Cute, cuddly and CAS

Hello lovely people,

This is a public service announcement: If you are looking for something a little more PINK then please scroll down!

And now we resume normal service with a new challenge at Crafty Little Fairies and our theme this month is...

CUTE AND CUDDLY

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I have been seeing Christmas cards popping up on other people's blogs for a while now and I thought maybe this year I should make an earlier start than usual so here is my first Christmas card!

It's a very simple design and was inspired by the lovely Marilyn; I adore how she often uses Frantage sprinkled lightly around the images so just had to have a go!

I printed the sentiment onto card and then stamped my very favourite Christmassy James image next to it.
I have just started the clothing class at Kit and Clowder so was keen to see if I could use some of the techniques on the hat and scarf.  I even added some of my own folds on the left of the hat and scarf and am pretty pleased with the result :-)

Card recipe;
Image: James in the snow - LOTV
Sentiment: Pink Petticoat (no longer available)
Frantage: Shabby White from Live and Love Crafts

Copic colours;
Fur: E40/41/42/43
Hat / scarf: B91/93/95/97
Fur on hat / ground: C00/0/1/3

If you pop over to Crafty Little Fairies you can check out the super cute and cuddly creations from my teamies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am playing along with;

1. LOTV (Christmas in August)
2.  A Gem of a Challenge (embossing)

Anything goes with pink!

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and we are celebrating our 2nd birthday this month plus we have reached a fabulous 400 followers, so we've chosen a really easy theme for you this month...

ANYTHING GOES!

Oooh, everybody's fave right?  Of course, it still has to be pink but that's not difficult!

I was in my element with this card, up to my eyes in pretty papers, lace and flowers!  I often go for the slightly easier option of cutting my image into a rectangle so I thought I'd have a little change and get out the circle dies.

I seem to be having a really bad run of dropping spots of Copic ink on my images at the moment...can you guess where I've hidden one this time?!  Well, those hanging stars look so good there anyway - lol!

This is another new rubber stamp for me; I love all the Tildas so much that I am having to be a bit choosy about which ones I buy but this one was a bit different to the others I have so into my shopping basket she fell :-)

Card recipe;
Image: Ribbon dance Tilda - Magnolia
DP: My precious daughter - Pion Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)
Lace: Irene - The Ribbon Girl
Twine: The Ribbon Girl
Swirl stamp: Goblin branch - Magnolia
Dies: Circle stax - MFT Die-namics, Precious stars and cosmic star set - Memory Box
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E53/43/47
Outfit: RV000/R81/83/85/59
Ribbons: T0/2/4
Leaves: YG61/63

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.  And no excuses for not entering our challenge this time with such an easy theme!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Bunny Zoe's (bingo - flowers, lace, sentiment)

2.  Papertake Weekly (anything goes +/- torn paper)

3.  Live and Love Crafts (stitching)

4.  Sweet Magnolia (celebrate)

Eat the cake!

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

SOMETHING SWEET

This time we have a $20 voucher up for grabs from our lovely sponsor;

I seem to have been making a lot of cupcakes and cookies recently so for the sake of my waistline perhaps I should stick to the virtual variety for a while!
This is a card I made for a lovely blog friend so the CAS style and stamp were selected to suit her and the fun sentiment was generated on my computer.

I decided to be a bit more adventurous with the skirt and added a whole bunch of folds to it... I *think* I like it!
I also have a terrible habit of dropping spots of Copic ink on the image I'm colouring, especially if there is a lovely big area of white.  So, yes, that happened on this card but all was not lost because I had already decided to add little pearl dots around the image so could cover it up.... well, almost...you can just about see which dot it is under if you look *really* hard as it is a very slightly different colour!

Card recipe;
Image: Ava loves to celebrate - Stamping Bella
Viva pearl pen

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11 & R20
Hair: E21/25/29
Dress: V20/22/25/28
Bow / roses: R81/83/85
Leaves: G21/24
Cake: YR30/E41/42/43 & RV0000/00/R81
Plate: N0/2/4
Ground: N0/1/2/3/4

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the fabulous creations and of course, the top tips from the rest of the team.
Also we have a lovely new team member in the shape of Lori Turner so do go and make her feel welcome :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am playing along with;

1. Without Words (use a previous challenge - femme fatale)
2.  ABC (Q is for quote)
3.  A Little Bit Crafty (sew what?)

Baby bunny

Hello lovely people,

Yes, it's that time again where we share some gorgeous new images with you at All Dressed Up and this time they are all themed for new babies and baby showers.  Just take a look at this bunch of cuteness...

A Star is Born

Future Little Crafter

My Baby Shower

Night Night Little One

And this time we also have some matching papers for you;

If anything there has caught your fancy then head over to the shop to check it out but first, here's what I made...

As usual I have added lots of stitching detail and used die cut swirls to frame the image - I really like how this turned out :-)
Here's a little angled shot so you can see the stepper layers...

Card recipe;
DP: Petal fresh - LOTV
Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Loopy edge: Martha Stewart edge punch
Dies: leaf and swirl - Magnolia Doohickey

Copic colours;
Fur: YR30/E41/42
Inside ears / feet: R0000/000/00
Flower: B41/91/93 & YR30/Y21

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see what the rest of the Dressy Girls have created; they are all stunning! While you're there, check our our current 'Anything but a square' challenge and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!

Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Divas by Design (anything goes)

2.  Simon Says Stamp (anything goes)

3.  The Ribbon Girl (anything but square)

4.  Pile It On (stitching)

Super exciting news!

Hello lovely people,

I can now share my very exciting news with you and tell you that one of my cards has actually been published in a magazine!  It's all down to All Dressed Up being featured in Complete Cardmaking Magazine, the UK's first magazine dedicated to digital crafting.  Each issue comes with a CD ROM packed with digital goodies including papers and images.
This latest issue (#51) contains 5 digital papers and 9 digital stamps from All Dressed Up, 2 of which are exclusive to the magazine.
As one of the Dressy Girls I was asked to make a card for the magazine using one of the digital stamps and as you can imagine, I jumped at the chance.

Now you guys all know how much I faff around with my cards trying to get all the bits in exactly the right place.  So, you can imagine how long it took me with this one knowing it was actually going to be published! I walked away from it and came back to it quite a few times but I'm happy with the end result - phew!

I used pretty pastel shades to complement the cute image - my fave combo of pink and green in fact!

Card recipe;
Image: Love my cuddly toys - All Dressed Up

Front Porch paper pad by Pebbles

Seam binding (pink tulip) from Wild Orchid Crafts

Ivory button twine from The Ribbon Girl

Tag: sentiment tags from LOTV

Martha Stewart edge punch - Cherish

Magnolia Doohickey Leaf and Swirl die

Stampendous Frantage in Shabby White

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30

Hair: E50/53/35/37/57

Dress: RV0000/000/81

Bunny: T0/2/4

Dog: E40/41/42/43

The rest of the cards created by the Dressy Girls for the magazine will be fatured on the All Dressed Up blog over the next few weeks and you can buy the magazine from Moremags, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury and Hobbycraft.

I really wanted to get a copy of the magazine to show you as well but haven't managed to get my hands on it yet... so you may hear about this again when I do!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am playing along with;

1. A Gem of a Challenge (spots and stripes)

A little bit of love

Hello lovely people,

I hope you are all well and not wilting too much in the heat!  It has been a little uncomfortable at times especially when working but I absolutely will not complain that it is too hot as it seems waaaay too long since we had a decent sunny summer here in the UK :-)

Now I've done the British thing and discussed the weather I can move on to our new challenge at In The Pink where our theme this month is...

ANIMAL ANTICS

Cue James bear!  I'm sure I have other cute critters in my stash but I really only have eyes for James :-)

It's a cleaner looking card from me today with no inky or distressed edges, just a little sprinkling of Frantage and sparkly edges (Stardust Stickles) to the little heart stems.
The big heart has been paper pieced.

Card recipe;
Image: James - big heart - LOTV
DP: Yours truly & Special delivery (girl) - Pebbles (available at Hey Little Magpie)
Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Seam binding/twine: The Ribbon Girl
Dies: heart stems - Impression Obsession
Frantage: Shabby pink frantage - Live and Love Crafts

Copic colours;
Fur: E40/41/42/43
Rose: R83/85 & G21/24
Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Simon Says Stamp (emboss it - I used Frantage embossing powder)
2.  As You Like It (fave sentiment = 'with love' because it works for a range of occasions and is just a lovely thing to say to someone to make them feel special!)

Pearl anniversary

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

MATERIAL GIRL

So, using some kind of fabric on your card would work for this theme or maybe you can come up with something a bit more out of the box?!

I am afraid I have been a little predictable with my material as I have used a hessian strip; it adds a lovely texture and bit of a rustic feel.
I have made an easel design as this is a 30th wedding anniversary card and I always find it easier to add the text in this way so it doesn't clutter up the main section!

And yes, that's a few of my Copics in the background of the photo because I didn't realise that the angle was going to make them visible even once cropped and I am not going to re-take the shot!  The cotton buds are for cleaning my Copics, which I have only recently realised is VERY important on a regular basis :-)

Ok, sorry, enough waffle and here's the card...

Since a 30th wedding anniversary is traditionally represented by pearls I chose pale ivory coloured DP and scattered a few pearls here and there.  Can you see them all? There are absolutely no prizes for guessing correctly... just pride, and I warn you some of them are very tiny!

This image is so cute for anniversaries, weddings etc. and I think it looks lovely done in really pastel shades.  I added some glamour dust to the bows as a girl's gotta have a little sparkle right?!

Here's a little close up of the beautiful flowers and just some of those pearls!

Card recipe;
Image: Love balloon - LOTV
DP: Shoreline treasures - Pion Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Dies: Tilda lace - Magnolia doohickey
Hessian / seam binding: The Ribbon Girl
Pearls: from stash

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11 & R20
Hair: E42/44/47 (girl) & E42/44/47/49 (boy)
Dress: BG70/B41/91/93
Dress frill / socks / shirt / bows: W00/BG70/B41
Trousers / hat: E40/41/42/43
Braces / shoes: E43/44/47
Balloon / roses: R000/RV10/RV30
Leaves: YG91/93/95
Ground: W0/1/2/3/4/5

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the fabulous designs from the rest of the team; they have been ever so creative with this theme :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  ABC (P for pearls)
2.  Sweet Stampin' (fave stamp - I have many but this one works for several occasions and is so cute!)