Katie's recipe # 28

Happy wednesday to you - I hope you are well.

Today, being Wednesday, it is time for another recipe from Katie over at the cooking it up with Katie challenge blog and this week we want you to use 3 papers, incorporate something clear and use a song for some inspiration.

We are being sponsored by the fantastic Whimsy stamps who kindly let us choose an image and I just had to go with this super cute image of the bunny in the bath.
Now firstly I would like to tell you that the whole time I was making this card I was singing/humming/whistling the Bobby Darin song Splish splash I was taking a bath - and I still can't get that song out of my head ! Even my son has been singing it !!

Ok so here are some details of my card ;
Papers; Creative cottage birthday wishes kit available here (I have printed the dotty paper onto acetate which is also one of my clear somethings!) Glitter card from stash.
Image; Digi stamp from Whimsy stamps available here.
Coloured with; watercolour pencils, spica at you glitter pens and chalks.
Extras; stickles and glossy accents.

I paper pieced the bath with a scrap of the backing paper - I'm loving this technique at the moment.
My circles and my scalloped circle were cut using my trusty nesties and bigshot and I added somemore of the printed acetate to the "bubbles" by glueing with pva behind the spots !

I would like to enter this card into he following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Girly n glitter
Sentimental Sundays - 1 solid paper (glitter), 2 patterned papers and 3 embelishments (bubbles)
Ooh La La Creations - Stripes
Incy Wincy Designs - Celebrate
Crafty Cardmakers - Glitter & Sparkle (spotlight challenge)

Thanks for looking - I hope you like it x

((hugs)) Suzie xx

13th birthday cupcake

Today I'd like to share with you a card that I have made for my friends daughters 13th birthday - I think this is a difficult age and was a little stumped at first so I decided to go with a cupcake - who doesn't like cupcakes ?

My image is from Michelle perkett and can be found here. I paper peiced it with some My minds eye papers and added plenty of stickles for some bling !
I used my nesties labels to diecut the image inked up the edges with pink then added some yellow brilliance around the candle flame.

I made the flower by gathering up some lace and joining the ends to make sort of a rosette shaped flower and added a little bow to the centre and some pearl sprays underneath.
All this was layered up on more patterned paper (again My minds eye) and white card then added to a kraft base (bazzill basics) which I inked up with a little pink brilliance ink.

I hope Jade likes it and you too x

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Material girl
Fab N Funky Challenges - Living in a material world
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Happy birthday
Simon Say's Stamp Challenge - Pearls and lace
Anything Goes Challenge - Say it with flowers
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Lets get digital
The Crafty Pad - Simply pearls

Thanks for looking x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Creative cottage challenge - Celebrations

Hello to you and thanks for popping in today.

Well this week at the creative cottage challenge blog it is the uber talented Rebekah's turn to choose the challenge and she chose "celebrations" as our theme.
A great challenge as you can adapt this to most themes so I hope you'll join in with us and let us see what you are celebrating x

I have continued with my christmas cards and made a simple card with the Christmas magic kit available here. This is a great kit with beautiful papers and some gorgeous toppers and images too and as a bonus it's on special offer at the mo - just £1.50 what a bargain !

My cute ribbon came off a pair of pyjama's I recieved last christmas - I just couldn't throw it away !

Hope you like it, thanks for looking x
(Sorry for the quick post today - I'm preparing for Issac's 1st day at school tomorrow - I'll hopefully be back tomorrow with another card I'm currently working on x)

((hugs)) Suzie xx

Snowman blues (and greens !)

Good morning to you - the sun is shining here (at last) so the washing machine is going full pelt and I just have time to post a card that I made last night and tell you about the gorgeous candy up for grabs at Cupcake at the moment.

Look at this lovely little lot ! To be in with a chance all you have to do is be or become a follower at Cupcake craft challenges, post the candy on your blog and enter a challenge - simples !

I wanted to enter this weeks challenge, which is to make a project using blue and green, using this gorgeous backing paper from my new pink petticoat fairy lights kits (a huge kit which is on sale at the mo).

I felt that this paper was crying out for a snowman so I went on the hunt for a cute digi stamp and found this little gem at designed 2 delight digital stamps - he was a joy to colour - don't you think he is a handsome chap ?!

I coloured him using my copics. I have a very limited range of copics (10 actually) and this is only the second image I have used them on.
So with such a limited colour range I had to resort to using my forgotten peel off pens (I haven't used a peel-off for years!) on his scarf, nose and holly sprig.
I coloured his heart in pink but I didn't like it so I paper peiced over it with another paper from the fairy lights kit which I reduced in size in works word processor to make the pattern tiny - perfect for my snowmans heart.
I'm so glad I made this mistake - as I love the paper peiced element the most !

After I cropped him with my nesties and chalked the background I layered up my card with my patterned paper, some glitter card, which I punched with my Martha Stewart border and corner punches, and added a bow with a snowflake and glitter brad and a sentiment (HOTP).
I also added some stickles to my image for some added sparkle.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Blue & green
Simon Says Stamp - Paper peicing
One Stitch At A Time - Say it with shapes
The Crazy Challenge - Never too early for christmas cards
Creative Card Crew - Sparkle and shine

I hope you like it - have a great weekend x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Christmas spirit !

Hello hope you are well. I am looking forward to a bank holiday weekend with some sunshine (I know my chances are slim but you have to think positive don't you !?) after the soaking we've had in the UK this week. I also must get some washing done (yawn!)

Well after making a christmas card for this weeks Creative cottage challenge blog I seem to have got into the christmas spirit (a bit early I know !) and when I saw the kits on sale at the pink petticoat site I just couldn't resist them and bought two !

These papers, including the solid red background, are from the Fairy lights kit and it took me ages to choose them as this is a huge kit with masses of papers and images. The paper peiced tree and sentiment is also from the kit.
All I really done was cut, arranged and distressed my papers with some ink before sticking them down and adding loads of glossy accents.
My lace was coloured with stazon to make it black and mounted onto a scrap of the solid crimson card to co-ordinate perfectly.

Voila these digi kits make life super easy as all the co-ordinating is done for you which is great for times like christmas when you make loads of cards x

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges ;

The Crazy Challenge - Never too early for Christmas
Creative Inspirations Challenge - Christmas in August
Digi Doodle Shops Best - So distressing !
For Fun Challenges - Include ribbon or lace
Simon Says Challenge - Paper peicing
City Crafter Challenge - Include stars/star

Thanks for looking have a great weekend x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Cooking it up with Katie challenge # 26

Firstly let me apologise for my very late post - I've had a crazy busy week and the days just flew past without me actually realising. I really must start scheduling my posts.

So here is my DT card for challenge #26 at Cooking it up with Katie.
The recipe this week is to make something boyish using brown and checks or gingham and we are sponsored by the fabulous Pixie Dust Studio who provided the gorgeous images that the DT used - how cute is that teddy ?

Don't forget to "check" out the work of the rest of the DT for more inspiration over at Cooking it up with Katie and join in the fun with us for your chance to win a fab prize x

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Use water/beach/tropical digi image
One Stitch At A Time - Use shapes (diecut)

Card details :
Base card & all other textured card - Bazzill, Patterned paper - DCWV, Image - Pixie dust studio, Die - Spellbinders labels, Embossing - Sizzix texture plate, Image coloured with watercolour pencils, Ribbon from stash x

Thanks for looking, hope you liked it x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Clean & Simple

Good morning, I hope you are well.
The sun is shining here and I am so happy to feel it's warmth once again - I've had to put my jeans on again this week which, in my book, is just not on in "summer" !

Yesterday I had a beautifully peaceful day as my lovely hubby took the boys out and I had a glorious day all to myself !

Of course with a day to myself what else was there to do but craft all day !
So I spent the day catching up with some DT cards which I'll post in due time and and still had some time to make a card for my good friend Julie - who moved to California last March - to let her know how much I miss her x

I have been wanting to use this colour combo for a while and I felt the best way to show it off was with a clean and simple card.

My image is a digi from Pink petticoat and the sentiment was made on the computer using word.
I coloured my gems with my copics to match perfectly and added some ribbon to tie it all up !

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

My Sheri Crafts - Miss you
Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything goes
Paper Cutz Challenge - Anything goes
Stamp Something - Digi day

Hope you like it x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Thanks butterflies !

Hello today I would like to show you a card I made for my son to give to his nursery teachers on his last day.
His nursery is called Butterflies so I knew I had to add lots of them ! and then while walking thru town I was inspired by a shop window which had lots of teacups all lined up in a grid pattern.

I was further inspired by this weeks inspiration photo over at the shabby tearoom a gorgeous rosy explosion ! I used the photo as colour inspiration for my already budding idea !

So first I gave my card base (made with Bazzill textured card) a quilted effect by embossing it using my martha stewart scoreboard - I am really glad with the effect - I'll def do this again.
I added a spot of liquid pearls to the "quilting" to highlight the effect.

My butterflies were punched out of scraps of My minds eye quite contrary papers (a freebie from a mag) with a martha stewart punch and secured onto white textured card with a spot of pva glue then added a flatbacked pearl to each. I then stamped the "Thanks so much" stamp (HOTP), with pink ink, in amoungst the beauties.
I mounted this panel onto pink card and then onto somemore paper from the same my minds eye paper pack.

Simple - took ages but I really enjoyed the process x

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
The Shabby Tearoom - Inspiration photo
One Stitch At A Time - Pack a punch
A Crafty Little Place - Colour Challenge - Blue, pink and green
Crafty Creations Challenges - Butterflies

I do hope you like it - thanks for looking x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Creative cottage challenge # 21 - Christmas

Good morning to you, thanks for stopping by x
Today is Creative cottage challenge # 21 and this week the lovely Linda chose our challenge which is Christmas.
I must thank her too as I am terrible at starting my christmas cards early, usually starting them in late november !! So the fact that I have at least one done is a start !

This week I played with the fantastic Robbie and Roxanne kit from Creative cottage and I loved it - it's a stunning kit with papers and images too - I mean look at those adorable robins.

So both my papers and my image are from the kit and all I added was some glitter card to mat the image, some red felt ribbon, and some dew drops. O and of course plenty of glitter - christmas wouldn't be christmas without the glitter !!
The snowflakes were cut with a sizzix die and my bigshot with the same glitter card as my mat.

I hope you like my card and you come on over to the Creative cottage challenge blog and join in there is, as always, a fab prize up for grabs x

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot - Bling
Crafty Pad - Glitz & glitter
A Spoonful Of Sugar - Christmas in August

Thanks for looking, I hope you will come and join in the fun with us at the creative cottage challenge blog x
((hugs)) Suzie xx

Happy Birthday Mum

I made this card for my mum's birthday using a digi stamp from the fab sketching stamper.

I just fell in love with these bluebells when I saw them and they were a dream to colour as the shading is sketched on so it takes all the guess work out of colouring up the image.

I had just purchased these beautiful papers from pink petticoat and, I thought, they just worked perfectly with the image.

The image is coloured with watercolour pencils and I cropped the image then chalked the background.
I didn't do much else just layered up some papers and added some pearls and pearl sprays (which I love by the way).

I hope you like it - I did so enjoy making it - by the time I gave it to my mum it had little lots of little boy finger prints and some juice spots on it too!

I would also like to enter this card into the following
challenges :

Crafty Cardmakers - Birthday (happy 1st birthday Crafty cardmakers x)
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Summertime blues !
Craft Your Days Away - 1st challenge (congrats) Favorite things (pearl sprays and gorg digi stamp)
Colour Create Challenge - Ivory, duck egg blue and one other colour (green)

Thanks for looking
((hugs)) Suzie xx