Spring is in the Air at Basic Grey

Good morning all and Happy Saturday!!  Well it's cold, wet and miserable here in London with not even a hint of Spring but that's our theme at Basic Grey Challenges today - Spring in the Air!  As long as you use Basic Grey products we want to see your spring colours, spring images or spring themes!

I've used this gorgeous Saturated Canary digi image - there's nothing like sitting in the garden reading a good book! My papers are Basic Grey Kioshi, the frame is a Cheery Lynn (which the die cut flowers come with).  I thought it would be a good idea to use the thread through the holes around the frame.  Most of the other die cuts are from a K&Co. And the bliss ticket is of course Tim Holtz.

As always, the fabulous Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring us with their usual $25 voucher on offer for the lucky winner.

And don't forget to check our the wonderful inspiration by my BG teamies here!

I'm off for a day off crafting with best matey Lesley, we'll soon forget about  the awful day outside!!  Enjoy your day!

Juliexx

Mo Manning's Mummu's Roses for Renee

I made this card for my MIL's birthday today - Happy Birthday Renee.  I love this image which is called Mummu's Roses from Mo's Digital Pencil and can be found here in Mo's store.

Now, my MIL doesn't look like this,  but she does love an American illustrator/crafter called Tasha Tudor, who isn't so well known over here in the UK but is much more widely known in the US.  Well, that's who Mummu reminds me, not necessarily even in looks but in her look of contentment with the simpler things in life!  Hopefully, my MIL will think that too!

I've made an 8x8 card and coloured with my Flex and Promarkers.  I've added some 'dew drops' to the roses and used loads of punches and dies from Fiskars, Marianne, Die-Namics, Memory Box and Stampin Up.  the papers are from K & CO.

By the way, I'm just going to give a shout our for Tracy at Dies to Die For!  I ordered a couple of new dies and my parcel arrived with loads of lovely die-cuts for me to try and a £1 voucher off my next order as my postage hadn't cost so much - how fabulous is that and what great service!! No relation just a very happy customer!!

Floral Delights from Janey's Digi Designs

Hi Everyone - I have the day off work today -yippee!  So I thought I'd celebrate with flowers - of the digital variety from Jane's Digi Designs.  These  flowers are Polyanthus which you can find here in Jane's Etsy Shop - not sure they come in pink but I do like pink flowers and the pink matched the K& Co papers that I wanted to use!  I promise that I will use a different colour next time!

I've coloured them with my Pro and Flexmarkers and then followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday for my layout so I'll be entering into their challenge.

The corner punch is from Whiff of Joy and the butterflies are Memory Box dies.

Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!

Passion For Promarkers DT Card

Morning!   Who's fed up with the snow yet!  Only took me two and a half hours to get to work yesterday!! I wonder what delights today's journey will have in store. Before I set off, I need to let you know about our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers where our theme this week has been chosen by the fabulous Coops - your Favourite Colour Combo.  For me that is always changing depending on which way the wind is blowing so I've chosen papers with lots of colours as I couldn't make up my mind!

I do love purple especially and I've tried to pick out the very pale lavender in the background flowers for my image.

The image is a gorgeous Day for Daisies image called Wind in Her Hair and it's a card for Best Matey, Lesley whose birthday is today - Happy Birthday!!! 

The papers are from a new K and Co 12x12 pad that was a bargain and I love the papers!!

The bows are made with a Dienamics die which I love and the flowers are a PTI die which is so pretty! 

We're being sponsored this week by BugaBoo stamps and the lucky winner will win 7 digi images -wow!

Don't forget to check out the cards made by my teamies at PFP- they are gorgeous!!

Right - must dash - there's some snow to conquer!!

Sketch N Stash - card for my daughter's 18th

Hi there - sorry I'm late posting again - had a very busy weekend and as my laptop died I'm having to cadge some time on other PCs at home and work to comment and write my posts.

This card is for the new challenge at SNS - our first for 2013 and we've decided to make use of the fabulous back catalogue of sketches that SNS has and use them again, starting from the very beginning (a very good place to start!) with an optional theme each challenge just to switch things up a  bit.

So here is Sketch One and the optional theme is Vintage.

We also have some fab new sponsors this year the first one being Live and Love Crafts who are generously offering a £10 store voucher to the lucky winner!

 

Live and Love Crafts 

My card was for my daughter, Emily's 18th birthday (last Thursday) and we had some lovely celebrations!  Great night out at White Bear in Warlingham on Saturday - haven't laughed so much in quite a while.  I've

used this fabulous image from Mo called Jo Painting (well I've renamed it Em Painting) as it is just perfect for  Emily as she loves her Art and is doing fantastically well in her final year of A Level.  Very similar to the image too, with long,long hair and as thin as a whippet!!

To fit in with our Vintage theme at SNS, I tried to muddy up the colours and and added some texture around the image with some Viva Pearl liquid.

My papers are a mix of DCWV and K&CO, both 12 x12n pads, one of which was from best matey, Lesley(and Em's godmother) for Christmas.  I've also used a couple of vintage diamante buckles and some tulle roses for more added vintageness.

Finally, the large flower I made by stamping with a Stampin Up script stamp onto tissue paper and then cutting it with a Spellbinders petal nesting set.

Check out the rest of my fab teamie's makes here over at the SNS Challenge and don't forget to tell us what is new and what is old from your stash.

Hoping the hubby has gone to buy me a new laptop today, I feel bereft without it and even the work arounds can't work around for very long!  He may then try and fix my old one (we think it's just the screen) and use it himself!

Hope you're not suffering too much from the snow here in the UK - it's bitterly cold in my office as the boiler has gone caput!!

Saturated Canary Wedding card - warning, lots of pics!!!

We had a fabulous family wedding yesterday-picture below of the beautiful bride, my niece Annabel with her new husband, Andy and their gorgeous boy, Samuel. 

Another pic of my three lovelies, below, Harry, Emily and Holly and then another of my two gorgeous girls!!

 It was such a lovely, relaxed day, and enjoyed by us all! 

So my card I'm showing you is their wedding card, made with a beautiful Saturated Canary image, Marry Me,  which kind of reminded me of our bride with those big brown eyes. 

I used an 8x8 card blank for my card, so I could add lots of bling, which funnily enough is the theme of the new challenge on the Saturated Canary blog, so I'm entering it into the challenge.  This bit of bling is an old diamante brooch, which once belonged to Annabel's great grandmother, so I thought it would be rather nice on my card. 

I've then used some flowers from Bo Bunny and The Hobby House, and added some resin embellies such as this cherub and some flowers.

I've also added some bling pins and some glitter to the flowers, wooden leaves, and corner flourishes ( which had first been painted with white acrylic). 

I've used lots of edging punches and dies, including this new Meridian border from Memory Box.  The postcard is a Tim Holtz stamp, the music, a Lili of the Valley, and the sentiment, a Cats Life Press. 

The leave flourishes are Cheery Lynn, and the papers a mix of K and Co and Memory Box.  I didn't take a pic but I even made a box for the card, because it was too bulky to go in an envelope.

Thank you to everyone for your get well wishes, I'm feeling so much better now and hope to find some time to come and visit you real soon!!

I needed a girly fix!!!

While the hubster was watching the footie tonight ( is any one else sick of it already!!) I decided to have a girly fix after making so many male cards!!  What better way to do that than use a gorgeous Saturated Canary Image - this is Cerridwen, what a beauty!.  I've used the current sketch from Sketch Saturday and also the photo inspiration from the new Simon Says stamp challenge!.

 

We actually had our first bit of sun for ages here in the  UK today, so hope that wasn't our summer over!!

I've coloured her with my Flexmarkers and used some new K&Co papers from the Craft Barn, Memory Box dies for the large butterfly and flourishes, PTI die and stamp for the flower sentiment and then loads of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and stash!!  Glittered the flowers and smaller butterflies for some extra girliness - ooohh I feel much better now!! 

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Photo Inspiration

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Nightie night!

Kraftin Kimmie - Charlotte

I LOVE the Moonlight Whisper range from Kraftin Kimmie and have already ordered the new release today from Quixotic Paperie!  This card is for KK's challenge this week which had to include a tag.  I also used the layout from Sketch Saturday which I've rotated ( why do I always seem to do that?).

Rachel, here, has a great little tutorial on how to use Nesties so that the image hangs over the edge of the shape which I've attempted to use here for the first time.  I think I still need some practise but it does give a great effect. Papers are K and Co which I've distressed, and flowers are a mixture of punched and ready made.  Promarkers to colour ( just for a change, not!! LOL!).

Comfy Cosy!!

Oh I do love this Whiff of Joy image - love the idea of  a cold winter's day and being curled up with a hot cup of cocoa and red woolly socks on my tootsies!!

The Whiff of Joy challenge this week is to use red, cream and one other colour so I've chosen brown.  I'm also entering this for the Simon Says challenge which is to use as much sparkle as you can handle.  Well I can promise, I used loads from stickles on the flower centres, glamour dust on the sentiment and Copic Spicas on her mug, trousers, jumper and socks!  Sadly this doesn't show up on the photo and I love her red, sparkly mug!  Thirdly, I used the layout from Truly Scrumptious (which I've rotated) this week. In addition to the layout, we had to use, 3 flowers, 3 brads and 3 gems or pearls.

Confession time - I'm not really very happy with this card, can't quite put my finger on it, just don't think it has the X factor, but my daughter said she loved it and preferred it to others which I have been happy with!!!  Ah well!

Papers are from Paper Mania Christmas for this year and I cut the Dahlia with my Nestie shapes using K&Co Winter Wonderland which is so rich and sparkly - been stroking it for hours!!  Brads were from Lakeland, and flowers were a bargain from last year's sale at Primark.

Off to see some friends today for a girlie lunch - and then to chat and put the world to rights eating chocolates and dissing the men!!!  Just what is needed today methinks!  Have a great day whatever you're doing!!