Tulips Make Spring

Tilda and tulips.

Coloured Tilda image is recycled, also embossed teal (turquoise) square behind her. Thanks to my friend! :)
All the rest if new.

Tulip dies from Marianne, white 160 gsm cardstock and colouring.

Image Magnolia Tilda

Colorine Letraset
Die cuttings Sizzix, Marianne and Tonic Studios
Crafwork Cards Candi


Challenge or two ;)
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Summer is just around the corner. HAS TO!

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Good Morning

Oh, how lovely morning it is :)

Image Art Imressions
Colorine Letraset Promarkers + Flesmarkers mix
Cardblank Craft UK 8x8
Flowers Tonic Studios punches with stems
Daisy buttons Crafwork Card Candi
DP "can't remember, sorry"


Challenge or two ;)
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes


Ah, crafting makes days loads better :)

To my Auntie and Her Hubby

To my dear Auntie and Uncle

Married for 46 years and counting!

Kati ja Ripa

46 vuotta yhteistä taivalta ja vahvasti yhä eteenpäin!

Cardblank Craft UK 8x8
White pearlised card embossed using Hougie board
Diecuts Sizzix
Petal punch Tonic Studios
Stamp Unique by Annemaritta
Watermark Ink Versamark
Embossing Powder Heat it Up Gold

Thanks for visiting :)

A Girl and a Bear

Hello again!

Wonderful Mo Manning image. Again. 

Kraft. Again.

BUT this time colorine is done using markers!

Couple of close ups. (Hahah, showing off my new camera. Seriously, I dropped my perfectly fine camera on the floor couple of years ago and damaged the viewing screen. Now only I treated myself with a new gorgeous Olympus. Ah, been talking millions of pics.

These lil flowers are just soooo nice. 

Image Mo Manning Talk to the Bear
Kraft Papermania
Cardblank Craft UK
Colorine Promarkers
DP Smirk
Embellishments... from boxes and bags

Challenge or two ;)
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Yay! Till next time :)

A Boy, a Game Console and His Best Friend

Kraft, Prismacolors and Mo Manning image. Lovely bubbly.

Cardblank Craft UK
DP Mo Manning (the square frame)
Colorine Prismacolors
Kraft Papermania 300 gsm
Corner punch Tonic Studios
Brads Tim Holtz collection Screws
Buttons, twine and buttons from endless wonder drawer

Challenge or two:
Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - #175 Anything goes with a Mo image
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - For the Boys
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - #56 Boys Only

Till next time :)

Chatty Chicks

There is a company in US that makes ab fab and amazing funny stamps. Art Impressions :) The artist behind those creations is Bonnie Krebs, and her talent has been our delight over 20 years. 

Now it is my turn to try and make something nice.

You can't see chickens that they are actually all coloured, but the close up gives some idea. 
Antique White + Linen + Light Fawn
Blush + Pumpkin + Amaranth Red + Canary

Stamp AI Feathered Friends
Cardblank Craft UK 6x6
Colorine Letraset Flexmarkers and a bit of Prismacolor
DP Magnolia butterflies
All the rest from drawers in my messy but lovely craft room.

Challenge or two:
Art Impressions Blog - 103 Anything Goes

Buk buk buk buk brrr-awk!
(Translation: That's it for now :) 

Lots of Soft Colours

Saw this colour combination on Less is More blog :) 

I thought it was really difficult but wanted to follow it. 

First of all I needed the colours... 

Of course they were on the screen, 

but depending the personal monitor adjustments 

colours might not be exactly what they suppose to be.

Design Seeds was the source of information, 
found colour values 
and then printed couple of A4 using these: 
CMYK

f7b2d2
d671a2
e0bb65
d1cec6
f2a31b

Card blank 8x8

Epson S22 printer compatible inks 

Staples 160gsm white A4 sheets x 2

Cutting dies Sizzix, 

Punches Tonic Studios and butterfly punch I cannot find name of it. Soz :(

Flat back hearts from China

Adhesives 

ATG 19mm and 6mm 

Tonic Studios wet glue called Craft Tacky Glue

Inkssentials Glossy accents

Glitter Papermania 

That's the list of ingredients.

Challenge or two

Less is More  - Week 109 Colour Challenge
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes (optional: Tic Tac Toe*) (free-die cuts-bling)
Inspire Me Fridays – Anything Goes always
That Craft Place - Anything Goes 
Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes

L and G

Exploding box to the very special couple from our congregation.

Edit with pride :) 

Pentagon box 3 layers (15 flips, 30 sides to decorate!)
There is 1 Cor 13 all verses on those flips.

White linen A4 sheets
some lace
flowers


Challenge or two:
Decorate to Celebrate - must be party decoration -  Wedding/Engagement
Hotshot Crafts - Anything but a Card
Inspire Me Fridays – Anything Goes always
Stampin With The Dragon - anything goes
Totally Papercrafts – Love is in the Air
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Vickie's Challenges -Anything Goes
ABC Challenge -  I is for In Love
Sugar Creek Hollow  -  #51 Lovely Lace


I hope they like it. :)

Good Reasoning

One beautiful quote that really means a lot to me.
One funny stamp.
Pack of colours.

Just Because

Just Because this image is GORGEOUS I had to stamp and colour it.

Again for some reason colours won't come up right, her dress is violet/lilac, NOT blue.

Stamp is a freebie came with a craft magazine
Colorine Promarkers
Card stock from Samuel Taylors

Flowers are vellum crumbled up.

Glitter on her dress is just glue drops and red glitter.

Leaves, ribbon, hearts from stash drawer

Thanks for stopping by :)

Four Sides of a Tissue Box

Box has four faces and that's the beauty of it! Usually I like to make box with a theme, but now the theme is not to have a theme. Right?

(Warning! Lots of pics.)

Above. Grey paper is wallpaper sample (free) from local supermarket.
Homemade flowers by Tonic and hole is done by Spellbinders die.

Lili of the Valley freebie image (came with crafting mag) and homemade flowers.
I coloured this using Promarkers.

 

Art Impressions and one of their gorgeous stamp, K-1239, 

but of course he has a real name, too. Colorine by Flexmarkers

"Oscar"

Mo Manning's beautiful "Brothers" 

Another Mo Manning digistamp.

Colorine by Flexmarkers, butteflies are glittered with glitter dust.

Corners are Marianne Creatables and signature stamp is one of my own.

Close up of the flowers made using Marianne Creatables die.

That's it. :)

Box was made using 300 gsm card stock.

Dies: Marianne, Spellbinders

Punch: Tonic System

Prismacolors, Flexmarkers, Promarkers

Glitter, glue and double side tape.

Buttons, stamens and other embellishments.

Memento ink tuxedo black

Tim Holtz distress inks

Wallpaper!

Challenge or two ;)

4 Crafty Chicks - #126 Buttons

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - #97 It's in the Bag, or Box

I love Promarkers - #152 anything goes

Papelitos Stamps - #25 Anything But A Card

Bearly Mine - #70 Tic Tac Toe 4 in a row 

(Glitter, Digi image, Stamped Image, Fancy corners)

Companionship

Lovely bubbly image and so sweet too.

Details to follow...

Cold Weather Brings Craft On

Long long time no seen, no blogging, no crafting, but here we go!

C for CUPPA

Craftbarn Challenge "C" (oops forgot to take pic of my alterated dictionary!) Cup
Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Mr Leeds United Snowman

Blizzard hit a West Yorkshire house. Thankfully only in a craftroom :)

There is a house.

Mr Leeds United Snowman.

Standing strong together, 

we gonna see through snow! 

We are so cold, 

we shout it out so loud, 

we love you snow, snow, SNOW!

(I hate snow and cold but well...)

Kraft

Sassy Cheryl's one Snoman digi stamp

Marianne English Cottage 

Marianne Poinsettia

Marianne Fir (Spruce?)

Prismacolors

Twine

Art Deco Snow Tex

20 Years and Counting

Contemporary wedding anniversary card.

Sizzix Framelits
Spellbinders scalloped oval
Unfortunately cannot remember the stamp who's or name even
Colorine Spectrum Noir
DP stash
Number Sizzix Lipstick Love Letter
Tonic Petal Pairs
Stamens from Malaysia.

Thanks for visiting :)

Sweet Kiss, Eskimo Kiss

Winter is coming. Watched too much Game of the Thrones? Nah, winter IS coming. :)

Usually I choose digital stamps from Mo Manning, but couldn't resist when I saw this :) This is a "real" stamp. :D

Kraft
Mo Manning Eskimo Kiss
Memento Tuxedo Black
Rockablock
Prismacolor pencils
Lyra pencils
Prismacolor fine line markers
Deco Art Glamour Dust
PVA craft glue
Go Kreate

Tutorials I keep next to me "all the time" are from Dorcas' blog. Well, it's not helping if I just "keep" them next to me! Her tutorials are my favourite craft books. :) Her colouring skills are amazing and Dorcas' tutorials are wonderful step by stap to follow. :)

These challenges were running in my head:

Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Winter
Ladybug Crafts - Winter
The Cupboard Trilogy - Frosty Winter
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes 
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - Clean and Simple

Thanks for visiting :)