New Home

Just a very quick and simple New Home card.

Sketch from Weekend Sketch Challenge #84.

Also for Colour Create #18 - Colours of the Rainbow

Supplies: cuttlebug, Mac'n'Cheese alphabet dies, stamp from http://www.onefourzero.co.uk/, dimensionals, pink and silver ribbon, blue gems, copic markers, Crafts House Tutti Frutti paper, green stickles (on trees)

A pretty pink butterfly!

This little Tilda Butterfly is another of the gorgeous stamped images that Pat sent me - isn't she just so cute!

Plus it meant I could play in the Magnolia-licious challenge! Coloured her with watercolour pencils and added clear gloss and some stickles to her wings.

Supplies: circular nestabilities, gold peel off greeting, dimensionals, gold gems, pink stickles, chocolate brown ribbon

Oh Christmas Tree

There's a new challenge site - Winter Wonderland - to help inspire Christmas Cards (and I need all the inspiration I can get!)

This week's theme is Oh Christmas Tree - I don't have many Christmas tree stamps that I really like and this was the stamp I used on quite a few cards last year.

Sketch from Card Patterns #17

Supplies: mouse stamp from Elzybells, copic pens, black stickles (for mice noses), pink gems

2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown

2 Sketches 4 You are having their First Annual Ultimate Card Showdown and have an amazing prize package!
This is the Week 1 sketch which I flipped a bit.

My card has all my favourite elements - my Anna Wright stamp, stitching, primas, ribbon and embossing! (as per usual my glue wasn't quite dry when I took the pic!)

Supplies: Whipper Snapper stamp; copic pens, white gel pen, red button

Pretty in Purple!

I love these pretty Gorjuss girl stamps. I've been practising my colouring too - this time she's coloured with watercolour pencils.

I put a strip of gold peel off border line along the edge of the sentiment, but it looks black in the photo.

Sketch from Sketch Saturday #53 - there's loads of candy up for grabs for everyone who takes part in the challenge.

Also for Cute Card Thursday's challenge #62 - Bit o'Bling - I used loads of gold gems in various sizes.

Supplies: paper from K&Co; primas; gems; circular nestabilities; watercolour pencils; gold peel off lines

Bzzzzzzz.....

ETA: I won the Simon Says Challenge with this card! Yeah... its the weekend and the sun has actually shone ALL WEEKEND!!! (...makes a welcome change!)

This weeks challenge over on the High Hopes blog is No Corners, so I slightly amended the sketch challenge at Polka Doodle.
Also for Simon Says challenge - aminals (I've a bit of a bee theme going on here!)

Supplies: really old paper from my stash; honey bee bear from High Hopes; little bees from Messy Rabbit set; circular nestabilities; stickles (on wings and bear's nose); yellow dew drops

Pink Ellie

Made this little card for the Stamp with Fun sketch challenge #8 - you can win a fab Scrapmagasinet stamp!

Over at Creative Card crew the challenge is 'Pretty Flowers' - and up for grabs is a set of Cuttlebug Scallop Square Dies.

Supplies: High Hopes elephant stamp; pink and purple primas, purple and pink Stickles; watercolour pencils; white gel pen

Grrreat!

Well its a typical Bank Holiday here... was out this morning and bought some plants for my hanging baskets, got home and it started raining .... and hasn't stopped since! Good job I'm off tomorrow - hopefully the weather wises up a bit! Oh well on the bright side, crappy weather = crafty time!

I got this slightly mad and so not scary bear a while back - cost me a fortune but I don't care! (Most of my Stampin Up sets are cheapos from ebay!)

High Hopes Blog Challenge #32 - use pink and brown.

Sketch layout from Sketch & Stash #11

Supplies: Stampin Up 'Under the Stars', paper from Rubber Soul, black stickles (for nose), pink spotty brads (thanks Linda!), pink primas and pink gems, plain brown cardstock, watercolour pencils

Pretty in Pink!

I received this lovely girl from Linda when I won her blog candy a while back. I've been practicing my colouring with Copics and discovered when I'd finished that I'd coloured her dress the same shade as a bunch of flowers in my kitchen window!

The little girl and the white frame are popped up on dimensionals, but it doesn't really show in the pic.

Sketch inspiration from The Sugar Bowl blog

Ken's 60th Birthday

I was asked to make a card for a 60-year old fireman ... normally this would floor me but luckily I chose this stamp when I won the PB Challenge a few months ago and thought it was just perfect!

Sketch from Sketch Saturday #52
Spoonful of Sugar #52 - Celebrate (mine's a birthday celebration)
Penny Black Saturday Challenge #50 - Buttons Galore (does 4 buttons count as 'galore'?!)

Supplies: Penny Black stamp, buttons from stash, white gel pen, watercolour pencils, diamond ice stickles (for icing), peel off letters and numbers