A way to show my thanks

I have a very good friend called Kath.  I met her 18 months ago through a card making class.

She is such a great friend who is always there to lend an ear and she drive's when we go on our craft road trips as I am unable to drive.  Nothings every too much for trouble for her.

When I saw the challenge on Stamptacular challenging you to make a card for a friend I decided to go one better and make a gift for Kath.  I sometimes go over to her house to help her out with her cricut and she has notes on lots of different paper's so I decided to alter a note book for her and to use one of her favourite digi stamp company Teddy Bo.

I am entering the notebook into the following challenges :

Stamp with fun - great sketch guys thanks

Teddy Bo - alter something

Stamptacular - friends are heaven sent

Paper Sundae's - clouds and sky

Do it with digi's - summer fun

Stamp Something - summer fun
Crafts 4 eternity - anything but a card

I began by buying a 99pence note book and then removed the cover. The Image was printed and then coloured with copic's.  I added glamour dust glitter to her bubbles an her pom pom of her hat.  The clouds are done with a cloud template and distress ink.

The three dotty papers are all Bo Bunny double dot.  The bubbles BP is by magnolia and possibly my favourite BP of all time.  The ribbon was ruffled by sticking parts of the ribbon with DST.  The pink raffia lace is by the paper cellar.

The notebook die cut is by Shery K designs and was cut on my cricut.  She has some brilliant svg files on her blog for free.  And finally the letters were also cut on my cricut.

TBH I don't want to let this notebook go but I feel like that with all my Teddy Bo makes.

I hope Kath likes it when she returns from her holiday,

Hugs

H xx

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hello and welcome to another Magical Monday.  Here I am to share my card that I've made for this weeks challenge.  What's the challenge??  Well this time we have gone for a colour theme of

RED and TEAL.

I've never used this combo before, but I'm quite pleased with how its turned out.

Now if you colour your images with copic's you need to check out Suzanne Deans Color me creative challenge as she has also chosen the same colour combo of red and teal, but she has also included white. 

So why not pop on over to Magical Mondays and see what great cards the design team and guest designers have got for you.

Don't forget to use a Magical image such as a dragon, wizard or fairy.  Cards entered without a magical image will be removed from the challenge.

So enough of me waffling on, here's my card :

Isn't she just so adorable.  I used a Wee stamps image for the last magical monday card but I loved the designs so much I decided to use a different one.

She is coloured with copic's.  She has clear glitter pen in the centre's of each flower and on the bells at the bottom of her pants.  The wings were coloured and covered in glamour dust, or stripper dust as my friends husband called it.

The iridescent teal paper came from my local craft stall  when she was closing down.

The ribbon is from my vast collection of ribbons.  The red gem flower on the bow was bought from Every Crafts A Pound.   And finally the charm hanging below the bow is from a necklace I pulled to pieces.

So what are you waiting for??  Go and grab your magical images and get creative.

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

Pixie Dust Studio's - for the great sketch used

Do it with digi's - summer fun

Do you stack up - wings

Cuddly Buddly - add a charm

Stamp Something - favourite embellishments - glitter and ribbon

Emerald Fairies - all things nice

Colour me creative - red, teal and white
The outlaws - things with wings

Hugs

H xx

You should have seen the one that got away!!

Here I am with another fisherman card.This time my image is from Pollycraft.

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

Do it with digis - summer fun

Cute card thursdays - cheeky sentiment

Here comes the boys - sports

Pollycraft - summer fun

Tuesday morning sketches - the great sketch used
Pink Gem - boys
Sweet stampin - boys
Sentimental Sundays - male cards

Here's my card :

This great guy is from Pollycraft and is coloured with copic's.  I have used glossy accents on his fish and glasses.   The sentiment is computer generated and the brown spotty backing paper is bo bunny double dot.

Hugs

H xx

Gone Fishing

My brother-in-law is a keen fisherman so for his birthday cards I went with the fisherman theme.

This is his first card.  I am entering it into the following challenges :

Sweet sketch wednesday - the great sketch I used

Do it with digis - summer fun

Cute card thursday - cheeky card (see sentiment)

Here come the boys - sports

i-copic - pastel colours

Pollycraft  - summer fun

Copic creations - pastel brown
Sentimental Sundays - male cards
Pink Gem - boys
Sweet Stampin - boys

Teddy Bo is coloured with copics as always.  He has glossy accents on his glasses and the fish.

The green bakers twine is from wild orchid crafts.  The brown netting stuff is from The stamp pad, saddleworth.  The quote was found thanks to google.

Thanks for droppping by and I hope to catch up with you all soon,

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

Jordans Room

The other week I used my make the cut software to cut out a childs nams and I added a cute greeting farm image with it to make it a nice name card.  The boys Mum wanted to keep the card so she put it on his door.  Another customer of mine then saw it and ordered name plaques for both herself and her husband, her 3 year old and her teenager.

In this post I share with you the door plaque I made for her teenage son.  I used the Teen Idol from Kenny K digi stamps.

I found his hair to be very challenging to colour, but overall I'm pleased with the result.  Hopefully my customer and her son will be tomorrow.  He is coloured with my super duper copics.

I am entering him into the following challenges :

Kenny K - anything goes

Do it with digi's - spots or stripes (spotty dots around letters)

H xx

H xx

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

Gotta love a red head

This is my first attempt at a red head and I'm quite pleased with how she has come out.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Mad for markers - red heads

Colour me creative - folds, pleats and ruffles

Emerald Fairy Garden - all things girly

Do it with digi's - monochromatic (except hair and skin)
Tickled Pink stamps - flowers

Pink Gem challenge - the sketch below

And here's my card :

Just realised I forgot to put gems in the corners of my image, will do it now and you will just have to imagine them.

My image is Lil Victorian Steampunk Lolita Evie and she's available from Tickled Pink Stamps, as a digi at the moment and also as rubber.

She is coloured with copics.  The flowers in the corner of the image are from a necklace Mum got me from our local supermarket for 50 pence and which I pulled to pieces.  The ribbon is organza with silver thread running up each side and is from my stash.

The papers are from my scraps drawer.  I am trying to use scraps rather than cut into anything new.  Doing well so far.

Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you came back soon.  I also wanted to say a huge thankyou to all of you who kindly leave me such wonderful comments, they mean alot and I can't thank you enough.

I am getting closer and closer to getting 100 followers.  When I get to 100 I will be holding a blog candy as a thankyou.

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

Lili of the Valley Birthday Bear

Yesterday I needed to make a card for my cousin, Adrian and I decided I'd use the Cheers bear that my very good friend Marion sent me to cheer me up.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Pollycraft - teddy bears

Do you stack up? - animals

Do it with digi's - boys

Paper sundaes - vintage colours

Stamptacular sundays - boys or bugs

Card positioning systems - the sketch below

Here is my card :

And here is a close-up of the bear

My bear is coloured with copics.  The stripy paper is from my scrap drawer.  The raffia was bought from a garden suppliers and the sentiment ticket was made by the forever clever Marion, who has some amazing sentiments for you to download free.  All paper were edged with vintage photo distress ink.

Thanks for dropping and hopefully I will be back tomorrow with another card.

Hugs

H xx