Raining love and wishes

This is my entry for the Friday Sketchers challenge #28. I've rotated the sketch 90° to fit my image in. Its quite a complicated sketch this week!

Papers are from Shabby Princess, image is from Whiff Of Joy, coloured with whispers pens and clear gloss added to the rain drops and umbrella.

Calendar 2009 September

Here is the September page of my calendar, its been on the back burner for a while as other things have taken priority, but I'm gradually getting there!
I've started to make the colours more autumnal, although it looks pink in the picture its actually more red and orangey than pink. I've seen the ribbon threading thing on other cards and thought I'd give it a go.*Penny Black For A Spin coloured with Whispers pens
*Papers from Shabby Princess
*Ribbon from Chatterbox
*Eyelets and brad from stash
*Flowers from Prima and papermania

Christmas cards

No I haven't run off and got married, these cards are for an order I've got to do before the 29th November eek! The papers are from Shabby Princess, stamp is forever friends, sentiment is made on the computer.

I didn't have any pink Christmasy papers, and as this is for a 3yr old I wanted to do it girly, so I used some scrapbook paper I had and stuck snowflakes to it, I think it looks ok. Image is from PC Crafter, sentiment is made on the computer, snowflakes are from an xcut punch.

Pink Sunflower, Julie and Craft Stamper all have blog candy so go check it out.

My Sweet Lili

Now that I know its arrived I can post on here the card that I sent Laura as a little surprise.

I used my new Sarah Kay My Sweet Lili stamp, isn't she just the cutest! The papers are from Shabby Princess, the flowers are prima daisy crazy and the swirl is Sizzix.

I made a pocket for the inside to hold some stamped images.

I love the unusual colours of these papers, I had my pink pen in hand ready to colour the image and just thought to myself , you know what pink for this image is so obvious, I think I'll do something different, and this was the result. Do you ever make a card and not want to part with it? I think I may have to make another one of these to decorate my craft room!

More news on the craft magazine article, unfortunately the deadline was just to close for me to contribute to the next edition but I have been told I will be put forward for the edition after that, so fingers crossed, in the mean time I'm looking forward to getting my sugarnellie stamps and having a play with them.

Penny Black Christmas

I have a day off work today so am spending the afternoon crafting, I have some friendship/ image swaps cards to make so will try and finish those off, sorry if you are waiting for a swap from me, I promise I haven't forgotten about you!

I have still not done the next two months of my calendar yet, I have made a start on March but I just cant seem to get it right, I'll have to have a think about it and come back to it.

In the mean time here is another Christmas card I've made.
The image is from Penny Black and is called Wishes For Kisses. The papers are are from Shabby Princess 2006 Seasonal Sampler, circles are cut with nestabilities dies. The base flowers I made myself and added primas and papermania ones on top. The ribbon in the corner has a pearly bead thing on top under the bow.


I got this award from Laura and Caroline today, thanks for thinking of me girls its very nice of you.

I'd like to pass it on to Nessie, Michele, Michele, Claire, Stacey and Lisa

There is also some lovely blog candy on Natalie's blog so go check it out.

2009 Calendar January and February

Here are some pictures of the calendar I'm making for myself for next year as promised in my last post. I'll upload the months two at a time in order (although I've not made them in order so don't have them all to upload yet). Its made on an acrylic album by papermania and I decided to do it all in penny black stamps so its the same throughout.

January

* Penny black Ski patrol stamp (received in an image swap) coloured with whispers brush strokes.

* Papers from Summertime designs winter gifts kit

* xcut snowflake punch

* iridescent glitter glue

* sizzix extended cuts wingo zingo alphabet

February

* Penny black message from above stamp, coloured with whispers brush strokes.
* prima hydrangea flowers brushed with a gold ink pad
* Papermania red flowers
* nestabilities scalloped square dies
* papers from shabby princess seasonal sampler kit
* heart locket charm
* Sizzix rat-a-tat alphabet.

More Mice

I've been using my pc crafter images Country Mice by Laurie Furnell again today, made this card with two of the little mice images.
water coloured it with whispers pens, papers from http://www.shabbyprincess.com/

Also decorated the inside, computer generated sentiment. comments welcome.


I'm off to Wales for the weekend to see my brother and his fiance. Be back Monday, have a good bank holiday weekend everyone! x

Look what I got from the lovely Laura (faerielore) from the docrafts forum! Thanks Laura, I don't have any Tilda's so will enjoy using that image especially!

Another card to upload, this time not using any stamps at all, i made a small birthday card using my nestabilities dies and some downloaded paper from http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ (I love that site). I've also used prima flowers and a computer generated sentiment.

I also decorated the inside with papers and primas. And i got my first comment, thanks for dropping by Sue! If anyone else drops by then leave a comment to let me know you were here. X