Eisbarin's challenge!

Alex has a novel twist on her candy - to enter you have to make a card based on her sketch (see below)

Its a bit of a grey Bank Holiday here - too grim for gardening, but perfect for card making!

I got these Messy Rabbit stamps a while back from the Joanna Sheen website. The bees and the carrot are popped up on dimensionals and highlighted with stickles glitter.

Supplies: Messy Rabbit stamps; diamond ice stickles; watercolour pencils; sticky pink ribbon (courtesy of my Mum!); dimensionals

Pink Chickie!

I just love this little chicken!

The sketch for this card is from Stamps and Smiles #13

Also for Cute Card Thursday #58: Mirror Mirror

I used my shiny silver card to frame the chicken and the central floral panel. I didn't have any matching embellishments, so I cut out a couple of the pink flowers from the paper I used in the central panel and mounted onto the silver card. Added green stickles to the centre of the flowers and to the chick's green legs(!) and also pink stickles to the beak and feathers. Paper pieced the balloon and also added stickles highlights.
Supplies: Stamp from Whipper Snapper; silver card; chocolate brown paper; patterened paper Rubber Soul 'Divine'; stickles; dimensionals; watercolour pencils

Doggy Birthday

This week's Simon Says challenge is a recipe: 2 papers, 3 buttons and 1 ribbon.

My spotty paper and the orange paper is from Rubber Soul 'Hoop-la' and the 3 buttons and orange ribbon from my stash (... I'm opting not to call my blue twine 'ribbon'!!)

The sketch is from Card Positioning Systems #114

Also for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge #47 - to use 3 different shapes. Ive used a circle, rectangle and triangle

Loads'a'challenges!

Challenge 1: Simon Says 'Recycle' - No idea where my buttons came from, but the blue one in the bottom corner is definately a spare off a shirt from M&S !

Challenge 2: Stamp with Us: Recipe challenge - 2 papers, 1 ribbon, 4 brads. Not sure how 'strict' Stamp With Us are with their challenges, but I used buttons instead of brads (and am conveniently forgetting to count the tiny button on the flower!)

Challenge 3: sketch from The Sweet Stop #1 (I'm not sure if this challenge is only for Sweet 'n Sassy stamps or if its open to all!)

Challenge 4: A Spoon Full of Sugar #49 - colour challenge using blue and green

Challenge 5: One Stop Craft Challenge #26 - 'something new' ... I bought these gardening charms over a year ago and have NEVER used them!; this also takes in

Challenge 6: Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #4 'Charmed I'm sure'



PHEW!
Sorry it's such a dark photo, but its a damp old evening here and the light had gone by the time I took the pic (and of course my glue hasn't dried yet either!)



Supplies: Penny Black Stamp; Watercolour pencils; rectangular nestabilities; dimensionals; buttons; paper from Rubber Soul 'Hoop-La'; pale blue ribbon

Card Patterns #12

My Mum bought me these gorgeous butterflies and pretty ribbon recently - I'll have to send her shopping more often! (Ha Ha!!)

Used the sketch layout from Card Patterns and the embossing folder was a freebie from a blog hop.
Supplies: circular nestabilities; cuttlebug embossing folder; gold peel off greeting; clear dew drops; slate blue and pale pink cardstock; E-Z Stick on Embellishments 'Garden Friends'

High Hopes Blog Challenge #28

The challenge over at the High Hopes blog this week is to "think outside the card"! So basically get creative but NO cards! So I chose to make a page marker - the template for this comes from a tutorial on a posting at Splitcoaststampers. (Here is the link!)

I added Diamond Ice stickles to the ribbon and round the scalloped edge and black stickles to Ellie's eyes.

Supplies: Laura Ashley paper (a pressie from my Aunt ... Thanks Minnie!); High Hopes stamp; stickles; circular nestabilities; watercolour pencils; white gel pen

My new Penny Black stamp

This weeks Penny Black Saturday Challenge #46 is Anything Goes! I used my new stamp that came this morning from Simon Says Stamp, along with a couple other stamps which I won a few challenges back.

Coloured the little image with Copics, but I haven't quite got the hang of them yet ... more practice required me thinks!

I decided to make a little gift holder for my next image swap. The papers were a freebie download from http://funkyfairyinspirations.blogspot.com/ I also decorated the inside of the holder using these freebies.

The sketch was kept reasonably simple - from Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge #12

Card for a new Granny!

I was asked by a friend to make a card for a new Grandma! At the time of taking this photo I couldn't remember either the name of the Granny or the name of the baby ... but I did add both later with silver peel off letters!




Not sure if I've played this sketch right, but this is the bonus sketch from 2 Sketches for You (...should I have made the other sketch first?)

Supplies: Patterned paper from Papermania 'Sweet Nothings'; stamp Ukkies Baby from Kars; circular nestabilities; little pink themed silvery hearts at top are stickers from my stash; little pink gem on bow; peel off greeting

Thankful Thursday Challenge

My lovely Mum bought me some stash at a craft show in Belfast, and this little sheep was one of my goodies .... Thank Ewe Mum!

The sketch for this card came from Thankful Thursday. I embossed the green background and used my corner rounder punch to make the scalloped edge. The greeting is peel off silver lettering.

Supplies: stamp from The Rubber Stamp Co in Belfast; cuttlebug embossing folder; flower eyelets; chocholate ribbon; lime green, bright pink and chocolate brown cardstock; watercolour pencils; dimensionals (for main image)

Pink Sympathy

The sketch from this week's Card Positioning Systems #112 was such a hard one! I needed some sympathy cards for my stash, so came up with this. Of course, the last step in my card was to add the sentiment and I managed to stamp it wonky!

Paper pieced the large and two of the smaller flowers and popped up on dimensionals.

Hand stitched border in white embroidery thread.

The colour theme came from Colour Create #2 - Black, White and Pink

Supplies: Stampin Up stamps; Papermania 'Sweet nothings' paper; pink dew drops; sentiment from http://www.onefourzero.co.uk/