The Sugar Bowl - 3 - Love and Romance

Oooohhh...Just couldn't help myself, just had to join in at the new Sugar Nellie challenge blog called The Sugar Bowl. Check this challenge out here.This challenge is on every fortnight on a thursday. This fortnights challenge is called Love and Romance, and runs out on the 12th of february. You are only allowed to use Sugar Nellie stamps and there is some "sweet rules" that you have to follow. I have used a cute Cotton Rabbits stamp and coloured it in with promarkers and highlights with a white Sakura pen. I used my cricut machine to cut out some circles (All mixed up) and the love heart.(Stamped).The papers are from Making Memories. (Olivia)I used black leather effect card stock from the Papermill in Aberdeen. Used some eyepins that I got from Ebay and put some stick on pearls on. Ribbon from stash. Stamped sentiment with ministamps (for £1!!) from Papercrafts Boutique in Elgin. Have a lovely week and thanks for looking.

Colour create - 1 - Pink, Green and Brown

Found this cute challenge blog today when I was browsing the net and just had to take part. It is their first ever challenge this week, and their challenge was to use pink, green and brown. As an extra option you could add butterflies as part of the challenge. I have used K&Co papers by Amy Butler (Belle) and a cute Sugar Nellie stamp by Elisabeth Bell. I have coloured her in with promarkers and highlighted with my sakura pen. Ribbon, wish charm from Papercrafts boutique in Elgin. Stick on pearls from stash (purchased on Ebay)Tried making the ribbon look like a butterfly but don't think I succeeded...lol...anyways loved this challenge and can't wait to see who wins the lovely price on the blog! This challenge is on every sunday so why don't you have a look. I have got a link down to the right by my blog list. Have a lovely evening.

Cute card thursday - 46 - Metallica

Another great challenge over at Cute card thursday. Shocking I have got my card in on the same day...lol...The challenge was to make a card and incorporate some metal ie metalcoloured card, brads, wire, charms, eyelets etc. I have used a gorgeous image from Sugar Nellie by Leanne Ellis. Am just loving all her stamps. You can buy them at www.funkykits.co.uk . Papers are from Making Memories (Olivia) and the ribbon are from stash. I have used some soldering wire (run out of craft wire so I dived into hubby's toolbox) and the alphabet beads I got of Ebay. The eyelets I got free when I purchased my silent setter eyelet tool. The pearl stick ons are from stash but I got these from Ebay aswell. White cardstock from Papermill in Aberdeen. Have a lovely day.

Gorjuss is here!

OMG, have a look at the adorable new Gorjuss stamp images over at the Sugar Nellie blog. They are just adorable. I am gonna have a hole in my wallet since I want all of them. Well, they are actually really reasonable priced, as all the Sugar Nellie stamps, compared to other brands. Anyways I am so excited to see what wonderful creations the SN DT will come up with. Have a good wednesday!xoxo

Curiosity tree mural - in stages

Another post from me. I have had loads of emails with questions since putting up the mural on the blog. So here is the mural in the different stages. You can see the difference between the first and last picture. This mural took me in total 27 hours due to all the detailing. I have used simple emulsions from B&Q which the lady wanted. It's great if you want to use a lot of colour to get loads of little testingpots, which I did. They range from £1 to £3 in places like Homebase and B&Q. Any more questions, feel free to type me a comment. Have a nice day.xoxoxo

PTW/A Spoon Full of Sugar 37

Awful weather today, so what better than having an afternoon in making cards. I had a couple of hours spare this morning so I made a card for some challenges. This one I have made for PTW this week, the challenge was "hearts and flowers". (ie I have used a Tilda with a heart and flowery papers)I am also entering this card in this weeks challenge by A Spoon Full of Sugar. They have a lovely sketch there, and as I am a sketch fanatic I had to join in. The sketch is made by Tina46 whom is a guest designer at the moment over at a Spoonfull. She is very talented and the card she made for this weeks is gorgeous.

For this challenge I have used a Tilda. Coloured with promarkers, highlighted with sakura white and glitter gel pen. I have also used a heart stamp that I have had for ages. Think it might be Hero Arts, not sure, sorry...(gosh, I am terrible)I have used Anita ribbons, Papermania spring burst papers, wordtile (free from a magazine jonks ago), white paperstock from Aberdeen papermill and purple pearl stick ons from stash. There, phew...Really loving lime and purples at the moment. Going into the Papercrafts studio this weekend for some stockup. Need some new papers and last time I went they had loads of adorable papers and some new cute stamps. Have a good day.

Cupcake craft challenge - colour challenge

This is my entry to this weeks CCC. The challenge is to follow a colour challenge using 4 colours pretty in pink, perfect plum, pale plum and whisper white. These are all Stampin up colours, but if you didn't have these you could use similar colours. I have made a tag card using a cute Tilda image and I coloured her in with promarkers, highlighted with sakura pen. I used white cardstock from the papermill in Aberdeen and Papermania spring burst papers. I used Anita's ribbon and white ribbon and buttons from stash. Have a nice monday...mwah!!

Curiosity tree mural

Here is what I have been up to the last couple of weekends. I have just finished this afternoon, so I am very pleased. I have painted two 14 foot murals in two separate stairways in an old converted grainstore near Keith up here in Moray. The lady that hired me for the job is opening a coffee shop and a small retail unit for handcrafted items and organic produce in early april. The building is soo gorgeous on the inside. I was hired to do two "tree of life" murals, but we are calling them curiosity trees, since the lady is going to put small hooks from the branches and hang bits and bobs on them. What a good idea! It was loads of fun doing these murals, even though it was no heating in the stairways. It was hard to do two aswell since I had to do all of it by hand, I am seeing circles right now...lol....hope you guys like it.

Cute card thursday - 45

Another post from me this evening. This is a card I have made for Cute card thursday this week. The challenge is to make a Valentines card. I have used the gooorgeous Bo Bunny papers and some green, white and brown cardstock from the papermill in Aberdeen. THe hearts I handcut and layered and put green eyelets on with white ribbon, all from stash. I used my sewing machine to add some stitching around the card to make it more shabby chic. Lots of love...

Daring cardmakers/ Sketch saturday

Evening. Hope you all have had a great weekend. I have been busy doing round 2 of my mural paintings for the Old Mill between Drummuir and Keith up here in Moray. I am now finished so I will put some pix up later.

Here is my entry for Sketch saturday this week. A lovely sketch again. I have also incorporated this sketch for Daring cardmakers. K&Co, Bo Bunny and Papermania. The image I used is a sitting Tilda that I coloured in with promarkers. Highlighted with Sakura pen. Gem from poundstretcher in Yorkshire, ribbon from Anita's, mini flower from prima and flowerbrad from Asda. I found it really hard to use 3 different papers especially from three different lines. But hopefully this will qualify for this weeks challenge. Have a week and thanks for looking.