Luv A Latte

Don't you just adore these fabulous stsamps from Funky Kits?  I have fallen in love with them all!  Oooops my purse will be empty very soon again!!

This card is for the following challenges ~

I Love Promarkers Paper Piecing Challenge;

FabNFunky Make your own Embellishments;

Passion for Promarkers Coffee & Cream and

Sarah Hurley's Food & Drink Challenge.

I paper-pieced her fabulous t-shirt onto cream pearlised paper and am very pleased at how it came out - I know its not that obvious from the pics but I promise it is pp'd! I made my flower using brown and cream pearlised paper put thru my Bigshot with a scalloped circles Nestie, then scrunched them all up, unfolded them and added a small cream button at the centre.  The sentiment is from Rainbow Earth and I just love it as it is so true!  I also distressed the edges of the papers - one of my fav looks at the mo!

Ingredients:~

Rubber stamp 'Luv A Latte' form Simply Sassy range at Sugar Nellie coloured with PMs~

Cool Grey 1, 2 & 3; Ivory, Satin, Blush, Pastel Pink, Sandstone, Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna, Duck Egg Blue and China Blue;

all papers from my stash cut using XCut punch;

Ribbon from stash;

Sentiment is a freebie from Rainbow Earth - (sorry on lappie at the mo so don't have the link).

Ella with Flowers

I am getting really upset because I am not able to craft as much as I want to with my bad neck - and yes I am STILL waiting to hear when my op will be despite chasing them up twice already!! (can you guess I am not good at waiting for things to happen?) - but I have come up with htis card for several challenges ~

Using the ever so cute Ella with Flowers from Digistamp Boutique I coloured her with my Promarkers and cut out the shape using a Nellie Snellen die inking the edges with a PM.  Following Sketch Saturday's sketch, the DPs are from Funky Hand's Very Funky Blue for Boys range and darak brown pearlised paper from my stash.  The flowers I made using a Marianne Die Cut with the same papers and added a pearl gem to the centres.  The sentiment is computer generated - easy to do when you have access to a printer etc.

I am entering this into the following challenges ~

Digistamp Boutique February Competition;

Totally Papercrafts 'Friendship' challenge;

Sarah Hurley No 27 'Die Cuts';

Fab'n'Funky's 'Chocolate & Brown';

Sketch Saturday's current challenge and

I Love Promarkers 'Anything Goes'.

Ingredients:~

Digi image Ella with Flowers from Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers ~ Ivory, Blush, Caramel, Sandstone, China Blue, Cornflower, Marsh Green, Apple & Satin;

Papers from Funky Hand's Blue for Boys range on Very Funky CD;

Pearlised dark brown paper and white card from stash;

Gems from stash.



First Grandchild

My son is about to become an uncle for the first time and I have made this card for his inlaws, Barry and Marion, who are about to become grandparents for the first time too!  Their son's wife is due on 21st so they are all waiting in anticipation of the big event!

Using the ever so cute Pringle from Home Grown range st Sugar Nellie,  I left him quite plain stamped onto cream card as we don't know what sex baby is yet but I lightly coloured him with PMs.  Behind him I put a gorgeous doily I got from my friend Mandy, inked the edges of cream card and mounted this all onto a paper from My Craft Studio.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~
The Sugar Bowl;
Sarah Hurley New Beginnings and
Passion for Promarkers Baby Cards.

 The sentiment is CG in Jenkins font.

Ingredients:~
Pringle image from Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers in Cool Grey 1, 2 ,3 & 4 and outlined in Ivory.  I left the ribbon plain as I want to colour it in either blue or pink once he/she pops into the world;
Ribbon from my stash;
Paper from My Craft Studio Professional.

Purple Christmas

Over at Passion for Promarkers and also at Sarah Hurley, they are looking for Christmas cards this week - the former purple/pink and the latter no red/green.  Easy for me as I do love Christmas cards that are modern yet still traditional therefore this is what I have made this year for my daughter's general Christmas cards.

Using the fabulous freebie stamp from Craft Stamper magazine I stamped onto Rymans smooth card then coloured with Promarkers. I then added mirri board and no sentiment as there is an insert and she wanted them very simple.  Think I have achieved this here.  I also made some in pink and also blue so she has an assortment to choose from.

The close up below shows how I shaded the image with 3 different colours of PMs ~ Maroon, Lilac & Lavender, and the texture on the backing paper which is from The Papermill Shop.

I hope you all have a fab weekend whatever you are doing ~ Graham is treating me to a day in London tomorrow and then we are going to the theatre in the evening - dunno what to see as it is a birthday surprise for me!! Will let you know on Sun/Mon. X

Crafty Cardmakers DT card

Over at Crafty Cardmakers our challenge this week is 'Use a Freebie' - something that you got in a magazine or in a download for example. Be sure to tell us where your freebie came from.  The winner for this challenge will receive 2 background paper books by Crafty Individuals which are background papers 1 & 2 with 2 being Christmas. 

My freebie is the fabulous 'Penelope's Party Wagon' that came as a free download from the very talented Mo Manning some time ago. I do love her images but am not on Facebook so very often miss her lovely freebies now. I coloured her with my good old Promarkers, matted and layered her onto card and mounted her onto this lovely shaped sidestepper - do visit my DT buddy Vix if you would like to know where it comes from. I added a frill along the bottom using tissue paper that came in the box with new trainers - never throw anything away me!! Well you never know when you may be able to use it!! This side view shows the mechanics of the card - I do love the shape and the size of this and it is very simple to make.

I am entering this also into the following challenges:~

Passion for Promarkers Orange, Black, Green & Purple Theme;

Charisma Cardz More Than One Fold and
Sarah Hurley's Colouring In Challenge.

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Ingredients:~

Mo Manning freebie coloured with Promarkers:

Skin: Ivory, Blush & Dusky Pink;
Clothing: Meadow Green, Apple, Coral, Pumpkin, Honeycomb, Amethyst & Lilac;
Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon & Caramel;
Image outlined in Cool Grey 1 to add depth.
Ribbon and sentiment from stash;
Papers from Daisy & Dandelion's Pumpkin & Aubergine range alongside purple and orange cardstock from The Papermill Shop.

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Autumnal Earth Fairy

This little beauty is Earth Fairy freebie from Pollycraft and she is really versatile. I have previously used her coloured blue and now she has her autumnal colours on. Following Sketch Saturday No 124, I coloured her with Promarkers, inked the edge with Distress Ink and layered her onto pearlised brown, copper and autumnal coloured paper from MCS. The sentiment is computer generated and the flowers I made using a combination of all three papers punched and stuck together in three layers. I am rather pleased with the result considering I am not feeling 100% today - I had a painkilling injection for my neck at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead yesterday and I have now lost my voice (much to my family's delight!!) and am exhausted as I didn't get much sleep last night. I am hoping to upload a very personal project I have been working on tomorrow so please come back to see if I have managed to.

This is going into the following challenges:~

Sarah Hurley's Flowers;

Sketch Saturday No 124;

Craftilicious Anything Goes;

Pollycraft It's A Fairytale and

Bunny Zoe's Autumn Love.

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Ingredients:~

Earth Fairy digi image from Pollycraft coloured with Promarkers:

Skin: Ivory & Blush;

Hair: Cinnamon & Sandstone;

Dress & Boots: Honeycomb, Coral, Pumpkin, Spice & Lilac;

Image edged in Cool Grey 1 and Tim Hotz Distress Ink in Tattered Rose;

Pearlised brown and coral card from The Papermill Shop;

Autumnal patterned paper from My Craft Studio The Collectors Edition;

Flowers hand made by moi and

Sentiment Computer Generated matted and layered onto same paper as previous.

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Lily & Flowers

Look at this fabulous prize Fairymoon Crafts are offering for Challenge 31. It s a fab selection of 'Shop Til You Drop' goodies and all you have to do is visit the site and follow the sketch...............you have until 5pm on Sunday 17th Oct to get your entry in girls (and guys!)......

................this is my first DT card for the fabulous Fairymoon Crafts. Please come and play along - simple this week with a sketch to follow so get your thinking caps on and be creative. Using the beautiful Lily & Flowers from DigiStamp Boutique which I won recently, I have coloured her with my PMs, used backing papers and pearlised cream and brown paper, added faux stitching, a handmade sentiment and a big dotty bow recycled from a pair of jim-jams bought by my daughter.

I am entering this into the following challenges also:~

Passion for Promarkers Recycled;

I Love Promarkers Think Pink and

Fab'n'Funky Use a Digi Image.

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Ingredients:~

Lily & Flowers digi image from Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers ~

Skin: Ivory, Blush & Pastel Pink;

Hair: Cinnamon, Caramel, Sandstone & Satin;

Dress: Blossom & Rose Pink;
Flowers: Rose Pink & Maroon;

Image edged in Cool Grey 1;

Pink papers from Basics Vibrant PP from Papermania;

Brown & Ivory pearlised papers from Papermill;

Sentiment made using cheapy stamp letters from The Range and

Ribbon recycled wrapping from pair of pyjamas from large national store.

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Manga Kids

This is one of the stamps I bought from Funky Kits on our summer visit to NE Scotland - I think they are so cute don't you?

I am entering this card into 5 Challenges:~
Moving Along With The Times 'To Do' Challenge ~ to use 3 items from their list ( I used no1 ~ 2 papers, no 2 ~ button and no 6 ~ leaves);
The Sugar Bowl Sketch Challenge;
Sarah Hurley 'Autumn' Challenge;
Crafty Catz No 51 -'Stitching' Challenge and
Craftilicious 'Autumn/Harvest' Challenge.
I coloured my image with PMs; used by Nellie Snellen Oval Die to cut frame on pearlised dark brown paper; matted and layered My Minds Eye papers; applied ribbon with white stitching and sewed on 4 buttons; used my Marianne's Dies to cut brown leaves to tie in with 'Harvest' and 'Leaves' then tied the same ribbon around them to look like sheaves.

I am very pleased with the overall look of this card so it will be flying its way to my dear old Mam later in the week - she looks forward to getting her cards in the post and has a massive collection which she uses as and when required as I don't actually write on them but stick a note or letter inside so she CAN use them again. Talk about recycling - or are we both mean Scots! ~He He!

Ingredients:~

Image Manga Kids from Sugar Nellie coloured with PMs~

Skin ~ Satin, Ivory & Blush;

Hair and boots ~ Caramel, Cinnamon, Sandstone & Cool Grey 1 & 2;

Her clothes ~ Coral, Pumpkin, Honeycomb & Spice;

His clothes ~ Pastel Blue & Cornflower.

Papers are My Minds Eye freebie and brown pearlised paper from Papermill;

Ribbon & Buttons from stash;

Leaves made using Marianne's leaf with same paper as above.

Thanks for looking ~ always appreciaite comments good or bad!!

Lovely long slim legs!

Well the weekend is almost upon us again! We have had a gorgeous day here in London but it is already starting to get a bit chilly as usual in the evenings.

This card is for 5 challenges:~ Charisma Cardz Sketch; Fab'n'Funky's Get the Photo Vibe; Totally Papercrafts Happy Birthday; Sarah Hurley Polka Dots and Circles and Polka Doodles Easel Card. Phew that was hard work! Its plain to see how it was made so I won't bore you with the instructions he he. But I WILL tell you where I got all the bits.....

Ingredients:~
Image 'Jessica' from Jenni coloured with PMs~

Skin - Blush,Ivory & Satin;

Hair - Sandstone & Caramel;

Dress and chair - Sandstone, Dusky Pink, Blossom & Dusky Rose;

Papers are freebies ~ My Minds Eye Quite Contrary Summer Papers and brown pearlised paper;

Felt flowers I made myself in Bigshot;

Pink flowers and butterfly from stash - originally from Papermania I think;

Sentiment stamp from stash.

Money Wallet

Using the very simple instructions from here, I came up with this wallet for the following challenges:~
Sarah Hurley Something 3D Challenge No 7 and
Double Dutch The Easy Challenge No 51 (using Sketch No 1 - Wallets 'r' Us).

Really it is so simple once you have the measurements anyone could do it.........think it would be a fabulous idea for giving money/vouchers/tokens etc at Christmas.

Ingredients:~

Image from My Craft Studio coloured with Promarkers ~

Skin - Pastel Pink, Blush & Ivory;

Clothing - Poppy, Caramel, Cinnamon & Sandstone;

Hair - Sandstone & Ivory;

Puddle - Cool Grey 2 & 3.

Papers are from Pink Petticoat Lots of Dots paper range in Dots Positive & Negative in Mocha colour;

Ribbons from stash & sentiment from PC (Scriptina font).

Charming!

Hi all, Hope you are all having a fab long weekend! The weather isn't very promising where I am but fingers crossed it stays dry for you wherever you are. This card is for 3 challenges:~
I Love Promarkers 'Charming'; The Sugar Bowl and Sarah Hurley Monochrome No 6. I hand sewed the tiny pearl sequins onto the black ribbon - boy did I need my new specs? Yea I certainly did!

Ingredients:~
'Poise' image from Sugar Nellie range coloured with Promarkers ~
Skin - Blush & Ivory;
Hair - Cool Grey 5, 4, 3, & 2;
Dress - Cool Grey 3 & 2, & Black Fineliner;
Flowers - Blossom.
Papers from Pink Petticoat, backing papers from stash;
Ribbon and pearl sequins from stash;
Charm from Papermania.