Sweet Baby Girl

How cute is that ickle baby bear with her mobile?!  Having stamped and coloured the image I paper peiced the blanket. I made the sentiment tags using the LOTV blank tag and computer generated text. I stitched the dp and then added some cheescloth, gingham ribbon and a bow with a button centre.  I made the star frames and added the flowers, ickle stars and pearls.  A few more pearls and some stickles to the star and moon and it was finished.
 

Supplies: 

Image: LOTV Little Sleepy Head

Sentiment: LOTV Christmas Sentiment tag, computer generated text

Colouring medium: promarkers

 Papers: MME

Embellishments: cheesecloth, ribbon, flowers, stickles, flat backed pearls

Tools: Spellbinders stars, cuttlebug

Challenges:

Creative Craft - bingo (stars, bling, pastels)

Passion for Promarkers - moon and stars

Papertake Weekly - flower power

Paper pretties - buttons

Fab n Funky - bears

Divas by Design - anything goes

Do you Stack up - rainbows (lots of rainbow colours)

Little Miss Muffet - textiles

CRAFT - use fabric

Moving Along With the Times - Seeing Stars

Cute Card Thursday - Starry starry night

PaperPlay - paper peicing

My Heart Pieces - anything goes

Pink Elephant - punches/dies

Oldie but a goodie - anything but Christmas
Stampin for the weekend - all stitched up
Card Crafters Circle - texture

 

Totally papercrafts Challenge

The theme for this week's Totally Papercrafts Challenge is black and white CAS card.

A very quick and easy card - I simply stamped the reindeer, and the sentiment, scored a couple of lines, and added some bling to the antleres and pearls between the scored lines - might be doing a fe more of these LOL!!

Supplies: 

Image: LOTV CHristmas Icons

 Sentiment: Stampin' Up

Colouring medium: versafine oynx

 Papers:

 Embellishments: flated backed gems, flat backed pearls

 Tools: 

Challenges:

DutchDare - diamonds and pearls

Craft Your Passion - CAS

Stamps and fun=creativity - anything goes

Dream Valley - anything goes

Crafts and Me - untraditional Christmas colours

 

Party invites

It is Ellie's birthday in 3 weeks, and her party is in a couple of weeks. She has chosen to have a "posh" do in a local pub/restaurant with just a few friends. and she insisted on making the invites herself...


So here they are, using Birthday Ellie. She coloured them and used my trimmer to cut the mats before decorating them. She even stamped the celebrate herself.
Letting her loose in my craft room was a bit nerve-wracking, and she is rubbish at tidying up after herself, but she has done a fab job and is really proud of herself.

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Winter Wonderland

I coloured this cutie using my promarkers and then stickled the ground and her hat.  Having layered up the card I added diecut tree, that I cut from Coredinations kraft core cardstock, and sanded the edges, before adding some stickles for frost.  I added some raffia lace, a sentiment, pearls and some paper flowers with card candi centres.

Supplies: 

Image: Magnolia Tilda with little rudolph

Sentiment: Whimsy Holiday ticket sentiments

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Bo Bunny

 Embellishments: raffia lace, mulberry poinsetta flowers, pearls, card candi, stickles

 Tools: Marianne Creatible tree die

 Challenges:

I love Promarkers - Christmas trees

My Mum's Craft Shop- winter wonderland

Crafts and Me - untraditional Christmas colours

Colour Throwdown - early expresso, tempting turquoise, soft suede,cool caribbean

Everybody Art - oval

Stampavie and more - pearls and swirls

Ladybugs Craft ink - office supplies

Creative Inspirations - sketch

Divas by Design - anything goes

 

With Gratitude

 I stamped the butterflies using chalkboard spray - I simply made up my own 'ink pad' using cut and dry foam, spritzed it with the chalkboard spray and then inked up my butterflies.  I cut them out, and then stamped the sentiment.  I cut the fancy edge and the music score, and then punched some little white butterflies.  A bit of placing and that was it really.

Not sure if I am overly happy with this card ... but a neighbour asked me to make a thank you card, and when I asked with what, she said "What have you got?"!!!  Lesson learned - don't let the neighbours into your craft space!!  So she decided on the dies and punches, the colours and the style- I just put it together ... so it is really her not me LOL!!  But she likes it.

Supplies: 

Image:  Clearly Besotted Stamps - Butterfly Wishes

Sentiment: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Butterfly Wishes

Colouring medium: Tattered Angels chalkboard Grape

Papers: 

Embellishments: Memory Box music die, Stampin' Up edge die, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

 Tools: 

Challenges:

Hot Shot - butterflies

Stamp with fun - 3 punches

Pink Elephant - punches/dies

Tuesday Throwdown - thankful for you

Aud Sentiment - thanks

Flutterby Wednesday - thnak you

Papercraft Star - thankful for you

Love to Create - fancy edges

Simon Says Stamp and show - stamp without ink
Craft Your Passion - CAS
Simon Says Stamp - thanksgiving/ thank you

 

Brown and Cream Christmas

I stamped the baubles directly onto the card blank, and then 'inked' up the middle section and the thread of them using my gold dabber.  The sentiment is stamped in sepia ink and I simply added some twine.
 

Supplies: 

Image: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Merry Little Christmas

Sentiment: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Merry Little Christmas

Colouring medium: gold dabber, sepia versafine ink

 Papers: 

Embellishments: twine

 Tools: 

Challenges: 

Cutie Pie - brown and cream Christmas

Craft Your Passion - CAS

Forever Friends - ribbon and twine

Stamps and fun=creativity - anything goes

Dream Valley - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' anything goes

 

All things bright and beautiful

 OK I don't do bright ... not really my thing so this was very hard to do!!  Its about as bright as I can get!!

I adore the Rosie LOTV stamps, and just love this one with that HUGE cake!!!  I added stickled to the cake, stars and ground.  I added some ribbon but decided against adding flowers and other embellishments as it might just get a bit too busy!!!

Supplies: 

Image: LOTV Rosie with cake

Sentiment: Craftwork Cards

Colouring medium: promarkers

 Papers: MME On the bright side

Embellishments: ribbon, stickles, gems, doilly

 Tools: 

Challenges: 

 Lili's little fairies - all things bright and beautiful

Happer Camper - bright colours

Cupcake Craft - sketch

Crafty Pad - cake

Creative Stamp friends - favourite colours (blue, red)

Songbird - Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Stamps and fun=creativity - anything goes

Dream Valley - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' anything goes

Forever Friends - ribbon and twine
Oldie but a goodie - anything but Christmas

 

Jingle Bells

This card has been sitting half finished for days, so I thought I had better get a shifty on and finish it!!   I love these chippy snowflakes, just whitened them up with some picket fence distress stain

Supplies: 

Image: Magnolia Winter Skating Tilda

Sentiment: Kraftin Kimmie Holiday Trinkets

 Colouring medium: copics

Papers: Echo Park Very Merry Christmas

 Embellishments: Tando snowflakes, lace, ribbon. flat backed gems, stickles

Tools: 

Challenges:

 Stamp and Create - lace

Creative Inspirations - red

Paperplay - snowflakes

Allsorts - young at heart

2 Sisters - favourite Christmas stamp

Songbird - Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Stamps and fun=creativity - anything goes

Dream Valley - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' anything goes

 I popped over to the LOTV shop with the girls and my best friend Jo on Saturday and picked up some of these Christmas diecuts - thought they might be good for the quickie Christmas cards I need to be getting on with LOL!!  I simply popped it onto 3d pads and added ribbon and a sentiment

Supplies: 

Image: LOTV Diecuts Traditional Christmas

Sentiment: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Merry Little Christmas

 Colouring medium: 

Papers: 

 Embellishments: organza ribbon

Tools: 

Challenges:

 Wild Orchid Crafts - traditional Christmas

Craft Your Passion - CAS

Forever Friends - ribbon and twine

 

That Craft Place Challenge

The theme for the ThatCraft Place challenge this time is Remembrance

I matted the photo from the Battle of the Somme onto red and black cardstock, and cut the flowers out.  I stamped the grungey background on to the white cardstock and stamped the flowers with a script stamp.  Having distressed the edges of the flower petals with black soot I layered them up.
 

Supplies: 

Image: WW1 photo, Tim Hotlz grunge set, Hero Arts script stamp

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: versafine black ink, black soot distress ink

 Papers: red, black, white cardstock

Embellishments: Tim Holtz Tattered flowers die

Tools:

 Challenges:

Card Crafter's Circle - remembrance, poppies

delicious doodles- remembering 

 

Crafty Sentiments Release

Crafty Sentiments have a new release and you can find all the details at the Crafty Sentiments blog.
I am showing you Christmas Dress - doesn't she look gorgeous in that fancy dress?

I coloured her in using my pens and then added glamour dust to the trim of the cape and hat.  The dp is Basic Grey and I added a fancy die cut corner and small flowers, some gingham ribbon and a pin.  The sentiment is from Crafty Sentiments.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Christmas Dress

Sentiment: Crafty Sentiments Christmas Circles

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Basic Grey Jovial

Embellishments: Memory Box flower die, Joy Corner die, 

ribbon, card candi and pin from stash, stickles, glamour dust

Tools: Cuttlebug

Challenges:

Chocolate, coffee and cards - stripes

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Crafty Catz - anything goes  

Dutchdare - favourite things

 (Basic Grey papers, Memory box dies, Crafty Sentiment stamps)
2 Sisters - use a favourite Christmas stamp
Sweet Stampin - anything goes

Allsorts - young at heart

 My Heart Pieces - anything cute

 Anything Goes - anything Goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes