Winter Mimi

I'm back with my first card made today. Chris has just phoned and is on his way home so should be back about 2 o'clock hopefully.

Sorry about the poor photo but no matter what I tried I couldn't get a decent picture without shadows and her tights are in fact white not this grubby grey colour.

Image - Pink Gem Winter Mimi

Coloured with Promarkers

Doily - liberated from Retirement Party I went to last week

Memory Box Die - Holly Vine

Sentiment - SeeD

Pearls from stash
Glamour Dust and Liquid Pearls

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles - Anything Goes 21/12

Christmas Card

Hello All.

Well this makes a nice change doesn't it. The weekend is here and the sun is out woo hoo!!  Having a nice lazy day today.  Been out in the garden this morning tidying up again.  Everything has gone mad with all the rain we've had. 

Last year I made at least one Christmas card a week but this year I've let it slip so thought whilst I had a bit of time I'd make a quick and simple one.

Image Pink Gem Designs - Robin with Mistletoe

Coloured with Prisma Pencils

Hat and Scarf paper pieced

Glamour Dust

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Kraft at Christmas

Creatalicious Challenge - Christmas in July

Stamping with the Dragon - Christmas in July

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Hooked on Craft Challenges - Christmas in July

Crafters Companion - Ho Ho Christmas

Creative Inspirations - Christmas in July

I enjoyed making this card and it was so quick, I think I might do a batch of these.

Just sat here flicking between the golf and the Tour de France, blimey Wiggins is flying!!

Take care and enjoy the rest of the weekend.  xx

Another Baby Card

Well I'm back, sooner than I thought.  I was just putting my coat on to go to the shops and the heavens opened.  It's still raining now so I thought I'd make another card and go out later.  Just spoke to mum on the phone and she's invited me around to theirs for tea, yippee, no cooking for me.

Right I give up.  I've just been trying for the past half hour to upload a pic of my new card and just keep getting an error message.  I had no trouble this morning with my other card!!!  I'll give up for now and hopefully upload it later.

Woo hoo, finally.  It's only taken 2 and half hours to upload this pic.  Has anybody else had any trouble today or is it just a glitch with me?

I have used this cutie pie digi image from Pink Gem Designs - Bathtime Baby

Coloured with Promarkers

Backing Papers - Stamping Up and Nitwits 'Pinky Swears Too'

Cord - Crafts 4 You

Buttons from stash

3D Gloss on bubbles

Sentiment - Dovecraft Studio G clear stamps

I am entering this card into:

Gem of a Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Sentiments - 2 Designer Papers

One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi

Crafty Emma's Challenge - Spots and Dots

Bunny Zoes - Celebrations

Glittery Christmas

Good Afternoon everyone, what a dull and dismal day it is today and hey the rain has just started coming down again, lovely!!

Here's my weekly Christmas Card.

Image - Pink Gem - Mimi and Snowman

Backing Papers - Zoe Pearn - Happy Holidays download.

Sentiment - Paula Pascual stamps

Martha Stewart Punch - Arched Lattice

Snowflakes - Sizzix die and punch

Glamour Dust

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - Glitz and Glitter

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas

A Gem of a Challenge - With Love at Christmas, use hearts.

Little Claire's - Christmas

My Sheri Crafts - Think Pink

One Stop Crafts - Anything Goes

Secret Crafter - Anything Goes as long as it sparkles

Thanks for looking.

Pink Gem Christmas Card

Hello All, today's card is my weekly Christmas card.  I think this is the first time I have done a circle easel card and can't believe how easy it was.

The image is a very generous freebie from Janet at Pink Gem coloured with Promarkers

and added glamour dust to his antlers.

Sentiment - See D

Snowflakes - Sizzix die coated in glamour dust

Scalloped circle/circle Nesties

Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

I am entering it into the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - Shaped card

Secret Crafter Challenge - Holidays

2 Sister's Challenge - Christmas in July

Wiinter Wonderland - Wet or Dry embossing (I've used both)

ABC Challenge - N for No Nonsense

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Glitter

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Stars

Jingle Belles - Reindeer Games

A Gem of a Challenge - Let's hear it for the boys

Gingerbread Card

Well got home from Snowdon about an hour ago.  Me and Em got there about 3.15am and sat in the hotel waiting for the teams to get down.  Chris and his team finally arrived at 6 am which gave them a total time of 26 hours and 1 minute.  He was a bit disappointed because he knew they could have done it in 24 hours if they had had a bit of luck with the road travel.  They lost about an hour and half travelling from Scotland because the traffic was so bad around Glasgow and then on Snowdon one of the team was feeling poorly so they had to slow down for him.  I'm really proud of him though, they came 15th out of 36 teams and only 8 of them managed less than 24 hours.  Chris's team alone have made about £3000 for Action Medical Research, a children's charity.

Anyway back to the card I made yesterday.  The ladies over at Bah Humbug have set a fab challenge this week which is 'Surprise'.  I really enjoyed making this one as it was a new technique for me.  I made a wiper card, the instructions can be found here.

 Card Closed

 Card Opened and wiper pops up.

Closer look at the pop up wiper.

I have used 2 Kraft card blanks which I had in my stash drawers.  The backing papers are from the Cricut Celebrations paper pad matted onto cream and dark brown card.  The really cute gingerbread man is a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs and I have paper pieced the hat, scarf and icing and the robin is from the Penny Black Jolly Friends set.   The snowflakes are furry stick ons from Paper Cellarand the ribbon is from my stash.  The sentiment is a SeeD.

The challenges I am entering are:

Bah Humbug - Surprise

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Doodlebug ( I doodled the snowflakes, the white stitching and the zig zags on the icing)
Winter Wonderland - Food for Christmas

Southern Girls Challenge - Start of Winter Christmas

Paper Creations Ink - Ribbon or Lace

ABC Christmas Challenge - K is for kids/Kraft

Ice Skating Mimi

Blimey my card today seems to have taken all day to make.  Not because it was particularly hard but because of the light.  One minute it was too dark and I had to turn the lights on then the next the sun was shining and blinding me.  It's another Christmas card I'm afraid, and another for quite a few challenges.  The first challenge is A Gem of a Challenge which this week is a lovely sketch.

I have used the gorgeous stamp 'Ice Skating Mmi' and coloured with Promarkers.  The papers and sentiment are from Zoe Pearn again.  Sizzix snowflakes and gems, glamour dust and B&M snow.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Sparkle and Shine
Lili of the Valley Challenge - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland - Winter Sport