Easel Card Challenge at Winter Wonderland

Good morning, 

here's my card for this weeks Easel challenge over at Winter wonderland

I've used a Sugar Nellie image, paper pieced her skirt and coloured the rest of her with my promarkers. 

I've made my own gem pins and some designer paper from Papermania capsule collection.

Here's a close up of the main panel 

and the bottom panel

you can just about see the ribbon and buckle I've added

and here's the card from the side

I've not added a sentiment yet but think it'll be a Valentines card. 

Hope you're all having a lovely day

hugs

 

Birthday Wishes Challenge at Winter Wonderland

Hello, quick post for this weeks challenge at Winter Wonderland which is Birthday Wishes

This card I made for the niece of a workmate. 

I've used a few digi images on this card; Winnie from Saturated Canary , though she generally comes with the cutest wee caravan, I cut that out for this card. I've also used a bag and shoes, though i'm not 100% about where they came from and a Vanity with mirror and rug from someone i met on CDAC (which i'll add later. 

I've coloured these images with my promarkers, layered them onto some designer dotty pink paper 

and finished with some sparkly gems.

Thanks for stopping by

have a great day

hugs

Little Miss Muffett Anything Goes Challenge

Good evening, here we are on the 2nd of January and I'm already posting my second challenge entry :-) 

so this one is with a fab freeby image from Little Miss Muffett

she's called Saffron and the information on how to get her is here

It's my neighbours daughter's 8th birthday today and I thought the Saffron image was perfect to use for her birthday card. I printed off two images so I could use another on a matching gift bag.
I coloured Saffron with my promarkers and then layered her with some papers I originally got free in a magazine last year with some lilac card as a matt. Topped this with a die cut felt flower with a Craftwork Cards candi centre. The sentiment on the card was made using peel offs and the sentiment on the gift bag was stamped and finished with a purple felt flower.
I also used some lilac gingham ribbon and the cutest little pearl effect buckle from Mei Flower

The challenge at Little Miss Muffett is anything goes and finishes tomorrow.

Hope you're enjoying the start of the new year!

hugs

 

Happy New Year and WW Challenge

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

well it's been a while since I've posted and I'd like to share not only my first card of the year

 but also one of my New Year's Resolutions 

to join in more challenges! 

so here's my first challenge card and as you can see I've already made

a start on my Christmas Cards for Christmas 2012!

I'd like to enter this card into the challenge at Winter Wonderland - 

Winter wonderland Challenge - Red & White

I've used Holly Fairy from MiC and coloured her using my promarkers. 

I've layered her onto a die cut with embossed holly I got in a pack last year from Craftwork Cards, then onto a die cut label using my Spellbinders and bug. I think my papers are from a Docrafts pack, and finished with a "Happy Christmas" sentiment again from Craftwork cards and some die cut holly leaves with red adhesive gems. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and would like to wish you all the very very best for a fabulous 2012!

hugs

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November Challenge at Ellephantastic!

Good evening folks, 

The Ellephantastic challenge for November went live yesterday, sorry I'm not posting till tonight, 

I was at work early yesterday and then so tired i was in my bed for 9... :-( 

so here's my card

I've used the freebie for this month from Ellephantastic - Roger in his wellies

I printed him out twice and printed out another cut down copy of his scarf, 

I then coloured them with promarkers and layered them together with foam pads. 

Here's a view from the side

The theme for this months challenge is weather related.

Now when I was preparing my card for this months challenge I had another image in mind to use, 

I had her coloured up and used a fancy die to cut her out, then this happened....

my beautiful 2 and a 1/2 year old daughter decided my image needed a trim and some glitter...:-( 

that's what i get for having the glitter, flower soft and embossing powder in a drawer at accessible height for a toddler, she must have thought my desk and the carpet under it looked a bit boring too as she emptied all but one of my embossing powders and a few tubs of glitter all over them... :-( 

The drawer has now been moved... and the scissors... :-( 

Anyhow, if you'd like to take part in the fantastic Ellephantastic Challenge this month, follow this link for the details, you'll also see some info about us taking a bit of a break till next year some time.  

thanks for stopping by

hugs

 

Gift Box & link to tutorial at ellephantastic

Good morning all, 

hope you're all well and managed to have a longer lie in than I?... Daughter wanted to come down stairs for brekkie, so Daddy gets to have a long lie :-) 

I've got a wee picture to share with you of a gift box I've made using the recipe for Octobers Challenge at Ellephantastic. 

For full details of the Tutorial pop over to the challenge page for some mid month inspiration

I might be back later to share some more cards as I have quite a few I've made for work lately and not got round to post... 

Hope you have a wonderful day whatever you do.

hugs

 

Recipe Challenge at Ellephantastic

Good evening folks! 

sorry I'm a bit late with my post I've been at work all day... :-( booo 

and on national cardmaking day too, how inconsiderate! 

Now let me tell you about this months challenge over at Ellephantastic!

It's my turn to host this month and I chose a recipe to follow, 

I thought as it's Halloween at the end of the month to use Purple and Green in the recipe along with the following:

Three embellies, Two Colours and One Image :-)

for all the deets pop over to the Ellephantastic Challenge Blog

where you can see all the gorgeous entries by the DT and this months fabulous GDT! 

so enough talking lets see my creation = 

I've made a wee hanging for my daughters room

I've used Roger The Mummy available here 

I coloured him with promarkers. I made wee spiders with liquid pearl bodies and i drew 

the wee skull. 

If you have a look at the other girls DT creations you'll see your creation doesn't have to be Halloween inspired, you just need to follow the recipe! 

Look forward to seeing all your creations and hope you have a lovely month!

hugs

 

Ellephantastic - Here come The girls - or the wee baby boy :-)

Good evening! We have a wonderful new challenge over at Ellephantastic

 and this month's theme is Here come the girls! 

here's my card, I've used Belle, one of the beautiful new images available Here at Ellephantastic. 

I coloured Belle using my promarkers. 

Pop over to the The Ellephantastic Challenge Blog to see the beautiful cards and door hangers made by the Design Team and for the details of this months challenge. 

Sorry this post is a wee bit short, I've been distracted by some wonderful news! My fabulous brother and gorgeous sister in law to be have just had a scrumptious wee baby boy! He was 8lb 8 oz and born at 8:45 tonight, I can't wait to hear what his big sister, Beatrice thinks of him! 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks! Hopefully I'll be back at some stage over the weekend to share some more pics of some card's I've been working on. 

hugs

 

Delightful Inspiration Challenge

Here's my card for the delightful inspiration challenge this week, I hope I'm not too late... :-( 

I've been busy making some cards for a charity event at my daughters nursery so I'll be back soon to share some piccies. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, it's hubbie's birthday so I expect to be quite busy especially as he's asked for some Chocolate fudge Cake... mmmm 

hugs

 

Delightful Inspiration Challenge

Here's my entry for  this weeks Delightful Inspiration challenge

I've made a wee note book and decorated with some ribbon and buttons from stash. My image is coloured with promarkers. 

Thanks for stopping by, sorry I'm in a bit of a rush, need to go to work... :-( 

have a great day

hugs

 

Make it Colourful Challenge – Colour with Pink!

Good evening and here's my last challenge entry for the evening! This time it's for Make it Colourful 

I was lucky enough to be chosen as the MiC winner for using a MiC image last week and got to choose 2 images as my prize. One of which is the beautiful Ivy Swing Digi Stamp 

I added Sitting Jane and the "A little birdie told me" sentiment using word and then coloured the images and the ribbon with my promarkers.

 I printed the ticket and birthday sentiment out, matted and layered the image and DP onto red card and finished with some handmade charms, made from hatpins with added beads and some pretty pink roses. 

hugs

And another challenge - Delightful Inspiration Challenge

Just a quickie and another challenge entry from me for today this

 time for the Delightful Inspiration Challenge

I'd already put my card in its protective bag when I remembered I hadn't taken my photo, 

so sorry for the shimmer. 

I coloured my cute image with promarkers, matted with some scrap paper and card and finished

off with a wee sentiment stamp from Lili of the Valley. 

hugs

 

Whimsy Challenge number one!

Good morning,

Whimsy have a new Challenge Blog over here... their first challenge is Ribbon & Bows and you've to use a whimsy stamp. So here's my card

I've used the Sweet Wedding Cake designed by MelJen on the Whimsy site,  I coloured it using my promarkers. I've embossed the card using my cuttlebug, used some sentiments from Lili of The Valley and edged with some satin ribbon topped with some grosgrain ribbon and finished with a wee bow topped with a heart gem. 

Thanks for stopping by, if i get time i might have another wee card or two to share this afternoon or when i get back from work tonight. 

Hope you're all having a fantastic day

hugs

 

Ellephantastic challenge - Add some Layers

This months challenge at Ellephantastic is layers! 

Here's my DT Card

I've used Roger Hot Air Balloon and coloured him with my promarkers.

For all the details of the challenge and to see last months special celebration winners pop over to the Ellephantastic Challenge blog.... 

I'm off to work on some colouring...:-)

enjoy your weekend!

hugs

 

Ellephantastic Birthday Blog Hop & Celebrations Challenge!

Good evening all! 

Sorry this is a little bit late today ladies & gents but I've been on my Jollies :-)

Can you believe this is actually in the UK, it's Ingoldmells, near Skegness and we've just had a fabulous week there - well actually from one extreme to the other in terms of weather but my wee girl had a ball!

Ok lets get down to business we have a very exciting Celebrations Challenge and Blog Hop this month to celebrate Ellephantastic's first birthday!

The Challenge

July's challenge starts today, 2nd July till 5th August 2011
our theme is
'Celebrations'
we want to see any kind of Celebration card or project
If you've not been there already pop over to the Ellephantastic Challenge Blog for all the deets. 


The Blog Hop
you should have arrived here from Joanne's  but if not you may want to start over and the first blog to visit is the Ellephantastic Challenge Blog. There you will find the Blog Hop Rules and details of the fantastic Candy on offer, here's a wee sneak pic of the fab prizes:

UK Candy

Non UK Candy

Here's a list of the full Hop so you can keep track -

Challenge blog

Jill

Joanne

Michelle - You're Here!

Nikki

Tamara

Tina

Helen 

And I almost forgot to show you some photo's of my cards....

using Crafty Sentiments ~ Bear on Mushroom digi

using Ellephantastic ~ Baby Roger FREE digi image

using Glitterbabe's ~ Bird Bath digi image

using The Cutting Cafe's ~ Graduation set

Make sure you complete the blog hop or pop over to the Ellephantastic Challenge Blog to see the other DT cards and projects, they are stunning and you don't want to miss them!

I hope you all have a wonderful month and have loads of fun completing the blog hop and/or Challenge!

hugs

 

Make It Colourful Challenge - Challenge #28 – Colouring Dark Skin

Just a quick post to share my entry for this weeks Make it Colourful Challenge. I've had a bit of a busy old week, I've got an order for some wedding invites which i'm working on and I worked a night shift on Tuesday which was kinda weird, I felt fine till about 6am then I just felt a bit sick, like i was hungover... don't think I'll do that again in a hurry, especially as I seemed to lose three days to it in the end cos I still feel knackered today... 

Anyhow here's my piccie

The challenge was to colour dark skin

I've used Elizabeth J from Make it Crafty and coloured her with my promarkers

I need to work on my hair and my folds but i'm pretty chuffed with her, she is a gorgeous image to colour. I've even given her some fishnets :-) 

Thanks for stopping by 

hugs

 

The Sugar Bowl Challenge - 64 – Kiki’s Sketch

Here's my entry for the Sugar Bowl Challenge 

Here's the sketch from Kiki

and a front view of my card

I've used my gorjuss girl and coloured her with my promarkers.

I embossed the black card with my bug and my cogs folder, topped this with some shiny striped black card. I've then cute a circle from purple card with a lacy edge and added some black lace to the top, to finish off I've used a wee sentiment from Craftwork cards. 

Here's another view

Thanks for stopping by

hugs