Christmas Pink

Hey Guys, My last Christmas card to show you and this one uses the colour combination inspiration from the Basic Grey Challenge which is Blue, Cream and Pink. I've chosen to use the lovely Oakley with Christmas Bauble another of my favourites from the Whiff Of Joy Winter Kit - perhaps an odd choice for the colour combo? LOL! The Basic Grey…

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Save All Your Embroidery Kisses For Me

It is a Wednesday Challenge over at the InStyle Stamp Blog and this week we have paper piecing as the challenge. Here is my GDT card for this week and it uses the very cute Dan and Mandy, aren't they sweet? Don't forget to check out the other lovely makes from the rest of the DT. Materials: Stamp - InStyle Stamps Colouring…

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Pink Magnolia

So how was your weekend? Isn't it strange being back to normal after a three-day weekend? A challenge card for you today and this one is for the Simon Says Challenge. I've been meaning to do a challenge for these guys since the blog started but time never seems to be on my side. Anyway, I've managed to get this done for…

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Get Your Lovely Apples

Hey everyone, hope that if you are lucky enough to be having a three-day weekend that it is a fun one for you. At the moment my other half is scraping glue and bits of wood off of the bathroom floor, I've had a bit of reprieve to post this card, good excuse I thought :) Bank holiday weekends are for DIY,…

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Darla Does The Housework

Boy, I wish she would come round to my place - it needs a good clean! A late post today and I have no excuse. Where does the time go? Well, it certainly wasn't from doing any housework. The lovely Darla here is from InStyle Stamps and is coloured in with a mix of Prismacolor pencils and my new Koh-i-noor pencils, which…

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Stand Out From The Crowd

A simple card today which happens to fit well with the 'Minimal' challenge that is going on over at the Creative Card Crew this week. I've managed to do another challenge card - yippee! So this card has been nestie embossed and I've stamped directly onto it with this gorgeous cute Matryoshka Dolls stamp from My Cute Stamps. The image has been…

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Sugar Bowl Challenge

A challenge card today and this is for the sketch over at The Sugar Bowl. The papers are from the Bloomin' kit from Designs by Krista. I've coloured the Gorjuss girl with my PrismaColor pencils and of course finished the card with some hand-stitching. Materials: Stamp - Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Ink - Versafine onyx black Colouring - prismacolor pencils; sansodor Papers -…

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At Last!

I've had time to play with my Ms Anya stamps. I thought that I would join in with the challenge over at Creative Card Crew which this week is about embossing. I've embossed the pearlescent tulips with my Cuttlebug and added some hand-stitching and glitter glue to finish the card. Ms Anya is coloured with my Copics and promarkers. I've been completely…

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Sugar Stitch

As promised a card! After a very lazy Easter weekend with very little crafting going on - shock! Horror! I have managed to finish this card for you today. I've used the Twilight In Provence Papers from Designs By Krista which, btw, is only $1 and Krista has a sale going on at her shop with lots of yummy downloadable kits for…

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A Bit Of Colour Inspiration And Name That Stitch Competition…

A challenge card today taking inspiration from the Colour Create Challenge blog, which is celebrating a fab 10k hits - well done, guys. They have some blog candy to celebrate so hop over ASAP :) These are colours I rarely use but really like so I had to have a go! I dug about in my stash to find a colour match…

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