Jolly good post-it note holder

On Thursday Teddy Bo launched their first Teddy Bo's Top Tip Thursday, (say that fast after a few vodka and cokes) so off I pootled to Tesco to get myself a post-it not block.  They were only 40pence so I got two, just in case.  In case of what I'm not sure, but definitely something. 

I began by following Jills brilliant instructions.  I already had Jolly the G Jiraffe printed off so thought I would go with a whole Giraffe theme. *And here comes my Top Tip* I didn't have any giraffe papers so I googled giraffe wallpaper and printed this great paper off.

Jolly is coloured with copic's.   The edges of all pieces of card have been edged in rusty hinge distress ink.  I used raffia ribbon from Wild Orchid Crafts in a few strips under the image.  The card candi added to the corners is by Craftwork cards.  The three tickets are Tim Holtz one's, I choose word's that I associate with Teddy Bo.

I would like to enter my post-it note easel card into the following challenges : 

Top Tip - easel cards

Moving along with the times - sketch used

Teddy Bo - Top tip thursday

Stamp something - anything goes

Card making Mama's - digi week

DYSU - textures - raffia ribbon

Craft us crazy - autumn colours

Simon says stamp - multiple folds

Papertake - anything goes

Stamp with fun - autumn

Stamptacular - the skys the limit

Color me copic - autumn

Big Hugs

H xx

2 hours 2 late

This card was meant to be for the Lili of the Valley Challenge but as the title suggests I'm 2 hours too late, so I would like to enter it into the following challenges instead :
Craft us Crazy - Autumn colours
Bugaboo - anything goes
Secret Crafter - autumn colours
Color me creative - fall or Halloween inspired
Stamp with fun - autumn
Top tip - easel cards
Papertake - anything goes
Simon says stamp - multiple folds
Crating for all seasons - birthday

This card is made up of scraps.  The Kraft cardstock is actually the inside of coke boxes and the PP is from a magazine.  The leather effect panels are actually wallpaper samples thanks to my MIL for those.
The swirly corner is a die cut using a spellbinder die from a Christmas set.
The lili of the valley image is coloured with copic's, his hat is paper pieced with some of the backing paper and the sky is done using a template and distress ink.

Off for a bath to ease my achy bod,
Hugs
H xx

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

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

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

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hi and welcome to another Magical Monday challenge.

For the next 2 weeks our challenge theme is Banners, bunting or pennants PLUS glitter.

This time we are being sponsored by 

who are offering our winner 5 digi stamps of the winners choice.

***DON'T FORGET TO USE A MAGICAL IMAGE***

My card today features a mermaid that I found mentioned on a copic forum I go on.  The artist is called Sureya and she will happily let you colour her images.  All she asks is that you share your coloured image on the that images page and that you credit the image to her.

She has some of the most amazing, yet challenging (to colour) images for you to download for free and you can see all here.

So here's my Magical Monday Design Team Card

She is coloured with copic's and she took me 2 hours to complete.  I have added dots of clear glitter pen to het tail, I think you can see it in the photos.  The main PP has the words calm , tranquillity and peace printed on it.  The spotty paper has had the glitter treatment. The starfish charm is from some jewellery I got from Primark.  The banner was a blank vector image I found when I was wandering the net and I just added the sentiment to it in adobe elements.

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

Crafty Emma's Store - water

Charisma cards - bingo - glitter, squares,charm

Bugaboo - anything goes

Stamp Something - use a digi

Craft us crazy - anything goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - great sketch used.
Bearly Mine -spots and charms
Mad for markers - glitter/spica pens

Hugs

H xx

Oh how I love Teddy Bo digi stamps

Hi there, Welcome to my blog.  I finally get to share something with you today.  Its taken quite a bit of work but I'm pleased with the result.

My neice turns 21 in a weeks time and she has asked for baking goodies as her present.  I thought I would add a special little something.  I have altered a brownie mix box and turned it into a recipe box.  We used to bake alot with her when she was little so it's going to be filled with recipes from her childhood.

I would like to enter my altered recipe box to the following challenges :

Teddy Bo - alter something

Stamp Something - use a digi stamp

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Dream Valley - surprise - Teddy Bea and Jolly the g Jiraffe are hiding inside the lid of the box

Papertake - anything goes
Night shift stamping - anything goes
Sundays with Chrissy - KISS card

This is how the box started out.  Very yummy chocolate brownie mix I sometimes get from Costco.

Here is the front of the box with items from this mornings baking session.

Here you can see Teddy Bea and G Jariffe peeping at you when you open the lid. They are coloured with copic's.

The lettering and the fancy label are cut on my cricut.  Bea is coloured with copic's.

Here's a close-up of the sneaky pair hiding in the box.

Where it looks like I have used kraft cardstock I have actually used insides of the boxes coke comes in.

Both the "kraft" cardstock and the PP have got vintage photo distress ink around the edges.  I also drew stitches in brown metallic pen around each PP.

I hope you like my altered box and for those of you kind enough to leave me comments, I send you a big cyber hug,

H xx