A Big Purple hug

Promarkers again? Well, yes but sadly this is another "first aid" one, salvaged from my pre-coloured box and quickly put together with scraps of this and that and a sentiment from the box. Countdown to finishing those pesky cards is almost there and I'm on the home stretch!

Three of a kind Sunday Challenge.

The DT have taken a bit of a break from the Craft Mad and loving it group over on Craftbubble, but this week we're back and we kicked off with two fab challenges from our lovely Guest designer, Clare.. Today's challenge is three of a kind and here's mine using the new clear stamps from DoCrafts. the little bears have been decoupaged and coloured with prisma pencils.

this weeks craftbubble challenge

The lovely debs has set this weeks challenge on craftbuuble's cmli group. luckily i had done this before i broke a bone in my right hand. apologis for the lack of capitals and spelling mistakes but left handed typing when you are right handed is hard going.. the theme was going postal. i decided to go all sepia for a change. anyway looks like there's going to be a serious lack of crafting from me,  hopefully only until next thursday when the plaster comes off and hopefully i won't need another one..

Two quickies!

I have had to make two quick cards! Both of them dropped on me by hubby! The vintage one is from one of my Joanna sheen cdroms and the forever friends one has been made using the matching papers!

Sewing machine!

I remember my Mum singing me this song when I was a little girl. She used to make all my party dresses and could run them up so quickly on her old machine. She used to make practically everything you could make with material on that and she'd had it since she was a little girl. I was just humming this tune and I thought " Why not dig mine out, haven't played on it since I was a student at Uni and used to make my own clothes!! Ha ha I don't think I could be bothered to do that now. Well, my BIG machine was well stuffed in the back of the cupboard so I managed to pick out my mini one instead and I had a jolly old play today!! I have used promarkers to colour the bear, chalks on the shrink plastic little dangly thing and crystal laquers and H20s on the Tilda image. The papers are either pink petticoat or hidden stuff that I found in my stash!

Forever friends challenge

Lacking time this week, I have made a very quick photo frame. The challenge this week over on the Forever friends blog was " Not a card" Well technically speaking this is not a card as it has a stand at the back and the photo can be removed and replaced with a much nicer one!!!

I have used the cute companions christmas cdrom choosing to use the design set and an insert. I have also used one of my favourite forever friends stamps. If hubby is really lucky he may get this for chrstmas from me!!!!! Only kidding I think he knows what I look like by now!

Forever friends

Just can't get enough of these little bears!

Gosh, where has the week gone! I just seem to be snowed under with work and so little time! Still have managed to get a few cards in and have to say that I have been disapointed with the shop bought cards that have darkened my letter box! I know that's so ungrateful and I should think it wonderful that people send me them but the quality of the cards is shocking and they just seem very bland............Hand crafted cards are just so beautiful and I love them!..........

Here's my attempt at a contemporary Christmas card! I loved colouring this image! The background paper is either funky fairies or Pink petticoat. Not sure which as they both have the same paper!

Still in a brown, chocolate kind of mood I thought I'd make my little brother's birthday card. Am a bit annoyed with myself as I have ended up with some inky finger marks on the inner circle. So I guess folks don't choc and craft!! Oh and my little brother will be celebrating his 37th birthday!! So he's not so little but to me he always will be!

What a rollercoaster of a day I have had at work! So escaping in to a bit of card making was really good for stress busting! I had a look on the forever friends challenge page and have had a go at this. I guess this is what the sketch was?? It was very difficult to see! Anyway, it inspired me to do a couple of cards for birthdays, which I needed anyway. The blue zig zag one is truest to the sketch and the other one was just playing a round with some scraps. I hate to waste anything and am a terrible hoarder of bits and pieces!

Ok! Never done one of these challenges before and have used some funky fairies and pink petticoat downloads. I am not quite sure about it but enjoyed playing with the circles anyway. The best thing was that I used up a load of little scraps that I had!!

Changed my mind and used my forever friends stamps instead and some of that lush ribbon!

Wedding

Am going to a wedding in two weeks on a friday! I won't be getting any crafting done then! If I do it will all be a disaster! These are the lovely forever friends stamps. Used a very fine brush snd some lovely H2os which I adore and some water colour pencils to get just the right shade. I like this one so much I will be reluctant to give it away!