Calorie Free Cupcakes....

Following on from the circle card challenge, I made this one.

The circle was cut from a 6x6" card with a circle cutter, topped with a circle of patterned card from my collection. The cupcake stamped images were given to me by a friend - sorry I can't remember who :( - and were coloured using Copics.

I cut the bunting from the same backing sheet and added with 3d foam.

Below is a close up of the cupcakes, glossy accents and a white gel pen were used to highlight the sprinkles and cherries.

And the best thing about these is.....No calories!

xxx

London 2012 - Big Red Bus

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge...Week 202 is to recycle.

I used a 6x6" card and left over papers from the Portobello Road paper collection.

The stamped image is one of the Penny Black London 2012 collection and has been coloured with Copics.

I also used gelly roll pens in glittery gold and silver to highlight.

My recycling (apart from leftover papers) was to use some ribbon from my christmas door wreath, a travel card and some postage stamps.

It's quite a dimensional card as you can see below.

Click on the link above to see further details of the challenge.

TFL

XXX



Patience of a cat!

Having some time to play, I have been looking at various challenges.

I made the following to take part in two that are currently running, Bronte and Bella's Challenge Blog &

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Blog.

The challenges were to make a circle card using a Mo Manning Image - not hard as I love her work! and Blossoms and Butterflies for the other one.

Here is my card, a circular easel card covered with papers from my collection.

The image is coloured using Copics.

I used Martha Stewart punches for the butterflies, the larger one shadowed with a dark coloured card.

Jewels added to the centres.

The flowers are from my stash with punched leaves added for dimension.

Follow the links above to find out more about the challenges.

Thanks for looking.

XXX

Shopaholic at Charmed

 Our March card challenge at Scrapology was set by Karen at Charmed Cards and Crafts.

She asked us to use digi images. I had bought a set from her ages ago and never used them so this was the perfect opportunity to find them on the computer and set to!

I chose "Louise" and the boutique background, printed and cut out to fit an 8x8 CWC card.

The base paper is from Bo Bunny Vicky B range.

The image is coloured with Copic markers.

The window area looked very empty so I found my Bella stamps and stamped light images to give depth, I think it worked quite well.

The pavement was blank so I used the chisel tip of several grey copics to create a paving then highlighted areas with a fineliner.

The canopy was white so I created a candy stripe and added a line of stickles.

The card looked too plain so I used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch with brown bazzill and created a trellis down the left hand side. I threaded some blossoms and a beaded stem through and coiled the ends.

Leaves punched with a McGill punch added the foliage.

Plenty of lovely cards by the DT on the Scrapology blog along with details of this months prize, so hop on over and have a peek.

TFL

xxx

Stampin' Up Day Out - Part III

These are the items we made in the last class of the day.
Designed by Zoe using the Polar Party stamp set and new colours of cardstock/paper. 

First we made this gift box using an A4 sheet of card - very versatile and to come in very handy soon!

Then this lovely little card.

I used Copics to colour my images.
This polar bear is sooo cute...

And then a tag which I turned into a card too.

Thanks again Zoe and Natalie for a fab day out - looking forward to the next one!

August Crop - A bit late :)

Had a lovely time at our August crop at Cardinal Colours but have been too busy to blog it :(

I made several cards that day, 1 for my nephew Simon which had beer mugs on it (I forgot to take a picture!) a similar one to add to my stock which Liz had for her son's birthday (again no photograph!)

and the following one....

This was an image that Lynn gave me, I used copics to colour him in, papers are by BG from the Max and Whiskers collection (as were all three cards)

We were celebrating Chris' birthday and below is the birthday girl with her daughter Sue presenting her cake.

Hope you had a lovely birthday Chris.

We had a new fellow crafter this month, Zoe (AKA Mrs Wonka) who made us these fabulous neapolitan cakes - you can definitely come again!

More to follow...TFL

xxx

What would you call Postman Pat when he retires?

Pat of course!

Sorry couldn't resist sharing a very bad joke there as it ties in with the following card.

Therese at work asked me to make a card for her postman who is retiring this month, not called Pat I don't think? Anyway, I used a 6x6" CWC card and Prima papers, Jack'n'Jill Collecton called Ode to Joy.

The image is a stamp by Faye Whittaker which I got from Joanna Sheen called postcard which seemed appropriate.

Coloured with Copics and mounted onto brown bazzill with the addition of some raffia.

Below is a close up of the image.

And a small message that comes with the stamp set.

Thanks for looking.

x

Happy Birthday Lynn..............

Today is Lynn's birthday! Happy Birthday Lynn!

This is the card I made for her the image is  by the lovely S-J creator of

 Little Musings and is from the Sew Vintage collection.

I printed, cut out and coloured the sewing machine with Copics then mounted onto a DL card which I had covered with dotty paper.

The original image had thread running through the machine but the lines were too thin to cut out so I used some DMC and threaded it myself.

I added some fabric ready to be sewn..

And of course no sewing table would be complete without a pin cushion.

Hope you have a lovely day Lynn :)

xxx