Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas....

Hello and welcome to my blog!

42 days left until Christmas! Where has the year gone????

So I've got for you.... another Christmas card!!!! This time is girlie, in purples and pinks.

I used a digital Wee Stamp that I got a few weeks ago, she looks so warm and cosy with her scarf and ear warmers! The sentiment is my own, I'm starting to make my own sentiments and playing around with different fonts. The sentiment is based on one of my favourite Christmas songs, "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" sang by Judy Garland and a lot of people since then.

The papers I've used this time are from the "Somebunny to Love" paper pad (snowy purple); the Love Letters by First Edition (stripes paper) and from scrap. 

I used a few of my tools to embellish  the card: the Marianne Creatables frame die cut behind the image; the Joy crafts Snowflake die cut and I used the Sizzix framelits scallop circle for the image.

I used my Promarkes to colour the sweet image:

For the hair: Sandstone, Buttermilk and blender pen.

For the face: Sandstone, Vanilla and Blossom

For the clothes: Amethyst, Lilac, Orchid, Maroon, Pink Carnation, Blossom, Apple and Leaf Green.

For the holly: Moss, Pear Green, Antique Pink and Poppy.

And it wouldn't be a Christmas card without glitter! I used glitter glue for the snow, the fairy wings, the ear warmers and I put a bit on the big purple rose. 

The flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts, the purple glitter ribbon is by Dovecraft Tea Party collection, the rhinestones, brads and lace are from local shops.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas
Sweet Stamping - Christmas is coming
Creative Corner Challenge - Sing, sing a song...
A Gem of a challenge #105 - Gems. gems. gems
CHNC #150 - Outdoors
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations challenges #65 - Anything goes
Pile it on #45 - Show us your tools (i used various dies - see above-)
Scribble and Scrap #15 - Anything goes
Sentimental Sundays - Warm and Cozy 
C... is for challenge #10 - Winter is coming
Through the purple Haze - Winter Scene with optional animals or people
Creative Creations #23 - Sparkle and Shine
LEJ designs #79 - Seasons Greetings
Magno-licious Tuesday Challenge blog - Winter themed
Polkadoodles digi choosday wk 4 - Celebrations
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge extra - November

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Fabulous Geek: A Thank You card

Hello!!!! Welcome back to my blog!

It's weekend! This weekend we've decided to have a "lazy" one.... we've been so busy lately that we really want to stay home. For me it will be spending  time with Alaia and Gul; and of course, making at least one card!. Alaia also loves making cards with mummy. She's a "mini-me"! We also love doing jigsaw puzzles together, she's really good at them and I'm happy that she plays and develops her brain at the same time... We'll try to do a bit of everything I guess!!!

So today I have a beautiful THANK YOU card to show you.

I've used an image by Saturated Canary called "Violet Vintage". Isn't she great? Saturated Canary had a discount on a few images the other day and of course, I couldn't resist to get my hands on a few of them! (so watch out, I will be making more cards using Saturated Canary images soon!)

I used this sketch by Maria Therese from Saturated Canary.

I hope I made it justice! 

The papers I've used are from the Material Girls Collection Pack by G.C.D. Studios (the XO paper at the back, it's very difficult to see in the picture, but it has a fabric-like  texture), and from my K&Company paper pad.
The Doily is from Trimcraft.
I've distressed all the edges of the card stock and papers with sandpaper and the Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen. I used blue ink to distress the doily.







As usual, I used my Promarkers to colour the image.
For the hair I used Mustard, Buttermilk and Sandstone.
For the lips: Antique Pink and Dusky Rose.
For the face and body: Sandstone, vanilla and blender pen.
For the clothes, socks, boots and handbag I used: China Blue, Cornflower, Powder blue, tulip yellow, mustard, buttermilk and blender pen.











I used Anita's 3-D Gloss for the stars, Scrabble letter tiles and glasses.


The flowers and pearl brads are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
The Twine, bead, rhinestone and feather are from local shop.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary Challenge #56 - Sketch by Maria Therese

Passion for Promarkers #223 - Geeks

Love to Create #90 - Color Inspired

Incy Wincy - Ribbon, Twine or Fibres

Shopping our Stash #126 - Thanks
Scrap-Creations - Give Thanks
Sister Act #32 - Anything goes
Daring Cardmakers - The other occasions and reasons
Alphabet Challenge Blog - "T" for twine
Brown Sugar #67 - Anything goes
Stamp and Create - November: Feathers or Leaves
Party Time Tuesdays #145 - Thanksgiving / Thank you notes
Penny's Challenge  #152 - Lots of Layers


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Glitter Explosion!!! A Christmas Card

Hello and welcome to my new blog post!

Christmas is getting closer!!! just one month left to put the Christmas tree up (I usually put it on the first or second week of December), with all the nice decorations I've been collecting over the past few years). I just love everything about Christmas...  Now that I live in the Highlands, I really want a white Christmas!!!! that would be a really nice bonus to all the excitement and fun! Alaia is looking forward to it as well. She has her little list for Santa (she knows she needs to be a good girl!), and we can't wait to write the letter to Santa together....

Going back to talking about crafts, I've treated myself to new a storage unit!!! yay! I haven't got a craft room, just the space under the stairs in my living room, and I need to be a bit clever about how I set up my craft area, so I got myself an 11-drawer multicolour tower from Hobbycraft and I love it! My main tools and embellishments are now more organised and handy! I would still like it to be a bit more organised, but well, I have to work with what I've got!

Today's card is one of my favourites so far....

To make this Christmas card I've used this great image, a digital stamp called "Winter Fairy Halla" by Mo Manning (Mo's Digital Pencil).

The papers I've used are from "Somebunny to love" paper pad, Christmas decorations paper pad by Usborne and some from my stash that I can't remember where they came from, sorry! 

I used sandpaper to distress the edges of all the card stock. 

 I have put glitter almost everywhere!!!! When I start with the glitter I can't stop! For the Fairy blow I used the Marianne Creatables Swirl die, which I covered in glitter. 

I punched glitter paper to use as falling snow. 

The other dies I used are the Sizzix Doily thinlits and Joycrafts snowflakes. 

The green rose is from Wild Orchid crafts. The white roses I've had them for a very long time, I don't remember where I got them from. And of course, I added some glitter to them!!! Sparkly flowers!

And my favourite thing... colouring! I used my Promarkers.

For the face and boy: sandstone, vanilla, blossom and blender pen.

For the hair: Eggnog, buttermilk, mustard and blender pen.

For the clothes and wings: Duck egg, mint green and blender pen. 

I added some glitter glue to the wings and pom-poms. 

Another close-up.....

The ribbon is from Do Crafts. The brad and rhinestones are from local shops. 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges: 

Mo's Digital Challenge #209 - Anything goes w/Mo Image
A gem of a challenge #104 - Christmas is coming

Totally Gorjuss #208 - Anything goes with snow

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas
Crafty LittleFairies -  Christmas in November

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything goes with optional extra Christmas card

Just Inspirational Challenges - Glitter

I love Promarkers #193 -  All that Glitters
Hanna and Friends #184 - Glitter

Divas by Design - Use a Digi

Penny's Challenge #152 - Lots of Layers

Polkadoodles and Studio 12 challenge #44 - Anything goes Christmas

Sister Act challenge #31 - Anything goes

The Ribbon Carousel #87 - Holidays / Celebrations

613 Avenue #44 - Anything goes (no optional twist)

Bearly-mine challenges #111 - Anything goes

Crafting by Design - Anything goes

Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #16 - Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge extra - Anything goes

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A Wee Fairy card and my chaotic last few days!!!

Hello!

I hope you all had a great weekend!!!!

We went away for the weekend, to visit our family in Manchester. We had a great time, but Alaia got a bit of temperature the last two days, so she couldn't enjoy so much... Thanks to my sister-in-law, she offered to take care of her for a bit and we were able to meet some friends for lunch... After half an hour waiting for them in the restaurant, we found out we were sitting at  different restaurants, and they had also been waiting for us!!!! so we had to cross the whole city centre to meet! my fault, as it seems I can't read text messages properly....

We came back home late last night, and straight away I started to make a card! I've been so busy that I had to make this card very last minute, I worked until 2 am to have it ready today... to find out, when I gave the card and a little present with it, that my friend's birthday is not until next month!!!!!!!!!!  I think I'm losing my mind!!!!

So moving on to the card... I really hope she likes it, even when she received it one month in advance!

The card is mainly blue and black. I  used a rubber stamp by Wee Stamps.

The background paper is from the Black & Gold Paper Pack by Forever Friends.

I followed a sketch by Come and Get It challenges. I  flipped the design horizontally as I though it works better for the stamp I used. 

I coloured the little fairy with my Promarkers.  I really love how her hair turned out! I'm not very confident colouring hair yet, but I'm really happy with the outcome on this one.
For the hair I used: Azure, Powder Blue, Slate and blender pen.
For her face and skin: Sandstone, Vanilla, Blossom.
For the wings: Cornflower and Powder blue.

I paper-pieced the dress with a bit of scrap paper I had left.

I used pearls to embellish the wings and the corners of the embossed card stock.



I embossed the blue card stock to give the card some texture with the "In Bloom" embossing folder by Craft Concepts.
The small corners are die-cuts from a Sizzlits die.

The Ribbon, pearls, lace and buttons are from a local shop.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Come and get it - Time for a Sketch
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #101 - Black and Blue
Creative Corner Challenges - Can't Touch this (Texture)
Crafty Catz #205 - Paper Piecing
Brown Sugar #66 - Things with wings
Sister Act Challenge #31 - Anything goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty challenge #151 - Add Black or Bling
Incy Wincy - Ribbon, twine or fibres
Through The Purple Haze - Anything goes

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Until next time and thank you for taking a look!!!!!

You Rock, Boy!!!

Hello!

I hope you are all well, and had a fun day yesterday Trick or Treating!!!!!
Sadly we couldn't take Alaia Trick or Treating as we were travelling, I know she would have loved it!

Today I have for you a card for boys. I don't make a lot of cards for men/boys... I guess I'm more of a pink, pastel colours, with lots of embellishments and flowers kind of girl.... But I really enjoyed making this one! so I'm going to start making boy cards a lot more often. As I can't use flowers and girlie stuff, it makes me think a lot more about how to make the card look "cool". I've also realised that I haven't got so many papers that I can use for male cards, so I know what my next craft shopping spree is going to be about!  Do you find men/boy cards more difficult to make?

I used this great image called "Anime Rocker" by Kenny K. His images are great, his style is quite edgy (punk, goth, sexy... ). He also has a lot of characters made in the "anime" style, like the one I've used this time.

The papers I've used are from my K&Company paper pad. I bought it ages ago, it has over 300 paper sheets, lots of different designs. I forgot where I bought it from, but I remember it been really worth the money!  I decided to stick with autumnal colours like orange, green, yellow. It's the best time of the year to used them!

I really enjoyed colouring this image. As usual, with my Promarkers! I'm really trying to improve my colouring... but I guess, it will come with experience!!!!
For the face I used: Sandstone, Vanilla, Blossom and Coral.
For the hair: Slate, Orchid, Lavender and Blender Pen.
For the jeans (I tried to give the jeans a bit of a "wash-out" effect): Azure, China Blue, Cornflower.
For the T-Shirt: Peach, Spice, Coral, Moss, Leaf Green and the blender pen.
For the guitar: Mustard, Tulip Yellow, Winter Berry.
For the Shoes: Moss, Leaf Green, Spice, Peach, Coral and blender pen.




I used my new Tim Holtz Alterations die to cut the black card stock as a notebook paper and I punched some stars to embellish the empty corner at the top right.

I inked all the papers and card edges with black ink to define the borders a bit more.

The rest of the embellishments are quite simple. I used black rhinestones (it's OK to  use some "bling" in boy cards, right?), coloured brads, spiral paper clip and an arrow sticker... all from local shops.

The sentiments are my own. I used a Jonathan S. Harris font  called "Kids Play" to create them.

I'm entering this card  into the following challenges:

Cards for Men #22 - Way to Go

I love Promarkers #192 - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Use some orange

Penny's Crafts Challege #151  - Black or Bling

Crafting for all seasons #64 - Autumn Colours

Crafty Girls Challenges #5 - Anything goes

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Have a lovely weekend!!!! 

Until next time!