2 ways with pins

Hi everyone I have 2 creations for you today the first is a card and I have used the gorgeous stamp from the Crafts and Me Sara Burrier range called "The Leap" available HERE the I have then coloured with promarkers and added sparkle with sakura stardust pens. I have inked all the edges to give a more distressed look. I have added some ribbon (from Papermania), flowers (from Mulberry Crafts UK) and pins (from Crafty Emma's Store) to finish it off. The paper is an old one from Dovecrafts Charcoal Prints pack.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Card makin' Mamas - Something old (the DP is years old)
Sketches by Carly - I have used their great sketch
4 Crafty chicks - Pins
Crafty Ribbon - Love is red and black
Moving along with the times - Blooming marvelous
Paper crafting Journey - Flowers

For my second creation I have made a bag charm using a big nappy pin :D For my main image I have used the fun Hannah Lynn "Alice Lost" image. I stamped her in Hydrangea stazon (you can get different colours of Stazon HERE) Then used my heat gun to shrink it down and put it on an eye pin with some beads before attaching it to the pin. I think I will be making some more of these it is a great way to use up odd beads and charms.

I am entering this pin for the following challenges:
Cafty Catz - Things with wings (I have used a butterfly and a dragonfly charm)
Fariy fun Fridays - Anything but a card

I hope you are all having a good weekend and don't forget there is still time to join the current Crafts and Me challenge which is pink and sparkly.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Art Deco - Twisted Easel Card

I have made this using a stash of goodies we got on the Crafty weekend

Materials

Ribbons - Fantastic Ribbons

Flowers - Mulberry crafts

Image : Art Deco Bride/Flapper - Crafts and me

Papers : Authentique- Blissful - Crafty Emma

How does your garden grow ?

Just in case this is your first time here for a while there is a brand new artist that has joined Crafts and me the incredible Janna Prosvirina. I just had to use her gorgeous Clematis stamp for my card today (Grab her HEREwhile you can as she is selling fast). I have coloured her with promarkers and added some sparkle with sakura stardust pens. If you are looking for more inspiration using these new stamps just check out the previous posts from the rest of the DT as we are all just slightly hooked on them :D The paper is from First Edition's Bird song pack and is available from Crafty Emma's Store as is the sentiment. The stunning flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK and the swirl die is Marianne D's Branch garden which you can get HERE from Bunny Zoe.


I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Fuss and fancy - Be thankful
Stuck on you sketches - Die cut leaf (I am hoping my leaf swirl counts)
4 Crafty chicks - Die cuts
Dutch Dare - Give thanks
Card making mamas - Die cuts
Crafty Ann's challenge - Floral frenzy
Papertake - Anything goes and add bling

Oh baby,baby

I LOVE pretty much every image by the brilliant Mo Manning but I have to say there is a special place in my heart for her baby images I just think they are soooo stinkin' cute :D This little one is called spit happens (still makes me chuckle every time). I have coloured her with promarkers and torn around her before drawing the stitching round the edge. The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK, the sentiment is from Crafty Emma's Store, the pearls are from my stash. I have embossed some pink card just to add a bit of texture and so the image is the main focus.

I am entering this for the following challenges:
Crafty Emma's Store Challenges - New beginnings
Bronte and Bella's challenge - Any holiday or celebration ( I have gone for the celebration )

Sample using Bearly Mine and Mulberry Crafts Materials

Materials

Papers: Floral Dreams, Simply Dots and Gingham from Bearly Mine Designs 

Image: Nevaeh by Saturatedcanary

Coloured : Copics 

Craft Robo : Border and butterflies 

Flowers : Mulberry Crafts

A fairy nice Christmas

I just had to have this super cute fairy when I saw her over at Mo's Digital Pencil store she is called Teen fairy Mia. I have coloured her with promarkers and then added some sparkle with sakura stardust pens. The papers are a mix of Bearly Mine and Dove craft papers. The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK and the sentiment is from craft work cards. The frame is a spellbinder die cut.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Bronte and Bella's challenge - Inspired by a song (fairy on top of the Christmas tree)
Make it monday - Anything goes
My partner in crafting crime - Photo inspired (I have been inspired by the colours)
Christmas Inspirations - Die cuts or punches
The squirrel and the fox - One for the girls
The cute and girly - Anything goes and a blog hop
Sparkles Christmas challenge - Christmas song (fairy on top of the Christmas tree)

Grab a cuppa or a glass... xxx

Hi everyone I have just had the most AMAZING weekend away thanks to the very lovely A Crafty Weekend organised by the even more lovely Amy and Chris. It was such a fun weekend filled with oodles of laughter and wonderful people some familiar, but now all familiar. I am revving myself up for our re-union weekend next year already xxx

There were 11 crafty girlz crafting away all weekend ,well nearly all, there was also lots of yummy meals and wine and chocolate and giggles had along the way too. We were given a MAHOOSIVE goodie bag with brilliant products to play with from a number of suppliers (so please go to the tab at the top of my blog to see the sponsors.) Here are a few of the makes that I made. I made some jewellery something I have not done for few months and it has reignited my passion for beads xxx

This first bracelet is one I made to wear out for our pub dinner that we had during the weekend away!!! It is made using the very lovely starter kit we got.

The second bracelet I made for my niece who will be 21 next week. She loves these colours at the moment.

The third bracelet is one I just needed to make to have a play. I liked the colour combo of the gold with the green.

Here are two cards I made with some of my goodies they are both made using Crafts and Me stamps from my goodie bag. The card bases, the embellishments and the papers were also from my goodie bag.

I coloured in the images with promarkers, copics and the Flexmarkers that were kindly donated to A Crafty weekend Away by Letraset!!! I have had my arm twisted and purchased some as they were so amazing to work with I have mainly promarkers in my colouring case but favour the paintbrush effect of the new flexmarkers and the pigmentation is second to none too xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

A Kenny K Card

This is the first card I made at the crafty weekend using a gorgeous Kenny K image. This image has really grown on me and I love it now. I coloured it with blendable pencils and copics for the skin, and I have no idea what all the makes of everything else is as there was so much fab stuff in our goody bags but thank you to whichever sponsors donated it! (I could go downstairs and look but it's rather cold and I'm being rather lazy!)

by Emma

We are all back! :D

Well we are all back from the first weekend getaway and it is safe to say there will be more of them :D
We all had a great time and thank you to all our brilliant sponsors we will be adding some pictures from the weekend and of the creations we make with all the goodies we got over the following days and months.

These are pictures of the sort of goody bags that we all got a paper craft one and a jewellery one.

The paper craft bag has Lili of the valley, Crafts and me, Kenny K (from Whimsy stamps) and House mouse (from Joanna Sheen ) stamps. A4 card, lots of 6x6 papers, 12x12 papers, silicone glue, foam pads, quickie glue pen, sakura stardust pen, ribbon and other embellishments from Jazzlins, Dream weaver Stencil brushes, Sculpey clay, twinkling H2O's, Shrink plastic, sentiments, a whole range of gems from the lovely Vanessa and loads of flowers from The Paper Shelter among other things. As well as that there were flex and aqua markers for us all to use thanks to Letraset. A box of ribbon from Fantastic ribbon, super smooth paper for us all to stamp on from Crafty Emma's Store and card blanks, more ribbon and cosmic shimmer sprays from Jazzlins. There was an extra little lucky dip bag each as well that had vouchers for Crafts and me, Lili of the valley, Delicious Doodles, Kenny K's Downloads, Bearly Mine, The Crafty Purple Frog, stamps from Joanna Sheen and dies from Marianne Designs.

The jewellery kit was a starter kit so that everyone could have a go and I think most people that tried it really liked it. Natalie I think had most fun with it. There were charms, beads of various shapes and sizes, chain, tigers tail wire, elastic thread and a whole load of findings to make loads of things.

We had a great room with a huge table so that we could all craft together and Emma got to try out both copics and promarkers before she decided which she wanted to buy. We found that markers preference is very much an individual thing as some of us loved the copics and others loved the Promarkers. Emma will be getting promarkers (also my favorite).
The whole weekend was full of lots of laughter, fun and picking up new techniques from each other. I can not wait to see what we all do now we have all got home and can make even more with our goodies.
Thank you all of you ladies for a brilliant weekend. I am working on sorting out more for next year already so if you would like to join us next time please follow the blog and drop me a line.
Huge hugs

Amy xx

P.S. Keep watching this space for more pictures and creations

Perched at Dawn

I know I am late but there is a great challenge over at Crafts and Me challenge which is anything with a digi goes. This pretty pair is a digi called perched at dawn available HERE from Crafts and Me. I have used my good faithful promarkers to colour them and you can get your pro markers in the Crafts and Me store HERE. The heart pearls in gold and brown are also from the store you can grab them HERE.
The Frame is a Spellbinder nestie and the foliage is a Marianne D die called Mistletoe you can get it from HERE at Cuddly Buddly. The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK and I have stuck them where the Mistletoe berries would have been on the die cut. The sentiment and DP are available at Crafty Emma's Store. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz tag and the DP is from Prima's Alla-prima pack.

Crafts and Me ribbon

It is time for another Crafts and Me challenge and the digi team is running this one :D All you need to do is use some ribbon on your creation. The prize is the winners choice of 6 digi's from Crafts and me.
For my card I have used this gorgeous digi called Felicia (available HERE) I have coloured her with promarkers and then added touches of sparkle with sakura pens and stickles. The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK, the sentiment is from Crafty Emma's Store the sheer ribbon is from Fantastic ribbon and the other ribbon and gems are from my stash.


I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Paper playtime - Digi summer theme
Stamping and scrapping challenge - Bling
Crafty calendar - Under the sea

Pocket full of trouble

This week at Kenny K's Krafty girlz challenges they want to see a pocket card :D I have not made a pocket card in a long time and so was inspired by this challenge to have a go. This is the brilliant Troublemaker you can get her in both Rubbah (HERE from Whimsy stamps) and Digi form (HERE from Kenny K downloads). I have coloured her with promarkers and then mounted her on foam pads. The papers are from My minds eye bloom and grow pack. The sentiment on the tag is from Kraftin' Kimmie's quotes 3. The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK.

Just chilling with House Mouse and Fantastic Ribbon

The challenge at the House Mouse Challenge Blog this time round is make a splash. I LOVE this stamp so much it makes me smile every time I see it :D He is from the Chill out set from the brilliant Joanna Sheen. The funky dotted sheer ribbon is from the new Fantastic ribbon box set. I have to tel you in real life that box looks even better than the pictures and I ordered it just yesterday and it turned up this morning! You can't ask much more than that.
I have coloured this cutie with promarkers (I have put in my order for the ultra fine nibs and can not wait till they turn up :D ). The pretty flowers are from Mulberry Crafts UK and I have inked the edges again with my dream weaver stencil brushes.

Skulls and Stars

Materials 

Image : Skulls and Stars Rubber Stamp £5.45 from Crafts and Me

Papers: Madly in Love by DCWV

Flowers : Mulberry crafts

Coloured with Pro-Markers  from Crafty Emma

Marianne designs

We were very lucky to be given some goodies from the brilliant Marianne Designs to play with before the craft weekend and so far this is some of what we have created with the stamps and dies:

Carrie's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps




Chanelle's Card

Using Marianne Designs stamp



Teri's Cards
Using Marianne Designs dies




Joanne's Card
Using Marianne Designs stamp



Amy's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps

Shell's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps




Aren't they so cute and the dies are amazing. If you want any more details about any of these cards they are all on each persons blog so just hop over to check them out.