Hearts again

Another card using my lovely hearts stamp 

this time with just the one image mounted onto a pretty doily

I used my silver pen to colour the hearts & again chalked the backgrounds

The center heart embellishment & inked red to make it stand out & again used the silver pen to tie it in

LIM Pick a square Twice!

The Less is More challenge this week is a recipe

PICK A SQUARE 

        For our challenge this week we have a multiple choice.... well sort of ... you can choose which of the 5 SQUARES from our plan you wish to use to place the image of your card, leaving the rest as PURE WHITE SPACE!

The image may overflow the area slightly if necessary  and the sentiment, should you choose to use one, may extend outside the area also, but it should be obvious exactly which area of the card you have chosen to fill.

" We will allow a rectangle, but, following the strict guidelines as the squares "

I picked bottom right as placement.

I stamped the sentiment & cut it out

then stamped the rose image, cut it out & coloured it with my copics, placing it behind & in front, twining round the sentiment

I then gave a bit of colour to the sentiment using my chalks taking it over & around the sentiment onto the card.

To finish I coloured over the sentiment words with a green Copic pen.

And next

For my second card I chose the top left placement.

The image was stamped in brown ink & again I used my copics to colour the fairy & the background I chalked.

I went over the wings with my new marker

it is clear but adds a sparkle so the base colour shows through 

& in the light it twinkles :-)

I also added Stickles around the edge of the wings.

To finish I added the Smile sentiment which I cut out 

& chalked & added to the image 

& then stamped the Thinking of you sentiment straight onto the card. 

Handmade presents

Well presents have now been opened so I won't spoil surprises and I can now show you some of the handmade presents I made for Xmas. This garden book was sent over to Melbourne Australia for my Mum. Sorry the colours are bleached out on the main pic. The book can be used in a few different ways, either to put in pics of your garden throughout the year or to record plantings month by month, a combination of the two or do whatever you like .......................................

I used my bind it all to bind the book & made the covers from mountboard which I then covered. The stamp I decoupaged & coloured with Whisper pens & chalks.

More Handmade presents

This was the variation garden book that my MIL was given - same as before but a different stamp used - this one was a lot more fiddly to cut out!!







This was Aunties book - simple stamp to use but cute to look at :-)





A post it note holder - did a couple of these but only took a photo of this one for some reason!

Xmas Cards

So I've managed to do a few Xmas cards - spurred on by starting the advent challenges on Crafts by Carolyn forum

this was a template challenge




This one multiplied!!!! Red Gold & Green challenge - all slightly different :-)

Anyone doing Craft fairs?

I made these for the Xmas Craft fairs that Sticky Fixers Craft group were going to do. We did a couple last year to boost funds but with most of the committee being poorly this year it was decided to give it a miss!

Well we had quite a bit of stuff for girlies but nothing really for the boys to buy. They could of course treat their Mum's & sister's & gran's & any other female relative to the girlie bits but we needed something to attract them to the stall :-)

So here they are - mints in 'boyish' covers! Pirates & Knights ......................... Sugar Nellies - cute eh?







I used chalks & crayons to colour - this was before i got my basic set of Whisper pens ...............

Visitors (with pictures!)

Well here are the first friends that came to play :-) I used Whisper pens to colour. Colouring when you are laid down is not the easiest thing to do! but it kept me busy for a while colouring Pringle & Pen Pal who are are Sugar Nellies.

Next Winifred Rabbit came & I decided to use the new chalks that I got the other day from Tracy at Creative Treasures

And here is a snap of my visitors all together :-) Aren't they cute? I just have to decide what to do with them now :-)