Better late than never

This is the card that I made for the ABC H is for Hidden Message.

The paper is K and Co and is the hidden meanings of Flowers and the tag is from K and Co too. The image has been coloured using distressed inks and I have faux stitched the papers.

Thank you for the messages people have left me, I have had a crazy fortnight. We have lost a family friend, another friend has been seriously ill in hospital and is now awaiting a transplant. I found a lump and as my mother died of breast cancer I flipped, luckily all is ok and just glandular. Due to the stupid cold getting on my chest I have just finished my 2nd course on anti biotics in three weeks and to top the lot both of the boys are still ill - argh!

So if my commenting and cards are sporadic I apologise.

hugs xxx

ABC G is for

Green!

I have had so much difficulty uploading this card, it disappeared of the original post on ABC and my blogger is being such a nightmare that I am currently playing on wordpress to see if any better. Everytime I have tried to comment I am getting horrendous error messages on some of the blogs due to widgets etc that they have added or the backgrounds. I have tried firefox instead of ie but not sure about it as all my bookmarks then disappear. So sorry if I did not comment on your post but the error messages kept closing my browsers.

This card is made from a rak image of Jayne, I really must get this stamp as it is so lush, coloured in 5 different shades of green with my promarkers. I have done blonde hair for the first time, think it looks ok. Papers are basic grey boxer a long neglected pad which i suddenly remembered had some lush green papers in unused. The flowers are wild orchard craft. Hope you like it, hugs xxx

ABC F is for Flying

Sorry this is late my little Henry is full of a cough and cold which is on his chest and he is all wheezy so emergency doctors tonight I think as my doctors are closed on wednesday.

Please enter the ABC Challenge this week as we are being sponsored by Wendy from Secret Crafter whom is offering one lucky person a £20 spending spree in her shop, wish I could enter as she has so much yummy stuff in there.

My card was one of Henry's birthday cards, the other one was a henry mouse which will feature in a later challenge. The image was a rak of Heidi - mwah miss you girl - and was coloured in copics with papers by basic grey.

hugs will be back later on abc with the winner from the last challenge and my top 5.

Here is the missing card!

This is take 2 for the ABC Challenge of E is for Embossing as the first one was helpfully coloured with red shoes by my 3 year old before I managed to photograph it!

I hope you like it, an Elizabeth Bell image for Sugar Nellie coloured in copics with last years Xmas papers (sorry it was a loose sheet, I think it may have been dovecraft) and the white circle embossed using my snowflake folder.

entered for spoonful of sugar - xmas challenge

ABC D is for Diecuts

This week on ABC the theme is die cuts. I have used my nesties to cut out my neglected postbox by Sugar Nellie. I have used my K and Co papers and tried to create a vintage feel to the piece. Distressed inks have been used in browns to help the antique feel.

I hope you like it, do check out the other design teams work.

ABC Design Team Card

I nearly did not think I was going to make it this week. The boys have played up rotten tonight (writting tueday) and with being away argh! The first attempt ended in the bin! Still not 100% happy with this oh well. Papers are K and Co and the image is WOJ coloured in twinkiling H2O's and Distressed inks.
The theme is circles and is sponsored by WOJ and Rach is a GDT Member this week. Do check out the rest of the design teams much better offerings than mine.
Remember for this week only the ABC is open for 2 weeks due to the bank holidays and the start of school.

ABC Design Team Card - B is for Buttons and WOJ Design Team Card Racheals Sketch

Hiya

Here are my design Team cards for this week.

On ABC the theme is Buttons, so I have used K and Co Buttons my life journey paper and added a button to the flower. The image is a gorgeous Sarah Kay coloured in distressed inks.

On WOJ there is a fantastic sketch by Racheal. I have decided to distress my papers and hand stitch it. The papers are My Minds Eye and K and Co. The image has been coloured with distressed inks and the roses have been glimmer mistes in cherry blossom. The sentiment is handwritten and says goodluck but it is hard to see in the photo.

I hope you like both cards.

ABC A is for...

Anything goes with option of Animals.

OMG can you believe that we are starting our 3rd run of the alphabet on the challenge site?

We have a fantastic prize donated by Simon Says Stamp, so please everyone do try and enter this week and check out the design teams cards.

This is a simple card made using a housemouse stamped image from Jen one of my ABC Collegues. I have coloured in promarkers and mounted on laura ashley papers with punched flowers. I hope you like it, I think the simple layout works well.

hugs x

ABC - DT Card Z is for Zero Embellishments

A nice quick one for you today. The cat is a pennyblack from Cathy coloured in promarkers and mounted on black card stock and a sheet of Laura Ashley paper which I then used my new Martha Steward flourish punch to add a bit of depth.

Hope you will all have a go as Helen has donated a fantastic prize x

ABC - Y is for Yellow

This is my design team card for ABC this week and I absolutely adore it. I am usually not a fan of yellow but I love these offbeat papers from basic grey and they fit so nicely with the summer tilda kit. The flowers are prima and have been well and truely covered in glimmer mist and the lace is from my stash as are the gems. I hope that you like it.

On another note I have won a design spot for August on the Whiff of Joy challenge site - how excited am I!!!!

ABC Design Team X is for

Helen kindly did this X sketch for us for ABC this week. It is fab and wonderful to use so please check it out. I decided to get my promarkers out and went all grungy and distressed everythign to an inch of it's life! I had fun doing it though hope you like it. The papers are basic grey and the image is sugar nellie gorguss girl which was a rak of Jayne.

Sorry for a brief post I had an asthma attack last night for the first time brought on by my hayfever. Feel a bit rough this morning and did not get chance to finish commenting on all of last weeks card so sorry but I spent last night in Casualty.

ABC - DT W is for Windows - My sisters birthday card!

Yes it is a different angle to the one on ABC as I thought I would try again in the slightly better light today (it has stopped raining ofr 5 minutes!) The image is WOJ pregnant Willow and I have used it to make my sisters birthday card as she is 28 weeks pregnant. She and her husband don't know what they are having so I have made the card in yellow. I have coloured using distressed inks and mounted her on a window cut using my nesties. I then cut a thin border to frame the window on the front and inside - this was so fiddly! I only used one sheet on each side of this gorgeous paper from K and Co as it was so pretty and elaborate I did not feel the need to layer it. The flowers are prima and when glimmer misted the green die ran slightly to give this gorgeous effect.

Do look at all the other design team cards and welcome our new design team member Dawn.

We are getting better on the spot front now and hope to be back blogging fully soon. Thank you so much for bearing with me and apologises for not commenting on all the ABC entries last week.

ABC U is for United States - Our one year anniversary!!!!

Well it is our one year anniversary on ABC and to markt he occassion each of the design team will be choosing a winner to send a small prize to and we will also choose a new design team member from the entries!

Here is my card. I have interpreted United STates to mean red, white and blue and so have coloured this gorguss girl in to represent that. The embesllishments are all stash and the paper is a papermania from the oriental pack from a few years ago! I hope you like and will join us this week x

ABC Design Team Card. T is for

Two tone.

I adore this image of Daisy from Sugar Nellie, yet I seem to have neglected her of late. She has been coloured up using distressed inks and then mounted using nesties label 3. The papers are 2 packs of K and Co - Daisy and the other is Mortifica. I have used a prima daisy and the other two layers I have punched out using the background papers. The ribbon and eyelet are stash. I hope you like, do check out the other design teams blog and Fiona, whom makes her last card for us as the gdt member for June.

ABC S is for

This is a scheduled post and as Blogger is still being funny fingers crossed it will work.

This week on ABC it is S is for Summer. So get out all your lovely summer stamps and papers and join us this week.

I have choosen to use this beautiful image from the Summer WOJ kit. I wanted to use vibrant citrus colours with her and as the image was so big after I masked her and added the orange tree (getting good at this and love the effect) I wanted the papers to be not too busy. I choose this loose sheet I think that is K and Co but not sure as it was part of a RAK and added to it plan card stock one of which I put through the cutterbug embossing folder bird and swirls.

I hope that you like it.

ABC R is for Roses

Helen kindly sorted out the ABC Challenge blog for me as all I can still see is codes when posting a post grr.

Here is R is for roses card. i have used one of my new WOJ Summer Willow stamps and coloured her in distressed inks. The papers are K and Co with roses on them which I felt was appropiate. The image and sentiment were cut out using my oval nesties.

I hope you like it. I may not be able to visit all your blogs as I am still not well but I do appreciate all your comments.

recipe-
image - Willow with bouquet woj summer kit and sentiment from the same
papers - K and Co classic
lace - stash
flowers - hobbycraft
medium - distressed inks

ABC Q is for Quilted

Hello all, so sorry I am awol at the moment. I hope this card loads properly I am having so many problems with blogger at the moment. All cards when loading are streams of http letters and numbers and everytime I try and leave comments I am getting stuck or thrown out completely. I am also struggling to make cards as my hands are aching in the joints, have tests coming up but it hurts to type and colour so please still visit me and I will try and visit you back as and when I am able.
This lovely image had been coloured in distressed inks and mounted onto two sheets of basic grey paper that has been cut into 3cm squares and then faux stitched in red. I hope you like it.
recipe
image - sugar nellie ropeswing
papers - basic grey urban praire - i love this pad
flowers - stash
pearls - stash
medium - distressed inks will add colours later as can't find my postit note of them.

ABC P s for Pearls

Fingers crossed that this post works as I am having terrible trouble with blogger at the moment. We are being sponsored by WHimsey Stamps this week whom kindly supplied the images that the design team have used. I received this little duck which has been coloured using distressed inks and mounted on pearlised purple and ivory card. I have added 4 little prima flowers with pearl centres to the image and a peice of purple and gold ribbon. I hope you like it.

DT - ABC O is for

Orderly! So everything on the card must be balanced. It is also a DT Call for June so if you are interested head over there now!

This is my card. I have used one of my new Willows from the Summer Kit and coloured her using distressed inks. I decided to make the oranges Limes as I am waiting on Glitter Pot to send me the orange distressed inks as I did not own those or red! I hope you like it x

recipe -

Image - WOJ Summer Kit Apple Willow Standing

papers - Basic Grey - Offbeat

ribbon - stash

gems - hobbycraft

flowers - stash

nesties - large oval

medium - distressed inks.

ABC N is for

Not a card, so I decided to do an ATC. Not made one of these in ages so have used an idea of one I did a year ago as I love it and have changed it. We are just passed mayday but this is my take on the idea. The flwers at the bottom are surposed to be mayflowers and tilda is out ready for the dawn. She is so excited she is still in her nightie. I hope you like it.

recipe -

image - tilda in nightdress

papers and card - stash

flowers - prima

gems - stash

medium - watercoloured