Wedding fever......

Well we all watched the wedding and ohhhed and ahhhed at the lovely couple so I thought I'm make a pariotic wedding card in red, white and blue, unfortunately I didn't have any Union Jack paper so had to make do with the papers I'd got, I even managed some recycling as the shimmery white paper was origianlly in the window in my shop at Christmas as part of the window display and I couldn't bear to thrown it so I salvaged some to use........I've gone overboard with the glitter as always but it is a celebartion, I've tried a new way of adding glitter to the design by using doubled sided sticky paper that I die cut and then rubbed on the glitter afterwards for a lovely shimmery effect. The image is from Lili of the Valley and I've had this stamp ages and ages and this is the first time I've inked it up.....shame on me! I coloured the horse with Prisma pencils and the rest of the image was coloured with....yep you guessed it Twinkling H20s with lots of bling using stickles Star Dust and Gold. I'm off for a few days now so I've got the garden still to finish, I need to dye my hair today as I look  like a badger (grey and black).....lol, its def. not a good look, I keep saying I'm going to grow out the coloured bit and go grey all over but my kids won't let me, I think its an age thing but I'm fed up keep colouring every 6 weeks or so and after doing that I'm going to have another play with my melt pot.

Challenges.

Sweet Stampin'....try something new (doubled sided sticky papers).

Totally Papercrafts......glitter.

Papercutz......anything goes.

Stampin' for the weekend....wedding.

Paperplay.....use something not intended for crafting (display paper from my shop).

Lili of the Valley....love is in the air.

Pixie Cottage......sketch or royal wedding.

Fab N Funky.....red, white and blue.

Creative Beli......royal.

Spoon full of Sugar.....A right royal knees up.

Oldie but a goodie......fit for a queen/princess.

Crafty Cardmakers.....wedding.

Hope you all have a lovely bank holiday

hugs

Lili of the Valley.......

Haven't done one of the challenges  at Lili Of The Valley in a while and had

this coloured already, I think its one I coloured whilst on holiday last year,

anyway got up earlier this morning to finish it off as I've got to go to work

 this morning for a few hours.....it was stocktake yesterday and I had to go

 to another store to support them as they don't have a manager.

The papers are from Papermania, Henbury, pearls are from The Hobby

 House, the image has been coloured in with H2o's and sakura pens and the

teddy has been coloured with distress inks.

Challenges

Secret Cradfter......tons of texture.

Totally Papercrafts.......Thank you.

Teddy Stampers......Celebration.

Lili Of The Valley.......sketch

Lets ink it up.......anything goes.

Paper Sundaes.....circles

thanks for taking a peek

Finally....

A whole week of no blogging but to be honest I've been that tired when I get home from work that I've been in bed most nights at 9.00pm......light weight me, only one week to go and I'm off for a few days of crafting after the big day. Todays card is for Ethan.....his christmas card is snowy and sparkly, the background paper is from Papermania, the snowflake paper is coloured with ink and put through a sizzix folder. the image is from Lily Of The Valley.....perfect for children cards. I've coloured the image with sakura pens for extra shimmer. We've had snow here for the past couple of days so its feeling very festive now.

Challenges

Moving along with the Times........Let it snow.

Lili of the Valley......Sketch.

Cute Card Thursday......One for the kids.

Simon says......silver, blue and white.

Stamp with fun.....Christmas.

Cupcake.......non Traditional christmas colours.

Totally Gorjuss......To someone special.

Allsorts....anything goes

Our Creative Corner.....add colour to dry embossing.

Sweet Stampin'.......Celebration

Fussy and Fancy.....snow.

Alphabet challenge.....H for hats.

Stampin' B ......Baby christmas.

Stampin for the weekend.....Christmas.

The Crafty Pad.....anything goes

Thanks for taking a peek

keep warm....lots of snow here.

Christening card.....

Phew had a tiring but enjoyable day yesterday at Olney, it was the last class that I have booked this year and it was a metal art one which I was thrilled to bits with the finished piece but will have to wait until I have a day off to photograph it as its all metal and won't photograph so well with a flash. My sis. asked me to make a christening card for her, the name of the baby that is getting christened is Lily-Boo......how cute is that! So I decided to do an Easel card for her using the lovely stamp from Lili of the Valley, I used Sakura pens and distress inks to colour the image with star dust stickles for bling on the stitching and dress. The papers are from Papermania and the flowers are Wild Orchid craft roses.

Challenges

Lili of the Valley........Glitter and Glitz.

Charisma.......Baby.

Crafty Creations.....Decorate the inside of the card.

Simon Says.......Sparkle.

Spoonfull of Sugar......Distressing.

Allsorts.....Sketch.

Thanks for taking a peek

Wedding...

Morning peeps todays post is a sneeky peek at a new challenge that will be starting on the 1st of July called Just Inspirational Challenge, but being as I miss the launch date as I'm on my holls I thought I'd share with you my first DT card.....so watch out for the new challenge. I have coloured the LOTV image in with distress inks: Victorian velvet, tea dye, bundled sage, and mahoghany, the papers are all from Papermania...confetti wedding collection, the flower is from Prima, just love these .....of course I had to spritz it with glimmer mist, pearls are from Kars and the corner flourish is a sizzlits.

Challenges
A Secret Crafter.....wedding/anniversary.
Papertake....Ice cream flavours....coffee, strawberry and vanilla.
Oh La La......flourishes and pearls.

Fairy on Tip toes

Evening fellow bloggers, today is another challenge over at Lily of the Valley and there is a fab sketch to follow, I coloured this image a few weeks back and never got round to using it, I was playing around with ochre and purple....used Sakura pens and twinkling h20's to colour the image, papers are from Papermania, pearls from Hobby House, the lace is from Stash and the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts.
Other challenges are:
Crafty Creations.....use your favourite stamp....difficult one this as I have so many but this is my fave LOTV.
Create 4 Fun....vintage card, not a traditional vintage image but has a vintage colour theme and papers.
ABC Challenge.......V for vintage.

Orange Wednesday

I've just had an orange wednesday visit to the local cinema with my son to see How to Train Your Dragon another 3D cutie film featuring dragons and viking. So tonights posting is quite late.....better late than never so they say and my card is orange so its in keeping with orange wednesday......lol. The image is from Lili of the Valley and coloured with sakura pens and h2o's, I've added glitter in the form of stickles here and there...cos a gal has got to have her sparkle. Papers are MME Wild Asparagus......I wonder why they  named papers after a vegetable? sorry I'm known to wander off occassionaly. The flowers are made from glimmer misted card from previous projects.....just love the effect you get from random spraying, think this was a mixture of gold, tuscan sun, starfish and rose...I think.
Challenges
Flutterby.....Lots of sparkle but must include wings eg fairy, butterfly.
The Pixie Cottage.......Sketch.
Quixotic........Joys of Dpring.
Pink Elephant.......Nature.
Secret Crafter......How does your garden grow.

Hugs from Daniele x

Blue and Green

first time I've inked this one up but fancied a changed, stamp is from Lili of the Valley painted in Sakura pens papers are hopscotch by K&Ko, I followed the sketch from Moving along with the Times, altered it slightly as I put buttons in the corners of the image.......needed to tidy the corners up a little after punching the border for the frame, the colour challenge at Our Creative Corner is Blue and Green. Fancy edges or corners is the theme at One Stop Craft.

Pink and Green

I think I'm having a pink and green day ......so loving these new papers from Papermania. Image is from Lili of the valley who have the challenge of a Thankyou card the image was coloured with sakura pens, flowers are from Tabby crafts I've entered this card into the following challenges; Truly Scrumptious with an additional option of using the colours pink, green and black.....sorry no black but definately lots of pink and green.Anything new is the challenge at Charisma this week......... well the papers are Pink Parfait new from Papermania. The challenge at Creative Inspirations is also use something new. At Cupcake they have the challenge to produce a girly card.

Damask Card

I needed to come up with a DT card that had the theme Damask so I went through all my papers and then again but although I had quite a few it just wasn't happening for me, so I thought... have a play with misting sprays and make your own, most of this card developed from one experiment into another, the packing paper is vellum but the centre design and the strips are made from scratch. The centre circle is made from spritzing paper with gold and green and then I embossed the paper with the damask cuttlebug design and after that I embossed the raised part of the design in gold. The strips of background paper was made using the damask stamp from Papermania Chatsworth collection, stamped and embossed in Verdigris embossing powder which gives a lovely antique look. I then cut the piece of paper into 4 strips cut at different angles.

This card has been entered into the following challenges:                                                         

If the shoe fits......you have to use chipboard....the heart has been inked with Fired Brick and stamped with a music image and embossed in Black Soot The sketch that I have followed is from  Allsorts                                                                         

Cooking it up with Katie....the theme is not your usual Valentine image, try a technique not done before....this was embossing onto of the dry embossed centre paper and finally follow a colour theme from another challenge...Paper Cutz is red green black and white I'm hoping that the splash of gold will be forgiven.Creative Inspirations have the theme of Anniversary card and I think this card fits that criteria. This months theme at Lily Boo is to make a valentine card Over at Gingersnap Creations they have the challenge to use embossing powders and being as the papers are hand stamped and embossed this definately fits the criteria Love is the theme at Polka Doodle

Hugs Daniele x

Hot Chocolate

Gosh its been cold today at work, we have to have a door open so you can image its been a bit cool to say the least so this mornng I got a hot chocolate to take into work with me, so it seems appropriate for todays posting as quite a few challenges this week are hot chocolate related, I have used a sugar nellie stamp for this one and the papers are papermania the pink one being from the new forever friends collection I've entered this card into the following challenges:
Moving along with the times.e as well as following the sketch the theme is also love
cute card Thursday can include new stash...papersCharisma Cardz have a colour theme using brown,Pink cream and toffee.

Fab n' Funky........anything goes.
Quixotic have the theme of hot chocolate either as an image or colour scheme.
Simon Says....hot chocolate again either the image or the colour scheme
ABC challenge......L is for Layering
Everybody art have the theme of favourite colour combo.....any thing with pink.
Spoon full of Sugar have the theme of hearts on your card...pockets and pearls in the corners
Think thats about it quite  a few challenges again ......... thank you for taking the time to look as well as your comments

Hugs from Daniele x

My Time To Craft

The challenge at My Time To Craft this week is to make something with the colours blue and brown, it can be anything......a card or a layout so dust off your stash and join in the fun ...........................

Happy New year to every one

Hugs from Danielexx

Quite a few challenges out there this week with the theme 'new'........can be anything and it doesn't get any newer than a baby so hence my brown and blue baby card as well as some other fab themes,

Challenges are as follows:

Stampin B......oldest stamp and newest tool

Stamp Something....new somethings.

Stampin for the weekend......new beginings,

Cute Card Thursday....sketch,

Rainbow Lady....New

Pixie Cottage.....include a button,

Creatalicious....something new,something torn and something blue,

Pile it on ......Challenge 30 has the theme clear....dewdrops
Our Creative Corner......Clean and simple... well it is for me no flowers or glitter anywhere
Secret Crafter.......New Beginings
One stop craft craft......have the theme of something begining with B....blue,brown,balloon,bear
Cupcake ......have the theme of a baby card
Cute and Girly.....have the the theme of new beginings

New Year card

Happy New Year to everyone and here is my card didn't put new year as a sentiment but my card is about your dreams for 2010, the image is from Lili of the valley painted with sakura pens....these stamps are sooo sweet.

I have entered this card into the following challenges who have the theme of a new years card Everybody art,Stamp with funThe theme at Cupcake craft challengeis a time for celebration. Over at Rosie Dees they have a free theme as do Creative card crew they also have a DT call.The sketch I followed is fromCreate4fun.Lili of the Valley have the theme of new year as do Cute card Thursday

Just had to enter this card in the challenge at Charisma Cardz, they are celebrating their 1st Birthday today and they also have a blog hop on so........Happy 1st Birthday Charisma challenges and a happy new year to you all                                                                       

Hugs from Daniele x

Xmas Foliage

close up of candle painted with Sakura pens

Went with a traditional red/green/gold christmas card as there are quite a few challenges with that theme and The challenge at My Time To Craft this week is Xmas Foliage, this card has been entered into the following challenges;http://www.create4fun-challenge  followed the sketch, http://papercutzchallenge/ .have the theme of a christmas card over at http://stampinfortheweekend.they/ have a colour theme Red/Green/Gold. http://simonsaysstampschallenge/ this week is to add a charm as does http://quixoticpaperie/. I coloured the tree charm and then added red and gold stickles for added detail.The theme at Stampavie is also christmas. Other challenge sites running similar themes are Everybody Art, Creative Card Crew and Pile It On

Lili of the Valley

Ohh I,m loving these sweet designs and I'm still loving Sakua pens the challenge with these are the lack of colours so you have to blend a couple together to get different shades....but thats the fun thing challenges for this card are Lili of the valley,Alphabet Challenge this weeks letter is F for Flowers......lovimg flowers

Lily Of The Valley

One of my many purchases at the NEC last week was 3 of the new Lily of the Valley stamps this is the first one I've inked up, I think these fairy designs are sooo sweet I love the shabby chic look about them., this is my first easel card, missed the challenge to enter it in (feather brain) never mind I still entered it into the following challenges: Lily of the valley criteria was a recipe of 3 papers,2 stamps and 1 type of embellishment (hope my different flowers count as 1 type),next challlenge is Friday Sketcher, as this was the sketch that I followed,Allsorts have the theme of 'Something for a child' well this is definately has little girl written all over it. Saturday Secret Crafter have the theme four seasons---think this fits the bill for Spring with the blossom.Cute Card Thursady have the theme of Glitter Me Silly.... now I know that there isn't a huge amount of glitter on there but the centres of the flowers and the surrounding area has been glittered with Stickles in gold and crystal.The design has been painted with Sakura Pens and the papers are K&Ko other bits are from stash........loving Sakura pens at the moment......lol

Simon Says

Love the variety of different challenges this week at Simon Says the challenge is a sketch, I also entered this card into the challenge over at Lili Of The Valley as the theme was a christmas card for a child and who better to do one for than Ethan my grandson. Stampavie also have the theme Christmas so its 3 in 1 today added glossy accents to the boots to make them stand out as well of lots of glitter.....love glitter!!!!