SWALK sledging

Apparently it is National Card Making day today......as if we need an excuse to get crafting. That said, I couldn't let the day pass me by without a blog post to celebrate.

Time to get a little bit Christmassy today, with a gorgeous SWALK stamp and some lovely NitWits papers.

I just love the excited little faces on these two characters - it almost makes me wish or snow as there is a lovely place where you can sledge just like this, only a few minutes walk from our house!

As you can see, I have coloured these two in with my promarkers , in nice bright shades of green and blue, and have used my plain circle nesties and a beautiful Memory Bpx snowflake die for my matting and embellishment.

All this is finished off with a sprinkling of glitter, particularly around the edge of my green matting, which I hope gives a bit of a frosty effect.

Of course there are always a few lovely challenges to enter, and here they are:

http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-anything-goes-challenge.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/anything-goes.html
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-2nd-october.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Stamp-n-doodle+(Stamp-n-doodle)
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/weekly-challenge-holiday-spirit-and-new.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-147.html
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-100.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim160-with-stampart-design-by-kathryne.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-27.html
http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-14-use-two-different-die-cuts.html

Thanks for stopping by today and a happy weekend to you all.

Sharon x

New website address for the Crafty Little Fairies

Hi all,

This is just a quick note to let you know that the web address for Crafty Little Fairies has changed, to complete the transformation, following our recent change of name.

You can now find us here:

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.com

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Sharon x

Bows and Brads (or in my case buttons) at CLF

It's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Little Fairies and this time the subject is Bows and Brads. Unfortunately my brads temporarily became 'invisible' so I had to use a bit of artistic license and drag out the buttons instead!

As you can see I have used a gorgeous Wild Rose Studio stamp and some papers from the matching paper pad, both of which I was lucky enough to receive on my birthday recently.

I thought the image might be a bit fiddly to colour but it turned out to be a complete joy with my Promarkers with the added bonus of giving me some much needed practice on my blonde hair and ginger cats!

Also......did you spot it? Yes - I managed to get a sprinkling of glitter in there on my dandelion seeds........perfect!!!

So that's my card for the challenge. My team mates have made some really beautiful cards this time round so make sure to pop on over and have a look.

Finally here are some other great challenges that I would like to enter.....

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim160-with-stampart-design-by-kathryne.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-26.html
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/week-226-how-does-your-garden-grow.html
http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/show-off-those-coloring-skills.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/anything-goes.html
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/week-217winner-top-5-passionista.html
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/winner-and-top-3-of-challenge-186.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pennys-paper-crafty-winners-challenge.html


Thanks for visiting today.

Sharon x

Is it too late for Summertime Beach Huts?

Summer is more or less over and the minds of crafters have already moved on to Christmas, but is it too late to be making cards featuring Beach Huts? I do hope not as these lovely Beach Huts arrived for me in the post from Stamp Addicts this week, and they will be making an appearance on their next Create and Craft Show scheduled for 8th October.

There are three huts in a row with some summery greetings, some bunting stamps and some buckets and spades so a great little selection to get creative with.

For this card I have taken a 'snapshot' using  my nesties to cut out part of the stamp. I have gone for a bit of nautical look, using shades of blue and I have followed a sketch from Less is More this week.

a very simple card but I hope that you like it!

Here are some lovely challenges that I would like to enter today.

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim160-with-stampart-design-by-kathryne.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-26.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-233-your-favourite-stamp-brand.html
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-no-130-stitching-real-or-faux.html
http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-78-world-in-monochrome.html
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/week-139-sketch-10.html

Thanks for visiting today.

Sharon x

A Lacy Sunshine Mermaid

Well after a busy day at work, how nice it is to find the time, and the energy (!) to do a quick midweek blog post. I started this card at the weekend, but with one thing and another I didn't get to finish it. I wanted to enter the Lacy Sunshine challenge and it is often the case that I just don't get round to adding the final touches to an almost complete card in time for the challenge deadline.

But that was not to be the case today....one card duly finished and photographed in daylight too (that won't be happening for too much longer in the UK with the winter nights drawing in fast!)

The focal point of my card is this beautiful mermaid, which was a freebie from Lacy Sunshine. I knew immediately the colour scheme that I wanted to  use and then it was just a case of finding the right papers, which I printed from my Polkadoodles Bon Bon Belles CD.

As for those shell beads...well I have had them for years and I have no idea where they came from but they seem to fit the bill, and finally I followed this week's sketch over at Papertake.

So finally, here are those challenges that I would like to enter today:

http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/lacy-sunshines-under-sea-challenge-17.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/sketchie-free-for-all.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim-159-with-rick-st-dennis.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-25.html

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Anything Goes at Bearly Mine

 Well my six month term as at Bearly Mine DT member will soon be coming to an end but I am happy to say that the lovely Donna has kindly asked me to stay on, so I am very happy to say that the BM fun is set to continue for me.  :o)

So, back to the present and it's time for another challenge at Bearly Mine which is everyone's favourite - Anything Goes.

My offering today teams together a beautiful Sugar Nellie Fairy Glen stamp with a gorgeous paper from the recently released Steampunk 2 paper set.

I have die cut the little flowers and leaves and added some pearls and glitter for some delicate bling (if there is such a thing!)

Here are some other lovely challenges that I would like to enter this week:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim-159-with-rick-st-dennis.html

http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-232-clean-simple.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-186-anything-goes.html
http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-108-october-2013.html
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-287-fairy-nice.html
http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-78-world-in-monochrome.html
http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/week-38-challenge-candy-colours.html
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-98.html
http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/albc-clean-and-simple.html
http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-challenge-sponsored-by.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-25.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim-159-with-rick-st-dennis.html


Well that's my card for today - I hope you will hop over to Bearly Mine to see the lovely creations from my team mates and join in the fun.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sharon x

A Fairy Merry Christmas

Well it looks like Christmas has now begun for me, with my first Christmas Fairy Card of the year, using a fabulous digi from Polkadoodles not forgetting the lovely digi papers too.

As you can see, I have gone for some quite bright colours and I have used my Grpah Its pens for this particular image and they do come out much brighter than the Promarkers.....but I think there is a time and a place for each of them!!

I have to say though, that the Graph Its are taking a bit of getting used to and, as you can see from this image, some practice is still required!!

Happily though, a Christmas Fairy was as good an excuse as any to break out the glitter and now that my clear glitter tub and my quickie glue are back out,there is no stopping me and a bit of glitter has gone on every card i have made since!!

It's quite funny to be posting a Christmas Card today though as, after a spell of very cold weather, we have had a hot and sunny day today......maybe I should be making Christmas cards more often.

I am going to nip off now as I want to get a bit more colouring in before starting the tea, but first, here are some lovely challenges that I would like to enter....

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-challenge-sponsored-by.html
http://createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/cwlc-58.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/make-it-sparkle.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-145.html
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-287-fairy-nice.html
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-holly-and-ivy.html
http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-challenge.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-25.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mim158-with-bugaboo-stamps.html

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x