Bling it up!

I'm not realy a "bling " person,

but over at Glitter n sparkle ... that is this weeks challenge -

and I hope I rose to the challenge! x

I got this cute rag doll with a quilt image from QKR Stampede

and immediately saw red gingham paper with it! 

I used kraft card and embossed the edge. 

I used a martha stewart punched lacy border along the bottom...and LOTS of bling! 

(the gems in the senterof the hearts, the dolls dress is coloured with a red glittery pen, 

the white border had a little glittery-blingy border just below the top,

with a teeny bling flower to the left hand side. 

Oh, and there's a little red bling gem on each of the white flower centres.)

I finished off, with a little black faux stitching around the red gingham edge.

Also, 2 Martha Stewart punched butterflies...made with a slightly sparkly card.

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

Digitally sweet - anything goes - 31 Jan

Cards galore - anything goes - 30 Jan

4 crafty girls - anything goes - 6 Feb

Cut card thursday - so sweet - 29 Jan

Add a little dazzle - red - 29 Jan

Through the craft room door - anything goes - 28 Jan

Make my monday - kraft card  - 27 Jan

Whoopsi daisy - bingo - digi, sentiment, embossing - 26 Jan

I'm quite pleased with how this one came out...

this was a bit last minute. 

I used a digi paper (which, I hope, resembles bubbles / water)
and this cute image from QKR Stampede.
I handcut the circles - and the matting around them...it took a while!
and free hand cut the little silver bubbles.
The image is coloured with a mix of watercolour pencils and promarkers....
I love using both.
Finally, I added a ribbon along the punched white border.
Again, it took me a while to choose this sentiment...

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

Delicious doodles - use a ribbon - 30 Jan

Sister act - anything goes - 31 Jan

Card and scrap - use bling - 1 Feb

Lia Stampz - colour challenge - 31 Jan

Aud sentiments - any sentiment - 28 Jan

C.R.A.F.T - colour combo -  30 Jan

Digi stamps for joy - add real ribbon - 6 Feb

The paper shelter - digi image and sentiment - 29 Jan

Wordart wednesdays - anything goes - 29 Jan

Craft room - all things waterbased - 3 Feb

Artistic inspirations - anything goes / use ribbon - 27 Jan

Something a bit different for me...

Over at Glitter n Sparkle this week,  the challenge is to use real or faux stitching.

I got this fab image to play with, from Sassy Studios...called Army Honey.

The backing papers are all digi papers I have had a loong time.

(The flower is digi too!)

I've never had the chance to use it before, but knew it would be just right for with this image.

The thing that took the longest about this card, was 

deciding which sentiment I would have on it.

I knew it wasn't going to be a regular birthday card, and wanted

something a bit different...and to fit with the image. 

The flower is decoupaged with a little glossy accents and 

Sassy's helmet, vest and pants are paper pieced.

Her skin tones and boots coloured with promarkers and her

hair is coloured with watercolour pencils. 

I drew on the faux stitching.

I would like to enter this into the following challneges...

Brown Sugar - anything goes - 23 Jan

Digitally sweet - anything goes - 23 Jan

Fussy and fancy - monochromatic - 23 Jan

Patties creations - stitching, faux or real - 23 Jan

Totally papercrafts - paper piecing - 24 Jan

Aud sentiments - any sentiment - 29 Jan

Milk coffee - monochromatic - 30 Jan

Crafting by design - anything goes - 25 Jan

Wordart wednesday - anything goes - 23 Jan

Through the craft room door - anything goes - 21 Jan

Craft your passion - cool colours - 20 Jan

Crazy challenge - cards for men - 19 Jan

Dream valley challenges - boys, men - 24 Jan

Pink Gem - one for the boys - 31 Jan

Digi galore - monochrome - 31 Jan

My sheri crafts - use a digi image - 8 Feb

Polkadoodles - one for the boys - 23 Jan
One stitch at a time - use a digi - 25 Jan
Country view - monochrome - 31 Jan

Another cute digi...

From Di's digi designs...

I just couldn't resist this little fella...

he was my first choice in all the digis!
I won him just last week and this is his first outing!

I loved colouring him in with my watercolour pencils.

I added glossy accents to his nose and the flower middles.

I embossed the edge and matted onto lilac card.

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

 

Savvy handmade cards - furry friends - 28 Jan

Sister act - anything goes - 23 Jan

Crafting by design - flowers flowers flowers! - 22 Jan

Artistic inspiration - anything goes, feminine - 20 Jan

Crafty cardmakers - bears - 19 Jan

Robyns fetish - no patterned paper - 18 Jan

Suzi bees - cute n sweet  - 18 Jan

Addicted to CAS - something new - 31 Jan

Hiding in my craft room - CAS - HIMCR133 - 25 Jan

Yeah!! I won some digi images...

.. from Di's digi downloads!!!

I haven't won anything before, 

and was delighted when i realised i had won a top 3 spot 

and a voucher for some of di's gorgeous images!

Thank Di!!!

One of my first choices was this little darlin' ...

'Sprinkles'

As soon as I saw him, I knew he would be loved by my friend Helen,

whose birthday is in a few weeks time. 

I p[rinted him straight onto the card before colouring him in my watercolour pencils and 

the balloon is smothered in glossy accents. 

(although this doesn't show up on the photo)

I am working on cards with the other images I won from Di and will

show them soon...

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

Sister act - anything goes - 16 Jan

Sweet pea stampers - anything goes - 16 Jan

Crafting for all seasons - all things bright and beautiful - 19 Jan

Fab n funky - lets celebrate - 13 Jan

Divas by design - lets celebrate - 13 Jan

Melonheadz friends - birthday - 19 Jan

Pile it on - holidays / celebrations - 18 Jan

Robyns fetish - no pattered paper. just card stock. - 18 Jan

Dis digi designs - celebration - 18 Jan

Suzi bees - cute and sweet - 18 Jan

Mermaid couple

This weeks challenge, at Glitter n Sparkle - is a BINGO challenge...

Look at the bingo board on the blog and pick a line...

I picked the .. "diecut / digi image / buttons"  line.

My image this week, was 'Mermaid couple' from Stitchy stamps.

I loved playing with this image!

I used my watercolour pencils to colour the image and 

added a few extra (hand cut out) bubbles and a little splash!

I used a dovecrafts die to cut the shape round the image, then

my fanciful flourish die for the swirls.

The 'seaweed' is punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

I rooted around in my stash to find some papers in the colour I wanted...

and came up with these papers. ( My fave colour at the mo...

I recently decorated one of my craft room walls is this colour!!)

I think these were the first 12 x 12 papers I bought!

Docrafts papers, but I can't remember the name of them.

The buttons are also form the docrafts range.

I chose not to put a sentiment on this card  -

I couldn't quite decide what to put!  :)

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

Wags n Whiskers - anything goes - 23 Jan

Digitally sweet - anything goes - 17 Jan

Daring cardmakers - colour inspiration - 17 Jan

As you like it - fave colour - 14 Jan

My heart pieces - anything goes - 23 Jan

DRS designs - boys and girls - 15 Jan

Delightful sketches - use patterned paper - 17 Jan

Paper pretties - buttons - 14 Jan

Country view - monochromatic - 31 Jan

Lia stampz - monochrome - 15 Jan

Crafty hazelnuts - patterned paper - 31 Jan

Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes - 14 Jan

Through the craft room door GDT - anything goes - 14 Jan

Lexis creations - anything goes - 18 Jan

My craft creations - anything goes - 18 Jan

Fussy and fancy - monochrome - 23 Jan

Such a gorgeous image - I made 2!!

 

Well, I got this adorable image from Digi Darla for the Glitter N Sparkle challenge (66) this week...

(anything goes!) and I was so inspired by it, I made 2 cards!

 

 So, for the first card, I immediately hunted through my papers to find something

with red flowers on - I wanted red flowers! Could I find anything? NO!

Typical!

So, I took a dovecrafts backing paper...from the "tea party" set (I think)

and I used my red promarker to colour all the little pink flowers, red! Hurrah! :)

I was really pleased with how it came out.

I coloured the image with my watercolour pencils

and added a sentiment form Pink Petticoat - "simply delightful" range.

I added a little glitter to all the daisies on the backing paper

and some MS punched butterflies...think they are becoming my signature! :)

 

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



Allsorts challenge - free and easy - 10 Jan

Charisma cards - birthday - 15 Jan.

Cute card Thursday - banish the blues - 9 Jan

Milk coffee - celebrations - 15 Jan

The paper shelter - anything goes - 8 Jan

Cards galore encore - anything goes - 30 Jan

Fairies challenge - flowers and lace - 15 Jan

Memas crafts - BINGO (digi, punch, pearls) - 30 Jan

Natalie and Amy - one for the girlies - 30 Jan

Crafting from the heart - anything goes - 17 Jan

 





This paper comes from "My Minds eye" - a freebie set of papers, that I

actually won, online!

The swirly leaf is a Marianne diecut - with punched flowers and butterflies.

There are little specks of glitter here n there, but the

camera didn't pick them up too well.

 

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

Digitally sweet - anything goes - 10 Jan 

C.R.A.F.T  -anything goes - 9 Jan 

Crafters café - animal friends - 8 Jan 

Creative moments - anything goes - 15 Jan

Digi stamps for joy - anything goes - 7 Jan

Animal friends - punches and dies - 31 Jan

Digi galore - girly - 15 Jan

Kreative - anything goes - 14 Jan

Seema - anything goes - 31 Jan

Crafty sentiments- birthdays - 7 Jan

613 Ave  - anything goes - 15 Jan

Alicraft - anything goes - 30 Jan



A Christmas wedding - and a first christmas together!

I had the honour of attending a Christmas wedding last week...

 

...and it looked stunning!

The Christmas tree with all its twinkling lights,

looked beautiful at the front of the church -

even though the branches of the trees outside, were rapping on the church windows,

on the windiest day of the year! :)

I used my new(ish) docrafts embossing folder, which is my fave at the mo!

Computer generated sentiment.

Martha Stewart punched butterflies and snowflakes.

Organza ribbon with heart buckle.

(and a bit of glittering, here and there!)
 

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

Little red wagon - new beginnings - 8 Jan (a new beginning as Mr & Mrs!!)

Wordart Wednesday - anything goes - 7 Jan

Creative card crew - anything goes - 12 Jan

Creative craft - anything goes - 15 Jan

Ladybug Crafts - CAS - 3 Feb

Through the craftroom door - anything goes - 7 Jan

Artistic Inspirations - anything goes - 5 Jan

Crafting from the heart - anything goes - 5 Jan

Digi sketch - (T) pearls and ribbons - 5 Jan

Whoopsi daisy - celebrations - 5 Jan

Chocolate coffee & cards - new beginnings - 9 Jan

                                                                                                            

 

I was commissioned to make this card, for the daughter of a friend at work.

Amy and Tom were to have their first Christmas together, as a couple,

and so Amy wanted a really special card - and asked me to make it!

What a compliment! :)

I used my new fave embossing folder again 

and some digi images, which I have had for yonks (and don't use as often as I should!)

grouped together, some straight onto the card and some on foam pads

(behind these, I placed a Martha Stewart punched snowflake).

I handcut the holly , which hangs from the ribbon.

A bit of glitter and glossy accents here and there, finished this card.

Amy was thrilled...Tom too, I believe! xx

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafting by design - anything goes - 25 Jan

Creative moments - anything goes - 14 Jan

A little bit crafty - celebrate! - 28 Jan

Crafty Hazelnuts - anything goes, Christmas - 31 Jan

Doodle pantry - any digi goes - 25 Jan

Crafting café - anything goes - 31 Jan

Clear it out - warm fuzzies. use something textured - 7 Jan

Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas - 7 Jan

Wags n Whiskers - Christmas - 9 Jan