Friday Sketcher

Another on the darkside card. I will try and retake the picture in sunlight tomorrow but I had to put it up as I have done 3 cards tonight - am I on a roll or not? Just shows that my husband is watching the rugby league and instead of blog hopping I decided to do some cards for a change. Plus my two napped a bit earlier and I caught up on alot of my blogging then.

Well this card is for another of the boys friends a little girl whom will be 3 on Sunday and we are off to her party. The sentiment reads - Birthday Princess. The papers have been doodled and I have added an extra flower and a charm to the sketch. I am very pleased with it, I hope you like it too.

recipe -

image - Sarah Kay - Picnic time

papers - basic grey - boxer

flowers - prima forever flowers (aren't they lush sorry Becky I could not keep them for sketch and stash they were calling to me)

brads - stash

ribbon - stash

lace - stash

border - nesties

swirls - cutterbug vintage frame

charm - mad cow beads

medium - watercolours

Penny Black Saturday

OMG the light quality on this is appauling. I am sorry I have to post it but if I don't I will miss the cut of time. A clean and simple card from me as the image is on the large size. It has been coloured in promarkers, kept unfussy as it is for one of Henry's little friends 2nd birthday.

recipe -

image - Penny black - a rak sorry don't know the name

papers - DCWV - Spring Stack

ribbon - stash

peeloff - stash

card - stash

medium - promarkers

Spoonful of Sugar - Torn

Well I am not sure on this at all. I could not bring myself to tear any new sheets of paper so I raided my off cut box and stuck them onto the background serendipidy style. I even ripped around the image and the background too. I coloured her in using promarkers and kept it simple as it is for one of the many thank you cards I need to send to Edward's friends' Mum's for his birthday presents. I hope you like it, any feedback would be appreciated, still trying to show highlights with promarkers in the hair and failing miserably.

recipe -

image - Sugar Nellie - Gorjuss with letter

papers - mixture of basic grey scraps

flowers - prima

gems - stash

ribbon - stash

transfer - papermania I think

card - stash

medium - promarkers

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

ABC - D is for Distressing

Doh I should really have set this as a delayed post and just noticed I hadn't!!!! I was unable to load any photos due to blogger playing up on monday so Marcea kindly added mine to the ABC Challenge. Tuesday was Ed's birthday and I completely forgot - whoops.

The image is a rak of Cathy that I have had ages, but while she was up on Saturday I had a play with her distressed inks and this is the result. I am very happy with it. I think the grungy distressed look suits this card. I have used bright papers as well as Ed has alot of friends parties coming up - I think that we have one a week for the next 2 months eek so this would be lovely for a little girl. I borrowed Cathy's distressing tool and frayed the edge - had to do twice as I was too delicate at first and then i ripped it - eeek I was scared I would rip it in two! I hope you like the finished effect.

recipe -

image - tilda rak of Cathy

papers- basic grey - offbeat

card - stock

flowers - prima

brad - stash

charm - madcow beads

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.

Lili of the Valley - Guest Designer Call Enrty Card

I apologise now for the picture quality, it is so dark here today. We have had to cancel going to the Zoo for Edward's 3rd Birthday as it is terrential rain.

Wow this is my first card using my gorguss stamps and I love them, they are so easy to colour. I am already saving for the next release. I have used papers from the basic grey two scoops pack and have doodled around the borders. Not too sure if the swirls work, I was trying to follow the pattern on the paper. I decided to use the plain papers to accent instead of the fancy for a change and i think it works really well. I hope you like it.

recipe -

image - sugar nellie - sitting gorguss

papers - basic grey - two scoops

flowers - prima

brads - making memories

charm - madcow designs

peel off - stash

medium - water colour pencils

Cute Card Thursday - Magical Animals

I am praying this works as I have been trying to upload photos all day and Blogger wouldn't have it!

This cute dragon was brought specially to make my son's 3rd birthday card - hence the 3 star brads. It is my 3rd attempt after the ink ran on my beautiful first attempt that I did with Cathy's distressed inks (which she took home with her :-( ) The second attempt the paint ran again on the edge of the wings, so on the 3rd attempt i used my sakura pen for that part instead and voila. The main part of the dragon has been coloured with H2O's, and I have used 2 shades over laying on the tummy to give a greeny silver effect (sorry light poor her to show the shine). I have also decorated the inside of the card - not shown with the dinosaur papers from the same pack of basic grey. I hope you like x

recipe -

image - WOJ - Dragon

papers - basic grey - archaic

brads - stash

medium - H2O's

I have won an award

The wonderful Val has presented me with this award - thank you hun.

The rules are to pass it onto 10 deserving blogs, I will pass it onto the top ten commentors on my blog - congratulations girls x

Dutch Dare - Cathy's sketch

When I first saw the sketch I must admit I panicked, but actually once I got into it, it is a lovely sketch to follow. I have used my new stamp that is my mothers day present of one of the boys (I also got Melinda the helping angel) and I could not resist trying her out. I have watercoloured her in and mounted her using my nesties. I have doodled the edges as I thought faux stitching would not work with using stripped papers. I hope you like and have a go yourself.

recipe -

image - WOJ Willow with basket

papers - basic grey - Eva

flowers - prima

brads - papermania

charm - madcow beads

ABC C is for Child's Card

This card was made for Henry to give to Edward on his 3rd birthday on tuesday. I used one of my prize H&S stampe dimages from Heidi on the card and coloured and shaded it in using promarkers. I mounted everything on red (his favourite colour) I hope that you like it and check out all the other design team members blogs.

recipe -

image - H&S

papers - Basic grey - cupcake

gems - papermania

backing paper - stock

medium - promarkers

Whiff of Joy designer call

Well I am not to sure about this at all, so putting it up and will see if I enter it or not. I have taken the picture of the card from this angel to show that Willow is raised from the backing papers. I have distressed the edges of the papers and then mounted onto green card stock to high light this fact, and with the antique lace to give an antique feel to the card. I debated faux stitiching the papers or sewing them, but felt it would detract too much hence the slight distessing. I hope you like.

recipe -

image - WOJ Willow and hot chocolate

papers - K and Co Hydranga

brads - Papermania

charm- madcow designs

pearls - stash

ribbon - american crafts

flowers - prima

medium - watercolours and H2O's

Cute card thursday meets Lili of the Valley

I have not managed to make a card in over a week and I am so far behind on my challenges I am sorry but I am going to have to double up wherever possible, competitions allowing. Cute card thursday is spring and this image fits lovely and Lili od the Valley was 2 papers (backing is one and swirls the other) one flower and 3 brads. I have added a ribbon and a charm - I hope that this is allowed.

Off to carry on coughing and make some more lemsip - hope everyone is well xxx

recipe -

papers - DCWV - Spring matstack

flower - prima antiques

Charm - madcowbeads

swirls - sissex

ribbon - stash

image - penny black - rak of jane

ABC B is for Blue and Brown

I am so sorry putting this up late, but I am ill yet again with a bad flu and cough. The papers are from my stash, I think they were the fairy pack but I can't remember who did them. The flowers are prima, the image is watercoloured a rak of Jayne, cut with Nesties. The ric rak is stash that I did not like white on the card so I painted it with black tea! I hope you like x

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