Mousey Cupcake

Papertake Weekly Challenge this week was a sketch and I made a fairly quick and simple card with it.

As I said, pretty simple.........  I tried a whole load of embellishments but nothing seemed to fit so left it plain.  I will perhaps add a name or something if I use it for anyone's birthday.  Papers are Papermania 'Sweet Nothings' and the image was from Dimension Fourth which I picked up at the SECC Craft Show. 

Laurane x

Winter Wonderland

Challenge 19 on Die Cut Dreams is winter wonderland.  Funnily enough, one of the new stamps I got from FunkyKits the other day was called ...... 'Winter Wonderland' - so this must fit the challenge. 

I saw a fantabulous easel card a few weeks ago on Scrapbitz from Suzanne Dean and have been dying to try it out.  If you've not checked out her blog it is truly amazing - I'm sure the woman doesn't sleep.

Here's a close-up

Continuing my pink christmas theme, I have used the DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas papers and coloured my image with copics.  I used Fluffy Stuff for the snowflakes.

I spent the day today at the Craft for Christmas show and had a fabby time - spent too much money as always on stuff I didn't need - but I think everyone who goes does the same.  As someone said to me today, 'it's not a question of need!'  Anyway, I need a cup of tea now before I come back to play with my new stuff from today.

Take care

Laurane x

Manga Christmas Fairy

I got this fabby Sugar Nellie Manga Fairy from FunkyKits and the sketch on  Friday Sketchers was just perfect for this - helping me get on with my Christmas cards for this year.  It is a really good layout and fairly quick to make.

I think I'm going to go for a pink theme for Christmas cards this year.  The papers I used for this were from DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas and they are really lovely - I always find Christmas cards using the traditional reds and greens hard but I don't think I'll have any probs with these papers.

Off to the SECC in Glasgow tomorrow for the Crafts for Christmas show - always fab demonstrations and always spend too much!  Can't wait.

Laurane x

Spooky but Cute

This is the second halloween card I have made now - still don't know what I'm going to do with them - but I've had a ball making them.

The challenge at Cute Card Thursday is spooky and here's mine:

This lovely ghost was an image from Nina May on There's Magic in the Air - I'm so annoyed cause I keep missing her challenges by something like a day - I must get more organised.

The pumpkin heads are clip art, the image is Nina May's and I printed off some bats on yellow card for the moon.  I glittered up the ghost's hat and glossed his hat, eyes and mouth.

Must start buying in the sweets and stuff for halloween - only problem is, if it's in the house I eat it - and that's not on the weightwatchers programe!  Don't think the kids would like a bag full of carrot sticks - hee hee.

Laurane x

Blue Christmas

The challenge over at Stamp Something is 'bling'.  As you might be able to tell 'bling' in the form of glitter and gloss is one of my favourite things - I'm a bit of a sucker for sequinny clothes although I don't get much of a chance to wear them.  I think I must be a frustrated ballroom dancer ..... and don't get me started on fringes!

Anyway, I made this Christmas card :

The papers are Provo Craft Christmas Cheer and the images are Penny Black 'Critters Holiday'.  I coloured the images with copics and highlighted with sakura glitter pens.  The baubles were also covered in glossy accents.  I tried loads of photos to get the glitter and gloss but it wasn't really happening although if you click on the images you can see the 'bling' much more clearly.  Here's a close-up

Karen's Challenge 41 at Charisma Cards is 'distressing'.  She reckoned it would be good therapy to get tearing and ripping - I have to say I think she was right - this was fun.

I have to say I just love, love love this Daisy image which is an Elisabeth Bell Sugar Nellie one - I can't help smiling when I see her.  The papers are K & Co Classic Bailey and I thought they tied in pretty well with the distressing theme - I just set to with a pair of scissors.  I spent ages trying out different embellishments but nothing seemed to work so I've just left it plain for now.

I just got a couple of new stamps delivered today from Funky Kits and I'm off to play.

Thanks for looking

Laurane x

Digital Doings - and a good weigh in!!!

I've not mentioned on my blog as yet but I've been 'weight watching' since last August and I've now lost 38 pounds.  It's taken quite a long time but being over 2 1/2 stone lighter feels fab.  Weigh in is on Monday night and after staying the same last week (despite a huge effort on my part) I was near to tears - how stupid is that?   Anyway, I persevered and lost 3 lbs tonight - woohoo.  So motivated I came home and made fabby zero point soup and did a pilates dvd.  My halo is shining.

Anyway ..... onto the crafty stuff.

I made my first ever halloween card which I was pretty chuffed with.  Don't know who I'm going to send it to though.

I did it for Die Cut Challenge which provided the sketch and colour combo of black, purple, orange and green - but I missed posting.  Hey ho.

The image is a digital image and came from Nina May and I really loved it - a wee bit different.  I paper pieced the pumpkins on the main image and the pumpkin heads down the side were clip art and treated with glossy accents.

Here's a close up of the wee mousy image:

I'm going to enter into the challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar which is looking for Halloween or other spooky projects as well as Cuttlebug Challenge blogspot which is challenging us to create a Halloween or Fall card.

Going from spooky to cute, I used another (free) digital image from Digital Delights to create this little card:

I used the sketch from week 73 challenge over at Friday Sketchers which I think fits.  October is Wear It Pink month and at work we do various fund raising events to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness and I thought I would make a few cards to sell.  I might even donate the box of cards I just keep in a box and look at!

Take care

Laurane x