Sunday Sketch & Stamp Birthday Blog Hop!!!

Morning! I hope you've all remembered that the clocks went back an hour last night - I never like losing an hour but at least the night's will be a bit lighter now and that means that summer's coming!!!
There's a new challenge today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and because we've reached the huge milestone of 200 sketches, we decided to have a bit of a celebration with a blog hop, some special guests and lots of prizes.
We've made cards using any of the past sketches and I used Sketch # 195:

and here's the card I made with it:

The sketch is there - under all those embellies! I've used a Magnolia image (watercoloured with DIs) and papers, a Whimsy sentiment stamp, the lace, charm, envelope and corner are all from Live and Love Crafts, the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and I've used two Magnolia Doohickey dies, and an Impression Obssession die as well as the usual Spellbinders, plus gems, etc from my stash. Hope you like it!

Now for those of you taking part in the hop, you should've arrived here from the wonderful Pops, (if you didn't, you need to go back to the challenge blog and start at the beginning). Make sure you leave me a comment in case there's a prize hidden here and now you need to carry on hopping over to:

LOUISE

Enjoy the rest of the hop and the rest of your weekend. Bye for now.................xx

In the Pink

Morning! There's a new challenge starting today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it's a great sketch by Francesca - here's my card (and if you don't like pink, look away now LOL!)

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia and DCWV cardstock.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Rub-on Lettering from DCWV, Crafts Too Hearts Embossing Folder, Pearl Hearts from My Crafty Heart, WRMK Distressing Tool and Gems from stash.

What do you think of my watercolouring with Distress Inks? I've been practising, so expect to see more images coloured this way - I actually love sitting colouring in this way, I find it really relaxing but it takes such a long time - or it does me anyway!! I've coloured Tilda with one of my newest coloured 'Picked Raspberry' and think it's lush!!

I'm also going to enter my card into the following challenges:

• In the Pink - Challenge #12 Distressed.
• Crafty Calendar - Love and Marriage.
• 2 Sisters Challenge - Challenge #129 White and Red and/or Pink.
• Creative Corner - Challenge 5 Love and Hearts.
• Card Makin' Mamas - Love.
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Love is all around.
• My Time to Craft - Challenge #207 'Love is in the Air'.
• Inspire Me Fridays - Always Anything Goes.

Don't forget to hop over to Sunday Sketch and Stamp and check out my teamies amazing cards and join in with the challenge, of course - I can't wait to see your take on the sketch! Bye for now..............xx

A Very Purple Christmas!

Morning! How are you enjoying your weekend? I went to the cinema yesterday with Sam and my dad to see 'Skyfall' - it's a fab film if you like action movies and a bit of Bond obviously!! It's the first Bond film I've seen with Daniel Craig in the title role and I have to say that before I'd seen the film, I couldn't really see his appeal but after watching him in the role, I can certainly see the attraction!!!
Anyhoo!! It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it was my turn to design the sketch, so please play along!! Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia.

Ribbon - American Crafts.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Dies - Ornament Border, Frosty Border and Crystal Snowflake - all Memory Box.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Gems and Lace from stash, Whitewash Coredinations.

This is another image that I coloured in last year and didn't get around to making into a card, so again - don't look too closely at my colouring!! I'm also going to enter my card into the following challenges:

• Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge # 6 Anything Goes.
• Come and Get It Challenges - Monochromatic Colour Scheme.
• Lovely Hanglar and Sweet Magnolia - Challenge # 55 Girls Only.
• That Craft Place - Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon, Lace, Dies or Sentiment, Lace, Border).
• Cardmakin Mamas - Anything Goes.

 OK - I think that's about it! Hope ya like it and don't forget to join in over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp - we've got a DT call going on over there too if anyone's interested! Bye for now............xx

Tilda with Peanut - Friday Sketch Challenge reminder!

Hi Everyone. Did you all have a fun Halloween? We really don't celebrate it here like those of you in the US, but it does seem to be growing in popularity. And for those of you whose children have been off school this week, I hope you've been able to keep the kids entertained!! I was very lucky because my mum took Sam down to the coast to see her sister from Saturday to Tuesday, which gave us all a bit of a break - and gave me the chance to get some sorting out of my crafty stash and of course, some crafting done!!
Anyway, back to the reason for my post!! You might have noticed from the post title that today is the day for the reminder post to appear over at the Friday Sketch Challenge, which means you've got another week to join in. It also means I've got some very exciting news to share......I'm on the DT over there! And so, here's my first DT card:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda with Peanut watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia 'Turning Leaves' collection.

Sentiment - Whimsy stamps.

Metal Corner - Wild Orchid Crafts painted with Picket Fence Crackle Paint.

Dies - MFT Die-namics 'Upsy Daisy', 'Prima Donna Petals', Whimsy Stamps 'Postage Stamp' die and Memory Box 'Dragonfly'.

Other - Orange card from DCWV, Bazzill Basics Kraft card, Gems from stash and Imaginisce Distressing Tool to distress all the edges of the orange card.

So - what do you think of my Distress Ink watercoloring? I've been practicing - alot! So, I really hope you can see an improvement?!? I love this image of Tilda with her little rat - something you might not know about me is that I used to keep rats. At one point, we had 7 of them - mostly named after Buffy characters LOL!
I'm also going to enter my card into the first challenge over at the Marvellous Magnolia Challenge blog (Anything Goes) and into Midweek Magnolia Challenge #35 - Anything Goes.
Right, I think that's it from me. I really hope you like my card. Thanks for popping by...........hugs xxxx

Tilda with a Candy Cone

Evening everyone. Another Christmas card to share with you - I'm really on a roll now, eh?! And I'm getting back into this blogging lark! Woohoo, is good to be back among friends!

Ingredients:

Image and Papers - Magnolia watercoloured with distress inks.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Metal Corner and Pin - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Flower - Duck Pond Crafts.

Other - Lace and Red Cabochon from stash, Red Card - Bazzill Basics.

Don't look too closely at my colouring! This is one of the images that I coloured for last Christmas but then didn't get round to using on a card and when I was going through them the other week, this one was one of the more passable ones but certainly nothing to write home about ;-)

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

• Hanna and Friends - Challenge #156 Sketch.
• Through the Craft Room Door - Challenge #41 Anything Goes.
• Oh La La Creations - Challenge #116 Christmas Sentiment.
• Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge - Challenge #54 Ribbon or Trim.
• Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Challenge #24 Stitching (the paper is faux stitched hearts - hope it counts).
• Tilda's Town - Challenge #23 Merry Christmas.
• Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #139 Christmas 9 weeks and counting....

And I think that's about it! Off to do some visiting now, in between a bit of telly watching. Thanks for popping by, see you sooooooooooon..........................xxx

It's My Birthday, It's My Birthday!!!!!!!!

Whoop, whoop - can you tell I'm excited?!? And I'm not going to tell you how old I am!! And so - apologies for my post being a wee bit late but as it's my birthday, I think you can cut me a bit of slack lol!! And so, onto my post - there's a new challenge starting today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it's a fab sketch from Barbara. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Hanglar watercoloured with Distress Inks, Papers - Magnolia, Red card - Papermania, Flowers (cherry and sweetheart blossoms), Lace and Heart Pin - All Wild Orchid Crafts, Sentiment - Craftwork Cards, Die - Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations and Cuttlebug, Other - Beaded chain from stash.

Yep, I finally inked up one of my many Hanglar stamps - and used it on a card!! I spent some time watercolouring lots of images with DIs over the last few days, so expect to see them on my cards over the coming weeks.

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• CES Challenges - Challenge #65 A Traditional Christmas.
• Crafty Hazelnuts - Challenge 50 Traditional Christmas.
• One Stop Craft Challenges - Week #161 Traditional Christmas Colours.
• Cardmakin' Mamas - Challenge #35 Christmas.
• Stampin' for the Weekend - Challenge #22 Christmas.
• Colour Create - Challenge 85 Red, White and Green.
• Crafty Ribbons - Challenge 8 Traditional Colours for Christmas.

 And I think that's about it! I don't know if you saw the post from me the other day about this darned computer and all the problems I've had with it. It's really not been right for months now and it's really been getting on my nerves - to the point that I don't even want to use it at times - well, by the end of the week my problems should be solved cos I'll be taking delivery of a new 'puter!!!!! So - expect to see me back to my blogging and commenting best very soon - and I hope I can win back all of the crafty friends that I seem to have lost!! Bye for now....................xx