Being is Beautiful

Being alive, being different, being blessed, being able to communicate are all wonderful things.

Digi Stamp - KennyK

Bench - Magnolia stamp

Colorine - Flexmarkers

Dies - Sizzix

DP - Papermania

Pink card embossed using Crafter's Companion embossing folder

Roses - stash

Challenge or few to take part, please, are:

• KennyK`s Krafty Krew - Challenge #193 - Flower Power
• Crafty Catz -  #275 - Girly
• Digitally Sweet - M, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 133 - April - Anything Goes

Atmospheric Perspective

Atmospheric Perspective. Oh yeah, can I have one of them, please. Err... what is a "Atmospheric Perspective", please? Dictionary tells you:
"atmospheric-perspective. aerial perspective. a technique of rendering depth or distance in painting by modifying the tone or hue and distinctness of objects perceived as receding from the picture plane, especially by reducing distinctive local colors and contrasts of light and dark to a uniform light bluish-gray color." 

Tried my best and here we go. Make it Crafty has this fantastic challenge here.

 

Chelsea sitting on grass hugging her legs. 

 

Chelsea and grass

 

This one is to show the hill behind her *far far away*. 

 

More pics.

 Idea for this pic is all tourist pics were there is Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, Pisa Tower, or something else behind you and you have someone to take a photo of you.

I put special effect on camera "dramatic" and wow, in my eyes this looks fab.

One more.

 Details to follow... All I want to do just now is have a piece of home made apple pie (own apple tree) and blog this. :) Hooray.

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Ok, apple pie was beautiful!

Card stock - Papermill Direct and Papermania

Digi stamps - 

MiC - Chelsea Hugging Legs

MiC - Hilly Lane

MiC - Rocky Tree

MiC - Grass

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Colourine - Copic Ciao, Letraset Flexmarkers

Challenges! Oh yes, please :)

• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Must Be Square or Rectangular #48 Anything Goes
• 4 Krafty Girlz - # 24 Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 69 - Anything Goes

A Girl and A Boutique

Ok, I wanted to try masking, but ended up cutting the image and sticking it on the background. Maybe next time. Or not.

Anyways, Kenny K again and Promarkers :) This image is nice, cheerful and great for colouring face. Now she even has eyeshadow ;)

Background is Magnolia stamp as well as stone steps. All flowers are homemade and I have nicely inked fingers :)

Making flowers is very therapeutic and you can always burn your fingertips, keeps you awake OUCH! if you are nodding off when crafting at night time.

Small one is made using Tonic Studios Petite punch and almost as thin as tissue paper. Got papers from Home Bargains and they make sweet petals.
Tonic Studios Petal Pairs are used making those three bigger ones, too. Weird looking ball is thick handmade paper + hot glue, and the daisy looking (well, with good heart you can see a daisy) are again thin paper. Green stuff is Marianne cutting die and a maple leaf puch.

This is Marianne cutting die, rolled up a bit with embossing tool (ball 6mm)

Thanks for visiting :)

Craft UK
Kenny K
Promarkers
Ranger
Papermania
Laura Ashley (DP)
Magnolia
Marianne
Tonic Studios
Dovecraft

There are couple challenges I'm interested with her :)
Kenny K`s Krafty Krew - Anything Goes
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - Make It Girly (all punches and dies are around year old or older)
Party Time Tuesdays - PTT #117 Tic Tac Toe (glitter, flower, diecuts)
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Robyn`s Fetish - Make your own Flowers
Allsorts - #203  Passion for Flowers
Creative Card Crew - #34 Handmade Flowers
Die Cuttin' Divas, must include a Die-cut - #112 Flowers

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 :)

Companionship

Lovely bubbly image and so sweet too.

Details to follow...

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 :)

Happy Couple

Yesterday postman Pat dropped an envelope and in that very envelope was this gorgeous stamp! It was a surprise present from a friend and this is my first colourine and finished card using the stamp.

Image - Kraftin Kimmie
Colorine - Prismacolors
Kraft - Samuel Taylors
Die - Go Kreate
Gems - Papermania
Swirls - Joy Crafts
All the rest - stash

Challenge or maybe more:
Kraftin Kimmie - My Favourite Kraftin Kimmie Stamp
Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting :)

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time ships were made of wood and pirates were conquering all seven seas. Not all, there was this one brave law abiding citizen, who thought and practiced that words were more powerful than any sword.

Frederic Isaac talked sense to the pirates (of the seven seas) and got hold of gold treasure from the bottom of one of those seven (already mentioned) seas.

Sentiment is a folded mini card, tried to add a mini envelope, but this 300gms kraft was a bit too thick.

I'm so pleased how the chests came out :) Glossy accent and Do Crafts glitter, oh sparkling! Really caught on camera <3

Flash won't do justice, sorry to say, but true. Frederic Isaac's suit has shading, but well, here we are. Frederic Isaac Newton is actually the name of my apple tree, but this image needed a proper name :)

Image - Kraftin Kimmie was stamped on kraft using Memento Tuxedo ink
Treasure Chests - old stash stamp
Ships - old stash stamp
Kraft - Papermania
Sentiment - Lili of the Valley
Colorine - Prismacolors
Glossy Accent and gold glitter

Challenge or two (or few)


Top Tip Tuesday - #78 Sparkles Galore In honour of the Diamond Jubilee (I love the word "sparkles" here)
Desmet Designs - For the Men and Boys
Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - must include Kraft cardstock - Cards for Him
Tammy Scrapin Corner - For the Boys
The Pink Elephant - Masculine
Whoopsi Daisy  - Bling
Dream Valley Challenges - For that Special Guy
One Stitch At A Time - The man in Your Life
Scrapper`s Delights Paper Crafts - It`s a Male Thing
 Scrappy Frogs - Celebrate Men
Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - For that Special Guy
The Crafty Pad - Let`s Hear It For The Boys
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - SIR - #132 Under the Sea
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Travel
Delicious Doodles - For the Fellas
Poodles Parlour -  Male
Simply Create Too - MaleStamp Man - For a Man
C.R.A.F.T.  - Male card
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Male card
S J Papercrafts - All about the boy plus use something old from your stash (glitter has been hiding in the drawer at least a year, as well as mini chest and ship)

Thanks for visiting! 

There Is a Little Boy Inside Every Man

Gorgeous Mo Manning image + kraft + prismacolors, what else could girl ask for?

Different angles :)

More :)

This is taken without flash.

Image Mo Manning 

Sentiment Lili of the Valley

Colours Prismacolors

Kraft 300gsm card blank from Papermania 

Cardstock 300gsm A4 cut 6x6

Design Papers top: Magnolia, bottom: Tim Holtz Kraft Collection

Swirl Joy Crafts

Roses cut using Marianne flower dies (5 sizes) and rolled up + glitter glue

Bubbles have tiny drop of Glossy Accent 

Gems Poundland

Die Spellbinders S4-133

Challenge or two :)

Stampalot Challenge - BINGO* (handmade flowers, green, bling)

One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Come and Get It Challenges - Flowers & butterflies (butterfly bp)

Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Anything goes

Southern Girls - Things with wings  (butterfly bp)

Whimsy Inspiration - #42 things with wings  (butterfly bp)

:) Thanks for stopping by! 

There's a small blog candy -> HERE

It Is Pouring Down - Summer

We had fabulous few sunny days and now it's pouring down. Anyway, it's good for my apple tree and no need to wash the car, because rain does it. Hahah!

Today is a big day for The Queen Elizabeth II, but have to say, it really is raining on her parade! I was watching happenings in London Thames, and poor poor people, they are like drowned rats. Raining cats and dogs. Well, enough of rain related quotes, right?

Girl With a Sign is sweet digital stamp from Mo Manning and because I couldn't decide the sentiment, I left it blank and also removable. :)

I like her shoes.

A close up.

Image - Mo Manning Girl With a Sign
Kraft - Papermania 300 gsm card
Colorine - Prismacolors
PB Daisy - Papercraft Inspiration freebie
Swirls - Joy Crafts
Flourishes - Tonic punch
Twine
Card shape - Go Kreate

Challenge or two
Crafty Ribbons - Easel cards
Shelly's Images - Pick at least 2: ribbon, bling, blue, flowers, markers, a digi, monchromatic colour scheme, punched border (flowers + digi)
Deep Ocean Challenge - #26 Swirls
Die Cuttin' Divas - must include a Die-cut -#67 Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - #70 Anything goes!
Shopping Our Stash - #53 May Flowers (Anything Floral Related)
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Tandastamps - Something new (Girl With a Sign digital stamp)
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #80 Anything goes
Divas by Design - 2E - #37 anything goes
Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Weather related w/ a Mo image
Make It Monday - Always Anything Goes
Paper Pretties - Summer

Thanks for stopping by!

Friendship

Friendship

Wanted to use this stamp for ages on kraft. 

Heh, I was thinking of my two rescue cats when making this.

Image Digi Doodle Shop Old Mack
Swirls Joy Crafts
Pearls Papermania
Flowers mulberry paper + Marianne die LRO145 (same as before) and a bit of distress ink
Colorine Prismacolors
Sentiment Lili of the Valley

Hope you like it and thank you so much for popping in here :)

Challenge or two...
Digi Doodle Shop Challenges - 108 Work Related (The Best Sniffer Dog)