Maternity Card

Hello, gosh there are some busy blogs I have looked at so many I have hardly had time to craft, I am so glad I follow you though, your all very inspiring and I love to look at your work. I have made a card for a friend at church who is pregnant with what will be her seventh child! (I know a lot of children) however, she is a fantastic mother and she has the most beautiful children, and she looks just too fantastic it's so not fair! She doesn't come on here so she will not see this card until I give it to her. I thought I may as well enter it for a few chalenges too. SSIC challenge is clean & simple, as there are no embellies etc I thought I had kept it pretty clean & simple although it was anything but simple to make lol. Sketch Saturday it as usual a fabby sketch. Lots to do (LTD) another new challenge, their theme is Spring I think this card is very Spring new baby's and all the flowers on the swing And Just Us Girls (JUG) a new challenge to me, is a colour combo of brown, green, yellow & blue. as always there are some great DT examples for inspiration so do have a look round these challenges.

Now as I said this was not a simple card to make, and this is not my first attempt lol. I used three stamps to make this image and I had to mask all the images to ink the back ground too! as WOJ are not clear it can be kinda difficult to line the swing up some times and when you get all the lining up right you have to be very cearful when masking cutting round each and every leaf so I could get the back ground just right. Saying that I am very happy with the out come and I am sure Clair will love this card. I thank you to every one for their lovely comments and constant support, and a wonderful welcome to my new followers I have been round to all your blogs and you are a teriffic bunch and very talented and a couple are so new to blog land. I am happy that you have decided to follow me, and as I have said on your blogs the people I have come across are wonderful and always happy to help if you need any. Enjoy whats left of the day. Love Dawn xx

Items Used:- Stamps WOJ, Card stock, inks & DP Stampin'Up! (SU) coloured with copics, SU punch & Nestiabilites die cut.

Challenge card

A challenge card, For Magnolia which this week is for Birthday, simple enough! Next is for Simon Says which is vintage with flowers and finally Sketch Saturday to follow the sketch! And Paper Take Weekly is Buttons, Bows, brads or bling. I have gone for Buttons & bows go to their blog for more info and a look at the DT creations. They are all worth a look!

Here is a close up. I have coloured her head scarf, shoes and dress with ditress ink as I just loved this colour so much. The rest is the usual copic markers. I though the colour was perfect for a vintage feel not too bright a very nice muted colour.

 

And a wee bit of lace and button doesn't go a miss to add to the vintage feel. I hope you like this card. I hope I can get messy again soon and make something different with all the new goodies I have been getting recently. As always I value all my visitors, I may have to give some candy away soon as it's been over a year since I began blogging and I hadn't even realised it's been so much fun! and it's thanx to craft and the visitors to this blog so look out for it no idea what it will be. Love Dawn xx

Items Used:- Image magnolia sentiment Inca. DP Cosmo Cricket. Distreaa inks & Skittles. Copics. Prima flowers. Button from Zoe Bunny. Lace & card stock stash Card stock also SU.

Challenge card

Hello again Bloggers. I have managed to do this card and fit it in with two challenges. The first is, Sketch Saturday And some super prizes on offer this week and as always the DT are wonderful. The next is Penny Black, and they have a super colour combo of Green, Pink & Yellow and I love this combo it's so fresh. I only posess one PB stamp and it just so happens that is the prize this week lol. The image I have used however, is from Valentine’s, this lovely lady sends FREE images. I am so greatful, they were beautifully stamped so I could use my copics and she sent a few so a big thank you again to her.

Here is a close up of this cute cat! thought I might send this to my Mum for her Birthday next month, I am sure she will see the funny side. I have ordered some more Copic pens too I am getting quite the collection now. I still love using them, and colouring is so theraputic, calms me down and takes me to a nice quiet place ;0)

I made some of these lovely circle flower thingys ( I'm sure they have a name) I haven't used them for a while but I really like the look of them here. Thank you for looking. Love Dawn xx

Items Used:- Card stock, SU. Stamps, Image Penny Blk Sentiment (no lable on this sorry another £1 stamp) Emboss folders Cuttlebug. DP Basic Grey (Porcelaine) Buttons & Floss stash. Punches, SU & Dove craft.

Five Challenge Card ;-)

Hi all sorry not been around for a week, lack of time sometimes takes over. So I have done a card that will be for four challenges today. First Papertake Weekly which this week is Pretty in Pink, so the card must be mostly or all pink! Lots of pink on this one so that is covered ;0) the prize is three Digi stamps go have a look for more info. The next challenge is Kraftin’ Kimmy the challenge as well as using a KK Stamp to use the colours red pink & chocolate, great combo don't you think? also added to this challenge is to make sure there are hearts. My hearts are on the paper. Next is Simon Says And we have to use Punches My sentiments uses two! Allsorts would like pink & Brown on the card too so another challenge for this card. Final challenge is Sketch Saturday as always lovely sketch so do pop along and see the DT efforts for all blogs.

Light is a problem as always these days but this is a wee close up of the image coloured with Copics. I haven't got much at all done this last week or so craft wise but is was nice to pick up some card. I had a delivery today of some lush Stampin' Up! goodies, mainly to help with the scrapbooking I want to get done.

Nice close up of the flowers I think. It looks much better IRL the colours look watered with the light here. Been looking at Tim holts New stuff OH MY GOODNESS it will be such a drain on my spends will have to get a winfall to pay for all the new goodies I HAVE TO HAVE!!!! lol including the NEW T.H. SIZZIX machine. I have a CB (few yrs now) love it and very useful but I have thinking for a while of getting the big shot now I will hold off until Tim's is out as the new things eg EF are bigger and wider the edge dies on my so much stuff go have a look HERE. Thank you for looking. Love Dawn xx

Items Used: DP Basic Grey, Stamps Image Kraftin' Kimmy sentiment WOJ. Flowers Prima. Gems, stash & Habico. Card stock SU. and tools SU Punches.