woop woop! look what I won

I entered LEJdesigns Challenge Blog, Daddy Dearest/Male Projects which meant I was entered into a prize draw which was chosen by the Random Number generator thingy....... How lucky am I  :o)

here's what I won

No doubt I will be playing later :o) once I've finished commissioned work... which I'm not enjoying at all.

LEJ Designs sells handrawn digital images see them here

 Here's a card I made for my sister's  B/D which is today. It's a design you've seen before but this time it's purple and with slight alterations. Purple is  Eileen's favourite colour..... she loves it! the card that is as well as the colour lol.

It's raining here in Crewe... now there's a surprise!!

Enjoy your day
 xx suzi b xx

I've just read about a new Challenge Blog ... Addicted to Stamps  

 'MAKE YOUR MARK' CHALLENGE #1

I've decided to enter this card, hope it fits the bill. I used  Marvy and Whispers Strokes  pens added directly to the stamp and spritzed with water stamped onto water colour paper.

xx suzi b xx

Midsummer Night's Dream - Dreams and Fairies

Good morning from sunny Crewe oh yes we have sun! hope you do to. Our weather is so diverse and as unpredictable as my mojo  :o))  imagine waking up every day knowing its going to be hot, hot hot.... yea imagine lol

We have a lovely challenge at MMM chosen by Jacqueline ...

Midsummer Night's Dream - Dreams & Fairies

how lovely is that, here's mine and don't forget you have a chance of becoming a guest designer for a month.

This is my Titania, queen of the fairies enjoying a quiet moment with her friends the butterflies. Actually its not mine at all its from a 12x12double sided paper from Prima, which apart from the sentiment, stars and the lace is all that I used for this card.

Beautiful image don't you think?

I cut out the wings of the Fairy and the butterflies and lifted them up, just a little. before attaching the paper to the base card I stamped some little stars  from Lavinia stamps in silver and added Glamour Dust,... ie. fairy dust :o)

I used an SU label punch for the sentiment.

Sentiment is from Lavinia Stamps

I've also sprinkled "fairy dust" and stars around the card and sentiment. I added the tiny butterfly (not on main photograph forgot to take another one :o(  ) after I'd been playing with Stampendous  Shabby white embossing enamel and punched out the butterfly with an Xcut punch, don't try this at home! my punch is now unusable cos I can't get the paper out and the cutting edges are stuck!

I cut out one of the butterflies from the paper which after being blinged was mounted onto a Joy Crafts butterfly cutting and embossing die. I lied earlier didn't I? saying I only used the gorgeous 12x12 paper.

 I await in great anticipation  to see what you do with this lovely challenge. Pop across to MMM and see the amazing inspiration from the DT and our GDT this month Tara .

 Take care, enjoy the sun

xx suzi b xx

LIM ONE LAYER CARD USE A FLOURISH

I've been unable to join LIM for a couple of weeks but I was determined to join Chrissie,  Mandi and the rest of the LIMettes this week.
here's my quick card.

The stamps are all  from the Chocolate Baroque Royal Fleur de Lys A5 Stamp set stamped in Versafine Onyx Black with one or two "Royal purple" gems :o)

thank you for popping by I love to see you and hope you call back soon.
take care
xx suzib xx

Fathers Day/ Masculine Card at MMM

Hello every one, how are you all today? well and happy I hope.

This week at MMM Jacqueline would like you to make a

 Fathers Day / Masculine Card

My card is a quick and simple one cos I'm bogged down with family and friends stuff... you know how it is.

hope you like it...

I was struggling with this theme (mojo void!)  I thought of my son  and this card will be for his 13yr old to give to his dad... well if he likes it lol. The Star bit is appropriate because Paul (my son) as well as being a fantastic Dad to three children, is also a singer :))

  The star stamp is a Craft Stamper freebie coloured with Copics and blinged with Glamour Dust.

 

The greeting ( two separate stamps) you're a star is a magazine freebie and the Dad ... don't know where I got that, its on a plate of relationship stamps, was stamped onto a separate piece of card cut out  and put in place over  Stampotiques Weasel placard . The whole image was adhered to the square card with sticky fixes. 

Oops forgot to say Weasel is coloured with Copics

Looking forward to seeing your Fathers Day cards, after tomorrow I'll have more time,  so see you then :o)
take care
xx suzi b xx
Challenges
Craftymonster81; LEJ Designs: Daddy Dearest/Male Projects:

Week 52 at MMM

A new month  means a new challenge theme at Make My Monday,  Jacqueline... the MMM creator  and our lovely leader has chosen this months theme

 June and Associated Events

and to start the month off Jacqueline would like to see some

A Birthday card with PEARLS

Pearls are the birthstone for June.

Products/Method

Crafty Individuals C-2371 as main image. Stamped onto fabric with

Adirondack Watermelon. I cut the fabric to size before stamping, then frayed the edges before adhering to mount board.

 SU  Very Vintage Rollagraph stamped (or do I mean rolled!? ) down the R side of the card in Watermelon.

 La Blanche small flowery scroll stamped in Adirondack, Espresso around edges of the base card.

The greeting also stamped onto fabric and frayed before being adhered to card then fixed in place.  Silk flower added (I have way to many! decided I should try and use some em! ) and a little butterfly also added from stash.

I'm away from home, staying with my sister so this is scheduled for Monday morning and will be back to update the post later this evening.
Enjoy the day
xx suzi b xx  

MMM, Pink, green and white

Good morning!, what fabulous weather ! Its quite some time since its been warm enough to sit out late at night enjoying the night sky but on  Saturday I sat star gazing with a slurp of red wine :o) tracking a satellite when a shooting star streaked across the sky...magic!

 Its Monday so time for a new challenge at Make My Monday 

 and still following the FLORAL theme as your main image

 we would like to see the colours, white, pink and green.

 I used a Stampendous cling stamp no. CRR112. I directly applied colour to the stamp using Whispers Strokes, spritzed with water and stamped onto water colour paper that had also had a light spritz of water.   I dragged some of the colour to fill in the image with a damp brush. I also added a much lighter pink here and there. I wanted to achieve a light water colour effect.  I stamped in the same way a second time and cut out the flowers. The cut flowers where shaped then a tiny amount of Glamour Dust added in an hap hazard way.

The water colour paper had been torn and edged in the lighter colour pink then mounted onto a second piece of water colour card treated in the same way. I added  some text in a couple of places which is a stamp from Pinkpaislee Spring Jubilee set. ... I love this set it may one of the best stamp sets I bought when at Port Sunlight! :o)

 This shows the shaped, layered blooms.

            

            This shows the layers of water colour paper

I stamped a third time and cut out one of the smaller blooms coloured the same way, added Diamond Glaze and sprinkled in some Glamour Dust. The GD obliterated the detail in the flower so this was added once the DG was dry. The sentiment tag is from Stamping all day

 You can just see a small amount of text in the bottom right.. I forgot to take a photo :o(
This is the last week of my choices and I hope you've enjoyed them as much as I've enjoyed seeing all your lovely work...  its been very hard to choose the top three!
Enjoy your day
xx suzi b xx

Challenges
Cute Card Thursday  callenge 218 Pink and Green
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #104    Pocket Full of Posies.
The Corrosive Challenge Blog Not too Shabby

Wild Flowers/Grasses

Good morning people, I'm up bright (well nearly ) and early and yes the sun is shining!. hooray!
 This week at MMM we want you to use wild flowers and or grasses in your project.

I went with grasses as the focus and the background, keeping things simple as in nature.

Products used.
Distress Inks: Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar, Milled Lavender, Stormy Sky, Shabby Shutters
Images. Chocolate Baroque: Eastern Grasses.
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

I used Shabby Shutters for the grass on the white base card





As usual the DT have some great inspiration, go take a look and join in ... see what you can do with today's theme... you usually knock our socks off with your fab designs!
take care
xx suzi b xx

My daughters birthday

It's Leesia's  ( known as Leesh)  birthday on Mon 21st May. here's her card

Leesh prefers the LIM type card and I usually do something with, fairies, shoes, or the moon, her favourite things.. so this is very different but I hope she likes it.

 The butterfly is from Chocolate Baroque patchwork Butterfly set. I used the same colours as is shown on the graphics that comes with the set...just as well it did me mojos on holiday!. I used Whispers Strokes pens and a water colour brush.

you can see the wonderful colours on this photo.

I stamped onto heat resistant acetate in black ink and heat embossed with clear EP then cut out and adhered to the direct to card image.
 enjoy the rest of the W/E...
I will be having lunch with Leesh tomorrow (Sunday) she's out living it up tonight with her husband and friends. Her husband is taking her to a very posh place Monday evening!
xx suzi b xx

LIM Take Three Stamps

ONE LAYER CARD

This time we have the stipulation to

USE THREE STAMPS

not four, not two... but 3!

 I was determined to have another go at LIM take three stamps one layer card. I love this image from Stampendous which would lend itself to the Vintage, shabby, layered type look. I wondered how it would look as a one layer, vintage, faux layered look! What do you think?

I thought the lacy doily from Darkroom Door complimented the the lovely vintage image.

Bye for now

xx suzi b xx

Take three stamps at Less is More

ONE LAYER CARD

This time we have the stipulation to

USE THREE STAMPS

not four, not two... but 3!

Products

Darkroom Door Doilies

Marvy Blending Blox Shades of Orange

Clear Embossing powder.

Ribbon and bits from stash

I've not had time to join in at LIM for a couple of weeks :o(  I was especially disappointed not to take part in the add a charm week!
So not to be outdone again this week here is a bit of a quickie... hope I have time to do another.. cos I'm not all together pleased with this1 lol
take care
xx suzi b xx

MMM Wk 49

Good morning! well I was up at silly o clock on this, I'd like to say beautiful May morning, but I can't cos it's not!

 For this weeks challenge at MMM   

 follow the  FLORAL theme 

but add some

   MUSIC to your flowers. 

Any flower any colour just so long there is some music included.

Pop along to MMM to be inspired  by the lovely work from the DT and join us, we'd love to see you

here's mine

The music image is from a lovely set by Pinkpaislee that I bought at HSNW on Saturday... bumped into some lovely friends and ex colleagues...great to see you folks, hope to see you again soon.

 I stamped the music onto white card that had been sprayed with Glimmer Mist, Garden Fairy, Auburn and Turquoise Blue.

You can just make out the Auburn on this photograph.

I then used the Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch to make the flowers from the same card. The "dancing " music notes are from See-D's set.

I layered some of the flowers, added glitter glue and Liquid Pearl drops for the centres.

                  

The sentiment is from Inkadinkado

Enjoy your Monday, have a great week.

take care 

xx suzi b xx 

MMM week 48 Floral Lily of the Valley/ white flower

Today marks the beginning of a new monthly challenge at Make My Monday, 

 the overriding theme for May is FLORAL

Lily of the Valley is the birth flower for May so we would like to see some white flowers in your project. If you have a Lily of the Valley stamp that would be fantastic to see. I chose these themes and  struggled to come up with a Lily of the valley! so don't despair as long as the flower is white that's fine. There are some wonderful examples over on the MMM challenge site so pop along and be inspired

Lily of The Valley or White Flowers 

 

The flower stamp, not sure if it is Lily of the Valley ;o)  is by Local King Rubber called Chicks stamped onto torn vellum with Archival Brilliance in Pearlescent Lime. I coloured the flowers with a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen and finished them off with Glamour Dust. I layered the image onto another piece of torn pearlized vellum. I anchored the vellum onto the green card at the back. The green card was embossed with a floral embossing folder with the Cuttlebug.

I also used the flower stamp to make a shrinky  and coloured it in the same way as the main image... no glitter though :o)

The sentiment was stamped with a darker green Brilliance to coordinate with the dark green embossed card. 

 The green card was then adhered to a white centre fold card once I'd added the ribbon

I hope you enjoy this months Floral themes as much as we all enjoyed Cazro's men and boys theme last month.. I can't wait to see what delights you come with.  

take care, see you soon

xx suzi b xx 

I've had such trouble with Blogger this morning. It's driven me bongers!....  I now need a strong coffee.

 

TIME for Make My Monday

Good morning from sunny Crewe... did I say sunny... YES!

 better make the most of it.

 Its Monday so time for a new challenge at MMM 

 still in the monthly style of  Men/Boys  and the theme is 

TIME

The large Scroll and clock stamp are from Tattered Angels Time Traveller set. The sentiment is from Paper Artsy all stamped in Versafine Sepia

. I had so many ideas for this weeks challenge but when I sat down to to start I just couldn't get my ideas to work! :o(

I went over the stamped image with a VersaMarker watermark pen in an haphazard way then sprinkled with Cosmic Shimmer EP, Olympic Gold Lustre.

I  like the subtle shimmer effect.

The background was stamped with Viva decor gorgeous scroll stamp in Versafine for a water colour effect. Hope you can see it. I ran the sepia Ink around the edges and lightly embossed in the Olympic Gold EP.

lets finish Caz's men/Boy theme with a flurry of TIME pieces .. scuse the pun! lol.

 Have a great Monday. If you're in the UK make the most of the "dry" day today... 

Hope its sunny where you are .

 take care 

 xx Suzi B xx

Workshop update

Here's some of the work that I did for the Cubby Hole Workshop on Saturday my first ever time at taking a workshop, I normally attend! lol...I had a great time Thank you to the lovely people who attended... you know who you are :o)

 Carol who owns the Cubby Hole   asked me to do the workshop after she'd seen my  first attempt on a
6"x 6" canvass which was originally intended for the Floral Fantasy challenge at the Cubby Hole.

I recently saw a canvass painted by Yvonne Coomber and loved it! It was on display in an art shop in Dartmouth. A couple or so weeks ago I thought I'd have a go and see what I could come up with... Yvonne Comber's work is fabulous, lots of splats a splodges on a huge canvass with fabulous colours and depth. and you feel like you could take a walk in a meadow full of flowers.
 My  canvases are very small in comparison.
 so in the Style of Yvonne Coomber

 I've no idea how Yvonne achieves her fabulous art but this was done with baby wipes, acrylic paint, cocktail sticks, coffee shop stirrers (you know the ones) splats and splodges.

This one in my journal started life with the waste paint off the baby wipes.

I took photographs of every ones fantastic, different and fabulous art work and I will blog them all in the week.
 Take care
 xx suzi b xx

and now something completely different!

I am running a workshop at the Cubby Hole tomorrow.... yes can you believe it? me!
sneak peak

I'm really excited and looking forward to it... It should be a proper, messy giggle!. I hope.
 Watch this space.
xx suzi b xx

Birds/ Animals

Good morning every one.. Its week 45 at Make My Monday and still following Caz's Men and Boys theme we would like to see Birds/Animals on your projects
here's mine

I used a Stampedous Jumbo Songbird rubber stamp. It is an image of a blackbird singing.... I know my bird is pretending to be a blue tit but as a blackbird my card looked a bit dull :o) (see below) and I hadn't used the lovely poem included in the stamp or any thing relating to a songbird!... that might be because i didn't read the package title or the poem... would've helped with the design if I had! lol plus it was last minute (it usually is) because the project  I was working on  (altered box) didn't work out even with the help from my lovely craft buddies at the Cubby Hole... thank you guys ... I will finish it!

Image as a Blackbird

I stamped the image in Versafine Onyx Black then painted over in places with DI Shabby Shutters and some Whispers Strokes. I swooshed the colours onto my craft mat, sprayed lightly with water and picked up with a paint brush. I used DI Stormy Sky around the image.
The little greeting is from Stampingallday
  I know I say this every week.. but I do look forward to seeing your projects and don't forget there is a prise from Marianne Designs for the over all winner.
Enjoy your day... even in the rain :o)
xx suzi b xx