My Crafting Journey.....

I really am on the road with my crafting Journey

I am having an absolute ball right now

I have been setting myself a target this weeks is too use some old stash and not buy more

I know I brought an image that was blogged yesterday but it was 50% off and it was not really for me and it was incredibly cute :-)

hmmmm I have also purchased this week a white ink pad, but in my defense I really did need it ...

Today's project see's another Julia Spiri image

This one is a freebie if you join there VIP club

It's called Funny Hat - I wasn't sure what she was going to get turned into but I was immidatly in love and need to colour her up

I ended up making a canvas . Im so drawn towards purple's at the moment so much so , I even looked it up to see what it said, I was pretty impressed at how accurate it was and pretty much sums me up.

Having either purple or violet as your favorite color means you are sensitive and compassionate, understanding and supportive, thinking of others before yourself - you are the person others come to for help - being needed motivates you but sometimes people take advantage of you. You are a gentle and free spirit.

I coloured her using Distress Inks 

I took some purple papers and gently ripped them , dusted round the edges and adhered to my canvas board.

I adhered funny hat

Rippped a few randomn word papers (the top one being from Waitrose weekend newspaper) funny enough it was an article about missing mojo and they reccomend Sports, I think the editor maybe a comedian

I used my Andy Skinner mixed media stencil (very old stash never used before) and stenciled Journey because thats how I feel , and I also feel that this little lady is on a journey too

I also used the same stencil for number 152 and the arrow.

**stop press** More Old stash alert ~ I used my Tim Holtz Crackle stencil for the edging

I then used a star stencil (no name but old again) and also some sequin waste. The stencils were all done using Distress Oxide Inks

I punched a few circles and made the little flowers and added some punched hearts

Topped with a few sequins to finish

Thank you for stopping by

xx

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CRAFT ~ Distress Your Project
Cute Card Thursday ~ Sequins
Time Out ~ Playful
Craty Creations ~ Anything Goes
Everybody Art ~ Numbers
World Wide Open Design Team ~ Aything Goes
Creative Fingers ~ Anything Goes

Happy Thursday with a confession

EEEks Happy Thursday Everyone time for a little confession....

Felicity was here last night and if you don't know she is cat mad ~ I was on Instagram when I spotted this little cat , I showed Felicity who said she just had to have it 

"Pleeeeeaseeeeee Grandma "

So I agreed to get it for her but she could colour it at the weekend

All agreed ....Little cat purchased

This morning after she went to school I thought I would print a few of the little cat out ready for her and leave on her craft desk.

Paper in the printer ~ check

Print cat ~ check

Admire little cat ~ check

Colour little cat ~ oooooppppps

I so could not resist and now I feel really mean :-(

Ingredients Used

Manilla Tag

Image ~ Aviator Cat ~ Julie Spiri ~ Etsy Store

Sentiment ~ Typed on computer

Distress Ink

Distress Oxide Inks

Stencil ~ Polkadoodles

Twine

Tim Holtz Tickets

Corragated cardboard

Mixed Sequins

Bulldog clip

BTW if you love this image as much as we do pop across to Julia Spiri Facebook group to Get a whopping 50% off but be quick offer ends on 27th April

I coloured up the cat using Distress Inks . 

On my manilla tag I used Distress Oxide Tea Dye. Then using a stencil and Oxide Vintage Photo went over the top 

I printed out my sentiment and then added everything in place

The Bulldog Clip was an after thought as this is the perfect size for my Diary and I like to have certain pages bookmarked

I have really enjoyed making this , Who knew it would be so usefull

Thank you for looking

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Lemon Shortbread ~ Anything Goes
TTCRD ~ Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Ally's Angels ~ Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations ~ Easter or/and Animal
Time Out ~ Playful

Fiskars GDT - Going round in circles

This week I've been going round in circles using my trusty circle punch . I started of by making the little album using just the punch for the flower front and also it made cute little tabs for my pages.

 I used the tag punch and cut it down for my sentiment. I was having so much fun I carried on and made a few more little bits and pieces that will go in my handy box , 

Its quite amazing how a little circle can be used in so many different ways

Thank you so much for looking

xx

You may need to wear your sunnies

Happy Wednesday to you all

I am having so much fun with my crafting right now

I have been having a little sort through my stash and found so much that I have brought and not used so I am setting myself some challenges to use some of it

To start with I had a few Pebeo paints that I was brought for Christmas

Ingredients Used

Pebeo Acrylic Paints Rose Fluorescent & Oriental Violet

Stamps ~ Polkadoodles

Paper ~ Polkadoodles

Sequins

I started off brayering my paints and left to dry . I cut a 6x6 card blank and my DP at 5.5x5.5. Attached some corragated card , stamped the friend Sentiment .

I then stamped the flowers and butterflies onto my now dried brayered sheet and cut them out and attached.

My card was lovely and bright but lacked something , so I stamped the Nature sentiment.

To finish off I added a few sequins , some white ink circles, my first attempt at the bokeh ,    (I can now see every make covered in white circles)

I doodled round the edge and my card was complete

Thank you for stopping by today 

xx
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Get Creative ~ Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps ~ Lots of Layers
Penny Black & More ~ Spring in Full Swing
Allsorts ~ Blossoms, Butterflies and Bugs
My Time To Craft ~ Spring Flowers
House That Stamps Built ~ Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon ~ Flowers
Simon Says Wednesday ~ Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts ~ Anything Goes/Optional Pink

Fat Cats and Bank Holiday Monday Fun

Happy Monday everyone

What a fantastic Easter day we had yesterday

Full of fun, laughs and chocolate.

This morning Felicity and I decided to have some craft time

She adores the Fat Cats from Vera Lane Studio, so, so much fun

We also used Planner and journal cards , such a cool idea!

I shall definatly be using these a lot 

These were the two that Felicity made, How cute ....

To decorate we used Circles and Stems Collage Sheet

I coloured mine using Distess Inks and Felicity used coloured pencils

Thank you for looking 

xx

Challenges Entered

Dragonfly Dreams ~ Include an Animal

Crafty Catz ~ All Creatures Great and Small

Creative Fingers Challenge ~ Anything Goes

As You Like It ~ Favourite Animal

We both love cats - Felicity has a scottish fold breed cat , and we have 3 rescue cats ~ All independant but we are still needed for cuddles oh and of course food

April Showers bring May Flowers

Happy Easter Everyone

Here in the UK it's been a fabulous week the sun has shined

I've swapped my electric fire for my fan

been doing some pottering in the garden ~spent money at the garden center hmmmm

Anyways am here to share a little card that I made

I started this at the beginning of the week it's taken me till now to finish and blog

thats because Felicity has been off from school and we have be making lots of memories

For my card I used the following Goodies

Stamps ~ Pretty Perfect & Best Day Ever

(for flowers)

Umbrella, Raindrops annd Sentiment ~ freebie stamps from Simply Cards & papercrafts

Paper Pack ~ Perfect Days

Sequins ~ The Range

Lace ~ Crafty Ribbons ~ Volcan Viscose Lace

I coloured up using Distress Inks 

and there is a smidge of glitter on the main flower

I did a speckling of black paint over after I had finished .I wanted this to be very feint but I think I went to scarse

Thank you so much for looking
xx
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Stamping Sensations ~ April Showers bring May Flowers
Penny Black & More ~ Spring in Full Swing
Allsorts ~ Blossoms, (Butterflies or Bugs or all 3)
Brown Sugar ~ Spring
Di's Digi Designs ~ Spring Flowers
Crafters Castle ~ Spring
My Time To Craft ~ Spring Flowers
Double Trouble ~ Thing 1 Splash ~ Raindrops 

Fiskars - Pots for Felicity

So my Granddaughter wanted some pots for her little bits ‘n’ pieces . She gave me the brief as only nine year olds do ~ had to be pretty with flowers and I need at least 2 . 

So bargain, she got 3 little wrap around pots . Each one has a beautiful flower made from the heart shaped punch , I used the flower punch for the middles adding a super sparkly gem. A few punched feather leafs and finished them off with some punched Butterflies ~ she loved them
I used my favourite Card ever Roaring Twenties from Crafters Companion

Thank you so much for stopping by today

xx
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Paper Minutes ~ Anything Goes

Stampin' Unicorn strikes again

Hi Everyone and Happy Monday to you all

It may be grey and rainy outside but in my little blog

It's full of light , colour and magical things.

You may even want to don your sunnies!

I have used Distress Oxides on the background , I just love the ease of use and the colours ~ splashed on some water to give a really magical feel

I then grabbed my stamps and so it began

I used various stamps from the following collections

Dotty Daisy

All About Daisy

Tall & Elegant

Treasured Blooms

I love how they all match together

I coloured the stamps using Graph'It Markers, digging out all my brights

Each of the butterflies has been layered to give some depth

And I just added some magical clouds to finish

~o~

We have a brand new Blog so make sure to follow us so you don't miss out on any news, new releases etc .................There is also a Design Team Call

You can also find us on our brand new Facebook group 

pop across we would love to see you

Thank you for looking

xx

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Addicted to Stamps ~ Flowers
Penny Black ~ Close To Nature
The Corrosive Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Creative Fingers ~ Anything Goes
QKR Stampede ~ Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments ~ Leaves

Classic Design Team - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Team Challenge - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge

*Anything Goes*

 For my card this week I have used the wonderful clear stamp set
 Christmas Poinsettia/Holly

I stamped the poinsettia twice onto fine grain cartridge paper, I also used the sentiment stamp
I used paints to colour and added extra petals from my second stamp.

I have watched Nikky Hall many times on Create & Craft and when she has almost finished her projects she simply flicks paint over it all to finish always with amazing results.  I have tried but am still ultra nervous at doing so!

Thank you for looking
xx
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Create and Craft TV with Nikky

Hands up if you saw our wonderful Nikky on Create & Craft earlier at 2.00

If you missed the show you can catch up here

AND

Nikky is back on our screens at 7.00 this evening

For my first card that I am showing, I used so many bits and pieces so I hope I don't miss any out

I started off with a brick mask and used modelling paste to create a wall

(first time I have ever used it!)

I used the door die to create the window adding the fence and for the bottom part of the bird house I used the lampost die , this amazing set can be found

here

For my window

I used the door die

and for the inside a scene image from

Winnie Winterland

and then topped with acetate

I used the lush, lush, lush Birdhouse die, and the leaf stem amazing!!

find those here

I finished off die cutting using one of the pretty flowers

I dabbed about using pearl effects Red, these are a must have for Christmas Crafting.

Then on to my finishing piece awwwww the wee little robin, actually he is not that small in real life , big knickers on I used my shrinkles again I love this stuff!!

The biggest tip I was told when using is....If you use your heat gun to shrink rather than the oven make sure its sitting on a big pile of paper to stop it flying of in different directions!

Now the Robin was'nt on todays show , but he so fitted, so much so I made him twice . He can be found in the Polkadoodles store along with a wonderful  cage and lots more goodies, check them out here. I coloured  using pencils

Thank you for looking

xx
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Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Lots of layers
Christmas Card Challenge - Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Christmas with die cuts
Di's Digis - Christmas in July

Polkadoodles ~ Stamp of The Month

I am very excited to show you the brand new stamp from Polkadoodles

Is she not uber cute?

If you love Winnie she is an absolute must.

Winnie Christmas Wreath

 I am sure she will be much loved and most used for Christmas Crafting and hey there is a bonus order now and you save £2 !!

Extra Bonus ~ You get a little Robin stamp too!!

I stamped up using memento black ink

and coloured up using Graph'It Markers and Polychromo Pencils

I used Crystal glitter on the wreath bow (love the sparkle)

White flower soft was used on the steps.

The paper, sentiment and bow are from the 

The Frosted Winter Collection

and the flower was cut using the Polkadoodles Die

Flowers 2

finished off with some Liquid Pearls.

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter this into

ABC Christmas Challenge - New Winnie Stamp/ Old Frosted Winter collection

Creative Moments -Anything Goes twist Christmas

A Snowflake Promise - Christmas/Winter

Inky Chicks - Christmas

The Holly and The Ivy - Christmas

My Time To Craft - Christmas in July
Stempelgarten Challenge - Things that fly
Sweet Stampers - Favourite Colours

Little Bird ~ Tag and Card

Ohhhhh squeal what an exciting week, after a few months break  due to moving I re~newed my subscription to my favourite magazine Simply Cards & Papercraft

(I had to cancel so I was not led into temptation to craft lol)

I am now fully crafting again and have so many ideas and new things I want to try.

Now one thing I do love is using shrinkles

 ( I am very new to this but can see it becoming addictive)

When I saw the freebie's on the mag I immediately grabbed the shrinkles pack!

Talking of freebies........where to start?? Two Die's (bird and wing) ~24 stamps (I counted them twice so I hope I got it right) and then  prima exclusive paper collections , beautiful papers and stunning toppers, I could not wait to start crafting.

I started making the tag first ~ layering up the different papers ,so lush I really did not want to cut them up ! I inked around using distress ink shaded lilac

I used one of the toppers in the center, now here is the fun part

I stamped and die cut the bird onto shrinkles and coloured him in using Polychromo Pencils and then set to work with my heat dryer , I then had the most cutest tiny bird in the world, I stamped the branch , flowers, Love sentiment and his feet using Memento dew drop ink

Die Cut a couple of flowers using another of the papers 

 and finished of with a few Nuvo jewel drops and a slice of ribbon.

I then set about my card , starting with a 6x6 card blank 

I layered up the same papers as the tag

Changing a few ink colours this time I added more stamped detail to the bird and decided to keep him at his original size

Flowers were made the same as before and using two of the stamps * happy bird-day*

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter this into

Crafting by Designs - Summertime

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday - Tags

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Country View Challenges - With Wings

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper -Patterned Paper

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Use Your Stuff - All creatures great and small

Di's Digi Challenge - Layers

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything goes with Ribbon

Colour Crazy Challenge

Colour Crazy Challenge

Have you spotted our Colouring Challenge?

It's always anything Goes!
And our fabulous sponsor this week is
 My Mums Craft Shop


 For todays project I have coloured up a lovely digi from Polkadoodles called Tulip from the Darling Buds collection- find them all here in the store. , I also added in the ladybirds stamps from Bella fleur colection  I coloured up using Graph'It markers and Pencils


Thank you for looking I would like to enter into
TTCRD - Anything Goes
A Bit more Time To Craft - Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me - Springtime
Crafty Awesomeness - Hand Coloured image
World Wide Open Design Team - Anything Goes
Craft Rocket Challenge - Make It Feminine
DL Art - Flowers

Colour Crazy Challenge - Bugaboo

Colour Crazy Challenge

Have you spotted our Colouring Challenge?

It's always anything Goes!
And our fabulous sponsor this week is Bugaboo

 I could not resist joining in this week, what cute images from our sponsor, Make sure you visit the store there is so much to see. I have used the little fish from Under the Sea Birthday Set 

how cute is he! Swimming away in his little tank. 

The Sentiment was also part of the Birthday Set. I coloured using Graph'It Markers and the background was coloured using Panpastels

I have used various dies for the seaweed/plants with a little netting behind
Added a few shells and my favourite addition my little anchor button that you can find here
Thank you for looking
xx
I would like to enter this into 
The Paper Shelter - Animal Magic
Craft Rocket - No Patterened Paper
Crafting with Attitude - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge

*Anything Goes*

I decided on a box with a matching card  for my project this week.  I used a mixture from the Belle Papillon, Bella Fleur, Dies, Stamps and Papers all can be found here. I doubled up some of the butterflys and flowers for depth.  Used some inks with a circle mask. Added a little lace to the box to finish.

I would like to enter this into
Deep Ocean - Add Lace
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Stampotique Designers Challenge - Ribbon or Lace