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Sunday, 8 June 2014

Salute Tilda - All at Sea at Totally Tilda

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Happy Sunday to all my followers and visitors both new and old, I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend and I'm so glad you took the time to drop by.

Today it's time for a new challenge over at Totally Tilda, and this time the theme is 'All at Sea'.
For this challenge we want to see your nautical or beach themed Tildas.

I chose to use Salute Tilda, and matched her up with some beautiful Pion papers. I've added links to products used, where I can, at the end of this post.

I coloured her up with my Inktense pencils, with a light distress ink style.  I do love these pencils, they're so versatile the way you can get different effects with them.  I'm afraid I don't have the colours for this one as I forgot to note them down, and I'm not as familiar with the colours yet like I am with my Copics. I must get into the habit of noting the shades I use when I'm colouring with them. If you're interested in trying these pencils for yourself, why not enter my blog candy here as I'm giving a set of them away.



The frame is an MFT one and the wave border is from La-La Land Crafts.  I added a little cheesecloth behind my layers, to simulate netting.


The inside is simply decorated with a design from the 6 x 6 sheet and a plain white frame for a message.


I hope you like her, do nip across to the challenge blog and take a peek at the rest of the team's makes, it's really worth your while.

I'd love to see you join in this challenge too our prize this week is


Salute Tilda
All other flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I'm off now to finish crafting my cards for next week in the hope I might get to enjoy some of this lovely sunshine we're having today.  Take care! : ) x x 

I'm entering the following challenges:

Tilda's Town #107  (Fussy & Fancy)
Addicted to Stamps #84 Outdoors
BunnyZoe's Crafts May Challenge - Flowers and Charms


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Friday, 6 June 2014

Rosie with Cake for ACR's 1st Birthday

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Wheeee! It's Friday! Thank goodness for that I say, having 3 days off is lovely till you return to work and your in box looks like you've been off for a month! It's been a busy 4 days for me.  Luckily, I'd already made this card a few weeks ago when I was having my first play with Inktense pencils and a LotV stamp after my visit there for their birthday bash, and how very appropriate it is because it is A Creative Romance's first birthday, yay!

To celebrate some of the Chic Crafters and Elegant Artisans are joining together to put on a Blog Hop for you.  If you've never joined in on a blog hop before, all you have to do is jump from blog to blog, and if you get lost, just pop back to the main blog here, to pick it up again.

The theme this time is Anything Goes, with the option of Happy Birthday if you want. I can't wait to see what you all make. 

Now since it's a special occasion the challenge will run for a whole month rather than our normal 2 weeks, AND we have 3 great prizes to give away. As always the prizes will be drawn at random from the challenge entries, but make sure you stop at each blog in the hop and leave a comment, as we also have some extra prizes hidden along the way, and who knows where they might be?!

I haven't been with the girls since the start of the challenge blog, but I've had the best time being here and I still can't really believe they chose little old me to be on one of their teams.

So anyhoo...on with my card. I made a birthday card and this actually went to a friend to give to her mum for her birthday. I've popped links to my items at the end of my post.


The image is Rosie with cake from LotV. The shape is cut with a Go Kreate die, I used a different shape for the second layer, and the frame is a Spellbinders oval.


I coloured her with my Inktense pencils and as this was my first try I wasn't noting colours, but I do know that I used Teal Green and Red Violet for the clothing. The gorgeous flowers are a mix from TRG, WOC, Prima and a gift from a friend. The sentiment is also from LotV as is the lush paper.


The ribbon is the last piece from my stash and the lovely bling is from the Handcrafted Card Company.

Our wonderful sponsors this week are 


If you've come here from Jenny's blog, you're going the right way and you need to visit Melly next.  If you're lost you can pick up the trail again back at ACR

Well I do hope you enjoy hopping with us and I'll see you back here on Sunday for my Totally Tilda DT make.

Happy hopping! : ) X X

Items used:
Stamp :Lili of the Valley Rosie with Cake
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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Kraftin' Kimmie March Release Blog Hop

Goooood Morning all!! Happy Sunday to all.   I'm here bright and early........well actually that's a fib, I'm in my bed cos it's 5 am on a Sunday here in the UK, so I'm still snoozing and this is scheduled LOL.....
but anyway I'm here in spirit at least to join in with the Krafty Girls on my first ever official release blog hop.....yay!! *\O/* I'm so excited to be part of this!

Over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, we have shared lots of AMAZING new stamps from all the artists for the March release! There's something for everyone!! a very unique new SLOTH set from Thai called WANNA HANG?,  an awesome new a-MOO-zing new set from Cheryl called DOWN ON THE FARM 2!  and lastly, but by no means least,  a SASSY new Moonlight Whispers stamp set....SHOW STOPPERS!

You will get to see ALL of the new images today as you sit back and enjoy our MARCH Krafty Hop! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of these incredible stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are available NOW! And don't forget...if you NEED it all, we have a Gimme Kimmies Kit which features ALL the new March stamps at a discount!!

OH AND we have a bunch of new PAPER PADS in the shop for you today!! There are brand new lines by Simple Stories, Bo Bunny, MME, American Crafts, Graphic 45 and Kaisercraft!! There are also a bunch of restocks of most requested paper pads!!!

Now let's celebrate with our NEW RELEASE and get hoppin' and shoppin'!!

My card uses the other image from the Showgirls set (I showed off the first of the 2 on Friday) and you'd best break out the sunglasses folks cos this is BRIGHT!


When I first saw this stamp with the costume and feathers, I immediately thought of some of the troupes I'd seen  at dance competitions when my daughter was younger and used to do loads of them.  There were a few schools that used to use almost neon colours on the stage and so I thought I'd kind of recreate that feel.
She's coloured in Copics and I'm afraid I tidied away the pens before I noted the colours down. I used plenty of Glamour Dust for sparkle. I've used coloured thread as usual to stitch the layers.


I coloured the bling around the image with Copics to match the papers. The sentiment comes with the set and I've used a Whimsy stamp around it with the matching film strip die to cut it out.


I used the other sides of the papers to decorate the inside. The film strip is from Tim Holtz. Luckily I had a few bright flowers in my stash and this lovely Parrot Green pleated ribbon, I put a little white lace underneath as contrast and voila! C'est fini!

Thank you so much for dropping by : ) x x








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Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Gardner Gayle for Dies to Die for

Happy Tuesday all you lovely crafters.  I'm here with my  inspiration post for Dies to Die for.
Today I've used Gardner Gayle ....and I admit I had a little double take on her name here.  I can't work out whether this is an actual misspelling of gardener...or a play on words, as Gardner is a quite well used surname. Whichever it is all that really matters is that she's a very beautiful image.

 As Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday, in the UK is only a few weeks away, I thought this would make a delightful Mother's Day card, although it could equally be used for  a birthday or thank - you card and probably various other sorts as it's quite a versatile image. But enough waffle and on with the pics! As usual there are links to products at the end of my post that will take you directly to that product in the store.


The stamp is one of the wonderful Saturated Canary collection from Little Darling's Rubber Stamps, drawn by the uber talented Krista Smith. I was tempted to colour her with Distress Inks as I really think she'd suit them, but my Copics have been feeling quite neglected of late, so I thought I'd give them some love.

Skin: E000, 00, 11, R20, 11
Hair: E50, 31, 35, YR20
Clothes: BV000, 00, 02, 04, RV000, R81, 83, E41, 42, 43


I used design papers from the gorgeous Sofiero collection by Maja and I'm  embarrassed to say that I've pretty much covered 2 of layers with embellishment! What a numpty I am.  At least you can see one of them clearly used on the inside of the card.



I did mix and match paper companies here, something I don't do a lot as the textures and weights are often quite different, but here I just used some seed packets cut from Pion Design element sheets. I love these sheets for an inexpensive way of adding some interest to your cards and really 1 sheet will last you for several cards.
Well that's all from me today, I hope whatever you're doing you have a lovely day and I'll be back on Saturday with my very first GDT card for Kraftin' Kimmie....how exciting!! hope to see you there.

  Have fun! : ) x x





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Friday, 14 February 2014

On My Heart - Let's Get Sentimental at A Creative Romance

Happy Friday everyone, it's the end of the week, are you looking forward to the weekend?  I usually am, but I've been on holiday this week and the weekend means it's almost time to go back to work lol.  Sadly I didn't win the lottery while I was on holiday, so it's no idyllic whiling my days away in a designed to order craft room for me hehe.

I'd like to say a huge welcome to my newest followers, it's so lovely to have you with me and also big hugs to my loyal crew who've been with me a while, I haven't forgotten about the Candy I promised, it's just taking me longer than I thought to decide what I'm getting to put together my package, but I'm almost there, just need to order a few bits, so hopefully should be ready to go for next weekend.

Also I've started on my promised tutorials, the first one is live today with this card, you can access them (well 1 for now and more to come) via the Tutorial tab at the top of my blog here.  The one for today is for how I make my shaped cards as I've had quite a few questions lately about those :)

Anyhoo....enough of my waffle and on with my card, which is my DT card for the new challenge at A Creative Romance  and that's Let's Get Sentimental.  It's another easy one really, we just want to see a sentiment of some sort on your make.

My card today is actually my Valentine's card for the OH.  But it's Valentine's Day today, so perfectly safe to share....not that he looks at my blog anyway lol.......FB of course is a different matter.


Now I'll come right out with it, I suck at masculine cards, they're not my forte....however...Valentine's Day by it's very nature is romantic and not very stark adn masculine. I did try not to go too girly, I did not use a single flower! and although my card has some pink, it also has a lot of blue...and some metal...and some lace...sigh, I guess I fail. But even so, I don't think it looks overly feminine...and I like it :) I used Maja Design papers from the Vintage Autumn Basics collection, links to products used can be found at the end of my post.


The image is a Saturated Canary one by the wonderful Krista Smith, isn't she gorgeous? She's a digi called On My heart, I just loved colouring her, especially that hair!  I'ved tried distress inks to colour again, not perfect but I think I'm improving anyway. I used Tattered Rose and Vintage photo for her skin, Antique Linen and Tea Dye for her hair, Chipped Sapphire for her dress and a mixture of Worn Lipstick and Victorian Velvet for the heart.  I used a very little Shabby Pink Frantage around the edges of the oval frame.


The sentiment is from a Whimsy postage stamp sentiment set.  The key and lock are by Tim Holtz and were from my local Hobbycraft.  The edges of all papers have been distressed with Walnut Stain DI.


I've had this jeweled heart in my stash for ages, it was originally lilac, but I've shaded it with a Copic Pen in BV 29 to match my colours.

Well I hope he likes it as much as I do,  do pop over to our challenge blog and check out the rest of the Elegant Artisan's creations, they're stunning I assure you.

If you're joining in with our challenge this week (and you really should!) we have a great sponsor for you and a great prize:




Have a fab day everyone and I'll be back on Sunday with my DT creation for Totally Tilda. : ) x x





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