Dream Valley Challenge Blog Launch

Hooray...its here!  The launch of the brand new challenge blog co-ordinated by my bloggy buddy Melly...Dream Valley Challenges!
And our very first challenge is an easy peasy one ... Anything Goes
There's some fab prizes up for grabs too....

1st Prize £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley

2nd prize is Fashionista and Dude Simply Sassy set

and 3rd prize is wee Windswept Simply Sassy

So get yourselves over to Dream Valley, check out the fab cards from the rest of the DT and upload your Anything Goes card - normally challenges will run for a fortnight but this first challenge is just for a week, so be quick!

I'm also entering this card to:
Spoon Full of Sugar #140 - birthday wishes
Tuesday Throwdown #37 - pop it up (I popped up my monster)

Anyone for a round..?

I've never had a go at golf ... just never had the inclination!  I think a round or two of crazy golf was about the height of my golfing skills! 
This wee cutie is from High Hopes - coloured with copics and some bling added for her buttons.  (Mind you, she looks like she needs to lose a few pounds and would be better going to the aerobics class, rather than a dander round the golf course LOL!)

• High Hopes #103 - female birthday
• Top Tip Tuesday #23 - bling it on.   My top tip this week is to use suitable paper for colouring your image ... watercolour pencils will look a million times better on watercolour paper, and copics blend beautifully when you use paper which will soak the ink through (I've been using c/s from Lily of the Valley and its just lovely)!
• Colour Create #65 - use fruity colours .... I've used apple, strawberry and lemon
• Stamp Something - flowers

A Kenny K effort!

I visited Linda's blog recently and stayed a fraction too long, drooling over her fab Kenny K cards, and before I knew it a couple had dropped into my shopping basket!  Though next time I'll print her onto better cardstock as it took ages to try and get the colours blended.  I still think this card needs something but I had flowers on and off, butterflies on and off, arrows on and off, and nothing looked quite right.  So it might just have to do the way it is!!

Sketch from Kenny K's Crafty Girlz Challenge #34
Use it Tuesday #2 - cut into your pretty DP ... I got this a while ago and have been 'saving' it for a rainy day!
Creative Inspirations #100 - stripes

Buzzin' By....

Just a quickie post from me tonight .... we've Toy Story 3 ready to play and a wee beer chillin' in the fridge!
This cute little bee was a freebie a while back from Bugaboo - coloured him with copics and added clear gloss and glitter to his wings. 
(I'll have to take a pic of this card in daylight to see if the purple photographs any better.... it always looks more bluey in the evenings. )
Also used some of my new card candy for the flower centres, again coloured with copics to match.  And the purple and orange ribbon was a freebie at a craft show ages ago, at the time I thought YEUCH, but whaddyaknow, its perfect for this card!!

(Don't forget to pop back tomorrow for the launch of Dream Valley Challenges!)

• Sketch from I{heart}2Stamp (February)
• Bunny Zoe's February challenge - spring flowers
• Colour combo from Copic creations #44 - warm colours
• Stamp with Fun #99 - 3 papers, 3 flowers, ribbon
• Crafty Creations #107 - At the bottom of my garden lives..... bees!  I have a bushy thing growing up the fence that the bees just adore!

Some Exciting News and a Sympathy card ... Moxie style!

So, my exciting news is that I made it onto Melly's DT for her new challenge blog .... Dream Valley challenges! 
  Whoo Hoo! 
Our first challenge starts this Sunday (27 Feb) and it will run for one week, but normally challenges will be fortnightly ... and there's some fab prizes to be won too!  So I'll see you back here on Sunday (if not before hee hee!) for deets on the very first challenge at this brand new challenge blog!

I've just realised I don't have any sympathy cards in my stash, so here's one inspired by this gorgeous cushion, this week's Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World.  My flower is from http://www.onefourzero.co.uk/ and I think it's one of the very first stamp sets I ever bought!  Coloured with copics (though I wish I'd coloured the purple slightly lighter) and added some clear gloss and glitter to the flower centres.  Silver peel off sentiment and purple gems to finish.

Also for Lexi's Creations challenge #34 - flowers

Hurrah for comfy slippers!

I had a huge clear out of my crafty stuff and got it all nicely arranged ... though it will probably be as bad as ever this time next week!  I've been looking for this Penny Black stamp for weeks (I think she loves her comfy slippers almost as much as I love mine!) and rediscovered these pretty flowers and loads of other stash too! 

Colour combo from SPCC 87 - pacific blue, pumpkin pie, pale pink

Sketch from Sketch'n Stash #55
Alphabet challenge - P = Paper Piecing
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C75 - use dies (I used the Whimsy ticket die)

Birthday Bunnies

My mojo went walkies today and it took me aaaaaages to make this simple wee card!  Coloured my Penny Black bunnies with copics; not sure where I got that sentiment stamp.

I flipped the Sketch from CPS #206
Allsorts #91 - inspired by nature
Stamp Something - Funky

Dodgy Foundations?

When I showed Greg this card he said, "Is it supposed to look wonky like that? ... looks like that house has a bit of subsidence!  Hahahaha!"

Isn't he hilarious ... not! 

 <- <-  ...what Greg needs ...hee heee!

• Wee Memories #44 - who's your inspiration .... well I get loads of inspiration from the Featured Stamper challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.  Here's the original I cased this card from - Mary Rose was the Featured Stamper a few weeks ago, but I didn't get a chance to play along then
• Sweet Stampin - red, white and blue

Lazy dog

Here's just a wee quickie using a Shirleys2Girls stamp .... coloured my little doggy with promarkers and paper pieced the chair.  Also coloured my bling with a marker to match these gorgeous papers ('Fresh Print' from Deja Views)

• Cards 4 Men #4 - recipe: 1 Image; 2 Design Papers; 3 Embellishments
• I love promarkers #53 - paper piecing
• Crafty Catz #70 - one for the boys
• CES #24 - spots and stripes
• Your Next Stamp #36 - paper piecing

Love TV!

Ohhh its been a beautiful sunny calm day ... much better than last night when it was blowing a gale and lashing rain!  I think the sun gave me a bit of oomph round the house today ... I was like a Whirling Dervish and if it wasn't nailed down it got cleaned or tidied!  And I even squeezed in a bit of crafty time too!  I won this fab Unity stamp ages ago and its the first time I've used it - coloured with promarkers and the bottom TV popped up on dimensionals.  The little heart stamped in the BG is from an old Stampin Up set, but no idea which one!

The Crafty Pad: #108 - Hearts
Stamp and Create February challenge - Love
Sketch inspired by Midnight Madness MMSC91 (though I tilted the central panel)
Colour Create #64 - chocolate, strawberry and cream
Cupcake Craft #129 - I ♥ You