Love Me Do...

Hello blogging friends....

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. 

The sun is shining here which makes a nice change from all that rain we've been having recently.

My card today is one of two which appeared in last months Papercraft Essentials and was showcased on the Wee Stamps facebook page yesterday. I was so excited to see my first cards published - Wow my minute of fame, lol!

I was really pleased with how this card turned out and Wee Stamps 'Love Me Do' was such a joy to colour. Aren't they just so cute!

The base of the card was cut with a Go Kreate Frilly #5 XXL die and covered with Nitwits 'Always and Forever' papers. I've used a mixture of Hobby House roses and WOC flowers teamed with some flat pearls and a pearl string.

The image has been coloured with Copics..

Skin : E0000, E000, E00, E11, E21, R11

Suit : C0, C1, C3, C5, C7

Shoes : C0, C3, C5, C7, C9

Dress : W00, W0, W1

Flowers : Y21, Y38, R81, R83, R85

Leaves : YG03, YG63, YG67

Brides Hair : E50, E53, E43, E57

Grooms Hair : E21, E23, E25, E29

Products from The Hobby House :- 

Love Me Do rubber stamp ( also available as a digital from Wee Stamps),

Roses, Flatback Pearls, Pearl String, Whimsy Definitions Notables 4 sentiment, Whimsy Dainty Notables 4 Die

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Pink Gem Challenge - All You Need is Love

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love is All Around

Sugar Creek Hollow - Love and Adore

Just For Fun - Love is in the Air

Treasured Times - Layering

In the Pink - Valentines or Romance

Crafting for All Seasons - Show us some Romance

Crafty Sentiments - Love is in the Air

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I shall be back soon with my 2nd Papercraft Essentials card 'Wee One'

Happy Crafting,

Big Hugs,

Janine xx

Hobby House Inspiration - Love Trip

Good morning ...

It's almost the weekend, I hope you've got something nice planned. I'm off with my son to a swimming gala on Sunday so I'll probably be doing all my chores on Saturday :-(

I'm back today to show you a little Hobby House inspiration. Our challenge this month is to

Use Ribbon

I have used Wee stamps Love Trip.
The card has been made using a Whimsy die called Double Scallop Doily Die which I threaded the ribbon through. I got this cool idea from Dorinda who posted her tag on facebook. That got me thinking that I could use my die to make a circular card.

The image has been coloured with my usual copics.

When life slows down a bit (lol) I'm going to have another go with my distress inks. I love the soft effect of these but at the moment I don't get the same results and haven't got the time to throw away half coloured images.

Copics used:

Flowers : R81, R83, R85  YR21, YR23 RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Balloon : W3, W1, W0, W00  R85, R83, R81

Basket : E21, E23, E25, E29

Bugs : W00, W0, W1, W3, W5 RV000, R11, R22, R24, R27 C5, C7, C9

Sky and Clouds : C00, C0, C1, Blender, B000

Here's a picture of the lovely Hobby House ribbon bow. I've just treated myself to a Bow-It-All using some Christmas money and it's so much easier than wrapping it around your fingers to make the bow! Here I've made a double layered double bow.

Hobby House products

Love Trip image available as part of the Peggy and Friends topper

Raspberry Ribbon

That's all from me today. Have a lovely weekend.

Big Hugs, 

Janine xx

Divas by Design DT - 'Use Ribbon'

Good morning blogging friends.

Hope you're all well. I'm here to let you know about our new challenge over at

Divas by Design

and this week our theme is 

'Use Ribbon'

That should be a nice easy one to help to ease you back into your crafting after all the Christmas and New Year festivities.

I've used a lovely image from Wee Stamps called Ruby and made the base of the card from a Go Kreate die (Frilly#10).

Sorry about the quality of the photos, I even tried faffing about with it in photoscape - but they still don't give a true representation of the card.

Ruby has been colour with my usual copics.

Skin : E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13, E21, E93

Hair : E40, E42, E43, E44, E47

Clothes : RV95, RV93, RV91, RV000

E74, E73, E71

W3, W1, W00

Flowers : V000, R83, R81, G20, G21, G94, YG63

The pretty papers are from Craftwork cards 'Time Flies' collection.

Dies used:

Go Kreste Frilly #10 (base) and Frilly #5

DooHickey Clouds and Events Flag

Joy Crafts 6003/0001 Leaves

Marianne Creatbles LR0205 Fence

Tim Holtz Typeset Alphabet and Weathered Clock

The flowers are a mixture of WOC and The Hobby House, and the ribbon is from Mei Flower.

Thanks for dropping by and hope you can join us for our challenge this week.

Happy Crafting,

Big Hugs,

Janine xx

Hobby House Inspiration

Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to a Happy and Crafty 2014.

Sorry I've been MIA recently, but with the extra demands on my time in the run up to Christmas both at home and at work I just haven't had the time to blog and craft.

I'm hoping now that my 'normal' routine has resumed I'll be able to get organised and fit in more crafting.

I haven't specifically made any resolutions, but I think getting organised and less procrastination is definitely  something I need to work on!

Anyway after all that rambling I'm here to show you my inspiration piece for the Hobby House. 

It's one of my Christmas cards. I still didn't make enough! My intention is to enter a Christmas card challenge every month, that way I'll have at least 12 next Christmas!

The image is Winter Fairy from Wee Stamps and has been coloured in copics. I used Go Kreate's Frilly #5 to create the base shape of the card and the papers are from Craftwork Cards' Christmas Post 8x8 pad.

Dies used:

Marianne Creatables Christmas Tree, Fence & Bird

Poppy Stamps birdcage

DooHickey tag

Copics used:

Skin : E0000, E000, E00, E11, E21, E93

Hair: E43, E44, E47, E49

Wings: E81, E84, E87, E50, E51, E53

Fur: E43, E42, E41, E40

Boots: E89, E87, E84, E81

Reds: T5, R39, R29, R27, R24, R22

Leaves: YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91

Hobby House products:

Wee Stamps Winter Fairy (available as a topper too)

Ivory Pearls

Pearl String

JOY Charm

Whilst I'm here I'd just like to let you know we have a new challenge over on our challenge blog and this month the theme is

Ribbons

You don't have to make a card, your project just needs to have ribbon on it. Why not pop on over to our Challenge Blog and have a look at the wonderful inspiration from the team.

Just remember, to be in with a chance of winning £25 worth of Hobby House products you must mention the Hobby House product you've used on your project and pop a link to the item on our website,

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations!

Happy Crafting

Big Hugs,

Janine xx

Hobby House Midway Reminder

Good morning to you all....

Can't believe that it's Saturday already. What a busy week it's been too. Only one more week, then it's half term again. We're definitely well on the way to Christmas and lots of snow if the weather man is to be believed.

Anyway, I'm here to give you a little reminder from The Hobby House. You still have time to enter this month's challenge which is another easy one. 

Roses.

That's it! We just want to see some lovely roses on your project.

Remember there's a super prize up for grabs too. 

My card today has lot's of roses: on the image, the paper and the mulberry roses too!

I thought this lovely Whimsy stamp - Wee Florist really fitted the challenge. Isn't she gorgeous?

Really enjoyed colouring her, although the hair did push my colouring skills :)

These Whimsy images are adorable and I managed to get a few more from Jill, at The Hobby House, when I was at the Harrogate show.  So you'll be seeing a few more in the coming weeks.

She's been coloured with Copics

Skin : E0000, E000, E00, E21, E11, W1, R20

Jeans : B91, B93, B95, W3

Top : R81, R83, R85, W3, E50, E51, E53, E55

Bucket : C5, C3, C1, C00, E55, E53, E51, E50

Leaves : YG03, YG63, YG67

Shoes : E79, E57, E35, E34, E31

Roses : R32, R35, R46, R59

Grounding : W0, W1, W3

Outline : BG0000, BG000

The papers are a mixture of Nitwits 'Crab Apple' and Prima 'Romance'. The Prima papers are lovely because they provide these cute little envelopes to make, with tickets to go inside. The embellishments are all from The Hobby House : roses, cameo, cameo pendants, Lace, pearl string, pearl flourish and a touch of aged rose frantage. The sentiment is Whimsy Everyday Sayings Notables 4 and the Dainty Notables 4 die also from The Hobby House.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Alphabet Challenge - R for Roses

Stamping for the Weekend - Anything Goes

4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Paper Pretties - Lots of Embellishments

Cards Galore - Flowers

Whimsy Stamps - Shabby Chic/Vintage

Have a lovely weekend.

Big Hugs,

Janine xx