Crafts 4 Eternity - Recipe #14

Hi all, it's great to have you visiting me here on my blog. I hope you find something that will not only please the eye but maybe even stimulate your own creative juices. Your taking the time to come here is very much appreciated.
I'm still under the weather but feeling better and glad to be back blogging. The snow is still here and it's so cold that we'll have it for a while yet. So much for wishing for a white Christmas. Lol.
Anyway I did this card for the latest Crafts 4 Eternity challenge where we were required to use their sketch as a basis for the card and add some stitching, faux or real, and use a blue and white colour combo. I inked up Magnolia's "Tilda Laying on her Belly" and coloured her using my Copic Ciaos. The papers are a mix of blue shades of Bazzil and Rayher Hobby GMBH. The corners are cut out of silver mirra card using a cuttlebug die and the flowers and fronds are from my stash. My stitching is faux stitching - I'm afraid energy levels did not inspire me to get out my sewing machine.
I do hope you like this card enough to leave constructive comments. I find them so encouraging and helpful and really appreciate that it takes time to leave them. They are truely valued.
I hope you enjoy your crafting day.

Hugs,

Pretty in Pink - A Card for Crafty Sentiments

Hi Girls. Thank you for visiting and welcome to my blog. If you have been before, welcome back and if this is your first time, I'm glad you dropped in. In either case I hope you like what you find.
I am feeling a wee bit better today and thought I would try to produce a card. As a member of the Crafty Sentiments DT I agree to produce and post a card each Friday on that site. I had Christmas Day and Boxing Day off so I thought I had better make the effort. My hands are still a bit weak and shakey and I think it might show on this card but I hope you like it anyway. I used a Crafty Sentiments image called "Daisy" coloured using Copic Ciaos and one of their sentiments. The papers are both from My Mind's Eye "Flirty" range and are called "Lil Girl" and "Play", and the flowers are from my stash. You can always visit the Crafty Sentiments site to see what other stamps and sentiments are available - I'm sure you won't be disappointed. It would be appreciated if you had time to leave a comment because I get so much from them.
I would like to thank all of you for your concerned comments and e-cards while I have been ill. They have encouraged me greatly and I have been touched by your concern. I am fortunate to have found so many friends.
Hugs,

Sorry Again - No Card Today

I am afraid that I have not done a card for today although I am feeling a bit better than I did - I will be fit to try for tomorrow I hope. I seem to be getting through this better than hubby who is struggling. I had both the Flu and Swine Flu injections but he didn't qualify for them so maybe they have saved me some grief. Thanks for all your good wishes and caring comments.
Hugs,

Sorry Nothing to Post Today

Hi all - sorry but still struggling and I have done no crafting or blogging today. I promise I will catch up as soon as possible. Thanks for all your good wishes.
Hugs,

Not a Challenge - Just a card

Hi all. Thank you for your visit to my wee blog. I appreciate you calling by and hope you find something to make your visit worthwhile.

I'm afraid I have been stricken with some dreaded lurgi. Hubby and I are both well below par with what seems to be a very bad chest infection. We are sore, sweaty, achey and very lethargic and definitely not good for much at the minute. In fact I have not made a card for the challenge I was going to enter with this post because I could not hold the ruler or crafting knife properly.

However, rather than not post at all, I have put forward this card that I made a little time back at one of Siobhan's classes at Stampaholics in Perth. The design and ideas are all her's although I did make the card. It has her stamp all over it - she is such a wonderful designer. I hope you like it. I am afraid I had to use flash for the photo and it doesn't do the detail on the card justice. Please bear with me as I haven't looked out the detail of the paper, stamps or images - I am so tired.

Do enjoy your crafting.

Hugs,

Papertake Weekly #31

Hi again girls. Thank you for visiting me here, you are so welcome. I really hope you find something to appeal to your eye and maybe even find something to inspire you. Your visit is really valued.

What a day this has been. Hubby and I are both struggling with chest infections - at least I think that's the problem. I have done absolutely no cardmaking today and unlike me I slept all night and didn't awake until nealry 10 am. Hope this doesn't last long.

I made this card for this week's Papertake Weekly challenge and followed their wonderful sketch. This is the last card I made at Sarah's last week and I used the new Lili of the Valley stamp they gave me for Christmas. It is called "Fairy on Tiptoe" and is coloured using Sarah's Promarkers. The papers and embellies are all from Sarah's stash.

If you can spare a minute please leave a comment. I love to hear your views and your input is greatly valued. It's also nice to know who has been visiting.

Do have a good day in everything you do, especially your crafting.

Hugs,

Mojo Monday #119

Hi girls. Thank you for calling in here to see my creations. I do hope you find something pleasing to the eye and maybe even find a little inspiration for your own crafting.

We got home today from Solihull after a scarey journey only to find that we couldn't get the car up the driveway. Hubby had to dig it in. We had a great time with our son John and Sarah. Her stash of papers has suffered during my stay but I'm sure she'll return the compliment.

Anyway I made this card for Mojo Monday. The image is a Sugar Nellie called "Manga Girl #1" and coloured her with Sarah's Promarkers. The papers are "Stella Ruby" by Basic Grey and the flowers are handmade and the ribbon is from Costco (courtesy of Sarah). I decided not to put a sentiment on this one - I'll wait until a suitable occasion arises before putting one on.

I hope you like this and would love you to leave a comment if you have time. I love your views and suggestions.

Please have a great crafting day.

Hugs,

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #18

Welcome to my wee blog. I'm so glad you have called in and I hope you enjoy what you see. It's astonishing that we are in 2010 already - it hardly seems like yesterday since we were celebrating the millenium. I'm still on holiday down with my son and DIL so this card has been made totally from stuff from Sarah's stash (proving to be a cheap way to craft). Pity we are going home later on today because the weather is due to close in up north and we want to beat it home.
I am entering the card into the Sunday Sketch and Stamp challenge where they provided a great sketch to use as a guide.

I used papers from the Basic Grey "Wassel" pad. The stamp is Magnolia's "Tilda with Peaches" coloured using Sarah's Promarkers. The flowers are handmade with gemstone centres.

I hope this pleases the eye and that you will feel inclined to leave a comment to let me know what you think of it. I love reading your comments and appreciate you taking the time to write them.

I hope the rest of your crafting day is rewarding.

Hugs,

Penny Black Week 80 - Christmas Charms

A GUID NEW YEAR TO ALL IN BLOGLAND

I want to wish a very happy and prosperous crafting year to everyone who has supported me in my cardmaking efforts since I started in late July. Your visits, help and encouragement have been a great motivation to me and I have met some wonderfully talented people. Thank you one and all.

Hi girls, Welcome to my first post in 2010. It's great to have you taking time out of your holiday celebrations to visit. I really hope your visit is worthwhile and that you find something that is pleasing to the eye and might even encourage your own mojo juices.
This card is being entered into the Penny Black challenge where the theme is "Christmas Charms". I have borrowed "Snowy" from my DIL while we're here to stay for the holiday and coloured him in using her Promarkers. In fact I also "stole" her papers which are My Mind's Eye Colourful Christmas "Bright Stripes" and "Merry Dots". The bell charm is mine believe it or not.
It's great being on holiday here - my stash is safe and sound at home.Lol.
If you like this enough I would love you to leave me a comment if you have time. It's great to have your opinions and encouragement.
Enjoy the rest of the holiday and enjoy your crafting.

Hugs,

Cupcake Crafts Callenge #71

I made this card for Cupcake Crafts Challenge where the theme was "A Time for Celebration". I decided to try a more mannish card for this one so no fancy flowers today. (I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms). The image is Magnolia's "Guitar Edwin" coloured using Copic Ciaos. The papers are all from GCD's "No Worries 48 sheet paper collection" and the embellishments are from my stash. This is a bit more basic than my normal offering but I hope you still like it. Perhaps you will have a minute to spare to leave me a comment to let me know what you think. I would love it if you did because I get so much from them.

Hoping you have a great day with productive crafting and do have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year when it comes.
Hugs,

Creative Inspirations #23 - Christmas Gift

Hi Girls. Hope you are all enjoying the festive season. I am really pleased that you have found the time to pop in to my little bit of cyberspace to see what is here for your delight (hopefully). I hope you enjoy your visit.
Nearly time for the bells ringing in the New Year and as usual my Hubby need wadges of paper to write down all his Resolutions for the incoming year (only to be totally ignored very soon after as usual.Lol). So the Creative Inspirations Challenge to make a "Christmas Gift - Anything but a card " gave the ideal opportunity to make a nice thick notepad to hold them all.

The pad is made by cutting three pieces of thick card and sandwiching them between two pieces of matching paper. This used up some scraps of a paper I have long lost the detail of. I mounted a piece of Silver Mirra card on top. This card has butterflies etched into it, although the photograph doesn't show them well, so I took another unknown paper with butterflies and cut them out and mounted four of them onto a piece of white card and stuck it on top of the mirra card. I then cut out another four butterflies and layered them on to the others and bent their wings to give a 3D effect and stuck small gems down their backs. Lastly I stuck a tassel
on the edge of the top to lift the top to get at the pad I stuck inside.

I quite enjoyed making this and I hope you like it enough to take a few minutes of your time to leave a comment. I really do appreciate them and love reading them all. Have a great crafting day and keep safe. Hope to see you back soon.

Hugs,

Crafty Creations #47 - No Rules

Hi Girls. Great to have you here visiting my wee blog. If you've been before it's great to have you back and if this is your first visit I do hope you find something to please the eye so that you will want to come back again.
I'm having a great time down in Solihull with my son and daughter-in-law (Lil-paper-pixie) and was at Hobby craft today and spent all my Christmas vouchers so I have lots of new goodies to play with. Wey Hey.
I have made this card for the Crafty Creations challenge where there are "No Rules" this week so we have a completely free hand to do what we want. The image is a digi image from Mo Manning called "Jordan Multitasking". I have coloured this little miss with my trusty Copic Ciaos. The backing paper dates back to before my blogging days and I haven't kept the details of what it was (long before I knew such information would be required) but the side bar has been cut with Santa's Martha Stewart Deep Border Punch from the reverse side of one of the "No Worries 48 sheet pack" from GCD Studios. The flowers are handmade and have been cut from the same paper. Everything else is from my stash.
I hope you like this and would love to hear your opinions so if you have time to leave a comment please feel free. I love reading them.
Do have a great crafting and blogging day.
Hugs,

Papertake Weekly ... Thank You

Hi girls. Well after easily getting away from home with our 12" of snow we crossed the border into England to be snarled up in a 15 mile tailback of traffic around Manchester where there was not a fleck of the white stuff to be seen and eventually arrived in Solihull absolutely goosed. Anyway we are here now so I'm looking forward to the rest of our week.
Thank you for popping in here to see my blog. I hope you find something to please.
I am entering this card into the Papertake Weekly challenge where the theme was "Thank You". The stamp is Magnolia's "Christmas Eve Tilda" coloured using my Copic Ciaos. The backing paper is Paper Adventures - Francour - Tropical Breezes blue stripe and the others are Bo Bunny's Sea Foam dot and Stampin Up - olive. The flowers are handmade from the papers and the other embellishments are from my stash.
I sincerely hope that you like this card and would love it if you were to leave me a comment. The time it would take would be much appreciated. I hope you have a great crafting day.
Hugs,

Mojo Monday #118

Hi girls. Glad to have you here for a quick visit to my corner of crafting blogland. Thank you for taking the time to pop in and I hope you find something to encourage your mojo juices.
Well this is the big day - hubby and I are setting off to head south to spend the rest of the holidays with my son John and his wife Sarah, aka Lil-paper-pixie. I'm really looking forward to it because Sarah and I will be crafting all day together no doubt. The journey should take us about 5 hours, weather permitting, so I won't be able to leave many comments today but will be back on Monday as normal.
I made this card for the latest Mojo Monday challenge and I decided to break with my usual practice and produced a card without an image in it. I'll let you be the final judges as to whether this works or not. I used Bazzil base card plus a lilac card from the Paper Mill, a striped paper which is unfortunately unnamed and a spotted paper from the Nancy Watt - "The Summertime Dream Collection". The ribbon is from my stash and the flowers are handmade from lilac card.
Now I decided to add a wee bit of glitter on the flowers for effect and clumsy me lost my grip on the glitter jar and the whole card got it. Lol. Oh well it certainly has some glitter. I would love it if you could spare the time to leave a comment to let me know if you think this works. I honestly value your opinions. I hope you will call back sometime but in the meantime enjoy your crafting time.
Hugs,

Crafts 4 Eternity - Recipe #12

Hello girls. Still recovering from the big day. Santa has been and brought some great crafting goodies Wey Hey. Santa left me a fantastic new Martha Stewart border punch and hubby gave me mega bucks worth of vouchers for the fantastic Stampaholics in Perth. My youngest son's two children gave me gift vouchers for Hobbycraft. I hope you were all pleased with your pressies and I look forward to seeing what you produce with the crafting goodies you received. I am really pleased you have found a minute to pop in and hope you consider your visit worthwhile.
I made this card for the Crafts 4 Eternity where the recipe was to follow the sketch provided and add a journal spot and use some net (I've used a very fine net ribbon, I hope it counts). I used Magnolia's "Tilda with Key" coloured with my Copic Ciaos. the paper and card are Bazzil pearlised, My Mind's Eye -Flirty "Play"
and the main paper is nameless. The flowers are handmade and the ribbon is from my stash.
I would love to hear your views on this one if you have time to leave one. Every comment will be like an extra Christmas present. Please enjoy the rest of your holiday and enjoy your crafting.
Hugs,

Allsorts Challenge #32

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

I would like to wish everybody a great time with friends and family over the holiday period. I would also like to thank you all for the encouragement and helpful comments you have given me in the few months I have been blogging. The genuine friendship and interest has been a constant source of inspiration.

Wey Hey the big day is here!!! Santa has been and delivered lots of crafting goodies Ho Ho!! I hope he has been good to all of you as well.
The current Allsorts Challenge asked for "Anything but a Card" so I put together this post-it pad holder, It was made by encasing three cut strips of thick card in a sandwich between two pieces of a backing paper - I'm sorry I have no idea what it is called, it was lying loose in the bottom of my drawer. I trimmed the edges with peel offs - I don't like peel offs but I felt that this was an acceptable place to use them. I cut flowers out of the paper and layered them as a decoupage on top as a decoration and used a two pieces of ribbon to act as ties. Fairly straightforward but I hope you feel the end result is appealing. You can, of course, let me know what you think by leaving me a comment to give me your views on it. I love reading your comments and if you have time to leave one it would be much appreciated.
Please enjoy the rest of your Christmas Holiday.
Hugs,

Friday Sketchers #83

"It's Christmas Eve and tomorrow will bring all kinds of wonderful things" so says the song and your visit today is an early present to me. I am overjoyed that you have found the time to visit and hope you feel rewarded with what you find here. I hope you find something to please the eye and perhaps even give you some inspiration. We've had a horrendous day with snow and the roads have been chaos around Kinross. Hope it all disappears after Christmas so we can travel down to our son and Sarah (Lil-paper-pixie) in Solihull on Sunday.

I made this card for Friday Sketchers based on the fantastic sketch they gave as a guide. I inked up Magnolia's "Tilda with Flowers" and colured her with my trusty Copic Ciaos. I cut round her outline and mounted her on Gold Mirra Card and again cut rounf the outline. The backing papers are all from Stampin Up 's Pumpkin Pie set. I made the flowers from Gold Mirra Card and "gems" from my stash. I am fairly pleased with this card and hope you like it as well. It would be great if you had time to leave a comment to let me know what you think of it. Any comments are much appreciated and reading them brings a lot of help and encouragement.

Thank you for calling in today and taking time out of your last minute Christmas preparations. I do hope you thouroughly enjoy any crafting you do today and please have a very Happy and Safe Christmas - I hope Santa is very good to you.
Hugs,

Cute Card Thursday #91

Hi girls. Thanks for calling in to my blog. I was in a bit of a quandry about whether I should stop posting cards over the holiday period but I have decided to try to find enough time each day to post. I have tried to build up a list of scheduled cards that I just need to add a top and tail to each day. We'll see how it works out. Anyway I'm glad your here. I hope you like what you see.
We have a generous covering of snow and we're forecast for as low as 17 below tonight so I don't think a thaw is on the cards so we might just have a White Christmas in this neck of the woods.

I made this card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge which asked for an "Aperture Card". Now I need help here because I don't have a clue what stamp this is or who made it. It is coloured using my Copic Ciaos. The handmade sunflowers are cut from yellow base card. and the other embellies are from my stash.
I hope you like this card and have time to leave me a comment letting me know what you think. I value your opinions and appreciate the fact that you take the trouble to leave one. I hope you have a constructive and enjoyable crafting day.
Hugs,

Simon Says .... Merry Christmas

Another day nearer Santa coming down the chimney (or flue pipe as the case may be). Wey Hey. It has snowed again today and we have about 5 inches lying in the back garden were it has not been disturbed. Hope it lasts till Friday. It's great that you have called in to my wee blog today. I really appreciate your time and hope that there is something here to bring joy to you.
I made and posted a card very similar to this a short time ago but when I saw this Simon Says ..... Merry Christmas I decided to make another card based on the same design. This time Magnolia's "Santa - Santa Delivering Presents", coloured with my Copic Ciaos, has been combined with Bo Bunny's "Tis the Season, Deck the Halls" and the reverse side of Bo Bunny's St Nick Holly Berry". The flowers are handmade from white card. I hope you like this card enough to let me know by leaving a comment. I love reading them and appreciate the time you take to leave them. Have a great time crafting.
Hugs,

Papertake Weekly #30

Well girls the snow is still here with us in Perthshire and it has a good grip. It has been snowing again today so we have a good thick covering. Very Christmassy. I'm beginning to get excited - the big day is only 4 more sleeps away.
I really fancied the sketch in this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge and this is my interepretation. I apologise that the light has been so bad here that I had to use flash to take the photograph and it's not up to normal standards but I hope it gives the idea. I used Rayher Hobby Gmbtt (blue/white) paper and Siver mirra card and stamped up Magnolia's "Tilda with Hearts" on Stampin Up Old Olive card. Tilda is coloured using my trusty Copic Ciaos. I used a Martha Stewart border Arch punch on green card to create a drape for the top of the image panel and tied a ribbon across the top of it. The flowers are handmade out off silver mirra card.
I would love to know what you think of this card and if you could spare some time to leave a comment I would be very grateful because I get so much enjoyment reading them. Do have a good run up to Christmas and enjoy your crafting.
Hugs,