Lots of things to share with you today

I have a couple of top 3 wins to share with you, a new challenge blog that I've found, some blog candy, a design team call and last but not least a new Teddy Bo card.

So first I came top three at 

You can see the blog post about it here and I also came top 3 

You can read about it here.

Next up here's a new challenge blog I found that launches 19th September at 8.30am.

http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/

They have a DT call and some great blog candy to be won.

And so onto my new card.

This image as always a Teddy Bo image and I have coloured it with copic's.  The 3 paw prints were brads from my stash.  The papers are as follows - black and cream paper is DCWV All dressed up, the brown patterned paper behind the scrabble letters is Kanban and finally the leather effect paper was a wall paper sample my SIL gave me.  The ribbon is from my stash.

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

Teddy Bo - black, white and one other colour - brown

Papertake weekly - brilliant sketch

DYSU - friendly critters

Craft us crazy - autumn colours

A spoonfull of sugar - party time

Charisma cards - anything goes

Simon says stamp - anything goes

So thats me for today, well done if you made it to the bottom of this long post,

Hugs

H xx

Teddy Bea is all girly and pink

I was trying to think today if I had ever coloured Teddy Bea in girly pink.  I couldn't remember one so thought I'd give it a go.

I would like to enter my girly pink Bea card into the following challenge :

Simon says stamp - brilliant sketch used

Pile it on - girls just wanna have fun

Stamptacular - diva with attitude or style (Bea is THE most stylish bear around)

Emerald Fairy - birthday

Card making mamas - birthdays

Charisma cardz - glitter

A spoonful of sugar - birthday

My time to craft - here come the girls

Digital Tuesdays - cute and girly

I began by colouring Teddy Bea with my copic's.  I changed the orientation of parts of the sketch to fit in with embossing folder.I wanted my hearts to go top to bottom.  I then die cut the swirl and flower from the cricut cart accent essentials.  The white panels are embossed with a country companions hearts embossing folder.  The double loop punch is a Martha Stewart favourite.

I hope you like my card and come back again some time.

Hugs

H xx

My Daddy is Number 1

I'm not talking about my Daddy.  Well yes I am coz he is simply THE BEST, but this card is actually for another Daddy.  Ethan is sending his Daddy his very first birthday card and as Ethan is only 8 months old he asked me to help with it.

I would like to enter Ethan's card into the following challenges :

Sunday sketch n stamp - the sketch was mad for this image - new digi stamp, old glitter pen

Bearly-mine - bling

Anything goes - happy birthday

A spoonful of sugar - happy birthday

icopic - orange/blue colour scheme

Pollycraft - distressing

Cards for men - anything goes

Card making mamas - birthday cards

Craft us crazy - anything goes

On the sketch the image stands on a rectangle the holds the sentiment but I thought I would be nicer for the little boy on a podium as if he's won a prize of having the best Dad.  The little boy is by Mami Doodles and is called Daddy's boy.  He's coloured with copic's and has white gel pen as high lights on his shoe's and cheeks, and I have gone over the writing with a clear glitter pen to add some subtle bling.  The stars were cut on my cricut and are outlined in glamour dust glitter.  The gingham paper (that is edged in distress ink) is from my best bloggy friend Marion. Thank you ducky, I just can't get enough of gingham at the mo.  The devine twine has has some distress ink run over them to make them match the colour scheme better.

I just want to say a big thank you to all those of you who have become a follower.  As I have now made it into 3 figures I thought it was about time I had some blog candy so hopefully I will get the photos taken and get a blog post done tomorrow.

Big hugs

H xx

Craft Your Passion Challenge 71 - Anything But A Card

Hi and welcome to Craft your passion's 71st challenge.

This week we want to see anything but a card.  Yes that's right, no cards please.

For my ABC I have chosen to do an easel drawer box.  I found the idea here on Split Coast Stampers.

The image is coloured with copic's.  I have added glamour dust glitter to the Tiddly Inks Fairy Fae's wings, fun flock to the dandelion clocks and clear glitter pens to the tops of the mushroom.  Isn't the mushroom great?  Its by Pixie Cottage Stamps.  The tattered rose is handmade from a hand torn circle of card.  The leaves are from a woodware grass punch.

*This card would also qualify for the Magical Monday's challenge.  It's banner or pennants plus glitter.  It must also include a magical image, such as fairies, elves, wizards.*

I would like to enter my easel drawer into the following challenges :

Top Tip Tuesday - all straight lines

My time to craft - fairy tales

Creative craft - summertime

Papertake - make your own flowers

Anything goes - birthdays

A spoonful of sugar - birthdays

Moving along with the times - fantasy

Card making mamas - birthdays

Allsorts - anything but a card

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Thanks for dropping on by and I hope to see you again soon,

Hugs

H xx

Happy 21st Birthday from the cows

OK technically not from the cows, the card is actually going to be off her Dad but it features cows.

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

Sweet Stop Sketches - great sketch

Sweet Stampin - rainbow colours

Top Tip Tuesday - all straight edges

Anything goes  birthdays

A spoonful of sugar - birthdays

Card making mamas - birthdays

Charisma Cardz - bingo - squares, charm and glitter

The cows are coloured with copic's and decoupaged as you hopefully can see in the third photo.

The papers are all from my scraps drawer and the 21 was cut on my cricut in black glitter paper.

The charm is from my great blog friend Marion and is glued with silicone sealant. Which reminds me I must try some on the hole in my wellies as it's wellie weather again here.
So my tip for top tip tuesday - instead of buying glitter embossing powder, just add micro fine glitter to your normal embossing powder.  Then you will have a glittery and non-glittery version.

Hugs

H xx

Craft Your Passion Guest Design Spot

Today see's me starting my Guest Design spot at Craft Your Passion challenge blog.

Today is challenge #69 and the theme is Anything Goes.

My image comes courtesy of Doodle Pantry. 

My image is coloured with my copic's.  I added glossy accents to the candy corn.  The sky is done with my small stipple brush and a clouds template.  This is such a great technique.  The excellent video tutorial is by Bev Rochester and you can find the cloud template I use here. 

The tag's sentiment is computer generated and tied with some bakers divine twine and the extra corn candy were hand drawn, coloured and then covered in glossy accents.

The backing paper is actually yellow card covered with orange angel hair.

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

Critter Sketch - the sketch I used

A spoonful of sugar - use a tag

Allsorts - free and easy

Thanks for dropping on by and I hope to see you again next week for another challenge.

Thanks so much for dropping on by today,

hugs

H xx

Craft Mojo has gone on its holidays

For some reason my craft mojo has decided to take a holiday, hence the lack of posts off me recently.

I think the main reason has been the amount of pain I've been in due a couple of falls recently.

So today I have a card to share with you all and although it is fairly simple, with few embellishments I hope you like it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - spots and stripes

Craft your passion - anything goes

Papertake - Anything goes

Stamptacular - doubles (2 glitter squares)

Paper Sundaes - stitching

Do you stack up - squares (square card and glitter squares)

Copic Oz - copic coloured embellishments
Bugaboo - anything goes

Spoonful of sugar - sewing

Sketch n stash - sketch below plus new TGF stamp and old striped paper

And here's my card :

She is coloured with copic's, with a little white gel pen to do the shine on her shoes and the spots on her t-shirt and bow.  She has been fussy cut out and then mounted with foam pads onto the lemon card.

The faux stitching is done with black glaze pen for a change.

The pearls and spotty ribbon are coloured with copic's to match the colour theme going on.

The striped paper was bought when I first started crafting as was the lemon glitter card used for the squares.  And believe it or not but the teal card is actually a left over from my childhood.  My Dad used to drive for some paper companies and would bring me card home every now and then.  Wish he still did, I would save a fortune.

Hopefully I will be back later in the week with some more cards, but sitting at my desk is pretty painful right now so I will just have to see how I get on,

Hugs

H xx

Welcome to the Mad for Markers big COPICal hop

Hello and welcome to the Mad for Markers BIG Copical blog hop! We are excited today to be hopping around the blogworld with bloggers from all over the world who all LOVE colouring with COPICS! 

If you can here from Down Right Crafty's blog then you are right on track. If not then please go to Sammi's blog  to start at the beginning!

Once you have completed the hop please leave a comment and vote for your favourite creations in any or all of these categories :

1. Colouring embellishments.

 2. using a Greeting Farm image3. using a Spesch Stamps image4. Colouring brown hair

... and you and the person you voted for might receive a little surprise prize!!

But to get there make sure you follow the hop and leave some love for all the participants... your next stop is Ashlee's blog .....Have a colourful day!!

For my stop on the hop I have 2 cards to show you, one for the girls and one for the guys.

Here's my The Greeting Farm card :

I'm guessing that some of you won't recognise this cutie, well she's actually a mix of two different TGF stamps.  I got the idea from this post on the Greeting Farms blog, I just used photoshop as they were digi stamps.

The two different girls are called Wild Sprout Audrey and Cupcake Anya.

She is of course coloured with my trusty copics and has clear gems on her bunches in her hair that have been coloured with copics to match the colour scheme, as has the ribbon running across the card and the gems in the left hand side corners.

The papers are from my straps files.

I used the following copics  :

Hair : E11,13,17,18

Hairband/pants : YG 63,67

Bows/tops : YG 00,03

Skin : E00,11

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

A spoon full of sugar - ribbons and bows

Sketch and stash - sketch

Do it with digi's - monochromatic

And now onto my second card :

The image used this time is a Spesch stamps and is called Max.

He is of course colled with my beloved copics.

The papers are freebies from a magazine, the ribbbon and square gems are coloured with copics to match his pants and the border punch used is a fiskars bracket punch.

The stars were cut from a DCWV Rockstar 12x12 stack.  I then cut out the black sections and replaced them with the grey of the card.  The sentiment is computer generated.

The copics used are :

Hair - E55,57,59

T-shirt - R14,35,37,Boo,o2,05

Pants - W1,3,5

Skin - E00, 11

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Bugaboo - its a mans world

Sweet sketch wednesday - used their sketch

Once you have completed the hop please leave a comment and vote for your favourite creations in any or all of these categories :

1. Colouring embellishments.

 2. using a Greeting Farm image3. using a Spesch Stamps image4. Colouring brown hair

... and you and the person you voted for might receive a little surprise prize!!

 Make sure you follow the hop and leave some love for all the participants... your next stop is Ashlee's blog .....Have a colourful day!!

So I hope you have enjoyed your visit, and will come back soon to see what I've been up to,

Hugs

H xx

It must be a Magical Monday

Today marks the first day on the Magical Monday design team.  Our challenges last for 2 weeks and so that gives you plenty of time to dig out your magical stamps.

Our next challenge has a theme of Punches and Embossing.  Don't forget to use a Magical image in order to be in a chance of winning our prize which is your choice of 3 sheets of Decoupage from The 

Crafty Purple Frog.

Here is my card for the challenge :

I made a twisted easel card. 

Here is a close-up of the beautiful fairy 

And here you can see how I trimmed her out and popped her up on foam pads 

For this card I chose to use my trusty Martha Stewart double loops punch to fit in with the current magical monday's challenge.

Here's how I made my card. 

I chose the gorgeous Ally and beeble from the Australian company Emerald Fairy Garden.  She has some of the best fairies around and I struggled picking just one.  I them coloured with my copics and added glamour dust to het wings and sakura clear stardust pen to the ladybugs spots.  I then very carefully cut her out.

The green and blue panel behind Ally was made by blending crushed olives, faded jeans and bundled sage.  I then sprayed my perfect pearls mist to give it some extra sparkle.

The plain blue and green cardstock is american crafts.  I don't know the make of the stripy paper I'm afraid but the strip on the base of the card has got glamour dust across each colour change.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Papertake weekly- anything goes

Emerald Fairy Garden - lots of bling

A spoonful of sugar - summer
Paper Sundae's - Girly

The Sweet Stop - for the sketch I changed the flower for the strip of punched loops

The design team have once again outdone themselves and are well worth having that closer look.

I hope you come and join us over at Magical Monday's.

Hugs

H xx

How many fingers are you?

This card is being entered into a few challenges.  They are :-

Bugaboo Wacky Wednesday PCP group - 2 PP, silly Sentiment and bling

Bugaboo Wacky wednesday CDAC group - 2 PP, silly sentiments and bling

Bugaboo challenge - summer celebrations (PP has lots of summer words, plus image coloured with blue skys)

Do You Stack Up? - Animals

Stamptacular Sunday - Bears, this guy is called butterfly bear

A spoonful of sugar - things with wings

CPS challenge - for using the sketch below

And so onto my card :

Here's a close-up of my cute Butterfly Bear from Bugaboo digi stamps, who have a 50% off sale still on until the 31st May.

This was my first attempt at doing a cloudy sky with my copics so I'm really pleased it turned out so well.

Here is the silly sentiment from Inkadinkado, it also has a matching sky background.

And finally here is an angled shot so you can see just how blingy his wings are.

This guy was coloured with my copic's as usual and I then carefully cut out his wings, leaving any grass the went over the wings. His eyes are coloured with a sakura glaze pen to make them shiny.  I then applied DST to some scrap card stock and covered it with my new gilding flakes, to make the wings.

The PP are both from my scrap drawer and the strips across the middle are made by colouring white C/S with the same blue used for the sky and  the other is a strip of DST covered with the gilding flakes so that both strips matched the rest of the card.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog today and please come back again soon,

Hugs

H xx

You make the world a better place

I think this might be the first time I have inked this gorgeous fairy up since I got her at the Harrowgate papercraft show in March.  I can't believe it, as she is just one of the best fairies around.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Magical Monday - white plus one other colour

A spoonful of sugar - things with wings

Lili of the valley - I believe in fairies

Sunday sketch and stamp - the sketch below

And here's my card - 

The fairy is coloured with copics with glamour dust on her wings and wand and my clear sakura stardust pen on the dandelion seeds, her ribbon in her hair and on her petticoat.

This stamp is called Dandelion clock and the sentiment circle is from the Mixed circle sentiments set.

The white squares were spritzed with my turquoise perfect pearl mists and then embossed with a folder that came free with the docrafts magazine.  The PP was also spritzed with the same perfect pearl mist, which gives the most gorgeous shimmer IRL, but its not picked up on camera sorry.

Hugs

H xx

Welcome little one card

The card below is being entered into the following challenges:

Stamptacular - Pinkalicious

A spoon full of sugar - Anything goes

The brilliant image is from Pink Petticoat and is coloured with copics.

Thanks for dropping on by,

H xx

More of Mag's Birthday cards

This card is being entered into the following challenges :

Sweet Stop - the sketch below

Lili of the Valley - Animal Antics

A spoon full of sugar - white plus one other colour

The image I have used is called Gift Wrapped and has been coloured with my copics. The white card blank was embossed using my cuttlebug, my fiskars texture plates and one of the thin free mouse mats.  The butterflies are cut using my fiskasr butterfly punch.  The PP is a freebie from a magazine and has got got a punched edge with my fiskars bracket punch and edged in chalk ink.,

Hugs

H xx