Saturday, 19 May 2012

Xmas Card #06

Well the weather men actually got it right today, we've had a beautiful afternoon and you could 'almost' feel a bit of heat in the sun.
So of course with the sun shining I made a Christmas card!
I love this wee stamp from Pixie Cottage .... look at the size of poor Rudolph's nose!!

My card was inspired by this card for Stamp TV's challenge to case Michelle's gallery.
Coloured with promarkers, and clear glaze and sparkle added to his nose and baubles.  I love this snowball ribbon, wish I'd bought more if it!


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Friday, 18 May 2012

Pink Chicks!

TGIF!  And its supposed to be half decent weather this weekend, which will make a nice change as it's been pants for ages!


I was blog hopping the other day and came across this fab card on Jenny's blog (I know, its bad for my visa when I go blog hopping, though usually its Brenda's fault when things drop into my shopping basket. Ha!)  I've no idea why, but I just LOVE chicken stamps.  How random is that!




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Tuesday, 15 May 2012

High Hopes challenge #136

I'm delighted to be joining the High Hopes team as Guest Designer.
The new challenge is to make an easel card  ... if you've never made one before Tanya has a fab tutorial on the High Hopes blog (trust me, if I can make one, anyone can!!)
(You need to use High Hopes stamps to play along - there's a list of retailers on the High Hopes blog)

I used some of my new Lily Bee Designs DP and coloured my wee fisherman with promarkers.  Then I went looking for some ribbon and couldn't believe that this fishy ribbon was hiding at the bottom of my box and was a perfect match!
Don't ya love it when that happens!  :-) 
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Sunday, 13 May 2012

Time for Tea

No, don't fall off your chair, those are pretty flowers on my card!  I think that pink rose has been in my stash for about 4 years!  Nicola very kindly sent me a wee parcel which included this LOTV stamp, gorgeous DP and pretty purple flowers, so I was determined to try and use them!  (I kept my flowers quite small as I didn't want to be bothered making a card box)

I also got my pencils out again for another practice, and I quite like how this turned out.  Its a bit brighter in real life, but I couldn't get my camera to co-operate!





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Fairies and frogs

Well I think I can definitely say that I'm so not in love with my Spectrum Noir pens ... they send my ink a wee bit fuzzy and it also changed colour when I went over her wings with some clear glaze.  Think I'll stick to my copics or promarkers from now on!

The background to my image was inspired by the Moxie Fab World: Card Creations - splatter technique. I'd never tried this before and I must confess, I LOVE it!  Cheers Moxie Fab!

I've used a few of My Favourite Things goodies on this card ... the wee tab dies have been one of my best purchases and I love the effect of the notebook edge die too.




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A blue Bird ... oh and blue grass too :)

Brrr, its a wild and rainy evening here... definitely a crafty day!  I'm just back from a very windy walk with Ruby, it took us twice as long going up the hill and half as long to come back!  I was glad I had my cosy hat and winter coat on .... it's half way through May for goodness sake!  Sooooo ready for summer!

The wee birdies at the feeder in our garden are getting blasted about by the wind too, it looks a bit calmer here for my wee blue birdie.  Think I got carried away with my monochrome look, not sure if blue grass works or not!!




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Peek-a-boo

I won this fab goose from a recent High Hopes challenge.  Isn't he hilarious!  I decoupaged a couple of layers - first the whole image and then the next layer of his butt and legs and then his beak.  Wish I hadn't added the sparkle to his legs though - I'd coloured my sentiment panel and flower with the same markers and they were exactly the same shade, but now his legs are too dark.



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Monday, 7 May 2012

Lindsay's Birthday card

Its a Bank Holiday Monday here, and weather has been typical ... bucketing rain all day!  We went to the garden centre but it was sooo cold we just popped in and straight back out again.  Brrr!  Finally got my pea seedlings bought, but there was no way I was venturing outside to plant them!  I felt sorry for the poor souls running the Belfast Marathon ... at the point we saw them they'd been running for nearly 4 hours in the rain and they looked pooped!  Fair play to them though, I couldn't run to the end of the garden!

I delved into my Tilda collection (which consists of 2 stamps!) for this card - coloured with Promarkers / Spectrum Noir and loads of bling added.  Wish I'd cut my image a wee tiny bit wider though to fit her name better, though I rarely plan my cards properly!  I had to cut the centre out of my Martha Stewart heart die as I'd nowhere else to stick her age!






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Saturday, 5 May 2012

Birthday Bat

In celebration of National Scrapbook Day, Paper Smooches have a special challenge to make a card stock only card.  I paper pieced my wee bat and then his eyes, and chalked the sky.  Star and fence dies from Taylored Expressions, Martha Stewart grass punch.

I hope we have clear skies tonight, we're supposed to have a sooperdooper moon - though usually when there's anything fun happening in the heavens our weather conspires against us and we get to see nothing!

ETA This card was spotlighted over at the Sweet Stop!

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A Sugar Nellie Sweetie

Hooray for Saturday!  And it's a Bank Holiday here on Monday too, so its a lovely long weekend!  Though it's a bit brrr chilly, definitely not 'outside' weather!

I 'lost' this stamp aaaaages ago, maybe even a couple of years ... she belongs to a larger stamp with a tree and bird house, but was too big for me so I chopped it down!  And promptly lost the wee girl.  And where did I find it?  In the very same pack I keep the tree, but behind the picture of the image, so I just didn't see her when I was flicking through my stamp box.  Doh.

Coloured with promarkers.  Dies: Die-namics tab; Taylored Expressions fence; Marianne leaf.  Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

(Don't know what's wrong with my photos tonight, they're a bit blurry)


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