Happy Saturday......

Good morning everyone

Well, it's a cold start to the day but I have already been out doing a couple of chores and I am now cosied up in my craft room with a list as long as my arm of cards I need to start making today. It is a good day and I am feeling very positive with things I have ahead of me.

The card below is one I made recently when I bought some new pens from Amazon. I've been using Promarkers in the past but several of these are now running out and I was looking at changing to a different brand. I still need ones that blend well as I enjoy colouring digi images in and using these on my cards but I was stuck on which brand to go for. Copics look lovely and I follow several people on Facebook and blogs that have lovely colouring skills but Copics can prove to be very expensive if you want the whole set. I was looking on Amazon and came across the Ohuhu pens. These had very good reviews and the price was excellent. There were several sets to choose from and once purchasing a set you can then add to that with other sets. I decided to go for the 200 pen collection as this had a good assortment of colours. I have then added the skin colouring and pastel set to my Christmas list.

After colouring the image I mounted this on a base layer that had the word 'brother' cut out using my Cricut Air2. The good thing about digi images is you can resize them to suit whatever size card you are making. This is the first time I have done one this big and I'm pleased with how it come out. I am enjoying designing cards on my Cricut now and I'm gradually getting used to how to do things. This layer was also then mounted onto another piece of contrasting card and card candy was used as a finishing touch. This card wasn't an order this time so I have added it to my box of spares for whenever someone asks for a card. I hope you like this and it helps you with your own ideas for the future.

Have a lovely day and I hope to see you back here again soon.

Saturated Canary Fairy and tealight card

Hi all, me again lol. As promised I have another card I've been busy making. I'm very pleased how this one turned out and hope you like it.

Items used:

White & blue card

Digi image - 'Fairy' from Saturated Canary

Backing papers - Memory Box

Promarkers

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Card Candy

Glamour Dust

Organza Ribbon

Tealight Candles

Here is a side view of the card

 

I didnt use my Polychromos on this card as I have now completed my set of Promarkers and managed to get the shading right using 3 blue pens!!

Here is my Promarker colour chart showing all the colours I now have in my box and it was laminated by my lovely friend Dianne.

Thanks for stopping by again. Hopefully by the time you read this post another card will be completed!

Bye for now x

In the Kitchen!

Well I've been a bit lapse lately and do apologise for that but I've got lots going on around me at the moment. I spent yesterday with lots of lovely crafty friends at our monthly crop and this helped take my mind off a few things. This following card is using a digi image from Jak Heath. I coloured it with Promarkers and then used chalks to shade the background. I mounted onto black card and added ribbon which I also coloured. I finished off with card candy in the corners. The greeting was put on the card at the beginning but I found this a bit tricky so I need to do a bit more practising!!! This is for a friend's birthday next month but I'm hoping she doesn't see it on here! lol

Looking forward to a lovely week off with my 2 children, lots planned, but will be back posting tomorrow with another card. Bye for now

Remembering..

This is the card I managed to make today whilst having a crafty day with Eileen. We always do too much talking and drinking of tea and dont have much to show but we do have a thoroughly good time. Eileen is such a darling that she even got in some gluten free goodies today which I could eat whilst I crafted!!!! Very much appreciated Eileen and a lovely gesture.

Remembering.....

The image is from Just Inklined and I coloured in using my Promarkers. The backing paper is from my stash, white organza ribbon coloured with Promarkers and card candy.
Thanks for stopping by. I have another card half made so will get that on here in the next couple of days.
Bye for now

Sorry its been a few days, lots of things cropped up and everything went belly-up!! Also i think the printer fairies have been in whilst ive been sleeping as my ink decided to run out when I was printing out some pieces in preparation for Christmas cards so hence another unplanned trip to the shops for new cartridges!

 This first card was made for a friend of mine who has a really bad crush on Rosie Webster from Coronation Street. It is his birthday today so hopefully when he gets in from work this should make him smile! I made the backing papers in PSP8 and also the pyramage which I then mounted onto brown and black card. I finished off with a greeting and some card candy.









This card was made using an image from the Debbie Moore Penguin Fun CD which I bought at Biggin Hill last Sunday. It is an easel card. I printed off some backing paper from the disk and then mounted the picture. I glittered with stickles around the black border and then used gold stickles for the dots on the scarf and also edged the snow and tree in white to add a bit of bling! The bottom part of the card with the greeting was mounted with foam pads as a resting part for the picture part.

Thanks for stopping by, please feel free to leave a comment x

80th Birthday

These 2 cards are for a lady on her 80th birthday. I wanted to do 2 different designs so this is what I came up with. This first image is from http://www.imag-e-nation.com/categories/Digital-Stamp-Downloads/Just-Inklined-Digital-Stamps and is coloured with Promarkers. I have matted it with pink and silver card and then mounted onto patterned background paper from HOTP. I edged this paper with silver Stickles for a bit of sparkle and finished off with greetings printed from the computer and ribbon which I coloured with Promarkers.

The second card I also used a digi image but cant remember where I got it from!! I cut it out and layered on Nestabilities Oval and then onto Oval Scalloped and mounted it onto paper from HOTP. I finished off again with card candy, Prima flowers, leaves which I made using the Cuttlebug and ribbon which again was coloured with Promarkers.

Thank you for looking again, happy crafting.

Thanksgiving

Here are 3 cards I've made for Thanksgiving. The cat image, mailbox and corn stalk are from http://www.karensdoodles.com/, coloured with Promarkers, finished off with ribbon, which was also coloured with Promarkers so it matched the papers, and flowers and brads from my stash.

This last picture I found on google. The papers were from my stash, card candys from http://www.craftworkcards.co.uk/ and prima flowers. The greeting I printed off on the computer.

I am so pleased with how these eventually turned out as its the first time I have made Thanksgiving cards and got a bit stuck for ideas. Now I've done them tho I will be prepared for the next time!!
Please feel free to leave any comments and thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog.

These are some of my latest creations which I made at the crop on Saturday. The image is from Kenny K and I think they are just right for trendy teens.

I made this card for friend of mine after he passed his driving test last wk. The pics were found on google and as usual I used my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and card candy. It has been personalised with his name and the date he passed.

Still got lots of cards to make so its keeping me busy. My daughter did me a wonderful favour today of sitting die cutting some scalloped oval shapes out of my scrap papers. So much paper I have filling boxes up that I need a good sort out. She really is a darling and it is much appreciated.