Wee Blossom...

 

Good morning Sunday people...well I thought I was going to be organised this morning...I woke up early with the sun shining so thought I would get loads of washing done and hung up outside and guess what...the heavens have opened and it's pouring...typical Scottish weather!! Well I suppose I can make a start on my Cowboy Pie for dinner tonight...yummy!!

Anyway, I made this wee card last night.  I am loving my new sunflower die...and these papers from Fancy Pants Park Bench which I layered and distressed.  The stamp is Wee Blossom which I coloured with copics, I added some cheesecloth, pearls, the ribbon and button...this seems to be my style, the distressed layers, the blue and other colour combo and those fabby die cut flowers...this seems to be me and I hope you likey!!

supplies:

papers - Fancy Pants Park Bench -

stamp - Wee Blossom -

die - die-namics sunflower

sentiment - Stampin Up

button - stash

pearls

ribbon/cheesecloth 

challenges:

The Ribbon Girl - add a button

My Mums Craft Shop - spots or stripes

As you Like It - favourite die(sunflowers at the moment)

Crafty Calendar - blossoms and blooms

One Stop Craft Challenge - flower power

Mad for Markers - one for the girls

Bearly Mine - anything goes

Everybody Art - pearls

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes

Addicted to Stamps - beautiful button

By the Cute and Girly - flowers

Fi

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it's a birthday...

 

Good morning everybody and what a lovely day it looks like it's gonna be...might be able to get some washing hung up outside!!

HAPPY EASTER!!

Now I sat up late last making this card and I am pleased with it however it supposed to be for one of the girls at work and I have forgotten to make space for a name...oh well...just need to make another!

I have used papers from MME - On the sunny side which I layered onto kraft card, the stamp and message  is from LOTV which I coloured with copics, the flowers have been cut using a die-namics flower trio die, the flourish is a Magnolia die.  I then added some pearls to the centres of the flowers and in the corners of each of the layers and then added a button and bow to finish...oh and there is some glitter on the image too.

supplies:

papers- MME - On the sunny Side

stamps - LOTV

pens - copics

ribbon - stash

pearls - pearl pen stash

button - stash

dies - die-namics flower trio, Magnolia fancy flourish

challenges:

By the Cute and Girly - favourite things(dies, peral pen & stamp)

LOTV - buttons and bows

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Die-ing for a challenge - spring

Fi

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Peek a boo...

Good morning Sunday bloggers and my first post of the New Year...thought I would get this posted now as I have a busy day ahead of me. I need to make some soup, then I need to do the Facebook post and then I am helping my friend deliver some leaflets...which will be for about 3 hours...I am thinking of the brisk walking so some exercise in there.

So last night I doodled away colouring this little cutie and finished the card off this morning...it's a bit different and I think I like it although I'm not sure about the pink...

The papers are my new Basic Grey - Little Black Dress (although they are brown), the rolled flower has been cut with a MFT die-namics die and the leafy one is a magnolia die.  The image is Peek a Boo birthday from Sugar Nellie which as been coloured with copics and then glittered....hope you like.

Basic Grey - anything goes

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - anything goes

By the Cute and Girly - cute & girly

Simon Says Stamp - new something(new Basic Grey paper pad)

Crafty Calendar - new (papers)

Crafty Catz - anything goes

Fussy and Fancy - furry friends

Stampin' for the Weekend - anything goes

Totally papercrafts - something new (papers)

Cute Card Thursday - new (papers)

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

Bearly Mine - something old, something new (new papers, old stamp)

Fi

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Santa Claus is coming to town....

It's snowing...yay!!

I wanted to try something a bit different, so instead of layering up my papers, I inked the edges with Distress Ink...not sure about it though....

So the papers are from MME - Winter Wonderland, the snowflakes are punched with a Martha Stewart punch and a TH snow flurries die which i glittered up and then added pearls to the centres.  The tags are from LOTV.  The stamp is from sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics.

Be sure to pop back tomorrow for a brand new challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'.

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Addicted to Stamps - Christmas
pile it On - embellishments(loads of snowflakes)
Winter wonderland - Santa Claus is coming to town
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
By the Cute and Girly - red/white/blue
Creatalicious - winter
Ladybug -sparklicious
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Bearly Mine - Santa is on his way
Everybody Art challenge - Christmas
Oldie but a Goodie - let it snow(stamp)

Fi

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Christmas hugs

A quickie before Strictly comes on....what do you think of Louis?  Isn't he just great??  Anyway this one is of my buys at the SECC last weekend...isn't she cute.  This is snow queen from LOTV which I have coloured with copics and glittered.  The papers are Echo park - Winter Wishes which I layered onto Bazzill card.  The snowflake is punched and then glittered up, the tag is from LOTV too...and finally the tree has been cut from ahnother of my buys...It's from Distinctively Dee's snow covered tree...need to practice the snowy edges.

Stamptacular - sketch

Crafty Hazelnuts - 3 papers

Christmas Stampin all Year long - anything goes

Totally Paperecrafts - twinklw twinkle christmas Star (on my image)

Divas by Design - festive

Lili's Little Fairies - snow is faling

By the Cute and girly - twinkle twinkle

Whimsy - sparkly

Anything goes - anything goes

Hooked on Craft - christmas with no red/green

Fi

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My first little Geisha girl...

Hey folks...and here we have another that I rustled up this afternoon when I wasn't doing the housework as I wasn't feeling too well....well enough to make a card though...lol!!  I do feel fine now by the way!!

So the papers are from MME - Bluebell which are really scrummy, I have layered them onto bazzill card and distressed each of the layers, I added a piece of lace aswell although you can only see a small part of it.  The image is from LOTV which I coloured with copics and polychromos....to finish I added lots of pearls made with my ice white pearl pen.

2 Sisters - anything goes
Craftymess - anything goes

Sassy cheryl - happy birthday

Crafters Companion - birthdays
By the Cute and Girly - birthdays

Fi

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My Mum's Craft Shop DT card...

Good morning fellow bloggers and my scheduled post...yes you guessed it, I am at work.

Today's challenge over at My Mum's Craft Shop is "tickets", there's lots of fabby little tickets out there so let's see what you can do.

The sponsor this week is Di's Digi Downloads...

 

 For my card I have used an image from Di's Digis and coloured him with copics, I then added some shading with polychromos. The papers are from MME - Lost & Found Breeze. I layered the papers onto Kraft card and inked all around the edges.  The star, buttons and tickets have been cut using kraft card and I also inked around the edges.  I added the pearls with a brown pearl pen.

Pop over and see what the others have come up with.

The Ribbon Girl - a card for a boy
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Totally Gorjuss - anything goes
 By the Cute and Girly - happy birthday
Papertake Weekly - all creatures great & small

Fi

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California dreamin'...

Good evening bloggers and my late post...I have not long returned refreshed from my run...need to shift that last 1/2lb so I have taken to running...phew!!

My card this evening resembles our lovely weather...not..but wouldn't it be lovely just to have one sunny day. I bought this digi from Saturated Canary, she is called Cali Girl and I coloured her with copics....now I had to pay a little more attention to the skin colouring as I wanted her to have a sunkissed glow however I don't think she had her cream on her face as her cheeks are a bit well fired..I also added glossy accents to her sunnys to give them a bit of a shine. The papers are Fancy Pants - summer soul which are perfect for that summery look card. The flower is cut from my MFT Hibiscus die-namics die...

lexi's Creations - at the beach
Joanna sheen - summer daze
CharismaCardz - anything goes
Scrapalicious - summertime
Totally Papercrafts - use a digi
By the Cute & girly - a day at the ....beach
Raise the Bar - hello summer
Color Me Creative - big hair


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My favourite....

Good morning folks....this will be short and sweet this morning as it's the Gala Day...woo hoo...so just getting ready. First I have to share Pippi with you...The challenge over at Sweet Stampin' this week is "your favourite stamp". What a hard decision this was as I have many stamps that I really love and I have a bestest favourite which is a Christmas one but I didn't feel like making a Christmas card so I decided to use Pippi Longsocks from Sugar Nellie...she is well up there in my top few!

I used papers from Papermania - Portobello Road and Making Memories, I stitched each of the layers and distressed the edges, the flowers and buttons are cut from MFT dies, I added a twine bows through the buttons, the flourish is cut from a do hickey die, the message is from LOTV and the stamp is Pippi from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics....went with the red, white and blue theme since it was the Jubilee next week.

Pop over to the Sweet Stampin Challenge blog...this week we are sponsored by Letraset, who are giving away a set of pens and we also have our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen who is giving a £10 voucher.

Papertake Weekly - sketch
My Mums Craft Shop - red, white and blue
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges - red, white and blue
Crafty Cardmakers - distress it
karen's doodles - stitch it up
Love to Create - add a sentiment
My Craft spot - buttons & bows
The Cutie Pie Challenge - dies/punches
One Stitch at a time - red, white and blue
Craft your Days Away - red, white and blue
By the Cute and girly - cute as a button
The Crafty Pad - colours of your flag( I went with the Union Jack rather than the St Andrews flag)
Crafty Catz - buttons &bows
Fussy and Fancy - swirls and flourishes
Hotshot Crafts - die cuts
Delightful Challenges - red, white and blue
Crafters Companion - time to embellish
Secret Crafter - anything goes
Divas by Design - anything goes
MAWTT - red, white and blue
Bunny Zoe - anything goes

Fi
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A blossom for you....

Happy Bank Holiday weekend....not that we get this Bank holiday here in Scotland..or do we?? Perhaps it's just at work we don't get it.

Well I received some goodies yesterday from Bunny Zoe so I had a wee play and came up with this one. The stamp is Belles & Whistles - A Blossom Fo You which I have coloured with copics, the papers are from MME - On the sunny side...they are so yummy I think I might need to order more just to look at!! The sentiment is from Stampin' Up and the little buttons and flowers have been cut with MFT dies...love those buttons!

Elphine House - daisies
Simon Says Stamp - birthday
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Sassy cheryl - May flowers
Belles 'n' Whistles - spring is in the air
Hooked On Crafts - flowers
Aud's Sentiments - anything goes
Little Miss Muffet - May flowers
By the Cute and Girly - spring is in the air


Fi
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Sugar Bowl Challenge #77

brrr....good morning sugar addicts, hope you are wrapped up warm and cosy!! It's Thursday today so I guess that means a new challenge over at The Sugar Bowl.

Today's challenge is Kiki's sketch below with the optional "love" theme.


Once again there's the usual prize from Funky Kits...4 Sugar Nellie stamps however if there's more than 100 entries then the prize increases to 6 stamps....woo hoo!!

For my card I have used papers from Little Yellow Bicycle - Love Letters collection. I doodled around the edges and layered the papers. The stamp is from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with polychromos. I added a couple of flowers and a matching tag. Pop over and check out the inspiration from the rest of the sweeties...

By the Cute and Girly - love is in the air
Creatalicious - love
Joanna Sheen - love is in the air
Little Miss Muffet - love
Sarah Hurley - love is all around
Ladybug - loves me loves me not
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - love
Lollipop - valentines
Stamp & Create - love
Dream Valley - valentine
Paper Players - flowers
One Stop Craft Challenge - the one I love
DYSU - love
Cure Card Thursday - pink valentine
Paperplay - love letters
Stamptacular - color challenge
4 Crafty chicks - love/valentine



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Warm Winter Wishes

Another post from me today but not scheduled...I coloured this little cutie the other night so thought I would quickly make it into a card. The stamp is Warm Winter Wishes from Sugar Nellie which is unfortunately out of stock at the moment however it is available in digi format here.

The papers are Echo Park - Winter Park, which I layered up and doodled around the edges of each layer, I like layers!! I coloured the stamp with promarkers. punched a snowflake and added a message and ribbon...then glittered the whole thing up...you can never have too much glitter!! Hope you like.

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Christmas Card challenges - doodling
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Lexi's - Christmas but no red/green
ABC Christmas Challenge - anything goes
Crafting for all Seasons - Christmas
Crafts & Me - Christmas
Divas by Design - Christmas
Little Red Wagon - Christmas
My Mums Craft Shop - cute and funly christmas
Bearly Mine - untraditional christmas
Cupcake - sparkle
Dream Valley - christmas
Joanna sheen - Christmas
By the Cute and Girly - Christmas
I ♥ Promarkers - blue and white(not sure if I have too much of other colours so just delete me if I do)
Totally Gorjuss - let it snow
Paper Sundaes - anything Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks - Christmas
Crafty Purple Frog - it's cold outside
Delightful Challenges - anything goes
Forever Friends - it's all Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - christmas
Paperplay - Christmas
Really Reasonable ribbons - anything goes
ABC Challenge - F is for Frosty




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A little snow angel....

Good morning sweet stampers...over at The Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog we have another challenge for you...this time it's "snow" or "snowmen, people....something with snow!!

This week our sponsor is Crafty Emma's Store, who is offering up this fab paper pad to one lucky winner.....


For my card I have a little snow angel which is from Inky antics. I coloured this stamp with promarkers this time so that I could join in the promarker challenge as the sketch is just fab!! The papers are Echo Park - Winter Park which I also layered onto kraft card, I added some button twine, punched a snowflake and added a button to the centre...then of course glittered it up.

Now pop over and see what the other sweeties have to show you.

Passion for promarker - sketch
I ♥ promarkers - snowmen/flakes
Stamptacular - Christmas
Simon Says - anything goes
Cards & More - snowflakes
Creative Craft - free for all
Craft your passion - tis the Season
Make it Monday(The kraft Journal) - Christmas
Dream Valley - sparkle
Paper sundaes - Winter Wonderland
By the Cute and Girly - let it snow
Delightful sketches - let it snow
Totally papercrafts - let it snow
Fairy Tale challenge - Christmas
Patties Creations - Christmas
Simply Create Too - Christmas
Wags n Whiskers- angel or fairy (does my snow angel count)
OSCC - let it snow


Fi
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It's Bella...

Happy Friday....it's almost the weekend but I am working!! I haven't really done much blogging or crafting this week. We got bad news on Tuesday that my auntie who lives in Italy died. Some of the family are flying over but my dad can't go due to his health problems, he can't fly so it's kind of hit him a bit hard I think because he can't go and because he is 15 years older that my auntie...a bit of a nightmare waiting on information coming from Italy. Anyway ....I felt like a bit of crafting this afternoon and I thought since it is baltic outside, what better than a card with that frosty feel so here we have Snowboardabella, I think that's her name!! I have used Fancy pants - wintertime papers and I have coloured Bella with copics.


Stamptacular - sketch
Crafters Companion - let it snow
By the Cute & Girly - christmas girl
Creative Insipirations - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge - W - winter sport
Delightful Challenges - snowflakes
Dutch Dare - punches/dies


Fi
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Birthday, birthday, birthday....

Well...update...Michael made it home safe and sound at about 3.30 am this morning and has slept almost all day, wakened for food and is sleeping again!! Oh to be a teenager again!! I thought I would make a wee quickie tonight as Holly as staying at her granny's tonight as I am working tomorrow and it's the school holidays, so some time to myself!!

Oh I just love lots of layers....So the papers are from Echo Park - Country Drive, the image is one of my favourite LOTV fairies which I have coloured with copics, the flowers..well do I need to tell where they come from?? I have distress the edges of each layer and also embossed the middle panel just for a bit more texture, added a piece of lace, a message and some glitter. I have entered the challenges below.

LOTV - sketch
Cute Card Thursday - lace
Icopic - birthday
The Crafty Pad - lots of texture
OSATT - anything goes
Cupcake - favourite challenge - #138 - lots of layers
Colour Me Creative - favourite copic tecnique - feathered the skirt
CES - recipe
Wags & Whiskers - birthday
Stampavie - 3 or more layers
Stampin for the Weekend - wings
Truly Scrumptious - wings
Oldie but Goodie - anything goes(stamp is more than 6 months old)
By the Cute & Girly - wings


Fi
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Childhood Memories...

Good morning sweet stampers, I hope the weather is too bad wherever you are...it's a bit rainy here!! Well this is the last weekend in my office....we have a big office move on Monday to a nice new building so hopefully all my stuff has been packed away and I will find it on Monday....I had to take my calculator, notepad and headset home with me on Thursday as I need them today and I would never manage without them.

The challenge this week over at Sweet Stampin is " childhood memories". When I saw this cute little Gorjuss Girl...I had to have her as reminded me of when I was younger...very much younger and my big, transparent bubble brolly. I also had a matching transparent raincoat...honest they were the fashion in those days although these big brollys are back in fashion. Holly has a few of these but she doesn't really like them cos they are too big but probably when I bought them I was thinking of how much I loved mine when I was little.

This week's sponsor Tiffany Doodles.

Who are offering one lucky winner 5 digis.

and

the monthly sponsor this month is Joanna Sheen.

....and one lucky winner will win £10 gift certificate to spend in their store.

So...for card I used papers from October Afternoon - Love Letters, the stamp is from Personal Impressions (please note although this is a Gorjuss Girl, it's not by Sugar Nellie)which I coloured with copics.

don't forget you still have time to enter the Sweet Stampin DT Call.

Watch out for my birthday candy coming soon to a screen near you!!

Inspire Me Fridays - anything goes

Mami Doodles - girly
Fairy Fun Friday - girly
By the Cute and Girly - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - friendship

Fi
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Paper Sundaes DT card

Good afternoon my sundae bloggers and my second post today...scheduled!! Today's challenge over at Paper Sundaes is "your favourite hair colour".

Our sponsor this week is Karen's Doodles....and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digis from their store.


I have used papers from MME - Stella Rose Hattie collection. The image is called Flower girl from the Gorjuss Girl range at Sugar Nellie and I have coloured her with copics...she is one of my favourite Gorjusss Girls....I think. I used E49,E47,E37, E57, E29, E35 and E53 for her hair. I also added some flowers cut using my MFT - flower trio die and some buttons. I have entered the challenges below.

The Sugar Bowl - sketch/buttons
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Paper Cutz - anything goes
MAWTT - anything goes
Crafts 4 Eternity - anything goes
By the Cute and girly - anything goes
Crafters Companion - girls birthday


Fi
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Hippie chickie...

Well...what a lovely day it has been...all my washing dried, just need to iron it....gggrrr!! I started colouring this image last night and finished it earlier today but what a nightmare photographing it...becuase it is dark, the photo colour wasn't right!! The papers are from MME - So Sophie collection, you can just about see the brown one does have spots, the image is Hippie chick from Simply Sassy at Sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics, I added some stitching, gems and of course some flowers...I think flowers are perfect as they match the flowers in her hair....oh is anybody singing that song now??

I{heart}2 stamp - sketch
By the Cute and Girly - cute & girly
Crafters Companion - aqua and brown(I do have a touch of green too)
Inspire me Friday - anything goes
One Stitch at a time - make it sassy


Fi
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Starlight, starbright...

Just a quickie before bed....Holly asked me to make a card for her to give to one of her friends with something cute on it...so here it is. The stamp is one of the first stamps I ordered online many moons ago...it's called Starlight, Starbright from Stamps Happen, coloured with copics. The papers are from the Nitwits Collection that I have only just discovered...check them out here!! The flowers have been cut with my new flower die from My Favourite Things...hope you likey!!

Totally Gorjuss - sketch
Fab 'n' Funky - spring
Cute Card Thursday - spring
Sir Stampalot - spring
By the Cute and Girly - spring
Papertake Weekly - anything goes but with something old(stamp)



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Paper Sundaes DT card and candy winners

Hello all my Sundae bloggers and my once again scheduled post....yes working and I will be tired too cos I had a late night on Friday and then up early yesterday and today and last night my mum was having a buffet night as my cousins are over from Italy so it was a kind of farewell thingy as they are heading home today but the next batch are hopefully coming over in March. The Christmas party on Friday was great and even better when you don't spend any money so I had to make good use of all the free drink...lol!! Managed work yesterday but was mega tired so I had an early night last night when I came home from my mums...back to normal today.

The challenge this week over at Paper Sundaes is "Valentines"....mwah,mwah, mwah!! Our sponsor this week is Pink Cat Studio...so many fab stamps and digi images to choose from.

For my card I used Bo Bunny - Crush papers....so perfect for luvvy duvvy things!! The image and sentiment are from Pink Cat Studio and I have coloured them with promarkers. I added lots of gems and glitter to spruce it up a bit!!

Lastly, the winners of my candy on our blog hop last week was Corry and Shana...well done girlies...the goodies are flying over to you!!

Ooh la la - 3 of a kind(3 hearts)
A Spoonful of Sugar - Valentines
Simon Says Stamp - animal antics
By the Cute and Girly - girly/bling
Bunny Zoe - Love is in the air
Charisma Cardz - Valentines
Paperplay - layers
Totally Gorjuss - as you like it
Craft Your Days Away - Love
Whoopsi Daisy - valentine/love



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