'B is for Boo!' ABC Challenge

Hi all,
Well it's time for another fab challenge over at the new ABC Challenge blog. This time is 'B is for Boo' so think spooky halloween and have fun. We have an amazing prize up for grabs as our sponsor is the 'Pretty Little Ribbon Box' so why not have a go?

I chose to use this gorgeous little cutie from Magnolia and as always coloured her with Promarkers. The DP's are from MME, the beautiful flowers are from Prima and the punches used are by Martha Stewart. The ribbon, pins and pearls are from my stash.

Promarker Colour Recipe:
Tilda
Skin: Blush, Soft Peach
Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna
Hat and Dress: Orchid, Purple
Hat Band and Ribbons: Pear Green, Olive Green
Broom: Sandstone, Cinnamon
Boots: Cool Grey 1, 3 and 5

Owl
Tummy: Ivory, Sandstone
Feathers: Sandstone, Cinnamon

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Just Magnolia - 'Distressing'
Totally Tilda - #33 'Halloween'
Paper Sundaes - #90 'Favourite Colour Combo' (just love Black, Purple and Orange)
I Love Promarkers - #87 'Autumnal Colours'
The Shabby Tearoom - #83 'Fall Flowers'
Cupcake Crafts - #163 'Halloween'

Florence Catching Some Rays

Good evening my fellow bloggers,

I hope everyone had a good weekend and managed to find plenty of crafting time. So pleased blogger is back up and running felt really lost without it. Anyway, I managed to get some more sample cards done for the Lincoln show and thought I would share this card with you using the very cool Florence from Kraftin Kimmie. The DP's are MME and and Doodlebug teamed with Coredinations.

I created this card for a class I ran last week which was how to use Nestabilities in a different way. For this card I used the negative frame created instead of the positive shape. This was then raised on pads to create 2 recessed panels, a little distressing on the bunting and sand dunes to give it texture and hey presto! As normal I used my trusty Promarkers to colour Florence and the shells.

I have just sent this card to my friends daughter who is in hospital at the mo after a big op so I would like to send her a huge hug and can't wait to see her back home.

I am entering Florence into the following challenges:

Kraftin Kimmie - #78 'Girls Rock!'

Cute Card Thursday - #164 'It's So Distressing'

Paper Sundaes - #69 'Birthday Creations'

Stamp Something - 'Anything Goes'

Passion for Promarkers - #99 'For a Teenager'

Charisma Cardz - #19 'Under the Weather'

The Crafty Pad - #121 'Holes'

Promarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Saffron, Baby Pink

Hair: Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold

Dress & Glasses Frames: French Navy

Hairband & Trims: Poppy

Glasses Lenses: Cool Grey 1, 3, 5 & 5

Happy Crafting and Thanks for Stopping By!

Q is for.......Quotes ABC Challenge

Good morning all,

Well Team A over at ABC are ready with another challenge for you today and this weeks letter is 'Q..... is for Quotes' We are sponsored by the lovely Lacey over at Stamp and Create so well worth a go. We had some amazing entries for last weeks challenge so it would be great to see more of your fabulous creations this week.

This is my first card using a Hanglar image and I'm hooked! I have used the gorgeous DP's from MME, coloured with Promarkers and gone a bit mad again with flowers and pearls again. However I made this card for a very special friend of mine so I really couldn't use too many flowers!
I am entering this in the following challenges:
Just Magnolia & Hanglar - Week #97 'Sketch'
Totally Gorjuss - #71 'Pearls and Lace'
Secret Crafter - #125 'Flowers for Mum' (female themed card with flowers)
Sarah Hurley - #33 'Flowers'

Materials:

Image: Hanglar

Papers: MME

Punch: Martha Stewart

Flowers: WOC

Colouring: Promarkers

Thanks for looking!

Hugs

Clare

x

ABC DT Card P is for............Pink!

Good morning all,

Well its time for another challenge over at ABC and this time we are bringing you P is for Pink. We are lucky to be sponsored by the wonderful Kraftin Kimmie whom have kindly donated 2 stamps of the winners choice, how great is that!

I have used this gorgeous image from Penny Black and teamed it with the beautiful 'Pretty Please' DP's from MME.

Anyway sorry this is such a short post but I have loads to prepare for classes but I will be back soon with some more creations I want to share.



Magical Mondays 'Lace' DT Card

Good morning all,

Wow another week gone and time for a new challenge over at Magical Mondays and this week we want to see you use Lace in your creation. We are being sponsered by the fabulous Pollycraft whom have donated 5 digi images for the winner.

Materials used:

Stamps: LOTV

Papers: MME 'Wild Asparagus'

Colouring: ProMarkers

Flowers and Pearls: WOC and Prima

Swirls: Marianne D

Lace: Cloudnine Crafts

Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass

Stickles: Stardust

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - Challenge #142

Totally Gorjuss - Challenge #68 'Check it Out'

Stampin Royalty - Challenge #59 'Mark it Up'

Sukkersott - Challenge #113 'Lace, Pearls and Flowers'

Truly Scrumptious - Challenge #51 'Swirls and Pearls'

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa

Dress: Tea Green, Cool Aqua, Meadow, Apple

Wings: Ivory, Vanilla

Star: Tulip Yellow





Magical Mondays Challenge 'Love'

Morning all,
Sorry this has to be a quick post but I have loads to do in the shop today! Anyway I am thrilled to be back with the wonderful Magical Mondays DT and would like to thank Vicky again for giving me a little break to get sorted. Well today the theme for the challenge over at Magical Mondays is 'Love' so we want to see hearts and romance in bucket loads. We are being sponsered by our very own Lacey and her fab shop Stamp and Create so please go and check out the fab prize she has put up.

I chose to use this beautiful fairy from Paper Makeup teamed with this gorgeous collection of DP's from MME (I think the collection is called 'Be Loved'). I used a whole heap of nesties on this card as well as the Marianne D circle scallop die. I used promarkers to colour as usual and distressed everything with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.



I am entering this in the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - Challenge #140 'sponsored by Stempel-Phantasien'

Allsorts - Week 89 'Love, Love, Love'

I Love Promarkers - Week 51 'Anything Goes but you must use ProMarkers'

Stamptacular Sunday - #97 'Hearts Gone Wild!'

The Crafty Pad - #107 'Love is in the Air'

Stampin for the Weekend - #3 'St Valentines Day'

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Pale Pink

Hair: Ivory, Vanilla, Gold

Dress: Tea Green, Grey Green, Pale Pink, Antique Pink

Heart: Berry Red



Retail Therapy for Anya!

Evening peeps!
Thought it was about time I pulled my finger out and posted something. This is a card I was asked to make for an 18th birthday. The guidelines were a little stricter than usual so I haven't really warmed to the design. I do love the images but not so thrilled with the layout. I seemed to have used this collection of papers by MME for a lot of designs lately and maybe that's the problem. Anyway I did enjoy colouring Anya so not all bad.

Close Up of Anya

ProMarker Colour Recipe:
Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink
Hair: Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Gold
Hairband, Stripes on top & Boots: Pale Pink, Antique Pink
Bag: Cool Aqua

A Girls Best Friend!

Sorry I know I have been a bad blogger and have been awol for the last week but I have been incredibly busy getting even more products uploaded onto my website in preparation for the launch (seems to be a never ending task at the mo).
Anyway last Monday we celebrated my mums birthday, she is a huge inspiration to me and in all honesty my business would not exist without her help and support. Well before I get too mushy I wanted to share with you the card I made for her. I used the new Kanban stamps with the Old English Sheepdogs as I grew up with these wonderful teddy bears and my parents still have 2 of them, Dylan who is an amazing 15 and a half and Harry who is 7. We began showing them when I was 14 and I quickly became the groomer so the image of the little girl brushing her cuddly friend seemed soo appropriate.

Side view

I am enetering this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin Challenge #39 'Use Your Favourite Stamp or Image'

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #31 'Sketch and Fancy Fold'

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Buttercup, Tulip, Gold

Dress: Pink Carnation, Fuschia

Sock Stripes and Cardigan: Meadow Green, Apple Green

Sheepdog: Cool Grey 1 & 2, Ivory, Pale Pink

Soft Toy Dog: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa

Brush and Box: Cinnamon, Shale

Dogs Tongue and Bow: Pale Pink, Baby Pink

Summertime Fun - A is for August DT Card

Morning all!,
Wow where is the time going. Hi to all my followers old and new I hope you have all entered for a chance to win my Birthday Candy. A huge thanks to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday I had a lovely day and was spoilt rotten.

This week has once again been hectic what with running kids classes and adults classes this week in the shop so I am really pleased I have finally finished my DT card for this weeks challenge over at ABC. The theme for this challenge is A is for August so we want to see anything that makes you think of summer be it the beach, ice creams, holidays its up to you. For this challenge we are sponsored by the fantastic Simon Says and they are offering a $25 voucher to the lucky winner.


I opted for the fabulous Kraftin Kimmie beach collection and decided to create a beach scene using a sidestep card. I made my little beach hut/changing tent using Doodlebug paper from the Blue Jean collection. I then used cloudy dp from MME and a mix of Bazzil to construct the basis of my card. As always I used ProMarkers to colour my images but then used paper piecing to add clothing and accessories. All distressed with Walnut Stain and all is done!
The Fabulous Eleanor:
Fun in the Sun with Jack

I am entering this creation into the following challenges:
Cupcake Challenge - #102 'Distressing'
Paper Sundaes - #29 'Stitching'
Allsorts Challenge - #63 'Dressing Up'
Partytime Tuesdays - #10 'Summertime Birthday Card'
Quixotic Paperie - #35 'Life's a Beach'
YNS Challenges - #22 'Birthdays'
Craft Garden - August Challenge 'Beach Huts'

ProMarker Colour Recipe:
Skin: Saffron, Baby Pink
Eleanor's Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna
Florence's Hair: Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Gold
Jack's Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon

Robin Hood - 'One for the Boys'

Good Evening all,
Hope every one of you had a good weekend. I had a wonderful birthday and received loads of gorgeous handmade cards which I am very grateful for, they will definately stay on display for a long time.
Anyway thought I 'd share with you my latest Magnolia card. I love this image of Edwin dressed as Robin Hood and I couldn't wait to ink him up so here is the result. I kept the card kinda simple as obviously flowers weren't really suitable so I opted for some ferns, raffia and pearls. I also used the new Tim Holtz alphabet Sizzlits die to add the 'wanted' sign. Inside the card reads 'A Special Birthday for a Special Boy'. I am entering him in the following challenges:
Magnolia Down Under Challenge #57 - Birthdays
Ooh-la-la Challenge #59 - Birthday
Sweet Stampin Challenge #37 Sketch
Allsorts Challenge #63 Dressing Up (Edwin clearly loves to play dress up!)
Passion for ProMarkers #62 Colour Challenge 'Green'

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair, Bow & Tights: Sandstone, Cinnamon
Tunic & Hat: Pear Green, Moss

Belt & Shoes: Cinnamon, Shale

Thanks for taking a look, also don't forget to enter my draw for my big birthday candy while you here.

Hugs

Clare

x

Z is for Zig Zag..... ABC Challenge DT Card

Good morning everyone,
Well I think finally all this sunshine has gone to my head, I almost seem incapable of using my trademark earthy brown tones at the moment which would normally be distressed to within an inch of their life. So I'll just have to show you another card in fun and funky summery tones. So this week on ABC Challenge the theme is Z is for Zig Zag ie a tri fold card etc and it is being sponsered by the wonderful Lacey. I have chosen to use the fab 'Dressy Anya' collection from The Greetings Farm along with one of my favourite paper collections 'Quite Contrary' from MME. I also used the sketch from Quirky Crafts which was great fun to work with. This week Crazy 4 Challenges wanted to see buttons on your projects so I added some Sizzix buttons to finish. Finally the theme over at Totally Gorjuss is 'Thinking of You'.

Close up of Blonde Anya

Close up of Brunette Anya

Close up of Black Haired Anya

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Blonde Hair: Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Gold

Brunette Hair: Cinnamon, Cocoa, Henna

Black Hair: Cool Grey 1 - 5

Clothing: Ruby, Crimson, Cool Aqua, Pale Pink, Baby Pink

Color Throwdown Card

Good evening,


Soo late posting this card but I have just got back from the cinema, wasn't sure what I'd think of the new Twilight film but the eye candy is amazing yum!


Anyway, back to crafting this is a very quick little card I made for a class to show off the gorgeous MME papers and the fab Hero Arts Flower stamps. Cannot believe it but there isn't a ProMarker in sight! I did however use my all time favourite Nestie to make the card - Labels 8. The photo did not come out well so I will replace it with a better one soon.


I am entering this over at Color Throwdown they wanted to see the following colours Regal Rose, Certainly Celery,Real Red and Baja Breeze (Blue)
Thanks for taking the time to swing by my blog.
Happy Crafting!
Hugs
Clare
x

Every Good Princess Deserves Chocolate...

Evening all,

Hope your all good. Today has been totally hectic trying to get everything ready for my craft class tomorrow but yeah it's all done. I will be teaching my classes of ladies how to make cards with pockets this week so will post the cards soon.

Anyway I managed to get some crafting done last night including using my new little sewing machine for the first time. Thanks to the lovely Rowena for her advice on which machine to go for. Unfortunately my sewing is not too straight but hey I'm a learner!

So here's my latest Tilda card hope you like her:

I will be entering this card in a few challenges. The inspiration for the colour came from the new challenge site Totally Tilda who wanted to see Chocolate shades.
The fab sketch came from Totally Gorjuss.

Little close up

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa, Henna

Dress & Socks: Ivory, Vanilla

Petticoat & Shoes: Cinnamon, Shale

Tilda on Acetate

Here comes the sun....du du du du!
Well keep your fingers crossed anyway. The sky looks really grey at the moment. Call me paranoid but I feel the clouds are waiting for me to shut the shop and start walking home before they decide to burst.
Anyway I wanted to get another card posted before the weekend as I will be away and unable to post for a few days.


As many of you know I have my own shop and I teach classes weekly. Well I was asked if I could run a class incorporating Acetate and Shrink Plastic. I really wanted to make something a little funky as I do tend to lean quite heavily towards the distressed style when creating. So, I had a think and came up with this acetate creation. If you look closely you'll also see that I did dig out my shrink plastic to create the little glittery butterfly. Really enjoyed playing around with the acetate as I hadn't used it for ages, a simple design but fun to make.

ProMarker Colour Recipe

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna

Top, Socks & Petticoat: Ivory, Vanilla

Dress & Shoes: Saffron, Apricot

Spring Rain Tilda

Good Morning!

I hope everyone enjoyed the fabulous weather we had at the weekend. Yippeee! My day off and it was bathed in glorious sunshine. I spent most of Sunday morning crafting with my mum whilst drinking copious mugs of tea and listening to the soothing sounds of a contented spaniel snoring his head off!

Anyway, this week over at Just Magnolia there challenge is a sketch based one, and I had great fun using it. The other twist was that it had to be a Thank You card. I have been desperate to use Tilda in Spring Rain so I set to it. The only problem I faced was that once I had coloured her and cut her out with the largest oval Nestie I found that to fit all the other elements of the sketch in I needed to use an 8x8" card. I used the fabulous MME papers from the Quite Contrary range, lots of Prima bling and of course my trusty ProMarkers. I also used the gorgeous Hero Arts 'Big Flower Pattern' stamps to create my layered flowers. These are fast becoming a firm favourite of mine.
I will also be entering this card over at Quixotic Paperie as there challenge is 'Heavy Metal' and I used a fab metal Umbrella charm to add a bit of fun.
Over at 'Totally Gorjuss' the theme is to include a charm so I will be entering over there as well.




Challenges I am entering:
http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com - Sketch by Mina - Optional twist of Thank you
http://quixoticpaperie.blogspot.com - Challenge #21 'Heavy Metal'
http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com - Challenge #26 'Charming'

Little Metal Charm Close Up


Tilda colouring close up

ProMarker Colour Recipe:

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna

Umbrella: Pale Pink, Antique Pink, Sandstone, Cinnamon

Coat: Tea Green, Grey Green

Wellies: Red

Puddle: Pastel Blue

Shabby Chic Sarah Kay

Good morning everyone. Hope it's not tooo wet and miserable where you are, it's pretty grey and soggy here today. Anyway thought I'd cheer myself up by finally finishing this Sarah Kay card. I coloured this image ages ago and put her in a box and forgot all about her. Then I had the idea to make a 'shabby chic' style card using some gorgeous MME Papers that I rediscovered in my craft box. So the card was born! I used scraps of already part used papers to make a little line of bunting which I was really pleased with and will be using again. I then folded back the corner of the paper and fixed with a Papermaina DIY brad and filled the corner with a large chocolate rose from Magnolia and some other smaller roses from my stash.
I am entering this over at The Shabby Tearoom as they are running a challenge to use scraps.

http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com/ - Week #3 'Let's Get Scrappy'



Close up to show colouring and distressing. Sorry I can't do a colour recipe for this one but I coloured it sooo long ago I've forgotten which browns I used.

Tilda with Rose

Hi, hope everyone is having a great weekend. I wanted to stay in a fresh Springy mood despite the rain outside, so I went back to my MME 'Quite Contrary' papers and created this card. I used the same freebie sentiment stamp I used on my last post as I have found it very useful.

Once again coloured with Promarkers and finished with Prima flowers and gems. Hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend and get lots of crafting done!!


A little close up to show the seriousy sparkly rose (created with Stardust Stickles)



Promarker Colour Recipe

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink

Hair: Cinnamon, Cocoa, Henna

Dress and Hair Bow: Pink Carnation, Rose Pink

Bow and Socks: Meadow Green, Apple

Rose: Antique Pink, Red, Pear Green

Tilda on Watering Can

Wow can't believe I am managing to post again so soon. Another Magnolia image but I was totally inspired by the MME Quite Contrary papers. The whole range is beatifully fresh and springlike. Once again went a bit mad with the Prima flowers but as this was a birthday card for my friend I knew they would be appreciated.

I love the new Hero Arts sentiment stamp that I used as the easel support. Sorry its not very easy to read in the pics but it says:

"Wishing you love and laughter good health and happiness on your birthday and always"

Not too mushy I thought.

The "Just for you" stamp was a freebie afew months ago on the front of the Docrafts Creativity mag.


Front view




Little close up

Promarker Colour Recipe

Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink.

Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa.

Outfit: Pink Carnation, Rose Pink, Meadow Green, Apple.

Watering Can: Cool Greys 1-4.

Greenery: Pear Green.

Flowers: Tulip Yellow, Apricot.

Butterfly: Lavender, Lilac, Cinnamon.

Graffiti Edwin

Hi I hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent all of Sunday crafting which was just bliss! I am just in love with this Edwin stamp I have already coloured him using various colour combos but for this card I wanted to use Blues and Browns.

Tried to get a bit arty with the photos so hope it's an improvement.



I am entering this card in the following challanges:

• http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/ #44 'Birthdays'
  
• http://quixoticpaperie.blogspot.com/ #15 'One For The Boys'
• http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/ #C4C26 'It's All About Texture'

Colour Recipe:

Promarkers: Hair and Shoes: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa. Skin: Blush, Dusky Pink. Top: Ivory, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Shale. Jeans: Cornflower, Midnight Blue.

Also used MME Papers, Prima Gems, Sizzix Button Die, Dotty Ribbon from stash