Happy First birthday Lilly

Last night my hubby's cousin asked if I could do her a last minute card for a one year old.  She had bought her a stool with a bunny and her name on so wondered if I could match the bunny image.  Luckily I had my Nellie Snellen Christmas with Dawn stamp and thought I could get away with it not looking Christmassy, what do you think??

The image is coloured with copic's.  I have added glamour dust to her skirt, a gem to the flower on her headband and clear glitter pen to the bow on the parcel and some of the hanging orrnaments.

The flower is a magnolia doo hickey die and the the swirls are from Marianne Designs with their ribbon flowers.

The papers are Bo Bunny and the cream netting is Champagne netting from Stamp and Create.

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

Bunny Zoe - sketch 

Colour create - pink,brown,cream and white

Cute card thursday - anything goes

Creative inspirations - anything goes

Top tip tuesday - birthday

Pollycraft - baby love

Allsorts - flowers and swirls

Paperplay - punches and dies

Marianne design diva's - bloom and grow

That's all for now,

Hugs

H xx

It's raining hearts on Teddy Bo and Bea

The other day I mentioned to my MIL that I wanted to do a shaker card and as soon as she saw Love Showers Teddy Bo digi stamp she said that I should get that and make it into the shaker card.  So as any good daughter-in-law would do I did as I was told and went to the shop and added love showers to my basket.  As I was there another couple of digi's fell in the basket and then I saw that Gayle had released the first lot of their new goodies, a new 8x8" patterned papers book so that fell in too.  Well it would be rude not to wouldn't it??

The papers arrived this morning and I'm regretting only buying 1 lot of papers.  They are gorgeous and printed on the best quality paper I've ever found.  I had planned on using them on this card but just couldn't take my scissor's to them. 

I am entering this card into the following challenge :

Bunny Zoe's - easel cards

Cute card thursday - weddings

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Teddy Bo - love is in the air

Anything goes - celebrations

Bearly mine - bling

Critter sketch - wedding

Stamptacular - fancy folds

Totally gorjuss - going round in circles

I began by colouring in Teddy Bo and Bea in sepia tones to match the gold sequin hearts.  The actual shaker piece is the plastic covering for the red thin super sticky tape.  I them went onto the gallery on Make the cut and found this gorgeous frame.  I needed to fiddle with it a bit to get it the perfect fit for my shaker.I them cut it out of punch tape and covered it in gilding flakes.  Next came the time consuming job of brushing off all the excess flakes, which wasn't easy due to the frame having so many fiddly bits.  I finally cut a shadow mat and glued everything together.  The front is finished with card candi by craftwork cards.

The inside was made to repeat the front, only making smaller frames to fit the wedding sentiment on.  The cream spotty paper is Bo Bunny double dot.

I think that just about covers it all,

Hugs

H xx

Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea are getting married

As soon as I saw the Teddy Bo image "Hatched, matched and dispatched" I wanted to colour it.  Though to be honest I want to colour ALL the Teddy Bo images.  I'm seriously addicted to the furry guy n his girl.

This card is for my Brother and Sister-in-laws 19th wedding anniversary on the 22nd of this month.  I hope they like Teddy Bo as all three cards I need to make for them with be featuring Teddy Bo and Bea.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Mad for markers - use spica glitter pens - the back lights of the car are coloured with clear glitter pen

icopic - fur

Anything goes - celebration - wedding anniversary

Teddy Bo - love is in the air

Cute card thursday - clean and simple - only embellishment used are the tin cans

Sentimental Sundays - shaped cards

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Creative craft - summer - summer is also wedding season

So what do you think??  This card took me quite a long time, but it was a labour of love.  The card measures 14x13cm so quite a large area to colour.  It is coloured as always with my wonderful copic pens.  I used burgundy as my accent colour for this card as that was the colour of the bridesmaids dresses when they got married.  The number plate is their surname.

I imported the digi stamp into make the cut programme to create the shaped card base, in grey and black.

I have added glamour dust glitter to Bea's veil and clear sakura glitter pen to the back lights of the car and the wheel hubs.  Which look great when you move it around in the light as the car lights look like they go on and off.

The"cans" are attached with bakers devine twine and are covered in tin foil. 

Thanks for dropping on by today and I hope you come back again soon,

H xx

Time for a new Craft Your Passion Challenge

I'm loving my time spent with the Craft your passion design team.  I'm already 2 challenges into my month long guest design team term.

Today our new challenge is Under the Sea and I have kindly been sent this cute merman from Simply Betty Stamps.  He's called Cornelius and you can find him and his other merkids friends here.

Here's my card

A close up of my coloured image

Ticket sentiment stamp and many others are free on Marions blog

Hopefully you can see the shimmer on the backing paper I created.

Cornelius is coloured with my copic's.  I added mica powder to his tail to add some shimmer and some glamour dust to the dragonfly.

The backing paper was made by blending distress inks and then spritzing with perfect pearls clear mica spray.

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

Crafty Emmas store - water

Bugaboo - anything goes

Stamp Something - digi stamps

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Cute card thursday - no designer paper

Inkspirations - great sketch used

Hugs

H xx

With love on your Wedding Anniversary

This Sunday marks my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary.  This is our card to them.  Made with my favourite LOTV image.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge :

2 sisters challenge blog - anything goes

Cute card thursday - great sketch (I turned it sideways)

Allsorts - anything goes

The image is coloured with copics.  I have added some glamour dust and some clear gel pen to add some sparkle to the image.

The checked paper is from my great blog friend Marion.  The lace is off my local market. The red textured mirri card is from Kanban and the sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

You should have seen the one that got away!!

Here I am with another fisherman card.This time my image is from Pollycraft.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Do it with digis - summer fun

Cute card thursdays - cheeky sentiment

Here comes the boys - sports

Pollycraft - summer fun

Tuesday morning sketches - the great sketch used
Pink Gem - boys
Sweet stampin - boys
Sentimental Sundays - male cards

Here's my card :

This great guy is from Pollycraft and is coloured with copic's.  I have used glossy accents on his fish and glasses.   The sentiment is computer generated and the brown spotty backing paper is bo bunny double dot.

Hugs

H xx

Gone Fishing

My brother-in-law is a keen fisherman so for his birthday cards I went with the fisherman theme.

This is his first card.  I am entering it into the following challenges :

Sweet sketch wednesday - the great sketch I used

Do it with digis - summer fun

Cute card thursday - cheeky card (see sentiment)

Here come the boys - sports

i-copic - pastel colours

Pollycraft  - summer fun

Copic creations - pastel brown
Sentimental Sundays - male cards
Pink Gem - boys
Sweet Stampin - boys

Teddy Bo is coloured with copics as always.  He has glossy accents on his glasses and the fish.

The green bakers twine is from wild orchid crafts.  The brown netting stuff is from The stamp pad, saddleworth.  The quote was found thanks to google.

Thanks for droppping by and I hope to catch up with you all soon,

H xx

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hi there and welcome to Magical Mondays brand new challenge, where we share our love of all thing magical be it fairies, dragons, wizards etc..

Our challenge lasts for 2 weeks so there's plenty of time for you to join in.

The theme for the challenge is for you to use 2 textures on your project.

Ideas for textures could be lace, embossing both dry and heat, using glitter paper or even glitter itself, just make sure you let us know the two textures (or more) that you use.

Here is my card :

Here is a close up of my fairy

Here you can just make out the butterfly embossed paper

Here you can see how she has a full set of wings

As soon as the Wee Stamps Silver Fairy Stamp available digitally from Cuddly Buddly Crafts I just had to have her, I've since been back and added a few more of the Wee stamps digi's to my collection.

She has been coloured with copics and has plenty of glamour dust to add the fairy sparkle.  I coloured glittered and then very carefully cut out a second set of her wings to layer up and give her some dimension.

The sentiment is one from a great set from Lili of the Valley, the lace is from my local market, the textured linen effect mirri card is from Kanban, the butterfly embossed paper is from my great friend in Greece, Marion and the flower patterned paper is from the sophie chic collection from Bo Bunny.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Craft your passions - anything goes

Sweet stop - sketch used

Allsorts - free and easy

Cuddly Buddly - lace and flowers

Copic Creations - white clothing

Cute Card Thursday  - lace

Stamp Something - butterflies

Bugaboo - clean and simple

Colour Me Creative - favourite techniques - feathering
i-copic - birthdays

Teddy Bea All Blinged Up

I'm running very late this week with my Teddy Bo challenge card.  My aches and pains have stopped me rafting quite alot in the past two weeks but I have finally got my Teddy Bo card done and ready to show you.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Teddy Bo - bling it on, this card is covered with glamour dust glitter

Sweet Stampin' - something old (PP from when I started crafting)something new (Teddy Bea stamp)

Papertake weekly - here comes the sun

Anything Goes - summer

Cute card thursday - the sketch below

And here is my card :

The image was bought specifically for this challenge as I though she looks very summery and it would be easy to add some bling.  She is coloured with copic's and then the centre of each flower and around the ring of flowers has been given a good dose of glamour dust.  The hand drawn stitching her eyes and her nose are done with black glaze pen to give it some shine.

The white PP has also got a good dose of glamour dust (glitter)  I went over all the lines in the pattern with glue and then coated with glamour dust.  Unfortunately the camera has not picked it up very well but I think you may be able to make it out in the third photo.  The ribbon is from my stash and has silver thread running up each side of it.

According to the sketch there should be 3 things to the left of the image but as I don't use many embellishments I decided that it didn't need those, plus I didn't want to distract attention away from beautiful Teddy Bea. 

And so there you have it. 

 I am currently in a blog hop with Mad for markers.  Could I please ask you that if you have the time could you please go over and vote for me.  Not only will I win something but the voter will also be in with a chance of winning.

Happy Sundays everyone,

Hugs

H xx

The Greeting Farm - A birthday card

Todays card uses a new stamp for me called Sassy Suzie.  I've loved colouring this cutie in so there should be more coming in the future.

I am entering her into the following challenges :

i-copic - brown hair

Catch the bug - anything goes

Papertake  - anything goes

Cute card thursday - pins and pearls

CMC copic challenge - Feathering - I used the feathering technique on her hair

Sunday stamp and sketch - the sketch below

And here's my card :

And here is a close up of this brilliant image

She has been coloured with my copic's and I used the feathering technique on her hair.  The white fur trim on her coat has been given the glamour dust sparkle.

The wording was cut out on my cricut with Make the cut.  All the paper, ribbon, gemmed flower and pearled pins are from my stash.

I hope you like her and come back tomorrow for another card this time using a Lili of the Valley image.

Hugs

H xx

Here's Minnie again

I am so addicted to this cute girl.  She's just a dream to colour.

I am entering this card for the following challenges :

Tiddly Inks Challenge - April showers bring may flowers - use flowers or rain

Cute card thursday challenge - use someone elses sketch

Sweet sketch wednesday - the sketch below

                                                                    

 Here is my latest Minnie card. She is coloured with copics, with Anita's 3d glaze on her glasses.

The purple glitter gard I have had forever.

The backing paper was a free download from when I first startedcard making and I'm don't know the name of it, sorry.

I then attached three strips of ribbon.  I used spotty purple ribbon on top of black organza ribbon with a satin edge.

The flower was made with 4 flowers punched with my new fiskars punch and then layered  top of another, and finished off with a nice silver gem.

Now don't forget that the Tiddly Inks birthday blog hop starts tomorrow so please drop in to the challenge blogtofind out all the details.

There will be lots of eye candy and some amazing prizes to be won.

Thanks for dropping in to see me,

Have a great bank holiday for those of you in the UK.

Hugs

H xx

Willamina and her wand card

It is so good to be back to the land of crafts and blogs.  I've missed it so much.

For this card I have used willamina and her wand from CS Designs.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Pollycraft Challenge : the sketch below

Paper Sundae challenge : Texture (the beautiful ribbed ribbon)

Cute card thursday : No text

Here is the sketch from Pollycraft.

And here is my card :

Willamina is coloured with copics and her wings are made from a mixture of green and brown glitter.

The backing paper was made by blending scattered straw, vintage photo and broken china distress inks.  I have then misted the card with sunflower sparkle and perfect copper perfect pearl mists.

The ribbon is from my stash, and I think it might be american crafts ribbon.  Its really nice with the furry brown strip over ruffled white satin.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Hugs

H xx

Chloe and the Mushroom

Two posts in one day for me!!  Thought I would share another card I've made with CS Designs, this time its the  cute Chloe and the mushroom image.

I have made this card using Sweet Sketch Wednesday's sketch.

And here's my card :

And here's a close up of Chloe :

Chloe has been coloured with a mixture of copics and sakura stardust pens.  The stardust pens have been used on the mushroom stalk, the grass and the spots on the mushroom.

I have added a pink gem to her shoes and glamour dust to her wings.

The metal embellishment is actually off some ear-rings I bought recently.  There were 9 on each ear-ring so a total of 18 for £2.50.  It is held in place with a pearl brad.

The PP is by We R Memory Keepers and is called hippity hoppity.

It was reduced in TK Maxx to £6 for a 12x12" stack.  There were 3 of each pattern so I split it between myself and my 2 friends.  The ric rak is from my stash.

Its been a while since I've done a twist card.  I forgot how much I enjoyed making them.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - using the above sketch

Anything Goes Challenge - using pearls

Cute Card Thursday - Tropical colours

Hugs

H xx

A challenge card from a little boy to his Great Gran

I was asked by my hubby's cousin if I could make a card for her new born little boy, Ethan, to give to his great grandma.

I used the following sketch :

Here is Ethan's card :

Sorry for the poor quality photograph, it's very gloomy and overcast today.

We thought this stamp from Lili of the valley was a good choice.  Its called The little things.

It has been coloured with my copics and a little bit of glitter was added to the flowers.

The PP was from Kanban I think.  The ribbon across the centre was from an embellishment swap I did last month.  The flower was made by my talented friend Marion.  And the sentiment was done on my PC.

This card is also being entered into the following challenges :-

Cute Card Thursday - cards that feature couples

and 

Anything goes challenge - make your own embellishments

I just wanted to say a BIG thankyou to everyone who left me comments yesterday when I revealed I was part of the Fiskarettes design team.

Hugs

H xx

Sketch Saturday and Cute Card Thursday Challenge Card

I needed to make an 80th birthday card for a relative,Peter who turns 80 very soon in Australia and as soon as I saw the sketch from Sketch Saturday I knew I had to use that sketch, and here it is:

And here is the card:

I have used one of my favourite male stamp images from Lili of the Valley called Lazy Afternoon.

He is coloured in with my copics.  The circles have got tea dye distress ink blended around the edge.  The fancy cirles were cut on my cricut using MTC and a file from Penny Duncan Designs.

I think the PP may be one I downloaded from the Lili of the Valley website.  The large circle is cut from a sample of leather effect wallpaper my SIL gave me.  The mesh across the middle was bought from the Stamp Pad Saddlesworth.  The card is finished as usual with card candy.

This card is also entered into the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog, where the theme this week is birthdays.

Just 7 more sleeps till we go to the Papercraft Extravaganza in Harrogate!!!

Can you tell I'm excited??

Hugs

H xx

A birthday card for Eleanor

I've been asked by my Mum to make a birthday card for one of her friends.  She owns a beautiful labrador so I chose little girl on a swing as she is is sat with her labrador. I am entering it into the following challenges:

Paper Sundae Challenge Blog - Stripes

Cute Card Thursday - signs of spring

Sketch Saturday- using the following sketch

And here is my card :

The image is coloured with copics. The circles were cut on my cricut.  The stripey paper is from a spring stack I think and the ribbon is from dcwv.  The sentiment is a Lili of the valley sentiment circle.

The pearls and pink paper are from my stash.

I didn't add the three elements in the lower left of the sketch as I couldn't get anything to look right there so I added some more pearls instead.

Hugs

H xx