Today has been a rollercoaster of a day

Don't you just hate days like this?  I was on such a high only for me to find out paypal has taken payment for a cancelled payment and I ended up £11 overdrawn and now liable for a £20 bank charge.  Ho hum, you just have to take it don't you?

Anyway last Saturday I was featured on the i-copic blog in their Saturday Spotlight post.  Saturday Spotlight is a special spotlight of some customers' projects!! Every other Saturday you will see some awesome projects that have been posted on their Facebook Page.

I was thrilled when they chose one of my Teddy Bo cards, this one in fact 

Now I'm off for a bit of a bloggy womble,

ugs

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

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

Two posts in one day!!!

I've decided to give in and start on my Christmas cards.  

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

Sketch n stash - sketch used - new image used and velum bought in the january sales

Pixie Dust - monochromatic/ favourite colour - has to be sepia

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas

My time to craft - coffee colours

Sweet Stampin - Christmas

Cuddly Buddly - pearls and petals - pearls in the flowers on her hair, also flowers on the velum

Totally Papercrafts - bling it up - glittered wings, charm, clear glitter pen used

Allsorts - free and easy

Copic Oz - hair

i-copic - skin tones
Secret Crafter - monochromatic

So where do I start? Well the image is called Winter Fairy and is by Wee Stamps.

I began firstly by colouring her in with my copics.  I then added glamour dust for her wings, latte glitter flock for her cuffs on her coat, white flower soft on the floor, pearls in her hair and on her wand and finally clear glitter pen on her headband and the holly berries.  The image is then finished by adding a metallic brown dotted border.

The poinsettia velum on the upper half of the card is by papermania and is called "A Christmas Carol pack"  Gorgeous stuff and highly reflective.

The lower PP is by dovecraft from the let it snow stack.  Both ribbons are from my stash.  The charm is actually silver, I just coloured it with my copics.

So there you have it. I hope you like it,

Hugs

H xx

My little girl is turning 21

I don't have any children but due to certain things I got the honour of helping to bring up my niece Rachel.

She turns 21 on the 12th and I feel soooo old.  She's currently working and living in Devon on a dairy farm.  As she most definitely not a girly-girl I had to think of images that were "just her".

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

Tuesday Morning sketches - great sketch guys

Papertake - anything goes -optional metallic, I used metallic card

Critter sketch - summer fun - the sun is on her t-shirt

i-copic - skin tones

Dutch dare - birthdays

Stamps r us - birthdays

copic oz - hair

Paper sundaes - sky and clouds
Cupcake challenge - how old/ include an age

As soon as I saw this stamp I thought of Rachel, its by Nellie Snellen and you can find here.  She is coloured with copics.  All three blue papers have different textures on them.  The mirri blue is from kanban, the others I'm not too sure of.  The 21 was cut out of the same card as the image mat and I then put it through my zyron sticker maker and then covered it in glamour dust glitter.  The ribbon and crocheted lace are from my stash.

Thanks for dropping on by today,

Big 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

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

I just love sepia cards

They have to be my most favourite colour scheme so when i-copics challenge was to only use copics in the brown family I was overjoyed.  So for this card I concentrated on using only brown copics for the i-copic challenge and a one-layer card (excluding ribbon)  for Tiddly Inks , I really had to get my thinking cap on.

So I decided to try and do a bit of card design within adobe elements and then to print out and colour the image.

I am not overly confident in elements but I gave it a go.  I managed to get the image and the sentiment on and decided the image needed a frame.  After a bit of time pressing buttons to see what they did I got a nice frame around the image, but it still needed something extra.  It needed some PP, so I quickly scanned one of my favourite pieces and added a strip of it within elements and I was happy.

I finally added 2 strips of ribbon that I got from The stamp pad in Saddleworth. This is such gorgeous ribbon, I will have to get some more.  If you live locally you might want to nip over there on Tuesday 21st June as they are opening until 9pm, to give you plenty of time to browse, watch a demo or two and maybe even have a glass of wine.  I went to their last demo day and thoroughly enjoyed myself, not only were all the staff happy to answer any questions but the demo's were brilliant, I could have stayed all day.

So after all that rambling one, I'd better show you my card, hadn't I?

Here is a close-up of the lighthouse.  I printed onto conqueror concept glod dust card.  It give a lovely effect but it's very hard to blend on.

Here you can just how flat my card actually is, a miracle for someone who love to pad up her layers on cards.

Its so nice to be back Tiddly-ing again, I've really missed colouring Christy's imagas.

Hugs

H xx

Look who's 50!

One of my customers asked me for a 50th birthday card with a golf theme for her neighbour and I knew just the stamp I wanted to use.  I'll give you a clue by saying I am entering the Kraftin Kimmie challenge for the first time.  Still don't know?

I am entering this card into the following 2 challenges:

i-copic - use the brown family

Kraftin Kimmie - Gold (my 50 is in gold gilding flakes

Here's my card, I did follow a sketch but I can't remember which one.

This is Raymond the golfer and I have used only colours from the brown family in my copics.  The circle is embossed with a sizzix folder to resemble a golf ball and the 50 have been gilded with gold gilding flakes.

Hugs

H xx

The Greeting Farm - A birthday card

Todays card uses a new stamp for me called Sassy Suzie.  I've loved colouring this cutie in so there should be more coming in the future.

I am entering her into the following challenges :

i-copic - brown hair

Catch the bug - anything goes

Papertake  - anything goes

Cute card thursday - pins and pearls

CMC copic challenge - Feathering - I used the feathering technique on her hair

Sunday stamp and sketch - the sketch below

And here's my card :

And here is a close up of this brilliant image

She has been coloured with my copic's and I used the feathering technique on her hair.  The white fur trim on her coat has been given the glamour dust sparkle.

The wording was cut out on my cricut with Make the cut.  All the paper, ribbon, gemmed flower and pearled pins are from my stash.

I hope you like her and come back tomorrow for another card this time using a Lili of the Valley image.

Hugs

H xx

Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad

It's my Mum n Dad's 49th wedding anniversary on thursday and I have made this card for them using what's probably my all time favourite Lili of the Valley image Wedding Couple.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Bugaboo - anything goes

Pollycraft - Love and marriage

Lili of the Valley - Punch it up

i-copic- brown hair

The sweet stop - using the sketch below

And here's my card 

Arn't they just the cutest couple?  They are coloured with my copic's as usual.  The striped holographic card is from Kanban and the blue is from my stash.

The punched border is made using a MS punch called double loops.  The ribbon is also from my vast collection of ribbon. The sentiment came with this stamp and the gems are by papermania.And finally the charm is from Primark, I got it so Mum could have something to keep.

Well thanks for popping over,

Hugs

H xx

One for the boys

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

i-copic - advanced shadowing

My partner in crafting crime - twine, jute or string

Tiddly Inks - manly men

Just us girls - colours of the rainbow

Here come the boys- using the sketch below

And here is my card :

And here is a close-up of my coloured image

The computer part (sorry don't know what they are called) was bought from the play resource centre for 5p and I thought it was a fun thing to use.

My image is called Gamer and has been coloured with my copics.  I printed out a screen shot of super mario, coated it with clear gloss and stuck it behind the tv.

Tomorrow I am going to my next step in copic in Warrington and I can't wait,

Hugs

H xx