Spring Truffle

Hi Bloggers
Happy Mother's Day!!!

Made this DigiStamp Boutique card for my lovely mum.  It is the first Mother's Day without my nan so I knew it was going to be a hard day for her.

I coloured the image 'Truffle' from the Spring Honey and Truffle Set (found here) with my Promarker and Copic markers and then added a few little embellishments (adhesive pearls and rhinestones) just to finish off the card. I am entering this card into this months Digi Stamp Boutique challenge and this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge.

I then just printed a sentiment and added that to the front at the bottom of the image.

Wasn't 100% happy with the colour of the image itself as I think I made him a little too dark but mum was over the moon with her card so that's good enough for me.

I particularly like the fact that the image has tulips in it as these are her favourites. So I also bought a big bunch of red and white tulips to go with the card.  Happy Mother's Day, Mum.  I love you xx

Hope you're all having a lovely day with your lovely mum's and for those of you whose mum's are no longer with you in person, know that they are with you in spirit, memory and your love.

Hope you like the card?

Marvellous Mothers

Another card that I have made for a work colleague, for Mother's Day is using a Digi Stamp Boutique image.

The background paper is leftover scrap and I'm really sorry, but I cannot for the life of me, remember who created it.

Anyway, I printed the Digi Stamp Boutique image off twice and decoupaged the top half of the image. I added some ribbon to the base of the card and coloured the image with my Copic Pens and Derwent watercolour pencils.

I hope that you like this card and I thank you once more, for popping by and visiting me today.

Hugs xxx

Peaches and Cream

S'mee again. Here's my final card for today (so far). This card is also made using Coco with Heart by Digi Stamp Boutique (OMG I just love these bears).  I coloured him in exactly the same Copic colours as my previous card. As you can probably tell, I really liked the way I coloured the image on the card I made for Emma's 21st, that I decided to copy it and make another one for this easel card.

I made the easel base and covered the front part and the bottom of the easel base in DP from Craftwork Cards.

The base part I edged with a Martha Stewart border punch and added three large, pink gems.

To the front of the easel card I added some pink and cream ribbon to and used my circle cutter to cut the image out. I then made a slightly larger circle out of holographic mirri card and DSST'd them together and mounted the whole thing to the front of the card using foam pads to give it some dimension.  I then coloured a white greeting (also from Craftwork Cards) in the same Copic colour as Coco's heart and added some flowers using my glue gun.

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by, hugs

21 Again...

Hello again

My next card is one I have made for Mark's daughter, Emma, who is celebrating her 21st birthday on the 19th of this month. Poor Mark, it's his wife's birthday on the 17th and his daughter's 21st on the 19th. Expensive month for him! And he has just come back from Las Vegas, having flown out there with Tricia to celebrate HIS 50th birthday.

Anyway, the digi image is Coco with Heart from Digi Stamp Boutique. I coloured him with my COPICS this time and left my ProMarkers looking at me from their box, wondering what the hell they did wrong??? For the bear I used E71, E31 and E11. For the heart, I used R11 and for the ribbon I used R05 and R22.

Since I got a box set of 36 Copics for Christmas I thought it was about time I started using them, although from previous experience with a set of skin colours that I bought at Ally Pally a while ago, they ran out really quickly and I am hoping the same won't happen this time. Although I still prefer my trusted ProMarkers, I think the Copics blended just as well and are priced roughly the same. Whether I buy anymore, we'll just have to wait and see.

Anyway... back to my card... I drew and cut the letters and the '21' freehand and then used a little DP on the background. I mounted the image onto the same Cerise Mirri Card as I cut the letters from and then added some gems and some pins. The stamped sentiment is a cling stamp that I got in the Hobbycraft bargain bin for 99p and is made by Studio G.

Thanks for stopping by, hugs xxx

Loving Wishes

Hi girls (and fellow crafters)
Still recovering from my recent operation so haven't made any cards at the moment, but it has given me some time to edit my photographs of recent cards and put them up here for you to see.

This card was made with some wrapping paper left over from Valentine's Day and Coco bear from Digi Stamp Boutique. I cut the square scrolly thingy myself using a handmade template and mounted the image onto black mirri card as I did with the ribbon at the bottom.

I coloured Coco with Promarkers: Ice Grey 1, 2 and 4 and Cool Grey 3 and 4. Pear Green, Grass Green and Cardinal Red with a bit of Blossom on his ears. I then added a simple black print greeting from Craftword Cards.  Apart from that... job done!

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs xxx

Fun with Coco

And my third AND FOURTH cards for today are...

For this card I used papers from the Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose collection. I coloured Coco with Flowers (from Digi Stamp Boutique) in promarkers; ice grey1, cool grey 3 and cool grey 5, blossom, forest green and pear green.

Job done. Really simple card but I really love it as it could be used for anything. Get well soon, happy birthday, congratulations, maybe even a mother's day card (if I don't get around to making a special one for mum... sorry mum, lots to do etc etc etc, but I will try... I promise!), at a push I could give it to one of the children to give to me since I always have to make MY OWN!!

My fourth card today is also using one of the coco bears from DSB and  for this card I used the following promarkers:

Tan, Sandstone, Blossom, Ruby and Poppy Red, Grass and Pear Green. I added some white spots onto the ribbon with my trusty, (wouldn't-be-without-one) white Jelly Roll pen.

I mounted the image onto black cardstock which I punched the edges of with my heart MS border punch. In case you were wondering, I deliberately mounted the image too far over to the left so that only the top of those hearts were showing as I didn't want it to be TOO symmetrical as the red background paper had a black glitter border that was cut off on one side (as it is scrapbook paper).  I added a black ribbon with red stitching to colour co-ordinate and a sentiment, 'if I give you my heart... can I have yours?' which I made myself on the PC and which I will add to my next post so that you can also use if you wish?

I am entering this card into the Teddy Bear Stampers challenge using a 'love theme' for Valentines. Hope they like it?

Hope you like the cards?

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs, Fae xxx

Red and Black Valentine

Hi girls (and fellow crafters)

So, Elaine at work, really liked my Pink and Black Valentine card that I made for my hubby Steve for Valentine's Day, so she asked me if I would make a similar one for her hubby Steve, also for Valentine's Day. So here is my card (for her), only this one is red and black (with a hint of white). Hope she likes it?

I used exactly the same spec as before only this time I used Coco with Heart from the Digi Stamp Boutique. She really liked these bears so I decided to use this image instead of a Penny Black one. I used promarkers: Umber, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Cardinal Red and Ruby.

I am entering this card into this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge 'Let there be love'. Hopefully they will like it? As their DT always offer us such fabulous inspiration. Pop on over and enter the challenge for yourself. It's great fun.

Hope you all like the card.
Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Fae xxx

Flowers and Pearls

Hello girls (and fellow crafters)

So... looking for ideas this morning I turned to my trusted 'Inspiration Jar' to help me out. I pulled out the following: 

1. Use a Recently Purchased Digital Stamp
2. Use lots of flowers (on DP, Prima, stamp or charms) I used them on EVERYTHING!
3. Add lots of bling, gems or pearls (or both)
4. Colour combi is PINK and ... (one other colour)

So... without further ado, here is what I came up with that I thought I would share with you.  I am entering this card into the Passion 4 Promarkers challenge which this week is, 'Let it Shine' (make a card with bling).

The image is called 'Coco and flowers' and is from the Digi Stamp Boutique. I love these cute little bears. They're 99p each but you can buy FOUR for £3.50 so, of course, I had to have them all (thank heavens for pay day!!!).

 Anyway, back to the card: I coloured Coco with Promarkers Tan and Sandstone. The flowers and grass were coloured with Blossom, Pale Yellow, Forest Green, Pear Green and Grass.  The background paper is by Pink Petticoat from the 'Vintage Rose Collection' and that was a freebie with this months Quick Cards Made Easy magazine. Gorgeous eh? I used the Big Shot to cut the image out using a Circle nestie and then made the silver mount with my new Beaded Circles nestie. I then added mini adhesive pearls to the scalloped edges.

To complete the card I mounted some more silver paper to the left of the card and added some swirls, diamante flowers, prima flowers and jewelled brads (which I got for a bargain of 49p from Hobbycraft in the clearance sale). Finally topping off with a birthday greeting from Craftwork Cards.

Hope you like?

Thanks for stopping by on this gorgeously sunny Sunday.
Hugs, Fae xxx