a bit of sparkle

It's very hard to see in the piccy but I covered the vase twice  with Versamark and clear embossing powder to make it shine.Red glitter dots for a bit of sparkle - 

I used watercolour pencils - a brand called Micador which I've had for years - I never add colour direct to the card but use a wet paintbrush to pick colour from the pencil tip.

Creative Knockouts - challenge 362 sparkle and shine .

The Flower Challenge - 47 add sparkle

a day at the beach

I have fond memories of going to the seaside as a child - donkey rides ,ice cream ,looking through rock pools with my granddad for tiny fish and crabs which I would put in a bucket only to put them back at the end of the day - I so wanted to take them home.I also remember getting stuck in quicksand and being given a real telling off. HAPPY DAYS

Double D challenge 'Let's go to the beach


I Love ProMarkers challenge 415 - inspired by the photo below. I added a tiny bit of red for interest.

baby toy card

Sometimes you have an idea in your head but getting it right on paper doesn't always work

.This super cute image was resized and printed out to form a childs pullalong toy.The card looks much better in natural light and I have tried to use the colours suggested by Beccy .I used watercolour pencils and then raised the images on sticky pads - Beccy's July challenge.

bee happy

I always seem to take my pics at night when the light is really bad and I end up with lots of shadows.

Creative Knockouts - challenge 360 Flora/Fauna

Warm Wishes

Passion for ProMarkers - week 52 - bingo - I picked pearls ,image and die cut .

Creative Knockouts - challenge 360 Flora/Fauna

flowery birthday

These are Ranuculus flowers ( seriously I wouldn't know but I love the stamp).The colours remind of yummy ice cream ( mango ,strawberry and vanilla ).I used watercolour pencils and lots of water - two of the flowers are raised using foam tape.

The Flower challenge - 46 -Summer/Winter

pottering pals

Passion for ProMarkers - week 551- Animal Antics

Crafty Animals - challenge 40  -anything goes

Creative Knockouts - 359 - Furry Friends - despite the prickles they do have furry tummies.

bee happy

It was so cold in my crafty space this morning the camera lens kept misting over ,this was the best pic I could manage with just a little misting at the bottom.

Allsorts challenge 580 I spy with the letter 'B' - colourwise I did ok with Blue ,Black and Brown hand painted paper - artistic licence means I can have a blue Bee.

flowers for you

I really will have to put my glasses on when crafting - this little bear was already to go on a card base - I picked a white one  and realized my bear was on grey speckle card . I quickly found a matching grey speckle card base so all was not lost - the camera however has decided to make the card look grey and the circle white- typical.Coloured with ProMarkers -the background patterned paper is from the inside of an envelope.

Allsorts challenge week 578- so cute

Crafty Animals challenge -40 as always anything goes

flowers for you

Passion for ProMarkers week 548 - use a die - I used two along with my usual AquaMarkers and Winsor and Newton grey selection - all given a finish with a wink of stella.

wonky hugs

I used the blue,red yellow and green from the AquMarkers and the lightest grey shade from the Winsor and Newton Neutrals.When I mixed the blue and red I was hoping for a violet colour ,instead I have this red wine tone which is ok as I had this dark pink paper which matched.

The image is from Stampavie.I used the 'hugs' from Ranger Letterit which seems a popular stamp set with a lot of you but I'm not so happy with it - maybe I'm just rubbish at stamping.

Passion for ProMarkers - 547 flowers and pearls.

Keeping it simple

 when I looked through my pink/red scraps I was amazed at just how many useless bits of paper I have kept.I keep my scraps in colours so it should be easy to go through each colour and throw away all the really tiny bits (maybe).

I embossed a white panel to put them on  and gave them all fish tails.

A sentiment from Letterit clear stamps and a few pink gems.



Double D challenges - Use your scraps

happy birthday

Passion for ProMarkers - week 546 - Blue and Yellow- I love my Aqua markers ,the colours are very deep which means you can add  of water and not lose the colour. I used Cerulean Blue and Cadmium Lemon which is very sharpe and almost green.

that someone special

The Flower Challenge - 45 Navy +one other colour - I went with two shades of lemon and used three of the  dies to assemble the flowers - I' not sure about this colour combo and maybe a lime green would have been a good contrast with the navy.

Birthday Wishes

sorry about the photo angle it was very late when I took this pic and there were just too many shadows.

I used Alizarin Crimson from the Aqua Markers and from ProMarkers Neutral set which are all shades of grey I used the first 3 colours. I used foam to raise the whole panel - image from LOTV.

Passion for ProMarkers- challenge 545 - Celebration
Southern Girls - Anything goes
CCC digi creations - challenge 115 - Eileens anything goes
Unicorn Challenge 55 - Masculine
Pearly Sparkles challenge 52 Boys/Masculine

stamping mad

 This book has sewing projects from a tiny needle case to table runner or adding some cross stitch to a shirt or patchwork cushion as you can see below.

I have had this book for many years and to keep it clean I covered the outside with brown paper.When I saw the challenge it was easy to get out the sewing stamp set which was came with a magazine some years ago.

I added the tiniest amount of shading and then stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black adding just a square of detail on the front.

.I then went completely mad and sponged and stamped like crazy on the back.

Incy Wincy Design challenge to June 13th - Anything but a card.

Now I'm in the zone I've just eyed up a cook book which I can decorate with a pear stencil ,a tiny carrot stencil , I'm sure I have an apple as well , just need to look through my stash.

pink and green on a very rainy day

the weather here in Tasmania is very rainy, dull and dark - it is the first day of winter - the lights are casting a shadow but there is nothing I can do.

Crafty Hazelnut's  Patterned Paper June challenge -As always anything goes

It's  hard to see but I did add some pearlescent paint to the base of both flowers and the tiny bud , the green is also pearlescent which you just about see on the flower base at the top of the card

yummy strawberries

I used Cerulean Blue,Alizarin Crimson , Cobalt Green and Cadmium Lemon from the AquaMarkers.

This is a first for me making a smooshy dark background - I would normally leave it white.

Passion for ProMarkers- week 544 - it's a Summer thing - what says Summer more than Strawberries.
A tradition at Wimbledon tennis for many years - I will miss watching the tennis this year.

paper weaving in browns ,black and white

not something I would usually do - I've seen lots of cards using up scraps of paper and they almost always leave uneven paper scraps at the edges which looks fine - my clean and simple mind has to have straight edges so once all the weaving was done I used a square die cut . I only used 5 different papers I think it should probably be at least 6 or 7.

hello little bird

we crafters never throw stuff away and I am no different , I have a stash of very old peel off stickers (some have been sitting there unused for over 15 years) , these little birds are not that old ,I used the bird and the leaf shapes to make a flower. Peel off alpha letters coloured a darker blue ,paper is Lawn Fawn.

UnstampaBelles challenge - wind /wings and blue/white.
Sue you have done a great job since taking over from Wendy - I really should join in more often.

keeping it simple

Apologies for the shadow in the right hand corner.

I made this card for my Aunt who celebrates her 90th birthday next week - whilst I am in relative safety here in Tasmania my Aunt lives in the UK with her son and his wife - she assures me they are doing everything to keep her away from any germs. I did go back and add 90th to sentiment inside before I posted it.

Stamping Sensations - Say it with flowers -

 This stamp set is from Fiskars called Flora - I used pearlescent paints from Semco and then outlined the flowers with a pale grey marker pen. I have no idea where the sentiment came from as it was part of a prize years ago and was unmounted . I put foam on the back of the black/white check to lift the whole thing.

hello sweet kitty

I used the Winsor & Newton grey markers for the kitty and even though they have finer tip at one end it's not really fine enough to do details like the kitty stripes. The wings are done with AquaMarkers.This sweet kitty is from ADFD.

Passion for ProMarkers - weeks 540 - Animals

Crafty Animals - challenge 38 - Anything goes

Southern Girls - Team Trace -Anything goes

Give it a go

I have seen a few cards made with this stamp from Ellen Hutson.

As it had solid shapes I thought a stencil might be easy to make . So this is my third attempt at drawing and cutting out what I hoped would look kind of OK.My first attempt didn't have enough sections - the second time I cut out the sections almost to the middle and the whole thing just wouldn't stay together - this third attempt was much better  as I drew a circle in the middle and made sure I didn't cut into it - of course this means I have to have an image or some text in the middle to cover up the crappy bits.

I moved my stencil over a little bit after the first colour was applied and then added some grey.The stencil was only made from paper and not usable again but I quite like the effect. Maybe when our postal systems get back to normal I might just buy the stamp.