Spring

Nice time at the crafting table with Spectrum Noir Markers and Kenny K stamp.

jacket	LY3	CG3
jeans	LV1	LV2	blender
lips	CR1	CR3	CR10
shoes	LV3	IG6	blender
skin	FS2	FS3	TN2	FS6	EB1
top	LV1	LV2	blender

Above is the list of colours I was messing about. :) Really enjoyed!

card Craft UK

cardstock Papermill Direct and Samuel Taylors

stamp Kenny K Movie Star

colorine Spectrum Noir Markers

bow, champagne bottle inspired by Tattered Lace designs

embossing folders Provocraft (hearts) and freebie from craft mag 

pearl trim is from Country Basket

Lovely challenge or two...

KennyK - Anything go with a twist (bow)
Crafty Catz - 224 Anything Goes 

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 :)

Giggles

Noodles is my craft companion, as you can see! 

After re-organizing my box room (I proudly use the term "craft workshop" or "craft room"), there's our printer and the "Photo Studio" I made when found instructions from Dorcas' blog. 

Anyway, Noodles loves it and I love him. 

From now on, there will be cat fur in every photo I take. :D

Again beautiful image from Mo Manning, called Cherry. Colorine took me ages and I'm not happy at all with it, but didn't want to throw away either.I tried blending it and recolouring. Also using pencil eraser eased the job a bit.

3-rose embellishment - 3 x satin rose, few inches of green satin ribbon, piece of pearl chain. All glued together using hot glue gun.
I typed couple of paragraphs of Alice in Wonderland, re-coloured, printed, and now there is perfect backing paper.

image - Mo Manning
colorine - Prismacolors
backing paper - from Alice in Wonderland
kraft - Samuel Taylors
sentiment - Lili of the Valley
some card candi
few satin roses and ribbon, all from stash
sewing :)


There is couple of challenges I would like joining:
Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Gardener's world (Cherries) 
Crafts and Me - #91 recipe: 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (roses, card candi, pearls)
Digital Tuesday - include a digital element -#167 Kids (digistamp)
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 


Thanks for visiting :)

Samuel Taylors First Challenge

Samuel Taylors Monthly Challenge - win Copics + storage wallet!

Look at this, all markers users! I don't do markers, but this store is the place I get my dies, machines, cardstock... Sue and her team are a big part of my crafting life :)

 

How Green Was My Valley

I have few Whoopsi Daisy's digis and they are so sophisticated and fragile looking. This is the first time I'm colouring any of those, so I promise, I will get better...

Cardstock - the usual shop ;) yes, Samuel Taylors
Digi - Whoopsi Daisy
Pencils - Prismacolors
Die Cut - Nestabilities
BP - old stash from Holland
Embellishments - Craft Essentials + old stash


Challenge, my card fits to, is:
Wags 'n Whiskers - use a fairy or an angel
Crafty Cardmakers - colour with Pencils

Yep, definitely like brown/kraft/what ever I would like to call it card stock, for colouring than white. I think. Not sure. Yet. Well, time will tell :)

The Meaning of Pink Roses

Pink Roses:

Pink roses are commonly presented as gifts and lovingly grown by gardeners alike. Pink roses can mean quite a variety of things from “thank you for your assistance” to “I’m thinking of you.” Pink roses like yellow are the perfect gift for just about anyone. You can choose darker pink for someone with a wild outgoing personality and pale pink for a gift recipient who is shy or calm and collected. - Charity Armstrong

paper and cardstock - bought from Samuel Taylors
satin ribbon - old stash
image - Digi Doodle's
die cuts - Nestabilities
banner - ebay
butterfly and flowers - craft essentials
pencils - Prismacolors

Edit: As Stacey said (her comment) I usually don't do pink. Pink is not my thing at all, i.e. I'm not familiar with it. But then again... it feels darn good to think "why not" ;)

The challenges this fits are

Do You Stack Up? - Challenge #3 pink
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
2 Sisters  - flowers
Pile It On - Anything Goes

Do you want to know a secret? La la laa...

Younger son's friend, a girl, came to ours today and of course when I saw Sassy Cheryl's new image, I just had to colour it.

Edit #1: Forgot to mention, we were having LOTS of garlic with our dinner (some garlic here and some garlic there) so I'm sure my son was not so much up for kissing ;)

I might need to take another set of pictures in a daylight, it's about midnight here, but I couldn't wait till morning to update my blog :)

Edit #2: Here are couple of new daylight pics of the project. So called originals are on below of each pic:

Edit #3: Forgot the watermarks.

 How this was made:

Image - Sassy Cheryl's "Do Not Disturb While Kissing"

Bow and ribbon - Country Basket

Tiny hearts - old stash

Embossing plate - Fiskars

Die cut shape - Spellbinders Nestabilities (yes, bought it from Samuel Taylors)

Card stock - old stash

Colours - Prismacolors 

Sentiment - The Beatles "Do You Want to Know a Secret"

I would like to add my card to the following challenges:

Sassy Cheryl's Color Me Challenge #8

Sassy Studio   Dare to Be Sassy Thursday #54 (new - image) 

Top Tip Tuesday  Top Tip #17 (anything goes)

Scrap Creations Love is in the air
Pile It On  Cute Children

Button Up!

It's been winter here in my beautiful Yorkshire and coats and jackets definitely have been buttoned up :)

Card made yesterday/today reminds me of young me ;) A bit of boyish (I was a proper tomboy), long plaits and always upto something. Our village post office lady called me Andrew, not Annemaritta. Hah! Sweet memories. One instance I claimed up to the tree and got my friend to do it too, she fell, broke her arm and my parents and her parents were angry at me! Eh? Me? Hih, no hard feelings, if they read this.

Card... I saw this digital stamp when visiting Meljen's Designs and it was perfect. Coloring is not, but girl has to re-start from somewhere, right? Colours are something different, but surprise, I like them.

Flowers on the digi are replaced with small paper roses.

Ant and I

Shoes and knees covered with grass green,

and muddy elbows. 

Image - Meljen's Designs

Colours - Prismacolors

Button + ribbon + bow + flowers - found when decluttering my craft room 

Cardstock and Nestabilities bought from Samuel Taylors

Backing Paper design - digital from a Dutch company can't remember the name

This will fit for few challenges, I hope.

Cooking Up With Katie #43  - Button Me (button, little ribbon and an animal)
Do You Stack Up? #1 Challenge #1 - Cute As A Button
Delightful Challenges Buttons (err... one real and two drawn, I hope this counts :)
Digi Doodle Shops Best #41 Buttons

January 2011, full of challenges and full on joy!

I'm back!

It has been weird not to post here for months! Life's been busy and messy, very usual and normal in this household. To be honest, I've actually done some work! I have had few business cards and leaflet orders, which includes designing of course, which I'm very pleased. Feedback as well has been excellent. Awww... I love this stuff.

We do not have PS 3, neither Bluray Player, but I have new card making stuff. (Stuff is my favourite word.) There is this store in Leeds, I've been praising about, this is their blog: Samuel Taylors . Personal, warm, friendly and professional customer service and HUGE range of products. I.e. my favourite place to be. And they know it. :D

This "Thank you" card is my first step back to blogging with crafting. Or crafting with blogging ;) 

Metal blue card stock is from a stock I bought ages ago from somewhere

satin ribbon is cream color and been in my posession for months

decoupage is... can't remember where from

frame / die cut / thank you banner is Nellie's Multiframe (Samuel Taylors sell them)

sentiment is Anita's

vellum bird is Paper Pizazz

that thingy with gold/white "pearls" is from discount store

PS. Good idea to clean your "I might need this piece of card" is to turn it to die cut. I've loads now!

Nice to take a part to:

Phindy's Place - Challenge #36 - Give Thanks With Scraps  (this and that from old stock)
Our Creative Corner - A Thank You Recipe Challenge (blue, cream, metal, vellum)
I Did it Creation Challenge - Favorite Technique (decoupage)
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Anything Goes (just to get back on track)
C.R.A.F.T. - Thank you
Cute Card Thursday - Thank you
Allsorts - Thank you