Pencil colouring & butterflies

Hiya! I hope your Sunday is suitably lovely :-) If you follow my Instagram you'll see that I'm joining in with Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day colouring challenge. Basically to set aside a bit of time each day to colour something in. I'm failing already as I missed Day 4 yesterday but I'll be doing some soon :-)
On Day 1 I coloured in some pretty Hero Arts butterflies using Derwent Studio pencils in loads of different colours. These aren't like most pencils where you blend them to get a smooth look, these are meant to be a bit sketchy and textured looking, and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. I didn't know how I was going to use them on a card but then it saw this weeks ShowCase challenge of rainbow colours and decided to use them all on one card. And as if by magic, this weeks Freshly Made Sketch had room for them all! ;-) I also think this will fit this weeks Simon Says Stamp Girly challenge.
Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies;

Ink - Versafine 'Smoky Grey'
Paper - October Afternoon 'Sidewalks'
Colouring - Derwent Studio pencils
Stamps - Hero Arts 'Antique Flowers & Butterflies'
Dies - Memory Box 'Classic Scallop' & Hero Arts 'Antique Flowers & Butterflies'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Handwritten Sayings'

CAS(E) this Sketch Guest Designer! :-)

Hello! Well as the title suggests, I'm back with a card as this weeks Guest Designer over on the CAS(E) this Sketch blog! Its one of my favourite challenge blogs so you can imagine how happy I was to get the invitation! :-D And the sketch is a clean and simple classic - love it! I took some inspiration from the wavy lines of the moustache and used this beautiful Altenew stamp. I. Love. It!! (Well, the whole set, not just this one!) I matched it to the strip of patterned paper and coloured it with my Copics. Then all that was needed was a little pop of gold with a little border strip and some sequins! I'm so happy to find out that StazOn stamps beautifully onto mirror card - yippee! Gold sentiments! Small things please small minds ;-)
I'm also going to enter this in to a couple of other challenges; Simon Says Stamp Bright & Beautiful, CAS on Sunday Flowers and Seize the Birthday Anything Goes.
I hope you like it, thanks so much for stopping by, and please go and have a look at the gorgeous cards from the design team! Thanks for having me!

Supplies;
Stamp & sentiment - Altenew 'Persian Motifs'
Paper - My Minds Eye 'Collectable - Memorable'
Colouring - Copics
Other - gold mirror card and gold sequins

Hey Sugar!

Hi! Another blogging break, soz! Not much time for card making at the mo, I'm back at work and my little lady has just started crawling - fun times! ;-)
I'm back with a little romantic card I've made using the Simon Says Stamp 'Hey Sugar' set. I stamped and layered the cookies with different card stocks, embossed the matching toppings then covered with a layer of glossy accents. I sort of wish I hadn't done this last step as I'd sponged the cookies for a bit of dimension and I think I it made it run, hey ho! I also used these super old Basic Grey 'Bittersweet' papers, they're one of very few paper pads that I've almost used up - just a few scraps left! I've used this weeks Just Us Girls inspiration photo, the Paper Players sketch and I'm also going to enter into the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for looking - if anyone is still out there reading this poor neglected blog! ;-)

Supplies;
Stamps & sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Hey Sugar'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Early Espresso', 'Real Red' & 'Strawberry Slush'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Early Espresso' & 'Cherry Cobbler' & VersaMark
Paper - Basic Grey 'Bittersweet'
Other - white embossing powder & Glossy Accents

Christmas Coffee Cup

Hi! And Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a lovely break! I'm back to share one of the Christmas cards I made before yet another challenge deadline passes ;-) This one was for my brother. We're chalk & cheese but share a love of Starbucks so I knew I wanted to use the 'Red Cup' somehow.
I've used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch and the Colour Me... colour scheme from Challenge #51. I'm also going to enter into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Anything Goes and Just Us Girls Winter challenge. I hope you like it!

Snowman gift tag

Hello and happy weekend! I hope you've had a good week! I found a bit of time this morning to make this simple little gift tag using this weeks MFT Sketch. All the dies are Die-namics. As I had stamped the snowman's eyes, mouth and buttons, I wanted to stamp his carrot nose but didn't have anything suitable, so I cut out the carrot die from some scrap paper and sponged it on - problem solved! :-) I've used this weeks Fab Friday colour scheme, this weeks Simon Says Stamp Christmas challenge and also this fortnights Card Concept challenge of Snowman and/or a Tag. I hope you like it, have a good weekend!

Supplies;
Dies - MFT Tag Stax, Notched Tag (heart), Fishtail Flag Stax & Snow Globe and Nestabilities Circles
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake & Old Olive
Stamps - Hero Arts Tiny Star Background, Simon Says Stamp Lots of Dots & Waltzingmouse Nordic Winter
Other - Christmas Red Stickles, red twine

Making Spirits Bright

Hi! I'm back with this simple card, I'm not too sure about it but thought I'd share it anyway. I wanted to use up some patterned papers so I used this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch. Instead of a flower I used this little penguin, he's actually part of a little group of penguins but I masked around him to make him star of the show :-) I'm entering this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Christmas (I'm over the moon - I won the last challenge and now have some spends for their lovely shop!! So exciting! Hee hee!) Also, it's for this weeks Merry Monday challenge of A Bird and the AAA Cards challenge of Blue Christmas. Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies;
Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes
Stamps - Stampavie Penguin Pile & Simon Says Stamp Lots of Stars
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Night of Navy
Sentiment - Paper Smooches Joyful Greetings
Other - white embossing powder, Copics & Silver Stickles

Seasons Greetings

Evening! I'm back with my card in my own little challenge of CASEing Kristina Werner's 2014 Holiday Card Series, today is my card for Day 4. I used all the little images from the Simon Says Stamp Ugly Sweater stamp set along with the Appliqué set to make my embossed background then coloured parts in with a VersaMark pen and then a gold Wink of Stellar glitter pen. I've used this weeks Freshly Made sketch and combined it with this weeks Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge (I've used the top left to bottom right diagonal row; Trees, Embossing & Glitter - there's a few trees buried in there!). I'm also going to enter into Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.
I'm back to work tomorrow after my maternity leave so I'm off to bed :-( Thanks for looking! Night!

Supplies;
Stamps - Simon Says Stamp Ugly Sweater & Sweater Appliqué
Cardstock & ink - Stampin' Up Crumb Cake
Sentiment - Paper Smooches Swanky Snow Dudes 
Other - jute twine, white embossing powder & gold glitter tape

Reindeer tag card

Hi! Back from another unintended break. I've been making loads of cards for loads of challenges but blogging seems to take me ages and they've always ended by the time I get round to it! Haha! So here's one that's still open...just! It's for this weeks Muse challenge combined with the Fusion challenge photo and the Just Us Girls & Simon Says Stamp challenges of Anything Goes. I used embossing paste and glitter with a Dreamweaver tree stencil. I added a few pops of red with some die cuts and twine. By the way, if anyone knows of a good ipad blogging app (I find Blogger is really hard to use and Blogsy makes my photos blurry) please let me know :-)
Thanks for stopping by xx

Supplies;
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate & Basic Grey
Dies - MFT Tags Stax, Memory Box Leaping Deer & Resting Birds
Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes 
Sentiment - Waltzingmouse Compliments of the Season
Stencil - Dreamweaver Bare Trees
Other - twine, white embossing paste, glitter & silver brad

Red & Kraft Christmas cards

Hiya! I hope you've had a good week! This is another long post warning. I think a lot of future ones might be as now my crafty time is scarce I'm trying to make more than one card with the supplies I have out rather than tidying everything away and starting from scratch the next time. Just realised my rambling is making this post even longer so I'll cut to the chase - 2 more Christmas cards :-)

This first one is for Day 2 of my challenge to case Kristina Werners Holiday Card Series cards. I used the idea for a Kraft base and a reindeer peeping through a circle cut out this time. It's also using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch as well as this fortnights Festive Friday challenge photo and the Simon Says Stamp challenge of Anything Goes. All the red presents made me think of this paper pad.

My second card is also using the Festive Friday photo and the Simon Says challenge but I've combined it with this weeks Retro Sketches sketch. I made a subtle shaker card with some vellum and large sequins. I die cut and stacked up 4 or 5 cardstock rings to make the holder for the shaky bits, much neater than a load of foam pads ;-) Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Supplies;
1st card -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Stamp - Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles' & Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Sentiment - Paula Pascual 'Essential Christmas' 
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Real Red' & Memento 'Rich Cocoa'
Other - Copics & a white gel pen
2nd -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Sentiment - Mama Elephant 'Peace on Earth'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Neutral Shimmer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles'
Other - white gel pen & assorted sequins