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

ABC challenge S is for

Sparkle

For this challenge we want to see sparkle ... lots or just a little. We are sponsored by
Wendy from the Secret Crafter.

She is offering 2 of her fab exclusive Manga stamps.


Here is my card.

I have made this card using my glimmer mists and a template/mask. I have done a tutorial on the ABC Tutorial blog of you are interested in finding out how I did it. As I wanted the paper to be the main feature I added a small bouquet (thanks Vicky) and some ribbon. I glimmered and glamour dusted the flowers and added some frosted lace stickles to the edges of the card ... it has taken up the tattered rose glimmer mist colour!

Sketch and Stash #33

We are really lucky this week to have 2 sponsors.
Nikki from Bunny Zoe's Crafts is offering a fab prize ...

Pirate Tilda ...
some treasure (mixed gems)

and a skull (some skull charms)
We are also being sponsoired by one of our regular sponsor, Linnie from Cute Daisy may.
She is offering 5 sheets of digis for one lucky person.

And here is the sketch ...

and my interpretation (and I have followed it religiously this time LOL!!)

I have coveted this Tilda since I sayw it on Heather's (Rica's Haven) blog, and I managed to get my hands on it at the NEC. I have watercoloured her and then cut her out. The papers are a diig freebie and are very lush. I layered some ribbon and added layered flowers with pearls in the centre.

The DT have come up with some stunning cards again this week.



Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda in Tulle
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Digi freebie
Embellishments: from stash

Last night's crafting

I have a busy day so far ... the garden beckoned this morning, so now we have an empty compost heap, mulched beds and 3 planters planted with flowers. The garden has alos been swept and all the outdoor toys scrubbed and dried ... oh and I also cleaned inside the house and have sdone some ironing. So now I am having a cuppa and got my feet up while Dave takes the girls to a party.
I made a couple of cards last night so I thought I would share them with you.

This card covers these challenges:
Just Magnolia - Punch it out
Cute Card Thursday - mono mania
Totally Papercrafts - distressing
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Allsorts - petals and pearls

I coloured this gorgeous Tilda in promarkers and distressed the background. I distressed the edges of the papers and cardstock. I flipped the sketch and added some studded ric rac to the panel and a twine bow. Finally some flowers, a pin and some pearls. I punched some swirls out and a large punched flower to put under the cherry blossom.

My next card covers these challenges:
Wags n Whiskers - Scallops
Fuss and Fancy - Sketch
Totally Gorguss - texture
Allsorts - Petals and Pearls
Stamp Something - stitching
I coloured this gorgeous Wags N Whiskers image using my promarkers. I cut her out and sat her into the oval. I love this Wisteria paper and used co-ordinating cardstock and flowers to complete the sketch. I added pearls to the flowers and corners nad for texture some raffia lace. I faux stitched round the edges of the dp.

My lovely friend Samantha has awarded me these two awards .. thank you hunni.
I am going to pass them on to my fabby DT teamies and all my followers.

Just Cute Bears Challenge 12

Flowers

I can't believe we are upto week 12 already!! Nor can I believe how many gorgeous bears there are out there!!! So many stunning bear cards!

This week's challenge is Flowers and we have this gorgeous stamp up for grabs, courtesy of Cuddly Buddly.

My lovely DT buddy Jane sent me this image and I just had to use it (NEED this one too!!)
I coloured it using my pens and cut it out using nesties. I have kept the layout simple and added a few flowers and flower brads, including one in her hair.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Wild Rose Studio Gardening Millie
Colouring Media: promarkers (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey Koishi (Secret Crafter)
Embellishments: flowers and ribbon from stash

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge week 78

This weeks Secret Crafter Saturday challenge has been set by the lovely Wendy and is a Get Well Card.

I used my pens to colour the image and used my corner punch to round the edges. The dp and image are matted on the plain sheet from the dp pad. I punched a swirl and added the sentiment. I haven't added any flowers ... although it has a bit of pink in it I think I might get away with for a man .. .depending on the man of course!!

Do check out the other DT creations.



Recipe:
Stamp(s): Helz Cuppleditch Ruffles Get Well Soon (Secret Crafter)
Colouring Media: Promarkers and Copics (Secret Crafter)
Papers: Basic Grey Eva
Embellishments: none!

Pretty in pink

Just a quick post today ... the girls have gone to the beatrix Potter thing in Bowness with the grandparents and me and hubby are going for a walk as the sun is shining. The lambs are all sunbathing and making the most of a new experience for them sun and dry!!
I started this card yesterday and put the finishing touches to it this morning. It is for the Whiff of Joy challenge.

Willow was given to me by Jane, and I coloured her using my promarkers and copics (still need to practise shading pink!). I matted her using my nesities and stamped swirls around her. The papers are new (I really must learn to resist buying things that are not on the list!!) and I matted them onto green cardstock. I thought I would do a bit of paper pleating for a change ... but silly me pleated the bit that you can hardly see!! I added frosted lace stickles to the dress and some flowers from my stash.

Here's the paper pleating,
and the stickles detail.
We are having Mum's birthday tea tonight so need to get some cooking done later, and there is the cake to decorate. The girls will love that!
But now off to put my boots on and maybe find a nice pub for lunch ... can't remember the last time we had a pub lunch!
Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ
Colouring Media: promarkers
Papers: Forever friends
Embellishments: from stash

Charisma Cardz Challenge week 14 ( GDT)

This week's Charisma Cardz challenge is a thank you card, and its my second week guesting for them.

I watercolourd my image in using my new distress inks. I used my new nesties to cut her out and inked the edges of the image. I kept the layout quite simple and punched a border using my new EK Success punch. Some organza ribbon and a bow to finish. I was going to add flowers but it looked too busy.
This card is for my Gran, as a thank you for the Easter present she sent us.

Do have a look at the talented DT creastions.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sarah Kay
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Papermania
Embellishments: ribbon from stash

A couple of challenges and a few lambs

We have 6 lambs by the house now ... its a case of moving sheep around as lambs are born. Beth has recovered fromn Number 5 leaving as Number 1 is here with her 2 lambs that are very, very friendly .. as you can see!!
This is the little boy (sadly too many boys in this years flock:() and he would love to move inside with us. I have some fab pics of Beth with the lambs ... you will see them in the near future!! Ellie is not so confident round the sheep ... the ewes are chunky and hav ea tendency to push if allowed.

Anyway I have torn myself away from the fields and made a couple of cards today with images I coloured last night. Oh and got a few challegnes under my belt!!
This card covers these challenges:
Sweet Stamping - its a man's world
Passion for Promarkers - The Young Ones
A Spoonfull of Sugar - One for the Boys
Simon Says Stamp - Card for a child
Everybody Art Challegne - sketch
This is one of Wendy's fab Manga stamps, Jake with Football... if you haven't seen them you really need to take a peek. I coloured it in promarkers (from Wendy) and the dp is Smirk and cardstock. I cut a couple of images from the dp to make 'brads'.


My Second card covers these challenges:
Totally Papercrafts - digi image
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Cupcake Challenge - homemade flowers
I coloured this Elizabeth Bell digi image in using my promarker and copics. I followed the sketch over at Papertake Weekly and matted the layers onto lilac cardstock. The flowers are made using EK Success punches and a bit of layering. I added some ribbon, a bow and some gems.

I am ahaving a quite evening in front of the telly ... busy day tomorrow getting ready for Mum's birthday on Friday ... Ellie and Beth will be posting things on their blog .. please take a peek, they are very proud!

ABC Christmas Challenge H is for

We are upto H in the alaphabet, and the challenge is to make a Christmas card using this fab sketch created by helen, and have holly somewhere on it.

We are being Sponsored this time by Simon Says Stamp and they are offering a $15 voucher.

Onto my card ...
I adore this Mo Manning image and just had to have the stamp when it came out. I watercoloured the image and used my nesties to cut it and mat it. I added velvet ribbon and some punched snowflakes with stickles in the centre. I stamped the sentiment and matted it - on the sketch it is an oval ... I squidged it into the circle!!!



Recipe:
Stamp(s): Mo Manning ; Magnoloia sentiment
Colouring Media:Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Figgy Puddy (I think!!)
Embellishments: punched snowflakes, ribbon from stash