Birthday Boy

Morning all - wow two posts in two days…. Well after a few lovely weather days - were back to it being and somewhat chilly! Ohhh when will summer come and stay?  Anyway been keeping myself pretty busy with creating and cleaning the little room up and making mess and stressing that there is mess…… anyway Im here to share with you today a commission I made and all in all I was pretty impressed with it! 

I finally used Video Boy from Mo's Digital Pencil - He has been sat in the pile to be coloured for far far too long (about a year too long!).

I have to say male cards are not my strong point but I loved colouring him up! 

Materials

Pens - Copics

Papers - Stash 

Charm and Twine

Quickutz Alphabet Dies

Die-namics Fishtail Stacks

Tim Holts Distress ink Tea Dye

All in all I love him and didn't really want to send him to where he needed to go! I hope he is loved by the recipient! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Crafts for Eternity - For the Boys

Alphabet Challenge - I for Image

Bronte and Bella's Challenge - 'Children' of all ages

Paper Crafting Journey - Masculine

Crafty Creations - For a boy 

Thank you so much for stopping by, if you have a moment I would love to know what you think! I know I sure had fun making him! Hope to see you again soon :) 

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Lets Play

Good Morning! How are we all today? well its a beautiful day here - the sun is shining and its lovely and warm! So nice to have some warm weather! 

Anyway I'm here to share with you a recent commission - This is a stamp I have had tucked away for ages - but never found the right occasion to use it! But when I was asked to make a card for a special girl turning 8 who loved cats! 

So this stamp was just perfect! I loved colouring her - the cats worried me at first and I did have a couple of attempts at colouring them before I was happy with their appearance! 

Materials

Copics 

Papers from stash

 Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Twine and Charm from Stash

Quickcutz Daisy

Tim Holts Tea Dye Distress Ink

Martha Stewart Punch

Diamond Stickles

I decided to try and be cleaver and shape my card this time using the MS punch - I don't think it turned out too bad! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

That Craft Place - For a Child

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon :) 

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For A Special Little Girl

Good morning! Well the BIG NEWS - finally we should finish the girls room today - the carpet is on its way and they should be back in there tonight! Whoop! you all know what that means - I should have a craft room soon! Yeah!!!!! I'm hopeful to speak to daddy nicely as he is off work on Friday to install me a desk and then I can start getting my stuff up there and in place! I can't wait! 

Anyway back to why I'm here! I recently had to set my Facebook page back up - and when I did I had A lovely lady contact me asking for a custom order - she really wanted a card I had done but wasn't sure as the image had dark hair and her daughter had blond hair - I told her not to worry and leave it with me - re-coloured it for her and she was over the moon - the challenge was when she asked for it to be an 8x8 - it has been so long since I have done an 8x8 I panicked - but after lots of strops it came together

It took me ages I had to pick it up and put it down on so many occasions - but I came back fighting every time!! I used the lovely 'make a wish; from Sugar Nellie, she was coloured with copics and I added stickles to her wings as well as some liquid pearls.  

For the first time I used some ribbon sliders - **TIP** as they were plastic I coloured them with copics so they tied in with the rest of the card - I will be doing this more and more now - so nice to have all the elements coordinating!  

Lots of dies came out to play too - Im so LOVING my dies at the moment, every letter was cut with the Quickutz squeeze 'Daisy' font - Its my all time favourite!!! Well I hope you like her! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Craft Room Challenge - Punches and Die Cuts

Our Daily Bread - Christmas

Top Tip Tuesday - Kids + Tip (please see above!)

Thanks for stopping by, if you have a moment I would love to know what you think! Hope to see you again soon!

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Simple and Shiney

Morning! 

how are we all?   Well I have been working away on loads of different stuff and can't wait to share it all!!! Today I'm quickly here to share with you a quick and easy card I made last week!

I was asked for something pretty, feminine but not too heavy and came up with this.  The die cut is from my marianne butterfly die I purchased ages ago and have never really used.  I added lace from my stash and the sentiment is punched out letter using my quickytz Daisy alphabet! Well I hope you like it,

Thanks for stopping by hope to see you again soon! 

Hugs 

Fathers Day - Teddy Golf

Afternoon! Well that was a long weekend, with typical british weather... Rain.  Our party was cancelled yesterday due to the weather and I had spent my afternoon cooking and decorating cupcakes!! Not a happy bunny! Oh well can't change it! Well lots of changes happened yesterday, my little Nancy decided that she no longer wanted to be in baby jail at night, so we have taken the side of her cot off.. it was a nightmare getting her into bed last night , followed by a 6am wake up with a smack on the face and mumbled through her dummy 'wakey up time now mummy daddy!' Oh well - maybe she will sleep better tonight!

Anyway I have been crafty and quite impressed with myself for this one, A friend asked me to make a Fathers Day card for her kids - she left it pretty open to anything but she did tell me that he like golf at the moment - so what better image that 'Seven... I mean FOUR' from Teddy Bo. 

This was my first ever attempt at colouring a Teddy Bo image, I ave often seen them about and looked the other way as I don't feel I colour fur very well, but on this occasion I was quite impressed with myself! 

the image was coloured using copics, I haven't got what colours I used, it has taken me a few days to colour and so I have had to be clueing up in-between it all. The papers were all from my stash and I mounted it on Kraft too, just to fill in on the layers! 

I used a new die I have, purchased it from a friend on Facebook, It worked really well on the 8x8 card blank.  The letters were from my Quickutz alphabet, again not quiet sure what one - I forgot I had that till the other day when I tripped over it, Im not quite sure how it made itself to the middle of the room - it was like it was asking to be used!

From a small piece of paper I die up the smallest circle from my spellbinders and embossed it using a cuttlebug embossing folder, just so it looked like a golf ball! Well I hope you like my card - all in all I'm quite impressed! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Digital Tuesday - Anything Goes

Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Anything Goes (My old stash is my Quickutz - forgot I had it!)

Sassy Cheryl's - All About the Dads and Grads

Sweet Stamps - For Dad

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon 

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