On top of the world

Evening Peeps. What another beautiful day here in West Yorkshire. Got the washing pegged out, got it dry and then the line broke!!! So its all back in the wash tomorrow:(((
That'll teach me to do domestic stuff instead of crafting.

Anyway, here's one I made earlier, well yesterday to be precise but the computer has been having a 'slow' day today so its only just decided to let me upload it.

The cute digi image is by Designed2Delight called 'Ladybug Balancing Act', and I've coloured with copics:-
R00, 02, 24, G21, 28, C5, 7
I distressed the background with Antique Linen to take the starkness off, and added a large pearl brad to the flower which I got from the Meiflower stand at the Harrogate Show.

The scrummy DP is from a Webster's Pages pack which I got from the brill Crafty Emma's Store.

The circles are cut with scalloped nesties and the 'flag' shapes are from my new Spellbinders shapeabilities 'pennant' set. The top sentiment is by LOTV.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it into the following challenges:-

Designed 2 Delight Challenge - Ladybug image
http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/2011/04/ladybug-balancing-act-free-stamp-of.html
CES #32 - sketch
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-32-sketch.html

Memories From The Past

Evening Peeps. So who stole Monday??? I promised you a card yesterday and then it was Tuesday. How does that happen???

Anyhow this is not the card I intended, that's still on the drawing board, but this is one that I needed to do for my friend's hubby's 60th next week.

I decided to make a drawer easel card so that I could pop his wee gift and voucher inside. I used the voucher as the template to get the drawer size correct and then built the card around it.

Isn't the little boy a cutie. He is one of the new Sugar Nellie images and its the first time I've put colour to him. I've used copics:
skin - E21, 00, 93
hair - E50, 51, 53, 31
top - YG91, 95
shorts - B32, 34
train - R02, 05, 08

The DP is by Papermania 'Rose Garden'. I've followed the current Sugar Bowl Challenge sketch but didn't go OTT with bling as it is for a man. I can't remember where the metal bellie is from but it says (rather appropriately) 'memories from the past'.

I've used an EK corner punch to give it some variation.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it into the following challenges :-

The Sugar Bowl - sketch
http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-56kikis-sketch.html
Totally Papercrafts #60 - One for the boys
http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-60-one-for-boys.html
CES #30 - Children
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-30-children_02.html
Papertake Weekly #55 - Anything + use something new (image)
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/04/anything-goes.html

It's A Try

Evening Peeps. This is my penultimate card for the next few days. Why is it when you're challenged to make a card for a teenager I always think of boys??? A card for a teen girl would have been so much simpler. Anyhow, it gave me a good excuse to use my new LOTV stamp which I coloured with copics:-
skin - E21, 93, promarker satin
hair - E31, 33, 35
ball - E43
boots - C5
kit - B24, 28, Y02, 08
ground - G21, 28, W1, 3, 5

The DP is partly 7 Gypsies and partly my stash, and the letters are from a 7 Gypsies pack. I have covered them with glossy accents to give some dimension.

Hope you like it and here are the links:-

Cute Card Thursday #157 - sketch
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-157-sketch-by-deb.html
Charisma Cardz #12 - Birthday for a Teen
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-12-birthday-for-teen.html
CES #29 - Die Cut Crazy
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-29-die-cut-crazy.html

I am Sailing

OK Bloggers, this is a first for me and I would really appreciate your comments, constructive critisism, advice, whatever. I have drawn the sailing ship... This is from someone who hated art at school and has never been particularly crafty - goodness knows where the cardmaking etc came from, must have fell out of bed one day and bumped my head.  Anyhow, I'm gonna take a chance and enter it into some challenges so that a wider audience gets to see it and therefore more comments for me to act on. All because a friend asked me to make a birthday card with a sailing ship.......

This is not the original drawing. I tried to digitise it but I'm not good with the PC and I just couldn't get a decent image so I went back to the old favourite of tracing it and then rubbing on the back to transfer the image to my CS. Of course then I had a mirror image to play with which caused me all sorts of problems with my left/right co-ordination, lol, but this still leaves me with the original to play around with again.

I used copics in BG01, 05, 13, 93, C1, 3, W1, 3, 5 to colour the image and the sea, and then watercolour pencils for the sky.

The birds are stamped in stazon and I used a Tim Holtz compass mask dabbed with Broken China Distress Ink to keep in with the nautical theme. I used twine to imitate rigging and threaded an old naval button, and ric rak to imitate the waves. The die-cut is a Sissix vine leaves die.

I hope you like it and all comments will be much appreciated.

Here are the challenges :-

Charisma Cardz #11 - To die for
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-11-to-die-for.html
Simon Says - Happy Birthday
http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/simon-sayshappy-birthday.html
CES #28 - Favourite song or inspired by a song (I am Sailing by Rod Stewart)
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-28-your-favourite-song-or.html
Totally Papercrafts #58 - Add a Button
http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-58-add-buttons.html

Just 3 Squares

Good Evening. I hope everyone has benefitted from the beautiful sunshine today. I have been brave and booked a riding lesson tomorrow on the basis of the weather forecast. My first since before Christmas. If it chucks it down you'll know who to blame, lol.

Anyway, onto my card. This started off as a black card!!! Then I managed to adhere the squares wonky, so I cut them off, hence the black surround, and went for a white card instead. I'm trying to keep up with the Less Is More Challenges, and boy are they a challenge.

In terms of materials, fairly easy peasy, with the only bit of stamping being the sentiment. The DP are by Dovecraft 'a hint of pink'.

So, I'm entering it into the following challenges and I hope you like it, x

Less Is More wk4 - 3 squares
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-4-recipe-three-squares.html
Charisma Cardz wk 8 - Black, white and one colour
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-8-black-white-one-colour.html
Paper Sundaes #58 - Use a charm
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2011/02/paper-sundaes-challenge-58-how-charming.html
CES Challenge #25 - Flowers and Flutterbys (sorry its a dragonfly)
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-25-flowers-flutterbys.html

65 years young

 Howza bout that then!!! I'm still awake despite being up since goodness knows when. Well the snow eventually stopped falling at about lunchtime and it means we have about 4" now:((( The sky still looks full so I hope there isn't any more to come.

Anyhow, its given me some crafting time to make a card requested by a friend. I thought I'd go for the ever effective easel card as its for a special birthday.

The image is by Simple Expressions and I've stamped it in versafine vintage sepia. Told you I was a bit addicted to that ink pad at the moment, lol.

The DP are MME 'Wild Asparagus' as is the peachy ribbon. This ribbon, the curly gardenia (just lurve them) and the carnation buds are all from Crafty Emma's Store. The pearls are from The Hobby House.

I've created the leaves with my Martha Stewart pine punch. Everything else is from my stash.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it into the following challenges, x

Friday Sketchers #142 - sketch
http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/sketch-142-sponsored-by-pink-cat-studio.html
Bearly Mine #4 - Ribbons and Pearls
http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-4-ribbon-and-pearls.html
CES #24 - Spots and Stripes
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-24-spots-stripes.html

A heart can be for Christmas, not just for Valentines Day

Okay, so I know its a Christmas card and its only February but I'm trying to keep up with my Christmas challenges and be ahead of the game by the time December arrives....

I've just bought (in a sale) a set of Papermania clear stamps in the Henbury Lane range and realised I had the matching DP at home. How clever was that then!!!

The sentiment by Simple Expressions reads 'Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful'. Isn't that a lovely verse.

I've used my new L-Em punch to punch out the leaves.

The heart I've coloured with my copics. Phew, what a job that was trying to get the colour just how I wanted it. After a lot of colouring and blending and huffing and puffing I finally achieved my colour by using E27, R37, RV29 and a lot of blender pen. The leaves are coloured with YG63, 67.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it into the following challenges, x

Winter Wonderland - My Sentiments Exactly
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/very-special-my-sentiments-exactly-with.html
Cute Card Thursday #149 - Sketch
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-149-sketch-by-lynn.html
CES #21 - Bold and Bright
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-21-bold-bright.html
Pile It On #5 - Punch It
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/pile-it-on-pio-5-punch-it.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PileItOn+%28Pile+It+On%29

Thank You Fairy Much...

Hello Peeps, are you all keeping warm with this sudden drop in temperature, brrrrr...

I've made this card to send as a thank you to a lovely lady. I won't say anymore incase she's blog hopping and spots it.

Anyhow, the stamp is by Lavinia which I have coloured with copics and then added some clear gems to her hairpiece.
Copics used:
E21, 93, BG93, 96, YR20, 23, R02, 05, 08, RV21, 23, 25, W1, 3, 5, Blender and Promarker Satin.

The DP is Prima - Fairy Flora, from Crafty Emma's Store, as are the wee carnation buds (white). Everything else is from my stash.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it in the following challenges :-

Friday Sketchers #138 - Sketch
http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/friday-sketchers-138-sponsored-by-whiff.html
CES Challenge Blog #20 - Angels and Fairies
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-20-angels-fairies.html
Truly Scrumptious #49 - Brown, Pink and Green
http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-49-brown-pink-green.html

I may not be back again this evening and then tomorrow we're off to Perthshire for the weekend, taking in our Scottish grandees while we're up there. So hope you all have a lovely weekend if I don't blog again before I go, x