Snowflake and Willow

Gosh it is so dark today isn't it. This was the best I could get with these cards and you can't see all the highlights in the hair, has anyone got any tips please on how to photograph in poor light?

This card is for 2 challenges, I have reused the fab sketch on WOJ to make a card for my sister whose first baby is due today! She doesn't know what she is having so I have used a yellow and green pallett and made it sparkly as she loves bling. I have added stickles to already glimmer misted roses for extra sparkle. The image I made to look like a cameo as our mother adored these to make the card extra special for her. I am just annoyed that the poor lighting cannot pick out my shading as I am so pleased with it.

challenges -
WOJ - sketch
Cute card Thursday - 1sts

eta - I can't even take another photo of it as my Dad took one look at it and has taken it home with him, right need to make George another one now!



Fantastic sketch on the sugar bowl this week, with the added theme of paper piercing, I must admit I have made a few cards like this as it is fab in different colour schemes. I coloured the flower with my copics as I didn't have the shade I wanted, think it looks ok.

challenge - sugar bowl.

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.

pink and gorjuss

Yes I have been playing with my promarkers again still debating getting copics! This is for the sugarbowl challenge - Image is a gorjuss girl and the papers are basic grey. Sorry quick post today have a splitting headache x

Sugar Bowl - Sketch plus Glitter

Would you believe it if I said this card has been a week on the go, I have managed to do bits in between being a nurse and a comfort blanket for my two poorly little boys. Unfortunately my WOJ Design Team Call is still not finished :-( But good luck to all whom entered.

Wow I have not managed one of these for a while, I keep forgetting it is on - I am useless with fortnightly challenges.

I have washed all the papers in Tea Stain Distressed inks and used a bit on Vintage Photo on the off centre square. The image has been distressed to as a wash and then highlighted and coloured in distressed inks in shades of brown. The lace was stewed in my tea before adding (instead of the sentiment) and I have painted the flowers too before spraying them with glittermist. All papers are KandCo.

I hope you like it, it is lighter in daylight x

Sugar Bowl - Spring

I decided to go for the spring option as this beautiful Elizabeth Bell Stamp looks like she is out hunting eggs on a windy easter sunday. I have watercoloured her and I think she looks stunning. I hope you like it.

receipe -
image - Sugar Nellie - Windswept
papers - Basic Grey - Porceline
pearls - stash
flowers - prima
brad - stash
spacer - eggstravaganza
medium - watercolured

The Sugar Bowl - Mothers Day

This was the brief -

As Mothers Day here in the UK falls on March 22nd this year, please make a card (or other craft project) for a Mother. This does not have to be specifically a Mothers Day card, just something, you know, that a Mother would love!

Here is my Card - this is what my mother would have loved, as she sadly has been gone 4 years this coming May.

While making it I sung the following song -

Oh, the summertime is coming

And the trees are sweetly blooming

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pluck wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

I will build my love a tower

Near yon pure crystal fountain

And on it I will build

All the flowers of the mountain

Will ye go lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pluck wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

If my true love she were gone

I would surely find another

Where wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pluck wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

Oh, the summertime is coming

And the trees are sweetly blooming

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?

Which was one of her favourite songs and the one she was cremated to.

I have coloured the image in green which was her favourite colour with my watercolours and have added just a detail of pink as I wanted a pink ribbon on her as she died of breast cancer. The image looks very like the photos we have of her in twenties which was why I choose it.

I do hope you like it, it has made me cry writting this post - and I will get a better picture of it in daylight tomorrow.

recipe -

Sugar Nellie - Basketful of happiness

papers - basic grey - porcelain

flowers - prima and hero arts

lace - stash

ribbon - stash

charm - madcowbeads

brads - papermania

The Sugar Bowl - A Christmas Card

I decided to treat myself and this is what I brought - isn't she so beautiful? I decided to use her to make a contempory christmas card for the sugar bowl challenge, keeping it clean and simple at the sametime. I decided to paper pierce her as it is a technique I have not done for a while and this image looked brilliant to do it with and I was not proved wrong at all! I watercoloured her first and then added the silver highlights to the coat and then added the paper piercing. I finished the image off by adding glitz to the muff which was undercoloured in silver. The image and border (including the 2nd panel) were cut using my nesties. I then doodled a wavy border around all the papers in silver pen. I then added a ribbon from stash and 6 gems. I hope that you like it.

recipe -

image - sugar nellie - snowflake

papers - DCWV - pink christmas multi stack

ribbon and gems - stash

medium - watercolour, paper piercing and glitter glue.

Sugar Bowl Challenge 1

Well this is my entrance piece for the new blog delicated to the wonderful stamps from the Sugar Nellie factory. Unfortunately the lighting makes the card look awful but it is much better in real life as Jayne will tell you as it was for her daughter Seren's 4th birthday party yeaterday. I have fauxed stitched all the elements in the sketch. The papers are K and Co and the blue is from stash which I have put through the cuttlebug using my birds and swirls folder which I used different ways for the different pieces. The flowers are part of my christmas present off the boys are the winter primas. It is good to be back.

eta it won't let me add this to the comments on the site - if anyone could help please let me know