The Colour Purple

The challenge on Colour Create is to use Lilac or Purple with Aqua, Black and White and as purple is one of my favourite colours i couldn’t let that slip by! I have used one of the Sketching Stamper’s butterfly fairies, which I coloured with my prisma pencils, on a bit of computer magic to get the back ground the right colour and then put the leafy border, which is a free digi from Dewdrop Crafts, ( beautiful – must get more !!) over the top. The saying is from a set of non-sequitur stamps i have had for ages and the only other thing i added was a few flat back pearls.

We wish you a Merry Christmas………

I am entering this card into  4 challenges

• DU2DS - was intended for this challenge originally – Red Green and Neutral
• CDM – Twinkle
• Simon Say – So Charming
• Quixotic – Be Charming

Have used a Pollycraft digistamp and the rest is from stash – the charm i won ages ago in a challenge.  In case you can’t see it – its in the top right hand corner!

Someone Special

Hi Bloggers – This card was made  for the challenge from JM this week which is to make a card for someone special so I made it for the special little person in my life – my 4 year old grandson Matthew. He has just gone home after being here most of the day so i am a bit ‘cream crackered’ at the moment.  I am also going to enter it in Gingersnap Creations as their challenge is Winter Wonderland.  I really enjoyed making this card knowing who it was intended for and just thought it would be good to make it look like he was in a huge bauble.  I coloured Edwin in with my prisma pencils and yes, i like it and i think Matthew will too. Next time he  is here he wants to make a Christmas card for his mum and dad – better look out my old clothes!

Loads of Sparkle

Hello bloggy friends , there’s sparkle on the card, snow falling on the blog and a cold draught round the nether regions if you dare to go out! This card is for JM and they have a sketch for their challenge this week, The image just called for that suit to be coloured red so everything else was just made to tone in – used my promarkers – of course- and my MS snowflake punch got good use here – LOL!  While i have you captive I am dying to tell you that i won some lovely candy again – this time from Judy (thanks again)!!  Now if only the lotto……well  ………..you never know your luck!!!

Must be my age!!

Well it is my birthday today!!! and PFP wanted vintage so that's two vintage cards in a row now.  I used a non-sequitur stamp that i have had for ages, stamped it on a piece of mountboard and just used the skin tones and brown and coral shades to colour her in.  I even coloured the small roses, which i found in my local pound shop, with the same shades.  A few pearl beads and there you have it !

Rip it up!

Perhaps that is going a bit far but Quixotic  has Tearing as this week’s challenge.  I decided to go the whole hog and do something vintage as i had some nice papers just right for this. I stamped the image onto mountboard with distress ink and then tiled it with a double layer of clear utee. I hauled the trusty old machine out and stitched round the edges of the paper and tried different embellishments until i was happy (ish)!!  I don’t think the pic is quite the right shade – it looks better in real life- any tips on getting a better  photo – its a good enough camera- maybe too much light? I dunno – i must experiment!

Shout Christmas!

That’s the challenge from Crafty Ribbons and they sent me a gorgeous set of very Christmassy Ribbons to do what wanted with. The first thing I did was to enlarge that Fantastic Digi-stamp from Mo Manning of the Christmas fairy, but i cut off her wings and used ribbons instead. She is coloured with promarkers and some H20s.   Next I cut two lengths of ribbon sewed them together and lined it to make a small purse/bag and strung beads together for the handle.  I also made another card and a tag which for some mysterious reason the pics have totally disappeared!

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I have made this card for

1. Just Magnolia – challenge is masking
2. Totally Gorjuss – challenge is nearly all gorgeous

As my printer is needing a kick up the backside this week I have had to use up papers i had lying around which is not like me  with my folder full of downloaded paper.  I used the masking on my two magnolia stamps  and just fiddled around till i got what i thought was ok. Fiddling takes me a while, how about you? Anyway while fiddling my very first Martha Stewart punch arrived – a snowflake- so that was put to good use immediately- and i have no doubt you will be seeing it over and over and over again. Of course that will only do until winter is over so i suppose i will have to buy another!!

I’m Economising!

Its too near the season of spend, spend, spend so i am trying to save, save, save- probably won’t last !!  This card is going to do four challenges:

1. Pollycraft – where anything goes - Santa is one of their digi-stamps
2. Colour Create  – to use the colours red, white and green and they have the added challenge to make an item for Christmas.  with those colours and this time of year – what else!
3. Du2DS – glitter
4. CI - sparkle

First card this week

I just couldn’t get going this week-mojo went AWOL,  had a lousy viral infection and had to set up a new PC, so a bit of sympathy would be appreciated !!    Ok, ok that’s enough!  Anyway i have made a card for the Simon Says challenge which for  something with an animal in it.  The digistamp is a freebie from Pollycraft, which i have coloured with my favourite promarkers and everything else is from my overflowing stash of bits and bobs.  Being Christmas of course i have added just a bit of stickles here and there!!

Christmas Blues!

No I am not sad about Christmas – at least not yet! Its the challenge set by Totally Gorjuss this week. So i used my blue promarkers, papers and glittered with blue and silver. I am not entirely happy :0( with it but it will have to do- :0)

JM #31

Hi!  This card is for the JM challenge which is a sketch by Mina Hartley and i have been lucky enough to get one or two of the new Magnolia Christmas collection and waiting for more.  They are just gorgeous and great to work with.  I coloured her in as delicately as possible with prismacolor pencils and used some fabulous ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, punched out a flower and used an old button for the centre- added a few dangly beads and a sentiment.  I don’t think the photo does it justice with all the glitz  but its near enough!

Stop and Smell the Flowers

Hi, bloggy friends, this card was made for Quixotic Cards second challenge and has nothing to do with smelling flowers and all to do with stitching. Well my stitching on my sewing machine leaves a whole lot to be desired so i resorted to using fineliner pens. I won this stamp a couple of months ago but it must have been making its way round the world as it only arrived last weekend when i was away- very cute though. This is my second attempt at this card – was never sure of the first one so i removed it and feel much better about this – i haven’t coloured in the image ‘cos the card shines through nicely and so it was very easy to do. I just added the ribbons flower and sentiment.

Last Minute!

Literally, last minute- i had totally forgotten about  the Totally Gorjuss challenge.  With being away all last weekend , this week has just flown by. So to get it in, in time- its coloured with promarkers, used glitter ribbon and just added an appropriate sentiment.

Friday’s Child………….

………that’s the title of Mo’s digi-stamp that i have used here and it also applies to me –Friday's child is loving and giving – LOL!!!  I am entering this in the Promarker challenge – any colours this week , just their sketch and also into CCC  – their challenge is doodles and so i have doodled round a few edges. It will also do CI’s challenge which is to use something old or something brand new and i used my brand new flower punch which i bought at the NEC last weekend.  Btw those bits that look like stains are actually in the paper design!

OTT Award!

That nosey mare Pinky (her words - not mine!!) sent me this award and questionnaire-just because she is interested/nosey! Well I can understand that and I will send out to 5 people as requested - you might be one of them!!

1. Where is your mobile phone? ummmmm??
2. Your hair? clean
3. Your mother? 90 soon
4. Your father? died a while ago
5. Your favourite food? anything edible!
6. Your dream last night? can’t remember
7. Your favourite drink? rum and coke!
8. Your dream / goal? for all the family to be happy
9. Which room are you in? craftroom
10. Your hobby? daft question!!! craft!
11. Your fear? deep water
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? settled and happy
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? tactful
15. Muffins? Blueberry
16. Wish list item? slice machine
17. Where did you grow up? Dundee
18. Last thing you did? eat lunch
19. What are you wearing? jeans and t-shirt
20. Your tv? hardly ever watch
21. Your pets? 2 elderly cocker spaniels
22. Friends? THE best!!
23. Your life? rolling along
24. Your mood? cheerful
25. Missing someone? no
26. Vehicle? Toyota Auris
27. Something you are not wearing? my earrings!!
28. Your favourite store? M&S
29. Your favourite colour? blue/purple
30. When did you last laugh? when i read this
31. When did you last cry? Thursday reading sad story
32. Your best friend? gotta be hubby!
33. One place you go over and over? toilet!!
34. Facebook? yes
35. Favourite place to eat? a fantastic hotel near here

So there you are Pinky- my answers for what they are worth and i am going to pass this on to Sandy, Sylvia, Christine, Avril and Bee

Happy Birthday Elaine!

Quixotic cards  have started a new challenge blog and the first one just happens to coincide with Elaine’s birthday, so the challenge is to make a birthday card.  I used one of Mo’s digi-stamps and cut it out on the computer and left a white edge to highlight ( yes i did do it on purpose LOL). Didn’t find it too easy colouring a dog  but he looks very cute anyway. Just used  downloaded papers again and  changed the colours, did a bit of computer stitchery again (getting boring i know!!) and finished  off with a bow and beads.

Double Trouble!

The challenge on Totally Gorjuss this week is for a double helping of the gorjuss girls. I used paper I had downloaded and did a bit of computer stitchery round the edges, coloured the girls with promarkers and cut them out – difficult round all that hair!  I used my brand new SU punch for the first time- love it, will use that a lot- and finished off with a few red gems.

40 Shades of Green!

Well maybe i am exaggerating a bit! Just Magnolia’s challenge this week is Monochrome so i decided to do it in green. The papers were all on my computer,so i haven’t a clue where they came from originally. I coloured Tilda with promarkers, and also coloured the flowers to match. I stamped a butterfly in the top right hand corner as i thought it looked empty and added a few green gems. The ribbon effect is done on the computer, the stitch is a row of full stops. So perhaps not 40 but quite a few shades of green there!

Simon says Sparkle

Sparkle – who doesn’t love using sparkle and who hates finding it everywhere for the following week!!  That’s the challenge this week on Simon Says and i immediately thought Christmas, then decided to do it a bit different so I chose Black, Silver and White.  Her outfit, if you can call it that, is in black glitter, wings in silver glitter and for the fur i have used stickles. Other sparkle comes from the silver embossed snowflakes and the little gems.  The rest of her I have coloured in with promarkers.

I’m on a roll today…….

……….and I'm gonna keep on rolling while the old mojo is around!  Totally Gorjuss   has their second challenge this week and they want a shaped card.  So I have done this crossover card which i saw  on splitcoaststampers.  It is like an envelope with the card inside and is very easy to do.  Once the basic shape is done its up to you how you decorate it.  My gorjuss girl was coloured in with copics and promarkers and the little flowers were embossed – and so were my fingers! Its quite a neat wee card and would be really good for party invites.

Last but not least…………….

………is the third of this morning’s cards!  Well it has been a damp and very miserable day so what’s a girl to do but craft?  This one is for the CDM challenge which is Halloween and i again used one of Mo’s digital stamps.  I coloured her in with promarkers  ( excuse the interruption but does anyone else constantly catch a bit of finger when snapping the top on the pen – it’s bl***y painful) and digitally enhanced (OoooOOoh that sounds very good) the backing paper. I added some accents and distressed the edges  and layered on to red and blue card. Love the green face but do feel sorry for that poor dog!

My second card today…………

……………..is for Dottie’s World. Their challenge is for a card for a child. You must use one of their digi-stamps so I chose the hare and coloured him in blue with prismacolor pencils. You’ve never seen a blue hare ?  Well one has to consume a certain amount of magic potion but it’s worth it- LOL!! I put a country scene behind him, matted, layered and set him at a jaunty angle and finished off with some stitchery and buttons.

I‘ve been busy…………..

………this morning and have 3 cards to show for it!  First one is for the  DU2DS challenge   which is for a shaped card and i used one of Mo’s wonderful digi-stamps.  I printed my own backing paper, I don’t know now where i got it – it was probably a freebie- LOL – and i think i changed the colour of it too.  Among the free papers was a twig of cherry blossom so i copied and pasted 3 together and it matched  the flower in her hair. Added 3 small coins on a bit of raffia, a couple of flowers and its done!