Crafty Muse ~ Mum's or Girfriends

Time for this fortnights challenge at Crafty Muse.

This time we would like to make something for a mother...
yours or someone else...
It's Mother's Day in the UK on 22 March

OR

you could make a card for a friend (but it must be for a female) :)

I actually started this one with my Sister in mind.

But I am gonna send it to crafty ribbons challenge
Don't tell my sister!!!! LOL
Sammi's cupcakes are just what I needed
to go with these ribbons.
Angelique is one my favourite of Sammi's girls.

Cupcakes ...6 different ones are the prize for a lucky winner!!
AND!!!!
We have two guest designers for the next few challenges!!
am away to go have a wee look at what the girls have done!
You don't have to use a Crafty Muse image to join us
But we would be delighted if you do,
and they are only available from Crafty Muse.
And there are some free down loadable images from Sammi !
Wait till you see what she has done for Easter......

want a wee sneaky peekie?






gonna have to come back another day for
a proper look!!!!

xoxoxox

flutterbyes

As you know I LOVE butterflies
so my new stamps from Debbie at Crafty Pad
are right up my street.

I am loving using the large butterfly on cards just now.
It is a diggie download that am using for my
DT work on Crafty Pad.

The papers are again Bo Bunny range.
Must get some more tomorrow.
The small butterfly is the large stamp on shrink plastic,
coloured using sukura pen & chalk inks.

I used a small shimmery bead on it's head.

You can remove it, as it is actually a brooch!!

I am entering it for Arty Girlz Challenge
who are also looking for Butterflies!
and in A spoonful of suagr challenge who are looking for
shape shifter cards.

Blog Candy !

Marlene has some amazing Blog candy on offer till 28th Fab!
go and have a look at her amazing cards she shows on her bloggy!

xx

Monday makes

Monday is almost over....but it has been a good day.
Andrew was on a day off and I am on holiday this week from work.

Poppy had her monthly bath for her itchy skin....
it was actually needed today as she found a gang of labs on her walk,
ended up coming home covered in mud and dog slobbers!!
She stood to get blow dried......for only one side!!!
so is all fluffy on one side !

Did get three cards made today.

The photo's are rubbish,
the lighting is not great on them at all.


The first one was not ment to end up this shape,
but I am quiet pleased with it.
It is using one of Debbie's new Butterfly stamps from Crafty pad.
I do LOVE butterflies.

I am entering it for Cute Card Thursday's signs of spring,
it is green and yellow, spring time colours to me.
Not sure that Butterflies are spring time insects.
I used my water colour pencils and sukura glitter pens.
I blended the pencils with my pro marker blender pen.

I am not sure about the flowers I have picked TBH .
I might change the centre of one of them .

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This one is my take on Dawny P's sketch
on Paper take Weekly.
Again I am using one of Debbie's Butterflies.
I have used my promarkers and sukura souffle pen.

The backing paper is one I got in a swap,
have no idea who makes this one.
I have put the vellum through the cuttlebug.
It is more pink and green but you can't see it too well.

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Lastly a Xmas card using my take on sketch #39
at Saturday Sketchers.
I did turn it upside down
so I could make the snowflakes in the sky.
The white one is a large snowflake stamped
on shrink plastic with white stayzon.
I applied it with a springy made from acetate.

Hope you are having a good start to a great week
much love
Tina xx

Friends Award !

This lovely award came from my friends Debbi over at wiccababe,
Dawn at Crafty ramblings
and Karen at Karen's Cards!

Thank you girls!!! xxx

Please accept this award and choose 5 of your friends to award it to.

I have made so many friends since I started blogging almost a year ago.
it is really hard to pick just five of you!!

I think as well as the three lovely ladies who gave me this award , Debbi, Dawn & Karen...
Sammi, Chrissy, Jennifer, Linda , Amanda and Debbie
are just such supportive lovely friends to me,
off blog too I want to pass this award on to them!
I know that there are actually 6 people on that list.....
but ....ach....well..no body else noticed till you pointed it out!!!!!


Thank you all for being a friend to me!

Crafty Pad #10

It's challenge time again over at Crafty Pad!
our tenth one already!


This week we have a sketch !
You can turn it if you want to.....
I did!

We want you to use a Faith stamp this week please,
as usual there is a wee prize.

I used love hearts from the Faith range to complete my card.
I do love these wee hearts as you know!

I have used Dreams in the Faith range.

I LOVE her shoes! and her legs are fab!
I can't walk in heels at all!

I don't normally use these colours
but I had a sheet of this sweet Bo's Bunnys paper
think this one is My Darling range ~ Bella.
I wanted to use it on this card.
I think that it works ok.

blog candy!!!

Lots of wonderful candy on offer just now!!!!


Have you been over to Bev's blog All the things I love?
she has the most amazing blog candy give away!

Kath at All that glitters is celebrating her one year in blog land!

And pop on over to Lauri at Paperville for her doggone giveaway!

xxx

love Chocolate? 3rd post of the evening!!

These two cards are well over due!
They are my cards for
Crafty Ribbons Love Chocolate Ribbons challenge!

I am not so happy with my first one here.
I have not as much "chocolate loving" as I wanted!!
But I have used three of their ribbons on this card.

The big singel flower is made with two punches, ribbon and a brad.

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This one I love!!!

I have used two different ribbons from the ones I was sent.
And first attempt at making a chocolate bar from funky foam!

I think I needed to press down a bit harder on the funky foam.
The squares are not as defined as I would like.
I am going to enter this one in the ABC challenge,
this week they want B for blue & Brown.
Now need to get them off in the post.



But if you fancy being in with a chance to try out
Crafty Ribbons Cupcake Ribbons in their new challenge
then have a wee lookie here!!!


Am away to go catch up with everyone.
love teen xx

Baby Boy Book

my cousin Jennifer has just had a baby boy.
I have wanted to make one of these book card thingys for ages.
But always made a real hash of it!
Anyway.......here is my attempt at it.

Mummy & Daddy

Baby Bump

Baby's full name.

recharge!

Been a busy and tiring week but its the weekend
and I am on annual leave next week so time to recharge
and get some fun stuff done!
These are a few cards from the last couple of days......


The first one is was an order from a lady at work.
She wanted a card and her request was for one that....

was funny,
for a man's 50th
he lays brick driveways....not sure why she told me this fact it didn't help!
he looks like Richard Fairbrass from Right Said Fred.
oh and he used to be a male stripper........

so this is what she got.....

She and all the other secretaries loved it!

Thank goodness!!
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Next is a card for a friends Birthday, that sat in my bag until today so will be really late on getting to her!
Not my usual colour combo but her fave, so that's why I did it!
It is my take on A spoonful of sugar's sketch by Debbie.
I turned it on its head so that Daisy was facing the right way.




And lastly is my take on Friday Sketcher challenge this week by Jacqueline


It is a request from someone else at work for her computer loving brother.
well thats me.....Brodie is on his way round to play with Poppy dog.
I have a few more cards to post but haven't sorted that post out yet!!!

spring & xmas

Two cards..........two seasons.....

This one is a spring theme card as asked for on Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge
using Dawny P's Sketch on Paper take weekly,
which has a new challenge tomorrow
so I am getting this one done by the skin of my teeth!


I have used my alcohol inks again, getting a bit more used to them.
I am quiet please with how this turned out.
It is much better than my last attempt.
I think I put too much on the seems of her jeans.....
Any tips?
Still haven't read up on them , need to do that soon.
Don't have green ink yet, so used water colour pencils and a touch of sukura pens.

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From Spring To Xmas.

And I must say I am glad the snow, well more the ice
has almost gone here, I dont enjoy it when the roads are icey....

This sketch is another one By the Lovely Dawny P.....from Willow Sketchie....
But I didn't read the small print and you need to use one of the products from Willow Designs.
I did see the making sure it wasn't flat. Hedgie is on 3d pads
and just as I was gonna do the doodle bits ......
I saw the use one of our products bit.....POOP! And since I dont have any of their products yet it will just have to one I enjoyed making.
It is a beautiful sketch.

You are a a lovely sketcher Mrs Dawny P!!!
Anyway....My Time to Craft are going for Gold....and thats some thing I did get right!

I haven't put the text bit on yet, as I am gonna do that when I decide who will get it,
and I will leave that till never the time!!


I am trying to be more of a tidy crafter.....I really am!
With less time to craft now I am back to work,
I was hoping not to have to start off each crafting session
by clearing up my mess from the time before.

Not doing a great job but trying my best!!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend....
How did Monday come round so soon?!?!

Crafty Pad # 9

15th Feb Challenge on The Crafty Pad is to follow a Recipe of:-
a Faith image if you have one please use it,
something torn/ripped,
2 brads and some ribbon.

:) You may include other elements if you wish but your card must have these basic ingredients. ;)

There is as always, a wee prize.



Well you seen my sneaky peak!
Wish I had a pair of pins like that!!!

Mind you, I wouldn't mind her waist either!!!!

I do love this shade of green, has to be my fave colour just now.
The paper is a double sided 12 inch sheet from my local store.....
but I canny mind who by!
The felt flowers are paper mania.

Come on over and join in with us,
see the other fabby DT's creations!
love Teen xxx

two hearts

I spent this afternoon sorting out my craft area
AGAIN!!!

I had various heaps of scraps and bits.
Now the large pieces are sorted by colour in a basket of poly pockets.

Smaller bits & patterned scraps I can use for tags/Moo's/ATC's in a smaller box.

I have gathered together stuff for my blog candy.
I have a bag of bits for my niece who likes to craft with bits and pieces.
And a bag with stuff I know my friend will use.

Then after all my tidying up.......I got a wee of crafting done.


So with it being Valentines Day....
I thought I would make a tag and a card
both with hearts on them.

This one is for the Sugar Bowl Challenge #4.
Who want you to use one piece of patterned paper only.

I love this paper. Don't know who makes it.
I used it the other day on another card, so I don't have much of it left.
I will need to go back to paper crafts and get another sheet or three.
I am not sure if the pink heart works with the green black & yellow,
but didn't think a green or yellow or black heart would look any better!

And for this weeks Tag Your It Challenge...... the Girls are looking for

Love and Romance

The swirlie bits are velvety fabric that I layered on shimmery black card.
And the red card also has a shimmer to it.
The beads on it came from a bar of soap from a gift set,
and the straight black ribbon came from another Xmas gift set wrapping!
So it applies for
I used sukra red glaze pen but smudged it a bit trying to add a second layer before it was dry.
I actually don't like the feel of velvet so didn't really enjoy working with this paper on the tag.

Although I did enjoy the tag and the end product.

Did you get something sweet from the one who loves you??

Blog Candy !!

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To celebrate this achievement and as a thank you to all thier wonderful customers and visitors they have four stamps of your choice to give away in a blog candy draw.
All you have to do to enter the draw is leave a comment here, post about us on your blog with a link to the Pink Gem Designs blog.
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Have you seen these sweet wee stamps??

He loves me......

Happy Valentines Day to you !

Roses are from my beloved Hubby!

Thank you my lovely!
I love you xxxx

I made My Beloveds Valentines card using
one of photos I took of the roses he gave me.

Saturday sneaky peaks

Put your best foot forward and have a sneaky peak at my DT card for The Crafty Pad.

DT with Ice

I am a terrible DT'r!!
I got it into my head that my Crafty Muse card was due tomorrow,
and it was due.....yesterday!
Sorry Sammi!

Ok so here it is.
It's a nice and easy one this week....
We want you to use your favourite colour on a creation.
Now a lot of the time I say my fave colour is Purple.
But just now I think it is Green.
I wear a lot of green, in this bleak time of year
I can't wait till the new growth is showing back on the plants and trees.

Anyway, here is my card.

It is using Princess Amber holding a chain of stars,
I always see her in green, and with reddish hair,
an Irish Fairy Princess.

I was going to stamp some small stars on the green base card,
I have a slightly smaller star stamp than the one I used to emboss
olive green on the cream square.
I can not find that stamp in the chaos known as my crafting area!
Will add them on tomorrow.

Come on over and join us at Crafty Muse.
You can use any image you would like,
but we would be delighted if you use one of Sammi's images.

Also * If you would like to join us in a Guest Design spot please
put a GD in your comment this fortnight! :) *

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The snow is almost gone,
but there is a lot of slush & the ice is slippy.


Poppy too ages to get this lump of ice out of a pot in the garden.

So she started off by licking the ice lump.....

Pushed it round the garden a bit....

Then lay down and started nibbling it!!!

And started chewing pieces off the side of it!!!!!

I must admit.....that makes me shiver !!!

Puppy Love?

Brodie is over while his Mum goes out for the evening.
Poppy is delighted, Brodie's mum brought raw hide bones for both doggies!!!
Only problem is Poppy wants the bit Brodie has,
Brodie wants the bit Poppy has,
and so it goes on...........and on.....and on...

It is actually doing Poppy the world of good!
Saying that.....as I type this, she is getting carried away & being a bit
too boisterous.
She has just nipped him as he was gnawing her foot!
He gives as good as he gets and always had the last nip!
She corners him and rugby tackles him!
He stands underneath her and bites her feet!


Sue, Brodie's mum has a new job in a new office,
so I altered this cube note holder for her.





I am not happy with the rub on paw prints.
I think I may have had them too long.
I used my usual tool to apply them, which normally dose the job.
But bits were well & truly stuck to the plastic,
No mater how many I tried they just didn't come off as cleanly as normal.
I settled for the best applied pieces for the holder.


This is from Poppy to Brodie for Valentines.


This was the last of my Valentines Ribbon & it had a crease in it,
Hope it smooths out straight.


And to Archie..who lives with Shirleyanne.


I forgot about the animal brads until I was finished Brodie's card!