Sketch Saturday and Penny Black!

I had a Twin Boys First Birthday card to make and I was really struggling with what to do. Rummaging around, I found some Penny Black images I received in an image swap a little while back so I just had to try them out.

I made the card using inspiration from this week's challenge over at Sketch Saturday. I struggled to meet the sketch completely so I move my three little brads to one side!

I LOVED colouring this image and I hope Harry and George like it!

There is some super blog candy on offer over at Sketch Saturday too as they are celebration their birthday-pop over and join in.

Lookie, lookie!

My Copic Colour Challenge Design Team-mate Elaine has some exciting news and some candy up for grabs. Pop over to her blog and support her by spreading the word!

Here is a piccie of the gorgeous candy!

Copic Addicts Anonymous!

Hello, my name is Adele and I have a Copic addiction!!!! In fact earlier this week I had to treat myself to a few more, I blamed it on the stress of the kitchen and the children being off school.
I will also blame this latest purchase on Kay, she has started selling them in her shop you see.

Just look HERE!!! Such fabby prices too- how is a girl to resist!(well old woman!)

I rushed to mark off my new colours on my shade chart, refilled E00 and got to work...well, play!

This is my little image collection I have prepared so far! (you may notice a few images in there I haven't used before...but I am denying all knowledge of them!)

But now another dilemma...which image do I use first?

Dottie's World Challenge - Coffee & Cream!

It's Sunday again, which means another Dottie's World Challenge. This week it is Karen who set the challenge;

"Coffee and Cream with spots or stripes"

and a Charmed download of course.

Now-rumaging through my papers I struggled to find much inspiration in these colours...I had images in my mind, but not the papers to go with them-frustrating! Eventually I found one lonely little sheet of 6x6 that fitted the bill, got my Copics out and coloured away! here is what I ended up with.

I used the "Holly in England" image from the Holly & Madison World Tour Collection-first time I have used this image and I thoroughly enjoyed colouring it! I duplicated the litte roses around her hat with the small rose embellishments and as I wanted a subtle effect for the stripes, I simply got my sewing machine out and sewed a few wavy lines...cheating I know, but it met the criteria! LOL

Dottie's world have some new Design Team members showing their creations, so the variety of examples is wider than ever. Make sure you pop over to have a look and join in the fun. The party over there is almost finished so don't miss out.

ABC.....Sarah Kay!

Had to make an engagement card today...in fact, I still have another one to make but here is my first.

I used this week's ABC challenge for inspiration, which this week is "P for pearls!"

I so loved colouring this image but didn't really have much pearly inspiration. Eventually I used White Opal Liquid Pearls but now as I sit here typing, I have just remembers some lovely mother of pearl buttons that would have worked a treat. Oh well save those for a rainy day!

Christmas at DewDrop Craftz!

I am running behind with my Design Team entry for the latest challenge over at DewDrop Craftz. But you still have over a week to go over and play along to be in with a chance of a prize. This time we need to make a Christmas ornament.....well my mojo really seemed to get lost in the chaos of the kitchen being renewed...but as the dust has settled, I managed to get the old brain cell active and eventually came up with an idea!

I decided to make a little plaque/doorhanger......Christmas sign thingy!!LOL

There is also a challenge over a Crafts by Carolyns that has just been set by the lovely Jennie of The Artistic Stamper. This fits the bill quite well so I am going to submit it there too! Hmmm, now I will have to save this for me to hang up Christmas Eve...as a certain young lady is being a right little monster today!

The last of the Birth cards..

....only a 1st Birthday card to do now!

For this one I played along with the chalenge over on Secret Crafter which this week was "New Beginnings!"

I have decorated and personalise the middle too.

Feeling broody?

LOL.....NO! Especially during the school hols with my two argueing practically non stop! Here's my next baby card.

Sorry, colours are awful but I cannot get better lighting now.

I used the sketch over at Dies to Die for for inspiration-thank you...LOL...another card down!

Copic Colour Challenge meets Toodle & Binks.

This weeks colours over at Copic Colour Challenge are;

I used one of the new stamps from Toodles and Binks, Sid Silvertrail and tried to get ahead of myself for a certain birthday in June!!!

I substituted the Pea Green for a combination of YG95-Pale Olive,G99-Olive and BG93 Green Gray. Remeber you don't need to use all three colours, just the closest Copic colour or colours you have! Pop over to she what the rest of the DT have created!

Baby, baby!

Oh goodness, my next door neighbour came to me a while ago asking if I could make a couple of baby cards. A few day later, her next door neighbour asked the same as she had also had a baby born to her family. THEN her next door neighbour knocked on my door asking for 3 more baby cards as she has had a baby born in her family...LOL...I do hope it's not something in the water!

...AND, do you think I had any baby cards in my little stock box!!!!


Here is the first of the last batch!

I have made this with the recipe challenge over at Creative Treasures for inspiration. I hope the little bit of glitter and the heart charm with suffice as "bling!" I don't really do bling!

I wanted to leave the front clear of any wording as I am going to decorate and personalise the inside.

One down, two more to go...but then the next card on my list is a twin boys 1st Birthday card...GOODNESS, baby, baby, baby!

Be back later with this weeks Copic Colour Challenge card!

Dottie's World- Buttons or Beads!

It was my turn to set the challenge over on Dottie's World this week and I took inspiration from my Button box. I was sorting out a few for Nicki's charity project and thought how naughty it was to hoard all those button but never use them, same for my beads too! So I dusted them off and decided to use them in a challenge.

Buttons or Beads!

"I have tons of them but rarely use them ! Dig deep into your crafty stash and embellish away. It doesn't matter how you use them, as long as they are visible on your creation. If you haven't got any (!!!!) improvise! Only other "rule" is that a Charmed Download must be used."

Now decisions decisions.....I have some lovely new flowers to play with and some really pretty, little buttons but somehow I could not part with them, not even sure where they came from but they look very old. So I decided to go for something else, some metal buttons that were just crying out to be used on a masculine card.....and here it is!

The inspiration for the card really came from the pattern around the arrow, the ribbon sort of blended in with this and being that the image is quite young I thought text m=language might be appropriate....but I showed hubby Chris and he didn't pick up on the "Happy Birthday......2 u!"

Hmmmm...now I am worried it doesn't make sense...LOL.

Enough waffle, must get on I have more kitchen cupboards in store today and if I am very lucky we came get the dishwasher plumbed in again. On a bad note, the washing machine exploded yesterday morning! It literally had sparks flying out the bottom and went up in a puff of smoke fusing the electrics on the way!

Make sure you pop over to Dottie's World and see the rest of the Design Teams creations!

EEK...Incy Wincy Spider!

Well the kitchen seems to have taken a huge step backward today, the electrician changed all the socket fronts to nice brushed silvery ones and unfortunately there is much more making good than we had anticipated.





It also took up most of the afternoon so the newly delivered kitchen is still in boxes...in the garage!


We have almost finished putting together our second cupboard, a big cupboard when we discovered this little fella!!! EEK!

It's only about 1cm big but I have never seen a spider like it before...any ideas as to what it is? We have it in an old tupperware pot at the moment!

Copic Colour Challenge #14!

I as a bit out of my comfort zone with this weeks colours over at Copic Colour Challenge...but am I ever comfortable with my work! LOL...hmmmm, don't think so! I ummed and arrhed over these colours, should I only use 2 of them....which two should I use.....oh...which image inspired me for these colours...sorry. Seem to have completely lost my mojo in the wreck of my kitchen being renewed.

Anyway, enough of the waffle as I need to go to work for a short while today.

Here are this week's colours:

As you can see they are bold and bright, but please remember you don't need the exact Copic Colours to join in, use the closest you have and just go with the inspiration. As I mentioned earlier, you don't have to use all three either, pick even the closest you have to only one of the colours and go with the flow!

Here's what I, eventually, ended up with.

Unfortuantely a few of our Design Team members have had to stand down so this week we have three new designers for you, so make sure you pop over and see the rest of the creations and then....GRAB THOSE COPICS!