Another Triple

I bought this stamp last week and this is my first chance Ive had to play with Tilda as butterfly, isnt she just lovely!! I also got the background stamp to go with her :)


This is for
Stampin for the weekend challenge 5 (Sketch)
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/

and also

Copic Creations challenge 7 (Brunette)
http://copiccreations.wordpress.com/

I used copics in light yellow, yellow and lipstick red mixing the red and yellow for an orange and used sand and burnt umber for the hair. The top 2 flowers are also coloured with copics. Papers are DCWV pocket full of posies and the yellow panel is starburst stains and cuttlebug embossed. I've added highlights with sakura pen.

The sentiment is there but not very visible, it says PLAY on the red brad in the bottom corner :)

As its also swaps time again on crafty cardmaking I chose the colours as I'm doing an Oranges and Lemons swap so its for that too :)

Why Oh Why....

Did we have another one!!! AAAARGH!!!

Awww thats unfair lol! Molly's got colic only she's a LOT louder than Ethan was when he had it. By god that girl can scream! She made my ears buzz before! Finding it quite tough going as she's clingy in the day and about 3pm it starts and goes on and on and on until around 8, by which time I'm ready to have a breakdown.

She had her 6 week check up this week, all's well, doctor found her birthmark which is a patch on the back of her head which we thought was a rash. They've also been a party this week, was Maxine's little boy's 5th birthday, Ethan crammed as much as he could in his big gob all at once lol! Molly slept through most of it and woke up when most of the kids had gone and it had gone quiet!

Here's new pic at 6 weeks (Notice Maxine's fabulous wallpaper in the background lol! She's dead proud of that you know! You'll recognise it from the american boy video ;-))

And this is Jamie's birthday card made with DCWV rock star stack, magnolia edwin with balloon painted with distress inks and outlined with a grey copi cmarker which sheilakins kindly sent me! The stars and number 5 are chipboard

More Magnolias :-)

I've not been able to make much since Moonbeams was born, not because of her but because of Eefie! Sounds daft but I cant work when I finally manage to get them to sleep as the fuse in my lamp has blown and i keep forgetting to get some and fix it and cant root round in the garage that time of night when i remember! I must must must remember to fix lamp lol!


Also need to go the village and pick up my photo printer ink for Molly's thank you cards, they're ready but just need photos to put on them!



Anyhow, this is one I made for Michelle's birthday who is a chums 4 mums co-ordinator from Crewe. She has rescued horses so I thought she might like it :) Background is moonglow shadow ink (the purple one!) Bronte the horse was painted in distress inks.

This is one I made for my nan's birthday. Its my usual shadow inks and starburst stains only this time I stamped Tilda onto paper matching the background, cut out the top and trousers and glued them on.

This one a bit out of focus sorry, was a rush job! DD came home with this grey piece of card with some ribbon and wooden flowers superglued on and asked if I could do anything with it as it was their english teacher retiring. The kids had written happy retirment..... ummm not good for an english teacher lol! She then told me she needed it for the morning! Was up till 2am working on it for her but did it!

Recent cards

OK I can't actually take the credit for this one although I helped a little hehe! This is Eefie's first crayon drawing which I thought would look great for a fathers day card. Looks like a red indian with feather and headband to me so WELL DONE EEFIE!

This is a stampbord domino book I recently made for the Something Different swap on our yahoo group. Its my first project like this, I've done a couple of half books before so this is my first full one. Its made with moonglow shadow ink, stamped with adirondack ink and glazed with added micro beads.

This is a birthday card I made for Rachael from my UKS team, I was experimentin' and like how it turned out. The background for the stamp I did by running the vintage photo inkpad round the edge, wetting it with a brush and gradually pushing the colour inwards. I like all the colours on it, moonglow shadow and ranger distress inks.

This is one I made DD's mate who's recently had a little boy. I used the cuttlebug with moonglow starburst stains daubed on and again its painted with distress inks. (I need more colours!)

This was made for Olive on our yahoo group for the teddy bear's picnic swap. Its the glitter acetate technique which I love doing but dont do very often anymore so thanks Olive, I enjoyed making it!

This is one I made for Benita for the IrRESISTable swap. It has the resist technique for the background. I tried using distress reinkers instead of inkpads and it went on like a dream so will definately switch to that in future. The butterfly is actually a rub on I've had for eons and "saved for best" I customised it a bit with sticky gems and added highlights with dimensional glaze and stickles glitter glue.



This is Arlyns birthday card - Shhhhh it isnt until Sunday ;) Its my favourite Tilda with flowers in her hair I coloured with distress inks only added lots more water for a more pastel effect. Then I've stamped round the edge with tapestry stamps and added dots of glitter and some real flowers in the corner.
This is Jack L's birthday card. This time its painted with versamagic (chalk) ink. Tapestry stamps again and the background is made with moonglow starburst stains. I liked how Tilda turned out on this one using chalk ink :)

This is flying off to Spain tomorrow as its for the yahoo groups Cutie Pie swap. Its on pink bazzil bling card with hero arts flowers and Tilda is painted this time with dee gruenigs blending blox.

And lastly this is one I've made for my 2 main midwives Alana and Helen as I wont get time after Molly Moo is here! I had Alana as a midwife with Eefie too so I've used Magnolia baby Alvin (how cute is he!) and Tilda with baby Tingla stamps painted with distress inks, marvy pens and adirondack ink. The lettering is a cuttlebug one - You're not the boss of me.


Hope you like :)

Recent ATC'S

Uploading quite a few recent dabblings as I wont get much chance for a while! I've developed diabetes apparantly so they wont let me go overdue. Seeing consultant tomorrow so should get a date for Molly Moo to make an appearance, hopefully she'll come before they start interfering!

Anyways I shall start with some recent ATC's I've made for various swaps and things.
This one is Baking Tilda Blue and is coloured using ranger distress inks. I'm getting the hang of the skin tones now with many thanks to Marlene's blog!

Next up is Daydreaming Tilda (the stamp is Tilda waiting) again coloured with distress inks. The wording is done with scrapito foil and the background is alcohol inks.


Thought I'd squeeze one more swap in before Molly got here so these are for the Africa swap on Do Crafts. First one is a lovely stamp given to me by Shamela when we met in Cape Town. Its stamped on moonglow shadow ink that I swiped lightly with gesso so you get some tone & highlight. I then added more tones with distress ink. The background is made with moonglow starburst stains and the stamp is by Judikins. The African lady also had highlighs on her armband and crown using scrapito foil.




This was made using Dee Gruenig's blending blox in shades of orange. Same Judikins stamp (its one of theose cube ones) I added glimmer to the water with sakura stardust in clear and the lion I bought in Cape Town a couple of years ago.

Same as above, letting is chipboard (Z) and peel offs I painted with white acrylic and made the stripes with sakura glaze in black.

Last up is Gracious Pink. I had lots of enquiries for swaps over a couple of cards i posted on Do Crafts a while ago as people thought they were ATC's so now I'm getting round to doing an ATC version! The pink is moonglow starburst stains and the stamp is Da Vinci cosmos collage stamped on the background then partially on a 1x1" piece of stampbord, coloured with adirondack ink and highlights scraped away.

3 new Magnolias

First up a new ATC (1 of 2). The background shows up quite nice in the pic, its moonglow starburst stains. Then I've watercoloured the image background using marvy ink & starburst stains and added flowersoft. The Tilda is watercoloured with ranger distress inks.

Next is a very glittery Party Tilda. Everything on it shimmers, the blouse and shoes are coloured with sakura stardust pen in clear. The blue background is starburst stains and its mounted on holographic silver. The letters are brilliance ink in red and I went over the top with stickles glitter glue in stardust :)

With this Tilda I stamped the image out again onto the same paper as the backing paper, cut the blouse out and glued it over the top of the watercoloured image.

Last but not least, the background is cuttlebug and I've run over it with starburst stains. Then I've stamped Tilda onto watercolour paper, masked it and stamped the fence behind. Its watercoloured with ranger distress inks.

New toys!

I went to the Port Sunlight show yesterday and got new toys yay! Sir Stampalot was there with a big range of Magnolias so I got 3 new Tildas and some magnolia accessory stamps, a new cuttlebug embossing folder, some flowers and new distress inkpads. I saw a tutorial on Marlene's blog about colouring using distress inkpads so thought I'd give it a whirl (at 3am when I was up pottering!)

This is one I made for the Opposites attract swap on Crafty Cardmaking, the idea being you use 2 dominant colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel, I chose Blue & Orange.

Tilda is coloured using distress inkapds in tattered rose for the skin tones, vintage photo for the hair, basket, signpost and boots, peeled paint for the grass, faded jeans for the jeans and spiced marmalade for the top. The grass line is hand drawn and the blue sky I sponged on Moonglow starburst stains in azure sea asters. The card background is cuttlebug then I daubed on starburst stains in glory of the sea gold (which looks yellowy orange) I filled the basket using flowersoft to give some dimension. This one is going to Spain hence the signpost!

Tilda & Friends ATC challenge - Bugs!

Well here's my first go at a blog challenge! Tilda was stamped on watercolour paper then masked and I then stamped the background hills and grass using stampscapes stamps.Its coloured with watercolour pencils and sakura stardust pens. The extra sparkle is made by mixing the water with a tiny bit of pearlex iridescent watercolours. I've added the little dragonflies, which are coloured using sakura stardust pens and stickles glitter glue, and some flowersoft on the grasses for extra dimension.

Busy busy bee

Been really busy lately with birthdays etc but have taken as much opportunity to make some cards too! Finding it really relaxing lately especially using the magnolias and sugar nellies, they're fab!

First up, mummy's day card.

Now this one I made is Tilda baking and practiced the blending DTP technique using marvy le plume pens. Turned out nice I think and I'm getting there with the blending!

This one is for the easter parade swap on the yahoo group. I used 2 shades of brown watercolour pencil to draw the lines on the "chocolate" then went over them with a damp brush so its got tone, shadow & depth. The egg is made from tonertex foil & the stamp is a sugar nellie - Nellie sitting (Ive since changed the flower as it was too bulky)

This one is Sheilakins birthday card. I know her birthday is around now but she wouldnt tell me when! I trawled through pages of her old posts on yahoo until I found it so now I KNOW!! Will be in the post next week after the storm has passed. This one is also a Sugar Nellie (Lola with flowers)

Tilda & Ethan

Finally remembered to use Boo's camera so hopefully better pictures now! This one is "Party Tilda" by Magnolia. I had a go at watercolouring using marvy le plume pens direct to paper technique and blending them, getting there slowly! Also used some of the DCWV pocket full of posies papers, they're thick, glittery and lovely!






This one is for UK Scrappers February week 3 challenge. Card Making & papercraft magazines freebie this month was an embossing board and it has a scalloped edge on so I've used that and cut it out then drawn around the edges with sakura white. The background paper is also DCWV. The stamping I was a little disappointed with, they're HOTP clear stamps and I used Brilliance moonlight white which wasn't *that* visible. I hear stazon white is much better on darker colours so I think I'll invest as I do use white quite a lot.




Went to Trafford Centre today with DD and Eefie. He's such a big flirt! Anything in a pram haha! Bless him though he had some garlic bread and dropped his last piece and looked at it on the floor then at his hand then at the floor and looked really sad ahhhhh! Big Sis gave him some of her subway instead so he was happy then! He tells you when he wants more by raising his hand to his mouth. He's lovely to take out, he loves people and crowds and will eat literally anything so he's easy to feed on the go. DD used to be a nightmare to feed (still is at 15!)
Anyway its Boo's 40th tomorrow!!! I don't think he's very happy about it lol!

Happy Birthday Jude

From our Yahoo group! Now its her birthday I can show her card ;)



This is a Magnolia (Tilda) stamp called "Summertime Tilda" Stamped with stazon and watercoloured with pencils and highlighted with sakura pens. The blue is Ikandee shimmer chalk then I've stipled the edges in brown. The papers are HOTP and the card is bazzil as are the brown flowers, the smaller blue ones are prima flowers.

Magnolias et al

Been having a good run with some cards this week as chunky munky has been amusing himself a bit more and not permanently gluing himself to my leg!

I got a couple of magnolia stamps, have seen these on various blogs and like them, they're sooo cute!

This was my first go. I couldn't find a flesh coloured water pencil so used a marvy pen instead which made the skin tones a bit dark & streaky.

Next I did a swap card for the Yahoo cardmaking group, the theme is bring me sunshine hense the oranges and yellows. The background is a sunrise/sunset stamp I recently bought for 20p! I stamped it with versamark then brushed with aztec gold pearlex. I found my flesh coloured water pencil by then....

It was DD's birthday last week and I recently bought a nice little scrapbook kit from QVC Outlet by All my memories which had some pink and brown bazzil in. I already had some matching great big brads and the bow I made by sticking 2 bows back to back then putting the brad through.

Last but not least is DS's birthday card. I put PVA glue on the chipboard letters then added holographic gold glitter. I did have a chipboard number 1 somewhere but couldnt find it so replaced it with the one on the ballooon. I've since found the chipboard 1 so might rejig this a bit so its how I originally planned as I dont like the gap.