It's orange...

Good morning my fellow bloggers....now the storms have calmed down, it's now white outside!! I will be glad when this winter is over, perhaps that means we will have a good summer... Well I have been doodling away colouring with my new polychromos, and I think they do take a bit of practising. I haven't quite mastered the blending to get the same effect you get with copics or promarkers but I am not giving up as I really like them!

So, I have used Peek a Boo birthday from Sugar Nellie and coloured her with my new polychromos as I said, the papers are scraps that I have left from Echo Park - Country Drive, I must order more as I really like these papers. I also added some stitching and distressed the edges of the layers to cove up my wonky cutting...think I pulled that one off!!

Will be back shortly with Pippi!!

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Craft Your Passion - anything goes plus distressing
Stamps R Us - anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy - free and easy
The Pink elephant - anything goes
Ladybug - anything goes with your new stash(pencils)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes with new stash
Truly Madly Crafty - anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - what's new
Little Miss Muffet - new something
Fab 'n' funky - something new
Inky Impressions - anything goes
PaperShelter - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - something new
Simply Create 2 - more than 2 layers


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Sugar Bowl Challenge #74

Good morning sugar addicts.....almost time for Santa to come but before then we have another challenge over at The Sugar Bowl. The challenge this week is Maria Therese's fab sketch below...





...the theme is no Shop bought or digi papers but you can make you own. Once again we have the fab prize of 4 Sugar Nellie stamps from Funky Kits....



...but if there's more than 100 entries then the prize will increase to 6 stamps....so what are you waiting for?? Pop over and check out the inspiration from the other sweeties...they are fab!!

for my card I have embossed the main card with a floral embossing folder and then I also embossed the panel the image is layered onto. The stamp is "Fifi goes Walkies" which you can but here from Funky Kits. I coloured Fifi with copics this time and I think I am happy with the way she turned out!! Of course I glittered her and the card but you can't really it that well...iot does actually have lots!!

Cupcake Craft Challenge - sparkle, gleams, glitters
Whoopsie Daisy - sparkle and shine
Crazy Amigo challenge - embossing
Corrosive Challenge - anything but Christmas


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Papertake Weekly GDT card..

Good morning bloggers and another scheduled post, now I'm not sure which one will be first as they are both scheduled for the same time. I was delighted when I got an email from Dawny asking if I would like to be Guest Designer over at Papertake Weekly for the month of December...I was so chuffed as I do try to take part in their challenges most weeks when I can. so the challenge this week over at Papertake Weekly is "anything christmas" with the optional extra of something dangly, which I completely forgot about...so a good start!!

Their sponsor is Lili of the Valley....so you don't want to miss this!!

For my card I have used Fishing buddies from LOTV which I coloured with copics, the papers were in my stash and I really can't remember where they are from. I added a punched snowflake(cos i love snowflakes) and some matching ribbon...it isn't actually as dark IRL. I finished off glittering it all up...hope you like.

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Bunny Zoe - anything Christmas with pearls
Craft Your Passion - anything goes with glitter
Hooked on Crafts - Winter Wonderland
Incy Wincy - non traditional christmas colours
The Pink elephant - snowflakes and sparkles
Whoopsi Daisy - snowflakes
Gingerloft - Christmas


Fi
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It's almost the school holidays....

I folks, the weather is a bit better today so I have been getting my washing hung out. I have been asked to make a few teacher cards, so here's the first one. They will all be variations of this as they are for all different teachers. The image is from Sugar Nellie and I have coloured her with DI's....this one was a bit more difficult as I wanted to keep her with a bit of white...hope I've got it looking white!! The papers I have had in my stash from when I did a school scrapbook so I can't really remember which make they are. I added a button with some twine and I printed the message...not sure about that either!! I have entered the challenges below.

The Sugar Bowl - sketch and option of summer
Whoopsi Daisy - free & easy


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Spring is in the air.....

everywhere I look around....now how many of you know that one???

Well I have not had much time to do anything on my days off this week. Housework yesterday...boring and then I had a funeral this morning but then went for lunch with Lou and then more housework this afternoon...thought I would wash everything in sight since it was nice and I was able to hang the washing outside today and even better..it's all dry!!

So a quickie before I head to Tesco...the papers are from the nitwits collections and the image is from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics and then did a bit shading with my pencils. The flowers have been cut with a MFT flower die-namic die with some pearls added to the centres. Ichalked the clouds onto the oval and some little birds and layered it onto the scallop oval...which I cut by hand with my little Stampin Up slit punch. I have entered the following challenges.

The Sugar Bowl - sketch/spring
Saturday Challenge - flowers and female
OSAAT - glitter/gems
Crafty Calendar - spring
Stamp & Create - spring
Whoopsi Daisy - flowers
The Creative Cottage - spring
Stampavie - spring
Raise the Bar - spring
The Crafty Purple Frog - green
Woodware - spring
Wags 'n' Whiskers - spring



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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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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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Thinking of You.......

Morning folks...not sure how good this photo is as I have loaded it to Michael's laptop and I don't like the laptop....my PC has a virus...boo hoo!! Hopefully my PC will be fixed today and will be back to normal. I can't believe this has happenend as I only got a new monitor the other day and now this....well I suppose if it's going to happen it will happen to me..that's the kind of luck I seem to have. I actually wanted to post this yesterday to make a few challenges that ended yesterday but for one thing or another that didn't happen. So here we are now...the papers are from Scenic Route - Laurel and the image is from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics and water colour pencils. I layered the image onto the circle which distressed with my Tim Holtz distressing tool. The flowers are cut using MFT die-namics rolled flower die. I have entered this card in the following challenges..

Crafty Emmas - floral frenzy

Stamptacular - distress it

Whoopsi Daisy - flowers

Pile it On - pile on the layers

Fab 'n' funky - Whateva

By the Cute and Girly - Indian Summer

The Sugar Bowl - sketch


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Sweet flower girl...

Well what a glorious day it's been today so I have been in and out bewtween some tidying up in the garden, washing and doing bits to this card. This is one of my favourite stamps..The flower Girl from Sugar Nellie which you buy from Funky Kits...I love her!! She has also been coloured with copics. The papers are also one of my favourites just now...Brook collection from Crate Papers. I distressed the edges of the papers and added a tiny edge of stickles, I also embossed and sanded the panel underneath the image. I didn't have ribbon that matched so I used some Stampin' Up white ribbon and coloured it green, I also added a bow the same colour and attached a button. I stamped the message and punched it out and layered that on to the scallop circle and again I added a button to the centre. I added dots at opposite corners with a brown pearl pen...just new and quite like it...you can but them at Quixotic Paperie....and finally my fabby flowers...well I think they are fabby...these have ben cut with my favourite gadget...the sizzix 3d flower die. I hope you like this one and I have entered it in the challenges below:

The Sweet Stop - sketch

Delightful Sketches - distressing

Whoopsi Daisy - blue & green

Crafty Catz - buttons & bows

Sir Stampalot - bring on the bling(not sure if you can see all the glitter)

Craft Your Days Away - favourite things


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It's a Wedding....

This is a quick post before bed...I made this card for one of my friends at work who is heading off to the USA tomorrow to her nephew's wedding and she wanted something scottish on it. I had the little thistles and heather in my stash, bought some new Pride of Scotland ribbon...couldn't get any Scottish rugby tartan ribbon which I did manage to get before and it goes well with the thistles but I think this one is good too. I embossed the front panels on the card and layered the panel with the thistles on top...the inside was personalised with the names and the date...hope you like...



I have entered this card in the following challenges....

One Stitch at a time - celebrations(just made it in time!!)

The Secret crafter Saturday Challenge - Weddings

By the Cute and girly - weddings

Whoopsi Daisy - ribbon and bows


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