Mand's Teddy Bo card

So as you can see from the title the card I have to share with you today is by my best and maddest mate Mand.  She doesn't have a blog and so I told her I would enter it into challenges from my blog.

Mand originally came round for a bit of a copic class but when she saw my Teddy Bo cards for the past few days she wanted to try and colour a Teddy Bo.  After searching my vast Teddy Bo collection she chose one.  I said if she coloured black, white and one other colour she could enter the Teddy Bo challenge.  She got very excited and straight after colouring the card you are about to see she ran straight to the Teddy Bo shop and bought her first 6 images.  So wanna see Mad Mandy's card ??

Mandy would like to enter her card into the following challenges :

Teddy Bo - black white and one other colour

Pink Gem - sketch used

Pile it on - girls

Totally Gorjuss - as you like it

Bearly-mine - flowers

My time to craft - flowers

I would love it if you could leave Mand some of your lovely comments and then she might want to enter our blogging world,

Hugs

H xx

Look Moo's 21

Next month my niece turns 21.  I can't believe how fast the time has gone.  She is currently working in Devon on a dairy farm and so that explains my choice of image, a cow.

I am entering her card into the following challenges :

Papertake - cute, well you can't get much cuter than a cow can you?!?!?!?

You can??? No just look at our new calf Max and then say cows arn't cute.

See told you!!

I also want to enter my card in to A gem of a challenge for the great sketch I used.

Thanks for dropping on by and leaving me such lovely comments,

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

Tiddly Inks Tom

This is my card for my nephew who turns 11 next month and starts high school in september.  The challenge over at Tiddly Inks is to use the theme of a movie.  I have chosen to have High School Musical for my theme.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Tiddly Inks - Movies - High School Musical

Sweet Stampin - one for the boys

Pink Gem - Boys

Sunday Sketch n stamp - the sketch I used

This cute guy is called Geekatude, n I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him.  He is coloured with copics as always.  The black textured paper is actually from some wallpaper samples my SIL gave me.  The other papers are from my scraps drawer.  The sentiment is from my great friend Marion.

Thanks for dropping on by and until next time,

Bye

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

Happy Birth-day

My husbands best friend is due to become a father for the second time very soon so I thought I had better make his Birth-day card in case he arrives early.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Doodle Dragon Studios - A birthday card with 2 colours from the blog header (I have used brown from the moose and blue from the top of the blog

Mojo Monday - the sketch below (I substituted the bow for the sentiment)

A gem of a challenge - pearls and swirls (pearls in the flowers and swirls on the PP)

Paper Sundae - Use 2 elements. I used pearls, sparkle and die-cuts. 

Pollycraft - fun and games - who can't have fun on a rocking horse?

Here is the sketch from Mojo monday :

Now here come the photo's, sorry but there are quite a few.

 This photo was taken before the card was finished to show the PP I made using my fiskars baby stamps, my embossing pad and some blue mica powder. I didn't have any baby PP so was pleased with the outcome of this.

So this is how I made this card.

I cut 2 circles from blue card stock.  One at 22cm and one at 21cm.  As I said above I made my own PP and finished both circles off with some hand drawn stitching in blue sakura glaze pen.  I used my fiskars bracket border punch on some of the leftover blue card from the circle and then edged them in blue using a pigment ink pad. I then cut this metallic paper 6cm wide and attached the border strip to it, and mounted it flat onto the card.  It was then trimmed to fit.

Next I printed the really cute baby teddy on his rocking horse onto a circle of card and coloured him    with copics and sakura stardust pens.  I did the hand drawn stitching to it.

The scalloped circle was cut on my cricut using Make the Cut.  This was also hand stitched.

Next came the flowers.  I used my new large flower squeeze punch.  I've not used one of these before as I've always had the usual kind.  Well I LOVE this way of punching shapes.  It really is so much easier to use than the normal punches.  The flowers were punched from some of the left over blue papers.  Some of them I used my perfect pearl mist on to give the flowers a bit of shimmer.

Then I used my embossing stylus to give the flowers some shape and glued 2 together to make each flower.

The centre of each flower has a big shiny silver pearl surrounded by 6 tiny blue pearls.  The tiny pearls were originally white but I coloured them with my copics to match the colour scheme.

They were mounted on foam pads and I then added some brown leaves using my woodware grasses punch.

The sentiment was computered generated.

I had seen a card the other day that had this phrase (sorry I can't remember where) and thought it was a great phrase to use on a card for a new born.

 This card did take me quite a long time to do today as it was a very involved design.

I hope you like and that you come back agin soon to see more of my creations.

I also want to thank everyone who came on the SSC blog hop and left me some amazing comments.

Reading those really spurs me on to do my next card,

Hugs

H xx

Couldn't resist another Hildie card

I enjoyed doing some cards yesterday with my digis from cs designs that I just had to do another one.

I have used the following sketch from Mojo Monday :

Here is my card :

This time I have coloured her a monochromatic colour scheme so I could enter it into a new challenge blog I was told about called Magical Monday.

She has been coloured in with a mixture of copic's and sakura pens.  Her swirly and spotty dress is done using the clear stardust pen over copics.  Her shoes are purple stardust and her flower is the purple metallic pen.  Her wings are done using diamond stickles and her pearls on her shoes started out life as white pearls and I coloured them purple with my copics.

She is then mounted onto purple metallic angel hair.  The PP are from my stash and then I dry embossed the panel on the botton using my fiskars shapeboss creative sampler.  The ribbon is from my stash and the tag is stamped with the word magical.

This card is also being entered into the following challenges :

Pink Gem Challenges - pearls and swirls- swirls on PP and her dress and pearls on her shoes

Papertake Weekly - spotsand stripes -spotty PP and dress

As you can see I love these fairies and there will be more cards coming soon,

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