Puddles of Love

Morning everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the Easter weekend! Don't you just love Bank Holidays-especially when the weather's nice!

Anyways Elaine got the brand new Gorjuss girlies in and I had to grab a couple! I bought some prisma pencils just recently-the full set even, and thought it would be a good chance to use them but I went for the trusty copics instead!

I coloured the fab 'Puddles of Love' on kraft with my pens-gives a totally different effect-I love it! all the papers are from the Tim Holtz pad Vintage Shabby-my fave for sure out of all of em! Also Elaine has free p and p on orders over £30 over the bank holiday weekend so it's worth getting a few extra bits!

The flowers are made using some punches and they're embellished with Prima sequin centres-love these-am building quite the little collection!

I also managed to actually follow a sketch-it's been a while! I used the sketch over at Midnight Madness as I haven't played along over there for such a long time!

This card will be up for sale shortly in My Etsy Shop.

Thanks for stopping by!!

A Funny Old Weekend but here's something Gorjuss:)

Evening lovely bloggers:) How's your weekend been, or your bank holiday weekend for some? It's been a funny one here! Everything was going well till Ian (hubby) rang yesterday afternoon and said he'd had "a little accident", then the details came.... that he's wrote the car off, he'd spun it and landed upside down. Well, I was in a right kerfuffle! Got to him and he was in the ambulance, police were there, firemen were on their way...the whole lot! He'd managed to get out without so much as a scratch! Thank goodness! He was soooo lucky! There weren't any other cars involved so all that was ok, so we've just got our insurance to sort out now which is going to leave us a bit broke me thinks as we have a huge excess on the insurance:( Oh well am sure it'll sort out one way or the other.

But, onto happier things:) Here'a gorjuss christmassy card! This gorjuss girlie is available fromFunkykits and is perfect for christmas makes me thinks:) All the paper I've used is from my delicious new MME Laundry Line 12 x 12 pad that I got from Elaine at Quixotic at a bargain price as they're on special offer right now for a few more days so get em quick!

Stuff: Sugarnellie Gorjuss Girl 'Little Star' available here and coloured with copics, Papers MME Laundry Line available here, Embellishments (gold cord, charms, lace) available here, raffia from stash, su ribbon, su sentiment, sewing machine, crop a dile for hole punch on tag and core'dinations cardstock.

The layout of this card is from Friday Sketchers, which I've rotated and am also entering it for the ABC challenge as their theme this week is C for circles, and Pile it On's challenge for this week is 'round' so I reckon my card fits in with that too-well at least the paper and sentiment does:) Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave me, they really make my day, truly! Huggles xxx

A Gorjuss Day and News

Hi everyone, hope you're week's getting off to a good start:) Mine certainly is! I've got another gorjuss creation to show you today which I'm entering for Allsorts which is a fab sketch by Dawny with the additional theme of chocolate and marshmallows-mmmm yum! I'm also going to enter it at Stamp with Fun too as their challenge this week is pearls. A heads up-the new gorjuss girls are now available to buy as single girls-wohooo!

Stuff: Sugarnellie image (gorjuss girl 'party princess') coloured with Promarkers, BasicGrey and papermania papers, core'dinations cardstock, distressing tool, pearls in cappacino, heart cut from cricut (george and basic shapes cartridge), tim holtz ticket, prima and kaiserkraft flowers, rose from stash, hatpin from ebay.

My news is that Denise and Erin have asked me to become a dt member for Stamp Something. I said Yes of course!!! So excited!! Also...yesterday I was featured on Inspirational! I can't believe all the wonderful things happening to me recently-I feel so lucky! Thanks for stopping by! Huggles

Sugar Bowl Time Again!

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is having a lovely afternoon? Me and Leo have been to his little friends house which I look forward to as me and his mum get on so well. We're going to hopefully go (fingers crossed with the weather) on Friday to the beach all together. The kids are 2 months apart in age so it's great for them both bless em. I'm going to have some news for you soon, but atm I'm keeping quiet;)

So it's Sugarbowl time again, and you gotta see the prize! Have you seen Sugarnellie's new release? Ohhh they're sooo cute-they're the new manga stamps but they still have that same sugarnellie sweetness we all love. A joy to colour I'm sure, especially since our pens were made for manga artists. It's a fab sketch once again, and if you're not used to using sketches then this would be a great one to start playing with. The please include option this time is ribbons and bows-though I've used raffia and twine.

Stuff: Sugarnellie stamp-gorjuss girl set 3 coloured with Promarkers, distress inks, dcwv latte stack papers, core'dinations card, raffia and twine from local hardware store, prima flowers, buttons from stash, hero arts sentiment.

I've gone for paper tearing on this card and well, more distressing :) Hope you likey:) Thanks so much for popping by, please do leave me a little word or two so I know you've been-it makes my day and then I can come visit you back! Have a great evening. Huggles xxx

Sketch Saturday

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is doing well. Leo and Ian are still poorly! Fingers crossed I don't get it cos I can't call in sick;) Todays card is for Sketch Saturday, and they've given us another fab one-I decided it would work really well with paper tearing. All the papers I've used are from dcwv Latte stack which I won from Judy's blog candy-it is sooo yum I love it! I've used one of the new gorjuss girls too which were kindly stamped up for me-am defo gonna have to get them myself though, they're my fave set yet!

Stuff: Sugarnellie stamp (gorjuss set 3) coloured with promarkers, core'dinations card, dcwv latte stack, raffia, lace and buttons from stash, bling, prima flowers.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow to see my Pile It On DT card and find out the new challenge! Huggles xxx

Saturday Secret Crafter Challenge

Hello lovely bloggers,

This card is for the Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge. The challenge was flowers either as embellishments or as the feature. Now on this card I've popped two gorjuss girls together. Have seen this done a few times and really wanted to give it a go with these girlies, Tab is fab at this technique. Had lots of fun making this and playing around, I haven't posted for a few days as I've been trying out a few new techniques instead which was lots of fun. 

Yesterday we had a stall of bits of bobs I didn't want anymore as there is a scarecrow weekend going on in our village. I actually got a bit sunburnt whilst sat out!!! I didn't make much, only £20 but hey extra pennies for stamps!! I am wondering when the next Magnolia stamp club closes for order, I don't really want to order too early as I'll have to pay straight away but I don't want to miss it either-guess I shall do it soon just incase:) I hope everyone is having a lovely bank holiday weekend, if the weather's nice we might go to the beach tomorrow. 

Materials used:

Papermania scalloped card blanks

Distress inks

Promarkers

Crafty Individuals Spring papers

Papermania brads

Prima vagabond flowers

BoBunny ribbon

Hero Arts sentiment masked to remove border

Cupcake Craft Challenge

Found the Cupcake Craft Challenge blog a few weeks ago but haven't managed to have a go before now. I've made this card with a pagan/wiccan theme for something different and thought it might go to one of my pagan friends. It is also the first outing for my new gorjuss girl!!! Isn't she lovely, I think this is my fave from the set actually.

On this card I used CCSR the big one paper, bazill cardstock, dcwv metallic stack, cherry pie art stamps for the pentagrams, gorjuss girl, dcwv ribbon, cherry pie art stamps for the sentiment too. I also distressed all the stamped images with distress inks, the colouring was with my promarkers (I love them so much). I hope you like it! Well I am off to bed soon so catch you all tomorrow, hope you're having a lovely weekend!

Colour Create and The Karma Award

Firstly, here's my card for this weeks Colour Create which was a gorgeous colour theme of black, white, pink with an optional extra of polka dots. This is only my second entry over there but it is definetly one of my fave blogs to visit and take part in! I've used CCSR The Big One, Doodlebug paper, dcwv rockstar stack, distress inks, gorjuss girl image coloured with promarkers, hearts from a sizzix die using dcwv blossoms and butterflies and ribbon from sillymonkeycrafts but don't think there was a brand. I loved colouring this gorjuss girl in, decided I'd make her really funky-and the pink in her hair with the black looks just like mine atm!

The Karma Award:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award.

I received The Karma Award from my lovely blogging friend Lorraine!

Now I have to pass it it onto 8 others so here goes:

Tracey

Craftyspider

Kerry

AuntySue

Tiets

Tab

Michelleo

Tanja

Easter Wkend

Hi guys,

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend! Hope the Easter bunny has brought you lots of choccie too. We had a lovely today at a local farm park with Leo-he had so much fun. I loved all the animals, though a rather over enthusiastic donkey started nibbling my handbag-think he may have took a few sequins with him! 

Well todays card is for Mojo Monday, which is a sketchie blog-am getting well into these now aren't I?! I used a gorjuss girl coloured with promarkers (the hair colour is modelled on mine hehe), dcwv rockstar stack, we r memory keepers glitter rub ons, prima flowers, papermania brads, ccsr stamp, and bo bunny ribbon. It was a really fun sketch to work with. 

The only thing about Bank Holidays is no mail! I'm waiting for quite a few goodies to arrive, some lovely new stamps among them, argghhh I want them now! Thanks for stopping by!

SugarBowl Challenge

I hope everyone has had a lovely day today, hopefully you've had the day off! Ideally you've been crafting and eating yummy easter eggs (haven't started mine yet but been nibbling bits off hubby's hehe). Todays card is for The Sugar Bowl, my favourite challenge! It was a sketch this time, and I had lots of fun with it, was different for me as the sketch involved lots of layers but I'm quite pleased with the finished result. It's going to winging its way to a new friend tomorrow, hope she likes it.

For the card I used a Gorjuss girl stamp, Sandylion paper, dcwv metallic stack, rockstar stack, prima flowers, papermania brads, sizzix die cut, prima star stamps from build a swirl, distress inks oo and cosmo cricket fleuriste papers too. 

Other news, I've pre ordered the gorjuss girls set 2-woohoo! Can't wait for those lovelies to get delivered! Well am off to do some more crafting, have a lovely evening and thanks for stopping by. 

Cute Card Thursday

Here is my zesty citrusy card for Cute Card Thursday. Loved using these colours, makes you feel so cheery, ideal on a foggy murky day like we've had today. 

Was in my lovely local craft shop today and the Clare Curd stamps are finally in stock!! I'd already got the sentiments and doodles as soon as they came out but couldn't get hold of the stampin chic and the blokey ones til today. Can't wait to use them now! 

Think the new Sugar Nellie's will be on pre-order tomorrow.....ooo, shall have to have me some of those :) 

Thanks for popping by looking at my card.

First Post, New Blog

Well, I got a blog, I figured if I was going to enter challenges then why not go all the way and get a blog. It'll be nice for me to look back on all the bits I've made too. I've not been crafting long, about 8 months, it started with scrapbooking some piccies of my little boy and now I enjoy making cards too. So, 8 months, a lot of money later (why are crafting goodies so irresistable?!) and here I am!! 

Well this is my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge...Spring theme, using my beautiful new gorjuss girl stamps. Am so glad I was stalking the Sugar Nellie blog waiting to find out when they were back in stock-it didn't take long for them to start selling out!!!