Creative creations Challenges - Less is more

Good morning! Were back again - thank you to everyone that joined in with the challenge over at creative creations Challenges!! Some wonderful entries - although we are now a 'just for fun' challenge we still have a top three as chosen by the DT so pop on over and take a look!!! 

So this challenge is a bit different… were looking for your creations that have as little as possible on them… the theme is 

Less is More

I have decided to join in with team B this week as this is a creation that I have not shared with you yet! I had seen the idea around quite a bit on pintrest and decided to give it a go myself…. 

It was very simple to do - I just cut the tape into lengths and stuck them down, using my big shot I die cut the sentiment and mounted it on sticky pads, a nice and simple card!!! I think I will be making a few more of these very soon for various occasions!!!  I do hope I have inspired you to join us this week over at Creative creations, pop over and take a look at what the rest of the team created :) 

See you again soon :) 

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A Simple Card For a Friend

Good Morning, so sorry its been so quiet here, Been so busy with work on the house!! 

Anyway this morning I'm full of cold and its really not what i need - finally got an appointment to have my wisdom teeth removed - really not looking forward to it at all but needs must! 

Anyway I'm here to share with you a very simple card I made for my friend birthday this weekend inspired by a pin on pintrest!  I had seen the idea floating about loads and finally made time to make one myself! 

All I used was some of my stash of washi tape - I'm really pleased with the results - something very simple can be made fussy with the sentiment and the die cutting as well as son bling!

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

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

The Squirrel and the Fox - Happy Birthday 

A Gem of A Challenge - Pink, Pink, Pink and gems (the tape and the gems are pink!)

 I know this is a really quick post for me but I really need to try to get rid of this cold! I hope you like my creation and I hope to see you again soon :) 

Hugs 

x 

Halloween SMASH*ed

Afternoon! How are we all? Well I have been busy here - got so much that I want to do but the cold is holding me back - much better than i was yesterday - so fingers crossed another early night I will run on full power again! So its been SOOO long since I did a SMASH* page - I lost all get up and go with it a long time back - I was going to sell all my stuff but I didn't - and a week or so ago I suddenly got the urge to do a page!

So yes I'm still running in halloween mode - Im so loving all creepiness at the moment - although spiders still freak me out! So I decided to SMASH* Nancy's first Halloween (yes I know that was 2 years ago!) but the photos have been sat here and needed something doing with them! 

All the die cuts were what a good friend Anda from Crafty Fresian sent me - you need to pop over and see her stuff - she has some wonderful creations! 

I had to use the gorgeous Little Witch Ariel available here from SImply B Stamps.  Now cause I have her as a digi I flipped her, made her smaller and merged her in pages and then printed them off - they were coloured with copics and then just glued in! 

Now there is a funny story about the 'too cute to spook' - now I am quite stingy sometimes and I had kept the top of the 'Too Cute to Spook' paper I purchased from Simply B Stamps  - I have no idea why then when doing these pages it dawned on me to cut it down and use it! So yes - Now I have started to keep the names off some of my 12x12's cause they can be used! Well I hope you like my pages I would like to enter them into the following challenges; 

2 Sisters - Cute and creepy 

Challenge up your Life - halloween
Di's Digi Downloads - Halloween 

Thanks for stopping by - hope to see you again soon!
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Believe in your Dreams....

Well I would if I could make as many cards as the images I colour! 

Yes today I have realised that I am obsessed with colouring, if only I had half the get up and go I have to colour to actually make cards, my draws would be less cluttered! 

I noticed today while cleaning that I have two draws full of images that I have coloured, half of them I have coloured, I'm happy with, but I will never do anything more with them... Think I need to home them with my mum... she's good at putting things together! 

Anyway I have put one together and I do plan on doing a few more tonight! if my pens don't sidetrack me! This is the last one from the A day For Daisies new release that I have coloured up this week.  There is another one or two that I haven't printed yet, so they will be done hopefully next week! 

The paper is from my stash and the flowers are the ribbon flowers I purchased last week!  I added the rhinestones to follow the lines on the paper.  As you can see we have some washi tape in the corner... Oh how surprising!  I distressed around the image using TH inks.  

Just some close-ups of the flowers and the sentiment! Also a strange angle of the card, just cause I felt like it! 

Ok so I was so impressed with my colouring I had to take a close up, I am so happy with the hair colour again! She was coloured up with my copics

E000, E00, R20, B000, Y35 and Y38. 

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

PaperMinutes -  Newest Stamp

Digital Tuesday - Distressed

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Use A Digi

Can You Digi It - Photo Inspiration

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

Hugs

x

Pearls in my Hair

Only me AGAIN! yes I'm on a bit of a mission, have a poorly little girl snuggled up on the sofa, so I am making the most of the peace and quiet and catching up with all the posting I need to do! 

This is another image from the A Day For Daisies latest release Birds in my Hair.  As you know I was excited with the last image and I was just as excited about this one! and I used one of my new sketch markers! This is one I have made for a friend of mine, it was her birthday yesterday and i hope to pop it though her letter box today, just hope she docent see this post before I have dropped it through!  This is Pearls in my Hair... 

Such a simple and elegant image! I loved it from the moment I saw it! I didn't know what colours and so i just picked BG57 and BG49, you can't see the darker areas too well in the photos but it does look good.  I colour her hair with Y35 and Y38, I do like this combo for hair at the moment! and I tried once again to add the light into her hair, i still need quite a bit of practice with that one! 

The paper was a 12x12 in my stash, I believe it was an Echo Park paper, I just thought the colours went well, the tag that says 'a walk in the park' was taken from the other side of the paper.  I also used some more beautiful washi tape! I am obsessed with the stuff at the moment! I LOVE it and hope that my collection will keep on growing! 

The sentiment stamp is from LOTV.  and the ribbon flowers were in my ribbon stash, I have had a few of them for a while and never had the guts to use them... I think I kinda like them now! 

The birds were coloured using E33 and E35I added some stickles in her hair, although they should be pearls I coloured them as berries to make them stand out a bit! I think I will make sure I colour them as pearls next time! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Love to Create - Friends

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Made Especially For you - Three Flowers

Simon Says Stamps and Show - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I would love to hear what you think if you have a moment! 

Hope to see you again soon 

x

Birds in my Hair

Morning!  

Oh hasn't it turned cold! Its raining today, and I had to do the school run with both kids! Left Nancy in the car outside the school, ran Amelia in and ran back to the car! Well I have been busy but not as busy as normal... haven't been feeling too creative! Had the party(s) over the weekend and thankfully the weather stayed dry! It was pretty cold thought! Anyway I'm here to share a card with you - at last I hear your cry! 

This is the beautiful Braid in my Hair, the new release over at A Day for Daisies.  

I saw these image add i just HAD to have them!  

I used lots of bits and pieces that I found on my big clear up last week! I found the ribbon flowers  still in their packet... the paper... well that was buried at the bottom of a box, I never really liked it before, but last night it just worked!   I also used some of my yummy Washi Tape... Oh how I love that stuff at the moment, I have a few rolls! 

I used my Bazzill Jewel template and some of my rhinestones just to add some bling.  I also found some small bows that I forgot I brought - They fit so well with this image! 

Heres the image up-close! I tried to give the sleeves a sheer look.. think I need to try a bit more!! Not to happy with the way I have coloured the birds either! But I can't wait to try this one again! I have coloured loads up and hope to be on a Making Mission this next week.. so watch this space.  Before I go I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Art With no Boundaries - Anything Goes

iCopic Challenge - Spring Colours

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you soon! 

hugs

x

A is For Amelia.... SMASH*ing

Morning, well yes its now 00:28 according to the time on my computer, I feel like today has been a long day.. Tomorrow will be even longer, I'm wedding dress shopping with my sister and its the 1st proper day of the Easter Holidays! Oh the Joys!!! 

Well i'm here to share with you my latest bit of SMASH*ing... I have to say I am rather impressed with these pages, in my litre world A is not for..

Apple, Aeroplane, Acrobat... My A if for 

Amelia! 

Yes I have smashed a page all about my big girl and Im so happy with the way it has turned out!!! 

Now she is obsessed with the film Tangles, she wants the clothes, the dolls, the music the lot... and now she even wants hair just like Rapunzel... You can imagine my JOY when Krista Smith of Saturated Canary released this digi... I felt that I HAD to have her there and then, I impatiently waited the e-mail with the image.... BUT THEN.... I had no Ink! But hubby as many of you know saved the day! 

I do love the digi, I can colour her time and time and time again... and Im planning on so be warned!!! I can see her cropping up time and time again now! I coloured her with copics and Spectrum Noirs (I'm getting used to them now! LOL!)

I also purchased a SMASH* Pad, the family one, didn't know what to expect... but I was so happy when it turned up! SO many lovely pages inside, I can't wait to do the rest of the family!!! I also used some of my yummy wash tape (I so NEED more!) Just felt... well I'm not sure really!!! I also included Amelia's 'Wishes' on this page, she wants to be a ballerina, as well as have hair like Rapunzel and be a Princess.... I can live with all of those! 

Heres the pages with her photo, she looks so adorable here, this was on a family day out last year, her hair is longer now but this showed her curls off.  In the top corner there is the story of her Nicknames(s)... she was called BB when I was pregnant with her, it stood for Baby Benton, now she is Milly Monkey... and yes she lives up to it! 

Well thanks for stopping by, I can't wait to SMASH* some more, so excited about what I have in store.... oh and maybe whats in the post too! LOL! 

Hope to see you soon 

Hugs

x

SMASH*ing Pages 2 and 3

Morning, only me! 

Well I went to my SMASH* book and realised that or these pages I didn't need to print... I had done page two... so just needed to finish page three, well I planned it the other night and so it was quite easy! 

As page 2 was full of lines, I wrote more details about me and the family, Amelia went though a stage of separation anxiety and so I always told her that mummy will always be here, and I will always come back, I still tell her now and so I had to finish the page with that.. 

Ohhh look at the wash tape, I love it, I only ordered a couple of rolls and so i think I need to order some more now! 

Can think of so many uses for it!! The metal words were brought from e-bay ages ago and I just wanted to use them up!! 

Well thanks for stopping by! Hope to be back soon with more cards and SMASH* pages... Mark should get some ink today to fingers crossed! 

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