Good Luck

Today is the day when schools are closing for summer holiday! Good luck to all kids/teens/young adults, have a good few weeks for relaxing and enjoying life.

 

Zoë from Make it Crafty has made great colouring tutorials, both "live" and e-books. For me they have been truly good because my colouring with markers is NOT good. This is the first time I've tried to concentrate and learn. Person with no flippin patience this is A Very Hard Task! ;)

 

 Result with Tilda's dress was something I couldn't believe I've done it! Well, messed the sleeves up, but those shades on skirt, oh boy I love. 

This gives me some confidence that I can improve.

Dress: Soft Aqua, Pastel Green, Soft Green

Hair: Sandstone, Vanilla, Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Raw Sienna

Skin:  Blush, Tea Rose, Ivory, Linen

 Image - Magnolia Tilda something (never remember details)

Colours - Flexmarkers

Backing papers - Papermania and Home Bargains

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Die cuts:

oval from ebay, 

layers under the sentiment I cut using Cameo

butterfly - Cheery Lynn

Flowers - homemade with Tonic Studios punches

Pearls - old stash

Challenges, please:

Stamp and Create with Magnolia - Summer Fun

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge Blog  - OTT or CAS (mine is CAS)

Magnolia Mania - Summer

Totally Tilda  - #100

Crafty Catz - Hot Summer/Hot Colours (I trust all this yellow screams SCORCHIO!)

4 Krafty Girlz - # 22 Anything Goes

 Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #44 Anything Goes

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Little kind reminder of 

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge

Use a Stamp or Digi Stamp somewhere on your Project for Fred She Said!

Sun and Fun

It's been 2 weeks since my last blogging! No wonder, because half of the time I'm like ouch auch can't move and then... WE HAVE HAD WONDERFUL SUNNY WEATHER!

Anyhow, here is the first of "My Very Long Way to Colour with Really Trying to Learn How to Colour with Markers" blogging. Phew. Ooh, this is gonna be fun. You are welcome to laugh at and with me.

Card blank is 6x6, embossed background is just couple of mm larger and nicely covers the base.

Detailed photos:

Crafter's Companion 6x6 embossing folders just about too big for the 6x6 card blanks I use. Oh well, rather this than other way round, to be honest with you. You have to love those sharp lines and beautiful details of them.

I put 2mm and 4mm pearls, colour is the same, although looks different shades.

Wows, 7 layers if counting base and image.

As you can see above, blending is not my strong point

smudging is ;) BUT I like her head.

Clearly she says:  Yep, that's all for now!

Make it Crafty digi stamp 'Classy Victoria'

Flexmarkers

2mm and 4mm flat back pearls

Crafter's Companion embossing folder

Cheery Lynn butterfly dies

homemade flowers using help from Tonic Studios punch

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Remember our fab Crafts Galore Encore 

Challenge #7 "Use Stamp or Digi Stamp". 

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I would like to take part of these challenges:

• Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  #44 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
• Twisted Tuesday - Challenge: Pearls  Twist : Lots of Layers
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• Digi Makeover Challenge - Girly Girl
• Crafty Catz - Flowers

Joyful July

Morning! Or afternoon or evening depending where you are, but Good Morning this is and I hope you are, too. I have delightful news and long blog post with lots of photos. 

Couple of months ago with big hopes I applied a DT post when I saw DT call at Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. Today I can proudly present my first DT creation for this funny and warm challenge blog.

Crafts Galore Encore rules are easy: Our Challenges are for crafters of any medium, as long as it fits the theme! July theme is "Use Stamp or Digi in Your Project". We all love cards and this is something we can say that sky's a limit. Use anything you like, let your imagination fly and join us!

Our wonderful sponsor in July is Fred She Said, and this is just a short note from FSS: Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-coloured images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files. Have some fun with Fred!

Very generously Fred She Said is giving a Gift Card for $15 to spend on FSS goodies in the shop!

Here is my card (box card), and I used Fred She Said digital stamps Emma and Rosie and also a freebie from year 2010 called Flower Pot,because flower pots were like made for this bench where Emma and Rosie are sitting, don't you thing?

This project was fun and dead easy. First I coloured the stamp, then measured how big the box should be, then I took a piece of card and made the box and drawer. Glued all together, all roses made by me. This is suppose to be very girly and I think it is.

Materials:

Digital stamp - Fred She Said

Colourine - Spectrum Noir Pencils

Die cuts - Sizzix

Roses punches - Tonic Studios

Lace, ribbon, pearls - all stash

Challenges I would like to join:

Crafting From The Heart - Challenge 25 - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Challenge 257 - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - July Challenge - Let's Go Digital
Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - 1st-7th July - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions - Challenge 165 - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Challenge 82 - Stamping
Simon Says - Anything Goes
The Stamping Chef - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge 237 - Anything Goes
Crafting At The Weekend - Challenge 3 - Anything Goes
Scribble And Scrap - Challenge 21 - Always Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Butterflies
Sparkle n' Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
Stamps & Fun - Flowers and Pearls

Now it's your turn. Welcome and have fun!

Kaarin and Jyrki

My cousin and her fiance tied the knot this afternoon.
14.06 @ 14:06

Bubble, Bubble

Oops, a week gone with no blogging! I've make all sort of things and done gardening, got new dishwasher fitted... i.e. household tasks :) Because of my poor back and legs (hahah, feeling sorry for myself?), I truly can say that I was enjoying those few moments I could so something. It just meant to take painkillers enough and be positive. Afterwards it is nice to look around and see results. Well, my son probably does 99% of the works, but I am trying.

Here is a card I made for my good friend's daughter. For some reason I thought there's something wrong...

Here is the new version.

Image - Mo Manning

Circle dies - Spellbinders

Leafy thingy - Marianne

Colours - Flexmarkers

Lace - stash

Words - gift from a friend

Pearls - stash.

That's if for now. Oh, I have wonderful news regarding blogging, challenges and more.

Sweet and Fragile

Hello from Very Wet and Cold Yorkshire (wouldn't swap places to anyone), we have ideal weather to grow apples. Looks like there's going to be plenty after couple of months. Apple pie... Can't wait.

Here's my first card today, and is the very first time I'm using Sugar Nellie's Victoria.

Will fill the details a bit later. 

Flower Tutorials

Flower tutorials that changed my life.

Silly to say things like that? No. What do you do with all your scrap paper and card? Bin? Store in the bottom drawer? Why not make flowers? Sometimes if I'm lazy, I take a sheet of card/paper and punch quite a few petals ready to be converted to flowers, but all scraps are screaming out "we are here, take us!!!"

1. Lucinda's tutorial

2. Jak Heath and her tutorial

3. Create a Beautiful Flower with Petal Pairs Punches

Some of my makes. I will blog pics of punches and dies etc very shorty.

 

These pics I took when someone asked tutorial, looks like I forgot to take pics in the middle of the "process". Oops.

Time Flies When You Have Fun

Time the most certainly flies when having fun! 

Here we are, today it is the 30th May, and this is my last Guest DT post for

Crafty Catz. 

I was lucky to have 5 Fridays and this week's theme is... wait for it...

ANYTHING GOES! 

Generous sponsor this week is

Bunny Zoe's Crafts

and the lucky  winner of this week's challenge will get

£10.00 Gift Certificate to Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

I should warn you for long blogging and lots of pictures. Here we go.

edit: WARNING, I WENT TOTALLY OVER THE TOP WITH FLOWERS :D

Because this is my last week, I decided to make something special. It will remind me of Crafty Catz team and I feel I need some tissues now ;)

This tissue box covers last four weeks:

1. Bugaboo

+ pearls and lots of home made flowers. Die cut Go Kreate

2. Delicious Doodles

+ pearls and flowers by yours truly ;) Die cut Spellbinders

3. KennyK

+ gems and flowers (yeah yeah, homemade) 

 4. Fitztown

+ pearls and these famous flowers by me. Swirls stash

How was this done? Ok, box was done by measuring a box of tissues and adding few millimetres, then cut some cardstock and measured and scored using Hougie board. Box isn't square or cube, but it's dead easy to make. 

Extra layer of card to make the bottom stronger and hide the folding.

I like to fold edges inside to have smooth(er) finish and cover the bottom foldings under extra layer this side too.

Butterfly and butterfly cutting Tonic Studios. Swirl is Joy Crafts. Question is "who made the flowers?" Confession time: It was me. I like making flowers, can't help it :D

Lining there as well.

Recap:

3 x A4 sheets of Papermill Direct Leather Embossed Card

Die cuts - Spellbinders, Go Kreate, Tonic Studios, Joy Crafts

Digistamps - Bugaboo, Delicious Doodles, Fitztown, KennyK

Colouring - Letraset Flexmarkers, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Pearls, gems, ribbon - stash

Flowers - Annemaritta

That's it. Piece of cake. :)

I want to say Crafty Catz thank you for having me and you won't get rid of me this easily. Check it out, from next week I will join your challenges again!

Challenges, I would like to join:

A and T Emerald Faeries -  #55 Flowers Ribbon / Lace 

Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations - Digi / Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge -  H for Handmade Embellishments 

Challenges 4 Everybody - May – Anything Goes

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Card 

Southern Girls - Sparkle and shine with a bit of bling

MilkCoffee Challenge - Anything but a Card

4 Krafty Girlz - # 19 Anything Goes

I love Promarkers - Must use Letraset - #221  Flowers

Inky Impressions - #161  Anything Goes