Merry Christmas....

Good afternoon Saturday bloggers...I bet you weren't expecting a card from me today, I'm on holiday from work today but have a bit of a dodgy tummy!! I hope I never caught any bugs from the kids whose faces I was painting last night.....even though the weather was horrendous, it didn't stop the kids and round 2 at the school on Tuesday which will be mega busy and the face painting is always the busiest!!


I thought I would ink up High Hopes - Snowy, I bought him last year and only used him once so time for him to come out again and he has been coloured with copics The papers are from Echo Park - Winter Park and layered onto kraft card. I added a couple of layered snowflakes which were punched with my MS punches, glittered and added a button and twine to the centre, there was just enough room for those teeny pearls...oh and the ribbon!!

Christmas Challenge - sketch
High Hopes - snowflakes
Bunny Zoe - Christmas with pearls
Moving Along with the Times - ribbon and bows
The ribbon girl - Christmas
Paper Sundaes - beautiful bows(not sure if mine is beautiful enough)
Crafty Catz - snowmen
Phindy's Place - snow
Simply Create 2 - all about Christmas
ABC DT Challenge - Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge - A - anything goes
Craft Your Days Away - Buttons and bows
Crazy 4 challenges - snow
Creative Craft Challenges - free for all
Fairy Tale Challenges - Christmas
Lothian Crafts - Christmas
Marianne's Design Divas - sparkle and shine
Oldie but a Goodie - let it snow(bought stamp last year)
OLLCB - bingo(buttons, ribbon, pearls)
Papertake Weekly - Christmas Crackers
Totally Gorjuss - sparkle
Truly Scrumptious - Christmas with pearls
Little Red Wagon - Christmas


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The Sugar Bowl Challenge #68

Good morning sugar fans and I hope you are all raring to go with our new challenge over at The Sugar Bowl. This fortnight's challenge is Kiki's sketch below....



....and of course the optional theme which is "autumn". As normal there is the fabby prize of 4 Sugar Nellie stamps but if we get over 100 entries then the prize will be 6 stamps...woo hoo!!

For my card I have used papers from Jillybean Soup - Apple Cheddar Soup collection...they are yummy!! The base layer is kraft card which I am loving at the minute and I have stitched each of the layers and also distressed each layer with my TH distressing tool. The stamp is called "Apple of my Eye" from Simply Sassy at Sugar Nellie which you can buy here from Funky Kits. I coloured this little Sassy with Distress Inks....I reckon this one took me about 4 hours in total to colour as I did it over a few days but I am well chuffed with this one. I added a couple of flowers that have been cut with my MFT flower trio die and then I added a button ans a little itsy silver apple charm!!

Delicious doodles - cute as a button
Make it Monday Kraft Outlet - use kraft and autumn
Anything goes - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - dies/punches
Paper Shelter - anything goes
Creative Inspiration Paint challenge - charm
Dream Valley - buttons
OSAAT - punch it
Kaboodle Doodles - lots of layers
Ooh La La - punches
Paper Pretties - fall inspiration
Scrapbook Sisters - autumn colours
Hannah & Friends - anything goes
Marianne's Divas Designs - bloom and grow
Delightful sketches - happy fall
By the Cute and Girly - all things bright and beautiful
Creatalicious - anything goes
4 Crafty Chicks - celebrate fall

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Paper Sundaes DT card

Hi all my Sundae bloggers and my scheduled post.....yes yet again another working Sunday!! I am still having PC issues and Sky keep blocking my broadband so I haven't been around much over the past week but hopefully we are ok now...don't want to say too much incase I jinx it!! This week the challenge over at Paper Sundaes is to show us your Autumn or Halloween colours and our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a certificate to use in their store....woo hoo!!
For my card this week I couldn't decide whether to do Halloween or Autumn...eventually I opted for the Autumn colours. The papers are from Scenic Route and the stamp is from The Greeting Farm....Simon Says Stamp stock a huge selection of The Greeting Farm stamps. I coloured this little Anya with copics and I did lots of shading on her dress and her hair...not sure how well you can see that in the photo...but it does look quite good in real life even though I say so myself...hee hee!! I have entered my card in the challenges below:

Cupcake Craft Challenge - sketch

Copic Creations - shading

Pollycraft - Autumn

OLLCB - stripes

Creative Card Crew - Autumn

Flutter By Wednesday - fairy/buttons

The Secret Crafter - anything goes

A Spoon Full of sugar - autumn


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Look...no flowers!!

Well I thought I would try a bit of experimenting with my colouring...as I can't afford to buy prismas or more so more Promarkers. I had this little digi image in my stash so I have been practising...I gently coloured this with copics and then I went over with my water pencils which seemed to do the same job as prismas. I tried it with water pens but they didn't work...so the darker areas are where I added the pencils and I pulled the colour out...maybe it's not as good as prismas but only those that use prismas would know that but I am happy with how these worked. The papers are from Kaisercraft which I think work well with image. The message is also from the Kaisercraft. I have entered this in the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - sketch

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - It's a man's world

2 sisters - stitching

By the Cute and Girly - animal antics

Stamptacular - snips and snails and puppy dog tails

OLLCB - spots and dots

Cute Card Thursday - whateva


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Princess birthday

Hi all..it's a lovely sunny evening here for a change and it's the start of my 2 week holiday from work...but not going to the sun unfortunately so I will have plenty of time to play!!
So onto the card...the image is from Tiddly Inks which I have coloured with copics...this was a great image to practice doing shiny hair with so I hope it gives the right effect, the papers, ribbon and buttons were in my stash..and I also punched the scallop and layered the message onto that an then finishe off ith some glitter on the image fo that dazzly look. I have entere this car in the following challenges.

Sketch & Stash - sketch

OLLCB - birthday

Digital Tuesday - dazzle me

Tiddly Inks - fit for a princess

Polka doodles - colouring challenge

Fab 'n' Funky - buttons and bows


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Christmas in July

Hi all...haven't had muh time to do anything today. I am applying fo a new job so I have updating my CV and rtying to arange childcare just incase I get it. It' still in HR but within the technology team and I think it's more what I want to do. The closing date is Monday so I think I would know fairly quick...so will keep you all posted.
So this is a quickie I made this afternoon when I got fed up with the cV...the papers I had in my stash...not quite sure where they are from. Anya has been coloured with copics and I added some heavy white glitter for a more fluffy look. I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Anya Ink - Christmas in July

2 Sisters - christmas in july

Simon Says Challenge - sketch

Christmas Cards all year 'round - anything goes

Magical Crafts - Chistmas in July

OLLCB - Christmas in July


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