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

Happy birthday Dad

The following card I have made for my Dads 70th birthday which is on Sunday.  He makes me the most things to help me with my crafting.  He's made me a sloping desk so my back doesn't ache too much colouring, he's made me around 20 ink blending tools for my many distress inks, he came and collected my desk and expedit unit when I bought them off ebay.  

I am a daddy's girl and very proud of it.

This card is being entered into the Paper Sundaes challenge - Happy Birthday

This card is also being entered into the CPS challenge.  This is their sketch I've followed.

Here's my card :

The only change I made was I used the tools instead of the 3 small squares.

On the second photo you can see the small "made with love" charm I used as Dad's projects are always with love.

The image is from Doodle Dragon Studio's and is coloured with copics as usual.  All the papers are from my scrap bag.

H xx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 46 - You're a stitch

Well I'm cutting it close with my Tiddly Inks Challenge card this week, arn't I?

I am combining my TiddlyInks Challenge card with a new card sketch blog I found earlier today.

This new blog is called CPS or Card Positioning Systems.

I loved working with this sketch and had been looking for a new sketch challenge since Friday sketchers closed.

So here is the CPS sketch:

And here is my card :

The sunshine has gone so it was a bit overcast when I took these photos.

This shot shows the strawberry charms off better. 

This little cutie is called Minnie's berry, and just had to get it when I saw the charms my very good friend, Marion, sent me from Greece.  I have cut the loop off then and secured then to the ribbon with silicone glue.

She is coloured with copics and red sakura stardust pen (for her glasses and shoes) I have used Anita's 3d clear gloss for her glasses.  I have used a fine liner pen to do my stitching around Minnie.

The textured red mirri card is from Kanban.  It comes in a wide variety of colours but they have now stopped manufacturing this card as it was not cost effective as there is more waste than product when they make it.  I love it so much, its great because of the texture so if you want some you'd best be quick and get it.

The corner swirls are cut from a black shimmer card using a spellbinder die.

The ribbon and sentiment are from my stash.

Now don't forget that there will be a big Tiddly Inks blog hop over the weekend.  You really won't want to miss it, and here's what Christy (owner and artist of Tiddly Inks) has to say about it all :

"So check back on April 30 for the beginning of our one-year anniversary...or is it a birthday??

Hmmm, either way, we will have new images and lots of fun stuff...see you on April 30 for the kickoff of our brithday celebration---a Treasure Hunt Blog Hop. :) We will have lots of goodies hidden through the blog hop and we have some fantastic guests for the day...:) It should be lots of fun!"

Here's to a happy start to the week,

H xx