Custard

There is something to be said for early morning light, it means  I can get a little bit of crafting done before doing the animals!! I am here to share a card that has been made over many such mornings to satisfy some current challenges!!

This is Custard, a lovely bovine  beauty from Sugar Nellie. She takes me right back to our dairy farming days, although we didn't have one with such a name...we had a Petunia though!!

She was coloured with Promarkers and the papers are from my stash, possibly The Lovely Studio.

That is me for today. I will return later in the week with week with another type of animal.

Take Care until then xx

These are the challenges that inspired me

Penny Black and more - Black and white plus one

Dis digi challenge - Include an animal

Cards 4 galz #69 - Black and white + 1 bright colours 

Animal friends challenge # 61 - On the farm

Sheepskin Designs Challenge #13 - Animal Magic

Maggie's Christmas Dinner

Hello folks hope this finds you well. I thought I would strike while the iron's hot and share a card fresh from the work room as I am doing holiday cover at work next week so time will be short.

Several challenges tickled my fancy so I made this little card to join in.

I used the current layout from here.

The die cut snowflakes are Marianne Designs, the papers were from Wilko the Christmas before last and the sentiment was from a CC designs set called Snarky Christmas (which I cannot find to add a link) that I bought this time last year and inked for the first time today...oops!! I thought it was about time Maggie had another inking and she was then coloured with Promarkers and given a splattering of stickles snow. 

These are the challenges that inspired me, together with a couple more that "fit"

Allsorts challenge #357 - April Fool/Humorous

Sketch Saturday #406

Cut it up #93 - April Fools (include a joke or riddle)

 Hope the sentiment counts!!

The Sugar Bowl #135 - Anything Goes

Crafting For all seasons #123 - Punches or dies

I'll "see" you later in the week with a couple of scheduled posts. 

Until then have a good week xx

Christmas Maggie

I decided to stray from the norm and try my hand at colouring on kraft so I stamped the sweetheart that is Maggie onto Neenah Desert Storm and coloured her with SN pencils.

I am really happy with the result and will definitely be doing it again. The papers are Carta Bella Winter Fun which was one of the first Christmas paper pads I bought and can still get digitally which is fabulous!!  For a change I have added some pretty flowers and the sentiment was stamped on a banner die cut.

Here are the challenges I am entering

Allsorts #320 - Add a banner or flag
Pile it on #78 - Christmas in July
Craft Your Passion #271 - Always Anything Goes
Polkadoodles #29 - 2 or more papers
My Time To Craft #300 - Christmas in July
Crafty Boots - Christmas in July
OLLCB #185 - Christmas in July
The Sugar Bowl #126 -  Anything Goes

Wishing you a good Tuesday xx

A lampshade...whatever next?!!

Hello my crafty friends I have a late finish at work tonight :0( 

 which means a late start this morning :0), so Surprise and I have been out and about disturbing the pheasants and bunnies of Dorset and I've even found time to post my latest creation which is.....

ta dah....a lamp!!

Don't laugh...I decided that I really should make use of the CC Sweet Treats embossing boards and CD rom (that have been collecting dust for quite some time!!) and intended to make a popcorn box. However, when I had it turned upside down to glue the crochet lace and  pearls in place inspiration struck and it became a lamp!! Little Maggie got another outing and a pretty pink paper pieced dress using the opposite side of the paper scrap.

Here is a shot to show the inked edges and dodgy gluing!!










Lucky there are a few perfect challenges to enter at the moment...

Not Just Cards #17

Bunny Zoe's April - Not Square + pink, lace & pearls

Crafty Creations #287 - Seeing Spots

Alphabet Challenge - E = Eyecatching Edges

Sweet Stampin' - ABAC

Crafty Cardmakers #137 - Dots

Crafty CAtz #275 - It's A Girl Thing
Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 173

Wishing you a happy day xx

April showers

Hello folks I hope you are enjoying/have enjoyed a good Saturday wherever you are. We have had one or two spits and spots of rain but the sky is still blue so can't complain. 

Anyway here is a perfectly apt card to share with you

The delightful little maid is Maggie and I just love her - she is such a jolly little character. She was coloured with Promarkers to match the papers from Pebbles, which (apart from pretty florals and checks) conveniently had a sheet that says "rain, rain go away come again another day". I used another page to paper piece her umbrella and stamped the sentiment onto a die cut cloud...as you do!!

Some challenges to play along

Without Words - Under my umbrella

Crafty Catz #274 - Two or more patterned papers

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

The Sugar Bowl #123 - Anything Goes

Fantasy Stampers #34 - CAS

 ( if it doesn't fit the brief please feel free to delete me!!)

The house is quiet so I'm going to have a play in my work room.

Thank you for your visit and your continued support, your comments make my day xx

Strawberry

Another weekend already? Where do the weeks go? Anyway, thank you for dropping by today. During my productive  crafty session yesterday I put the finishing touches to this little beauty.

She was one of my "accidental" purchases that fell into my virtual basket while looking at the Funky Kits Sale in January. I can't find her in the shop so am guessing that she's out of stock at the mo. 

As well as making an attempt to use forgotten dies, I am also challenging myself to try new stuff and in this case finally had a go at painting with distress inks. 

I always look on in absolute awe at the wonderful art work achieved by Annette and Squirrel (among others), and although I do not have the bottles of re-inkers thought I would improvise by squishing DI on to my craft mat and pick up with a Koi water brush. Imagine my delight when I discovered I could do it!! 

So much so that I am even showing a close up of my effort.

The papers came from an American crafts pack that I picked up in TKMaxx. The banner is another of my abandoned unused  dies by Cheery Lynn and the sweet little stamp is by Technique Tuesday.

I'm off to play at these challenges

The Sugar Bowl #121 - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations February - Anything Goes

My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

Crafting Musketeers #22 - Cute

Crafty Your Passion #247 - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe #102 - Birthday Card

Have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to xx

Maggie

Hello crafters, lovely to see you on this dismal Saturday. I managed to get a little time to play with some new  stash and in the absence of Mr Mojo, called for the help in the form of a LOTV sketch, they always do the trick!!

The layout was made up with papers from my Curiosity Corner paper pack and darling Maggie coloured with Promarkers to match. IO butterflies cut in the same paper and some butterfly ribbon

to finish off. 

A challenge or two...

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #209 - Anything Goes

DJK NBUS #3

Crafting Cafe - Lots of Layers

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Girly but no pink

The Sugar Bowl #120 - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner #1 - Anything Goes

Better look lively and do something productive before the Hubster gets home from work!!

Have a good weekend and for those of you suffering bad weather, stay safe xx