Time to get all Tiddly Inky

It seem's such a long time since I entered a Tiddly Inks challenge and I thought it was time I put things right.

So today see's me entering a Tiddly Ink card into the following challenges :

Tiddly Inks - book inspired

Totally gorjuss - sketch used

Card making mamas - digi stamping

The crafty pad - blue and brown

Charisma cardz - anything goes

Stamp something - digi day

Prairie fairy - books

Simon says stamp - anything goes

I have used a mixture of two Tiddly Inks images.  I used Bloom Q and the books that were a freebie a while ago.  She is coloured with copic's and sakura blue and clear stardust pens.  The heart border was cut on my cricut using a cut file I found in the make the cut gallery.  The sentiment is computer generated.

I followed the sketch from Totally gorjuss and turned it on it's side.

I hope you like my card today and I will be back tomorrow morning with my Magical Monday DT challenge card.

Hugs

H xx 

Tiddly Inks Fabby Friday

Today I got the lovely surprise of finding out my Tiddly Inks from last weeks challenge has been chosen for the Tiddly Inks Fabby Friday feature, and I get to display a brilliant new badge here on my blog. 

Hugs

H xx

Tiddly Inks Tom

This is my card for my nephew who turns 11 next month and starts high school in september.  The challenge over at Tiddly Inks is to use the theme of a movie.  I have chosen to have High School Musical for my theme.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Tiddly Inks - Movies - High School Musical

Sweet Stampin - one for the boys

Pink Gem - Boys

Sunday Sketch n stamp - the sketch I used

This cute guy is called Geekatude, n I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him.  He is coloured with copics as always.  The black textured paper is actually from some wallpaper samples my SIL gave me.  The other papers are from my scraps drawer.  The sentiment is from my great friend Marion.

Thanks for dropping on by and until next time,

Bye

H xx

A couple of announcements

I'm just popping back in today to let you know a couple of things.

Firstly one of my favourite digi stamp artists Christy Croll of Tiddly Inks is starting a whole new venture.

Think Tiddly Inks and Make it crafty colliding.  You would end up with a shop looking something like THIS.

Interested with the sneaky peeks, so am I and I can't wait to start shopping, roll on the 14th, which will be this coming Thursday.

Secondly I got a lovely surprise this afternoon when I found out I had been chosen in the top 5 at Stamp Something out of 306 entries.  You guys have really my crappy day so much better, thank you.

Tiddly Inks Sugar and Spice

I've only just managed to get my entry in in time.  But I've made it and thats the main thing.  I am entering my card into the following 2 challenges.

Tiddly Inks - sugar and spice

and

Sunday sketch and stamp - the sketch below

And here is my card :

This cute guy was perfect for one of the sentiments from an inkadinkado set "you look good for your age almost human"

He is coloured with copics, as usual.  The white card has been embossed with fiskars texture plates.  The stars were cut on my cricut using make the cut.

Short and sweet today as I'm tired from having a bad nights sleep,

Hugs

H xx

I just love sepia cards

They have to be my most favourite colour scheme so when i-copics challenge was to only use copics in the brown family I was overjoyed.  So for this card I concentrated on using only brown copics for the i-copic challenge and a one-layer card (excluding ribbon)  for Tiddly Inks , I really had to get my thinking cap on.

So I decided to try and do a bit of card design within adobe elements and then to print out and colour the image.

I am not overly confident in elements but I gave it a go.  I managed to get the image and the sentiment on and decided the image needed a frame.  After a bit of time pressing buttons to see what they did I got a nice frame around the image, but it still needed something extra.  It needed some PP, so I quickly scanned one of my favourite pieces and added a strip of it within elements and I was happy.

I finally added 2 strips of ribbon that I got from The stamp pad in Saddleworth. This is such gorgeous ribbon, I will have to get some more.  If you live locally you might want to nip over there on Tuesday 21st June as they are opening until 9pm, to give you plenty of time to browse, watch a demo or two and maybe even have a glass of wine.  I went to their last demo day and thoroughly enjoyed myself, not only were all the staff happy to answer any questions but the demo's were brilliant, I could have stayed all day.

So after all that rambling one, I'd better show you my card, hadn't I?

Here is a close-up of the lighthouse.  I printed onto conqueror concept glod dust card.  It give a lovely effect but it's very hard to blend on.

Here you can just how flat my card actually is, a miracle for someone who love to pad up her layers on cards.

Its so nice to be back Tiddly-ing again, I've really missed colouring Christy's imagas.

Hugs

H xx

One for the boys

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

i-copic - advanced shadowing

My partner in crafting crime - twine, jute or string

Tiddly Inks - manly men

Just us girls - colours of the rainbow

Here come the boys- using the sketch below

And here is my card :

And here is a close-up of my coloured image

The computer part (sorry don't know what they are called) was bought from the play resource centre for 5p and I thought it was a fun thing to use.

My image is called Gamer and has been coloured with my copics.  I printed out a screen shot of super mario, coated it with clear gloss and stuck it behind the tv.

Tomorrow I am going to my next step in copic in Warrington and I can't wait,

Hugs

H xx

Tiddly Inks Pop Up Card

Over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog the theme is anything goes.

This slider card took alot of thinking to get it right. Once you pull the ribbon at the top the image slides up to reveal the wording butterfly wishes.  You then need to fold out the butterflies on acetate from behind the image.  Sorry for the poor photographs but its very dark and gloomy here today.

Sorry this post is short and sweet but I don't have long to get my blog back up to date.

H xx

Tiddly Inks Puzzle Adventure Blog Hop

Hi there everyone,

Todays card features a Tiddly Ink image and is part of the Tiddly Inks Puzzle Adventure Blog Hop.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Sketch Saturday : The sketch below

Sentimental Sundays - anything goes

Paper Sundaes - magical and mythical

And heres my card :

Sorry its such a poor photo, but the rain has started again, and its really dull here.
I am not 100% happy with this card but after my fall I'm not able to sit and craft for very long at all so this will be as good as I can get it, I'm afraid.

The image used is Rainbow Dreams and she has been coloured with my copics.

Do you like the sentiment?  Well is was made by my super talented friend Marion and she has kindly said I can share it with you all.  So just click on the sentiment below and then right-click and do save as.

Please pop over to her blog When the scrap hits the fun! and see what other goodies she has to offer.  She gives her wonderful sentiments for free but I'm sure she wouldn't say no to kind comments of thanks and maybe becoming a follower so you can keep up to date with what she has going on.

Thanks for dropping by,

H xx

And the winners are......

 I was a winner over at Doodle Dragon Studio's Challenge blog

See you all soon as I have some new cards to share with you all,

H xx

Another card for my MIL, but this time this is the card we will be giving her next week.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges :

Sketch Saturday - the sketch below,

Tiddly Inks - vintage mother's day

Pollycraft - anything goes

Papertake weekly - anything goes

This is the sketch from sketch saturday:

And here's the card :

Looking at it now, I think I could have gotten away with stretching the image sideways as its a stylised image you wouldn't really know.

The image is coloured with sakura metallic pens for the flowers then copic for the water.

The base colour layer was done using distress inks and ranger perfect pearl mists onto linen effect card.  The vase and sentiment were both printed onto the same linen effect card.

The postcard stamp (from Lili of the Valley) was first stamped in distress ink, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then distress slightly with the same ink.

The swirly paper and the strip with ribbons on was also inked and heat embossed.

Hugs,

H xx

Welcome to our Treasure Hunt

Welcome to the Tiddly Inks Treasure Hunt bloghop. We are kicking off Tiddly Ink’s first birthday celebration and I am so glad you joined us to hunt for inspiration and goodies. 

If you came from Kiara's blog then you are at the correct spot. If not, you might want to go back to the CHALLENGE BLOG and start hopping THERE. You might miss some of the prizes that are hidden around the hop if you don’t start at the beginning. :) 

My creation today features Tiddly Inks’s new image Party Time.   Christy created about 20 new images for her birthday celebration and you can find the rest of the images HERE.

As soon as I saw these delightful Pixies I knew that my creation for the blog hop had to be made with them.

I have done a few firsts with this card.

This my first creation using Party Time, my first stepper card, my first bit of paper piecing (on the flags) and my first time as a guest designer for Tiddly Inks. 

I started out by printing my pixies.  The pixies are coloured with copic's and have some glamour dust on their wings for some special pixie sparkle.

The roses on the pennant are coloured with pink sakura stardust pen and the leaves with sakura souffle pen.  I then added the word Hello to the pennants in adobe elements and printed the whole stamp first onto pink floral paper and then onto green cross-hatched paper.  These were then cut out and stuck on.  The final bit of work on the pixies was to add a bit of white highlights and to  fussy cut them out.

I then made the stepper card to exactly fit the pixies across it.  Once I knew the measurements for the middle step I bought Hilly Lane digi stamp from Make it Crafty and used the same shades subtle to colour it in.
Finally I covered the front of the card in blue gemstone cardstock and began assembling everything.
The flowers are punched from the pink PP used for the pennant and a darker pink and the green leaves are the same paper from the banner.
The sentiment was then printed, mounted onto the pink PP and attached to the front.

As a special thank you, I am offering a prize of the beautiful Party Timedigi stamp.

 Please leave me a comment telling me who is your favourite digi stamp from the new birthday release to get entered to win Pennant Pixie from Christy.
You don't have to a follower of my blog t enter into the draw, but it would be nice if you did.

Just a little reminder that Tiddly Inks will be having a sale May 1-3 to celebrate it’s first birthday. If you are interested, visit the SHOP and then plan to create a fun project for the challenges or the next blog hop on May 10.

On May 10, Tiddly Inks will hold another blog hop that is open to everyone. You can check out the details on Christy’s Blog . It will be part of TI’s fun birthday party celebration and the special prize for the that blog hop will be a chance to win a digital stamp customized and designed for you.

Thanks so much for hopping in our Treasure Hunt. I hope you enjoyed seeing a lot of new images, some beautiful cards and visiting with our special guests and regular designers.

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

Tiddly Inks Challenge 46 - You're a stitch

Well I'm cutting it close with my Tiddly Inks Challenge card this week, arn't I?

I am combining my TiddlyInks Challenge card with a new card sketch blog I found earlier today.

This new blog is called CPS or Card Positioning Systems.

I loved working with this sketch and had been looking for a new sketch challenge since Friday sketchers closed.

So here is the CPS sketch:

And here is my card :

The sunshine has gone so it was a bit overcast when I took these photos.

This shot shows the strawberry charms off better. 

This little cutie is called Minnie's berry, and just had to get it when I saw the charms my very good friend, Marion, sent me from Greece.  I have cut the loop off then and secured then to the ribbon with silicone glue.

She is coloured with copics and red sakura stardust pen (for her glasses and shoes) I have used Anita's 3d clear gloss for her glasses.  I have used a fine liner pen to do my stitching around Minnie.

The textured red mirri card is from Kanban.  It comes in a wide variety of colours but they have now stopped manufacturing this card as it was not cost effective as there is more waste than product when they make it.  I love it so much, its great because of the texture so if you want some you'd best be quick and get it.

The corner swirls are cut from a black shimmer card using a spellbinder die.

The ribbon and sentiment are from my stash.

Now don't forget that there will be a big Tiddly Inks blog hop over the weekend.  You really won't want to miss it, and here's what Christy (owner and artist of Tiddly Inks) has to say about it all :

"So check back on April 30 for the beginning of our one-year anniversary...or is it a birthday??

Hmmm, either way, we will have new images and lots of fun stuff...see you on April 30 for the kickoff of our brithday celebration---a Treasure Hunt Blog Hop. :) We will have lots of goodies hidden through the blog hop and we have some fantastic guests for the day...:) It should be lots of fun!"

Here's to a happy start to the week,

H xx

A huge Thankyou

As you may know my beloved netbook died the other day.  Not only did I loose so very many photos but I also lost some digi stamps.  I had backed up most of then using dropbox (its free and really worth downloading) but some slipped through the net.

And so I had to ask some digi stamp companies if they wouldn't mind sending me some of my lost digi's.

This post is to say a HUGE THANKYOU to Christy at Tiddly Inks and Jodie at Bugaboo stamps.

I use digi stamps in nearly every card I make and knowing that I have their stamps to colour really makes me happy.  I just love them both and thankfully they have replaced my missing digi's.

There are lot's going on behind the scenes at both companies.

It's Tiddly Inks 1st birthday soon and Christy has exciting things going on to celebrate this huge milestone and Jodie is working hard to bring everyone a new Bugaboo shop.

Hopefully I will be back to creating card sand entering challenges tomorrow, once I have some programmes put back onto my netbook,

Hugs

H xx

Tiddly Inks Challenge - Bunny hop with us to refer a friend

I'm sorry I'm so late entering this challenge and thus not leaving you much time to enter this challenge.  You don't have any Tiddly Ink Images??  Then go and check out the Freebies section of the Tiddly Inks store, there's loads to choose from.

So what do you have to do once you've made your Tiddly Ink card :

"SOOOOO we would love to have you to join in this challenge over the next 10 days and invite your friends so we can play and hop together.

WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 
1) One random winner of a $10 gift voucher (there will be no Top 5).
2) And a new fun idea...a "referral reward" for up to 10 people.
How will we track it?
By pairs- as referrER and friend

Pretend you are Sally Sue (our happy little referrER).
Sally Sue decides she wants to join in all this craziness so she: makes her bunny card, posts it on her blog, asks people to join in, posts her link on the TI blog, and then sits back and waits.
For each Friend that enters this challenge and leaves a comment stating, "Sally Sue of Sally Sue's Super Blog told me to enter this challenge," Sally Sue's name goes in the "drawing pot" along with the Friend....This counts as ONE pair (one referrER and Friend). Sally Sue can be paired with multiple people and get entered into the drawing pot many times, but only one pair at a time.
Only thing is: Sally Sue's friend must leave a comment...otherwise, we may miss your entry.

After the challenge, we will choose 10 pairs of friends who both entered the challenge and left a comment. The referral reward for Sally Sue the referrER (if she is chosen as 1 of the 10 pairs) will be 2 images. The referral reward for her friend will be 1 image.

Now, Sally's friend is welcome to post all this on her blog and get her own name entered as the referrER too...

 WHAT TO DO NEXT?
Create a card and post it like you normally do----using a Tiddly Inks image (preferably with a bunny, but any TI image will work).

1. Post your card on your blog by April 15, and if you want to join in the "refer a friend" part, there are two steps:

   A: Add this badge (select from the side bar or below)"

   
   

   And so onto my card:

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   Annie is coloured with my copics and then I have added my clear sakura stardust pen on the ribbon to add some sparkle. I used my fiskars everywhere circle window punch to make the aperture which reveals my hand drawn pressie to match Annies.

   The red PP is Bo Bunny and the glitter paper is from my stash.

   I drew a swirl and then stuck gems to make the gem swirl.  The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

   I chose the colour scheme after seeing Fiskars  monthly theme (red,white and blue for the royal wedding) and I have used a digital stamp for this months technique.

   Wow lots of posts today!!

   Please pop back to see other projects I have on the go this week, and don't forget the Babushka hunt, sale and  Easter parade.

   Hugs

   H xx

Whats on your workdesk Wednesday 97

Hi there, thanks for dropping by.  My desk is rather tidy today.  Had to do a big tidy up on Monday as I had lost sight of my desk altogether and couldn't find anything.

So what's on my workdesk? Well most of the printed digi stamps are from cs designs with the exception of one little Tiddly Ink.   There's also my copic colour chart, a bottle of glamour dust, a cup of ice cold milk and a lovely Easter card off my good friend Marion.

Whilst you are here having a good old nosey, go and click on my banner and the top post is all about an Easter blog hop/Babushka hunt where you can win some digi's like I have on my workdesk today.

H xx

Tiddly Inks Friendship Card

I have had the following image coloured for quite a few days now but tonight has been my first chance to make it into a card.

I have used the following sketch from Sweet Shop Sketchers.  This was a lovely sketch to work with and I'm glad I found their blog this week.

And here is my card :

Sorry the photos a but squiffy but I was struggling for some good light to take the photo in.

This gorgeous image is from Tiddly Inks and is called Happy Q.  I have coloured her with copics and used Suzanne Deans tutorials to do her hair.  It was very hard work, took me a long time but I'm really pleased with how her hair turned out.  The image has a dotty border using sakura blue stardust pen.

The pearlised backing paper is by centura and the PP is by Bo Bunny called Gypsy lace, I have used both sides on this card.

The heart is wooden and I think I got it in an embellishment swap.  I have coated it and 2 card candy in turquoise ultra fine glitter.  That glitter has got everywhere and I now have a glittery dog or two.  Just an occupational hazard in this house.

The sentiment inside reads "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious" I thought this was just the right wording as her arms are open wide ready to give you a hug. Sorry I cant take a photo but the glue has not dried on the heart and the candi.

This card is also being entered into the Pollycraft Challenge, which has the theme of friendship.

I should have a challenge card for the pollycraft challenge next week using one of her images.  I have enough now as I bout around 20 this morning as she has a 50% off sale.  It ends today.

Tiddly Inks and Sketch Saturday challenge card

Yesterday the artist behind Tiddly Inks celebrated her birthday and so this weeks challenge is in honour of Christy's birthday.  Create a card using Christy's favourite colour combination of black, white and red.

I also used the latest Sketch Saturday sketch.  Here's the sketch :

And here's my card :

Isn't Minnie brilliant.  She's one of the new releases over at Tiddly Inks.

She is coloured with copic for the dress, skin and hair, and sakura stardust pens for the flowers and the rim of her glasses.  I used glossy accents on her glasses.  The edge has been distressed with barn door distress ink and then a dotty border added with my black sakura stardust pen.

The PP is by Bo Bunny and is called santorini poppies.  The white card is embossed with my crafts too swiss dots folder and the black shimmer card came from everycraftsapound.com

The sentiment smile, on the top left was first stamped in black ink and I then went over the wording with the black stardust pen.  The sentiment is on a sheet of sentiments from Lili of the Valley.

The card is finished as always with card candy, now known as candi, and is the new spots and flowers range they have recently released.

Thanks for popping over,

Hugs

H xx

Tiddly Inks Sale - 25% off today only

You have to be quick to catch this one.

Tiddly Inks is having a sale for today only.

Why???

Because it's Tiddly Inks artist Christy Croll's birthday.

So what are you waiting for???

Run over to the Tiddly Inks Store right away and grab a bargain,

H xx