Time Traveller

My card today is a little different from the norm.  I've gone for the shabby/steampunk look.

I am entering my card into the following challenges :

Simon says stamp - travel

Sweet stampin - strawberry, chocolate, cream colour combo

Totally gorjuss - as you like it

DYSU - man or boy

Night shift stamping - non cute

Top tip tuesday - male cards

Anything goes - inspired by a film - back to the future

Cards for men - anything goes

Do you like my ticket?  If so then  save the tickets just below this card discription by clicking on it then left click and save as.

The image I have coloured with copic's is called Steampunk Luca.  The backing paper I found in my digi paper section, and I added steampunk corners from Delicious doodles.  The clock is a Tim Holtz sizzix die as is the cog in the top right corner.  The cog is covered in gilding flakes.  I used antique paper distress stain on both the edge of the image and the BP.  I then went round all the edges of the papers with my paper distresser.

Hope you like my card that's a little different from my normal style,

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

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

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

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

Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary

Today is my wedding anniversary and on Sunday its my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary.  Unfortunately my hubby didn't get a card as I've been really busy with card orders.  Don't feel sorry for him coz I didn't get a card either.

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

Totally Papercrafts  - bling it up (glitter, flowers, gems in the flowers and on the bow, clear glitter pen on champagne then coated in glossy accents)

Charisma Cardz - four legged friends (both bunnies)

Anything goes - flowers
The outlawz - anything goes
Lili of the Valley - the sketch used

The main DP is a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen that I got for £1 from Every Crafts A Pound.

The ribbon was carefully removed from a parcel.  Th gem in its centre is from some jewellery from Primark.

The image from Lili of the Valley is coloured with copic's, with some glamour dust glitter and i coloured the champagne glasses with clear glitter pen and then I covered them with glossy accents.

The three flowers were in a pack that I got from The stamp pad in Saddleworth.

I really like this card.  Come back tomorrow for another Lili of the Valley card.

Its going to be Tickled Pink Christmas

So this week I have started my Christmas cards.  This is my first card that I have to share with you.

I am going to enter it into the following challenges :

Sweet stop sketches - the great sketch I followed.

Tickled Pink Christmas Challenge - anything goes

Paper Sundaes - Christmas

Stamp Something - Christmas

Anything goes - more than 1 fold

Bugaboo - Christmas

Craft your passion - text

So here's my card :

Isn't she so beautiful??  She's a dream to colour and you can find her at Tickled pink stamps here.

She is coloured with my copic's.  I used camel seam binding, and some stripy paper I found in the drawer.  The top PP is actually plain cream card stamped with a Christmas words background that I got for 99pence on ebay.

The snowflake charm was silver but I coloured it with my e37 copic to make it match the vintage feel.

Finally all papers are edged with vintage photo distress ink.

Hugs

H xx

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

Chloe and her string of stars

This card is being entered into the Anything goes challenge.  Their challenge is to produce a project using pinks and browns.

Chloe is also being entered into the Ppaertake Weekly challenge for their spots and stripes callenge.

It is also being entered into the Sweet Shop Sketches for the following sketch :

Here is my card :

This card features Chloe and her string of stars.  She is coloured with a mixture of copics and sakura stardust pens.  Her wings are glamour dust.

The brown spotted paper is from my stash but I have a feeling it was a download from Lili of the Valley.

All other card was from my off cuts bag.

Hugs

H xx

Lili of the Valley Challenge Card 91 - Peach and Green

I got quite a few new stamps at the Harrogate show and just haven't had time to play with them until today.

I'm really pleased with how this card turned out.  The image is Birthday fairy is coloured with copic's.  I also used glamour dust on her wings and sakura stardust pen on her green pom poms and wand.

The PP in the background is from my stash and I think it's from the penny lane stack.  The image is popped on foam pads for dimension.  The fancy mats are cut on my cricut using Penny Duncans shaplies.

The flowers are sequins with a pearl in the centre.

This card is also being entered into the following challenges :

*Papertake Weekly Challenge - Dimention

Anything Goes Challenge - Pearls

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

Happy Birthday Dave (FIL)

Today is my Father-in-laws birthday.  He's 21 again.

His loves our holidays to Mexico so I decided to make him Mexican themed birthday cards this year.  Which may sound hard but Dustin Pike over at Doodle Dragon Studios has made some great Mariachi images.

I am in a rush to get to his house to give him the cards so please accept my apologies over a rather rushed blog post.

Here's the three band members :

I will now list each card separately and put which challenge they are entered in to.

The Sweet Shop : sketch Sweet Shop Sketches

Bugaboo : 4 or more layers Bugaboo
Doodle Dragon Studios - birthday card : Doodle Dragon Blog

Sketch Saturday - Sketch saturday

Bugaboo - 4 or more layers : Bugaboo

 This image fits in the mexican theme as a pelican in Mexico took a disliking to my FIL.

Tuesday Morning Sketchers

Anything goes : Pearls coloured to match the mexican flag : Anything Goes
Gem challenge : sketch : Pink Gem Challenge Blog

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