Charming!

Hello again! I'm back with a card for the latest challenge at Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia and this fortnight we'd like to see a charm on your projects.

I brought out my go-to Autumn papers, the gorgeous "Shall We Have Coffee" collection from Maja Designs.  I coloured Tilda with DIs and sploshed a bit of Frantage here and there. I put some Crackle Glaze on the teapot and lots of glitter on the biscuits to look like icing sugar.  The cotton lace and velvet ribbon were left over from another card I made using these papers and as they go together so well, I decided to use this combination again.

The roses are from WOC and I added a teapot charm which I'm pretty sure I got from our fabby sponsor, the Ribbon Girl:

Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves.

 

I do hope you can play along with us at LhoSM.  Do grab and cuppa and check out the cards my teamies have made - they are completely gorgeous!

 

Hugs,

 

Tracey xx

Things with Wings!

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'!  This week we're looking for Things with Wings.  Lili of the Valley are our sponsor with a £10 voucher to give away to one randomly chosen winner, so why not get those stamps out and play along?

Here's my take on our theme:

There are quite a few Autumn themed challenges out there at the moment and so I was drawn to my MME Indie Chic papers in tones of orange and brown.  The image is by hAnglar and Stanglar and I coloured her with my DIs for a change.  The mesh die cut was made using a Cheery Lynn die and I added flowers from WOC and ribbon & gems from my stash.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Autumn Colours
Wild Orchid Crafts - Inspired by Autumn

Will be back tomorrow with another card for LhoSM!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Wishful Thinking

We've got a really big jungle garden.  I spend quite a bit of time planning how beautiful it will look when all of the borders are weed-free, when I can persuade the rabbits and deer to eat the weeds and not my plants and when large parts of the garden aren't under water due to flooding.  Well, a girl can dream...

They are cutting a sizeable portion of the forest near my house and whereas I wouldn't normally see many deer until later in the year, we've noticed quite a few in the field looking a little lost.  My dear dad gave me a huge pot of Japanese Anemones to put into one of my borders but I think I'll be finding it a sheltered position near the house instead - those deer love to eat anything in flower!  My friend has even had them at her front door eating the flowers in a hanging basket!

So why am I going on about my garden?  Because Totally Tilda would like to see Tilda Gardening for their current challenge. 

One of my favourite things to do in the garden is plant up the baskets and pots, so I had to include a terracotta pot on my card!  I've had the button pot and tools in my stash for so long that I really can't remember where it came from.  The papers, however, are by Pion and I cut out some of the seed packet images from one of the double sided papers. 

Tilda was stamped onto watercolour card and has been coloured using Distress Markers. The border was made with a Martha Stewart PATP punch and the doily was cut from K & Co paper with a Cheery Lynn Doily die. 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Totally Tilda - Tilda Gardening (must include seed packets/garden tools)

Enjoy your evening.

Hugs

Tracey xx

Just because

I'm just popping in quickly to show you a "Just because..." card I made at the weekend.  School is pretty full-on at the moment so it was lovely just to do some colouring and not have to think about co-ordinating papers and embellies.  Maybe I should do this more often!

What can I say?  I coloured Tilda with Copics, cut a square of deep purple Bazzill for the mat and adhered this to my card blank.  No flowers, no pearls, no frantage and I don't even feel remotely tempted to add anything! 

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Time for Magnolia  - No Design Paper
Marvelous Magnolia - Anything Goes

Hugs

Tracey

Favourite Embellies at LhoSM

What are your favourite embellies?  That's what we'd like to know over at Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia this fortnight.  We'd like to see creations which feature your favourite way to decorate your designs, which must of course feature either a Magnolia or a hAnglar & StAnglar stamp.

No prizes for guessing that my favourite embellies are flowers!  Here's what I made:

I've gone for an autumnal theme as it's apparent that summer has left the building in SW Scotland! I coloured this cute wee hAnglar stamp with Copics and added some Glossy Accents to the puddle and raindrops.  The papers are Basic Grey and I chose a selection of WOC roses in shades of green.  I gave the old Martha Stewart PATP another outing to make a border around my Bazzill base and having contemplated adding some gems, decided that the card was busy enough!

Hop on over to LhoSM and check out the lovely creations my teamies have made to inspire you.  There's a GDT slot for one lucky winner, chosen by the LhoSM team!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Fancy Folds

There's a new challenge at Sweet Stampin': we'd like to see Fancy Folds in your designs this week, please!

I made a pocket card; I like to have a stock of these as they are so useful now that my son's friends and my friends' kids are in their teens and twenties - you can just pop in a voucher for iTunes or whatever and the job is done.

 

You can just about see the pocket where the tag is sticking out.  I've done a quick tutorial to show you how I made the card base which you can find here. 

Tilda has been coloured with Copics and I've added some Liquid Pearls in white around the image.  The tag was cut with a Sizzix die.

Our sponsor this week is Iva Nova Chest.  Why not hop over to Sweet Stampin' and check out the DT's projects - the Sweeties have surpassed themselves this week!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town!

Here we go again with another challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'!  This month we'd like to see Santa feature somewhere on your projects. It can be a jolly Santa, a vintage Santa, a stamped Santa, a pre-coloured Santa... the possibilities are limitless as long as the big guy in the red suit can be clearly seen!

Here's what I did

I was having a mooch around the Funky Kits website and somehow this Sugar Nellie digi stamp happened to fall into my shopping basket ;)  The image has been coloured with Copics and I've added two different colours of Glamour Dust for a bit of Christmas sparkle.

I've kept the rest of the card clutter-free as there's a lot going on in the image.  The papers are Basic Grey Aspen Frost and the sentiment was bought from Lakeland a LONG time ago.  I cut a corner shape from red Bazzill to fill some of the white space in the top left of the image.

Once again my fabby teamies have made the most gorgeous Christmas creations to inspire you, so do hop over here to take a look.  We're being sponsored by Funky Kits so there's a lovely prize awaiting the lucky winner.

Don't know about you, but I could fancy a sherry and a mince pie now!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Basic Grey - Anything Goes (DP is Aspen Frost)
The Sugar Bowl - Anything Goes


Hugs

Tracey xx

Multi-tasking - as you do

I'm making dinner, plus doing a bit of housework and posting a card which I made earlier in the week but didn't get around to putting on the blog.  How long is it to the next school holiday?

Sorry that it's not the best photo but it's already almost dark here - it seems only a couple of days ago that it was still light at 10pm!  Anyhoo, Tilda has been coloured with Copics, then liberally sprinkled with Frantage and Glamour Dust.  The papers are Maja Design and some have been cut with my Spellbinders wavy borders.

There's lace, ribbon from my stash, some Make It Crafty (I think) chipboard corners which I painted with Crackle Paint in Picket Fence. The sentiment is a rub-on and the doily and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simply Magnolia - Birthday and Glitter
Magnolia Down Under - Lovely Lace
Midweek Magnolias - Once Upon A Time

Hope to be back over the weekend.  Next job, fix the toilet (don't ask).

Hugs

Tracey xx