My Mums Craft Shop - Your Favourite Stamp

Good Morning!!! OMW - where are these weeks going? I can't believe we are over half way through the year, there are less than 6 months till Christmas and my big girl is 5 on Saturday - only feels like yesterday that she was born!! never mind, anyway I'm nattering again so let me get to my point of being here!

Well what amazing entries we had for the challenge last week! Pop over to the My Mums Craft Shop Challenge and take a look at our winners! 

Onto the challenge this week! We are looking for you to

Use your Favourite Stamp

Now I think this was a toughie - I can't let on to all these beautiful stamps that I have ONE that I like the most - cause I like them all! OK so one does get used a lot at the moment.... Yes you guessed it, the gorgeous 'A little bit of Country' from Sarah Kay

I couldn't resist - I am trying to get my hands on a few more of these beauties - there are a few I have in mind - but everywhere I look they are out of stock :( - I think its trying to tell me something!  The die is from Die-namics - I have got to sit down and cut some more - they are SO cute and I have layered them up for the first time!

All the papers were mounted onto kraft card stock and the edges were distressed using my SU distressed and TH Tea Dye ink pad!  The image was coloured with copics; 

E000, E00, E02, R20, 

E33, E35, E37

V28, V22

R47, C4, C7

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the papers are available form My Mums Craft Shop, they are Prima 6x6 Sun Kiss Collection.  Well I don't think I can tell you much more! I hope you like my creations.  I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

LEJ Designs - Summers Here

Wild Orchid Crafts - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by - I would love to here what you think! 

Ohh and before I forget I have some candy here - pop over and take a look 

Hope to see you again soon!

xxx

you are my everything...

you are my one and only... yes I have been singing along with Mr Lionel Ritchie, oh how I LOVE his music, he has done some wonderful songs!!! I started singing it when I started on this card, I have made the very quick and simple, yet very effective card for one of our workmen! He didn't get time yesterday to buy a card, and so I made him one to give to his wife today!! 

I LOVE this DP, have been using it so much! Its lovely for anything!! As I was punching butterflies for invitations while making this card, I thought they went well on this too.  I did originally punch some lighter green ones, but they didn't show up so I used the dark pink ones and added the gems after!! I even decorated the inside of this card too! Yet another beautiful sentiment! 

I have learned how to change the opacity of an image on my computer, so happy as it can work for so many things! Also it opens up a while new world to inserts for cards! I rotated the DP round so it filled the whole inside of the card! 

I told you it was a quick and easy one!  I hope you like it!

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

Crafting for All Seasons - Love is in the Air

Divas By Design - Wings

Flutterby Wednesday - Anything Goes with Wings

Inky Impressions - Punches or Dies

Paper Craft Star - Photo inspiration

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon!

x

Love Letters....

Evening all, well I know I only posted a little while ago, have been trying to write that post all afternoon, been busy with the kids! Amelia now does tap and modern on a Thursday after school and so its a long day for her and me! Any how, its been another busy day for hubby, today the plasterer was in and he managed to get the whole of the small room done! WOW! The photos not very good as its dark outside and we have no light switch in there now... so no light! 

Anyway, before I started that post earlier today I did sit and colour this beautiful little lady! This is love Letter from Sugar Nellie, I have coloured her a few times but never been happy.  Today was a different story, I also tied this card in with the Sugar Nellie Facebook challenge! 

Here she is up-close, I was so happy with her hair this time, I have coloured it with pencils.  Again everything except the skin was pencils, the skin I used my usual suspects! E02, E00, E000 and R20 for her cheeks.  Over at the Sugar Nellie blog this week there is a fab sketch and the option of paper piecing.  Its been something I have been playing with the last week or so as its been so long since I did.  On this image i decided to paper piece that letters in kraft card stock.  

I decided to make my own sentiment 'Letters sent with love.... They are just not enough'.  I printed it off on a scrap of paper from my box to tie in a bit more with the pink and grey.  I have also always wanted to make a scroll on a card, but never known the right time to try, and so I decided that tonight was the night! Not sure if I'm happy with the way it has turned out!?!

Well I hope you like my creation, I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Sugar Nellie Facebook Challenge - Pink and Grey

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch and Paper Piecing

Aud Sentiments Designs - Love

Craft Us Crazy - Love

Pear Tree Designs Challenge #37 One Colour

Morning everyone, today is the first day of half term! so very little crafting will be done this week as I will be taking amelia out to see some of her friends, and with two or more kids in the house through the whole break, i think my craft stuff may have to hide! Although it may be a grate opportunity to let Milly behind the stamps! 

Well onto the Challenge! This week at Pear Tree Designs we would like to see creations made using only one colour (monochromatic)! I love creating cards using one colour, you don't realise how many different shades of one colour there is! 

this week we are sponsored by 

http://cardmadfairys-creations.blogspot.com/

We were fortunate enough this week to be supplied with some beautiful images from our sponsor Cardmadfairys Creations! When I saw the image 'Young Love' i knew it was the one I wanted to use strait away, I have so many ideas with this image but I need a day when I have nothing else to do to try what I would like! If you have time, pop over and take a look at the digis available! 

So onto my card, This week I decided to go for black, grey's and white, I used my pro-markers to colour the image I used Ice greys 1-5, Although the image had shading on it I did use the different shades in different places to try and add more effect. 

I used ribbon from my stash and the flowers are ones I brought over the weekend, they were £1 for 28 flowers, I didn't think that was bad! So I had to purchase a few different colours! The tickets on the bottom are digital ones I purchased over at Cuddly Buddly Crafts, they have some lovely digi's over there!

You can see in the girls dress where I have tried to pick out the detail on her dress using Ice grey 5. I was a bit unsure as to if it looked right at first as i wanted to put this on a grey card base but I have no Grey card. 

Well I hope you like what I have created and that you will join us over at Pear Tree Designs this week! If you need some more inspiration why not take a look at what the rest of the DT have created over on the PTD blog??  

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

I did it Creations - Anything Goes

Scrappy Frogs - Love

Challenge up your life - Monochromatic

Stampin for the weekend - Monochromatic

Phindys Place - Monochromatic

Creative Inspirations - Plain and Simple

I cant wait to see what you create! 

xxx

Husband, Be mine...

Afternoon everyone, well I sat there last night trying to make this card so hubby didn't and wouldn't see it, but we all know what men are like, no he had to go and be nosey!! And so I sat there and finished it with him watching!!! Oh well, his loss, i'm not making him another one! (I'm sure I will!!)

Well I decided I was going to play with the 'stash' of acetate I have sat amongst the papers,  I also in my rummage found all my cuttlebug embossing folders! so they came out to play too!   It took me about 10 minuets to remember what plate I needed in my Big Shot to use the folders!  The only problem I have with the embossing folders is that they are one size and sometimes I want a large embossed background! So last night i joined 2 small ones together! (ok so i had never thought of that before, but on my swirl one it wont work!) It wasn't until after i had put it all together I realised I had gold peel offs and silver miri card! LOL, I still think it looks OK??

The card base is acetate, I used my Argyle cuttlebug embossing folder on the silver miri card and on a sheet of centura pearl red paper, on the inside I have used peel offs to wright 'I LOVE YOU', I also covered the inside panel where I stuck the from with a piece of the centura pearl red paper.

The digi is a free one from Claudia and Co, I got it a few weeks ago,just haven't had time to play with it. I thought it was the perfect image for a valentines day card!

I have coloured it with pro-markers, I used antique pink, poppy and cardinal red, I also used denim blue around all the streamer parts.  

I then used Tim Holtz brushed corduroy with a dabber from SU to give the aged effect

I then went round the edges of 2 of the hearts with some 2mm rhinestones just to add a bit of a sparkle, I used gold peel offs for the wording.  

I have entered this card to the following challenges;

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Love is in the air

Lexis Creations - Valentines

Passion for Promarkers - Let it Shine

If you have a moment, please let me know what you think!

xx