Mmmm Red Shoes....

Evening all, well its been a busy day, decided that retail therapy was the way forwards.  So want a pair of red glittery shoes after my little project last night! but retail therapy was struck down when I had to collect paperwork from the solicitors! After lots of phone calls and discussions between me and numerous others - It looks like were moving next week! 4 days before Christmas! Got so much to think about now, to prepare and arrange and so this is probably the last post that I will sit here and wright, I do have some posts scheduled and so I hope they will appear, and I will try and get on to fill you all in when I can! 

Well onto what I managed to create last night after the stupidly long post on here, I browsed various challenge blogs and came up with some ideas.  I had a little hunt around and found a stamp that had slipped to the bottom of the draw, its one of the November releases from Whiff of Joy, Ok so it was the website that reminded me that it was there! This week at the WOJ Challenge blog there is a wonderful sketch by Karina!

And from there I managed to create a card from start to finish! Makes a change for me, have spent so much time recently just colouring due to lack of 'crafting goodies' available, and so I made do with what i had, it shows how much you get used to the 'nice' things you have, such as my big shot, there have been so many occasions recently where I have thought 'i'll just cut that' and I can't as I have no dies and no machine at the moment! Anyway enough waffling! 

Yes you can no see where my 'sparkly red shoe' idea came from! As a child at christmas I thought of nothing better than having red shoes for christmas, I never remember having red shoes for christmas, I remember being told to wear my school shoes with my dress so we could go to the pub for the 'Christmas drink'.  

There is my card, I hope you can all see the sketch in it! I decided to use some ribbon on this card as I have a bit here! The sentiment is also a WOJ stamp.  The papers and ribbon are from my stash. 

Here she is up-close, I wanted to keep her as simple as possible, i tend to start off well and then end up colouring it all in, but on this occasion I managed to get it pretty much how I wanted it, I used topic pens to colour and didn't think to note what ones I was using, I was on a roll though! I was so happy with the way she turned out, even more so now that I look at her more and more! 

There is the up-close of the sentiment, I did go a bit crazy with stickles last night, I wanted this card to have quite a bit of sparkle on it! I mounted the stamped sentiment onto green bazzill stock and rounded the corners just to soften the edges a bit, as I had used a scalloped edge 8x8 card. 

Here is an up-close of the ribbon bows I made, i cannot tie bows for the life of me, and so i make these cute ones! Normally when I want bows I get mum to do them so I make sure she is here when I need her! She is quite ill at the moment and so i haven't seen her for a few days! 

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

Whiff Of Joy - Sketch 

Belles and Whistles - Lets Sparkle (lots of sparkles added!)

Crafty Boots Challenges - Christmas

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Sparkle

Hooked on Craft - Christmas

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Outlines Monday - Shiny and bright

Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon! If you have a moment I would love to read what you think, look forward to seeing you again soon 

x

Pear Tree Designs Challenge #42 Mothers Day

Morning all, well had a busy night last night catching up with bits, well trying to catch up, I think I will be running in circles for the next month trying to get on top of all this stuff! Oh well, i'm keeping busy and thats the main thing! Silly blogger decided to play up last week, so thats why there is not posts from last week, but I will catch up this week. Its a busy and exciting week! 

Im here with the challenge at Pear Tree Designs this week we are looking for the cards for the Mum's, Mummies or maybe even Grandmas and Nannies! so that means the theme for the week is 

'Mothers Day Cards'

With Mothers Day just around the corner were looking for the cards you have made for them! 

I have 6 to make in total as I make one from me and hubby and then one from the kids, oh the joys! 

This week our sponsor is 

Robyn's Fetish

If you have time please take a look at the shop, some lovely digis over there! 

Onto my card for this week.  I have used the stunning new stamps from Whiff of Joy Spring Stamp kit, I was so happy when this came through the door, but I didn't have time to play before going away, so you can imagine how eager I was when I got home!

I have used the adorable little Honey Honey stamp from the kit, she is so adorable. I love the expression on her face, she looks so pleased with herself! 

I used a kraft card blank for the base of my card, the papers I have used are from my stash I know that the green one is a Bo Bunny paper, I have had it sat there quite a while thought.  

The flowers are from various places, the lilies are from my local craft shop, they are made from foam but look so stunning, the big purple rose is also from my local craft shop, the smaller ones are from e-bay.  The beady bits are from The Works, they are £1 a pack and you get loads in them! I must go and stock up on them this week! I used silicone glue to stick them down as you get time to move them about. 

The punch is a Martha Stewart lace punch, I punched both sides of the paper, lining it up from the middle out. 

I coloured the image with pro-markers (they enjoyed their break away from me!), but I was rushing so I have no idea as to what colours i used.  I cut the image using a nestie and left her feet in (OK so i cheated and drew round the nestie and cut it by hand!)  I then used a sponge and green ink around the edge.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges

Aly's Sunday Sketch  - Spring

Catered Crop - Child Stamp, Border Punch, Spring, Ovals

The Crafty Pad - For the Mum's

Creative Cow Girls - Spring or Easter

Creative Insperations - Mothers Day

The Kraft Journal - Flowers

Dream Valley - Mothers Day

Gingerloft - Punches/Die Cut

Lets ink it up - Punches/Die Cuts

Scrappy Frogs - Flowers and lace

Well I hope i have inspired you to join us at Pear Tree Designs this week! I look forward to seeing you there.  If your looking for more inspiration, take a look at what the rest of the DT created, you can see all their brill work on the Pear Tree Designs Blog! Remember if you have time to look at Robyn's Fetish shop! 

Look forward to seeing your creations! 

x

Sweet Sixteen

Evening everyone, well had a bad day.  

Went to print some digis out and the silly printer has decided that its run out of ink! GRRR so I spoke with my neighbour and she has ordered some (we have the same printer and we have decided to 'bulk buy'!) And so, after speaking with a friend (who reminded me its her 16th Birthday Thursday) I decided to make her card tonight! Although I have a million cards to make, but need the digis to do them! 

And so one sat and raided the mountain of stamps I forgot I had, took out the inks (versa-fine), the embossing powder (clear), the heat gun and the WOJ stamps and created a new masterpiece! 

Ok so what else prompted me to go through my stamps was that I spent some much needed time on the internet earlier and visited the WOJ site, They had some sale items and so the mouse ran away with its self and clicked on the 'add to cart' button on a couple of items and then 'checked out' all by its self.... now how would that happen???

This is only my 2nd easel card, I feel its lacking on something but unsure as to what... If you have any ideas please let me know! Once I had stamped, heat embossed, coloured and cut out the image, I decided to mount her on a white scalloped circle cut with my nesties!

I coloured her with my pro-markers.  I used Sun-kissed Pink and Blush for her skin tone, her hair was coloured using Shale, Cocoa and Caramel, her top was coloured using Buttercup and Tulip yellow. 

The hearts and flowers were coloured with Poppy and her trousers with Denim Blue and Pastel Blue.  Her bracelet was coloured with gold and i put grey #1 around her wings.

I then used some 4mm red rhinestones around the edge of the scolloped circle, then added some small flourishes with two-tone 2mm rhinestones.  The ribbon is from my stash and I wrote 'sweet sixteen' with peel-offs.

I have entered this card into the following challenges;

Papertake Weekly - Have a Heart

Promarker Challenge - Let there be love

The Crazy Challenge - Lots of Love

Whiff Of Joy Challenges - Love is in the air

Well I hope you like her, I'm happy with her! If you have time please feel free to leave a comment with any advise! 

Thank You! 

xx

Recent Makes

Morning all, well just thought i would post a few photos of what i have done recently. Most are just stamped and embossed images and then coloured with

pro-markers! Still got a number of orders to catch up with and all my own christmas cards to do!

So here they are. The baby cards are a stamp from Whiff of joy, what beautiful stamps they are! love some of the now ones too, just havent had time to sit down and have a proper look at the site yet.

The ones below are Lili of The Valley Stamps, I went a bit mad when they brought all the christmas stuff out! well they were on offer then! I have just used my Nestabilities around the stamped image. the snowflake stamp is an inkadinkado set i brought last year.

All the images have been stamped with versa fine ink and heat embossed with clear powder. I then colour all my images with promarkers

If you have any questions, please post a comment below!

Thanks for looking!