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Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend and the snow is all gone where you are if you’re in the UK. Thankfully all our snow has disappeared and I can get out again, my car was well and truly iced onto the drive and completely unmoveable! This is a card I made a while back for the competition in PCE and I thought I would show it today. I love the paper, it’s so bright and cheerful and I think it’s an October Afternoon design from a few months back. I cut out one of the swirls from the reverse side of the paper and punched the piece on the right hand side with an EK success scallop punch. The heart shapes are cut out with nestabilities dies and I made a lollipop flower just showing under the bow. All finished off with large and medium corner rounder punches, a gingham bow, some doodling and doodlebug candy dots. TFL and have a good day.

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Hi everyone, a card today with the gorgeous Jolly Tilda and which I entered into the PCE magazine competition. I was very excited when I found out that I was one of the runners up and have a lovely prize of craft goodies on the way to me, can’t wait for it to arrive.

The Jolly Tilda was stamped twice and masked so that I could stamp the Magnolia snowflake circle for her to be sitting on, I also cut out her head and arms as extra pieces, coloured them and used them to 3d the image. I’ve cut around her legs before die cutting with a large nestabilities plain circle die too. The image is water coloured with Ranger distress inks and glittered with stickles and a spica clear pen. Background paper is a lovely winter text paper from Magnolia which is distressed, edge inked and faux stitched and to finish I added some punched glittered snowflakes, Magnolia flowers spritzed with pearl glimmer mist, brown dotty sheer ribbon, some gems and a scalloped die cut and pierced circle behind the image.

I’m entering my card into the My Time to Craft challenge where this time, anything goes. Hope you’re having a good weekend. TFL

Colour Create 35 – Lemon and Lime

Hi everyone, a new Colour Create challenge starts today with a lovely colour combo of lemon and lime with an option of spring or summer flowers chosen by our lovely Sharon so thanks Sharon, love these zingy colours! There’s some amazing cards from my DT friends and a great prize from Michelle’s Scrapbooking so I hope you can join us for this one.
I’ve stamped a sweet little girl from The Greeting Farm 'hope and grace' set that I haven’t managed to use before, coloured her with copics, cut out and added lots of sparkle with stickles and a glitter pen. The die cut nestie shape is embossed with a CB happy birthday folder, sanded, edged with lime ink and stickles and punched with a slot punch to add the dotty ribbon. Background paper is BasicGrey Lime Rickey, distressed and edged with stickles and the flowers are a stamp from the same Hope and Grace set, I stamped, coloured and cut out five of them, added buttons tied with lime green cord and stickles.
Have a great time tonight if you’re celebrating new years eve! TFL.

Colour Create - Challenge One

Hi everyone, my card for Colour Create where the first challenge is pink, green and brown with an option of butterflies. I hope you can join in and it's great that this challenge can be combined with any other challenges you want to enter. There's some fantastic inspiration from the talented DT and a lovely prize too.

I'm also entering my card for the Cuttlebug Challenge and a theme of distressing. For my image I've used a gorgeous Elzybells bear which I've coloured with distress inks and cut out with a nestabilities oval. The card layers are all Coredinations and also cut out with nestabilities, embossed with a flowers cuttlebug folder and sanded. The Elzybells bear and sentiment are stamped in Versafine Timber Brown and mounted over the brown card on dimension tape. To decorate I added the green ginham ribbon, Prima flowers with Doodlebug candy dot centres, some punched leaves and butterflies with a bit of stickles for sparkle. TFL.

Materials:
Image and Sentiment: Elzybells
Colouring and Stamping: Versafine Timber Brown, Ranger Distress Inks in scattered straw, tea dye, walnut stain, shabby shutters, black, worn lipstick, fired brick.
Card: Coredinations card in chocolate, lime and bright pink
Embellishment: Green ginham ribbon, Prima flowers, Doodlebug Candydots, Nestabilities scalloped and plain ovals and Labels one, Cuttlebug flowers embossing folder, Woodware leaf and butterfly punches, sandpaper, Stardust stickles, edge distresser, dimension tape

Chris x

Daffodils

Hi everyone, a card today for A spoonfull of sugar where the challenge this week is 'Love is in the air' and for Cute Card Thursday with a challenge of 'Valentine's'. I've used one my new digi-stamps 'Daffodils' which is available at Sketching Stamper Digi-stamps and is one of eight images available from today. The image is marker coloured and mounted on coredinations card mounted on dimension tape. The background layer is yellow coredinations mounted on dimension tape which has been embossed with the CB and hearts folder and then sanded. All the edges are distressed and I've added stickles to the flowers, the ribbon, mini pearls and a yellow heart gem. TFL.

Materaials: Sketching Stamper Digi-stamp 'Daffodils, Promarkers ( in pastel yellow, mustard, gold, lemon, primrose, moss green, pastel yellow, pine, agean), yellow and dark aqual coredinations card, dark aqua canson card. Cuttlebug, hearts embossing folder. Yellow satin ribbon, yellow stickles, yellow heart gem, mini half pearls, edge distresser.

I've been given some fantastic awards this week, thank you so much ladies, they're very much appreciated but I've got myself so muddled with them and I hope you can excuse my not linking up properly, I really am rubbish at this, sorry.
















I was also tagged this week with the sixth folder, sixth photo tag, by Deifen, thank you Dei! The sixth folder contained number templates, not very interesting and so I've gone to the seventh which are garden photographs and this is one taken last year of my day lilies, I love these flowers.

BasicGrey Challenge 17 - First sketch of 2009

Hi everyone and here is the first BasicGrey Challenge of 2009 and the DT have some stunning creations on the blog to show you. I hope you'll have the chance to join in this week and there's also a great prize to be won.

From the blog:

"I thought I would start 2009 with a sketch, so i have drew this one up for you to play with, feel free to resize or flip the sketch, just as long as the original sketch can be seen in your creation you are good to go, and of course not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere in your creation :)"

My image is a Penny Black which I've water coloured with Ranger Distress Inks and glittered all over the background with diamond stickles. All the elements of the sketch are cut from BG Recess papers and mounted on a yellow card blank. I added some doodling, distressing, fibre, a gem, Elzybells sentiment and glossy accents to the toadstool to decorate. Have a great weekend.

I just received this lovely award from Dawn, thanks Dawn it's very much appreciated and I would like to pass it on to the lovely Dawn, Kathy and Jilli.


Materials:
Paper: BasicGrey Recess, yellow Canford card
Stamps: Penny black, Elzybells
Colouring: Ranger distress inks in black soot, tea dye, scattered straw, brushed corduroy, broken china, weathered wood, fired brick, worn lipstick, dried marigold
Embellishment: fibre and gem from stash, doodling, glossy accents, diamond stickles, edge distresser.

Back soon, Chris

Sledging Hedgies

Hi everyone, a card for Penny Black and Papertake weekly where this week the themes are 'sparkling' and also for Basic Grey and a challenge of Christmas.

For my card I've used a gorgeous PB sledging hedgies image (thanks T x) which is marker coloured, and stickled for highlights. The holly leaf border around the nestie cut oval is made with two Kars punches that are a set. The first punch cuts a flap and the second which you position over the flap is the holly leaf. The flap allows the leaves to slide over the edge of the card. I cut these from green bazzil card and glittered them with gold stickles. The background papers are Basic Grey figgy pudding which have been edge distressed and layered on red bazzil. I sandwiched the satin ribbon between two of the paper layers and the image is mounted on foam tape. Finished off with a sentiment and gem.

James Slides

Here is my second card today and this Kadoodle stamp is James Slides. He's had the same treatment as the others, stamped with versafine ink which is my favourite and gives great detail and then water coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

This time I distressed the edges of the image with a distressing tool and doodled some dots before mounting over a panel of black card which is embossed with the CB Forest Branches folder. I've entirely covered the the card blank with the background paper, Sandylion 'Gumdrops', inked the edges with black and then attached to the card and off about an inch. The same paper is inside the card and I've doodled dots all around the edges.