CAS maybe part 1

White leather embossed card and pearls with MiC image resulted this:

Image - Make it Crafty "Cherry Blossom"

Colouring - Letraset Flexmarkers

with a touch of Staedtler Triplus

Card - Papermill Direct Leather Embossed

Die cut - Stampin Up

Stamp on the die cut also Stampin Up

Pearl string - stash

Till next time...

Summer Flowers

Thursday the 27th August means this is my second post for The Sisterhood of Crafters. Gonna miss them, buaaaaah!!! Snif, so better get started.

Theme is Fancy Fold and although this is "just easel" I like it and it's a bit fancy, so "fancy" and "fold" makes a FANCY FOLD heheee.

Big rose is fabric and glossy accent gives nice sparkling. Also daisies and leaves have touch of it.

Sturdy Craft UK scalloped edge 6x6 card blank x 2

holographic card 

shiny mirri card

Stampin Up punches x 2

roses embossing folder

dots embossing folder

Tonic Studios punch

Silhouette Cameo cutting machine for cutting green leaf x 5

fabric rose

couple of pearls, glue, glossy accent

and lots of love

Now it is your turn to have fun!

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Fancy Fold Challenge

Some of my favourite blogs with challenges:

• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
• Top Tip Tuesday -  Anything Goes (Week 2)

Favourite Colours for a Special Occasion

Here we are in the middle of August, well almost, and I love this day for a Very Special Reason.

The Sisterhood of Crafters took me in for August, and this is my first Step Sister project. I hope you like it. The Sisterhood of Crafters is totally stress free place with great challenges. For this fortnight theme is "Your Favorite Colors". This is mine:

 

I only got this stamp few days ago and was buzzing to use it on card.

 

This might be my favourite Make it Crafty digistamp :) I LOVE this lady.

Few years back my favourite colour was black. It was excellent if it was black. No other colours, thank you very much! Almost without noticing I was drawn to purple and silver and now it is clear they are my favourite colours.

Now listing all things made this card possible:

Stamp on front - Stampin Up Layered Labels

Ink - Stampin Up

Digistamp inside - Make it Crafty Soprano Singer

Distress Ink - Ranger (TH)

Cardstock - Homebargains (light ivory), Papermill Direct (purple)

Colourine - Copic Ciao, Letraset Flexmarkers, Prismacolor fine liner

Diva's belt - satin ribbon from endless stash

Leafy thingies - Joy Craft cutting die

Roses - I made them

Little daisies - stash

blings - stash

Embossing folder - Crafter's Companion 6x6 

Card blank and all layers were cut using Silhouette Cameo and shape inspired by Sizzix 

double sided tape, Snopake wet glue

Done.

Couple of challenges I'd love to take part:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
• Die Cuttin' Divas - #178 Favorite Color Combination
• Paper Minutes - #334 Music
• Love to Create - Inspired by a Song, Book or Movie (Can't help it, but for me it is "Madame Butterfly" in this.)
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 69 - Anything Goes

Yorkshire Weather

I should take a photo outside, but don't want to put my nose out of the door, because it has been raining the whole day. Windy also. Seriously speaking I LOVE Yorkshire Weather. It is "home" and when I look around (when I'm out that is) it is the beauty of moors and dales, just even factory chimneys. This is Home.

That takes me nicely to Henry. Poor mouse, full of cold.

Sweet stamp from Whiff of Joy, and because it is not large, it gives good room for all fancy bits. I tried to keep it small, because trying to stuff it into an envelope. Well, lets see...

Took me ages to blend the colours and probably I should have waited till tomorrow to let ink dry properly, but come on, me and patience don't walk hand in hand. 

Card blank - Craft UK
Stamp - Whiff of Joy Henry Mouse (sick)
Ink - Memento
Colours - Flexmarkers
Flowerly dp - Stampin Up
Pale green dp - Beatrix Potter collection (Crafter's Companion?)
Sentiment - Lili of the Valley
Die - Wonky Square from Spellbinders
Flowers - my doodling
Lace and cuckoo clock - stash

There are couple of challenges I would like to join with this:
Passion for Promarkers - #245 Theme Get Well
C.R.A.F.T. - #257 Make your own embellishment (all flowers)
Simon Says Stamp  - Anything Goes

Around the World Part I

Through the years I've managed to get few Magnolia stamps, although they don't have nose, neither mouth, there is something about them... Backgrounds are fabulous, and suit almost everywhere, windows, doors, furniture for example.

Well, to cut a long story short, here is Tilda in Australia.

Hooray, I got masking right! This fence (barbed, :( not user friendly) is also stamp from Magnolia.

Flexmarkers seem to suit me with Tilda, because of their flexibility, hahah, now I finally got it! (I'm kidding.) Name, I mean. Anyhow, Flexmarkers act very differently than Promarkers, my opinion, not Letraset's.

I LOVE the result. Tilda is in Australia travelling around the world and after lots of raining in April, those fantastic flowers come up. Well, no idea when it is raining in Oz, but this is my back story, heheh.

What did I need: 

Card stock - Papermill, Craftwork Cards, Lidl and Homebargains

Card blank - Craft UK

Stamps Magnolia - Koala Hugs Tilda and Barbed Fence

Ink - Stampin Up Early Espresso and Crumb Cake

Colouring - Flexmarkers

Die cuts - Joy Crafts, Marianne, Spellbinders, Sizzix

Corner - Silhouette freebie

DP - First Edition 

Pearls, twine - stash

Challenge or two or more

Totally Tilda -  #94 Use Fence Die or Stamp

Tilda's Town – # 101 April showers bring may flowers

Marvelous Magnolia - #66 Anything Goes (Beginners category)

Magnolia-liscious & Wee Stamp Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes no digis 

Ok, that's it! I hope this gets me some encouragement to continue trying to make Magnolia Tilda and Edwin look alive(ish)

It would be lovely to have some feedback. What is good publicly and what is bad, of course in private :D :D Nah, it's just although I have pile of these stamps, I've always found it so very difficult to colour them. Trying to get colours blend. Getting emotions shown. Oh boy. 

Here are my previous colouring attempts:

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Best of Friends Part Two

Lovely windy Sunday here is Yorkshire and it would be just fantastic to go for a brisk walk. Or take the washing out to dry. Or sit at the craft room table and make something. Heh, here is the latest from the craft room table!

This is stamp from Art Impressions and all their stamps makes me laugh, designer really has captured the best facial expressions and gestures and postures.

Those beautiful staples are from Tonic Studios.

It was only yesterday when I said that won't be using light lines regularly, but here we are. Crumb Cake from Stampin Up was perfect for this. Really nice lines for this sort of pastel colouring.

Card blank Craft UK

Stamp Art Impressions

Ink Stampin Up Crumb Cake

Colouring Flexmarkers

Punches Tonic Studios

Staples Tonic Studios

Embossing Folder Couture Creations

Frame freebie Silhouette cutting file

Backing Papers and Ribbon stash

Here we go with couple of challenges:

Art Impressions - #133 Best of Friends

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #31 Some Pastel Colours

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge  - #25 Frame It

Thanks for visiting xxx

Spring Brings Life and Light

I love this time of the year. Days are longer and it's raining all the time. No wonder days feel longer! :D

Anyhow... here is a card I've made with Spectrum Noir markers and a bit of this and that :) Green has zillions of shades and it is a gorgeous colour. Especially in spring time.

Dress looks very light and flowing in the air. Isn't it beautiful? Very very old PSX stamp btw.

Dress - PSX

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Colorine - Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

(LG1, LG2, LG3, LG4, JG4, CG4, PL2, PL5 and Blender)

Glitter - Ranger Stickles Eucalyptus

Card blank - Craft UK

DP - old stash

Embossing folder - Provo Craft 

Swirl - Tonic Studios

Die cut - Stampin Up

BP stamping - Stampin Up wheel and Pretty in Pink Ink

Blings - stash

Couple of challenges:

Spectrum Noir  - March Challenge Colour Green

Crafty Catz - #223 Bling it Up

Craft for the Craic - March - Something Green

Kaboodle Doodles - Green

Thank you for visiting and see you next time!

If you would like to cheer me up even more, by leaving me a message, here is the LINK

White Sox

If I followed baseball, my knowledge would be more than what I gained from A League of Their Own.

This is anyway Baseball Tilda playing for Chicago White Sox.

Image - Magnolia Baseball Tilda
Ink - Memento
Colorine - Promarkers
Card blank - Craft UK 6x6
Lace - Stampin Up punch
Frame - Nellie's
BP - wallpaper
Satin ribbon - stash
Roses - stash

Thanks for visiting :)

Challenges

Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia - Anything Goes
Magnolia Down Under - WoW 
Totally Tilda - BINGO* (lace, dry embossing, flowers)

Nice Colours of Autumn

Autumn is full of colours, different shades of red and green, grey and all. Kids are back to school, and in our house, it means son continues his electric engineering studies. Good for him! Good for me too, he fixed our cooker <3

This is "sort of" DT card for the very first 

Awesome Crafting Facebook group challenge #1

"Nice Colours of Autumn"

Awesome Crafting group is a group of likeminded craft loving people. 

We share tips and advise, love bargain hunting and relaxing.

We also have monthly crafting challenge, surprise prize draws etc.

It also works as our craft stuff flea market!

Image: Mo Manning gorgeous Carolina

Background: Impression Obsession Cover-a-Card Pine

Die cuts: Spellbinders 

Tag die cuts: Stampin Up

Buttons: Woodware

Kraft: Stash

Sentiment: Woodland Folk

Ribbon and twine: Stash

Couple of challenges for this one:

• Mo's Digital Challenge - Buttons
• Do You Stack Up? - 3E – Kraft & twine
• Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything goes (last challenge)

• Simply Create - must be digital/papercraft - Always anything goes

• Lexi's Creations - Autumn Colours (ends 15th Sept) 

• Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

• Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - must include Kraft cardstock - Autumn Colors

Thanks for visiting :) xx

Sunshine and Tupu

Yep, this is my sister, Tupu. I'm useless to keep contact but when I saw this image, I "had to have her" and honour my sister. Poor lass, broke her ankle and had pot for 12 weeks!!!

It's been weird not been blogging, but I've been so so so tired. Love coloring and making things, but oh dear, how I could sleep 20 hrs a day. :D Old age, old age... I thought the older you get, less you need sleep.

Image Mo Manning
Coloring Promarkers
Sky Prismacolor
Ribbon Stampin Up
Buttons Papermania
Design Papers Born to Shop and Bazoo collections
Die Cut Spellbinders
Strawberries covered by UTEE (first attempt, LOVE the stuff)

Challenges for this

Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Anything Goes and Thank You

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting :)