House Mouse Sweet Friend Card

Hi there, it was finally cool enough for me to spend some time in my craft room today - Yay!

Here's what I made:

Joanna Sheen House Mouse Decoupage CD Rom (I think!)

Craft Consortium Bright Blooms papers

Pink Petticoat sentiment (sadly closed)

corner punch, brads, ribbon

my sewing machine to stitch around the edges

my scan and cut machine

Challenges:

word art Wednesday -anything-goes

House Mouse-challenge -anything-goes-with-option-of friends

Pammies inky pinkies challenge - A/G

lil patch of crafty friends - A/G

crafty catz weekly challenge - A/G

Paper fun day challenges - A/G optional summer splash

Simon says stamp Monday challenge - add some text

CD Sunday challenge - A/G using CD Rom or Digi image

Thanks for visiting!

Polkadoodles - Superhero - Little Dudes

Hi there! I had a bit of crafty time today so I decided to colour this cute chap!:

I used Polkadoodles Superhero-little-dudes-download and coloured him with Promarkers. The image comes with the cloud paper plus 2 others and the sentiment. The stars are punched from glitter card and I added Glossy accents to his boots and glitter to his shield and lightsaber. I finished off with some corner punches and machine stitched around the edge of my card.

Challenges:

Promarker challenge -week-835-heroes-super-or-real.

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge -anything-goes

Crafty Catz weekly challenge - A/G

lil patch of crafty friends - A/G

as you like it challenge -do-you-prefer-brights-or-pastels-and-why? - even though today's card is quite bright I do prefer pastel colours because I think they are more subtle and not so glary!

CD Sunday challenge - must use CD rom or Digi image

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful bank holiday weekend!

                 

Spellbinders Flower Cart - Mothers day card

A change from a House-Mouse card today:

I have broken my no new craft items spend with this die from Spellbinders - Flower Cart. In fairness I had saved lots of pennies so I thought why not! I used Make & Create Vintage Romance papers and Crea-Nest-Lies - XXL ticket square die. I wanted to make the sign into a chalk board so I heat embossed a Stampin Up! sentiment (Heartfelt hello's) in white embossing powder and then added a bit of chalk around it. I cut the flowers from lots of snippets of coloured card and added Stickles and liquid pearls to the centres. To finish off I added some candy dots - remember those?!

challenges:

Pixies snippets playground challenge - (must use snippets) here are the snippets I used:

I didn't end up using the pink one on top but used other green snippets not photographed!

Simon says stamp Monday challenge Transport it - I figured my cart transports flowers!!

thanks for stopping by and I hope you manage to find some craft time today!

House-Mouse for mum card

It is a glorious sunny spring day here in Devon and I have a House-Mouse card to share:

I printed this image (along with the sentiment and background paper) off a long time ago but I think its from the House-Mouse triple cd.

Challenges:

lil patch of crafty friends.- anything goes

Pammies inky pinkies challenges. - anything goes

cd Sunday challenge - must use cd/digital image

House-mouse-challenge. -anything-goes-option-of-easel.

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge -anythin-g-goes-featuring-penny-black

word art Wednesday anything-goes-weeks-689-690.

as you like it challenge. favourite-feminine-or-masculine-why? - this is a very easy one for me - definitely feminine because I like to use 'pretty' floral papers and images also men's cards are so boring!

Pennys challenges - anything goes

thanks for visiting!

                      

From the heart

Hi there!

Today's card has no stamping or colouring - just fussy cutting:

The image is from Nitwits collection 'from the heart' and I printed it out several times so that I could fussy cut various elements to add dimension. The background papers and card were from my snippets pile and I added ribbon (also a snippet!), a doily, pearls, stickles and glossy accents. As my sewing machine is playing up I used a tool (don't know what its called!) to punch holes around the edges of the paper and drew lines with a white gel pen but I don't think it shows up very well.

Challenges:

Simon Says stamp blog Monday challenge 'tag it'

Simon Says stamp blog Wednesday challenge tag-it'

                                      Pixies snippets playground challenge - must use snippets

Thanks for visiting my blog today and please leave me a comment if you do!

Cute Baby Christening

Good afternoon!
I bet you didn't expect to see me back so quickly. Well I thought that I'd better come back a bit more 'card happy'!
So here is my more happy card:

I think that this is a bit more my style and yes you might even say that I'm happy with it - Yay!!
I used:
DigiStamp Boutique 'Cute Baby Christening' image and sentiment
ProMarkers
Gel pen
Docrafts 'New Arrival' paper
SU word punches
MS border punch
Doodlebug 'Paper Frills' which I bought ages ago and seem to last forever!

So that is finally it from me today - I will moan no more!!
Eve x
Challenges:
DigiStamp Boutique blog customer competition  ( 2 hours left )
Sketch Saturday  'any sketch from 215-311'  mine is # 249   ( 6 days left )
Simon Says Stamp blog challenge  'anything goes'  (3 days left)

Happy Man Birthday!

Hi there!
I have not made many male birthday cards so I made this:

Let's play spot the mistake on today's card -
I smudged the white gel pen on the right hand side so I covered it with some gems but you can still see a bit if you look closely. Ah well!

For this card I used:
Nitwits LOTV 'Candles & Cake' paper
Die Versions Happy Birthday die

Isn't it just so frustrating when you get to the end of your card and muck it up?!
I think that I might have to put something over the top.

Thank you for stopping by today and hopefully I'll be back soon with a card that I am happy with!

Challenges:
Less Is More  'use a die cut'  1 day left 
Simon Says stamp blog challenge  'anything goes'  5 days left

Beach Cottages

Hello everyone.

I'm back with another card here although I do feel a bit bad about neglecting my other Stampin Up! blog - will have to rectify that shortly.

For this card I used:
Pink Petticoat papers and image 'Beach Cottage'
ProMarkers
Wink of Stella pen (a little too heavy handed!!) I'm thinking of renaming my blog 'Cards & Criticism'!!
Stickles
Sequins
Ribbon

Well my house martins seem to have 'moved on' as they weren't back this morning. I can't say that I am disappointed - mean I know!! Let's just hope that they have found another 'happy home'!!

Well thank you for stopping by my blog today and hope that you have a great rest of the week.
Eve x

Challenges:
Sketch and Stash challenge   'follow the sketch and state which new or neglected item used' my new items are the image and papers - I bought them a while ago but have only just got around to using them so I suppose you could say that they are also neglected!!  (19 days left)
Simon Says Stamp blog challenge  'Vacation/Travel'  I chose vacation!!  (18 hours left)