Sketch Saturday

I'm enjoying being able to enter a few challenges and I especially like the sketch ones. This is my card for Sketch Saturday This sketch is a great one to follow and you must see the creations by the DT, they are fabulous.

The papers I used are BasicGrey Cupcake. The orange card is some Core'dinations, the green is from the Papermania stack and the red is from my stash.

The image is House Mouse "Make a Wish" which I have coloured with ProMarkers.

The little footprints are an Elzybells stamp.

The sentiment is a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine last year. I coloured the cake with ProMarkers.

I wasn't sure about the colours on the card but its bright and cheerful, just what you need on your birthday !

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This week the challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is "Let's get dotty" ! I am so pleased I was able to join in with a challenge this week. Here is my card ....

The pink card is from The Papermillshop.

The dotty paper is Papermania Retro Floral. This is a lovely pack of papers and I used it a lot last year. I managed to find another pack in the sales recently so I'm well chuffed !

The green card is a new pack by Papermania of just coloured card, smooth on one side and textured on the other. There are some fabulous colours in this pack. I used my new SU spiral punch on this card.

I am not sure what this Penny Black image is called because someone gave it to me in a swap - sorry. I coloured the image with my ProMarkers and distressed the edges with old paper and walnut stain distress ink.

The greeting is a stamp by Whispers Words (DoCrafts) which is on sale at The Glitterpot for 99p along with some others (I think they may be new ones out). The stamp is actually quite large and has "birthday surprise !" on it but I masked all the other words so I could pick out "Surprise !". It has been stamped in Brilliance Coffee Bean ink.

The button is a Basic Grey button with some pink cord and a charm from e-bay. It's a shame you can't see it but on the reverse of the butterfly it says "created for you"

I have added some bling to the corners. These are some Papermania gems I found in my stash.

You must pop over there and see the DT's creations - they are fabulous and so dotty !

Hope you are all having a good weekend and not too windswept ?!

BasicGrey Challenge #18

First of all - check this out ! Large drum roll please..........

Not only has our very own talented Kim been on the shortlist for Card of the Year with Craft Stamper magazine, got engaged, been featured on Inspirational but has just had her card from the BasicGrey Challenge Blog (challenge 16 - sketch) featured in none other than the BasicGrey Gallery ! Way to go girl ! Isn't that just fantastic news ? Many congratulations Kim !

Well, after that exciting news time to tell you about this week's challenge.

"We have a special challenge for you this week :). We would like to see you use one (or all even if you want to) of these fabulous illustrations which have been designed by our own fabulously talented Kim , (Only people taking part in this challenge are allowed to use these images (for now anyway) and of course when the challenge is over you can continue to use them if you wish but please remember that these images are copyright to Kim and should only be used according to her terms of use), oh and of course not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere on your creation :)" You will be able to find these illustrations on the BasicGrey Challenge Blog


This is the card I made for the challenge this week.

I used two of Kim's illustrations and coloured them with ProMarkers. I cut the image out with my oval nesties.

The red card is some Bazzill and the patterned papers are BasicGrey Sugared. I loved the little heart detail in this paper. I used my Fiskars water threading punch on the paper.

The hearts I cut out on my Cricut and used the same Bazzill card and Sugared paper and put a button in the centre with some lovely red and gold shimmery ribbon.

The flowers are Hero Arts flowers and both started out as being white as I didn't have any red flowers. I coloured the smaller flowers with my ruby ProMarker and then I had a couple of red ones !! The brads are BasicGrey brads although I'm not sure which ones.

The corner flourishes are those fab little Studio G ones you can buy for 99p and the greeting is by Hero Arts from one of their clear sets.

You must go and see what the rest of the DT have created - they are amazing.

I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you have made !

Hope you all have a great weekend !

Thank you soooo much everyone !

As my good blogging buddy, Tara, announced on my blog last night, its my birthday today !!

I have had the most wonderful day and my feet haven't touched the ground.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all those wonderful people who sent me cards and pressies. The postman has struggled for the past couple of days to hold the pile while he rang the doorbell and this morning I had to help him pick them up off the floor because he dropped them !!! I have never received so many wonderful cards and pressies before and I shall treasure each and every one of them.

I will say a personal thank you to you all and will take some piccies for the blog but just wanted to say thank you now.

A nice cuppa, cuddle with DH and early night should finish my wonderful day off nicely.

With love and hugs to you all,

New Toodles

I just love this image and I just love making cards for boys at the moment (I must be going mad !!). I have made this card for one of Ski's friends at school.

I have used the same layout as the previous one as I thought it worked so well.

I used some lovely brown bazzill for the card itself.

The pattered papers are BasicGrey Mellow - oh these are sooo scrummy !

The green and red card are from a new pack Papermania have brought out and its just textured coloured card 6x6. The colours in this pack are fantastic and I think also coordinate with the Papermania patterned papers.

The image is Matthieu and Arthur from Toodles and Binks and I have used my ProMarkers for colouring it. The colours I used were : ruby and sandstone (shirt), shale and henna (hair), petrol blue (trousers), umber (shoes), canary and pumpkin (lolly), cinnamon (Arthur), marsh green (leaves). I hope this helps you ?! I cut this out with my new nesties which finally arrived today. For some reason I thought they were going to be bigger than they are so I could only use the largest one for the image.

Again the lolly has been covered in glossy accents and Twinklets to give it a "yummy" look !

The number is from The Papermillshop and covered in Mellow paper and crackle glaze and walnut stain distress ink.

The sentiment is KandCompany in Brilliance coffee bean ink.

The ribbons, button and brads are from my stash.

I also want to say a huge, huge thank you for all the lovely comments you left me about my "toot" ! You brought a tear to my eye and I can't believe how kind people who you don't even know can be. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart and love you all (tissue please !). Thank you.

May I toot ?

I would like to share with you the fantastic news that I have been chosen to be on the Design Team for the fabulous online store in the USA called "Simonsaysstamp" I can't tell you how excited I am to be working with them. Not only do they sell every single crafty thing you could ever dream about but they have 41 sets of their own exclusive stamps which I shall be helping to promote with the other DT members who come from all over the World !

My goodies are on their way over the pond so keep your eye open for some new creations !

Simonsaysstamp also has their own blog which can be found here and this is great for seeing new products and lots of inspiration and they also love the man himself "Tim Holtz" whooo hoooo !

Did I say how thrilled I am ? big grin, big grin !!

Wishing

I made this card for a friend and I am hoping that it is now safe to show it !



I love the blue and brown colour combo at the moment. It is one of my favourites alongside pink and brown.

I used some cream card from The Papermillshop and some brown Bazzill card.

The patterned paper is Paper Salon, enamored : heart filagree which I bought from Craft Central. This is such gorgeous paper and double sided too and I really had to talk to myself hard in order to cut it !! I am sure you have been there ?!

The image is of course Leanne Ellis from Funky Kits which I painted with distress inks and I put some crackle glaze on the letters. I really must learn to let the distress inks dry over night or speed them up a bit because as you can see, the glazes make the ink run and I am assuming it is because the ink isn't fully dry. I suppose it adds to the aged look ?

The flowers are a mixture of Hero Arts and ones from my stash and I have added BasicGrey brads and spacers from my stash.

The blue and brown ribbons are from my stash.

The florishes are the Studio G ones. Both the image and florishes were stamped using Brilliance Coffee Bean ink.

The dew drops are from Lakeland (well, when they used to sell craft items).

I had to laugh this morning. I popped into town and everywhere I went, people were moaning about how wet and windy it was and how hot it was in all the shops ! Us Brits are never happy are we ? Bring back the frosts is what I say, it was so bright and beautiful. This morning is so dark, dismal and wet and definately not a good day to take photos of cards !

Take care and keep dry !!! hehehehe

Some more yummy awards !

My wonderful blogging buddies have been sending me some awards again and I can't say enough how much I appreciate it. Here they are :

This one from the lovely Kim-Paperbabe

This one from the lovely Rica

This one from the lovely Tara

Now I know you are supposed to pass them onto lots and lots of different people and so I would like to pass them onto all those people who support me and my work by taking the time and trouble to look at my blog. It is so much appreciated and I receive some lovely comments. I love visiting your blogs too and so I pass these awards to all of you - with heartfelt thanks.

BasicGrey Challenge #17

This week on the BasicGrey Challenge Blog ......

"For this weeks challenge we would like to see you use some chipboard in your creations, fear not if you don't have any chipboard though, a good alternative is to recycle think cardboard that is usually found in boxes, simply cut some shapes from it, decorate it how you please and your good to go :), and of course not to forget to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere on your creation"

This is the card that I made for this week's challenge :

I used the fantastic BasicGrey Archaic papers for this card and picked out that fabby dark orange colour with some Core'dinations card (if you haven't got any of this, it should go on your "must have" list !).

The image is Matthieu and Arthur from Toodles and Binks (they can be found on sale at Stamp Galaxy) and I have coloured these cute little chaps with my ProMarkers and used the label nesties. Matthieu's lolly has been covered in glossy accents and diamond dust to give it that "sugar crusted" look - yum, yum !!

The ribbon is from Cards and Craft and I used a BasicGrey button and some cord.

The number 5 is a chipboard number I have used. I bought a box from The Papermillshop. I covered it in brown Core'dinations card and sanded the edges and then covered it in crackle glaze.

I made the sentiment on my PC.

What a great challenge this week and the DT have made some amazing projects this week and they are all so different. Take a peek, you can see them on the blog

I'm looking forward to seeing your fabby creations too.

Have a great weekend !

ATC

I sent some BasicGrey goodies to a lovely lady, Jackie, who has supported me right from the beginning of my card making as she said she didn't have any and would like to join in with the challenges sometime. I took the opportunity to help her out. I also sent her this ATC which I haven't made for a long, long time and I had forgotten just how pleasureable it is especially with these new Leanne Ellis stamps, they are the perfect size.



I had some scraps of BasicGrey Euphoria left over from a card I made earlier in the week so I used the pink to cover the ATC card.

I paper pieced her jumper with purple Euphoria paper and paper pieced the roses with the pink.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers

The ribbon was from my stash and I made the pin.

I shall have to go through my box of scraps and make some more of these. If anyone fancies doing a swap, let me know. I think it could be fun !

Take care and again keep warm. It's -4 here (right now !) and thick fog. It is beautiful out as everything is white but I thought it was supposed to get warmer near the end of the week ?