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 :)

Few Months Till Summer

There's not much of daylight at the moment, and if there is, it's hiding behind cloudy and foggy weather. This Sassy Cheryl's digital stamp is just perfect. It cheers you up and your pencils and markers really want to get the job done. Good or bad, doesn't matter, as long as I enjoy it!

It's clearly school closing for summer holiday 

and girl celebrates it with new markers she was given.

She's painting grass green and daisies blooming. 

Heh, almost coloured one marker red, 

then of course it would be easy to say 

she's painting town red. ;)

Image Sassy Cheryl's Marker Artist
Kraft

Prismacolors

Lyras

DPs probably from Laura Ashley collection

Gems from stash
Fiskars corner scissors

Brads WRM

That's it!

This is also for

• Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - must include Kraft cardstock - Holiday Gifts (markers)
• Digital Tuesday - include a digital element -#188 Girly (digi stamp)
• Cute Card Thursday - C5 - Girls only
• Use Your Stuff - JFF - Patterned Paper
• Pile It On - Anything but a Christmas Card

:) Till next one

Lady in Gold

Nice to blog something for a change! It's not that I haven't done anything, it's just something... Don't know. Without further ado

Lady in Gold

Stamp is a freebie from one craft magazine 'Creativity'. 
Ink Versamark watermark
Embossing powder Gold (will check the label soon, whose it was)
White card is from Papermill Direct, it's white hammered around 250 gsm
Purple also from Papermills, around 250 gsm
Cardblank Craft UK 6x6
Golden lines Sakura Gold marker pen
Pearls bought from China

Card is made for 

• Less Is More - #95 Glitz and Glamour
• Catered Crop - Silver/Gold project
• Oldie But Goodie Challenge - must use something at least 6mts old  & state what it is-  Anything But Christmas (cardstock at least 12 months old, embossing powder older than me probably and Versamark also from Ice Age ;)
• Cute Card Thursday - Girls only
• Allsorts - #182 Bring on the Bling

:)

Till next time 

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

A Shoe Tower --- Really?

Where to go for a good looking, holding minimum of 72 cards, easy to lift and move around card stand?

1. Look around for ideas. Find a great idea from Leikkaan Mervi's blog .
2. Shop around.
3. Buy a Revolving Shoe Tower! (£6.58)

Height 84cm (33")
Diameter 28cm (11")
Base diameter 22cm (8 3/4")

This one holds stamps and stuff. I went through drawers and found "few" pots and tubes of glitters and glues, now they all are just there easily to grab. This works perfectly for me, because doesn't need lots of desk space, and of course the price was GREAT :)

Binder rings would be good (as on the pic), but because of they are quite pricey, I might settle with key rings. Argh, it will take ages to twist and curl them around. Well...

Easily holds 72 cards and more if you want to go and show your cards.

Thanks for visiting :)

Exploding Box Freebie

I saw a bit different exploding box and thought, well, I'll try something. 
No decorations or anything, because I just wanted to publish the freebie.


1. Here's the box. 

2. Another pic of the box.

3. This is very very very easy to make, and I drew a sketch.
You need 21 cm x 21 cm square.

4. Lid/top/hat
You need 13.5 cm x 13.5 cm square. 

Hope you like it. :)

E and S

Another wedding "card" :)

3 tier cake and acetate box with carrying handle.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Handmade Roses... again

Lucinda makes astonishing paper roses, never seen as beautiful as hers. Been drooling over this tutorial and of course want to share my first attempts with crafting bloggers.

Second set (and the first)

punch used Tonic petal punch
cardstock around 200 gsm white hammered
hot glue
distress ink to give colour
wet glue + glitter

Pop over to Lucinda's and you will be amazed how gorgeous her creations are.

That's all for now. Thanks for visiting :)

New Life in Recycling

Finally I have a clock hanging on my craft room wall, 
and how beautiful clock it is! 
Well, my opinion counts :)

Simple, clear numbers and ticking the time.

1 x LP record

1 x clock mechanism

numbers by Sizzix Alphabet Dies "Lipstick Love Letter"

Spellbinders Octagons

kraft card for numbers and the middle

cream card for scalloped octagon

That's it. :)

Thanks for visiting :)

What a Heck of a Challenge!

Lovely title? If you just knew the ladies behind this new Challenge Blog you would agree.

Mandy and Mandy are two really creative women and they make you laugh and will laugh with you. 

If you live in West Yorkshire, you should go and visit the shop and have a chat. Wonderful, warm welcome, even more wonderful prices and very inspiring creations. 

Now the big news:
(This is an advertisement)

Heck of a Challenge

Welcome to our New Challenge Blog and DT call

Hello everyone and welcome to our new challenge blog.
After months of planning (and pestering by Lisa lol) we are finally up and running.

The challenge will be monthly with a new theme set on the 1st of each month. 

All types of Craft are welcome and you can enter more than once but each entry MUST be a different type of craft.

The first challenge will start on 1st September .

before that time we need to recruit a DT ...and build up our followers.

If you would like to enter our DT call please email lisa.coe@btinternet.com telling us a little about yourself with some examples of your work and a link to your blog if you have one.( ps anyone from anywhere can apply)

The DT call ends 15th august.

Also we have Candy up for grabs to celebrate our new challenge.
Just display our badge on your blog with a link to the new challenge blog, 
spread the word and become a follower.