MilkCoffee Showcase – Stitching: Real or Faux

Hi!  Hope this finds you well and happy! Loving this spring like weather we are enjoying in my part of the UK.  So nice to see the sun shine!

Well here I am with my DT post for the MilkCoffee Showcase and the showcase theme today is Stitching: Real or Faux. 

Now I always admire stitching on cards and marvel at those who do it.   Last year I won a sewing machine through Creativity magazine and the poor thing has never seen the light of day!  Well I thought I would change that and branch out into unknown territory.  However, as I was unable to find the power cable or the pedal (put somewhere safe of course) that put pay to that!  Saved in the final hour some might say.  I couldn't possibly comment!

So here is my creation for the showcase and it is rather a crazy affair I have to say. The fabulous image is Tiffany in Wonderland and I went all ‘Lewis Carroll’ on the poor girl!

The papers are Antique Library from Wild Rose Studio which I got from My Mum’s Craft Shop here and the clock die is by Tattered Lace.  I love this die it is so quirky (bit like me) and I felt the need to draw a crackle effect on the face for an aged look.

I was going to incorporate a ‘Drink Me’ bottle into the design but plumped for a cup and teapot instead, well I had some stamps that were suitable!  I also wanted a Mad Hatter top hat on there somewhere too (I just want everything) but as I lucked out with that one I had to draw my own. This may explain why it’s a bit wonky.  All the images are coloured with my fab Spectrum Noir pencils which I am loving!

The playing cards are from a Christmas cracker (yes, really) and the hearts were cut using a Papermania Palm Punch.

So to the actual theme of the showcase; I used hand stitching down the spine of my ‘book’ and faux doodle stitching around the paper edges.  See, I managed to get it in there somewhere!

Check out all the amazing creations by the showcase team here and visit the MilkCoffee shop to see all the gorgeous images available.  And don’t forget to join in the current challenge on the challenge blog which is Emboss It! Wet or Dry!

Thanks so much for looking!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Eureka Stamps – Challenge #79: ANYTHING GOES

Crafting from the Heart – Challenge #8: ANYTHING GOES/USE DIES OR PUNCHES

Deep Ocean – Challenge #72: JUST FOR A GIRL

Just Inspirational – March Challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Crafting by Designs – March Challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Crafts and Me – Challenge #146: ANYTHING GOES

Card Makin’ Mamas – Challenge #81: STACK IT UP!

Crafty Little Fairies – SONG OR FILM TITLE (Film: Alice inWonderland)

DL.Art – Challenge #127: GIRL/LADY IMAGE                

Going all Pearly Swirly at the Cutie Pie Challenge!

Hey, hope all is well with you and yours.  Well personally I am feeling a little vintage today. Why you ask? Well yesterday I was officially one year away from half a century on this planet. Half a century! Shouldn’t I get a letter from the Queen or something?  Do you think she will make me a card?  Hmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps not.

Any road up, today, apart from the rapid onset of old age, I would like to share my DT card for the CutiePie challenge this fortnight and our theme is: Pearls & Swirls! Yummy!

We are sponsored by

 And one lucky winner will win a $10 gift voucher to spend on their gorgeous and adorable digis in their online store 

I chose to use a Bildmalarna stamp this time called Little Winged Friends Together which I bought from TheStamp Basket.  I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and paper-pieced her dress (although that’s not particularly obvious).

The base card is Centura Pearl, cut using Spellbinders Grand Labels One, coloured with PanPastels then embossed. And the swirls are from Tonic and the butterflies are cut using an X-Cut punch.

I added liquid pearls all over the place and sat a metal butterfly charm on top of my Silky Crush bow.  The sentiment is from Kanban.

So there you are. Please scoot over to the Cutie Pie blog  check out all the DT loveliness and join in with all the pearly swirly fun, oh and don’t forget to make it cute!!

Thanks so much for looking.

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Craft Place – ANYTHING GOES

Scribble and Scrap – Challenge #13: ANYTHING GOES

The Squirrel and the Fox – Challenge #64: SOMETHING SPOOLED

Deep Ocean – Challenge # 72: JUST FOR A GIRL

Tuesday Throwdown – Challenge #184: ANYTHING GOES

Aud Sentiments – Challenge #101: ANY SENTIMENT FOR A GIRL

Digi Stamps 4 Joy – Challenge #86: USE DIES OR PUNCHES

QKR Stampede – Challenge #77: ANYTHING BUT A SQUARE CARD

Craft Your Passion – Challenge #203: BIRTHDAY BONANZA

The Paper Nest Dolls – Challenge #5: ANYTHING GOES

Crafting from the Heart – Challenge #8: ANYTHING GOES/USEDIES OR PUNCHES

Penny Black & More - March Challenge – SO SWEET

Creative Moments – Challenge #37: ANYTHING GOES/PEARLS &SWIRLS

Ladybug Crafts Challenge – Anything Goes!

Hello, how are you keeping?

As it is the first day of the month I am here to show my DT creation for the March Ladybug Crafts challenge, and the theme this time is Anything Goes. Everyone’s favourite!

As it was my mum’s birthday this week I thought I would decorate a gift bag for her.

The paper is from an old Kanban kit, and the image is the uber gorgeous Rosie by Mi Ran available here Mi Ran has some amazing designs in her shop  and you must check them out! I coloured Rosie with Spectrum Noir markers and pencils and cut her out using Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares, cutting another in black to mat behind.

To match the netting on her hat I coloured some Spider Web with black StazOn, added feathers and black pearl topped hat pins and some roses made from Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms.

The tag is made using a Kanban sentiment and more of the paper. The ribbon was some I cut out of a black cardigan. You know the ones that are supposed to help keep the item on the hanger but ends up creeping out to be on display for all the world to see. Needless to say it got the chop! Better on a project I thought.

So now it’s your turn, and we all love Anything Goes!  Scoot over to the Ladybug Crafts challenge to join in and check out the amazing DT inspiration.

Thanks so much for looking!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

In the Pink – Challenge #38: PINK PLUS ONE OTHER COLOUR (Black)

Cuttlebug Mania – LET’S FEEL IT!

Deep Ocean – Challenge # 72: JUST FOR A GIRL

Tuesday Throwdown – Challenge #184: ANYTHING GOES

Little Miss Muffet – Challenge #80: ANYTHING GOES

Aud Sentiments – Challenge #101: ANY SENTIMENT FOR A GIRL

Digi Stamps 4 Joy – Challenge #86: USE DIES OR PUNCHES

A Creative Romance - JENNY’S BINGO (Pink, Flowers & Pearls)

QKR Stampede – Challenge #77: ANYTHING BUT A SQUARE CARD
ABC Challenge – G FOR GIRLS

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards – Teddy Bears!

Hello, how are things in the world of you?

I’m here today to let you know that there is a new challenge starting over on the Chocolate, Coffee and Cards blog and our theme this fortnight is Teddy Bears!

 Our sponsor is the fabulous Ladybug Crafts Ink and they were very generous to let the DT each pick an image to work with and I chose Swing Billy, available here. 

I printed Billy off onto watercolour card and coloured him with Inktense Pencils. I added clouds to the sky using a Memory Box die but like a wally I decided to cover most of them up with a Spellbinders tree die which is ironically called Just Swingin’. You can just about see them I think. Oooops!

I used my ‘older than I care to remember’ Tonic mini daisy punch to add some flowers to the tree and a Tattered Lace die to give them some leaves.

So as not to upset the clouds having so viciously covered them up previously I fixed some more to the top, adding a touch of Stormy Sky DI for shadow.

I made a bow from brown Silky Crush Ribbon, and punched a larger flower out to match the others and that went on the top. The sentiment is from Tattered Lace.

I thought I was going to mount all this onto an A6 top fold card and leave it at that but it lacked something.  So I cut 2 of the largest rectangles from the Spellbinders Fanciful Lattice set out of Centura Pearl to make a card blank.

I hope you will join us at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards. It’s a great challenge and who hasn’t got a teddy bear somewhere in their stash?  Check out the blog for all the wonderful DT inspiration and play along!

Thanks so much for looking!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Sentimental Sundays – Challenge #194: PACK A PUNCH

Pinspirational – Challenge #95: ANYTHING GOES

Shopping our Stash – Challenge #139: MAKE YOUR OWN EMBELLISHMENTS

Crafting by Designs – Feb challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Feeling Crafty – Challenge #25: DIES AND/OR PUNCHES

Scribble & Scrap – Challenge #12: ANYTHING GOES

Craft-Dee BowZ – February Challenge: ANYTHING GOES WITH A HANDMADE BOW 

Crafting from the Heart – Challenge #7: ANYTHING GOES/USE FLOWERS

ABC Challenges – F IS FOR FLOWERS

Crafty Ribbons - Challenge #77: ANYTHING GOES

MilkCoffee Showcase – Boys

Hello, hope all is well with you and yours.

Today sees a new MilkCoffee Showcase and the theme today is Boys.  You know those things that leave the toilet seat up, dirty plates in the sink and think football should be a recognised religion! Can’t live with them; can’t roll them through the Big Shot either!

So my creation today was entirely inspired by the MilkCoffee image I Want to be Like Daddy which is available here.  I saw this cute little boy in his daddy’s clothes and thought about him rooting through a chest of drawers looking for all the items.  So that’s what I did.

I made an A6 top fold base from Kraft and ran it through a wood panel embossing folder from Sheena Douglass. I then cut out three ‘drawers’ and embossed them too, but so the grain ran horizontally.  Card Candi coloured with permanent pen became the drawer handles.

I printed my image onto Neenah Solar card, coloured him with Spectrum Noirs and fussy cut him out.

Now this is where it all gets a little ‘amateur hour’ I’m afraid. I decided, in my infinite wisdom, to have ‘clothes’ hanging out of the drawers in true ‘I have been a-rummaging, Dad’ fashion.  But, as I couldn’t find anything suitable to use I found myself having to draw the things myself. (Roll eyes towards the heavens! Oh dear!)

So please forgive the slightly wonky scarf (drawn onto patterned paper, DAD stamped in sepia Archival, and twine added to the bottom using a Crop-A-Dile), the spotty tie (coloured with Spectrums and then given a dotty design) and the hankie at the top (be grateful, it was going to be underpants!).

So there you are. I quite like it actually.  It certainly came out so much better than I thought it would (kind of pinning for the underpants now though.  Did I say that out loud?!).

Please meander over to check out all the lovely creations by my teamies here and visit the MilkCoffee shop to see the fabulous images they have.  And don’t forget to join in the current challenge on the challenge blog which, in total contrast to the Showcase, is Girly!

Thanks so much for looking!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Bloggers – Feb Challenge: ALL ABOUT BOYS

Melonheadz Friends – FOR THE BOYS

The Paper Nest Dolls – Challenge #4: ANYTHING GOES

Pinspirational – Challenge #95: ANYTHING GOES

A Little Bit Crafty – Feb Challenge: MAN UP!

Crafting by Designs – Feb challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Spectrum Noir – Feb Challenge: MASCULINE PROJECTS

Crafting by Designs – JUST FOR BOYS

Shopping our Stash – Challenge #139: MAKE YOUR OWN EMBELLISHMENTS (Hope making the items hanging out of the drawers counts. If not please delete!)

Scribble & Scrap – Challenge #12: ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Little Fairies – ONE FOR THE BOYS

Spots & Dots at the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog

Hello! Hope everyone is well and surviving the horrendous UK weather. My heart goes out to all those caught up in the floods. The rain has been merciless. Do take care out there!

So onto cheerier things! We’ve gone a bit spotty today at the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog and we’re hoping that it is contagious!! What am I going on about? Well our new challenge starts today and we would love to see your cute creations using Spots & Dots within the design.  But please don’t forget to make it cute as in adorable!  I think the definition of cute is becoming a bit blurred at times but if the image is sweet and makes you go Awwwwwww! then you’re on the right track!

This time we are sponsored by Sweet Stamps 

and one lucky winner will win a $10 gift certificate for their online store

and also by From the Heart 

who are offering a $5 gift certificate to one lucky individual.

The DT were fortunate to be allowed to choose an image from the From the Heart online shop which was nigh on impossible, so many beautiful things, but in the end I picked Bunny Hello.  Too cute!

I recently came into possession of the brand new Spectrum Noir pencils (sounds a bit dodgy that, like they fell of the back of a lorry… don’t worry Del Boy was not involved and I did pay for them) and this is their first outing! These fab pencils come in so many scrummy colours but for some reason I chose to colour in greyscale with a splash of pink!! Hey ho!

I printed my little girl and wabbit on Neenah Solar and once coloured I stamped round the edge.  To further incorporate the spotty theme I added dots to the flowerpot.

The papers are from Papermania and the dies are all from Tonic as is the tiny flower punch. I embossed the card behind the lattice with Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Dainty Dots folder

The rose is made using the Sizzix 3D Flower Bigz die and the ribbon I found in the bargain bin at Hobbycraft. The sentiment is from LOTV which is a change I made after submitting my photo to the DT blog. Oooops!

Pop over to the Cutie Pies blog to join in the spotty fun and be inspired by all the lovely creations made by my fellow Cuties.

Thanks so much for looking!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Fab ‘n’ Funky – Challenge #203: LOVE/VALENTINE THEME

Divas by Design: WITH LOVE

Crafty Ribbons: Challenge #76: RIBBONS ‘N’ BOWS 

Feeling Crafty – Challenge #25: DIES AND/OR PUNCHES

Alphabet Challenge – A for ALWAYS & FOREVER

Stampin’ for the Weekend – FLOWER POWER

A Creative Romance – LET'S GET SENTIMENTAL

Sentimental Sundays – Challenge #194: PACK A PUNCH (Tonic flower punch)

Scribble and Scrap – Challenge #12: ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES

The Squirrel and the Fox – Challenge #63: LOVE

The Paper Nest Dolls – Challenge #4: ANYTHING GOES

Polka Doodles – Week 6: LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Brown Sugar – Challenge #81: USE A DIE CUT OR PUNCH
Craft-Dee BowZ – February Challenge: ANYTHING GOES WITH AHANDMADE BOW – CDB10

Crafting from the Heart – Challenge #7: ANYTHING GOES/USEFLOWERS

Eureka Stamps – Challenge #77: ANIMAL FRIENDS

Crafting by Designs – Feb challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards – One Button, One Bow & One Flower!

One flower?!  One flower?!  Me?!  One flower?!

Sorry.  I’m alright now.

Hello, I’m back to let you know that there is a new challenge starting today over on the Chocolate, Coffee and Cards challenge blog  and our theme is One Button (sure I can find one somewhere), One Bow (yeah no probs) and One Flower.  What?  Just one?! One? What as in singular?! Oh ‘eck!

So enough of this ‘WHAT, ONLY ONE FLOWER!’ outburst, what did I make? 

We are sponsored this time by MelJen’s Designs who have the most adorable images possible. Pop over to their shop and see for yourself.  I chose to use Little Girl Bear Hugs available here.  Soooo cute!

I coloured with Spectrum Noirs on Neenah Solar card and cut her out using Tonic dies.

So if I can only have one flower let’s make it count, that’s what I say, so I used my matching stamp and die set from Heartfelt Creations called Daisy Patch.  Love, love, love this set. So easy to use and makes me look like I know what I’m doing!!  He, He!

My one flower!

The bow is my favourite Silky Crush ribbon and the little button was found after quite a few minutes of opening drawers, pulling out boxes and using words I didn’t even know I knew!!

And there you go. I hope you will join us at Chocolate,Coffee and Cards. The recipe is really easy (despite my flower tantrum!), so check out the blog  for all the amazing DT creations and play along!

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Ladybugs Crafts Ink – THE ONE I LOVE

The Cupboard Trilogy – Challenge #19: LOVE

Crafty Calendar – Feb Challenge: LOVE IS ALL AROUND

Divas by Design - DIE-CUTS

Aud Sentiments – Challenge #99: SHARING THE LOVE

Crafting by Designs – Feb challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Top Tip Tuesday – GIRLY

Creative Moments – Challenge #35: ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Ribbons – Challenge #75: ANYTHING GOES WITH RIBBON
Crafty Catz – Challenge #217: LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Polka Doodles – Week 6: LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Graph’it Markers – Week 6: LOVEY DOVEY

MilkCoffee Showcase – Spring is in the Air

Hello, how’s things?

It’s showcase time again on the MilkCoffee blog and the theme this time is Spring is in the Air!  And don’t we all wish it was!  The rain in the UK has been relentless. Hope you are Ok wherever you are.

So, I made a frame card a few weeks back which you can see here  and thought I would do another one. Well originality is not my strong point!

There are some gorgeous new images in the MilkCoffee shop and I chose to use Lisbeth and Little Bunnies.  I printed Lisbeth onto watercolour card and coloured her with Distress Inks.

Look at those ickle bunnie wabbits!

After embossing the card front I coloured it with Turquoise and Violet Tint PanPastels. 

I had a bit of a flower frenzy with my Tonic punches (love, love, love to make my own flowers, can you tell?) and cut the leaves from Tattered Lace Dies.

Do you think I made enough flowers?

The cute little fence and birdhouse is a wooden shape from Hobbycraft that I also coloured with PanPastels and a touch of DI.

Another ickle bunny wabbit has snuck in I see!

 Check out all the amazing designs by my teamies here and visit the MilkCoffee shop to see the oodles of super cute images there. 

See ya!

Colourful hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Paper Nest Dolls – Challenge #3: ANYTHING GOES

Top Tip Tuesday – GIRLY

Crafting by Designs – Feb challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Creative Moments – Challenge #35: ANYTHING GOES

Paper Crafting Journey – EMBOSS THAT!

Crafty Ribbons – Challenge #75: ANYTHING GOES WITH RIBBON

Valentine Cuties at the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog

Hello! Hope all is well with you and yours!

Huge sigh! Now love is most definitely in the air over at the Cutie Pie Blog where our brand new challenge theme is Valentine Cuties.  Awwwwwwh, now doesn’t it make you feel all mushy inside? No? What are you made of, shrink plastic!?! 

Well, loved up or not we are sponsored this time by 2 CuteInk 

2 Cute Ink digital stamps are my own cute and quirky illustrations used for card making and paper crafting!

I love drawing animals and anything cute!  I am always looking for new ideas to draw, so let me know what you would like to see!

And one lucky winner will win 2 digital stamps

They have a fab shop with some ridiculously cute images and it was so hard to choose just one but in the end I went with Sleeping Turtle, and of course she is dreaming of her true love! Sigh!

I used the image twice, shrinking one considerably so that it would fit inside the largest of my Memory Box Cloud dies (thank you Santa!).  I printed them out onto Super Smooth card and coloured with Promarkers.

Dreaming of her man. Awwwwwwh!

I made a stepper card this time and covered it with LOTV Bear Necessities paper. The dies are Lacey Ovals and Classic Ovals from Spellbinders.

For information; most of the pearls fell off 5 mins after this shot!!

Pop over to the Cutie Pies blog to see the amazing inspiration created by my talented teamies and spread the luuuuuurve!

See ya!

Timing    

Scribbly hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers – Week 232: ANYTHING GOES

Winter Wonderland – DIGI DAYS

Graph’it Markers – Week 4: ANYTHING GOES

Polka Doodles – Week 5: ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Catz – Challenge #216: ANYTHING GOES

I Love Promarkers – Challenge # 204: LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Cuttlebug Mania – ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 244: LOVE/ VALENTINES

Little Miss Muffet – Challenge #78: LOVE!

Aud Sentiments – Challenge #99: SHARING THE LOVE

Sparkles – Challenge #52: SHOW US YOUR NEW STASH (Memory BoxCloud Die)

A Creative Romance – SHOW US SOME LOVE

QKR Stampede – Challenge #73: ANYTHING GOES

A Gem of a Challenge – Challenge #112: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Ladybug Crafts Challenge – Be Mine

Hello, how are you keeping?

As it is the first day of the month I am here to show my DT contribution to the February Ladybug Crafts challenge where the theme is Be Mine.

A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, decided to abandon papercraft for the joys of needlework (quizzical look and eyebrows raised!).  Her wonderful hubby bought her a sewing machine for her birthday and she has never looked back. This lead to her having a few bits of crafty stash that were now redundant and requiring a good home.  Step forward me with a needy look and outstretched hands (gimme, gimme!).  Needless to say the orphaned stash is orphaned no more. J

So here I am with my ‘first ever Tilda’ (I know, how shabby is that!) thanks to my unexpected and very generous inheritance! (Thank you; thank you; thank you!)

I coloured my ‘first ever Tilda’ with my Pro & Flexmarkers onto super smooth card.

I went a bit bold with my colour choice of deep pink with a touch of blue but I think it works.

All the dies and punches are from the Tonic Affections collection except the leaves which are from the Spellbinders Botanical Swirls & Accents and the Tattered Lace Ornate Leaves.  The fab papers are Bonnets & Bowties from LOTV as is the sentiment.  And yes those are skeleton leaves you can see. Well they were the right colour!

And that’s it. My first and defiantly not my last foray into the wonderful world of Tilda!

Now it’s your turn to get loved up!  Scoot over to the Ladybug Crafts challenge  to join in and check out the amazing DT inspiration.

See ya!

Scribbly hugs

Jane xx

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Eureka Stamps – Challenge # 74: ANYTHING GOES

Passion for Promarkers – Week 232: ANYTHING GOES

Magnolia-licious – Tuesday Challenge: ANYTHING GOES

In the Pink – Challenge #36: DIE CUTS & PUNCHES

I Love Promarkers – Challenge # 204: LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Cuttlebug Mania – ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 244: LOVE/VALENTINES

Little Miss Muffet – Challenge #78: LOVE!

Aud Sentiments – Challenge #99: SHARING THE LOVE

A Creative Romance – SHOW US SOME LOVE

QKR Stampede – Challenge #73: ANYTHING GOES

A Gem of a Challenge – Challenge #112: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Tilda's Town - Challenge #90: BE MINE