Thankyou

Thanks - thanksgiving is our  challenge this week

at Glitter n Sparkle.

Our sponsor this time is Sparkle n Sprinkle -

I used their gorgeous image :Basket of hope. 

There are also some more sentiments which come with this image - 

it's a wonderful little bundle of digi-loveliness!

I have to say - the basket did take a looong time to colour, but I feel it was worth it. 

Once I had coloured the imaged, I didn't feel 

that it needed too much more. 

i added the corners which I trimmed fro a piece of brown card

and coloured around the edges with a few 

different shades of brown alcohol pens.

Because I had made a gingham design on the cloth inside the basket,

I replicated that by matting the whole image on 

a red gingham paper.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty friends - add a sentiment - 1 Dec
Creative fingers - atg - 25 Dec
QKR Stampede - atg - 23 Nov
Creative with stamps - thankful - 1 Dec

A guest designer spot!

Woop woop!

I was invited to be a guest designer at Colour crazy challenge 

for a few challenges - and this is my first card for them.

The challenge is "anything goes" and I used the image

 "cute robin stocking" from Polkadoodles.

This was a really sweet image to colour. I used  a variety of my alcohol markers.

I embossed the background with my snowflakes folder and bigshot

and hand-doodled on each snowflake

with my white sakura pen. 

There's a spot or two of diamond stickles too, on each snowflake,
for a bit of sparkle n shine!

I cut and embossed a small border around the robin 

and added a sentiment from my pc.

I really enjoyed using this cute image.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty catz - atg / twist: sparkle n shine - 23 Nov
Creative fingers - atg - 25 Dec
Jo's scrap shack - atg - 26 Nov
2 Crafty critter crazies - atg with a critter/animal - 1 Dec

Crafty animals - atg - 29 Nov
C.R.A.F.T. - christmas - 23 Nov
Crimbo - atg - 22 Nov
Cute card thursday -  birds / animals - 22 Nov
 Hanna and friends - animals - 22 Nov
Little miss muffet - atg - 1 Dec

It's definitely Autumn here!

The neighbours here have a sycamore tree, 

which sits on the border between our house and theirs, at the front.

Its a beautiful (and big!) tree, which has been colouring and shedding it's

leaves for the past weeks. 

Infact, when we opened up the door one morning, after a windy night, 

there was a sea of leaves that greeted us! 

We had to wade through them, to get to the cars on the drive!

When the "fall colours" challenge came through this week - 

I just looked out of the bedroom window and tried

to pick *some* of the colours from that tree.

I couldn't possibly find every colour.  Lol. 

So... for our challenge at Glitter n Sparkle 

this week,  I got "air dreamer" image from Ppinky dolls

and played with those colours...

I coloured her with my alcohol markers 

and diecut around her. 

I popped her onto many layers so

that I would have a chance to use a lot of colours.

I even got some gold washi tape in there, which I bought

in Canada lat year, and haven't used yet.

(It's behind the image, going horizontally.)

A couple of paper flowers, layered, finished this card.

I haven't decided on the sentiment for this one yet.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps - autumn - 13 Nov

Crafty calendar - autumn colours - 30 Nov

Crazy for challenges - layer it up - 12 Nov

Hiding in my craft room - fall colours - 11 Nov

Dies r us - anything "fall" - 14 Nov

Love to craft - atg - 30 Nov

M-I-L's birthday

I made this one for my Mother-in-Law.

The image is from Patties Creations - 

and its called "three birdhouses" where (handily) the 

challenge this month is "birthdays."

I decided to use autumnal colours for this one.

I embossed the edge of the white backing piece, and 

nipped off the corners, before inking all round.

The little banner was made with my cute little new die,

which I bought last week in the Range. 

The kraft card in the background has been

 embossed in my honeycomb fence embossing folder.

The cat is a memory box die.

('Mum' is also a die - cut on my bigshot!)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Nov
Jos scrap shack - atg - 14 Nov
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 27 Nov
Sparkles forum - autumn colours - 15 Nov