Emily's Christmas Card and a mini image draw

Hello all

As a special little treat everyone whom comments on this post today will be entered into a draw to win a stamped image of my new birthday stamps.

I decided to follow Jacqui's tutorial on the WOJ inspirational blog and make an easel card. The image is one of my new ones and is coloured in using distressed inks. The papers are new and the packaging is upstairs so will update you on that later.

The card is for Emily my really beautiful neice whom was born in October.

I hope you like.

competions entered

spoonful of sugar - xmas card for a child - for my neice emily whom is a month old

allsorts - card for a child

secret crafter - season - this is winter

magnolia down under - sketch used. although i moved the sentiment and added flowers instead.

cute card thursday - glitter me silly - glitter on the flowers

charisma - merry and bright - it is a xmas card

Whoops Tilda in Brown

Well my husband let me have a couple of hours in my craft room this morning and this is what I made. Isn't she lush, the photo does not do her justice.

challenges -
Just Magnolia - sketch
Secret crafter - Autumn colours
Stamp something - brown

medium distressed inks
teadye, tattered rose, antique linen, brushed cordroy, walnut stains, scattered straw

I hope you like it

Belle with Teddy

This gorgeous image was a rak of Jacqui as I won the stamp in her blog candy, and it is gorgeous. I have coloured it using my distressed inks, they were feeling abit neglected and have stuck her onto paper from basic grey (marakech) and paper pizazz (tan text) I have hand sewen the green thread onto the card and distressed the papers. I hope that you like it. I am going to enter it into the Whistle and Belles (roses on paper) DT Call click here for details.

Challenges
Sketch and Stash - Sketch - new items, stamp, martha stewart butterfly punch, neglected inks and ribbon.
Belles and Whistles - orange, brown and green plus a sketch from another challenge blog.
Secret crafter - celebration as it is for my son's little friend Amelia's birthday next week and he choose the image to be used.

Look out for my candy on offer too.

Have I been missed?

We have had no internet supply for nearly a week due to the modem breaking and it has also been my youngest son's 2nd birthday.
Thank you to Jacqui and Georgia for the candy they sent, sorry I have not been able to email you and I am late sending codes to all the ABC top 5 people. I will do this in the next few days.



This first card is a beautiful house mouse stamped image from Jennifer. I have followed the papertake weekly sketch challenge using papers from K and Co and coloured the image in using copics. I have kept it clean and simple as it is perfect for a male card.

challenges - Papertake weekly - sketch, Saturday secret crafter - animals




This is an image I had coloured before knowing what the challenges would be, in copics and I have matched her with basic grey sugared paper and followed the sketch on a spoonful of sugar.

challenges - Spoonful of Sugar - sketch



This final card is a decoupage image of tilda with lollipop from my friend Jayne. I have coloured her in using copics (bg10.g000.g00.e21.e50.e00.e51.e08.e33.e35.e57) and the charm was a rak of Heidi. The papers are new and are a 12x12 sheet of cosmic cricket. Which I adore.

challenges - sketch and stash, dutch dare - charms

I promise to catch up with everyone soon and bear with me while I catch up with challenges.

Tilda Cooking

Hi Everyone
Sorry I have been a bad blogger of late. I had set aside yesterday to do a major catch up, but then a close friend called me at 5.10am that her daughter was seriously ill and was being blue lighted to Birmingham Children's Hospital for emergency brain surgery. Her husband needed to sort out their elder daughter, so I got dressed and went to spend the day with her on the ward and while her daughter was in theatre. So I will try and get round you all whom comment in the next day or two, so watch out for lots of comments at once!

This card I wanted to keep simple, I was not in the mood today for making it too complecated and really loved this sketch Bev designed for Just Magnolia. I have combined it with a few challenges -

* Just Magnolia - Sketch
* Saturday Secret Crafter - for the girls (it is pink)
* Papertake weekly - faking it - faux stitched and lace doily martha stewart punch used
* Stamp something - favourite papers - basic grey - lily kate
* Stampavie and more - pink

I do hope you like it, coloured with copics, sorry did not note the numbers down.

I also hope everyone is well.

hugs Vicky xxx

Tilda, pretty in pink

This card was made for the following 4 challenges. Please excuse the picture quality but needed to meet a deadline, will take a better picture in daylight tomorrow.

*Charisma Cards - curls and swirls - backing paper put through my cutterbug swirls folder
*Just Magnolia - sketch
*Secret Crafter - Flights of fancy - the dragonfly brad
*Passion for promarkers - girly and glittery - it is pink and lots of glimmer mist on those flowers!

I have used a tilda from the new Autumn set - isn't she adorable! I think she is my favourite in the set and I had to ink her up immediately. I have coloured her in promarkers, have been practicing my shading, unfortunately the light in my new craft room is no good for photo's. Paul has go me some daylight bulbs to switch over tomorrow for the main light and the desk light so hopefully i can replace it with a better photo tomorrow. Fantastic sketch on Just Magnolia adored doing it. The papers are basic grey Eva, lovely and girly. I hope you like it.

eta new picture uploaded

I thought you would like to see a picture of my craft room which used to be the nursery (hence the winnie the pooh stikers on the wall. This is my side, work still in progress but it is my space! My papers are in a large box on the changing chest of draws and I have a stacking tower of stamps on there. We have left some of the furniture in as Edward and Henry may need seperate rooms when older but until then Paul and I have a craft/wargame figure painting room. The bliss of being able to leave things out to dry and play with!

A Card for a few challenges

Hiya

This card fit s the following challenges

* Spoonful of Sugar Sketch
* Saturday Secret Crafter - corners
* Cute Card Thursday - At the Beach
* Passion for promarkers - Cocoa and Rose Pink (hair and outfit)

Coloured in promarkers and mounted on Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers (my favourite), flowers hand punched a simple but effective card.

Sorry not been around much School Holiday's need I say more?

Sketch Saturday #51 and Saturday Secret Crafter

I have never entered Sketch Saturday before but saw this sketch on Helen and Cathy's blogs and had to have a go at it. Have used lots of new stash on here and lots of my expensive stuff but the plan is to send this to one of my best friends whoms birthday is shortly. She knows whom she is and will have to put on a best acting face! It also qualifies for Saturday Secret Crafter whoms theme is glitter as the paper is covered in glitter and I have used twinkling H2O's on the flower.

recipe -

image - Magnolia Alva with flower

papers - DCWV Once upon a time mat stack

flowers - prima and hobbycraft

spacers - stash

brads - papermania

ribbon and lace - stash

medium - distressed inks and H2O's

Inspirational Card Sketchers Design Team Call and Saturday Secret Crafter

I hope that the picture of this has turned out ok as the paper is very very dark blue as is the ribbon for the centre band and from the eyelets. It is also fauxed stitched in black and mounted onto black card.

This wonderful sketch is by a talented lady called Dawn whose challenge blog I came upon whilst blog hopping. I am not sure if this card has made the deadline or not - so fingers crossed for me.

I am also entering the card for Saturday Secret Crafter whoms challenge this week is 'Brads or Eyelets' I have choosen to use eyelets.

I do hope you like.

recipe -
image - Sarah Kay received as a RAK
papers - Basic Grey Boxer
ribbon - stash
star gems - stash
eyelets - stash
Flowers - prima and hobbycraft
medium- distressed inks - walnut stain, faded jeans, tea dye, scattered straw, peeled paine.
sketch - by Dawn

Back for a night!

My wonderful husband has managed to get me hooked up to the internet for a night. It is still chaos here, dust and plaster everywhere and most of my stash is in boxes so these cards are very simple I am afraid. Jayne (Serendipidy) has been texting me the themes so I can work on the cards as and when I can, I have currently pinched the kitchen table.

So here are the cards sorry they are all on one post but it will be easier I think for you all! They also include my first attempts at distresses inks so feedback will be fantastic if you are able. I will visit all your blogs as soon as I am able, miss you all lots xxxx

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Saturday Crafter - theme via Jane Carroll on facebook as shaped cards.

This is my first attempt at distressed inks, I used milled lavender. It is very simple card stock, prima flowers and lace and gems. The backing paper inside the card is a chinese papermania in lavender. The image is WOJ.

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Whiff of Joy - Stars and Stripes - theme from Jayne via text.

This is my Oakley in distressed inks. The backing papers are basic grey archaic. The stars are blue brads and the stripes are in the papers. I have borrowed Janes nesties (labels 1 and 2) for a few weeks so they are hers that crop up in the cards.

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Cute Card Thursday - Mirror image - something shiny - via text from Jayne.

This does shine honest! Papers are basic card stock in pink and gold and the gorgeous sheet is from the once upon a time papers from DCWV. Prima hydranga's, brads and spacers and gems all shine as does the image coloured in twinkling H2O's.

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Spoonful of Sugar - Blue and Green - via text from Jayne.

I hope you like this. I have since added leaves to the flower - but the light is too dark to take a photo. That is the problem when all your stash is in boxes! The papers are basic grey - boxer I think, the ribbon and flower and spacer are stash and the image has been watercoloured with pencils.

Spoonful of sugar meets Saturday Secret Crafter and Ed's Easter Hat for Lili of the Valley

Hi everyone - waves. I think I maybe turning the corner. I have seen a brill doctor today and we just wait on the remaining results and scan but it looks like no long term damage at this stage so happy. I have managed to finish this card I have been working on and it fits two challenges - spoonful of sugar numbers and secret crafter stripes. The papers are a mixture of basic grey scraps of pads I had on my desk. All faux stitched and the flowers added are prima.

receipe -

image - sugar nellie - ropeswing rak of cathy

papers - basic grey

flowers - prima

pearls - stash

number - stash

ribbon - stash

eyelets - papermania

medium - watercolour

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This is Edwards Easter entry for lili of the valley.

Saturday Secret Crafter - Masking

I admit I had a little help on this one as Cathy shoed me how to do this and the steps are hers. I have coloured Tilda in using my promarkers and have kept her on a simple background of two papers as the image is very large. I hope you like it x

recipe -

image - ballet Tilda

papers - basic grey Eva

flowers - prima

gems - stash

transfer - stash

ribbon - stash

medium - promarkers

Saturday Secret Crafter - Spring

Another quick card I made last night. I have a box of coloured images which I coloured ages ago and have decided where possible to use these, rather than colour a new image in. The theme of the card is spring, hence why I have choosen a lovely green card stock. The paper is from DCWV Spring matstack and I have doodled a border onto it. Tilda has been coloured in with water colours. The flowers are blooms to go and the brads, sentiment and rik rak are stash. The charm is again from mad cow beads. I hope you like it x

Saturday Crafter

This is a card I have done for saturday crafter but I am not sure it qualifies as the hearts are only scribbled borders. The image is Sarah Kay which has been watercoloured, then cut with a fiskars and the scallopped edge was done for me by Cathy using her nesties. The paper was a rak as were the gems in the corner. The flowers are prima. I hope you like it.

Bev thank you for the award which I have passed on in an earlier post x