Sugar & Spice...NOT!

Ok.. so i'm way later than i wanted to be with this post.. the joys of a working life!!!! I finally have a couple of well earned days off.. so can finally share the card i made on Saturday!!

I managed a whopping 6 challenges with this card

Totally Gorjuss 'Bling'

Allsorts 'Bling'

Stamp Scrap & Doodle 'Special Folds'

Create 4 Fun 'The Sketch'

One Stop Craft 'Cards for Kids'

Secret Crafter 'An Easel Card'

The pic doesn't do it justice really.. but it was the best out of i don't know how many i tryed to take and in the end gave up.. maybe i'll try one more time later if the sun decides to come out {highly unlikely}

I used an assortment of papers including BG, DCWV and one i created myself using the houndstooth background stamp from Artistic Stamper... I gave gorjuss some padded wings and used one of my own design skull stamps to embellish along with some yummy paper roses.. oh and of course lots and lots of bling'y gems!

Don't forget today is the last day to enter my candy!

♥ HUGZ ♥

"Easel"y done!

You guess it it by the bad pun title that i've created another easel card..

Again i managed to cover 3 challenges..Cupcake Craft has the theme 'Stitching & Buttons'... Crafty Creations has the theme 'Blue' {yeah i know my cards not all blue but it does have blue in it so i'm hoping that counts!!!} And The Greetings Farm is 'No Frills'

I used one of my much awaited 'My Guy Ians'

I grabbed a load of bits from the bit box to create this one..

I just adore these Ians...Miss Anya is a lucky girl lol

I coloured him with the usual copics..i'm chuffed that i actually managed to make the jeans look like proper jeans and not a blue blury mess..

The zip stamp is another one of my own design & making, which i coloured in with a copper krylon pen. I also hand made the little shooting stars with some beads and head pins.
Thanks for stopping by.

♥ HUGZ ♥

'Spooky'lisious

With the theme of 'Scallops' this week over at Creative Card Crew how could i resist not joining in ... especially as i had the perfect project in mind!

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Come halloween my partners parents house gets about 50 kids trick or treating so i thought i'd help with the prep work by making a whole stash of fun treat tags for the goody bags she makes.

The little spider stamp i used on the tags is one I designed and made myself... i know its pretty simple but i think it works!

I also decided to have a bit of fun with one of my miss anyas and an old jam jar!

This anya was totally inspired by one i had seen coloured by my friend Tasha with green hair.. i decided to go one further and make her a real witch!

I think the little skull finishes it off a treat..

Thanks for stopping by

♥ HUGZ ♥

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

Birthday Girl

This is a card i created using another set of my very own design stamps.

It is my friend Claire's birthday today and the card was for her. I hope she liked it!

I stamped the tree on brown paper and cut out, did the same with the owl but on patterned paper and gave him some more defination by colouring some features with my copics.

To make the tree pop i added an assortment of green prima flowers to act like branches.

Not sure if it's allowed yet but i'll be entering again {or trying to} Nikki's great Imagepac comp, click here for details...

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great Day 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