Tilda & Co Challenge - Buckles

There are 2 challenges this week over on Tilda & Co, one is a Valentines one but I only have 1 person to send to and I've made his!!! So I decided to try the other one which is to use a buckle on your card.

I coloured and paper pierced tilda last night in front of the telly, so I used brown and pink as my colour scheme. The pink and brown spotty paper I have had in my stash for over a year and the buckle has also been in my embellishment box for ages. The stripy pink and brown ribbon was part of my order from Ribbon Oasis the other week and the sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp

Planet Pootle Blog Candy

Michelle at Planet Pootle is having a blog candy giveaway and has extended the deadline to Thursday. This is great for me as I didn't get chance to finish my card on Sunday due to being very hungover (must remember at 34 it is not a good idea to drink like I did in my 20s)!!!

The challenge is to make a valentines card, it must be a new card that has been created just for this challenge and not combined with other challenges.

This card is for my hubby. He is always complaining that in the winter I am straight into my comfy pyjamas and slippers as soon as I get home and even offered to buy me something a bit sexier (it's freezing love!). I decided to use this image from Pink Petticoat as I think this is more what he had in mind!

I've coloured and then glitter the image with stickles and mounted onto black card. I've then covered a card with Pink Petticoat with words like gorgeous and beautiful and then added a strip on animal print Pink Petticoat paper to black and mounted across the centre of the paper. The sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp.

I'm sorry but my PJ's rule and he will just have to make do with this ;o)

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Heart's Desire

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is Heart's Desire. 'Please could we see some hearts (or a heart lol!) on your cards this week? Already done your Valentine's cards? How about doing a Wedding / Anniversary / engagement or birthday card! We don't mind which - as long as there's a heart or two...or three.....!!!'

I decided to use this Magnolia image that Jo from Only-Joking sent to me (although I have had to buy this stamp now!!). I watercoloured and paper pieced her and added stickles to her wings. I cut out a large heart with my Cricut for her to sit in. The Happy Birthday sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp and I cut with my scalloped circle and added to the side on the heart. The card has been covered in paper from this Christmas DCWV pack and heart jewels added to the corners.

Papertake Weekly & Poppicraft Competition

I decided to make a card for both this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge and Michelle's competition over on Poppicrafts.

Poppicrafts January competition is very simple, "Make a valentines Day card using only these 3 colours - BLACK, RED and WHITE." The challenge over on Papertake Weekly is 'Roses are Red..' is to use red on your card! Any shade or shades of red that you like from bright pillar box to deep burgandy!!

I stamped You're a Treasure from Penny Black and coloured using my Marvy Le Plume pens. This was then mounted onto red card and a heart jewel added to each corner and just above the hedgies. I also mounted up a Happy Valentine's Day onto red card, this is an A Muse Art stamp. Black and white swirl paper from Pink Petticoat was added down the left hand side and I also tied some red chiffon ribbon down the left hand side. The image and message were then added to the right hand side of the card.

I'm a happy bunny

I've been complaining to my hubby that the pictures of my cards aren't that great as we have to use his mobile. So over Christmas we got a digital camera, so I can take better pictures of my cards and we are always the couple that never have any nice photos of themselves. He's spent this afternoon loading up the software and we are now ready to go. The last few posts that I've done I have now added new pics that were taken this afternoon and they are soo much better.

Anyway, I decided to make a get well card using this brilliant image that Michelle at Card Grotto sent to me using this lovely A Muse Art stamp. I cut him out using my Nestabilities and I then added a bit of colour with my watercolour pencils. He's then been mounted onto a scalloped rectangle, again using my Nestabilities. I've then covered the left hand side of a tall thin card with blue card and mounted the image in the middle of the card. A black Get Well Soon peel off has been added to the bottom right hand corner.

Mens cards

Thought I'd make a couple of mens cards, as I always struggle with these and I like to keep a few made up.

The first one I have covered in paper from His & Her collection from Pink Petticoat and added a strip of navy card across the middle of the card. I have used a tie stamp from A Must Art in Navy, mounted this to a navy scalloped circle and added to the strip of navy card. I've then added a happy birthday greeting.

This card is continuing my quest to use up old embellishments. I bought a pack of DIY button ages ago and have hardly used them, they are a lot more detailed in the fleshm, but it's so hard to take a good picture at the moment. The paper had been in my stash for ages and the sentiment is from a See D's set.

Off to Northampton tomorrow for our Company kick off day, so I get to stay away for a night in a nice hotel and hubby gets the house to himself and no-one nagging about what he wants to watch!!!!

Using up old embellishments

I have so many embellishments, that I sometimes think I could open a small craft shop!!!! One of my New Years resolutions is to start using more of my stash before I buy more things and as I have really got into my stamping in the last 5 months, I'm not tending to use embellishments on my cards as much.

The first card I have covered with Karen Neuberger paper. I then stuck 3 papermania sticker dresses to some white card and mounted this onto pale blue, adding little flowers to the corners. Although you can't really see it very well, the sentiment is also from a papermania sheet mounted onto the same pale blue paper.


The second card I covered with dark green paper, I then embossed a mid green with my cuttlebug embossing folder and then slightly distressed it with some sanding paper. The topiary tree is a Crafty Bitz embellishment and the sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp.

Off to bed now, can't believe thatmy Christmas break is over, been off for nearly 2 weeks and it seems to have flown by.

Baby girl

I love this Penny Black stamp and Natalie kindly sent me an image. I've coloured it with my Derwent watercolour pencils and cut it out. Then mounted it onto white and pink card and added stickles to the bow. I've added some baby paper I had in my stash onto pink card and added this across the middle of the card. Pink ribbon and bow has been added down the left hand side and the sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp mounted onto pink card. I've added 3 small pink gems to the bottom right hand corner.

It's not the greatest of pics, but the pink paper and ribbon is a nicer baby pink, that it looks in this. Might try to get a better one later, but I don't think we will be seeing any nice weather here in Cheshire today!!!!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

1 more sleep to go

A Muse Art Stamps

I've been asked where I get my A Muse Art stamps and I am lucky enough that 2 local craft shops stock these, although it is limited and it is just good luck if they have one I want.

The shops that I have bought these from are www.crabapplecrafts.co.uk and www.crimsoncrafts.co.uk