Dino-fun

This little card is for my nephew, we're off to his party today - have fun Isaac!

The image is a Pollycraft Dinosaur (sadly no longer available!)

Here's some of the products I used:

Fancy Pants Paper - To The Moon MFT Die-namics By the letters Uppercase MFT Die-namics By The Letters MFT By The Numbers Double sided tape Memento Black Ink Copics Crafters Companion - Neenah Classic Crest Card

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Metropolis

Hi all. I've found I need to keep my stock of kids cards up to date at the moment (so many birthday parties!) so here is a young boys card.  I used Paper Smooches Metropolis which I bought from Make the Day Special - was really pleased with them as a shop, they specialise in stamp sets that can be difficult to get over here in the UK so I've bought Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches sets from them :)

This is quite a basic card, stamped and coloured with copics.

Happy Birthday Friend

Hi all, I just wanted to show you one of my recent 'made but not blogged' cards

It's a pretty simple card made using this freebie from Whimsie Doodles.  Before I printed it out I added my own sentiment on the computer, I then coloured with copics and then popped on a red mat.

 

Party Posse

I thought I'd show you a few I created a while back but never actually got around to blogging.  They both use critters from Paper Smooches Party Posse.  They're both coloured with copics and popped on top of Papermania card bases.  The first card uses a sentiment from the set and the second card has a hand written sentiment.

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Crafty Sentiments - Bright colours

Crafty Sentiments Challenge this week is bright colours, the brighter the better!!

I used one of the new Manga images, Tess Summer Fun - love how she's framed with all those gorgeous flowers.

My papers are from a freebie digi pack from Summer Driggs, it's the Owl Always love Spring pack, so cute! I printed it out for the card but I also used a smaller version to paper piece her dress.  The flowers are coloured with copics (as is her skin and hair) and I added a black card, nesties lacy circles to the back of it and a fishtail banner for the sentiment (I cut it out myself, I've not bought a die for that yet!)

Don't forget to pop on over the the challenge blog and leave my teamies some love!

Crafty Sentiments Release Blog Hop

Hi all, this is an exciting week as I get to show you some of the new releases from Crafty Sentiments as it is our new stamps release day!  And just to add a bit more fun we're doing a blog hop round the dt so you can get a mega dose of Crafty Sentiments inspiration! These are some super cute images and I just know you're going to love them as much as I do!

We do hope you can join in hopping along with our Design Team, we have a wonderful selection of new stamps to share and of course by joining in our blog hop you get a chance to win some of these wonderful new stamps, some random winners will be selected by our DT along the way.....

All you have to do for a chance to win some stamps is visit all our DT blogs and leave a comment and finish back here letting us know what you think of our new releases!

Here's my little bit of Crafty Sentiments fun:

I've coloured Collecting blueberries with my copics I've added the hot pink scallop square nesties (cut in half!) and I cut the banners out myself. Isn't that little rabbit so sweet!

Don't forget to hop around the rest of my teamates gorgeous creations (you don't want to miss out on any prizes!!!!):

Doreen 

Pinky

Axa

you are here ---> Heather <--- you are here

Chrissy 

Dora

Gemma

Suzette 

Caz 

Lisa-Jane

Jan

Rebekah

Shelby

Jac

Zahreen

Jo
Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog - Finish :)


Thanks for **hopping** on by and you must keep an eye out as we will be showcasing all our new stamps this week on the blog too!

Crafty Sentiments - Spots and stripes

I'm hosting over at Crafty Sentiments Challenge this week and it's spots and stripes, any colour or theme as long as there are those all important spots and stripes hiding in there!


I used one of the gorgeous Billy images, Birthday Presents. Isn't he a cutie and I'd love to know where those balloons are going to take him! I coloured him with my copics (note the pressie is spotty because I used the blender pen on it and there are spots around the image to try and highlight the fact that he's in the sky.) My papers are from a freebie pack that I got with a magazine and note that there are stripes and spots in the corners! I added a computer generated sentiment, inked around the edges and voila!


Don't forget to pop on over the the challenge blog and leave my teamies some love!

happy birthday

I recently splurged and bought a few stamp sets that I had my eye on for a while, I managed to buy thme from Make the Day Special (very reasonably priced and it means no buying from the states and incurring those custom charges!).  One of these was Lawn Fawns alphabets, quinn's abc's.  Love this set but need to play more with it.  I love the way it's so easy to line up on my block as the letters are still in rectangles of polymer so they sit beside each other perfectly and the spacing looks great.  I stamped in Memento, coloured with copics and then added the glitter! Jobs a good un!

I thought I'd show you a close up so you can see the glitter (i used stickles)

Crafty Sentiments - Use a digi

This weeks challenge over at Crafty Sentiments is to use a digi, so I have! But I kind of decided I wanted to add more to MoMo, I decided I wanted to make it a birthday card and added some of the Patches elements, unfortunately I have only just realised that Patches isn't a digi (i just happen to have him in digi form!) but you could easily use any balloons or pressies!


Don't forget to bob on over and check out the girls amazing creations.

Stamps

• Crafty Sentiments MoMo 
• Paula Pascual Double Sayings

Copics

• Cow - C7, C5, R83, YR23, YR27, B26
• Present and balloons - Y08, Y06, G17, G15, B21, B26, R24, R27

Other

• Red glitter pen, red paper, craft knife and ruler

Sparkle Creations challenge

Sparkle creations challenge this week is a colour challenge, these aren't quite my colours but I had recently seen someone use the Bargello technique and it kind of inspired me.  I didn't quite follow it as my scraps weren't quite the shape I wanted so I ended up doing more of a mosaic background. I glued all the bits to thin copy paper then cut out with my square nesties before cutting a black square mount.


I coloured in a Sparkle Creations Shopping Emily with my copics before cutting her out. The pinks are the RV 21,23,25,29 group.  I originally bought the 23 and 25 and hated the colour combo but I took a risk and bought the other two and I'm really pleased I did as I love this colour combo now.  


Sorry about the photo, my skills seem to be a little lacking in that department at the moment! Don't tell my hubby, I just hope he doesn't read my blog the moment, he would be ashamed (his photos are amazing!check him out here)

Crafty Sentiments - Happy Birthday

This week's challenge over at Crafty Sentiments is chosen by me and I've gone for the obvious and chosen Happy Birthday. We always need birthday cards and I like to have generic ones on hand. 


I used some pretty Crafty Sentiments balloons from the Patches and Stitch stamp set but best of all I got to play with the new Crafty Cutters Dies, these will be on sale fairly soon so keep an eye out for our release.  One of the best bits about this die is that it works perfectly with my Spellbinders Ovals dies. I used the sentiment from Patches and Stitch. I've coloured with copics and added a bit of glitter (stickles) just to give it that umph!

Boys

Here's a few more cards I created to add to my stash of boy cards, hope you like :)

The first card is created with a Pollycraft dinosaur, copics, nesties and my Die-namics Dainty Dots border die and a handwritten sentiment.

This second card has a Bugaboo image which, as per usual I coloured with copics and added dp and my Die-namics Dainty Dots border die 

Fairy Wishes

With 2 girls in the house it is always useful to have a couple of girly birthday cards in my stash.  

I coloured this card with my copics and my gold glitter pen and then inked the edge by using my nesties to frame it. I added some Pink Petticaot dp, glitter ribbon and a Paula Pascual sentiment.

Boys

Just recently I seem to have had to create  load of boys birthday cards as there are quite a few more boys in my girls' class. So I decided to create a few more for my stash. I've had these sizzix doll dies for ages and the girls have loved creating their own little dolls but for some reason I haven't used them on a card so I decided it was time to try. So here are my creations:

These cards are for the Cards for men anything goes challenge

3rd Birthday

This is the 2nd birthday card, this is for Andrew who will be 3 very soon (far too soon for my liking!!!)  I recently got a Changito set of stamps and since Drew is always being a little monkey I figured I would do him a monkey card. 


This card is for Cute Card Thursday Challenge, it's their 3rd birthday, how appropriate!!

Crafty Sentiments - Spring

Crafty Sentiments Challenge this week is all about Spring (here's hoping I actually get to see some spring weather this week!) I created this card using the gorgeousness that is Crafty Sentiment's Amy with basket 2, isn't she a cutey? Don't forget to check out my teamates gorgeous creations over at Crafty Sentiments.

Crafty Sentiments - My Favourite Things

This week's Crafty Sentiments challenge is My Favourite Things and I have therefore included quite a few of my favourite things on this week's card.  I have included sewing, made it Clean and Simple and used paper piecing (much prefer it when colouring bears, I get too bored colouring in so much brown!) I adore this little bear from  Crafty Sentiments, he's so cute and I love the sentiments that come with this gorgeous Patches and Stitches pack.

Please don't forget to go and check out my teamies brilliant creations and if you get chance show us your favourite things by entering the challenge :)

A trio of boys

My girls are now into the party age where they seem to have party after party.  Three boys in their class made quite a sensible decision to group together and have a party together, hence the need for 3 cards.  I used Digistamp Boutique images which I coloured with my copics.  I added Papermania birthday sentiment and numbers.

It's a bug's life

This is a card for my nephew, I used a Crafty Sentiments digi - isn't it cute! He was a freebie which you can still find here.

This card is for these challenges:

Cute card Thursday - Bugs

Crazy 4 Challenges - Autumn

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge this week is definitely a challenge for me.  This week's challenge is to use blue, grey and yellow, colours that aren't my forte individually let alone together!  But I gave it my best.  I created this using Fairy Pat from Crafty Sentiments and gave it definition by adding the dots around the edge, I think it works!

Card: White square blank

Image: Fairy Pat from Crafty Sentiments

Sentiment: Papermania clear stamps

Copics: B000, B00, Y06, Y08, E33, E35

Paper: Black tones from Papermania, Yellow paper from my stash

Other: Circle nestie, Paper trimmer, Bazzill stitch template, black gel pen, blue ink with dauber