More Christmas!

My card quota is growing daily! This time I have used a candibean stamp. Trying to practice my hair colouring technique. Here's the first one.

and here's the second one using a saturated canary digital stamp. Marker slipped on the short haired girl.....over zealous flicking technique!!

Sparkling challenge.

Oh my......another fortnight gone already, where does the time go? We have a new challenge over at Di's digi downloads challenge and this week it's time to get sparkly! So I thought I'd make another dent in my Christmas card making and believe me when I say it IS going well this year, with more made than I sent last year already! I am very pleased with myself! Do pop over to the challenge, as always there are prizes to be won and pretties to be adored.

 

I am entering these in to the following challenges.

Seemacrafts -Anything goes 

Craftyhazelnutschallenge- Upcycle, recycle or use something free. My digis were free! :0)

Completely Christmas - Anthing goes with make it cute.

Chrimbo  crackers - use Kraft

Lovely day for a spot of crafting!

I don't think it can get any darker outside, for daylight hours anyway! We have got to have all of the lights on and it feels miserable, so what a perfect opportunity to play with craft toys! I have been getting ahead with my DT stuff so I'm feeling virtuous and now playing with some of my other toys. I love my digi stamps as you probably know and these new Saturated Canary images really appeal to me. This little lady was coloured with copics and the papers were from the pad I bought at the works. No stitching on here today but there will be plenty of stitched cards in the coming weeks as I love my new machine! The die is a memory box one and a Christmas present to myself! Santa doesn't always get me what I want and so I have to give him a helping hand!

Saturated Canary pretty.

Morning all, what a weird weather day today is turning out to be! One minute beautiful sunshine, then a massive gust of wind threatening to remove the garden fence, then  the biggest, blackest cloud ever and you have to turn the lights on. I don't really fancy going out in it to be honest but I will have to as we are missing an item for my home made pizza later on....the cheese! You have to have cheese on a pizza! Anyway, on to my pretty lady card. i bought the new digis from Saturated Canary from the very talented Krista Smith and I am slowly making up some cards for the birthdays through the year. I was lucky enough to have a new sewing machine for Christmas :0). I was so happy! It's whizzingly fast, but quiet and I confess it's a lidl model, so wasn't expensive, but does the job and hubby is so pleased that it's not as loud or indeed as heavy as my old one...having said that I'm not getting rid of the old one just yet, we went through uni together and I made some of my clothes on it as well as masses of other things and as much as I love my new one, what if it packs up?? The newer model has everything kind of build in, so it's not going to stand the test of time I'm sure! Call me a cynic, but modern things just don't last like the old stuff. Anybody agree with that?

Moving swiftly on to my card, I have used copics to colour her, a range of dies and some embellishments from the ribbon girl. The papers, ribbon and button came from the works. I have been pretty impressed with their stuff recently, as they have had some great embellishments, plus you get loyalty points, which equals money back. Hope you like her. xx

Winter challenge over at Di's digi designs.

The weather outside is frightful! ( No snow but plenty of lashings of rain!) and over at Di's digi designs a new challenge has kicked off for the new year and we have Winter as our theme. The perfect excuse to get ahead with your Christmas makes! You know you want to!

I am entering this card in to the following challenges:
Cute card Thursday _ Anything goes.
Craftyhazelnutschallenge extra - Anything goes
Craftycatz Anything goes
Winterwonderland - Fave colour combo ( Blue , white and the white has to be sparkly!)

Long time gone!

I hope that you all had a great Christmas and that Santa was kind to you. He was to me and he brought me some lovely crafty things! Dies being one of them! Here is a selection of both Christmas 2014 and a few Christmas 2015 cards, as I am being super organised this year and have made quite a few cards already! I don't know what's come over me! Probably the fact that I have been so flipping cold here without water and heating due to the boiler breaking down and that was weeks ago! And it's like friends reunited seeing all my crafty stuff again! It's finally been completed today and oh how lovely it is to be warm and not sit in your hat, scarf and gloves inside your house!So crafting is glorious!!

Waiting for Christmas.

I ordered the  Magnolia Christmas stampclub kit as I haven't ever been disappointed with these and this little collection was no exception. This is the first one I have coloured up and I'm really pleased with how she turned out.

Dust off the cauldron!

Another year flown by and another fortnight since Di's challenge! Phew where does the time go? This week over at Di's it's time to play Halloween! Spooky! This little sweetie is way to cute to spook though and Di has tons of Halloween images to play with and don't forget some of Di's stamps are available in rubber form too!

I will eneter this one in to the following challenges:
Cute card Thursday Trick or treat
Paradise of stamps challenge Halloween
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Fusion - Halloween
If you give a crafter a cookie challenge Cookie photo.

Girly challenge.

Over at Dis digi downloads challenge this week we have a girly challenge. I have used a very cute Izzy image and gone so very pink! Hope you like it.

Elzybells Christmas

Ok, so I am very, very behind with my Christmas cards, so little time, too many to make, so I'm just going to see how many I do and not not stress myself out about it. I do love these Elzybells images and I'm going to be playing with a few so that they don't feel nelected. They are so simple and lovely to colour and they are great for paper piecing . I'm not feeling a bit festive , but hey ho, onwards and upwards!

checks and or stripes challenge.

Time for another challenge over at Dis digi diwnloads

The beautiful challenge this time is checks and stripes. This is such a cutie pie image...adorable.

Good morning and see you in September.

Morning crafty pals. Today sees another new challenge over at Di's digi stamps and this week it's back to school! I haven't even left mine yet to go on holiday!  I love this wee image and the little bug  sat beside her. Isn't she cute?
See you all in September, but for now it's over and out. xxx

Sarah Kay beauty.

I just love these Sarah Kay images, they are so sweet and it's a such a shame that Stampavie went out of business. I have a significant collecton of these and thought it might be nice to colour one of them up. I've gone for blue as I used some of the gorgeous papers that my friend Diane gave to me. My image has been coloured with copics and prisma pencils and the flowers are a mixture of die cuts from magnolia and whiff of joys. The larger blue flowers have been sprayed with cosmic shimmer. My trusty old sewing machine has also made an appearance.

Lace and pearls at Dis digi designs challenge.

Another fortnight gone and August already. Where does the time go? It's a vile morning here in Bath, heavy rain and very dark, so no going out, but opportunities to craft instead methinks. This fortnight sees lace and pearls as the challenge over at Dis. We'd love it if you joined us.

Happy Birthday Troy.

So I have a lovely family barbeque later with my brother-in-law, his partner and their children as the youngest one is seven today. I can't believe that's seven years ago! Where does the time go? Anyway, he's a bit of a dude, so I made this card for him for today. I always find masculine cards quite difficult. I love my embellishments and you can't do that on boys cards! Anyway, hope he likes it!

Fairy pretty!

Awh I just love Krista's digi images! I have quite a collection now! This one is sweater socks fairy. Fairy appropriate as it certainly is sweaty today!!!!

Friends.

This will be shortly on its way to a very special friend of mine. I hope she likes it! I have used stampin up papers which came from my firend in my goody box as did the ribbon and butterfly charm. I have also used a range of dies and vintage photo distress ink. The image has been coloured with copics and prisma pencil. The sentiment is a stampin up on form the bloomin marvelous set.

Bookatrix card

I picked up this bookatrix board recently, second hand but cheap as chips and dusted off some peel offs that I have had for years as I was feeling a bit nostalgic. My lovely friend, Diane recently emigrated and in clearing out her house she so very kindly sent her daughter round with the most mahoosive boxes of Craft goodies. I cannot tell you the words to describe the feeling of being in awe of craft stuff you've never seen before! Loads, and I mean loads of fab stamps, stickers, stashes of paper delights, all sorts of embellishments, charms, ribbons, lace, pretty flowers, dies and even a fimo manchester united chap, so that hubby didn't feel left out! And, and, and a Penny Black stamp that I have been wanting for years! I cannot believe the generosity of my lovely friend, but and it's a big but, I'd have preferred that she could have moved nearer to me instead, so that we could have played with stash together!

Anyway, here's a gorjuss girl that has never seen ink before as are the butterflies, along with my friend's ribbon and flowers and the metal flower centre.
If you're reading this Diane, I'll email soon and I promise I'm in the process of crafting a card. xx

New Di's digi challenge.

It's a very storym day here in Bath, thunder is crashing around the valley, the rain is torrential and the flashes of lightening light up a very dark house. It's been two days of it now! We had a brief respite yesterday in the day time but so far since midnight last night it's been going on and on..any thoughts of going to the Bristol Harbour festival have been abandoned...such a shame! Anyway, it's perfect get stuck in to your crafting weather! So the new challenge over at Di's today is punches and dies. Here's my little card using a lovely fairy digi from Di's store and what a cutie she is.
Do come and join us.

Morning all.

I'm just on my way out.....got new glasses to pick up...so will have to come back and edit this later on today. Anyway, over at Dis digi designs challenge we have a new challenge and it's ribbon and bows so a nice easy one.
Love, love love this cute image, reminds me of a painting I had on my wall as a child that my grandad gave me. He died when I was very young ( three) but I remember him so well as he used to spend lots of time with us. I have coloured this little cutie with my copics and the papers are freebies from a mag. Back later to enter this card into a few challenges, but don't have time just now! Not forgetting the eye strain!!