Easter loveliness

Here's some more Easter cards that I sent using the same image. Call me terrible, but I am ashamed to say that I removed the sparkly button before sending this to my auntie because I could not part with it. Lauren would be on my side I know!!!

Craftbubble Easter inspiration challenge.

Morning all. This week I set the challenge over on the CMLI group and this time I used a photo for inspiration.

Here is what I did with it. I used an old Magnolia stamps and lots of pretty flowers from Wild Orchid crafts.

Tilda holding flowers

This is Tilda with butterfly dress and as she is holding flowers I am entering her in to the Totally Tilda challenge. Flowers are from my dear friend Diane, as are the papers, and the Tilda stamp! Lace, ribbon and buttons are from my stash. Tilda has been coloured with promarkers and copics and the punched butterfly is a Martha Stewart delight. Hope you like her!

The Purple Princess Masculine pose!

Our favourite purple princess came up with a fab sketch and challenging theme this week. She wanted us to go masculine! Now I needed a card for my brother-in-law and I confess to not having inked up this little chap before! He's from Lili of the Valley and he's been coloured with copics. The die is a Tim Holtz one and the sentiment is a stampin up one.

Easter Browns

Here's Tilda happily minding some eggs, although I am pretty sure, if she's anything like me those eggs in her dress are likely to fall on the floor and break. Somebody give her a basket!! My images have been coloured with promarkers and I used burnt orange,coral, cinnamon, walnut, chestnut, cocoa,black, canary, buttercup, eggshell, sandstone, cocktail pink, antique pink, baby pink, sunkissed pink, blush a selection of greys and a whole lot of love! There may be more, but I don't have the whole collection to hand! I have also played with my Martha Stewart punches and the ribbon was very kindly given to me by Diane. I have also used spellbinders dies, lili of the valley sentiment, wild orchid crafts flowers, some pearls and eyelets from my stash, linen papers and my trusty old sewing machine!! Phew!

Tilda as a Shepherdess.

 

I made a bit of a boo boo on my tag as I'd stuck the flower on before I'd stamped the sentiment and it didn't stamp correctly, so I had to cover it up with another stamped sentiment. I was really cross with myself about this!! Tilda has been coloured with promarkers. I just can't decide which colouring medium I like best! Time to dig out my paints possibly? I haven't played with them for ages!! I should have been a Gemini not a Pisces!

Tilda obsession!

Yep, I have been playing with my Tildas! I do love her!

My Birthday present from my friend, Diane.

My dear friend, Diane sent me this gorgeous little Tilda for my birthday along with some fabby papers. Yes, I knwo aren't I lucky! She knows how Tilda obsessed I am......as is she!!! Or should that be " she was" as she has sold pretty much most of her Tilda's now. She did have an amazing collection, but luckily for me, I have been acquiring quite a collection of her Tildas and I can assure her that they have definitely gone to a Tilda loving home! This was the card I made her as a thankyou, with the stamp she bought me. lovely lady!

 It's been coloured with a combination of copics and promarkers.

Craftbubble challenges!

I am also behind on these, so here's a catch up! Last week the lovely Nicola set the challenge and I used the new Michael Powell stamp from Docrafts. It was quite daunting to start colouring initially, I have to say, and I used promarkers as my copic stash is so limited.

This week the super talented Karen set the challenge and she is making sure that we all keep on track with making Christmas cards and has gone for a Christmas carol/song card to get us into the festive spirit!! I can't say that I'm feeling it, with the sun shining as beautifully as it is!! This one has been coloured with copics and she's a Penny Black stamp.

New Di's digi challenge.

Oh my oh my I am so late with things this week! I have just had so much going on that I haven't had time to catch up here and this is why I am a bit behind. Never mind, I am back now and I want to post up the new challenge over at Di's digi challenge. This week we are sponsored by Joanna Sheen, so do pop over to the challenge blog and enter. Also do take a look at my fellow DT's creations using Di's fabby images. They are all stunning! The theme of this week's challenge is embossing and this can be wet or dry. i have used the gorgeous bubble duck which can be purchased here and my image has been coloured with prisma pencils. There's plenty of stickles here too!

Japanese Tilda.

I just love this Tilda, isn't she lovely? I am well and truly Tilda addicted!
Coloured with copics and prisma pencils
Pink and white flowers and twine from The ribbon girl
Punched butterflies - an old personal impressions punch
memory box dies - button detail
marianne dies chinese roses
Label - doohickey die
Sentiment - woodware clear set I have had for ages!
Pearls from stash
Nestabilities dies
Papers Eastern promise from Dovecraft.

New Craftbubble challenge sail away

Hi all, this week the lovely Lauren set the challenge over on the CMLI group and she provided us with a sketch and a themw of " sail away"
Here's my country companions mice coloured with copics. It's an anniversary card for my parents who will have been married for 45 years on April 1st.

New Di's digi challenge.

Hi crafty friends, hope you are all well this morning and looking forward to a lovely crafty day! We have a new challenge over at Di's digi challenge and we are sponsored by cheery Lynn designs so do pop over to the challenge spot and enter. Our theme this fortnight is pastels.

I am also entering this into the following challenges.
Allsorts- Say it with flowers
Willow sketchie - sketch and or ribbon or twine
Papercrafting journey- Anything goes
Hot shot craft - ribbon
ATCs and cards with attitude- Anything goes

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