Black, White + One Other at Karen's Doodles

Happy Wednesday Peeps,

Hope everyone in the UK has been enjoying the gorgeous weather we have had lately.

It's Wednesday and time for another challenge at Karen's Doodles and this week's theme is to create a card/project using Black, White and One Other Colour. Remember to use a Karen's Doodles image, available HERE, to enter and be sure to visit the design team's awesome inspirational creations.  That was a mouthful wasn't it, I must have swallowed the dictionary, lol.  I have chosen a Christmas image, thought I would try and get ahead of the game and every little helps, as they say.

And yes, it's stitching you can see.  I pulled out the sewing machine and away I went. And strangely enough the following day my son came home from school, I was in the front garden planting some summer flowers at the time, (just setting the scene), and he said, "Mum, have you still got that sewing machine out".  I said "yes", "why".  He said look at this and turned around so that I could see a 12" hole and all of his bottom showing!    Somehow he had managed to split his trousers from the crutch up to the waist band!  So off I went again.  Not like me at all, let's hope it holds for 3 more weeks!!!  Anyway, onto my card:-

Ingredients:-

Image coloured with copics

Magnolia Paper

Snowflake Vellum (small panel, not shown very well in the photo)

All matting is Bazill c/s

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Nesties for the scalloped Square

Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

Ribbon, Pearls (altered with copics to match colour scheme) from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Challenges - A for Artic

Sweet Stop - Sketch

Alice in Wonderland - Twinkle Twinkle

Papertake Weekly - Stitching

My Time to Craft - Zig Zags (stitching on bottom panel)

It's Birthday Time at Crafts and Me

Me again Peeps,

I know Wednesday's are a bit busy, lol. So without further ado, here's my card for Crafts and Me.  It's Vix's nan's 90th and her Daughter's 2nd so this is why she has chosen the theme, "Birthdays".

I have coloured the Sweetpea (available from Crafts and Me) image in copics and finally got round to using my fantasy film which I have used on the wings, (available from Crafts and Me also).  The one I have used in sunkissed, looks beautiful.  The design papers are websters, just love those papers and the flowers are from my stash.  For the leaves I have used the Martha Stewart Frond Punch.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sketch Saturday -Sketch

Totally Gorjuss - Sugar & Spice

Bunny Zoe - Nice and Girly

Paper Sundaes - Pretty as a Princess

Creative Craft - Stamp it up

Crafty Creations - Shine (Fantasy Film Very Shiny Wings)

Tag It at Karen's Doodle's UK Challenge

2nd Post Peeps,

This time it's "Tag It" Time over at Karen's Doodles UK Challenge Blog. As always you have to use a Karen's Doodle image to enter, and with Karen's new blog, it couldn't be simpler and she has created some really fun images of late. Click HERE to shop.  In fact the one I have used made me smile so much I just had to have it, so although I still seem to be on the summer theme, I just love it.

Everyone needs a workout, lol.  Bigsby looks like he's having a whale of a time, just so much fun.  I made this for my friend's birthday last Friday and it was late in the evening, so I know my picture isn't brilliant but I don't have the card to take another one :(

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

CRAFT. - Sketch

Isabella's - Summer

Diva Coffee Break - Real Red, Summer Sun, Tempting Turquoise

Crafty Creations - Shine (my huge sun is shining)

Last DT Card for Cooking It Up With Katie

Morning Peeps,

1st post of the day and some sad news.  I have decided this is my last design team card for Cooking It Up With Katie.  I have enjoyed my time on the design team but if I am honest I am struggling to keep up with design team cards and my life, so I have decided to step down so this is my last card.  Of course Katie and the team will still be seeing me in blogland.........

Today's recipe is to alter an embellishment, add some sparkle and use a die cut.

I used the Tim Holtz Die to cut the flowers and then layered them up and  sprayed them with water and scrunched them up.  I then added some distress ink and lots of glitter, so I think you could say I altered it.  I have also used the Martha Steward Frond punch for the leaves and die cut the scalloped oval using my nesties.  The image has been coloured using copics and the sentiment is craftwork cards.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Creatalicious - Sketch plus sewing (handstitched crosses on the left hand side)

Everybody Art - Green/Pink

Crazy4Challenges - Flowers

Stampin for the weekend - Summer
Totally Gorjuss - Sugar & Spice
Bunny Zoe - Nice & Girly
One Stitch At A Time - Seeing Double (2 Flowers)
Paper Sundaes - Pretty as a Princess
Creative Craft - Stamp It Up

Lady with Fan Art Deco Stamp by Lilac Lemon Designs

Morning Crafters,

Were in for a lovely sunny weekend here in the UK and let's hope a win from the England Team, did I say that....... a little deviation from crafting there, sorry. Well today I have inked up my Lady with Fan Art Deco Stamp by Lilac Lemon Designs, available from Crafts and Me , just click HERE,  and what a fabulous image this is, I really enjoyed creating this card and I know my elder sister will be delighted with it.

Over at Sir Stampalot they want to see you use punches, so punch I did, lol. I have used the Martha Stewart Deco punch around the page punch to createthe main section of the Easel card. I then cut out a circle and used just the Martha Stewart edge punch to punch all around to create the deco edged matting circle and I have used the Martha Stewart Branch punch to create the leaves on the flowers.

I have used Glamour Dust Crystal Glitter to give her that extra sparkle and coloured the image with copic markers.

I just love this colour combination. The sentiment stamp is from Magnolia. I have coloured some flat back pearls using a black copic marker to match my project. I also used nesties for the matting.

The middle section is felt but I have had it such a long time I really don't know what it is called, but it is very striking and if anyone knows what it is called and where I could get some more I'd appreiciate knowing.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sir Stamp Alot - Punches

Crafting Life's Pieces - Sketch
Bunny Zoe - Nice and Girly
One Stitch At A Time - Celebrations

I really appreciate you popping by and the comments that you leave.

Have a fab weekend everyone.

Monochromatic Madness at Craftalicious

Happy Friday Everyone,

You may have guess from the title that our 2nd Challenge at Craftalicious is Monochromatic, chosen by the Ab Fab Jan. The theme isn't a favourite of mine you may remember, but I'm kind of getting used to it now, lol.

Thanks to everyone who entered our first Challenge, the team really enjoyed visiting all your creations and we hope you will be joining us again this fortnight in our Monchromatic Madness challenge.

We are really appreciative of all our sponsors and this week we are lucky to have two. I wish I had time to do two cards as I would of chosen an image from both but my time is restricted and I settled for "Audrey at the Wishing Well" from The Stamping Boutique. Our second sponsor is Delicious Doodles. Please pop over to the Craftalicious Challenge blog to visit all the gorgeous creations the DT girls have created and join in the fun.  Here's little Audrey:-

Audrey has been coloured with copics and I have added some glamour dust crystal to give her a sparkle, unforunately I don't think you can see this in the photo.  I have added tiny pearls as buttons on her shoes.

A photo of the inside of my card above.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

One Stop Craft - Sketch

Bunny Zoe - Nice and Girly

Papertake Weekly - Ice-cream Flavours (Raspberry Ripple- Yum)

All Sorts - Lace and/or Buttons

Our Creative Corner - Focus on corners

One Stitch At A Time - Celebrations of Anything

Hey Sunshine

Good morning Peeps,

It's Wednesday and you know what that means, yep, it's time to play at Karen's Doodles and this week it's a joint challenge with the theme of "In the Summertime". I decided to focus on the "Sun" as you will see from my card below and anyone who has a teenager will be familiar with the image I have chosen from Karen's new Teenage Doodles. Pop over and have a look, you will really be able to relate to them, lol! Click HERE to go shopping.

I have coloured the image using copic markers. I used string beads but cut them into the required lengths and coloured them with a copic marker to match my card. The flower looks blue in the photo but I can assure you its turquoise.  The template for the sun was from The Cutting Cafe, I printed it and layered it onto turquoise cardstock and cut around it to mat the sunshine.  I then added a bow, using my bow easy and there we go, simple!

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Pollycraft - Inspired By a Song - You are my Sunshine

A spoonful of Sugar - Sunshine Card

Quirky Crafts - Summer

Stampin For the Weekend - Summer

Cute Card Thursday - Anything But a Square Card

Paper Play - Home (my card is with my daughter in mind chilling the back garden of our home)