Guest Design Card - Secret Crafter

I was over joyed when Wendy and Jane from Secret Crafter asked me to guest design for 4 weeks following my entry into their design team competition a while back. Here is my first card that I have made for the challenge.

Tilda is coloured in using copics, cut out using nesties and mounted onto basic grey two scoops, then pearls have been added to the corners. Finally a bouquet of flowers have been added tied with ribbon to the front. The sentiment is by hero arts.

I hope that you like it x

Last Christmas

This is my last card for ABC Christmas.
Tilda has been paperpierced with paper from DCWV old pink Xmas Paper. Coloured in copics.
I hope you like x

At last a card to show you

Yay, I got heating back last wednesday and managed to finally get back in my craft room on thursday once it had warmed up!
After I caught up on my design team cards I was able to make this wonderful card for the following challenges

• Simon Says - Punch it - I used a punch for the leaves
• Whiff of Joy - 3 papers, 2 bling, 1 flower - well it is one flower arrangement I hope that qualifies it was lonely!
• Charisma - fruity colours - limes and blackcurrents
• Secret Crafter - Purple, Green and White
• Spoonful of Sugar - Freestyle

Unfortunately I did not get a great photo under the daylight lamp.

The papers are basic grey, and the image WOJ. Coloured in distressed inks.

I hope you like x

ABC M is for

Masking!

For some reason this did not post.

Ouch it is so cold here we have had no heating for the past 3 days and it has been too cold to type or craft. It is hurting my hands to even type.So a very simple card and post. Papers are all from stash as is lace and flowers. Images are WOJ. Hope you like sorry it is so simple I wanted to sew the edges but could not tread the needle it is so chilly.

hugs xxx

Whiff of Joy Design Team Call Entry Card

Katharina has announced a new guest design team call on her blog. She is looking for1-3 people with excellent colouration skills. Full details can be found here along with the sketch you need to use for your card.

Here is my entry. I have used Willow with small baby for my card, coloured in distressed inks and H2O's. I did not have the shade of H2O I required for the dress so I mixed Weathered Wood distressed ink with my glimmer mist hydranger (used on the white flowers) to give a sparkle. My papers are a mixture of K and Co Life's journey and Laura Ashley flocked blues. They have been distressed with vintage photo and tea dye, as have the ribbon and lace from my stash. I have distressed my luggage tags from Tim Holtz and added those instead of a sentiment. The flowers are wildorchardcrafts.

I do hope you like

hugs Vicky x

ps also entered for simon says challenge shabby chic

Two new Magnolia Cards

Good evening everyone, hope you are ok and have survived all the snow, it is just yucky slush here and the school run a pushchair was not fun!

Here is my first card. The image was a rak of Jane which I have had for ages as I did not want to colour her as she is so beautiful but I plucked up the courage too and I think I did her proud. She has been coloured in distressed inks and sparkles added to her wings. I have distressed the papers from K and Co's life journey script pad and added tea dye distressed inks to the edges. The lace is from my stash and the flowers are wildorchardcrafts which I have tied with a bit of faded frayed ribbon. I am so pleased with the way it looks I may keep it for myself! The sentiment is heroarts.

Challenges entered for -

• Simon Says Shabby Chic - and I will be brave and add it to their DT Call
• Magnolia Down Under - another use for a stamp this was a winter kit.
• Roses on Paper winter - the stamp is a winter kit stamp (abit vague I know will try and do another card to fit this)
• Just Magnolia - Thank you.

On to my second card I have to show you. Yummy pink bobunny papers and the grey is gorgeous and from Laura Ashley. Tilda has been coloured in copics and cut with my new nesties 8 which were a Christmas present. A simple bow has been added with my usual roses. A simple birthday card as the person it is intended to doesn't do fussy!

Challenges entered for -

• Charisma - anything new - new papers and nesties
• Cute Card Thursday - pink and grey
• Dutch Dare - sketch
• Magnolia Down Under - another use for the image - it is a christmas image used as a birthday card.

I hope you have enjoyed my cards

hugs Vicky x

ABC Christmas B is for....

BELLS AND GLITTER

Here is my 2nd DT Card for the ABC Christmas Blog. This wonderful WOJ Stamp was a rak of my team member Helen as was the sentiment and the bells. I have coloured Henry in distressed inks and distressed my papers a mixture of Basic Grey Wassell and from my Christmas scrap box. The flower is prima and I have added the glitter to the gaps in the spacer, the brad is K and Co.

I hope you like, do check out the other DT members work.

Am I too late - From the heart Willow

One of my wonderful sons hid the camera so I had to get my husband to borrow one so I could take a picture of this and my design team cards.

I have coloured her using copics, distresed inks and sparkles. The papers are basic grey and the flowers wildorchardcrafts. The heart was a rak of Heidi, the sentiment is magnolia and the image is WOJ.

Challenges entered -

Quintox - hotchocolate

spoonful of sugar - hearts

Cute Card Thursday - All new - new stamp and flowers and new copic colours on top

Charisma - pink, brown, cream and toffee

Simon Says - hot chocolate

friday sketchers - sketch

Lorraines House Mouse Candy Challenge

I hope you like x

ABC L is for ....

Layering!

I chose to use one paper Laura Asley and layer it up, I have also decoupaged the image, which has been coloured in using my beloved copics. The flowers have had antique lace added to them and they are the new carnations from Wildorchardcrafts which match the flowers on the paper. The lace is from stash. I hope you like it, do check the other girls cards out and remember we are lucky that Lacey (whom is a star) is sponsoring us again.

New Tilda Card and a Sarah Kay Card

This first cards was made using basic grey wisteria pad and watercolouring the Sarah Kay image. I used the sketch from Create for Fun this week and just added beads instead of sentiment. It is intended for a friend whom is expecting her fourth child in the next few weeks, one scan said a girl and the other said it maybe a boy, so decided not to put the sentiment on just incase it turns into a boy. She doesn't do pink so I thought purple would be a nice alternative and as it being her fourth she has had lots of mother and baby cards in the past. As it is for a baby I am entering it into the New Beginnings challenge over on Secret Crafter this week. The flowers are wild orchard craft which have been dusted in stickles frosted lace. I have been doing this to my flowers for months now and I prefer the result to glimmer mist for winter cards.
My second card to show you I have used one of the new tilda images from the winter pack. I must admit I am not very happy with the kit this time, the sentiments and the accessories are nice, but the actual stamps are a real mismatch and I don't like tilda in heels, I am worried they are trying to turn her into Anya (a character I am sorry I just don't like). Coloured in with copics and mounted on a basic grey pad, think it is two scoops (pad upstairs and I am downstairs - sorry), Flowers as per above. I have used my new folder that Samantha managed to get hold of for me, thanks hun and so it qualifies for the Something New Challenge on Stamp Something. The Sketch is the Allsorts new or old Challenge, which fits lovely too and finally the Basic Grey, Cream, pink and blue, of which all are featured in the papers.

Hope all are ok, hope to be back to catch up with my blogging soon.

Hugs

Vicky x

ABC Christmas

The first challenge of the new blog ABC Christmas went live today. I am late making my card as I have been ill in bed since Xmas eve with a bad cold and suspected pleurasy. Basicallyt he lining between my lungs and ribs became inflamed making it painful to breath and move as all bruised. I ended up at the emergency doctors at 11pm on baxing day as I could not stop wheezing and my inhalour was not helping and the emergency doctor needed to check my chest to make sure it was not pneumonia, so I have spent the last few days in bed, thankfully my husband has been on annual leave to look after the boys.

I could not let Samantha and the rest of the team down after all the hard work that she has put into the new blog, so here is a card from me. It is rather a simple on I am afraid but please forgive me this once.

Hugs, a happy new year to you all xxx

Vicky x

check out the ABC Christmas blog for the winner of my small candy - to be posted in the new year when I am well along with the winners prize from my birthday candy which I have added to as been unable to post with all the family illnesses.

ABC Christmas Blog Hop

The ABC christmas Blog hop has arrived and I hope you have fun! I'm last on the hop!

So if you have just stumbled on my blog and wanna join in then just go back to the start ABC Christmas Blog

If you have not come here from Samantha's blog then you maybe have got lost and need to go back to the beginning ABC Christmas Blog

This is My Christmas Hop card

For the card my G is for green and glittery

I have used:

Sketch from this weeks Whiff of Joy

papers are 12x12's I had in stash

Coloured in with copics

flowers wildorchard crafts

Pearls, charm, pearl brads and ribbon from stash

Snowflake cuttlebug folder

Sentiment forever friends

Please leave me a comment on this post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning my candy! The deadline for entry into any of the Candy's is midnight on the 29th

You should now have collected all the letters for the mystery word so head back to the ABC Christmas Blog to Email your words and leave a comment to tell us you have finished the hop! Did you have fun?

We all have thanks for joining us!

ABC K is for Kissing, blog hop sneak and Ed's card

We are lucky to have Wendy sponsor us on abc this week and it is a nice theme of K is for Kissing. I have used a sarah kay stamp and mme papers both of which are available in Wendy's secret crafter shop. Flower is prima as is the swirl, papers have been slightly distressed.



This is Ed's school christmas card - isn't it adorable had to share.

and finally here is a sneak peek of the blog hop card for tomorrow. Make sure you are back here for the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog hop.



hugs Vicky xxx

missed challenge cards? - Help

My husbands job means that he is very busy this time of year (especially with all the snow) and has to work from home most evenings on the computer, hence why I have not been around in blog land very much. Here are some cards I have done, that I think I have missed the challenges they were originally intended for, and I have lost the sheet with all my challenges written down. If you see one that fits a new challenge posted before today could you please let me know so that they don't go to waste. thanks xxx

A quick cracked glass card.
A quick card, papers basic grey wassill - adore this pack, image tilda Another cracked glass card.
This was just a play around card - I think it may have been for a Simon Says Challenge
This was the spoonful of sugar last week. Image is Sugar Nellie Snowflake, which has been coloured in copics then I applied clear embossing powder as per Cathy and Rach's tutorials and then cracked it. Papers etc stash.
I think this card was a papertake sketch? Not sure, papers Basic Grey Wassill. Image WOJ.

It is so cold outside, so I snuggled up in my craft room

This is a lovely Tilda card, the photography does not do it justice, but I don't think it ever got light today! Coloured in distressed inks and mounted onto K and Co Xmas papers, flowers are wild orchard crafts. I have used last weeks (I think) friday sketchers and will be entering this in the following challenges,

• Just Magnolia - Xmas

A neglected Sugar Nellie Stamp called Snowflake. I have used the sketch from Sketch and Stash this week and my new items are the navy flowers and a new martha stewart boarder punch. Coloured in copics. Papers are last years dovecraft Christmas.

I will enter this card into the following challenges

• Sketch and Stash
• Secret Crafter - Snow
• Simon Says let it snow
• stamp something - winterwonderland

One of my new birthday stamps, coloured in distressed inks and twinkling H2O's. Mounted on dovecraft papers (rak of Jacqui thanks hun) Pearl Swirl is from prima. Adore these large tea roses from wildorchardcrafts.

Challenges entered

• Allsorts pearls and swirls
• friday sketchers - sketch used
• Woj - sparkle - roses have stickles on them