Sick Kitty

I 'found' this stamp recently at the back of my stash and thought he deserved a wee inking.  I don't make many one layer cards, so I'm quite pleased with how this turned out.
Coloured with pencils, paper pieced his wee bandage and blinged up his nose with some black glitter.

• Stampin for the Weekend #12 - show us your style ... mine's cute / CAS
• CAS-ual Friday CFC58 - pretty in pink
• Fab'n Funky #126 - polka dots
• Try it Tuesday - anything goes

Krafty chickens!

When I was at the craft show in Belfast last spring I saw this grid stamp and thought it looked like wire and would be good to use with my misc. chicken stamps ... and have never had ink on it till now! 

Another rubbish dark photo I'm afraid ... my green embossed paper is a lovely lime green and sparkly.  Sponged some clouds using Bev's cloud stencil which I love (here's the link to her template).  Coloured with promarkers and orange stickles added to their beaks and some flowersoft for the grass.  Also added a ribbon loop to the side with the wee scrap that was left over from making my bow.

Right that's me away now for a cuppa and settle down for the rest of X-Factor and then Downton Abbey, perfect Sunday evening viewing!

• Flipped the sketch from I{heart}2stamp - October
• Simon Says Stamp ... anything goes
• CAS-ual Fridays CFC22 - loop a ribbon
• Took my Autumnal colour theme from Easy Craft Project's last challenge #48 - autumn

Scrapbook Page #2

This is my second effort at a scrapbook page - how anyone manages to make one of the big 12x12" pages is beyond me, these wee 6x6" ones are scary enough!  Sorry for the really rubbish pic but its pouring with rain and a horrible dark old evening.  Oh yes ..... Summer!

I had imagined to get the whole song title in the pic, but ran out of room!  (You'll be singing Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me the rest of the night now LOL!)

The star of the photo is my gorgeous wee niece Alex in my Uncle's garden with his stone chicken - it used to live in my Granda's garden and I loved it when I was a kid too!  I'd used this chicken stamp just recently and it hadn't quite made it off my table, but I thought it would be good to use with the photo.  Popped my chick up on dimensionals and added clear gloss and glitter to the balloon.

• The Crafty Pad #134 - cute and girly

• Sketch inspired by Midnight Madness MMSC116 (I flipped the sketch and had my chicken to the bottom corner instead of the top)
• Stampavie and more #149 - girly
• Sweet Stampin - down on the farm
• Bling it on #6 - A (Alex), B (Balloon), C (Chicken)

Card for Gareth

(ETA: I got Top 3 at Colour Throwdown with this card)

Oh I'm pooped!  Had another busy busy day in work, then we took Ruby to the park after tea, had a wee crafty session with my SIL, and then made this wee card!  Just gonna post it and go to bed me thinks!

This is a special order card.  I always found making blokey cards so hard, but I've come to the conclusion its because I'm drawn to cute and sparkly things and hardly have any 'male' images or papers.  So I bought some of this lovely Dovecraft DP (from Silly Monkey Crafts which is sadly closing down ... they've a 50% off sale on) and used my Whipper Snapper monster and bunting from Practising Creativity. 

Recipe:

Gave my bunting some white polka dots and then added some diamond ice stickles.  Doodled dotty border with black pen.  Silver peel off numbers and sentiment.  Clear gloss added to accents on the monster.  Coloured with Promarkers (pear green, cornflower blue, putty, honeycomb).  Dienamics cloud die.  Arrow punch.

• Sketch from Waltzing Mouse #39

• Colour combo from Color Throwdown #134
• I love Promarkers #58 - go dotty
• Crafty Cardmakers #42 - special birthdays
• Let's Ink It Up #11 - die cuts / punches
• Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - numbers on your card

Here's a wee pic of the fabulous show of daffodils down at our park ... unfortunately it was nearly dusk when we were there so we'll have to go back when its brighter!

Chicken Run!

Its been absolute eons since I last used this Whipper Snapper stamp, don't know why 'cause I always love it when I do!  Coloured with promarkers and their little tails popped up on dimensionals at the ends.  Coloured my bling to match.

• Sketch from Get Sketchy #78
• Alphabet challenge - S is for Stripes
• Sweet Stampin - Favourite movie .... one of mine is the animated film Chicken Run!
• Paper Sundaes #59 - stripes
• Stampavie #132 - Birds

Oh and before I forget, Really Reasonable Ribbon want to see your ribbon storage .... so this is my organised chaos .....

There is actually some organisation here belive it or not! .... loose ribbons are stored in a wee bag according to general colour theme, bakers twine stays separate, and my spooled ribbons live in another very messy shoe box!
Now when you've finished laughing ! ... pop over to RRR and see their fab storage ideas and some of the amazing storage some peeps have in the wee Mr Linky pics.  (v. envious!!)

Dream Valley Challenge Blog Launch

Hooray...its here!  The launch of the brand new challenge blog co-ordinated by my bloggy buddy Melly...Dream Valley Challenges!
And our very first challenge is an easy peasy one ... Anything Goes
There's some fab prizes up for grabs too....

1st Prize £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley

2nd prize is Fashionista and Dude Simply Sassy set

and 3rd prize is wee Windswept Simply Sassy

So get yourselves over to Dream Valley, check out the fab cards from the rest of the DT and upload your Anything Goes card - normally challenges will run for a fortnight but this first challenge is just for a week, so be quick!

I'm also entering this card to:
Spoon Full of Sugar #140 - birthday wishes
Tuesday Throwdown #37 - pop it up (I popped up my monster)

Simon Says ... Pink (or blue) with green and brown

Sorry for the really rubbish photo, but I left making my Simon Says card to the last minute and its a dark evening here.  You'll have to trust me that the darker BP is a lovely shimmery brown paper, which I embossed using an old Ellison folder.  I coloured my sick kitty with my collection of Promarkers (which consists of 3 markers!!)

I also used an old Stampin Up little dot stamp and versamarked the dots on the blue BP.

Sketch from Posh Designs #16

Simon Says challenge: Use pink or blue WITH green and brown!

Just Us Girls challenge #35 is Dry Embossing

Cute Card Thursday #114: No Designer Papers

Quixotic challenge #27: Emboss it

Supplies

Stamp: Whipper Snapper kitty; dot 'I think' is from Stampin Up Nice and Narrow

Accessories: cuttlebug and Ellison embossing folder; white gel pen; Promarkers; peel off sentiment and little flowers; eyelet and ribbon from stash; Martha Stewart punch; glossy accents on nose, collar and thermometer