ABC Christmas challenge

This is the first of the ABC Christmas challenges.  A is for Angel and with the added challenge of adding a
charm and beads to your cards/project.
For the image I used a Magnolia stamp coloured with distress inks. The image is sprinkled with glamour dust. Tilda is sat on another magnolia stamp this time a large snowflake that was stamped onto yellow card, cut out then sprinkled with glamour dust,I then popped a bead in the middle. I was searching high and low in my ribbon box for ribbon to match the cardstock (which in daylight is hot pink and bright yellow) but couldnt find any so I found a small length of white ribbon and coloured it with a copic marker.  I used little bells for a charm which were threaded with more beads. I punced a border with a martha Stewart punch , machine stitched it then hand sew beads onto it.
All of this was layered onto Cosmo cricket Jolly Golly papers.

The quality of photos are rubbish I'm afraid due to the poor light.

Ingredients:

Patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket, Jolly Golly
Stamps - Magnolia
Distress inks
Glamour dust
Beads and bells
Machine stitching

Award

This evening I received an award from a lovely online friend Lyzzy. A person who never fails to put a smile on my face. I have never had the pleasure of seeing her in real life however we have been in the same town at the same time without either of us knowing until afterwards, (both on business with work) if only we had known we could have had a drink or two !!

I think I am supposed to say something about me. Well here are a few facts:
I do not own or have never had a passport, yes that means I do not go abroad
I am in love with polka dots
am allergic to animal fur (this stops me from getting a cat, something I would dearly love in my life)
I love horror and suspense films

I am going to pass this onto a lovely person whom I am proud to call a friend. Her name is Andrea and can be found HERE Andrea is a very talented card maker, someone whom I can only aspire to be as good as. Like myself she works full time but still manages to create lots of wonderful things for herself, her friends and magazines here in the UK.
Hope whoever reads this post visits Lyzzy and Andrea's blogs xx

Happy New Year

May I wish all my friends a Happy and Healthy 2010
xxxx

Butterfly and Beads

A card I made following Claudia's sketch on Friday Sketchers. I twisted the sketch round on its side .  The butterfly stamp was stamped on kraft cardstock with brown stazon then glossed with glossy accents, while this was wet I added a few beads. The antennaes are wire with a bead threaded onto it. I have had the punched branches for ages they were punched out of plain white paper then coloured with a copic pen.
The ribbon was from a Liz Earle gift I got for Christmas.

I apologise for the terrible quality of picture, its taken under artificial light tonight,, it is more turquoise in real life.
Ingredients:
Cardstock - SU  Kraft and sage shadow , corregated card from my stash
Patterned paper - Cosmo cricket, Jolly by Golly
Miscellaneous - Papertrey button and twine, butterfly stamps (make unknown) Brown stazon, glossy accents, beads, wire, ribbon from a gift I was given at Christmas (Liz Earle), Branch punch coloured with copics to match the paper.
Tools- Machine stitching

ABC Christmas Challenge

Welcome to ABC Christmas Challenge Blog!


What a fabulous idea ..........

After speaking to many people it seems to be a common problem that Christmas creeps up on us every year! So this challenge will run on a fortnightly basis, on alternate weeks to our Sister blog ABC Challenge. The Idea is to have fun and create 25 cards or Projects in time for Christmas 2010 your projects will be based on a theme or technique using the letters of the alphabet in turn. We ask that you create a new piece of work for the challenge,Please do not add items published before the challenge date. When a prize is offered we ask that you contact us by the Monday so we can arrange for your prize to be sent out. If you do not collect your prize by Wednesday of the week following the challenge we will re-draw it. I am sorry we are unable to accept entries by email. We hope you enjoy this new challenge and have fun creating those projects you promised yourself you would get done for this year and did not have time 
The challenge can be found here
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

Hope you join in I know I will be trying to xx

60th

A card I made for a friends mother. I used Gingerbread  Tilda but instead of colouring the gingerbread  as if it was a gingerbread biscuit I coloured it red as if it was a heart :) The bow and hearts stamp is one of the new Magnolia collection. All coloured with distress inks, lots of machine stitching and glitter. The chipboard 60 is mounted on acetate to make it jump out.

Copic Challenge 43

This week I was a guest designer for the http://copicscolourchallenge.blogspot.com/

Colours we were asked to use were Sarah's choice which were BV23, R59 and YG63.

I used one of the fabulous Magnolia stamps. The card shape is from the Cutting Cafe http://thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/the_cutting_cafe/ . It is covered in Magnolia papers with the edge machine stitched. I hand cut a star shape, again covered it in Magnolia paper and machine stitched the edges. I slotted check ribbom through the card , tied it into a bow and added a hand cut star coloured with R 59 copic pen then tied two little bells onto it  with string. I mounted the large star and again mounted the magnolia image onto it. I made another little star, attached it to wire then coloured it with YG63 and sprinkled it with glamour dust.

I would like to thank the copic challenge blog for this opportunity .

       Materials used:

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  Stamp - Magnolia
  
  
  
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  Medium - Copic pens in BV23, R59, YG63, R20,E50,Y00, E37,E33,E11,BV31,R35,E51,R46,BV02,E43,Y02 and YG23
  
  
  
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  Tools - Sewing machine
  
  
  
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  Miscellaneous- Bells, twine,wire, ribbon, Kraft cardstock.