Scarlett Hunger

Evening all, yes I know a very odd time for me to be posing - but its been one of those days thats all been a bit strange - Miss N had her 'pre-school' boosters today - she didn't cry till we were home but she did make sure she told the nurse 'you hurt me' and keeps telling people she now has 'holes in her arms'.  Oh an she also has a 'pet snail' called 'Lulu' - she so should have been a boy!!! 

Anyway in-between all of todays happenings I decided to be a bit daring for the new challenge over at The Stamping Chef Facebook page!!  This week Tamara has created yet another beautiful image who is available in the store here! (If your a member of the TSC FB Page you can request her free for a few more hours!!)

And so with continuing with the strangeness of the day I got the pencils out!!  Now they haven't seen the light of day for….. well I dread to think (yes I had to dust the case!)!  But after a conversation with a 'new friend' I thought maybe I needed to challenge my-self :) So one decided to 'brave' skin tones with the 'limited' pencils - My initial attempt at colouring her skin went rather wrong… now I don't tend to share my 'glitches' but for a giggle I feel I must!! and so this is what happens when I challenge myself with limited pencils!! 

YES I colour what should be 'normal' people with a 'snake like' skin tone…. So I have concluded that I will leave the pencil skin tones for the professionals!!! 

Anyway after a bit of thinking I thought it would be a good idea to still use her clothing (As I was rather impressed with the effect I got on her clothes!) and so out came the scissors!! YES this is where I noticed 'Little Boo' is SO helpful in my life these days…. so chomp chomp snip later…..  please allow me to introduce you to 

'Scarlett Hunger'

Now I just LOVE her - for me she is a cross between 'steampunk' meets 'good girl' (no longer snake girl!) - she has the clothing of a steampunk and the face of a sweetie!  As you know her clothing was all coloured with my pencils and the added 'blending oil' her skin was coloured with copics; 

E000, E00, E02, 

R37

The papers are from my stash, none of them had any details on the bottom, the lace is also from my stash.  The flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and the little watch charm from That Craft Place. All in all I'm rather happy with how she turned out! I would like to enter her into the following challenges; 

Scrap Creations - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Lovely Lace

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

LEJ Designs - Lovely Lace

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Well I hope if you have a moment you will let me know what you think! I have to say I LOVE her! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon :) 

Hugs

x

Top Tip Tuesday - Mothers Day/Crafting Buddy

Afternoon, so sorry this post is late... Been one of those days! The plumber is in for what is his final day, Mark is hopeful to get the loft boarded this week so we can get all the boxes up in the loft after we come back from our holidays... then (hopefully) I will get a carpet and desks and curtains for my craft room!I so can't wait to have an area full of mess, muddle and FUN!! Hopefully the creativity will keep flowing! 

Well I'm here with the challenge over at Top Tip Tuesday this week we are looking for a creation for 

Mothers Day/Craft Buddy

There is a FAb tutorial from Deneen, I did try the tutorial and I will share it as soon as I finish it... Hopefully in the next couple of days! 

Our sponsors the week are; 

Simon Says Stamp

Crimson Cloud

Karens Doodles

Onto my creation, I used the beautiful Humming Bird from Inked Paws available from here.  I fell in love with this image when I saw her and she was easier to colour than I first anticipated.  

I used copics and her hair was coloured with prismas.  I added a messy bow (thats what I call them) made from ribbon from my stash.  The paper was a 12x12 from BoBunny.  I kept the card quite simple and added a small peel off saying happy mothers day.  

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

Creative Mondays - Anything Goes

Love To Create - About the Ladies

Make My Monday - Mothers Day

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - For The Girls/Mum

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

I also have some yummy candy here! 

Hugs

x

You taught me love is unconditional....

To love someone no matter what their actions are, there are no limits, that is what true love is! I purchased the sentiment last week from TLC Creations needed something sweet and romantic for this card! 

This is the stunning queen of hearts from Saturated Canary.  I just love this girl, she is coy, sweet and yet sassy all at the same time! I have had so much fun colouring her! I must say I do think of 'and off with their heads' sometimes but she is far too cute looking to say such a thing! I used the TH movers and shakers die for the hears, the sentiment was cut using my nesties.  The bingo card is one that I made myself! 

I coloured her using my copics, R46, R27 I did add some black prisma colour to her to add some shading.  Her hair was using E35, E33 and E31, C-5, C-3 and C-1 was for all the grey areas.  I can't remember what over colours I used! The bazzill was from my stash and I used TH vintage Photo around the edges after distressing her with my SU distressing tool! 

The flowers and other embellies were from my stash! Im so happy with the way she has turned out! I have since been asked to make another like her, I have said I will make something but it won't be the same as this one! Think it may even be better than this! 

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

Always Something Creative - Valentines

Bling It On Challenge - Love

Crafty Purple Frog - Valentines Day

Delightful Challenges - Punches or Dies

Fab and Funky - Use a Digi

Make It Crafty - Shading Red

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! 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

Travel Light...

Morning all, well its been a busy few days for the boys, they have at last managed to strip the hall and landing and we have the plasterer in today to hopefully get the small room done!

Here are some photos of the small room before we started.  The room was a very pale pink, we have stripped the walls and found the gorgeous floorboards! And some other bits that made me giggle, I love the pull cord above the bed! 

Its getting there, I would hope to have some photos next week of the room nearly finished! even if it is just dried plaster and the switches in the room! I cat wait to get the first room done, especially as it may well be the craft room! Onto the card.... Well while going through the computer yesterday I found a digi of suitcases that i had, it then reminded me of this lovely Sugar Nellie stamp I have, called Travel Lite, I think she is beautiful, if only my hair would look like that! 

I made this card with the Sugar Nellie Facebook challenge in mind, the theme this week is pink and grey, The problem I had is that I don't have pink pencils, so I had to improvise and mix up my own pink! I used my cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss half the card, just to add something different, I then added the pink poker-dot ribbon that was in my stash.  I did use my sponges and my Tim Holtz Spun Sugar ink pad to distress half the card! 

Here is is up close.  I coloured her using my pencils all except the skin, I used my normal combination of copics of E02, E00, E000 and R20 for her cheeks.  I added some liquid pearls to her dress but I'm not sure that I like them now! 

The sentiment was printed from my computer.  I have my cousin coming up to see me soon and I can't wait, Im going to send this card to her with all my details in, just so she knows where she is coming! 

Well there you have it! I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Sugar Nellie Facebook Page - Pink and Grey

Charisma Cardz - Pretty in Pink

Hanna and Friends - Pink and Grey

I hope you like her and if you have time I would love to read what you think! Thanks for taking the time to stop by! 

Hugs

x

Adventure is Worthwhile in its self....

As Amelia Earheart would have said! I love adventures and this card sure has been one! 

I purchased this stamp ages ago from Funky Kits, I know another Sugar Nellie, but I LOVE THEM! This is Amelia and If I'm honest I didn't buy her because I liked her.... I brought her because of her name! Anything that has the girls names on I have to have! Its not so easy with nancy as theres not much with her name... other than the Adorables dig again Sugar Nellie! 

Yesterday she 'fell' out of the cupboard and I thought it was a sign and so I gave it a go! She was coloured using polychromes except for her skin, that was done with copics E02, E00, E000 and R20 for her cheeks.  The clock die is the Tim Holtz one, its had a bit of use the last few days, it will need to go back into hiding at this rate!

Above you can see her a bit closer, I was rather impressed at how she tuned out, I don't normally like colouring in browns but on this occasion... I rather enjoyed it! You can't see it too well but the papers at the back of the image were printed from the computer! They were both steampunk design papers from a website that I found! 

Im also trying something new with my photos.  SOmetimes there are just too many photos and so I have a new app on my phone that lets you create these little collages, quite like them so i think you will be seeing more like this! 

The ticket is from the Tim Holtz adage ticket book I have, I roughed the edges and used brushed corduroy to distress it a bit more, The charm is just from my stash, I LOVE them, have a few more but don't want to use them all! The sentiment was just printed off the computer, I do wish I had done it slightly larger - but its all a learning curve! The flowers were just from my stash! 

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

Catered Crop - Use Newsprint or Printed paper (closer image added above)

PanPastel UK - Use Two of Something (two roses)

Sir Stamp A lot - Monochrome

Craft your Days Away - Distressing

I love reading what you think, so if you have time please leave a comment! 

Hope you like her! See you all soon! 

x

Butterflies and Pigtalis...

Morning all, well I have been a busy bee! Will have a post to share a bit later with you for the wedding invitations I have made! But in-between all of those I have been making the effort to colour for me a bit more! I have quite a few birthdays in january and febuary and so I want to try and get on top of all of the cards! So far I have managed to complete january! Not bad for me, to say I normally wait till the afternoon of someones birthday to make their card! 

This is the gorgeous Butterflies and Pigtails, yes your guessed it Sugar Nellie! She is one of the first one I brought and she has not had the use she should have! Im noticing that I'm going through a 'funny colour' phase at the moment! Im not sure what is happening with me! Oranges and Greens, what will it be next! The paper is from my stash, I have so much paper at the moment!!! 

Again, more flowers had to be put on here, while making this card I said to hubby that i think I need to get some more flowers, he looked and laughter and told me that I need more flowers like he needs more spanners.  Now he is the one who told me you can never have too many spanners.... So I will assume he agrees! 

I love this punch! One of the punches I go back to all the time, I think I need to buy a new one soon! Its a kinda giving up the ghost! But while it works, it works! I went around the edge of the butterfly with diamond stickles to give more detail! 

Here she is, I just love her! I have coloured her using my faber castle pencils and zest oil over the top! Her skin was coloured using my copics's E02, E00, E000 and R20 for her cheeks! I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Flutterby wednesdays - Anything Goes 

Whimsical Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft Room - Anything Goes

Hope to see you soon 

x

Wish...

Evening all, well today I have managed to have ME time! Its been FAB! Been stood in the kitchen with the hatch open watching (and listening) to the kids! Every now and then one of them has stood at the hatch asking questions, Amelia's favourite has been 'what does it look like now?'.  Well at about 4pm I finished it! And here she is.... 

Yes so I have this 'thing' about pippi, and its not going to go away for a very very very long time, she is just so lovely to colour! If you haven't seen her before she is from Sugar Nellie and available from Funky Kits.  I'm also going through a thing of orange at the moment, I have been using it a lot, mainly when I use pencils and I think I'm getting better with them, i would just like to learn skin tones with pencils! Oh well it will come with time! 

I used a few bits that have been 'sat' away and never used 1st was the raffia down the side, it has been sat in the draw for ages, never thought of how to use it, but thought it looked nice! Also the clock die at the back of the image, its the Tim Holtz one.  I brought it ages ago and never been able to find the right card for it to go on.

I just love these flowers, I think they were all from e-bay, I know they cam from abroad and they were here in super quick time too!  I have a massive draw full of them and haven't been using them much, But I think I will be using them more and more, they just add such a nice finish to cards! I have also been 'making sprays' from them rather than just cutting and sticking them, it makes life a lot easier.  

Here she is a bit closer! All except her skin was coloured with my pencils (faber castle) and a bit of zest oil over the top! So happy with how she has turned out! The skin was coloured with copics using E02, E00, E000 and R20 for her cheeks! I added some 'diamond' stickles to her wings.

Again, the Tim Holtz adage tickets.  I have used them before but never been happy with the way they looked, today it all just fell together, I distressed the edges and used the Tim Holtz distress ink Brushed Corduroy to age it.  So happy with how it turned out! 

The Die cut shape is from a set that I purchased thinking they were nesties and they are not, I have to say I'm not very happy with them as the bend after the 1st use, But I LOVE the shape! Will have to save the pennies and buy some proper spellbinder ones! I used an idea I have seen about a lot lately and thats just adding the lines around the edge of the die cut shape.  I was very nervous as I have tried so many times and it has always gone wrong! But on this occasion, it went well.  the clock was cut from Neenah card stock and I used Time Holtz Iced Spruce ink to get the colour! 

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Alphabet Challenge Blog - Y is for - You Choose

Cardmaking Mamas - Something Old (The die is old!)

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Glitter (her Wings are glittered!)

Stamping With the Dragon - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks - Summer In January

Moving Along With The Times - Things With Wings

I hope you like her! I love coming here and seeing your comments so if you have time please feel free to tell me what you think! Will be back soon with more creations - I hope! 

x

One of Those....

Weeks, yes it feels like weeks at the moment since I last had time to sit down and have some ME time! I have been very busy with thinking (yes thats hard for me and the amount of sawdust not the floor... well we could keep a rabbit for at least a year!).  Its that time of year when 'panic' sets in for those that are to be married this year! (Oh and those in 2014 that want the earth for their invitations!)

Middle of last year I made some save the dates for a friend, who reminded me last week she had 18 weeks till the wedding! Me in the 'moment' stayed calm, but my head started thinking OK 18 weeks, thats not long at all! Day invitations, evening invitations, wedding guest book, table names, table plan, thank you's. Well It will all be OK! I'm sure it will! 

The final design hadn't been set and so I sent her a few over and we have decided on the final design, and tonight (in-between a few drinks with my  favourite girls) I have managed to get a few done, think they may take longer than planned, but thats what 'all-nighters' are for! Im going to keep you in suspense till they are done, but thought I would stop by any how and I can share one little beauty with you! 

This is Butterflies and Pigtails from the my favourite lil shop, Funky Kits, I really have to shop using their stamps and blogging about them like I do as ever time i go onto their page I spend money! Isn't she just adorable though! I coloured her using my copics and my pencils, I am quite impressed with the way she turned out! 

The problem came when I came to making her into a card.... I appear to be loving to colour at the moment but not very good at finishing of, I done know if its just because I know I have to tidy everything up or what! 

I just made her into a very simple Thank You card, well you never know when you may need one! 

Well I best get on and get my house tidy and get on with the invitations! 

Hugs

x

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 

x