Over already!

Yes its back to work tomorrow after what seems like such a short weekend, its flown by, yet neither of us have done much crafting at all. I got on my favourites pages which are ever so nicely organised in to the days that new challenges are set and found a few which looked wonderful, yet very difficult. We know, crafting hard?! We must sound mad, well have you ever tried to make a card using just one colour, no neither have we not until today, and that's down to the challenge set this week by C.R.A.F.T. with the theme of Monotone. We did however sneak a little bit of yellow in, but that's ok. There is also a challenge over at CES Challenges which is Chocolate Caramel, so we decided to combine the two and use the stated colour(s) for our monotone card.

The plain gold and brown paper used for matting and layering is from the box of papers purchased last week from the Papermill at the Lowry Outlet. The striped card is from one of the many trips to Kanban which is where I am off to on Saturday, Mum has to work though and she is rather gutted at the prospect of not being able to go. flowery paper, I think was from The Range ages ago, its just like the green used on and earlier post.

As far as I can remember some of the flowers used are from The Range as for the rest they are from Miss Fancy Pants Crafts, the best stall on Bury Market by miles, well it is in our opinion and probably many other crafters who know of it.

Tilda is coloured with Promarkers again, Mum is babysitting them for a few days, so hopefully if she gets some creations made this week I might be able to blog them. The colours used are:

Skin: Satin and Baby Pink
Sleeves and Lace: Buttercup
Collar: Mustard
Dress: Tan and Caramel
Hat: Buttercup and Mustard
Hair: Cocca and Chestnut
Shoes: Walnut and Caramel
Suitcase: Caramel, Pastel Beige and Gold

The card is also being entered in to a couple more challenges and these are:
Friday Sketchers again with a wonderful sketch for us all.
Dottie's World Anything Goes, and they have some beautiful Bobunny papers to win!
Our Creative Corner with a photo inspiration, which went perfectly with the browns we decided to use.
and finally last but not least, One Stop Craft Challenge again with a theme of Anything Goes but they also have a blog hop for us all, as its their 2nd blogiversary.

That's all for now, better get this up so I can get the link and enter all the lovely challenges. Even going to give the blog hop ago too, though I'm not sure what I'm meant to do.

Happy crafting :o)

Work, Work, Work

Wow,I can't believe it Thursday already and I haven't posted a thing, work is such an inconvinence! Hopefully I will be able to get some crafting done this weekend, but for now I will show you what I made on Tuesday in my weekly crafting get together.

Tilda has been coloured with Promarkers I have used the usual combination of Satin and Blush for the skin and everything else as follows:
Hair: Raw Sienna
Coat: Ruby and Cardinal Red
Tights: Sandstone
Boots: Cardinal Red and Marsh Green
Present: Marsh Green and Pear Green

The red patterned paper is from DCWV Christmas wishes paper pack. The adheasive gems in the centre of the snowflakes are yet again Papermania Capsule Collection.I have used the scraps of gold and red that I had left to make a snowflake using 2 different Die Cuts and Cuttlebug. The green card is from the Papermill at the Lowry Outlet, which makes it the newest in my stash as I only got it on Saturday.

This card is being entered in to Sketch and Stash Challenge 47.

Vintage Christmas

Today I took myself off to my Mum's for a little while, I have a feeling she is starting to get in to the whole challenge thing too, which is great, however there is no way she will start a blog. So we decided that we would do this one together, in other words, we work together on the challenge cards and I then sit at the PC and blog to my hearts content.

So we have today worked on a Christmas card for a few challenges, we decided we would try something out of our comfort zone thanks to Charisma Cardz who have this week set Vintage as the theme for their challenge. But we did stick to something we know in using Promarkers, which is brilliant because I stumbled across Moving Along With The Times and their challenge this week is sponsored by Letraset with a theme of Anything Goes but you MUST use Promarkers.
Papertake Weekly Challenge have a wonderful sketch challenge this week. And finally last but not least Fussy and Fancy have a Winter Wonderland theme for this week, which could be holiday related or just reflect winter.

Now on to the card, as you know yesterday I was off craft shopping, which is how nearly all these papers came to be on the card. The plain cream, burgundy and blue are all from The Papermill at the Lowery Outlet Mall. The gold paper which Tilda is matted on to is from the good old trust stash from Kanban. Now the patterned paper, yes you guessed it, Papermania, though this time its from their Persimmon Collection again purchased from The Range.

The Merry Christmas rub on sentiment was also purchased from The Range in the Papermania Silent Night collection. We have finished the sentiment off with some brads from the stash we already had, so can't say where they are from.

Whilst I was busy matting and layering the papers Mum was busy colouring Tilda with Promarkers. The colours used maybe missing a colour of two as she didn't write them down, I'm sure she won't forget next time though!
Skin: Satin and Blush
Hair: Chestnut and Cinnamon
Dress: Burgundy, Midnight Blue and China Blue
Flowers: Olive Green, Sandstone and Primrose

Well I think that's enough waffling on now being as Mum has just been on the phone checking up on the blogging stage of our creation. So with Mum on board that's another set of fingers and toes that can be crossed in the hope that we might get lucky and win a challenge or maybe 2.

Happy Crafting :o)

All Spent Up

I can't believe that almost a whole day of the weekend has passed already that's what craft shopping and spending up does though I guess! Thankfully once spent up it was back home to get hunting for challenges and then get creating.

The card for today features another Tilda stamp I just can't help that I find her so cute!!! As always she is coloured with Promarkers:
Skin - Satin and Blush
Hair - Coca and Cinnamon
Dress - Dusky Rose, Antique Pink and Cocktail Pink
Boots and Bows - Leaf Green
Flowers - Leaf Green, Blossom, Baby Pink, Canary, Salmon Pink and Denim Blue
Basket - Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna

Today I put some white in her hair with a new gel pen purchased from The Range (maybe I should get some shares!)

The plain card used for matting and layering in both the pink and the green was from Kanban, as is the pink glitter card. If you haven't been its definitely worth a trip up there. As for the patterned and dotted paper that is from the My Minds Eye Quite Contrary paper pack. In my opinion these papers are stunning!

I have again pulled out the trusty Adhesive Stones from the Papermania Capsule Collection - Verde and Red Hot packs to finish the cards down the section of green.

The stunning layout came from Friday Sketchers as I enjoyed using their layout so much last week I decided to give this weeks sketch a go as well!

I am also entering this card in to a few more challenges:
Just Magnolia Think Pink
Totally Gorjuss Sparkle (I hope the photos picked the glitter card up well enough)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Sparkle (I was only just in time for this one PHEW!)
and finally with a Photo InspirationOne Stop Craft Challenge I think the pinks and greens look stunning and would never have thought of the colour combination!

Happy Crafting :o)

I Feel An Addiction Starting ....

Having only started with challenges a week ago yesterday I think I am begining to get an addiction to enter them! I am getting that bad I am even starting to check for them while at work, so everyone at work isn't getting any where near the PC at least not untill I go for lunch.
So this weekend not only did I manage to get 2 cards made and blogged, I also managed to in my own little organised way arrange each of the challenge blogs (well the ones I have discovered in my short time of blogging) in to neat little folders for which day a new challenge is set.
Tonight was my weekly craft meeting with my Auntie Julie (A Passion For Paper and Auntie Chris. Usually my Mum goes to but she was working tonight much to her disappointment. Myself and Auntie Julie are trying so hard to get the other 2 to start a blog, but with limited technical know how I don't think there is much chance of that, well not just yet anyways.

Now just before I slope off to bed I am going to quickly enter a blog candy draw to hopefully some Magnolia goodies which look amazing over at Tickled Pink Stamps I do hope I'm the lucky one!!!

Happy Crafting :o)

Christmas Is Coming ... Eeeeek

With Christmas only 67 days away I figured that I had better begin creating some cards so that I would avoid the rush which I had last year so that no one would be disappointed. So before begining anything I hunted for a challenge as I really have got the bug now! Now on with my card for today before I begin to waffle again like yesterday. Sorry for that one.

This is James Bear Pile of Presents. As usual the image is coloured with Promarkers sadly I didn't write which ones I used today. The santa hat is covered with glitter on the white parts. I think the picture manages to pick this up, although how well I'm not so sure.

 
 I decided to give the easel cards a break and just did a standard 5 x 5 square card, in red, these were picked up in a tiny shop in Ashton. The patterned backing paper is from the DCWV Christmas Wishes paper stack. The green textured cardstock is from the Papermania Capsule Collection. Both of these are from The Range. As for the ribbon and the sentiment I can honestly say I haven't the slightest idea where they came from other than the stash at home.

 The card is finished with some snowflakes again these are just from the stash I had already. I have finished these by adding a clear gem to the centre of each one. They are each set at a different height which you might just be able to see on the pictures. I promise I will get better at photographing my creations well I hope I will. 

Keeping it nice and easy with the challenges today as I don't want to over do them and am entering this card in to just the one which is:
Lili of the Valley: Challenge 69 Sketch By Bev

Tilda Had A Little Lamb

After a nice lie in this morning and waking up to some October sunshine I thought to myself what a perfect day to do something outside in the cold but fresh air. That thought soon vanished once I got online and searched for any challenges that I could find to make note of work on during my craft session on Tuesday.
I found one challenge that really caught my eye with a theme of Nursery Rhymes/Songs. I thought I had the most perfect Tilda stamp, after looking though my stash which was provided to my by my Auntie Julie disaster had struck I didn't have that one specific image, another Auntie had beaten me to it. So after a few texts and a bit more challenge searching I was ready to go but not before a trip to The Range for some craft shopping (I haven't been for a while).

Now on to my card that I have to show you. This is Tilda With Lamb (Auntie Julie had come to the rescue and stamped the image for me). She is coloured using Promarkers as follows:
Skin: Satin and Blush
Dress: Lime Green and Lime Zest
Shoes and Bows: Pear Green and Marsh Green
Hair: Cocca and Burnt Sienna
Lamb: Cool Grey 1

The green pearlescent paper was bought from Kanban quite a while ago and I haven't really used it. Can't rememeber where the ribbon is from, I think the lime green one is a Smirk one from The Range. Everything else on the card is papermania and is also from The Range (though not all from todays trip) the paper is from the Olivine Essence Creative Tones paper stack as is the strip along the base of the easel card. The gems are from the capsule collection (I have these in a few colours now).

The challenges I am entering this card in to are:
Truly Scrumptious Sketch with the option of it being on an easel card
Crafty Catz Challenge Nursery Rhyme/Song my inspiration was Mary had a Little Lamb
Charisma Cardz Challenges More than one fold

Autumn Theme

This is the first card I have created to enter into a competition, well a few actually!
These are:
Sketch Saturday Week # 124
Magnolia Down Under Tag It

CES Challenges Create A Tag
Challenge Up Your Life Autumn Theme
Stampin For The Weekend Autumn Theme

The main image for this card is Cherry Tilda. She is coloured with Promarkers as follows:

Skin: Satin and Blush
Dress and Scarf: Pumpkin and Burnt Orange
Cherries: Berry Red
Leaves: Forest Green
Shoes, Bow and Dress Cuffs: Mustard and Sunflower

Hair: Cocca and Hema

The papers used are from the My Minds Eye: Bloom and Grow pack. These have then been matted and layered on to 2 different shades of brown card stock from Kanban Crafts.

The 'Happy Birthday' and 'With Love' sentiments are from a Papermainia pack, as are the coloured gems in the opposite corners, these were bought from The Range. I think this is also where the 'Friends' sentiement on the base of the card is from.

To finish the card I used some brown and orange ribbon which was part of a free gift which came with a magazine subscription.

Happy Crafting :o)

Getting In To Stamping

As a crafter you may think I am crazy when I say this but stamping is something I wasn't really a lover of until recently when I was introduced to the wonderful magnolia stamps that are Tilda and Edwin. I think they are adorable!!!
So yesterday while browsing a few blogs being relativly new to the whole blogging thing I discovered All The Things I Love which, had some blog candy up for grabs in the form of Apple Tilda.
Fingers crossed that my number 146 is the lucky one as to win would start off my stamp collection very nicely.

Nicola :o)

My First Blog

Ok, here goes! After my weekly craft session and much discussion I finally decided to give blogging a go, as I didn't manage to finish my creation for this week there is nothing to display :o(

I have heard about competitions from one of my Auntie's who also has a blog which has some cards that I think are out of this world on, go take a look if you haven't already: A Passion For Paper

I hope to have my card posted for you by this time next week, and hopefully will be able to remember the combination of Promarkers used so I can let you know.

Happy Crafting :o)