A little hug...

Good morning and here we are with my Wednesday post!

Today I am sharing with you some Leanne Ellis, I just love this little cutie called A Little Hug and it's available here at Funky Kits.

I coloured the image with spectrum noirs and shaded with polychromos.  I shaded the background of the image with spectrums aswell and then used some distress ink around the edges of the images. The papers are called Delight from The Sweet Shoppe which I layered onto bazzill card.  I then distressed the edges of each of the layers and then doodled around the edges.  I added a bow and some ribbon flowers and then finished with some pearls in the corners and to the image.

challenges:
Inky Chicks - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - lace
Crafty Cardmakers - ribons/lace and pearls
Spectrum Noirs Facebook - friends

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Polka Doodles Digi Queens DT card

Good morning folks and my scheduled post for today over at Polka Doodles Digi Queens...

We've gone all festive this week, I just love making Christmas cards and there is so many cute images to use from Polka Doodles.  The image I have used is called "Mistletoe" which you can buy on its own, or you can but it as part of Hollybobs collection. I have coloured the image with spectrum noirs and then shaded with polychromos.  The papers are from the Hollybobs collection which I layered onto bazzill card.  Those tiny tags are also from the same collection...I tied a piece of twine on them just to finish them off a wee bit.  The snowflakes have been punched and then glittered up....I added pearls to the centres...hope you likey.

Pop over to the Polka Doodles blog to check out the rest of the Digi Queens cards.

supplies:

image - Mistletoe

papers - Hollybobs

sentiments - Hollybobs

challenges:
Papertake Weekly - punch it out
Crafty Cardmakers - lace and pearls
Crafty Little Fairies - sparkle and bling

Fi

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...and before bed...

Well this will be short and sweet....thought I would share this wee card that I have been busy most of afternoon making...might need to retake the photo in daylight.

The papers are from MME - Bluebell, I layered them onto bazzill card and then distressed the edges, I also added stitching to each of the layers. I added a small piece of hessian and some lace.  The flowers have been cut with various MFT dies, the flourish is a doo hickey one.  The stamp is from Whimsy which I coloured with copics and added some shading with polychromos....to finish I added ice white pearl pen dots. There was supposed to be a charm on there too but i forgot about it!!

Watch out for some news this week too!!

Bunny Zoe - distressing

Delightful Challenges - distressing

Whimsy - anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers - stitching and lace

Simply Create Too - anything goes

Fi

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Happy Birthday Maia...

Good morning...hope everyone is having fun!! Well the sun is out so while I am waiting for the washing to finish...a quick couple of cards. I made this card for my cousin's little girl who is going to be 1.

I have used papers from Me to You collection...they are sweet!! The stamp is of course " Let them Eat Cake" from Sugar Nellie. I have coloured this with copics and then totally glittered her up!! The number one my friend cut with her cricut for me, added a message, flower and button...oh and the lettering I cut using a sizzix die.

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Crafty Creations - recipe
Anything goes - dies/punches
Crafty Cardmakers - anything goes
Sentimental sundays - anything goes
Cutie Pie Challenge - bingo board(flowers, die cut/punch, ribbon)


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I love You.....

Good morning my fellow Saturday bloggers and here we are with another scheduled post and this weeks challenge over at Sweet Stampin Challenge. It's team Carrie's turn this week, so get on over there and check out all the other DT cards....fabby!! This week the theme is "love bugs" so you card has to have a bug of some sort on it.

We have 2 sponsors this week first the fabulous Prairie Fairy Designs...they have lots of gorgeous digis and seconly Crafty Emma's Store.

For my card today I have used papers from Bo Bunny - Crush Collection...perfect for all those luvvy duvvy cards. I have used Lolita Lady Bug from CC Designs and coloured her with promarkers. I added a gem to the centre of her flower and spiral wires for her antenae cos I had to chop of the ones that were attached when I cut her out. The hearts have been punched with a sizzix paddle punch. I have entered all the challenges below which is a record amount for one card...it will probably take me about an hour to link them all up!! I think everybody will have lots of challenges entered this week.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch
Stampin for the Weekend - valentines
Crafty Calendar - love
Stamps R Us - valentines
Cupcake Craft Challenge - seeing red
Crafty Cardmakers - hearts
The Pink elephant - valentines
Bunny Zoe - love is in the air
Creative Craft Challenge - hearts & flowers
Passion for Promarker - let there be love
A Spoonful of sugar - let's see some love
Papertake Weekly - have a heart
Crafty Creations - 3 little words
The Crafty Pad - love is in the air
Delightful sketches - get punchy
Cute Card Thursday - hearts & flowers
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - valentines
Pixie dust Studio - be my valentine
For fun Challenges - hearts
Creative card Crew - for a loved one
Paper Cutz - ladybugs
The Crafty Purple Frog - valentines
Crafty Catz - valentines
Stamp & Create - love
Crafters Companion - romance
Whoopsi Daisy - hearts
By the Cute and Girly - red
The Stamp Man - hearts

Let it snow....

Well hello all you Sundae bloggers and ....normal service again with my scheduled post and yes you guessed it...back to work!! The challenge this week over at Paper Sundaes is "Let it Snow"...I just love that theme...snowflakes and snow and snowmen...so pretty!!



Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Stamp & Create and the lovely prize for one lucky person is a $15 to use in their store...woo hoo!!. For my card this week I have used papers from October Afternoon and Scenic Route. I distressed the edges of the card on each of the layers as I made a bit of a boob when stitching..totally covered up now...I am getting to be a dab hand at the patch up jobs!!I also embossed the circle with a snowflake embossing folder. The image is Penelope from CC Designs...Stamp & Create lots of CC Designs stamps. I coloured Penelope with copics.The snowflake has been punched with the Martha Stewart Scandanvian Snowflake punch..love it!! I stuck a jumbo gem in the middle for some extra glitz and I added some glitter to finish off....I am quite chuffed with this one.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch

All That Scraps - christmas

Oldie but a Goodie - distressing

Crafty Cardmakers - stitching

Stamp & Create - 'Tis the Season

Whoopsi Daisy - sparkle

ABC Christmas Challenge - winter wonderland

Charisma Cardz - With Love @ Christmas

Crafty Calender Challenge - winter snowflakes

Pollycraft - chill time

ABC DT Challenge - sew special

OSCC - embossing

Allsorts - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Delightful Sketches - stitching

Fi
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It's a shower...

Hi folks...I thought this card fits perfect to the weather we are having just now...well the weather where I am. Every time I hang my washing out it starts to rain....what a nightmare with towels!! So onto the card... these little meeses have been hiding in my stash for a while so I thought it was time for them to come out and show their e little faces. Now you will never believe this but I didn't use copics to colour this..I used my waterur pencils for a change but I did make a bit of a mistake...I used a memento ink pad...doesn't work with waterpencils however I still think I got away with parts of the ink bleeding as I needed very little colourecially on the meeses so between the ink and the pencils I think they look ok. I stamp this stamp twice so I could cut out the flower head and 3d them and then touched up with lots of glitter. I have entered this in the following challenges:

House Mouse - make a splash

Pollycraft - nature

Crafty Cardmakers - glitter and sparkle

Craftalicious - purple and green

A Crafty Little Place - anything goes

Charisma - inspired by a song - singing in the rain


Fi
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Birthday girl...

Well I'm not sure about this one...my mind wasn't really on it today but I thought I would just doodle away with this one anyway. The papers are from the Stampin Up Sweet Pea collection, the image is a Gorjuss girl from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with Promarkers and I touched up with pencils although I had to paper piece her face cos the black ink bled into her lovely little cheeks and I made a muck of it trying to fix it so I did another face and patched it in.....and I added 2 swirl flowers, 2 ribbons and a message. I added some glitter to finish off. I have entered this card in the challenges below:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - sketch

Cupcake Craft Challenge - recipe - 2 DP, 2 ribbons and 2 flowers

Fab 'n' Funky - flower power

Creative Card Crew - sparkle & shine

Crafty Cardmakers - birthday


Fi
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Happy Birthday....

Hi all....well I think I will be having an early night tonight as I was at work before the birds came out this morning!! Mr poor PC has been injured...it looks like the screen has been shot...it's got a round splodge with sort of coloured spears coming out of it and 2 blocks of whiteness...so I can only see about 3/4 of the screen so I will need to get a new one....there goes my crafting budget yet again although I won Passion for Promarkers challenge last week so I bought myself some new Promarkers...woo hoo...don't need to nick Holly's ones. Anyway I am not doing anything other than this post...the housework will need to wait. I forgot I had these papers so I thought I would give them a bash...Crate Papers, I think they are the Bliss Collection and the image is one of my many favourites from Sugar Nellie but I love this one as you can make it fancy or plain so I have decided to paper piece her with the same paper. I have coloured her face, arms and hair with copics. I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - sketch

Stamptacular - buttons and bows

Sweet Stampin ' - favourite image

Allsorts - paper piecing

Crafty Cardmakers - birthdays


Fi
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It's a cutie...

Well it's a very blustery day here today....but the washing is dry!! On to today's card..I have made this with a few challenges in mind. The papers are Crate Papers which are very easy to distress around the edges because they have an inner core, then I inked them up with my new distress inks....think I need to practise (Linds..I agree with you now!!) The stamp is one of the cute Mangas from Sugar Nellie...although this one looks a bit more stroppy than cute and of course she has been coloured with copics.

The Sugar Bowl - sketch and scallops

Craftalicious - cute

Crafty Catz - distressing

Crafty Cardmakers - inky fingers


Fi
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Happy Father's Day

What a gorgeous day...well I have had a busy week and not much of a chance to blog and probably won't until Sunday. Got the finishing touches to my root treatment today..woo hoo and Saturday it's the Procession Day...(it's a big event here in Bathgate) and on Sunday I've got Skyfest...family fun day all paid for by work...so here's my creation today. The stamp is a Whimsy stamp which I bought from Quixotic Paperie and the papers and card I had in my stash. I have made this for a few challenges today:

Quixotic Challenge - go wild(animal)

Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day

Crafty Cardmakers - least & most(my least favourite colour is kraft/beige but I love brown as it goes with so many colours....you may see from my other posts that I like brown)

Sweet Pea

This is the other sweet pea stamp I bought...think I prefer the other one....I coloured her with my copics and layered her onto Crate Paper, added a flower(which I made) and finished off with some glitter. I have entered this card in a few challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch

A Spoon Full of sugar - 3 papers, 3 buttons

Crafty Cardmakers - distressed

Cupcake Craft Challenge - buttons

Paperplay - brown and other colours


Fi
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Ouch!!

Well I think somebody up there was telling me to do my ironing instead of playing today!! I was determined to finish this but it was very awkward and I was in pain...to start off just as I started cutting...I dropped the steel ruler and it landed on my toe...I didn't say any naughty words but I do have a lovely big bruise across the front of my foot and then straight after whilst finishing off the cutting...I sliced the top of my finger and it's now all bandaged up cos it won't stop bleeding so it's awkward trying to make a card when you have a giant finger that's not in proportion with your other 9!! And earlier when I was cleaning my stamps and hit my finger off the sink and I thought I had broken it...I have a little tiny bruise there too so I think this will be it for today....the image is from My Grafico and coloue with copics, the papers are Crate papers, the flowers I ut with the sizzix and a little message. I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky - fancy edging

Dare U 2Digi - anything goes

Sketch Saturday - fab sketch

Crafty Cardmakers - distressing


Fi
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Birthday

I'm not sure if I've went a bit overboard with the stickles but I thought it matched...Mandy sent me this adorable Tilda along with a bundle of others...thanks Mandy...you should what she does with hers...beautiful!! I had the papers in my stash, coloured Tilda with my copics and glittered the distressed edges with stickles to give it a magical look. I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch

Crafty Creations - magical

Paperplay - stamp or digi and bling

Crafty Cardmakers - distressing

Quixotic - babies/children


Fi
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A few Challenges

Hi all...on my days off now so before the housework begins I was desperate to use my new papers...these are Crate papers, which I distressed wih my new tool,the image is sweet Gretel and I have coloured her with copics and added flowers and ribbons and a little message. I have entered this card in a few challenges this morning.

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Anyone for Anya - lots of layers

Totally Gorjuss - in stitches(mine are fake)

Pollycraft - summer/sunny(I thought the colours in this one were summery)

Cupcake Craft Challenge - 3 papers, 3 ribbons, 3 flowers

Crafty Cardmakers - distressing

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - birthday


Fi
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Happy Birthday

The sun is trying to come out so before it does I thought I woudl make a quick card...not sure about it though. The theme for Die dut Dreams was Vintage or no colouring..not sure about Vintage but it hasn't been coloured, so if it doesn't meet the challenge then it's ok I thought I would post it anyway. I also tried to add the pleated ribbon which took me ages as this is something I've never tried before but I've seeen it on lots of cards an is really effective....this was very challenging!! I entered this card in the following challenges:

Die cut Dreams - Vintage/no colouring

Paper cutz - 3 papers

Crafty Cardmakers - challenging challenge

Pile it on - no image/say it with words


Fi
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Easter

As Easter is approaching... I thought I better make another Easter card and that's me up to date with these. I had these spring papers in my stash ....not sure where I got them, the image is from Pink Petticoat and coloured with my copics...and of course some glitter...my favourite!! This card fits to quite a few challenges today.

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring

Charisma Cardz - spring

C.RA.F.T. Challenge - Easter

Paperplay - Easter

Crazy 4 Challenges - spring

Sweet Stampin - spring

Allsorts Challenge - spring

Sketch Saturday - sketch

The Secret Crafter - spring

Happy Birthday

I forgot I had these Stampin' Up Papers...they go perfect with this image and I love cherries. I coloured Emma with copics and touched up the toadstools and the cherries on her top with some glitter and then stamped the birthday message....oh and I addd some ribbon. I managed to fit this to the following challenges:-

Totally Gorjuss - Sweet(cherries)

Crafty Cardmakers - A Feminine Celebration

Paper Cutz - Anything goes

Stamptacular - sketch/stamp

The Secret Crafter - Anything Goes

Ooh la la - Anything Goes