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

Hello and welcome to a new challenge over at Magical Monday's.  For the next two week's we want to see you using our very own Heidi's sketch.  And please don't forget to use a magical image on your project. 

 As Christmas approaches don't forget that the main man Father Christmas and his sidekick Rudolf are magical characters, along with their ever so helpful elves.

This is the sketch that Heidi has designed for us all to work with.

And here is my take on the sketch :

Poor Teddy Bo, I don't think his Christmas job is exactly what he had planned.  This Bo is called Sugar Plum Fairy and he doesn't come with wings I added those in adobe elements.

No only is Bo in a skirt he's also been blinged up to his eyeballs.  Sorry Bo.

Bo is coloured with copic's and I then added glamour dust to his wings, blue ultra fine glitter to his stars and 2 coats of crystal ice stickles.

I used tumbled glass distress ink on the circle and the fancy tag.

The paper's are from the DCWV winter wonder stack.  The gems are fizzy moon and the ribbon is from my stash.

The sentiment was created by my very talented friend Marion.

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

Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Bunny Zoe - easel cards

Bearly-mine - bling

Cards for men - anything goes

Totally Gorjuss - cute and cuddly

Crafts 4 eternity - flags, tickets, tags (I used a fancy tag as a stopper)

Thanks to my great friend Marion I can share with you the word art she made me for this card.

Click on the image to bring it up large then right click and save image as.

Good luck everyone entering our challenge,

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

It feels like a Magical Monday

Hi there and welcome to another new challenge over at Magical Mondays.

This challenge is being sponsored by Crafty Ribbbons.  I so wish I could enter as I've been over to their shop and there's loads of beautiful ribbons, and a girl can never have too much ribbon. 

For the next two weeks we have a sketch for you to follow.

Its been designed by Heidi and has been a dream to work with.

Here's the sketch :

And here is my card :

This cute guy is from Doodle Dragon Studio's.  Dustin Pike always has great dragon's and there's usually a freebie or two on his blog, so if you don't have a magical image go and over and check this guy's dragons out.

The dragon is coloured with my copic's and the cloudy sky was made with tumbled glass distress ink, a cloud template and a stipple brush.

The sentiment reads "may your day be filled with more bubbles than troubles" and was designed by my great friend and graphic designer Marion.  You really should go and look at Marion's blog as she's a very generous girl with her sentiments.

She has kindly said that I can add the sentiment as a freebie and has done it in two colour ways.

All you need to do is right click on the sentiments below and click save as.

So please grab your magical images (dragons, fairies, wizards etc) and join us for our challenge.

I hope to see your creations real soon,

Hugs

H xx

Proud to announce I'm joining the Magical Monday Design Team

I'm really chuffed to bits at being asked to join the Magical Monday's design team.

I love their challenges as I so love my fairies and dragons.

So I hope you are going to come over on every other Monday for a new challenge.

A new challenge was posted today and here are the details :

"Now onto our next challenge which is a RECIPE

3 designer papers, 2 flowers, 1 ribbon

If you want to be considered to be our Guest Designer in June you also need to enter this challenge as well as the last one.

We are being sponsored by Digi's With Attitude who are offering a $10 store voucher."

Hugs

H xx

You make the world a better place

I think this might be the first time I have inked this gorgeous fairy up since I got her at the Harrowgate papercraft show in March.  I can't believe it, as she is just one of the best fairies around.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Magical Monday - white plus one other colour

A spoonful of sugar - things with wings

Lili of the valley - I believe in fairies

Sunday sketch and stamp - the sketch below

And here's my card - 

The fairy is coloured with copics with glamour dust on her wings and wand and my clear sakura stardust pen on the dandelion seeds, her ribbon in her hair and on her petticoat.

This stamp is called Dandelion clock and the sentiment circle is from the Mixed circle sentiments set.

The white squares were spritzed with my turquoise perfect pearl mists and then embossed with a folder that came free with the docrafts magazine.  The PP was also spritzed with the same perfect pearl mist, which gives the most gorgeous shimmer IRL, but its not picked up on camera sorry.

Hugs

H xx

The twins 1st Birthday

A year ago I was asked to make 2 cards for the birth of her Twin Grandchildren.  She loved what I did, and I have now made their Christening cards and Christmas cards and now they are turning 1.

I am entering these cards into the following challenges :

Magical Monday -  the sketch below

Catch the bug - Anything goes

Papertake weekly - Anything goes

And now onto the photos..

The dragons are from Doodle Dragon Studios and have been coloured with a mix of copics and sakura stardust pens.  They were then cut out and popped onto some home made springs to give them a bit of movement.

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