On The Night Before Christmas

Morning Everyone,

Brrrr were meant to be getting some of the white stuff this week, wish it would hold off until Christmas.  I hate driving in it and won't mind it snowing whilst I'm tucked up nice and cosy in my house :)

The theme this week for the LLC girls to follow is "PionDesign's Sweet Baby". I thought you had seen enough of my baby creations lately so I have made a card for a baby but it's a First Christmas card.  You know I like to be different so I have used the soft pink papers with a very colourful Santa on his reindeer.  I wasn't sure at first but now I really like the contrast of the two colours.

The paper is PionDesign Pink Forget Me Not.  I have stitched the edges and distressed with snow tex. I so get lots of questions about how to apply this and there is a tutorial on my blog showing you the gesso, distress crackle paint and the snow tex and the differences, and all are available in the LLC store.

I have used the Marianne Design window again, I can really visualise so many uses and so far it's getting them, lol.

I don't know about you but I have really missed the tulle and am delighted that Sandy has been able to re-source and of course I couldn't wait to put it use and it matched perfectly don't you think.

The words "Happy First Christmas" are computer generated and then stuck onto the wooden banner and finished off with one of the Vintage brads, love these.

The flower display is made up of several types of flowers and both types of cones; 20mm two tone roses, foam flowers, frosted berries, OMG I love these, beaded red berries, 10mm roses, large rose bud, white flower spray.

On the right I have used one of the wooden cages and coated with Picket Fence crackle paint.  I added a Maya Road pearl embellishment at the top.  I also die cut the little bird using a Noor Design birdcage and bird die cut from cryogen cardstock and coloured the bird using my copics to create a little robin red breast. He then had a coating of snow tex.

I used liquid applique for the snow balls and then a frosting of snow tex.

Oops, almost forgot, I have also used a bark star on the right hand corner, topped with a red berry and lastly a metal white corner.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments you leave me, I am always blown away and you always make my day :)

Hugs Tracy x

Pion Design - Sweet Baby 12x12 - Pink Forget Me Not	LLC Shabby Seam Binding	Kitchen Craft Cheese Cloth	Maya Road Tulle Pleat Trim (43mm)	Maya Road Vintage Wood Bird Cages
Creative Charms Vintage Pearl Brads	Maya Road Vintage Findings - Pearl Star Flowers	Studio Calico Wood Veneer Banners & Flags	Flower Sprays	Beaded Berries
Frosted Berries	Foam Flower Stems	WOC Open Roses, 15mm	WOC Wild Rosebuds	WOC Open Roses, 20mm
Bark Stars	Larch Cones	Birch Pine Cones	Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso	Snow Tex
Landstoken Vintage Feeling Collection - Metal Corners

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Fantasy Creatures

Morning Peeps,

My days are all put out this week and think it's cos I've had a long weekend away.  Had a great family weekend in Centre Parcs, lots of laughs and generally chilled quality time with family.  I have to tell you about my elder sister who has never bowled before, well until now anyway.  She knew she had to wear bowling shoes and we was pointed into the direction of all the cubeholes containing the bowling shoes.  We told her to look for her size and pop her boots into the cubehole.  My boots had a hole in them and letting in water, so whilst I was bent over tying my laces, I said to Eunice, "do you think there'd mind if I took these home", to which she glanced over at my bowling shoes and said, "well I don't think much of yours".  I looked at her feet only to notice her tying up a nice neat pair of black Van's, pmsl.  She had put someone elses shoe's on.  She just thought she could pick anything from the cubeholes, bless her.

Anyway, hopefully that made you smile so onto my card for you today.  It's challenge time at Crafts and Me and the lovely Karina has chosen the theme of "Fantasy Creatures".  I have used the beautiful Mermaid Winter Wishes by Hannah Lynn.

Ingredients:-

Image Winter Wishes by Hannah Lynn at Crafts and Me

Marianne Design Craftable Elines Xmas Star

Marianne Design Creatables Holly Branches

Marianne Design Christmas Tree Charm

Wooden Flowers

Decoart Snow Paste and Snowtex

Cheesecloth

Seambinding, pearls and lace

Have a good week Peeps.

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

ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
Just keep on creating - Christmas
Penny's - Ribbon or Buttons

Stamp n Doodle - Ribbon/Twine
Craft your passion - Fairies/Fantasy
Stamp and Create - Winter Wonderland
Christmas card challenges - bow
The Squirrel and Fox - Ribbon
Hiding in my craft room - Diecuts

Hugs Tracy x

Cinderlla on her way to the Ball

Morning Peeps,

Happy Saturday, well I think it will be once I have taken my son reffing, grrrrrr. This is normally the OH's job but he went out on his company Christmas Do last night, it got postponed due to the snow that we had until now,  and  needless to say was just about standing when we got in at midnight last night, honestly girls why do men never know when to stop!!!!!  It's like having 3 children.  Then he keeps me awake snoring like a train, took all my covers, so now I'm tired and will be grumpy.  He best hope that doesn't affect my crafting today otherwise I will have the right hump!

Anyway, enough of my ranting, I need to save some energy for when he does get up, hehehe. TodayI'd like to show you my DT card for Make It Colourful where the challenge this week is to colour in Sepia or black and white. I have chosen the latter and have merged two Make It Crafty images together, available HERE. I have used the Love Carriage and Daphne and I think I must have been thinking on the cinderella front as I have added a little clock charm, which could of done with saying just before midnight, but alas I have had to make do. So I guess you could say she's on her way to the Ball, lol.

I have masked a moon, never done this before so am quite pleased with how it has turned out. Just need to be brave enough to add some movement in the sky.  Next time Peeps.

I have used one of the chipboard laser cut heart swirls available HERE from Make It Crafty at priced at just £3.69.  I can't rave enough about these and if you visit the rest of the design team, you'll hear the same.  You can emboss them, (pop back tomorrow and you will see), paint them, add perfect pearls and colour with your copics, which incidentally I have done on this project.

Aren't these images just fab. 

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Alphabet Challenge - L for "Ladies"

Totally papercrafts - Add a heart

Stampinsantity - Monochromatic

Freshly Brewed - Love or Valentine (think Cinderalla counts as a love story)

FuzzyWuzzy - Anything Goes

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.

Meet Poppy

Happy Friday Peeps,

Hope you've all had a good week and looking forward to the weekend.  Not been such a good week in my household, nothing knew I know.  My daughter had her iphone and some cash stolen from her handbag on Monday evening and on Wednesday evening we had the pleasure of someone or more than more visiting our street slashing tyres, which included again my Daughter's.  At least 7-8 cars were attacked and they slashed two tyres preventing people from going to work and children getting to school.  What pleasure do they get out this this.  Honestly!  One of these week's I'll have some real good news, promise.  Let's hope the weekend is better.

Now that I have depressed you, hopefully this picture of one of the new digi releases at Crafts and Me will cheer us all up.  This is Poppy:-

She's just soooo pretty.  Poppy is coloured using copics and shaded with prisma pencils.  Some star dust stickles added to her wings to make her sparkle.

I have entered Poppy into the following challenges:-

Aifactory - Anything Goes

Paper crafting journey - use a digi

Stampin B's - Use a diecut

The creative cottage - Something new

Stampavie and More - Glitter

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Cupcake craft - Anything New

Kaboodle Doodles - Use a digi

Pollycraft - New things (digi)

Aly's Sunday challenge - wings and things

Stampin Sisters in Christ - Wings

Catch the bug - Anything Goes

Enjoy the weekend Peeps.

DT Inspiriation for Simply Sassy

Hiya Peeps,

Hope everyone had I fab weekend, I've spent most of it in my craft room, a little moan from my hubby, lol.  Today's the day that the DT start posting on the new Simply Sassy DT Inspirational Blog, in case you haven't visited you can find us HERE.  I'm taking the first day in posting, so all support is welcome, lol.

As you know we will be commencing tutorials in February, so if there's anything you would like to see, just leave us a message and we will do our best, providing we can accomodate of course.

We are also seeking some Guest Designers to show off the next two releases, so you will receive 6 stamps each month, all details are on the blog HERE.

Now, my new release stamps are on their way but haven't reached me yet, so in their absence I have inked up my new "Hippie Chick" stamp available from HERE.  Isn't she just gorgeous?

I have coloured this Chick using copics colours:-

BG09, BG07, BG05, BG01 - Dress

RV23, RV21, RV000 - Leg warmers

E18, E11, E00 - Skin

E25, E31, E50, - Hair

R85, R83 - Flowers in her hair

I have also added W3, W1, W0 for shaded areas to tone down the colours for a sort of distressed look and I have also used my prisma pencils for extra shading.

All papers are digi from Bearly Mine Designs using Vol 3 and Vintage and have been distressed using the Making Memories tool but any distressing tool will do or I even resort to my Fiskars Finger Tool, it's just as good, particularly if my making memories tool has got lost under my pile of papers and mess that I work in, lol.  I have added Tim Holtz Distress ink to all the edges of the papers and then added my favourite stickles.

I have used an "in Bloom" embossing folder by craft concepts that I received from Bizzy Becs store and embossed this onto Coredinations Cardstock and then sanded over the embossing to create that worn look, i I love it.

I have used the Whiff of Joy Banner Die and stamped the words "Lots of Love" onto each panel and trimmed so that it has a border.

The flowers and doily have been distressed using the walnut stain as well and a little dash of star dust stickles, my favourite.  Both are from Bizzy Bec's store.

The little love heart pearls are available from Crafts and Me and are very reasonably priced.  The lace and pom poms are from my stash.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Creative Cow Girl - Use something new (stamp)
Creative Inspirations Paint - Texture (embossing and sanded)

Let's Ink It Up - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Getting Girly
Craft Your Days Away - Anything Goes
Mark's Finest Paper - Embossing
Sweet Stampin - Try something different (embossing folder and sanding)
Delicious Doodles - Try something new (embossing folder and sanding)
Phindys Place - Distressing
Sew Many Challenges - Flags
Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Rainbow Lady - Use something new (image)
Sassy Studio - Use something new (image)
Creative Cottage - Use Something New
Little Red Wagon - Use a doily
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes plus option of lace
Tuesday Throwdown - Embossing

First and Last of 2010/2011 and Some News

Hi again Peeps,

Here's my last card that I did in 2010 but didn't get time to post and my first finished card of 2011.  Couldn't wait to ink up this new Hanglar cutie but then again I say that about all my stamps, lol.  I am currently spending time with the family but  saying that they are both belting out Summer of 69 in my ear and all I can say is I didn't have any cats before, but it sounds like I do now, lol.  Do you think if I got up and went to my craft room there'd notice...........

Look at me being so super organised, let's see how long it lasts.  These gorgeous papers are the new to be released tomorrow Love Dreams by Bearly Mine Designs.

Image is by Hanglar and Stanglar and coloured using copics and prisma pencils

Doily is from Bizzy Bec's Store

Magnolia Doohicky lace die and swirl

Fired Brick Distress Ink

Martha Stewart Heart Punch

Lade from stash

This card was kinda hard to fulfil, I was given the recipe from the lad in my office for his girlfriends card which he left to the last minute.  Not so good for me as it was housework night, lol.  He required stitching, christmas tree and the magnolia image chosen, swirls and the snowflakes. He did want layers but with this paper it just would have spoiled it.   I think I achieved it all or thereabouts.

Materials Used:

Magnolia Image

Tree stamp was from Stamp Addicts

Papers are Websters

Snowflake christmas decoration topped with Marianne Design Snowflake and a Martha Stewart Punced one

Everything else from stash

I have entered my cards into the following challenges:-

CLP- Sketch (valentine card)

Just Magnolia - Anthing Goes (luckily Hanglar goes now too)

Catch the Bug - Anything Goes

Craft your Days Away - Punches or Die Cuts

CES - Anything Goes

Crazy for Challenges - Celebrate Something

Marks Finest Papers - Use something new (stamp)

Sew Many Challenges - Use something new (stamp)

Wags and whiskers - Snowflakes

Colour Create - Pink, Red and White

Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Stampavie - Red

My Time to Craft - Use somethign new or new technique

Craft your passion - Red/Green/Cream
Mad for Markers - Anything Goes

Now lastly but certainly not least.  You would of noticed that I joined in the Make It Crafty Blog Hop recently.  Well Zoe has asked me to join her crew, for some reason she thinks I have great colouring skills, shhhhh, hope she's not reading this as she'll be telling me off again ,lol, plus I think it was the only way to stop me winning all the challenges.  Any way, I am now part of the team using all those fabulous background images and working with a very talented DT.  Thank you Zoe.  Woo Hooooo!

The new challenge blog kicks off next Saturday HERE, so if your not already a follower hop on over, you won't want to miss all the fun.

Make It Crafty Blog Hop

Woo Hoo Peeps,

Sooooo excited, I have been asked to join the Make It Crafty blog hop as a guest.  Gosh all these ladies are so talented and little ole me is tagging along.  If you have arrived here from the fabulous Sheila's then you are on the right track, if not then you need to start at the beginning at  Zoe's Make It Crafty Blog, and Zoe's card is absolutely awesome!

Make It Crafty are today revealing some absolutely gorgeous new images that you will be able to incorporate with all of your favourite characters. They have been designed for ‘Spring and Love’ so they are perfect for Valentine’s Day, Anniversaries, Weddings, Friendships and more.

Hope you'll all play along and there is a big surprise at the end and lots of inspiration from the design team.

I have used the Ivy Swing and Petals and Pailings Images.  Sooooo gorgeous.  I love the way that you can incorporate these images with all your stamps.  I have used a little Bildmalarna stamp, think that's how you spell it, lol.

Materials Used:-

The Ivy Swing - Make it Crafty Image

Petals and Pailings - Make It Crafty Image

Medium - Copics and Prisma Pencils

Papers are from Bearly Mine Designs

Lace Doily from Bizzy Becs

Nesties and Flowers from stash

Sewing machine for stitched panels

BLOG HOP DETAILS

How to win the big prizes

Along the way you need to look for puzzle pieces. They won’t be on every post so you need to keep an eye out for them. The puzzle pieces make up one of the NEW images. At the end of the hop there will be an email form where you can submit your answer. This is so that your answer is private.

All the correct answers will be placed into a draw in the order that they are received and random winners will be chosen.

Leave comments to win random prizes

There are SEVEN hidden prizes along the way that could be rubber or digital stamps so make sure you leave a comment as you hop to ensure you have a chance at winning additional prizes!

Extra Prize

Place our blog hop blinkie on your blog for more chances to win! Make sure you comment on every post as we will randomly select a commenter from a random post and if they have the blinkie on their blog they will win a choice of one rubber stamp and one digi stamp from the new collection.

Over $200 Worth of Prizes to be Won!!

1st prize - Rubber Collection (Peaches of Plenty, Petals and Palings, Daffodil Dell, Ivy Swing)

2nd prize - Whole Digital Collection (10 digital stamps)

3rd Prize - Four digital Stamps from the collection

The hop will end Friday 24th and the main winners will be announced Christmas Day!

Random winners will be announced at a later date.

Next on the hop is the talented Viv, enjoy, have fun and good luck to everyone.

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

All Sorts - Anything Goes
CES - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - For someone special
Sweet Stampin - Celebrations
Colour create - plum and white
Mad for markers - Anything Goes