Truly Scrumptious

Thank you so much for all your get well wishes.  My cold is nearly gone and I’m feeling much better.  However, Dave thinks he has caught it so he went out today and spent £16.00 (yes £16.00) on a pot of honey which is supposedly wonderful for treating colds.  At £16 a pot it certainly needs to be!! 

It’s time for another Truly Scrumptious challenge and this week we have a fab sketch by the talented Mina with the theme of ‘Autumn’. 

This card came together really easily (for a change!) as I knew exactly what image and papers I wanted to use.   I love this Autumn Milly from Pink Gem Designs.  She is coloured with distress inks and her log has some flowersoft moss along the top.  The papers are BG Indian Summer – these papers are such gorgeous rich colours.  I used a Quickutz die to cut the leaves which I then covered with crackle paint and spritzed with glimmer mist.  I’m really pleased with the effect but the macro setting isn’t good enough on my camera to show a close-up.

Janet (Pink Gem Designs) has a competition to win six of her stamps and is also looking for a Guest Designer so I’m going to enter this card.

I hope you can join in the Truly Scrumptious challenge this week.

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Full of cold!

I would love to have a card to show you but I'm full of cold and every time I lean over my craft table my sinuses throb and my eyes water. So I've given up and retired to the sofa with a box of tissues and some paracetamol. Have a lovely weekend everyone!

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Rainy Tuesday

Autumn has well and truly arrived; the last couple of days have been grey and wet and its back to wearing wellington boots to walk the dog rather than flip flops.

This card is for my husbands old flatmate who has just become a dad again.  I used the fab sketch on this weeks Inspirational Sketches Challenge blog and I’m also entering this in the Creative Card Crew challenge which this week is ‘Celebrations’.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Whiff of Joy image and Papermania sentiment

Colouring medium: Distress inks: Dress & Hair – Antique Linen, Tea Dye & Brushed Cordroy, Swaddling – Faded Jeans

Paper: Winter Wonderland from Ladybug & Friends

Embellishments: Paper roses & cherry blossom, ribbon

Tools: Cuttlebug corner die, Martha Stewart border punch, Leon Em leaf punch, oval nesties

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Whiff of Joy Challenge

Yay, its Friday!  My favourite day of the week as I don’t work and I reserve Friday evenings as my craft time.  The gorgeous weather continues in the South East although its definitely getting colder and I’ve been up into the loft to bring down the winter duvet.  Thomas has had a great week but has turned into an escapologist.  He slipped through a narrow gap in the fence into our neighbours garden yesterday!  Luckily they were in and he ended staying a while to play with their children!

Onto my card and its been a while since I made a really girly, flowery card.  There is a lovely sketch for this weeks WOJ challenge and I cut into these gorgeous Melissa Frances papers which I bought at the Craft Barn last week.

My image is coloured with distress inks and I made the three vintage paper flowers using the technique in Rach’s tutorial.  Other embellishments are organza ribbon, lace and stick on pearls and the sentiment is from Papermania.

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Whimsy DT cards

I managed to sneak in a bit of extra crafting time this evening in between washing my hair and watching an brilliant episode of Criminal Minds!

I thought these tag shaped cards would be perfect for these Whimsy images, although I should have checked sizes first because the bear only just fits!  Both images are coloured with distress inks and I’ve matted the bear onto some jute ribbon and used a few of the ribbon threads to tie in my buttons.

There was a bit more room to decorate my second card and I’ve used some Sizzix papers, some raffia and a couple of buttons which came from an old pair of Monsoon flip flops!

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Truly Scrumptious Challenge 17

It’s time for another Truly Scrumptious challenge and this week we have a sketch designed by yours truly with the added challenge of doodling on your card. The lovely Christine Dark is sponsoring us this week and is giving away the choice of six images to our lucky winner. Christine was also extremely generous and sent the DT some of her latest designs.

I had a bit of a printer nightmare when I tried to print the image onto watercolour paper so I had to use regular card which is why my colouring is not as good as I would have liked. I used a glitter pen on this gorgeous fairy’s wings and Stewart Gill paint for her dress. It’s all very sparkly – much more sparkly than the picture shows.

I hope you’re able to play along with our challenge. Hop over to the Truly Scrumptious and take a look at the fabulous cards the rest of the DT have created.

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Just Magnolia

I hope those of you who managed to get to Ally Pally had a fabulous time.  I would love to have been there but an unhealthy bank balance and a working husband meant I couldn’t go.   I plan to be at the next one though with a bit of cash to splash!

Thomas took a nice long nap at lunchtime which gave me some time to craft.  The challenge at Just Magnolia this week is to use the colours pink and grey with the option of using black.  I teamed up some Bo Bunny and Anna Griffin papers but I now think maybe its all a bit too busy.  What do you think?

Tilda is coloured with Distress Inks; these are the colours I used: 

Dress & boots – Worn Lipstick & Aged Mahogany

Skin – Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Worn Lipstick

Hair – Antique Linen & Walnut Stain

Leggings – Tombow pen

So another weekend has flown past.  Have a great week everyone and remember to visit the Truly Scrumptious blog on Wednesday where we will have a new challenge for you.

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