New Sugar Nellie!

What a miserable day it is today in France! Everyone keeps saying to me "it must remind you of England", obviously as the english weather has a reputation for being rotten over here! What can I say, it's November so we can hardly expect 30°c and glorious sunshine! Never mind, just the kind of weather to stay indoors, nice and cosy, doing a bit of crafting!

Here's a little card I did for the Spoonfull of Sugar Challange 24, which is a sketch from Trina. I like the sketch as it's not often we see tall cards used for sketches, most are square! I used my new Sugar Nellie (got a few from Funky Kits this week), another cutie from Elizabeth Bell. Most of what I used is from my stash, the distressed look on the card was done using pigment inks, I used distress inks to colour the image.


Thanks for taking a peek, have a fab weekend!

For Daniel!

I've made this little card for Daniel's Birthday, he'll be eleven on the 7th November. Daniel is Claire's son; she asked on her blog if anyone would be interested in sending a card to Daniel. He has a mild form of autism and therefore finds it difficult to socialise with other children. So naturally I agreed to do a card for Daniel so here it is...


The image is one from Sugar Nellie, I coloured it with w/c pencils. Joyeux Anniversaire stamp is from a local shop (bargain for 1 euro), "Daniel" is hand written.

I'm going to pop off to the post office now to get it sent to Daniel! Happy Birthday Daniel!

Finally...a couple of new cards!

Ok, I admit it, I've been a bad blogger recently. I just haven't had much time to craft, and then of course I messed up my blog etc (won't bore you with all the details). I've missed visiting all your blogs so seeing as the weather has been rubbish today, I finally had time to get in a bit of crafting! It seems like ages since I did a card! So now I have something to put on my blog! It took me ages to find some inspiration for my cards, I must be out of practice. The first one is for the New Magnolia Vs Stampavie Blog, it's a sketch which is cool! I've used one of my new Tildas, Nostalgia Warm paper pack from Papermania...



I coloured the image using Distress Inks, but I put some sparkly paint on it too. You can just about make it out on the detail pic...



The second card is for Friday Sketchers blog, sketch #26 by Jacqueline. The image is a RAK, it's from Sugar Nellie. Rest is from stash. I don't do very many bright cards, I'm not sure about this one, maybe just a bit too much colour for me...


Thanks for being patient, I know my blog hasn't been very interesting lately!

A Nightmare with my blog!

I've changed everything, lost half of it and don't like most of it! I give up!!! Well for today at least! I've wasted a couple of hours trying to change my blog background etc and so for the time being I'm leaving it plain! I can't decide what to do with it and as I've got LOADS to do (no housework's been done either) it's gonna have to wait! Sorry!

New Look Blog but NO Crafting!

It's Halloween night and as I've had NO (yep you heard right) Trick or Treating going on I decided to have a bit play with my blog. I had started to get bored with the look of my blog and wanted to change the header too, even though I adored the little kitten on it (he's hiding in the sidebar for a bit). So I went for a bit of a colourful combination seeing as the gloom of winter is fast approaching; not sure if I like it all that much, haven't decided yet. Anyway, it's a change, for the time being.

On the crafting/cardmaking front, I haven't done any cards for a few days (a miracle for me), I've been really busy at work and have been to Paris for a few days (work not pleasure - sob, sob...) so just haven't had the energy or creativity to do a card. I'm gonna have to get on with one tomorrow though as I'm invited to a 25th Birthday party, betta get my thinking cap on! I'll try to be back soon with the card!

Happy Halloween Cards!

I've done two cards for two different challenges, one is for A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge where the theme (until tomorrow) is Halloween, the other is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the brief is "Bump in the Night". As I only have two Halloweeny stamps, both from Penny Black, I used them on both cards. My imagination was zero, so there's not a huge difference between the two. I also didn't have any Halloween type paper so I found the paper on the web as a free download on a site called Papercrave.com. I really like the skulls, they're quite funky. There's not many embellishments on them, a bit ribbon and pumpkin brads. The two stamps are called "Bare Trees" and "In the Woods". I distressed the stamped images with Distress Inks (Spiced Marmalade and Black Soot).



Incase you're interested, the sentiment on the french card reads "Cast a spell for Halloween". Thanks for looking x

Friday Sketchers - Sketch # 25

I'm on a roll with the Christmas cards this week (gotta get on)! So I've used the very user friendly sketch from Claudia over at Friday Sketchers for this card! Again I've gone for one of my cutie teddies from Penny Black, they're adorable! And so nice to colour! So here he is, checking out what Santa's left in his stocking!



I used:
- "Stuffing Stocking" stamp, Penny Black
- Distress Inks to colour
- Paper from Dovecraft
- Cuttlebug "Snowflakes" embossing folder
- Sentiment stamp from See D's
- Rest from Stash

I like the Christmas colours, but I think this is missing a snowflake or ponsettia embellishment or something. I've looked for online shops where I might find some nice Christmassy embellies, but not found much! Can anyone enlighten me - PLEASE! It's giving me a headache looking! If you know of anywhere, please let me know! Thanks x