Boho Chic Handbag

Morning Peeps,

It's Monday again, and thankfully for us in the UK it's a bank holiday, yayyyyyyy.  It's my turn to design for the Simply Sassy Blog and I have used a tutorial I found on the Whiff of Joy site to create a handbag using my Go Kreate Dies, although I have used a different die to the one on the tutorial, the principal is the same.  I have used this classy little lady, Boho Chic available from Funky Kits.

I have coloured Boho Chic using copic markers.

I made the large flower using Tim Holtz die and Mulsin Cloth, inked with peeled paint and scrunched a bit.  Brad through the middle and Voila!

Ingredients:-

Image Boho Chic available from Funky Kits HERE

Sentiment is a Whimsey Tickert Stamp

Go Kreate Dies

Pion Papers

Peeled Paint Distress ink

Nesties for the handle

Muslin cloth, Brad, pearls, buton, twine from stash

Marianne Design Die for flourish

Martha Stewart Punch for the leaves

Small roses from wild orchid crafts

Sewing machine

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

Dream Valley - Stamp Something
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Little Claires - Shaped Cards
Sugar Creek - Shaped Cards
Totally Gorjuss - String/Twine
Pals paperarts - Brads
Crafting for all seasons - Anything Goes
House that stamps built - Stitching
Paper Pretties - Birthday
Truly Scruptious - Anything Goes 

Purple and Yellow at Make It Colourful

Morning Peeps,

The first day of a long weekend and gosh do I need it, I am whacked!

Today at Make It Colourful the challenge is to colour using purple and yellow. As you'll know from a previous post yellow and me just don't get on, but a challenge is a challenge and  I'm sure you'll all want to experiment too as we are being sponsored by Diane from Maganolialicious.  Here's what I created:-

The papers are Pion sent to me by the lovely Maria for my birthday this week, thank you hun, I told you they'd make it to a card quick, lol.

The conrer flourish and the butterfly are lasercut chipboard pieces available from Make It Crafty and are my ultimate favourite embellishment at the moment.

 

I have used Across the Bridge Digi Stamp from Make It Crafty and paired with Tilda with Flower Pot available from Magnolialicious.  I can right now that Diane only has the mini version available but I'm sure if you email her she will be more than willing to help. 

I have used  

Ingredients:-

Across the Bridge Digi Stamp available HERE

Tilda with Flower Pot available HERE

Lasercut Chipboard Flourish and Butter available HERE 

Papers are Pion

Cardstock is Bazill

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft

Lace, Pearls, Perfect Pearls, Yellow and Lilac Acrylic Paint from Stash

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

Paperplay - Blossoms and Blooms

Sassy Studio - Pearls, Lace and Elegance

ABC - V is for Violet

AnitaB Stampin - Pearls and Lace

Incy Wincy - Lavender and Lace
Magnolialicious - Photo Inspiratiion

Sneek Peek Fairy at Sunset at Crafts and Me

Morning Peeps,

Thank you for all your birthday wishes yesterday, I had a lovely day, with flowers, chocolates, perfume and pennies, lunch out with the boss and dinner with the family.  I had some lovely handmade cards, thank you to my crafting buddies, so all in all a lovely day.

Today's card is a sneek peak of soon to be released Fairy at Sunset by Jasmine Beckett-Griffiths at Crafts and Me and the challenge over at the Crafts and Me Challenge Blog is Gems and Pearls, which I'm sure you all have in your stash and we would love to see what you create.

My photography really doesn't show up just how beautifiul this fairy is, so your just going to have to take my word for it.  I have tried to keep it simple to show off the image, and you guys know C&S isn't my best work, but hopefuly the image will shine through for all its beauty.

Isn't she a beauty?

I wanted to show you the sparkle, it's not a brilliant picture but I think you can get the drift.

Ingredients:-

Image Fairy at Sunset soon to be available from Crafts and Me

Dienamics Faux Crotchet Die available HERE from Crafts and Me

Lasercut Chipboard Flourishes and minim butterfly availalble from Make It Crafty

Doily from Bizzy Becs

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Kraft Cardstock 

Gems and Pearls from stash

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

Creative Craft World - 3 or more flowers
Divas by Design - For the girls
Flutterby Wednesday - Clean and Simple (and for me this card is)
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
A spoonful of sugar - Things with wings
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Pale pretty pastels
The kraft journal - (clean and simple and use kraft- my card is C&S for me)
ECP - Pastels
Little Claires - Sparkle
Worldplay - Wings
Tellen's Place - Anything Goes

Have a good day.

Diecuts and Lace and Bearly Mine

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday Dear Me, Happy Birthday to me,

Lol, yes if you haven't guessed already today is my birthday and hopefully it will be a good one.  I've scheduled this post so I haven't opened those lovely handmade cards yet but when I do I'll be round to thank you personally.

Right, onto today's card which is my DT card for Bearly Mine using "Natalie" a fabulously gorgeous digi available from our sponsor today, and one of other Design Teams, Crafts and Me. 

I have used Bearly Mine's Vintage papers, one of my favourite papers, link below.

Isn't she gorgeous. Coloured with copics and I added pearls to her flowers and dropped pearl earrings.

I stampted the sentiment onto the Muslin cloth and really liked the results.

I have used the Magnolia Die for the flower leaves.

Ingredients:-

Vintage Papers by Bearly Mine Designs

Image "Natalie" by Crafts and Me

Each panel was stitched using my machine

Gesso, everywhere, lol

Flowers from wild orchid crafts

Stardust stickles and pearls from stash

Sentiment is from Lili of the Valley

Muslin cloth

So I'm sure you all have die cuts and lace in your stash, so hope to see you over at the Bearly Mine Challenge HERE.

AnitaBStampin - Lace and Pearls

Anything Goes - Bingo

Digital Tuesday - Add texture

My time to craft - Diecuts

Papertake weekly - Pastels

BunnyZoe - Lace

House of Gilli - Flowers

Kaboodle Doodle - Distress

Stamps n Fun = Creativity - Flower Power

Stampsrus - Use something digi (image and papers)

Emerald Fairies - Anything Goes

I did it Creations - Anything Goes

2 Sisters - Use a digi

ECP - Pastels

Fairy Knoll - Flowers

Charisma - Birthdays in pink

Little Claires - Sparkle

Craft us crazy - Something new (image) Favourtie Embellishment (Flowers)

Pixie Dust - Vintage

Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly

Paper Pretties - Flowers

Southern Girls - Lace and Pearls

Lady Guinevere

Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone had a great weekend, can't say I did, but hopefully all will be resolved soon.

For today's post for the Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy DT Blog I am using Guinevere and I have, wait for it....... coloured her all using my prisma pencils.  I have gone for the distressed theme and used loads of white paint.  I'm going to let the pictures speak for themselves:-

Ingredients:-

Image is Guinevere available from Funky Kits HERE

Postcard stamp - unknown

Papers by Websters

Lasercut Chipboard Butterfly Flourish available from Make It Crafty HERE

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafats

Butterfly is Tim Holtz

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Nesties Oval

Victorian Velvet Distress Ink

White Acrylic Paint

Pearls, Lace, cardboard and Muslin cloth from Stash

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

House of Gilli - Flowers
Kaboodle Doodle - Distress
Stamps n Fun = Creativity - Flower Power
Emerald Fairies - Anything Goes
I did it Creations - Anything Goes
Challenge up your life - Recycling
ECP - Pastels
Fairy Knoll - Flowers
Charisma - Birthdays in pink
Craft us crazy - Something new (image) Favourtie Embellishment (Flowers)
Pixie Dust - Vintage
Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly
Paper Pretties - Flowers

Colour a Water Scene at Make It Colourful

Hi Peeps,

We have an exciting release of the cutest digital stamps over at Make It Crafty, seriously you have to check them out, they are Awesome!  Speaking of Awesome, did any of you join us on the Live Video on Facebook with Zoe from Make It Crafty, she is one Awesome Colourer.  Genius Zoe!

I have used Hula Girl and Lonely Island and paired them together in Word, which is real easy with Zoe's images. Check out Make it Crafty Facebook page for further Live Video's with questions/answers.  Our challenge this week at Make It Colourful  is "Colour a Water Scene" so the new releases are ideal, so you won't have any excuses not to join us, lol.

Aren't they the cutest.  Well if you think these are cute you need to check the rest out HERE! Some of these images are also available in rubber and for all you crafty girlies in the UK Quixotic Paperie now stock the Make It Crafty range of stamps.  I have stitched the circle kraft panel with a gold, pinky and silver  metallic thread, unfortunately not picked up by the photo.

I have coloured the images using my faithful copic markers.

Ingredients:-

Hula Girl and Lonely Island Digi Images available from Make It Crafty

Papers by Nitwits

Medium - Copics

Seam binding coloured with Distress Inks

Sentiment is Stempleglede available from Quixotic Paperie

Magnolia Doohickey branch die

Go Kreate Large Dies or the shaped card

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Nesties 

Pearls from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Allsorts - Birthday

Catch the bug - Summer Celebrations

3 Sisters - Use a digi
Totally Gorjuss - In the water/or anything wet
Delicious Doodles - Let the sun shine
Fun with Shapes - use a diecut
Stamp Something - Use beachy colours
Wags n Whiskers - Circles
Totally Papercrafts - Don't be square
Some odd girl - Make a scene
Stamp insanity - Fancy Folds
Creative Craft world - Anything but square
My Mum's craft shop - Anything but square
Happlileigh Scrapin - Stitching 

Sneek Peek "Melody Wishes You.."

Morning Peeps,

Goodness this week has flown by, and a couple of cards have dropped through my letter box this week, with do not open until 24th May.  I am super excited that some Peeps have made me cards for my forthcoming birthday, as a crafter I am always giving handmade cards but to receive one yourself, well you guys know where I'm coming from....

Well today, I have a Crafts and Me sneek peek.  This this  "Melody Wishes You" available from Crafts and Me, isn't she just gorgeous and looks so summery.  Melody will be available real soon but if you don't want to miss the launch date hop on over to the Crafts and Me Blog where you'll see my teamies with more sneek peeks and if you subscribe to the newsletter, you'll be the first to know, and it's free!

Guess what Peeps, I've coloured her with Prisma's on kraft cardstock.  Well I did say on Monday that I needed the practice, lol.

Well, what do you think? Oh and you see that fancy edging.  That's my new dienamics die also available from Crafts and Me.

 

Still room for improvement. 

And here it is standing up, just so I can show off how absolutely gorgeous that dienamics die is.  Wouldn't want you to miss out, lol.

Ingredients:

Image "Melody Wishes You" Soon to be available from Crafts and Me

Dienamics Die from Crafts and Me 

Kraft and Bazill cardstock

Lasercut chipboard flourishes from Make It Crafty

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Ribbon by Websters available from Make It Crafty

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment is Whiff of Joy

Pearls and doily from stash

I am entering my card into the following challenges:-

Crafts 4 Eternity - Flower, ribbon, bling
Craftykatz - Anything Goes
Fairyknoll - Flowers
Colorlab - Purple, Pink, Green
Shelley's - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Stamp on Kraft
Divas by design - For the girls
Penny's - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps - Birthday
Baby Bud - Punches and Dies

Have a good weekend everyone! 

Winner of "Vintage Boutique" Stamp

Evening Peeps,

The winner of the Simply Sassy Blog Hop for the "Vintage Boutique" Stamp, as decided by Random Org is......................

 

It's you Jayne Howard 

Congratulations Jayne, please email me with your snail mail addy by Sunday 22nd May,  contact details on the top tab

I've been experimenting again!

Hiya Peeps,

If your looking for the Simply Sassy Blog Hop click HERE or scroll down one.

Well, I have admired from afar the work done with prisma pencils on kraft cardstock and really wanted to give it a go, so I decided yesterday that today was the day.   I tried searching the internet for skin combos as I really didn't know what pencils to use, but that search was without success really.  It might of helped if I had actually coloured a whole image using prisma's on white cardstock so at least I would of had some idea, but as I've said before once I get an idea in my head I run with it.  So anyway, my search didn't amount to much so I ended up with a multitude of pencils on my table and as such I still couldn't tell you what I used, lol, so if there's anyone out there that can help me or point me in the right direction I would be obliged.

I love the pastel effect that the prismas give on kraft so I will be continuing my practice and will get braver as I've played it a little safe, but overall I'm pretty pleased with the result.

Ingredients:-

Image: "Missing You" by Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE

Medium - Prisma Pencils

Kraft Cardstock

Cuttlebug Script Embossing Folder

Stempleglede Sentiment Stamp

Doily from Bizzy Becs

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Swirl Corners are lasercut Chipboard Diecuts from Make It Crafty

Perls from stash

Martha Stewart Branch Bunch

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

Card Cupids - No patterned paper
Creative Cowgirls - Anything Goes
Emerald Fairies - Anything Goes
One sitch at a time - Anything Goes
ECP Challenge - Pastels
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Pear Tree Designs - Stamp it up
Crazy Challenge - Green & Pink
Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing
Stamp with Fun - Green and Pink
There's magic in the air - Embossing 

Simply Sassy Release 7 Blog Hop

Morning Peeps,

Well it was touch and go as to whether us girlies was going to be able to bring you this fabulous hop this morning, but thankfully Blogger got it's act together in time.

If you have arrived from Autumn's blog then your on the right track, if not hop on over HERE to start at the beginning.

Be sure to visit all the beautiful DT creations as we are all giving away the stamp that we used and for one lucky commenter my stamp will be "Vintage Boutique", woo hoo!

I have coloured her using my grey tones of copics.

I love this seam binding which goes perfectly with vintage or distressed cards.

Here you can see that gorgeous bouquet of flowers and one of my favourite lasercut chipboard embellishment corners from Make It Crafty.

Ingredients:-

Image "Vintage Boutique" which is on sale today and availalbe from:-

Papers are Bearly Mine Designs

Dienamics Border Die

Marianne Design Die

Kraft Cardstock

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Lasercut Chipboard Corner Swirls - Make It Crafty

Doily from Bizzy Becs

Lace, Seam Binding, Pearls, Brad, Corrugated cardstock from stash

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Beli - Something begining with "S", Scripted embossed text
Stamp Something - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - No sentiment
Cute Card Thursday - Distressing
Rainbow Lady - Texture
Southern Girls - Let's hear it for the girls
A spoonful of sugar - Sketch
Scrap Creations - Circles
Tuesdy Throwdown - Diecuts

Next on the hop is the Fabulously Talented Erica.  When you've finished the hop you may want to pop over to the Sugar Nellie blog as a little birdie tells me there maybe something sweet for you there too!

Have fun! 

It's Punches at Crafts add Me

Morning Peeps,

Another quick post as it's late.  Been a little manic recently and the next 3 days are going to be testing.  I have an ISO Audit so will be spending the next 3 days accompanying the Assessor.  They are long days with very little time to break, so I will be working long hours and as well tomorrow I have to take my son reffing, so no crafting time for me, in fact no time at all.

Anyway after boring you all to death, I'll move swiftly on.  Today at Crafts and Me Challenge the theme chosen by the Fabby Trish is "Punches".  So hop on over and punch with us.

I have used Cinderella by Kraftin' Kimmie available HERE.  She's just one of those stamps a girl has to have!

I have coloured her with copics.

Just wanted to show you this gorgeoous lasercut chipboard flourish available from Make It Crafty, link below.  I have added some acrylic paint, stardust stickles and then distressed it with black soot.  Inky fingers, yep!

Ingredients:-

Cinderella image by Kraftin' Kimmie available HERE

Papers by Nitwits

Bazill Cardstock

Martha Stewart Punch around the page and frond punch

Tools - Sewing machine

Lasercut Chipboard Flourish from Make It Crafty HERE and now available from Quixotic Paperie HERE

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft

Seam Binding, Stickles, Pearls, Lace from Stash

Shoe charm 99p shop

Oh and before I go, gosh this was meant to be a quick post honest, we are having a Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Blog on Saturday 08:00, you certainly won't want to miss this one that's for sure, so pop a note in your diary.

Have a good week and wish me luck, lol.

If I have entered my card into your challenge and  you can't see it listed below,  I apologise but I entered my card into the challenges on Thursday evening and Blogger lost everything that had been amended on Thursday evening, so I am going from memory here:-

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
The Crafty Pad - spots/dots
Crafting Life's Pieces - Sketch
Creative Beli - "S" for Shoe
Simon Says Stamp and Show -
Paper Shelter - black, white + 1
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Vintage Easels at Bearly Mine

Morning Peeps,

Another two weeks have passed and it's time for another challenge at Bearly Mine and this week's theme is "Vintage Easels". I have used Tilda with Big Bow, isn't she just gorgeous. Sorry lots of pictures and not a lot of words, busy, busy, busy.

I love Easel cards but I always forget how hard they are to photograph and truly show them justice.

I have used Vintage Lace, from Bearly Mine Designs (link below) which is one of my favourites.

And below you can see the little postcard.  I really can't remember where I got this little stamp but isn't it gorgeous.

Ingredients:-

Image - Tilda with BigBow by Magnolia

Papers are Vintage Lace by Bearly Mine available HERE 

Doily from Bizzy Becs

Lace, muslin, pearls, postcard stamp from stash

Film Strip Stamp by Tim Holtz

White Acrylic Paint

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Lasercut Chipboard from Make It Craft

Sentiment from Lili of the Valley

Kraft Cardstock

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

Samuel Taylor - Flowers and Bling
Shelly's Images - Sweet and Girly
Crafty Anns - Birthday
FairyFun - For the Girls
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes
Polkadoodle - Easel
Raise the Bar - Flower Power
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes