Top Tip Tuesday - Buttons!

Good Top Tip Tuesday to you all :)

Thanks to everyone who joined in with last week's 'Use an Image' Challenge - we had some gorgeous entries and that fab tutorial from Dawn to get us started on our Colouring techniques - thanks Dawn :)
Pop over to TTT now to see if you are one of the lucky winners!

This week over at TTT the lovely Leigh is telling us to look at things differently - namely BUTTONS!

Hands up who loves buttons?.....

....ok you can ALL put your hands down now!

Leigh has shown us some of the gorgeous creations she has made using buttons.

Here are a couple I made to go along with this weeks 'Button Marathon'

A very obvious button here - used with some ribbon threaded through the holes. A gorgeous Penny Black image (can't think of the name!!!) coloured with Watercolour Pencils.

This one is a little less obvious but I promise the heart is a button - I did have to cut off the back loop and embed the remainder of it into the front piece as it stood too proud of the card.

But that's the beauty of buttons - you can make then work for you!

So guess what the challenge is this week???

Again we have some fab prizes on offer.....

Digital Delights By Louby Loo

&

Joanna Sheen

So off and find those buttons, get creating, leave a link to your button creation on Top Tip Tuesday and you could win a prize!

Don't forget you can also leave a Top Tip to be in the running for a second prize!!!

Some challenges I'd like to enter my cards into...


(Mum Card)

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Colour Create - Black, Mint, Green, Gold & Cream

Ellephantastic - Butterfly

Penny Black Saturday - Favorite Things.... Buttons, ribbon, recycling (Green backing = chocolate box!), Watercolour pencils, gems...............but that's only a few!!!!!!





(Wedding Card)

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Clean & Simple

Top Tip Tuesday - Copic Tutorial

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning to you all!

Thanks to everyone who joined in last week with our Christmas inspired challenge - I hope you all enjoyed my Candle tutorial - I'm sorry I couldn't get round to leaving a comment on everyone's makes this week - I've been away for a 'chill-out' break and only got back yesterday morning.

Make sure you pop over to see if you are one of the lucky winners this week.

On to this weeks challenge - Our very talented Dawn has done an amazing tutorial on colouring. She shows up step-by-step how she's got these fantastic results using her Copics.

***Make sure you pop over to Dawn's blog - she has some amazing giveaways going on!***

Isn't it gorgeous - she's used an image from one of our fab sponsors this week - pop over to Whimsy Stamps to browse through 100's of amazing images, sentiments and personalised signatures.

As this weeks Top Tip Tuesday's Tip is a colouring tutorial I have done a card using Promarkers - I don't own Copics but the colouring techniques are the same!

I've used another image from Whimsy Stamps - this one is called 'Little Pocket Mice' and is one of the amazing digi images by MelJens Designs. I have used a piece of vellum over card for the backing, cut out the image after colouring it and then 3d it to a Nestie circle and scallop circle. 2 ribbons at the side, some Dew Drops and Rub On letters to finish off.

So pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and leave us a link to your tip or a link to your project using an image - or how about both!

Some challenges I'd like to enter my 'Little Pocket Mice' card...

 

Cute Card Thursday - 'Gently does it' (sponsored by MelJen's Designs)

Raise The Bar - Let's see those Curves!

Stamptacular Sunday - DT Inspiration...my inspiration came from Betty who used a MelJen Digi Stamp

The Crafty Pad - At least 1 circle and 2 ribbons

2 Sister's - Birthday

Crazy 4 Challenges - Square card

Happy Halloween!

Thought I'd share with you the pumpkins that the kids carved today!

They were done by my 19 year old twins Ben & Ceri and their girlfriend and boyfriend (Ben decided to do 2!)




...we were helped with downloaded patterns ;)

Eeeeekkk..........Spiders!

I don't do many Halloween cards but a friend asked me to do one for her hubby - they are both huge animal lovers so this gorgeous little Digi Image from Soft Pencil was ideal - how sweet are the little kitty and mouse in their mummy costumes!

Guess what cardstock the gold is................Yep - Gemstones! The glitter spiders are plastic 'toys' bought from a supermarket (last year!), there's only 2 stuck on the card (top left corner of image and orange one next to sentiment - the 'loose' spiders are just for photographic ambience!). The sentiment is done on the computer.

The image is coloured with a mix of Promarkers and chalks, I've cut out the 'door' and backed onto a piece of starry packaging card. I've used some foam squares around the cut area to give a bit of depth then DST along the image outer edge. I lightly distressed the image piece with my MM distressing tool.

Some challenges I'd like to enter this card for.......

ABC Challenge - Glitter (my spiders!)

Dutch Dare - Halloween

Cupcake Inspirations - Spooky House & Ghost Cupcakes, photo inspiration

 PaperPlay Challenges - A Haunting We Will Go! (closes Thurs)

Karber Monthly Challenge - Fantasy (closes Nov 1st)

Sentimental Sunday - Distressing (+ sentiment)

Tilda in Pink!

Evening All!

Hope you've had a good weekend and at least managed a few moments to play! I did and made my first Tilda card in absolutely ages!!!

I used some Gemstones card and DCWV Glitter Stack. Tilda is coloured with Promarkers (in 'real-life' her pink does match the paper - 'onest, even tho she looks lilac in the pic!), sentiment done on the computer....

.....and a few WOC roses to finish - you can't NOT finish with a few of those gorgeous blooms!

I even did a little bit of decoration inside too!

Thanks so much for popping over, enjoy your week and make sure you wrap up if the weather's turning wintery in your part of the world - it is in mine!

A couple of challenges I'd like to enter this for....

ABC - F is for Flowers

Charisma Cards - Vintage

Just Magnolia - Think Pink!

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Allsorts - Spots & Stripes

Wedding Memories....

Hi All :)

Last week I finished a project that was a bit of a 'What shall we do???' dilemma!

A friend I work with was going to a 'Secret Wedding', not that secret that the Bride & Groom didn't know - just secret enough that they wanted to do it quietly without a fuss and with only a handful of family in attendance.
My friend orders loads of cards and Nappy Cakes off me.....and anything else I fancy playing with actually - so we had to come up with a special gift.


The card was easy enough - she'd sent me a stunning photo she wanted using and as there was no 'colour-scheme' I felt a black & white theme would be best, all trimmed with silver.

Then for that special gift we decided on a 'Wedding Memories Book'! As they weren't having a formal photographer I thought this type of scrap book gift would work well. I cut lots of cards with Nesties for the guests to write on (I couldn't stand the thought of them writing on the actual pages....they might use different coloured pens!) I also included some 'bits & pieces' for her to decorate the pages with.

 It was  wrapped in a piece of gem encrusted Organza material and placed in a matching box....

Here's a couple of close ups of some of the details....

She e-mailed me yesterday and said it was a HUGE hit! They loved it :)




Challenges I'd like to enter this set into.....


ABC Challenge - F is for Flowers (I know I've only used 3, but I hope it's enough!)

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Black, White & 1 other colour (mine is silver)

Top Tip Tuesday - Week 7

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning To You :)

Did you leave a tip for us last week? If so, make sure you pop over to the blog to see if you are one of our lucky winners!

If you didn't, make sure you get in on the fun this week................................and this week it's a little bit different!

Pop Over NOW to find out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have some fab sponsors again this week - 4 of them actually!

Daisy's Digi Doodles

Joanne Sheen

Squiggle Stamps

&

Sunshine & Giggles

This week I've made a Card and Tag to share with you using a Digi that was sent from Squiggle Stamps

This image is called 'Polar Love', Isn't it sweet!

I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the card blank and Nesties to cut out the tag pieces. Polar Love is coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment on the Tag was done using WordArt

After I'd made that card I popped over to have a browse through the images at Squiggle Stamps and bought this gorgeous tree....

So I made a little set...

'Tree of Joy'

To join in with the fun this week and be in the running for one of 4 fantastic prizes, hop over to Top Tip Tuesday now and find out what you need to do!



Another Weekend Over :(

Why, oh why, do the weekends go so quickly - in fact why does time go so quickly now? It's bad enough that Christmas comes around so quickly - although to tell the truth I'm a proper Christmas freak so that's a good thing - but the weekend..........................NO! I want to be off work for at least enough time to get the orders I get from there done!

This weekend I've done a 'secret' Wedding Card and a Wedding Memories Book to match - but obviously being a 'secret' Wedding I wont be showing you till it's happened!!!

I've also done a couple of birthday cards for the 70th Birthdays of a work colleagues mum and her twin sister.  One was made using a photo so I'm not going to be able to find any challenges for that one - I REALLY wish there were some challenge blogs for photos :(
The other I decided to use a Penny Black Stickeroo - so got at least one challenge out of it :)


Here's the first.....

Card 1

I've used my faithful Gemstones card, some WOC Roses and Lace and a gorgeous pin.


And this is for her twin sister.......

Card 2

This is using the same Gemstones, DCWV 'All Dressed Up' paper stack, velvet ribbon, 3 Pearl Brads and a Penny Black Stickeroo.


Challenges I'd like to enter card 2 into (if you know of any I can enter the 1st in please shout!)..........


Penny Black Saturday - Sketch

Simon Says Challenge - Recipe
3 types of embellishments - Brads, Ribbon & Computer Generated Sentiment, 2 papers & 1 image




Think I've managed to find one for card 1 - I popped over to ABC and looked though their participants and they don't all use stamps etc, so I'm going to have a go! If I'm wrong ABC please let me know :)

ABC Challenge - Flowers

Tonight's Quickie!

Hi .........................again!

3 posts in one day - What is going on???

I wanted to get a card done for a another challenge or 2 that I wanted to enter - I've not done enough Autumnal cards yet, and it's nearly winter - although it's been more like summer the past few days!


I've used a gorgeous LOTV die cut image for this card - I'm so going to miss this style of die cut sheets now they've stopped doing them :(

I used some WOC flowers - what else? And a button that is probably as old as I am! When I picked it out of my tin it was grey, but as it is fabric covered, I coloured it with my Promarkers!!!

I'm off to bed now or I'll never get up for work!



Challenges....

Lili Of The Valley - Autumn

Charisma Cardz - Autumn




Thanks for stopping by - see you soon

DT Card......

I've just realised how long I've wanted to say...............

................. "I can now show you my DT card"!

How exciting is that - ok, maybe not very - but it's fab to be able to say it!

I look at so many wonderful DT cards out there and am so pleased that Leanne asked me to join her at Top Tip Tuesday so I am now saying.....

....I couldn't show your earlier as I'd made this to go with Leanne's Easel Card Tutorial this week over at TTT, but now that's all posted & dusted here it is.....

I used a fab image - well 2 fab images actually from one of our lovely sponsors this week Softpencil, to make my card.

The cat and mouse mummies image is 'Adorable Mummies' and the bats are cut from 'Trick or Treat'

I coloured the images with Promarkers and used chalks around the edges for a softer colour effect. I cut out the 'doorway' and used some slim sticky pads to give it a bit of depth off the stary backing card (that's some backing card from a sheet of CHEAP gems). I distressed around the picture, its matt and the sentiment.

The bats are attached to acetate 'arms' to give a bit of movement to the card.

I took this card into work today along with others to top up my card box and had sold it withing an hour!

Challenges I'd like to enter this card for........

Simon Says Challenge - Halloween

Craftalicious - Anything Goes!

Secret Crafter - Distressing

Allsorts - Song Title ....Bat Out Of Hell! Here's the lyrics!

Everybody Art Challenge - Halloween

Cupcake Craft  - Halloween

Karber Challenge - Digi Halloween

Lexi's Creations - Spooky

Edited...Chosen as one of the Top 5 for Allsorts :)

Top Tip Tuesday - Week 6

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning to you all :)

6 weeks of Top Tip Tuesday already....where does the time go???

Isn't that a sign of age, I'm sure Christmas used to take 6 years to come around when I was young - now it'll be with us in 12 weeks!!!

How did you all like Dawn's creation last week - wasn't that Toffee Apple Card gorgeous!

This week our Fabulous Leanne is sharing her 2nd Top Tip...

...How To Make An Easel Card

Easel cards are one of the 'hot styles' this season and Leanne has shown us how simple it is to make one of these very complicated looking cards.

Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to follow Leannes fab tutorial - and don't forget to leave us one of your Top Tips - you could win a prize from one of our amazing sponsors.

To leave us a tip simply add your blog post link in Mr Linky - remember to link back to TTT from your post too.

...and as I always say - don't forget your pen and TTT Note Book to jot down all of those amazing tips - you'll never know when you might need one!

I've Done It.......

....................my FIRST Christmas Card!!!!!!!!!!!

How organised am I .......NOT!

Thought I'd better crack on - and when I was Challenge hopping a few jumped out at me and this is the result......

I've used the gorgeous Kai in the Snow from Mo Manning and coloured him with Promarkers. I used the Snowflake embossing folder on some Gemstones card and finished off with a few Petaloo Holiday Dazzlers - Snowflakes. The sentiment is 'written' with some Doodlebug rub-on letters.

Some Challenges I'd like to enter this card for.....

Mo Manning - Rainbow Colour(s) ....Guess what mine is? BLOG HOP HAPPENING TOO!

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch & Snowflakes

Craftalicious - Anything Goes

Ellephantastic - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Song Title..."Let it Snow" .....Here's the Lyrics...for no particular reason other than I found them!

One Stitch At A Time - Use Your Digis

Craft Your Days Away - Babies

Paper Sundaes - A Change of Season....Winter/Christmas/1st Christmas



Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a good week :)

Top Tip Tuesday - Week 5

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

How did you all get on with your recycling tips last week - I'd love to see any cards you made using bits of 'rubbish'.

There were some great recycling tip cards left on the Top Tip Tuesday Tip List last week, thanks so much to everyone of you who joined in.

This week over on Top Tip Tuesday it is the wonderfully talented Dawn's turn to pass on some of her seemingly endless talent.

She is going to show us all how to make the most yummy

'Caramel Apple' card!

If you want to see how to make this tasty little number pop over and follow Dawn's tutorial

- it's amazing!

Don't forget to leave us some tips this week too - they can be as simple as a few words in your post or a full blown tutorial - just link to the Top Tip Tuesday blog in your post and leave us a link to your post on TTT - easy!

You could even win one of our fantastic prizes for doing so!!!

So go on - grab your Top Tip Tuesday note book,

your pen and pop on over..........