Rain or Shine

Good morning hope all you hard working Mums

got treated yesterday.

My precious little ones ( although Jack is taller than

me now) gave me some lovely cards and 

yippee i have finally got a scor-pal.

It's been on my wish list for ages and 

Hubie asked a few weeks ago

if there was anything i wanted, so i 

mentioned it and hey presto.

I did um and aah about which one to get.

Metric or inches, I'm a bit old school and tend to

measure in inches, but the metric board did 

have more grooves on it and some fine grooves at the end

so i went metric...welcome to the 21st century.lol.

It's fab though and i have ordered the cutting mat 

that fits inside, then i can have it on the desk all the time.

Onto my card for today, I've made this for

Crafters Companion . They have a colour theme of
Aqua and Brown for this months challenge.

I have had a little play over the weekend making 

flowers. This one is like the others I've made before

the tutorial was in a Magnolia Ink mag. I've just 

gone bigger with this.

I have used a go create flower die and

some smaller punched flowers for this one.

Basically you brad them all together,

wet them, scrunch it,

then unfold gently and

when you are happy with the shape

let it dry.

The stamp is from the SWALK range at crafters companion.

I have coloured her with polychromos pencils

and blended with sansador and paperstumps.

I have added star dust stickles.

The paper is from MME asparagus paper pack.

Martha Stewart doily punch.

Seam binding, card candy and metal corner from stash.

Thanks for looking today

ta ta

Not so Pink Lightning

Good evening all hope you have all had a great 

Saturday (up to now anyway).

I've not been a very good blogger this week, i have been

busy making card but they are DT work so can't

show yet.

But i managed to make a card for a couple of

challenges this week.

Crafts and me have a Yellow theme.

Ladybug ink have a handmade flower theme.
Charisma Cardz theme Bling and Sparkle.

I decided to use one of my Craft and me stamps

that arrived a few days ago, this one is 

called Pink Lightning, although mine isn't so Pink.

Talking of Lightning we had a storm pass by in the 

early hours of this morning about 3.30/4 am.

The rumbles woke me up.

When i got up this morn i asked Mark and the kiddies 

did they hear it they all said no (god only knows 

how they all managed to sleep through).

I started to think i had dreamt it all but my auntie

called and it woke her up to, thank goodness I'm not going

mad  (YET)....lol. 

I have once again coloured her with my Polychromos 

pencils.

The papers are from papermania capsule collection.

The sentiment is from LOTV,

and i have stamped a few swirls

on the paper using a clarity stamp.

Feathers are from stash.

Martha Stewart punch.

I'm into the shabby chic style flowers at the mo,

I've been having a look on you tube to see how people

make them and i had a little play last night.

I made this one using paper out of an old book,

die cut the flowers with a go create die and 

coloured with spiced marmalade distress ink.

Then scrunched it all up and added star dust stickles.

I aslo added stickles to her wings and the brad.

I'm going to have another play later and make a few up.

OK that's it for today thanks for 

stopping by

ta ta

 

Sweet Blossom

Hi all what a difference a day makes, woke up this 

morning to dull, grey, yucky sky, come back Mr sun all

is forgiven. Watching the weather this morning 

it doesn't look good for the rest of the week.

It's nearly April though so we should expect showers...

NOT.

This weeks Papertake weekly challenge is a

Sketch to follow by our wonderful

Dawny.

I have used another digi image i got from cuddly buddly.

She is called Sweet Blossom and she is just so

Sweet

I have coloured her with my Polychromos pencils and 

blended with sansador and paper stumps.

The butterfly is from Oliver orchard stamp set.

I cut a shaped card using frilly #2 dies from go create.

Also used nestie ovals and a Marianne creatables oval.

the papers are from papermania.

The flowers are from wild orchid and i have sprayed

them with cosmic shimmer mica mist in pearl.

I really liked following this sketch, it isn't to complicated

like some other sketches can be.

I'm sure this will be one i go back to again and again

when I'm a bit stuck.

Oh dear the rain has arrived now, my son won't be

to pleased he has a rugby match after school.

He'll be coming home with most of the field on him,

and creating a big pile of washing for me.

Thanks for looking today 

and hope to see your creations

over at Papertake weekly.

ta ta

CES Die cut Crazy

Good morning all it's time for another CES

challenge.

This week the theme is

Die Cut Crazy

yes you do what it says on the tin,

go crazy with your die cuts.

I have made an easel card, i don't make these very

often,  don't know why!

Most of my die cut are from Marriane creatables,

except the butterflies they are spellbinders.

I have used a Tilda and the sentiment is from

Hanglar Stanglar.

She's coloured with a mixture of distress inks

Victorian velvet and promarkers.

The papers are from Prima and papermania.

I used Victorian velvet to distress the flowers, butterflies

and main shape.

This is my last card as guest designer and would

like to say Thanks to Emma and her team

for inviting me to be apart of your fabulous
challenge blog.

I have really enjoyed it.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pop over to

CES and have a go.

ta ta

 

All Pink Girl

Hi there, hope you are all well it's Friday again

woohoo...

I had a play last night with my sweet pea images 

and decided to make a card for the following challenges

Crafts and Me - Anything goes.

In a Sweet pea dream - Hellow spring.

SSS - Girlie/ Mothers day card.

Ladybug ink - Monochrome.

I'm still into my polychromos pencils, and decided to

go for an all pink girl.

The stamp is a sweet pea stamp Thousand years waiting.

The papers are all from a paper pad from forever friends.

The roses and seam binding are from Wild orchid crafts.

I've had a go at making a paper rose again i like this one better. 

The sentiment is from Crafters companions fairyopolis

spring stamp set.

Beth's brace is giving her a bit of jip at the mo, she's

managing to wear it most of the day but she can't seem

to sleep with it in at the moment, bless.

Thanks for stopping by 

ta ta

 

Wee suzi

Hi all hope you are well, Beth had her brace fitted 

bless her, this first one is twin block brace 

which means she's got a mouth full of plastic.

This one she will wear for about a year,

then she will go onto a regular brace.

Thank goodness she can remove this one to 

eat, or else everything would have to be liquidised.

Anyway we have to think about how beautiful her

teeth will be after.

That's what happens when you suck your thumb.

On to my Papertake weekly card

This weeks theme is

IT'S A MOM THING

we want to see your cards for 

all those wonderful mums out there.

This week we are sponsored by

Digital Delights.

 Browsing around the interweb last week 

i saw an image on a card of a really cute girl on a bike.

After a bit of investigating i 

 found out it was actually a digi stamp

from Cuddly Buddly.

So there and then i bought my first ever digi stamps

and i absolutely love them.

i bought three and this is one of them

she is called wee suzi.

She printed nicely onto the card i use for copics and pencils.

I haven't yet coloured them with copics but i have used

my polychromos pencils and sansador

and i didn't have any smudging.

Another thing about them you can also resize the image

to whatever size you want. sorry you probably already

know all this but hey ho i get there in the end. lol....!

The papers are from K&co best of paper stack.

Flowers are from Wild orchid crafts.

Seam binding is from the ribbon girl.

I didn't have a stamp for Mother's day so

i made this one on my computer.

Distressed with frayed burlap distress ink.

I am also going to enter this into 

Creative Inspirations this week

they have a sketch to follow.

Thanks for stopping by 

ta ta 

We will bake it

Good morning all here we are again at the start of 

another week.

I have to take Beth to the dentist this afternoon

it's finally time to have her brace fitted.

I don't think she scared, i get the feeling she's more 

excited about it. I've never had a brace but i bet the novelty

soon wears off.

Here's a card that i made last night , I have combined two challenges for this one.

LOTV has a sketch this week by the very talented Bev

and The Ribbon Girl challenge 6 has the theme

of Yellow and Green.

I've been dying to use this image since it arrived.

when i ordered them i thought they 

reminded me a lot of the mice out of Bag Puss.

I loved that show when i was a kiddie, the mice

were my faves and i loved the little songs they used to sing.

Ahhh... sorry travelled back in time then for a mo!

Anyway i have coloured them in with my polychromos pencils , i seem to be in a pencil mood at the moment.

I have made a sentiment tag that can be removed,

the sentiment is also from LOTV.

The papers are from papermania capsule collection.

I also had a go at making paper roses out of 

a flower nestie shape, i have seen

these about and thought I'd have a go, they are not 

to bad but i think a bit more playing is needed.

Oh well my washing is nearly finished and the clouds have just arrived. It always does that, it was nice and sunny

when i put the washing on.

thanks for stopping by 

ta ta