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.

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

Day 5 and Some CANDY!!!!!!

Hi Peeps,

Are you ready for Day 5 of the Bizzy Bec's previews AND some Candy. Here we go. Today I am introducing you to Georgia, isn't she just fab!

Coloured with copics and prismas in one of my favourite colour combo's

Papers are Bearly Mine Designs

Gorgeous leaves and flowers are from Bizzy Bec's Store

Gorgeous Square Doily from Bizzy Bec's Store

Swirl is a Marianne Design Die

Nesties

Walnut Stain Ink and Stardust Stickles

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

CES Challenge - Anything but a Christmas Card

Craft your days away - punches or dies
Sweet Sampin - 3 papers, 3 Embellishments and 1 image
Alphabet - G for Glitter
Digis with attitude - Use a digi
Mami Doodles - Anything Goes
Sew many cards - Digi and Flower
Stamp Something - Use a digi
Cute Card Thursday - Floral Frenzy
Hodge Podge - Birthdays
Some odd girl - Flowers
Stamp Insanity - It's all about me
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Craft your passion - Anything Goes

And guess what I have for you as some yummy Candy.  Yep I have a rubber stamp of Georgia for one lucky person.

Usual Deets Peeps

1. Become a follower if your not already one, but please only do this if you want to follow my blog

2. Pop a picure on your sidebar

3. Pop your blog in the Mr Linky thingy at the bottom of this post

That's it.  I'll draw using random org next Saturday 18th December.  Good luck and don't forget to check out the Design Team as they may also have candy on one of their preview days.

Anyone for Coffee

Morning Peeps,

Wow, I got through to Round 2 on the Sugar Nellie Blog Simply Sassy Challenge, woo hoooooooo.  Round 2 is "Do your thing".  Ummmmmm, a hard one for me as I love soooo many different types of techniques, distressing by tearing the edges of the paper, inking the edges, sewing, absolutely love my embellishments and have so many favourite colour combo's I didn't know where to start to show you me, lol. 

Anyway, after deliberation I just started off as I usually do with my papers and "this is my thing", well tdoay anyway:-

I thought I would go for distressed and chose my papers and coloured my fab image from Sugar Nellie.  Now to give her the distressed look I coloured with copics RV23, RV21, RV000, as you'll know these are quite bright but with the added "W's to give her the distressed look, she's toned down.

I didn't think the papers lended themselves to being torn for this card or stitched as I thought it would be lost in the patterned papers, so I just edged with Tim Holtz distress inks, victorian velvet and black soot.

I know you have seen my handmade flowers before but I really love how they come out with the pinks/greys.  They are made up of several punches of 3 sizes of retro punch on double sided paper and then pieced together with a brad.  The edges were inked with Black Soot and then I sprayed water on them and scrunched them up.  I then dried them with the heat gun and unravelled the petals.  A little pearl glimmer mist added and a pearl centre and hey presto!  Aren't they just fab.

Materials Used:-

Image from the Simply Sassy range at Sugar Nellie

Papers are both digital from Bearly Mine Designs and a prize from Toucan Scraps

Medium is copics and prisma pencils

Bazill cardstock

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder (dots)

Spellbinders Dies

3 Retro punches to create the flowers

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot/Victorian Velvet

Marianne Design Swirl Dies

Doily from Bizzy Becs Store

Braided Trim, pearls from stash

Magnolia Doo Hickey Die

Magnolia Text Die

A Special Day round sentiment is LOTV

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Competition

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

The Crafty Pad - Embossing

Beary Scrap - Pearls & Jems

Well, I hope I have done enough to make it to round 3.  Have a good weekend everyone.

Day 3 of the Victorian Sweetheart Preview

Hi Peeps,

Day 3 of the previews over at Bizzy Bec's.  The DT have made some fabulous creations so be sure to check them out and enter the draw for the 16 prizes, yep, there are 16 prizes and a bonus sentiment sheet plus some of the deisgn team have candy. 

Today we are introducing you to "Ruby".  Isn't she sweet.

I have coloured Ruby with Copic markers and prisma pencils.  All the edges have been distressed and then walnut stain added along with stardust stickles.  The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs.  Swirls are from a Marianne Design Die.  Flowers, lace and pearls from stash.

The stamps will be available in digital and rubber to purchase from 16th December but you could win the whole set on the Bizzy Bec's Store just by following these easy rules.  And there isn't just one set to win, Beck is giving away 16 along with bonus sentiments.

1) Place this logo below on your blog and announce Blue Butterfly Stamps.

                          2)  Go to the Bizzy Bec's Store Blog HERE and Become a follower if you are not already

                          3) Enter your name in the Linky on the Bizzy Bec's Store Blog

Be sure to check by tomorrow for no. 4 in the collection.

I am entering this into the following challenges:-

Little Red Wagon - Die Cuts

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Craft your passion - Anything Goes

Cute card Thursday - Floral Frenzy

Hodge Podge Shop - Birthday Cards

Some odd girl - Early Bird Challenge (digi image, flower paper and 3D flower)
Stamp Something - Digi (image)
Alphabet - G for Glitter
Mami Doodles - Anything Goes
Sew Many Cards - Digi Stamp and Flowers
Stampin with the dragon - make it sparkle (all my edges sparkle
Stamp Insanity - It's all about you

Day 2 Victorian Sweetheart - Olivia at Bizzy Becs

Hi Peeps,

It's Day 2 of the Victorian Sweethearts previews over at Bizzy Bec's and I'd like to introduce you to "Olivia". Another beauty.

Don't forget to hop on ove to Bizzy Bec's as Bec is giving away 16 prizes for this launch and some of the DT members have additional candy on their blogs over the 6 days previews, so there are lots of chances to win, win, win.  Here's a reminder of what you need to do:-

1) Place this logo below on your blog and announce Blue Butterfly Stamps.

                          2)  Go to the Bizzy Bec's Store Blog HERE and Become a follower if you are not already

                          3) Enter your name in the Linky on the Bizzy Bec's Store Blog

Materials Used:-

Image "Olivia" available from Bizzy Becs

Coloured with copic markers

I have used Shabby Vintage from Bearly Mine Designs Papers

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace, ribbon and Pearls from stash

Marianne Design Doilie Die

Making Memories Distressing Tool

Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Be sure to check by tomorrow for no. 3 in the collection.

I am entering this into the following challenges:-

Little Red Wagon - Die Cuts

Stars and Stamps - no glitter and be creative with ribbon

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Craft your passion - Anything Goes

Cute card Thursday - Floral Frenzy

Hodge Podge Shop - Birthday Cards

Some odd girl - Girly
Stamp Something - Digi (image)

Sneek Peek of Frosted Rose by Hannah Lynn from Crafts and Me

Morning Peeps,

Yayyyy it's Friday and I have been waiting for this day for a couple of weeks, just so I could show off this beautiful, beautiful, did I say beautiful, lol, Hannah Lynn Frosted Rose stamp. Well, how's your luck, Teresa from Crafts and Me is launching the new Hannah Lynn range that the DT have been showing off this week tomorrow, with 10% off for one week for registered readers. If your not registered, don't worry it's free, just hop on over to the Crafts and Me site HERE and away you go. She's a dream to colour wo why not get hubby to pop one in your christmas stocking, or two or three, lol.

She's stamped on cryogen cardstock for that extra sparkle and coloured with copics and prisma pencils.

Materials Used:-

Image by Hannah Lynn available from Crafts and Me HERE

Papers by Bearly Mine Designs, Floral Delights available HERE and Donna has a sales on this weekend so hop on over and grab a bargain

Flowers, beautiful varigated pink/green leaf and Doily available from Bizzy Becs HERE

Sentiment I think is a WOJ embossed with black embossing powder

Lace and Beads from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Simon Says Stamp - Sketch

Creative Beli - R for Embellishments (Roses)

Fab n Funky - Birthday

Crafty Little Place - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Birthday and Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Embellish It

Little paper shop - funky edge

Scrap Creations - Anything Goes
Papercutz - 2 Papers

This card will be available for sale in my Ebay later this evening

Video Game Boy

Morning Peeps,

The house survived the gathering my son had on Friday, and more importantly so did I, well after a bottle of wine, lol. Seriously, we got home and there was no loud music blaring out, so I showed them how to party a little, well I had had a bottle of wine!

Today's card is one of those dreaded male cards, yuk. It was my nephew's 16th birthday yesterday so I followed a sketch for The Beary Sweet Challenge but haven't posted it in time, don't ya just hate that, but how's your luck, as this week's challenge is Anything Goes, so not wasted.

I have coloured him using copic markers and prisma pencils.

All papers are from Bearly Mine Designs Digital Papers (sale on right now, but hurry).  The ones I have used are from Volume I.  The sentiment is computer generated and the image is a digi from Mo Manning.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Beary Sweet Challenge - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - Children

Pixie Dust - All about Men

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Digi

The Karber Challenge - Digi and for a family member



Anyone for Cupcakes

Evening Peeps,

Just a quick post with my new Lili of the Valley Stamp.  I am in the middle of making a card and I can't find my new Marianne Design mini poinsetta and it is driving me mad!!!  I know I wont be able to rest until I do so I'm back into the craft room so you might not see me for a couple of days, lol.  I think it's time to tidy up :(

 I have tried to colour her with copics to reflect the distressed look and I have shaded using my new prisma pencils.

Materials Used:-

Image by Lili of the Valley

Medium - Copics/Prisma Pencil

Bearly Mine Design Papers - Summer Collection, available HERE

Nestabilities

Sentiment is from Bizzy Becs (freebie) available HERE

Flowers are made using 3 different sized retro punches

Martha Stewart Punch

Marianne Design Creatables Swirls

Star Dust Stickles

Pearls/trim from stash

Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Lili of the Valley - One for the Girls

Incy Wincy - Sketch

Craft your passion - 2 of anything

Creative Friday - Anything Goes

Fairy Fun - Make your own flowers

Crazy for Challenges - Square Cards



One for the Boys

Evening Peeps,

Gosh what worse combination can there be..... no mojo and having to make a dreaded MAN card, eeeeeekkk!!!!

I spent one evening colouring the image and didn't like it so left the room, lol. I returned the following evening and tried to do the best I could with it as I need to get my act together and make a card for my brother-in-law's birthday. No glitter, yikes, that was hard but it was for a Man, plus I had dithered so long that I literally had to put it in the envelope and post, so no time for drying......

I have used the new Edwin out of the stamp club and stamped the present section onto blue patterned cardstock and paper pieced it onto the image.  I have also finally used my Marianne Design Creatables doily, not sure if it's manly but oh well, there are some things a girls just gott do.

Materials Used:-

Magnolia Image

Shabby Chic Paper by Tim Holtz and some Daisy D's freebie paper from Scrapbook Magazine

Marianne Design Creatables Doily Die

Nestie Die with a craftwork cards sentiment

Walnut stain distress ink

Buttons, thrread, tape measure ribbon from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Lexis Creations - Happy Birthday

One Stitch At A Time - All celebrations

Sentimental Sundays - Distressing

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Crafty Emma - Buttons and Bows

I Did It Creations - Anything Goes

Paper Players - 1 DP, punch something + sentiment

Alys Sunday Challenge - Distressed

Cards for Men - Anything goes as long as its for Men

A spoonful of sugar - Die Cuts/Punches

Start Spreading the News

Morning Peeps,

How are we all diddling, it's half way through the week, yayyyyyyyy. Gosh isn't it terrible wishing my life away. In my next life I'm going to be rich so I can stay at home and play all the time, lol, if only!

I have used one of my darling Magnolia images for this card and one of my favourtie colour schemes, pink and grey. I have also tried my hand at colouring her with copics to create the distressed look.

Materials Used:-

Tim Holtz Shabby Chic Paper & Magnolia Paper
3 sizes of EK Success Flower punch to create the handmade flowers
Martha Stewart Branch Punch
Martha Stewart Border Punch
Lace, Ric Rac & Mesh from Stash
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Just Magnolia - Lace it up
Totally Tilda - Make Your Own Flowers
Scrappy Frogs - Make Your Own Flowers
Secret Crafter - Anything Goes
All Sorts - 3 Punches at least (I used 5)
A Spoonful of Sugar - Anything Goes
Anything Goes - Cute
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Handmade Flowers

Sparkle Tilda

Evening Peeps,

I know, another late post, but this just seems to be my life at the moment.  Time just seems to pass me by.  I guess that has alot to do with working full time, lol. One day I'll be a millionaire, ummmmmmmm, think I have been watching too many Only Fools And Horses!

This evening's card is a magnolia stamp, gorgeous isn't she.  The backing papers are from a CD that I purchased from Bearly Mine but just never got round to printing any out, why I don't know, guess I couldn't be asked to take the laptop upstairs to the printer.

I have coloured Tilda using copics and on the umbrella added star dust stickles.  Just noticed that the picture isn't terribly good so may have to do a re-take tomorrow.

Materials used:-

Image by Magnolia

Copic Markers

Papers printed from a Bearly Mine CD

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

C/S Bazill

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft

Doily, Lace and Buttons From Stash

Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Just Magnolia - Sketch

All That Scraps Magnolia Blog - Anything Goes

Totally Tilda - Lilac

CES - Anything Goes

Rainblow Lady - Sparkle & Shine

Pennys Challenge - Happy Birthday

Pink & Grey Hanglar Card

Me again Peeps,

I really am playing catch up and am seriously in  need of some rest.  I took advantage of the bank holiday weekend and managed to get a couple of cards done but think my energy is running low this evening so may only get to post one tonight.  I have used one of those gorgeous Hanglar Stamps which made it's way to me with a few others I might add, from my lovely friend who popped over to Sweden to sort them out for me, isn't she a darling!

Materials Used:-

Image by Hanglar & Stanglar and coloured with copics

Tim Holtz Paper

Grunge Swirl and painted with white acrylic paint

Martha Stewart Punch to create outer circle

Martha Stewart Lattice Border Punch

Flowers created using EK Success Punches, wet, crumbled, distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink (black soot) and stickles and a pearl added

Marianne Designs Leaf Die

Tickets are digital from Bearly Mine

Ribbon, Pearls, Lace from Stash

Stickles Diamond Glue

Sewing Machine for stitching the panels

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Lovely Hanglar - Pink & Grey

Stampavie - Swirls

Crafty Cardmakers - Glitter & Sparkle

Crazy 4 Challenges - Lattice

Ellephantastic - Pink/Grey

CES - Anything Goes

Prarie Fairy - Pearls & Lace

Hannah & Friends - Pearls and Swirls

Dutch Dare - Vintage Summer

Pixie Dust - Stitch It Up

Friday Sketchers - Fab Sketch

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Distressed Birthdays

Artful Inkables - Distressed

Creatalicious - Vintage

Still Funky at 50!

Morning Peeps,

I know I've been absent this week but I decided last week that my craft room needing sorting as everywhere I looked it just looked a real mess. So I purchased some A4 storage boxes and everything now has a home. I also filed all my stamps CD cases, popped a stamped image on the front of each CD and popped them into storage boxes on the shelfs too. So it looks tidy but kind of weird to work in, lol, and I'm sure I won't be able to find anything.

Anyway, enough of my waffling, today's card is my DT card for Craftalicious and the theme this week has been chosen by the fabulous Tasha and is "Green and Purple". Our sponsor this week is "Some Odd Girl" and the DT were fortunate to choose one of these really funky images. I have chosen 80's Kaylee as I had to do a birthday card for my SIL's 50th birthday and thought this would be ideal and she never really left the 80's, lol.  She's still grooving and still hitting the pubs! Let's hope she likes it and doesn't leave it in the pub!

Materials Used:-

Medium - Copics
Bazil cardstock
Swirls using a Marianne Design Die
Laceand handbag charm from local haberdashery
Sentiment is computer generated
Stickles

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Stamp with fun - Card for a Girl
Paper Sundaes - Sketch
The Shabby Tearoom - Metal
Create 4 Fun - Birthday Card
Delightful Sketches - Cute & Girly, Pearls & Lace
Hannah & Friends - Pearls & Swirls
CRAFT -  Milestone Birthdays

Have an Udderly Fabulous Birthday!

Morning again Peeps,

Its Karen's Doodles time again and this week it's a real easy peasy one, "Birthdays". So get your Karen's Doodles images out to play and come on over and join us at Karen's Doodles UK Challenge Blog.

I have chosen "Bovine Beauty", I love this image and you can find her in Karen's shop, HERE. My card is my first attempt at a Criss Cross card and I was surprised at how quick this was to put together. You can find the tutorial HERE.

I have coloured her using copics.  The ribbon is from my stash and I will try and look up where I got it from as it is fab.  Lace, pin and beads are also from my stash and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The computer sentiment, "Have an Udderly Fabulous Birthday", is computer generated.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Charisma - Pink

Colour Create - Pink, Chocolate & White

Dutch Dare - Criss-Cross Card

Dare U To Digistamp - Stitching

Creative Cottage - Touchy Feely (lace and beads)

Pollycraft - Happy Birthday

Papertake Weekly - Cute

ABC Challenge - Zig Zag

Crafty Creations - Happy or Sweet (you have to smile at this image)

Thanks for stopping by and I really do appreciate those comments.

Black, White and Pink at Crafts and Me

Last but not least my DT card using the brand new and exclusive Hannah Lynn Stamps...... woo hoo...

Please pop over to the Crafts and Me Challenge Blog to see the otheer Design Team creations using the new releases and also the Crafts and Me Shop where you will be able to purchase these new yummy stamps.  If they are not listed then please keep popping back, I know Teresa is doing her hardest to try and list them all.

For this weeks challenge at Crafts and Me, the lovely Teresa has chosen the wonderful striking theme of Pink, Black and White.  Awesome!

The above Hannah Lynn stamp is a deeply etched red rubber stamp with thick lines, really fab, I know you won't be disappointed.  I have coloured her using copics on cryogen cardstock. OMG, this cardstock is just brilliant and will probably never be captured in the photo but it is slightly irridescent so has that beautiful shine to it.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Pollycraft - Sketch

My Time To Craft - Angelic Image

One Stop Craft - Distressing

Prarie Fairy - Anything Goes

A Pocketful of Posies - One for the Girls