Teddy Bea is all girly and pink

I was trying to think today if I had ever coloured Teddy Bea in girly pink.  I couldn't remember one so thought I'd give it a go.

I would like to enter my girly pink Bea card into the following challenge :

Simon says stamp - brilliant sketch used

Pile it on - girls just wanna have fun

Stamptacular - diva with attitude or style (Bea is THE most stylish bear around)

Emerald Fairy - birthday

Card making mamas - birthdays

Charisma cardz - glitter

A spoonful of sugar - birthday

My time to craft - here come the girls

Digital Tuesdays - cute and girly

I began by colouring Teddy Bea with my copic's.  I changed the orientation of parts of the sketch to fit in with embossing folder.I wanted my hearts to go top to bottom.  I then die cut the swirl and flower from the cricut cart accent essentials.  The white panels are embossed with a country companions hearts embossing folder.  The double loop punch is a Martha Stewart favourite.

I hope you like my card and come back again some time.

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

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

Kenny K's Krafty Girls Challenge #3

This past week has seen me colour in quite a few Kenny K images, and I have fallen in love with.

When I saw the challenge this week I wasn't sure I could make a pocket card but decided to give it a go.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Kenny K's - pocket cards

Stamptacular - pocket cards

Allsorts - free n easy
Dream Valley Challenge - a surprise

I have used Teen Idol.  I have really had my moneys worth with this guy.  He is coloured with copic's then fussy cut out and mounted on foam pads onto an oval that is edged with forest moss distress ink.

The green paper was "grunged" up by stamping parts of the lili of the valley grunge postcard in the forest moss distress ink.

I die cut a Penny Duncan shaplie then folded it in half and stuck onto the inner pocket so you can easily pull that section out.

I have stuck a triangle on the back so that it can stand up.

You will have to believe me when I say that this card looks much better IRL.

Thanks for dropping on by,

H xx

Teddy Bea is a star

I'm cutting it fine making the deadline for the Teddy Bo challenge but I've made it with 24 hours to go.

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

Sketch Saturday - the great sketch used

DYSU - wings

Stamp something - favourite embellishments - glitter and ribbons

Emerald fairy - all things nice

Totally Gorjuss - punches or dies

Allsorts - free and easy

Critter sketch - a birthday card to myself would have a teddy bo image and lots of glitter

Stamptacular - animals

Teddy Bo - use a teddy bea image

Teddy Bea is coloured with my copic and also a clear sakura stardust pen for her wand.  The punched borders above and below the ribbon is a fiskars bracket punch.  The stars were cut on my cricut and covered in glamour dust as is the edge of the star sentiment.

So thanks for dropping on by,

Hugs

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

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

You're a star!

Is you're Grandad a star?  Well little 6 month old Ethan thinks his grandad is and has asked for a special card to let him know.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - anything goes

Stamptacular  - Dads

Mad for markers - brown hair

Sketch and stash - the sketch below

And here's my card :

This cute guy is from Lili of the Valley and he's been coloured with copics.  The stars and spots papers were found in my scraps drawer, and I have no idea where they came from.  And finally the stars were made on Make the cut and cut on my cricut.

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

How many fingers are you?

This card is being entered into a few challenges.  They are :-

Bugaboo Wacky Wednesday PCP group - 2 PP, silly Sentiment and bling

Bugaboo Wacky wednesday CDAC group - 2 PP, silly sentiments and bling

Bugaboo challenge - summer celebrations (PP has lots of summer words, plus image coloured with blue skys)

Do You Stack Up? - Animals

Stamptacular Sunday - Bears, this guy is called butterfly bear

A spoonful of sugar - things with wings

CPS challenge - for using the sketch below

And so onto my card :

Here's a close-up of my cute Butterfly Bear from Bugaboo digi stamps, who have a 50% off sale still on until the 31st May.

This was my first attempt at doing a cloudy sky with my copics so I'm really pleased it turned out so well.

Here is the silly sentiment from Inkadinkado, it also has a matching sky background.

And finally here is an angled shot so you can see just how blingy his wings are.

This guy was coloured with my copic's as usual and I then carefully cut out his wings, leaving any grass the went over the wings. His eyes are coloured with a sakura glaze pen to make them shiny.  I then applied DST to some scrap card stock and covered it with my new gilding flakes, to make the wings.

The PP are both from my scrap drawer and the strips across the middle are made by colouring white C/S with the same blue used for the sky and  the other is a strip of DST covered with the gilding flakes so that both strips matched the rest of the card.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog today and please come back again soon,

Hugs

H xx

Welcome little one card

The card below is being entered into the following challenges:

Stamptacular - Pinkalicious

A spoon full of sugar - Anything goes

The brilliant image is from Pink Petticoat and is coloured with copics.

Thanks for dropping on by,

H xx

Happy Birthday Mags

I though I would get a head start on my MIL's birthday cards and though one of the new Blossom images from cs designs would be perfect for her.

I am entering this card into the Sunday sketch and stamp challenge using this sketch :

And also into Stampacular sunday challenge - Mums the word challenge
And here is my card :

Beautiful Blossom is coloured with copics.  The hand-drawn stitches are done in sakura stardust pens.

The background was made by blending spun sugar and dusty concord distress ink with a quick mist of my ranger perfect pearls mists.

The double dot paper has also been misted.

The sentiment is computer generated and the gems started out as clear ones that have been coloured with copics.

Hugs

H xx