Fairy Princess

Just wanted to share this card with you that I've made for my niece's birthday next week. I just love this step style card and the idea of creating a scene. There is a real mix match use of clear stamps too. The main image is Sprinkles with Teddy from Pink Gem Designs, the castle, carriage and tree are from Imaginisce-fairest of them all collection. The bird and the clouds are from Mindy's Zoo set by Autumn Leaves. Foam alphas are from Papermania. All of the images have simply been coloured in by normal colouring pencils with a touch of crystal stickles on each. I really enjoyed making this one, even though it's taken me ages :) Sorry for the image quality, it's really dark in here at the moment. It's gone all overcast and miserable out there today. Kids are out, housework done, so more crafting me thinks...

What colour are you? AAM challenge

A fab challenge was up at the All About Me challenge site. The question was, "What colour are you?". As soon as I saw the title of the challenge on the blogroll on my dashboard I knew exactly what I wanted to do and how I wanted my layout to look. Then when I clicked on the webpage I saw that the incredibly talented DT member, Brittny, had had the same idea as me! Well, you know what they say about great minds and all that :) And if thats not all, the blog hop thats happening right now is to lift a DT members work for this challenge. So here we have it. I am GREEN! the journalling reads: Not the envious green. The green of rolling hills, of the leaves on the tree, of the grass in the lea. I am peridot green by birth, Emerald green by nature. Green are my eyes, green is my colour crayon. Green is the colour of my heaven. This is only challenge #2, so plenty more to come. Want to scrap "All about me"?? Go show them some love!

Winter gift box wonderland

This weeks challenge on Winter Wonderland is to make a gift box, gift bag or your own wrapping paper. I'd already made a start on this gift box so it's like it was meant to be, lol. I've made a mini pizza box that is filled with 5 mini christmas cards. I found the tutorial for the pizza box on the Splitcoast stampers website and just loved the look of it. At first I thought it would make a sweet little gift box, then thought it would be even better to fill it with handmade cards to give away for christmas to those who still love to send tradional mail (i:e my Grandma! Can you guess what She will be getting every Christmas and Birthday now?! LOL)) The box was really easy to do. You just take a piece of 6" x 11" card, at the short side score at 1" and 5", then along the long side score at 1",5" 6" and 10". You make cuts along the long side at the small square creases, then just fold the whole thing together to create the box, sticking down the flaps as you fold. It really is super easy. Like this challenge? Its up til Sunday 4th October. :0)

All about Eve # 51

This weeks movie inspiration for Cinema Saturday is All about Eve. A beautiful classic with one of my favourite leading ladies, Bette Davis. The added requirement is Bling! I used the idea of a designer dress as inspiration, where there may be a huge bow with a brooch or a pin and of course, feathers! (I just can't seem to stop using feathers at the moment):). I got given this buckle this weekend, so it came right in handy!! The "fabulous" sentiment was handwritten in white Sakura Gelly Roll pen. There was loads of inspiration to be had with this movie. Why not take a look?!

Colour create and a cute card thursday

Here are a couple of cards I made last night. This first one is for Colour Create. A gorgeous colour combo this fortnight of Hot Pink, Dusky Pink and Chocolate Ice. Yummy! I kept this card quite simple, using a sketch from Card Patterns. This card was also great to use up some scraps of paper I had just laying around. The BG Porcelain bird cage paper worked perfect for this challenge. The next card is for Cute Card Thursday and another gorgeous colour combo! Black and Yellow this time. Not colours I would normally use but I really like it! I've used this girl stamp before (BG Gamma Limited Edition stamps) but in pink, blue and green colours,and she looks very sweet. Using her with these colours just shouted Halloween to me, I think she looks a little freaky LOL. So I think I will have to change that sentiment! Hope you are having a great weekend!

Summer traditions

From when I was a kid, my parents always made sure we had a summer holiday. They have always worked so hard and deserved to have at least one a year. We always used to go to Spain. All over though, never to the same place twice. I always really enjoyed those holidays with my family. When my baby sister was born, we holidayed in the UK for a while but as soon as she was old enough we went straight back to going away to Spain. Until my Dad wanted to branch out and go to Turkey one year, then that was it. No more Spain (until I got a job there for 5 years!) This layout was made for Butterfly Crafts "Summer Traditions" challenge. Whats your summer tradition? Do you go to a special place, or spend more time outside in the parks or at the pool? Do you have a family gathering? Why not have a go on this challenge? It's open til the 30th September. Oh and if you are looking for a DT spot, Butterfly Crafts are looking for winter Design Team members. Go and check it out!

Pretty Woman

One of my favourite films ever is the inspiration for this weeks challenge on Cinema Saturday creative challenge. For this one I decided to go for pink and black, with diamonds, pearls, feathers and a glam style. While I was putting this together I kept singing "Wild women do" by Natalie Cole for the soundtrack, and thats where the basque came into it. The extra requirement for this challenge was paper piecing. I paper pieced the lacy top of the basque and coloured it in with pink Sakura Gelly Roll pen, to give it a little bit of shimmer. Thanks for looking.