Sara No 2

I told you I would be back with a different looking Sara and here she is ~

and from a different angle ~

I simply adore this new image from Jenni at Cardmadfairy Creations so if you are fond of Sara too, why not pop along here and get her for yourself?

I coloured her with my PMs and inked the edges with Tattered Rose Distress Ink, distressed the edges of My Minds Eye papes with my scissors, used a Nellie Snellen Oval Die where I added embroidery thread, made my own flowers and added those gorgeous white things (what are they called please so I can get some more?). The sentiment is a lovely stamp I got as a gift from Mandy.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~
Charisma Cards Mythical/Fantasy challenge (she has an air of this about her don't you think?);
Mamidoodles Flower challenge;
The Play Date Cafe Shabby Chic challenge.

Madeline Bakes A Cake for Fairymoon Crafts

This is my third post for today so please trawl down to see the others.

We are experiencing a family crisis at the moment so I will aplogise in advance if I don't do any commenting this week or don't make any more cards.  Its nothing too serious but very stressful for us all.

My DT card for the Fairymoon Challenge No 34 is made following this fabulous sketch so I hope you will join in the fun!  Do come and play along........also go visit the other fairies to see what they have done with the fab sketch - their links are on the right under Fairymoon Crafts.  They are a very talented bunch of girls! 

Using the gorgeous Madeline Bakes a Cake from Mamidoodles, I coloured her with Promarkers and layered her onto pink backing paper.  The pink spotty paper was then layered onto the same pink paper and finally matted onto green paper with swirls from My Minds Eye.  I dry embossed hearts and scallops onto the spotty paper for some dimension and then added a sentiment.  The icing on her cake and in the bowl has bright pink glitter but it is hard to see in the pic.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Creative Cottage Embossing Challenge and Moving Along With The Times Card for a Child Challenge.

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Ingredients:~

Madeline Bakes A Cake image from Mamidoodles coloured with PMs~

Ivory, Blush, Rose Pink, Meadow Green, Apple, Sandstone & Satin and edged in Cool Grey 1;

Green paper from My Minds Eye Freebie some time ago, all others from stash;

Sentiment  and glitter from stash.

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Cool Birthday Curtis

My second card for today is for MamiDoodles 'Boy with Red' Challenge. I was recently a winner in a Challenge on their site and won some fabulous digi images which I will try to post on here for you to see - but do go along and see her work - it is fabulous! I have used Curtis (a freebie from the fabulous SJ Musings. He is coloured with PMs and I have torn pearlised navy paper and red striped with my funky ruler (also inked the edges of the red with red). I wanted to keep this very simple and think I have achieved that.

Ingredients:~

Curtis Freebie from SJ Musings coloured with PMs~

Ivory, Satin & Blush for skin;

Ivory & Sandstone for hair;

Shael for his sunglasses;

Pastel Blue, Duck Egg & China Blue for shorts and Poppy & Ruby for shirt etc;

All papers from stash;

Inked edges with Whispers Cherry Red Archival Ink;

Sentiment made on PC.

If Mams were flowers.......

I know we all love our Mams to bits but I love telling my Mam as often as I can - I do this by sending her cards that express how I feel as she lives 600 miles north of us. It is very hard for both of us being apart but it is now coming up to the timeof the year that she hates - my Dad passed away on Nov 16th 2000 - and she still finds this time very hard. Becasue it will be 10 yearrs this year I am going up to spend a week with her but meanwhile am sending this card too.

It is for 3 challenges -
Mami Doodles Sketch;
Digistamp Boutique and
Crafty Cardmakers Clean and Simples.

Using MamiDoodles sketch, I stamped the DSB image and coloured with Promarkers then mounted it on green card and added flowers and sentiment.

Ingredients:~

Freebie image form DSB coloured with PMs~

Flower ~ Blossom, Dusky Rose & Coral;

Vase ~ Cinnamon, Caramel & Sandstone;

Leaves ~ Meadow Green, Apple & Forest Green.

Flowers from stash and sentiment made on PC using Scriptina Font.

New freebie

Girls, I have to share this fabulous freebie with you ~ she has no name so I will call her Chrissy and she came from the fabulous Inger Harding.
Do pop along as she has some fabulous art on her site just perfect for cardmaking! This little girl is going into 2 challenges this week ~ Mamidoodles - not the usual shape - and Passion for Promarkers - Winter Blue.

Ingredients:~
Card shape cut with pinking scissors!;
Blue and silver card from Papermill Shop;
Holly stamped using stamp from stash;
Image freebie coloured with Promarkers~
Ivory, Blush & Satin for skin; Sandstone & Caramel for hair;
Pastel Blue,Cornflower & China Blue for clothing and
outlined in Cool Grey 1;
Also used pale blue chalk on edges of blue paper to give sparkly effect but hard to see in pic;
Charm from stash;
Ribbon and sentiment from stash.

Late again!

Please excuse this terrible photo - light is awful here tonight even tho the sun has been out and it has been very hot again! This Mo Manning image is just perfect for Moving Along with the Times Animal/Sketch; Totally Papercrafts Recipe Challenge and MamiDoodles Anything Goes.

Ingredients:~
Mo Manning freebie coloured with Promarkers~
Poppy & Ruby for waistcoat;
Cornflower & China Blue for shirt;
Satin, Sandstone, Ivory, Blush, Caramel & Cinnamon for his body;
Papers from Papermill Shop;
Stones on his waistcoat, ribbon & Brads from stash;
Sentiment using letter stamps from The Range.

Curtis freebie

Isn't Curtis fabulous - he is one cool dude! He is a freebie from the fabulous SJ Musings.

I coloured him with PMs and inked the edges of the white card; made the diagonally striped card myself with my PMs and stamped the sentiment with a set of 99p stamps I bought from The Range. You may also notice that I have discovered how to use a watermark on my images with our Adobe Photoshop - took me ages to get it right but think I have cracked it now!

Ingredients:~

Image 'Curtis' freebie from SJ Musings coloured with Promarkers~

Satin & Blush for skin;

Buttercup & Sandstone for his hair;

Slate for his sunglasses & shoes;

Cornflower & China Blue for his shorts with a Poppy stripe;

and Meadow Green & Apple for his shirt.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Mamidoodles ~ Blue, White and Green with hint of Red;

Polka Doodles ~ Something for a Boy;

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Inky Fingers;

I Love Promarkers ~ Stripes;

and Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch No 72.

Tiny Tiddler

This is my first card this week. I am falling in love with my Sugar Nellies that I won earlier this year - I particularly like this one and was just waiting for the right challenge to come along to use her.I made the flowers myself with my Sizzix Bigz Build A Flower - there are 2 other parts to the flower but I feel they look out of place. I simply curled the petals under with the use of my small craft scissors and that made them look so 'full'.

The image reminds me of summer days when we lived on a farm near a small river - suppose it was really a burn (may need to be Scottish to know that word) - and my Granda used to take us down to look for tadpoles. Need less to say I never managed to get any in my jar!

I am entering this one into 4 challenges - I am getting better at linking to more challenges now-

Moving Along with The Times No 50 following their sketch;

Crafty Catz Embossing Challenge No 36 - all the dark green card is embossed using my Sizzix Lines and Circles folder;

Mamidoodles 'Summer' Challenge No 5 and

the brand new Bunny Zoe's 'Nice & Girly' Challenge No 1.

Ingredients:~

Image is stamp Tiny Tiddles from Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers (put back in box before I noted colours! oooops!);

Floral and Striped paper was freebie from mag;
Dark green card from stash;

Flowers handmade by moi with added jewel from stash;

and sentiment from stash.

Mr Mouse

Well, I have finally found time to make another card. Where do all the hours go? Using an image from Mamidoodles, I created this one following Sketch 69 from Inspirational Card Sketches and added real stitching to be able to enter Creative Inspirations.

The close up above shows the stitching around the die and the pic below hopefully shows his whiskers that I stitched in too!

Isn't Mr Mouse just so sweet and bashful - do pop along to see the other images in the set as they are fab!

Ingredients:~

All papers are freebies from various mags over the last few months;

Image is Mr Mouse from Mamidoodles coloured in with PMs ~

Blossom, Dusky Rose, Meadow Green, Apple, Forest Green & Cool Grey 1, 2, 3 & 4.

Earth Fairy using Nellie Snellen Die

Well it is a very wet day here in N London so I have been able to get this card made in the daytime as it is too damp and cold to go out.

I used my Nellie Snellen Oval Die for the first time and am pleased as Punch with the result! I coloured 'Earth Fairy', a recent Friday Freebie from Pollycraft, with my faithful PMs to match the fabulous Kate Knight paper (which incidentally was also a recent Freebie in a cardmaking magazine).


The sentiment I found on a fab site on the Net - I added to the inside 'and she is here to wish you a very Happy Birthday', and I layered it on lilac glitter card.






I used matt silver and lilac glitter card to which I added lilac ribbon and blue and lilac bows from stash.



This close up shows the lovely blue and lilac colours I used. I think I am getting better at my shading now that I have been getting lots of practice - lots and lots!




I am entering this one into Mamidoodles 'Up In The Air' Challenge No 4.