Girly but not pink

Good morning. 

It's a lovely morning here, sun is shining and the wind is not whipping the trees.

Been feeling a bit battered my self lately though, first I slipped and bounced down a couple of stairs at home (must take more water with it LOL) and yesterday part of my back tooth broke off with my breakfast!.The tooth is just annoying but off to the dentists on Tuesday, the pulled muscles are a bit more troublesome. It didn't hurt when I did it, but yesterday evening I was wiping up and I thought OW that hurt! So I better not do too much cleaning today, more time to craft!!!!!!

Here is today's card.

This is the first card I made for my Sister in law's birthday but went with the pink and purple CAS card instead.

I have been wanting to use this Lea'bilities frame square for a while but this is the first time, The sitting Tilda is another new purchase from the sale bin which I thought was very cute. The paper in the background is from Forever Friends and the stripe is an off cut from the bits box as are the little flags and the ribbon bows are from the stash. The cloud background under the frame was a simple square of white card cut slightly bigger. I then die cut some Joy clouds, a new purchase, to mask out some of the card and used Broken China distress ink to create the sky. The frame is cut from 12x12 metallic card I've had since the year dot, as is the mount. The flowers are punched from scraps and Tilda was coloured with Copics as follows:-

skin - E15,11,00,000,R20

Scarf and trousers - B99,97,95,93

Hair and shoes - E51,23,55,57,59

I shall enter it in the following challenges:-

Sweet stampin' challenge - Girly but not pink

Midweek Magnolias - New Stash 

Color me Creative - Anything Goes

ATSM - Make your mark

Don't forget to pop and see our new challenge blog on Tuesday, Cards4Guyz for inspiration and a fun challenge. Tatty bye and thanks for popping around. 

Addicted to CAS

Morning all.

As the title of this blog suggests I seem to be following a CAS theme since Christmas. Perhaps its the calm after the storm of Christmas.

Here is my latest project.

I love the Memory Box butterfly die, but this time I've used the negative it left behind.

The paper under the opening is some I made while playing around with my Copics and some nail varnish remover. I found this tutorial on one of the Copic sites and thought it looked interesting. Problem is, I can't remember which one. LOL! I do remember that Google translator made a hash of the translation and I couldn't make sense of the instructions! Still I had a play and got some interesting results.

The greeting just felt right for this design so went with it.

I shall enter it in the following challenges:-

Addicted to CAS - Die Cuts

Less is More - Winter Blues

That's it for now, thanks for dropping by.

My favourite stamp

Hi, and thanks for dropping in.

The weather here has been frightful but not as bad as some of the coastal regions. Hope everyone is safe and sound.

In the strange time twixt Christmas and New Year, I was blog surfing, as you do and came across another new challenge blog, Fantasy Stampers Challenge. Their first challenge was to use your favourite stamp. Well if you looked at my Favourite 5 post you can probably guess what mine is, yep its my LOTV wedding stamp!

This time I used a pink theme and had the chance to use my new Marianne swirly leaf flourish I got for Christmas.

This is a close up of the stamp, which I cut out and mounted on pads onto a plain white rectangle mounted on silver mirry. The pink ribbon across the bottom is white satin which I coloured with Copic RV 14, because I hadn't got any that matched!

I shall enter it in the following challenges:-

Fantasy stampers:- your favourite stamp

Crafty Little Fairies:- Starting over

Heck of a challenge:- new

Creative Romance:- new

Penny Black and more - Love is in the Air

Well that's it for now, don't forget to stop by our new blog Cards4Guys challenge next week for a great new challenge.

Cards 4 Guyz launch

Good morning, good morning, good morning.

It is a very good morning for me, two top 3's and a DT spot. What a great start to 2014.

I have been waiting all through the holidays to be able to announce my participation as part of a  DT with a brand new blog, Cards 4 Guyz. I am soooo excited to be in at the beginning of this new venture. Please pop over and visit us, we go live with our first challenge on  TUESDAY 14TH JANUARY 2014.

Anyway I've been busy in my craftroom making my Sister in law's birthday card. I made one then wasn't sure if it was suitable so I made another. This is the second one I made for Ange.

I seem to be following a CAS thread at the moment, I really like the clean and simple lines. I'm not a fussy sort of person, more a tomboy given half a chance! The image  is from LOTV as is the sentiment. 

The paper is from the Summertime collection by Forever friends. 

The image was coloured to match the paper, with Copics.

Skin E11,00,000

Teapot and scarf V01,12,15,17

Dress and scarf  RV10,13,14 

Shoes, bun and table legs E53,55,57

Cup and cloth C0,3 blender

The top layer is a piece of white card cut with a Spellbinders circle die then embossed with an old embossing folder then mounted on pads over the paper below. The character was cut out, then mounted over the aperture. 

I will enter it in the following challenges:-

Copic markers Europe:- CAS

Allsorts:- Free and Easy

ABC Challenge:- Colourful

Well that's it for now, thanks for popping by.

My favourite 5

Evening all.

Just sat at the computer waiting for everyone to come back from work and I found this challenge on a blog belonging to Debby4000 so here goes.

Its been rather difficult to choose my 5 but here they are.

This was my first ever card that I blogged about. The brief was to make a wedding card that reflected my daughter's friend's wedding theme. She had made her bouquet from manuscript paper and her dress was purple.

This card was made for my husband's birthday, he fancies himself a farmer. The stamps are from Molly Bloom.

As I have only been blogging for 6 months many of my cards have been Christmas ones. This is one of my favourites, using the wonderful Snowman family from LOTV.

This Christmas card is really simple and based on a sketch from Sketch Saturday. The lovely girlies are from LOTV and the paper is from Nit Wits. So effective but the image is a tad tricky to colour. I liked it so much I couldn't send it to just anyone at Christmas, so its still in my box.

The last one is rather tricky as I couldn't make my mind up. In the end I went for another wedding card, this time for my Son's friend.

Again it features the LOTV wedding couple but this time with a neutral colour theme.

 Well that's it, hope you enjoyed a trip down memory lane.