Baby Shower...

Happy Sunday!

Hope everyone is well.

 I have had some baby cards to do and was struggling with a Baby Shower card, so I decided to do my own little drawing and colour it in...

 

 Coloured with Promarkers and lots of glitter.

Just had to add some bunting and buttons...

I'm hoping to find time to do some more doodles and drawings that I can use on my cards and maybe draw something that could be turned in to a stamp...Will have to look into that.

Hope you like it!

I couldn't find any challenges that this would fit in with so if anyone sees any...

Please let me know.

 

Spent yesterday cardmaking so will be photographing and blogging them soon.

We're on half term now so will be out and about..

.maybe starting some Christmas shopping...Yikes!

 

TTFN

XXXXXX

 

 

 

Oriental Wild Rose Mia

Hello again...

Welcome back to my little blog!

So pleased it's the weekend. I am on a nice night out tonight...round a girlfriends with about 6 or 7 others for nice nosh and a few drinkies!

Then looking forward to a lie in tomorrow...

But first a little bit of craftiness and Wild Rose Studio Mia in Kimono...

 Coloured with Promarkers.

 I found these gorgeous little clay roses in my local button shop selling for 20p a bag and there are plenty for quite a few cards...

 I made a sort of frame so that they looked like climbing roses...

They are so beautiful and the colours match my WRS papers as well.

 

 A couple of challenges...

I love Promarkers...Anything Goes

Lets Create and Craft...Add Dimension

Have a lovely weekend and pop back soon...

xxxxxx

Button Pea pod...

Good Evening..

Just a quick post to show you a card I made yesterday for the

Willow Sketchie Challenge.

 

'Button It Up'

I love using buttons on cards and they are great with this pea pod design.

The babies head is a Sizzix Bitty body.
 

Hope you like it...

Thanks for dropping by...

Bye for now

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bella the Elephant...

Good Afternoon.

Hope alls well with everyone this weekend.

I am taking it easy with some crafting and blogging after a busy work week where I have just finished a 3 day computer course that well and truly gave me brain ache....

I certainly couldn't sit and work in an office staring at a computer screen all day...Very different from my usual work in the classroom with the kids.

 

 I have only just managed to work out photoshop!

I had to brightened them up as the afternoon light was rubbish!

 (It's not your eyesight..This looks a bit out of focus..Sorry bout that!)

Bella the Elephant with some flowers...very cute image from Wild Rose Studio...

Coloured with Promarkers, I then used my scallop circle die and my big shot and layered her up onto Lilac and Purple card.

The image and papers match and I even found a flower and glittery brad in my stash that worked quite well...I used a punch for the leaves.

I love ribbon and am lucky enough to live in a village where we have a ribbon wholesaler who attends school fairs and sells them a £1 a roll...(and one of my best friends owns a haberdashers, which also helps)

Some challenges...

Paperplay Challenges...Simply cute

Papertake Weekly...All Creatures Great and Small

Simon Says...Die Cuts/Punches

Creative Inspirations...Anything Goes

So I have left my next card on the table with some glue drying and some gorgeous cute clay roses...

Please come back to visit soon....

xxxx

House Mouse for Joanna Sheen Blog Hop...

Hello blog hoppers!

Welcome to my crafty corner of the web...

I am very happy to be joining in with the showcase cards as part of 

Joanna Sheens Autumn Blog Hop 

I was asked if I would make a card using the adorable House Mouse Juggling leaves stamp and this beautiful free download

Autumn paper kit called Falling for fall.

from Summertime designs.

So many beautiful papers to choose from....I wanted to use them all!

House Mouse is coloured in with Promarkers, all available from the Joanna Sheen on-line shop...

I loved the FALL words and just had to use them being juggled with the leaves...

I used scalloped scissors around the edges of the image before layering up.

I added some punched out leaves around the edges...

  

and this cute wooden button and twine just underneath the image.

As with a blog hop..start at the beginning on Joanna's challenge blog and follow the instructions.

They are offering super prizes...

 

Thank you so much for coming to view my card and my blog...and Good Luck to all those who are doing the hop! 

If you are new here, please become a follower and leave me a comment and I will do the same for you!

TTFN....xxxxx

Cupcake Craft...Think Pink

Hello all

 

Hope your week has started well. I have been attending a computer course for school so my brain is a bit fried this evening.

I have been playing with my pictures in Gimp and having lots of help from some on-line crafty mates/Wild Rose Studio DT pals...Thank you guys so much!

 

Cupcake Craft have a 'Think Pink' Challenge this week so this card for my besties birthday is just perfect!

 

Circle Die cuts, stickers from USA, Gems, papermania bubbles!

 

 

A Fab party went along with this card!

 

Thanks for stopping by...Please leave me a comment if you can..

I really enjoy reading them!

TTFN

XXXXXX

A Vintage Christmas card....

Hello...

 

I'm back with my first christmas card of 2012...

I used Wild Rose Studio Annabelle collection, which has a lovely vintage nostalgic feel with the stamps and the paper packs.

 

 The Image is from a pack of panels, which feature 4 different designs of Annabelle preparing for Christmas.

I used a mini holly punch with tiny red jewels in the top corners.

I bought these flowers from Wilkinsons...A very cheap stem which I pulled apart...just adore them on Christmas cards with buttons and twine...

I added this beautiful red, green and gold check ribbon to match Annabelles scarf and pocket patch..

This card fits in with the 'Vintage' theme over on the Crafty Ribbons challenge

So one down and a hundred to go?

Thanks for visiting.

Please come back soon for more WRS Christmas!

TTFN

xxxxxxxxxxx

Princess Tilda...Awww

Good Evening folks.

I did some crafting today, with a specific little birthday girl in mind, my cousins daughter
 and I know how much she loves dressing up as a princess and making fairy castles.

I had these magnolia stamps in my stash and knew they would be perfect...

Coloured with Promarkers....
Lots of pastel/ice cream colours.
Strawberry pink, ivory vanilla, apricot and chocolate.

Cut out and layered so Tilda is sitting on her horse.

Touches of glitter here and there....

Mini daisies with gem centres.

I kept it without too much dimension as I'm posting it and as much as I love adding ribbons to all my cards they just don't go through the letter box and really push the postage up....


Some challenges....
Papertake weekly....Things that make you go Awww
Tuesday Throwdown...Gems
Southern Girls...Bling Bling
Polka doodle...Ice cream colours

Hope you like....Please leave me a comment as I love reading them!!!

X Factor,  Downton Abbey and Strike Back tonight!!!!

Be back soon
xxxx

One Stop with no flowers....

Good Afternoon all...

Well I have been back to work for a week now and it's like we were never away.

New staff and children to get to know and a new job role with some training courses coming up over the next few months.

 Away from work I have a few cardmaking projects finished and ready to post up.

Olympics and Para-Olympics were fab...Open top bus parade yesterday was a brilliant ending to a great British Summer...

 These die cuts are from kanban...

I love all the Red, white and blue and union jack crafting that has been going on!

This card fits in with the One Stop Craft Challenge of No Floral Embellishments!

Short and sweet from me today....

See you back here soon

xxxxxx

A Pink Cottage Garden

Hi all...

How about another Wild Rose Studio Annabelle card?

I love this stamp of Annabelle in her Cottage garden feeding the birds.

 Coloured with Promarkers....This time using soft pinks and shades of green, shabby chic style.

 I used up some scraps for the punched flowers...and added a couple of glitter die cuts of butterflies and flower beds.

 Martha Stewart doily edge punch and a pink flower trim..slightly distressed with bead centres...

Some challenges...

I love promarkers...Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft...Flowers

The Shabby Tearoom...Summer Cottage theme plus

use the photo as inspiration..some distressing/shabby elements  and a sentiment.

Less than a week to go before I'm back to work and my girls are back to school...September is nearly upon us and the summer will be ending.

We are planning a last minute weekend away to the beach...

Thanks for visiting and I'll catch up with you soon...

xxxxx

Krafting away...

Good afternoon all...

Another mixed week weather wise, sun and rain most days here in West Sussex. My youngest daughter had her 9th Birthday so we went to 

Paultons Park and Peppa Pig World, which I have to say was very good.

I also made the top 3 over at I love promarkers...so Thank you to them for choosing my Annabelle and her birdhouse in the Garden challenge.

 

My card today is another card that I made for a leaving member of staff at school...

 The little butterflies were made using a heart punch as the wings and beads layed along the centre for the body with a touch of glitter.

 A great way to use up some of the off cuts that we crafters have laying around our craft room...I know I have a basket with lots of bags all sorted into colours.

I recently bought some kraft card so wanted to use some of that.

It was just a case of arranging them in a heart.

and some challenges...

A blog named Hero...use Kraft

Paper Crafting Journey...Anything Goes

Craft Your Days away...Anything Goes 

Hope you are having a great weekend..

More from me soon...

xxxxxx