My Tattered Heart

A quickie make today using some distressing and a HUGE bit of lace ribbon! So have you all finished your valentines cards now? Getting ready for UK Mother's day?


Edit: I've just realised that this card matches the colours on my blog background perfectly. Total accident - honest

Materials:
Stamp - Cardmaking and papercrafting cover stamps
Ink - Colourbox chalk
Paper - Papermania
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; scissors
Other - files; Ribbon

Tag Cards

Tiets over at Sugar Sugar has a tag card for us all to have a go at. So here is mine. A little bit of distressing with files and my seam ripper, with some wire and string to finish this little guy off.




Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; Papermania
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Colouring - Letraset promarkers, royal blue, pastel blue, henna, apricot, sandstone
Papers - Papermania For Him
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; Silicone glue; Paper trimmer; Scissors
Other - Cuttlebug and embossing folder; Files; Wire; String; Crop-a-dile; eyelets; seam ripper; core-dintations card; Bind-it-all

Love Is In The Air

Oh sweet sweet lurve :) Hands up all those who are feeling romantic? Well here is a Love card made for the Sugar Nellie Challenge over at the SugarBowl.

Details: I've coloured the Lovely Leanne Ellis image (which I've borrowed from my lovely friend Jo - thanks Jo) with a mix of distress inks and Marvey Le Plume pens, adding dimension glue to the hearts and flowers. The big curly heart is promaker coloured card stamped with Autumn Leaves swirls, and the little heart on the bottom right is made from a charm surrounded by beads. The papers are from the DCWV glamour paper pack.

Have a fabby weekend.



Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; Autumn Leaves
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Marvy Le Plume; Distress Inks; Letraset Promakers
Papers - DCWV
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; 3d-foam; Double-sided tape; Scissors
Other - Beads; Charm; Buttons; Coloured elastic; Maroon String; 3D-glue; Cuttlebug; Nestibilities

Flying High

I think we need some colour today don't you?

With the lovely bright colours from Cosmic Cricket 'Get Happy' and the cute little Alota stamp. I've masked the heart tail on this stamp as I only wanted the airplane for this card. Coloured with my Promakers and highlighted with a white gel pen.

The edges of the papers have been coloured with Black Soot Distress ink and finished with some hardware and some string that I coloured red with my promarkers.



Materials:
Stamp - alota Flying Airplane
Inks - VersaFine Onyx black; Tim Holtz Ditress inks Black soot
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers gold, ruby, pastel blue, cyan, agean, burnt sienna, pastel pink, ivory, blush
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; 3D-foam
Other - Brads; Frame hooks; Crop-a-dile; eyelets; string; white gel pen

A Pink Card For A Sunny Day

Still in the pink today and the card uses an Elzybells Art Stamp paper pieced with SEI papers and 'floated' onto some swirly Papermania acetate :) Lovely sparkly buttons are from Buttons Galore and they are very juicy - I love them!

So how do you like the Pinkwall tyres? If I had a car I would like Pinkwall tyres - don't think my OH would appreciate them!


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamps; Sentiment free stamp from a magazine
Ink - VersaFine Onyz Black
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Papers - Papermania; Papermania Acetate; SEI
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; Silicone glue; Craft knife; ruler
Other - Buttons; Embroidery thread

Tea For Two

Back to normal today and the novelty of the snow has warn off, so showing cards :)

Today we are in the pink with some papers from S.E.I. and some ladies that tea from Elzybells Art Stamps.

Hope you are all keeping warm.


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamp
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; Versacolor Opera pink
Colouring - Letraset promarkers
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape, Scissors; Circle template
Other - Ribbon; Crop-a-dile; Eyelets; Cuttlebug; Nestibilities; Flowers; Brad; White gel pen

London In A White Coat

Well I just had to take some more pictures didn't I? Whilst walking about London the first thing you notice, other than it being completely white, is that there are lots of people and not so many cars and that everyone is smiling and happy and the atmosphere is almost carnival.

I've never had so many random conversations with complete strangers. It was wonderful feeling that community spirit that you otherwise do not see on a normal London day.






I hope you can enjoy your day :)

London Is Covered

Ok so snow is not unusual for most of the UK, but here in London it is very unusual. The last time it snowed heavily in London was 2002. I remember this because I was working in the Hammersmith Hospital in East Acton (none of the London hospitals are in the places they are named after) and the only way I could get home was to walk the three miles to Hammersmith.


And look at the icicles!

Right I'm off to see if I can get some more piccies :)

The Big Draw AND The Kaboodle Doodles Challenge

Thank you everyone for commenting on my blog candy and thank you for the lovely comments - I was quite overwhelmed by the amazing response. I've enjoyed visiting all your blogs and seeing all your wonderful makes.

Before I give you the news of the winner I would like to do a shameless plug for the new challenge over at Kaboodle Doodles which is all about Love and the card below is my DT piece for this challenge using the gorgeous Love-filled Kaboodle Doodle Valentines kit which will be coming to the shop soon.

We also have some exciting news over at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge blog with TWO chances at blog candy and a guest Design Team call!


Ok on to the REALLY IMPORTANT stuff - THE WINNER of my blog candy drawn by Random.org is:

Annie from Annie's Antics

Annie, if you can email me your mailing address I shall get your candy off to you. (My email is in the sidebar)

For everyone who did not win - I'm sorry! But remember there are TWO chances to win some candy over at Kaboodle Doodles.

Materials:
Stamp - Hanglar and Stanglar
Colouring - Prismacolor; Sansodor
Paper - Kaboodle Doodles
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; Double Sided tape; Glue dots
Other - Pearl hearts; Fine marker pen; Glitter glue

Blog Candy

*****BLOG CANDY IS NOW CLOSED*****

Come back 1st February to find out who has won :)


This post will stay on top until
31st January 2009
Please scroll down for the current post

As promised here is my blog candy to you as way of celebrating - well lots of things really - being awarded Papercraft Essentials Papercrafter of the year 2008 (I will stop going on about it soon - honest - LOL), having over 5000 hits and just because I love the wonderful people I've met in the crafty blogosphere and I lurve blog candy :)

So all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to spread the word on your blog and write a comment on this post. The candy will be open until 5pm (GMT) 31st January 2009 and I will pick a winner using a random number generator. I'm happy to post overseas.

Good Luck

In the Candy:
Basic Grey 6x6 Offbeat paper pad (1)
Basic Grey 6x6 Ambrosia paper pad (1)
Assortment of satin finish ribbons + 1 blue velvet ribbon (9)
Assortment of brads including pearl and gem
Assortment metal hangers and anchors (10)
Assortment of shaped paperclips (7)
Assortment of pearl and crystal headed pins (12)
Assortment of buttons including clear and crystal edged (36)
Assortment of paper and fabric flowers (45)

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane?

No it is Superkid, and how super is he? :) I reckon this is probably for the bigger 'super' boys in your life, what do you think? He is just so adorable and is from the Alota range of stamps. I've used Dream Street Papers today and coloured in my image with Prismacolor pencils and sansodor.



Materials:
Stamp - Alota
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; Sansodor
Papers - Dream Street
Usual Suspect - Paper Trimmer; Silicone glue
Other - Ribbon; Buttons; Cuttlebug; Nestibilities

Today's Offering...

Is a bit late :) A birthday card in lovely bright colours and big flowers and the fab freebie stamp from UK card magazine Quick Cards Made Easy. Isn't he so cute? He is Newton's Law and I think I'm in love again.



Materials:
Stamp - Newton's Law Rory Tyger; Stamps Away
Colouring - Marvy Le plume water colour pens
Papers - Scrapbook Walls
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; Silicone glue
Other - Gem brads; Fibres

More Men's Cards

Carrying on from yesterday here is another men's card. You can see the theme can't you? :) This card was completely inspired by the lovely cards Nicky recently posted on the Sassy Crafts blog. It was actually the first one I did and yesterday's card was the second card on the theme, don't ask me why I showed them this way round - no idea LOL!

I had a fun time yesterday at my creative embroidery class. Last week we were up to our elbows in paint - it was like being in kindergarten art class - it was such fun. This week we were making collages and next week we will be surrounded by colour again as we dye textiles, can't wait.

And back onto the subject of Chocolate (LOL). I was blog hopping yesterday and came across Eva's delightful makes at Made By Eva. Mmmm Yum. I am so going to have try that out.


Materials:
Stamp - HOTP; Papermania
Ink - VesraFine Onyx Black
Paper - BasicGrey Granola
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Square punch; Ruler; Silicone glue; Glue dots
Other - brad; Seam ripper; Bassill Kraft

Men's Cards

I am a very lucky girl. I bought a Kit Kat the other day and it had no wafer in it. It was ALL chocolate :) Yummy.
Anyway, I digress :) Card today is themed for men and uses BasicGrey and a bit of paper distressing.


Materials:
Stamp - HOTP; Papermania
Ink - VesraFine Onyx Black
Paper - BasicGrey Granola
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Circle template; Silicone glue; Glue dots
Other - brad; Seam ripper; Bassill Kraft

Tags

Right I've been Photo tagged by a couple of lovelies and I am determined to be decisive and pass them on. so here we go:

The tag was from lovely Zoe at Crafty Heaven and the lovely Michelle at Crafting and Living in Japan (Michelle has some blog candy by the way with some great stamps and some copics finish 31st Jan)


The tag is that you have to go to the sixth picture file on your computer and show the sixth picture in that file and then tell us what the photo is of. Finally pass the tag on.

This is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and I took this in 2007 when my boyfriend and I were lucky enough to be able to go to China to do a bit of Taiji training.

Passing this photo tag on to:
Diane at Pink Sunflower
Kati at Mampias - Stempelecke
E.T. at VIBYOR Krafts
Amy at Tsuruta Designs
Ila at Artfully Ila

Enjoy :)

Awards

I am the slowest blogger in the world ;) I have had some lovely awards. Now my slowness is due to my complete lack of decision making abilities - I can never decide who to pass them on to, so I go for complete cop-out and pass them onto everyone so feel free to pick one up :)

Lovely awards from lovely bloggers:

From Jo at Boots Blog Spot

From Julie at Jjuli2's Crafty Space

From Joanne at Crafting Joanne and Poppet at Poppets at home

From Ida at Little Staesj Og Daesj

From Suzanne at Krafty Kid Family

Thank you all so much and I am so touched to get these lovely awards.

Soooo Cute...

This stamp is just the cutest, it is from Imaginsce and I've had him for a while but have yet to use him. Perfect new baby stamp of course, so a simple little new baby card in lemon yellow today :) The gingham paper is homemade using photoshop and a bit of blue gingham ribbon in fact. Boy it took me ages :) A little sparkle added to the image with H20s.



Materials:
Stamp - Imaginsce
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Twinkling H20
Papers - Kim made
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; Scissors; Silicone Glue
Other - Computer; Buttons; Sewing machine

Growing Friends

I've always liked this cute image from Elzybells Art Stamp and it works so well with the sentiment's from Kaboodle Doodles Blossom Berry Brights Kit sentiments. I've used my promarkers with Twinkling H20s and a touch of Cosmic Shimmer. You might also recognise a bit of Basic Grey papers?



Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamp
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers, Ice grey 4, Black, blender; Twinkling H20s; Cosmic Shimmer
Sentiment - Kaboodle Doodles Blossom Berry Brights
Papers - BasicGrey
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Scissors; Silicone glue; Double-sided tape
Other - Hemp string; Sewing machine; Brads

A Bit Of Sparkle

I seem to be in a flowery mood today. I think these are Hot Off The Press Stamps but if anyone thinks differently please let me know because I'm not 100% sure :) I've coloured them in with Twinkling H2Os and then added Cosmic Shimmer to highlight areas and give them an extra sparkle.



Materials:
Stamps - HOTP; Studio G Alpha
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Twinkling H20; Cosmic Shimmer
Usual Supects - Silicone Glue; Scissors

Much Excitement Over At Kaboodle Doodles

We have been a bit slow in starting up the challenge blog over at Kaboodle Doodles this year because we wanted to make a few changes and I tell you I'm really excited at what is going on. To find out more pop over to the challenge blog :)