The Craft Barn - Wishing Well - Glitter

Hi everyone, it's Part two of the current Craft Barn wishing well which is all about glitter . For my sample I've used the burnished/velvet glitter technique to make my circus themed card using Katzelkraft Cirque 01 stamps, Tim Holtz Alterations Paper Rosette Die, double sided adhesive sheet,  Crystal ultra fine glitter and distress inks. At The Craft Barn blog there's a write up of how I made the card and gorgeous samples from my DT friends with some great ways to use glitter. The new challenge starts tomorrow. Hope you can join us

Springtime walk

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. A card today for two challenges, with a theme of spring time. I've stamped and coloured Tilda with tulips and the little scene is freehand watercoloured and I hope springlike :). Mini Tilda with bouquet is wandering off into the distance, I think she has enough flowers :D

I used dies for the card shape and all the layers, the patterned paper is Webster's Pages. and I dyed the seam binding with distress ink/mica powder mixture and also Ranger Perfect Pearls mist. 

Thank you for your lovely comments and enjoy your weekend.

Morning everyone, here's another card with my icecream girl stamp for Kadoodle, this time I've made a cute little flower pot card which I found in blogland, a very kind lady had uploaded the directions to make it, I can't at the moment find the blog to give you the dimensions but as soon as I do I'll update this post or if anyone in the meantime knows her blog if you could let me know. I think this was also posted on SCS as one of their technique challenges. Thank you anyway for the inspiration, your design is gorgeous, I'll definitely be making more of these, they're so easy and a bit different. Apart from all that I watercoloured my girlie with distress inks, cut her out and attached to the base which after folding I embossed with a CB folder, sanded, tied closed with the ribbon and added the sentiment. The insert card is decorated with flowers and just pops into the flower pot at the top. The whole card is held together simply with the ribbon. TFL. Chris x

Kadoodle Off to the beach

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. A card today with one of the my new stamp designs for Kadoodle 'off to the beach' which is available from the Craft Barn and she's been stamped with versafine vintage sepia ink then water coloured with distress inks and cut out. The card base is made from a big circle cut in half and then folded in half with punched circles attached at the outer edges to create the scallops. I've also used Nesties labels two to cut the shape from the paper and another cut from white foam sheet. Sentiment is also cut from the paper by Delish designs with a Go Kreate die and I've added sheer ribbon, prima flowers, paper roses and stickles glitter glue to decorate. TFL. Chris x

Kadoodle Puppet Show

Hi everyone, hope you're week is going well. My card today is using one of my new Kadoodle stamps 'Puppet Show' which is available online at the Craft Barn. I've stamped the image on water colour paper and then coloured with distress inks. The black card layers are Core'dinations card which I've distressed around the edges and the cream piece is also Core'dinations from the Whitewashed range. This piece has been embossed with a CB swirls die and then sanded. Added some ribbon to finish and mounted the image panel on dimension tape. Chris x

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Bling

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend and a bit of sun amongst the rain! The challenge this week at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is bling and I'm entering this little gift bag that I made which has lots of glitter, so I'm hoping that counts as bling. The bag is closed by some nestie die cuts cut with Labels One and Scalloped oval folded in half and glued over the top. I made a label using one of my new Kadoodle stamps and she's been coloured with distress inks, glittered and sponged around the edges. The label is attached by punching a hole at the top and threading through some ribbon and a brad. TFL. Chris x

Just Magnolia Challenge 6 - Lets get in shape

Hi everyone, a card today for Just Magnolia Challenge where this week the theme is 'Lets Get in Shape' for a shaped card. There's fantastic inspiration as always from the DT, thank you ladies, I loved all your great ideas for shaped cards. My shape is I think called a tri shut card or something like that, there's a resource on how to make it on SplitCoast Stampers. The sweet Tilda with her huge bunch of roses was watercoloured with distress inks then cut out and she's been attached to the card front piece with dimension pads. I've made a punched border top and bottom from K&Co paper and done some stamping and sponging around the endges. The inside is stamped with a papermania flower border and lightly coloured and I've stamped on some flowers and added pearls then arranged them around the flower trail and sentiment die cut. Added the ribbons and some stickles to finish. Hope you all enjoyed your bank holiday weekend. Chris x

Colour Create Challenge 17

Morning everyone, hope you're all enjoying the weekend so far. Time for another Colour Create Challenge where this week the colours are Lemon, Pink Sorbet and Chocolate with an option of Shabby Chic picked by Katy, thanks Katy, loved this one. There's so much inspiration and interpretations of the option from my DT friends this week, hope you can pop over for a look and join us for this one. 

THIS IS THE LAST COLOUR CREATE CHALLENGE TO TAKE PLACE ON A SUNDAY. WE ARE MOVING TO A THURSDAY SLOT FROM 4TH OF JUNE, so you will have a little bit longer to come up with your entries for this week. In order to mark the change we will be giving away some candy for the first Thursday challenge, so don't forget to tune in!

Also some sad news this week, my lovely blog buddy Kim is leaving the team due to her family and work commitments. I'll miss her very much on the team, she's a huge inspiration to us all and will be missed by us all. Good luck with everything at Magnolia Kim and I hope you have lots more cuddling time for your gorgeous Grandchildren :)

I've used a lovely Sugar Nellie image which I've water coloured with distress inks, my pink colour is in the background but it isn't showing up too will in the photo. The background card is embossed with a cb folder then sanded and distressed around the edges. I did some sponging with vintage photo ink and added the lace, pearls and torn sentiment panel. All the layers are mounted with dimension tape. Have a lovely Sunday. TFL. Chris x

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 51

Hi everyone a card today for Friday Sketchers who this week are celebrating their first anniversary. Congratulations! I haven't entered for a while but this challenge was one of the first challenges I found when I started blogging so I wanted to enter this week. I've followed the sketch but used ribbon instead of paper or card for the panels. My image is 'Poppies' soon to be available in the digi-shop. This drawing was inspired by my blogging buddy Tara G who very kindly sent me some beautiful red poppy paper a while ago which I loved and I mentioned at the time that I liked it so much I should draw some poppies, so now I have. I've watercoloured them with distress inks and added some stardust stickles here and there then torn the paper and sponged the edges with black and around the flowers with old paper. The gingham paper is digital and the beautiful crochet flower was from the lovely Bev (thank you Sweetie), everything else from stash. See you tomorrow with my DU2DS card. Chris x

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - Challenge 5

Hi everyone, Friday and another Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge. We have a great sketch to follow this week by my friend Sandra :D, a lovely one it is too and very popular with the DT. Hope you can join us this week and there's loads of inspiration from the Design Team to get the mojo running.

I've used my squirrel digi stamp which is now in my digi shop and has minimal watercolouring and some sponging with distress inks. Background papers are by Pebbles and the sentiment is die cut from funky foam. Added some gems and ribbon to finish. 

I just wanted to say thank you for all the lovely comments, I really do treasure them and I never seem to be able to catch up with returning them, I do try but never seem to manage it. Thank you anyway for continuing to visit and comment, it really makes my day to read them. Hope you all have some good things to do for the Bank Holiday and see you tomorrow with my BasicGrey card. TFL. Chris x

Just Magnolia Challenge 2

Hi everyone, a card today for Just Magnolia where the theme this week is pink and green.  I llove this little tilda, she's so cute and she's been watercoloured with distress inks. I've decoupaged part of her, just her head and t shirt to bring her forward a bit and then layered on pale pink bazzil, bright pink Canson card and the patterned paper. I've punched the edges with the MS doily punch and slightly curved them a la my friend Sandra :). and added some gorgeous rosebud trim which was a gift from my CC teamie Tara :) thank you girlies. Flowers, button, bow and pearl from stash. Hope you're week is going well. TFL. Chris x

BasicGrey Challenge 32 - Sketch

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start, don't know where this week has gone and I haven't managed that much blog commenting I'm afraid, hopefully will catch up very soon. On to Challenge 32 at BasicGrey which this week is a sketch challenge by me. Hope you like it and that you'll be able to join us this week. There's great inspiration from my DT friends, I love how they all interpreted the sketch in their own wonderfully unique ways and as always there's a lovely prize to be won.

I've used a cute Magnolia image which has been watercoloured with distress inks and then cut out and mounted over layers of BG Lime Ricky paper all of which has been distressed on the edges and violet Core'dinations card. I added the flowers, a MS punched strip and some dots on the pp with a sparkly gel pen. Finished off with a woodware sentiment and some doodlebug candy dots.

I thought I'd show a couple of other pictures today, they're not that great as I had to take them with the zoom on and through the kitchen window! We have a pair of Robins that have nested in our garden, the first fledgling left the nest yesterday and headed straight for the patio much to the concern of the parents. It's so cute, tiny and funny, seems to be all head and mouth and very long legs! It did a few falling over backwards somersaults when it's mother/father fed it and tried to encourage it into the shrubbery where it did eventually go. The parents have been flying about and doing their warning dances and also trying to feed the others that must be still in the nest. I'm as worried about them as the parents are as there are cats on both sides of us and one already knows where the nest is even though our dog has seen it off several times! I hope their babies survive. Sorry, another long post from me! See you tomorrow with my Colour Create card. TFL. Chris x

High Hopes Challenge

Hi everyone, my card today is for the High Hopes challenge where the theme this week is distressing, one of the things I love to do most on my cards and it's been a long time since I entered the challenge, it was nice to get my HH stamps out. My image is Umberto, he's so cute and I've watercoloured him with distress inks. The card is for the gorgeous twin brother of the little girl who's card I made yesterday and there's a bit of a Tinkerbell/pirate theme going on so I thought Umberto would be perfect with some pirate background paper by Sandylion. I've distressed and ripped the bp a fair bit, sanded it in various placed and curled it back in the bottom right where I placed the button, I think I can say the paper is well and truly distressed! The horizontal strip under the image is dark grey bazzil which I distressed scrunched up and then swiped with a red ink pad. The number four is cut on the Cricut and I added some clear sparkle gel pen to the cutlass and belt buckle. TFL. Chris x

Just Magnolia Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you all had a lovely weekend. My card today is for the new Just Magnolia challenge which I'm sure is going to be a huge success, there's so much inspiration from the lovely and talented DT that it's bound to be! There's a great sketch to follow for the first week by Donalda thank you, I really enjoyed working with it. I've used a cute Magnolia image which is water coloured with distress inks. The card is for a gorgeous little girl who's going to be four, not quite sure that this is what I had in mind for her but I couldn't resist this paper any longer! I hope she likes it and that it doesn't have a too grown up look to it! Paper is Bo Bunny teamed up with cobalt blue and vanilla bazzil. I've used an embossing folder and done some sponging in blue distress ink on the layer under the image. TFL. Chris x