Christmas Angel

Good morning - here we are again with (surprise ... surprise ...!!) another Christmas card! For today's card I have used this darling LotV angel stamp which I bought last month at Port Sunlight.

I managed to find some very girly Christmas papers with delicate stars in pastel colours, which I hope tie in quite nicely with the little stars on the image :-)  I really do think this particular image is just soooo pretty !!

Stamps: LotV "Little Trumpet";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; Stickles on angel wings and flowers;

Papers: Kaisercraft;

Supplies: ribbon from Hobbycraft; lace from Wild Orchid Crafts; flowers by Sweet Lilac; sparkly gems from The Hobby House; small wooden star from John Lewis; peel off greeting from my stash;

Tools: Marianne D Creatables "Bauble/Star" (LR0183).

Challenges:

Sparkles Christmas #10 - Angels

Colour Create #83 - Turquoise, Deep Pink & Ivory

The RIbbon Reel #14 - Hot Pink, Turquoise and Cream
My Time To Craft #165 - Sun, Moon and Stars

Secret Crafter #159 - Flowers, Ribbon and Lace
Marianne's Design Divas - Dying To Die Cut (3rd entry)

Papertake Weekly - Christmas

Totally Gorjuss #105 - Sketch

This is the last of the cards I made in my mega crafting sesh. I haven't done any crafting this week as I've had a bit of an upset tummy, but touch wood I'm feeling quite a bit better now so hope to be back with some more cards by the weekend :-) Thanks for visiting.

Birthday Bear With Wings

Back again with my second post for today (unusual for me!) … if you’re looking by any chance for my LIM card for this week, it’s here :-)

I sat down to make a card for this fortnight’s Wild Orchid Challenge – just in the nick of time – and decided to use this adorable LotV bear with butterflies .. there is something about this image that really melts my heart!

Recipe:
Main image: LotV “Bear and Butterflies” coloured with Copics and Promarkers and decorated with glamour dust;
Sentiment: Penny Black transparent set “Salutations”;
Papers: “From Me To You” (new Tatty Teddy range);
Supplies: cherry blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts; pearls from WOC and The Hobby House; ribbon from my stash;
Tools: “Labels Four” nestabilities; Leone Em “Ash branch” leaf punch.

Challenges:
Wild Orchid ~21 – Wings
Colour Create #69 – Pink, Blue and Brown
Everybody-Art-Challenge #138 – Pearls

Hope you’re enjoying the weekend.

Creative Card Crew #52 - Thankyou

Hello again, and welcome to another Creative Card Crew challenge. Thanks to everyone who joined in my pink & green challenge over the past 2 weeks - sorry I wasn't able to get round everyone's entries as life's been a bit hectic ... but I'm sure they were all fabulous as usual! And don't forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you are the lucky winner of the challenge prize.

So onto this fortnight's fabulous challenge which has been set by Victoria, and is

Thankyou

And thankyou to Victoria herself, who is sponsoring this week's yummy prize with Stampin' Up products.

The rest of the DT have created some fabulous samples so I hope you will check them out ... here's mine.

Recipe:
Main image: WOJ "Melinda woth Bouquet" coloured with Promarkers, edges sponged with Colorbox Queue ink, and wings decorated with diamond Stickles;
Sentiment: WOJ;
Papers: Papermania "Rose Garden";
Supplies: roses and rosebuds from Wild Orchid Crafts decorated with diamond Stickles; lace was an RAK from Ruby; ribbon and pearls from my stash;
Tools: "Labels One" nestabilities.

Here's a closeup of my colouring and Melinda's sparkly wings.

... and here are my new yummy Wild Orchid Crafts large curly wild roses and dinky rosebuds ... the middle size rose was a birthday gift from Sue.

I used the brilliant sketch from this week's Whiff of Joy Challenge #80 ....

... and would also like to enter this card for a few other challenges:

Die Cut Dreams #52 - Angels
Charisma #22 - Flowers (2nd entry)
Spoon Full of Sugar #107 - Floral Delight
Paper Play #22 - Flowers & Sparkle
Pollycraft #47 - Ribbon & bling
Cupcake #94 - Dazzle Us
Colour Create #46 - Baby Pink & Pastel Blue
Corrosive #67 - Die Cuts
By the Cute & Girly June Challenge - something old, new, borrowed, blue

.... well that would be

old - my WOJ stamp
new - yummy Wild Orchid Crafts roses and rosebuds
borrowed - layout from this week's WOJ Challenge sketch, and the idea of cutting the wings outside the nestie shape (seen on several crafty blogs)
blue - colours of Melinda's headband and jeans.

Look forward to seeing all your creations.

Teddy & robin

I just had to have a play with my cute new Gillian Roberts stamp "Bear & Robin" - he is just sooo cute!

I made this card for this fortnight's Colour Create Challenge #32 - green, red & white, for Simon Says - Animal Antics, and I also followed the sketch over at this week's Friday Sketchers #79.


I also made this card to fit a few more challenges, namely

Spoon Full of Sugar #78 - Baby's First Christmas/ Pre-Schooler. I don't actually have any babies or pre-schoolers amongst my immediate friends and family, but i thought this card with its cute image and fairly simple layout and strong colorus would be appropriate if I had :-)
One Stop Craft Challenge #56 - Snowflakes
Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #7 - Merry Christmas, Happy Winter!
Die Cut Dreams - Santa

Recipe:
Main image: Gillian Roberts "Bear & Robin" coloured with watercolour pencils and decorated with polar white Flowersoft & glamourdust;
Sentiment; Craftwork Cards "Oh! My Words";
Paper: make unknown;
Supplies: pearl brad and spacer from The Hobby House; "ice gold" pearlised white card and pearlised red cardstock from Edwin Allen; Papermania gems; red ribbon from Warrington market;
Tools: Shapeabilities "make a Flake 2"; cuttlebug "Snowflakes" embossing folder.

Here's a close up of teddy with his darling fluffy hat!

Hope you're having a great weekend and thanks for looking.

Penny Black Challenge #73 - White on White

Welcome to week #73 of the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - hope you all have a really spooky Hallowe'en tonight, and thanks so much to everyone who make a spooktacular card for last week's Hallowe'en challenge. Don't foget to pop along to the challenge blog to check out who won last week's cute Christmas hedgie stamp donated by Carole.

This week we have a total contrast from the "dark side" of last week's Hallowe'en challenge - our theme is

white on white

Yes ... we would like to see your projects using only the colour white, with the exception of the colouring on your image! As always the only rule is that we need to see a Penny Black stamp or sticker somewhere on your creation.

This week we have another fab prize ... our regular sponsor Dick at PB Stamps has donated a 15% off voucher to spend in his online store - so what are you waiting for??

The DT members really have excelled themselves with a stunning selection of white cards this week - do be sure to go and check them out :-)

Here's my card for this week. You know how sometimes the whole card will spin off from one particular item in your stash?? Well this week I found some white-on-white pearlised paper AND some sparkly white floral vellum ... so I couldn't wait to get going lol!

Also for an all-white card I thought it important to try to incorporate some unusual textures, so after racking my brain I was pleased to think of using a feather ... which meant it was fabulous that I had got this wonderful vintage angelic image to hand which was an RAK from my lovely teamie Debbie.

Recipe:
Main image: Penny Black "Sharing a Secret" (1132K) coloured with watercolour pencils and decorated (liberally!!) with glamour dust.
Sentiment: Craftwork Cards "Oh! My Words";
Paper: s.e.i "Poppy" and Papermania sparkly floral vellum; "ice gold" pearlised white card from Edwin Allen;
Supplies: Prima flower; large pearl brad from The Hobby House; white feather from John Lewis; sparkly white brads by Doodlebug; all paper edges and flower decorated with glamour dust; pearl gems from my stash;
Tools: large deckle rectangle, and large mega deckle rectangle nestabilities.

As this is such an unusual colour combo i would also like to enter it for another open challenge, namely Colour Create #30 - All White

Update Tuesday: Simon Says Challenge has just posted that they are ENCOURAGING multiple entries for their all that sparkles challenge in an attempt to reach 300 entires. I had already entered this challenge, but this is way the sparkliest card I have made for a long time (and I did make it after the SS challenge was posted), so I'm entering it as a second entry :-)

Have a great weekend, and happy crafting :-)

Christmas Stampin' All Bank Holiday Long

I sat down before lunch for a bit of bank holiday relaxation, and I've made a Christmas card that I'd like to enter into eight challenges - I'm quite chuffed with myself to manage so many!

I used the wonderful first birthday sketch by Domi for this week's Everybody-Art-Challenge #54, (happy birthday ladies!).
I also followed the theme of Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #32, which is traditional colours - red/green/gold,
One Stop Craft Challenge #44 - Cute and Cuddly,
Stamp Something - Animals,
Pollycraft Challenge #23 - Furry Friends,
Forever Friends Challenge - eyelets or brads,
Colour Create #26 - ruby, cream and gold (hope my card is ok cos there is a tad of green on there, but I noticed some of the DT cards have a little green on them too :-) )
... and last but not least Pile It On #13 - round & round we go (I have used three round brads on my snowflakes and of course there are lots of round holly berries on it !)

I used:
Main image: Forever Friends, coloured with watercolour pencils and decorated with glamour dust;
Sentiment: Craftwork Cards "Oh My Words!";
Papers: BasicGrey "Wassail";
Supplies: Doodlebug sugar coated red brads; silver jewel brad and gold ribbon from my stash;
Tools: lLarge snowflakes cut using new Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Create a Flake 2"; small snowflakes cut using Cuttlebug snowflakes die.

Here's another view to try to capture the twinkly glamour dust on the fur of Santa teddy's coat!

Hope you're all having a great bank holiday :-)

Zeddy teddy does the combo

Here is a baby card I have made for the birth of my dear friend Sharon's grandson, who was born after a very traumatic time for her family last week ... sending all my love and best wishes...hopefully the card has arrived so I am safe to post!



I'd like to enter this card into a few challenges:

1. My start point was to use my favourite stamped image, which is the theme for this week's Creative Inspirations Challenge #9. I have lots of stamped images I really love but i think this one is without doubt my favourite .. he is even slumbering in my blog header lol! He also a very versatile teddy ... I have never used him for a baby card before but have seen him on other baby cards .. and he is so cute!
2. A Spoon Full of Sugar #52 - celebration! (Happy first birthday to SFoS too!)
3. Secret Crafter Challenge #33 - new beginnings
4. The Pink Elephant #15 - monograms and letters
5. Colour Create #16 - sky blue, tan & ecru -now I must hold my hand up and say it's mostly a happy accident that my card fits this challenge. Obviously we have blue for a boy + tan for a teddy; and as luck would have it I didn't think it neded much more colour ... I just did the flowers in pale blue and a kind of creamy colour. OK I hear you say, there is green in the leaves ... but nature is what it is, right?

Recipe:

Image: Penny Black "Sweet Slumber" coloured with watercolour pencils and flowers decorated with Stickles.

Paper: Forever Friends Christmas stack (!)

Supplies: Raffia lace from Hobbycraft threaded wtih two shades of blue ribbon from my stash; letters cut using Cuttlebug "Hippy Chick" alphavelt from ecru pearlescent card; flowers by Floradoodles; charm from Dolls Made Up.

Hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Colour Create #9 - Lilac & Blue

I spotted that this week's theme over at the Colour Create Challenge is lilac and blue ... which is not only a gorgeous colour combo, but is also perfect for a card I needed to make for a friend. I am really loving the brushstroke flower look at the moment, and pulled out one of my old PB brushstroke flower stamps - even better, I recently bought some Penny Black paper which I think must have been made to go with this stamp!! I'm also loving the new Papermania Shimmer dots - I have used the lilac ones on here which are just so subtle.

I used:

Main image: Penny Black "Radiant" stamp coloured with Marvey brushstroke pens.

Sentiment: Penny Black "Hugs" transparent set.

Papers: Penny Black "Field of Irises" and My Mind's Eye "Signature" (dotty background); pearlescent sheen cardstock from Papermania "Gemstones" pack.

Supplies: Papermania shimmer dots in lilac; raffia lace from Hobbycraft; metallic dragonfly brad, ribbon and charm from my stash.

4 into 1 does go!

I needed to make a "get well" card for a close friend who is having a knee op done next week, so looked around for some challenges to help me with some inspiration. I think I managed to fulfil 4 challenges with this card:


1. Colour create #4 - pink & grey, with the optional theme of cute and cuddly (well I think Ellie is exceptionally cute and cuddly, don't you?)
2. CCT # 49 - animal magic
3. Charisma Cardz #8 - Animals
4. Cupcake Craft Challenge #28 - sketch.


This is my first go at the Colour Create Challenge which I thought was Sunday, but I'm now hoping I'm not too late !! (eek!)

Recipe:
Main image and sentiment (inside) : Penny Black
Sentiment (outside): Cuttlebug diecut
Supplies: flowers - Prima; brads - Doodlebug sugar coated; charm - Dolls Made Up; paper and pearl gems from my stash.
Silver card border cut with my new Martha Stewart doily punch.

The inside follows the outside layout fairly closely.

I hope that this will cheer my friend up while she is laid up and that she'll soon be back to full fitness.

Have a good weekend and thanks for looking.