Angeline Ballerine!

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge at The Craft Garden! It is now time for our next challenge and our theme this month is to use four of the following; buttons, banner, flowers, pink, ribbon, tag, sparkle. This was a fun challenge for me! For my card I used one of the gorgeous new stamps designed by Ann Cresci for Stampavie called 'Angeline Ballerine' (I love these new images from Ann Cresci; they are so gorgeous!). I have coloured her with copics and spicas, and I added some glossy accents. My butterfly border at the top of my card is a Tim Holtz die and my tag and swirl are from Magnolia.

Please join us at The Craft Garden for our October challenge!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Stampavie and More. Challenge #177; sparkling
- A Gem of a Challenge. Challenge #56; for the girls 
- PaperPlay Challenges. Flowers and lace
- Divas by Design. Challenge #54; fairies and fantasy
- Flutter By Wednesday's. Anything goes (must use a butterfly or fairy)

Hedgehog In The Rain!

We are now onto our September challenge for The Craft Garden and our theme this month is:

W A T E R

For my project I was I was inspired by the word 'water' which made me think of rain, so I made my card with a cute little critter out in the rain! My stamp is one of the sweet images from Tina Wenke for Stampavie and he is called 'hedgehog with umbrella' and I coloured him with watercolour pencils. Normally I use copics, but I had fun with the watercoloured pencils and they are not too hard to use!

Please join us at The Craft Garden for our September challenge!

Summer Fruit Picnic With Adele!

Here is a card I have made for fun with a 'summer picnic' feel to it. My gorgeous stamp is "Adele enjoying fresh apples" designed by Sarah Kay for Stampavie and I have coloured her with Prismacolor pencils. I have added Stickles to my flowers to make then nice and sparkly. My sentiment is from Hooked On Craft and my tag was cut out with Spellbinders "fancy tags". I also used Spellbinders "beaded ovals" for the red core'dinations paper beind my stamp. I embossed it with my cuttlebug and lightly sanded it back to make the embossing stand out.

Let me know what you think!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Stampavie And More; Summer
- Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog; Sketch challenge and 'in the garden' theme
- The Lollipop Ladies; Challenge #20 fruit salad and a bonus challenge of square
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Spakle and shine!
- Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge Blog; Is that oranges I can smell?!
- A Spoonfull of Sugar; Challenge #152 Anything goes

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope all the wonderful Mother's had a lovely Mother's Day today! Here is the Mother's Day card I made for the best mum in the whole world; my mum! My sweet bear stamp is designed by Penny Johnson for Stampavie called 'bird and bear'. I coloured him with copics and highlighted the flowers of the stamp with glossy accents. My flowers, buds and leaves are all from Hooked On Craft. As usual they all started off white and coloured them all with Glossy Accents in 'strawberry shortcake', 'tattered rose', 'honey dew mist', 'meadow green', and 'flower power'. I am having lots of fun lately with making two-toned flowers!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Paper Kutz Challenge; Mother's Day
- Prairie Fairy Fridays; For the girls
- Southern Girls Challenge; Let's hear it for the girls
- Copic Oz; Challenge #10 Celebrate women
- Tuesday Throwdown; Mother's Day
- Craft Us Crazy; Mother's Day and flowers
- The Sisterhood of Crafters; Mother's Day

Here is my easel-style Mother's Day card:

Close up of the top half of my card:

Bottom part of my card:

Side view:

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! Only one more sleep till the Easter bunny comes and I can't wait to eat lots of chocolate! Here is an Easter card I have made using a long-neglected stamp designed by Tina Wenke from Stampavie called "Easter Parade". I bought this stamp years ago but never got around to using it so I was determined to ink it up this year. I have coloured it with copics and added some glossy accents. My flowers and leaves are from Hooked On Craft and they were actually white but I used Glimmer Mist (*sigh*, how I love Glimmer Mist!) in 'cherub pink', 'pop rocks', 'key lime pie', and 'dazling diamonds'. My cute doylies are also from Hooked On Craft. From my background panel shapes I have used Spellbinders 'beaded circles' and 'beaded ovals'.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Sweet Sketch Wednesday; Challenge #98
- My Time To Craft Challenge; Challenge #137 Easter Wishes
- Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog; Challenge #63 Thought of Spring/ Easter
- Creative Inspirations; Pet/ Animals
- Craft Your Days Away; Challenge #18 Easter
- Copic Oz; Easter challenge
- Die Cut Dreams Challenge Blog; Challenge #87 It's Easter Time!