Cheddar

Meet Cheddar the cute little mouse, he is from Sugarnellie and you can buy him here. Isn't he the cutest little mouse.
I used papers and the frame from Summertime Designs gratitude kit, prima flowers and chatterbox ribbon, the leaves are from my stash. The flowers I added a gromlet to the centres then stuck a pearl gem in them, I also added one to the bottom corner of the frame. I put gloss on the border, the mouse's nose and his book cover. I coloured him with whispers pens and then shaded the darker bits with a pencil as I couldnt quite get the shade of grey I wanted, I then added highlights with a white gel pen.

I've been looking at some amazing blogs of peoples art work, I really wish I could draw, but sadly I cannot draw at all, not even stick men! Here are some of my faves:
Little Gorjuss Things
My Place Over The Hill
May Ann Licudine
Donna Doodles

Calendar 2009 October

Well its defiantly getting there! only two more months to go! Here's October, its based on a sketch for Friday Sketchers *Penny Black Bee Costume, received in an image swap, coloured with water colour pencils
*Papers from Summertime Designs

*Mat/Frames from Funky Fairys Chocolate Covered Christmas kit

*Flowers from Prima, Artful Collage

*Lettering, Sizzix Wingo Zingo

*Lace, button, skeleton leaves, ivy leaves, pin and ribbon from my stash

The lovely Laura and Gina have both given me this award, thanks so much girls, I am meant to pass it on to 7 people but visit so many blogs I cant choose who to give it to!

Tilda with Rose

I've managed to use my new Tilda stamp in between finishing my calendar. Speaking of which I've done July and am just finishing June off. I have seen some others have been inspired by mine and had a go at one too, I suppose they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I'm really pleased with how mine has turned out so far. I'm thinking about making a CD case one for my desk at work after this one.


Anyway back to the card. I have used the new Tilda with Rose (I think its called that) stamp from Magnolia, she is soooo sweet! I coloured her with whispers pens and am really pleased at how the colouring turned out, normally I have such trouble colouring in hair but I think this one looks ok. The papers are from Summertime Designs as always! Flowers are Prima Hydrangeas, swirls are from Sizzix Swirly die, sentiment is from bekahs-escape2scrapland and says 'friends are kisses blown to us by angles'.
I may have some exciting news coming up after a very surprising email from a craft magazine, but I'll let you know about that if and when something happens- watch this space!

Funky Fairy's and Juliet have some blog candy up for grabs, as does Pauline and for her challenge you have to make a card to celebrate something so this card is to celebrate friendship.

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.

Penny Black For a Spin...

I used my new Penny Black stamp that my mum bought me to make a card for my docrafts image swap partner. I think I might have over embellished it a bit but I love detail on cards and don't do minimal, what do you think?I used whisper pens to colour the image. The flowers are made from templates and inspiration from Scrap This! I glittered the edge of the nesties and 3D'd the image on foam pads, I also glossed over the tyres. The papers are from Summertime Designs energy kit. I've also added a little pocket in the inside to put the stamped images into.

New goodies and a get well card

I went to the Creative Crafts show at Sandown today with my mum. We've been three times now to the Sandown shows and this time it was a little disappointing, I was hoping to get some Magnolia, Sweet Ebony or Sarah Kay stamps but not one stall had them. It all seemed to be Papermania products. My lovely mum bought me a daylight lamp that clips onto my desk and a penny black stamp, I also got brads, ribbon, clips and snow writer, we still had a lovely day. Here's a picture of my goodies:

I also have a card to show you, I made this last night, the noise was awful again. The image is from Fun Draw, its so cute, I coloured it with Whispers pens. The papers are from Summertime Designs, flowers are prima and have buttons stuck in the middle with ribbon tied through and a pin in one, the sentiment is from a stamp set and i cut the corners with a fiskars punch.

And some close ups:

Thanks for looking x

Howdy

Here is a card that I have sent to Rachel for the docrafts friendship swap, I hope she liked it. I got a lovely Tilda one from her.
Ive used papers from Summertime Designs, the stamp is Cowgirl - Hat by Alota, the flowers are prima and I've inked them with brown ink, the card is cut on my cuttlebug with my nesties, the sentiment is computer generated by myself using a frame from a didgiscrap kit. The brads, ribbon and eyelets are from my stash.


Bev has some fab Whiff Of Joy blog candy on offer on her site so go check it out.

Mum card

My mum asked me to make her a card for my nans birthday, so here it is. I've used papers from Summertime Designs once again, ribbon from chatterbox, buttons, pin and pearls from stash, prima flowers, computer generated sentiment using ASL Script font, chipboard letters from a Brenda Pinnick kit. And some close ups:

My mum wanted a sentiment for the inside so i chose this one and decorated it with the same papers:

Shabby Chic Tilda

Used the same papers for this card as the previous one, Summertime designs Beautimous Kit, a Tilda image kindly sent to me by Laura, prima hydrangea flowers, doodlebug button, papermania sparkly brads, iridescent glitter glue, butterfly eyelets, chatterbox ribbon. Comments welcome! x

Tristans back from his holiday now so I wont have as much time for crafting, but I do have a good camera to use again!