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.

Pink cards in copics

This card is for the following challenge -

*Sugar Bowl - pink and brown.

Papers are basic grey and added rose flowers to accent the card.

colours used e50 e51 e21 e53 r00 r11 r20 r32 r22 e49 g94 e37 e47 e37 e35 e33 y11


This card is for the following challenges -

*Sketch and Stash - the stamp is new a rak of Heidi and the papers - basic grey - sultry are new.
*Cute card thursday - Pink and Green

Coloured in using the following promarkers

rv000 r00 r11 r20 e50 e51 e53 g21 yg63 g94 85 w1 w3 5 w7

Sorry a very short post this headache is killing me, think it maybe a sinus migrane if no improvement in a day or two feel a trip to the doctors is needed.

Summer Showers Tilda

This is my card which I have made this afternoon for the following two challenges. It is gorgeous here today but I loved this image that I stamped off Jayne so I just had to use it.

The two challenges are

*Just Magnolia monthly decoupage
*Sketch and Stash - (new papers, gifted flowers and new glimmer mist and sentiment)

I have used my promarkers to colour the layers - I had to do the ones underneath as it did not feel right otherwise! I blended these as per my facial tutorial. I then used basic grey wisteria pad to follow Becky's sketch. The hydranga flowers were a rak of Heidi (thank you again hun) and the roses I used my new hydranga glimmermist on. The sentiment is a peel off I have had ages.

I hope you like x

Little Gardener

A very simple card for two challenges

* Sketch and Stash - the image is new from the new Sarah Kay release, the paper is a 12x12 I have had for years that I did not know what to do with and I used my new martha stewart punch on the border.

* Cute Card Thursday - red and teal.

I am hopefully be back to getting a card done a day, gosh have i had a nightmare weekend with the boys or what. Absolutely pouring here today so no idea how I am going to entertain them, they are bored of all their toys and I may just give in for once and put Cars on and let them have a veg day!

Lazy Sunny Afternoon

I adore this card and unfortunately the light does not do it justice. I have coloured it to show Willow sunning her face and so the light hits on the right and all the colour belnds away to the left. I will try and take another photo of it outside later on. I am adoring my distressed inks and I think that I am slowly getting better at using them too.

I hope you like it.

This card is for the following challenges
Sketch and Stash - Both the stamps are new as are 2 of the distressed inks.
Creative Card Crew - flowers
Spoonful of suga - lace
Whiff of Joy - Brown and Blue
Cute Card Thursday - bling = there are pearls on the card

recipe -
images - WOJ Summer Willow barefoot, Tildas Wall
papers - K and Co Motifica and Roam
flowers - hero arts
brads - papermania
lace - stash
ribbon - stash
nesties - small and large circle
medium - distressed inks - sky - broken china - hair - walnut stain, leave s- peeled paint - cherrie s- fired brick - dress - weathered wood, skin - tattered rose - wall tea dye and old paper.

Spoonful of Sugar and Sketch and Stash

Please excuse my thumb in the photo as I was trying to get a good photo yesterday in between hail storms! This is my first attempt on my own at masking and I am so happy with the result. It is a birthday card for my husbands uncle who is 50 tomorrow so I have popped his age on the little plack that Oakley is holding, therefore it qualifies for Spoonful of Sugar celebration. A wonderful sketch by Becky at Sketch and Stash that I had to use and kept the card embellishment free as the image is so detailed (both stamps new) and for a male I did not think it needed anything else. I hope that you like it x

receipe -

images - WOJ Sumemr Kit Oakley, Magnolia old fence

papers - basic grey - granola

punch - fiskars

medium - distressed inks.

Sketch and Stash meets spoonful of sugar (textures)

It may not look like much but is one of the most expensive cards that I have made! What is new - well the papers are from my K and Co tulip pad, the image was the first time I had coloured in distressed inks (apart from my trial with Cathy's), the ribbon I shook cutting as it is my stroking ribbon! The crochet flower was with the ribbon part of my birthday present of Cathy and I have resisted using for so long, but felt the need to use a tiny bit of it today. This is the different textures which qualify it for a spoonful of sugar.

This card will be used for a crafting friend whom will appreciate the value of the items that I have used!

recipe -

image - woj willow kneeling

paper s- K and Co - tulip pad

crochet flower - stash

spacer - stash

ribbon - stash

leaves - l com punch

gems - stash

brad - papermania

medium - distressed inks - worn lipstick, tattered rose, peeled paint, black soot, walnut stain

Sketch and Stash

I am actually managing to finish off cards I started earlier in the week before you die of shock at all my postings today. This card has been made using the following new stash -

• K and Co Brianna Pad
• Fiskars scallopped lace punch
• green sticky gems
• hot of the press silver dragonfly brad

I hope you like it.

recipe -

• image - sugar nellie - girl with flower - rak of Cathy
• papers - k and co brianna
• gems - stash
• brad - stash
• flowers - prima
• medium - watercoloured and ink doodles

Sketch and Stash

A bit of a dark card even though the picture was taken in daylight. Well what is new on the card - the pearls are new, the image is new as I have brought her even though I have used RAK image sof her before. The eyelets are new too, as is my fern punch. A lovely sketch to work with as so flexable.

recipe -

image - woj willow with basket

paper - basic grey - boxer (?)

ribbon - stash

eyelets - papermania

flowers - prima

punch - L-EM.com

ribbon - stash

medium - watercoloured

Sketch and Stash part 1 and some I made earlier.

Well as the title says it is part one of Sketch and Stash as I have decided to do a male card and a female card, one simple and one elaborate with the sketch - hope this is ok Becky.

My new is the paper - basic grey - granola. The image was a rak - sorry forgot whom it came from. The brad was also a rak of Nessy. I hope you like my simple take on the sketch.

recipe -

image - WOJ Matthew lying

papers - basic grey - granola

brad - rak of Nessy

medium - watercolour and glitter glue

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Here are just two cards I made for enjoyment as Edward has a lot of male friends whom birthdays are imminent.

Also thank you to Bernie for Ed's card it is lovely - I adore the pencil x

Sketch and Stash 5

I have been so desperate to use my new stamp and I have been saving it to do this challenge that you may see alot of her on the blog over the next few days now. A gorgeous lovely sketch from Becky, which I rotated to fit the image on. The papers are new - one sheet used previously (does that count) and the ribbon is new best.

recipe -

Image - WOJ - Melinda the helpful angel

Paper - basic grey - urban praire

ribbon - american crafts

flowers - prima

brads - stash

peeloff - stash

glitterglue - glitz

medium - watercolour

Sketch and Stash

OMG you would not believe how bad the light is today - this was taken in daylight - eek, have taken a small under electric light but the congratulations sentiment in gold metalic has not shown up. Ok what is new - the ribbon is from American Boutiques and is yummy and the flowers from Blooms go Belle (which was a birthday gift of Lyndsey). The image is Sugar Nellie Postbox and the papers are K and Co Life Journey - I hope that you like it x