Johnny and Maria, Part II

Remember this?

Today it was the Part II.

Congratulations, Mr and Mrs.

All cream and red. I made those cream roses yesterday and wedding cake tiers I made earlier, but today was the all decorations. Everything was covered with cream hammered card, then lace, then roses.
After cake was glued on the base, I thought pearls would give the final sweet touch.

Edit 6 August 2012
Before the wedding I asked bride's sister, what's the colour scheme and Jodie told me it's cream and red. I've now seen few pics and I think those 3 red roses are a good match!

3 roses symbolize a 3-core marriage, husband, wife and God.

Of course I had few challenges in my mind

Dawn's Crafty Cards & Friends - #1 Anything Goes
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays – Always Anything Goes
Simply Create Too -  Week 1, Anything Goes 
Decorate to Celebrate - must be party decoration 
Divas by Design - #46 Flowers
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything but a Card 
Jackson's Digital Expressions -  Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - PTT #79 Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday - Free For All- Anything Goes
Amusing Challenges - Anything Goes 
2 Sisters - #103 Anything goes 
Catch The Bug -  Anything Goes
Stamp Man - Week 2, Anything Goes / Celebrations
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting!

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 :)

Dance the Night Away

I've been waiting for to blog this card. I love it and I think even got the colours right ;)

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Image Mo Manning Little Irish Dancer digi stamp 

Colorine Prismacolor pencils

Cardstock cream linen

Glitter Papermania

Florals Unique by Annemaritta (yeah, that's me!)

Gems Poundland 

Challenges:

Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Dancing & singing

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Easel or more than one fold

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - All Things Girlie
Lia Stampz Challenge - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show... -Anything Goes 
Gingerloft - Fancy Folds
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Jackson's Digital Expressions -  Anything Goes + using some sort of Colour media


I hope you like this one. <3

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 :)

Octagon Box

Clearly I have some sort of storage box fever at the moment. After I got this pigeon holes unit, there is no more (awful) mess in my craft room.
This one is Very Important. Ok, I need needles and pins (immediately a song plays here in my head "Needles and Pins"!) and if there is loose box, all are always on the floor or nowhere to be found. Only after OUCH!
Made a box for pins and needles. Needles and Pins! It's just a simple octagon with double bottom and double lid/top. After glued together got a piece of styrox cut the shape, covered with thin fabric.

2 x A4
Octagon shape - Spellbinders
Stamp - Magnolia (well I was going to write "Needles and Pins" because image was just so good for the need.
Ribbon - stash
Ticket shapes - Sizzix Framelits + paper stack cover sheet :)

Challenges I made this for
Dream Valley Challenges -  Anything but Square
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia - Anything Goes (I trust cute Magnolia stamp counts)



Till next time :)

Box

Couldn't get sleep so I thought well, lets make something!

This is a "New Home" box. 

All you need for the basic box:

2 x A4 cardstock (depending the size of the box, ofcourse

glue

ribbon (it gives a bit of flexibility, if the lid is not "perfect size")

Image is the same on every side, freebie from A Day for Daisies. 

4 sides, 4 different shades of green and dress colour.

Blossoms on the tree are, or suppose to be, same colour as girl's dress.

Lots of yellow like bright sunshine.

Image - A Day for Daisies
Colorine - Promarkers and Distress ink
Corner cutting - Fiskars scissors
Ribbon - stash
Sentiment - Lili of the Valley


Challenges I made this for:
A Day for Daisies - Anything but a Card
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 :)

Love is...

Beautiful image from Mo Manning's pencil, 

so very beautiful, thoughtful and very sweet.

Image - Mo Manning Young Love
Colorine - Promarkers
Frames  - Go Kreate
Branch - Marianne Creatables


Challenges I would like to join:
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Easel Crad 
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Straight from the heart
I Love Promarkers - #123 anything goes


Thanks for visiting :)

Wee Craft Corner of Mine

If you have your own crafting place and something is there and here and everywhere, do what I did. Near son's college/university is a nice small (dusty, crowded) house clearance place and this was my first visit there.  Lonely pigeonhole unit was there and after good wondering around, talking about cars and weather, I asked like it really didn't matter or like I wasn't actually interested at all, "how much do you think I should pay for this?"

Answer was "gimme a fiver and it's yours". Well, FIVE pound sterling it was and son did the rest. Dragging it into the car, dragging it into the house and upstairs. Thank you, sweetie. 

This picture is downstairs with warts and all. 

Testing how A4 and 12x12 will fit there. Ok, fine, good enough for me.

After hoovering, polising and arranging. Not there yet, but wow, how great it was to organize my very organized mess, even having this wee moment to see, that it was a proper bargain and oh so great.

Picked few cardboard boxes from Asda (with permission of course). 

I sort of save all pieces of papers and cardstock, but never get a chance to use them, 

because "it's never there!". 

Labels are there and now these boxes are for all those scraps. Good, innit?

My favourite take away boxes, too, filled with brads and eyelets.

I think it was a fiver well spent.

Till next time, thanks for visiting :)

200 Bloggings Candy Winner

edit 5th July 2012:
YES, my film was indeed Horse Whisperer.

I guessed couple of films wrong and then naturally it meant more candy :)

Here's the final candy and the winner:

Not a huge number of entries, but I counted 1 for comment and 1 for card.

Linda, Linda card, 

tellihani,

 Asia King, 

Tillena, Tillena card, 

Dorcas, 

Flying Fresian,  Flying Fresian card, 

mapowska, mapowska card, 

Di card, 

Pinkies Sparkly Creations, 

Sonja.

Congrats, Tillena! :) 

200 Posts Means A Movie Inspired Candy

This is my blog post #200 

(Sticky! Roll down to see latest posts, please.)

To celebrate this unexpected event, here's a candy!

To be eligible just link your blog or add a comment, but:

OPTIONAL TASK: 

Create a card/anything inspired by a film.

Don't tell the name of the film, it's more fun guessing! 

I would be delighted if you could advertise this

by adding link on your blog and also become my follower. 

Blog Candy will run till 30th June 2012 23.59 BST 

(British Summer Time)

Because this is a celebration, candy is embellishments,
top left corner there are 3 bags of my handcrafted flowers :)

My own entry - Film is: __________________________

Link your creation here and this candy on your blog. Leave me a comment, please :) No prisoners taken thou ;)


My guesses:
1. 
2. Batman Begins  (I got this right!)
3. Cut Throat Island  (Got this wrong)
4. Saturday Night Fever (NOT confirmed)
5. Star Trek  (I got this right!)
6. Mousetrap (Got this wrong)


IF I DON'T GET IT RIGHT, I WILL BE ADDING MORE CANDY and continue guessing.
...

Easy Pram Template

There's a easy 3/4 circle pram template for free to use. After these, and also after few cakes and boxes, I ended up spending some time trying to make a template.


How to download this?
1. Over the picture, RIGHT CLICK and "OPEN LINK IN A NEW TAB"
2. Go to that tab.
3. RIGHT CLICK and "SAVE AS"
4. Save and then open the image.


It is measured A4, and you can just print it.


Page 1.

Page 2.

Any suggestion and corrections, please feel free comment. Feedback is always welcome!

Depending the decoration, you come up with something like this :)

(I put qtips to hold the wheels, but that was just extra.)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Tricolor Tilda

Hehee, Tilda!

Someone said to me lately that I've fallen in love with Tilda (Di Sixsmith!), I replied, no, not fallen in love, this is just a crush.

Colours are not showing correctly, because miss Tilda's dress and shoes are darker blue. Or could it be me?  Serait-ce moi? Moi? Hih, I think so. Definitely.


One thing is for sure, I love coloring on kraft, and hope will improve :) Can you see embossed backing papers? Card is a bit dull, but with r-w-b it's sort of DIFFICULT! It doesn't matter who ever much you love the colours. Sometimes you just don't get it right. Hehe, this was my excuse :P


Image Magnolia Tilda something
Colorine Prismacolors
Die cutting Marianne and Spellbinders
Roses homemade using Marianne die
Embossing by Fiskars plates (lovely)
Backing paper top: Tim Holtz Core'dination Kraft
Gems stash


Challenges this has been made for (of course also just for fun!)

• Sassy Cheryl's - #120 Celebrate Red White & Blue
• Dutch Magnolia Lovers - Red, White, Blue
• House of Gilli - Red, White, Blue
• Paper Pretties - Red, White and Blue
• Secret Crafter - #190 Red, White and Blue
• Poodles Parlour - Red White & Blue
• Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
• Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia - Your Favourite Colour Combo 

Thanks for stopping by! Mwah!

The tiny reminder :) Here is my 200 bloggings candy.

June

Calendar says June, and it means summer. Sunshine, warmth, swimming, sun bathing, ah.
Nothing beats those childhood summers, right?

Image - Mo Manning

Kraft - Papermania

Colorine - Prismacolors

Design Paper - Mo Manning (bottom)

Design Paper - freebie from some craft magazine (top)

All the rest - stash

Couple of nice challenges:

• Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
• Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - Good`ol Summertime
• Robyn`s Fetish - Anything Goes
• Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - At the park 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Here is my 200 bloggings candy.

3D Round Cake Template

Hiya again!

Here is my tip for Top Tip Tuesday: 

3D things made of paper and card are beautiful and also quite challenging sometimes. I've been thinking about templates and how to make one easy to follow and of course wanted the result be stunning. Who wouldn't?

Next one is the display box for the cake. Watch this space. :)

Managed to sort out a template for the round cake you can see HERE. Ohmydearme what a task. :D
Any questions and feedback are welcome. Mwah!
It's measured for A4 and you need both pages. Tiers are 10cm, 7cm and 4cm diameter.

Good luck!

How to download this?
1. Over the picture, RIGHT CLICK and "OPEN LINK IN A NEW TAB"
2. Go to that tab.
3. RIGHT CLICK and "SAVE AS"
4. Save and then open the image.


It is measured A4, and you can just print it.


Page 1

Page 2.

Thanks for visiting and just a reminder what it looks like:

I asked my fellow crafters to test the template.

Yvonne

Janey

Pauline

Thank you, ladies. This is a nice confidence boost <3

One Challenge 

Top Tip Tuesday - #78 Sparkles Galore In honour of the Diamond Jubilee  

3D Prototype Round Cakes - Update

Update: Friday 15th June 2012
Made a stand and tried something different kind of decoration.

Another cake on the mantel piece. :)

I should wait until the decoration is done but actually these will end up in the bin, but it is so nice to try new things! 

You can't see properly, but the I cut pair of swans and one big heart shape on the back "wall".

Thanks for visiting :)

Challenge
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ 

3D-Cake Prototype

Just for fun. 

This is my first ever 3D cake card and display box. 

Or keepsake as we call it. 

Next one will be better but oh, I really liked making this. 

Thanks for visiting :)

My embellishments blog candy :)


Challenge for this one


http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/