Tiny Tartan

Another Christmas card made, I could be on a roll here.
This time it is for
Daring Cardmakers - Tartan it Up
Stamp Something - Favourite Sketch

This is one of my favourite Clean & Simple sketches which I use over and over, it is quick and has just enough elements in it to make it look like you've spent more than 10 mins creating it...which it does when you're organised.
I hope there is enough tartan on it to comply with DC challenge..lol!!

Base Card - gorgeous pearly red stardream from Joanna Sheen
Stamp - Penny Black
Colouring medium - watercolour pencils
Glittery Stickles on pom pom and brim of cap and swirled on the floor for snow
Snowflake Nestie embossed white card
Strip of red white & green tartan paper from bits box
Card Candy
Sentiment sticker - Bo-Bunny Press

Shape Up!

365 Cards - Day 165
A star must be the dominant shape on the card.
So using a star stamp,star spangled ribbon and paper and a star charm says I did the challenge. :)
The stamp was an old freebie off Craft Stamper magazine and I stamped it 3 times with Adirondack 'Red Pepper' and decoupaged different elements cut from each stamping.
The papers are HOTP. I was being quite brave here using pink and red and I distressed the edges of the red star paper and this is the first time I have done this. I used a Quik Unpick out of my sewing box. A tip I picked up from somewhere. The pink paper I cut and embossed with one of my Nestie Labels
I did add glitter, although it isn't a compulsory element. The top star has Stickles 'Sequins' added to it.
All other bits and bobs are out of my stash.
The only card I have made today, sadly, as my back is particularly bad because I went shopping.....hey ho!!!

Fairies

The last from me today is to cover 3 lovely challenge blogs

Colour Create Ch. 23 - Blue & White Vintage
Daring Cardmakers - Away with The Fairies
Friday Sketchers 61 - given sketch

This was a lovely sketch and I could use my lovely stamps I've had for years and hardly used. And I do love blue and don't use it enough.

Ingredients :-
Fairy Stamps - part of a set from QVC
Fairy sentiment - Inca
Lace and pearls which add to the vintage look from my stash
Blue papers - Basic Grey 'Marrakech'
White base card and ribbon also from my stash
Blue hydrangeas - Papermania
Images coloured with a variety of PM's
Wings of the fairies sparkled up with Stickles Icicle and Diamond
The glass of the hand mirror highlighted with Diamond Glaze

Imagine This.........Bubbles!

365 Cards - Day 133

I've had a couple of stamps for so long unused I was so pleased to see this challenge that I could have broken out a bottle of bubbly lol!!
The Bubbles background and Sentiment stamps are by Clarity stamps.
The image stamp is a misc. um off eBay

I randomly stamped the bubbles using Versafine Onyx black, stamping three times per application to get varying shades.
Then I had fun filling in the bubbles with a variety of Stickles glues, Copics, Perfect Pearls and Marvy Le Plume pens. Unfortunatly the scan has bleached out some of the pastel colours.
I stamped the image using Colorbox Cats Eye Chalk and then mounted them both on black card.
A turquoise ribbon from my stash added the finishing touch.

Think Spring..........

The perfect subject for this time of year over at Penny Black Saturday being the challenge 42.
Gets you thinking flowers and freshness and new beginnings. So my last piece of paper with daffodils was just great for a starting point, so I trimmed around a portion of it to use just at the side of the card, which I had first covered with a piece of plainish yellow paper. Found this great Penny Black image among my box of coloured images which is slowly depleting now with all these challenges. It had been watercoloured...decided to cut around it using my Nestabilities curved rectangles and did one bigger to matt it, enclosing ribbon between the two layers for added interest.
To lift the paper I added bling to the hyacinth at the bottom and to the butterfly antennae in the way of sticky backed gemstones. Also dotted along the butterflies wings with Stickles glitter glue. The sentiment was added and the butterflies and tulip were coloured with Sakura pens.

Ingredients :-
Paper - plain yellow...Basic Grey, floral....Kay & Co Tim Coffey I think
Green card...Bazzill Basics
Sentiment...PSX Santa Rosa
Stickles...Diamond
Ink Pad - Versafine Black Onyx
Base card, gems, Penny Black image and ribbon from my stash

My First Tilda

After a wonderful stamped image swap on the forum, I just had to make my first Tilda card.
I do love these images they are so cute, but have yet to buy any myself. I have enough stamps to start a shop of my own, and so many as yet unused I cannot justify buying any more.
I watercoloured her and added Stickles Icicle to her wings.
The card blank is ages old from a Dawn Bibby pack on QVC.
The 'bloom' was cut using a Sissex die in my 'Bug' along with the embossed swirl card done in the 'Bug' too.
Flowers and gems from my stash.