Adding Sunshine to My day.

This fun card is made for the Chalk N Stock #3 Challenge, Bingo. My paper is from the Mystery Pack I had from Sarah Wright Designs. I chalked all around the edges to distress it a little, and also chalked the white card behind my digi's. I merged the Sun digi and sentiment in PaintNet. I coloured Image with promarkers, and Lyra pencils, and outlined my cardstock with promarker too. My stickers, ribbon and buttons are stash. My digi's are a special set was created for Jennifer Scull who is battling cancer. All proceeds from the set will go directly to Jen's family. I know she'd be pleased if you popped over and gave her some some, she's a lovely and  inspirational lady. 

Image and Sentiment - Paper Makeup Digi Stamps

Special digi sunshine bundle for Jennifer Scull

Entering 

Chalk N Stock Challenge - Bingo (1st line)

This is the Jen's Sunshine bundle

And here is the other couple of cards I had fun making with it. 

Tim Holtz Candy Up for Grabs

Amy at Stampin' Stuff has this fantastic Tim Holtz candy on offer until the 26th July, Pop to her blog now for a chance to win. 


Up for grabs:

• Tim Holtz Alterations - Crown & Fleur
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Accoutrements
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Facets
• Tim Holtz District Market Notecards - Metropolitan(includes 12 printed notecards and envelopes.  Perfect kicking off point for a Tim Holtz inspired work of art or use them as they are)

Stampin' Stuff

Forget you're ill

A get well card for a five year old with chicken pox, poor boy. I'm hoping this will cheer him up a little, he likes cars. The image is Mo's, and he didn't originally have curly hair, so hope Mo doesn't mind me taking liberties with my colouring pencils. It means he's ended up with big hair, hope his mom likes the 80's look lol. 

He's coloured mostly with ProMarkers, but Lyca pencils for the hair and the bumper and go faster stripe. I tired to make them look metalic as per the tutorial on Dorcas' Blog. I only had the dark & light cool grey so had to do my best with those. I'm not too displeased, but want my greys to do it properly lol. 

My greeting is stamped, using a frame stamp and separate get well. They are both stamped in versamagic chalk, and the card outlined in the same chalk. 

My cardstock is from the £10 Mystery Parcel I received from Sarah Wright today. It's a lovely pearl, shiny and embossed. The Mystery Parcel is well worth the money, I had beautiful double sided patterned A4 cardstock, A4, A5 & 8x8 double sided papers....all lovely. Stamp sets, rub on, sticker, including 3d Stickers, ribbon, raffia, velvet rik-rak. I am so pleased with everything.....such a lot of fun to unpack it all. 

Recipe...

Image Boy in Car - Mo's Digital Pencil

Background Image - Digi Sparkle

Cardstock, Ribbon & frame stamp - Sarah Wright
Get Well Stamp - KaiserCraft mini sentiments

Die Cut's - Spellbinders

Colourants - Promarkers, Lyca Pencils, Versamagic Chalk. 

Yellow Button - The Ribbon Girl

Rest from stash. 

I'd like to enter this for 

Chalk N Stock - Get Well 

I won Honorable Mention with Chalk & Stock Heyyyy!!

Get well Hugs

I adore this image by Delicious Doodles, it's one of four images I won a while ago on ATC & Cards with  Attitude. I did a little shading with  Promarkers in Warm Grey 3 and Arctic blue, and shaded all the way round with blue chalk ink from Versamagic. It's mounted on silver board, it's the lid of one of those foil food containers you can buy (not previously used). My blue lace and blue stick on pearls are part of Candy I won on Jennifer's Blog  she's quite poorly these days and I'm sure she'd appreciate you popping by to show her some love. 

I'm entering this for 

Chalk N  Stock Challenge - Get Well 

I've been shopping my stash recently to make some quick cards. All these cards are pre-printed and I've had them quite a number of years, and also all the die cuts, must be at least five. I love this little teddy, and he's a lot of fun to colour - using lyra pencils. His background is a piece of card that I used to soak up extra ink when I was playing with making some backings - waste not - want not and all that lol. I've edged around with versamagic chalk, but think I went overboard.

My wedding cards were fun, I stamped the die-cuts using versamagic chalk inks again, these are so versatile, and blend together beautifully too. 

 The diecut on this one is gold, and stamped on with stazon ink. 

Who likes suprises

Sarah of Welcome To My Little World has the fantastic offer of a mystery box of goodies for £10. I can never resist this kind of offer and have already sent off of mine. She has to clear out some of her craft items to make more space.

The boxes may have papers, ribbons, stamps, dies, pens, gems etc. Some will be used, some may be brand new. Each box will be different. 

What are you waiting for, get over to Sarah's to find out how to get your mystery box. 

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Doodle Bugs ATC's

My apologies to followers I've not got round to looking in on recently. It's been so hard to get back in the swing of things since my enforced blogging break due to laptop and internet problems. I'm trying to catch up lol. 

A set of ATC's I made recently. My backing paper is Kay & Co, with bit's torn from a postage style stamps sheet. I diluted some green ink with cosmic shimmer and sponged it round the paper, and stamped  over the top. I then made rough sketches of insects and coloured them with Sakura Tiara gel pens. A final finishing touch of a dangly insect charm fastened with a brad. Hope you like them. 

Guess the Film Candy Challenge

I've been away so long, it seems to me anyway lol. I was without my laptop until a couple of days ago, so glad to have my baby back. Since having it back, I've had continual internet problems, it keeps playing hide and seek with me.

This set of atc's is for a candy challenge at Unique by Annemaritta. We've been challenged to create a project inspired by a film, without naming it. You still have two days to join in if you're interesting in winning her candy.

Sorry about the poor quality of the pix, hubby did them....you just can't get the staff these days....or the loyality if my comment it anything to go by lol. 

On Top Of The World

This is for one of two friends who were Baptised last weekend. This is for a man, so I held off on the embellishments, though managed to get in a few gems, lace and ribbons lol. This is a Mo's Digital Image, coloured with ProMarkers - wish it fitted with the latest DP2 challenge. My papers are Kay & Co and I did my background in the style of Dorcas, though hers are cleverer and stitched with a real sewing machine...mine are 'stitched' with a sakura pen. I glued a couple of buttons together (top one is Ribbon Girl) as my sun and added ribbons as sun rays. My lace 'grass' is crocheted by little me. 

I'm entering this for 

Bearly Mine Challenge #37 - Animal Kingdom.

Circling with elephants.

Isn't this image from Mo's adorable, it was a freebie, might still be available. Sorry the pic is so blurry, too late for me to do anything about that though. I've coloured with promarkers, my card was cut with a large scalloped circle, the the circle behind little blue here was cut by hand - I did use something to draw  round of  course. The seam binding is Ribbon Girl, the paper flowers are stash. The doily is Marianne Designs, as are the flourishes...which I glittered up with green sakura Tiara pen. 

I'm entering this, at the last minuet almost, for 

Mo's DP2 Challenge - Circle Cards

Say it's Stitched

I had to make a stitched card for my swap this month. I almost got to the point of buying some stitching patterns when I remembered I had some stitched toppers from when a previous swap sent me into a minor obsession with stitching designs on paper. This is one of the four cards I made with the toppers I'd had hidden away. My cardstock is so old that I didn't even know I had it. I have loads of coloured cardstock and yet mostly used white as my base. 

The gems are old stash, DP is an offcut but not sure which pack, and I've dug out my sakura pens for a little faux stitching. The crochet lace and flowers are handmade, and although not forgotten stash, are beginning to turn into a hoard. I think my stitching patterns were from CraftsUprint. They have loads on there anyway, so worth looking if you fancy giving it a go.  

I'm entering this for 

Waste Not Wednesday - Challenge 19

Here are the other cards I made with my Stitched Toppers, 

wasn't going to risk forgetting them again lol.

These will go into my card stash,

and no doubt be forgotten lol. 

I think the paper is an offcut from a 12x12 Kay & Co pack. 

The Papers on these next two are out of the Vintage Pack I had from Sarah at Craft All Day.

My favourite papers at the moment, I think both of these are Kay & Co, but there is is mixture of trade names amongst them, and they are all good quality 6.x.6.  

 Fimo flowers and a key using molds from Mold Muse.