Sunday Sketch & Stamp

Good Morning, so 2014 is off to a very creative year so far, I can't believe that I have had the craft room a year next week - where has time gone??  Anyway I'm here this morning with the newest challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp, we have a wonderful sketch drawn by Sam this week 

I had lots of fun with this one, well at the time I didn't call it fun as I repeatedly cut the papers wrong! hence why I have flipped the sketch over

(Ins Imag) 

Now over the festive period I kept seeing this beauty and just had to have her - so after a little bit of searching I found her this is the beautiful Prima Ballerina Tilda - as soon as she arrived I just had to colour her up!! She was coloured using copics; 

Skin and Hair 

E50, E51, E21, E11, E93, E30, E33, E35

Tutu and Shading 

The papers are from MME Unforgettable collection, I do love that stack I have limited sheets left now so best get hunting for more.  The sentiment was cut using Dienamics Die and the wording is from a SU set I have hardly ever used!!!  I would like to enter this card to the following challenges; 

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 Well I do I hope I may have inspired you to join us this week! Looking forward to seeing your creations :) 

x

Cheeky Little Dracula ;)

Good Morning! ohhh what a week it has been, so strange finally having Miss N at nursery for 18 whole hours a week - yes I means I have had to do some of the dreaded H word!! Although Im not doing much of it at the moment as we are having the re-wire finished :)

Any way I'm here today with a post for the Make it Crafty Facebook Page - if your already a member you would have seen the $1 digi deal - yep thats right - the wonderful Zoe has one of the amazing digs for just $1 for the whole of September!! You need to be a member of the Make it Crafty Facebook page to get the code - so what are you waiting for - get over and join us!!!

So now I hear you asking what one could it be?!?. 

Please allow me to introduce to you 

Mini Dracula 

Isn't he just the cutest…. just that little face I can see him laughing behind his cloak! I know he's not meant to be - to is he?!?  

Now I have also (tried to) inspire you for the current Make it Colourful Challenge - the easy challenge is to use Orange and Black and the hard side is the sky - I think I will leave the sky to the professionals :)

 The papers I have used are from a pack of Stampin Up 12x12 that I have - it is a wonderful paper pack - everything (as normal with most paper pads) coordinates so well!  I used a new technique I learnt from a fellow crafter - the black splats are created using embossing powder - Rather than putting anything down (ink pad or otherwise) to hold it I sprinkled it on and heated it from the back - and BAM! Yep looks pretty cool - can't wait to use the technique more and more! 

The image was coloured with copics

Face

BG0000, BG00, BG10

Cloak, Sky and  Ground

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9

Inside of cloak and Eyes

YR15, YR18, YR24

I think I went a little OTT with the highlighting pen…. yes its becoming a new love of mine, its always on the desk next to me - all in all I think he is pretty cool!! I hope you like him too!  

Now I really hope that I may have inspired you to join us over at the Make it Crafty Facebook page - I have said it before but its a fab bunch of people AND its the only way to grab the code to get this little guy for just $1!

If you have a moment I would love it if you would let me know what you think! 

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

Hugs 

x

Halloween Colours

Good Morning! Well busy busy here trying to fit 101 things in with very little time - next week I hope will be a better week - well it will be in some ways - Miss N will be off to Nursery three days and I will have a LOT more time for me…. BUT we will be having work done on the house - we will hopefully be getting the re-wire finished! I know - I will have plug sockets in the craft room!!! 

Anyway I'm here to share with you my creations for the Simply B Stamps Fan Group challenge! Betty has been kind enough to let us have a wonderful image once again!! And the theme is her favourite! 

Please let me introduce to you 

Witch Mercedes

I stuck with rather basic colours for the 'halloween' side of it the papers I have used are from Stampin Up - sometimes I don't think you can play too safe :) 

The image was coloured with copics; 

E50, E51, E53, 

YR15, YR16, YR18

T3, T5

N7, N9

E31, E33, E35

Well I hope you like her - I would like to enter her into the challenge for the Simply B Facebook Fan Page Challenge - if you have a moment I would love to know what you think!

Hope to see you again soon 

x

A Bootyful Night

Good Morning everyone! Hope your well!!! 

Im here today with the latest release over at The Stampin Chef - now you must remember this image is available with 20% off in the store from today - Grab her now!!! - I just fell in love with this stunner when I saw her - Last year I really got into halloween, have loads of papers and stuff! Now all I need is a few more friends to exchange cards with! 

Please allow me to introduce 

'A Bootyful Night' 

Isn't she she just a stunner! I LOVE everything about her and can't wait to colour her again! She was coloured using copics - I think she may have to be this years Halloween image!!! 

E000, E00, E02, R42

YG03, YG17

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T8

The web border and the words were cut on my cameo and the paper are from a beautiful SU 12x12 set! 

Well I hope you like her - I had lots of fun creating her! thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again soon!!

And remember she is in the store right now with 20% off!!! 

Hugs

Me 

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Congratulations on your Graduation!

Morning all - I'm here today with a post for The Paper Nest Dolls! 

Im so excited to be part of this amazing journey with Christine and the team! 

I have been working away very hard and have come up with this card for you this week! I just love this image this is Graduation Owen and he is available here. 

I had so much fun colouring him up! he was coloured with copics

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9

E000, E00, E02, R20 

E50, E51, E53

R39

I also used my SU distressing tool and Tim Holtz distress ink to keep the black and white theme going!

The papers are School Papers - I have used them so much as they are printable so I can choose how big I want them :) 

The scroll was made by rolling some paper up and adding a ribbon and the stamp is a rubber one that I have had for ages :) 

Well I hope you like him I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Hats

Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you like my creation and I really hope you will pop to the challenge blog and see the fantastic team over there too :) 

See you soon 

x

When Betty From The Movies Went Sepia

Evening, how are we all? Well been non stop with school runs today! Nancy loved her 1st day at nursery, I'm dreading Thursday though... think she cottoned on that I snuck off, we will have to wait and see how it all goes! Anyway tonight I have been a busy bee.... I decided that i was going to try and colour in sepia...

And I think I'm part way there - OK so this was the second attempt, my first attempt hasn't been mounted yet, may try to do that later tonight!!  But I'm so impressed with how she turned out.  SHe was coloured using Copics 

E50, E51, E53, E55

The papers are from the Bo Bunny 6x6 Gabrielle Collection, I distressed the edges using my SU distressing tool and then used Tim Holtz Tea Dye around the edges. The flowers were all from my stash and so were the pins.

To say I only used four pens I am so happy with how it all turned out! I hope you like my card as much as I do, I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Simply Challenged Challenges - Embrace you inner Betty

Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Girls Girls Girls 

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty - Monochromatic

Top Tip Tuesday - Spotty Dotty

Good Morning! well I hope this works as I have scheduled it and I'm hopefully having a well deserved lay in! So fingers crossed!!  How are we all today, the weather has been so rubbish, want the hot days back now please! Anyway I'm here to share with you tis weeks challenge over at TTT! Now there is a lovely tutorial over on the TTT blog so please pop over and take a look! 

This weeks sponsors are; 

Simon Says Stamp

Stamp Fairy

We also have some guest designers from Stamp Fairy - You are amazing girls! I just have to get me the toothfairy image now! Anyway... The theme this week is;

Spotty Dotty

Now I had to sit and look and think... for a long while before it all came together for me!
Oh yes the good old cuttlebug folder came out and did some work with my old big shot... it was nice that we had some time together@  

OK yes this stamp is appearing LOADS at the moment, Numpty I am showed hubby the card.... before I added the sentiment and it was meant to be his birthday card! DOH! Oh well, so yes I am getting ahead of myself with my Fathers Day cards! 

This as many of you will know is a Stampin' Up stamp I purchased last year, it hasn't had much use up till now! I can't help but use it, although I have come across another long lost stamp that I have ideas for next week... roll on the kids back at school is all I will say....

Anyway... the sentiment is a LOTV stamp... Just LOVE this set! 

Yes its a new addition but you can never have too many sentiment stamps.. can you now! 

Before I go I would like yo enter this card into the following challenges; 

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Smudge Antics - Anything Goes

Tammy's Scrapping Corner - Anything Goes - Twist Embossing  

Pile It On - S for SPEED! and hubby says you need some speed!

Sentimental Sunday - Silhouette plus sentiment

Thanks for stopping by, remember to pop at the TTT blog and see all the FAB DT and GDT creations over there! 

Hope to see you soon 

Hugs

x

MotorX Mad Happy Birthday

Morning all, well there will be a couple of post today, You will see why at the next post but I feel both the posts today deserve their own space here!  Yesterday Mark and I went to a frends birthday dinner, it was very very yummy! But we were stumped as to what to but this person!

 So while having a snack I came up with the bright idea to do one of these Tagexdo images that seem to be the in thing at the moment, when I got to the website I discovered they didn't have what I wanted but I managed to up-load my own image and make this... 

Im so impressed with myself for this one! It took me a while to figure out how to do the image but I did it, I then had to go and but a frame, its an 8x10 frame, the image was printed onto A4 and cut down a fraction.  The card was made using and SU stamp as well as four TH inks! I was feeling the buzz yesterday! 

The ribbon was also from SU, I used a serviette to wipe off the excess in from the stamp to add it to the backing.  The backing paper was made using an image from the internet that looked like mud splats! 

The inside was also decorated with the same inks and stamps, and a verse that I found on the internet!

heres a close up of the gift.  I will be doing one of these again, such a FAB idea and you can make it so personal! The friend that received it is very happy and has told us where he is putting it, I can't wait to go and see it! 

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

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes

I Break for Challenges - Anything But A Card

OOZAK - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, Hope to see you soon 

hugs

x

Pear Tree Designs - Challenge 49 'Stamp Something'

Morning all, well for the first time in weeks I feel like i'm getting on top of things, so much has been happening but we are climbing the mountain and feel good for it.  

Im here to share with you this weeks challenge over at Pear Tree Designs.  I was so excited when I heard what the challenge was this week as it has been too long! This week we want you to 

'Stamp Something'

Our sponsor is 

One Stop Card Craft 

They are brilliant for all your crafty supplies! Please if you have time pop over and take a look!  

Now onto my creation for this week!

My stamps nearly had an ink attack... they didn't know what to think! After lots of time getting very very messy, playing around with a few things I decided to use (one of) my lovely new stamp from Stampin' Up! 

The paper is made using a clip art from the internet, I printed a page where I had randomly put the 'splats' at different angels ect.  I mounted this onto a red card base.  

I cut my paper to the size I wanted it before I stamped and then inked up my stamp and gradually moved it down the page!  This is an effect I have never tried before!  I mounted it onto black card and then onto a bit of red and the attached it to the backing paper!

 I used a small remainder of the red card and used my Quickutz dies to cut out the word husband in black! 

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges this week.

Catered Crop - Recipe (Red, Stamp Ink and scene)

Emerald Faerie Challenges - Anything Goes

Pile it on - Boys and Girls come out to play!

scrappy Frogs - Anything goes

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Well I hope you like what I have created and I hope you will join us this week, please remember there is a Maximum of 2 entries per blog, and please follow the challenge for this week!! 

I look forward to seeing your creations! If you have time please pop over to the Pear Tree Designs blog and show the rest of the design team some love, they have all worked so hard this week! 

x

Pirates kept me up!

Ok so I was ment to be going to bed... 

Crafting has taken over, well it was more the pirates!

 I brought this set AGES ago! 

A couple of nights ago I became quite concerned about this SU set I couldn't find, then it suddenly appeared as I was about to go to bed! 

SO you can imagine, the table became a mess again! I just had to create! ARRRR!!!

and the above is what I came up with.  I used the Stampin Up' set Pirates Beware, This is all the stamps in the set! 

I stamped 'Beware Pirates' and 'ARRR' directly onto the Kraft card-stock, I used another piece of the card-stock to stamp the other images using black Archival ink.  I then distressed the edges of the images (using the side of my scissors as I was being slightly lazy!) and then went round the edges with sepia Archival ink! 

I the mounted all the images with foam pads onto the card! I was very impressed, It was a very simple card and I feel much better for using the set now! (I don't think the pirates will haunt me tonight!)

Well before anything else catches my eye I am going to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and down Sheet Lane to blanket fair! I think i'm going to need match sticks in the morning to keep my eyes open for me! 

Night all

xx

Pear Tree Designs Challenge #36 Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day!  

So have we all been spoilt this morning??  

Well if not were going to spoil you rotten over at Pear Tree Designs with the most appropriate challenge here today! This week we would like to see all your valentines day cards! well what else would we be asking for today and the rest of the week???  We will be sponsored by

One Stop Card Craft and crafty Sentiments

Well this is the card that I have made for the challenge, I will show you what I made for my husband later! Its my first attempt at the other things, so on with my card for this week.  

Ages and ages ago I received some stamped magnolia images (I actually forgot i had them!) and so I have decided to use one of them on my card for today, I feel its very appropriate! 

The card stock started life as plain white, as some of you will know last week I received my order from stampin' up,  I purchased the swirly sentiments set, so versatile, I cant wait to use it a bit more!  

  The ribbon is from my stash I think I brought it up at the craft shop that closed down recently (i brought it about a yr 18 mts ago!).  I decided to play cleaver and instead of wrapping it round I cut a slit in the card for it to go through.  As the sentiment is 'wrapped up with love' I felt making the card front look like a parcel was a good way forward, and so i tied the excess ribbon round and twisted it this way and that! 

I started stamping the white card stock with the sentiment that says 'sending you a little something wrapped in a whole lot of love', (I felt it was a good one to use!) in sepia ink and then used the good old SU dabbers to distress the background, I did end up doing the back of the card too!

Once I had coloured my little man, I decided to distress the edges of him too, just so he blended a bit more, but when i put him up to the card he just looked silly, so I ended up mounting him on some miri card, just to break it up a bit. 

For his skin tone, I used Sun-kissed pink and Blush, for his hair I used Cocoa, Shale and Caramel, His jumper I coloured with China Blue and Royal Blue, his trousers with Pine and Leaf Green and lastly his socks were coloured with Poppy and Cardinal red.

I then decided to stamp the sentiment in silver onto a piece of white card, distressed the edges, I then mounted this on with sticky pads! I just thought it made it a bit more obvious what the sentiment was! 

Ok so this last picture is just to make you laugh, it was very late in the evening when i took these photos, sometimes while I craft the cat sits with me, but not tonight,,,, she decided that she was going to display it for me! 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Ellephantastic Challenges - Distressing with a LOVE theme

One Stop Card Craft Challenge - Love is in the air

Pear Tree Designs have a Facebook Page too! Why not pop over and check it out??  

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002078617829

I hope you like it, if you have time please let me know what you think! 

thank you!

xx

Ornament entry! various challenges

Hello! Well i have had another crafty 20 mins and created this.

I have entered this into the following challenges this week

Incy wincy this week its to make decorations,

Paper Cupcakes as the challenge is christmas ornament

Bee Crafty - Winter themed card/craft item (not a christmas card)

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge -anything but a card

Also on CADC there is a thing on about decorations too. I have also added it to

As it was very hard to photograph while holding, so Ii have put it on my tree!

Oh how i feel festive for that one!

This is my entry!

I have used the stampin up baubles set and alternated two of the stamps, folded them and stuck them together!

I also am in the process of finishing a card to match! will post that one later!

I love to hear what you all think, so if you have time please leave a comment!

Thanks for looking

Stampin up Club Night (19/11/2010)

Hello! Sorry it has taken me so long to post theses! But here are the cards from club night on Friday! Had a fun time. 4 cards made in about an hour and half. Such lovely simple yet effective cards.

The first one on the left is the most simple one we did, just stamped and mounted in the photo you cant see the perforated lines that were added or the glitter.

Second is a lovely one that has beautiful hearts that were punched from red card stock and then glazed and a bit of glitter added. we mounted the paper, the green ribbon and the red over the top. The greeting was stamped and the hearts glued on.

The Robin card was made with the Birds and Branch punch.We punched the bird in brown and then just the breast in red, we did shape it a bit. The branches were punched in green and stuck to the back. The orange card was spritzed with water and then layered onto the red and mounted onto the brown card.

This was my favourite of the night, I love baubles at christmas and as they has a special offer i treated myself! cant wait to get them through

and start playing! The border at the bottom of the card was created with a jumbo wheel. We stamped the baubles onto white card and punched them out, stamped the greeting onto white card and layered it up. Again so simple and so effective!

Nancy May Bentons Birth Announcement, stampin' up club and more..

As some of you may know, back in April i had my 2nd little girl, Nancy May, I just wanted to show you all the birth announcements I made for her. I had such fun in with my mum one night doing them. I did wreck 3 of my new ink pads, but hey ho, they are there to be used!

They were so simple but looked so effective. Knowing that people will just read them and chuck them I didn't want to make them to big (yes i don't like waste), they were A6 in size. I made up the card blanks with white card stock and using my cats eyes just blended the inks direct from the pad to get a purple/pink with a hint of green background, then the image was stamed onto acetate and just stuck with double sided tape over the back! On the inside it just had the basic information that i felt people would need!

I just wish i had the time and the patience stamp and colour this image, i have seen a number of variations on it but i can never seem to get the colours right, i think its also because i can be heavy handed when i colour sometimes.

Here are one of the cards I made at my first Stampin' up meet! it was a funny night as i got lost on the way to the venue, i did get there eventually! had a wonderful night and cant believe some of the lovely stuff in the catalogue! This was one of my favourites, took me completely out of my comfort zone, scrunching paper, tearing paper, and mixing colours that i wouldn't dream of!

Were there again in a couple of weeks! cant wait to see what i bring home this time!