Jubilee Tilda

We've a lovely loooong weekend here for the Queen's Jubilee, with most people off work now till Wednesday - though I have to work for a few hours on Monday :(
So in Royal mood, here's my wee Jubilee card .. red, white and blue and some diamonds!  (I'd LOVE to have a good nosey through the Liz's jewelry box and see all her bling, wouldn't it be amazing!)  Anyway, if you're Jubilee partying this weekend, have a good one!

I've added to my Tilda collection and now have 3!  I won one of Jacque's weekly candies a few weeks ago, so thought I'd treat myself to this wee gardener. I coloured her in a mixture of pencils, copics and promarkers (I haven't quite got the hang of her hair, more practice me thinks!) Added some clear gloss to her watering can and trowel; lots of bling and clear stickles.  VERY old DP, possibly from English Heritage Paper Co - think this was the first pack of DP I ever bought!; heart die from Taylored Expressions; bunting from Practicing Creativity

• Sketch from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club MFTWSC74
• One Stop Craft #185 - Queen's Jubilee - crown/diamonds, red, white, blue
• Craft Your Days Away #46 - red, white, blue
• The Crafty Pad #172- colours of your flag
• Simon Says ... anything goes
• Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #188- anything goes
• Oldie but a Goodie - anything goes

Paper Smooches

Just to give a quick heads up that Paper Smooches new release blog hop is on till Friday eve, with the new stamps available to buy tomorrow.

Sick chicks?

Heee, I'm not too sure how healthy my chickens look - blue or spotty red?  I think a swift trip to the vet is called for!

Our heat seems to be breaking now and the clouds are brewing, thank goodness - my hair doesn't do this heat and is a total fuzzball!  And the hotter I get, the more my fringe seems to shrink!  What's that all about??!!!

I was surfing last night and came across this tutorial by Nancy on how to give your flowers texture, so thought I'd give it a go.  I've never been overly happy with my flowers, and I love how just nipping in the petals really changes the flower .. thanks Nancy!

• Simon Says ... anything goes
• Polka doodles #21 - doodle a border / happy birthday
• Craft Your Days Away #46 - red, white and blue
• The Crafty Pad #172 - colours of your flag (Union Jack)
• House of Gilli #33 - die cuts / punches

High Hopes challenge #138

My last post as GDT with High Hopes :( but this week's challenge is super easy ...

Anything Goes

(as long as you use a High Hopes stamp!)
You'll want to pop over to High Hopes anyway for sneak peaks of their new release!

Doesn't this whale look lovely and cool, I'd love to have my tootsies soaking in the Atlantic Ocean right now, we're still cooking in the sunshine here!

Coloured my whale with pencils and added some glitter to the water.  Sentiment from Paper Smooches alphabet.  Wave border die from Taylored Expressions.

• I flipped the sketch from Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge TESC160 
• Creative Inspirations #164 - anything goes
• Charisma Cardz #20 - no flowers allowed
• Hotshot Craft challenge #8 - die cuts
• Totally Gorjuss #133 - something new (my new bakers twine and corner punch)

Summer time!

Where have I been? .... Well mark your diaries, because IT'S BEEN TOO HOT to craft!  Not too often you'll hear me say that!  We've had glorious scorchio weather all week, and its looking like we're going to get another few days of it.  Mind you, don't think I could stick it all summer long, I'm more of a jumper and cosy socks type girl!

So in honour of our beautiful weather, here's a wee summery card!  Brenda, my corner punch came and I LOVE it ... thanks for the link!  Though you should have seen the HUGE box that it took to post 1 medium and 1 small punch, hilarious!  (Though I did have a wee moment of panic on behalf of my visa thinking, what have I ordered?!)

Coloured my wee girl with my markers.  Martha Stewart grass border and butterflies.  Embossed stars on the pink panel using a very old Ellison mini folder. Paper Smooches sentiment.

• Sketch from Taylored Expressions TESC158 - I'm so disappointed that this is the last sketch challenge as I always found them very inspirational :(
• Totally Gorjuss #133 - something new (my new corner punch)
• Allsorts #156 - Birthday
• Creative Inspirations #164 - anything goes
• Tuesday Alchemy #15 - beautiful butterflies
• Top Tip Tuesday #77 - dig out the old (my embossing folder)
• Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - stars and stripes

High Hopes Challenge #137

I'm one of the Guest Designers at High Hopes, and this week's new challenge is ....

May Flowers

(You'll need some High Hopes stamps to play along and win the prize of a new stamp of your choice - there's a list of retailers on their website)

Now, I'm not a 'flowery' person (except in my garden ) and most of my High Hopes stamps are all of cute animals and figures and very few flowers, but I managed to find this sweet little couple in my stash.  I got my pencils out for another practice ... but I can't get them to photograph well, they look better IRL!

• I flipped the sketch from Willow Sketchie Challenge plus added option of 3 DPs
• Hotshot Craft #8 - die cuts

Sympathy Daisies

Another lovely day today, still a wee bit nippy, but I took a chance and finally got my pea seedlings planted.  Just hope our hungry slugs don't have a good munch!

I usually have a really tough time making sympathy cards but this one came together really easily for some reason!  This is a super old stamp and I don't know who the maker is.  (Actually, now I think of it, it might be from Cornish Heritage Farms) Coloured with copics to match my DP, most of which I managed to cover up!  Gold peel off sentiment.

• Sketch from Sketch Saturday #208
• Die Cuttin Divas #65 - flowers
• Hot Shot Craft #08 - die cuts
• Alota Stamps #83 - tic tac toe - I chose ribbon, flowers, gems
• Bunny Zoe's challenge #24 - anything goes

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!

• I love Promarkers #117 - anything goes
• Simon Says .... CAS
• Card Crafters Circle #23 - sparkle
• Craft Your Days Away #45 - all creatures great and small
• Bunny Zoe's crafts #24 - anything goes

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!

• Sketch and general design inspired by Stamp TV's case the designer challenge STVFRICT19 - here's Michelle's original 
• Paper Sundaes #120 - Things with wings
• Pile it On #20 - CAS
• Simon Says ... clean and simple
• Totally Gorjuss #131 - pink and green

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!   

• Other challenges:
• Bunny Zoe's challenge #24 - anything goes
• Cards 4 Men #10 - kicking back
• Joanna Sheen challenges - Happy Birthday
• Allsorts #154 - card for a man
• Totally Papercrafts #116 - no girls allowed