Best Day Ever...

Well not for me its not, Im having one of those days where nothing is going right, I keep trying things and I can't do it!I was about to give up, then I looked in my cupboard and saw this beauty.  She is one of the new releases from Sugar Nellie over at Funky Kits, and so I thought... well I need to at least try! 

I just fell in love with her when I 1st saw her, She was coloured using my copic markers and my Polychrome pencils.  I will have to pop back later and let you know what colours I used.  I have tried to tie her in with a couple of challenges, the 1st being the Sugar Nellie challenge over on the SN Facebook page.  Also I have used the sketch from the Sugar Bowl to create this card.  

The papers were from my 'scrap draw' I believe the paper is a Bo Bunny.  I also managed to use my nesties, now that they are home! Im hoping that they are going to inspire me a bit more! 

Well I hope you like her! I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch plus optional theme of Birthdays

Sugar Nellie Facebook Challenge - Blue, Green and White 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hugs

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Happy Birthday Mummy!

Morning all, well today is my mums birthday.  I should be out the door by now but my big girl feels poorly and decided that she didn't want to go to ballet today, It makes me sad that she doesn't want to go, but on the other side she is quite congested and with how cold it is here, its probably best that she stays in! 

Tonight we have my Mum, Dad and Sister over for dinner (well take away!) as its mums birthday, Some of you may have seen the card I made yesterday for my mum, I was going to do that one from the girls, but Amelia was insistent that she chose her own card for Nanny!  Its a good job I have a stash at the moment, cause time would not be on my side if I needed to make another card! 

I made this one a while back, way before we moved.  This stamp is from a set I purchased from Quixotic Paperie, its the Elizabeth Bell for SCACD its from a set called 'Peekers' and she is called Daydreaming.  I can't give you any ideas as to what colours I used, although I did keep her very simple! I wanted to give this card to Amelia's ballet teacher for her birthday but Im not sure when that is! This was one of the 1st images that I tried to get the colours blended properly when using Copics! 

I think I was most impressed with the shadow! and her skirt!
 I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Alphabet Challenge Blog - You Choose (Anything Goes)
Card Craft Circle Challenge - Happy Birthday
Winter Wonderland - Birthday Wishes

Well I hope you like her, I can't wait to read what you think!

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I Do Believe in Fairies...

Evening all, well we have had most of the day with the power on and off, the electrician was in and has done the front bedroom and the hall, we now have fab spotlights in the hall, I have taken some photos but I will share them later! So we now need to fill in the holes and decorate the front room so we can all play musical bedrooms for a while!!!

Well as I had nothing better to do, plus I needed to make my mums Birthday card, I decided to move my table to the window and craft, I had a pretty good day.  

Yesterday I received a little parcel with a lovely lil stamp called Pippi Longsocks and some other lovely stamps too the are all available from Funky Kits.  Now I have seen so many lovely creations with her recently I just couldn't resist.  I did want to play yesterday but time was not on my side.  And so I have made the most of 'natural light' and a view over my garden (with the added extra of the boxes!)...

Ok so not the best view I know,  all the boxes obstruct what will hopefully be a nice view in the summer! but I enjoyed watching the pidgins in my garden with the occasional apperience from a blue tit or two oh and I have one or two ring necked doves!

Anyway back to what I'm here for, when I coloured this image today I didn't know what sentiment I was going to use.  All I did know if that it was going to be my mums birthday card! By chance I saw a set of LOTV sentiments I had 'forgotten' about, on there was the most perfect sentiment for my card! While stamping it, it reminded me of being in the old house before christmas and watching a tinkerbell film with Amelia! 

So from that all I have thought is 'I do believe in fairies, I do, I do!'.  Plus there is a long standing 'joke' between my mum and I about pixies in the tree! So i felt this sentiment just finished it! 

For this card I have tried to follow the sketch over at the Sugar Bowl 

I hope you can see it, Im not feeling sketches too much at the moment!! 

(EDIT 14/1/2012 - I have looked this morning and made a couple of changes to my card, I am changing this photo as it now looks more like the SB sketch! But I haven't redone any of the other photos!)

Isn't she just the cutest?! I love her so much that I have coloured her twice more today, she is so lovely to colour!!! I used some of my new pencils too! Im just starting to 'learn' to mix my pencils with my pens and the results are amazing! I have to admit, I wants sure on the pink and orange to start off with, but I think she is kinda funky! 

As you can see here, I also found some skeleton leaves stashed away, I have always wanted to use them on projects but never known how to stick them.  On here I just used silicone at the bottoms of them so it would not be seen, and mounted Pippi on silicone too! 

Here she is up close, I just love her so much.  She was coloured using Copics and Polychrome Pencils;

Colours;

Wings; Y11, Y00, Y000 and Cadium Yellow (Pencil)

Skin; E02, E00, E000 and R20 on her cheeks

Frog; YG23 and YG09

Hair; E15, E79, E59 and Walnut Brown (Pencil)

Skirt and Top; Y38, Y35, Y15, Deep Scarlet Red (Pencil) and Dark Cadmium Orange (Pencil)

Spots and Shoes; R13, R14 and BV29

The papers were just from my stash and the stickles were Icicle! 

I just LOVE the way her skirt turned out! I was shocked at myself for it, especially as it has been so long since I properly sat and coloured with decent light! You can see I added stickles to her wings, I want to try and get some powders to do the wings with as sometimes stickles is too much.  Im not sure if you can see the small pearl drop I added to the wing too?!  Just added a bit more depth! 

Now here is the sentiment, I felt this just fitted so well!! Due to not having my big shot at the moment I had to cut this out by hand, don't think I did a too bad job!!! I also added some stickles to this to tie it in a bit more! 

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Sugar Bowl - Sketch - Option of Birthday (Its for my mums birthday!)

CRAFT Challenge - Celebrations 

Craft Us Crazy - Anything New (The Stamp is New)

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Anything goes

Moving Along With The Times - Spots and/or Stripes (Stripy Backing paper)

Flutterby Wednesday - Bright Colours 

Flourishes - Colour Inspiration (Pink and Orange)

My Mums Craft Shop - Here come the Girls

7 Kids College Fund - New (New Stamp and New to colouring With pencils and Pens)

Whimsy Inspires - Happy Birthday (Its for my Mums birthday!)

Stampin for the Weekend - Out With The Old (The sentiment stamp and the leaves are well.... )

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Well I can't wait to read what you think, Im going back to do some more colouring, I still have one card to make before tomorrow and at the moment I could just sleep!!! 

See you Soon 

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My Top 11 of 2011

Ok so I have been hunting blog land for inspiration, I have a lack of it again tonight!!! And I have see lots of people have selected cards that they created last year and shown them off again, and so I have decided that I would share 

'My Top 11 of 2011'

(Well 11 seemed the best number!)

Easel Card using image from Mo Manning

Christmas Card using Whiff Of joy Stamps

Baby Boy Card using Sugar Nellie Bambino from Funky Kits 

Mothers Day Card using Whiff of Joy Stamp Set

Husband Card using Stampin Up Stamp

Daughter Card using Image from Mo Manning

Someone Special Card Using Digital Papers

Clean and Simple Card using Sugar Nellie Bad Hare Day from Funky kits

Christmas card using Whiff Of Joy Stamp

I Love Thee card, Image from Saturated Canary

Blank Card using Saturated canary Image

Well its not very exciting, but I can't wait to use these images again this year and see how my creations change! 

Hugs

x

A bit of Inspiration... TTT anything goes wk 2

Afternoon all, I was meant to sit and write this last night, but the pencils got the better of me and I couldn't be bothered to move! At last we appear to have the internet up and running, feels good being online again, I have missed being on here and seeing everyones creations! 

I apologise for my photos, in the new house I am going to be struggling for a while to find suitable places to take my photos, the house needs a 'make over' as well as the light is appalling! We only have wall lights in the lounge and so the light is a bit rubbish!

Anyway I'm here with a little inspiration for you for the challenge over at Top Tip Tuesday, as we are now a bi-weekly challenge blog, were adding an inspiration post for you all to see! This is a card I have made for a very close friend to say Thank you for our christmas presents, once again she has spoilt us all! 

I have used a stamp that I brought last year before we moved, it so happened that the stamp got 'put away' and i had forgotten about it, I purchased her from quixotic paperie a little while ago.  She is from the 'blush society' from The Greeting Farm.  I want to get the other ones, I think they are so cute, and the matching stamps are wonderful! 

I coloured here using copics BV00 and BV02, her skin was using E000, E00, E02 and R20 for her cheeks, OK so that was off the top of my head and I can't remember her hair colour! I used a shaped card blank as I have no idea where the rest of my blanks are! The papers and rhinestones are from my stash, I just felt she needed a bit of bling! The papers were from my stash, I did have a bit of a paper spree as the craft chop behind my new house was closing down and papers had 70% off! and so i had to treat myself to a paper rack too! 

The sentiment is on the stamp, I was thinking about cutting it down so I could place it anywhere but I really like it when I stamp it and it comes out like it does,  I messed up on a few occasions hence the shadow around here, I have to say after three weeks of not colouring, its quite hard to pick up from where you left off! 

This is a tag that I purchased from someone on Facebook, I am useless at making tags and so someone made a few up for me, I am going to try and see if I can get some more made in different colours, it was just by chance that the colours matched so well! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Something New (The stamp is new)

House of Gilli - Anything goes

Lexis Creations - Anything Goes

Stamp and Create - Anything Goes

Squigglefly - Thank you 

Truley, Madly, Crafty - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes

Gingerloft - Anything Goes

Sketchy Colours - Colour inspiration 

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenge - Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Something New (Stamp is New)

Sparkle Creations - Something New (Stamp Is New)

Well I hope you will join us this week for our 1st bi-weekly challenge at TTT, Good Luck and hope to see you soon! 

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