Fun on the Farm

Hi friends, long time no see!!!! I hope you're doing good.

A big thank you to two lovely ladies Ruth and Francis who both said they missed my posts,  your encouraging comments made me feel wonderful, I appreciate them very much.

A lot of decorating and a mojo that took a holiday has kept me away... but a play with some Molly Bloom stamps for Whichcraftuk, has got the fire burning again.

So I thought I would share them with you. I will be round to visit you all and catch up!!!

This on is a simple step card... which has 2 1/2cm step at the front.

Nitwit papers and Molly Bloom stamps,

farmyard Molly

Percy Pig

Dilly hen

Old wooden fence

feed sack

farmyard barn background available from Whichcraftuk link on my side bar.

All stamped onto Neenah card stock brilliant to use!! and coloured with Copic markers.

The sentiment is from a Woodware clear stamp set.

More gorgeous Molly Bloom stamps on a fabulous Whichcraftuk Scallop Shutter Card

with love sentiment 

scarecrow

haybale

Nitwit papers

I distressed the edges with TH tea dye ink.

A couple of challenges to join:
Crafters Companion Monthly    ~Birthday for a girl
The ABC challenge     ~two or more images

It's lovely to be back.

Hugs Cherie

The good old red white and blue.

Hi friends and welcome to my lovely new followers it's such a pleasure to have you join us,

There's a new challenge for you over at Creative Card Crew.

For this week we'd like you to use

The Colours Of Your Country

So any creation the choice is up to you.

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is Digital Delights by Lou by Loo

I thought that Bryce in a Car would be perfect to use the colours  red white and blue

I took the inspiration to make a digi image in to a shaped card from the super talented Colette from 

Teddy Bo

It's quite amazing how versatile quality digi images can be. I took this one up to 5" high at the tallest point and the same at the widest and the definition is still good.

It said stop on the sign, in my graphic package I put a white rectangle over the word and added

 Happy Birthday instead.

I  printed the image on all the colours in a light weight 160gsm card and cut out all the pieces, in the same way you would put a die cut together.

As I wanted it to be a one layer card I used pencils to colour his skin and hair as copics would have gone through. I did use  B60 to add some shading but forgot about the white areas. It has gone through a little.

I'm going to keep this one as a sample and next time print the back first.

I used 250gsm cardstock but if your printer won't take that weight you could stick the image to the front of an A5 card blank and cut around it.

On the side view you can see the back. If you look close the fold is just to the side of the card which lost part of the bumper but I added that as an extra piece if that makes sense.

Allsorts challenge ~ men /boy

Thanks for stopping by have a great day,

Love cherie   //*.*\\

Punch it # Creative Card Crew

Hi crafty friends,

Welcome to a new challenge with Creative Card Crew.

                            PUNCH IT

We'd like to see how creative you can be with your PUNCHES.
The choice is yours any topic as long as you have punchies on.

Our generous sponsor is Fred She Said

My DTcard

You wouldn't believe the trouble I had to get a good photo. I thought great it's a sunny morning but it came out too light. I must have tried to take a photo in 4 different rooms arrah!!! and ended up using the stairs and it's still not brilliant, which is such a shame as it's so sparkley and bright.

I'd like to say thanks to Pam for showing me this lovely card shape.
I don't know if it has a name other than an easel card.
It's a basic 5 3/4" square card scored across the middle. Then I penciled a line across the other way and lined up a square nestability where all the corners met the lines to cut out a square center.
Use the next size scallop nesty to mount  your image and the bottom corner sits inside at the front.
The opposite point is on a foam pad. I made the little boy a pop up.
I punched the borders with an EK punch and went around them with crystal glitter.
The gorgeous digi images are from our generous sponsor, Emma the snow angel and Catchin' flakes.
Coloured with Copics: 
Skin, E000 E00 E20
Hair E31 E33
Clothes R81 RV32 BG10 BG15 BG32
Snow and shadows BG000 B00
Papers from the Daisy and Dandilion 'Penelope and Percy' pad
Charm from  The Hobby House Crafts

Some challenges to have fun with:
Simple Doodles ~  Shape it out
The Crazy Challenge ~ Tons of shapes
Challenge up your life ~ Easel card
Lots to do ~ Easel or shape card 
Papertake weekly ~ sparkley and bright
A spoonful of sugar ~ lets get punchy

Thanks for stopping by, for some fab inspiration check out the rest of the crew.

Love cherie   //*.*\\

Fairytales # Creative Card Crew

Thank you to all who joined us over at Creative Card Crew,
 an amazing amount of entries, your work is just simply STUNNING.

As a few of our team have had to step down for personal needs we are having a DT call
so if you  talented crafters fancy  joining the crew hop over to the blog for instructions.

We have a new challenge for you,

                                           FAIRYTALES

No problem I here you say!!! So we want to see anything to do with fairytales the choice is yours.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Digital Delights by Louby Loo

Let me introduce you to Augustus the Dragon for my DT creation.
One of the gorgeous digi images from our generous sponsor. Although with those eye lashes it could be a girl.

He's a cute friendly dragon don't ya think!!
Coloured  with copics YR23 R35 G20 G21 BG93 BG10 B34
I used him on a Sizzix super scallop tag for a birthday theme,
with papers from Hopscotch pad by Kay & Co
The sentiment was cut on my 'not used enough' Cricut machine,
with the Beyond Birthdays cartridge.
A couple of brads and ribbon from my stash.

A quick post today but there's not much you can say about a tag,
I really hope you join in the fun, don't forget to check out the DT call,

Love cherie   //*.*\\

Back to School

Hi all,
 Hope you all had a brilliant Bank holiday weekend,

Our challenge over at Creative Card Crew for this fortninght is
                             
                                 BACK TO SCHOOL

Our sponsor for this challenge is Simon Says Stamp

Other challenges to have fun with,
Magnolia Stamp Lovers  ~ to use fall or autumn colours
Simple Doodles   ~ Back to school
Stamp Something ~ Back to School
S2G ~  Back to School with a twist to add alphabets/letters

This is my DT card, I hope you will check out my other teamies fab creations.

I've used a die cut shutter card from Whichcraftuk and double sided dp by Magenta 'shades of the season' collection also available from whichcraftuk.
Stamps are:
 Edwin with glasses... I added glossy accents to his glasses.
 Valentine Tilda and Books all by Magnolia and coloured with copics.
 I pieced Tilda's dress and stamped onto the paper for the books, then shaded with a coloured pencil.
The letters and numbers were cut on my Cricut with George cartridge.
I made a blackboard, (although these are a bit old fashioned now) and doodled with a white gel pen.
A bit more doodling with a pencil and a couple of bows from my stash.
A bright a cheery card to wish a fabulous year at school,
My grandson starts full time reception class next week, don't they grow fast.

Thanks for stopping by,
Love cherie    //*.*\\

Oh!! No more trees please.

Hi  friends,

Welcome to my lovely new followers thank you for joining us... looking forward to visiting you, to share some inspiration and love.
You might need a cuppa with his post!!!
 I've missed visiting you, and will catch up with you all this weekend, put the kettle on!!!

Your creations for our last Teddy Stampers Challenge were amazing, thank you so much
 I hope you'll have fun with this one, you won't be able to stop singing!!!!

                                           TEDDY BEARS PICNIC

There you go you're singing already lol...so you can let your imagination run wild (I did)
as long as you have a stamped or digi stamp bear on    and have fun.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Sew Many Cards

As a teddy lover this song has always been a real favourite and I just had to use it in a story book for my delish grandchildren.

Other challenges to join in
Cute card Thursday ~ Tree-mendous .........do you think 28 will be enough, hence my title.
Little Red Wagon ~ Summer Time .......they're on a summer picnic
Crazy Catz ~ Animals
By The Cute and Girly ~ Animals

This is an A5 page mounted onto bazzil card, I used my Bind it All to put it together. I will change the rings I only had 5/8  and think smaller ones would be better.

I  started by stamping images onto copy paper, cut some out and then I played with them and made a black and white story board for each page. I used some of the tree's as masks.

 The  magnolia stamp has 4 trees on it i've stamped straight onto the card stock on every page.

All the images are coloured with copics and a few Promarkers, I used so many colours the list would be endless!!

I was looking for someone in diguise and found this cutie... Teddy Baby from Squigglefly 

He's a digi stamp so i cut him out and sat him on to a Magnolia picnic quilt, that's stamped straight on.

The sky and grass are chalk on every page.

I used Art Impressions stamps for the tufts of grass, stones, flowers with Marvey La Plume markers.

For the title I cut the letters on my Cricut with George cartridge, I really must use it more.

I computer printed the words onto the pages first.

First bears to arrive at the picnic, what a great dad with his three cubby's,

Digi stamp called 'Off We Go' from Phindy's Place, printed on.

 Digi stamps Cuthbet Sweet and Kiki Cakes from Pollycraft these two are cut out.

More cutie bears having fun, playing lots of games, and scrummy food.

These digi stamps are from a Digi download kit from Cuddly Buddly.

You get coloured images as well as line stamped ones, I didn't use any of the coloured ones, apart from

 the paper on the front cover which  is also from this kit. As I said earlier I hand coloured all the images.

I used a white sakura souffle pen to make the dots.

More bears playing hide and seek from the kit, hand coloured and cut out.

The large tree is Magnolia and stamped direct to card stock.

As previous page.

Arh they're tired, last page phew!!

'Teddy bear bedtime story'

This is a digi stamp by LilyBoo designs and available from Cuddly Buddly.

Well thanks for sticking with me or did it put you to sleep too!!!

I'll be back later with another post I have some picys from a workshop I took earlier in the week.

So come on and join in the fun are you still singing?

Thanks for stopping by have a fun weekend hopefully in the sun.

Love cherie    //*.*\\

Baby's First Christmas

Hi lovely friends!!

I seem to have been really busy and haven't had time to blog,
but thought i'd do a quick christmas card for the Cards for Men challenge which is 'christmas in July'

The inspiration for this card came from a brilliant lady called Sue Nelson over at Heartprints.net 
well worth a visit!!!
The image is by Magnolia which I coloured with copics and paper pieced his romper with doodle bug paper. The base card and circle are white they look a bit grey in the photo.
 Circle words printed on the computer and then cut with a scallop nesty.
Die cut holly is Quickkutz
Red card embossed with Cuttlebug dot folder

Can't leave the girls out!!!

Thanks for calling don't forget to call back tomorrow for a new challenge from Teddy Stampers.
Love cherie  //*.*\\

Pile it On Challenge # 10 Pastels

Hi,
Hope you've all had a good weekend,

I spent yesterday with my lovely sister, we started making some small Easter gifts for my grandaughter to give out at the mums and tots group that I take her to. I'ts her birthday on the 26th and she's leaving to start nursery after the Easter break. I'll show them when they are finished!!

This is my card for the following challenges:
Pile it On - the theme is Pastels and to get your creation on to at least one other challenge.
Magnolia  Down Under - It's their 1st birthday day,   "Happy Birthday!" so you can guess the theme. They have a brilliant blog hop to follow with candy along the way!!!  My card has a Magnolia background.
Crafty Creations - to make your own flowers
My Time To Craft - Kidz Cards
Ooh la la Creations chall 49 - anything goes

I loved making the tent card so much I thought I would use it for this children's birthday card and have the teddies hanging in the window, there's a fabulous tutorial here
The apperture was cut with Nestabilities rectangle plain and scallop.
I used Magnolia summer background and coloured it with Copic markers.
The  gorgeous teddies stamp is by Elzybells and the designer paper is by Kay & Co
Sentiment, oval punch and scallop oval by Stamping Up
I punched the flowers from more of the paper and joined the card at the top with brads. I covered the back with the designer paper to cover the brads.

 Thanks so much for stopping by,
Love Cherie   //*.*\\

Mo's Digital challenge # 19

Hello to all the lovely friends and thanks for calling by,

The challenge over at Mo' Digital Pencil blog is "Clean n Simple".
To make your creation with white or cream cardstock one of Mo's images and one ribbon, no additional layers. Hop over and look at the DT cards WOW!!

This is my card.

I really enjoyed this challenge, to just enjoy the colouring and not to worry about papers and such like.
Really refreshing, and makes Mo's fabulous image Isaiah reading to the baby, the focal point.
I also set myself the challenge to keep the colouring simple too. You can colour with limited markers by layering on top with the same marker. I used  a couple of Promarkers and a few Copics.
To set the scene I found some small freebie stamps given with a magazine and thought they could be pictures the baby had coloured, hence the scribble.!!!

I have another post this evening but have to take over looking after my grandaughter will my hubby has a snooze, be back later.

Love Cherie  //*.*\\

Papertake Weekly Challenge sketch 33

Hello, thank you for stopping by.

The challenge at Papertake Weekly is to use sketch 33.
I've used this gorgeous ballerina teddy stamp from Elzybells.

I want to be able to take better photographs though, because different light and shadow changes the colours on my cards. The base card is the same colour as the embossed circle and yet it looks darker.
Just another part of this new world of blogging to get to grips with, and I need a photo for my profile, pheeewww!
I'm in awe especially with your lovely comments. To think that friends of like mind can look at each others amazing creations whether they are a few streets away or on the other side of the world!!! Thank you
As I've used a teddy I will also be putting it onto the Teddy Stampers challenge blog which is to put some Dry Embossing somewhere on your card.


Card ingredients

• Ballerina Teddy from Elzybells
• 15x15cm base card The Paper Mill York
• Copic pens
• Papers Kay &Co and Bazzil, I cut the flowers out of the paper.
• Nestabilities circle plain and scalloped
• Martha Stewart punch
• Crystal stickles
• Penny Black sentiment stamp
• 3mm faux pearls
• Sizzix embossing folder

Thank you so much for looking.
Love Cherie //*.*\\

Challenge #15 Mo's Digital Pencil

Hi Everyone welcome to my blog,

The challenge at Mo's Digital Pencil is to use a colour combo or as near to it as you can.

I love Mo's images because they are so good to colour and you can size them however you want to suit your project, which was what I had to do because the first one I coloured was too large!

As this is only my second post it's taking longer to do than the card, so please be patient if it sounds like an auto cue. Hubby says I will get faster with more practice so any tips folks will be greatfully received.

This scene is very common for me and my two years and ten month old grandaughter. She has had quite a few these in the past few weeks.

There are two girls and two boys all in different strops but just as cute, which you can get as a single image or as a set.

• Base card is 15cm x15cm and landscape opening.
• I coloured my image with copic and promarker pens which are fine with the inkjet printer ink.
• The lovely cute paper is from Dovecraft, I used another sheet to cut out the teddies to raise them and the coloured card from The Paper Mill in York.
• Die cut pin is sizzix sizzlet.
• Tag was computer words

Thank you so much for looking I hope you drop in again soon.
Love Cherie