Wedding Carriage

Morning Peeps,

How are we all. Today's card covers both my DT for Bearly Mine Designs with the theme of "Summer" and Crafts and Me with "Stitching".  This is a first for me and sadly also the last DT card for Bearly Mine as I have decided to step down.  Obviously though, I will be continuing to use the gorgeous papers so it won't be the last time you'll hear me singing their praises.

Right, onto my card. I have used the Whiff of Joy "Wedding Carriage" available from Crafts and Me HERE. The papers of course are Bearly Mine Designs available HERE.

I finally remembered I had flowersoft, lol, and put it to good use on the carriage. I also added some of my favourite embellishments of flowers and lasercut chipboard pieces painted with white acrylic paint available from Make It Crafty.

Ingredients:-

WOJ Wedding Carriage available from Crafts and Me HERE

Papers by Bearly Mine HERE

Lasercut Chipboard Embellishments from Make It Crafty and Quixoitc paperie 

Medium - copics 

Flowersoft

Sentiment by Lili of the Valley

Flowers from wild orchid crafts

Acrylic paint

Dienamics Butterfly die from Crafts and Me HERE

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Sitched using a sewing machine

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Lace and Pearls from stash 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Card Cupids - Summer 

The Crafty Pad - New (New life together) 

 Creative Inspirations - Stitching

Sentimental Sundays - Summer

Sketchy Colours - Cream/Mint/Olive 

Totally Gorjuss - Pearls and Swirls 

 Fairy Fun - Wedding

Sew Many Cards - Punch It 

Simply Create - Wings 

Totally Papercrafts - Diecuts and Punches 

CRAFT - Stitching 

Digi Doodle - Stitching 

Rubber Cafe - Summer 

Bling it on - Embossing 

Alotarubber stamps - Summertime 

Friendship Recipe - Anything Goes at Bearly Mine

Morning Peeps,

Today's post is my DT card for Bearly Mine where the theme is "Anything Goes". I have used Vintage Papers stitched to bazill cardstock and distressed with white acrylic paint, well kind of distressed everywhere with white paint, lol.

Don't you just love this Friendship sentiment from Lili of the Valley.

And those cute little mice

I'd like to enter my Easel card into the following challenges:-

Lili of the Valley - Punches/Dies

Corrosive - Summer Colours

Crafty pad - Stripes

Drunken Stampers - Birthday

Marks Finest Papers - Flowers

My Creative Moments - Tails

Alphabet Challenge - Easels

Fabulous Friday - Friends/Friendship

Stamping with the Dragon - Easels

Wags n Whiskers - Stitching

Stamp Insanity - Anything Goes

Card and Scrap - Flowers

Bizzy Becs - Lace

A Sketch at Bearly Mine & a Sneak Peek at My Tidy Craft Room

Morning Peeps,

Tuesday already and time for a sketch this week at Bearly Mine designed by Maria. And I thought as I have now finished tidying my craft room, I'll give you a sneak peek but don't look at the decor. This is the last room on the agenda, so just imagine wooden flooring and nicely painted walls and probably a blind, lol.  Enough waffling and onto my card.

 

I was meant to have a "Happy Mother's Day" tag popping out the right hand panel but I stuck the panel down forgetting completely about my tag, lol. 

 

Thought I'd just show you a close up of the flowers and fabulous chipboard swirls, link below. 

 

The beautiful papers are one of my favourites at the moment at Bearly Mine Designs, this is the Vintage Lace.  I have also used this on my post on Saturday, so scroll down if you want another peek. I also photographed this card on the Easel so you can see that beautiful lacey edge.

Now onto my foamboard copic storage, which I orginally saw on Donna's (Bearly Mine) blog. 

 

I'm really pleased with it and it's quite sturdy too. 

I made this one first but wasn't happy with the edges as I used my craft knife so thought I'd make a slightly bigger one so this one became my acrylic paint, puff paint, liquid pearl storage, plus there's space for more. 

 Don't know about you but I had a storage box overfilled with different coloured odds and ends that just never got used, so I made a 12x12 foamboard unit and separated the colours and I have to say that for the last 6 cards I have used I have reached for the odds and ends and haven't cut a new 12x12 piece of bazil cardstock.  Aren't I a good girl!

 

My nice tidy room inspired by Elaine from A Technophobes Blog, thank's Elaine, I do feel much better.

My new copic/distress ink/prisma pencil storage sat nicely on the desk and the 12x12 under the desk to the side.  As it's bits and pieces it's still messy in my book.

 

The drawers to the right are see through and I don't like looking at what's inside as again it looks messy, so I have slotted paper in with the contents listed on the outside.  The boxes on the shelfs, contains ribbons, cardstock, stamping cardstock, Sizzix Dies and all my Stamps in CD cases.

This is the wall behind me.  I have a unit housing wood back stamps, but not many, paper and 12x12 bazill cardstock.  My printer on top and my sewing machine on hand.

 And hubby put up the final piece in my tidy up today, my magnetic boards filled with Marianne, Magnolia and Nesties.  Absolutely love this, and guess what, there's room for more, lol.

And lastly, this is the back of the door.  Housed with a shoe hanger containing all my cricut cartridges.

I have to say it's so lovely crafting in a tidy room, where everything has a place!

Ingredients for my card:-

Vintage Lace papers by Bearly Mine Designs available HERE

Image by Hanglar and STanglar

Bazil white and Kraft Cardstock

Chipboard swirls from Make It Crafty HERE

Corrugated card painted with acrylic paint and edged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Lace, pearls and Seam Binding from stash

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Stardust Stickles 

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

Cupcake Craft - Flowers for Mum

House of Gili - Ribbon and Pearls

Incy Wincy - Sparkle and shine

Lexis - Ribbons but no bows or knots

The Kraft Journal - Flowers and must include Kraft Cardstock

Oh La La - Mothers Day/Special Friend

Crafty pad - For the Mum's

Creatives Inspirations Paint - Flowers

Creative Inspirations - Mother's Day/Mum

Dream Valley - Mother's Day

One Stitch At A Time - Mother's Day or Babies

First Christmas Card of 2011

Hi Peeps,

Hope you all had a fab weekend.  My mojo is still missing so this is the only card I did over the weekend, so now I have a lot of catching up to do during the week, but i don't know about you girls but my craft room looks like a bomb has dropped in it and I really need a good couple of weeks having a good sort out and making it organised and tidy.  Mind you, when I tidy up and then craft I can never find anything and find it totally frustrating.  I am pleased to say that the rest of the house is nothing like my craftroom, thank goodness, lol!

Today's card is for the Simply Sassy Inspiration Blog and I have used the gorgeous "Tammy" , and this is my  first christmas card of 2011, woo hooooo.  I did promise myself that I would be more organised this year and start early so I am really proud of myself.  Although I think Tammy has many uses other than just christmas.

My colour choice has been guided by my papers, which are all digital, and available from Bearly Mine.  These are all from the Winter Swirls set, aren't they gorgeous.

Panels have been machine stitched with zig zag stitching.  I added the little "Let it snow sentiment" to the snow at the bottom of the page.

I cut out the image and snowman so that I could position them on the page.  I have added star dust stickles to the snowman as I do like a sparkly snowman.  I have used paint puff on Tammys bobble on her hat and pom poms on her scarf and heated this with my heat gun to make it puffy.

Lots of texute on this card.  I have cut out snowflakes using spellbinders and a Martha Stewart punch in cardstock and accetate and added Twinkles Diamond Dust to the accetate snowflakes.  Love these.  They look like tiny crystals and really resemble snowfalkes.

I have stamped out the sentiment and then stamped with a versamark pad all over the cardstock and then added transparent embossing powder so the sentiment sparkles tremendously and kind of has a hint of lilac when catching the light, guess that's because its irridescent, lol.  I was going to start this post saying this was a simple card for me but I have used several techniques, but they all add to the overall feel of the card I think.

So put it altogether and this is what you get:-

And below are the copics I used.

Full list of ingredients:-

Image by Sugar Nellie available at Funky Kits HERE

Papers by Bearly Mine available HERE

Spellbinders Snowflakes

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Brads from Hobby House

Candy from Craftwork Cards

Swirl die by Magnolia Doohickey

Lace from Bizzy Becs

Transparent Embossing Powder (stamp addicts)

Seam Binding from the Ribbon Girl

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Alys Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes

Card Cupids - Anything Goes

Crafy Pad - Ribbon

Sentimental Sundays - Sentiment and Lace and Pearls

Catch the Bug - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Christmas and wet/dry emobossing

Diecut Dreams Christmas - Inspired by a song (I'm dreaming of a white christmas)

Alphabet Challenge - R for Ribbons

Bah-Humbug - Christmas and Embossing

Fussy and Fancy - Embossing and/or paper piecing

Stamp Man - Curls/swirls

Tellens Place - Embellish

Totally Papercrafts - Pearls and Lace

Winter Wonderland - Christmas and Snowflakes

4 Crafty Chicks - Stitching

Craft us Crazy - what reminds you of nature (snow)

CCEE - Swirls

Rubber Cafe - Stitching

Stamp Insanity - Lots of texture (diamond dust accetate snowflakes, paint puff, irridescent embossing)

ABC Christmas - E for Embossing

Sundays with Chrissy - Stitching

Thanks for stopping by and thank you for all the lovely comments you leave me.  I am especially pleased that so many of you enjoyed my shrink plastic tutorial, this was the first tutorial I had done, so thank you all again, you made my week, and if there's anything in particular you would like to see, just shout and I'll ask someone else to do it,........lmao, only joking, of course it will be me.

 Right now I need to get my arse in gear!

Have a good week.

One for the Boys/Men at Bearly Mine Challenges

Morning Peeps,

I'm back again and no more bad luck since yesterday, sshhhhhhh, or did I speak too soon.  Today at Bearly Mine it's that one we all dread but is necessary.   So a good excuse for some practice on our theme chosen by the talented "Vix", one for the Boys/Men and with 4 sponsors, Whimsy Stamps, Bearly Mine Designs, Di's Digi Downloads and Fantastic Ribbons what are you waiting for.

I have used Bearly Mine Volume 3 and all the blues.  Figured Hubby should love this card, after all it's modelled on me,  lol.

I do like a spotted paper.

Materials Used:-

Digi Papers from Vol III from Bearly Mine Designs - see special DISCOUNT Code below

Image from Kenny K availalble HERE

Copic Markers

Marianne Design Die

Medium - Copic Markers

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

BunnyZoe - Love is in the air

Cards for Men - Masculine and Love/Valentine

Kaboodledoodles - Monochromatic

Lexis - Love/Valentine

Oh la la - 3 of a kind (papers)

Stamping Scrapping - Valentine

Alys Sunday Challenge - for the guys

CD Sunday - Love is in the air

Cheerful Stamp Pad - Be My Valentine

The Crafty Pad - Something for the Boys

Creative Cowgirls - Love is in the air

Crafty your days away - Love

Marks Finest Papers - Valentine

Our Daily Bread - The Blues

Alphabet Challenge - M for Men

Delicious Doodles - Spots/Stripes

Fussy and Fancy - Valentine no red/pink

Aifactory - For the boys

Charisma - Valentine/Love

Fab n Funky - Use a digi

Would you like to receive 15% off of Bearly Mine Designs Digital Papers, if so email Donna with your order and quote the code CE06, don't forget to mention the code otherwise you won't get your discount.  This code will expire on 7th Feb and with 3 new sets released today, what better time to go shopping.  Just click HERE .

Don't forget to enter my candy HERE before you go.

A Recipe at Bearly Mine Designs

Morning Peeps,

It's Tuesday and time for a recipe at Bearly Mine Challenges and the recipe is an easy one, 3 flowers, 2 papers and 1 image.  Now, due to time constraints this card is kinda clean and simple to me, well my sort of version as you know clean and simple isn't my style, lol.

We are being sponsored by a new digi company called The Paper Shelter, they have lots of cute images so hop on over and take a peek.  I have chosen this cute Gothic Girl.  I haven't done her in the traditional red and black as I was wearing some lilac and grey rock stripey socks with rhinestones and the word ROCK on and these gave me inspiration for my lilac and black gothic girl, what do ya think........not not my socks, the card...... lol.  I should of took a pic of my socks.

I have used papers from Bearly Mine Vol III available HERE. She's coloured with copics as usual and popped onto a gorgeous doily. And check out my......my what, don't know what you call them, but those bits on the sides, lol.  My fabby teamie Vix sent me some Black Magic Coredinations card.  You sand it down and the colour comes through, isn't it fabulous.  Thank you Vi, just love it and  think it so suited my Gothic girl, well I thought so any way.

I have entered this card intot he following challenges:-

Kaboodledoodles - Black, white + 1 other
Pixie Cottage - Sketch
The Crafty Pad - Something new
Gingerloft - Celebrations
Pile it on - Anything Goes
Catch the bug - Birthday
Creative inspirations - Celebrate
Delicious Doodles - 3 colours and skin (black, purple and white)
Sew Many - Birthday

 

Don't forget to enter my candy at the top and pop back tomorrow.

Sunshine of Smiles and New Challenge Blog

Hiya Peeps,

Hope your enjoying your weekend.  I have some more exciting news for you..... I have been asked by Donna to join the design team for Bearly Mine Designs with a new challenge blog starting in January, woo hoo!  I already have volume I so you would of seen Bearly Mine Papers already used on my blog but even more popped into my mail box yesterday so I have made a card to show off these beautiful papers, but before I do, let me introduce you to the team:-

Donna (the boss)
Amy (DT Co-ordinator)
Judith aka Bella
Shirley
Doreen
Sarah
Marie
Donna
Vix
Tracy
Gina
Anne

I have used the Vintage papers from Bearly Mine available HERE, aren't they gorgeous. 

 I actually coloured this gorgeous Hanglar stamp a couple of evenings ago but it has still taken me a couple of hours to put the card together. 

I have coloured her using copic markers and prisma  pencils and a combination of pencils and chalk for the sky and ground.

Materials Used:-

Bearly Mine Papers

Bazill cardstock

Panels are machine stitched

Nesties

Sentiment LOTV

Quickutz Tab on the side

Brads, Pearls, Doily, Ribbon, RiffRaff from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Make It Crafty - Sketch

Paper Romance - Lots of whatever you like (pink)

Crazy for Challenges - Square Cards

Sweet Stampin - Photo Inspiration (I have taken the pink)

PaperPlay - Circles

Raise the Bar - Curves

The Crafty Pad - Stitching

A spoonful of sugar - Relish to Embellish

Incy Wincy - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles - Vintage

Grab the banner below for your blog and hop on over to the new Bearly Mine Challenge Blog and become a follower so you don't miss our first challenge.

In addition to the news of the new challenge team, look what Donna is releasing on the 12th November:-

Check out the Design Team Members blog, all listed on the sidebar, as I'm sure you'll seeing these papers over the coming week.





James the Bear and DT Call

Happy Sunday Everyone,

Hope your all enjoying the weekend. I have had a long lay in, deserved after cooking dinner for friends last night with a few accompanying G&T's. House is now back to normal and I thought I would pop this Christmas card on that I made yesterday using James the bear from Lili of the Valley. I do love these stamps and am looking forward to seeing the new releases at the NEC on Friday, woo hoo!

The papers I have used are from Bearly Mine Designs. I have the CD Volume I which has some Xmas papers on and I love the added bonus of the little ticket sentiments, which I have also used on this card. Now right now Bearly Mine are having a Design Team call open until November 2nd, so hop on over, there are some free papers for you to use.

I have coloured James using copic markers and used prisma pencils for the shading.  The little present I have paper pieced using the Bearly Mine paper and red bazill cardstock.

Materials Used:-

Image from Lili of the Valley

Papers and ticket sentiment from Bearly Mine Designs Vol I

Spellbinders Nesties

Marianne Design Poinsetta and Swirls Die

Rose from Wild Orchid Crafts

Black Soot Distress Inks

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Star Dust Stickles

Ric Rac, Pearls

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Lili of the Valley - Sketch

ABC Challenge - Glitter

Creative Cottage - Embossing (poinsetta)

Paper Pretties - Square Card

Simon Says Stamp - Punches/Die Cuts

Stampavie and More - Christmas

Everybody Art - photo inspiration (red rose)