Penny Black Saturday #42!

Hello again! Sorry for not being around this week, but blame it on my mojo who also hasn't been around! Thanks so much for all the gorgeous entries last week, we loved seeing all your doodles! This weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge is nice and easy - Spring! Interpret as you like! We've got a gorgeous prize of a set of Penny Black clear stamps from our lovely Jackie (she also has the cutest puppy by the way, have a peek! - not as a prize though!!!)
Here's my card! As I'm having some creators block, I decided to use a really simple layout and just fiddle about with the image, so I stamped it 3 times and did a little decoupage! I'm quite pleased to be honest! I hope you like it and hopefully I'll be feeling back to normal next week! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Stamp - 'Bunny Friends' by Penny Black coloured with Copics and Whispers

Paper - 'Serenity' by Kristin Cronin-Barrow @ Sweet Shoppe

Flowers - HobbyCraft

Gems - Creative Beadcraft

Frame - made with scalloped scissors

Sentiment - Doodlebug

Penny Black Saturday #41!

Where do the weeks go?! All the sunshine must have made it fly by! Thanks for all the fabulous entries to Tracies sketch challenge - there were loads!!
This weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge is a personal favourite of mine - Doodling! I do it on almost all of my cards - I can't help myself! Any kind will do! The design team have made some beautiful cards - and lots of different doodles too! Here's my card using an image from a swap - I'm not sure what it's called but I like it! The doodling is my squiggly borders a round the image and papers, I hope you like it! This week, our very own Pauline is donating one of her favourite stamps (a new version obviously!), this cute little sleeping bear! I hope you can join in, thanks for looking!


Supplies-
Stamp - Penny Black coloured with Whispers & Copics
Papers - Daisy Bucket
Gems - Creative Beadcraft
Sentiment - made on the PC and printed onto Safmat film

Sketch Saturday #42 & Papertake (maybe!)

Hi again! Here's my (very late) card for Sketch Saturday and also my card for this weeks Papertake 'Feeling Fruity' challenge until I realised humans can't eat acorns - oops! I understand if I can't be entered! I've used this amazingly cute Greeting Farm stamp which I pre-ordered from Tracy @ Dies to die for and when it came I had this little bundle of Nestie label shapes! How lovely is that?! I hope you like the card, thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

Stamp & sentiment - 'Forest Friends' by Greeting Farm coloured with Whispers

Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Little big Dots' in 'Milk Chocolate' & 'Just Daisies' in 'Crimson'

Embossing - Heart block Cuttlebug folder

Border - Fiskars Treading Water punch

Corners - Dovecraft corner rounding punch

Heart - Woodware punch

Spoonful of Sugar #43 & Cute Card Thursday #51!

Ooh, 2 in one day! I was going to leave this til tomorrow but there'll be a new Cute Card Thursday challenge up by then so here it is! I've combined their 1st birthday sketch with this weeks Spoonful of Sugar 'Little Gem' challenge. It's been lovely and sunny here today, it's so nice to be able to take photos in natural daylight! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Stamp - 'Fizz' by Leanne Ellis @ Sugar Nellie

Papers - Basic Grey 'Sultry' & Pink Petticoat 'Pretty Doodles' in Bubblegum

Gems - Mad About Cards

Ribbon - Ribbon Mad

Gem brad - Poppicrafts

Border - Fiskars Threading Water punch

Sentiment - Cuddly Buddly

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #3!

Oh my goodness, week 3 already!! We had so many entries this last fortnight and it's been so lovely to look through them! This weeks Truly Scrumptious challenge is a sketch by me! I hope you have fun with it! It has to attract a Magpies eye and feature something shiny, mirri card, a charm etc! Here's my card which has both plus some shiny silver brads! I've used one of the gorgeous Leanne Ellis Sugar Nellies, I love this one so much, it's so unusual I think, plus a lot of yummy glitter on the flower and her polka dot background! This week we have the cutest stamp up for grabs from Pink Gem Designs for one lucky entry! Thanks for looking!


Supplies-
Stamp - 'True Love' by Leanne Ellis @ Sugar Nellie coloured with Whispers, Copics & Stickles
Papers - Sizzix
Charm - Scrapz
Sentiment - Daisy Bucket
Ribbon, flowers & brads - stash

Whiff of Joy #21!

Here's my card for this weeks Whiff of Joy sketch challenge. I've used a combination of Sweet Shoppe papers and scraps from my stash - this layout is great for that! I made this card backwards as last night I was too tired to stamp and do the colouring so I completely finished all of the background and embellishments then popped the image on this morning! Thanks for looking!


Supplies-
Stamp - 'Willow with Cookies' coloured with Whispers, Copics and paper piecing
Papers - Heather Roselli @ Sweet Shoppe & stash
Sentiment - Stamps Away and cut out with Nestabilities
Pearls - Glitter Pot
Flowers - Cuttlebug die

Bit of a catch up!

**Scroll down for this weeks ABC and Spoonful of Sugar challenges**
I've had a bit of time for card making today so here's a couple from the challenges in the week.
Firstly, one of Dawnys fab sketches for Papertake and yet another Mothers Day card, this time it's because I showed Jamie the card I'd made for my brother and he said 'oh is that for my mum?' so I've made another for him to give! She's quite a stylish lady and just re-done their kitchen in lime and black, it looks amazing! So that was the inspiration for this card. I've used some gorgeous digi papers from Summer Driggs, she makes lovely designs and gives them away for free!

Supplies-

Stamp - 'Butterfly' by Little Claires Designs coloured with Whispers and Stickles

Papers - 'Limeade' kit by Summer Driggs

Sentiment - Doodlebug

Gems - Ribbon Mad

Ribbon - stash

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Next up is a combo card for this weeks ABC challenge, which is E for Easter and Spoonful of Sugar which is a sketch challenge. I've used this cute High Hopes stamp with some Pink Petticoat papers! Phew! That's all! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Stamp - '3 Pane Easter' coloured with Whispers

Papers - 'Big dots' in 'Sweetcorn' by Pink Petticoat

Sentiment - Doodlebug

Flowers - Prima Hydrangeas

Pearls - Glitter Pot

Penny Black Saturday #40!

Happy Saturday everyone! Yey, it's the weekend (even though I work every Saturday - boo!) This weeks Penny Black Saturday is a fabulous sketch by Tracie - it's a goodie! Although my card is not! I don't know why I don't like it and the photo looks even worse! It's quite sparkly in real life! Oh well! I coloured the stamp in with Whispers and then blended it out with a water brush, then added little pink 'flowers' and covered them and the proper flowers with Glamour Dust, I hope you like it more than me! The prize this week is amazing! A $25 voucher for Simon Says Stamp! How cool?! Thanks for visiting!

Supplies-

Stamp - 'Fantasy' by Penny Black water coloured with Whispers and Glamour Dust

Paper - K&Co McKenna

Flowers, lace & ribbon - stash

Corners - Cuttlebug die

How good was Comic Relief last night?! I loved it! At work, we got everyone to wear red and pay £2 then I made Fairy Cakes and charged a minimum of 50p, we made a total of £62!! (There's only 18 of us!) Not bad I thought, I wish I'd taken piccies though! I hope you all had fun! xx

Basic Grey #25!

I don't know how I'm typing this, my arms feel like they're made of lead after yesterdays exercise! Here's my card for this weeks Basic Grey challenge which this week is a sketch. I've decided to make another Mothers Day card, no I don't have 2 mums but I know from experience that my brother will text me and ask me to make her a card about 15mins before he needs it!! I've used these gorgeous Bittersweet papers from Basic Grey and this Butterfly stamp which I got at the Make It show, I've 'popped' up the wings more than the body - not sure if you can tell! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Stamp - Butterfly' by Little Claire Designs coloured with Whispers and Stickles

Papers - Core'dinations (embossed with Swiss Dots folder then sanded) and 'Bittersweet' by Basic Grey

Ribbon - Ribbon Mad

Gems - Creative Beadcraft

Corners - Cuttlebug Die

Border - Martha Stewart Doily punch

Sentiment - Doodlebug and Nestabilities

Friday Sketchers #42 & Colour Create #6!

A bit of a challenge combo card here I'm afraid! I've used the fab sketch from Mumur at Friday Sketchers (although I've flipped it, moved the text and replaced the flower with a bow - hopefully it still counts!) and this weeks Colour Create which is Orange, Yellow and Green. This worked out perfectly because I'd already decided I wanted to make my mum a Mothers Day card with this fab Daffodil download from Chris - Sketching Stamper and the colours suit down to the ground! I think I'm back off to bed now - I thought it would be a good idea to meet my friend for a 9.15 Body Attack class at the gym, only she then followed it with 45 mins of free weights and running!! I feel like I've been run over! Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies-

Image - Sketching Stamper (79p - what a bargain!) coloured with water colour pencils and highlighted with Sakura Stardust

Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Pistachio' little big dots & 'Sunshine' little swirls (orange paper from stash)

Border - Fiskars Threading Water punch

Ribbon - stash

Gems - Creative Beadcraft

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Corners - Cuttlebug die

Penny Black Saturday #39!

Hi again! Better late than never! Firstly, thanks so much to everyone who entered last weeks challenge - I've been so rubbish in visiting your fabulous blogs, I promise I'll be better next week! On to this weeks Penny Black Saturday Challenge, it's a Recipe - 3 brads, 2 ribbons and 1 flower, with a prize of 2 Debbi Moore stamps kindly donated by Kath up for grabs!

Here's my card using this cutie little mouse and more Sweet Shoppe papers (I buy the Quarterly Assortments by the way - not the whole shop!) Word of advice - don't try and punch through paper + card + double sided tape - I thought I'd was going to break my beloved MS Doily punch : ( It made it though, don't worry! I've been a little bit cheeky and used the flower on my image as the flower in the recipe! Have a great weekend!

Supplies-
Stamp - 'Gifts for you' by Penny Black water coloured with Whispers
Papers - by MandaBean @ Sweet Shoppe
Ribbon - Ribbon Mad
Border - Martha Stewart Doily punch
Brads & flower - stash
Sentiment - Doodlebug