New to Blogland !!!!

Just a quicky ... my friend Dawn has recently joined the wonderful world of blogging, she is a photographer please pop over and say hello and if you like what you see please become a follower xxx

http://dawnelliottphotography.blogspot.com/

Oh Alice

Chapter One: Down the Rabbit Hole. The Beggining ...

This is the first challenge over at The Alice in Wonderland challenge blog. This weeks challenge was 'Alice Gets Glam' I decided to use one of my Miss Anya as Alice (which I think works quite well) and gave her some strippy tights to give it a little bit of a Tim Burton feel. I made the scalloped circle using my nesties. The sentiment I made using word. The mushroom is part of one of my fairy art song stamps that I stamped and cut out. All the flowers are prima with gems in the centres.

There is a link on my side bar to Oh Alice blog, I think its a pretty cool blog challenge and cant wait to join in again.

Red Heart

I used the beautiful red heart image from sweet pea for this card, I coloured her using watercolour pencils. I used pain red card for the background which I stamped with a flourish stamp and stazon black ink. The ribbon and the gems in the top right hand corner I found in my stash.

On another note how excited am I !!!! one week until Alice in Wonderland woohoo I cant wait :) Tim Burton films are always brilliant and I think this one is going to be visually stunning.

More Sweet Pea Goodness

This image is called poppy love, isnt she stunning !!!! I coloured her using watercolour pencils and I added stickles to her tail. The papers are basic grey I think and the flowers are prima with buttons and gems for the centres. I so im love with these sweet pea stamps everyone of these images are gorgeous.

Another Sweet Pea

I had a field day playing with my sweet peas yesterday and made 4 cards :) this is one I made using the gorgeous purple woods image. I watercoloured the image and added stickles for a bit of sparkle, which you cant see at all in these photos. I have no idea what brand these papers are ive had them so long. The flowers are all prima with brads for the centres and the leafs are a leone punch. Butterfly gems and ribbon I found in my stash.

I'm in Love ....

.... with sweet pea stamps !!!!!

WOW this image is soooo gorgeous, it was really hard to choose which one to use first, this image is called winter watcher and I thought she was going to be hard to colour at first but I really enjoyed using this image I decided to stick to 2 colours, purple and blue which i think worked out well. Cant wait to get my little inky fingers colouring in the next one now hehehehe

I coloured the image using watercolour pencils and used a silver pen to colour in the trees in the background, this doesnt show brilliantly in the pictures. The background card I made myself using purple card stock, a flourish stamp and black stazon ink. The flowers are petaloo (or something like that) with buttons for the centres and the gems and ribbon are from my stash.

Want to go home now !!!!

Oh my word my new sweet pea stamps have arrived this morning and wow there gorgeous (cant believe they arrived so quickly I only ordered then last wednesday from Sweet Pea Stamps in America !!!) I counting down till 5.30 now so I can go home and play. The only question is which one do I ink up first ekkkkk hehehehehe

Pollycraft Challenge - Things with Wings

I couldn't resist this challenge as the first thing that pops into my head for things with wings was or course faries :) used one of the lovely fairy song art stamps, still love this collection. I coloured her using watercolour as usual and then used stickles on her wings and eye shadow (doesnt show up brilliantly in the photo) The papers are basic grey, the flowers are prima and the leafs are a leone punch. Ribbon and gems from my stash.

I dont think ill have time to blog over the weekend so I hope everyone has a lovely valentines day xxxx

LOVE

What can I say I am in love with these new tim holtz 2010 CHA stamps, arent they gorgeous they really remind me of vintage style tattoo lettering. I brought these from the lovely dyan over at art from the heart and I have to say it arrived in the loveliest packaging and really quickly I would definately recommend her shop and she has some of the lovelist crafting stock ive seen. I have no affliation with her shop I am just really happy customer.

I am entering these cards into the following challenges

Tuesday Taggers - Love theme - http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/
Simon Says Stamp - Love Theme - http://www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/
Charisma Cardz - Love Theme - http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/
CRAFT Challenge - Love/Valentines - http://www.trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/
Creative Card Crew - Valentines - http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/
Lili of the Valley - Valentines - http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

A lovely award from Julie xxxx

I received this lovely award from the lovely Julie over at catch me crafting, thank you darling for thinking of me xxx

For this award, I have to tell you about 10 things that make me happy, so here goes, in no particular order ....


1. Card making
2. Scrapbooking and generally any crafting
3. Gorgeous crafting stash hmmmmmm
4. My lovely hubby
5. My close friends and family, I love them all xxx
6. Rose wine YUM
7. Travelling
8. Camden market
9. Making a mess hehehehe
10. Reading


Now I have to pass it on to 5 lovely blogging friends hmmmmm always a hard task to choose just free ok here goes, i would usually pass it to Julie but she passed it to me and also ill try not to pass it on to peeps she has choosen too ....

1. Katy - Katys Bloggaroo
2. Kate - The Kathryn Wheel
3. Mina - Pinkpuds
4. Heather - Ricas Haven
5. Georgia - Kitty Krafts

The girl is on a roll !!!! - WOJ Love Challenge

What can I say im on a roll, it seemed like ages since I had uploaded anything and now I cant stop hehehehe made this card for the whiff of joy challenge which is love. I used the lovely melinda holding heart stamp which I water coloured as usual and smudged pink chalk around the edge and distressed. The flowers are prima with gems and pearls for the centres. The sentiment is by stamp aways and the heart stamp came free with last months craft stamper magazine. I think maybe this card is a little too plain? maybe i should have used some ribbons across it or another patterned paper as well as this one?

Sugarbowl Challenge

Check me out 2 cards in 2 days hahahahaha I made this card for the sugarbowl challenge which I must say I really enjoyed this layout, i didnt know what to do with the 4 squares to begin with but decided to cut my image up which i think worked out quite well. The extra challenge was to use lace so i used my doily punch. Papers are MME and the image is one of my gorjuss girl images (still love this images) ive coloured her using watercolour pencils and then used green chalk around the edge. The sentiment was a freebie from a magazine. Flower is a prima one with a button and ribbon for the center and the leafs are a leone punch.

Crafty Calander Challenge - Love

Well its that time again, its the first friday of the month so that means crafty calander challenge. I cant believe how quickly January has flown by !!!! This months theme is love and friendship with the added option of using hearts on your project. I wanted to make something that wasnt the obvious option of a valentines card so I used this opportunity to make an anniversary card for my husband, although our 1st wedding anniversary isnt untill the 2nd May. I used a photo from our wedding day for this card and thought it came out well. I hope he likes it when i give it to him in May.