Card Patterns #10

I received this image from a friend - not sure, but I think she might be a Tilda. Coloured her with watercolour pencils, added some stickles to highlight the lacy bits and popped her up on dimensionals.

Sketch from Card Patterns - just turned it on its side.

I don't know whether to add a sentiment or not - what do you think ... is she a birthday card, or 'with love' ...?

Supplies: watercolour pencils; brown/yellow primas; pink gmes; Basic Grey 'Sugared' paper; stickles; round nestabilities; brown marker and white gel pens (for borders)

Sketch Saturday #46

When I first looked at this sketch I couldn't think what to do with it ... so this is what I ended up with! The papers are from one of the first stacks I bought. Used the yellow to paper piece the zebra (who says zebras can't be yellow!!) and added a googley eye. Hand stitched border.

Supplies: Stampin Up 'Zoofari'; Papermania paper; yellow embroidery thread; gold peel off greeting; blue primas; green dew drops

CPS #111

I love this little monkey stamp ... I'm not sure but I think its from CC Designs, and I've no idea where the little cake is from! Coloured with watercolour pencils and added stickles to the candle flame, icing and the party hat, as well as dotted on the sides.

The sketch is from CPS card sketches

Supplies: bright pink paper; patterned paper from Dovecraft; silver stickles; diamond ice stickles; turquoise stickles; white gel pen; pink marker for border doodles; blue button

High Hopes Challenge #26

This week's challenge over at the High Hopes blog is to paper pierce ... I think I got a bit carried away!

I also combined it with the ABC challenge: I is for Inside. I almost never put anything inside a card, so I enjoyed this one!

Supplies: all stamps from High Hopes; not sure about paper, bought it ages ago; stickles (for brew in pot); watercolour pencils; blue and pink dew drops and gems; blue ribbon

Simple Sympathy Card

I love this Stampin up set and always seem to turn to it when I need a sympathy card. The colour combo came from Cute Card Thursday #55 - marshmallows and chocolate. The sketch is from Fiday Sketchers - you'll have to trust me that there is a swirl in the bottom L-H corner - I stamped it with versamark but it doesn't really show up in the photo. I didn't have any brown dew drops, so I coloured a plain one with a dark brown Copic.

Supplies: SU Flowers in Bloom; brown paper; pink paper; white gel pen; brown ribbon; peel off greeting; copic pen; dew drops

Friday Sketchers Challenge #46

Yippee... I've finally finished my Easter Cards! This sketch was courtesy of the Friday Sketchers challenge. Added loads of stickles and gems for some bling.

Supplies: Whipper Snapper stamp; multi coloured gems; Diamond Ice stickles

High Hopes Blog Challenge #25

This week's High Hopes challenge is a sketch - see below. This little seal was part of a monthly special a while back - coloured with watercolour pencils and diamond stickles added to his collar and nose for some bling! Not sure where the fish in the background came from ... might be a Cornish Heritage Farms stamp but I'm not sure. The bp is also embossed for a bit of dimension.

The colour combo was from Colour Create Challenge #10 - Duck Egg blue and Rose. I don't have any duck egg blue paper so this was the closest I could get. (The extra option on the challenge was for some stitching.)


Supplies: High Hopes Seal and greeting; Ellison dots embossing folder; diamond ice stickles; white thread; white ribbon; pink eyelets; watercolour pencils; stazon black ink; versamark ink; rectangular nestabilities; dimensionals (for sentiment)

My one-and-only Sugar Nellie!

I bought this Sugar Nellie quite a while ago and never seem to use it very much! I think its because I find it so hard to colour the face (and I've just noticed I didn't give her any rosy cheeks, so I'll have to fix that tomorrow)

The colour theme came from Simon Says first challenge - use yellow and green, and the lovely layout from Sketch Saturday #45. And it fits the 3 Clovers Designs challenge #7: Eat it!

Supplies: Sugar Nellie stamp; watercolour pencils; stickles; Floradoodle flower; green dew drops; Papermania paper; white gel pen

Get your sunglasses out!

I took the colour theme for this from Cute Card Thursday and wow did it turn out bright! (the challenge is to use citrus colours - hot pink, lime, lemon and orange)


The layout is from Stamp With Us first sketch challenge.


Supplies: Embossing folders - Swiss dots and also Ellison flower folder; yellow, green and white embroidery thread; Floradoodle flower; white ribbon

Silly Bunnies!

I found some multi-coloured pom poms in my local supermarket and they just said 'bunny tails' to me!

The colour combo is from Colour Create - blue and lilac which isn't usually a combination that I would use but I like how it turned out.

Supplies: Peel off Easter Greeting; Penny Black stamp; swiss dots embossing folder; google eyes; pom poms; white gel pen; dotty lilac ribbon.