Tip Top Tuesday Challenge #43 'Shaped Cards'

Morning all, so sorry I didn't post last week, been mad and now the kids are on Summer Holidays i'm trying to get ahead of my self! that will never happen! Well lots has happened last week, I am now the proud owner of a cricut create and gypsy! Cant wait to get time to play with it! If anyone has any hints and tips they will be gratefully 

appreciated! 

Onto the challenge, This week at Tip Top Tuesday we are looking for 'Shaped Cards', I have recently purchased some shaped card blanks and love using them! Im on the look out for more as they are fab to work with! 

We have a wonderful new sponsor this week 

The prize from 'The Emerald Faerie Garden' will be two digi faeries from the store 

(the winner will be chosen by random.org)

Also sponsoring us this week is;

one lucky winner will receive 5 digis

(winner via random.org)

And this weeks Tipper prize....

WOW $25 to spend in store 

(remember to leave tip after your name to be in with a chance of winning this prize!)

Onto my creation.  Last week I treated my self to a few of the new 'pips' from Sugar Nellie, available over at 'Funky Kits', I used the cute dolly pip, I coloured her last week and couldn't seem to find what to put her with, I coloured her using my pro markers, I have been pretty useless with letting you know what colours I used and I cant remember now! Im sorry! 

Here she is up close, I know that I did use some of the new fine tips for the pro-markers on her, they are fab to work with! I have got to get some more of them! 

The papers are from one of the 1st stacks I brought, The wording is cut out from one of the pages.  I have always loved the look of the pages with the blocks of wording on them but never been able to use them... till this project, I will use the rest of the sheet soon i'm sure! 

I used very small sticky pads to stick it all down! Well I hope you like her and that you will join us this week at Tip Top Tuesday for our fab 'shaped cards' challenge! 

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges

Karens Doodles - Shaped Cards

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Lollipop Challenge - Anything Goes

Look forward to seeing some of your creations! 

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Hello.....

Afternoon all! Well its been over a week since I posted and I have been non stop! Had so much going on, trying to keep the house tidy, orders and people wanting samples! But were catching up slowly! As some of you may have seen I haven't posted for Incy Wincy Designs for a couple of weeks, everything is getting on top of me and so I have had to stand down for a while till life calms down (if that ever happens?).  I thought I would pop by and share a card I made for a friend of mine, she came up asking if i had a Christening card in my 'magic box' as she calls it! As it was I didn't and so I made her one up! 

I used a beautiful stamp available from Lili Of The Valley, I coloured it using my pro-markers, I cut the shapes using my Nestabilities also the tag shape is cut from a new set of nesties, with pink and white ribbon threaded through. The swirl of pearls was created using a template. I added the flowers using silicone. 

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

Aud Sentiments Challenge - at least two words

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Flowers

I hope you like my card, Thanks for stopping by! 

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Tip Top Tuesday Challenge #40 'Things Beginning with T' and Tipper week

Morning all, well its been a manic week! Been non stop with trying to de-clutter the house, we had the estate agent on Monday take photos of the house and put it on the market! Desperate to get out of here now, need some space!!! As well as de-cluttering I have been looking at houses, but nothing seems to 'fit' at the moment, lets hope somewhere comes up soon! 

All my craft stuff is now stashed in the cupboard, its a nightmare to get it out and I feel more in a pickle as its 'tidy', my flowers are all in a draw and my ribbons are all together, this does not feel normal (for me)!! so crafting it going to be on a 'need to' basis for a while, as soon as we have a buyer I will pull it all out! Its horrible not seeing all my stuff in the house at the moment!!! 

This week over at Tip Top Tuesday its tipper week and both teams are playing along, its been a bit of a tough challenge, we want to see all your creations that begin with T, I created a 'twisted easel card', I love making these style cards, you can add so much!

its been a 't'ough one thinking and deciding, so heres a few ideas;

Tag, Teddy, Tiger, Twisted Card, Twine, Teen... the list goes on and on!

If your struggling, pop over to the T.T.T blog and see what the rest of the design team have come up with! Oh my the creations are amazing and the Tips are FAB!

I have managed to sit down and create using one of the gorgeous new sassys released last week available from over at Funky Kits, ahhh they are so cute! As soon as the postie turned up with them the kids had to wait for tea as I so needed to ink them up! 

I used the lovely little stamp 'secret santa', isn't she lovely! I just had to colour her first time round using traditional colours, I cant wait to try colouring her with more modern twists!  I used my pro-markers to colour  I used Blush and sun-kissed pink for her skin tone, henna, burnt sienna, caramel and cinnamon for her hair,  I cant remember what greens or reds I used, I some how put them back before I finished her!  I used warm grey 4 and 5 for her boots  and I went over the 'fluffy parts' of her shoes and dress with warm grey one to add some dimension

The paper is from Bo-Bunny, its one from a christmas set that I have had stashed away.  I also (on my de-cluttering) came across my flourish template, I had forgotten where I had put it, so I just had to add one to this card, I used 2 sizes of rhinestones (I never realised the template has various size holes so you can do that!). 

Another thing I came across on my tidy mission was my ribbon that I couldn't find last year! I cut a small section and used it as text on my card. I also added some red and blue roses from my stash to tie the colours in more from the paper and the image. 

Here is a close up of the flowers, I love the little sparkles in the middle too! Ohh and I brought some leaves last week, couldn't resist adding one of them!

Well I hope you like what I have created, I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Alphabet Challenge - 'H' is for half Dozen (6 flowers)
Christmas Stampin all Year Long - Picture Inspiration (Blue and Green)
Crafty Anns - Christmas In June
Daring Card-makers - Something Old (Flowers), Something New (Stamp), Something borrowed, Something Blue (Papers and Flowers)
The Crazy Challenge - Beautiful Women
Hooked On Craft Challenges - Flowers
I Did It Creations - Christmas
CES Challenges - Anything but square
Designed to Delight - Red White and Blue/ Christmas too

Thanks for stopping by, would love to hear what you think! 

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Tip Top Tuesday Challenge #39 - Cross It!

Morning, I suddenly feel that i want to sing today... not sure why?!? 

Im her with this weeks challenge for Tip Top Tuesday, its been a fab week getting to know the rest of the team, they are all so lovely and full of helpful tips and inspirations.  This week the fab Annette had a brilliant tutorial for us that you can find here, its a card that i haven't done for sooo long and once i started I couldn't stop!!! 

Firstly I made a card for a friend of mine who got fab results from uni last week, so I decided to make her something a little special,  Looking at the card again, it was the 2nd card i made last week that didn't have a pro-marker near it! 

Its a very diddy card, I made it using the tutorial but only used one sheet of 12x12, she's not someone that likes things big and se this fitted her rather well! 

Here you can see the flowers I used, I stuck them using silicone, the lace was held on using high tack double sided tape.  

The butterfly is a spellbinders set i have, looking at it now i wish i had done it on patterned paper to add something to it! Oh well she was happy with it and that all that matters!

Well I hope you like card number one, I was happy but felt I wanted to do more plus I got my new Whiff Of Joy stamps through and so i had to play with them! and so, I created more!!! 

I have made this one for Amelia for her teachers at school! The image was so much fun to colour!!! and i used twine too! Oh last week was one of those weeks, well I hope you will pop over to the TTT blog and take a look at what the rest of the DT have created, they would love to hear from you! Look forward too seeing your creations! 

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Incy Wincy Designs - Challenge #99 Sketch!

Morning all, well here we are another monday, I so hope the weather starts to improve soon, we have my eldest daughter birthday next weekend! Where have the past 4 years gone?! 

Well onto the challenge this week at Incy Wincy Designs! This week we have a sketch for you to work with, you can flip it rotate it, as long as we can still see the sketch we want to see your creation!!! 

We are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs, please pop over to the site to see the wonderful bits they have on offer!

I chose to use Sassy Skater, I love her attitude!!! I just want to be her some days! I coloured her using my pro-markers! Oh how i missed those guys when I didn't use them for a hole day last week, it makes me wonder what i used to colour with before I found them!! 

I used a lot of card for my 'scrap draw' that I now have, I never realised how many scraps I had, till I made them more accessible! now I cant stop rummaging! 

I cut her out using my nestabilities and used a chalk ink on the back to add some detail!  

Well I hope you like her! Please stop over at Incy Wincy designs and see what the rest of the DT came up with! Look forward to seeing your creations! 

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