Behind again!

Where ha sthe week gone eh? saturday morning already and I haven't put up my Thursdays Willow sketchie yet!
The challenge this week was using Jane's lovely sketch and the download A walk in the Park which is one of my favourites. As always you can take part in the sketchies here and we would love to see Willow products used but you can of course use any stash that you have. There is a prize for entering and that's to win one of Sharon's lovely downloads.

Willow sketchie challenge.

It's great that the Willow sketchie challenge has started again. Sharon provided a fab sketch this week and I loved it soooo much that I made two cards using the sketch and two of her very cute owl downloads.

Willow sketchie

This is the card I have made for the willow sketchie. I have used the download "Keeping warm" which I won for a card I made in the let's get stamping group on Craftbubble. A very lovely download it is too and I now want them all!! I have used my promarkers and chose carmine to cover the stocking as I missed the carmine promarker challenge in the group when I was on holiday!

Willow sketchie

Over on the willow sketchie challenge blog, Heidi provided the sketch to follow and we also had to make a Christmas card! I have used the woody download and the snowman download for this. I cropped the Woody image and then flipped it, coloured with promarkers, layering colours to get the colour I wanted. I then made a present for the recipient's tree so it's a present and card in one! I think it's turned out quite well!!

Willow sketchie

Well I was playing with my promarkers and Daisy rabbit and I curled around a tiny cylinder of card and ended up making a fab little pen top for my promarkers!! I also think they would make great little finger puppets for nursery so might make up a little song tomorrow about five little rabbits who ate carrots all day..... Anyway, I then thought about the Willow sketchie and made a patchwork type backing paper as this weeks Willow sketchie had to involve using some sewing and buttons and started making a little bag to put my pen top in! By this time I reached for some wire and started winding this around my button and came up with a flower! I do like to play and play and play!! I also used a few freebies...the lovely Sally-Anne's backing paper from her blog and a freebie bird from Pink Petticoat. The "Happy birthday "was written by me with the bubble coming with the freebie bird! I really do need to buy some more Willow design stuff though otherwise Daisy and I might become fed up with each other at some point. Not for now though as I feel like Daisy could do with lots more card outings yet!!

Willow sketchie

Sharon has released a new download of Daisy rabbit........... and who could resist this gorgeous little bunny! I'm ashamed to say that I don't own any willow stamps or downloads and this is my first one! I am sure that it won't be my last as this one is just so adorable, go take a look at the stamps and downloads on her site and while you are at it, check out the willow sketchie! This weeks Willow sketchie required something that was doodled and something that was non flat and of course you had to use the sketch!!

I have decided to make my card 3D and I turned the sketchie around. I used all the papers and images from the willow daisy rabbit download I made the little pink flower using a heart shaped punch ( again to give a 3D feel) and the stem and leaves were made with some wire from my stash. I also punched out the flower pot. A bit of organza ribbon and some butterflies on acetate were added and a pink petticoat sentiments tag and doodled flowers and aperture opening completed the inside of the card. The outside of the card was less fussy so that you got a lovely surprise when you opened the card! I think that this could be equally good as an Easter card, although I would make the aperture larger to accommodate the rabbit. This card will be going to a good home to a little girl aptly named "Daisy"!

Chinese New Year/ Craftbubble willow sketchie

This is my Craftbubble Willow Sketchie for this week. I have used my embossing powders and stamps to make the background papers and a selection of Oriental stamps that I have collected over the years from Lakeland's sales! I just love the combination of red and gold, it feels so festive ( again!!) If you are not already a member of craftbubble then please do go and take a look. It's a lovely friendly, creative place to be

Willow sketchie

Another week has gone, where does the time go? I have been so busy with things that my crafting has had to take a back seat, but then I saw these Sarah Kay stamps while browsing for a stamp pressie for another crafty friend and I just had to buy it!! The detail on these stamps is amazing and of course now I want them all and I want them now!! ( Stamps feet and jumps up and down!!!) I know that this will not be happening though as hubby has never really understood my need to buy yet more stamps!! Haven't I got enough already????!! Bah humbug!! Still I think I deserve another little pressie to myself from Santa as I have been good most of the year!!

Anyway, thanks Sharon for another little willow sketchie which I just had to do. The sketch was very inspiring and I love it so much that I am going to make a few more similar to this as I need to make some birthday cards for an exchange that I take part in with my cross stitch friends. I used my lush H20s to colour the image, hence its vibrancy.

Willow sketchie

This is the willow sketchie for this week and my interpretation of it.
It was quite a challenge this time! Finding suitable images among my stash was tough as most of them are quite large! In the end I used two stamps for the main images and the cute companions stars for the background. I still quite like the finished article!