Bathing beauties

One of Patties newer images is the star of the show on this card - "Bathing beauties."

 

 I love this image - Bathing Beauties.

(There is another version of this image in her etsy store, too!)

I fussy-cut the image, after colouring with my alcohol pens and 

paper-piecing the girls swimming costumes!)

I used my alcohol pens to literally "dot" on the sand 

and used one of my favourite of-the-moment paper packs for the water4...

I ripped the edge carefully, to make it looks like waves coming onto the beach.

The "happy" is a diecut and the birthday has been stamped. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative knockouts - summer fun - 18 July

I love promarkers - pink blue and yellow - 9 July

The paper shelter = 3 of something - 9 July 

Fab n Funky - summertime - 18 July

Crafts Galore Encore - atg - 1 Aug

Di's digi challenge - hand coloured image - 21st July

Polkadoodles - atg - 20 July

Anniversary

At Patties Creations this month, I have used one of her older images -

but I still love it and it is so versatile.... Seahorse love.

The image comes as two seahorses touching lips, but you could easily 

just use one of them to be the main image on your card!

 The papers in the background of this card, 

came from  bargain paper pack I got in The Works. 

It was only £2 and is all sea themed papers. A bargain! 

I coloured the seahorse with my alcohol pens and printed off a sentiment.

(I made this card into an anniversary card for my husband's mum and dad.)

I added some "bubbles" on the wavy backing paper by adding 

some blobs of glossy-accents, waiting for them to dry, then adding a small 

white highlight, with my white Sakura pen. 

I also added some white dots along the wavy lines, to add some more pattern and interest.

 

I would like to add this into the following challenges -

 Creative Knockouts - 2 or more patterned papers - 21 June

Crafts Galore Encore - atg - 30 June

A Passion for Promarkers - atg - 11 June

Digi Choosday - atg - 18 June

 Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - 15 June

A Spring wreath

Pattie has been playing with my image suggestions and come up with this beauty...

 It's called "Twig wreath with Spring Flowers."

I love it!

It was lovely to colour, but a little tricky to fussy-cut the middle from!

I coloured this image with my alcohol pens and popped it on 3D foam,

with a green spotty paper behind. 

The sentiment was stamped and the heart is diecut, 

along with the punched butterflies. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simply clean and simple - cas with flowers - 6 June

Crafty catz - atg / summer - 17 May

Card 4 galz - mothers day - 16 May

Double D - flowers - 14 May

I love promarkers - atg - 14 May

Crafter's cafe - CAS - 12 May

My mum's favourite things.

Pattie has some new images in her etsy shop this month!

"Kitty on books" was the one I chose for this month...

 I was so excited to receive this image, as I had

suggested that Pattie creates this one! 

This is the kind of image that my mum loves..as her cat and her books

are her favourite things,

so this made a card- special to her, for Mother's day.

I carefully cut a frame out of patterned paper,

popped the kitty image (coloured with my alcohol markers) in the corner and 

added some heart-bubble die cuts. 

The sentiment was stamped and I added a diecut butterfly. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Happy birthday!

 I made this card recently, for my friends young daughter...

I made this card using lots of scraps of patterned paper.

I used my guillotine to cut the scraps into strips to represent candles.

I cut the little flame shapes and added glossy accents ontop, 

and a touch of golden glitter pen.

The sentiment was stamped. 

I faux-stitched around the backing paper, with my Sakura pen

and added a dry embossed line around the edge of the card to finish it off.

I would like to add this into the following challenges...

Crafty Catz - atg - 5 April

Creative fingers - atg - 8 April

Craft rocket - atg - 1 April

Gem of a craft - 6 April

3 Cactus

I used a Pattie's Creations image for this card - "3 cactus in pots."

 I used my alcohol markers to colour the 3 images and

fussy-cut around each one, so I could pop them into a group. 

The middle cactus is on 3D foam, so it stands proud of the other two.

The sentiment is from a stamp from Kaisercrafts

and the papers have been in my stash a looong time! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Sister birthday

I used one of Pattie's new images, called 

"Denim Pockets" from Pattie's Creations...

 It's a great little set of two pockets. One plain. The other has a little flower design to the right.

I used both on top of each other for this card.

My sister is denim-mad, 

so thought this image would be perfect for her.

I added the pretty flowery paper as it works so well with the denim, 

and gives a real girly feel to the card.

The words were stamped and the butterflies were punched. 

I enjoyed colouring the pockets with distress inks and a blending tool 

instead of my 'normal' - colouring with alcohol pens.

I feel that the distress inks gives a good denim look. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft rocket - birthdays - 1 March

Creative inspirations - atg - 1 March

Love to craft - atg - 15 Feb

Crafty Catz  - atg - 9 Feb

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 17 Feb