FREE Whiff of Joy Digi Image!!!!!

Woohoo!!! Today I am super excited!!!!! Why?? I have the most amazing image to show you from Whiff of Joy that I've been bursting to show you - AND - he's free!!!!! Yes, that's right, this is a free digi image from Whiff of Joy!!!! He's called Spider Henry and he is just absolutely amazing to colour and perfect for all those difficult men and boys cards!!! I knew I wanted him to be in a circle so have used the sketch from Stamp with Fun (I've done a mirror image of the sketch - hope that is OK).


As you can see I've used him to make a Father's Day card for my hubby from the children. Connor thinks he's cool and had to have a go colouring him in too LOL! I have used red and blue card stocks for my card and some brick paper that I've had in my stash for ages so I'm afraid I don't know who makes it. My idea was to have Spidey as he's affectionately known bursting through a brick wall throwing one of his webs!


I've coloured him with copics and added a touch of stickles to the bit of web he's swinging from. As you can see his hand is in that iconic web throwing position so I saved a bit of plastic netting from some packaging and threaded some cotton to it so that I could thread it through his hand.

I have then attached the "web" to the bottom corner of the card.

I drew the star myself onto red cardstock and inked the edges with distress ink before drawing on the web design and sentiment.

The sketch called for three flowers but I have three bricks breaking away from the wall, cut from the paper and mounted onto grungeboard! I used some more of the plastic netting over the ribbon for some added interest.

I have created the red panels in the same way as the star and found these brads in my stash left over from some Christmas brads which were the perfect red - love it when that happens!

This picture shows the dimensions of the wall bursting open. I have added a few more scattered bricks here and there too.

Hope you enjoyed looking at my card as much as I enjoyed making it!!! To grab your own copy of Spider Henry click the logo!!! x

Friday Flowers winner and something exciting!

Evening! Here is the winner of this week's Friday Flowers giveaway sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

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which means the winner is Pauline C !! Congratulations Pauline, please email me your details so I can get your prize sent out! Don't forget there will be a new Friday Flowers giveaway sponsored by Simon Says Stamp on Friday 4th June!


What about the something exciting??? Just want to tell you all to check back here first thing in the morning......ooooohh, I can't tell you why, although I'm dying to, it is so exciting.......but I have something great to show you!!! xx

Just Magnolia DT - Hot and/or spicy!

Thank you for all your fabulous entries with my sketch!! I loved seeing all the different takes on it!! This week we have a theme of "hot and/or spicy"!! So, you can do spicy colours, hot colours, summer images or all of the options!! I have chosen to use hot and spicy colours for my card. Well, in actual fact it is a little recipe booklet. I followed the brilliant sketch at Sketch Saturday as it was perfect for what I had in mind!! My SIL gave me a gorgeous recipe from one of her cook books after we ate it at my Brother's house. However, there are three parts to it and it is copied onto various bits of paper and I always seem to lose part of it amongst the recipe books. So I thought I'd bring it altogether neatly, in a way that I could have the whole recipe in front of me when I'm making it. I've used a mixture of spicy coloured papers from my stash, all distressed with Walnut Stain distress ink. The sentiment is mounted onto a fancy tag die cut and the ribbon is from my stash. I have coloured Tilda with distress inks.

Tilda lifts up to reveal a pocket with the first part of the recipe tucked into it.....

Which in turn folds out so that I can see the ingredients and the instructions at the same time. (Sorry, I've blanked it out so as not to break any copyright laws by publishing someone's recipe LOL).

The recipe card then opens out as above with the other two lists of ingredients and instructions!

Keeping with the hot and spicy theme I made a little garlic bulb and chilli pepper from cardstock. The chilli is embossed with clear embossing powder to make it shine! I've used MS daisy edge punch throught the card. The brown pearls are from the Hobby House.

I added some spice coloured flowers to the middle section. You can see in this photo the panel with Tilda on folded up to allow the card to open.

The final page I simply added a button and some ribbon left over from the front. This recipe is one my SIL made up so I've shown this one!

Hope you like it and can join us this week at Just Magnolia!! Thanks for looking! x

Tickled Pink Stamps GDT card

It's time for me to share another Lil Lolita from Tickled Pink Stamps with you!! Kellie challenged the DT to use ribbons this week. I decided to try my hand at a ribbon blossom, but I can't quite make up my mind whether I like it or not LOL! I kind of do like it but think it would be better with more colours and this was a last minute idea so had to use what was in my stash, but then I kind of think it would be better on a larger project as it is rather overpowering!!! What do you think?? I have used the gorgeous sketch at Our Creative Corner challenge for my card and papers from Basic Grey Cappella paper pad available at Simon Says Stamp. This little cutie is Willow - have you seen her eyelashes?? - Wow!

I've coloured her with copics and inked around the edge of the image with tattered rose distress ink. I also added some stickles around the edge of the oval.

So, here is a close up of my ribbon blossom. I have to say they are great for using up scraps of ribbon that aren't long enough to use across a card or tie a bow with!! I'm so tight I never throw any ribbon away no matter how small a piece so I was quite lucky that I had a few different colours to work with and they even matched the papers I was using!

I have used stickles on all my distressed edges which were inked with frayed burlap distress ink. The gorgeous pearls are from the Hobby House.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! Don't forget you can get your hands on these cuties right now from Tickled Pink Stamps! x

This is my second post today (get me LOL), if you want to see my other card scroll down! x

Belles n Whistles challenge

Belles n Whistles have started a new fortnightly challenge where you must use a BnW stamp. The lovely and talented Kathy has set a challenge to make your own flowers which I love to do so I finally inked up my Sunshine & Apples stamp which shamefully has been sat in my drawer for about 3 months without being used (blushes). I have used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious although I'm too late to enter it - I got all the dates confused LOL. I am also entering it into Creative Inspirations challenge who want to see distressing. The gorgeous papers are MME Bella Bella and I've distressed them with Walnut Stain distress ink.

I have coloured my image with copics and the edges are inked with bundled sage distress ink. I have also used my new nesties - at last scalloped circles without punching out millions of flower petals LOL!!

I made my flowers using Tim Holtz tattered florals die from some scraps of paper. I have sprayed them with glimmer mist and stamped some grunge stamps from Stempelglede with bundled sage distress ink. I then inked the edges with antique linen before crumpling them up. The large fern leaf is a Leone Em punch and the small ones McGill punch.

Here is a close up. You can see I have also cut some tulle with the largest flower die and layered it between the paper flowers and I have also made my own pearl and crystal centre with assorted gems and pearls from the Hobby House.

The butterflies are from MS punch around the page butterfly punch but I've cut them out completely using scissors.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

Simon Says Stamps Challenge DT

This week at Simon Says Stamps Challenge we have a colour challenge for you of: pink or blue with green and brown.

The DT are showcasing Penny Black stamps this week so I decided that these cute hedgehogs would look great with these colours for a Father's Day card. The papers are K&Co and I've distressed them with brushed cordoruy distress ink. I have used the gorgeous sketch by Chelsea at Crafting Life's Pieces Challenge, thanks hun it is a stunning sketch!

I have coloured the image with copics and inked the edges with bundled sage distress ink. They're so cute aren't they?

I have used MS double loops punch along the edge and stamped a swirl from the Whiff of Joy Spring Swirls kit in two corners.

The ribbon is from my stash and the buttons are Basic Grey. I used a charm from my stash and the sentiment I have written myself with my calligraphy pen.

Hope you like it and can join us this week at Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Pop over to the blog and have a look at the gorgeous creations the rest of the DT have for you! Thanks for looking! x

A bit of fun with hAnglar & sTanglar

Oh, little late this morning!!! Having a bad day! No card to show you as I've been busy doing DT work but I thought I'd show you this little menu card I made for my children's toy kitchen. The kitchen has little hooks to hang 3 menu cards on but children being children, the originals were screwed up and torn long ago!! So, I decided to make one covered in acetate so that they can write a menu on it and then wipe it off!! I have used some of my new hAnglar & sTanglar kitchen set stamps - I've wanted this set for ever and was so pleased to finally get my hands on it!!!
I have coloured the images with copics and the paper is MME Quite Contrary range. I stamped some little cupcakes that came with the set at the top corners with bundled sage distress ink and the Recept stamp also comes with the set. This kitchen dresser stamp has to be one of my all time favourite of favourite stamps - I just love it!

Isn't this little hAnglar boy the cutest?? Love his chef hat!

A bit grainey this one, couldn't seem to get the lighting right but here is a picture of it in situ!

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

A scrapbook page for Stampavie

Morning! Wasn't the weekend glorious!?!? We had barbecues both days and it was so lovely to just chill out in the garden! Although it did seem to get rather wet in our garden at times thanks to the little person above and some giant water pistols LOL!! You may remember the scrapbook page I did a while back using my daughter's photo. Well, that was actually done to hang on the wall in some scrapbook frames I bought and I finally got around to creating the one of my little boy. It is more or less a mirror of the other one so that they can hang either side of the chimney breast, except I ran out of the Tim Holtz elements I'd used on the first one and had to use different ones. I used K&Co paper and distressed the edges using vintage photo distress ink, available from Simon Says Stamp - have you seen how large their Tim Holtz section is!?!?! Wish I could buy it all! I am entering it into Stampavie's challenge as this week it is "flower power".

I added a selection of blossoms and roses from Wild Orchid Crafts around the photo, all sprayed with glimmer mist. The lace is from my stash. The Tim Holtz swirls have been painted with picket fence crackle paint and then sponged with vintage photo distress ink.

The butterflies were punched from pearlescent paper using a MS Monarch butterfly punch and a punch I borrowed at a crop. The gorgeous Parlour Roses are by Prima.

The grungeboard swirls are both from Tim Holtz grungeboard elements kit but I can, of course cut my own now with the die!!

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

Magnolia Down Under Challenge - Shaped cards

It's time for another challenge at Magnolia Down Under Challenges! This week we would like to see shaped cards - ie: anything but square!! Yup, my imagination went into overdrive again this week LOL. I was looking through my stamps deciding which Tilda I was going to use when I saw the scrummy strawberry one and I was off LOL!!

I made the bowl shape with oval nesties and inked the edges of the paper with walnut stain distress ink. I have stamped, coloured and cut out the strawberries 8 times!! They are coloured with copics. I then layered 7 of them into the bowl carefully hiding the jagged bit of each one where I cut those bottom leaves off. The other strawberry I cut out with all of it's accompanying leaves and flowers to sit outside the bowl.

My original idea was for a bowl of strawberries with Tilda with Wooden spoon and then while I was colouring I had the idea to make a jug of cream to go with the strawberries. I cut the jug from acetate and stuck some cream card to the back. The ribbon tied to the handle is from East of India.

I've just got to show a close up of the strawberries, they look good enough to eat don't you think LOL?? Not long now and it will be time for strawberry picking in the UK - yum!!

I haven't coloured Tilda with my copics for months now but seeing as I'd coloured the strawberries with them to get the rich colours I coloured Tilda in with them too.

LOL couldn't resist a fun shot with some fabric strawberries from my daughter's picnic set!!

and the good old angled shot to finish!!! Hope you like it and I've inspired you to join us this week at Magnolia Down Under challenge! Can't wait to see all your shaped cards! Pop over to the challenge blog for some more inspiration from the rest of the DT's stunning creations!!! - I have to say everyone has really pulled out all the stops this week - you really must see them all!!! Thanks for looking! x