Hang on ....

.... Snoopy!  Things went an unexpected direction this week with my DT entry for PaperPlay.  We are sponsored by Stitchy Bears Stamps and our challenge is a recipe:- 2 DPs, 3 flowers, 1 ribbon and 1 charm.

The latter presented a problem for me, I don't have any charms.  Then I remembered my daughter had a clearout some time back and I had "rescued" quite a few things from the bin, including a little Snoopy mobile phone charm.  When I first started card-making, I was ecstatic to discover that Stampabilities make Peanuts stamps, I bought quite a few at the time, and although I haven't used them much (some not at all), I will never get rid of them because I'm so happy that they exist!!  So now that I had my Snoopy charm, out came one of the stamps, I blew the dust off it, and here's my card:

I'm also entering this into Crafty Angels (Something old, something new), Simon Says Stamp (Sing it Baby - the song that is stuck in my head now "Hang on Snoopy", such a stupid song!), Cute Card Thursday ("whateva" - bless their DT, we had 444 entries for anything goes last week on PaperPlay - so much commenting!) and Totally Papercrafts (going to the movies).

Here's a little close-up of my image - I coloured with distress inks and highlighted the balloons with glossy accents:

Recipe:

Papers: Cosmo Cricket "Lil' Man"

Stamp: Stampabilities "Snoopy Happy Birthday"

Colouring Medium: Distress Inks

Other: Blue flower handmade, other flowers, gems, ribbon, BG button, charm from stash, needle + thread

Thanks for looking - and don't forget to enter my blog candy (click here) - only 4 days left!!!

Bitten by the ....

.... Tilda bug - I don't quite know how it happened, I've said before that I didn't like these stamps when I first saw them, but almost without me realising it, they've grown on me to such an extent that I've started a collection (yes, another collection - I'm doomed - again!) - and they are so lovely to colour!!

This card isn't for anyone in particular, I was at a workshop on Thursday night and began working on it, and then finished it at a crop today.  I used last week's sketch from Sketch Saturday, obviously can't enter it 'cos it's too late now - and I used the "Seasons" theme (mine being "Autumn") from Magnolia Down Under, only to find that I'm too late for that as well, curses!  Here's the card:

I'm entering it on Totally Tilda (chocolate), Just Magnolia (vintage), Basic Grey Challenges (stitching), The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (Fairy Tales) and Crafty Angels (shabby chic).

I have to thank Mina for telling me how to make the image have bits sticking out - I assumed she had some complicated Nestability trick I hadn't worked out.  Nope - it's simple!!  All I did was centre a roll of sellotape over the image, trace around it lightly in pencil and cut it out by hand, leaving the foot sticking out!!!  I used distress inks to colour the image, and added a few sparkly highlights with diamond stickles on the tiara and swirly movement bits and copper stickles on the hem of the dress.  They don't show up in the pics, though.  Here's a close-up anyway:

Recipe:

Stamps: Magnolia "Ballerina Tilda" from Fairytale Collection + Hero Arts "Three Designer Leaves"

Papers: Basic Grey Nook + Pantry, Archaic, Scenic Route "Grafton"

Colouring Medium: Distress Inks

Other: Doodlebug copper brads, copper + diamond stickles, ribbon from stash, needle + thread

Thanks for looking!

Colouring is fun ....

.... but only when you can find the ones you want!!  I posted about my super new organised pro-markers in my last post.  It was so easy to find the ones I needed when I was making my daughter's birthday card.  She'll be 16 soon (eeeek - how did that happen?!!!).  Here's my card:

I used the sketch from this week's Sugar Bowl and there is also a blue theme, which I've covered!  I'm also entering it into Passion for ProMarkers (distressing), Crafty Creations (happy or sweet),  Papertake Weekly (cutie patootie) and Crafty Angels (shabby chic. Can shabby be bright colours - I'm not sure?).

I used my scrumptious new Cosmo Cricket papers that I got last week.  I cobbled the sentiment together on Word, using two different fonts and some text boxes to squeeze it all together and I'm really pleased with the result.

I bought the stamp quite a while ago, with my daughter in mind, she loves all things manga. And since her hair is dyed red at the moment I decided to colour the image's hair red too (although dd's is not quite as red at this!!).  Here's a close-up:

Recipe:

Papers: Cosmo Cricket "Material Girl"

Stamp: Sugar Nellie "Manga Girl #2"

Colouring Medium: Letraset ProMarkers

Fonts: OldGateLaneOutline and Dear Joe 4

Other: Distress Inks, Nestabilities Label 1, stickles, needle + thread

Thanks for looking!

Safely back where I belong, in ....

.... my comfort zone.  I spent several happy hours last night with distress tool, inks, needle and thread and it felt good!!!

My card is for a retiring Sunday School teacher called Rosie.  I immediately thought of using BG "Sugared" paper, with its lovely blousy roses, but am branching off in other botanical directions too by using a Mary Hall for Sugar Nellie stamp called "Miss Sweet Pea"!!

My card is for this week's challenge on The Sugar Bowl, a lovely sketch (and an option to use pink/black/white, what can I say, I'm a rebel, I only used 33.3% of that option - pink/green/cream!!).  I changed the sketch very slightly by putting the "three elements" on the left hand side, I needed the right for the tag which has quite a bit of info that the customer wanted "on the front" - I love making tags for getting all the text on, but not in a way that clutters the card.

I'm also entering this on Crafty Angels ("My favourite stamp"), A Spoon Full of Sugar ("Floral Delight"), and Creative Cottage ("Pink").

I coloured this stamp using Distress Inks, love the dusky pink and olive green colours.  I have lots of the ink pads, but only a few reinkers and I am definitely going to build that collection.  Here's a close-up of the image, it's such a sweet stamp:

Recipe:

Papers: Basic Grey Sugared

Stamp: Mary Hall "Miss Sweet Pea" for Sugar Nellie

Colouring Medium: Distress Inks

Other: BG "Sugared" brads, ribbon from stash, needle + thread.

My daughter started her exams today, talk about cool as a cucumber - I don't want her to be panicking, but I wouldn't mind if she was a teeeeny weeeeny bit less laid-back either!!!!  And the next few weeks are bonkers, parish fete, boss's retirement events, car-boot sale, it's all go - and I have a long list of cards to make too.  EEEK!

Thanks for looking!

Oh my, all my friends ....

.... are turning 50, and policemen are definitely looking younger - does this mean I'm getting old?!!!

I had another 50th birthday card to do this week, and have used it for my PaperPlay DT entry, which this week is to "use a stamp and some bling".  We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Stamps, the prize being 4 of their digital images.  Right, on to business, here's my card:

Excuse slightly blurry image, I took the pictures in a wild hurry before leaving for school, and had to hand the card over there so couldn't re-take.  I've used the sketch from Sketch Saturday (lovely to work with it was too!), and I'm also entering this on Crafty Angels (1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 flowers - my papers have at least three flowers!), Simon Says Stamps (Birthdays/Celebrations) and Bunny Zoes Crafts (3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 ribbon or lace).

The lady who is getting this card, although she's Irish, lives in Finland, so I went with a slightly Scandi vibe with the colours on this card.  I did try to put three actual flowers on it, but the papers are so very busy, they were practically invisible, so I didn't use them, and decided that there are enough flowers on the papers to fulfill any flowery requirement!!!  The tag has Happy 50th Birthday on one side, and "Marion" on the other with some blingy bling.  I've also blinged the image, put stickles on her collar and gems on the little sticky-out bits of her dress - here's a close-up:

Recipe:

Stamp: "Poinsettia Girl" by Leanne Ellis for Sugar Nellie

Papers: Cosmo Cricket "Early Bird"

Colouring Medium: Distress Inks

Other: Ribbon, Stardust Stickles, Hero Arts Gems, Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, needle & thread

Thanks for looking!

Oh Mother-in-Law ....

.... you don't know how lucky you are!!!!  I got my pack of BG Origins and you got the first card made with it!!!!

This week on PaperPlay Challenges, the challenge is "Birthday for Someone Special", and since it's MiL's birthday this week, she gets to be it!!!

Look at this yummy paper, who would have thought that yellow/green/brown could be combined and actually look good!!!

I'm also entering it on this week's BasicGreyChallenges, which is to use this sketch:

And Quixotic Challenges this week is called "Tag it" - they want to see tags on projects.  Well, I've got a little tag that pulls out from behind the image, here's a pic:

I'm also entering this on CraftyAngels, their challenge this week to to use your favourite colour.  Here's the weird thing, I think my favourite crafting colour is brown.  I never ever wear brown, I wouldn't decorate my house with brown, but nearly everything I make papercraftwise has brown in it somewhere.  Can't understand it at all!!!

Recipe:

Papers: BG Origins (drool!)

Stamp: Hero Arts stamped using Pro-markers

Colouring Medium: Pro-markers

Other: MS Doily Lace Punch, MS Branch Punch, Distress Ink, needle and thread, ribbon, gems and flowers from stash

Thanks for looking!

Snow Days ....

.... I love 'em. Off again today, and the forecast is really bad for Sunday and into next week. We could be stuck here for days!!!! Yippee!!!

Thankfully, we got to the dentist on Tuesday and DS's bad tooth was extracted. Our dentist is so wonderful, he ensured the whole procedure was as untraumatic as possible, and DS was very, very good (I had had my doubts about that!!!). I was very good too!!! (Well, I was dentist-phobic for years!).

I've made another card - the productivity is great with all this enforced house-dom!! Our friend is turning 50 shortly and is having a huge party, yet she doesn't want anybody to shout about her age - we think this is very funny!!! I thought she'd kill me if I made a card emblazoned with big 5s and 0s, but yet I feel I have to mention the age achievement, so I tried to think of a sneaky way to do it!!

And when I saw Dena's lovely card, I had my answer. Here's my card:


Notice the "Sshhhhh" printed on the left hand side - and when you pull the tag, it reveals this:

I'm entering this in three challenges:

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Quixotic Challenges and Simon Says Stamps Challenges both have "Hot Chocolate" as their challenge this week - I've used lovely pink and chocolately colours.

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And Crafty Angels are looking for something recycled. See the hairy string on the tag - I got that from the postman - he had tied a load of post together with it and was going to dump it - so I rescued it!!!!

Recipe:

Papers: Basic Grey Bittersweet

Colouring Medium: Promarkers and Prismas

Inks: Chestnut Roan and Dark Brown Colorbox Chalks

Font: Excellentia in excelsis

Other: Hairy String and Eyelet from stash

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Thanks for looking! And thanks for taking time to leave a comment - I love to read them!