Hippy Chick from Simply Sassy

I have been AWOL again my friends - this neck of mine is awful just now and oing anything at all aggravates it but I have managed to make this card over the last couple of days ~

I just adore these fabulously cute stamps from Funbky Kits don't you?

I stamped her onto Rymans Smooth card and put her thru my Bigshot with a Nellie Snellen Oval Die (poor thing I heard her squealing), then coloured her with my Promarkers.  Using the current sketch from Sketch Saturday I used papers with red gingham and pink dots from Pink Petticoat and distressed all the edges with my scissors (can't get on with my distressing too at all).  The sentiment is computer generated and once again put thru my BS with a Nellie Snellen square Dies (which has some lovely shapes on it).

I am entering this into the following challenges:~
Sketch Saturday;

Pollycraft Special Birthday;

Sentimental Sunday Red/Pink/White;

Creative Inspirations Distressed and

Craft Your Passion Use Pink.

Ingredients:~
Rubber stamp Hippy Chick from Funky Kits coloured with PMs~

Ivory, Satin, Blush, Pear Green, Pastel Pink, Sandstone, Caramel & Ruby;

Papers are both from Pink Petticaot matted onto red hammered card from The Papermill Shop;

Nellie Snellen Oval & Square Dies used.

Fifi's Get Well Message

This wee cutie is one of the images I won in a recent Digistamp Boutique Challenge and this is the first time she has been out to play! I coloured her with Promarkers and layered her into gold mirriboard embossed using my Ultimate Pro; following Sketch Saturday's current sketch I used backing paper which was a magazine freebie some time ago and added coral card (one of which is embossed with Get Well sentment in Copper), brown linen card which I shaped using my Pro and then added ribbon and a bow. I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Digistamp Boutique October Competition,
Sketch Saturday No 123,
Sentimental Sundays Autumn with Sentiment
Creative Inspirations No 44 Get Well Soon and
Pollycraft No64 Anything Goes.
Ingredients:~
Image 'Fifi' from Digistamp Boutique coloured with PMs~
Skin : Ivory, Blush & Pastel Pink;
Hair : Satin & Sandstone;
Dress & flowers : Honeycomb, Coral, Caramel, Cinnamon & Henna;
Image edged in Cool Grey 1;
Papers freebie and from Papermill Shop;
Mirri, sentiment and ribbon from stash;
Ultimate Pro used to emboss edges.

Many thanks for your very kind comments!

Pink Pringle

It's been a while since Pringle has been out to play but he has come out today and I have colored him PINK! Poor Pringle I hear you say.....I thought he was perfect for Pollycraft's Cute & Cuddly; Creative Inspirations Pink & Black; Passion for Promarkers Make Your Own Flowers and Sketch Saturday's No 121. I have inked the edges of the Nellie Snellen oval and the pink/white lush paper with Distress Ink, added ribbon and floers made with my Bigshot and Marianne's flowers. Mirri board and a light baby pink papers are underneath all of this. I am not sure the colour of the bunny now matches the papers but its too late now!

I just love the shape of his/her big fat rotund belly! Makes me wanna give him/her a hug right now........

I am very pleased with these flowers that I made with pink & black paper and used a thin pen to round off the petals to make them more 3D; the underneath ones are bent back and the two at the front are curled forwards. Think I may make a stash of these one evening while watching Eastenders - I have loads of empty washing tablet plastic boxes I can store them in - smell nice too.

Ingredients:~

Pringle image from Funky Kits coloured with PMs~

Cool Grey 2 & 3;

Dusky Rose, Pastel Pink and Blossom;

Papers from stash,

Ribbon and sentiment from stash too.

Thanks for looking - really appreciate all your comments :)X

Colour Me Happy from FunkyHand

As many of you know FunkyHand have a brand new cd-rom Colour Me Happy which I could not resist when I saw it. If you don't already know it has 12 colour coordinated design selections each with 23 trendy backing papers, resizable alphabet characters and a worbook processor for your own bespoke WordBook. It also has 35 resizable digistamps - they are all so cute. The papers used on this card are from one of those collections and the colours were just perfect for paper piecing this beach hut digistamp freebie from SJMusings. NO PROMARKERS USED!! AAAAHHH!

BUT I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed paper piecing then mounting them on foam pads so they stood out.

My pics aren't great tonight - the sentiment is a dictionary quote of 'summer' - the season between spring and autumn; the period from the middle of May to the end of August; a period of hot, usually sunny weather. The ribbons are from my stash and the Ribbon Brad is from Papermania.

This is for th efollowing challenges:~

Bugaboo's Summer Challenge;

Crafty Catz Summertime Challenge and

Creative Inspirations Anything Goes Challenge.

TFL X

Summertime is here to stay!

Well my friends, July has come and with it the season of sunshine, love, butterflies, flowers & happiness. I made this card to encapsulate all of them.... Using paper from stash and Lola Rose Wedding image coloured with PMs, I created this wedding card and added punched out tiny purple butterflies to place randomly on the card. You can also see I used vellum for her veil and added some glitter glue to it .

I am quite pleased with the result - don't they look so happy? Wait til 10 years down the line and the smiles will be gone he he! ROFL!

I am entering this card into 3 challenges:~

Bugaboo's Love theme

Creative Inspirations Paper Piecing

and Creative Cottage Summer Surprise.

Ingredients:~

All papers from stash including vellum for veil;

Lola Rose image from Pink Petticoat coloured with Promarkers~

Ivory for bridal gown;

Ivory & Blush for skin;

Caramel & Shale for hair;

Cool Grey 4 & 5 for groom's jacket;

Prussian,Lavender & Amethyst for kilt and flowers.

Butterflies made with punch from stash.

Custard from Sugar Nellie

My mojo is on overload today - a second card for another 4 challenges. This time its for Polka Doodles 'Nursery Rhyme' Challenge; Totally Papercrafts 'Animal Magic' Challenge; Bugaboo Challenge (to use national colours etc) and Creative Inspirations 'Monochrome' Challenge No 36.

Using freebie papers from Fred She Said I created this to tie in with all 4 challenge recipes. I adore this image and as usual coloured him in with my PMs.

Ingredients:~

Stamp 'Custard' from Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers ~ Cool Grey 1 ,2 & 3 with Blossom on the flowers;

Paper freebie and glitter card from cheap shop (its fab - the black and white in particular);

Sentiment on PC and ribbon 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.