Truly Scrumptious Challenge #51!

Hello! I hope you're all well and enjoying the first few glimpses of spring (even if it is still freezing!) It's time again for another Truly Scrumptious challenge, this week is Pearls & Swirls! And there's a prize from Robyns Fetish Digi Stamps for one lucky entry!
Here's my card using some poorly neglected stash! I love these pretty stamps! And the paper was free from a magazine, I decided on adding purple to the colour scheme by a little purple butterfly but then I went and covered it up! oops! You can just see it peeking out underneath the big pink butterfly!
This is also for these challenges -
Papertake - Putting on the Glitz
Simon Says Stamp - Make your own Embellishment (mine is the large butterfly and pearl flourish
Friday Sketchers - this sketch.
Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - 'Come Softly' by Sweet Pea Stamps
Colouring - Copics & Sakura Stardust pen
Paper - Kate Knight stack free with Jan '11 CM&P magazine
Embossing - Birds & Swirls embossing folder onto Core'dinations then sanded
Border - Fancy edge scissors
Pearls - Stash
Butterflies - small - EK Success punch, large - Spellbinders die
Flowers - EK Success Daisy punch
Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Penny Black Saturday #137!

Evening all! Another late post but at least I've got the right day! I hope you're all having a good weekend so far, I'm feeling a bit fragile today due to a few White Russians last night - oops!
Anyway, here's my card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge. This week is Love is...and we'd like you to complete the sentence on or inside your card! There's 2 gorgeous prizes to be won this week, a cute teddy stamp from Penny Black Inc and a gorgeous bundle of ribbons from The Ribbon Girl! And if that wasn't enough, we also have the lovely Helen as a Guest Designer for this month, I think she's joined in with every single challenge - even I'm nowhere near that record!
Here's my card using another of the 12 Days of Christmas stamps - they're so versatile, I hardly ever use them for Christmas cards! And of course it's for a few other challenges -
Friday Sketchers - this sketch
Top Tip Tuesday - Girlie card
ABC Challenge - N for Nestabilities
PaperPlay - Use a stamp
Cat's Corner - Black + 1 other colour.
That's all for now! Have a lovely evening and thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Image - '5 Gold Rings cat' from Penny Black 12 Days of Christmas

Colouring - Copics, Sakura Stardust & Star Dust Stickles

Papers - PaperMania & Create & Craft glitter paper

Hearts - Cuttlekids die

Ribbon - stash

Other - Nestabilities Lables 8

Sentiment - Doodlebug rub ons

Penny Black Saturday #134!

Morning all! Happy weekend! This is (hopefully) scheduled as I'm away in bath this weekend celebrating my first wedding anniversary!! Can you believe it's a whole year already?! I can't, but it's been a flippin' amazing year!
This post is for this weeks Penny Black Saturday, and we have a yummy Buffet for you to feast on this week, and here it is! Enjoy!

I'm made a very premature Easter card using one of the 12 Days of Christmas stamps and some funky Cosmo Cricket papers! I've feasted on Patterned Paper, Twine, 3 Gems and 3 buttons, *burp* hee hee! ;-)
My card is also using this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch, the Oldie but a Goodie challenge which is Bright & Cheerful, Stamp Something is Anything Goes, and PaperPlay is Cutie Patootie!

Have a great weekend! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - from the Penny Black '12 Days of Christmas'
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Cosmo Cricket 'Garden Variety'
Gems - PaperMania
Sentiment - Paula Pascual & Elzybells
Twine & buttons - stash

Penny Black Saturday #129!

Hi again! I'm finally back with my Penny Black Saturday, a weeny bit later that I thought! This weeks challenge is Monochromatic Christmas. It's the last of our Guest Designer Debbi's fabulous Promarker tutorials this week, her cards have been stunning! This week we have loads of prizes so there's lots of reasons to join us!
Here's my card, I've gone for a very appropriate frosty blue for my card, this is the colour of my hands right now! This is also for some other challenges; this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch, Allsorts are also going all Monochrome, Simon Says Stamp want to Let it Snow and Cupcake Craft are asking to see Candles. So there we go! Thanks for looking!


Supplies-
Image - 'Christmas Critters' clear Penny Black set
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Forever Friends 'Santa's on his Way'
Ribbon & charm - stash
Sentiment - Elzybells
Other - Nestabilities & 'Polar White' Flower Soft
Snowflakes - Dovecraft punch
Gems - PaperMania

Combo Christmas card!

Hi! I hope you're having a nice week, although isn't this august turning out to be miserable! It's given me time for crafting though! This card is for a few challenges - this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch, the Spoonful of Sugar challenge which is Christmas in August and the Lili of the Valley challenge which is Seasons, mine is obviously Winter! I like the traditional style of this stamp so I used these vintage style papers. I hope you like it, thanks for looking! I'll be back tomorrow with my Truly Scrumptious card!

Supplies-
Image - 'Bird Houses - Baubles' by Lili of the Valley
Colouring - Copics & 'Frosted Lace' Stickles
Papers - 'Wassail' by Basic Grey
Gems - Bazill
Green stuff! - Bunny Zoe's store
Sentiment - Caz's tickets

A couple of cards!

Hey peeps! Just a quick post to show you a couple of cards I made yesterday, I would have spread them out but new challenges for both of them are up tomorrow. The first is for the sketch up on the Clean & Simple Stamping blog, I'm not sure I've achieved the clean and simple look but I like it all the same, and did try to keep embellishments to a minimum! The image is so cute, I got a few of them a year or so ago and this is the first time I've used this little chap! I hope you like it!

Supplies-
Images & sentiment - 'Muchas Gracias' by Inkadinkado
Colouring - Copics
Edge - 'Threading Water' Fiskars border punch
Papers - Basic Grey 'Sultry'
Ribbon - stash
Circle Nestabilities

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And the second card is for this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch, combined with this weeks Mo's Digi Challenge which is 'Anything Goes' so I thought it would be a good chance to air this little cutie! I'm loving this card shape by the way! I'm not too sure why but I bought some 6x6 cards a while ago and I thought they were too flimsy, cut down into a 4x6 though, they're great! Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave me! I'm off to watch a bit of Wimbledon! xx

Supplies-
Image - 'Kimono' by Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - Copics
Paper - Paper Mania Capsule Collection
Edge - Fiskars 'Sunburst' border punch
Gems - Anita's gem wheel (but I coloured them with my black Copic marker) placed using a Bazill template
Ribbon - stash

Friday Sketchers #101 & Digi stamp #37!

Good morning! Thanks so much for all the comments and entries so far into the Penny Black Saturday challenge Blog Hop! If you don't know what I'm talking about, the post is here! I haven't had a chance to get back to anybody yet as we went to Paris for the weekend and I got back yesterday. Before I left though, I made this card, it's for this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch - they're having a special blog hop too! I've combined this card with the current Dare u 2 Digi stamp challenge which is Anything Goes, I've used another of these cute Pink Petticoat digi stamps, I've gone over the bird cage with a glitter pen, I'm not too sure if that shows! I'm off to make a couple of DT cards and I've also got 3 family cards to make, I'm not sure why I've left it to the last minute! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - 'Chirp Up' from Pink Petticoat
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Basic Grey 'Bitter Sweet'
Sentiment - Wild Rose Studio
Ribbon & gems - Anita's
Flowers - EK Success 'Daisy' punch
Oval Nestabilities
Embossing - 'Swiss Dots' Cuttlebug folder

Copic Colour Challenge #63 & Friday Sketchers #100!

Hey crafters! I hope you're all enjoying the week! I'm not feeling too hot today, I was on a course in London yesterday and went to meet some friends who live there, we don't get to meet up that often so it was a bit of a boozy one! It's wednesday though which means there's another lovely colour combination on the Copic Colour Challenge. I've been wanting to make a swinging bird cage card for a while so I thought it would work with this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch. The flowers didn't quite go where they should and I forgot the strips so I added some gems instead! Hopefully I can just get away with it! I hope you can join in with us this week, thanks for dropping in!

Supplies-
Image - 'Chirp Up' by Pink Petticoat
Colouring - Copics
Papers - 'Blueberry Hill' by Paper Mania
Borders - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch
Ribbon - stash
Flowers - EK Success 'Daisy' punch
Gems - Anita's gem wheel

Friday Sketchers #79!

Hiya! I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are having a nice (if soggy) monday! I've been busy making a collection of quick Christmas cards using these cute 'Ice Christmas' stamps from Pink Petticoat, I've made 7 so far and have 5 more to go to finish the set. They're so easy to colour and I've been using up lots of paper scraps. Here's the first which I used this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch on, there's always a good sketch to be found here! I'm off to do a bit of housework now - yuck! Then maybe get a couple more penguin cards made! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - Pink Petticoat 'Have an Ice Christmas'
Colouring - Copics & 'Crystal' Stickles
Papers - Cosmo Cricket 'Jolly by Golly' & glitter paper from Create & Craft
Gems & ribbon - stash

Friday Sketchers #70 & Cat's Corner #9!

Hi again! I hope you've all had a nice weekend! I've done absolutely nothing and loved it! Although I did make this card! It's for the Cat's Corner which is to make a card with an Autumn theme and of course feature a cat, I hope Halloween counts as autumn! It's also for this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch which I've flipped to fit this stamp on. I've used this cute Witches cat from Alota stamps and some of the funky Pink Petticoat Happy Haunting papers which I managed to nab last year before they disappeared! I've tried the technique where the image goes over the edge of the Nestie, except don't have the oval Nesties so I used my Fiskars template! Thanks for looking!
Supplies-
Stamp - 'Cat on Broom' by Alota Stamps
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Happy Haunting' & Bazill Bling 'Black Tie'
Sentiment - Scrap'n'Fonts
Stars - Dovecraft punch

Cat's Corner #8 & Friday Sketchers #66!

OK now this is a really quick post - I'm so late for work! It's for the Cat's Corner challenge (Blue & no patterned paper) and this weeks Friday Sketchers challenge by Carole. I'll add all the details tonight - have a great Thursday!
**Updated! Where was I?! Here's my card using some embossing to decorate my papers, the white card is Bazill Bling so it's nice and shimmery, and I've Stickled the cute PB cat. Thanks for dropping by!**

Supplies-
Stamp - from the 'Christmas Critters' clear set by Penny Black
Colouring - Copics and 'Crystal' Stickles
Papers - Bazill plain & Bling
Snowflakes - Dovecraft punch & Cuttlebug die
Gems - Mad About Cards
Sentiment - Dovecraft chipboard sticker

Friday Sketchers #60 and Papertake faves!

I've had a free afternoon and I'm back with a challenge card - yey! I thought I'd cheer myself up on this grey day with a nice summery card and using my fave stamps and papers so I think it will qualify for this weeks Papertake challenge, which is to use your favourite things! This is also for this weeks Friday Sketchers challenge, a sketch by Heidi. I hope you like it! Enjoy whats left of the weekend!

Supplies-

Stamp - 'Rain, Snow and Shine' from The Greeting Farm, water coloured with Whispers and high lighted with a white gel pen

Papers - 'Urban Prairie' by Basic Grey

Buttons - 'Sugared' by Basic Grey

Ribbon - Hobbycraft

Gems - stash