Clean and Simple

Hi all the card I've made is for the Flutter by Wednesday Challenge,
this week the theme is Clean and Simple.
I've not seen this style of card before, it feels strange
not to fill the card with papers and embellishments, but you now what
i quite enjoyed making this card.
I am also going to enter it into the next
Crafts and Me Challenge this has the theme sparkle.




I have used a sweet pea image again this one is called 'Time Flies'.
I have used promarkers to colour her in and added stickles star dust
to the moon and her wings to create the sparkle element
in the crafts and me challenge.
I used a Martha Stewart punch on some orange card
and added a black ribbon
(cut out of a black top i bought, there to stopit falling off the hanger).
The sentiment stamp is hero arts.


Thanks for stopping by

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Penny Black Saturday

Hi there this is a new challenge for me Penny Black Saturday.
They had a list of things to include on your card beside a penny black image.

• 3 flowers
• 2buttons
• 1 bow

The image i have used i actually water coloured about 6 months ago
when on a whim i bought the hugs set.
I don't have many penny black stamps but i love the cute
hedgehog and mice in this set.

The flowers are prima, ribbon and buttons are from my local market. the paper is from an
Artylicious CD Rom, i have a few and actually printed it off ages ago, and can't remember which CD it was.

I have had a delivery today of some of the new Fairytale Tilda's they are
gorgeous, pretty, really girly.
I know what I'll be doing tonight colouring my heart out .

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Bridesmaid Tilda

Hi all on this beautiful sunny Saturday.
Above is my card I've made for Just Magnolia and
i am also entering it into Friday Sketchers challenges.




I have coloured her with my polychromos pencils,sansador and paper stumps.
The papers are Regency from the papermania signature range,
the stamp is bridesmaid Tilda, happy birthday sentiment.
Distress ink i used was frayed burlap.
Prima flower, glitter brad, MS branch punch,
glitter pens and stickles.

Thanks for stopping by

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Flutter by Wednesday 106

Hi there hope you are well. This is my card i made for this weeks Flutter by Wednesday challenge. I have used another sweet pea stamp i think she is called Forest Blue, I'm just loving these stamps at the moment. The D P is K&Co Mckenna, she is coloured with Promarkers and i also used some self adhesive gems.

The jury's out on this card. i have entered it but i just don't know whether it works?

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Thanks a bunch

Hi there this is my entry into the just magnolia challenge this week. There is a sketch by Mina
to follow and you can add a thank you sentiment as an optional twist.

I have used one of my favourite Tilda's, it's Tilda with bike, i water coloured her with my
inktense pencils on watercolour paper. i used papermania sweet nothings paper,
popcorn bear sentiment, ribbon and buttons from stash.

Thanks for looking

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Flutter by Wednesday Challenge

Hi all hope your weekend was great. We went away in our camper to a VW camper show it was brill the weather was fantastic, lovely sunshine. Have you been affected by the ash cloud? my parents were supposed to go on holiday today, everything is in limbo waiting to find out if they are going. One minute the airports open then it's not ,it must be awful not knowing.
It's worse for all those stuck abroad trying to get back.

I've got some catching up to do,there are a few challenges i want to enter and i haven't started making any cards yet! Here's a card i made a few weeks ago, i am going to enter this into the Futter by challenge. You can enter anything as long it has a butterfly, fairy or angel on it. I have only just
discovered this challenge but its my kind of thing i love all things butterfly fairy.

I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Crafts and me challenge DT team for picking my card as one of the top 3, i really love the sweet pea stamps they are great to work with and i was chuffed
to bits to see you had picked my card. It's a fantastic challenge keep up the good work.




Card Recipe

• Sweet pea stamp 'it's my birthday'
• coloured with promarkers
• Papermania capsule collection in heather
• ribbon
• paper flowers
• stickles
• sentiment stamp
• MS branch punch

Thanks for stopping by

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Soft Goth

Hi all its nearly the end of the kids holidays and everything can get back to normal.
The weather has been great here so we've been all over, so not had much time to craft.
I managed a couple of hours last night to make my card for the next
Crafts and Me challenge which is to use the colours Brown,Pink and yellow.

I have coloured her with Polychromos Pencils and sansador with paperstumps.
The image is Soft Goth, the papers are from butterfly bliss CD ROM from Artylicious and the
brown spotted paper is from papermania.
I have punched the leaves out of coloured card using a MS branch
and woodware leaf punches.
I can't remember where the flowers came from they are paper with a tie-dye
effect on them. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.




Hope you all have a nice weekend

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Tilda with 3 flowers

Hi there it's been fabulous here all weekend. we've been up hills, off to the beach
and i sorted my strawberry patch out. It's not left much time to craft, but like many crafters you find time.

Here's my card, I've used the sketch from Friday sketchers and also a magnolia image for just
magnolia which this week is punch it, so I've
made some paper flowers following the instructions from the new Magnolia ink magazine using a flower punch. My punch wasn't the same but I'm happy with the way they turned out. so
I'm entering into both challenges.




Card recipe

• Magnolia Tilda with 3 Flowers
• coloured with polychromos pencils,sansador,paperstumps
• Designer paper K&Co Classic K McKenna
• Woodware Flower Punch
• MS Branch Punch
• stickles
• ribbon

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Tilda with spring bundler

Hi all it has been nearly a month since i last visited my local craft shop, so i
decided to pop in at lunch time. I remember now why i haven't been
in, i always end up spending to much!

Amongst the stash i got was this lovely Tilda,
i'd been umming and arring for a
while whether to get this one and she was sat there on the shelf
calling out to me,so i had to give her a new home.
And to my joy while i was in the shop they had a delivery of the new
Magnolia magazine, what timing. So i can't wait to get the little peeps
into bed kick my heels of and thumb through it. That's my idea of heaven, oh yes while eating chocolate of course.

My card recipe

• Magnolia Tilda with spring bundler
• papers Gwenyth petite by paper adventures
• lace from stash
• Magnolia flowers
• Nellie die cut shapes
• lilac gauze
• Sentiment from forever friends
• copics and glitter pens
  

Oh well I'd better go and make the tea.

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Friday Sketchers Challenge 96

This is my second attemped at this card, i don't know what it was but it just didn't look right
so i threw it in the bin and started again. I'm glad to say I'm a lot happier with this one.


It's been lovely here today, i actually got in my garden and tackled the weeds I'm good at growing. ha ha.


Anyway back to my card i have used a magnolia stamp 'Honey Tilda'
I've used my Copics to colour her in.
The papers are 'Rose Garden' from Papermania.
Nellies and nesti dies.
Martha Stewart Punches Heart and Branch.
lace from stash, handmade crochet flower ( by my own fair hand).
Paper T-rose,flower pin.
I've used distress ink in Frayed Burlap to ink around the edges.

Thanks for looking

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Just Magnolia Fold It Challenge

Hi all hope everyone had a nice Easter?
I have had a quiet afternoon so I've had a play making a card
for the Just Magnolia challenge which is Fold It.
I think these cards are called Double Diamond cards.


I've used one of my favourite magnolia images (at the moment)
and coloured it with Derwent Inktense pencils on watercolour paper.
The sentiment stamp is from Papermania
Marie Curie 2009 stamp set.
The paper is the green flower vellum
from Anita's Essential A5 vellum stack.
I had to use a piece of A3 card to make the folded base card.
The flowers are Prima, i also used my Nestabilities.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Lili of the valley Challenge 50

Hi all on this Easter Saturday, i have been cleaning like a mad woman all morn we've got family
descending on us tomorrow for Sunday lunch. I've just sat down for 5 Min's with a brew and thought I'd show you may card i made for the lili of the valley challenge this week. The theme is Blue and Silver.

I love this stamp from lili of the valley, I've used Derwent inktense watercolour pencils to colour her in and stamped her on watercolour paper. The sentiment stamp was a free one form Craft Stamper magazine. The papers are digi papers called sun bonnet girls, silver mirri card and I've sprayed cosmic shimmer mist in midnight blue on spare white card, Nestabilities, Prima flowers and Martha Stewart Branch punch.

Oh well back to it hope you all have a happy Easter and don't eat to much chocolate?

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Crafts and me challenge

Hi all this is my entry for the new challenge blog at Crafts and me,
the theme is Fairies and Wings.
The image i have used is by Ching-chou kuik, i was browsing on her web site
and came across these free images that you can colour and use on your cards, As long as
you credit the artist and don't sell cards with the free image on. There are
six different images here

I have used a mixture of Copic and Promarkers,
the papers are printed off Joanna Sheen's Cottage Garden Cd ROM, they match perfectly with the poppies even though I'd coloured the image in before deciding what papers to use.
The sentiment is from hero art and the leaves and paper ribbon are
Martha Stewart punches.
The paper flowers are from my local craft shop.

Thanks for looking
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