Birthday cards for sisters

These cards are for friends of mine who are sisters and both have birthdays in February

Papers were a free download (will try and find out where from)

Image was coloured with wc pencils and i dotted a few bits of sakura glaze pen on her head scarf and plants to help it co-ordinate with the backing paper better!

flowers,button and leaf were from my stash( i just stamped my sentiment straight onto it),

the strip of paper running through the card is Basic Grey.......

I used cream card stock and printed some brown gingham on one side and cuttlebugged the other flowers are prima and again coloured the image with wc pencils.

ribbon was from stash......

thanks for looking

Emma xxx

What a sight!!!!

2nd Feb 09

This is the sight which greeted me when I got home from work this afternoon (had to finish early and send all the children home from nursery due to worsening weather conditions!!!!)

thought I would share these pics with you all.......we havn't seen snow like this in our area since i was about 11! lol and i'm nearly 30 (well in 29 days!!!!!)

Jack rolling the snowman's head!

Daddy rolling the snowman's body!

gathering body parts!!!!!

yeah a snow blobby thingy.....!!!

The ensuing mega snowball fight when snowy blobby thingy gave up his exsistence to become snowball backups lol!!!

Back soon with some cards!!
Emma xxx

Tag your'e it PURPLE

Another quick post today this is my tag for this weeks TYI challenge which was to make a purple tag !

I watercoloured my Tilda image using only one watercolour pencil and added more intense colour with the shading details and used a promarker for her hair.

I embossed the pearlised card with my cuttlebug folder and coloured some white ribbon with a promarker(amethyst) as i did not have any purple ribbon!

sentiment is lili of the valley

Thanks for looking

Emma xxx

quick card

This is a card i made my son for his uncles birthday.
papers and image from pink petticoat.
card stock is white core papermania

thanks for looking

Emma xxx

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Forever friends challenge

Sorry i havn't been a great bloggy buddy recently but I have been exhausted lately from my new job and I think my mojo has up and gone lol .....this weeks theme was a chinese theme

the velums were sent to me a little while ago in the first ever blog candy I received lol! and the little FFbear is paper pieced (well velum pieced)...

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Thanks for looking

Emma xxx

Penny Black saturday Challenge 'frame it'

Quick post this afternoon......

This is the card i made for this weeks pbsc and it is a sad moment also as i have cut up some of my new su papers and whats worse they were double sided ...sniff!!! they have only been in my craft room for a few days and they are gorgeous but like many new things I have they have to be used immediatley lol.........(so impatient)...

every thing except the image (derrr obviously!!!) and the frame are SU ...

my image has been watercoloured with wc pencils and the frame was cut using nestibilities not mine though because i do not own them my kind friend cut me some so i wouldn't go without until i can get some of my own.......

Thanks for looking

Emma xxx

Postie has been and a fab award!!!

I wasnt having too good a day today until i got home that is ,there on the mat was a parcel for me!!! it was from the lovely Emma I entered her blog candy a few weeks ago she was giving away gorgeous SU products but I didn't win however because of the huge amount of entries she did give away 4 lucky bags which were a secret until they arrived....


isnt it all gorgeous thank you so much!!!!
I also received this fantastic award from Heather

This Lemonade Award is given by a previous winner to 5 people who have shown a great attitude or gratitude this week. It’s a great way to show these people that you appreciate them.I would like to pass this award along to the following people in appreciation of all the lovely comments on my site, or for the special and kind things they do for me.

Dawn
Kath Donna
Mrs W
Emma

Thanks guys and if I have time i'll be back with a challenge...............

Emma xxx

FF DT card 'Ribbons'

This is my DT card for this weeks challenge over at Forever friends this weeks challenge was from Jo and it was to use ribbons on your card........

Sorry its such a short post but I am catching up on all your lovely blogs!!!!!

Emma xxx

Quick cards and 2 challenges....phew!

Challenge 1

Card 1
This fortnights sketch at sketch and stash is so good! I really enjoyed using it .... The image is my new stamp from spiral whisper and is called 'Kev skateboarding'

the papers were freebies from a mag and the sentiment is lilli of the valley.....

Card no 2
This card is using my other new stamp from spiral wisper this is 'Derek' isnt he fab!!!! thecard is for my friends little boy who will be 2 at the end of the month i just used my cuttlebug embossing folder and some ribbon from my stash.......ink using papermania ink pad

Challenge 2

And this is a tag I made for Penny Black Saturday Challenge you had to use dots so I used lots of scraps from my draw to help tidy up a fraction of my scraps lets just say it doesnt look touched lol......... I decided to just stick with blue as a theme as its not a colour I regularly use.....

Thanks for looking and taking the time to leave your comments I really enjoy reading them ....

Emma xxx

A lovely award

Just a quickie before my next post.....

I received this lovely award from Heather

I am so honoured to receive such a beautiful award from such a fantastic crafter please check out Heather's blog she has fantastic creations!!

Thank you so much I would like to pass it on to

Jackie

Kirsten

Rosie

Diane
keep up the great work hunnies!!!

Emma xxx

Tag you're it 'sugar candy kisses'

This week the challenge was to make your own interpretation of the title 'sugar candy kisses'

I think Tilda looks quite happy sat up there i think she must have eaten the cherry though!!!!!!!!

The papers are basic grey and Tilda was coloured with pro-markers and sentiment was hand written with good old sakura stardust !ribbon and corugated card (what lovely stuff!) was from my stash ....................................

here's Tilda a little closer........ I shaded under her legs to give it a little depth...

Thanks for looking

Emma xxx

Baby Boy and Pink Petticoat........

Friends of ours have just had a baby boy and this is the card I have made the image is by Pink petticoat and is from the sweet cheeks collection (more pp news at bottom of post...oooh! the suspense!) papers are also pp and are in turquoise in the positive and negative choices from the big dots collection which I love!!!!

Emma xxx

A Birthday card and whiff of joy challenge

Well the first card this evening is for my best friends Daughters 17th birthday i made it completley from pink petticoat downloadable products and this collection is bloomin doodles (yes again!,its one of my fav collections)

the image is coloured with pro-markers and outlined with sakura stardust.......

The second card is for this weeks Whiff Of Joy challenge which has a colour theme of purple/lilac and wait for it........ GREEN! well this colour combo was way out of my comfort zone but I thought I should at least try as i had a new image to use sent by the lovely Heather thank you she is gorgeous!!! which is coloured using my water colour pencils and water brush

the papers I used are flowered paper is forever friends from the party time stack and green paper is basic grey(euphoria, eden) the ribbon looks very blue in the pic..roll on spring!!! flowers are prima...........

Thought I would add a little twist the purple streaks in her hair are sakura stardust...

Thanks for looking

I really enjoy reading your comments.....

Emma xxx

3 Posts '2 Challenges and 1 DT card' lol!!

This is the ATC i made for this weeks challenge over at forever friends blog challenge I used ths fab image from ff and the papers are basic grey i coloured my image using copic markers as i wanted a bright solid finish...the sequins,seed beads and felt ribbon are from my stash.....


Challenge at PINK PETTICOAT

As I was blog hopping yesterday i noticed that Liz over at pink petticoat had set a little challenge to alter papers with glitter, flock anything really and then to post your creation on your blog..........

(Sorry about dark photo I hate winter!!!!)
So i printed off a sheet of blooming doodles (rainbow collection) in blossom the pattern is 'swirly' I then drew over the pattern with my sakura glue pen and glittered with fushia sugared glitter it gave a fab result one i'll def use again so i printed off one of the images from the same collection and made this cute calendar...........

Sketch Saturday

This is the fab sketch over at sketch saturday its a fab sketch and it was really easy to use but i think it's the most complex one i've tried so far.....

I used basic grey papers lol they keep popping up nothing to do with the fact that they are new! the hanglar image has been coloured with pro markers ans the sentiment is from lilli of the valley..........

sorry for the long post again......

thanks for stayin awake long enough to get to this bit!!!

Emma xxx