Labour of Love

I seem to have developed a bit of a thing for Penny Black hedgehogs lately...I've made 5 cards with them on so far this week...this is the first one to appear on my blog...and it will be hedgies tomorrow & Saturday too! lol
The image on this one is called 'Labour of Love', and I followed the nice simple sketch on Get Sketchy...adding a simple bow underneath the image...I didn't want to cover too much of the gorgeous My Mind's Eye paper ('29th Street Market'). I'm also going to enter this card for the Pink Elephant's 'Ribbon' challenge.

Ryan's Chocolate Trouble!

This week's Allsorts Challenge theme is one of my favourite colour combinations...'Brown & Pink'...so I just had to make a card for it. I followed the sketch from Get Sketchy, and have also included the Wags 'N Whiskers Challenge theme of 'Hearts' on my card. I've used 'Ryan's Chocolate Trouble' (by Wags 'N Whiskers) which I was lucky to receive from Lacey, when she sponsored one of the ABC Challenges...and watercoloured him to match the BasicGrey 'Bittersweet' and 'Sultry' papers. I used my Cuttlebug 'D'Vine Swirls' folder to emboss the pink paper and inked all of the edges with a chalk inkpad. The flowers are from Poppicrafts, the sentiment stamp is Cuddly Buddly, and the card candy is by Craftwork Cards.

Altered Tin

I altered an old tin a while ago, and turned it into a place to store my (ever increasing) stash of buttons (you can see it here if you like)...and when my Mum saw it, she decided that she had to have one too! So, this is the one I made for her:


It started life as this:


I covered the body of the tin with some My Mind's Eye paper (from the 'Adore' range)...then added some strips around the centre with some die cut lettering (cut using the Cuttlebug 'Olivia' alphabet) in co-ordinating coloured card, then sealed the whole lot with a couple of coats of Mod Podge.

I decorated the lid with a couple of Poppicrafts flowers on some Nestie shapes held in place with a Papermania pearl brad.


I'm going to enter this into a couple of challenges: the One Stop Craft Challenge where the theme is 'Recycling'; and the Get Sketchy 'Trash to Treasure' challenge.

Don't forget to enter the ABC Christmas Challenge blog hop...it ends at mid-night tonight...the first stop is here.

Make a Wish!

I've been itching to use this sheet of 'Wisteria' paper (by BasicGrey) with this adorable House Mouse image ('Blowing Dandelions') since I got them both for my birthday in August. I followed the Get Sketchy Challenge sketch...and watercoloured the image for the 'Bonus' challenge...and yes I know that dandelions are yellow...but I wanted them to match the flowers on the paper! lol
So that I only had to mutilate one piece of the paper, I cut out the middle for the smaller mat. The sentiment stamp is by Pollycraft.

Fall Friends

Unsurprisingly, considering it's now October...there are quite a few 'Autumn/Fall' themed challenges around at the moment...and I don't really have any appropriate stamps or images, so wasn't going to enter them...but then the Penny Black Saturday Challenge picked it as their theme this week...and that's my absolute favourite challenge...I've entered every single one...so I just had to! lol
So, I'm also entering this card for the One Stop Craft Challenge where the theme is 'Autumn Inspiration' and the Our Creative Corner Challenge, who have an inspirational photo in autumnal colours this week. I followed the Get Sketchy sketch...and managed to include the 'bonus' challenge of 'Brads' too. This image is from the 'Hugs' clear set by Penny Black, and the papers are from the 'Bloom & Grow' pack by My Mind's Eye...I've had them since my birthday a couple of months ago...but couldn't bring myself to cut into them until now...but the colours were just perfect for these challenges! The flowers are by Prima, the ribbon is from Poppicrafts, the sentiment stamp is from a little set by Studio G, and the brads are all by Papermania.


This card is going to my partner for this month's friendship card swap over on the Docrafts forum...there's no theme this month, but I thought that the 'autumnal' feel was appropriate.

Wishes for Kisses

I think that teal and silver is becoming my favourite colour combo for Christmas cards this year...this snowflake paper by My Mind's Eye (from the 'Festive Frost' pack) is just so beautiful. I followed the sketch from this week's Get Sketchy Challenge...and distressed the edges of all my paper s using my distressing tool for the 'Bonus Challenge'. I used my Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' folder on some silver card...I really love the way the embossing stands out on metallics. The sentiment stamp is by Three Bugs in a Rug, I used a 'Deckled Edge Rectangle' Nestie to cut out my image ('Wishes for Kisses' by Penny Black), added some faux stitching with a white gel pen and a few adhesive gems.

Vintage Christmas

This card is something a bit different for me...for a start there's no stamping! I followed the sketch from Get Sketchy (which I flipped)...I've been meaning to join in with their challenges since they launched a few weeks ago...but this is the first time I've managed it. I've gone with the 'Very Vintage Christmas' theme of the Winter Wonderland Challenge with these faded papers and die cut shapes from the 'Festive Frost' paper pack by My Mind's Eye. And cut some additional snowflakes using a Cuttlebug die (I hope this counts as making my own embellishments for the Get Sketchy Challenge?)...so I'm also entering this card for the 'Let it Snow' challenge from the One Stop Craft Challenge.


I must be on a roll...as well as being in the Stamp Something Top 5 yesterday...I saw last night that I'd also made it into the Cupcake Craft Challenge Top 5!