Di's digi designs challenge - Birthdays.

Another fortnight has once again flown by and it's time to check out the new challenge over at Di's digi challenge. This time it's birthdays. We have a fab sponsor once again so do stop over and enter your own birthday creations. we would love to see them.

 

The copis came out for this challenge along with a few magnolia dies and plenty of distressing!

I am entering this one in to the following challenges.

Brown Sugar- Anything goes

cut it up challenge- Birthdays

Craftitude- Anything goes

Aud's sentiments challenge - Use a birthday sentiment or the number 4

House mouse sunflower

I spied this cute image over at a friend's blog and I confessed to her that I had the stamp, but it had never seen ink! I have now rectified this and inked it up! I coloured my image with an assortment of copics.

Same image as below but coloured with copics this time!

Feeling blue?

My hand is much better today. Not completely healed  but half way there. I spied this gorgeous digi over at Saturated Canary, it's called Pixie Nerd, and have had great fun colouring her in blue, using promarkers. I think I'll enter this card into the Passion for promarkers challenge, which is add a sentiment. Fortunatley this lovely digi comes complete with a sentiment too.

Easter Saturated Canary.

Two more pretty Easter cards I made this week. Both coloured with promarkers.

Easter challenge over at Di's digi designs

Another fortnight has passed. Where does the time go? This time Di's design team have been playing with some of her lovely Easter designs. Here's my little lovely. I wanted to put a sentiment on it, but having slashed the palm of my hand with a knife this week, it's proving a little painful to hold things and is quite sore!
Do pop over and join our lovely challenge though as Easter isn't far away now!

I have made this digi quite large, one of the beauties of digital images and she has been coloured with promarkers. It's almost quite CAS for me as there aren't any additional flowers, but I wanted the lovely detailed image to be my focal point.

Restoration!

I have been feeling somewhat nostalgic in my old age and have had a go at some restoration projects recently!

 

Before                                                                           After                                                                                                       

   I have re-styled and conditioned the hair and knitted the outfit for this one.

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Next up this one has had  all of her new hair sewn in plug by plug by me as well as the tiny eyelashes. I almost gave up I confess as this one took me ages and gave me very sore fingers! But her face has changed so much now she has all of her lashes!

Before

After

The next one had a broken leg, so I fixed her by restringing the body, so now she works again and the hair was all matted, so I have fixed this too.

And finally this one had blue dyed hair and wasn't in a good state as she looked like this. So I sorted out the hair and made her a new dress and now................

Before

 she looks like this.

After

So you may be thinking I have gone completely mad in my old age, but actually it's quite therapeutic seeing things that would have been probably thrown away being given new life and I've really enjoyed creating. It's a bit of a change from card making but I'm enjoying it for now!

New Dis digi downloads challenge.

Another fortnight has flown by and what a fortnight it has been in a very sad way. Still onwards and upwards as they say. Here is my welcome spring card. DIs images are so sweet and I loved colouring this little sweetie. Do pop over and check then out.

Mother's Day

My thoughts are with all of those this weekend that are't as fortunate as me to be able to wish their Mum a Happy Mother's Day. Here's one I made for my Mum.

New Di's digi challenge, Person and animal.

Morning all, looks like it's going to be a lovely day again! Hurrah! We have a new challenge over at Di's digi downloads challenge and this week the challenge is an animal and a person. I just adore Di's images they ae so cute and they colour up beautifully. Di's images are also now available in rubber too for those who don't like digis. Anyway do pop over and join in the fun.

I am entering this card in to the following challenges.
Crafty Calendar challenge - Animal antics
ABC Challenge H for hair.
Created with love challenge - Think Spring
Cute card Thursday girls, girls,girls.

A new TIC TAC TOE challenge over at Di's digi designs.

Afetr taking a break for a while from the DT at Di's digi downloads I'm pleased to say that I have managed to put my life in a little more order and return. So The challenge over at Di's this fortnight is a TIC TAC TOE one and I have used  a digi, flowers and die cuts.

 

It's lovely to be able to creat again with Di's fabby images and I have missed not having the time to do things. Hopefully now I'll be able to create a little bit more with these so cute images.

I am entering this card in to the following challenges.


Crafty Hazlenuts Patterned paper
ABC Challenge - Flowers
Brown Sugar Challenge - Use a die cut or punch

Cinders, you shall go to the ball.

I noticed that Krista was having a sale a few weeks ago of quite a few digis that were going into retirement. Well, a few just had to slip into the old basket didn't they and here's one that I had great fun colouring with my old promarkers. I do seem to flip between promarkers and copics and go through phases using each. Is this normal, or should I ask....am I normal?? I am entering this one in to the passion for promarkers challenge which is anything goes.

I'm no wallflower!

Another of my Saturated Canary makes coloured with promarkers. This little lady is called Wallflower.

Saturated Canary Breeze.

I'm so loving those Saturated Canary images at the mo and I confess I have bought a heap of them over the past few weeks both digi and rubber! This little lady is called Breeze and she has been coloured with promarkers for a change! The backing papers are Christmas ones and the die cuts are all from Magnolia. The sentiment is one from Lili of the Valley.

I am going to enter this card in to the Passion for Promarkers challenge which is ribbon, lace or twine.

Fly free..... Leanne Ellis

I just love these Leanne Ellis stamps and I have managed to acquire quite a few courtesy of a lovely friend in Manchester. There was a bit of a tug of love war with this stamp though as my friend loved it so much that the only condition that I could acquire it from her was that I made her a card using it. It's taken me a while to complete my side of the bargain but this will duly be off in the post in the morning to my friend. I just hope that she likes it!

 

I have used:

Copics and prisma pencils,

Papermania papers

Off cut of Ribbon

Pin, present from a friend.

Metal butterfly Ribbon girl I think.

Poinsettia die Magnolia doohickey die.

Tim Holtz bird cage die

Walnut stain distress ink

Brad from stash.

Stampin up sentiment stamp

Sewing machine and

A whole lot of love!

Christmas in January!

Well I say it every year and I never seem to take my own advice, but I really do need to start making my Christmas cards earlier! This year I put myself through the shame of buying cards because I didn't have the time to make them all. I didn't enjoy sending bought cards out as I had absolutely no pride in them, but this year 2014 I WILL make them all! Every single one! So to kick start my pile of beauties here we go, starting with the 2013 Magnolia stamp kit stamps! I experimented a bit here...lots of die cutting and distress ink, free papers.....I WILL whittle down that humungous pile of freebie papers! And I WILL have fun along the way!.....just don't chastise me if I fail!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year all my fellow bloggers. I am sorry that I have been absent for so long but life has been chaotic, so much stress! I'm feeling so much more positive as we enter a new year and I hope that you and yours have a fabulous new year and that everything goes well. Here is a new Tilda that I treated myself to over Christmas as the guy in the red suit chose only to give me one crafty present this year! I didn't have time to leave him a letter though with a list of websites so I guess it's my own fault and to be fair the children in our family did get put first and got what they wanted, so that's more important!

Anyway, the lovely purple princess has set a challenge to make something purple. I seem to have made my last three things in this colour....am I being converted? I'm a pink kinda girl and love my pastels...what's happening to me?

 

Have used:

Magnolia stamps:Sakura Tilda and loving wishes.

 copics,

magnolia dies : peony petals and dragonflies lace

 inkadinkadoo stamps

Cheery Lynn pastry die

Spellbinders dies

Free papers from a magazine.

Stickles crystal glitter glue.

New Girly Challenge

There's a brand new challenge over at Di's digi downloads and this week it's oh so girly! I just love this sweet little lady kissing her froggy! Do pop over to see the rest of the DT makes...absolutely adorable, all of them!

Peeking through the Christmas trees.

Ok folks, how is your Christmas card collection growing? Mine is emerging shall we say. I looked at the list I needed to make for and took a big gulp....am I going to do it this year? I'm not sure! I have a heap of birthdays in December as well, so I'd better get a move on.
Anyway, this little cute Edwin is from my stamp kit from Magnolia that arrived a few weeks ago. I just love this collection, as I do them all.

He has been coloured with copics and the papers were freebies from a magazine last year. I quite like how this one turned out.

Purple fairy

Hi all. With all the Halloween excitement and the wet windy weather what better than a spot of crafting. I have been extraordinarily busy of late so haven't been around much at all. Well with my crafting I have been busy, but I can't show all on my blog as some of the makes are for friends who might just be mooching around these parts!
Anyway, here's my withered fairy from Saturated Canary, all festooned in purple. You gotta love her really. I loved colouring her hair and going to town on all things purple......must have been missing my purple friend ;0) She knows who she is!