Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes

Good Morning lovely people,

Thank goodness for friday's hey? it means the weekend is almost here and the fun times can begin! it also means that it's time for another challenge over at Crafty Catz! This week the lovely Sassy has set the theme of Anything Goes! So we're looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations - whatever they may be.

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Digital Delights who are offering the lucky winner $5.00 to spend in their store

As usual, the DT were lucky enough to be given some fabulous images to play with and I chose to use this fabulous candy train on my creation.

My project this week was a tag for a Santa Key. I've made a pile of these for the church fundraiser this weekend (which is where I'll be, setting up, when this post goes live). I wish I could claim originality but I can't, I found this fabulous project on Pinterest and you can find the original here.

Nevertheless, the tag design is entirely my own and this weeks recipe list for my project is: Kraft card, Dovecraft Modern Back to Basics Christmas Collection, Red and White cardstock, White peel-off snowflakes from stash, Red and Blue Gems from stash, Caramel Ribbon from stock - part of my birthday present from Aunty Sue and Stickles star dust.

The image was coloured with promarkers in the following colours: Blue Pearl, Forest Green, Ruby, Gold, Buttercup, Honeycomb and Ivory.

I would like to also enter this project into the following challenges:
Dream Valley - Glitter and Bling
Cupcake - Get Krafty
Oh-la-la Challenges - Christmas
TPE - Favourite Colouring Medium


So thanks for stopping by and leaving comments, they're always appreciated. Don't forget to pop by the other girl's blogs to see their fab creations and until next time, happy crafting!

Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree...

Morning all,

Just a quick post this morning to share Mr Robin with you:

These little fellows are needlefelted, like the Doves I've shared before. This time though they are on hanging threads, ready for your Christmas tree!

I had so much fun making these, they're entirely my own design and I'm so pleased with how they've turned out. I've made a dozen for the church charity fundraiser this weekend, so I hope they sell, but I will be making more in due course to sell on my Etsy account and at my craft stall in December.

They're about 11x 6cm in size, just to give you some idea of how big they are.

Thanks for dropping by and until next time, happy crafting!

The Wedding!

Evening all,

I just wanted to share with you a little bit of the excitement I felt on Saturday when I was part of the wedding of an exceptionally dear friend of mine, Rachel, to her other half, Nick.

Way back at the beginning of the year I was thrilled to be asked to be a bridesmaid for Rachel, which I instantly said yes to and so began the trials and tribulations of the role..... oh wait, no it didn't! Rachel had to be the most laid back bride ever!

Rachel, Jenna and I had a fun day dress shopping in April and after that we had to worry little else until Saturday. Rachel left us to choose shoes and hairstyles - not minding if we didn't match at all, as long as we were comfortable. In the end the only differance was the hair slide (although they were close) and the fact that Jenna had the silver version to my black pair of the same shoes.

All in all, I think we had the easiest role of any bridesmaids in the history of weddings and I'm trilled to say the day went off without a hitch - minus my somewhat bruised and black thumb (a story for another time!)

Part of my wedding gift to them was a sampler I stiched. I hope they liked it, but as they hadn't opened it when I left Cardiff and they're now on honeymoon, I'll have to wait until they return to hear the verdict.

My mum and dad's wedding present to them was the wedding cake, which mum made to match Rachel's dress. I can't begin to tell you how stressed she was over it, but it was beautiful and the happy couple were delighted with it!

So the two of them are now in Sri Lanka for their honeymoon and I'm eagerly awaiting their return so I can see the photos, but until then, here's the sneak peak from the photographers!

Gary and Sue were great, a real pleasure to be photographed by (and considering I HATE having my picture taken, that's saying something). I hasten to add that the images remain the sole copywrite of garyandsuephotography and are here only as a small indication of how incredible they are at their jobs and how fabulous the whole day was.

I can't wait to see the rest!

xxx

Crafty Catz DT Card - Add Texture

 Good Morning,

Do we all have that Friday feeling? are we all looking forward to the weekend? does anyone else have a strange craving for a Crunchie? No? just me then! lol! Well friday morning means only one thing, time for a new Crafty Catz challenge.

This week's challenge has been set by the fabulous Kim, who wants to see you all add texture to your cards. We are kindly sponsored by Stamp Fairy who are kindly donating $10 to one lucky winner!

We were kindly given a couple of images to use for our DT cards this week, although you'll notice which one we all fell in love with! 

I kept it clean and simple to show off this cute image! he was so much fun to colour and it also gave me an excuse to use my brand new winter collection from promarker - such a fab set. This weeks colour palette is: Polar Blue, Frosted Leaf, Pink Mittens, Icicle, Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cool Aqua, Pastel Blue, Ivory and Duck Egg.

I mounted him onto blue card, from a multicard pack from the range and then embossed white card with a Sizzix Snowflake folder. I double mounted the snowflakes onto two different blue cards and layered it all up; mounting the image on foam pads.

The card edge is embossed using by hougie board and I layered a length of floristary lace on the base and edged it with blue ribbon. I mounted everything up and finished the card with a snowflake button, some blue gems and lots and lots of stickles to make it sparkle!

I would also like to enter this into the folloing challenges:
Dream Valley - Glitter and Bling
Ooh la la - Christmas
Stampin for the weekend - Anything Goes

That's it for this week, but please pop by the the other girls blogs to see their fabulous creations.

Until next time! Happy Crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card - Male Card

Morning Everyone,

So it's that time of the week again - seriously where does time go?! anyway, this week's challenge over at Crafty Catz was set by Aunty Sue who wanted to see a Male Card with the optional extra of a number. We are sponsored this week by the fab Stamping Boutique!

 

I've coloured the image using promarkers in the following colours: Satin, Blush, China Blue, Mustard, Slade, Moss, Buttercup, Cornflower, Honeycomb, Cinnamon, Caramel, Ruby, Cool Grey 3, Canary, Duck Egg.

 

The papers are old one from stash, a few candy pips and some peel off's finished the design this week.

 

I do hope you like it and don't forget to pop over to the other girls blogs because their cards are stunning this week!

 

Until next time, happy crafting! x

Graduation

Good Morning one and all,

 

Just a flying visit to share a CAS card with you. A dear friend of mine is graduating today and I made her a congratulations card a few months ago when her results came through so I wanted to make something that simply said it all and was to the point for today - and this is the result:

Everything is from stash and I kept the colours generic as I wasn't sure what colour her hood was going to be.

Thanks for popping by and until next time, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card - Halloween

Good Morning Everyone!

Gosh is it Friday again!?! Where does the week go? Well if it's friday, then it must be time for the new Crafty Catz challenge. This week's theme was set by the lovely Dianne, who set theme of Halloween. We are sponsored this week by Crimson Cloud, who are offering one lucky winner a pack of 3 Die Cuts.

 Now I'm not one to celebrate this particular holiday but there's one or two work colleagues who I think will appreciate a card and some chocolatey goodness to see them through this day, so this is what I've created this week:

The image is by Dustin Pike is one I've had for a while. I coloured it with the following promarkers: cinnamon, caramel, spice, honeycomb, buttercup, mustard, dusky pink, cool grey 3, moss, pear green, cool aqua, sky blue.

 

I mounted it on foam pads over a dark green circle that I had in stash and then onto eyeball papers from Scrapbooks gone digital which you can find here. I double mounted it onto black card and finished with some googley eyes.

The treat holder is an idea from Crafty Blogocks which you can find here. I altered the pattern slightly as I wanted the cover to come all the way down. The papers are from Trillistrations and can be found here. Finally the cover image is from Oscar and Emma designs and was originally designed as an image transfer, which I flipped; you can find the original here.

I would like to also enter this into :
Dream Valley's Challenge of Halloween
Simon Say's Challenge of Eerie Inspiration
Joanna Sheen's Challenge of Autumn Breeze
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges of Anything Goes
Stampin for the Weekend Challenge of Somthing Spooky

I hope you like it all. Thanks for dropping by and until next time - happy crafting!