And another one...

Hello, can you believe it, it's me again. Hehe, I've been a bad blogger for so long and now I can't seem to stop posting!

Well, let's see if I can keep this up!

I had a browse around and found some challenges I liked but didn't want to worry too much about fitting loads in one card. So I decided I'd pick one for my card that fitted with the image I wanted to use and the Colour Create Challenge no. 62 of pink, blue, grey and white sounded great.

Apologies for the picture quality, I had really bad light today...

I started with a square card base cut from grey cardstock

The image is called "Star flower girl" and is part of the timeless beauties series by Tammy from A Day for Daisies. I am a big fan of Tammy's work and it's such a pleasure to colour them. I coloured with Copics and embossed a Spellbinders Nestabilities long rectangle underneath to frame my sentiment. I used leftover paper from Basic Grey to mat the image, although you can't see much of it but the colour was just perfect.

To finish I punched some fern leaf shapes with a Woodware punch and used Prima and Papermania flowers and tiny poundshop roses to embellish the left hand upper corner. I am not quite sure if it needs anything else but decided I wouldn't try my luck too much. All those flowers are out of my comfort zone anyway but lately I seem to try out more new things for me *lol*

Hope you like my card and thanks for any comments you want to leave, I love hearing from you!

Multi challenge celebration card

Hello bloggers,

can you tell my new years resolution was to be more active on the old blog? Here I am again with a card I just finished this morning. And I have to say, I love it! Ifound a few challenges I liked the look/sound of and decided I challenge myself to incorporate all of them together with an image I have been itching to use. And the result is this card...

What do you think? I REALLY like it and I rarely say that about my cards.

I am entering in the following challenges:

Simon says stamp and show - Polka dots

Digital Tuesday Challenge - tropical warmth

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch 85

Creative Inspiration - Celebrate

Truly Scrumptious - Pink, Brown and Green

Delightful Sketches - Celebration

I used one of the adorable images from A Day for Daisies, coloured with Copics, and mainly SU cardstock. The green layer was stamped with Polka Dot Basics by PTI and the sentiment is from PTI as well - Out on a limb sentiments.

Ribbon is from Pebbles and I did some handstitching next to it. The flower is punched from different punches by SU and Woodware.

Pinching...

Hello bloggers!

Last night I shamelessly pinched a card design from the extremely talented Kerry. I just love her style! This one card caught my eye especially and I asked her if I could try my hand on the design.

I didn't have the images she used and my colours are totally different but I did copy the layout basically one-to-one.

It's not nearly as good as Kerry's but I am pleased with the result.

Image is PTI - In bloom, sentiment from SU, both stamped in Hibiscus ink by PTI.

I coloured the flower inners with a white Prisma pencil and the scoring (not very visible on my photo) on the main panel was done on my MS scoreboard.

Copying someone else is really out of my comfort zone, so I am entering this card in the Passion for Papertrey challenge.

A crafty day...

Hello bloggers!

I had a wonderful day on Saturday with my crafty friends Julie and Lesley and after a quick visit to the Glitterpot we played almost all day in my little room.

I was quite industrious and made 6 cards, can you believe it?! But admittedly, most of the images were already coloured in and waiting to be used!

Three of them use the newest images by Ruth from APassionForStamps and I hope I did them justice!

All images were coloured with Copics and I used Nesties for the mats, ribbon and flowers from stash. All sentiment stamps by PTI.

The next card is for a very dear crafty friend who just moved, hoping she doesn't see it before it arrives *hehe*

The image is from the very talented Mo Manning and coloured with Copics again. I used the very technical help of a saucer to make the card shape and twine from SU to give it a bit of a rustic feel. The scallops were done with punched circles.

This image from the wonderful Tammy at ADayForDaisies was coloured with Copics ages ago and I really wanted to use it, so this is my first christmas card for 2011! The strip of glitter s doe with DST, the scalloped edge is a PTI die and the Twine is from Anthropology. Sentiment is from a Paula Pascale set.

This image was done months ago and I didn't know what to do with it until Saturday... The background is done with Distress inks and I stamped a SU stamp on top. Sentiment is from a Personal impression stamp set. I added some tiny pearls to balance and just matted onto grey-blue card.

Lastly (I am sorry you have to endure these mega-posts after me not posting much for ages!!!) two cards I made with a challenge pack from my SU demo Joanne, who is an amazing card maker (go check out her stuff!).

One was done on Saturday, the other yesterday. Supplies almost all by SU.

Sorry about that slightly unfocused picture, I didn't realise at the time and then couldn't stand the thought of having to set up again...

Well, thanks for staying with me for so long and I hope you like what you saw! Night, night for now!

Happy new year everyone!

Hello bloggers,

just wanted to quickly pop on and wish you all a great start to the new year. I am trying to tidy my craft room at the minute and hope to get a bit of playing in later as well... :-)

HAve a good 2011!!

I know, I know...

I am a bad, bad blogger. Just can't get myself to be organised enough to do everything I need AND blog. Sorry!!

I have been one busy bee all of december! And I did sooo much I want to show and half of it I didn't even have a chance to take a picture of! Am I b**ed or what? *lol*

But firstly I want to show you what I did before when I was missing in action.

Well, the result of it anyway, the stall I had on the christmas fair. Tell me what you think...

Now, without any info at all, because it is late, I am tired and just can't face typing all the supplies etc. But if you see something you like and want to know more, please just ask and I'll happily help.

This birthday card is for a dear friend whose birthday is tomorrow but as she has no internet at the moment I think it's safe to show it :-)

Sorry about the quality of most of the pictures, I took them in a hurry as they were for a special "occasion" that I don't dare talk about yet :-) Hopefully I can talk/write about it soon...

Right, I am off now, watch a little telly (Overboard is on, with Goldie Hawn, love that movie!) and then bed. Night night bloggers!

Two cards...

Hello again,

it didn't quite happen to post again the next day but here are a couple of cards I did recently...

I had a christmas fair and it took a bit of my time. Maybe I can share a few pics of the fair with you soon.

This first card is made with a lovely Hanglar stamp coloured with Copic markers. The background was stamped with SU frost white fluid ink onto white card and coloured with Distress inks afterwards. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got the stamp from, it's an unmounted red rubber I bought from the US but can't remember the name, sorry!

The scalloped border is cut from Core'dinations with a PTI die. The mat is also Core'dinations and the ribbon is adhesive backed ribbon from Martha Stewart Crafts. Sentiment is from the PTI set "Signature Greetings" from Dawn McVey.

This next card is rather simple and I took inspiration from a card I saw on a blog a little while ago. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was, if you know, please let me know so I can give credit! I cut the nativity scene on my cricut and I stamped a greeting on white card and stuck it to the front. The stamp is from the PTI set "A wreath for all seasons" and I drew lines to anchor it on the card.

I hope you like my offerings today and come back soon for more!