Honey - Krista Smith

Hi everyone

I not been about for the last couple of days due to visiting mum in the hospital and work of course.  No time and most of all no energy at all.  So I forced myself to get crafty this afternoon and guess what ... I tried colouring a particular image and got stuck on the hair. It was so bad I filled the bin with my attempts.  In the end I coloured up Honey and I got it right first time It is so frustrating....Anyway here goes

Ingredients

Paper - Nitwits

Image- Saturated Canary

Flowers-WOC and elsewhere LOL

Ribbon/pearl gems - my stash
Gold Glamour Dust
Ribbon pleated by me around the image

No sentiment this time and the inside is similar to front....

This has been entered into the following

Robyns Fetish - People 
Pans Pastel - Use a ribbon
Dies to Die for - Anything Goes

Hugz Elaine xx

Hayley and Harley - Krista Smith

Good morning.. I didn't realise it was so late LOL....

Tonight I have been concentrating on a commission, a birthday card for a special little girl.  I just love this image and I know she will too. I have spent most of the day up the hospital with my mum again so took on this project to take my mind of it all.. I struggled but I think it was worthwhile the effort.  I only have another 3 cards to work on but they are not needed for a couple of weeks so I can rest on my laurels and create when I feel like it LOL.

Here is all the gumphhhhhhh......

Ingredients

Image - Saturated Canary

Backing papers - Nitwits

Pearls, ribbon, glitter, gems - my stash

Flower - Sizzix

Spellbinders circles for the basic shapes including the letters inside

Sentiment and letters created on Word

The inside compliments the front 

This has been entered into the following
Dies to die for - Anything Goes

Hope you have enjoyed your visit and please drop by again 

Hugz Elaine xxx

Hatched, Matched & Dispatched - Gayle Cook,Teddy Bo & Co

Hi everyone

I have been home from work today not feeling too good and to keep myself occupied between sleeps I have chosen to make another simple card.  Good way to pass time and not too taxing for the brain.  LOL..

I have had this cute image for quite a while and to be honest had forgotten all about it.  I regained contact with it when browsing through my project book and felt the urge to print it there and then.  I used the title of the image as the cards' sentiment as I thought it quite catchy and amusing!

Ingredients

Image - Teddy Bo & Co (used prismacolor pencils)

Papers - Raspberry Road

Pearl gems, ribbon and lace - my stash

The inside compliments the front as per usual....

This has been entered into the following challenges

Pennys Paper Craft - Anything Goes

Thanks for dropping by and please call again ....

Hugz Elaine xxx

Whispy - Krista Smith

Happy Sunday Evening to you all

I have been working really slowly with this card today. mainly as I am tired and secondly I had to keep going back to it adding stuff LOL....

Ingredients

Image - Saturated Canary

Backing papers - My Memories

Corners, doily and edging - Nellie Snellen and Marianne Creatables

Pearl gems,heart die cuts, ribbon, glamour dust - my stash

Brads and hatpins  - WOC

Sentiment - myself in word

Butterflys - punched out and covered in glamour dust and teeny weeny gemstones 

Here she is (one of my very favourite images)...

This has been entered into the following challenges....
Allsorts - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Favorite Things 
Corrosive Challenge - Dimensions
Divas by Design - Wings and Things
Crafters Companion - Anything Goes 
Die-ing for a challenge - Anything Goes 
Pennys Paper Craft - Anything Goes

The inside is similar to the front of the card...Thankyou for dropping by and please call again.. oh and please feel free to leave comments as I get all excited LOL....


Hugz Elaine xxx

You and me baby - Christy Croll

Just a very quick post re a really quick card (not the colouring of the image though, that took a while! LOL).  I enlarged the image and coloured it up using my pencils.  I wanted to see how it looked much bigger than normal (for me that is!)The backing papers came from Lynn Call Designs, Russet passion.  I used Marianne Creatables die for the corners and the ribbon for the bow was from my stash. 

This has been entered into the following challenges

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Hope you enjoyed your visit and sleep well... I shall LOL....


Hugz Elaine xx

Wryn, New Nest - Christy Croll with Oval Flowers - Gayle Bond from Scrapbook Sisters

Hi all

Tonight I have used one of my prizes, yes prizes, from winning a challenge over at Scrapbook Sisters.  It has served two purposes actually, one I wanted to experiment with it and two I wanted to enter their latest challenge no 71, New Home.  So the best image to merge into the oval frame has got to be Wryn, New Nest from Tiddlyinks.

The backing papers are from Nitwits and all the diecuts are Spellbinders and Marianne Creatables. I created the sentiment in word. I used alot of glitter glue on the project along with gems from my stash.  Notice no ribbons flowers and bows.  Makes a change LOL.

The inside compliments the front

This has been entered into the following challenges

DYSU - Layers

Thankyou for dropping by and have a good evening.

Hugz Elaine xxx

Cast your spell - Christy Croll

Tonight I have been making this card for this weeks  
Tiddlyinks challenge of Sparkle it up. 
One stitch at a time - Anything Goes


I used Cast your spell by Christy Croll as I felt it appropriate for sparkle!  I coloured the image with my prismacolor pencils.  I loaded it with glamour dust and teeny weeny gems from my stash.  The backing papers are from My Memories

The ribbons from my stash are also sparkled up with my teeny weeny gems. The sentiments were ticket style but I cut them up tiny and layered two of them.  Around the edge of one of the layed I pleated the organza ribbon to add another dimension to my project.... The inside has also been treated in a similar way, as usual....

Well that is it from me tonight.. I do hope you enjoyed your visit tonight

Hugz Elaine xxx

Born to Ride - Karens Doodles

This is a real quickie tonight.  I was asked by a colleague to put together a mans 50th birthday card.. I just loathe making mens cards as one cannot really overdo the embellies.  This one has none.  I just couldn't think what to do with it so left it alone LOL...

Ingredients

Backing Papers from My Memories

Image - Karens Doodles

Sentiment generated in word.

Gosh that was quick lol...

Have a good evening all and will be back real soon!  I hope...

Hugz Elaine x

Breaking News

Just wanted to share that my Bride and Groom card won last weeks challenge @ Scrapbook Sisters... YAYYYYYYYYY!

To Grammys - Mo Manning

Yayyyyyyyy one down, one to go

And here is what I have been working on. I used To Grammys to depict leaving...I won't go on and on so here is the gumphhhhhh...

Ingredients

Image - Mo Manning (prismacolor pencils)

Flowers - Mulberry crafts and WOC

Corners, lace border, leaves - spellbinders and Marianne Creatables

Sentiments - microsoft word

Lace, ribbon and gems - my stash

Distress stickles and distress inks  

This card has been entered into Robyn's Fetish Square card challenge ...

And of course the inside compliments the front

Well thats it for me right now as need to think about the next one LOL

Hope you are all having a good evening

Hugz Elaine xxx

Good day all....

Sorry for being absent for a couple of days but I have been busy preparing to create two leaving cards and I am engrossed as you can well imagine.  I wil be posting them when I am done so will be back here as soon as .. 

Hope you are all well 

Hugz Elaine xxx

Bride and Groom - Mo Manning

Good evening all

Tonight I have finally made it to my personal area of pleasure...my craft table!  I felt a moment of romance fall over me (it doesn't happen all that often LOL)  and decided to make up a wedding card.  Well I had finally purchased Mo Mannings, Bride and Groom after longing and drooling over it for quite a while now.  So here they are with all the embellishments I could find to use on it lol.

Ingredients

Image - Bride and Groom coloured with Prismacolor pencils, covered in glamour dust and used crystals on the dress and grooms waistcoat

Organza ribbon, pearl gems and pearl strands - my stash

Bow made by lil ol me

Roses - handmade by me using the organza ribbon with pearls in the centers

Butterflies punched out, glittered up and adorned with tiny light green crystal gems to pull out the colour of the grooms waistcoat

metal corners - WOC

Organza ribbon pleated to look lacy and placed by me to fancy up the image
 

The inside compliments the front

This card has been entered into the following challenges

Robyns Fetish - Square cards
Flutter by Wednesday - Butterfly, fairy or angel 
Mo Digital Pencil - Bingo (Lace Glitter pearls) 
PanPastelUk - Love and Romance 
Crafty Calender - Love/Marriage 
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes 
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes 
The Paper Shelter - Be my Valentine 
Joanna Sheen - Love is in the air

Well thats it for me tonight... need to get stuff ready for work tomorrow.. YUK!

Nighty nite all and take care xxx

Baby Girl s - Mo Manning

Hi everyone

I do hope you are all enjoying your Saturday evening.  Today all I have done is a little housework and shopping and the rest of the time relaxing with the television and popping over to my craft area.  I need to relax as yesterday all I seemed to do was sort out my mothers banking and trying to get some sort of order before the awful time comes.  After spending at least an hour in the bank I was mentally drained.  I headed back to the car and my head was all over the place and something at the back at my mind was telling me to look at my car documents... which I did as soon as I got back to my car.  Good job I did... My MOT was due to run out on Valentines day....Managed to get it booked in and it ended up costing me £180 which is not too bad really.. just could have done without the expense.  I could have bought loads of crafty items for that LOL.

Anyway it is pretty obvious I have another card to put up here as I just cannot leave it alone...  I felt like making a Christening card and I wanted to keep it simple.. so I did!

Ingredients

Image - Baby Girls S, Mo Manning

Papers - my stash

Ribbon, pearl gems and butterflies - my stash

Sentiment verse - free on the internet

The inside compliments the front as always

This card has been entered into the following challenges

Robyns Fetish - Square cards

I hope you all enjoyed peeking at this and I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend....I will peacefully!  Please feel free to leave comments as I like to read them.

Hugz Elaine xxx

Birthday Balloon Boy - Sassy Cheryl

Hi all 

Another quickie tonight.  I suddenly felt the urge to make a little boys birthday card and I have to admit I quite liked the simplicity of it all for a change LOL.  I chose an image by  Sassy Cheryl called Birthday Balloon Boy.  He is such a cutie, well I think so anyway.  The backing papers are from Nitwits and the buttons and twine from my stash.  I coloured this little cutie using my promarkers (after dusting them off LOL) and prismacolor pencils.  I used distress ink for the clouds.  I used Microsoft word for the sentiment.  The inside compliments the outside as usual.  Well how simple was that......

I have a two grandsons who would love this card so who knows it may just get used for one of their birthdays this year.

This card has been entered into this weeks Allsorts challenge of Free and Easy.

Thats it for me tonight...

Goodnight and God Bless xxx

Nevaeh - Krista Smith

Yayyy it is more than halfway through the working week.....Tonight I am sharing with you a yet another of Krista's images and one I have done a few times now.  This one is a commision for a colleague at work and  Nevaeh was chosen for her sultry look.  Actually I think she is absolutely gorgeous.  Pink and grey is the theme chosen so here she is.  I hope you like her (actually I hope my colleague does too LOL)

Ingredients

Papers  - Aisnee Smith 

Image - Saturated Canary Pearl 

gems and ribbon - my stash 

leaves - spellbinder 
Flowers WOC ( I think!) 

Image coloured using prisma pencils and the background similar to front of card.

I know I never leave really long posts and the only excuse I have is that I like to be crafting and surfing the net for new products and ideas.  I am a sad old bint as my life evolves around cardmaking LOL... even my day job gets in the way... cannot wait to retire LOL

Thishas been entered into this weeks Allsorts challenge of Free and Easy Allsorts challenge of Free and Easy

Hope you all have a wonderful evening and I will pop back here soon....

Hugz Elaine xxx