A Christmas Cracker

So today I thought I'd share a bit of  festive humour with you, I used my Inky Pinky DT opportunity to design my Dad's Christmas card! Et Voila.... 😀😀😀. 

I've not given it to him yet so I hope I can avoid him seeing it on social media first. This little beauty is called Revolting Kiss and she's part of the hilarious new collection 'Old Bag's' from Polkadoodles none of which are festive I hasten to add. I just used a Santa Hat from another collection as well as paper's, embellishments and die cuts to make her seasonal. A list of items used will be linked below.

She's coloured up using my alcohol markers and enhanced with pencils. I created the sentiment topper within my graphics programme leaving spacing for the die cut DAD lettering. My Dad has always had an eye for the ladies I wonder if he could pull this cracker?

Thanks so much for stopping by I do love to read all of your comment!

Challenges Entered:

C. R. A. F. T.

Craftin With An Attitude

Crimbo Crackers

Items Used:

Revolting Kiss	Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Downloadable Digital CD	Paper Boutique Volume 1 & 2 (NS)	Work & Play Collection 5 Festive Hollybobs Download Collection (NS)	Graph′It Markers
Prismacolor PREMIER COLORED PENCILS 48 Set	Marianne Alphabet Die	Polar White Flower Soft

Etty Shy

Happy Friday everyone. I've had a very busy week again both personally and craft wise. I'm really hoping things start to settle down soon.

This week for my Inky Pinkie creation I thought I'd try a different way of creating texture. Last week for Winston Heartfelt I used a flicking motion with my pencils. This time I used my Graph'it markers and created a fluffy fur texture on Etty Shy using dots. For those interested in colours used, 9400, 9401, 9402, 9403, 9404, 9405, 9406, 2160, 2180, 5255. the polkadots were created with a white sakura pen and the ears with a pink glitter pen. her nose, eyes and flower centres were glazed with glossy accents. The jazzy background was created using my Gansai Tambi watercolours & the flowers used are from the Back to Nature collection and the leaves are by memorybox.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I do love to read all of your lovely comments.

Challenges Entered:

watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/wwc81-gails-color-challenge.html

craftingbydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/august-anything-goes.html

carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/challenge-100.html

Items Used:

Winston Bear - Etty shy

Graph′It Markers

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour 36 set

Back to Nature Flowers Embellies Download Bundle

Ranger Inkssentials Clear 3D Glossy Accents 60 ml

Time to Recycle........

It's time for a brand new challenge over at Polkadoodles and this fortnight we are recycling. Once again I found myself out of my comfort zone but it's good to make you push yourself right? I got myself in a right pickle wondering how I could reuse something as I only really make cards.

I went into my local 99p shop and found this clock....

Then I needed to put my thinking head on. I'd coloured a digi of Piper with my Graph'it Markers (skin, 4125, 4150, 3210,4145, 4135 hair, 1210, 1230, 1270, 1280 tights/top blender, 9100, 9101 pinafore, 7110, 7115, 7119. I just added a littlr bit of sparkle to the lacey hem with a glitter gel pen.) I then used the existing clock face as a template, drew and cut around it making the new clock face. I then made a hole in the centre and re attached the hands & clock mechanism

I used my distress inks on the edges of all papers & doilies and cut different sizes to add interest to the clock frame. The papers and flowers are from the oh so versatile Winston CD Rom its also available as a digital download HERE

I think it's certainly brightened up an otherwise rather dull and boring looking clock. I think I'd pay a bit more than 99p for this one too!!

I'd like to enter my clock in the following challenges.

www.4craftychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/crazy-egg-anything-goes.html

ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/AG-ch-no-5.html

pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-201.html

Thanks for stopping by, please feel free to leave me a comment I do love to read them.

Latest Facebook Giveaway

Well done Becky Ivory the latest recipient of a handmade card via my Facebook page. The image is a digital stamp from 'Here Come The Girls' coloured with Graph ' it Markers. Various die cuts bits of foliage & a couple of handmade roses. The backing paper is from my crafty stash and the border is from Lace Doily Accents by spellbinders.

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Becky Boo!

Its most unlike me to blog twice in one day but now she's opened it I can share a friends 'get well' card with you. Becky had her galbladder removed yesterday and is currently resting up at home.

The image is a digi stamp from Cherryblossom Lane coloured with Graph'it Markers cut out with a circle die & matted onto a scalloped circle in a contrasting colour. Onto an 8x8 scalloped card blank I matted up one of the backing papers from the same cd again onto contrasting card stock. Wrapping a pretty pink ribbon around the middle. I added the topper on foam tape to give dimension and a few pretty flowers, leaves & a flourish to bring the whole thing together.  

Hope youre feeling better soon Becky Boo!

Fab at 50!

This week I took delivery of  some more graph'it markers and brush nibs along with the colouring secrets dvd by Nikky Hall. Those of you who know me, know I'm not a very confident colourer innerer but even I can't deny how much I've improved since switching to graph'it markers and I think I can honestly say this is my favourite card I've made to date. I just hope the recipient approves.

The image used is a digi from the awesome Fredericka CD Rom and I coloured the skin, with, 4125, 4145, 4155, hair with, 1210, 1230, 1250, 1270, 1280 and her dress with 5110, 5115, 5120 and 5125. Her clutch bag, eyes and lipstick were coloured using wink of stella glitter markers and a smidge of glossy accents on the glass. I then outlined the whole image with 7125 to make it pop!

Okay, then I got stuck ...... the image was so classy I couldn't think how to turn it into a card. Then my friend Jan text me to remind me that Sue Wilson was doing a 2 hour tool shed show on createandcraft.tv today (Sunday 23rd Feb) I'm so grateful as one of the demo's suited my image beautifully. I used a piece of matching pink card and stamped a rose design all over it (from a previous copy of polkadoodles pen & paper circle magazine). I then stuck a double sided adhesive sheet to the card, peeled off the backing and dipped in iridescent glitter. That was then matted onto some contrasting blue card before sticking to my card base I wrapped some ribbon around and added 4 die cut corners from spellbinders majestic elements.

All that was left to do was add a bow, gemstone and a tattered lace flourish. The greeting is on classic sentiments from creative expressions, I heat embossed it and cut out using spellbinders, labels twenty die and inked using Tim Holtz, spun sugar, distress ink. 

I really hope Jacqui likes her card although I'm not sure when to give it to her as it's her birthday on February 29th - imagine not having a 50th birthday? Sounds ideal to me! So all that's left for me to say is Happy 12½th Birthday Jacqui St Pierre x

Chinese Whispers.....

It's time to share my recent makes with you using Nikky Hall's latest CD Dollie Daydream Goes East.

The first one is this weeks DT project. The subject for the design team was Oriental Love - Anything but a card. Why don't you pop over to the Challenge Blog and join in?

It's a bottle tag just adds more of a gift feel to a cheap bottle of plonk! I designed the tag myself used the delightful backing paper and in my graphics programme I added one of the fabby sentiments. The digi is coloured in using my Graph'it Markers I then added a flower from my crafty stash and some die cut foliage.

This black card was made using the Spellbinders, Shapeabilities, Fancy Lattice die to create the decorative design on the front. I added a digi, coloured with Graph'it Markers and one of the pre-coloured floral embellishments to the front and to help make the card pop, I used one of the lovely backing papers as an insert.

Here's my final make this week. These digi's just cry out to be coloured and there are so many different colour options if you use the backing papers for inspiration. I glittered this one with some Spray and Sparkle after having added one of the Chinese sentiments. Matted it onto some contrasting blue card. I then made a fan using some coloured vellum attached that to the front of my card and added a flower from my crafty stash as a finishing touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by I really do appreciate any comments that you may care to leave me.

Have a good day!