SALE now on!

At Patties Creations! 

Pattie has decided to run a summer sale!

She is offering 30% off ALL her images

from August 3rd to September 2nd!

That's ALL images!!!

To get this great deal, use the coupon code:

SUMMER2018 

at the checkout, to get the discount.

Go on... treat yourself!! 

Cute Kitty

   For our challenge at "the colour crazy challenge" this week,

 I have chosen to use this super-cute little image

 from Little Miss Muffet...it's called "Elisa's kitty." 

 Its a wonderful image to colour. 

I used all the promarker grey alcohol pens I have - numbers 1 - 5....and did lots of blending!

 I particularly love the little scarf round his neck. 

Such a lovely little addition.

 The stamped sentiment was from a set of stamps I found recently

 in a charity shop, for 25p! I do love a bargain!

 The scalloped circle die is from The Works... a fab little set of dies

 for only £3. Another bargain! 

Faux stitching and inking, finished the edges of the backing card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafting with friends - atg - 19 July
Jo's scrap shack - atg - 24 July
Cardz 4 galz - for a little girl - 19 July
Little miss muffet - atg - 25 July

Addicted to stamps - birthday - 19 July
Creative moments - atg - 24 July
Crafty addicts - all about pets - 1 Aug
Show us your pussies - any furrything goes - cat - 7 Aug

Summertime

"Under the sea" is the theme this month

at Patties Creations...

Gotta say - this is one of my favourite cards.

As soon as I saw those lovely seashells, I knew what 

I wanted to do with them. 

The white sakura pen and the turquoise puddle paper really help 

to set off those shells, which I coloured with

my alcohol pens... just about every brown, in every type of pen I have! 

What is brilliant about this "6 seashells" digi set,

is that you get separate images... 6 in all. 

As you can see, I used 5 of them, as I knew how I wanted

them to be arranged.

The stamped sentiment is from Inkylicious.

To finish the card, I dry embossed the edges. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafting with friends - atg - 19 July
Crafty Catz - atg with optional: summer fun - 13 July
Jos scrap shack - atg - 21 July
QKR Stampede - atg - 14 July
Little mIss Muffet - atg 25 July
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 30 July
Crafty creations - atg - 19 July
Creative moments - atg optional: summer fun - 10 July
Double D - nautical - 17 July
That's Crafty - close to nature - 1 Aug
Passion for promarkers - add a sentiment - 11 July
Crafteezee - summer - 1 Sept
Crafters Cafe - KISS - 14 July
Cards galore encore - atg - 2 Aug
Creative sketchy girls - summer - 16 July
Love to craft - atg - 1 Aug
Love to scrap - atg - 1 Aug
Scribbles - atg - 20 July

Two little mice

At the Colour Crazy challenge this week,

our usual "anything goes"challenge is sponsored by the wonderful

"All Dressed Up" - and I have been working with 

the very cute image - two little mice.

I used my promakers in various shades of brown - as well as

pinks and creams, to colour the mice and flowers. 

I 3d foamed it onto a background which I embossed, inked the edges, 

and added a stamped sentiment.

(from a bargain hunkydory sentiment set, which i spotted at

a charity shop for a measly 20p!)

The Butterflies were made using my Martha Stewart punch. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

2 Crafty critter crazies - atg - 28 June
All dressed up - atg - 29 June
Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 July
Crafty girls - atg - 1 July
Creative with stamps - cute animals - 1 July
Crafting with friends - atg - 22 June
Crafty catz - atg - 22 June
Jo's scrap shack - atg - 23 June

Father's day

The Colour Crazy Challenge have a great sponsor this week - Dr Digi!

I know my Dad would LOVE a card with this 2cv citroen image!

I wanted to keep it simple, so kept the rest of the card monotone, in kraft card.

The image has been mounted on 3d foam.

The stars were cut on my bigshot and are actually in an antique gold...

 but it's hard to see that on the photograph. 

 "dad" is actually cut from a "happy birthday" die -

(I love to get lots of uses out of one item!)

I coloured the image with a mixture of my pens - promarkers, and spectrum noirs. 

The background was run through an embossing folder on my bigshot, too.

I'm going to give this card to Dad, for Father's day.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges: 
QKR stampede - atg - 8 June  
Simply create too - for a male - 1 July
Crafting with friends - atg - 8 June
Crafting by designs - for the boys / men - 6 June
Digi Choosday - atg - 6 June
Simon says stamp - masculine - 4 June

Dragonfly

Patties Creations is challenging us to use..

"anything that flies"

this month.

I used her image - Dragonfly 2. 

This is such a delicate and pretty image to colour.

I used all my light blue / aqua type colour pens - promarker pens.

On the wings, I also used a very soft pink and highlighted the wings with 

a wink of stella. (very fine glitter brush)

The frame was already embossed with flowers, which I chalked to give a soft colour.

The backing colour paper is subtle shades of greens an blues,

which is part of a pack of papers I won in a blog challenge last year.

Along the edges of the paper and the frame, I inked green and

turquoise blue. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jos scrap shack - atg - 15 June
CAS on sunday - use embossing (dry embossing, in the frame) - 14 June
Crafting with friends - atg - 8 June
Little miss muffet - atg - 15 June
The paper shelter - flower power - 5 June
Digi choosday - atg - 6 June
Passion for promarkers - atg - 5 June

Baby cards

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge this week,

the "anything goes" challenge

is sponsored by Crafty Sentiments.

The cute image is called 'Gaffi.'

Infact, Gaffi is so cute - I made 2 cards with him...

The first card I made is for a baby boy.

I found a lovely verse on the internet and typed it next to my image.

I used my new nuvo pens, spectrum noirs and promarkers 

to colour the image.

After inking around the square, I dry embossed the edge, matted it onto

dotty embossed card and a gingham border and dry embossed around the 

square dotty embossed mat, too.

 A few gems and a printed blue gingham ribbon finished this card.

I coloured this image in the same way as the first.

The sentiment was printed straight onto the card and I diecut a gingham 

circle for Gaffi to sit on. 

The same gingham was used as a matting for the image. 

To finish off, I used a pink fineliner to do some faux stitching

around the edge of the white shape.

I would like to add these into the following challenges:
Crafting with friends - atg - 25 May
QKR Stampede - atg - 25 May
Simply papercrafts - atg - 25 May
Aud sentiments - cute and a sentiment - 11 June
Little miss muffet - atg - 31 May

Three Daisies

Over at Patties Creations this month, we challenge you to

 use FLOWERS on your projects.

I used Patties adorable image: three daisies...

Such a pretty image! I knew straight away

which colours and patterns I would like to use with this image.

Black, grey and white - and polkadots!

I punched the top black edge, and diecut the white and black bottom edges.

The butterflies are punched and the image was coloured with

my alcohol markers. I mainly used cream for the petals, 

with a touch of blossom pink on the bottom and top of each petal. 

The sentiment stamp was a freebie - I have had this one a looong time, and never used it.

(I don't know why!)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Polkadoodles

The wonderful - Polkadoodles - are sponsoring us this week, 

at the Colour Crazy Challenge.

I was delighted to receive the image called "big bunch."

After colouring her with my alcohol pens, 

I fussy-cut around her and popped her onto 3d foam.

I felt she didn't need a lot else, so just embossed the background

and inked the edges and corners. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
 Crafting with friends - mothers day - 26 April
Jos scrap shack - atg - 27 April
Polkadoodles - atg - 28 April
QKRstampede - atg - 27 April
Simply papercrafts - atg - 27 April
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 1 May
Digi choosday - atg - 25 April

Anniversary

It was my Mother and Father in Law's anniversary a few days ago.

I made this card for them:

The image is so cute, and just reminded me of them...hahaha.

The image was a freebie (!!) from Dearie dolls.

Mary Ellen Smith - the artist - makes some delightful images...

there are literally hundreds to look through!

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens,

and added some diecut swirly leaves, a few paper flowers (Stacked on top

of each other)and a diecut / stamped sentiment.

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Crafting with an attitude - atg - 1 May

Little miss muffet - atg - 20 April

Crafting from the heart - atg - 16 April

Cutie pie - delightful digi's - 1 May

Die cut divas - atg - 2 May

A baby girl

At Patties Creations this month, we are challenging you to

use "ducks or bunnies."

I love the image "laundry basket with duckie" and I think I could make

many different cards with this image -

this is the first one...

I diecut the shape, inked the edges, added some punched flowers and

backed onto pink gingham - truly baby-girl paper, I think.

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens. 

I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Crafting with an attitude - atg - 1 May
Creative knockouts - atg - 12 April
Through the craft room door - atg - 9 April
Crafty creations - atg - 10 April
Crafty gals - atg - 11 April

Spring wreath

At the Crazy Colour challenge this week, 

as usual, the theme is "anything goes."

 I used this Sparkle n Sprinkle image - Leafy flower spring wreath . 

 I won this a few weeks back and knew this would make a gorgeous card

 - and it's very versatile! 

The great thing is, it's not only one image - it comes in black and white,

 coloured, AND with two sentiments! Bargain!

 I coloured it with a few of my alcohol markers:

 Spectrum noirs:  JG5, LG2, EB6, HB1, DR6.

Promarkers:  Rose pink, Bl28 Marchossom, Amythest.

The word MUM was cut on my bigshot - with my wingo zingo alphabet die. 

I embossed the white piece of card

 and inked the edge with my new chalk ink-pads.

The butterflies were punched.

I drew on some faux-stitching around the edge of the blue paper and inked the edge. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Card mania - embossing - 31 March

Cards galore encore - atg - 31 March 

Creatalicious - atg optional birthday - 1 April

Create and inspire - all about mums - 10 April

Ccc digis - for the girls - 1 April

Digi doodles - feminine fancy - 29 March

Fussy an fancy - spring flowers - 5 April

Simon says stamp - floral frenzy - 1 April

That's crafty - spring - 5 April

Die cutting divas - flowers - 28 March

Sister's birthday

A couple of days ago, it was my birthday! And my sisters, too!

(I'm 10 mins older.)

I made her this card...

... as I know she is always on her laptop! 

The image is from bugaboo - coloured with my alcohol pens. 

It's hard to see from the photo, but I cut out the screen part of the image and popped

a printed sentiment behind it -

I raised the pc image on 3d foam, with the birthday sentiment flat on the card base. 

Both the baking papers came from a new paper pad I got recently..

"craft sensations" by Grafix.

I got 4 paper pads... excellent value for money. 250gsm and double sided.

The little facebook thumb stamp came from a lawn fawn set. 

Sister was diecut with wingo zingo font

and the butterflies are punched with my Martha Stewart punch.

I would like to asdd this to the floowing challenges:

Crafty friends - for a special lady - 24 March
Crafty catz - atg plus optional bug (butterfly) - 23 March
QKR Stampede - atg - 24 March
Archiscraps - chevrons and blue - 1 April
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 April
Createalicious - atg (optional - birthday) - 1 April
Creative craft cottage - make it feminine - 4 April
Ccc digi creations - for the girls - 1 April

Happy Mothers Day!

A lovely friend bought a new stamp for me,and I knew immediately -

it would make a perfect card for Mothering Sunday, for my Mum. 

The stamp is from Inkylicious.

I met up with some friends last weekend, at the 

Sincerely Yours Papercrafts Show, in Leigh.

It was well worth a morning out and I bought some bits n bobs I needed / wanted. 

I also bought some new alcohol pens, which I haven't seen before... "nuvo" pens.

I bought 2 colour sets - and used a few of the pens on this card.

I was very impressed with them - and they only cost £3.50 for a set of 3!

The backing paper came from a set of papers I bought in the pound shop. 

A little dry embossing, stamping, diecut "mum" and some punched butterflies 

finished this card for my mum.

PS...she loved it!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

A gem of a challenge - mothers day - 16 March

Catch the bug - all creatures big and small - 17 March
Crafty friends - for a special lady - 24 March
Jos scrap shack - atg - 20 March
Fab n funky - mothers day - 14 March
Show us your pussies - anything cat goes - 2 April
Cards 4 galz - furry friends - 14 March
Craft rocket - something new (stamp and pens) - 28 March
Creative knockouts - diecuts / punches - 15 March
Little miss muffet - atg - 23 March

Cravings!

"Use green" is the challenge at Patties Creations this month... 

I saw this image - 'pickle jar with cover' and thought - "perfect!"

I just need a friend to become pregnant now... hahaha! 

I found the papers in my stash - yellow gingham and a green lacy paper.

Infact, I think the green lacy paper was some wrapping paper from a looong time ago! 

I added a light green matting card behind the lemon gingham

and some punched borders.

The hand-coloured image sits on a diecut/ stitched shape - 

which I inked the edges of.

I finished by adding some little green / white dotted corners and some faux-stitching,

along with a line of dry embossing all around the edge. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 April
Scribbles - go green - 15 March
Crafting with friends - atg - 15 March
Crafty catz - atg / twist - layer it up - 15 March
Simply create too - use green - 1 April

Little girl's birthday

As my friends little girl is about to turn 3, 

I knew this would be a great image to use on her card - 

from Lemon Shortbread, she is called "fairy flower scent."

 She was a delight to colour with my promarkers. 

 I popped her on a diecut stitched shape, made a little ribbon shaped sentiment,

and diecut the number 3 (mirri card) and her name. 

The little penant on the top right hand side is also a diecut. 

The backing paper came from a freebie paper pack. from Pink Petticoat (no longer trading).

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Aud sentiments - for a friend - 27 Feb

C.R.A.F.T - fantasy - 1 March

Crafting with an attitude - atg - 26 feb

Star stampz - make it girly - 1 March

Crafty awesomeness - atg - 1 March

Little Miss Muffet - atg - 7 March

Cute as a button - atg - 1 March

Crafty creations - atg - 27 Feb

I love promarkers - atg - 6 March

The paper shelter - things that fly - 28 Feb

Digi choosday - atg - 1 March

Through the craft room door - atg - 28 Feb

With love

At Patties Creations this month, 

the challenge is "love is in the air".

I have been hankering after this image for a while... 'heart candy box.'

After printing it off, I used my alcohol pens to colour it

then stamped and cut out a label

attached to a small length of bakers twine.

I backed the image onto a piece of pink petticoat paper, 

which came free with a magazine a long time ago. 

I embossed a single line around the paper to finish it off.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Elephant love

 The challenge at the Colour Crazy Challenge blog this week, is -as always - "anything goes"...

I got a totally gorgeous image this time, from Bugaboo - called, "elephant love."

 It's a perfect image for valentines, which is just around the corner...

 although this time, I made a congratulations card

 and thought I could use it for an engagement card.

 The flowers are paper flowers - from Docrafts, I think. 

The darkest flower was punched. 

 Pink Petticoat (no longer trading) is the source for my sentiment.

 The heart paper is from a lawn fawn paper pack, 

while the roses paper came in a freebie paper pack, 

with a magazine, quite some time ago! 

 I inked the edges of everything on this card...sometimes using brown, sometimes pink.

 The border has been punched, and the butterflies, too.

I used promarkers and spectrum noirs to colour my image. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

A new year - a new design team!

Well, I must have done a reasonable job as a guest designer...

because I have been asked to join the design team at:

The Colour Crazy challenge.

I am made up!!! 

What a great start to the new year!

Here is my first card for the new team...

Using "birdhouse 3" from Polkadoodles -

this image was a delight to colour - and glitter!

I diecut the frame and "happy"

and punched the birds, butterflies and the hand-coloured blue borders. 

A colleague is moving into her first home in a matter of weeks 

and I made this card to give to her. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty catz - atg (with sparkle) - 11 Jan
Crafty creations - atg - 10 Jan
Crafty gals corner - atg - 17 Jan

First post of 2018!

Happy new Year! 

Hoping this year brings us all happiness and good health.

It is lovely for me to start the new year with a card for 

Patties Creations.

I used her images bundle - gingerbread family, for this months challenge 

"fun in the snow."

This is a super value-for-money bundle...

you get 5 images! 

each of the 4 here, on my card - gingerbread lady, man, girl and boy...

and then you get one image where they are all together, holding hands. 

I used the separate images for this card...sizing them to fit where I wanted them,

and I coloured them with my promarkers and spectrum noirs. 

I glittered the snowballs, which I cut by hand. 

I think the backing paper came from a DCWV pack I have had a long time.

The stamped sentiment is from Docrafts.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty catz - atg (with sparkle) - 11 Jan
Fussy and fancy - christmas - 12 Jan
Crimbo crackers - atg - 18 Jan
Addicted to stamps - holiday - 9 Jan