Beary Big Hugs!

Good Morning! Just popped on to post this card before i head out to Edinburgh for the day.

Cant decide quite what the weathers going to do so i better take a jacket and umbrella just in case! You know what Scottish weather is like!

Okay onto my card. I have used my very favourite image..Beary Big Hugs from Belles and whistles. I have coloured her with my promarkers.

The papers are from the Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby paper pad which i love so its hard to cut into them! Every scrap gets kept from these papers!

The sketch for the Belles and Whistles challenge is fab and the twist is to use your fav shape on it. I have made a rosette from Kraft card stock and punched a circle of my papers and topped with a button. My flowers are from WOC and the vines cut from my Pot-Pourri Cricut Cart. The lace and gems are from my stash.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Belles and Whistles - Sketch with a twist

Elisabeth Bells World -3 in a row (my row is diagonal and used Gems, Lace and Buttons

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Marks finest papers - Lace

Creative card Crew - Anything Goes

Hope you have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by!

New Arrival!

Hi, well i am on a role with making cards this week! I think i have had a post every day! 

The Lovely hAnglar Only Challenge this week is a recipe...3 flowers, 2 brads and 1 ribbon. My hAnglar baby is coloured using promarkers. He is too cute for words! The papers are from TPC Studio, Blips and Bleeps. The second layer was embossed using the Swiss Dots embossing folder and the layer with the ribbon and scalloped edge was embossed using my score-board to get nice straight embossed lines. As always my flowers were home-made and inked with distress ink along with the vine that was cut from my Cricut. The teddy charm was a last minute add on. Its was actually just a little felt bear that i found in my "baby bits and bobs" tub so thought i would use him as a charm! The sentiment was cut from my Cricut Wild Card cartridge and glazed over with Glossy Accents..(i cant make a card without using this stuff!!) The brads and ribbon are just from my stash.

Here is the challenges i am entering with this card.

http://lovely-haenglar-only.blogspot.com/ - Recipe (3 flowers, 2 brads and 1 ribbon)

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - Only 2 words!

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/ - Embossing

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/ - New Beginnings 

http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/ - New Beginnings

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - New Beginnings

Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for your lovely comments!

Stitched up!!

Here is the latest creation! I have seen lots of these on a many blogs and i just love them. As i was half way through the stitching i checked the Totally Tilda blog and the new challenge is "Stitching". Maybe it was crafters intuition...but lets face it, it was probably just a bit of luck!

The paper i have used has a story behind it, its actually wallpaper! ssshh...I couldnt resist taking a sample when i seen it on the shelf in our local DIY store! I read a long time ago about a crafter who always collects wallpapers and pain charts etc to use on her cards but i wasnt really sure if the wallpaper would do the job! Well it certainly did! It was really expensive designer stuff, £49.99 a roll so it was really thick and the flocking is lovely. The picture doesnt do it justice! I only took a little bit so thats it used! 

The flower is one i made myself. I cut hearts out on my Cricut and curled the edges over and arranged one overlapping the next. Turned out great. I covered the flower in Glossy accents and some MS glitter to give it the "wet" look. 

The swirls are cut from my cricut story book cartridge onto silver paper. The stitching is also silver thread, again the photo doesnt show it up well. 

My Tilda image is coloured in with promarkers. I used all my "Cool Grey" shades to give it a black and white effect. That is my first try of that so could have been better! I added a few gems to add some bling!

The challenge at Creative Card Crew is "Sparkle and Shine" so i have entered into that with my shiny flower and sparkling gems!

Here are links the the challenges i have entered into;

http://totallytilda.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-3-stitching.html - Stitching

http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/2010/08/sparkle-and-shine-with-digi-shack_17.html - Sparkle and Shine.

Thanks for looking!

Another Round One!

Hi There,

Well that me back from my latest travels in the caravan. Had such a relaxing time, we didnt want to come home. In fact we had such a lovely time and the site so was nice we booked for the long weekend in September. 

Here is another card which i will enter into a few challenges. For the Totally Tilda Challenge the theme is "shaped cards" so i used the Scallop circle card which i cut on my Cricut and this time i cut my Tilda out and coloured with Promarkers. The paper i used is Bo Bunny. I decided to thread my ribbon and ruffled it for a wee change. I used Buttons and a bow to fit with Crafty Catz challenge. I used the word from the Aud Sentiments Challenge which is "relax" for the sentiment. I am also going to enter the card into the Creative Card Crew challenge as their theme is "Cute and Girly". I think this card fits the bill, nothing more girly than pink and bling! To add the bling i used my clear gems. The flower is cut with my Cuttlebug die and machine and the swirls from my Cricut Story book cartridge.

Hope the cards fits with all the challenges i have entered it into!

Here are links to the challenges i have entered;

http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/ - Cute and Girly

http://totallytilda.blogspot.com/ - Shaped Card

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - Relax

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Buttons and bows.

Thanks for looking!