Flower Fairy in the Style of Becky

I have been a long admirer of Becky Hetherington's card style and thought I would have a go today at imitating it. Whilst she does shabby chic so beautifully, I always struggle with it as my OCD for neatness doesn't like the messy edges, but I tried to ignore them today and jumped in with both feet. This card is for The Ribbon Girl's Lili of the Valley Challenge for April, Anything Goes.

And here she is. I used Becky's idea of the row of pearls at the top and the roses at the bottom and added some butterflies, flowers and leaves that I made with some crafting clay last week. The flowers were coloured with a Copic markers to match and they came out pretty close!

Recipe:

Stamps: Flower Fairy, Everyday Sentiment Tags both from Lili of the Valley

Papers: Perfect Plum, Sahara Sand, Whisper White all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card, Timeless Victorian Patterned Papers from Lili of the Valley

Inks: Perfect Plum from Stampin' Up, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers

Accessories: Perfect Plum Taffeta Ribbon, Neutrals Brads, Rose Trim, Stampin' Clay all from Stampin' Up, Fona Tag die from Crafty Sentiments, Twine from stash, Pearl trim from some random stall at the Hobbycrafts show!, Flowers, Butterflies and Leaves mould from either Stampin' Up or Martha Stewart, Stardust Stickles, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities both from Spellbinders

Copics Used: 

Skin - E50, E51, E53, R20

Hair - E40, E42, E43, E44

Dress - BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04, BV20

Flowers - BV01, BV04

Wings - BV20, BV23, BV01, BV11

Shoes - BV01, BV02, BV04

Sky - BG10, BG11, BG000

Leaves - G94, G99

Grass - G21, G94, G85

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by! 

Rose Blossom Bestie

This card is for lots of My Besties Challenges this week. It's mainly for My Besties Aussie Challenge #20 to use yellow and brown, but also qualifies for My Besties UK Challenge to make a CAS card (this really is as CAS as I can go and I still wanted to add more and more layers and things to it!), My Besties Challenge Anything Goes and for Scrapbook Stamp Society's Challenge #39 Anything Goes with the option of adding yellow and finally for Totally Gorjuss' Challenge #231 to use a charm. Phew!

And here she is...

Recipe:

Stamps: My Besties Rose Blossom from Sherri Baldy, Mega Mixed Messages from Papertrey Ink

Papers: So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Elegant Soiree DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Chalk Marker both from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers, Golden Star Gelly Roll Pen

Accessories: So Saffron Grosgrain Ribbon (Retired) from  Stampin' Up, Doily from eBay, Card Candi from Craftworks Cards, Charm from stash

Copics Used:
Skin - E50, E51, E53, R20, R30
Hair - E55, E57, E59
Light Brown - E41, E42, E43
Mid Brown - E23, E25, E27
Dark Brown - E27, E29
Yellow - Y11, Y13
Leaves - G43, G46

Fairy Dust

I just had to have this hilarious image from The Stamping Chef when I bought my digi bundle the other day and after someone else posting about colouring in Tinkerbell on the Kit & Clowder FB group, I was totally inspired to make my own naughty Tinkerbell. I don't think Tink would ever do something like this, do you?! Anyway this card is for Crafting When We Can Challenge #67 to use ribbons, flowers or washi tape. I went with the ribbon of course! This is also for The Stamping Chef Facebook Recipe challenge to use one of their images, something green, 3 layers, a sentiment and glitter! Easy peasy!

And here's my naughty, sassy Tink...

Recipe:

Stamps: Fairy Dust from The Stamping Chef

Papers: Pistachio Pudding, So Saffron, In Colors 2013-15 DSP Stack all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Copic Markers

Accessories: So Saffron Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Subtles Buttons both from Stampin' Up, Scalloped Border Die from La-La Land Crafts, Stardust Stickles

Copics Used:
Skin - E000, E00, E01, E11, E04, R20 (mixed up bunch today as my E21 finally ran out completely so had to substitute but it didn't quite work!)
Hair - Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17
Wings - YG00, YG21, YG23
Dress & Shoes - G40, G43, G46
Ground - E40, E42, E43

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by!

Cherry On Top

Another new digi stamp from me again today - this one is Wryn Cherry On Top from Tiddly Inks and isn't she just the cutest?! This card is for Live and Love Crafts Challenge #22 this month - Chocolate. I used some Chocolate Chip card and papers and then added a chocolate cupcake! Mmmmm! This one is also for Sketchy Challenges #71. You got to choose between 3 sketches by Cordine this week and this was the one I chose. 

And here's my take on it...

Recipe:

Stamps: Wryn Cherry On Top by Tiddly Inks

Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Chocolate Chip, Neutrals DSP Stack (Retired), Regals DSP Stack (Retired), Berry Bliss DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Copic Markers

Accessories: Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon (Retired), Cherry Cobbler Dazzlin' Details both from Stampin' Up, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities both from Spellbinders

Copics Used: 

Skin - E000, E00, E01, R20, R30

Hair and Frosting - E42, E43, E44, E47

Leaf - G94, G99

Cherry Red - R56, R89, R59

Shoe & Ground - E42, E43

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by.

Scattered Showers

I haven't done a colour challenge for  a little while now as I've been doing my own colours, but I loved this soft one from Color Throwdown's Challenge #287, so thought I would join in this week. This card is also for Charisma Cardz Challenge #8 April Showers.

And here's my card...

Recipe:

Stamps: Scattered Showers and Scattered Showers Addition both from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Pistachio Pudding, Soft Sky, Barely Banana (Retired), Whisper White, Soft Sky Prints DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up

Inks: Pistachio Pudding, Soft Sky, Barely Banana (Retired) all from Stampin' Up

Accessories: Pistachio Pudding Stretch Ruffle Trim, Fringe Scissors both from Stampin' Up, Scattered Showers Die from Papertrey Ink

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by.

Sketch Saturday Challenge #305 with Simon Says Stamp!

It's time for another challenge from the Sketch Saturday Challenge blog and back with us this week is our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp!

The Sketch Challenge Prize is a super generous $25.00 to spend in the Simon Says Stamp Store.

This week's sketch #305 was designed by Jen.

And here's my take on it...I made a 5x7 inch card to fit my new James - Butterflies stamp that I picked up the other weekend whilst at the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC, during my lunch break from the Education Show that I was supposed to be at! Buying crafting stuff was much more fun! 

Recipe:

Stamps: James - butterflies, Everyday Grungy Messages both from Lili of the Valley

Papers: Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip both from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card, Bear Necessities Patterned Paper from Lili of the Valley

Inks: Blushing Bride from Stampin' Up, Walnut Stain Distress Ink from Tim Holtz, Memento Tuxedo Black Copic Markers

Accessories: Chocolate Chip Twill Ribbon (Retired), Bitty Butterfly Punch both from Stampin' Up, Pearls from Hobbycraft, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities both from Spellbinders

Copics Used:

Bear - E40, E41, E42, E43, E44

Butterflies - B32, B34

Sky - BG10, BG11, BG000

Flowers - R81, R83

Grass - YG67, YG91, YG61

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to the Sketch Saturday blog and look at all the other gorgeous DT creations and join in the fun whilst you're there too! 

Roller Girl

I discovered yet another fabulous digi stamp company, The Stamping Chef, through the Kit and Clowder group on Facebook this week and bought a load of their gorgeous stamps. I couldn't wait to get using one of them today so ran into work very early this morning and printed them all off (I am officially on holiday for 2 weeks, but as my own printer is dead and the one at work is much better anyway, it's easier for me to run in for half an hour and print some images off!).

Anyway this card is for The Stamping Chef's Challenge #24 Anything Goes, Crafty Little Fairies Challenge to add buttons, Creative Inspirations Challenge #260 to use red and pink (I did have to add some black though as the red and hot pink were just too bright together!) and for Deep Ocean Challenge #75 to be inspired by a movie. Can you guess what movie mine is from?

Of course it's Roller Girl from the movie Boogie Nights with a pink and red twist though! And notice my fabulous new watermark too which I also got from The Stamping Chef in the digi bundle I bought. Tamara did such a fabulous job creating it for me and was really quick too! 

Recipe:

Stamps: Shebe Dangerous from The Stamping Chef, Signature Series: Dress Form, Everyday Classics, Tag It's #6 and #10 all from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Real red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Melon Mambo Prints DSP (Retired), Summer Picnic DSP (Retired), Red Glimmer Paper all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Real Red, Melon Mambo, Basic Black all from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon (Retired), Corner Rounder Punch both from Stampin' Up, Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities, Labels 14 all from Spellbinders, Nesting Stars Dies from X-Cut, Buttons from The Works, Baker's Twine from Martha Stewart

Copics Used: 

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E21, E04, R20 (Not sure if this is too brown/dark but my E21 is running out so that doesn't help at all!)

Hair - RV21, RV23, RV10

Pinks - RV23, RV25, RV29

Reds - R24, R27, R29

And that's all from me for today folks! Thanks for stopping by!

Murray's Popped Up For Easter

I was flicking through and sorting my card photos out yesterday and realised I hadn't used a Saturated Canary image for absolutely ages, so thought today would be a good excuse to use one. I pulled out this cute Murray image to make an Easter card with.

This card is for The Ribbon Girl's April Card Challenge to create a Spring card, Sketchy Challenges #70 to use the sketch below by Sabine, A Creative Romance's Challenge to make an Easter or Spring card, for Crafty Sentiments Challenge to make an Easter card and Papertake Weekly's Challenge Spring has Sprung. Lots of Easter and Spring challenges around at the minute!

And here's my take on all those challenges...You can just see the top right rectangle from the sketch peeking out behind those flowers!

Recipe:

Stamps: Murray from Saturated Canary, Polka Dot Parade #1 from Papertrey Ink

Papers: So Saffron, Certainly Celery (Retired), Whisper White, Tea Party DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: So Saffron from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: So Saffron Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Beautiful blooms II Dies #1 from Papertrey Ink, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Rectangle and Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities all from Spellbinders, Fancy Heart Border Die from Crafty Sentiments, Brads from stash

Copics Used:

Skin - E000, E00, E01, R20, R30

Hair - E41, E42, E43, E44

Shoes - E42, E43, E44, E47

Orange - YR12, YR15

Yellow - Y11, Y13, Y15

Lilac - BV00, BV01, BV02

Pink - R81, R83, R85

Greens - G40, G43, G46

Sky - BG10, BG11, BG000

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by!

Liebster Award!

Today I received a lovely comment on one of my cards from Beth Brovold, a fellow Fussy and Fancy girl to let me know that she has nominated me for the Leibster blog award. The Liebster Award is a "chain mail " like format created to bring awareness to blogs that have less than 300 followers. I don't usually do chain letters (do you remember getting those as children when the chain mail would threaten to leave lots of dog poop in your front garden if you didn't pass them on?! I certainly do and hated the idea of having that so would send them on just in case! It never did happen though hehe!). Anyway, there are just so many talented crafters out there in blogland that I have discovered since joining this world and am truly grateful for all the inspiration I have found, so have decided, this time, to pass it on!

I love Beth's work and her creations are always outstanding so if you haven't seen her blog Contagious Crafts, pop on over to it right now and take a good look. She's an amazing crafter! Thank you for nominating me Beth.

Rules for participating in the Liebster Award:

• Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and answer the questions they presented; 
• Link back to the blogger who awarded you; 
• Copy & paste the pink Liebster Award logo to your blog; 
• Nominate 5 blogs to receive the award who have less than 300 followers. Create a new list of 11 questions for them; and 
• Inform them of their nomination. 

These are the questions set by Beth...

1. What first peaked your interest in "paper" crafting?
I was bored one summer holiday (I'm a teacher during the week) and wanted something to do to keep myself occupied and found a card making kit on eBay for £5! A nasty cheap kit but the best £5 I have ever spent as it truly opened up my eyes to a world I knew nothing about and am totally in love with!

2. In this "paper" crafting world who would you most like to meet in person?
Without a doubt, Alyce Keegan and even better if I could go to Australia to meet her!

3. So as a follow up to question 2...If you were able to put together a meeting of the "paper" crafting minds who would be on your "wish list"?
I would love to have a meet up with each of the design teams I am on and meet all these fabulous ladies in real life and have Alyce join us for a day of crafting too!

4. Your favourite craft shop?
Does the Internet count as a shop? I guess not, but I love so many for different things that I cannot pick just one, so I'll add a few here - Riverside Crafts (one of my local craft stores - fabulous for beads and ribbons!), Sir Stampalot (another local craft store - fabulous for Tilda stamps and pretty papers), Live & Love Crafts (fabulous for vintage papers and embellishments), Dies to Die For (fabulous for dies and papers), Quixotic Paperie (fabulous for hard-to-get rubber stamps) and of course The Paper Shelter (fabulous for digi stamps!)

5. Are you a CAS or fussy and fancy type of crafter?
Definitely a fussy and fancy crafter- CAS scares me. There's just too much open space on them that needs to be filled!

6. Your most used embellishment?
Ribbon. I cannot have a card without some - it just feels odd!

7. Favourite colour? I know it's repetitive but in this craft colour is such a key!!
Pink, but at the minute I'm leaning towards pale aqua quite a bit.

8. Favourite medium to work with when crafting?
Copics. I am getting the hang of these now and am taking Alyce Keegan's Skin and Hair Colouring classes so am slowly improving!

9. What other hobbies do you enjoy?
Reading - I read a lot, mostly Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance books, with the odd murder-thriller thrown in. I do zumba twice a week and being a nerd at heart, I play World of Warcraft too.

10. Where in the world would you most like to visit?
New York. I will get there one day.

11. What is your favourite holiday?
Hallowe'en, although it's not that big over here in the UK really, but I love all the witches, ghosts and ghoulies and yet another excuse for eating sweets and chocolates!

My nominations for the Leibster Award go to:

Debra Miller - Cream City Angels (fellow Sketch Saturday DT member)
Cathy P - My Creative Space (fellow Sketch Saturday DT member)
Laila - Castle in the Sky (fellow Fussy and Fancy Girl)
Keeley Ainsworth - A Crafter's Journal
Marie - Kompis-kort by Mi (fellow Paper Shelter DT member)

And my questions are:
1. What is your favourite type of card to make?
2. Have you ever done or do you do any other types of crafting?
3. What is your to-go-to colour combo? (A very popular question I know but I love seeing what other people like to use!)
4. What do you do when/if you lose your mojo for crafting to get it back?
5. If you could design a stamp for any company, which company would it be and what your stamp be like?
6. What crafting supplies (not including tools like glue, Big Shot etc) can you not live without?
7. Do you have your own craft room?
8. What do you do whilst crafting? (e.g listen to music, watch tv etc?)
9. What has been your biggest crafting achievement so far? What would you like to achieve in the future?
10. What do you enjoy doing when you are not crafting?
11. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

And that's my Leibster Award all done. I hope you have the chance to pop on over to the blogs I have nominated and to Beth's for nominating me and see all the fabulous work these ladies create. Have fun!

Penelope Pansy's a bit blue

Penelope Pansy was this fortnight's giveaway on Lacy Sunshine's Challenge #30 to add flowers and as I love all the Flower Pot Pretties I just had to join in. This card is also for Kit and Clowder's April Challenge "Blue" and love all the blue on this one!

I decided to go for a magic card again as I haven't done one for a while now and used some pearlescent card for a change. I actually have a box full of this stuff in a range of colours and rarely use it, but thought it added a nice touch to this card without over-powering it.

And this is the inside. I remembered to decorate the top flap inside this time as well!

Recipe:

Stamps: Flower Pot Pretties Penelope Pansy from Lacy Sunshine, Half & Half from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Marina Mist, Whisper White, Subtles DSP Stack (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Blue Pearlescent Card from local craft store, Copics X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Marina Mist from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Marina Mist Taffeta Ribbon from Stampin' Up, Eyelet Lace Border Punch from Martha Stewart, Palace Oval Frame, Cherry Blossom Die both from Memory Box, Gems from stash

Copics Used:
Skin - E000, E00, E01, R20, R30
Hair - B91, B93, B95, B97
Flowers - B91, B93, B95, B97, B00, B0000
Pot - B93, B95, B97, B99, B0000
Leaves - YG17, YG21, YG23, YG25
Floor - YG21, YG23, YG25

And that's all from me for today folks! Thanks for stopping by!