Denim at Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Good morning again, not sure how its happened but i've ended up with my Graph'It Colouring challenge and my PolkaDoodles DT projects on the same day so scroll down for our sugar and spice challenge at Polkadoodles. At Graph'It this week, we're colouring denim. There are some gorgeous blues and greys in the Graph'It range so they are perfect for this challenge. As always we've got a fab prize from our sponsor Your Creativity Store up for grabs too so don't miss out on a chance to win!

I've used one of the lovely images from the Polkadoodles 'Dollie Daydream Girl Talk' cd which you can find here. i've coloured her with my Graph'it Markers, a full list of the colours I've used is on the challenge blog, its really interesting to see how using different shades creates different denim effects so do check out my teamies projects if you've got a minute.

The background was made with a Dutch Doobadoo stencil and i've added lots of other Dutch Doobadoo goodies too - the little laser cut corners, some gorgeous swirly flourishes and even the flowers we die cut from Dutch Doobadoo denim, well I couldn't resist for this weeks challenge lol. The buttons and netting are from my stash.

I'm entering Dollie in the following challenges:

ABC: f is for flowers

Allsorts: ladies day

DRS Designs: button up

Feeling Crafty: dies/punches

Pumpkin Spice: flowers

thanks for popping by,have a good day and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Sugar and Spice at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, well we've got lots of inspiration for you today for the Sugar and Spice challenge over at Polkadoodles, as always my teamies have come up with some absolutely gorgeous project so pop on over and have a peek. We're all very excited as Nikky has designed the most adorable new collection! Its called 'Work and Play' and omg it is full of gorgeous images- you have to check out the little fireman, soooooooooo cute!!

I've made a quick card this week using some of the fab precoloured decoupage images from one  of my favourite Polkadoodles CDs, Candy Doodles. A bit of snipping and layering up, a sprinkle of glitter, some faux pearls, a little bow and a couple of little ticket sentiments and it was done! Why do  I always put my sleeve in the faux pearls and have to redo a few lol? I'm such a mucky pup

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Card Mania: use a sentiment

Charisma Cardz: something not for crafting (doily)

Divas by design: sparkle

Kaboodle Doodles: use ribbon

Quirky Crafts: pile it high, layer it up, 3d it

The Squirrel and the fox: spooled item

Well thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Glittered Rose from Chocolate Baroque

Hi there folks, today's card was made using the beautiful Mackintosh Windows stamps from Chocolate Baroque today. These stamps are stunning, I think I'll be using them again and again.
You can find all the new stamps here

I've made a distress ink background and overstamped with one of the stamps from Mackintosh Windows and then matted on some black card. I stamped the focal image on acetate and embossed with black embossing powder. I coloured the image on the reverse with Graph'It markers and then added some double sided adhesive sheet. Next I peeled the backing off the adhesive sheet and applied Rock Candy gliltter. I layered the glittered image on a die cut square and added a strip of faux gems along the side of the image.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Amusing Challenges: anything goes
Eclectic Ellapu: sequins/gems/sparkle
Make my Monday: Grown up card

Tuesday Throwdown: anything goes
Sparkle'n'Sprinkle: anything goes with glitter, ep or flocking

Thanks for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Do you Doobadoo??

Good morning folks, exciting news alert!! For the last few weeks I've been lucky enough to be playing with some gorgeous new products by Dutch Doobadoo and omg they are fab-u-lous! There are all sorts of goodies including stencils, mdf, scrummy detailed laser cuts etc and believe me the Premium Craft Brands and Graph'It DTs have been having a whale of a time with them. Even more exciting is the fact that there is going to be a brand new challenge starting on March 8th, the challenge is called 'We do Doobadoo' so pop over and find out all about it (there's some candy up for grabs too!!). You can find all the new goodies at Polkadoodles here.

Before I start apologies for the rubbish photo, I was rushing to try and get some pics before I popped my samples in the post so the photos are worse than usual lol.

I've made a little 'New Home' wall hanging using the Shape Art 2 template, its really useful and much cheaper than buying large dies

The first layer was given a bit of texture with the PVA Crackle technique and edged with Treasure Gold. The next layer was made using the Doobadoo 'Bricks' template with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and then coloured with PanPastels. The next layer was stamped with images from Chocolate Baroque, coloured with Graph'It Markers and a PanPastel sky.

The banner, birds and little flowers were magazine freebie stamps and the lock and key are paper laser cuts from Dutch Doobadoo as is the gorgeous honeycomb - all the DT are just in love with this stuff lol.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: things with wings

ABC: F is for flowers

A&T emerald faeries: let see a banner

A Creative Romance: Lets get sentimental

My time to craft: New things

Sentimental Sundays: make your own background

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Building Character at J52

Good morning my lovelies, after a busy few weeks a work and a poorly eye I'm playing catch up with Journal 52. This is my page for week 4 where Chelle's prompt was 'Building Character'

Now this was a very scary one for me as I don't draw but I set to and sketched the face and then left it for a few weeks. She kind of lurked in my craft room glaring at me with her pale face crying out for some colour but I didn't know where to start lol.

Anyway inspiration is never far away in blogland and I came across a fabulous video on the Paper Artsy Blog (check it out here, Clare Lloyd's tut is fab!!) I didn't want to use acrylics for my page so I used the same techniques from the tutorial but used my PanPastels (not as scary as paint ha ha) and Colorsoft pencisl to colour her in. Lastly I gave her a choker of lots of different problems and worries - they all build character lol. Around the edge I use a Graph'It shake pen in white to write 'This too will pass' here and there, its alright all this character building but we all need a break now and then lol.

I'm entering my journal page in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations: keep it simple
Little Red Wagon: papercraft project but not a card
Try it on Tuesday: Hand made

Well Monday morning is here again so I'd better go and earn some pennies, have a good day and thanks for popping by today
Claire xx

Stencilling at Premium Craft Brands

Good morning folks and happy Sunday to you! This week at Premium Craft Brands Challenge we're having a few changes and our challenges are going to be every two weeks to give everyone more time to enter and to give us more time to share some top tips and tutorials. There are loads of exciting new products coming up too so all in all its a very exciting time in PanPastel Land!
Here's my inspiration project for our 'Stencilling' challenge

I found this long thin canvas at the Works, a real bargain and perfect for this project. I created my background with PanPastels, mixing the colours (you'll never guess which colours I used to make the purple shades ... Magenta and Turquoise! great fun as its like alchemy when the purples start to .emerge). I stamped here and there with an Indigo Blu harlequin stamp and versamark ink before brushing with some silver PanPastel.  I've used one of the gorgeous Pronty Stencils in the corners with Maimeri Iridescent Paste. The gorgeous stamps are from Lavinia Stamps, and I've added lots of stickles in various shades for some sparkle.

The Chipboard letters were coated with Maimeri Iridescent Paste and Pewter PanPastels, sprinkled with a little glitter and some blobs of rock candy crackle paint.

I just love love love this quote, my lovely friend Annie made me a beautiful note book with this sentiment and I just had to use it on this canvas. I've printed it out on the computer, cut it out and edged the words with glitter. The sentiment reads: Art is the only way to run away without leaving home and its by Twyla Tharp.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: things with wings

Crafting for all seasons: Sentiment as the focus

A Creative Romance: Lets get sentimental

Add a little dazzle: canvas

Divas by Design: rubber stamps

Tuesday Throwdown: anything with wings

Thanks for visiting today, have a lovely day

Claire xx

Anything goes at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello my lovelies, hope you're having a good weekend. I'm having a lazy one as I'm soooooooooo tired after another busy week at work. No matter how lazy you feel though you have to check out our new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges where we have a nice easy theme of 'Anything Goes'. As always my lovely teamies have created some stunning projects and our generous sponsor Flonzcraft has a fabby $20 voucher up for grabs so I hope you're going to join us! Don't forget though, we're a stamping challenge, no digis allowed!

I've created a sewing themed card using one of my favourite Flonzcraft stamps as the focal image 'Vintage Fashion Girl Thirties 03', its stamped on kraft card and embossed with WOW vanilla white EP. I've layered it up over a button card also embossed with White EP and a tape measure (both from Indigo Blu).  They are layered up over some cheesecloth.The background is Ranger Kraft Resist, which I painted with watered down gesso and wiped with a baby wipe. Once the gesso was dry I stamped the pins and embossed with silver EP, adding little pearls to the heads of the pins.

To finish off I've added a little cotton reel,  lace, ribbon, a wooden button with a twine bow and a brass scissors charm. I used a White Graph'It Shake pen for the faux stitching, omg this is the best white pen I've ever tried , love it!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: use a charm

Crafters Cafe: vintage/shabby chic

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes

Country View Crafts: Painty Pleasures

Docerela Creations: anything goes

Stamplorations: stamps and stitches

Top Tip Tuesday: stitching

Thanks for visiting today, have a great day and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Happy birthday from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning my lovelies, hope your'e having a good week. I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front as I've not been too well but I'm back this morning with a card made using the beautiful new stamps Mackintosh Windows  from Chocolate Baroque and fantasy film/fibre. Like a lot of us I have a box full of Fantasy Film and Fibre that I never seem to use and also have a bag of scraps and off cuts so I thought I'd use some up to give this lovely lady a bit of bling. The focal image is from the new stamp set Mackintosh Windows, you can find it here

The background is made with distresss inks (Peacock Feathers, Everngreen Bough and Seedless Preserves) applied to my craft mat, misted with water and then by swooshing some white card stock through the inky puddle several time. 

The focal image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black and coloured with Graph'It Markers, inked around the edges and matted on white and then black card. 

I made the film/fibre embellishments by taking a small piece of Fantasy Film layering up lots of little scraps of film/fibre and then holding that in place with another layer of film. I inked the stamp up with Black stazon, put the film/fibre 'sandwich' on top of that and then a layer of baking parchment. Lastly I ironed it on a medium heat. I don't have a craft iron so I use my ordinary iron with the steam turned off.

To finish off i've stamped the sentiment from the new 'Mackintosh Sentiments' set - some gorgeous fonts on there!! And I've added some little gems and a purple bow

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting from the Heart: anything goes/ use flowers

Divas by Design: rubber stamps only

Love to Create: make it sparkle

Shopping our Stash: make your own embellishment

thanks for visiting today
Claire xx

A new challenge at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a really fun challenge over at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge this week,, pop on over and find out about the fabby prize and check out the gorgeous projects from my lovely teamies. The DT were challenged to make an embellishment with a stencil, now I really struggled with this for a start but then I decided to have a play with Maimeri Light modelling paste and my favourite Birds and Leaves stencil (you can find them here)

Now this is an A4 stencil so it was a real challenge to try and use it on this little mdf heart so I used it to make the little birds and leaves. I just used a palette knife to spread the light modelling paste through the stencil on to my craft sheet and left it to try. Once they were dry (I left them over night to be sure) they peeled off the craft sheet so I could use them as embellies on my project. I coloured them with PanPastels but you could also use markers

I gave the heart (from Indigo Blu) a base coat of gesso and then used acrylic paints spplied with a baby wipe. The stamps were a magazine freebie, stamped with Memento Inks, apart from the sentiment which is from Chocolate Baroque.  Once the ink was dry I gave it a coat of Maimeri Matte Medium and popped the stencil embellies on and gave them all another coat of Matte Medium. I used maimeri gold acrylic paint to edge the heart and added some blingy flowers to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A creative romance: lets get sentimental

All crafts: anything but a card

Bunny Zoe's: hearts/ love

Oooh La La: use a heart

Papertake Weekly: with a heart

Whoospi Daisy: sentiment

Thanks so much for visiting today, have a good day and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Rose Bride at Chocolate Baroque

Hello folks, goodness me we're having some awful weather. I think I'd rather have snow that all this horrible wind and rain. Today's card is another sample using this gorgeous image from Mackintosh Beauty, one of this months new releases from Chocolate Baroque. She is such a lovely image, perfect for brides but also lovely for any girly occasion, you can find her here with this months new releases.

I've stamped her on vellum, added some colour on the reverse and then embossed with a ball tool to give some white highlights. I've layered the image up on some black card using some crystal brads to secure the image. The background was made by stamping and embossing the images and again adding some colour with Graph'Its. I've added a black seam binding bow and a pink ribbon rose.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs: love

Crafty Ribbons: ribbons and bows

Delicious Doodles: ribbon and bling

Rhedd and Rosie's: Love

Totally Papercrafts: valentine/love

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Graph'Its meet Whimsy in a fun new challenge

Good morning and a Happy Valentine's Day to you!! Its a very exciting day over at Graph'It Colouring Challenge as we're teaming up with the amazing Whimsy Stamps Challenge DT this time around!! The theme is Love/Florals and we were all lucky enough to use some of the gorgeous digi images from Whimsy Stamps! There are loads of prizes up for grabs, and lots of chances to win and you don't have to use Graph'It markers to enter so what are you waiting for??

1. Our overall Random winner will receive a 12 pack of Graph'It markers worth £30

2. Each of our GI team members joining in the challenge will be giving away a pack of 3 markers worth £7.95 BUT you must leave a comment on each blog to be in with a chance of winning! Each teamie will choose a winner from their blog comments.

The Graph'It challenge is still separate to the Whimsy challenge so this means that you have TWO chances to enter the same project on both blogs : )

I've used the lovely digi Dannii from Whimsy Stamps, and created a frame with roses. The rose stamps were from the Polkadoodles Pen&Paper Circle Club and the focal image is Danii from Whimsy Stamps. Here's a better pic of the focal image

I've layered her up over a  heart shaped doiley and added ribbon, die cut butterflies, some roses made with thermomorph and a little heart charm.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps and More: colouring

Cutie Pie: cute valentine

Divas by Design: Love

Fab'n'Funky: valentine/love

Milk Coffee: girly

Paper Shelter: valentine

Papertake Weekly: with a heart

Sweet Stamps: love

Make sure you pop over to the Graph'It Colouring challenge as my teamies have created some gorgeous projects to inspire you and don't forget there are lots of prizes up for grabs too so if you haven't tried Graph'It markers yet don't miss out!!

thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Love on Cherryblossom Lane

Good morning, its time for a new challenge over at Polkadoodles and this week we're in the mood for love, as always my teamies have created some gorgeous projects and there's a fab prize up for grabs so if you've got a min do pop over and have a peek at the challenge blog.

I've used papers and one of the supercute images from Cherryblossom Lane Cd, this is one of my all time favourite cds, I can't resist those adorable bunnies lol. I've coloured the image with my Graph'It markers 

I've added ribbon, lace, a tiny heart charm, some die cut butterflies and tiny pearls and little beaded embellie for a bit of extra bling. I'd forgotten what a nightmare silver mirri card is when it comes to taking pics, I won't be using that again for a while lol

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: Use pearls

Crafty Ribbons: ribbons and bows

Creative Knockouts: spots and dots

Deep Ocean: love is all around

Inky Chicks: use a cute animal stamp

Paper Minutes: love is in the air

Shopping our Stash: oh shiny

Sisterhood of Crafters: love

Thanks for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Kitten in a teacup from Aurora Wings

Good morning folks, I'm really loving all the gorgeous images over at Aurora Wings and couldn't resist this little cutie peeping out of his tea cup lol.

I've coloured the image with Graph'It markers and then paper pieced the background, using some lace paper for a 'tablecloth' and some stripey paper for the 'wallpaper' before matting the image on white and then grey card. The shaped card blank is from Craftwork Cards. I've added lots of embellies, pretty lace, pink velvet ricrac, seam binding bow topped off with a button and twine. I'also added lots of die cuts and pretty pearls.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Feeling Crafty: dies/punches

Lothian Crafts: love using your dies

My time to craft: buttons and bows

Suzy Bees Blooming challenge: Anything goes 

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Little Cowboy

Good morning my lovelies, hope you've had a good weekend. I've been bunkered up in my craft room as its been such terrible weather making samples but I can't share them just yet so today's card is a little cutie from LOTV, I just love this stamp!

I've coloured the image with promarkers and matted on a spellbinders die cut. The bp is also from LOTV as are the tiny tag sentiments. I've added a little heart and a lasso made from some garden twine.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Little Bit Crafty: Man up

Allsorts: colours beginning with B

Card and Scrap: use stamps

Divas by Design: die cuts

Feeling Crafty: dies/punches

Totally Papercrafts: Hey cutie

Well I'd better put my best foot forward and go to work
thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

Fabric and Canvas at Premium Craft Brands

Good morning my lovelies, oh my goodness its been blowing a gale here all night. I hope you're keeping dry and warm in this awful weather, its perfect weather for crafting though so I guess its not all bad. We've got a new challenge over at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel challenge and its an anything goes theme this week although the DT were challenged to use fabric or canvas so I decided to use both for my project.

I've used an 8x8 canvas that I'd actually started but it looked totally awful so I gave it a coat of Maimeri Gesso, adding texture with a palette knife. Next came a layer of Platinum White Acrylic paint, sprinkled with some Permanent Red Tint and Gold PanPastels. Once that was dry I blended the pans and then set to with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and the gorgeous flower curl stencil and added a tiny bit more gold PanPastel. I painted the edges of the canvas with Maimeri Gold acrylic paint and then left it to dry 

I used Maimeri Matte Medium to attach the doily and gave it another coat to seal it. The flower was made with layers of fabric and netting coloured with Permanent Red Tint PanPastel, edged with a little Matte Medium and sprinkled with glamour dust. The little rose in the centre was made with Light Modelling Paste in a silicone mould.

I added some pearl swirls to and a die cut butterfly to finish off.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Country View Crafts: painty pleasures

Craftitude: anything goes/love/Valentines

Crafts and Me: photo inspiration

Fussy and Fancy: be my valentine

Natalie and Amy's: love is all around

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: anything goes

Wag's'n'Whiskers: bingo (pink, pearls, doily)

Winter Wonderland: no stamping allowed

I'm not venturing far today as I've got loads of projects started so I'm planning a day in my craft room to finish some off (well if I can find anything in there lol)
have a good day and thanks for popping by
Claire xx

Build it up at Fashionable Stamping challenges

Good morning folks, we've got a new challenge starting at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and our lovely teamie Avril has picked the theme of 'Build it up' by using at least 3 stamps. As always there is a fab prize of a $20 voucher from our generous sponsor Flonzcraft so ink up those stamps and play along for a chance to win. My teamies have some gorgeous projects to inspire you so pop along to the challenge blog and have peep.

For my project I've made a little tag wallet using lots of different stamps, from the Little Lady set and also Flower Kingdom. I stamped the images and watercoloured them with distress markers. I added lots of texture with stencils, Modelling Paste and Sparkle Medium. Once the ink was dry I added more distress ink to the backgorund and stamped some text and embossed with white EP

To finish the project I added some vintage photo distress ink around the edges and used a hitch fastener to close the wallet, topped with some seambinding ribbon and a paper flower.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: z is for zesty

Crafty Creations: for the birds

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Really Reasonable Ribbon: anything but a card plus ribbon

The Crafting Cafe: embossing

Victorine Originals: gift card holder

Thanks so much for popping by, have a good day
Claire xx

Glasgow Wedding

Have you seen the new stamps at Chocolate Baroque this month? Oh my goodness they are absolutely gorgeous, there are two new sets of images, Mackintosh Beauty and Mackintosh Windows and some fab sentiments in the most gorgeous fonts too. This is is my first sample using them and I used both Mackintosh Beauty and Mackintosh Windows to make this card (you can find them here)

The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink and coloured with Graph'It Markers, I've added a little stickles to the centre of the roses and some faux gems in the corners. I've distressed the edges and layered the image up on black card. I added the lovely rose heart from the Mackintosh Beauty set, again coloured with Graph'It Markers.

The background was made with distress inks, I used Spun Sugar, Evergreen bough and a little Iced Spruce. I used tiny amounts of ink on my blending mat and spritzed with lots of water to get a very muted background. Once this ink was dry I overstamped with some of the Mackintosh Windows, stamping very lightly to give a hint of the design here and there. I've gone to town with lots of lace, ribbon, some rolled ribbon roses and some pretty bead string from my stash.

I decorated the inside to match, but kept to a very subtle colour palette, I made this before the new sentiments were released so I may have to make another lol. I really enjoyed making this card as these stamps are so pretty. I even decorated a box to match

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: show us some love

Bearly Mine: vintage romance

Challenges and Candies: one heart

Crafting for all Seasons: show us some romance

Get Inky: Valentine/Love

Little Miss Muffet: luuuuuuurve

Live and Love Crafts: Love'n'Lace

Thanks so much for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Valentine at Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Hi folks, I think blogger has been playing games as I've got in from work to find this post hadn't gone live for some reason, anyway better late than never . We're in the mood for love over at Graph'It Colouring Challenge with a Valentine / Anything goes theme. You don't have to use Graph'It markers to play along but we love it when you do, of course there is a fab prize up for grabs too.

I've used a backing paper and image from the fab new Polkadoodles CD 'Dollie goes East'. The image is coloured with Graph'Its (for a full list of colours pop over to the challenge blog)

I've fussy cut the image and layered it up over a doily, some red lace and white seam binding ribbon. To finish off I've added a sentiment from the CD layerd up over a spellbinders die cut. I've popped a red button on the bow and added a tiny teapot charm and some little pearls in the corners.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting from the heart: anything goes/use red

Craft your passion: Love

Divas by Design: die cuts

Eureka Stamps: Red pink and white

Lexi's Creations: Valentine/love

Shopping our Stash: love/Valentine

Whoopsi Daisy: love/ valentine

Hope you're having a good day, thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Dollie goes East & Graph'It heads up

I'm really loving the new Dollie goes East Cd from the lovely Nikky Hall at Polkadoodles, I'm not usually a huge fan of oriental but the colours are sooooooo beautiful and Dollie really suits the oriental look too. Nikky will be on C&C tomorrow (Friday 7th at 2pm) and as always she'll have some brilliant demos and inspiration colouring tips and techniques up her sleeve so make sure you tune in.

I've used one of the stunning backing papers from the CD on this card, coloured the image up with Graph'It Markers and fussy cut her before popping her up on 3d foam pads. I love this image, so much fun to colour

I've added one of the gorgeous scroll sentiments, little gems in the corners, a seam binding bow and some paper flowers from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

CD Sunday: ribbons and bows

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Anything goes with patterned paper

Miriams Crafting Monthly Challenge: flowers

Penny's Paper Crafty: something old and something new (new cd and old flowers)

Top Tip Tuesday: girly

Word Art Wednesdays: Anything goes

well I'd better scoot off to work but for a pleasant change we've got some blue sky and sunshine which always puts a smile on my face. Have a good day and thanks for visiting today, 

Claire xx

I am sailing

Good morning folks, Wednesday already so its downhill to the weekend lol. I really must stop wishing my weeks away. Today's card features one of the beautiful precoloured backgrounds and a digital image from the Polka Doodles 'Cherry Blossom Lane' CD. I don't usually like animal images but I absolutely adore these gorgeous bunny rabbits.

I used publisher to layer the image over the background. I coloured the image with Graph'It Markers and lots of Mix'It fluid to get more of a watercolour effect and used a corner punch to round the corners. I layered the image up on white card and some olive green card and for once decided to leave it CAS rather than add lots of embellies.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Come and Get It: Clean and simple

Digi Makeover: anything goes

Papertake Weekly: anything goes

Scribble and Scrap: anything goes

Try it on Tuesday: travel

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Hydrangea Fairy from Aurora Wings

Good morning folks, how's your week going? I've finally started to notice that the days are getting longer, its lovely to get home before its dark so hopefully Spring is on the way. My card today is features the gorgeous Hydrangea Fairy from Aurora Wings

She's been coloured with Graph'It Markers and I added little pearls to the flower centres with Cosmic Shimmer glue and gave them a sprinkle of glamour dust. I also added some glitter to her wings and dotted some more stickles here and there. After all a fairy has to have plenty of fairy dust lol.

Here's a pic of the finished card, the background was made using Ranger kraft resist paper and acryic paint, once the paint was dry I used a white sharpie pen to add some faux stitching. I've added lace, ribbon and a cute little wooden heart shaped button topped with some twine. The little sentiment is embossed with pretty blue ep.

The flowers are from the Ribbon Girl, I thought they would be perfect with this image, I've also added some tiny cream flowers, a die cut leaf and a metal butterfly that I embossed with shabby blue frantage EP.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

ABC challenge : E is for embellish

Card Mania: angels/fairies

Glitter and Sparkle: buttons

Pile it on: Add ribbon

Ribbon Girl: hearts (heart button)

Sparkle and Sprinkle: anything goes with glitter, flock or embossing powder

Winter Wonderland: digi days

If you like this image, pop over to the brand new Aurora Wings Challenge Blog, there is a gorgeous freebie image available too!

Thanks for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Its a man thing at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morning my lovelies, I seem to have blinked and missed the weekend as Monday morning  has sneaked up on me and I'm rushing off to work again. Before I go though, here's my project for our new challenge at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where our theme is 'Its a man thing'

I've used a shaped card from Craftwork cards, I just love these cards. The background was made with distress inks in Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Tea Due with a wee bit of frayed burlap/ I stamped the boat (from Flonzcraft can you believe you get all these gorgeous stamps for less than £7?? You can find them here)

I stamped the main image on a scrap of card that I'd used to mop up the last of my background inks and then made a frame by die cutting some grey board and sticking some card candi to it and then I set to with lots of Maimeri acrylic paints and then WOW embossing powders to create a rusty porthole and layered it up over a scrap of cheesecloth that I'd dyed with more distress ink

To finish off I added some little shells, some string tied in a nautical knot and a tiny anchor charm.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A little bit crafty: Man up

Artistic Stamper: use distress

Crafting Musketeers: grunge
Dream Valley: no designer paper

Eclectic Ellapu: texture

Well i'm off to work now so have  great day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Use a Stencil at Premium Craft Brands

Good morning my lovelies and a big warm welcome to my new followers, its great to 'meet' you and I hope you enjoy visiting my little corner of blogland. Its time for our new challenge at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge and our theme is Anything Goes but the DT were challenged to use one of the gorgeous stencils from Premium Craft Brands.

I've made a little heart shaped box using a template from the Dreamees Templates and More cd - I'm totally useless at making boxes and stuff so I love this cd. I've used the Flower Curl stencil, one of my favourite stencils and Light Modelling Paste. I've added some colour with Permanent Red Tint and Light Gold PanPastel

I've added lace, ribbon and pretty bead trim from The Ribbon Girl and then popped on some pretty paper flowers, a pearly swirl and a die cut butterfly.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: show us some love

Allsorts: love is in the air

City Crafter: love story

Crafting for all Seasons: girly

Crafty Hands: shades of the same colour

Everybody Art: Hearts

Incy Wincey: ribbon and pearls

Lexi's Creations: fancy folds

Suzy Bee's Blooming challenge: flowers

I've been a bad blogger lately so apologies if I haven't been to visit for a while. I'm snowed under with work paperwork so as soon as its all done I'll catch up with my visiting. Thanks for popping by, have a lovely day

Claire xx