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Papers are K & Co, punched flowers out of the papers. Ribbon and lace from craft stash. Labels cut from using my nesties and added faux stitching around the edges using promarkers. Sentiment from craftwork cards chalked the edges in blue. Card candy to the corners.
Had a fabulous day yesterday at Harrogate and spent so much money, as you do..lol. Other than the base card, ribbon and lace on the above card everything else was using some of the gorgeous goodies I bought yesterday.
I went with Emma and we met up with some lovely fellow bloggers I hadn't met before, Marcea, her mum Nicola, Bev, Maddy (no Calvin Mouse, I'm afraid) and Diane all wonderful ladies and hope to meet again sometime. If you nip over to Marcea's blog she has some snaps of some of us.
Here are a couple of GD cards I've made using the soon to be released Retro-Kitsch eKit from Making Handmade Cards, great for something a bit funky!!
As I've recieved both of these awards before I'll not list anyone to pass them onto this time, but please if you don't have this award and would like it, then please take as a thank you from me for visiting my blog.
I've used papers from the FF 'Feelin Fruity Shabby Style' available from the FF Shop. I've used my circle scalloped nesties for the circles, using card candy to frame one of them. The ribbons are from my scraps stash then added a cocktail charm to one of the knots. Finished with card candy in the corners.
I do hope you'll be able to join us this week for the challenge.
Remember there are some free FF downloads available from the Funky Fairy Inspirations Blog or you can purchase some amazing kits and individual papers from the Funky Fairys Download Shop.
The image is a digi-stamp by Sandra Dry, this is Rosabella Waterlily, isn't she gorgeous. Coloured with watercolour pencils using a waterbrush and added a touch of sakura stardust straight from the pen to the wing detail and outline of the waterlily. I've cut the full image out and mounted her on to a PM 'Fantasy' paper. The base card is pink and white patterned from Kanban and the dp is K & Co. Plain green cardstock from my stash. Scalloped squares were done using nesties. Finished with some Prima flowers with flat backed green pearls in the centres. Below is this weeks sketch to follow:
The digi-image is a fab free download from Dustin Pike, and perfect for a boy's easter card. Coloured with copics, chalked background and inked the edges. Mounted onto green card stock from my scraps stash. The papers are all Funky Fairy. Ribbon and cord from my craft stash. Sentiment is a lovely stamp that I recieved in Dorothy's candy, cut with oval nesties then coloured rim with copics and inked edges in green. To finish, some card candy from my buddy Emma.
A glorious day here today so far, so much better then yesterdays blustery downpours. What a nightmare I had yesterday too, was off to Hull to upgrade my phone, when happily travelling along at 70 mph on the A63, when the car start judderring and making an awful noise, thankfully I was close to a lay-by, and there I had a rear tyre flat as a pancake, just as the heavens opened and I had no coat. Stupid me couldn't find the spare wheel after ripping the boot floor up, so out came the manual, and it was under the car. Thankfully Steve was at home and he came to rescue me, and job was done. I know I should of known where the tyre was, just assumed it was in the boot like all my previous cars. Anyway finally made it to Hull and got my new upgrade phone, so all ended well.
Enjoy your day everyone.
The image is one of the new digital downloads 'Flourishing Flowers' from Spiral Whisper. Coloured with copics markers, chalked and inked the edges then mounted onto brown card stock. Paper is from K & Co as are the little flying bugs (not butterflies, not sure what they are, moths maybe?...lol). Attached some lace onto pink card stock and added a line of green flat-backed pearls. Sentiment is stamped and from the Clare Curd Range. Used some pink ribbon from scraps on the tag.
Happy Mother's DayI hope my mum, my MIL and all other Mum's out there have a wonderful day today.
Two of the girls are home today and we're going for a lunch out with Steve's mum and his brothers and their families, so going to be quite alot of us there, lovely to all get together, not very often his mum gets to see all five boys at the same time, so it will be a special day for her.
And what another lovely glorious morning it is, hope it's as warm as it was yesterday.
I've just seen on the news that sadly Jade Goody died in the early hours of this morning. You either loved her or hated her, but either way she had been so brave over these past few months and touched many hearts with her courage and determination. I didn't hate her, she could be very annoying but entertaining too. I was, however, at the start a little critical of all the publicity and use of her illness for financial gain from when she was first diagnosed with cervical cancer, but all this publicity has had some positive effect, there has been a surge in women coming forward for screening, which they've called the 'Jade Effect' and the government are now looking again to lower the age of screening, and I can now see she was doing all this for her boys. Obviously no amount of money can ever replace these little boys mother, and despite what anyone's opinions were of her, she was a loving mother to her two young boys and only wanted whats best for her boys, like any mother would for their children. My thoughts are with Jade's boys and family at this sad time.
Cherish your mum's xxxx
The background dp is from scraps stash, I'm not 100% sure but I think it's from Dovecraft. The purple card is also from my scraps and embossed it using my bug. Flowers are from my crafting stash and I've added a drop of beads and used a fancy button in the centre of the flower to hold it all together. Ribbon from my stash, with a tied knot and pearl brad. The 'Cherish' round is from Funky Fairys, cut using circle scalloped nesties, then mounted onto paper from PM, also cut with the nesties. To finish added some card candy to bottom left corner.
Well it's a gorgeous Spring day here today, was quite a heavy frost this morning, but thats all gone now. We have one of Steve's girls coming today for a weeks holiday. Some of you may remember a couple of months ago that she was really quite poorly and came and stayed with us for a few days. Well for weeks afterwards she still kept getting these migraine type headaches, losing feeling in her arms and legs and constantly tired. Well after numerous tests over a month, she was told she has a form of anemia, it's got some fancy name but I can't remember that, I didn't even realise there were different types. She is now being treated and within a day of starting the meds, she felt better then she had done in years and so much more energy. Her employers have been brilliant, as she hadn't done a full weeks work since Christmas, and they still paid her her full wage, so she offered to cancel her weeks leave, but they had said it wasn't neccessary. What great employers!!
Right waffled on enough, got a bed to make up and a bit of H******k to do.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend and especially all the mum's tomorrow, hope you have a wonderful day xxx
These were made using the soon to be released 'Little Princess' eKit from Making Handmade Cards. Perfect for any little princess's I think you'll agree, there's lots of fab possible colour combo's. If you haven't visited Making Handmade cards before it's well worth a visit, and if you sign-up for the free newsletter you'll recieve a free 'Floral Doodles' paper kit download as well as regular updates of new releases, card making news, freebies and discounts.
The image I've used is 'Vicky' by the talented Chris Dark. Coloured using copics then inked and chalked the edges. The base card is leather effect black card I ran some blue sticky back plastic through my bug using the 'Script' folder, the picture doesn't really show the blue of the plastic, sorry. Flowers are from my crafting stash, punched some smaller flowers out of the black card then added a blue gem to the centres. Finished with some blue square gems.
This is an 8 x 8 page and I've used FF papers 'In With The Old'. These are pictures of Steve & Me with our biggest catches last year on a fishing holiday. The wording was cut on my cuttlebug. I've used a fishing float, hook & line and shot weights as some of the embellishments. The stamped fish are from 'Clare Curd's Signature Range' and lightly shaded with brown pencil. Finished with some card candy.
Remember if you don't have have any FF papers, there are some wonderful freebies available on the Funky Fairy Inspirations blog, on the right hand side bar towards the bottom of the page. And of course there is the Funky Fairys Download Shop where you can purchase some amazing kits and individual sheets.
This is a perfect opportunity to do something with some of those photo's you've been meaning to do something with, don't worry if you've never done a scrapbook page before, some of our DT had never done one before and I'm a novice also. Go on have a go!!!
My page is going to go in a frame that I bought from The Range, it's a special scrapbook box frame, a wonderful way to display your pages especially if you are not planning to do a scrapbook.
Hope you'll join us and don't forget to tell your friends.
I'm pretty pleased with the result. I've used SN 'Sweet 'n' Sassy' coloured with copics and sakura stardust pens. The flower rim stamp is from the Daisy & Dandelion range and again coloured with sakura stardust pens and a touch of copics green. Added a pink tartan ribbon tied in a bow, purely for presentation purposes, it would'nt be advisable to burn the candle with it on I don't think.
I thought this little project was perfect to enter into The Sugar Bowl challenge, where the theme is Mothers Day. You can either make a Mothers Day card or another card or craft project that you know a mother would love. Well I think many mum's would love this.
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My Fabby News!!!....
I'm really excited to have been asked by the Sketch and Stash team to be their GD for Challenges 7 & 8. Thank you for this opportunity and I look forward to working with you.
I've used the 'Billie Daisy Chain' stamp which I won from Challenge #9, coloured her using copics. I've inked the edges in yellow ink and orange chalk. The papers are all from Kanban. Sentiment is from 'Clare Curd's Signature Range, stamped onto white shimmer card. The flowers are from my crafting stash and added some 'card candy' (kindly given to me by my buddy Emma) to each corner. Finally inked the edges of the base card with yellow. Below is Lynsey's sketch to follow:
Well as you can see I've created a door hanger for the craft room. With just a little folding the hanger also makes the perfect little goodies bag. WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN THESE?? Well, this week as well as winning a lovely FF download you could also win this door hanger and the goodies bag, full to bursting with little crafting goodies.
I've used Funky Fairy papers 'Funky Meets Shabby Chic' in blue and pink. The flowers are punched from the papers then added tiny gems to the centres. The wording was done on the PC and the edges were inked. Around the hole I used circle scalloped nesties to make the frame. To make the bag I've scored two lines then folded so you have a small base for the bottom. Added some goodies into a little sandwich bag, then punched two holes along the top through both sides and the bag, then threaded some ribbon through and tied in a bow, so it holds the whole thing shut.
Remember if you don't have any Funky Fairy papers there are some freebies available from the Funky Fairy Inspirations Blog, to get you started and you'll be able to see for yourself the quality of these papers when printed, which I can assure you are fabulous. There's also lots of wonderful kits and individual sheets available to purchase from the Funky Fairy Papercrafts Shop.
I do hope you'll be able to join us for the challenge, we so enjoy visiting your blogs and looking at your wonderful creations.
Enjoy your day!!!
A free template for a door hanger can be found here.
Here's my NEWS, a few days ago I recieved an email inviting me to be a guest designer for Making Handmade Cards...woohoo. So I have been working on some cards for them this morning and hope to be posting them on here soon, so keep a look out. 
As I've already passed this award on in an earlier post and as many of you have already recieved this award, I am giving this to anyone who visits my blog, and would like it. Please take with love from me xxx
This Koala digital-stamp will be available coloured or uncoloured, I've used the coloured image for this card.
This cutie was coloured with copics makers and I've added a stamped cake from the Daisy and Dandelion stamp range.
Please go and take a look at the wonderful digital-stamps that have already been added to the charity shop.
Those of you who know Heather, will know she has been working so very hard over the past few weeks getting the website launched, so please if you haven't already, show her your support by visiting the Incy Wincy website and why not sign up for the newsletter too. You can find out what the charity is about and how it was set up on the website as well as on Heather's Blog.
I would just like to finish by wishing Heather and all the other founders of the charity, every success in their fundraising.
WOW, never dreamed I'd combine 3 challenges in 1 and I promise I wont make a habit of it.
I made up the blue blossoms using Jak's sheets. Once cut out I lightly creased the petals to give a little lift and dimension then held the layers together with pearl brads. I threaded up some beads in 2 lengths and attached them to hang from the large blossom. The dp used is K & Co. The lace is attached to a piece of green card which matches the base colour, then attached it to the lower half of card. The sentiment was done on the PC, I then cut three different sized scallop circles, using nesties, from the sentiment, dp and one of the PM Venetian Skies papers, layered them together then cut out a fan shape adding a green flat-backed pearl to the fan base.
It's one of those cards I'm not sure about again, but I think it's growing on me. I loved working with Jak's blossoms though.
Well it's a foggy and icy start here this morning, and boy did we have some hefty hail and snow storms yesterday, short and sharp thankfully. It had started off a nice day so got out in the garden for a bit of tidying up, wish I hadn't started and my arms are paying the price this morning, would love to get out there again today to continue the job half done, but not looking likely at the moment can hardly lift my arms..lol.
Well I hope you all have a great day whatever your plans xxx
The image is one of the new Gorjuss Girls, which was a RAK from my buddy Emma, who popped round for a coffee and chat yesterday, good swap for a coffee I think, you can come again Emma...lol. Coloured her with Copics, then did something a little different with the background, I chalked it in purple then using a waterbrush and ruler I added stripes, I was really pleased with the final effect and I'll be experimenting some more with chalk and water. I've torn the edges of the image and re-chalked in the purple. The papers are handmade papers I had in my scraps stash and again I've torn all the edges. Found a piece of purple mulberry paper in my scraps and so using the ruler and waterbrush again I drew a square with the water, tore the square shape then mounted the image onto this. The fabric flowers are from my stash and I punched some mulberry paper flowers for the centres, then put the flowers together with purple brads. Added some flat-backed pearls to the free corners of the card and image, which were coloured with peel-off markers.
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