Top Tip Tuesday - Magical, Mystical or Fantasy

Morning all and Happy Valentines Day!!! these weeks are flying by! Since TTT has switched to biweekly challenges, it feel like no sooner do I blink were onto the next challenge!!! 

This week were looking for you 

Magical, Mystical or Fantasy Creations

We have a fab tutorial from Elaine, Please please stop by and take a look I wish I had more time this week to give it a try!! We also have some Fab sponsors this week

Simon Says Stamp

Stamp Fairy

Ohh La La Creations

We also have some guest designers this week so please pop over and say hi! 

Anyway onto my creation.  It was all a bit last moment for me this week, not had much time to craft and so this was kind of thrown together!

Isn't she just adorable, off the top of my head I can't remember who she is or where she is from!!! I coloured her using my copics and I have learnt that you can mix violet with yellow to add tones act, I so can't wait to play some more with colouring... roll on the schools going back is all I say!!! 

Well I'm sorry its a short post, need to get on and find out where my boiler man is, once again he is not here today! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

One Stitch at a time - Anything goes

A Gem Of A Challenge - Fairies

Allsorts - Free and Easy

I will pop back alter and add the colours I used!
Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!
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A bit of Mo with a Dash of Tim

Afternoon all, I apologise for how quiet it has been here, I have been ill and so have the kids, at last the energy is back and i have managed to make a couple of cards!! I have been waiting in all morning for the gas man to come... still no luck! But at least he hasn't disconnected the old boiler, so I still have heating and hot water! 

Onto what I have managed to do.... Well my 1st aim was that i was going to make  a small card... Ha ha ha, I can't seem to make smaller than 8x8 at the moment! I don't know what has got into me! I used an image i coloured last week using a colour combo on the make It Crafty Facebook page! 

R29, R27, E27 (I used E29 as I don't have E27) and W7.... 

i brought this stunning lady last week from Mo Manning, I have seen her about loads and just had to colour her! At 1st I wasn't too happy with how she had turned out but after people commenting on just seeing her coloured she has frown on me! And I'm using the colour combo more and more!! here is is a bit closer.... 

The rest of the stuff used was my stash, the paper is one that I had loads of scraps of and just used them up, the red was a plain bazzill.  Her skin was coloured using E02, E00, E000.  Im loving my flowers at the moment, I know you don't tend to put flowers on a male card, but they kinda just went with this one! 

After LOADS of searching I caved in and brought the TH Odds and Ends tickets to go with the die, I have searched for ages trying to find others that fit.  A lot of people had said they didn't like the wording on them, but I kinda like them.  I didn't cut these with my die as I need to find my adaptor plate to use it, so I cut it by hand! 

Well I hope you like my card! Quite impressed with how this has turned out! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Cards For Men - Valentines Day

Crafty Boots - Valentines Day

Make It Monday - Anything goes

Lexis creations - Love

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop back soon! 

x

Just the last week....

Evening all, well not been a good week, had Amelia at home with an ear and throat infection,  Mark has been off feeling ill too!!! Nancy is now gaining down with it and as for me... well not good but just have to carry on, no time to be ill!!! 

Just thought I would give you a bit of an up-date on the house and family... 

Ok 1st up we have the first snow of 2012, it was last saturday.... look at my fab tree! Oh how I love this beauty!!! It looks orange as we have a street light outside! 

i can't believe how much came down that night, The kids had a FAB time in the garden on Sunday, it was lovely seeing them play and Nancy... well she wasn't sure what to make of it all!!

Skipping to Wednesday, well other than every bone in my body feeling like it was disintegrating... mark and I went to choose the paint for the walls in the craft room! Well I went to choose it, he just came along to pay. I had spent Tuesday night going through the catalogue deciding what colours... this was one that didn't enter the equation!!!

yes OK so i want to mix two habits, chocolate and crafting (may have to have a lil fridge full of fudge in my craft room!) After 'drugging' myself up I felt better and was desperate to get at least the 1st coat on the walls!!! and so.... 

Thursday was another day, i felt better, still hurt and not much energy, but... yes you guessed, the second coat went on the walls! I can't wait now! 

It looks so yummy! Its a way of being finished, we need to get the re-wire finished before the boxes that are stored in there can go in the loft and I can plan the room better!! Im planning a trip to ikea in the next couple of weeks to get some 'small' bits (maybe the credit card should come to be on the safe side!)! 

Last one for tonight! 

Smudge cat! Yes she decided to come out with me in the last snow fall we had... just look at the face! 

Please let me in, Its cold!!! yes it was very cold!!! Anyway, I'm not feeling the ticket at all, need to sleep! but have to get up tomorrow as we are having lunch with GG! Sorry to bore you all! 

See you soon!!

x

sweet 16....

Well you can't put that on a male card... so we just went with 16th! The kids are still rather un-well Amelia has been off school again today and little Nancy is really groggy so have had to chill out with them all day.  Im not feeling 100%, just very tired hope I don't come down with what they have! 

As you can see I have found the camera and charger and I am using it again... but its finding somewhere that I can take photos now.  This has been taken balanced onto of one of the new radiators! Its not plumbed in yet, but hopefully will be soon! 

I have used the lovely Suave Kody from Some Odd Girl, I have to say I'm loving these stamps at the moment! So much fun to colour! I have had him sat in the digi file a while and suddenly managed to colour him for the 1st time over the weekend!  I even tried the 'clouds' again, wasn't so easy this time as i didn't have a mask for him, but don't think it came out too bad! I can't tell you what colours as I coloured this when the kids were colouring and kept my pens back in their places!

I even managed to decorate the inside of this card, the red bazzill is from my scraps and the ribbon from my stash! The happy birthday inside is a LOTV stamp. 

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

Cards for Men - Seeing Reds

Craft your Passion - Anything Goes with no Patterned Paper

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Happy Birthday....

Evening all, well been a strange day.  Both girls are poorly and so we have stayed in all day! The girls have had fun colouring with me though! They have both been sat at the table with their pencils, Amelia with one of my digs, Nancy with her colouring book and we have had hours of peace and quiet! Their friends came over to play and then at 5 it started to snow! I can't wait for tomorrow! 

I have been trying hard to work on cards for men and boys, I have so many images that I can use for them but then I never get round to it! OK I always make excuses not to! So today I tried and I tried and I still need to do some work but....

This is the adorable Splashing Toby from Some Odd Girl.  I have had him for ages, but never got round to colouring him! Today I have surprised myself! Im so happy with how he has turned out! but not so keen on the card, Its lacking something and I'm not sure what! 

I can't remember what pens I used... As the kids were at the table I kept my pens as far away from them as I could... Amelia did ask at one point if she could use my skin pens, I told her NO! She's only 4 1/2!

I have made this card for Amelia and Nancy's friend who turns 3 on Thursday.  Thats what made me finish this otherwise he would have been sat in the draw for a year waiting to be mounted! I used my QK bubble die and Moxie alpha to do the letters and bubbles! The number is just a peel off! Toby was die cut from a set of nesties I have! 

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

Allsorts - Free and Easy February 

Send A Smile For Kids - Anything Goes For Kids

Ditzy Challenge - Anything Goes

Fun With Shapes and More - Birthday 

Thanks fro stopping by and hope to see you soon! 

x