Good luck tilda

One of my mum's work colleagues is leaving at the end of the month so my mum asked me to make a leaving card that was girly...so i took lilac A5 card folded vertically, tilda with a bouquet, some pink gems, kate knight hint of pink paper, pink tissue paper, some word art, a chunky stripe brad, my watercolour pencils and some pink paper to make a flower that blends with the leaves on the backing paper....and this is what i ended up with...i think it ticks all the right boxes with what my mum asked for and i really like it as well, so all in all a pretty good make if i say so myself lol!

Untraditional folds!

So here's my entry for challenge #4 at SBS 18 challenges, this weeks challenge was set by vicki c....and it was....use untraditional folds if any at all and onyl to use red,pink, back and white..

I used the secret heart template firstly on white card, then covered the large flap in glossy black paper and put some white flower peel offs on it to decorate the visible corners when it's closed...then i covered the heart pieces with red ribbed card and the latch with deep pink paper... and of course no project of mine recently would be finished without some gems so i added some red and baby pink gems to add a bit of sparkle to it :)

guess this is going to my OH as he's acting like he's the only person to have ever had a bad day,... has he tried having all the revision and stuff i've had for the last few weeks? i'd rather have his office job at the moment lol

Give me sunshine!

So this is my entry for this weeks tilda and friends ATC challenge 'give me sunshine' and also for this weeks lots to do challenge 'rainbows'. I used yellow seed beads for the sun, some scrap paper to make a picnic blanket, tilda eating ice cream image (watercoloured in of course lol) and then i did something very not me.....i used oil pastels for the background as my watercolours were naff on the card i had, haven't used pastels in years so it looks a little like a child has attacked it with pastels lol but at least it's bright and cheery :)

piece of cake

This is my entry for this weeks funky fairy challenge 'buttons and beads' though i'm not too sure what i think of this one, perhaps it's just a little too clean cut round the edges? So anyway it's made from a cake piece template; beige card background, wood effect paper for the sponge, pink raspberry paper for the jam, blue scrunched paper for the icing border, lots of seed beads for a jam line and sprinkles..and a heart button as the main decoration, not o forget the happy birthday glittery peel off on the bottom. Just a quick and simple card to get my mind off the revision i've spent most of the day doing lol

beady goodness

So here's my first piece i've made today... another keychain... i had to give my new charms a use as they are just so fab..there's; stars, moons, turtles, princess crowns, teddies, elephants, butterlflies, penguins and dragonflies. I thought i'd use one of the princess crowns first as i'd just found some wuite girly beads in my bead tower... the keychain is made up of; princess crown charm, 2 flower spacer beads, 2 tube spacer beads, some lilac seed beads and some purple conical glass beads. So here's another one to add to the collection for the SBS18 ladies birthday pressies!


My second make of the evening is a beaded charm bracelet. The beads are all recycled from previous bits of jewellery that i've had, i've got a mountain of red, black and white ebads so i thought i'd whack them onto a silver link bracelet and see what happened... only used half the beads so may have to make another one at some point lol... got a load of lilac, pinks and purple beads too so i may make some similar bracelets out of those as well :)

Tilda jigsaw

This weeks challenge at Tilda & Co was to make a tilda item that wasn't a card, so i made scene with princess tilda and the frog, magnolia birds, a pretty pink catle and sentiment from happily ever after and stuck them onto scraps of blue, white and green paper to form the scenery. This was then stuck to a piece of card to give it some strength....then i decided to cut it all up into 20 pieces to form a jigsaw puzzle :) quick, simple and fun, now who to give it to?

Toe tapper

This is my entry for this weeks daring cardmakers where the challenge was to make a shaped card....so i thought i'd try and be a bit different and use the toe tapper template for the first time, i've had it sitting in a drawer for ages never knowing when to use it lol. Think i may have made the flower slightly too big as it takes up most of the front of the shoe but for a first attempt at this i'm quite pleased especially as there weren't any instructions with it...perhaps the next one will be a little bit more adventurous in the patterns and decoration.

A spoonful of summer

There's a fab new challenge blog called A Spoonful Of Sugar and their first challenge is the theme summer... so here's my card for the challenge. I used the image lola with flowers and watercoloured it in, a felt butterfly embellishment, more gems, some gem flowers, dotty ribbon, lime green card stock and some pretty flowery summery backing paper by stacey claire boyd. So there we go :) challenge 3 of the day!

Dottie Sketch Challenge

So here's my entry for this weeks Dotties world challenge, quick off the mark this week but it's raining here so i couldn't go flying so i'm doing all the challenges i can to keep me busy. The challenge this week was to use the sketch, this is my take on it. I used hammock dottie with sunglasses from the dottie at home set, swirly backing paper from cuddly buddly freebie papers, pink, red and green gems and of course a big paper flower and chunky brad...they seem to be my favourite embellishment at the moment.

Cuddly buddly flight challenge

This is my entry for this fortnights cuddly buddly challenge, where the theme is flight. This is the onyl image i had from cuddly buddly that was flying, i couldn't afford to splash out on more images this time so i've used some of the freebies again. Cotton wool ball clouds quite literally lol and some torn yellow paper to represent the sun, so the hugbug is soaring high above the clouds :)