Wedding Belles

The fingers are starting to get better, but still a bit too sore to do any colouring so had a day playing without.

This is one of the wedding stamps from Crafts and Me. I stamped it with versamark and then used Old Paper and vintage Photo Distress Inks.

 Amazingly this is quite a good photo and does show the true colours!!!!!!! For this card I followed the sketch at Cute Card Thursday.

The flowers are all Wild Orchid.

The flourishes were cut with my bug I think they are creatables dies.

A quick peek at the inside.

challenges
Cute Card Thursday Sketch
Papertake Weekly Die Cuts

All Wrapped Up

This little girl is All Wrapped Up from Lily of Valley coloured with copics and glitter and snow added.

Challenges
Mojo Monday sketch
Cute Card thursady Clean and simple
Fab n Funky christmas
Truly Scrumptious Lace it up
Simon Says Stamp All White

Crafts and Me Holly Hock Princess

This stamp arrived from Crafts and Me in the week isn't she gorgeous. This is the Holly Hock Princess by Sara Burrier. I realllllly loved colouring her. Have kept the layout real simple with some corner sissix dies.

Challenges

Cute Card ThursdayNo designer paper

Crafts and Me Anything Goes

Totally PapercraftsHolidays

Simon Says Stamp challenge Christmas in August

Sunshine and Smiles

 I just love this cute little Lily of the Valley girl, I reckon she really wanted a pony and nothing else is good enough LOL.

I coloured her with Copics to match the DP the orange papers are floral dreams by Foundations the green is card I have had in my stash for ever I think from the paperbox.
The swirls are Marianne designs die cuts and the Border is a Spellbinders Die.
I had already laid out my card when I found the perfect sentiment as I didnt have room for it on the outside I put on the inside and carried the theme through.

 Here's a close up of the sentiment LOL. I would have liked a Dont worry be happy but thought this was quite tongue in cheek.

The tag is spellbinders too and the sentiment is LOTV.

Challenges
Cute Card Thursday Sketch an old one or someone elses I used Papertake Weekly
Papertake weekly Sketch
ABC T is for Trouble

Vintage and Mason

Wow has this bank holiday weekend gone fast or what? I spent the first couple of days working in the garden and giving my neighbours a good laugh. I cant see what they found so amusing about me hovering up the garden :-0

Okay maybe it is a bit strange, but I have a garden full of Acers and leaves tend to get everywhere, but not only that last year we were inundated with SPIDERS and I for one will admit to being terrified of them, to the point that last year I wouldnt even go out in the garden :-( so went round with the industrial hover NOT my upright lol and hovered up all the webs and egg sacks, I think I probably committed mass murder lol.

Luckily for me though the neighbours went out before I started washing the trees with soapy water LOL. I dont think I would have lived that down after the remarks about the hovering. 

(Just in case your wondereing No I havent totally lost it the trees had got bugs due to lack of water over the winter and to get rid of them you have to wash them of with soapy water).

Anyways the garden looks pretty good now just got to get some new fushias for the hanging baskets and Im set for the summer.

So to celebrate I have spent the rest of my time crafting, this stamp was one of the many must haves from  Ally Pally. Feel a bit bad though cos I lost the bag it came in so I have no idea who it is from, which is a shame cos I love it and I know they had some other really great scenes.

 I think the stamp has a vintagy feel about it so I stamped the image with Walnut Stain Distress Inks, frayed the edges of the papers with a distressing tool and used Tea Dye and Old Paper Distress inks.

The postcard is a Lily of the Valley stamp which I again distressed with old paper and tea dye inks. The flowers are from Wild Orchid and I misted them with a Tea Dye reinker and pearl glimmer mist. Lace is from a little haberdashery shop in Walthamstow.


before I go I just wanted to share with you my youngest grandson Mason getting to know his story telling Winnie the Pooh.  Bless him Winnie is still loads bigger than him LOL.

Challenges
Truly Scrumptious Vintage
Cute Card Thursday No Text

Claudia's Sketch

Just one more Kenny K coloured with the Derwent pencils.
Papers are from Bearly Mine Designs.
Challenges
Cute Card Thursday Sketch

Monochrome, Touchy Feely

Well I'm on a roll today and have managed to make another couple of boys cards. This one is using Man of the Match from the Flowersoft Moments In Time Collection.

I made the backing paper with a Sissex Folder that I rubbed with Peeled Paint Distress Inks and embossed.
The image was also stamped and watercoloured with the same ink.

Hope you like

Challenges
Cute Card Thursday Touchy Feely
Charisma CardzMonochromatic

Beccy x

Valentines, Challenge 20, Spots and Dots

Another Valentine, this time I followed the sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp

It does look from this photo though that I need to go and glue the ribbon as my ribbon heart is pulling it down :-((Not sure what the correct name for these embellishments are)but they came from Wild Orchid Crafts along with the flower.

Cute Card Thursday wants Spots and Dots.
Belli ChallengeRibbon

Cute Daisy May DT Card - Ribbon and Flowers

Wow it is time for the second challenge of the new year over at Cute Daisy May and this week the challenge has been set by the uber talented Katie who wants to see flowers and ribbons on your creations.

For this card I followed the sketch at Create 4 Fun but I didnt get any extra brain cells for christmas so didnt realise the sketch was for last week - although I dont think I was being entirely stoopid cause I checked the sketch out Sunday morning and the challenges are supposed to be posted on the Saturday urgh.

Never mind I still liked the sketch.


Papers are Kay & Co. The totally scrummy flower is from Wild Orchid Crafts as is the heart. Ribbon and lace from stash.

I am also going to enter this card into five other challenges the Cute card Thursday challenge which this week is Something New, which can be interpreted as something new in your stash or new as in baby etc. As this is an engagement card I hope it counts as starting out on a new path. If not the digi image is a new one from Linnie. The Cupcake Craft Challenge Girly.
By the Cute and Girly New and Corrosive Challenge Distressing.
And the Copic Colour Challenge which this week are G00 RV21 and B32.

3 this time

I followed the sketch from Fab n Funky
the image is from Bidlamarna.

I made this as an easel card cos I want to do some calenders on the cards for the girls at work - working for a typical council that are trying to save money everywhere we are all now Hotdesking - snobby way of saying if you dont get in early you dont get to sit down - this means we cant leave anything on desks so no-one ever has a calender, hopefully as these are quite small they can be moved and stored easily.
this card also fits into the Spoonful of
Sugar Challenge Non traditional christmas colours and Cute
Card Thursday Swirly Girly.

Thanks for looking

Beccy x

Challenge 24

This little beauty from Sugar Nellie arrived on my doorstep on Friday and this has been my first chance to ink it up.

I followed Marlene's sketch at The Sugar Bowl, this week it is to include the added element of Zig Zags. I covered this by using the Pinking blade on my rotacutter. Papers are Eskimo Kisses.

I coloured the image with Perga Liner Water Colour Pencils and Sakura glitter Pens for the flowers and of course Glamour dust for the added sparkle. I mounted the flowers on an icicle from the Range and added some Swavorski cyrstals for bling and Woodware fluffy stuff for the snow.

I'm also entering this into the Kraftin Kimmie Challenge which is
Christmas/Winter and Cute Card Thursday Teens.

Sketch 65

Its Sketch 65 over at
SketchSaturday and this is my take on the sketch - I have used another of those gorgeous Victoria Case stamps from SCACD.
I have used a mixture of distress inks, Copics and Sakura glitter pens to colour the image.
Flowers are petaloo which I coloured with glitter pens and I have added loads of gems for a bit of bling so I am also going to enter this into the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is a choice of their past challenges to celebrate their 100th Challenge.

OMG how dozy am I when I picked out this stamp this morning it was to enter the CuteCardThursday challenge which this week is Lazy Dayz and I thought this kinda fit the bill.

3 in 1

Okay I have to start of apologising for the knaff photos, didnt realise how bad they were till I started to upload them, the good news is that the streaks are from the sun coming out to play and the card looks loads better IRL.

I made this card which I think kinda works for 3 different challenges.

The challenge this week for Stampin for the weekend is to use a digi image - well I have used lots. Fraid I must be sufferin from a bit of amnesia or probably just old age, cos I cant for the life of me remeber where I got these digi images from. I know the girls, the shop and the sentiment on the front came from the same place!!!!!! The shoe is from Sandra Dark. The sentiment on the inside is a stamp that I picked up at Ally Pally, which I thinks says everything that needs to be said! I cut away the shop window and used a piece of acetate for glass I raised the shop on foam and added shoes and a backround. I then added an extra canopy to give shape. The girls are coloured in Copics. The papers are also digi and are from Retro Diva Designs.

The challenge for Papertake Weekly is Shoes - so this definetely fits the bill and for Cute Card Thursday the challenge is to use a quote.

Off to do the dreaded housework now, but hopefully if I get it done quick enough I will be back later to show you some more of my picci.