Saturday, 1 October 2016

Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild Women

Hi All, I've been away on my jollies which is why I haven't been about.  A lovely week in the Portuguese sunshine with friends ... lots of sun, sea and sangria!   Waaaay too warm for me though, I definitely couldn't have stuck it at the height of summer!  With my factor 50 sun cream I reckon my legs got whiter as the week went on and my fake tan faded LOL!

Here's a wee pic of me and Greg at a beautiful scenic spot near Lagos :)

Anyway, it's time for a new challenge at Naughty or Nice and this month its 
'Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild Women'! 
 So get your witchies stamps out, or your gals having a good time and play along!

I've used my daft witch from Eat Cake Graphics again:
1076-S Don't Drink and Fly Witch
8037-F Witch auditions sign (text)

I hadn't intended to have such a huge blob of green enamel at the side but I had an Oops that needed covered ;)

Be sure to pop over to the Naughty or Nice blog to see what the other Troublemakers have been up to.

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Sunday, 18 September 2016

Birthday Flowers and an Xray

Waaaa, Sunday night already!  It's got quite chilly here, there's a definite feel of Autumn about today.  I've got my cosy socks and fluffy dressing gown on, and all ready for the next expisode of Poldark.  A whole hour of drooling over Aidan Turner ;)  He's even nicer in 'real life' with his lovely Dublin accent.

Anyway, my first card is for an old lady who has sight problems, so I tried to keep it to nice clean lines.  I popped up a few of the flowers for a bit of dimension and added a matching butterfly - on purpose, it's not even covering a splodge! ;)
My stamp is from an oooooold Stampin' Up set that hasn't seen the light of day for quite a while.  coloured with watercolour pencils and some clear gems added to the flower centres.
I stamped the BG with an old text stamp, but can't remember the make.
Here's another golden oldie stamp, this time from High Hopes.
Ha, I usually go through a phase of using my old stamps if a crafty shopping trip is in the pipeline, but honestly I'm not!

For this get well card, I coloured my image with watercolour pencils and went over his bones and the fish with my clear glitter pen.
  • The Craft Barn Alpha challenge - X - "X-Ray: an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light."
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Friday, 16 September 2016

Don't drink and fly

Hahaha, I love this witchy image, guess she's been at the old G&T!!

I wish we were more into our Halloween cards in Northern Ireland as I think they may be my favourite type of cards to make!

My daft witch is from Eat Cake Graphics of course ...
1076-S Don't Drink and Fly Witch
8037-F Witch auditions sign (text)

Coloured with watercolour pencils - clear glitter pen added t othe falling leaves and her broom, and clear gloss to her eye / specs and her shoes.  I used an old embossing folder on my background - it looks blue here but it's definitely purple in real life!

This card is also posted over at A Sprinkling of Samples and Techniques blog, where you'll find lots more loveliness from Eat Cake Graphics
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Thursday, 15 September 2016

Food or Drink ... Naughty or Nice

Wow we're half way through September already, time is flying ... though that means I'm closer to my holidays yippppeeeee :)

This month's challenge at Naughty or Nice is for food and/or drink.  Hope you'll play along :)

For my card I've used these naughty critters from Eat Cake Graphics:
3058-M Where the Milk and Cookies go pets
There's a great sentiment that goes with this stamp that I really must get:
8212-F Where the milk and cookies go (text)
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

October calendar page


Here's some fab stamps from Eat Cake Graphics ... Count Bitesalot is definitely not a scary vampire, and even his bats are cuties!   I've coloured The Count with my watercolour pencils and added some clear gloss to his eyes and to the little bat.  I masked him off, and then stamped the Skully Flowers several times.  I hand wrote the calendar dates and stamped Bert Batula just above.  Then I just chalked in a few clouds along the top edge, doodled a stitched border and added a few coloured enamel accents.

I must confess that this is version #2 ... I managed to write in the wrong dates for my first effort Doh!

This card is also posted over at A Sprinkling of Samples and Techniques blog, where you'll find lots more loveliness from Eat Cake Graphics
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Monday, 12 September 2016

Rainbows and Goldfishies

It was a bit of a draughty showery old day today - definitely not one for a nice hair do and even more so when it's in dire need of a cut!  It definitely doesn't look as good as my Tiddly Inks girl ;)
Coloured with watercolour pencils - her dress does match my pink backing in real life but it seems to be another colour my camera won't do!   Sparkle added to her bows and balloons with my clear glitter pen - what did I do before I had one of these? I seem to use it on almost every card!
Couple of snippets of colourful DP from my stash - you'd laugh at the little tiddly bit I have left but don't want to chuck!

I still haven't got round to tidying my desk so these Avery Elle stamps are still knocking around and when I saw this beauiful goldfish card in Tracey's gallery - this week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast - I thought they'd be perfect for my nephew's birthday card!

Coloured with watercolour pencils, lots of sparkle added with my clear glitter pen and then clear gloss added to their eyes and teeth.  Birthday die from Simon Says Stamp.  Coloured enamel accents and a doodled border to finish.
I know there's a lot of 'girlie' sparkle on it, but I'm hoping the expression on their faces cancels that out!
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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Baby Girl cards

Phew, busy weekend!  I had a good old raid out of our cupboards upstairs, all sorted out for the charity shop and some for the dump.  It's always great to get it started, though it always looks worse before it gets better!

Anyway, I got lovely news today that my friend in work is now a Grandma!  Wasn't expected for another couple of weeks, so it was a bit of a surprise to them all!  So I spent a few hours making baby cards :)

This first one uses a never-before-used one that I found when I was looking for another - it's still lost :( but I'm sure it will turn up eventually.  This little duckie is from Suzy's Zoo - it's not an image I would have thought of using for a baby card, but I think it looks OK.
My little elephant is an oldie from Wild Rose Studio, and added some pink and blue splatters to the background - doesn't it kinda look like that exploding confetti!  I covered my balloons and little Ellies toenails with my clear glitter pen so there's lots of sparkle.


And finally, here's one for Grandma herself :) 
I don't normally make 'white' based cards, but I quite like how it turned out.  My little bear is an oldie from Penny Black; text from Paper Smooches.

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