This card is one of those that seemed to make itself and I'm really pleased with how its come out.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges :

Marianne design diva's - anything goes

Creative inspirations - anything goes

Craft your passion - the f word - flowers

Sunday sketch and stamp - absolutely brilliant sketch

Bugaboo - punches - Marianne ribbon flower die

2 sisters challenge - black/white and one other colour

Stamp something - anything goes

DYSU - texture - ric rak used on the ribbon flower

The black and white papers are papermania I think.  The ribbon flower is by Marianne. The image is coloured with copic's.Card finished with card candi,

Hugs

H xx

Good luck in your new job

I was asked by my SIL for 2 good luck cards for her to give to her work colleagues. 

This is the first one,I will post the second after this.

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

Creative inspirations - anything goes

Craft your passion - the f work - flowers

Tuesday morning sketches - brilliant sketch

Bugaboo - punches or die cuts - punched border

Stamp something - anything goes

Card making mamas - digi stamps

I have used gold decorated velum and black card for all my layers.The border punch used is Fiskars bracket punch.  The image is coloured with copic's. I used clear sakura glitter pen on the flower.

Hugs

H xx

2 hours 2 late

This card was meant to be for the Lili of the Valley Challenge but as the title suggests I'm 2 hours too late, so I would like to enter it into the following challenges instead :
Craft us Crazy - Autumn colours
Bugaboo - anything goes
Secret Crafter - autumn colours
Color me creative - fall or Halloween inspired
Stamp with fun - autumn
Top tip - easel cards
Papertake - anything goes
Simon says stamp - multiple folds
Crating for all seasons - birthday

This card is made up of scraps.  The Kraft cardstock is actually the inside of coke boxes and the PP is from a magazine.  The leather effect panels are actually wallpaper samples thanks to my MIL for those.
The swirly corner is a die cut using a spellbinder die from a Christmas set.
The lili of the valley image is coloured with copic's, his hat is paper pieced with some of the backing paper and the sky is done using a template and distress ink.

Off for a bath to ease my achy bod,
Hugs
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

Craft Your Passion Challenge 72 - They said what?!?!?

Welcome to another week at Craft your passion and our theme this week is "They said what!?!?!

I got to work with one of  Bugaboo's great images.

Wanna see??

I began by colouring my Grandma with copic's and I then added her white spots to get dress with a white gel pen and glossy accents to her glasses.  I then went overboard in the old matting and layering stages.

The corrugated card along the bottom has bakers twine wrapped around it.  I embossed a piece of white card with my sizzix big spots embossing folder and I added a piece of stripy red ribbon along the top.

To follow the sketch perfectly I did need to add another panel but when I did it looked too much so I removed it again.

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

My time to craft - G for .... Grandma

Sketch Saturday - great sketch used

Hugs

H xx

I love you

This card is for my Hubby's cousin to give to her Fiancée.

I'm not overly happy with it and I think I could done alot better with the colouring but I've not been in the right head space to be creative so it's my own fault.

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

Sketch n stash - great sketch - old papers, new twine

Pollycraft - distressing - distress ink used on edges of all papers

Cards for men - anything goes

Dream Valley - distressing

Crafty Emmas Store - 2 different DP

Bugaboo - distressing

The image(LIli of the Valley) is coloured with copics.  The DP's are from my scrap drawer, I think they may be from a magazine.  The twine is laced through the image and came from aldi.  I have used walnut distress ink on the edges of all the papers.

Hugs

H xx

Time for a new Craft Your Passion Challenge

I'm loving my time spent with the Craft your passion design team.  I'm already 2 challenges into my month long guest design team term.

Today our new challenge is Under the Sea and I have kindly been sent this cute merman from Simply Betty Stamps.  He's called Cornelius and you can find him and his other merkids friends here.

Here's my card

A close up of my coloured image

Ticket sentiment stamp and many others are free on Marions blog

Hopefully you can see the shimmer on the backing paper I created.

Cornelius is coloured with my copic's.  I added mica powder to his tail to add some shimmer and some glamour dust to the dragonfly.

The backing paper was made by blending distress inks and then spritzing with perfect pearls clear mica spray.

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

Crafty Emmas store - water

Bugaboo - anything goes

Stamp Something - digi stamps

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Cute card thursday - no designer paper

Inkspirations - great sketch used

Hugs

H xx

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hi and welcome to another Magical Monday challenge.

For the next 2 weeks our challenge theme is Banners, bunting or pennants PLUS glitter.

This time we are being sponsored by 

who are offering our winner 5 digi stamps of the winners choice.

***DON'T FORGET TO USE A MAGICAL IMAGE***

My card today features a mermaid that I found mentioned on a copic forum I go on.  The artist is called Sureya and she will happily let you colour her images.  All she asks is that you share your coloured image on the that images page and that you credit the image to her.

She has some of the most amazing, yet challenging (to colour) images for you to download for free and you can see all here.

So here's my Magical Monday Design Team Card

She is coloured with copic's and she took me 2 hours to complete.  I have added dots of clear glitter pen to het tail, I think you can see it in the photos.  The main PP has the words calm , tranquillity and peace printed on it.  The spotty paper has had the glitter treatment. The starfish charm is from some jewellery I got from Primark.  The banner was a blank vector image I found when I was wandering the net and I just added the sentiment to it in adobe elements.

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

Crafty Emma's Store - water

Charisma cards - bingo - glitter, squares,charm

Bugaboo - anything goes

Stamp Something - use a digi

Craft us crazy - anything goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - great sketch used.
Bearly Mine -spots and charms
Mad for markers - glitter/spica pens

Hugs

H xx

Sparkling Snowflakes

So the sun is finally shining, its warm outside and so I have a Christmas card to share with you.

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

Tip top tuesday - shaped cards

Stamp Something - favourite embellishment - just had to be glitter
Creative craft - layers or decoupage
Paper Sundaes - Christmas
Bugaboo - Christmas

So here's my card, shame all the glitter didn't show up too well.

The stamp I have used is Stampin Up Serene snowflakes.  Stamped with blue chalk ink.  The smaller white stamped snowflakes are from the same stamp set.
I began by cutting out my shaped card on my cricut using Make the cut software.  The blue layer is also cut on the cricut and then stamped with the smaller snowflakes, glamour dust glitter is added to the centre of each snowflake.
The 2 snowflake edged strips across the card are done with my super new EK Success punch.  The ribbon was bought from Tesco's just after Christmas last year and cost about 30 p.  Finally the larger snowflake was stamped in the centre of the circle and then glittered, next i stamped onto a separate piece of paper, and cut out the cross section of the stamp and then it was glittered also.  Finally just the centre circle was stamped cut out and glittered.  They are layered up using foam pads to give a 3d effect.
So on Tip Top Tuesday they asked for a tip.  Mine tip is about using your edge punches.  Punch out 2 strips, say from the snowflake punch I used.  Then turn the punched edges together and you get a beautiful snowflake strip, like in the photos below. I hope you understand what I mean.

Hugs
H xx

Its going to be Tickled Pink Christmas

So this week I have started my Christmas cards.  This is my first card that I have to share with you.

I am going to enter it into the following challenges :

Sweet stop sketches - the great sketch I followed.

Tickled Pink Christmas Challenge - anything goes

Paper Sundaes - Christmas

Stamp Something - Christmas

Anything goes - more than 1 fold

Bugaboo - Christmas

Craft your passion - text

So here's my card :

Isn't she so beautiful??  She's a dream to colour and you can find her at Tickled pink stamps here.

She is coloured with my copic's.  I used camel seam binding, and some stripy paper I found in the drawer.  The top PP is actually plain cream card stamped with a Christmas words background that I got for 99pence on ebay.

The snowflake charm was silver but I coloured it with my e37 copic to make it match the vintage feel.

Finally all papers are edged with vintage photo distress ink.

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

Welcome to the Mad for Markers big COPICal hop

Hello and welcome to the Mad for Markers BIG Copical blog hop! We are excited today to be hopping around the blogworld with bloggers from all over the world who all LOVE colouring with COPICS! 

If you can here from Down Right Crafty's blog then you are right on track. If not then please go to Sammi's blog  to start at the beginning!

Once you have completed the hop please leave a comment and vote for your favourite creations in any or all of these categories :

1. Colouring embellishments.

 2. using a Greeting Farm image3. using a Spesch Stamps image4. Colouring brown hair

... and you and the person you voted for might receive a little surprise prize!!

But to get there make sure you follow the hop and leave some love for all the participants... your next stop is Ashlee's blog .....Have a colourful day!!

For my stop on the hop I have 2 cards to show you, one for the girls and one for the guys.

Here's my The Greeting Farm card :

I'm guessing that some of you won't recognise this cutie, well she's actually a mix of two different TGF stamps.  I got the idea from this post on the Greeting Farms blog, I just used photoshop as they were digi stamps.

The two different girls are called Wild Sprout Audrey and Cupcake Anya.

She is of course coloured with my trusty copics and has clear gems on her bunches in her hair that have been coloured with copics to match the colour scheme, as has the ribbon running across the card and the gems in the left hand side corners.

The papers are from my straps files.

I used the following copics  :

Hair : E11,13,17,18

Hairband/pants : YG 63,67

Bows/tops : YG 00,03

Skin : E00,11

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

A spoon full of sugar - ribbons and bows

Sketch and stash - sketch

Do it with digi's - monochromatic

And now onto my second card :

The image used this time is a Spesch stamps and is called Max.

He is of course colled with my beloved copics.

The papers are freebies from a magazine, the ribbbon and square gems are coloured with copics to match his pants and the border punch used is a fiskars bracket punch.

The stars were cut from a DCWV Rockstar 12x12 stack.  I then cut out the black sections and replaced them with the grey of the card.  The sentiment is computer generated.

The copics used are :

Hair - E55,57,59

T-shirt - R14,35,37,Boo,o2,05

Pants - W1,3,5

Skin - E00, 11

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Bugaboo - its a mans world

Sweet sketch wednesday - used their sketch

Once you have completed the hop please leave a comment and vote for your favourite creations in any or all of these categories :

1. Colouring embellishments.

 2. using a Greeting Farm image3. using a Spesch Stamps image4. Colouring brown hair

... and you and the person you voted for might receive a little surprise prize!!

 Make sure you follow the hop and leave some love for all the participants... your next stop is Ashlee's blog .....Have a colourful day!!

So I hope you have enjoyed your visit, and will come back soon to see what I've been up to,

Hugs

H xx

Totally loving Tickled Pink Stamps

This post is my final one as a  Fiskarette, my three months are up and it's time for some new designers.

Tomorrow I will go through all I've learnt about Fiskars products, my favourites pieces and what I now can't live without.  

The card I'm sharing with you all today features one of Tickled Pink Stamps Lil Victorian Steampunk images called Victorian Steampunk Lad Luca.  I really struggled choosing which one to have as I bought quite a few of the digis in the last week as a pick me up after having stupid amounts of pain with my back.  Ok more than quite a few, I bought 8.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

TotallyPaperCrafts - punches and die cuts

Bugaboo - its a mans world

Suzanne Deans copic Challenge - brown hair

Mad for Markers - brown hair

Tickled Pink Stamps - the sketch below

And here's my card :

Luca is coloured with my copics, and he is edged with vintage photo distress ink.

The BP has been edged with the same distress ink, as has the circle.  The papers are from my stash pile, the kraft cardstock has been embossed with Fiskars squares texture plate and then spritzed with perfect copper perfect pearls mist as has the circle.  The ribbon was from a set from TK Maxx.  The punched spotty strip is done with my fiskars bracket border punch.  The ticket was made by the every talented Marion.

Thanks for dropping on over,

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