Sketch Saturday #170 Joy with Fluffy Stuff...

Happy Saturday peoples!!

Hope you are all okay? 

its time for another YUMMY Sketch Saturday Sketch.... YAY!!

Heres my DT card...

I've used some new stash for this... the super cute Gorjuss stamp, which I got from Quixotic Paperie...

I've stamped her with Rich Cocoa ink, instead of black for a bit of a change...

and coloured with promarkers...

The papers are MME, and Prima.

Can you see the fluffy snow on the tree and the 'ground'???

I was lucky enough to win a £10 Joanna Sheen voucher a couple of weeks ago at the Glitter Geeks challenge 

and I bought a snow maker pen... OMG how fun is it watching it puff up!!?

I think I went over the top a bit with it, but I like the effect...

I also bought the scattered text stamp which I've used for the circle background... its by creative expressions.

heres a side view... you can see the 'snow' a bit better I think...

The 'Joy' is alphabet stickers from a crate paper kit

I've cut the lace border with a martha stewart punch....

and to finish added my 'usuals' don't need to say it anymore...lol!

Hope you like??

We are sponsored this week by the Craft Barn 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Samuel Taylors - Christmas with a rubber stamp

Wags and Whiskers - Outdoor Fun

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today!!

Paula xx

Boy oh boy...

Evenin' all....

I do hope you are all having a wonderful week so far! 

The weather has been positively glorious here today... hope everyone else is having some sunshine too!?

its my turn to share some inspiration over on the Simply Sassy blog today, and I thought we'd have something different....

a BOY'S card..

 I've used No 1 fan

just look at his cheeky little face!! I LOVE him!!

Did you know he can come and live with you for just £4.29!!! 

then you can pinch his little cheeks as much as you like!!

I've coloured him with promarkers and pencils
The papers are all MME, mostly from the same pad, which is unlike me!
The happy birthday sentiment is from a cuddly buddly set, which the lovely Jane bought me
 (Thanks Jane!!... yep she is too generous!!)
and the alphabet stickers are crate paper from the orbit collection...

The arrow and the bracket are from the greeting farm spotlight kit... LOL!!! you are so sick of me saying that arent you!!??? 

I sat this card on my desk last night, and I couldn't help feeling there was just a little bit of something missing....

SO I just cut the little tabs at the top and bottom, and it really made a difference!!

other than a bit of doodling, and the enamel accents... thats about it...

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges...

A spoonful of sugar - Happy Birthday

Cards for men - Anything goes

Stamps r us - Anything goes

Sentimental Sundays - Birthday

Sprakles forum - For the boys

Thanks for visiting!

Paula xx

Timeless Tickled Pink Anniversary card...

Hello all!!

Hope you've had a lovely weekend??? hasn't been too bad here weatherwise... although today its a bit sticky... bit too warm in my craft room :(

Today I'm sharing my Hubby's Anniversary card.... 

Its a month away yet... but I had an idea so went with it while I was inspired...

I love these Tickled Pink Victorian Steampunk images SO much... and thought these 2 were perfect together... I merged them (only a tiny bit) in my graphics program, and enlarged them so they would be the focal point of my card...

You can grab Evie and Luca HERE

I've coloured them with promarkers and pencils... 

The Stripy paper is MME and the Blue paper is Prima...

I stamped the border on the blue panel with the stempelglede grunge scroll.

The clock was a freebie DIGI

 (at the moment I'm struggling to find the link of where I got it... I will update as soon as I can)

I printed it onto Kraft and attached some black chain to it (this was off an old top!!, I'm all for recycling!)

The heart is handcut from red cardstock, and glazed...

I added a flower to Evies hair... a hand written sentiment, and some doodling and enamel accents....

and thats it!!

I've made this card with the following challenges in mind....

Tickled Pink - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Masculine card

Fabulous Fridays - Clocks and Timepieces

Shopping our stash - Red, Ribbon or roses

Cards for men - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by tonight....

Paula xxx

Sketch Saturday Sweetness!

Well Hello there! Thanks for visiting me today!!

I hope you are all well, and have a lovely weekend planned??

Nothing planned here, Hubby has been at work virtually non stop over the summer hols, and it looks like he will be busy for at least the next week..... sigh!!

Anyway... onwards with the show...

We all know what Saturday means don't we...

YEP, another FABBY Sketch Saturday Sketch...

I'll be honest, when I looked at this weeks, I thought I was going to struggle, I'm not usually too good at working with 'wonky' sketches... LOL!! but this came together fairly easily...

The Gorgeous 'Some Odd Girl' Stamp was a Birthday pressie from the gorgeous Jane!!

 (Thanks again Jane!! MWAH!)

You would not believe the bad luck I've had with this stamp... I stamped her out a couple of weeks ago, along with others on the same paper, was colouring another image up, and dropped a purple promarker right on her face!!! Then last week stamped her again, and ended up dropping the paper on the floor where the dog had just come in with muddy paws!!

I thought she was just determined she wasn't going on a card!!

Third time lucky though...phew!!

I created a background paper using Kraft card, which I stamped random cupcake images on... 

(The cupcake stamp came in a set with the 'you're so sweet' sentiment which Jane bought me for last years Birthday!!! Thanks again Jane!!! I think it was elzybells)

I coloured all the little cupcakes with pencils, and added a few dots of enamel accents...

The other papers are MME from various collections... 

except for the black and white dotty strips, which were again made using one of the accessories from the greeting farm spotlight kit.

I stamped another cupcake, coloured with promarkers, and added a little heart on top!

The 'Thanks' sentiment is from CC designs (Amy R summer set)

To finish I added some flowers from my stash, some doodling, and some more enamel accents...

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges....

Simon Says Stamp - Food and Drink

Tip Top Tuesday - Thanks

Creative stamp Friends - Create your own background

Hooked on crafts - Sweet treats

The Crafty Pad - Cute and Girly

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Paula xxx

A Sassy Hello! And A Simple Cloud Tutorial...

Good Morning all!!How goes it?

Did you see I'd posted a tutorial over on the Simply Sassy blog this morning?

Its on how I create a chalked cloud backgound... 

Now I have to say there are MUCH better ones out there, but I wanted to show an EASY version...

pop over there and have a looksie...

Heres a card I've made using the Chalked clouds... 

The GORGEOUS Simply Sassy stamp is Hippie Chick 

I've coloured her with my usual promarkers and pencils...

The papers are all sorts... MME, Bo Bunny, Echo park, Prima...

I've tried to make it look like she is holding a flower... this was a bit fiddly, I had to pierce holes through the image... think I might have pulled it off though...

I've created some 'grass' for her to sit on with my promarkers... and then doodled 3 flower stems...

I punched some butterflies... and added some doodling and enamel accents....

And that's about it!....

 I followed the sketch over at - Crafting Lifes Pieces

I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes - Just Saying Hi

The Stamp Man - Anything goes (summer colours)

My Mum's Craft Shop - Summer
Flutterby - punches/diecuts

Thanks so much for all the lovely comments and emails you've been sending me!!  

I do kind of feel like I've found my mojo at long last!! remember when I was only posting on here once a week!?!?

I'll be back Saturday with my Sketch Saturday card!!

Paula xxx

Have a groovy day....All white?

 Two posts in one day???

I know!! I've shocked myself!
Please scroll down for my Simply Sassy Spotlight card...

I was going to save this for tomorrow, but its been made with challenges in mind and I'm so near to the deadline on one of them!!

So... Simon Says Stamp are looking for all white cards... SO not in my comfort zone, but I had to give it a go...

Heres my card... photo is not the best, its difficult enough to capture white cards anyway, but because I've added loads of sparkle, it was SO much worse!!

I have to say, I quite like this card...(it looks SO much better IRL)

The GORGEOUS Stamp is Friday from the Greeting Farm (I got her from Quixotic Paperie)

Isn't she FABULOUS??? 

I've coloured her with promarkers and pencils...

I created the middle panel with a stamp from the greeting farm spotlight set, and heat embossed it with starlight embossing powder... you can't see the shimmer too well in the photo, but it looks SO cool!

I haven't heat embossed for YEARS, and I forgot how exciting it is watching the powder change... 

yeah, I need to get out more!

The sentiment is from CC designs Amy R summer sentiments set...

I added a bit of enamel... cos I just couldn't leave the card as it was!

and added some extra glitter ..... here's a close up...

I'd also like to enter this card into the following challenges...

Crafters Companion - Glitter and Glitz

Sir Stampalot - Whatever you fancy

Creative stamp friends - Create your own background

Challenge up your Life - no patterned paper

Cute Card Thursday - Clean and Simple

Thanks for visiting!!

Paula xxx

It's my turn in the Simply Sassy Spotlight...

Good Morning peoples!!
Blimey its all go on here at the moment eh?
Hope you are not getting fed up with me yet??

Well, today I have some SUPER exciting news... the Simply Sassy Spotlight is shining on little ole me!!
So pop over to see the cards Maria has picked out to show you (arrggghhhh embarrasing!)

As part of the spotlight procedure (sounds a bit medical!)
I had to create a new Sassy card... and HERE it is my friends....

The butterfly came first on this one... I was messing about stamping onto acetate... and I stamped the spotty butterfly from the greeting farm spotlight kit onto it...

(are you sick of seeing me use this kit?... truthfully I don't have a huge amount of stash, so I do tend to use the same stuff over and over, AND theres SO much in it, and I love it...so there!)

The butterfly body is just a pin, with paper wrapped around it, and 2 bits of wire...simples!!

After I made it, I realised how well it would go with the blue spotty paper from the Prima - Moulin Rouge set... so I ran with that....

The GORGEOUS stamp is Butterfly Girl by Simply Sassy... I LOVE her... just look at the expression on her face!! SO adorable!

I coloured her to match the floral paper....

I created the spotty tabs at the bottom, using one of the border strip stamps from the....sigh.....greeting farm spotlight set.... I just stamped it a few times, and then cut tabs from it...

The sentiment stamp is cats life press which you can get from Crafty Emmas Store

I created the cloud background using chalks.... more about this later in the week ;)

doodling (of course) and enamel (of course) and I'm done!

I followed Maria's Sketch over at the Sugar Bowl.... AGAIN!! (and rotated it... again!)

And I'd also like to enter the following challenges...

Crafty Pad - Cute and girly

CES - Mix and match papers

Craft your days away - Birthday

Card Making Mama's - Birthday cards

Thanks for visiting!!

and thanks Maria, for spotlighting me!!

Paula

xxx