Frilly Friendship for Christmas!

I had a lovely crafty session with a friend yesterday evening via webcam... {i don't know what i'd do without it, i only have 1 crafty friend who lives sort of near to me, so this is like a lifeline to my far away mates}... anyways enough of my sad life lol

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She found a super 'sketch' over at Crafty Catz.

I choose to turn it 90° clockwise as i had already coloured an image

which is the Greetings Farm, I coloured with a smudge of distress ink and then copic'ed.

{sorry for the glare in the pic.. had to use the flash as the light is very poor and i've not worked out how to edit in PSP yet!!}

I added a bit of sparkle with my clear sepia pen and some frosted lace stickles.

I framed the 'nestie'd image with gorgeous lace and finished off with some paper roses and a pin i made myself and a punched out circle i stamped the greeting onto.

The papers are DCWV and BG and the sentiment stamp is Magnolia.

This card also fits the Fun with Shapes challenge which is 'Borders and frames' this week and Simon Says Stamp with the theme 'All that Sparkles'.

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Thanks for looking and have a fab weekend... i'm off this morning to a 'Sincerely Yours' craft fair in Taunton, it's only a small one but Oyster stamps are gonna be there and i love that shop he he

♥ HUGZ ♥

The Sugar Bowl #18

Yay it's that time again to get all sugary with this weeks Sugar Bowl challenge, this weeks sketch has been provided by the fab Kathy and the promp is to use Buttons

And as always there is an awsome prize up for grabs .. go check it out to see what the prize is!

This is the first chance i have had to use this manga stamp and i just adore it..{and all the others lol} coloured with copics....do i use anything else!!!!

papers are 'Scrumptious' by papermania

I saw my fellow blogger Kim {aka paperbabe} use buttons as part of a cherry and just had to borrow the idea, {although her's look far better!}, but i'm real happy with the card and how it turned out.

♥ HUGZ ♥

Sweet soul!

This is just a card i made playing about really, no challenges and no reasons other then i was just practicing with the copics again, trying to master the hair first!

For the background i used a CB embossing folder which i distressed a little and smooch accents added.

I also used CB die-cut wording and nestie label with gems for a little bling

I dressed the card with a very sweet thin blue lace, and delicate blue flowers.

Thanks for visiting, it means so much to know you stopped by :O)

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

Copic Colour Challenge #8/ Friday Sketchers #47

Well as you may have seen i'm trying to improve my copic skill so decided to combine 2 challenges this time. Over at Copic Colour Challenge you have to use colours RV29~E57~YG67, with the added challenge of using a Toodle & Binks stamp... Well unfortunately i only had 1 of those in my copic selection {it's not very big yet},

so i used the closest colours i own which were RV23~E57~YG63

{Well 1 out of 3 aint bad lol} and i have managed to sneak in the T&B tree stamp & wording too!

So with the colouring sorted i needed a sketch to follow and Friday Sketchers had the perfect one by Jacqueline

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And here is my creation...

I used a basic grey paper,

my L-Em leafy punch,

some ribbon and lace and

a die cut banner to print the wording onto.

All in all i think it came out ok.

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Thanks for stopping by, please feel free to leave comments, they make my day x

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

Sketch Saturday #45

Over on Sketch Saturday it's Tracie at the helm and today's sketch looks like this..

I decided to turn the sketch 90* to fit an already coloured Miss Anya image i had done using lyra crayons.. i'm still very much on a learning curve with my colouring so forgive the lack of depth and tone. Practice makes perfect....right!

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I have used 4 of the basic grey "blush" papers, some of which were stitched using a hand held machine {again still learning, hence the wonkyness lol} and the rest were rough edged using a craft knife.

I finished off with prima flowers, an assortment of brads, and piece of gorgeous lace.

I hope this ticks all the boxes for this challenge, i had real fun putting it all together.

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Thanks for stopping by

xx Hugz xx