Candy Cane Fairy

Good morning folks.  Another post from me today as we start a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart.

Challenge 88 is 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is

Aurora Wings

The image I have used is 'Candy Cane Fairy' digital stamp from our sponsor.

I imported my digi stamp into serif craft artist and used the cut out studio to remove the white from her dress then I imported a backing paper from a Christmas digi kit.  I then printed her out and used my BSC to fussy cut her with a 1mm seam followed by a gold mirri mat with a 2mm seam.

I then finished colouring her in using a mixture of sakura and copic sketch markers.

I have glittered her wings and the fur around her dress and boots.

My base card is 8x8 and cream with some gold pearlescent card as a mat.

I die cut another piece of cream card using Sue Wilsons new Noble double pierced square dies followed by a frame using the same dies in the gold pearlescent..

My backing paper is from a digi kit in serif.

The poinsettia flower is a die from Tattered Lace and the leaves were from Sue Wilson Maidenhair dies.

To see more samples from our design team and to enter your own project into the challenge follow the link HERE.

We also have a Facebook page for you to join and chat.  

Thank you for visiting and hope to see you soon.

Take care.

Warm Love

Good morning.   Not looking forward to this morning given I have just returned from a wonderful week away down in North Devon with hubby and Enya.  But looking on the bright side, Christmas has arrived for us, tree is up and resting ready to be decorated tomorrow and I only have two weeks to work before I stop for Christmas which is wonderful.

We have a new challenge starting at Get Creative Challenge

Challenge 29 with a Holiday Theme

 Our sponsor is Sami Stamps

My choice of digi for this challenge is called 'Warm Love'.

Again I have used a combination of copic sketch makers and sakura gel pens.

I found a beautiful layout on facebook and have stolen the idea which the lady who owned the card did not mind at all.  Crafters are always so generous and sharing.

I have used a cream base card followed by some red card and another piece of cream card which I have embossed using a poinsettia embossing folder from Sue Wilson.

I then matted my image onto some red card,  Printed out some patterned paper from Serif Craft Artist matted onto some red card all wrapped with a piece of red organza ribbon and another perfect little bow, well I think it is - tee hee.

I have die cut lots of winter leaves using spellbinder dies in gold mirri card.  I also made a sparkle using my glue gun and some white tonic glitter.  I then finished it off with some nuvo tonic pearl drops in red.  Yes, I know, I do love them there pearl drops.

To enter your own creation into the challenge and to see more ideas from our design team follow the link HERE.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for any comments you choose to leave.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -
Crafty-Dee Bow November - ATG and include a handmade bow
Craft Your Passion Challenge 290 - ATG

See you soon and take care.

Christmas Gift Mermaid

Good morning crafters and followers.  Thursday has arrived again, a day I love I have to admit but that is because my weekend starts once I finish work at 4ish.

We start a new challenge today at Crafty Girls Challenge.

Challenge 9 theme is 'Anything Goes'

Our Sponsor is

 Sami Stamps

The image I have used for this challenge is called 'Christmas Gift Mermaid'.

I always print my images out in Serif Craft Artist.  This time I took my image into the cutout studio and removed the white in the dress/trail.  I then inserted a piece of material, gold and lacy, behind my image and printed her out.

I coloured her in using a mixture of copic sketch pens and sakura gel pens, inked around the edges with Tim Holtz ink and matted my image onto some red mirri  card..

Because I had printed my image out quite large, this time I actually made my card base around my design so it is an unusual size, but then I intend this card to be hand delivered so will be making a box.

I have matted some cream card, pricked around the edges, onto a cream card base, followed by some red mirri card.  I used some red crinkle organza ribbon around the middle and then placed my topper onto my card.

I have had a tattered lace bow maker for some time but for some reason today it all just clicked and I made a lovely bow, even if I do say so myself.  I topped my bow with a flower made using the christmas rose stamp from Chloe Creative Cards and embossing in gold WOW powders.

The two die cut flourishes were cut using gold mirri and Sue Wilson dies and I finished off my card with nuvo tonic pearl drops in red.

Why not join us on the challenge blog to see more ideas from the rest of our design team and to enter your own creation into our challenge, just follow the link HERE.

Thank you for stopping by.  Hope to see you again very soon.

TAKE CARE.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Crafting with an attitude challenge 9 - ATG

Merry Christmas Mixie

Good morning folks, how are you all?  Gosh what a miserable weekend weather wise, well at least it was here in Birmingham.  Rain, rain and more rain and it did go distinctly chilly but warmed up by Saturday night.

Well, we start a new challenge at Crafting From The Heart.

Challenge 86 is, as always, 'Anything Goes'.

Our Sponsor is

That Crafty Place Ltd

I used an image from our sponsor called 'Mixie' and she is a delightful little Mixie'

I coloured her in using a mixture of copic sketch markers for the hair and skin with Sakura pens for the clothing to give that bit of sparkle.

I then die cut her using spellbinders circle die and matted onto some blue mirri also a spellbinders die.

I have started with a 7x7 cream base card, matted some a mat of cream which I have pricked around the edges.  I then matted a smalled piece of pealescent blue card which has been embossed using a music embossilicious embossing folder.

I cut a smaller piece of cream card which I die cut using a border die from Sue Wilson.

My flowers were stamped using 'Christmas Rose' stamp from Chloe Creative Cards and some WOW powders also from Chloe.  The leaves were dies from Sue Wilson which after cutting and embossing I inked through the die using one of the new blue colours from Tim Holtz.

I then finished off with some nuvo pearl drops in the silver.

To see more samples from the rest of our design team and to enter your own creation into the challenge follow the link HERE.

We also have a Facebook page which you can join and see some beautiful creations from other crafters plus enter the challenge held on there too.

Thats all for today folks.  Thank you for stopping by and for your comments.

Take care and see you soon.

We Three Kings

Good morning all.

We have a new monthly challenge starting today at Crafty Girlz Challenge.

Challenge 9 has a theme of 'Wintry'

Our sponsor is: -

Dr Digi's Stamps

I am using a digi stamp from our sponsor called 'We Three Kings' which was just a pure delight to colour in because you can't help but smile at the image all the time you are colouring.

I did my usual of fussy cutting using my BSC, and also cutting a green mat at the same time.

I then coloured the image in using a mixture of chameleon pens and sakura pens, well you have to have some glitter at Christmas.

My backing paper was from a Christmas digi kit in Serif Craft Artist as was the back topper of a house window and door.

I then finished it all off with ribbon, a sentiment stamped and embossed using wow powders and gold nuvo tonic pearl drops.

To see more samples from our design team and to enter our challenge for a chance to win a super prize from our sponsor follow the link HERE.

Thank you for visiting and see you all soon.

Girlz New Job

Good morning everyone hope you are all having a good day.

I am getting excited now all ready for the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC on Saturday.  Got my list ready, got the tickets, just waiting for 9am on the morning when Wendy comes and we get going for a fantastic day with a good friend, good coffee and loads of shopping.  HEAVEN.

We have a new challenge starting at Crafty Girls Creations.

Challenge 8 is 'Anything Goes'.

Our sponsor is

Bugaboo Stamps

I chose a lovely digi stamp from our sponsor called 'Girlz New Job'.

After printing her out and fussy cutting her using 'Brian', I coloured her in with my copic marker pens.  I also cut a mat out for her in navy.

I chose a 7x7 base card, matted some navy card onto that and them chose a patterned paper from serif craft artist digi kit.

I die cut my sentiment out using a spellbinder die and inked around it with distress ink peacock feathers.

I made my little flowers using 'midi blooms' die from tattered lace and some parchment, die cut them assembled them and used some dries clear glue onto the petals then covered them with Sparkelicious glitter from Chloes Creative Cards.  The leaves are also tattered lace dies.

All finished off with ribbon, a bow and some nuvo tonic pearl drops in navy.

To see more ideas from our design team and to enter your own creation into our challenge follow the link HERE to the blog.

Thanks for stopping by.  Take care and see you all soon I hope.

Happy 1st Birthday Get Creative

Good morning.  We start another challenge at Get Creative Challenges and we are celebrating our 1st Birthday  - whoopee.  I have to admit I have thoroughly enjoyed my first 12 months on the design team.  It has been such a pleasure to work with digi stamps from many fantastic and generous sponsors.  It has also been an enormous pleasure seeing your creations every challenge.  They have been brilliant.

Challenge 27 theme is Birthday

Our sponsors are: -

Polka Doodles

AND

Angies Cards & Digis

I used a digi stamp from Polka Doodles called Dollie Daydream - Birthday Digi Stamp.

After printing out Dollie my BSC fussy cut her out and I coloured her in using copic marker pens.

I have used an 8x8 base card.  Matted and layered some sea green card followed by some patterned paper printed from serif craft artist digi kit.

I then cut another piece of sea green card and die cut an aperture using a spellbinders die, followed by a piece of white card slightly smaller and again die cut an aperture with the same spellbinders die.  I embossed it using an 8x8 embossing folder from embossilicious (crafters companion).

My flower is a stamp from Chloes Creative Cards. This comes in three sizes and I stamped 2 large, 2 medium and 2 small on parchment using a teal cosmic shimmer embossing folder from Phil Martin's range.  A white pearl in the centre finished off my flower, which sits on two swirls die cut from a die which was a freebie on a tattered lace magazine.

To see more designs from the rest of our design team please follow the link HERE where you can also enter your own creation. 

Thank you for stopping by and for your comments.

I have entered this card into the following challenge

Copic Marker Espania - November Challenge

Country View Challenges No 33 - The Colour Blue

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper Challenge

CCC Digi Creations Challenge 36-ATG

Take care and see you all soon.

Brighten The Holidays

Good morning folks.  Hope you are all well.

We start a new challenge this morning at Crafting from the Heart.

Challenge 84 theme is 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsors are

Sparkle n Sprinkle

AND

QKR Stampede

I chose a digi stamp from Sparkle n Sprinkle called 'Brighten the Holidays' which when I saw it just made me smile so much.  I think they are super cheeky chappies and were a delight to colour.

If you purchase the set you will receive a digi stamp, a coloured image and two sentiments which is brilliant value.

Once I had printed out my image I used my BSC to fussy cut it out on the direct to cut facility with a 1mm allowance.  I then increassed the allowance to 2mm and cut a red mat and also increased the allowance to 3mm and cut out a blue mat.  This is the beauty of 'Brian'.

I coloured the super little chaps in using my copic marker pens and have also put some white glitter for the fur on their ear muffs and mittens.

I have used an 8x8 base card followed by another piece of white card which I have pricked around the edges.  My merry christmas backing paper is from serif craft artist digi kit.  My lights backing paper was designed by me in serif craftist using a string of lights in the embellishments and the stamp mode.  This was matted onto some navy card.

I matted a piece of white card which I embossed with an embossing plate from sizzix onto some red card.  My sentiment came with the digi stamp that has also been matted onto some blue card.

I then finished off my card with some blue ribbon, a bow and some nuvo pearl drops.

To see more designs from our design team and to enter your own creation into our challenge follow the link HERE.

We also have a facebook page for you to join where other crafters showcase their creations and there are challenges to take part in.

Thank you for stopping by and for your comments.  

I have entered this card into the following challenge

Card & Scrap Challenge 106 - Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra Challenge - Must be Christmas

CCC Digi Creations Challenge 36 - ATG

Sisters of Craft November Challenge - ATG

A Snowflake Promise Challenge 9 - Christmas/Winter Theme

Until next time....................

Winter Cardigan Shoujo.

Good morning folks.  Hope you enjoyed your Halloween, if you celebrated it I know some do and some don't.

Today we start a new challenge at Creative-Ladybirds Creations.

Challenge 9 is Anything Goes.

Our Sponsors are

Lemon Shortbread

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

I have chosen a digi image from Lemon Shortbread this challenge called Winter Cardigan Shoujo. 

Once printed I scanned her in to my BSC on the 'direct to cut' and fussy cut her out with a 1mm allowance.  I also cut a mat in red with a 2mm allowance.

 I coloured her in using copics. When I was colouring I hadn't got a clue what I was going to make.  I am suffering with a cold and to be honest was feeling pretty miserable so I chose the colours that cheered me up.

I decided to make a C5 card and matted some red onto my base.  I then cut a white mat on 'Brian' my BSC followed by a square mat of paper which was from my crafty stash.

My flower is Christmas Rose stamp from Chloe Creative Cards using WOW Sparkling Snow embossing powder.  I stamped 2 large and two medium onto red parchment. Once cut I put a valley fold down each leaf.

In the centre is a sparkler, which I made using my glue gun and some glitter.  I splodged some glue onto my glass mat and covered it with white glitter.  If you have watched Jodie Johnson from Tonic Studios on Create and Craft - she came up with this idea.  Definitely cheaper than buying them.

The leaves are ivy leaves from Sue Wilson Creative Expressions.

To finish I used red nuvo pearl drops.

To see more samples from our design team, and to enter your own creation into the challenge follow the link HERE to our blog.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for a any comments you choose to leave they are always much appreciated.

Take care and see you soon.