30 Days of Colouring...

Hey,

Happy Monday.

I am off today and hanging out in the sunshine with Ma.

I thought I'd share some of the things I have coloured so far, as part of the awesome The Daily Marker, 30 Days of Colouring.

The main photo today is my Day 2 colouring. I used a KennyK clear stamp that I love, she's so sassy. The sentiment stamps are by Neat & Tangled and are a recent addition to my stash. The journaling card that I used for the background was actually sent to me by Kathy Rac, who is responsible for this awesome colouring challenge and is the sweetest person ever.

Day 3 is a little bit different, as it is a page from a new colouring book..I think it will end up incorporated into my art journal.

It took me two days (4 and 5) to colour the next image from my Day of the Cat colouring book that Lemon recently gave me..

He was quite detailed and because of the paper that the book is printed on, I had to go over it twice!!

I love him though and can't wait to colour more of the book.

I love to colour and this challenge reminds me that I can colour for 10 mins every day, there is space in my life for that.

I'll show you more later in the week.

Cx

WOYWW #350...Birthdays and Holibobs..

Hey,

Happy WOYWW.

For those of you that don't know what WOYWW is..it is that magical time of the week where we join Julia over at her blog Stamping Ground and share our desk space.

This is my last WOYWW for the next three weeks, as I will be on Holibobs and working in London for the next two weeks.

It is going to be hectic, but fun and it's nice to get to travel with Hubby, as so much of the traveling I do now is solo :(

I took my photo whilst I was colouring on Tuesday night for the current The Daily Marker colouring challenge. JT's Mom bought me a colour a day calendar and it's been a lot of fun. You can see my Promarker colour chart, a couple of Promarkers and the sheets I am colouring.

I also wanted to share two very different cards with you this week..

One is the finished 'hunk' from last week - you all seemed to like him :) He is winging his way to a friend already.

Second card is for our Nephew Otis, he was 5 yesterday!! I can't believe how quickly the time has flown.

He loves Football, his Dad like me is a lifelong Spurs fan, so I coloured the image to match their current kit. I believe he is having a football party on Saturday..complete with 29 friends - the horror of 29 kids under 5..I do not envy my SIL.

Fun cards that both use digital stamps.

Have a great day everyone, see you for a nosy later.

Cx

Valentine's Day Card Series - Day Five - Happy Valentine's Day..

Hey,

Happy Valentine's Day.

So today is the end, I hope if you celebrate you are having a good time with your special person. 

Hubby and I celebrate being together all the time, so today we will be slobbing around eating and listening to music, whilst recovering from whatever mischief we got into last night..

So yesterday I told you that JT and I set a challenge to make each other the most hideous, OTT card possible.

Here's my first attempt -  

Busy? Sure. Hideous? Not quite.

So I started again. The main photo today is the front of the card - nice and simple, seems like it's going to be lovely inside...

Nope..you get a busy paper, with a busy die-cut border, a stamped sentiment or two..and a pop-up monster that is winking at you! LOL. Now this is hideous.

Here's a close-up of the pop-up Monster

I had so much fun making these cards and I learnt how to create pop-ups in a card.

Wish I had given the Monster a googly eye...

Hope you have had a fun five days looking at all my Valentine's efforts.

Cx

NYC Playdate Part 2...

Hey,

So I am back in NYC - my birthday has been and gone - it was such a fun day and so many people sent me cards, gifts, emails, etc - I feel very lucky.

Today I am FINALLY showing the rest of the cards that I made when JT was here.

The main card was me naughtily playing with the brand new KENNY K stamp that I bought JT. You know how much we both love Kenny K..did not know that he made clear stamps until I saw them in the Inkpad.

I coloured her with Promarkers and added fun word bubbles from the Mama Elephant Small Talk set.

The next card, is another one using the fun spritz an inked stamp technique - I used a big Stampin' Up stamp - watercolour stripes and when it was dry, I die-cut the hello out of it (die by SSS). JT was the one that suggested it should go onto kraft card and she was right..

A slightly shorter post than the previous playdate one..

Cx

Kenny K - Love Challenge...

Hey,

Happy Friday to you all.

Hubby and I are off to spend the weekend with JT's parents - always fun times with them.

I love a Kenny K challenge (pardon the pun) and I especially love it when I can make a Valentine's card.

The theme this time (#188) is always Anything Goes, but with a twist and the twist this time is Love..

I used Harley Rider, I love this stamp!

I decided to stencil the background - Memory Box stencil and Ranger distress ink. I used another one of the glittery strips of paper I have, as a kind of  ledge for Harley Rider..I then stamped a sentiment (by SSS) in random spots to give a graffiti feel to it.

I inked the edges of the backing paper using Electric Blue Studio G ink and mounted the whole thing onto a black card base.

Harley was coloured using Promarkers and fussy cut, then mounted using foam pads.

You can't really see it in the photo, but I sprayed the entire card with silver Glimmer Dust, so it's all nice and shimmery.

This little beauty is heading to Hawaii to my good friend Michelle.

Aloha!

Cx

Moving Along With The Times - Inspired by your Fave TV Show

Hey,

It is time for another great challenge from Moving Along the Times and Team B.

This week Hazel is up with a great theme Inspired by your Fave TV Show

I had a few ideas, but then remembered about my as yet unused birthday gift from JT. A great Kenny K stamp that fit 'Nashville' really well.

I think she has the Country music glamour look.

I started out by colouring the image, using Promarkers and a Copic marker and a dsash of Stickles glitter glue. I am loving the new Copic skin tone marker..I might buy a few more..

The background paper is by American Crafts and I used a scrap of brown paper to make a kind of wall/shelf for her to sit on. Finally I punched a tag and stamped a sentiment by Simon Says Stamp. Securing it to the front of the card using a mini staple  worked well. Loving mini staples right now.

Now it's your turn to show us what TV show you are inspired by. Before you do that though, go and check out the fun creations over at MAWTT from the rest of my lovely teammates.

Cx

KennyK Blog Hop...

Hi,

Once again I am copying my buddy JT..she played along with the KennyK Anything Goes blog hop last week and now it is my turn..

I loved hopping through the DT blogs, such fun creations.

I decided to dig through my box that contains all the things I have coloured in, but haven't used yet. I came across Blonde Bomshell and an idea started to form.

I wanted the card to bit a bit funkier than the image would suggest..

So I used blue papers to co-ordinate with her dress. I stenciled in silver on the dark blue paper to grunge it a bit, the cloud paper is by Maybemej and the blue strip is just a scrap. I inked the edges of the image with a mini distress ink pad in Peacock Feathers blue. I deliberately inked onto the image a bit. I used a long sentiment stamp and stamped it randomly, so it kind of hung off of the edge. For the final touches I added glitterglue to her belt, earring and shoes and then popped some blue gems on.

I'm pretty pleased with my card..I have a recipient in mind..

Cx

Moving Along With The Times...Fantasy..

Hello,

It's snow time here in NYC (again..6th major storm this Winter)..

It is Team B's turn this week over at Moving Along With The Times and Vicky is our hostess this week, with a theme of Fantasy.

I have to admit I was a bit thrown by the theme, then when Vicky explained what she was thinking I knew exactly where to go...JT! Ha ha my craft buddy came to the rescue and suggested I look at KennyK stamps for inspiration.

So my card is probably not the usual Fantasy themed card, no fairies, just an awesome dragon and his fierce rider!!

The stamp is by KennyK and it is called Dragon Rider! I decided to colour it in Purple, as my Auntie Connie is a HUGE dragon fan and she loves the colour purple, so I thought that I could send the card to her afterwards.

The background paper is by Recollections and part of a huge block of multi-coloured animal prints that I got on sale.

The tricky part for me was thinking of an appropriate sentiment...you can feel my predicament right! Once again JT came to the rescue and I think it has worked well.

Pop over to MAWTT and check out the awesome creations by Team B and join in the fun.

Cx

Love is in the air...

Well it is nearly Valentine's Day!

The KennyK challenge for this fortnight is "Anything Goes + Love"

I wanted to have some fun and make a card that would work for both Valentine's and maybe an Anniversary.

I chose my fave KennyK stamp SexyCupid and coloured her to contrast with the backing paper - which is part of the All about Girls Stack by DCWV. I cut the frame using my Silhouette and punched some co-ordinating hearts with 2 different Woodware punches. I added little touches of glitterglue here and there.

The sentiment was white, but I coloured it pink to match, using the same Promarker as Cupid's dress - getting brave now!

I love it, it's all glittery and fun and love.

Cx

Spice it up..

Hey,

So it's been a while since I played along with a KennyK challenge, so I thought it would be nice to join in the current one (#164).

I like the theme of 'Anything Goes + use black'

I decided to layer up my card with lots of different papers and make it a Valentine's card. I also decided that I would use only scraps!

I am quite pleased with the black, red and white theme and the Devil Girl stamp is one of my fave KennyK digis!

I cut the sentiment using my silhouette, it was actually pale pink for another project and I decided I wanted to use it here, so coloured it black using a Promarker.

Now I need to decide who I should give it to..Hubby got Devil Girl last year :)

Cx

WOYWW #236....I've played WOYWW how many times?!

Hey there...

So last week during WOYWW (get over to Julia at Stamping Ground and join us in the nosy fun) Super Stamp girl referenced it was her 3rd WOYWW in a row...I said I'd done 51 in a row..however I have actually 'played' 46 times...35 are consecutive and it is only because I moved country that they are not joined up.

I think this is astonishing and I am forever grateful to Julia for her genius idea, that has brought me so much joy and many a new blog friend.

Can you figure out what your numbers are?

Onto my desk...I had a tidy up..isn't it lovely :) I do love a tidy desk and it's so rare these days. You can see a couple of cards that are in progress..the background under the Whale is a stencil, I think it's supposed to be Zebra print, but I think it looks like reeds or water. The Seahorse I found in my stash when I was looking for something, I decided to keep him out and have a play. In the background are some stamped and die-cut toppers for my Valentine's cards for OWH...nearly there.

I realise that my desk has been very un-Christmas like lately, so check out this beauty...I made 2 of them... for Lemon and Dr Kevin..I used a KennyK stamp.

KennyK Hunky Christrmas Card

Hubby and I had fun in Atlantic City and after a hectic week last week, it was nice to spend some QT together..I thought you'd like to see the view from our room on Sunday afternoon...yes that is the Atlantic, with a snowy beach!!

Snowy Atlantic City beach..

Have a happy WOYWW..I'll be desk nosying after work.

Cx

Good luck...

I wanted to make a special card for a colleague and a friend that left last week.

I thought she'd quite like a KennyK card, as she is a fan of the stamps. I chose Helga Frost, as it is getting rather cold here in NYC!

The current challenge over at KennyK's Krafty Krew is Anything Goes #160...which is handy, as it meant I could enter the card I made!

I am very, very pleased with this one, simple background with a teeny embossed strip, so the stamp doesn't get overpowered. I added a random pale pink piece of paper and some teeny tiny bling and sequins. I coloured Helga using Promarkers and finished her off with some glitter glue touches.

The good luck message applies to both my friend and myself, as I have entered myself to join the KennyK Krafty Krew Design Team...fingers crossed kittens, fingers crossed.

Cx

KennyK Design Team Call!!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG...

I am super excited as KennyK's Krafty Krew have just announced that they are looking for Design Team members!! To be considered you either have to create a blog post, or a Facebook post about the DT call. I decided I'd do a blog post...

I am a HUGE KennyK fan and have been fortunate to win the Kraft Krew challenge once and get a spotlight mention.

I own a lot of the stamps and they are such fun to work with...when I discovered them earlier this year, I wasn't a big fan of colouring, as I didn't think I was that good at it..I believe the stamps have helped me up my game and learn new techniques. I love colouring in stamps now and I even use watercolour pencils / gelatos now!

So far 2013 has been a very successful craft year for me, I've managed to up maintain a steady blog presence, win some challenges, get shout-outs for my work and be appointed to one design team (MAWTT).

If I made this design team, it would make 2013 totally and utterly complete for me, the team are so good at what they do, being part of that would surely improve my work.

I thought I'd show a few of my fave projects made using a Kenny K Stamp.

The main photo is of the Valentine's card I made for my Hubby and I won challenge #129 over on the Krafty Krew blog. I am really proud of this card, its modern, sexy and fun.

The next photo is of an Anniversary card I made for my friends and it was my first DT make for MAWTT

Using Sexy Cupid

This card is a bit cheeky, it was made for my neighbour Dr Kevin, who is a huge Magic Mike fan and so I added the lyrics to 'Pony' behind the card!

Using Playboy

Final card is one that won Spotlight of the week and is the Anniversary card I made for my Hubby...he loved it and he believes he is some kind of lucky charm as I keep winning with things I make for him!

Using Hella Enchanta

Hope you enjoy looking at my work and that I make the team.

Cx

Sexy sparkly Christmas...

Happy Friday to you! Hubby and I had a wonderful Anniversary dinner last night, the restaurant was the perfect oasis in amongst all the Halloween madness here in NYC!!

I really wanted to enter the Kenny K challenge #158 Holiday Sparkle as I haven't entered for a while and I also wanted to use my Mrs Claus stamp.

I stumbled across a sheet of glitter velum in my stash and thought that would be perfect for this challenge. Unfortunately it didn't really work against the white card, so I had to put a red layer behind it and now you can see my ATG tape - FAIL...but now I think it looks more like 2 red stripes and I love that my fail has become a feature, so I am still entering it.

The red border is an offcut from the red background layer and the sentiment was made using my fave EK Success punch. I also used Stickles to glitter up the white parts of Santa's outfit. The star is all glittery and part of a set that I 'rediscovered' Of course she was coloured using my Promarkers (I wish they sold them here in the US)...

Here is a close-up so you can see the glitter velum and the stickles on her outfit - unfortunately, it was all hard to photograph....or I am just not good enough?!

Close-up

I love her, she now needs a good home!

Have a great weekend, Hubby and I will be hanging with his folks who are in town for a week.

Cx

WOYWW #228 Having a good week...

Hello!

Hope you are having a good week so far..I am! Hubby and I went to watch a Basketball game last night and had a great time.

I know I always say this, but where has the week gone?! It's time for us all to join Julia over at Stamping Ground for the weekly desk nosy. Go and take a peek if you don't know what I am talking about.

My desk is interesting this week..a stack of 40 for 40 cards to the far right...ready to be dispatched, some new Fiskars stamps ($1.99 a set from Marshalls), a pile of new sewing patterns - the new machine is a dream..my phone and new notepad, a KennyK image, a pen and a pencil, my glasses and a die cut Mr&Mrs for the card you can see below.

Not too tidy, but not really messy either.

Here's a close up of the stamps..

Yummy new stamps.

I made this card for my opposite number at work as she is getting married on Saturday..she is wearing blue shoes and is having yellow flowers, so I thought I'd personalise it a bit...

MioNa and Alex's Wedding card

This is the first time the Silhouette has really done what I had in my head when I bought it...I love bold matchy match type and it really works here. Yay!

Tomorrow is my 2nd outing as a DT..hope some of you join in the challenge over at MAWTT, it's a good one.

Have a good day everyone, I'll be peeking at your desks throughout the day.

Cx

p.s Julia if you are reading this...I love your blog..thank you for gifting me a fun place to hang on a Weds.

Copycat...

No I am not stealing ideas...but yesterday I did see a cool challenge on JT's blog and thought I'd enter too :)

JT's card is really awesome, I love the stamp on her card and suspect she's kept that away from my sticky paws!

The challenge at Addicted To Stamps this week is 'Anything Goes' and as I used a KennyK stamp (Fashionista) I thought I'd enter their challenge again :) Which is also 'Anything Goes'

This card is for my friend Karen and as she is pretty stylish I thought the Fashionista stamp would be perfect for her. I coloured the card using Promarkers with a touch of glitterglue here and there. I wanted a striped background - not sure why, but I am happy with the paper I chose in the end, which is by Studio Calico. I added Candi's that match the paper perfectly - score. And a little punched sentiment to finish it off.

A fun card for a fun friend :)

I've had a little play on the new sewing machine...more on that later in the week.

Hubby is cooking dinner and Dr Kevin is coming to join us - Happy Sunday!

Cx

Happy Birthday Jadey..

My main photo today is of a birthday card I made for my friend Jade, we share the same birthday and the KennyK Blonde Bombshell stamp really reminded me of her.

I hadn't posted the card before, as I didn't want Jade to see it before it arrived. But I think it should be with her in Australia by now!

I am using it as my entry to the current KennyK challenge - #157 Anything Goes.

The background paper is from Michael's and part of a multicoloured set, the stamp was coloured using Promarkers and I chose Blue Lagoon for the dress, as I thought it was quite close in tonal values to Jade (the colour). The sentiment was made using my EK Success tag punch.

I love this card, it was such fun to colour and it really pops against the background.

WOYWW was fun yesterday, unfortunately I have to go to back to the hospital today for a bit of surgery...nothing major.

We said goodbye to Nkem this morning, so that's us back to normal for a little while...

Cx

Moving Along With The Times....Anything Goes!

Hello!

Welcome to my first post as a DT member of MAWTT..

Both teams have had a nice Summer break and are back with some new members - myself included :)

The theme this week over at Moving Along With The Times is - Anything Goes..

I decided that I would use my one of my fave KennyK stamps - Sexy Cupid to make a fun anniversary card for my friends (it has arrived and they love it, which makes it all worth while!)

I coloured her using Promarkers, the sentiment is one I printed and punched, the glittery strips were bought in Poundland before I left the UK and the backing paper is from an amazing stack of 150 sheets of 6x6 papers by DCWV that I got at Marshalls here in NYC for only $2!!

I miss Poundland!

Hope you pop over and join in the fun and see what the rest of the team has made, there are some lovely creations to look at this week.

Cx

Finding myself funny...

...now anyone that knows me, knows how much I crack myself up :)

So when I was making a card for Dr Kevin's birthday last week, I thought it would be funny if I themed it around Magic Mike...as like me, he LOVED it..

Obviously anyone with half a brain loves the scene with the 'My Pony' dance...

The main photo is the card I made.

I bought the stamp from KennyK, especially for Dr Kevin..love it, many more uses in this bad boy (ha ha cracking up).

Ok, so I ad the stamp, it's all coloured what now?

How about typing out the lyrics from 'My Pony' to use as backing paper?!

Once it was constructed I literally thought I was going to die with laughter..even Hubby thinks I outdid myself here.

What do you think?

Cx

p.s Dr Kevin LOVED it...so all is well :)

p.p.s - Great WOYWW yesterday got loads more 40 for 40...still time to sign-up and there are twenty spaces left...

I'm on a roll...

I won a challenge!! Yay! What a great start to the week..

I won last weeks Designed to Colour challenge - which I entered using one of the cards from the remote playdate with JT.

Awesome! Combined with my spotlight of the week win over at KennyK last week, this is shaping up to be a very happy birthday month :)

To celebrate I am doing a x2 challenge entry and the main (and somewhat foggy) photo today is my entry.

Designed to Colour are doing another Anything Goes Challenge and so I can use the card I made for the KennyK Colours of Fall challenge. JT and I are in sync yet again, as she entered her colors of fall card yesterday.

Fall (or Autumn where I am from) is my fave time of the year, so handily I seem to have a lot of fall colours in my stash...

What did I use?
My new Fashionista Stamp by KennyK (I won it for spotlight of the week using Hubby's anniversary card).
I used the embossed wood background, as supplied by JT (she used it too)
Green paper is by American Crafts
Paper twine from my stash
Punched sentiment in orange
Punched leaves and flowers from my stash.
Spice and Honeycomb Promarkers for her top, shoes, bangles and earrings
Tawny Owl for her trousers and top
Cocoa and Walnut Promarkers for her hair
Moss, Oatmeal and Pastel Pink for her eyes, skin and lips.

This card was fun to make and I love the new stamp...can see her getting used a lot.

Happy Monday.

Cx