Wee Baby Boy

Hi Peeps,

I made this card to fit the current TOMIC Challenge and have almost forgot to post it.  I have such a lot going on at the moment, my kitchen is being re-fitted and basically the contents are strewn around the dining room and living room, I have lengths of worktops running through the dining room into the lounge and half the cupboards fitted in the kitchen and the rest in the garage.  The cooker is working but the hob needs an electrician and some pipework doing as the legislation has changed. I have no kitchen sink at the moment so am washing up in the Utility room and basically I'm a clean and tidy person, craft room is an exception, so I'm not coping with it very well and whatever I do it doesn't look tidy at all. It will be lovely when finished, just not sure when that will be.....

Any way back to why I popped on here.....

Ahhh isn't he just the cutest!

Ingredients:-

Image by Magnolia

Papers, sorry been in my stash forever

Marianne Design Forest Branch LR0150

Marianne Design Vintage Lace JU0826

Marianne Design Pom Pom Trim

Flowers from WOC

Lace from stash

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

TOMIC - Anything Goes

Ribbon Girls - Lace

Midweek Magnolias - Anything Goes

Adele and Love Life

Hi Everyone,


Sorry for being MIA this week.  I picked up Hubbies germs and have been hiding under my quilt. Each time I put my hand out I was freezing, so it was best to stay under and hide.

My card for you today is generally not my style.  I'm known as the Queen of Embellishments  and I always struggle to do the clean and simple look, so I know my teamies will not think this card has been made by me at all.  I have used the image Adele, she is so beautiful.  I have coloured her with a combination of pencils and I'm sorry to say I didn't take note of them as this started off as a playing around session.  The image was printed onto Murano paper which was introduced to me by teamie Jane, it's a textured paper which pencils love.

 

Image Adele available in Digi and Rubber

Paper Be Happy by My Minds Eye

My second card for you today is by the artist Zindy Nielson and is called Love Life.  I used just one pencil for this one, prisma 90% Grey.

Image Is Love Life by Zindy Nielson

Memory Box Scroll Die

Have a good weekend everyone.

Make It Crafty & Simply Betty Guess the Movie

Hi Peeps,

Make it Crafty and Simply Betty Stamps are really excited to be bringing you the combined Hollywood Release!

Simply Betty Stamps has a range of characters from Betty Monroe, through to Action Chris the movie director!!

Make it Crafty has a range of background scenes perfect to switch and match with your famous characters!!

Hopefully you would of all seen the images over the past two days from the DT's of Make It Crafty and Simply Betty and today is a fun guessing game...... If you've arrived here from Alison's   blog then your on the right track, if not hop on over to Suzi's where it all begins....

Now time to guess the movie? When I saw the images this film came to the front of my mind.  I loved this film and I used to go out with my friends and sing all the songs over and over and it's still one of my all time favourite films today.

O.K. so a beauty school, PINK hair and lots of white and lastly one more clue, a photo, I'm sure you don't need this as a clue but just in case.......

Guess 6 out of 12 movies correctly and you will have a chance to win:  

Grand Prize

A DVD Movie of your choice
PLUS the whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release images.

Second Prize
The whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release!

Can't wait?!!
But we know some of you just can't wait so both Betty and Zoe are offering you 25% off
their Hollywood collections between June 1st and June 3rd!

Click Here for Simply Betty Stamps & Click Here for Make it Crafty!

We hope you have lots of fun with us this weekend!!!

Here's the blog hop list in case you've lost your way:-

Suzi 

Jen 

Cyndi 

Leila 

Franz 

Betty 

Julie 

Alison 

Tracy P 

Debs 

Barbara 

Tracy J

And finally the Guessing Page.....where you can list all your answers. Have fun!

Next on the hop is the fabulous Debs........

10% off at Bunny Zoe weekend

Hi Peeps,

Don't miss out this Jubilee weekend, enjoy 10% off at BunnyZoe thru til midnight on Tuesday.

Have fun.....

Want Some Candy?

Hi Peeps,

It is that time again where thanks to the brilliant Marianne we at  Marianne's Design Divas  are able to offer our great followers a chance to win some candy.....

This is what is up for grabs and it will end when we reach 750 followers.

We want to let everyone know that Marianne Designs is a lot more than just dies so here you have a chance to get yourself a selection of the great fun stamps that are available. Don't forget though that there are also a great range of flowers, gems, papers, ribbons and much much more.

To enter you will need to do the following:

- Put a link back to the Marianne's Design Divas blog on your blog using the picture of the candy.

- Be a follower of the Marianne's Design Divas blog .

And then if you want extra entries you can also get an extra entry if you do any of this...

- Share this post on your twitter/ facebook account with the buttons at the bottom of the candy post.

- Follow Marianne D on Facebook and/ or twitter (see links in the sidebar of the Marianne's Design Divas blog  or below this post)

So if you do all of that you can have upto 3 entries for this candy. All you need to do now is jump over to the Marianne's Design Divas blog and spread the word :D Good luck to you all.

Hi Peeps,

Just popping in to tell you about some candy on the Marianne Diva's blog.  You know I have been telling you that Marianne Designs do more than just dies, well the candy is stamps, check this out.

Good Luck.

Colouring the wood of a Tree

Hi Copic Friends,

I have chosen today to show you how I colour the wood of a tree.  I have aimed this at beginners and am using the Make It Crafty Tree image which already has some of the shading area highlighted for you.  As I prepared this tutorial I had selected E29, E25 and E53, but you will notice as we go through the tutorial that I added E50 to the mix.

I am going to colour in sections.  This will give the tree some depth.  If I was to start and use 3 colours directly across then the image would look very flat.

Start by using your darkest colour E29.  The darkest areas will be at the bottom of the tree, directly underneath where the branches/leaves are and underneath the branches, as indicated by the arrows in the below picture.

Blend out the E29 with E25.  This doesn't have to be neat.  Trees have varying grades of colour and broken lines.

Blend out the E25 with E53, this is a lovely golden colour.

Repeat the process for the second segment.

 By the time I got to the middle is when I decided to add some E50.

And this is the finished Wood of the Tree.

 

Once you have practiced you can apply this principal to any tree, even if it doesn't have the shading areas identified for you.

Rosie and Felix

Hi Peeps,

Hope you all had a fab weekend.  I went out on my bike on Saturday and Hubby had planned a route which he told me was relatively flat, how wrong was heeeeeeeeeeeee. I was seiously doubting whether I could continue after about 15 miles of more ups than downs.  My bottom was in excrutiating pain along with my poor knees.  My legs were tired but I found the strength to carry on, but if I had been anywhere near home that's where I would of headed.  We did accomplish 33 miles, so I am really pleased with that but each time I sit or climb the stairs I am reminded of what I was doing on Saturday, only a couple more weeks and all my pain with be behind me........

Just to let you know that BunnyZoe is sponsoring Partytime Tuesday this week and the theme is an easy one, "Anything Goes", so if you'd like to win some goodies from BunnyZoe join in the challenge HERE.  I have joined in and created this card using Whimsy Stamps Rose and Felix.  The stamp design is by Sylvia Vet, beautiful stamps.

I have coloured the image with distress inks.

I have used Cosmo Cricket Evangeline 6 x 6 paper pad, they are all gorgeous.

Here's a close up of the gorgeous Rose and Felix.

I have used one of the new prima wooden buttons, they are fabulous and just hanging from the button is a bird cage charm, both available from BunnyZoe.

And here's a pic of the little tag taken out of the card and attacked with white Gesso.

Ingredients:-

Image Rose and Felix by Whimsy Stamps

Cosmo Cricket Evangeline 6 x 6 paper pad

Magnolia Doohickey Peony  Petals and Flower Lace

Marianne Design Vintage White Lace JU0824

Marianne Design Forest Branch LR0150 and Decorative Elegance LR0157 and Guirlande CR1216

Marianne Design Ribbon Rose Border

Prima Wooden Buttons

Bird Cage Charm

Kaisercraft Paper Blooms Olive

8mm Flat Backed Pearls

Tim Holtz Butterfly Die