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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

Fairy Wonderland

Morning Peeps,

Gosh the weekend's aren't long enough and for some reason I seem to have lost my mojo. This card has taken me two days to finish, yikes!! This is my first attempt at masking a rubbersstamp with a digi image. The digital Fairy House is from Make It Crafty and the current challenge is to "make a scene". There are some fab tutorials on their site so would recommend you popping over. Here's the finished result:-

I used the gorgeous fairy from Lili of the Valley, just love their stamps, with the Fairy House from Make It Crafty and coloured the images using my favourite medium, Copics.  The task of making wasn't without a few teething problems, lol.  I followed the tutorial for Word and first stamped the Lili of the Valley stamp onto my Cryogen cardstock and then measured according to the tutorial. I then printed it out on paper first to check it was all in the right place before putting the cryogen through the printer.  My first problem is that everyone seems to be out of stock of the eclipse masking paper so I had to use a post it note.  Whilst trying to roll my repositional tape on the back of the post it note due to  several places being rather thin, i.e the wand, neck, wings etc. it tended to rip so my mask was in about 4 pieces in the end., but it did hold up. But I wasn't giving up so easily.  My next problem was when I put my cryogen through the printer I forgot to change the size as the cryogen is shorted in length than A4 so my measuring was all out and I had to start again, grrrrrrrrrrrr.  So I can guess, you can see why this card took me two days!

But as you can see I got there in the end. 

Because the image was quite large I had to cut it out, again alot of tricky areas but my fiskars finger knife came in very handy, and overall I'm happy with the result.

I have entered this labour of love into the following challenges:-

Make It Crafty - Create a scene
Lili of the Valley - Sketch

ABC Challenge - D for Distressing

Sundays with Crissy - Sparkly and Shiny

Sir Stamp Alot - Distressing

Maxwell Snowboarding at Crafts and Me

Morning Peeps,

It's Wednesday and time for a new fortnightly challenge over at Crafts and Me and the challenge this week has Vix's name written all over it, lol, its Easel Cards. I have chosen this cute Kraftin' Kimmie christmas image called "Maxwell snowboarding", available right HERE from Crafts and Me.  I have the say that the lighting isn't fantastic so am probably not doing this card enough justice, but here we go:-

I have coloured Maxwell using copic markers:-

Added lots of Diamond Glitter Glue for the snow

Materials Used:-
Copic Markers
Image and Sentiment is a Kraftin Kimmie Stamp (Maxwell) available from Crafts and Me
Cricut machine for the large silver snowflake
Papers from Bearly Mine CD
Cuttlebug Embossing folder snowflakes
Embossed Poinsetta's - Marianne Dies
Ribbon and Pearls from stash
Diamond Glitter Glue

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Sketch
Cutie Stampers - Glitter
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Bah Humbug - Christmas card using favourite medium (copics)
Crafty Calendar - Blue and optional flowers (poinsetta's)
Fairy Fun - Embossing
Create4fun - Red, white, blue
Drunken Stampers - Use circles
Our Creative Corner - Folds
Our Daily Bread - Sparkle
Totally Gorjuss - Flowers (poinsetta's)

Corner Bookmark For My Son

Evening Peeps,

Just a quick post, my Son has been nagging me since returning to school to make him a bookmark, since I did one for his Sister but never quite got round to making one for him, bless. I recently won at the Pixie Dust Studio and chose this  "Harry Potter" image as my prize, isn't he fab..

This is a corner bookmark, which I love as it is so different from the traditiional straight bookmark and so ooooooo easy to make. The tutorial for this is HERE.  More importantly my son love's it!

I  have coloured him using copic markers:-
Hair - E59, E49, E25, E53
Face - E13, E11, E00, R22
Cloak/Trousers/Shoes - C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00
Scarf - Y15, Y13, Y11, R39, R37, R35, R32
Jumper - YG67, YG63, G20

Materials Used:-

Copics - listed above

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Papers from Bearly Mine CD

Jumbo fluffy ric rac from stash

Spots from Craftwork Cards

I have entered this bookmark into the following challenges:-

All That Scraps - Corner Bookmark

Dutch Dare - Bookmark (back to school)

Meljen's Designs - Back to school

Stampavie & More - School

No time to stamp - Guy Cards/No Bows

Paper Romance - Clean & Simple

Stamp Something - Spots & Stripes

Tellen's Place  - Anything Goes

Digital Tuesday - Dots & Stripes

Incy Wincy - Autumn Colours

Kaboodledoodles - Photo inspiration

The Pink Elephant - Back to School

The Butterfly Keeper

Morning Peeps,

Another Friday and another weekend, yayyyyyyyy.  I don't know about you but I am certainly in need of it. Today over at Craftalicious Dianna has set the theme and wants to see lot's of "Thank You's".  I have used one of the goregous  Crafts and Me Hannah Lynn stamps, The Butterfly Keeper, which is available right HERE from Crafts and Me.  I love the broad lines on these stamps and the fact that they colour up so quickly.

I have coloured her using copic markers. The background was created using antique linen, broken china and victorian velvet distress inks and the blending tool.

I stamped an additional crystal ball and added glossy accents to give it that glossy shiny look and then popped it onto 3D pads for added dimension.

Materials Used:-

The Butterfly Keeper - Available from Crafts and Me

Medium - Copic Markers

Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Aged Mahogony, Broken China, Victorian Velvet

Papers by Daisy P

Glossy Accents

Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts

Leaves cut using Quickutz

Stickles Glue

Making Memories Distress Tool

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Flocked Brads & Organza Ribbon from stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Sketch Saturday - Fab Sketch

Color Dare - Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla

Fab n Funky - Anything Goes

Gingersnap Creations - Punches

Paper Pretties - Brads or Eyelets

Your Next Stamp - Anything Goes

Stamptacular - Distress

CES - Floral Fantasy

Aly's Sunday Sketch - Pretty in Pink

Pile It On - Layers

A Pocketful of posies - Foral Fantasy

Kreative Stamp Friends - Distressing

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

Believe Me It's Sparkletastic

Morning Peeps,

Can't believe it's Wednesday already, yayyyyyy for bank holiday Monday's and let's have more of them.  Over at Crafts and Me it's time for another challenge and this fortnight it has been set by  teamie, "Amy", and the theme is Sparkle and Gems. Wow, couldn't have chosen better myself Amy, lol.

I have used one of the exclusive new Crafts and Me Stamps designed by Sara Burrier which can be found right HERE. My photography certainly doesn't do this card justice at all and you will just have to believe me when I say this is sparkletastic, with mega gold stickles and diamond stickles on the wings and a few crystals.

Materials Used:-

Stamp by Crafts and Me

Tim Holz paper & Bearly Mine Paper

Fiskars Border Punch

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Blooms by Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts

Gold  & Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue

Crystals from Stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Crafty Catz - Orange, Brown and Blue

Crafty Cardmakers - Glitter & Sparkle

Pollycraft - Nature (Bee, Flowers & Leaves)

All Sorts - Garden/Park Inspiration (Bee, Flowers and Leaves)

Wee Memories - In the Forest (Bee & Leaves)

Rainbow Lady - Sparkly & Shine