A thank you and two more shakers!!

I am still playing along with the 30 day colouring challenge over at Kathy's blog and have three cards here to bring me up to date.  This Thankl You card is an old Hero Arts stamp and I have coloured it with Zig markers.  The sentiment is a die from Lawn Fawn.

Now I have two more shaker cards using an old Penny Black stamp and an older Hero Arts Snowman.  I love making shaker cards for Christmas, its all that extra sparkle!! I have used some Avery Elle dies to create my windows for both these cards. I am adding these to the Simon Says Wednesday challenge "Christmas to Die for."

We are off back to Surrey this weekend for a family get together, I am really excited.  Hope your weekend is relaxing.

A busy weekend!!

I was getting behind with Kathy's 30 day colouring challenge, but this weekend storm Angus hit and we have been stuck indoors while the wind howls and the rain has lashed down.  This has helped me catch up a bit as I have spent lots of time in the craft room.

For this card I have coloured an old Hero Arts background, I stamped the image in Green and then coloured with Zig markers and Copics.  I have added a sentiment and orange sequins.  I am adding this card to the a2zscrapbooking challenge "Embellish it"

I have also coloured up the Penny Black "Snowy" image, here are two mini cards that I have made, this blue one is coloured with crayons and I have added some white dots with my Gel pen.

This second card is also using crayons, I have added alot of sparkle to his hat but the dull weather makes taking photos really hard!!

Hope the weather is better where you are!

Christmas Critters!!!

When I saw this weeks challenge at Simon Says "Christmas Critters" I struggled to think what to do, I am not really into cute animal images.  Then I remembered this old Penny Black stamp that I have had for ages. A really sweet image and perfect for a shaker card.  I have stamped and coloured with Zig Markers and then using some Avery Elle dies have created this very simple shaker card.

I was so pleased with the end result that I decided to have another go, this time making a parcel tag and just adding some ribbon and bells.

Love how this turned out and I love my new Zig water brush markers, so easy to use, I am addicted!!

The Lily Pad Birthday Blog Hop!!

 Welcome to the Lily Pad Cards’ First Birthday blog hop!

I am thrilled to have been asked again to join in with the Lily Pad blog hop, as I was there at the start last year, and I have really come to enjoy all the fun challenges that the amazing design team set each month.

There are three fabulous  prize packages to be won with a total retail value of over $300.   These prizes will be awarded by random draw. There are two ways to be eligible for the prize drawings. You can “like” us on Facebook, but if you do not have a Facebook account, you can also be eligible for the drawings by leaving a comment on the Lily Pad Cards blog. To better your chances even more, leave comments on the other blogs participating in the hop. For each comment you leave, you'll get your name entered again! (but only one comment per blog, please.  The blog hop will be open for one week - that means that everyone can leave comments for a chance to win prizes until 12:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, April 8.

 You should have arrived here from Tara’s gorgeous and inspirational blog .

Here is my Birthday card for the hop, rather than make a first Birthday card I decided to have one pretty flower on my card.  I cut the flower petals with a sizzix die and then joined them all together with a brad.  Next I soaked the flower with water and squashed up the petals to give more dimension.  When dry I spritzed with shimmer mist and glued a pearl and then some small seed beads to the center.   The background paper is from BasicGrey and the stamp I have used is from Penny Black.  To stamp the image I used distress ink and Distress markers.  To finish off I have added twine and a charm.

Now you need to Hop to Karen's blog for the next stage of your journey.  Thank you so much for visiting and have fun hopping!!!!!!

Virginia's View

Virginia has a new challenge running over at the Lily Pad and this is the inspirational photograph, as soon as I saw this fun photograph I knew exactly how I was going to make my card.

I always love  the grid cards that Jacqueline makes and they are a perfect way to use up scraps, my idea was to make this card using circles of scraps from my basket.

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for visiting my blog, I really appreciate all your comments.

Only a card today!

I have had a much busier day than yesterday and have only had a little bit of time in my craft room, I have however had time to make a card for Kathy's Lily Pad Colour Challenge.  This Penny Black stamp is a fairly new purchase for me and I have had some fun today experimenting with it.  The background stamp is Canvas stripes from Hero Arts.

I must get on with a small card order that I have now, Hope you have all had a great weekend.

More Texture!!

I have had fun playing with my new sizzix/Hero Arts embossing folder and stamp.  This is such a great concept, you use the stamp for your image and then the embossing folder fits perfectly over the stamped image to give the card texture.

I used the emboss resist technique on the stamped image and then sprayed with shimmer mist before running through the embossing folder.  I have made this card for the Lily Pad Texture challenge.

I went online to buy my embossing folder and stamp and would you believe it this other cute Penny Black stamp just fell into my basket!! I couldn't resist this cute elf image after seeing it featured on a few blogs and it was so simple to colour in.  A bit trickier to cut out though!!

Hope you are having a good week.

Lily Pad Sketch Challenge.

I decided to make another card for the Lily Pad sketch challenge , I had the idea to create a window where the circle is on the sketch.

Sorry this will have to be a short post as my computer is still running at a snails pace and this is taken ages to load.

 A close up of the window, I am going to enter this in the current Hero Arts Challenge for window cards as well.

I couldn't resist playing with that cute snowman again, he is so easy to colour!!