Gina Cupcake

Good morning all.

Roll on 4pm today as I finish work until the 9th January 2017 - HEAVEN.  Major crafting planned between Christmas and New Year.

Well today we start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations.

Our theme is 'Anything Goes'.

Our sponsor is

Moonflower Digi Stamps

I chose to use a digi stamp called 'Gina Cupcake'.

It is a beautiful digi for any age of birthday.

I coloured Gina in using my copic marker pens and then fussy cut her using my BSC with a border.

I have been itching to use my new stamps from the very talented Phil Martin.  Completely different style for him but they are gorgeous.

I stamps the Inkspirational Daisy Frame using Basil Leaf Colour Cloud.  This is a big stamp so I placed it on my mat and took my card to it.  I then fussy cut it using my BSC on direct to scan. I also cut a mat out in brown card.

Because I wanted to keep the colours I cut a piece of white card and used Basil Leaf colour cloud to ink around the edges.  I embossed a piece of white card to mat and layer and then assembled my frame and little Gina Cupcake.

I finished off my card using some nuvo tonic apple green pearly drops.

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

Thank you for visiting today.

Hope to see you again soon.

Mr Snowman

 Good morning all.  Hope you are all well and on your way to being all done ready for Christmas.

We have a lovely new challenge starting today at Crafting from the Heart.

Our challenge theme is 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor for this challenge is: -

Beccy's Place

I have chosen a lovely digi stamp called Mr Snowflake.

I have coloured him in using my sakura pens - got to have a bit of sparkle at Christmas.

My background was made using a mask, texture paste and glitter.

Some matting and layering plus making a frame all die cut using Sue Wilsons Double Pierced Square dies.  My sentiment on the frame is from the talented Phil Martin,  My tag is also using Sue Wilsons tag dies and serif craft artist. All finished off with a snowflake die from spellbinders.

To see more digi stamps being used by our design team follow the link HERE to our challenge blog where you can also enter your own project.  We also have a facebook page with even more challenges, hints, tips and designs from other crafters.

Thanks for visiting.  Have a good day and I hope to see you again soon.

Little Angel at the Ball.

Good morning all.

First of all I must apologise for the photograph of my card today, Even though I photographed it in daylight it has been so dark here in the West Midlands I still needed flash.

We start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations today.

Our theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is

 Lacy Sunshine Stamps

I have used a lovely digi stamp from our sponsor and coloured her in using colouring pencils from spectrum noir. 

All the dies I have used are from creative expressions. The embossing folder is a tattered lace one and I have finished it off using tonic nuvo drops.

To see more designs from our design team follow the link HERE to our blog where you can also enter your own project.

Thanks for visiting.  Hope to see you again soon.

Petrinka from Rick St Dennis

Hi folks.  Hope you all have a good day today.

Wednesday is my working day so I will be busy but so wishing I could craft instead.  Still working helps fund my crafting so that's not too bad.

We start a new challenge at our Crafty Girlz Creations challenge.

Our theme is 'Anything Goes'.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Rick St Dennis.

I have used a lovely digi stamp from our sponsor called 'Petrinka'

I have used an 8x8 white base card followed by some purple card.

I then used some of the lovely little stamps Leonie Pujol has recently released and made my own background embossing with cosmic shimmer purple shimmer embossing powder.  I then finished it off by embossing it with twinkling stars A4 embossing folder from creative expressions.

I coloured Petrinka using copic sketch markers and I glittered her jacket and hat with white glitter.

My sentiment is embossed with cosmic shimmer gold glitter embossing powder and the stamp is from John Lockwood.

I made my flower using a stamp from Dreamees, gold glitter embossing powder and parchment.  The leaves were die cut from a die by creative expressions.  All finished off with a little bit of tonic nuvo drops in purple.

To enter your own project into our challenge please follow the link HERE to the blog.

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope to see you again soon.

Mels Cell from Aliciabel

Good morning.  My 2nd post of the day to tell you its our 2nd blogaversary at Get Creative Challenge.

Challenge 52 theme is 'Birthday'.

Our sponsors for this challenge are 

AliciaBel

AND 

Dr Digi

I have used a digi stamp from AliciaBel called Mels Cell.

She is gorgeous and so useful especially in this day and age when so many people have phones surgically attached to their hand or ear - hee hee.  You've have probably guessed I really don't do phones other than in an emergency.

Anyway, on with crafting - I have coloured 'Mel' using copic marker pens.  The fussy cut her out plus a mat using my BSC on the direct to cut function.

My background is made with Pixie Powders.  Yes I have discovered them and I LOVE THEM.

I enjoy making my own backgrounds anyway and the pixie powders are just wonderful to work with and you can do so much with them.  I use John Lockwoods method and do one using watercolour card, then do 2nd generation plain card followed by 3rd generation parchment and finally clean it all up with kitchen roll which I leave screwed up until the following day.

Then I was watching Phil Martin on Hochanda and he showed yet another way of using pixie powders, Roll on my hols over Christmas when I can have a really good play now I have most of them.  Definitely worth the money. Must check out Julie Watts you tube as she has even more ways of using them.  oooo roll on Christmas.

I die cut the frames using double pierced rectangle dies.  My flowers were stamped using Phils old gold embossing powder and stamps from Dreamees onto parchment.  The leaves are new dies from Sue Wilson which I have double embossed again using old gold embossing powder.  I finished off my card by stamped two tags using Phil Martins new Daisy stamps and old gold embossing powder.

I have to admit to being really proud of this card and I know exactly who I shall be giving it to for her birthday next year.

To enter your own project into our 2nd blogaversary challenge follow the link HERE.  Don't forget to follow the theme.

Thanks for visiting again today.  Take care and I hope to see you again soon.

Snowglobe from Art by Barb

Good morning fellow crafter's and followers.

I do hope you all had a good weekend?

I must admit I did have a lovely afternoon on Saturday crafting, some 'me' time.

We have a lovely new challenge starting at Crafting from the Heart today.

Theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Art by Barb

I must admit I hadn't heard of this company before but having worked with the lovely digi stamp called 'Snowglobe' I shall certainly be checking out her blog.

This image was pure delight to colour.  

I have used a mixture of copic marker pens for her face and sakura pens for her hat and dress.  I have also glittered the fur around her hat and pom pom.  Hopefully you can see that.

Some matting and layering using white base card and some blue card.  I have used a creative expressions embossing folder called 'icicles' and made the flower using a stamp from Chloes Creative Cards, parchment and cosmic shimmer denim sparkle embossing powder.

I then finished it off with some tonic nuvo pearl drops and a sentiment also stamped in the denim sparkle embossing powder.

To enter your own project into the challenge just follow the link HERE where you will also find more ideas from our design team.

Don't forget our facebook page too.

Thanks for visiting.  Please come back. 

Take care.

Christmas Poisenttias

Good morning all.

We have a new challenge starting this morning at Crafty Girls Creations.

Challenge 29 is 'always anything goes'.

Our sponsor is

A Day for Daisies

I have used a lovely christmas image called 'Christmas Poinsettia'.

After printing out my image I coloured it in using sakura pens. I coloured two, fussy cut one out using my BSC and then cut the other one by hand so I could do some decoupage.

I have made a 7x7 cream card with matting and layering of red and cream card.  I then embossed my cream card using a poinsettia embossing folder from creative expressions.

I die cut frames using red and cream card with creative expressions double pierced square dies.

My sentiment was one from Phil Martins snowflake collection.

To see more designs from our design team using digi stamps from our sponsor just follow the link HERE to our blog.  Don't forget to enter your own project too whilst visiting.

Thank you for visiting.  See you again soon I hope.

Merry Christmas to You

Good morning folks.  Well it is now the 1st November today.  Certainly in the shops Christmas has already arrived so today I thought it would arrive on here too - hee hee.

We start a new challenge at Creative Ladybirds Creations today.

Our theme is 'anything goes'.

I created my background using a stencil, versamark ink and ruby red glitter embossing powder from cosmic shimmer.

Frames, tags and leaves are all dies from creative expressions.

My poinsettias are stamped and embossing using ruby glitter embossing powder, parchment and stamps from Chloe's Creative Cards.

The sentiment is one of Phil Martins from Sentimentally Yours Snowflake Set.

All finished off with nuvo pearl drops from tonic.

Follow the link HERE to our blog to see more designs from our design team and also to enter your own project.

Thanks for visiting today.  Take care.

Witch on a Broomstick

Good morning everyone.

Hope you all remembered to change your clocks yesterday!  Isn't that extra hour lovely.  I never change my clocks until the morning so I wake up at one time and get to have that hour all over again when I put my clock back - heaven.

I also had a brilliant day yesterday with my mate Wendy at Phil Martin and Chloe Endean's craftathon.

As you will image with Chloe there was lots of glitter around.  We had a fabulous day completing some beautiful projects which I will showcase in due course.

Now for my post today we start a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart.

Challenge 134 is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Oddball Art

I have chosen to use a digi stamp called 'Witch on a broomstick'. 

I have coloured my image using copic sketch markers.

I then die cut it out using the round double pierced dies from creative expressions.  I also used this set of dies to create my frame in purple card.

My base card is a plain 8x8 white card followed by a piece of purple coloured card.

Using an A4 embossing folder called Twinkling Stars from creative expressions I covered the raised side with versamark and then embossed my white card making sure before I ran it through that I had wiped the card lots with my anti static pad because after embossing I heat embossed with cosmic shimmer purple glitter embossing powder.

My flowers were made using flower stamps from Chloe's Creative Crafts using parchment and a white lustre embossing powder from cosmic shimmer.

The leaves were die cut from a leaf die from creative expressions.

To see more ideas from our design team follow the link HERE to our blog where you can also enter your own project.

Don't forget we also have a facebook page too.

Thank you for visiting today and I hope to see you again soon.

Take care.

Entered into
Craft Your Passion
Make my Monday

Christmas Flame

Thursday already, soon by the weekend.

I have had a good week this week as yesterday was my 25th wedding anniversary and although I was working I did enjoy the day - the best thing about working from home and yes I did get some work done but got to spend the day with my lovely husband.

We then went out for a lovely meal and had a nicely chilled bottle of champagne when we got home.

Well on to why you are visiting - we start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations.

Theme of 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is

Morgan's Artworld

For my card today I coloured my image in with sakura pens and have glittered the candle.

The background is an embossing folder from creative expressions using the debossed side and filling in with cosmic shimmer glitter paste, finishing off with some nuvo tonic pearl drops.

I created the oval frame using double pierced round dies and corners were  die cut using a spellbinders die.

Why not pop over to our challenge blog here to see our design team using some more digi stamps from our sponsor plus to enter your own project into the challenge.

Thanks for visiting today and HAPPY CRAFTING.

Christmas Colours

Good morning all.  We start a lovely new challenge at Simply Create Too today.

Challenge 121 has a theme of 'Christmas Colours'.

I have used red and gold for my Christmas colours.

Using the lovely snowflake stamps from Phil Martin I have stamped and embossed all my stamping in cosmic shimmer gold sparkle, mmmm lovely.

All of the dies I have used are from creative expressions - Sue Wilson except for the poinsettia and that stamp is from spellbinders. There is also a die to cut them out but I find cutting flowers out really relaxing.

Check out our blog to see more ideas from our design team and also to enter your own project - don't forget you can enter any project so long as you use 'Christmas Colours'.

Thanks for visiting.  

Take care.

Simply Santa

Good morning. 

Monday morning really does roll around quickly just lately.

This morning we start a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart.

Our theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is

 Dr Digi's

I have used a super digi stamp from our sponsor called 'Simply Santa'.

I think he is so cure and santarish, yeah I know I made that word up but he is adorable.#

After printing him out I coloured him using my copic marker pens and using a glue pen and glitter, glittered his beard and furry bits.

The background is embossed using a snowflake embossing folder from crafters companion.

My sentiment was actually a freebie stamp from a stamping magazine and I cannot for the life of me remember which one but is is a gorgeous stamp which I have embossing using glitter embossing powder - ruby slippers - from cosmic shimmer.

All finished off with a big bow using crinkled ribbon from creative expressions.

If you wish to see more images used by our design team follow the link HERE to our challenge blog and also where you can enter your own project.

Don't forget about our facebook page too.

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting.

I have entered this design into the following challenge

Craft-Dee BowZ October Challenge
Craft Your Passion Challenge 334

Halloween Pumpkin

Good morning.  

Hope you all had a good weekend?

How about starting this week off with a new challenge at Get Creative Challenges?

Our theme for challenge 50 is black and orange.

Our sponsor 

SLS Lines

I have used 'Halloween Pumpkin' digi stamp from our sponsor for my card today.

I have coloured it in using copic markers.

The frames were die cut using spellbinders 5x7 matting and layering sets A & B.

My flowers were stamped onto parchment using Chic Pumpkin embossing powder from Phil Martin cosmic shimmer range and flower stamp from Chloes Creative Cards.  The leaves were die cut using a die from creative expressions, all finished off with a black card candy in the centre.

Why not follow the link HERE to our challenge blog where you can find more ideas from our design team who are also using digi stamps from our sponsor PLUS you can enter your own project into the challenge.  Don't forget to follow the theme.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting and take care.

Christmas Flower

Good morning all.  We start a new challenge today at Crafty Girlz Challenge.

Theme this month is 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is

A Day for Daisies

I have used an image called 'Christmas Flower' from our sponsor which I cut out using my BSC on the direct to cut facility with a 1mm border around.

I coloured it in using sakura - I do like a bit of sparkle at Christmas.

The dies I have used are: -

Creative Expressions double pierced rectangles

Marianne die

My sentiment is from Phil Martin, Sentimentally Yours Snowflake range.

I finished off my card with Nuvo Pearl Drops from Tonic.

To see more ideas from our design team using images from our sponsor follow the link HERE to our blog where you can also enter your own project.

Thank you for visiting and do take care.

Happy Crafting.

Happy 80th Birthday Mom

Good morning folks.

We start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations this morning.

Our theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'.

My post today is the card I made for my mom's 80th birthday which was on Sunday 2nd October 2016.

I have made my own background using pixie powders and kitchen roll all picked up from the fabulous John Lockwood.

All my dies at from Sue Wilson.  The stamp is also from John Lockwood, such a useful stamp.

The flowers are stamped onto parchment using a cosmic shimmer embossing powder. I finished it off using tonic nuvo drops on the oval frame and in the centre of the flowers.

Hope you like it as much as my mom did.

To see more ideas from our design team why not follow the link HERE to our challenge blog where you can also enter your own project.

Thank you so much for visiting today.

See you soon and take care.

Rainy Days

Good morning all.  Hope you had a good weekend.

I have had a busy couple of weeks.  Been on holiday to Cornwall where we had a brilliant time staying in a lovely cottage down in Delabore just outside Port Isaac.  I have to admit the cottage was more suited to shorter folk but we all had a good time and it was a lovely clean and cosy cottage.

Whilst we were away we had the decorators in so when we got back we had a nicely painted lounge, kitchen, hall, stairs and landing but had to put the house back together again.  For the past 6 months all I seem to have done is pack things away and get things out again.  Hopefully we are done for a while now - phew.  So I haven't been able to do any crafting during the week.  Plus, I have had to have a new computer and seem to have lost my challenge folder.  I honestly thought I had transferred it but can't find it.  What am I like!!!!!

Friday was hair and lunch with mom. Saturday was GBCF at Stoneleigh with my friend Wendy, bought lots of goodies, had a lovely time. Sunday was my moms 80th birthday so we went out for Sunday lunch.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart and given I had not been able to do any actual crafting I thought, 'what can I do' with my lovely image from Scrappers Delight?

I have said this before but I do think if you are not into colouring you may very well dismiss digi stamps, which is a shame because we have some very talented artists producing some wonderful digi stamps for us crafters.  To be honest, if you don't like colouring I think you can still use digi images so, hopefully, my card today will prove that.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Scrappers Delight

I chose 'Rainy Days' from our sponsor and I will be using this one again and colouring her in but today I have imported her into Serif Craft Artist.

I used backing papers, materials and embellishments from various digi kits.  The flowers and leaves I had to colour black as they were a different colour.

I have used an 8x8 card blank within Craft Artist.

To see more samples made using digis from our sponsor by our design team just follow the link HERE and you can also enter your own project at the same time.

Don't forget our theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'.

Don't forget to visit our facebook page too.  There is loads going on there.

I do hope you like my post today and would like to thank you for visiting.

Take care.

Black & Pink Time

Good morning everyone.  Hope your Monday has started well.

We start a lovely new challenge over at Simply Create Too today.

Challenge 119 has a theme of 'Black + 1 other colour'

I have used pink as my other colour.

My project is a C5 card produced in Serif Craft Artist using a variety of different digi kits mainly because I have had to buy a new computer and haven't got all my digi kits transferred yet.

To see more ideas from our design team follow the link HERE to our blog where you can also enter your own project - don't forget all you have to do is follow the theme.

Look forward to seeing your makes.

Thank you for visiting today.

Hope to see you again soon.