Paper Pieced Mimi

There is a new character being released today at StampFairy called Mimi, and a whole new set called Mimi Love to drool over.


There's also a freebie that I printed out and coloured, but then I couldn't fit it on my card cos I printed out the image too big !!!!  Whoopsies. 


Although Mimi is such a sweetie, I think she deserves to take up most of the card. I've also used a fence image and layered the two together before printing them out.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Mimi Love and Molly Throughout the year June Accessory Fence from Stampfairy
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits & Sassy Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Fantastic Ribbons
• From my stash - Pearls, Papermania brad, glossy accents, white gel pen

Please pop on over to StampFairy to see the newly released digi images.

Here's a preview of the set being released today:

I've been inspired by:

• Dutch Dare - Recipie = 1 ribbon, 2 images (girl and fence layered together before printing), 3 patterned papers (2 on the card and one paper pieced on her dress & shoes), 4 embellies (brad, pearls, flowers, ribbon)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
• Papertake - All things Girlie
• Simon Says Stamp - Sketch
• The Crafty Pad - Paper Piecing

Happy Crafting

A Touch of Romance

A simple little wedding card to share with you today, cos the new theme at Lili's Little Fairies is 'A Touch of Romance'.  I love this image, it is just so sweet and innocent and fits the bill perfectly.  I'm also loving these chocolate and turquoise coloured papers, it's a great colour combo, and they look so yummy.

Despite using quite a large card base, I didn't add too many embellishments because I didn't want to hide too much of the pretty papers.  I just added a bit of lace, some ribbon, a few pearls and of course some gorgeous flowers.

Simples !!!

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Close your eyes from Lili of the Valley
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Sassy Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nesties - Lacey circles, Labels 18
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• From my stash -  Pearls, lace, ribbon, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
• Bunny Zoe - Swirls (on the paper) and Lace

Happy crafting.

George Hot Chocolate Box

StampFairy are sponsoring the ABC Christmas Challenge this fortnight, and today is the half way point.  I've been trying to make some Christmas projects, and because there's still a week left to play along I thought the challenge would get me in the mood.

The theme is "N" for Not a Card, and I've made a little box project to support the challenge.  I thought I could put some hot chocolate sachets or liqueur chocolates inside, and with George Cocoa on the outside it would make a cute little Christmas gift.

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Project Recipe:

• Image - George Cocoa from StampFairy
• Papers - Summertime Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Snowflake Dies - My Favourite Things
• From my stash -  Stickles, ribbon, pearls, glossy accents, crystal glamour dust

I've been inspired by:

• Love to Create - 3 of Something (3x snowflakes, 3x pearls)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
• Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Time
• Crafter's Companion - Ho Ho Ho Christmas
• Creatalicious - Christmas in July

Happy crafting.

Happy Birthday Samantha

This card is for my lovely blogging pal SAMANTHA.   It is her BIRTHDAY today so please pop over and wish her a happy birthday. 

Have a great day honey, I hope you get spoilt loads and get lots of lovely crafting pressies.
Have fun.
xx

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Thomas Big Bunch of Flowers from LOTV
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nesties - Lacey ovals, Lacey Circles
• From my stash -  Embroidery thread, ribbon, pearls, Glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Love to Create - 3 of something - types of threads (ribbon, seambinding & embroidery thread)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - No rules
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - Sizzling Summer Colours

Happy crafting.

Going around in circles

This fortnight's challenge at Top Tip Tuesday is all about circles.  I've made a scalloped circle card, and yes, it is another Christmas card (I'm still in single figures though!)

Here's a close-up of the front where I've combined 3 different digis to make the snow scene.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Molly Throughout the year January Accessory (tree used 4 times)
            - Molly Winter 1 - Molly
            - Molly Winter 2 - Bench
• Sentiment - Typed Scrap Snow font
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nesties - Labels 18, Go Kreate Large scalloped cirlces (card base)
• Snowflake Dies - My Favourite Things
• Embossing folder - Cuttlebug D'vine Swiss Dots
• From my stash -  Stickles, pearls

Please pop on over to the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge Blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter our challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.

I've been inspired by:

• Love to Create - 3 Of something (images - trees, bench, girlie)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes
• I love Promarkers - Circles (circle card base)
• Totally Gorgeous - Christmas
• Crafter's Companion - Ho Ho Ho Christmas
• Creatalicious - Christmas in July

Happy crafting.

"Hoppy Birthday" Froggy Princess

I can't wait to share today's card which features Wryn from Tiddly Inks - and she is ADORABLE.  She was also a dream to colour and comes with a matching sentiment.

Here she is ...

And this card is extra special cos it's been made for the Incy Wincy Challenge where I've been invited to join in as Guest Designer this week.

WooHoo !!!!!

It is lovely to join in my old team again for the week.  Thank you so much for letting me play along girls.  

Mwah!  

The theme is 'dust it off', and I've dusted off the following:

• Purple feather - from 2002, (they were scattered on the tables at a friend's wedding and a couple 'fell' into my handbag at the end of the evening reception - whoopsies!!)

• Purple cherry blossom - I think they were on my very first order from Wild Orchid Crafts and I dread to think how long ago that was, and I only have a couple left.

• Stickles - bought last summer when I was on holiday in Cornwall (I know how to live the high life!!!)

• Purple pearls - at least a year old

Please pop on over to the Incy Wincy Challenge Blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter the challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.


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Card Recipe:

• Image - Wryn from Tiddly Inks
• Sentiment -  Wryn from Tiddly Inks
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Sew Sweet
• From my stash -  Stickles, pearls, ribbon, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Creative Inspirations - Bingo (Polka dots, blue & ribbon)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

Happy crafting.

Feeling Fruity?

I've made a 'just for fun' card today, and since it's been sunny today (for a change), today's card has got a bit of a summery theme.  No doubt it will be raining tomorrow, so I thought I'd make the most of my sunny mood!

I've printed and coloured the image twice, then cut out one of the bears and layered him onto foam pads to create more dimension.  I've also merged in a background fence too to create more of a scene.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Lenny Fruits & Molly's Fence from StampFairy
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Papers - Sassy Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Sew Sweet
• From my stash -  Gems, Glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Creative Inspiration - Bingo (Blue, Ribbon, Polka dots)
• The Ribbon Girl - Aqua Blue & Terracotta
• I Love Promarkers - Circles
• Simon Says Stamp - Let's Get Fruity
• Totally PaperCrafts - Layers
• ABC Challenge - T for Two (ribbons, images, layers of image, circles)

Happy crafting.

Life's a Beach

It's Friday so there is a new release and freebie at StampFairy called Barry Beach Time.

I decided to make a sunny calendar page for August (since July is looking like being a complete washout in the UK, it seemed a bit optimistic to make a sunny July page).

And here's a close up of the image:

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Beachtime & Freebie sentiment from Stampfairy
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Grand Nesties Labels 1
• Ribbons - Sew Sweet
• Font for calendar page - Scrap 'n' Font
• From my stash -  Ribbon, charm, glossy accents, embroidery thread

Please pop on over to StampFairy to see the newly released digi images.

Here's a preview of the set being released today:

I've been inspired by:

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Happy Crafting

Pretty in Pink

I have some super exciting news to share.  I've been holding it in for a week, and feel that I'm almost ready to burst.  Out of the blue I received an email from Jacqui at Lili's Little Fairies last week, saying that she had seen some of my Lili of the Valley cards (yes, there have been quite a few lately!!) and she wondered if I'd like to join the team.

Hmmm, let me think about that one for a mo ..... Hell yeah baby!!

LOTV images are my favourite rubber stamps, and I don't think there is a single one that I don't drool over.

Jacqui's email couldn't have come at a better time too.  After reluctantly giving up 3 of my long standing DT's last Christmas in advance of starting a new job (that'll be the job that pays for my stamping addiction), I'm now nearly 7 months into the new role.  Although it's still stressful and long hours while I'm learning the ropes, I've also realised that I need my crafting to help me relax and forget the troubles of the day job.


So what better than a DT post where I can create with my beloved collection of LOTV stamps every week.  I just hope I can hold my own next to the talented girles who are already on the team.

Speaking of which, I'd better get back to the business of my very first Lili's Little Fairies DT card.

The challenge theme is ... can you guess .... "Pretty in Pink"

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Daisy Chain by Lili of the Valley
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles, Labels 3
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Sew Sweet
• From my stash -  Pearls, charm, papermania gem brad, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Totally Papercrafts - Here comes summer
• The Ribbon Girl - Girlie Card
• Dies to Die for - Pink & green
• Creative Inspirations - Pink, Charm, Ribbon

Happy crafting.

Moving Day

I've got a fun little card to share today.  A regular visitor to my blog, the lovely Wendy, is moving soon,  and so I made her a 'Good Luck in your New Home' card to help make the new place feel like home when she gets in there.

I've used one of my favourite pink and chocolate colour combos and a Lili of the Valley stamp appropriately called 'Moving Day'.

Hope all goes well for you Wendy, and wishing you every happiness in your new home.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Moving Day from Lili of the Valley
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Pink ribbon - Fantastic Ribbons
• From my stash -  Pearls, brown ribbon, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Craft - Shabby Chic

Happy crafting.

Get the fire extinguisher ready ...

A friend asked me to make a masculine birthday card.  Let's face it, male themed cards are something that I'm not very good at.

Ok Ok, I admit it; I'm hopeless at male cards.  I just like pink too much!  And cute.  And glitter.

Anyway, in preparation for her challenge, I pushed away my boxes of paper flowers, my tray of coloured glitters and pile of gorgeous papers.  But that was as far as I managed to go, cos then my fingers just itched to include some pretty blue ribbon and a few blue flat backed pearls.

So in short, I think I failed on the masculine theme.

I'm not sure that I'll be getting a slice of his birthday cake either, after adding the sentiment, which reads:

"When I heard it was your birthday, I thought I'd better get the fire extinguisher out ... "

Card Recipe:

• Image - Penny Black Best of Luck Chickens
• Sentiment - Typed
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Copics, Twinkling H2O Watercolour Paints
• Ribbons - Fantastic Ribbons
• From my stash -  Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• Paperplay - Happy Birthday

Happy crafting.

Fairytale Christmas

Another Christmas card to share today, featuring Tilda.  Despite my good intentions in January about making more Christmas cards throughout the year, I think I could still count the number so far this year on the fingers of one hand.  Still, a few is better that than none!

I've used a fairytale type image and one of my own Christmas sentiments which matches the fairytale theme.  The tiara is colouring in stardust pens with some glossy accents to enhance the sparkle and give it some bling!  This is the first time I've used black for hair, and all I can say is that I think I'll be sticking to brown in the future!

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Curtsy Princess Tilda
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nesties - Lacey circles, Labels 18, Go Kreate Large Scalloped Circles (card base)
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts 
• Snowflake Dies - My Favourite Things
• From my stash -  Ribbon, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Papertake - Anything Goes
• Just Magnolia - All the B's (Bling, Blue, Believe)
• The Ribbon Girl - Girlie
• Crafters Companion - Ho Ho Ho Christmas
• Magnolialicious - Christmas

Happy crafting.

Red White and Blue Wryn

I've got a new Tiddly Inks image to share today from my little spending spree last weekend.  This is Somebunny to Love. Although I saw it more as an easter card, I've made it into a birthday card as I think the image is universal enough.  I've used a red white and blue colour scheme which is quite a bold combo for me (I do love my chocolates and pastels!).

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Somebunny Loves You from Tiddly Inks
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nesties - Lacey circles
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Sew Sweet
• From my stash -  Pearls, lace, home-made pin, glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Tiddly Inks - Red White and Blue
• Incy Wincy - Patriotism Red white & blue
• Papertake - Anything Goes
• The Ribbon Girl - Girlie
• Paperplay - Happy Birthday

Happy crafting.

Morning Caffeine Fix

I sooooo wish I looked this good in the mornings.  I think I do already own similar socks, but that is about it.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - from Saturated Canary
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Glittered Papers - First Edition
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles, Labels 18
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Ribbons - Fantastic Ribbons
• From my stash -  Gems

I've been inspired by:

• Saturated Canary - Bling
• Papertake - Anything Goes
• The Ribbon Girl - Girlie

Happy crafting.

Cookie Bear

It's Friday so there is a new release and freebie at StampFairy called Barry Cookies.  What better combination could there be apart from cute bears and delicious cookies!

I've used a brown and aqua colour scheme, and even recycled an aqua coloured ribbon from a box of chocs which says 'Cocoa'.

I've left off the embellies again today as the papers are quite 'busy', so just a couple of pearls and some glossy accents on Barry's nose and paw pads.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Cookies from Stampfairy
• Sentiment - typed
• Papers - Sassy Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics
• From my stash -  Pearls, ribbon, glossy accents

Please pop on over to StampFairy to see the newly released digi images.

Here's a preview of the set being released today:

I've been inspired by:

• Totally Gorjuss - Sweet & Simple (do sweet cookies count?)
• Papertake - Anything Goes

Happy Crafting

Fairy Sweet Purple

I've used one of my oldest LOTV images today, but it is still one of my favourites.  I love this ribbon too.  It makes such a lovely bow and is lovely and wide.  But because the middle is like very fine chiffon, it gathers nicely at the knot.  Some of my bows look a bit wonky, but I've never been disappointed when I've used this ribbon.  I'm gonna run out soon so will have to stock up again.  Might see if there are other colours available, and treat myself to a few!

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Pom Pom by LOTV
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Sassy Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles, Labels 3
• Leaf Die - Magnolia swirl and leaf
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Wired ribbon - Fantastic Ribbons
• From my stash -  Pearls, glossy accents, narrow ribbon

I've been inspired by:

• The Ribbon Girl - Girlie
• Wild Orchid Challenge - Punches / Dies
• Papertake - Anything Goes
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Happy crafting.

Boy, Oh Boy ...

Well I'm not a huge fan of cards for men.  Mainly because most men I know don't seem to be in touch with their feminine side.  ie they don't seem to appreciate pink, glitter, flowers, or anything cute.

I just can't understand why not.  And I kind of feel that today's card looks only half finished without all these embellishments.

However, I did manage to create a little scene using 2 images, one of which is actually a spooky Halloween window, but I popped young Tommy's head over the spooky cobweb so you can just see the window.

Unfortunately this little fella appears to have missed his target during his ball practice ...

This fortnight's challenge at Top Tip Tuesday is 1 for the Men. We're sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and The Crafty Pad.

   

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Tommy Sports and Halloween Scenes (window) from Stampfairy
• Papers - Sassy Designs
• Card blank - Crafty Boots
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• From my stash -  Pearls

Please pop on over to the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge Blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter our challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.

I've been inspired by:

• Simon Says Stamp - Sporty or Patriotic (both as sports and Red White & Blue)
• Cute Card Thursday - Patriotic (colours red white and blue)
• Incy Wincy - Patriotic (Red White & Blue for UK)
• Crafty Boots - Sport

Happy crafting.

Distressed at Distressing

Today I've got another LOTV card to share, a really simple one following a layered sketch, and just a few flowers and a few pearls.

I tried distressing the edges of my backing papers with some sandpaper, but it didn't have much effect other than making the purple panels look a bit fluffy.

Then my "neatness OCD" kicked in, and made me wince at making the papers all scruffy, so instead I just inked the edges of the panels so that they looked distressed.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Milly For You from LOTV
• Sentiment - Typed
• Papers - Nitwits
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• From my stash -  Pearls, Glossy accents

I've been inspired by:

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
• Lili's Little Fairies - Distressed (distressed edges, but 'distressed' is also what I felt making this card!!!)
• Totally Gorgeous - Sweet & Simple
• Moving Along with the Times - Happy Birthday

Happy crafting.

A Tiddly bit of Ink

I've been admiring the uber-talented Larissa's Tiddly Ink creations for a while, but had not yet introduced the cute images into my ever growing collection of cute digis.

This weekend I've treated myself to a couple of new digis, including the sweet Wryn.  She is a real sweetie, and I have used a beautiful pastel colour combo of pink and aqua, with a touch of green.  I think I need a bit more practice colouring her hair though!!  I did print her out twice and cut one layer out raised up on foam pads.  I think you can just about see the layering on the pic, but it looks better in real life (as usual!).

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Wryn Birthday Girl from Tiddly Inks
• Sentiment - Wryn Birthday Girl from Tiddly Inks
• Card base - Crafty Boots
• Papers - Summertime Designs
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Nesties - Lacey circles
• All flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Aqua ribbon - Sew Sweet
• From my stash - Stamens, pearls, white ribbon, lace, charm, glossy accents, Papermania brad

I've been inspired by:

• Papertake - Sketch (the vertical ribbon and scalloped lace are white so hard to see, but they are there, honest !!)
• Tiddly Inks - Pretty in Pink
• Wild Orchid Challenge - Dies

Happy Crafting