Christmas Fairies...

Hello again...

I'm back as promised with some Christmas fairies...

I've made a few in different colourways...

This is the first and I opted for a traditional Vintage look.

This beautiful stamp is of course from Wild Rose Studio.

Coloured with Promarkers. I used lots of new colours...Ruby and Moss.

 I wanted a nice warm glow around her so I used gold chalk around the edges.

I added two different coloured glitters...white and lemon

The papers are all from the WRS Christmas collection. The text paper is DCVW.

 Olive Green and Ruby Red with Cream and Gold...Just lovely!

Just had to use some pretty flowers...

Some challenges...

One stop craft...Christmas Fairies

I love Promarkers...Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly...Christmas Crackers

Crafty Calendar...Winter Wardrobe

Thanks for stopping by...check back soon for some more of these lovely fairies.

TTFN....X

 

Craft Fair...No.1..DONE!

Hello there peeps...

I had meant to post something for you a few nights ago but I just couldn't get a connection.

I have been busy sewing during the evenings and tonight I did the first of the 3 Christmas fairs that I have booked in...

A local village Hall in the West Sussex countryside... 

Aswell as the usual cards I have also been making some keyrings....

Some with felt .....

and some made from Crochet flowers that were given to me by a crafty friend. I added some buttons and some pink net...

I loved making these...

but my stock of flowers is running out so I think I may need to learn how to crochet them....

I'm having a relaxing day tomorrow...more sewing and watching tv.

Hope you all have a good weekend!

I'll be back soon with some very girly christmas fairies....x

Ice Ice baby...

Evening all!

Phew...what a busy weekend so far...
50th Birthday party last night and today is my daughters 13th Birthday.

Lots of present opening this morning and then a party with 15 friends this afternoon...

But now it's time.....

.... to relax and cool off with Ice Skating Pickle Penguin. 

Coloured with Promarkers.

Lovely Icy snowflake papers. Icy Blue colours.

Glitter galore!

 

These large silver wooden snowflakes were from Matalan last year.

 I love this vivid Turquoise and silver ribbon...

Can you see the ice chips swishing up....?

and some challenges...

One stop Craft.....BLUE

Winter Wonderland.....Awww, What a cutie

ABC Christmas.....W is for Winter Sports

ABC.....D is for Dazzle

Daring Cardmakers.....Water.

(Ice...frozen water)

Have a good weekend.

I'm chillin out now!:)

TTFN...x

Christmas Cuddles....

Hello there,



How about another Christmas Cuddle?

Pickle and his little pal from Wild Rose Studio. Just can't resist using him!

Coloured with Promarkers and pencils.

I used lots of glitter for their santa hats and the snow.

My background paper has little flocked hearts and silver glitter dots on it!

 It came from a very cheap pack of paper that I bought from The Works ages ago...

This lovely red ribbon has white spots on that I used to show off some snowflake and heart brads.

Some Challenges...

My time to craft ...Take Two

Cup Cake craft ...Two's Company

Delightful Designs...BINGO..I went straight down the middle line

Add dimension--Ribbon/Lace--Glitter/Sparkle

Pile It On...Traditional Christmas

Hope everyone is all busy with their Christmas Crafts...I have 3 Craft fairs booked in!

We are planning all the Christmas Displays and Productions in school as well now!

Thanks for checking in with me.

TTFN....X 

A card for Lucy...

Hello there,

Hope you have all had a good week. Lack of time and a very dodgy camera have meant that I wasn't able to post this week but I am back with a card that I made for a lovely young lady who fourteen years ago was my little bridesmaid...

We went to her 18th Birthday party last weekend and boy, did I feel old!

The large flower is made using a large heart punch.

I used different Pink DP that I them mounted onto black...

A die cut '18' and lots of mini jewels added.

I love this metal dragonfly.....just adds a kinda funky finishing touch.

and the challenges...

Allsorts...Black, White and plus one other colour.

Divas By design...use Metal

Crafty Anns...Floral Frenzy...

(you must make the flowers the focus of your card!) 

I've been doing some sewing so check back soon for a few sneeky peeks at some little pressies I am making for my friends.

Thanks for stopping by...xxxx

Cute Christmas Cuddles...

Happy Sunday afternoon..

Hope you are all having a nice weekend.

My card today is using another lovely stamp from the Wild Rose Studio Pickle range...

Christmas Cuddles.

Coloured with Promarkers and pencils.

I added lots of Glitter.

I found these little silver tags in my stash that I thought would go well under a lovely red flower.

I used two types of ribbon, a white embossed one for the bow and red gingham along the side.

Also added some blue gems...

I ripped the edges of my white and black spot paper..I keep trying to use the distressed look...it doesn't come natural to me!

Some challenges...

Winter Wonderland...Sparkle

Really reasonable Ribbon...Christmas

Allsorts Challenge...Anything but Square.

Charisma Cardz...Cutesy

Crafters Companion...Let it Snow

I love Promarkers...Glitter and Glitz

Papertake Weekly...Anything goes (optional..Sparkle and Bling).

Creatalicious...Distress your edges
Penny Black at Allsorts...All Creatures Great and Small

That's all from me for today folks...

Thanks for looking!

TTFN..x

Milton and his sledge....

Hi there

How about another Christmas Card?

Wild Rose Studios Milton Bear with his sledge full of pressies!

Coloured with Promarkers....lots of glitter added.

Punched snowflakes with jewel centres.

I stitched  around the edge and mounted the image onto Kraft and then Red card.

I used some white embossed card as the background and for the snowflakes.

I love this Martha Stewart Village Punch....Bought in a sale in New York ended up costing a fiver!

It isn't Christmas without Red and White Gingham Ribbon....

Some Challenges...

Passion for Promarkers... 'A day at the Zoo'

Crafty Purple Frog...'Sparkle'

One Stop Craft...'No Sentiment'

Raise the Bar...'Sew what?'

Totally papercrafts...'Glitter It'

Still only made about ten christmas cards and I've got my first Craft Fair table booked for the 25th November...so much to do!

Thanks for popping by....TTFN..x

Happy Halloween!...

Cackle Cackle...it's Halloween...
Just wanted to wish all of you Witches and Warlocks a very Happy trick or treat night....

Those of you who have been following my blog for a few years now...know that it's quite a thing in our close and all our very kind neighbours allow our little ones to shout through their letterboxes all dressed up ...and get given sweets in return.

My little one is a spooky Spider this year.....

                                           Our front door.....Come inside and see our spooky treats..

Enjoy your evening....back with more cards soon...xxxx

Pickle..as simple as that!

Good morning all...
Well I didn't need the extra hour as I was awake and up finishing off some crafty things and getting the washing sorted. I have an inset day tomorrow along with my youngest but the secondary school as back as normal so my eldest doesn't get another lie in!

I really wanted to get a CAS christmas card done so when I saw there were a couple of challenges I used my cute little Wild Rose Studio Pickle stargazing again.

I coloured and cut Pickle out first.
 I bought some new Promarkers and wanted to use the new Ruby Red and this lovely Royal Blue.

Pickle also come with two styles of star and I stamped one of the large special ones and then lots of the 5 point ones...then used lots of gold and lemon glitter.

The royal blue stars were another star stamp that I coloured in with the Blue promarker.

 

The sentiment (also included with Pickle) was stamped and cut out and then I went round the edge

with my Ivory Promarker.

So the Challenges.....

Less is More...Stars

Winter Wonderland...CAS Christmas Card

My Time to Craft...Quite White

Hope you all have a nice Sunday..I am pottering today.

The calm before the storm that is 'Halloween'

TTFN....xxx

A traditional Reindeer card...

                                                                   Afternoon all...
                               I can't believe that it's Friday already...Where did that week off go?

Yesterday I was Christmas cardmaking again.



                
                  I used a this lovely reindeer digi image from the Wild Rose Studio christmas CD...
                                                     The papers are Sizzix and DCWV.

Coloured with Promarkers and then glittered and jewelled up!

   I chalked the edges just to add to the traditional warm glow...

I layered the image onto Kraft card and then Red card and scalloped the edge.

I love red gingham ribbon.

I used a swirl die cut to add some interest around the flower and my Martha Stewart Doily lace edge punch.

Some challenges...

The Spotted Chick...It's Krafty Thursday...use some Kraft card..I used it on my layering and the card blank is kraft as well...

Crafty Ribbons...Bingo lines...I chose the middle row

Punches/Dies, Flowers, Ribbon

Charisma Cardz...Anything goes

Simon says Stamp...Anything Goes

I have some more Pickle Penguin cards to show, so pop back again soon...

Have a great Friday evening.

Good TV for me tonight, Big Brother eviction and The Bachelor Final!

xxxxxxx

Zebra cushions and Lemon Drizzle cake!

Good Afternoon..
Well I did get some baking done over the weekend but not much crafting... I started a sort out and that led to more housework than I thought, then yesterday I went to Horsham with a friend shopping!
It started out with Christmas presents in mind but I ended up buying.....

                                        Two gorgeous Zebra print end cushions for my sofa....

They were half price and I knew they would look great with my Cheetah cushions..

Ok confession over!

Here's the Lemon Drizzle Cake...

Very Yummy it is too....

and here is a new card....

Designer paper from DCWV

The large wooden Butterfly is from a Hobbycraft pack that was very cheap..about 49p and it has about 6 in it of various sizes.

The lovely sentiment panel was from a page of freebies that SJ had on her Little Musings blog back in the summer.

Organza ribbon from stash..I think it came from some cards and envelopes and was used to tie them up in the packaging....I keep all ribbon from anything like this.

I'd like to enter this into Creative Inspirations challenge this week

which is Monochromatic.

Wow...hope you have survived all the gossip from my house!

More cards and chat soon....xxxx