POCKET LETTER # 2

Hi Peeps,

I am here with my second only Pocket Letter. I have made it for the FAERY INK Competition over on their FB page.
All the images are from Faery Ink and are coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.
The idea was to make a 'Themed' PL so I went for FAIRIES.

I made a stick pin for the side and attached beads and charms to the ribbons.

I am still not sure exactly what I am doing with these PL but I enjoyed my colouring in :-D  LoL

Challenges I am entering:

Faery Ink FaceBook Pocket Letter Competition  *** WINNER ***

NO MORE VALENTINE's SMOOSH... OK ? !!!!!

Happy Sunday Peeps,

I am here with my piece for a Progressive Challenge that is going on at Sandra Caldwell's FB Fan Page. I have used  "Bee Fido Puppy " for my creation. I printed him 3 times and then coloured him with Spectrum Noir pens. I then fussy cut him and mounted the pieces with foamies to make him 3D.
The background papers are from a set by FLOPPY LATTE called ' Love Blooms' but it seems that this one is no longer available.  Other digis by FL can be found at STITCHYBEAR STAMPS.
I put glossy accents on the bee bodies and Stickles on their wings.

The honeycomb is done with a Marianne Design Extra embossing folder complete with die cutter :-)

I used my tiny Studio G alphabet stamps for the wording.

That's me for Valentine's now..... NOooooo more !!!!!

Thanks for popping in xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Sandra Caldwell Designs FB Progressive Challenge #1 - Round 2 

Susan's Blogaversary Candy Contest 

FLYING THINGS

Hello Peeps,

I am back in today with another piece I made for Challenges.

I tried playing around with that masking tape and ink pads technique that I played with the other day. This time I remembered to put the tape in both directions. I inked it up using 3 different shades of red.
Then I removed the tape and used my Rubbadubbadoo stamps set called "A Bank Whereon". I stamped the poem several times and then stamped the bird on the right.
The main image is a rubber stamp from De_Stempelwinkel but I don't know what she is called as it was given to me by a friend. I coloured her with Spectrum Noir pens and then cut her out. I added some Stickles on her wings but it doesn't show much on the picture.

I folded the card to make a small Z fold on the right. I used my Big Shot to cut some ferny leaves and then used the negative part to stamp through onto the card with green ink. I stuck the ferns on and added some flowers that I bought the other day from my local haberdashers :-)

The Poem is by William Shakespear from A Midsummer Night's Dream :

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and nodding violet grows

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania some time of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight......"

Thanks for dropping in - I'm off out with the dog now :-D  xxxxx

Challenges I am entering;

De_Stempelwinkel Stampers Challenge #3 - Things That Fly
Challenge up your Life #34 - No designer paper

TEENSY INCHIE ART #3

Here I am with another INCHIE for the latest Challenge over at EVERY INCHIE MONDAY and the Theme this weeks is "Slippers". This would actually be week 5 and I have every intention of doing weeks 1 - 3 so I can keep up my collection. I will post them all together at the end of the year :-D
This week I have used 'Bunny Slippers' Paper & Digi pack from DOODLE PANTRY. This cute little set is actually on the FREEBIES page !! :-D  

I made a little black card easel-ette to display my inchies on for photographing, as they are pretty hard to do otherwise :-D

Here's a close-up......

This is the Digi Kit that I used.............................

Thanks for dropping in :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Every Inchie Monday Feb 8 - Slippers

THOSE DARN CATS !!

Happy Saturday Peeps,

I am still on my mission to use Freebies that I take and here today I am using one I got from Angie Addison. She has a FB Group HERE.
I printed out the cupcake several times and then coloured them with Copics and Spectrum Noir pens. 
Then I drew a cake stand on a piece of acetate so that it looks like it's made of glass.
My background was made by smooshing an ink pad onto a perspex stamp block and spritzing with water. Then I slapped it onto a piece of card :-) I went around the side panels using the stamp pad direct onto the card.

I think you might be able to see my attempted glass effect in this one.....

So anyway - whilst I was doing this, I was making some cookies for friends to have with coffee later. I took them out of the oven and put them on a rack to cool. Then I popped down to my craft room to photograph my card.

Would you believe it ????!!!!...........................................

I go back upstairs and 3 of my Kitties are up there, helping themselves to fresh baked cookies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Aaaaarrrrggggggh !!

Well - I guess I will open a packet of biscuits then !!

This small inconvenience produced my second card.................................

I bought this Penny Black stamp from a friend and had coloured it up with Copics to use on something else, but needless to say, they were slapped onto this card instead !!!!  :-D

Hey - Ho !!!

Thanks for dropping in.

Challenges I am entering:

Angie Addison FaceBook Group Challenge - Love

A Gem of a Challenge #162 - Love is in the Air

Creative Fingers Challenge #102 - AG

Kitty Bee Designs Challenge #65 - Valentine's / Love

QKR Stampede Challenge #178 - Yummy Yummy

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge #37 - Dogs & Cats

BRRRR... ARE YOU CHILLY ?

Hello Peeps,
I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend ?
Is it chilly where you are ? Here I am sunny today and it's a warm 18 degrees :-) The almond blossoms are all popping out so I hope we now don't get a cold spell down from the North to nip them all off !!

It's weird doing a chilly card today, but I have coloured up my monthly freebie I got at FROM THE HEART STAMPS. It is called  " Snowman & Cocoa " and he is part of the monthly progressive freebie Challenge. If you use the free image in the Challenge -  you get a new free one the following month for the next Challenge. :-D I must say he looks very cozy in his outfit and with a cup of hot cocoa. Not for me though - he can keep it as I hate that stuff !!!! 

I coloured him up with Promarkers and used a snippet of blue card to make a frame. I went all around it with the wedge end of 3 different colours of blue Promarkers and then dragged the Blender all round in lines to see what effect I got.
The snowflakes were a little giftette from a dear friend. :-D
The background was made using my Crafters' Companian "A Little Bit Nordic " 6 x 6 embossing folder and I lightly ran a blue ink pad over the top to pick out the pattern.

Thanks for dropping by xxxxxxxxx


Challenges I am entering:

FTHS Progressive Freebie Challenge - February
DRS Designs Challenge #213 - Hot or Cold colours
Christmas Sweet Stamping February  Challenge - Snowflakes
Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Warm Thoughts
A Snowflake's Promise Challenge #16  - Christmas or Winter
Snippet's Playground Week #215

MORE STAMPING + SOMETHING NEW

I am on a roll this afternoon and feeling very creative. I have seen some great techniques and ideas the last couple of days that I am just busting to try....... so many things - so little time!!!! :-)

I saw this afternoon, a great technique of using Masking Tape in different ways over on CLUB SCRAP and I decided to have a play with that and my new clear stamp set " LOVE BIRDS " from Woodware Clear Magic sets.

I tore up the masking tape and stuck it down and then used ink pads in different shades of yellow to smear over the top. Then I used the flower from the stamp set on top of that. The little bird was stamped onto card and coloured with Promarkers and then cut out and mounted on foamies for a bit of pop.

Looking back at the examples now - I think in my rush and excitement to try this, I made a couple of errors - I should have had the masking tape running across as well as up and down, and I should have stamped the flower after I took the tapes off.

I quite like the effect I got though :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Club Scrap - February Technique Challenge.

K IS FOR KISS :-)

Me again Folks,

Here I am with a little snarky Valentine's card - cuz I don't do that slushy stuff.
I have used  " Kitty Butts " from MELJEN (no longer trading as the family moved to Alaska !!! Brrrrr ) and  the dogs are from NICE CRANE DESIGNS (who also appear to have ceased trading) and the image is called "Merry Party 7 ".

Here is the front.............. relatively conformist :-D .......... everybody go "Aaaaaah ".....

and now for the non-conformist snarky inside........... 

I have used a couple of punches for the borders and the background on the front is the latest Freebie from Create With TLC - Word Art and you can snag yours HERE.  So that's another used Freebie that I have snagged, so I am working well with my promise to actually use stuff I take :-D

I coloured the kitties and dogs with pencils and blended with baby oil (smells nice... mmmmmmm)

I am entering this baby into the Sisterhood of Snark K is for Kiss Challenge :-)

You know - I run a Cats only Challenge but what about one for just DOGS ????? Any dog lovers out there fancy that ???? If there's enough interest I could start one  :-D 

Thanks for dropping in xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers  SoSS #52 - K is for KISS

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Dies or Punches

Creative Card Crew Challenge #106 - Love

Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge #123 - AG with a Twist... LOVE

Inky Chicks Challenge #62 - Love Letters and/or Hearts

Try It On Tuesday Challenges - A Fine Romance 

The Unicorn Challenge #6 - Lots of Love

HAPPY MAIL TODAY :-D

Hellooooo Peeps,
I am just popping in to show you my lovely goodies I got in Happy Mail today.
The first is from my mate SARN - she was selling off some craft goodies and I bought these 2 really cute kitty stamps,  but look at the fabulous card she made to go with them :-) She was also kind enough to get me a supply of  artificial sweeteners, so I now have a few months supply of those !! :-D Thank you Sarn. xxxx

My second surprise was from BAD KITTY - I got these wonderful cards from FIKI and one from her sweet daughter PAOLA, and such a super cute kitty shaker :-D Thank you Girls xxxxxxxx

A LITTLE BIT OF STAMPING UP !

Hello Peepsies,
Today I have firked out my plastic gloves to go play with some rubber stamps :-)

I have some great sets from STAMPIN' UP and my friend SHELLEY  - who is now a  UK STAMPIN' UP  Demonstrator - did a  Video tutorial yesterday and used one of the sets I actually have to do a card demonstration !! WooHoo. :-) Only trouble was that because of the rain and wind, I kept getting power outages so I couldn't actually link into the lesson :-(

Anyhoo - I got them out today and made this little card up - virtually 'CASE-ing' what Shelley did, but I stamped and then used the matching punch to do all my shapes as I was bold enough to stamp directly onto the card like she did !!!!

Oh Dang !!!! Having just watched the Video throughout - I think  I was supposed to be doing a THANK YOU project !!!! Oh bums !!! :-(

Stamps used : Six Sided Sampler + matching Punch from Stampin' Up.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Scrap It With A song - I went for Adele's HELLO