Pink Piggy Blog Candy!

Dawny P's Blog "Pink Piggy" has some amazing blog candy up for grabs that even includes a Martha Stewart Punch, stamps and loads of embellishments. You can find the Pink Piggy blog here http://pinkpiggywiggy.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-candy-4u-x.html Just follow the instructions to be in with a chance of winning!

Twins 1st Birthday Cards

Today I had to make 1st Birthday cards for twins, a boy and a girl. I was stuck at first and wasted £12.99 on a Giraffe die as I thought I could use a giraffe but I then thought it would be too plain. I went through my stamps and found two Elzybells stamps that I thought would be perfect as they both had two bears on which could each resemble the twins.

I used large 8"x8" square cards so I had lots of room as the images are quite big. Both images are from Elzybells and have been coloured with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Pencils, blended with Sansodor. The wording was done on the computer so I could personalise it. The patterned cardstock is DCWV from an 8x8" glittered mat stack. I used a Quickutz Die for the photo corners on the top card and added Papermania gems/dots to the cards too.

Copic Colour Challenge Week 35

Finally, I have made another card to take part in a blog challenge!

The colours for this week on the Copic Colour Challenge blog were; G02 Spectrum Green, BG05 Holiday Blue, and, R27 Cadmium Red. Here is my entry:

I used a Whiff of Joy stamp for the image (I tried a couple of images before picking one that didn't require too many colours!). I used Core'dinations cardstock from a 6"x6" pack and cut the frame with a Nestabilities die. The gems and brad are from Papermania and the flower was a RAK from Jane, my loyal follower! (Thank you Jane!)

Three charity cards

Sorry it has been so long since I posted anything on my blog. I have been really busy but have made a few cards so I just need to get round to uploading the photos.

A couple of weeks ago I made some cards to take to take to my local hospital as they have a charity table in the physio department raising money for the local hospice. I took them on the Wednesday when I had an appointment and when I went back last Wednesday, the bottom two had sold which I was really pleased about. Maybe the Nurse one didn't sell as everyone who goes there is ill rather than visiting ill people!

I will keep this brief as there are three cards! They are all on small 5" square cards and I tried to keep them quite simple. The Nurse is a stamp from The Greeting Farm called Nurse Anya. I also used a paper printed from Pink Petticoat. The bear on the bottom two is from Elzybells. On the green and pink card, the paper is from Papermania and the border punch is Fiskars Apron Lace. On the white and purple card, the background cardstock is DCWV and the border punch used was Martha Stewart Valentines Lace.

Lets hope tomorrow brings more time to update my blog!

Copic Colour Challenge 33

I'm on a roll! This time I challenged myself to take part in the Copic Colour Challenge. The challenge is to make a card with the colour combo of markers G02, Y11, and V15. I tried a couple of images until I settled on this one.

The image is a Whiff of Joy one, coloured in with Copics G05, Y11, and V15 (and Raw Silk for the skin tone). The card is from a 6x6" Core'dinations pack, the papers are from a PaperMania 6x6" pad and the "get well soon" stamp is from Hero Arts. The dots are Craftwork Cards "Card Candy". I was tempted to add gems to the corners of the card with the image on but didn't want to over-do it, especially as they wouldn't match the card candy.

Anyone for Anya Challenge!

I am still a bit of a beginner when it comes to blogging. I don't do a lot of blog-hopping or entering competitions, but I do subscribe by email to some. One of the blogs I get updates from is Marceas blog http://marceascraftingcorner.blogspot.com/ as I really love her work. Yesterday I followed Marceas link to the Anyone for Anya challenge blog (here: http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/) and this week the challenge is a sketch so I decided to make sure I got round to doing it for a change! I have had this intention before so to save me forgetting, I made it yesterday afternoon. This is the card sketch:

This is my card:

I started with the image and decided I wanted to go with an orange colour scheme so coloured in Anya with my Copics. I thought it would be quicker than with my pencils, but I'm sure it wasn't! The papers are My Minds Eye 'Bloom & Grow', I love them, they are such good value for money and the assortment is great! The orange cardstock is Bazzill, which I also used for the Quickutz Photo Corners. The ribbon was from Hobbycraft (I was so relieved to find orange in my collection!) and the flowers are Prima (I think I should have gone for bigger flowers). The tag is also a Quickutz Die and the sentiment is from an Elzybells clear tag set.

Using up images..

I have lots of stamped images that have been coloured in and are just waiting to be made into a card. Most are in a box but some are still on my desk. Last week I had a can of diet coke on my desk and a box fell off the shelves above it and diet coke spilled over some of my things! I was devastated but luckily not too much got ruined. I was worried about some CC Designs images I'd recently coloured, but luckily only the white card got wet so I was able to save them by cutting out the image. So, three days ago I thought I should just start using some of the images that I have laying around and made these two:

This one is very simple, when I put the image onto the card, I felt that I should leave it rather than clutter it with anything extra as it would hide the cupcakes! The image is Whiff of Joy and the background paper is Doodlebug.

This one is a CC Designs fairy called Gretal. She is coloured with Copics and put onto Nestabilities circles. I used the Doily Lace Martha Stewart punch for the strip behind the circles and then my new Quickutz Photo Corner die for the corners. The flowers are Prima (of course!).