Whoops a Daisy!

You know when you're little you say when I grow up I want to be .....  Well, when I grow old I want to be like my hubby's Gran.  She's a tough old bird, who won't let anything get her down, even falling down.  She's currently spending time some time in a local nursing home getting over a few falls, so I thought I would make her a card to let her know we are thinking of her.

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

Stamp with fun - sketch used

Critter challenge - anything goes

Cupcake crafts  - bears

Sentimental sundays - step out of your comfort zone (I'm a copic's girl and this is only my second go with my new prismacolor pencils)

Teddy Bo - things with wings (Bo has lost his butterflies thru a hole in his net)

Little Miss Muffet - things with wings - see above

Anything goes - anything goes

Sweet stampin - anything goes

Night shift stamping - brads (gem brad in centre of flower)

This cute guy is called Flutterby net Bo and I've coloured him with my prismacolor pencils.  This is only the second image I've coloured with them.  I have used red glitter pen for the escaping flutterbys.

The red spotty paper has been spots of glitter for extra sparkle. The black flocked paper across the centre is a bit of left over wallpaper. The flower is done with my magnolia doo hickey die, I added an american crafts gem brad to the centre.  The swirls are Marianne and are cut in black glitter paper.

The sentiment is computer generated and was something always said to me when I fell as a child.

Hugs

H xx

Teddy Bo - Things with wings

Yesterday I used my brand new prismacolor pencil's for the first time.  I followed the great tutorial by Nicole that she did for Teddy Bo's top tip tutorial.  Today I made her into a card.

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

Teddy Bo - things with wings

Little Miss Muffet - things with wings

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch used

Anything goes - anything goes

Papertake weekly - creatures

Stamp with fun - anything goes

The crafty pad - bling it up

One stop crafts - girly

Crafty emmas store - 4 different embellis - glitter, charm, ribbon, gems

As I said above the Teddy Bo image is coloured with prisma's.  I have added glamour dust to her wings and the star on her wand.  The gems were clear but I coloured them with brown copic.  The PP is from my stash drawer and this is the last lot of it.  The charm is from a bracelet I got from Primark.  The ribbon is done on my bow easy and is a treble bow.

Big hugs

H xx

Why I love Teddy Bo

When I was on Facebook earlier I noticed on Teddy's Bo bit that my Dad dresses like Teddy Bo or vice versa, as Dad's a little older than Teddy Bo. 

 Strange?? 

Well there was a card featuring Teddy Bo - Dad's upside down.  In this image Teddy Bo is dressed in hat, tank top, shorts and boots.  Now check out this photo of my Dad 

You can't see it but there's a tank top under his jacket. 

 Now you know why I can't not love Teddy Bo!!

Sorry Dad couldn't resist not telling everyone,

Hugs

H xx

My fist Teddy Bo stamp I bought coloured for the first time with Prismacolor pencils

It appears my pain medication isn't strong enough and needs upping so I haven't be able to colour or make cards for a few days now but today I have finally got my Prismacolor pencils out and have given them a go.

Today is it Teddy Bo's top tips Thursday and today's lesson is by the super talented Nicole.  I fell in love with Nicole's cards immediately, and it's thanks to her an another amazing designer Femke that I decided to give pencils a go.

The tutorial Nicole has put together is really well and made the process for a complete novice such as myself very easy to follow.

Nicole used in her tutorial the very first Teddy Bo image I ever bought so I printed it off and here is my end result.  I hope you like it.

I had all the same colours as Nicole except for the darkest brown, so my bear is slightly lighter in colour, but I'm happy with it.  I now need to make her into a card and I can then enter the Teddy Bo challenge which is things with wings.

Hugs

H xx

A couple of challenge wins

One of my Teddy Bo cards came top 3 at Paper Sundae's

You can read about it here.

Here is the card :

And here's my new badge. 

I also won at Sunday Sketch and Stamp.  I'm hoping they will email me a badge when they reply about my prize.

Hugs

H xx

The very first Cutie Pie Challenge

Are you excited?? I am, coz today marks the very first challenge of the Cutie Pie Challenge.

No only do we have one winners prize, we have 2 winners as well as a top 3 picked by the design team!

Our prizes will be awarded to one random winner and the design teams favourite card.

For this challenge we have a brilliant £10 voucher to be spent at our regular sponsor, Crafty Emma's Store

For the card chosen by the design team.

For the random winner we have 

 some amazing stash from the boss lady herself, Woo.  Wouldn't mind winning it myself.

Our challenge this week is a brilliant sketch.  I love sketches and this one is brilliant to work with. 

and here is my card 

The image is Night Nurse Bea from Teddy Bo.  I've coloured her with my copic's .  I added glamour dust to her pom pom's on her hat, clear glitter pen on her red cross, stethoscope and her heart on her sleve.  I also added gold metallic pen to her clasp on her case.

The papers are from my stash, as is the ribbon.  The red gem's were clear gems that I coloured to match with my red copic.  The flower is a Magnolia Doo Hickey die cut.

So what are you waiting for, rush off and enter our challenge!!!
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

The crafty pad - sparkle

Sweet Stampin - flowers

Crafty Emma's store - 4 different embellies - glitter, ribbon,gems, flowers, 

Cute card thursday - anything goes

Moving along with the times - sparkle

Copic Creations - fur

Paperplay - punches and dies

Stamptacular - include a sentiment

Craft your passion - Occupational hazard

Big hugs

H xx

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hello and welcome to another Magical Monday.  Well you definitely liked the anything goes challenge from the past 2 weeks!  When I last checked we had an astounding 100 entries!!!

I hope you all come back again for this challenge, which is .....

Christmas in September

and because it's a Christmas themed challenge you are allowed to use the wonderful Father Christmas and Rudolf images that I've been seeing around recently.

Our sponsor for this challenge is 

Crafty Ribbons.

I bet you're wondering why I have a photo of a coke box?  Well most of my kraft cardstock is made from the inside's of coke boxes, so I just thought I'd share that tip with you.

My wonderful image is from one of my favourite digi stamp companies Teddy Bo.  They have been coloured with copic's and I then added black glaze pen to Bo's nose to give him a bit of shine. I added glamour dust to Rudolf's hat and then for his nose I applied a thick layer of glossy accents and sprinkled some more glamour dust on that.

I edged the image with faux brown stitching.  The poinsettia is cut using my great friend Kath's marianne die.  I then added ice diamond chips by pinflair to give it a frosty look.  The backing paper is from a DCWV stack. I added some ribbon across the card in red.

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

Teddy Bo - flowers

The crafty pad - diamonds are a girls best friend

Sweet Stampin - flowers

Allsorts - alter/recycle

Crafty Emma's store - 4 different embellies - glitter, ribbon, glossy accents, flowers, ice diamonds

Cute card thursday - anything goes

Pixie Dust - recycling

Moving along with the times - sparkle

Copic Creations - fur

Paperplay - punches and dies

Hugs

H xx

A sneak peek at a Teddy Bea image

So yesterday at Teddy Bo, Gayle showed you how she colours her bears with promarkers and asked for us to share our coloured images.  Well the other day I coloured Teddy Bea, Night Nurse in with my copic's, and as I do with all my coloured images I scanned it so I can keep a visual reference of colours used in case customers of my cards want the same colours.  So today I am sharing with you the coloured image but not the card.  Why not the card?  Well its been made for the launch of a brand new challenge blog called Cutie Pie Challenges on Monday.  There's some amazing blog candy on offer now so why not nip over after reading this.

Here she is and I'm not bragging but she may well be one bear who doesn't leave this house as I've so fell in love with her.

I finished my colouring by adding gold pen to the clasp on her case, clear glitter to her cross on her hat and the heart on her arm and finally by adding glamour dust to her pom poms.

I hope you like her and don't forget to pop back on Monday for the launch of the Cutie pie challenge.

Big hugs

H xx

Jolly good post-it note holder

On Thursday Teddy Bo launched their first Teddy Bo's Top Tip Thursday, (say that fast after a few vodka and cokes) so off I pootled to Tesco to get myself a post-it not block.  They were only 40pence so I got two, just in case.  In case of what I'm not sure, but definitely something. 

I began by following Jills brilliant instructions.  I already had Jolly the G Jiraffe printed off so thought I would go with a whole Giraffe theme. *And here comes my Top Tip* I didn't have any giraffe papers so I googled giraffe wallpaper and printed this great paper off.

Jolly is coloured with copic's.   The edges of all pieces of card have been edged in rusty hinge distress ink.  I used raffia ribbon from Wild Orchid Crafts in a few strips under the image.  The card candi added to the corners is by Craftwork cards.  The three tickets are Tim Holtz one's, I choose word's that I associate with Teddy Bo.

I would like to enter my post-it note easel card into the following challenges : 

Top Tip - easel cards

Moving along with the times - sketch used

Teddy Bo - Top tip thursday

Stamp something - anything goes

Card making Mama's - digi week

DYSU - textures - raffia ribbon

Craft us crazy - autumn colours

Simon says stamp - multiple folds

Papertake - anything goes

Stamp with fun - autumn

Stamptacular - the skys the limit

Color me copic - autumn

Big Hugs

H xx

Happy 70th Birthday

My SIL asked me to make her a card for her work mate who turns 70 next week.  I just saw it as another excuse to do a Teddy Bo card.  I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Teddy Bo - flowers

Top tip tuesday - easel card - My top tip is to use pinflair or silicone glue to mend holes in your wellies, worked brilliantly for me, no more wet feet!!

DYSU - texture (glitter numbers & raffia lace ribbon)

Sweet sketch wednesday - sketch used

Crating for all seasons - birthday

Simon says stamp - multiple folds

i-copic - glitter

Bearly mine - flowers

Craft your passion - anything goes with flowers

Mad for markers - springtime

Card making mamas - digi week

Stamp something - digi week

Creative crafts - just charming

Teddy Bea is coloured with copic's. I have added glitter to her pom pom and clear glitter gel pen to parts of her flowers and bow.  The pink glitter 70 was cut on my cricut.  The papers are from my stash and the raffia ribbon is by paper cellar.  If you have any of this in brown that you don't want please email me and I'll buy it off you.  The charm is from a bracelet and I coloured the gems in the centre pink.

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

Yesterday I found out that one of my Mum and Dad's oldest friend is really having a hard time living with cancer and they wanted a card to give him that showed they cared.  Now I've known Jack all my life, his wife was there for my Mum when she started going into labour until Dad arrived.  Now Jack is a lifelong Bury F.C supporter and my husband and his family are fans of bury's biggest rival the mighty Rochdale A.F.C

Now I wanted Jack to know we cared but I didn't want him to think I felt sorry for him so thought I would have a little joke with the card.  I also felt that the usual Get Well Soon was not right for obvious reasons.

I needed to explain all this as you just wouldn't understand the wording otherwise.

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

Critter Sketch - anything goes

Simon says stamp - anything goes

Stamptacular - anything goes but be creative (I needed to be creative with the wording)

Crafty pad - blue and brown

Paper sundaes - super duper sketch

Pile it on - B is for .... Bear

Bugaboo - anything goes

Card making mamas - digi week

Stamp something - digi week

Do you stack up - friendly critters

Isn't he just the cutest!! He is of course Teddy Bo.  He has just had his shop made-over and would love to show it off to you if you pop over.  He is coloured with my super duper copic's.  In the sketch the image had inverted rounded corner's and sadly I don't have one of those punches so instead I'm using a woodware one Mum won and gave me.  The paper's are actually nitwit one's that came in a pack with a magazine.  I so love these denim look papers.  The gems were originally clear but I coloured them with my copic's to match in with the colour scheme.

I really liked this sketch so much so I continued with it on the inside of the card.

Now there is some blog candy on offer over at Cutie Pie Challenge and everytime I look more stash has been added.  The blog candy is available until the launch of the challenge on the 19th september, which is just 2 weeks today!!!

If you would like to sponsor our "amazing" challenge get in quick as our sponsorship is filling up by the day!!

Hugs

H xx

Lots of things to share with you today

I have a couple of top 3 wins to share with you, a new challenge blog that I've found, some blog candy, a design team call and last but not least a new Teddy Bo card.

So first I came top three at 

You can see the blog post about it here and I also came top 3 

You can read about it here.

Next up here's a new challenge blog I found that launches 19th September at 8.30am.

http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/

They have a DT call and some great blog candy to be won.

And so onto my new card.

This image as always a Teddy Bo image and I have coloured it with copic's.  The 3 paw prints were brads from my stash.  The papers are as follows - black and cream paper is DCWV All dressed up, the brown patterned paper behind the scrabble letters is Kanban and finally the leather effect paper was a wall paper sample my SIL gave me.  The ribbon is from my stash.

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

Teddy Bo - black, white and one other colour - brown

Papertake weekly - brilliant sketch

DYSU - friendly critters

Craft us crazy - autumn colours

A spoonfull of sugar - party time

Charisma cards - anything goes

Simon says stamp - anything goes

So thats me for today, well done if you made it to the bottom of this long post,

Hugs

H xx

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

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

Hellllloooooo

Today, Teddy Bo dropped in to say hello.  He is just the cutest guy around and he just won't leave my craft desk.  I would like to enter Bo's card into the following challenges :

Simon says stamp - brilliant sketch

2 sisters - boys and their toys

Sweet Stampin - strawberry, chocolate and cream colour scheme

DYSU - boys or men.

Isn't he just the cutest bear around???  Teddy Bo is coloured with copics.  I used my fiskars bracket punch along the edge of the image and the Hello! is stamped in brown chalk ink.  The papers used are from the same sheet of MME Andrea Victoria paper.  Don't you just love the double sided papers.

And that's it.  Nice and simple,

Hugs

H xx

My mojo has returned!!!

This card is being sent to Ryan.  Please take the time to go go Ryan's link and find out a bit about hm and how you can help brighten his day.

Well am I glad my mojo found it's way home.  I think that it might have had something to do with the fact that I was working with a super cute Teddy Bo image.

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

Teddy Bo - black white and one other colour

Sunday sketch and stamp - sketch used

2 sisters - boys

Totally gorjuss - as you like it

DYSU - boys

stamps r us - anything goes

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Top tip - boys/men

Cards for men - anything goes

In the second photo I have tried to show you the lush ribbon I have used that I got from Lacey at Stamp and Create.  It's the satin pleats ribbon in satin.  I will ordering more from her once my current lot is near the end.

This cute Teddy Bo is called Bo's bubbly smiles, and can be found in the pencil sketch section of the bits and bobs department.  They are a set of three and were my first ever purchase from Teddy Bo.

Teddy Bo has his hat and jumper coloured in with copic's.  The black and white PP was from one of my best buds Kath, Thanks huni.  I have gone overboard in the matting and layering department but I'm pleased with how it looks.  The final touch on my card is the 2 white candi from Craftwork cards.

If you have managed to read all the way to the end then I will let you into a secret.  I have some blog candy on offer.  It's not being blogged about on any other blogs as I wanted it to go to a "real" follower of my blog but since my mojo has returned I'm feeling in a good mood and thought I'd let just you know.

Hugs

H xx