Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 43

Challenge time again at Quixotic Paperie and this week the lovely Rowena has chosen: Gift It! Create a gift project - calendar/candle/trinket box/wall hanger/etc. Here is my DT make for this week and I thought I would make a CD cover. Do people still do compilation CD's for each other or do they just share downloads? LOL! Anyway this is my compilation…

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Prince Charming Is All Yours!

Did you find your Prince (or Princess) Charming on the St Valentines Weekend? Oh look here he is LOL!Prince Ian is a digital image from The Greeting Farm and I've matched him up with the beautiful Basic Grey Origins Papers which I got from Quixotic Paperie and have ruffed up a bit, ok, distressed!I've coloured Ian with Copic pens and the background…

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Circle The Tilda

So the weekend begins. Ahh lovely weekend. Tilda is here to celebrate the weekend with a Simon Says Paper piecing challenge. I've made a circle card for one main reason, I had run out of this lovely dark brown cardstock and the only piece I had left was this tiny bit! Bless! So with a little frugal jiggery pockery I managed to…

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Heart Felt Thanks

Last of the cards from last year that I haven't blogged yet but you might have seen it in Papercrafts Essentials :) and on my new slideshow - which I uploaded yesterday and just realised that I hadn't blogged this card yet - D'oh. Thought I better post the card quickly before anyone noticed ;)This one uses BasicGrey Recess Paper pack, which…

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Show Me Ya Knickers

Mmm I wonder if that title will end up getting me a lot of strange hits on the blog? LOL. A Sassy Crafts card today and have you seen the Third Coast Stamps over at Sassy Crafts? They have a sparky personality of their own with humour and quirkiness that is very cool. The papers are BasicGrey from the Eva Collection and…

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Cupcake ATC And Some Blog Candy Alerts

How has your weekend been? What crafty stuff have you all been up to? I've made a couple of things but I've also been a bit distracted with Lego Star Wars on the Playstation - Oops! Hence the late post :) I could have just pretended that I was really busy with a project...! We have some news at Kaboodle Doodles –…

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Is It Spring Yet?

It is very sunny here, no snow, although we did have a sprinkling last night. So again I'm looking forward to the spring time with the lovely Two Scoops papers from BasicGrey. I think the colours in this paper pack just scream spring to me. The stamped image is the Country Girl Standing with Flowers from Alota and I've coloured her with…

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I Lurve You

A little ATC for you today using Newton's Law paired up with BasicGrey papers. I will stop with the Love theme soon, promise!Materials:Stamp - Newton's Law Rory Tyger (Quick Cards freebie stamp); Studio G AlphabetInk - VersaFine Onyx Black; Colourbox ChalkColouring - Marvy Le Plume watercolouring pensPapers - Basic GreyUsual Suspects - Double-sided tape; Paper trimmer; 3D-foam

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More Men’s Cards

Carrying on from yesterday here is another men's card. You can see the theme, can't you? :) This card was completely inspired by the lovely cards Nicky recently posted on the Sassy Crafts blog. It was actually the first one I did and yesterday's card was the second card on the theme; don't ask me why I showed them this way round…

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Men’s Cards

I am a very lucky girl. I bought a Kit Kat the other day and it had no wafer in it. It was ALL chocolate :) Yummy.Anyway, I digress :) Card today is themed for men and uses BasicGrey and a bit of paper distressing.Materials:Stamp - HOTP; PapermaniaInk - VesraFine Onyx BlackPaper - BasicGrey GranolaUsual Suspects - Scissors; Circle template; Silicone glue;…

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Growing Friends

I've always liked this cute image from Elzybells Art Stamp and it works so well with the sentiments from Kaboodle Doodles Blossom Berry Brights Kit sentiments. I've used my promarkers with Twinkling H2Os and a touch of Cosmic Shimmer. You might also recognise a bit of BasicGrey papers? Materials: Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamp Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black Colouring - Letroset…

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