This card is one of those that seemed to make itself and I'm really pleased with how its come out.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges :

Marianne design diva's - anything goes

Creative inspirations - anything goes

Craft your passion - the f word - flowers

Sunday sketch and stamp - absolutely brilliant sketch

Bugaboo - punches - Marianne ribbon flower die

2 sisters challenge - black/white and one other colour

Stamp something - anything goes

DYSU - texture - ric rak used on the ribbon flower

The black and white papers are papermania I think.  The ribbon flower is by Marianne. The image is coloured with copic's.Card finished with card candi,

Hugs

H xx

Good luck in your new job

I was asked by my SIL for 2 good luck cards for her to give to her work colleagues. 

This is the first one,I will post the second after this.

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

Creative inspirations - anything goes

Craft your passion - the f work - flowers

Tuesday morning sketches - brilliant sketch

Bugaboo - punches or die cuts - punched border

Stamp something - anything goes

Card making mamas - digi stamps

I have used gold decorated velum and black card for all my layers.The border punch used is Fiskars bracket punch.  The image is coloured with copic's. I used clear sakura glitter pen on the flower.

Hugs

H xx

My final card as a guest designer at Craft Your Passion

Today's card is my final time as a guest designer on Craft your passion.

If you don't know I have really been struggling with a very bad back this past week and haven't been able to sit to colour, which is a huge nightmare for me.  So I managed to get a card together not realising I was meant to be following a sketch.  I've been unable to sit and colour another image so I cheated and printed out one of my coloured images.

Here is the sketch you need to be following for this weeks challenge :

And here is my take on the sketch :

The main image I have used is called Steampunk Luca and is from Tickled Pink stamps.  The clock face was an SVG file I found on the net, not sure where.  The squares at the bottom of the card are by Delicious Doodles.  They come as black digi stamps and I just changed the colour of them and made them into little squares.  The embossed section on the cards is done using a the steampunk embossing fold in the clock and steampunk set, by Ranger.

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

One stop crafts - anything but square

2 sisiters - boys

Hugs

H xx

Craft Your Passion Challenge 72 - They said what?!?!?

Welcome to another week at Craft your passion and our theme this week is "They said what!?!?!

I got to work with one of  Bugaboo's great images.

Wanna see??

I began by colouring my Grandma with copic's and I then added her white spots to get dress with a white gel pen and glossy accents to her glasses.  I then went overboard in the old matting and layering stages.

The corrugated card along the bottom has bakers twine wrapped around it.  I embossed a piece of white card with my sizzix big spots embossing folder and I added a piece of stripy red ribbon along the top.

To follow the sketch perfectly I did need to add another panel but when I did it looked too much so I removed it again.

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

My time to craft - G for .... Grandma

Sketch Saturday - great sketch used

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

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

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

I'm a winner

I've had a lovely start to my morning.  I was going through my challenge blogs to check for winners and found out I have won on two different challenges.

I won at Craft Your Passion

And also at The Emerald Fairy Garden

So I have 2 lovely new badges to display at on my side bar.

Hugs

H xx

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

Happy Sweet 16 Charlotte

You know you're getting old with your neice's and nephews starting hitting those special birthdays.  In the space of 12 days my 2 nieces turn 16 and 21, and my nephew turns 11.  So expect plenty of  of special birthday cards in the next few weeks.

Todays card is for Charlotte who turns 16 on the first of August.

I am entering my card into the following challenges :

Mad for markers - Pink and yellow

Sketch Saturday - for using the sketch below

Digital Tuesdays - using dies (die cut butterflies)

Pixie Dust - girly

Do it with digis - spots or stripes (stripy paper used)

Tickled Pink - cute with a butterfly

Totally Papercrafts - girly

Allsorts - free and easy

Icopic - birthdays

Craft your passion - just for you

So what do you think?

The image I have used is Lil Lolita Kellita and as its digi week you can get her as a digi stamp.  She is coloured with my copic's.  I have added a little white dot on her eyes so that they look like they are shining and I also coloured her pupil in with black glaze pen to add to the shine.

The image, sentiment (computer generated) and striped and yellow card stock are all been given a edge of distress ink in spun sugar.

The butterflies were die cut, glued along the body to add dimension and then given an edging of glamour dust glitter. 

So until next time,

Hugs

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

My Mum is one of those Super Special People

My Mum is one of those Super Special People and I don't tell her enough so I thought I'd make her something to remind her of just how special she is.

I am entering my altered photo frame into the following challenges :

Teddy-Bo - anything but a card

Creative Crafts challenge - flowers (flower on frame made from a necklace)

Do it with digi's - spots or stripes

Charisma cardz - flowers (see above)

Stamptacular - seeing double (2 teddy bo images)

Craft your passion - anything goes

Papertake - anything goes

Sweet Stampin - something unusual (the flower is part of a necklace)

So here is my very first altered object.

So where did I start?  Well instead of being sensible and finding some tutorials on how to alter a frame I just just jumped in with both feet.

I cut the pink spotty paper (sorry don't know the maker) just bigger than the size of the frame plus the depth.  I glued it to the frame using glossy accents and then went round the frame with tea distress ink.

The Teddy Bea on the front of the frame was printed and then coloured with copics, she was then fussy cut out and glued to the papered frame.

The second larger "Mum" Teddy Bea was printed the size of the cut out of the frame and coloured with copic's.  I then went overboard with the glitter which sadly does not show up in the photo.  I used a mix of pink Martha Stewart glitter and crystal glamour dust.

Finally, I have a good root through the bowl I keep cheap and/or broken jewellery in and found this beautiful flower.  It is kept in place thanks to my hot glue gun. And the finishing touch for the frame involved colouring some thin silver ribbon with dark pink copic and then wrapping it around a copic and leaving it to dry.  Once dry the ribbon is much more solid and stayed in the curled shape I needed.

I hope you have enjoyed my altered frame and I hope to see you again soon.

Oh before I go I just wanted you all to know that your super sweet comments really do give me such a lift, I read every one of them and I can't thank you enough,

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