Husband's birthday card.

It's hubby's birthday on the 25th and it'a milestone for him! I won't say which, but it's nifty something! So I didn't put a number on it because I know he's a bit touchy about the subject! The image is a lili of the valley and it has been coloured with promarkers. I'm still preferring the copics though, I have to say! I have added limited embellishments and just a simple layout. I just hope that he likes it!

Sunday themed challenge on CMLI group

Morning all, my themed challenge today over on the CMLI group on Craftbubble. is " I spy with my little eye, something beginning with b".

New CMLI craftbubble challenge.

There is a new challenge over on the CMLI group today which has been set by me. I am having fun with tags and here's my effort.

Thank you my bloggy friends. xx

Just wanted to say a huge thanks for the gorgeous birthday cards I have received today. I will post piccies later, when my camera has enough battery to manage it! There are a fabulous mixture of handmade cards, stitched, inked, stamped and I truly appreciate them all. Thank you for taking the time to make them for me, you have made my special day just that little bit more special, crafty friends. xx

Anybody for a hug?

This little girl hugging her rabbit reminds me of my friend's daughter when she was little. She carried her rabbit everywhere.

Totally Tilda challenge and Kathy's Wild animal!

Hi, here's my entry to the Totally Tilda challenge, which is Tilda and diecuts and punches. It also fits Kathy's Sunday challenge of wild animals on the CMLI group on craftbubble.

Copics or promarkers? Which do you prefer?

No card to post today, but I have been having a colouring frenzy! My dear friend, Diane, sent me some copics to try. I have always been a promarker girl, or a prisma pencil girl, but I couldn't resist trying these babies to see how I would do. Well I have to say that I love the vibrancy of the copics and that brush tip, just does it for me! Being able to gently flick with the pens certainly beats the promarkers! Here's some images coloured with the pens that Diane sent me.

What do you think? And are you a promarker or a copic fan? I'd be interested to know what you think.

Kathy's Monochrome challenge.

This week, the lovely Kathy set the challenge for the CMLI group on Craftbubble. She provided us with a fab sketch to go with her Monochrome twist.
Here's my little mousei card which is a Penny Black image and he's been gently coloured with grey promarkers. this was very much out of my comfort zone, so thanks for that Kathy!

 

New Di's digi challenge.

We have a new challenge over at Di's Digi designs challenge blog. Please do pop by and see what the fab design team have created for the challenge that is lace and pearls. I have used the sweet bathing bear from Di's digis. He's so sweet and he has been coloured with prisma pencils. Remember you have to be in it to win and this week you could win a fab Joanna Sheen voucher, and if you use one of Di's fab images you could also be in with the chance of winning some more!

 

I am also entering this card into the following other challenges.

 Willow Sketchie challenge- Anything goes

Crafty Catz - something beginning with b ( brown, bear, birds and bathing!)

Papercrafting journey - Make it cute

Allsorts - it's your choice

Cute card thursday- Winged things.

Penny Black Saturday challenge.

This week's Penny Black Saturday challenge is Lace and Pearls. Here's my little mousie card, that has been coloured with promarkers and I have distressed quite a bit!

New CMLI Craftbubble challenge

This week we had a guest design spot on CMLI and the fabby Debs provided us with a sketch and the twist was Night at the movies. Here's mine and my movie? On her majesty's secret service.

Promarker and Tilda magic

I'm having a real Tilda love at the moment, I can't seem to stop making cards with her. Having recently re-discovered my promarkers it feels like a new love affair. I have been prisma pencilliing for so long that the promarkers were gathering dust and stayed neglected for such a long time, that I had considered getting rid of them. I'm glad I stopped for a moment though, sometimes old things are just as good and need to be loved as new things and old things need nurturing too. Philosophical me today, I think, so here's some promarker magic using simsalabim Tilda , nitwit and pink petticoat papers, wild orchid roses and crystal stems, stampin up sentiment and one sacrificed button and organza ribbon.

Thank you Diane

This little card is going off on its travels to my friend Diane who lives in Manchester. It's a thank you card for everything she's done for me recently. I can't thank her enough for her kindness, patience and general loveliness and for those fab emails you sent that have made me laugh out loud. Thanks hunny, I needed it! You've  made these past few weeks of difficulty so much more bearable and sending hugs right back at you. I'm coming up for air now and hoping the wind changes ;0) Wish I'd been able to have a pink and grey schoool uniform ;0) x

New Di's digi downloads Challenge.

Morning all, bet it's cold and chilly where you live as it definitely is here brrrrrr. So this week's challenge over at Di's features Snow! Perfect to get a head start on your Christmas cards and you know you want to! Although it does feel kind of weird to be making Christmas cards in February. Here's my card featuring one of Di's gorgeous little images.

I am entering this one into the following challenges.
Allsorts - Free and Easy
Moving along with the times - Cute critters
Papertake Monday - Anything goes
Scrappy frogs - die cuts
Pollycraft Monday - chill out

New home for a special friend

A very dear friend of mine has recently moved house and here's the card I sent her to wish her well :0) The stamp is a sugar nellie and the papers are nitwit ones.

Longing for Summer

Here's a pink gem stamp design which I have coloured with promarkers. I had lots of fun finding suitable embellishments for this and the stamped image was a dream to colour. I am entering this one in to the poodles parlour challenge.

Country Style Sugar Nellie

Another stamp that used to belong to Diane! Isn't she a sweetie? ( Diane and the stamp!!)

Elegance.

I'm not really an elegant kind of lady, but here's my interpretation of elegant and classy!

My sweet friend

Here's today's creation using another Tilda from the raising the ceiling collection. I have been playing with promarkers again.....there seems to be a bit of a theme here doesn't there?! I am enetering this one into Dutch Dare card challenges where the challenge is to gain inspiration from the photo there.

Blonde Tilda

Here's Tilda as a blonde! This cute stamp came from my dear friend Diane. ( Thanks hunny!) Tilda has been coloured with promarkers, quite a lot of colours actually in order to get the skin colours right and the reds for the clothing. The die cuts are magnolia doohickey ( flowers) and docrafts nesties. I really like these and they are great value for money! The DPs are Pink Petticoat from the fairy dots collection. ribbon and lace is from my stash.

We were supposed to go out tonight, but sadly the snow has put paid to that. It's more rain like now but I'm not sorry to be stuck at home with my papers, inks and stamps. There will be more cards to come!

Brrrr it's cold outside!

Today sees the snow now falling across Bath and it is beginning to settle in places. So it's perfect weather to stay inside, keep warm and craft! Pop over to the craftbubble forum and the CMLI group and you'll find that our lovely Lauren has set us a fabby sketch with some inspirational colour and the theme is take it as red.

My card is a Sugar Nellie image which has been promarkered! Yep I am using them again folks! Don't faint!

Sugar Nellie Elise

I have been playing with promarkers this afternoon, yes don't faint! This little lovely is called Elise and she came from Sugar Nellie. Actually she also came down from Manchester as I bought this stamp from Diane. ( Waves!) I am entering this into a number of challenges.
Sugar bowl - Sketch challenge and paper piecing
Cute card Thursday - You're a gem
Ribbon girl - Pink and blue
and Lothian crafts- Die cuts

Craftbubble " Standing under"

This Saturday it is my turn to set the challenge over on the Craftbubble CMLI group challenge. I have set a sketch and theme today. My theme is " Standing under" and here's my sketch.

 My stamp is a Wild Rose studio one. Aren't they adorable?

Valentine's at Di's digi challenge.

This fortnight at Di's digi challenge myself and the fab design team have been playing with Di's beautiful images to make Valentine's projects. Please pop over and join in the fun and make something for that special somebody in your life. Once you do, enter it in to our challenge and you will have the chance to win $10 from Joanna Sheen and if you use one of Di's lovely images you'll also be entered in to the draw to win two more of Di's images.
Here's mine.

I am also entering this into the following challenges.
ALLSORTS - One or more hearts
SIMON SAYS- Anything goes
MAMI DOODLES - For a loved one
ROBYN's FETISH - Love
CRAFTY PURPLE FROG - Valentine's Day

Tilda's Christmas stocking.

Do your eyes deceive you? Sadly not, it is another Christmas card to add to my ever growing pile! I shall be ready for Christmas this year no matter what and it looks like my piles will be enormous!!!!! I blame the post Christmas sales! They MADE me purchase these papers and Tilda which was reduced at Sir stampalot! Tilda has been coloured with a selction of prismas ( of course) The note stamp is a lili of the valley one and the dies used are doohickey ones.

New CMLI Craftbubble challenge

Morning all! This week the lovely Karen has set the challenge over on the CMLI group at Craftbubble. Her challenge this week has seen us getting back into the festive spirit! I did moan a little, I confess!! I think Karen is determined to have me organised this year and so should I actually thank her?? Bah humbug I say!! Still, I also confess to having an unstamped stamp here from the gorgeous collection from Lili of the valley. Who couldn't fail to love this cute pair? Well her challenge is " Christmas presents" and here is mine, coloured of course with primas.

I am sorry that my photo is a bit washed out, I couldn't take it in natural light!

A new Year, a new design team.

Morning all. Well lucky me is all I can say! I am fortunate enough to now be on the design team for Di's digi downloads which I consider to be an absolute honour! I only recently discovered Di's digis through a win on another challenge blog and I just love working with these cute, adorable images. Do pop over and have a look and then when you've done that come and join us over on our challenge blog, which can be found here. This fortnight you have the chance to win a prize from http://www.michellesscrap.com/ . Our challenge this fortnight is " Thank you". Without further ado, here is my card.

I am also entering this for the following challenges.
Crafts and me challenges- Anything goes
Papertake weekly - die cute special
Bearly mine designs - Anything goes
bunny zoes crafts - photo inspiration
Anything goes- Anything goes

New CMLI Craftbubble challenge.

Morning all and welcome back to the CMLI challenge on Craftbubble. This week it was my turn to set the challenge and I have provided a sketch and twist, of something old, something new, something recycled too.
Here's my card. The something old is the brown paper and music card, the something new is my button die and my seam binding and the recycled is my lovely stamp, previously owned by the lovely Diane...sending her lots of love. xx

Amigurumi frog

I had a fab book for Christmas about making amigurumi creatures. Now it has been a long, long time since I have done any crochet. ( We're talking childhood here!) so I thought I'd have a go at it and see if I could still do it! Unfortunately my efforts make him seem a little overweight, but he is  perfect for all us new year dieters! We can look at his body and instead of saying " Phwor" we can all say " I must stick to that diet,!!" Well, he'll come in handy for singing "hmn, hmn said the little green frog one day"http://www.singup.org/songbank/song-bank/song-detail/view/150-little-green-frog/ at work and if I make four more I'll be able to use him for five little speckled frogs as well! I also need to get the right sized crochet hook because that should help with his weight loss!! If only New year diets were that flipping easy!!!!

Penny Black new acquisition.

Oh who can resist a new Penny Black stamp? Not me, by all accounts! I just had to have it and it's even better when it's in the sale! I have hardly embellished this one because the stamp is so cute I didn't want to distract the eye from it.

Sweet Crazy Love.

Here's one I made today whilst looking through my Maggie's collection. This little pretty came with the latest stamp club kit. I just love her curly, wild hair!

The light is terrible in this photo...makes everything have a  bit of a greeny tinge! So Sorry about that!

Last Christmas cards of 2011

Hope you've all had a Merry Christmas. Here are my last three Christmas cards of 2011 that I made yesterday. I don't plan on making any more this year, but I just couldn't resist making them before I put my Christmas craft box away and I had printed out these digis before Christmas and I wanted to start the 2012 box off with a couple of cards. It makes me feel like I have something to work with! I am entering these for Di's digi download challenge blog as these little beauties are all her digi downloads and their last challenge of this year is Christmas, so it's the perfect excuse! My lovely images have of course been prisma coloured!

I am sorry if you are sick of my Christmas cards, but I promise that I think I am done now and I plan to put this all away today!  ........BUT never say NEVER!!!!!!

freebie My minds eye papers

I haven't used these little freebie jobs from Cardmaking and Parecraft magazine until now and I have to say that I love, love, love them! The little robins go perfectly with this cute lili of the valley image. This image has been prisma coloured , but was in my " first aid" box. The snowflake charms are really sweet and I got those on eBay. The glittery strips came form somewhere, but I can't remember where and I have almost used all of these up. I quite like this card, so will struggle to give it to somebodyelse!! Oh aren't I mean?!!!

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!

Sledging first aid!

This one was promarkered! Have I fallen back in love with promarkers I hear you cry? Err no actually! This one was coloured last Christmas before my broken right wrist and was put in my emergency coloured images box; for those times when you start panicking because you still haven't made quite enough Christmas cards and you are in fact getting sick at the sight of them! Oh, do you not have one of those then? Hmnn I have almost depleted the stock of mine...things are getting desperate and I'm not going to let this happen next year! Once this batch is finished, (and I am getting there.....)I'm going to start colouring in new stuff to make up for next year's box of pretties " first aid" . Button is made from my sizzix scraps, emergency first aid box. Papers are nitwits ones! I am out of the office this weekend and away from my work desk. I have a big family get together for my little brother's 40th, his partner's 40th and their son's 1st. Might need the first aid box again.....but more likely to be in search of headache pills than coloured images!!

Domestic Goddess

Awh isn't she a sweetie? This could almost be a photograph of me in the kitchen....NOT!! She's far too clean and tidy, unlike myself!

Pretty Roses

Here's one I pre-coloured earlier! It's been sat in my pre-coloured box for ages and so this was quick to run up! Papers are trimcraft ones I think and they are all glittery and sparkly! Die cuts are magnolia ones and look, a button form my box....shock horror.....espcially as this is one of my favourites because it's spotty!

Easel nice shepherd!

Another unfussy card today! Time is running out for Christmas card making and I need to make lots more!!

Holly Wreath Tilda

Isn't she a cutie? I just love that little wreath she is holding. I have opted for plain and simple on this one, one backing paper which is glittery, one tag, one ribbon and a piece of pretty lace. Simples!

Christmas skater.

This was me being very " over embellished" I got out a whole heap of craft stuff and just played, played, played! The background stamp is by Alota and I masked Tilda before stamping the background. I used a Martha Stewart icicle punch for the bottom and the ribbon was cheap stuff from the works, which actually was very high quality! There was also plenty of it. I punched the leaves and used lots of glitter and sparkle and flowers from Wild Orchid crafts. The button was prised out of my button box...with great difficulty! For those who know me they know how particular I am about my button box!!

Blue, chilly Christmas.

Shiver and shake, it's a cold Christmas! Well these two little fellows certainly think so! Love their little hats and these were a joy to colour. Thanks to Lauren who sold them last year with the proceeds going to Clare for the breast cancer appeal.

Nephew's Christmas card

Here is my Christmas card for me little nephew. I saw this wooden stamp on EBay and got it for 99p plus postage. A veritable bargain I say! It's not an overely fussy card, but perfect for a very cute little boy who happens to be a bit poorly at the moment and will be turning one on December 12th! xx