Taking a break!

Well I am on annual leave this week and have a cold (which is typical) so I decided that my craft room needed an overhaul! So far so good, have found that I have more ribbon than I ever imagined and I have cleared out the piles and piles of magaizines that have been sitting around for a very and I mean a very long time!  So I started on this card last night working in a very small space on my desk with allsorts piled around me hoping it wouldn't all fall in on me and well I got to a point last night when it really just wasn't happening - do you ever get that?  So I went to bed and have tackled it again this morning and everything just fell into place (I still have the piles of stuff on my desk to sort yet tho! lol) The image funnily enough is Primrose ~ Take a Break which is a stamp available at Crafty Sentiments Designs which is also where the sentiment stamp and Vintage Label die are available.  The papers are BG Sugared, the flowers, gems and wire are all from my stash, I love the look of wire on cards but never seem to use it enough myself, must remedy that! lol

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss #102 ~ Bingo ~ Flowers, swirls & bling

Friday Sketch Challenge #3

Stamptacular Sunday #134 ~ You Choose

Thanks for stopping by and now I must get sorting again but I hope to be back doing some more crafting later on. xx

Halloween card

Well Halloween is just round the corner and even though we dont go in for it in a big way here, just a bit of trick or treating I decided to make a card for several challenges that are going on at the moment.  I have used some digi paper by Raspberry Road Designs and stuck on some ghost and cat confetti which I then covered with some purple vellum which I stitched in place.  The ribbon I found in my box of ribbons which I have been having a sort thru and I added some bright orange buttons to it to tie in with the bright orange Boo! on the black pocket I then added a wee ghost coming out of the pocket the image is a digi image from Crafty Sentiments Designs.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity #41 ~ Colour recipe Orange & Purple

Fussy and Fancy ~ Halloween or Fall

ABC ~ B is for Boo!

One Stop Craft #153 ~ Halloween

JUGs #106 ~ Colour Our World ~ Orange, green, purple & black

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #77

Paper Sundaes #91 ~ Halloween or Fall

Crafty Card Makers #54 ~ Cute with a dark twist

Crazy Challenge #89 ~ Halloween

Digital Tuesday #133 ~ Happy Halloween

TFL

Crafty Sentiments ~ Snowmen

Well here we are its Tuesday again so its time for a new challenge with Crafty Sentiments and this week we'd like to see your 'snowmen'  Do you remember the other day I told you about a super cute digi image called 'Let It Snow' that was available over at  Crafty Sentiments Designs ? Well I just had to use him for my card this week!  I coloured the image with copics and then added some glamour dust to his hat and scarf and then got my flowersoft out for the snow.  My papers are Papermania (couple of years old now at least!) and for the cs background I stamped with green pigment ink and embossed with silver pearl powder and did the same with the sentiment which is stamped onto a cut out using the Crafty Cutters Vintage Lable die (available at Crafty Sentiments Designs) then added some christmassy ribbon.   Dont forget to check out the Crafty Sentiments blog and see what the rest of the DT have been up to this week with their 'snowmen' you wont be disappointed.

 

and I couldn't resist showing you a close up of his cute face

and the sparkle in his hat!

Well thats what I've been up to now its over to you, lets see your snowmen!

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters ~ Sketch (and the aded extra of Halloween)

SCSC #156 ~ White + 1 other colour

Crazy 4 Challenges #109 ~ Heat embossing and upcoming holiday

TFL

Anyone For Anya ~ Picture Inspiration

This week over at Anyone For Anya there is a picture to take inspiration from and I was inspired by the colours and they made me think of my DCWV Natural stack with foils.  I love these papers.  Anyway after choosing my papers I felt I needed a wee man for my image and after some deliberation I settled on Jeremy from the Roll Call collection.  Coloured with my copics.  A little bit of ribbon and some cogs added and it was done.  The cogs are Spellbinders Shapeabilities and I love 'em!lol (great for male cards and doing steampunk)  Ria did say if only he had some goggles on his head it would be a great steampunk card! lol

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash #72 ~ Newest stash is the shapeabilities and old stash is the ribbon

Crafty Creations #139 ~ 3 papers, 2 embellishments (cogs & ribbon) 1 image

TFL

TGF Heart Journal ~ week 12 ~ Watercolour Wonder

Gosh I was stuck this week when i saw the theme for TGF heART Journal, watercolours are not a medium I really delve into very much (a little with my wc pencils but thats about it! lol)  So took a while to work out what to do, I was thinking about trying to create a background wash going from grass up to sky and bits inbetween but while I was thinking about and looking out of my craftroom window I was inspired by the gardens and fields around with their autumnal colours and the trees so that was how the page was born!  I used some very old leaf stamps by Royal Langnickel stamped with clear embossing ink then heat embossed using silver pearl powder, the sentiment is a freebie from Sentimental Sundays and then I used some very old paints that I bought when I was starting out and they were the closest I could get to paints like twinkling H2Os! after painting I buffed up the embossed leaves with some cotton wool.  I'm actually pleased with how this turned out and this journal is certainly making us think a bit! lol

I would like to enter this journal page into the following challenges:

Stampin' for the weekend ~ Colours of Autumn

Fussy and Fancy Friday  # ~ Fall or Halloween

Digital Tuesday #132 ~ Fall Colours

Fab 'n' Funky #94 ~ Crazy for Colour - Fall Colours

Thanks for joining us on our journal journey. xx

Meet Herbie, he is so cute!

There are 2 new wonderful digi images available at Crafty Sentiments!  So without further ado I would like to introduce you to Herbie the Bear, I know you are just gonna love him.  I sure do!

For my card I coloured Herbie using my copics and coloured in a swirly motion to try and give the appearance of fur texture also added a little bit of glitz using stardust pens.  The pp is MME Wonderful Winter glitter papers.  The sentiment is a stamp which I stamped onto the Crafty Cutters Vintage Labels die available at the Crafty Sentiments store then just added some holly leaves and pearls from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity #40 ~ Sketch recipe

Totally Papercrafts #87 ~ Animals

SCSC #155 ~ Anything Goes with Sparkle

Allsorts #124 ~ Bear with us

Sentimental Sundays #76 ~ Anything Goes

And the other new digi image available at Crafty Sentiments Store is 'Let It Snow' another super cutie.

Thanks for stopping by. xx

Sketch Time at Crafty Sentiments

Good morning to you all, well here we are it's Tuesday and that means its time for a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and this week its a sketch.  The thing I love about sketches is how different everyones cards are even though they have used the same sketch!  Here is the sketch

and here is my card using the sketch.  I have tried to give my whole card a vintage feel even though my image is modern and cute.  My papers are Bo Bunny and the music paper is from an old music magazine that I bought in a charity shop.  I have coloured my image of Billy & Primrose 'A Christmas Song', available at the Crafty Sentiments Store, with copics and tried to keep the colours muted, once I had finished colouring I rubbed over the whole image using a cotton wool ball and caramel ink and then distressed the edges and inked over them with espresso ink, I also distressed and espresso inked all the different layers.  I havent added any other embellishments or sentiment as I really didnt feel that it needed them.

Ok, so you've seen what I have done, dont forget to check the rest of the DTs awesome work over at the Crafty Sentiments challenge blog and then its over to you to join in with the fun and we look forward to visiting your wonderful creations.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious #67 ~ Distressing

Stamptacular Sunday #133 ~ So Distressing

OSAAT #83 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

GDT spot over at Mad For Markers

I was so thrilled to win a GDT spot over at Mad For Markers, the wonderful owner of the Mad For Markers online shop is a good blogging buddy, who I am sure many of you know,Sammi who I met way back when I first started blogging and I have much to blame thank her for, my love of TGF images and of course my passion for Copics!  If it wasnt for Sammi I probably would not have tried copics!  Anyway whenever I get the chance I like to play along with the challenges over at the Mad For Markers Challenge Blog and just recently I was thrilled when Mr Random Org picked my card!  So with out further ado here is my card for the current challenge which is 'Your favourite Copic colour combinations' and I managed to include 3 of mine on my one card.  I have used a digi stamp from Charmed Cards and Crafts and coloured the jeans using B97, 93 & 95 (combo 1) Skin R00 & 11 (combo 2) hair E33, 35 & 37 (combo 3) papers are from a digi kit by A Work in Progress and Sweet Blossom Designs called True Blue, the sentiment and die cut are both from Crafty Sentiments then I just added a few buttons.  Thanks Mad For Markers loved being GDT.x

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz #103 ~ Recipe 1 image 2 papers and 3 buttons

Something a little different for me

Ok this week when I saw what the challenge was over at Just Us Girls I wasn't sure about having a go but then thats what challenges are all about at the end of the day, challenging ourselves to try something new so without further ado here is my card for JUGs 'Black Magic' challenge and if your not sure what Black Magic is pop over to the JUGs blog and check it out I'm glad I did! lol

My image is a papermania stamp which I think I've only used once or twice before (I think I may have found a new lease of life for it now! lol) inked in white pigment ink, heat dried and then coloured with wc pencils and a little gel pen for effect.  The sentiment is from PTI and the die cut is the new Crafty Cutter Vintage Label die from Crafty Sentiments.  The cs is all from my scrap drawers and then I added some ribbon and buttons.  Kept the whole thing simple so as not to detract from the image.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Stamp Scarp & Doodle Saturdays ~ Things that are round

Sentimental Sundays #76 ~ Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge #88 ~ Sketch

TFL

Friday Sketch #2

Another great sketch this week over at the new challenge blog Friday Sketch Challenge so I just had to have a go and play along.  I have used a very old sheet of pp from Papermania and some pink and green cs from my scrap drawers.  The Pure Innocence digi image has been coloured with copics and cut out with a nestie, the mats are also nesties and the scalloped piece is a sizzix extended cut.  Did some dry embossing for added texture and finished off with some flowers from my stash, some card candi and a silver peel off sentiment.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Digital Tuesday #131 ~ We Like to Party

Crafts and Me #55 ~ Use a digi

Paper Sundaes #90 ~ Favourite Colour Combo ~ pink & green is definately one of them

TFL

a black & white Christmas

Gosh I really dont seem to have had much crafting time recently and feel really behind, but last night I did get the time to put this card together.  I have used a stamp by Sheena Douglas from the Bah! Humbug! 1 set which I won earlier this year but have not inked up until last night.  I inked it with white pigment ink and then heat embossed with clear powder.  When I stamped it I wasn't sure how it would look and its not my usual style but I really like it.  I kept the rest of the card very simple just adding some white organza ribbon and punch some little snowflakes in the corner of the black mat as I wanted the image to stand out.  I really do like the way this turned out and may well be making some more like this!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cupcake Crafts #162 ~ Black & White Christmas

Try It On Tuesday ~ Make it Minimal who are being sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts

One Stop Craft Challenges #152 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

TGF Heart Journal ~ week 11 ~ Bloom & Grow

Another week of the TGF HeART Journal is coming to an end and this week the theme was Bloom & Grow and this made me think of the saying Mighty Oaks from little acorns grow and then I remembered having the acorn and oak leaf quickutz dies and that was the starting point for the page.  cut the leaves from different colours representing autumn, the journal block is a TGF stamp, the tree is an embossing folder to which I added some ink for definition and hey presto one journal page.

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky #93 ~ use die cuts or punches

Totally Papercrafts #86 ~ Autumn

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays  ~ Anything but a card

Simply Create #53 ~ use something older than 6 months (everything on my page is older than 6 months)

TFL

Crafty Sentiments - Flowers, Pearls & Pins

Here we are time for another wonderful challenge with Crafty Sentiments, hope you enjoyed and played along last week.  This week we are looking to see your flowers, pearls and pins.  The DT ladies have made some awesome cards to show you this week.  Now pins are a new thing for me, keep seeing them and liking what I see but never getting round to being brave enough to try it out myself but I finally took the plungs a few weeks ago and liked it!  So this week gave me the chance to try it again!  For my card I have used Primrose blowing bubbles which is available at the Crafty Sentiments Store and I have teamed it up with a sentiment from the recent birthday digi sentiments release.  Primrose is coloured with copics and cut with a nestie, the papers are from First Edition Paper - Daydream, I have used pearls for the bubbles and added some coloured beads to my pearl headed berry pin, the flowers are some sparkly lilac mesh ones from my stash.

So there you have it, and now its your turn, we look forward to coming to see your gorgeous creations using flowers, pearls & pins.

This card is for my daughter who is 15 today, had to keep this one underwraps as she is usually the first person to see my cards when they are finished and therefore she has seen all the ones in my box! lol

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts and Me #54 ~ Flowers

ABC Challenge ~ A is for Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity #39 ~ Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday #175

Paper Sundaes #89 ~ Lots of Layers

Crafty Cardmakers #53 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Crafty Sentiments ~ Banners

Whoo hoo, Tuesday again and time for another fab challenge over at Crafty Sentiments AND another new release, just take a look at the adorable Luke and Lucy  images that are now available in the Crafty Sentiments store AND it doesn't stop there this week also sees the release of Crafty Cutters Dies which will work in your die cutting machines, this one is called Vintage Label.  Phew what a lot of new stuff for you all. 

And on to my card for the Banners challenge this week.  I have used Lucy & Tiddles who I have coloured with copics and the sentiment is also from this stamp set.  I have used some digital gingham paper and green cs.  my banner is made using a newly acquired triangle punch and I inked the edges in green to make them stand out a bit more, added some pink pearls and then stitched across the top also added some stitching around the other matted piece and finished off with some ribbon and a bow. 

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT projects as there are several stamp sets available and they are all adorable, you wont be disappointed, then join us for the Banners challenge over at Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes #88 ~ Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays ~ Your favourite colour ~ Love the pink and green combo, one of my faves

Stampin' for the weekend #17 ~ What a cutie

TFL

TGF Heart Journal ~ week 10 ~ Torn Between

Wow had to work quick this week for our heART Journalling page with TGF as I am going away later today and wont be back til Friday.  Ria and I had great fun tearing paper this week, Ria said she found it very therapeutic!  The past couple of weeks have been a busy, hectic and at times stressful period, both personally and at work so feeling blue kinda fitted so we used lots of blue bits from magazines and as crafting always helps we couldnt resist getting the Big Shot in on the action!

Thanks again for joining us on our journalling journey. xx

TGF Heart Journal ~ week 9 ~ Cut & Paste

Well the theme the heArt Journal for week 9 was Cut & Paste, and after some thought Ria and I decided to paste our heads onto some of our favourite TGF images.  This was fun especially as neither of us really like having our pics taken!  Hope you like it.

I would like to enter this into the following challenge:

Try It On Tuesday ~ Anything Goes ~ Wonderful World ~ wouldnt it be wonderful live life as our favoutie stamps, just think of the adventures we could invent and colour just how we want it! lol

Right we need to do our page for this weeks theme as I am away tomorrow until Friday and the closing date is Thursday, then I need to iron and pack, cook tea, visit MIL in hospital and hoepfully fit in some more crafting before bed!

Thanks for stopping by xx

Crafty Sentiments ~ Happy Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are all well and ready for another challenge because this week the challenge over at Crafty Sentiments is ..  'Happy Birthday'  Nice and easy.  My card uses the adorable Patches & Stitch all ready to party.  I ahve used my copics and tried something a bit new for me and not coloured my bear in traditional browns but instead gone for blue and I have tried to add texture in the way I coloured but not sure that it worked all that well but I do like him blue with his pink party scarf on!  I textured the background piece of card using a sizzix texture plate and went for paisley to go with the pattern on the pp which is a piece from my scraps drawers.  The sentiment is also a stamp and is part of the Patches & Stitch set which is available over at the Crafty Sentiments store, the flowers, ribbon and gems are all from my stash.

Dont forget to stop by the other DT blogs and check out the amazing work and if you look closely you will see that a couple of them have a sneaky peek going on!  Then please join in the fun over at the Crafty Sentiments Challenge blog as we love coming to visit you all.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Friday Sketch Challenge #1

Copic Creations #58 ~ Colouring fur with a twist

Fab 'n' Funky #90 ~ Bingo ~ stamped image, ribbon, flowers

Totally Gorjuss #98 ~ Nothing square about me

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays ~ Birthday

TFL

Mad for Markers ~ Spring Time

Well this weeks challenge over at Mad For Markers is Spring Time so it was a great excuse to use my recent purchase of First Edition Papers Hideaway collection it was also a perfect reason to get Rosie ~ Spring Flowers inked up.  Rosie is available at the Crafty Sentiments store.  I coloured her using copics and cut out using a nestie, I added flowers and berry pins with some little beads and some flat beads for embellishment and the sentiment is also available at the Crafty Sentiment store.

 

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

OSAAT #79  ~ Anything Goes

Sketch n Stash #70 ~ Free Choice sketch ~ sketch 57 and my newest stash is the papers

Creative Inspirations #129 ~ Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky #90 ~ Bingo (flowers, sentiment, die cuts)

TFL

Pumpkin Pie

For my card I have used the adorable Billy - Pumpkin Pie stamp available at the Crafty Sentiments Store.  He really is cute and looks like he is enjoying his piece of pie!  I have coloured Billy using my copics, the papers are from a kit by Raspberry Road Designs called 'Scarecrow Lane'  love the boldness of the colours in this kit.  I added some orange buttons leaves and flowers from my stash and added the sentiment which is also available at the Crafty Sentiments Store.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations #135 ~ Anything but a square

Totally Gorjuss #97 ~ Its a man thing

Totally Papercrafts #83 ~ Cute with buttons

PaperCutz #108 ~ Going to the pumpkin patch

One Stop Craft Challenge #148 ~ Food & Drink

Sentimental Sundays #72 ~ Autumn

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #72

Digital Tuesday #128 ~ Celebrate the season (any season)

TFL

Crafty Sentiments - Spots & Stripes AND MORE NEW IMAGES!

Well here we are, its Tuesday and that means a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and one we know you will all love - its .....Spots & Stripes now not only is there a new challenge but there are some new images too, these are real cute manga digi images and lots of fun to work with.  For my card I have digitally paper pieced her dress, then used copics to colour the rest of her and I have her leaning against a tree which is an element from a digi kit but unfortunately I cant remember which one at the moment, the grass is from a kit called George and the Dragon.  The background paper and the paper used for her dress are Shabby Princess Vintage Flowers kit.  The sentiment is from Sentimental Sundays and the gems and flowers are from my stash.  The little scene was fun to put together in photoshop.

These new digi images are available NOW over at the Crafty Sentiments Store (*whispering* oh and there are even more wonderful things on the way so stay tuned!)

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the talented ladies in the DT have been up too and leave them some love, and when your done find your spotty and stripey papers and join our challenge, we love coming round to see what you have created.

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky #89 ~ Its Funny

Stamp Something ~ Anything Goes

Challenge Up Your Life #52 ~ Paper Piecing (hope digital paper pieceing counts)

Crazy 4 Challenges #104 ~ orange, green, yellow and brown

TFL

TGF Heart Journal ~ week 7 ~ Every cloud has a silver lining

Ok its time for this weeks TGF Heart Journal page and only just got this one done in time!  We struggled to think of how we were going to acheive this one as we have already used clouds on other pages and wanted something different.  The theme of clouds made me think of the poem by Wordsworth whose opening line is 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' and that is how the page was born.  W have used scraps of paper from my scrap drawers, the grass is cut using a Marianne Creatables Icicle die and the yellow flowers that  have been used to symbolise the daffodils of the poem are a Tonic Stuidos punch.  The clouds are cut using various dies (Cloud and cupcake topping!) and handcutting the large one all out of cotton wool pads and then adding the quote using silver peeloffs.  We are pleased with how this turned out and are now ready for the next theme which comes out tomorrow.

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges
Totally Papercrafts #82 ~ Not a card
Allsorts #119 ~ Green & Blue
PaperTake Weekly ~ Anything Goes
Thanks for joining us on our journey. xx

Crafty Sentiments - Meet Annabel!

This week over at Crafty Sentiments we have a new challenge which is Halloween and to help you celebrate in style there is a gorgeous new digital image 'Annabel' and she is just so cute and she is available now over at the Crafty Sentiments store.  For my card I coloured Annabel with my copics and added a little stardust, the water has had some 3d glaze put on it.  My papers are from Raspberry Road Designs kits called Halloween Hoax and Bewitched and the ghost and animated pumpkins are some stickers that I have had in my stash for years and they came from £land. 

Now if you pop over to the challenge blog you can see what the rest of the DT have created with this adorable digi stamp, then you can join us for the challenge.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew ~ Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations #127 ~ Sketch

Stamp Something ~ Digi Day

OSAAT #78 ~ Use a digi

Thanks for stopping by. xx

Anyone For Anya ~ A Sketch

The challenge over at Anyone for Anya this week is a sketch and they are being sponsored by Mad For Markers so I just had to take part (last minute of course! lol)  I have useda Miss Anya from the Dressy collection, coloured with copics, my papers are First Edition Papers Hideaway collection, flowers are from my stash and I made a little flower head with some mesh ribbon (still needs practice!) to which I added a little gem, the leaves are cut using a die from the cuttlebug quilled rose/carnation kit.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenge:

SCSC #150 ~ colours of autumn

TFL