Friends - halloween
Papertake Weekly - spooky hues
Creative Card Crew - Spooky fun
ABC challenge - Boo  
Craft Your Days Away - Halloween colours 
Stampavie and More - Halloween
Divas by Design - something spooky
Paperplay - use black
Aphabet Challenge - Soon to be Halloween
Stampin for the weekend - Spooky
Allsorts - Halloween
2 Sisters Challenge - Pumpkin patch

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Thank goodness it is Friday!!!  I've been waiting for today for about 3 days LOL!!

This week's Totally Papercrafts challenge is Lots of Layers.

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I used Old St Nick from Sugar Nellie and coloured him in using my promarkers.  The dp is Nitwits and I stitched the papers together.  I made a couple of paper beads, added a layered ponisettia diecut flower and some red gingham ribbon.

Sugar Bowl #70

Its Maria Therese's sketch over at the Sugar Bowl challenge this week, and the optional extra is CAS (Clean and Simple).

One lucky winner of this challenge will have their choice of 4 stamps (or 6 stamps, if we reach 100+ entries) either from the new release or any stamps from the Sugar Nellie range at

And here is my card ...

I used Old St Nick and coloured him using my promarkers in brown to create a sepia look.  I cut him and the mat out using my deckled rectangles from Spellbinders.  I used the same promarkers and my airbrush to create the rolled paper, and then stamped the poem Twas the night before Christmas onto it, before rolling and tying with hemp twine.  The layered snowflakes behind are cut from SU Crumb cake and kraft papers (I blame my lovely SB DT buddy Erika for the slight obsession I have with Spellbinders dies at the moment!!).  i stamped the sentiment and added some flat backed pearl to finish.

WOYWW

Its Wednesday so time for Whats on your Workdesk, led by the talented Julia.

Welllllll ... NOTHING ...

Just some pads of cardstock, digi papers, the FC image from last week, and the Finnish stars!!  I have been creative just not really finished much!!!

I childmind for a family who work shifts ... Earlies means I get no crafting time, as they arrive, well early, leave at about 3.30, just as the rest of the kids arrive!!  So on Earlies weeks I don't get much crafting in.

But while I was taking this pic our kitten Jack decided to investigate the reasonably clear space ...

and found ...

and killed the pink gingham ribbon!!!!

He's a big BRAVE kitty kat!!!

Hopefully this space will be more busy next week as it is half term and I am NOT working ... WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!  And the girls are away for a couple of days ... craft room here i come!!

Oh and finally .. .my little bit of news ... I have joined the Craft Garden Design team ... really looking forward to my first challenge.

Fairytale

I haven't inked this cutie up for AGES ... hubby reckons that's because i have too many stamps LOL!!  Yeah right, as if you can have too many stamps!

 Fairy Tale is from Sugar Nellie's Simply Sassy range and I coloured her using my promarkers.  The dp is Tilda and Co and I machine stitched the layers.  The cardstock is scored using my score board to create a detail for the spotty ribbon to sit between.  Finally a heart button to the bow's centre and a couple of flower buttons.

 Challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Saturated Canary - stitching
Cupcake Craft - buttons and bows
Pink Elephant - scoring
Make it Monday

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.