A Spoon Full of Sugar #66

Not had much proper time to craft what with all the wedding stuff but i finally managed to make my card for the latest Spoon Full of Sugar challenge which is a great sketch from Sonja

And here is my creation.. yep its another christmas one.. i'm really trying hard this year to get ahead lol

It actually came out quite pretty, very soft and girly...not really me but it is cute!

This is another first time using of this particular stamp..think its called Hug in a Mug!

{i have several more i must try to get inked.. namely the new miss anyas!}

I used a mix of DCWV crimbo papers and some pearl crimbo papers i got cheap at ally pally last year, the image is coloured with copics and mounted on an MS punched edge piece of parchment paper and embellished with lots of snowflakes, in eyelet, brad and charm form.

Thanks for visiting me.. have a great week and come back again soon x

♥ HUGZ ♥

Secret Crafter #30

There's a blooming great theme this week over at the Secret Crafter

and it's been chosen by DT member {& my mate} Claire.

As its spring time Claire wanted a theme everyone could join in with, so if you haven't already guessed it, the theme this week is...

FLOWERS!

Any sort, any size, anywhere on your card!

I decided to make mine the main feature .

The bloom is one of several i removed from a giant fake flower i got in £1land

I coloured my gorjuss with copics in nice neutral colours, picking out slight highlight colours from the background basic grey and DCWV papers, which i also edge stitched with a white cotton. {practicing with my new hand held machine, hence the wonky lines lol}

I finished by adding half a prima flower to the centre bloom with again an accent coloured bling gem brad, and an "I'm Cute" brad to the bottom corner as it looked bare and empty.

Hope you like my card, thanks for visiting x

Cute Card Thursday #58

...Mirror Mirror!

This time round over at CCT the prompt is to use something shiny on your cards!

Well i didn't want to go for a big shiny piece of card so opted for a more subtle inclusion and have an assortment of little things instead.

The skull {minxyart stamp} was stamped onto TSS pink metal, and cut out, the ickle shiny eyelets were added to give a lace up effect, of which i threaded pink metallic cord through.

I used 2 DCWV rockstar papers and a sheet of blackmagic core'denations which i sanded and roughed up to let the pink colour shine through.

The gorjuss images is coloured using my copics, and i added a small black bead chain as a headband.

I gathered a piece of lace and used tiny black brads to pin each gather in place, I stamped the zip {minxyart stamp} and gave it some definition using a silver promarker on the opposite side to balance and finish the card. The tag {also metal} has a "rock" dymo type label attached.

I hope there is enough "shiny" on my card to please the CCT team!

Thanks for stopping by, come back any time xx

Inner Beauty

Hay there blogland, I know i have listed this place as a haven for the sweet and true but i just had to share with you my very first card featuring one of my very own Minxy Art Stamps.

I was lucky enough to receive an Imagebox for christmas, so i can now happily design & make my very own stamps. I hadn't really had time to actually do that until now, but a cracking competition run by Nikki over at Dew Drop Craftz gave me the kick up the bum i needed to knock a set or 2 out.

All you have to do to enter is to make a card using your own stamps and show a pic of both {more details on her blog}

so here is my Pandora card...

and here is my Pandora stamp set

Now as you may see there are a couple of subtle changes with Pandora's face, after making the stamps i decided that she needed some work on her eyes and a fringe {which for times sake i just drew on} I coloured her using copics

I used a sheet of "rockstar" paper by DCWV, stamped sid the spider, then stamped the smaller skull onto a circle of textured black card, which i scuffed & coloured the edges of. I lay several ribbon and lace strips and used the larger skull to create an embellishment, i finished the skull with a tiny amount of distress stickles on the eyes.

I would very much love your opinions of these stamps, i know they're not the cutest in the world !! but i like em, and hope you do too {they may be launched for sale soon in limited numbers!}

Thanks for visiting, come back soon.

xx hugz xx