Pale, Pretty pastels at papertake

Hi all, phew that title's a bit of a tongue twister,

Pale, pretty pastels at Papertake.

Try saying that a few times..Lol.

Well have you been blown to death, i hate it 

when we have winds when my plants are 

looking good coming into flower.

I had to brave it yesterday and try

and stake my Lupins and Foxgloves up.

Managed to get it done between the rain.

My card is yet again another Teddy Bo digi stamp,

I'm so in love with these at the moment they

are great to colour.

Yes you guessed it we want to see you use all

those pretty pastel shades.

We are sponsored by the fabulous

Digital Delights

the winner will win 3 digi stamps.

The Teddy Bo image is coloured with polychromos 

pencils, i have inked around the edge with 

antique linen distress ink and stamped the edge

with the clarity stamp feather.

The papers are Prima sparkling spring,

i have been having a play with my sewing machine 

again, i was well chuffed i managed to get

my stitches to cross the paper join and keep it

fairly straight.lol.

The flowers are from Wild orchid and my local market.

The sentiment is computer generated and cut

with a tag die.

Seam Binding from the ribbon girl.

Punch shapes from Martha Stewart punches.

The cupcakes i made the other day have all

gone, i have had orders from my kids

to make some more. So i have made another

batch this morning, they should be cold enough

now for the frosting, so i'm off to do that and then make

a brew and i guess i'll have to have one, well

the chef always has to try ..lol.

Thanks for stopping by today

hope to see you over at Papertake 

ta ta

Surprise

Good morning all hope you are well,

Thought i would show all you lovely ladies out there

what i made yesterday.

When i was out doing the food shop this week

i was having a browse down the book isle

when my eye caught sight of a pretty

pink book.

So on picking it up to my delight discovered it

was a cookery book.

Even better was the fact that it was a 

cake cookery book.

 So of course it made it's way into my trolley.

Having the kitchen to myself yesterday i had a

play, started simply with the vanilla cupcakes

and change the frosting to a chocolate one.

I did make 12 but as soon as the kids got home from

school, well you can imagine.

I thought i would give one to my Mum so 

Beth and i made this box to put it in.

We used another one of those cute

Tatty Teddy bears with cupcakes.

Beth coloured the image in with Polychromos pencils 

and blended with sansodor.

I made the box using my scor-pal,

put a false bottom in and cut a hole

with a nesti circle for the cake to stand in.

Edged with Spun sugar distress ink.

made the Flowers out of punches and the rose out of 

a Marianne creatables die.

I also used a Martha Stewart

heart scroll deep edge punch.

The sentiment is computer generated and cut

out with a Go Create tag die.

Hope I've not made you dribble on your

keyboard, yumm! they do taste good though.

Thanks for looking today

ta ta 

Blooming Marvelous at Papertake

Hi all hurray it's stopped raining
it did not stop at all yesterday, 
though it's still dark and dreary today,

where's that sun gone come back all is forgiven.

I've got loads to do in the garden planting veg.

I know there are some die hard gardeners out there 

who garden in whatever the weather, but 

I'm not one. I'm what you call a fair weather 

gardener.

Which leads me nicely onto the Papertake weekly

challenge. This week we have the theme 

BLOOM AND GROW

This week we are sponsored by the 

fantastic Ribbon Girl who have these 

wonderful Molly Bloom stamps in stock.

I have used one of the Molly Blooms stamps 

this one is called Molly in the Garden.

I have coloured her with Polychromos pencils and

sansodor, i have added some star dust stickles 
to her watering can to replicate water.

The poppy stamps are from Elusive images
which are also coloured with pencils
and cut out which took me blooming ages to do..lol.

The papers are from Pink Petticoat vintage rose

paper pad which was a freebie with a craft mag.

Sentiments are from LOTV and Hero Arts.

I used a nesti flower shape to make an aperture

and stickled round the edge.

The tiny flowers are made with a woodware punch out

of matching scraps of paper and i added some gems.

  

I'm going to enter this card into

Creative Inspiration Challenge

they want to see the inside of your card decorated.

Thanks for stopping by 

take care

ta ta

Tatty Teddy

Hi all hope you are all well.

This is probably the first of many Tatty Teddy

cards. My daughter is absolutely crazy

about this cute little bear and his blue

nose friends, and has quite a few,
she keeps asking her dad to make a shelf for them all.
  So when we where in our local

craft shop last week and saw the new range

that has just been released, well that was it.

We bought 5 of the stamps, then she spent the next few days stamping and colouring the images in.

(Kept her quiet anyway)..lol.

I must say they are really cute so i decided to use

one on my card for the Bearly Mine challenge.

Their theme is Vintage Easel.
So i have used a vintage ted.

The papers i have used are Bearly mine, a mixture

of some freebies, Vintage and summer lace.

I made a patchwork design on the computer and

printed it out.

The flower is made form the flower you get with the
new doily dies from Marianne Creatables.
The dies look a bit pansy shape to me, but when
i layered them up it look more like a Water Lilly.
Used spun sugar distress ink on the flower and then added some stickles and card candy for the centres.

The tad sentiment is also a Marianne creatables die and 
i wrote my own sentiment, 
trying to keep it in the Tatty Teddy style.
I have used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch and a 
bit of lace.
I have discovered my slice again, it's been sat on my shelf 
for a year (or more) gathering dust. I got the tickled pink
version they did and whilst having a play
  with the tickled pink cartridge i found these leaves.
Who new (slap hands).
The great thing is you can make them small or go large.
It's up to you.


Thanks for looking today,
ta ta
 

Fancy a Punch

Hi all hope you are all well. This week at

Papertake weekly our theme is

FANCY A PUNCH

we want to see lots of punched shapes on your projects.

The prize this week is a super 

£10 voucher

from 

Dies to die for

so it's well worth a go.

I've finally got round to inking up one of my

new Hanglar sailor stamps, i bought these from the new web site a while ago but you know how it is?

I made myself ink it up, and decided to use 

papers from one of the new Prima pads

Madeline.

Used Poychromos pencils and sansodor to colour

her in.

I went round the edges with tumbled glass distress ink.

Over at Just Magnolia and Hanglar this week they have 

an anything goes week with stitching.

So out came the sewing machine.

I had a play with the different stitches,

and i was quite pleased i managed to keep

the stitches fairly straight (for once) 

apart from the bit in the bottom corner of my

image but thank goodness for flowers,

they can cover up any little wobbles... Lol.

I have used Martha Stewart and Ek success punches

Scallop scissors and the flowers are from  

Wild Orchid crafts.

I have Followed the sketch over at
Crafting Life's Pieces

Thanks for stopping by 

ta ta

Strawberry Pickin

Hi all i know i know but with all this nice weather 

we've had lately I've been in my garden

so crafting has taken second place at the mo.

But now the rain has arrived I've had a bit of a colouring 

session and couldn't wait to use this cute

Teddy Bea.

Over at the Teddy Bo the Challenge at the mo,

is to make an Easel card. I have used one of their new

images that have just been released, i know

i keep going on but i am in love with these cute bears.

I have used Polychromos pencils and sansodor.

The papers are Magnolia, i have used a flower

embossing plate on some cor-dinations white wash

card and sanded to reveal the flower.

Strawberry stamps from Magnolia.

Sentiment LOTV.

  

Ric rac ribbon and lace from stash.

I am also entering my card into a few other challenges

CES - Favourite colour combo

(I've used Strawberries and cream) yum!

Creative inspirations - Embossing

Sweet Stampin challenge - Childhood memory

(Going strawberry picking with my Mum...Happy Days )

Bunny Zoe challenge - Wants to see lace

I've got lots of flowers on my strawberries, can't wait.

The ones you buy in the shops somehow never taste

as good as your own.

Thanks for stopping by 

ta ta

April Showers bring May Flowers

Hi there, wasn't going to blog today but i

coloured this last night and wanted to do 

something with it so i made a card for

the following challenges.

Addicted to stamps  has a recipe to follow

2 papers,3 flowers and 3 half pearls.

Charisma Cardz Challenge has the theme

Aprils showers brings May flowers.

 I have used yet another of those super cute

Teddy Bea bears and coloured her with

polychromos pencils and sansodor.

The papers are from Bearly mine Designs

vintage collection and the

postcard bit is from K & co life's journey paper pad.

i have stamped around the edges 

with a flower stamp from Sheena's paint fusion berries

stamp set. I also used the same stamp to make the flowers

and added half pearls in the centres.

The sentiment is from LOTV

I also used Marianne creatables die's

and Martha Stewart leaf punch.

I have stamped and distressed

with Pumice stone distress ink.

I'll be back tomorrow with my scheduled page for 

Papertake weekly,which i wrote last Saturday

as i was going to be busy on Tues got to take

Beth to the dentist again to have her braces 

tightened, can you believe it's been 6 weeks already.

anyway have a great day whats left of the bank hols

Thanks for stopping by 

ta ta