A Little (Big) Cake with Anna ~ Tiddly Inks

I do love Tiddly Inks Images

Christy is an amazing artist  and the DT makes are fabulous

When I saw there challenge this month I decided to play along

It's a Tiddly Tac Toe haha love it

The idea is to get 3 in a row 

So I got creating and I ended up with a Bingo and used them all

Firstly off I used Anna Belle Birthday Wishes

The Sentiment is from Celebrate Joyfully Emma

I coloured up using Distress Ink refils and Derwent Inktense

Now onto the Tiddly Tac Toe board (I couldn't resist saying it again)

Dies ,I have used two dies the lovely ribbon threader and also a shaped die for the sentimemt

The Ribbon used is Jam pot Ribbon - Blackcurrant from Crafty Ribbons

Patterned paper was used on the background ~ I used a Distress tool on this and slightly ruffed up the edges

I used a flowery Embossing folder and added some Lace to the edge

I finally added some flowers and some fun buttons

Thank you for looking

Have a lovely day

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Tiddly Inks Challenge ~ Tiddly Tac Toe

Arty Divas ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes

Everybody Art ~ Use Dies

Shopping our Stash ~Dream the Embossible

TTCRD ~ Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown ~ Anything Goes

Polkadoodles ODS ~ Hochanda

Following on from my post yesterday I thought I would share with you another card I made for the Polkadoodles,  Hochanda ODS last week

I used the Ho Ho Ho Paper pad

Along with some white felt on the stocking

Also using 15 mm Gingham Ribbon

I used the holly spruce die set

and Most Wonderful Joy Stamp set for the sentiment

Faux Stitching around the card with Posca Pen

and finished of with a sprinkling of Frantage

Thank you for looking

xx
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CRAFT ~ Christmas
Sparkles Christmas Challenge ~ A Krafty Christmas
Pause, Dream, Enjoy ~ Anything Goes

Buttercup Stamps

Happy Wednesday Afternoon

I have had a morning crafting , I could not wait to use these stamps again

absolutly adorable

What's up Buttercup clear stamp set

I started by using Distress Oxide inks dipping and drying between colours

Cut into sections and edged with black card stock

I then embossed the sentiment , the flower and butterfly

The flower was coloured using bright water colour paints

I added a length of ribbon and a few sequins to finish
oh and a little spritz of paints

Thank you for looking

xx
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Make my Monday ~ Hint of Summer to come
Simon Says Stamp ~ song ~Build me up Buttercup
Crafty Friends ~ B is for Butterfly/Buttercup

Home For Christmas

What an absolutly stunning set arrived this month with my Simply Cards & Papercraft.

I adore Christmas and couldn't wait to play

How spoilt were we, embossing folder , stamps and dies!!

To start I used a white A5 centre- stepper card blank.

 I covered it in a Christmas red paper leaving a slight border of white showing through.

I die cut the door three times, once in red , twice in white. I wanted the door to stand off the page so used sticky foam tabs to adhere and cut the panels from the red door and adhered with glue

Using Memento ink lady bug I stamped the number, knocker , letterbox and sentiment.

I stamped the lights with Memento black ink and coloured using watercolour paints.

The wreath was again die cut twice to give some depth 

The holly leaves were die cut and watercoloured . Once dried I added some ruby red liquid pearls.

I stamped the pots (twice )using Memento gray fog and the plants with Memento bamboo leaf adding again liquid pearls and adhered with foam tabs.

The bows were stamped using lady bug and bamboo leaf dabbed over with glossy accents for shine.

I had tons of fun making this card

And can see a fair few of these being made

Thank you for looking

xx

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Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Christmas

Paper Creators Crafts - Christmas

Craft Rocket - Anything Goes

Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers - Shaped Cards

Crafty Creations - Use a number

Simon says Stamp - Stamp It

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Everybody Art Challenge - leaves

Holly Jolly Christmas - More than one fold

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Use Your Stuff - Watercolour

Penny Black and More - Stamped Sentiment

Alphabet Challenge - N for Numbers

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Anything Goes - Graph'It Markers

Happy Friday 

This week over at 

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Hop on over you could win some fabby prizes 

*****You can use any type of colouring medium*****

 new stockist for Graph'It, so you can now purchase your markers from 

CULT PENS 

This week we have a fabby dabby doo sponsor Lemon Shortbread

I used the lovely image from our sponsor this fortnight called Kimono Sakura - You can find her in the store right here....

How pretty is she!

I have also used some little flower stamps and fan stamp which were great fun and I thought fitted well

The colours used are:

Skin 4101 4120 4155 4180

Greys 9106 - 9101

Reds 3180 5245 5220 5210

White Graph'It Marker


I would like to enter this into
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday - Anything Goes
Sunny Day Crafting - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Cards in Envy - Flat and Square
Craft Your Passion- Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge

*Anything Goes*

or

*Add Texture*

I had lots of fun making these simple trio of cards. I used two of the lovely stamps from the Daisydays collection The Butterfly and the Sentiment. For my texture I used embossing folders

I made some 6 x 6 card blanks

And a matching cardstock to ink for each

With a different embossing folder per card
Using two dies

For the red card I used Memento Love letter Ink - Ost Red Brusho's and Ruby Red Liquid Pearls

For the Orange card I used Memento

Tangelo - Orange Brusho's and chestnut Liquid Pearls

For the Blue card I used Memento

Bahama Blue - Ultra Marine Brusho's and Royal Blue Liquid Pearls

Thank you for looking

xx
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Digi Choosday - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More - Make Your Mark
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Fan 'n' Funky - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Use Diecuts

Bon Voyage

Ohhhhh Monday again.... Can you belive half way through August already?

Sharing with you today a little card I made over the weekend

I used a tree embossing folder

along with

Build- a -Bike Die & Stamp Set by Creative Dies

How cute is that little bike with its basket - you get the choice of the cat , dog or flowers to pop in there

Of course me being cat mad there was only ever one option

I used memento inks - Grey Flannel and Rose Bud

I used two lovely matching ribbons to finish off

Thank you for stopping by 

Have a great week

xx

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Challenge up your life - Travel

Cut It Up - Summertime Memories

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon and Bicycle

In The Pink - Anything Goes

DL.Art - Vacation

The Hummingbird Collection

Happy Sunday , It's a little dull here in the South West but very, very humid!

I have Simply Cards & Papercraft delivered each month

and when it was delivered the other day I could not wait to play

What a stunning Hummingbird collection we were well and truly spoilt

I am very afraid of frogs in real life but this little chap was yelling at me to use him

I decided I wanted to use nice fresh colours of green and yellow with white

I started with a 6 x 6 white card blank

Using the freebie embossing folder which is 5 x 5

Cutting a hole in the center

Mounted onto some fresh green cardstock

I added in some bakers twine and adhered all to cardbase

With a slightly smaller die , cut another smaller circle

and then the stamps came into play

I stamped the frog and the sentiment using Memento ink Bamboo Leaves

Using Water paints to colour up
(using blue I flicked about for some effect - not much I'm not that brave!)

I then used the fern stamp around the edge

and attached with foam pads

For the Flowers I stamped them twice, the underneath flowers are painted as are the leafs

For the top flowers I used Brusho's Yellow and lemon 

added a few tiny pearls once dry and a little yellow stickles

Finished of with some faux stitching, a few fern leafs from a fern die and a button

Thank you for looking have a great day

xx

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Glitter 'N' Sparkle - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a stamp
Love to Create - Mixed media
Just us Girls - Water Colouring
My Time To Craft - Embossing
Thats Crafty - Zesty Zing
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Friends
Sisterhood of Crafters - Close to Nature
Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

All the three's - Polkdoodles Crafting

Happy Sunny Sunday

Yesterday I was having a play with ink and stamps

Using

3 stamps, 3 inks, 3 colours I made 3 simple cards

All slightly different

I made 6 x 6 white card blanks to start

Then cut Orange/Green/lilac cardstock at 5.75 square

I cut out 9 2 x 2 in white matted onto the various colours and trimmed up

I embossed 3  5 x 5 white card stock using a dotty file

Then out came the Daisydays stamp set

For my first card I used Memento ink Morocco

Second I used Memento ink Pistachio

and finally Memento ink Elderberry

Once my stamping was completed , I put together all my cards using a slice of ribbon on each one - and then I gave the main flowers some centers using various pearls and such to match

Thank you for stopping by 

xx

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613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes / Own Challenge /Flowers

Crafting When We Can- Squares

Broken Fairy challenge - Embossing

Pretty Little Flowers - Birthday Cards

Happy Monday Everyone, those weekends sure do fly past.

I made a couple of cards yesterday very similar but I think they look so different

I made the pink one first - In the photo it looks more red but its actually bright pink!

I used a lovely 6 x 6 Embossing folder , mounted onto pink cardstock and popped a ribbon on and adhered to a white card base

I die cut a pink center and a plain white circle

Then the fun part I stamped the swirls ( I just adore this stamp ), Sentiment and tiny hearts

which I coloured to match

The flower petals are very easy and you can make them using a small circle die or punch, a couple of folds and there done

I dusted round with pickled rasberry distress ink 

Popped them on the card with 3 little gems.

I loved the effect so soon got an idea to make another, made exactly as above but using black cardstock. I used Brusho's on the petals this time , Scarlet, Lime Green with lemon  and Orange

and kept these in clusters of 3's.

Thank you for looking

xx

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Card 1

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons - Pink & Girly

Creative Knockouts - Birthdays

Card 2 

Penny black and More - Must Stamp

Stamping Sensations - Stamp and Ribbon

Seize the Birthday - Bold and Bright

Embossing and Die Cutting

Ohhh I had great fun yesterday 

Since getting a portrait cutting machine I have become lazy with my dies , so yesterday out came my big shot and with a quick flick over with the duster, found my box of dies and off I set.

I found some stunning dies not even opened but they were must have's at the time I'm sure

I found a lovely rolling rose die from Sizzix, I had to try that one out!

I cut two card bases from 12 x6 from white card stock to make 6x6 cards - (I wish on hindsight I did 7 x 7 there was so much more I wanted to add)

Card 1

I used a lovely peacock embossing folder , it is so very pretty .

I used a circle die on the center

Matted onto blue cardstck

I then die cut some swirls and flourishes, Flowers leafs and butterfly.

The butterfly I cut twice so I could give it a blue center.

I then die cut a smaller circle and stamped on the sentiment.

Card 2

Again using a pretty 6x6 embossing folder - I adore this one it gives you so much room for the center.

I cut the clock out on my portrait 

The swirls and flourishes and leafs were die cut

and there are those beautiful flowers  I mentioned earlier.

I finished of with some baby blue pearls.

After finishing this card I thought it might make a lovely wedding card , changing the time to the time of the wedding , and popping there names into the center

Thank you for looking 

xx

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Card 1

Broken Fairy - Anything Goes with embossing

Crafty Friends - Use your dies

Happy Little Stamper - Anything Goes - Dies

Through The Purple Haze - Peaceful Harmony

Card 2

Digistamps4Joy - Anything Goes dies

Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Use a number