Happy Birthday Freya and a bit of upcycling

Hi there, gosh, two posts in a week, I'm on a roll lol.

First I'd like to share a card I made yesterday with an older Tilda stamp, so old I'm not actually sure what she's called, my bad.  I've coloured her with distress inks and added a little bit of frantage around her and stardust stickles on her pinny and the flower.  The sentiment was computer generated.

The card is for a friend of my daughter.  She's called Freya but everyone calls her Frezpot, so a nice bit of personalisation for her.  I know she loves blue so I made sure that was the more prominent colour.  Everything is from my stash which I'm desperately trying to use up so I can buy myself some more bits and bobs.  I followed a sketch from mojo monday which helped me along with my layout.

The next couple of pics show a project I've just finished today.  Waste not want not as they say, so I decorated an old plastic iPhone case with bits from my stash.  I intend to fill it with some homemade crunchie fudge and give it to Freya for her birthday.

Hope you like my little shares today, thank you for visiting my little blog

Challenges: The Ribbon Girl September Colour Challenge Blue

                    Marvelous Magnolia Challenge 102 Anyone for MORE anything goes

Just to say Thank You

Good morning lovely bloggers, how are you all this morning?

Now then, a little something to share with you all.  From when I was just a little nipper, I was brought up to appreciate everything, and to say thank you when someone has shown me kindness, so I've always got a pack of thank you cards or paper in my house ready to write and send.  Sometimes, however, when I have been reduced to a blubbering wreck because of a great kindness, I like to send an extra special thank you card which speaks for itself and doesn't need many words, so this brings me onto todays card.

I've made this card for my great Auntie, who, no matter what, is always there to lend an ear, and is ALWAYS able to offer the most amazing advice.

Drip Drop Tilda is one of my favourite Tilda's - drops of rain have already started to fall but her tilted head and expression tells me she still can't decide whether to put her brolly up or not, lol. I've coloured her up with DI's, added a LOTV postmark or 2 and also 'sprinkled' a little frantage around her - I love this stuff.

The pinky/peachy flowers are from WOC and I've rolled the green ones myself with a Marianne die.  All flowers have a generous helping of twinklets.  I've added some gorgeous lace behind the image from LLC and used a doohickly lace border die also - this was also used to make the tags.  The butterfly was cut from a quickutz revolution die and I've added a coupla little buttons on it from my stash.

I bought some fluffy socks the other day to make some sock snow people, previously posted, and the ribbon used for the bow was wrapped around the socks - ha, don'tcha just love it when they do that - freebies, yey, lol.

As usual my papers are very old stock from Craft Creations, apart from the gingham paper, which is a digi paper which was downloaded from Bevs Blog here.  All the pearls are from my stash.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Totally Tilda - Buttons and Bows

Marvelous Magnolia - Give Thanks

Tilda's Town - Favourite Tilda

Crafty Little Fairies - TOTP Song Inspired - (drip drip drop little) April Showers from Disneys Bambi

Thank you for visiting my little blog today

Tilda Hiding Gift

Well I gotta tell you that todays card seemed to take an age to finish.  I had an idea in my head how I wanted it to look, but for some reason, it's nothing like I imagined lol, ahh well, never mind - I'm still happy with it - I think.

I made it specifically for the Live & Love Crafts current challenge which is a Christmas Inspiration Collage. Now then, as soon as I saw this piccie I just fell in love with the metalic looking Christmas trees, so decided to make my own to add onto the card - complete with star toppers and all.  I just cut a couple of different size scallop circles in core'dinations cardstock, then cut them right through the middle. I then folded them to form like a little clown hat, glued them, them popped one on top of the other, added a little star, and a generous helping of snowtex, and then voila - little trees, heehee.

I cut the glass looking baubles out of acetate with a spellbinders bauble die, covered them in crackle accents and edged them with snowtex, then added a cuttlebug snowflake and WOC grey rose in the center of each. All the other flowers are also from WOC.  I got the idea for the 3D stars, which are just covering my Whimsy snowflakes, from Create & Craft when I was watching an episode featuring LOTV products.  Dawny made a gorgeous star wreath using just a bog standard star shape but folded them to create the 3D effect.

I made my own version of the sticky out tag from a doohickey border die as I don't have a tag die atm, so I improvised with what I already own.  Think it turned out ok.

Gorgeous Tilda Hiding Gift (my most favourite Tilda stamp of them all) hasbeen coloured with my Prisma Pencils this time and then covered in Stardust Stickles.  No Christmas card is complete without that stuff, lol.

Well, I'm off to do the usual household chores, then a bit of colouring me thinks.  No workie for me today.

Thanks for your visit.

Challenges I'm entering

Live & Love Crafts - Christmas Inspiration Collage
Totally Tilda Challenge - Add a postmark (photo hasn't picked it up very well, but they are there next to the image - I promise

Pink - and a lot of it

Hello my lovelies, I hope you're all keeping well.

Todays card has been made using the gorgeous Raining Hearts Tilda, which a very sweet blogging friend send to me (mwaaaah - you know who you are xxx) so I could try out some different watercolour paper.  I wasn't overly chuffed with the stuff I had for watercolouring and tbh, I was using my prisma pencils on it as it just didn't blend well at all with distress ink.  Probably got something to do with the fact that I'm a novice and need a little more time to move the ink around.  Anyhow, the paper used today is Langton, and I must say, it's fab, just fab - totally love it, and it didn't take me long to decide that's what I'm gonna use in future - although hubby says I have to use my current stash up first - pah, yeah right, I'll be here all year, lol!!!!!!!

Anyhow, I was asked to make this for a real girly girls 4th birthday - hence the overpowering injection of pink - hmmm, yeah I know, bit in your face for me but hey, the customer is always right - I think!!!!!

Like I said, the image was supplied by a blogging friend (x) and I've coloured her up with distress ink refills. I've used a large gardenia flower and some cherry blossoms from the amazing Wild Orchid Crafts and a doily and cheesecloth from Live and Love Crafts.  Again the papers I've had for ages, but I think the deep pink in the background is from Craft Creations along with the balloons - tuther paper stuff I ain't got a clue, lol.

The prezzies and cake are quickcutz dies that I found in a drawer - oopsie.  I cut a cheery lynn kiwi doily die out of the same pink paper, distressed it and layered it on top of the white doily just to break the white up a bit. The butterflies are a mixture of Martha Stewart, Joy and Memory Box.  I actually wish I'd matted them between the paper layers rather than on the top but hey, hindsight is a wonderful thing lol.  The little puffy clouds are also Memory Box dies.

Well that's it from me for today, I'm on a roll atm with Christmas cards, so I'm gonna get on before my mojo disappears out the window.

I'm entering this card into the current Marvelous Magnolia challenge - Birthday Bash. and Tilda's Town - Anything goes.

Have a lovely day

1st Christmas Card - Halo Angel

Good afternoon crafty people

Well, I've actually finished my first Christmas Card.  I've seen sooooo many around blogland lately I started feeling all Christmassy, and as the weather had turned wet and cooler, I decided to make a festive card.  I was going to chuck this image in the bin as she was inked up with distress inks yonks ago and I didn't like the colour, but then I found some papers that kinda went with her (and I discovered frantage, hee hee) and then I decided she didn't look that bad - apart from the attempt at dress pleats that is, rofl.

The papers are from Dovecraft, Vintage Christmas I think.  I've recycled some sparkly tulle that I ripped off last years Christmas crackers to make a little bow, and popped a rose on from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The little orange apples (I think they're apples) were a delightful free gift from Live and Love Crafts which arrived with the frantage, cheesecloth and lace which I've also used on this card.  The swirl is a Marianne Design die.

I'm going to enter this card into the current Live and Love Crafts Challenge number 14 Warm or Cool Colours.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Need More Tilda's

Hullooooo, I hope everybody is keeping lovely and warm inside, and keeping away from the bitter cold outside.  I know I certainly am.  I'm very lucky to work from home in Partnership with my hubby who is a Bricklaying Contractor.  He does the hard manual labour and I do the easy paperwork from our home office, which is of course, fantastic.  As soon as I'm caught up with paperwork, I can sit and play around colouring images - that is after I've picked all the kids dirty washing up off the floor, made the beds, put the fire on, hoovered through, had my own breakfast etc, etc.  Honestly I don't know how I had the time to actually go out to full time work all those years ago - hats off to all those ladies that still manage to do it, in this busy day and age.

So aaanyhow, I bore you no more with my waffle, here is another card made using Tilda with Hellebores (again, lol).

It probably looks a little bit repetitive to the last card I made with this image apart from the colour but I'm saving hard to add to my embellishment and stamp collection, so hopefully down the line they will look completely different.

I'm still in the process of trying to decide which paper I like to use for my distress ink and which I like to use for Prisma Pencils.  I haven't got a full set of either the inks or pencils yet, but as soon as I have and I've decided which I prefer I'll update my preferences.

I'd coloured her hair with di's, along with the dress, but the colour on the dress just wasn't right for the paper so I re-coloured over it with Prisma's (and now the photie makes it look purple, lol, ah well, never mind). I've used Wild Orchid Crafts cherry blossoms in ivory and 15mm grey open roses.  The burgandy roses (large and small) are from Craft Creations from my very old, first starting out, stash.  Since then I discovered WOC so the majority of flower purchases are now from there.

I've used a dovecraft doilie which is actually cream but looks white, purchased from Hobbycraft.  The butterflies are a Joy Crafts die (had for ages), and the little round black gems were from ebay.  I've used a spellbinders floral oval and matted my image on the top.  I've had the paper for an age so not sure where I acquired it - but will try and locate, then update.

I'm hopefully going to start putting those little piccies on the bottom of my post with 'card ingredients', but I've not quite got the hang of it yet.  Becky has kindly blogged how to do it, so as soon as I get chance I'm gonna go through it stage by stage and hopefully be successful at the end, lol.

Well that's all from me for now my lovelies, whatever you're doing today, have a smashing day and stay safe.

Loving Bridal Couple

As promised, here's a card I made for a one of my mum's friends, Grandson's wedding, phew - did you get all that, lol.

I love this image.  The card can be dressed up to the nines for a full blown wedding with all the trimmings or it can be kept very simple for a beach themed wedding.  I wasn't sure exactly what sort of wedding Kirsty and Adam were having so I tried to achieve the 'in-between' look, rofl.

I like the way, on some blogs I follow, that there are 'ickle boxes at the end of the post with links directly to the ingredients used but I don't know how to do that yet, so I'm going to follow Fleurs example and list them with a link to save a lot of unnecessary waffle - us Cumbrians can talk y'know.

Ingredients (lol, love that expression):-

Image - Magnolia Loving Bridal Couple
Image Colour - DI's

DP's - Authentique Uncommon

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts (as per)

Swirly thing and Heart - Spellbinders

Alphabet Stamps were from The Range I do believe but you can get these cheap enough from ebay and the like

Pearls, Glitter and Stickles from my stash

Well that's all for now - have a lovely evening and I'll see you again soon.

Tilda with Hellebores

Hello there, just a quickie today, I actually made this card  for a friends birthday, and didn't think for one second that I would start blogging so didn't make a note of anything I used, therefore details may be a little vague.

It's a darling little Magnolia image called Tilda with Hellebores which you can purchase here.  She was coloured with di's.

All the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and they have been splattered with white acrylic paint and glamour dust.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the butterfly and a Marianne Design die for the key which also received a bit of the acrylic paint treatment.  I drew around one of my baking cutters for the heart and cut it out by hand. Sentiment is a Whimsy stamp and die cut.  If I've missed anything out just let me know.

I'm also going to try and enter this card into Wild Orchid Challenge 66 - Anything Goes - my very first challenge entry so wish me luck that I link up properly etc etc lol.

That's all for now folks - told you it was a quickie!!!!