Cupcake Guest Designer - Book Lover!

Afternoon! This is my second post of the day so stay and have a browse if you can! ☺
This post is for this weeks Cupcake Craft Challenge, and the theme is Book Lover! So maybe an image with a book in it, a book mark or text/book page backing papers. I went for this cute Mo Manning image and some text papers for good measure. I hope you like it and can join in this week, there's 2 faberoony prizes!
Thanks for stopping in!

Challenges;
My Favourite Things - This sketch (well it started out as this layout, lost it's way a little maybe! ☺) -->
Paper Sundaes - Pretty in Pink
Totally Gorjuss - Charmed
The Ribbon Girl - Vintage Pink & Cream

Supplies;
Sorry, I couldn't find a link for the ribbon or the charm.

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #47!

Hello! I hope you're all well! I've been a busy little bee while all this snow has been around and finally finished all my Christmas cards, I did some batch making over the weekend so I'll show you them another time (if I remember!) But it's time for another Truly Scrumptious sketch, the last of 2010 with the optional extra of 'Frame it'! Basically give your image a fancy frame! I really wanted to use this cute image for my mum and dads card as it's a little bit like Poppy was as a kitten (even now as a big fat mog she tries to climb up the inside branches of the tree!) and I wanted to make some kind of haphazard frame. I couldn't find any bauble or light images small enough so I decided to draw them! Hopefully it's not too obvious! I've covered them with glossy accents to make them seem more realistic. I've also used the tutorial Dena posted on her blog about glittering over the image, I used my VersaMark pen to glitter emboss over the baubles and star on the image and I also did it over the sentiment, it's such a lovely effect, thanks Dena!
This is also for the following challenges: Mo's Digi Challenge - Glitz and Glimmer, Spoonful of Sugar - A Christmas Card, Cat's Corner - also a Christmas Card, Top Tip Tuesday - use Ribbon and ABC Christmas Challenge - Yuletide (I've used the Red and Green choice and the Holly and Berries). Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - 'Cat's in the Christmas Tree' from Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - Copics & Glossy Accents
Papers - Forever Friends 'Santa's on his Way'
Ribbon - Ribbon Girl
Sentiment - made on the PC
Gems - PaperMania

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #44 & a couple of other challenges!

Hi there! Well it's time again (but I'm a wee bit late) for this weeks Truly Scrumptious challenge, it's this great sketch plus the optional extra challenge of Petals, Pearls or Pins. You can use a combo of them or all 3, I've managed all 3 on this card.
I've also made this card to fit some other challenges, deep breath, here's the list! Papertake - Sparkly & bright, ABC Challenge - G is for Glitter, Stamp Something - Digi stamp and The Ribbon Girl - Red & Green. And that's about it! There's a fab prize up for grabs from Meljens Designs so I hope you can join us! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - 'Singin' so Beautiful' by Mo's Digi Pencil
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Echo Park 'Merry Christmas'
Flower, leaves, pins & pearls - stash
Gold pearls - Glitter Pot
Glitters - various Stickles
Sentiment - made on the PC
Other - Circle Nestabilities

Trick or Treating!

Afternoon all! I managed to squeeze a bit of time out of this weekend to make a card so I thought I'd better get on a show it! It's another combo card I'm afraid and the challenges are - Mo's Digi Challenge - which is this sketch (which I've flipped), Cat's Corner - Halloween (even though it's technically a dog, he's dressed as a cat!) and this weeks Stamp with Fun which is also Halloween. I loved colouring this image, it's so detailed, I prefer this to great expanses of space, I can never get that to look smooth. The background I did with a watercolour pencil and even though I wanted it to look slightly texture, this might have gone a bit far! Oh well! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - 'Trick or Treat' by Mo's Digi Pencil
Colouring - Copics & watercolour pencils
Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Happy Haunting'
Sentiment - Paula Pascual
Other - Deckled edge scissors & Circle Nestabilities

Penny Black Saturday #114 & Sweet Stop Sketch #69!

Hi all! I hope you've had a lovely week! It's my Double DT Saturday post again (it seems to come around quicker and quicker!) I'm mixing it up and starting with this weeks Sweet Stop Sketches challenge, another corking sketch! I'm in full Christmas mode now so it's a very festive post! I've used one of Mo's gorgeous images, and this is one of my top 2 Mo's images (the other one is Not Even a Mouse BTW!) I just love the little carolling mouse at the bottom! I'm entering this card into this weeks Crazy 4 Challenges, er, challenge! It's to feature Music somehow, (I've just realised, both of my cards feature music paper and singing - ha ha!) I hope you like it!

Supplies-
Image - 'Singin so Beautiful' by Mo's digital pencil
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Cosmo Cricket 'Jolly by Golly'
Sentiment - Stamps Away
Holly - Quickutz die
Gems - Papermania
Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch
Ribbon - stash

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Now here's my card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, this week is 'Feeling Fruity'. Some of us found this a little tricky if we didn't have a fruity image but you could use fruity charms, papers or colours even! I was browsing through my images and found this little Partridge, complete with a Pear!
We have 2 prizes again this week, a $20 voucher for 1-2-3 stitch and an adorable little stamp from Penny Black so I hope you can join us this week!
I'm also entering this into a challenge, this weeks Cute card Thursday challenge which is Treemendous - using trees or leaves! My card has little leaves on it and even the word Tree so hopefully it counts! Thanks for looking, I hope you have a great weekend!

Supplies-
Image - from '12 days of Christmas' clear set by Penny Black
Colouring - Copics
Papers - 'Holiday Cheer' from Sweet Shoppe, I'm not sure where the music paper is from
Ribbon - stash
Pearls - Kanban crafts
Circle Nestabilities

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

Copic Colour Challenge #55!

Hello! I hope you all are well on this lovely Spring day! It's Wednesday so it's time for another Copic Colour Challenge! This weeks colours look tricky at first but they're not too bad, think shadows, animals, clothing, can all be grey without looking drab! I didn't have BG96 so I used B95 instead. There's a lovely prize to be won from Toodles & Binks so I hope you can join us!
I've used another of Mo's Digi stamps, this was another freebie which unfortunately isn't available as naughty people took advantage! I've used more digi papers, Pink Petticoat's 'Big Fella' range, I love this range, so handy for any man/boys cards. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - 'Louis' freebie from Mo's Digi Pencil PCP page
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Big Fella'
Tag - Summer Driggs
Sentiment - Personal Impressions stamp
Green glass embellishment - stash

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #27 & Copic Colour Challenge #54!

Hello! I hope you're all having a lovely week and enjoying this gorgeous spring weather we've been having! It's double challenge time! Scroll down for this weeks Copic Colour Challenge, but first is my card for this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge. Dawn has designed the sketch for us this time, with the added challenge of 'Good Enough to Eat'. I've made this Easter card (with his yummy basket of Easter Eggs!) using this Dustin Pike digi image and some Pink Petticoat papers (you can tell I've got a printer again!) Stamp & Create are sponsoring our challenge with a fab little set of goodies! I hope you can join us!

Supplies-
Image - 'Easter Bunny' digi stamp by Dustin Pike
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Pink Petticoat
Sentiment - Paper Mania
Flowers - EK Success 'Daisy' punch
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

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And on to this weeks Copic Colour Challenge, and they're such fresh colours this week. I LOVE this image from Mo's Digital Pencil, I think it was a freebie from her Paper Craft Planet group. I've put some sparkle on her confetti - not sure it shows! I think I'm going through a phase at the moment - these cards are quite similar! We're joined by our DT newbies this week and their cards are stunning! I hope you can join us, if you do you'll be in with a chance of winning a $25 Simon Says Stamp voucher! Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave!

Supplies-
Image - a freebie from Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Pink Petticoat
Sentiment - Personal Impressions
Card Candy from Craftwork Cards
Ribbon - stash

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #20 & Copic Colour Challenge #39!

Back again! It went so quickly but was really fun! Now for todays challenges....firstly this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge, a fabulous and unusual sketch by Dawn with the extra challenge of 'Texture'. I've gone for a funky Christmas style card using one of the new Pink Petticoat 'Gem trees'. My added texture is the gems on the tree, Twinklets glitter at the base and a stripe of it along the card and two stripes of black chunky glitter plus some fluffy fibre ribbon stuff! I've shown a close up of the glittery bits. I hope you can join us! This also qualifies for this weeks
Papertake challenge which is to use something Digi and some sparkle!


Supplies-
Image - Pink Petticoat 'Fairy Lights'
Paper - DCWV 'Rose Tinted Christmas' pad & black glitter paper from Create & Craft
Gems & fibres - stash
Glitter - 'Twinklets' & Doodlebug 'Sugar Coating' in Beetle Black
Star - Nestabilities circle & Sizzix die Star

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And now for my Copic Colour Challenge card. This week the colours are bright! I also have a little confession, it wasn't til now that I read the colours again and realised I got last weeks challenge (which I missed because I was poorly) mixed up with this weeks and used B02 insted of G05 - whoops!! Luckliy there is a little bit of green in there so I should get away with it! I've used one of Mo's Digi Pencil freebie images - this one is so cute and comes with a few little accessories! I've added some sparkle to the water to give it a shimmery look but it doesn't really show (why do we bother?!!)
Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - 'Summer Baby' by Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - Copics & Sakura Stardust
Paper - Pink Petticoat 'Pinstripes' and blue paper from stash embossed with 'Tiny Bubbles' Cuttlebug folder
Sentiment stamp & ribbon - stash
Embellishments made with various punches

Sketch Saturday #71 & ABC 'E'!

Hiya! I hope you've all had a lovely weekend! It was my brother's girlfriend's birthday on thursday so we all went out for a pub roast last night, it was lovely! This is the card I made for her - she's called Lucy by the way! I used another of the fabulous freebies from Mo's Digital Pencil, I have bought some but the freebies are so gorgeous too! This one is especially handy, great for loads of different cards. The papers are digi too. I've made it for this weeks Sketch Saturday sketch and also for this fortnights ABC Challenge which is Embossing - there's some behind the coffee cup! I hope you like it, and thanks for looking in!

Supplies-
Image - freebie from Mo's Digital Pencil blog
Colouring - Copics
Papers - 'Holiday Cheer' from Little Dreamers
Flowers - EK Success punch & Craftwork Cards 'Cad Candy'
Ribbon - stash
Sentiment - made on the PC
Embossing - Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' folder