Lilac and Green

We've ended up spending an extra couple of nights at home in order to finalise the kitchen plan and iron out a few hiccups now all the walls are down. It's been a wee bit chilly and a bit of dust but overall not too bad and the workmen are very tidy and considerate :) 

Got a bit of a fright tonight when the gas boiler went haywire five minutes after hubby left to take the dog a long walk - it made an unholy racket then the alarm went off - quick phone call to the builder who had the key to the garage and he popped straight round made it safe and went off to find the plumber who came round and put things right - so I'm glad we decided to stay an extra night!

A card I made yesterday:

Image is from LOTV, coloured with promarkers, highlighted with stickles. cut out with a labels two die, distressed with bundled sage and milled lavender DI then matted onto a silver mirri die. BP is from Dovecraft and it's also matted onto silver mirri card. Card is finished with white broderie anglais lace, ribbon, flowers and pearls.

Challenges entered:

Cutie Pie Challenge - recipe

Pollycraft - girls, girls, girls

CRAFT - recipe

Stamptacular Sunday - you choose

The Ribbon Girls - lilac and green

Lollipop Crafts - no sentiments allowed

Bunny Zoe's - lace it up

Sweet Stamps - lots of layers

Top Tip Tuesday - layer it up

Shelly's Images - at least 4 layers

Carol

Trick or Treat

Well after all the LIM cards this week I thought I'd bring you something completely different. I don't really 

"do" Halloween as a rule but there are some gorgeous digi images out there and I won this cute Pumpkin Witch from Delicious Doodles. I decided to make a decoration for the house as DD is going to have a Halloween party with a few of her friends - hopefully the kitchen will have been pulled apart and put back together by then.

The main image has been digitally layered onto a free backing sheet from Jak Heath and printed onto pearlised paper and coloured with promarkers then highlighted with a gelly roll pen and mounted onto a scalloped nestie rectangle. The backing papers front and back are freebies from Bearly Mine (I've used a Martha Stewart punch on the striped one). I've used Grand Nestie scalloped circles to cut the black base and purple and copper mirri card layers. The front is finished with some flowers which I've distressed with TH black soot, lots of lovely purple fibres, a button and the letters for "treat" are "Halloween Felt Alpha" from Raspberry Road.

The back has been decorated with black ribbon, a button, some glittery monsters (from Hobbycraft) and the letters for "trick" as before. I won the pumpkin digi too from Prairie Fairy and it has been coloured in promarkers. The bat is a freebie from Dude Time Doodles and he's been coloured with promarkers and I've added a felt top hat from my stash.  I've used gorgeous orange ribbon to hang it with.

I still need a spider to finish this off - should have kept the bl**dy big one running across my kitchen floor yesterday lol.

This is my first attempt at making something purely decorative and I've rather enjoyed making it - I may get some more made before the party (I've got a whole month to do it!!) but just in case we bought some bits at M&S yesterday (hangs head in shame lol).

Thanks for your visit today and I hope you like what you see.

Challenges entered:

Cupcake - black and purple

Ribbon Carousel - add fabric (felt top hat)

Delightful Challenges - Happy Fall Y'all

The Paper Variety - home (home decor item)

Pixie Dust Studio - circles

Incy Wincy - distressing

Happileigh Scrappin - T Time (trick or treat)

Paper Sundaes - felt (top hat)

Delicious Doodles - cute as a button

Paper Pretties - use buttons

Lollipop Crafts - anything but a card

OLLC - punches and dies

Heart Song Inspirations - orange or buttons

Bearly Mine - buttons

Creative Craft Challenges - buttons and bling

Creative Stamp Friends - anything but a card

Corrosive Challenge Blog - punches and/or dies

Carol x