CAS Robin

I'm not long back from a visit to the new Hobby Craft shop that's opened in Truro this week, with lunch at a very nice pub thrown in after - thank you DH!  The shop was busy, very busy, and although there were some nice bits and pieces, especially in the scrapbooking area, I didn't come away with much new stash.  I was treated to a mini hot glue gun which has been on my wish list since using one at the Kernow Stamper's fair in the summer, but apart from that, a few packets of gems, some squares of felt and a magazine, that was it.  The prices were a little steep, there were quite a few Marianne dies on the shelves but you can certainly find them cheaper on line and the same went for most of the named brand items. 

I forgot to schedule a post for today, to be honest I'm feeling rather tired again at the moment and even crafting is beyond me.  Fortunately, this little robin is one I'd coloured earlier in the week and he simply went together with Marianne diecut LRO234 called Petra's square frames.  I've layered the two white squares onto silver mirri card then 3d mounted them to the base card.  Three plain snowflakes cut from silver using one of the dies in set LRO124 finished things off.

Charisma Cardz have a CAS theme challenge so I can enter my card, I think it's clean and simple enough. And, if you remember my rather plain CAS one layer card for last week's LIM challenge, well, I just had to tart it up a little bit:

I've inked my embossed stitches around the edge with pale blue chalk ink then matted my one layer onto pale blue card, added a length of sparkly blue ric rac across the corner before mounting onto the base card.  To embellish I diecut Marianne's mini poinsettia, LRO142, and inked it a little with the blue chalk ink, cut the holly spray, LRO244, from blue card and inked it with white chalk ink then finished with white pearls made with my Wacco pearl maker pen.  It's more 'me' now!

I am going for a bit of a rest now, browse my magazine and decide what I'd like to make next, but the actual doing might have to wait for another day.  Whatever you are doing, enjoy! and I look forward to catching up with you again very soon.

The Nativity

 

This card started out as a bit of a play/mess about, but I am pleasantly surprised by how it turned out so am happy to share it with you. Plus, as it's a LOTV stamp and Lili's Little Fairies have an anything goes theme this week, I can enter it into their challenge.  The ABC Christmas challenge blog are on the letter 'U' and it's up to you, so entering with them too.

 

When my new Marianne dies arrived the other day I wanted to have a play and cut out the larger square from LRO234 in SU! Almost Amethyst card, unfortunately my CB plates have warped so badly now that embossing in the bug doesn't work, so I've had to do it the old fashioned way by hand! I am dropping hints that I'd like a new machine for Christmas .. .. .. Anyway, after embossing I added a little white chalk ink to the raised areas, although it barely shows up, and cut out the little medallion from the set in thin white card and inked with pink chalk ink to match the sheet colour. I also did the embossed stitch line around the edge of the image and inked that to match. I'd no pp that would match so just went ahead and stuck down the square onto my base white card. In addition to the little medallion flowers I cut and inked the fronds LRO245 and made a frame with them around the image.

 

 

The image is coloured with my Copics, the sheet with B60 & B63 and the background with B0000, 000, 00 & 01. The foreground is coloured with warm grey shades, her headdress, their socks and the trim on the crate with cool greys. The browns are my favourite E40 to E47, although his little top started as a cool grey but then I picked up an E41 by mistake so it's a totally unique colour! His headdress and the baby wrap are BG70 & 72. To finish things off I added little gems and actually decorated a little inside the card too!

 

 

The text is an old stamp, I think from an Elusive Images set, embossed and inked thefaux stitch edge to match the image on the front then simply added a medallion flower and fronds.  Still plenty of room for Mum to write - she's already made a bid for this one!  I have to take Mum to the surgery this morning for her flu jab so am scheduling this card, fingers crossed.  Catch up with you later, internet allowing that is, from Friday evening through the weekend it virtually grinds to a halt - the weekenders invading us and using up all our internet bits and bites!

A touch of sparkle

This week on Cute Card Thursday we are looking for a touch of sparkle on your creations, it doesn't have to be a lot, but if you really must - go for it!  I have been restrained and limited my sparkle to the star, a touch on the baubles and the pups hat on this LOTV stamped image called 'decorating the tree'.  I couldn't resist adding a little more to the centre of the Marianne diecut poinsettia flowers and as the card wasn't quite finished when my new dies arrived, I managed to add a few fern fronds and sparkle them too.  Then just to finish things off I found the iridescent ribbon and tied a couple of bows.  The pp is very old, from Anna Griffin, and I used a Martha Stewart punch to layer up my horizontals - and there's some ivory satin ribbon there too but that somehow got almost completely covered up!  Our sponsor for this challenge is Whimsy Stamps with a choice of 5 digi stamps as the prize.

Here's the close up of my colouring, with Copics of course.  It's another image that's been waiting to turn into a card so the exact colours elude me.  The browns are the E40 - E47 range and for the bigger lad's shorts and slippers I used E81 and E84, which is looking greener on my screen than in real life.  The red areas are the R20 range darkening to R29 with a little R00 added to lighten the dress. Not totally sure on the greens, but probably used G40, 43 and 46.  The yellows I'm thinking might be Y11, 13 and 15, as to the rest, I'm not sure, although the shading is various pale shades of warm grey.

Totally Stampalicious have a Christmas card challenge running this week so I'll enter my card with them.

LIM with wings!

So here it is, my one layer with wings card for this week's Less Is More challenge.  I resisted the urge to stamp the snowflakes - they come with the stamp (see my last post) and left well alone. The curvy text is from a PB clear set and obviously doesn't have to be straight, thankfully. I messed up two earlier versions trying to get the text lined up! I have edged the card with embossed faux stitches created with Marianne die LRO161, I simply line the edge of the card into the die and run down with an embossing tool, keep turning and moving the card until I've gone all the way around.  Not sure why I didn't think of this before!  The little Robin is coloured with my Copics, the usual R22, 24 & 27 for red, E40, 41, 42, 43 & 44 for the brown and a touch of YG61, 63 & 67 for the green.  I've shadowed with B0000 & B000, extending the line under the text.  Finally, a little Stardust Stickles on his hat, well you gotta have sparkle at Christmas!

The Flutterby Wednesday challenge is for any winged creature this week, not just butterflies or fairies, so I can enter with my little robin.  The real one in my garden is getting a battering in the wind today so I've put out a few sunflower hearts and seedy bread crumbs on the lawn in the hope he can manage to land near by and hop on over.

WOYWW #176

It's Wednesday so time again to show off what's on your workdesk with Julia on her blog, Stamping Ground.  I have been trying to make a card for LIM challenge - one layer only and with wings - yikes! I picked up the little Nellie Snellen robin stamp back in the summer so thought I'd have a play with it, only in order to colour with my Copics I'd have to use my 'special' card and I only have A5 pieces.  So no pressure to get things stamped first time, including the text, actually it was 3rd time lucky.  The other two I've cut down to turn into something else with the help of my new paper pads you can see there on the left. I've cut the red circle for one of robins with a Marianne die you can see above it, I must remember to pop out the bits from the die before I put it away.  I keep them in the A5 sleeves that the LOTV stamps come in, well the ones that fit that is - you can just see a new one peeking in on the right and if you look carefully under the kraft coloured piece (still not made up) there's some die cut pieces from more of my new dies.

I am eagerly awaiting the return of my friend Wynneth, she's been gallivanting again and no doubt stash buying .. .. I wonder what she's bringing home with her.  Also, before she left I did an order for some SU cardstock in red and kraft and I'm desperate for it to get on with making up that little coloured piece!

Three Little Angels

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! well on my craft desk and the overspill onto the dining room table it certainly is.  These 3 little angels had been coloured and waiting an age to be made into something, finally inspiration came today with the arrival of new stuff - new Marianne dies and a couple of paper pads I treated myself too.  The LOTV little angels were coloured with my Copics and as it was so long ago I can't remember all the colours - the dresses though have to be the very pale yellows Y0000 etc.  I found a scrap of digi paper in my stash that matched the cardstock and added little white faux stitches around the layers, matting onto aqua cardstock.

Here they are in close up and you can see the detail and embossing on the fronds, LRO245, gorgeous!  As well as those, I've used a flower from CR1201 to mat the text and created my flower embellishments from the smallest die in CR1202, plus lots of pink Stickles for sparkle and tiny little flower brads I found in my stash.  I had got a bit more dimension with the flowers by pinching the petals together but when I added the Stickles they went a bit limp .. .. still look ok though, don't you think?  I hope so as I'm entering the Totally Papercrafts challenge to make your own flowers, Paperplay's challenge for simply cute, and the Everybody Art challenge for bling!

Internet is slow again today, and once everyone gets home in the evening it virtually grinds to a halt.  I've managed to visit a few blogs though and will keep at it so eventually I'll get around to everyone who leaves me a comment.

It takes two, or three!

Well what a weekend - I am exhausted but not sure why as I didn't get much done and the internet was virtually non-existent.  I did manage to finish this card but only got around to taking a pic this morning.  It's one of the older LOTV images called Three Wee Kings I'd coloured up ages ago, and on the cardstock that I was happy to use at the time, but now I've found something better at my local craft shop I'm not so happy with this.  The blending was difficult, especially on the blues I used for the background sheet and I found I couldn't go over the top to even things out without taking off the surface!  So no close up today .. .. but, I am happy with the way the card turned out.  With the mix of blues, reds and yellows in the image I couldn't find any patterned paper that would go so decided to emboss a layer of white instead.  I've used my CB snowflake folder and an edge folder that looks like a row of buttons - suitable for a boyish card I thought.  No flowers, but I did add a length of red satin ribbon and then a mix of Marrianne snowflake dies in red and white to finish things off.

The challenge at Cupcake Craft this week is for two, or more, characters on your creation, and Crafty Hazelnut is looking for snowflakes on this week's Christmas challenge - I hope she likes red ones!

together for Christmas

I was doing really well this morning, or rather the internet was, and managed to get to visit quite a few of you!  And I even managed to make a craft order for some new Christmas papers and Marianne dies .. .. well you gotta now and then, don't you? Now it's slowed right down again so pictures are taking an age, and I was going to go shopping on the LOTV web site too .. .. spending the money I saved on the duvets and curtains! oh well, maybe it'll speed up again later .. ..

Today's card is another of the C6 blanks, this time in cream with kraft card extras.  Now the base layers I found already put together and after I'd coloured this cute LOTV stamped image in, I thought it might work even though the paper design isn't festive - it's a Nitwits magazine freebie.  The embossed scallop edge is a Marianne die, then I simply added some punched and inked holly leaves and a smattering of red heart gems.  Simple but sweet I think.

Here's a close up of how I coloured the image, with my Copics of course, although I forgot to note the numbers.  The browns are sure to be E40s as they are my favourites to use, and the reds look as though they are the R20 range, I usually go for those shades for my reds.  Not sure on the greens though, or the golden tones.

Christmas Stampin All Year Long have an anything goes theme this time around, and Creative Inspirations have the same theme so I'll enter my card with both of them.

CCT paper piecing

At last, my picture has loaded, I've striped and remade the beds, had a shower and made coffee whilst waiting for it.  I don't know about super fast broadband, mine is super slow, but, it's looking like my machine is at fault as the lads have no trouble picking it up on their mobiles and on other gizmos.  It means that commenting is laboriously slow - I am trying to get around to those friends kind enough to leave me a comment but I can't manage everyone, everyday.  Back to my DT card for Cute Card Thursday, and this week the challenge is to do a little paper piecing.  I'll admit it's not something I like to do, but thought the sails on this little lad's boat might look ok in a patterned paper.  I've used little pieces of paper from a Nitwits magazine freebie, including the texts and the faux ribbons with buttons.  My base is a kraft C6, I have to use these up so expect a few more smaller cards from me over the coming days/weeks.  The little lad is by LOTV coloured with my Copics:

His hair and shoes are the paler E40-44 shades, I used a couple of my newer colours for the hull of the boat, E81 & 84 and also added a little E81 to shade the gingham sails.  The reds are the rusty E04, 07 & 09, his sailor jersey is YR30 & 31.  I've added a little warm grey shadow and finished with light brown pearls made with my Wacco pearl maker pen.

Just one challenge to enter with this one, Creative Inspirations have an anything goes week!

WOYWW

oh my! what a mess .. .. still got coloured images waiting to be turned into something, and I'm so not happy with that card, which by the way is square (on my screen looks rectangular), but can't figure out what more to add .. .. it's had several sentiments tried out in the top left corner but none of them looked right.  As it is I've covered up the most interesting part of the patterned paper (a digi piece from my box of Cuddly Buddly bits and bobs) with the flower and swirl embellishment.  I think I must have left Mr Mojo in Truro yesterday, he's probably still browsing around Dunelm Mill!  I did have a great day out and managed to find a pair of curtains and 2 duvet covers for the new bedroom.  I will have to shorten the curtains, and they are barely wide enough, but at only £20 they were a bargain and will at least give us some privacy over the winter months.  I've still not plucked up the courage to start the wallpapering though! I forgot to say, I'm joining in with Julia's What's on your workdesk Wednesday again.

Well here is the card, a LOTV image coloured with my Copics then finished with a little chalk ink around the edge while the Nestie was still in place, Stardust Stickles on the snow and Lace Stickles on her fur trims.  I've glazed over the lantern to make it shiny, and as I didn't have the right colour of pearls I've gone over pale pink ones with RV69 - not entirely happy with the result there either!  Any how, I am entering Paperplay's challenge for shiny (sparkly glitter, shiny pearls and lantern), and Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge theme of Carol singing. 

Jason is busy cutting and sticking tiles on the bathroom walls, so once he has a wall finished it will be my turn with the grout .. .. messy fingers for the rest of the week then!

Christmas for the boys

The current challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies is to make a Christmas card for a boy/man.  I saw this stamp and ordered it a few months ago when it first came out, and I even got it trimmed up and stamped out .. .. but then it took a while for me to get around to colouring in.  The current theme was the perfect opportunity and I had fun with the bright colours - I'll probably keep this one to send to one of my grandsons.  The papers are bits from my stash that I'm trying hard to use up as pennies are tight what with having to spend on the build and new furnishings.  I've doodled a stitched edge and matted with my very last piece of bright red cardstock, so that is something I will have to put on the shopping list.

I've coloured my stamped image with Copics, the snowman with BG70 & 72 and a touch of BG90 for the shadow.  The reds are R22, 24, 27 & 29, the greens are G12, 14 & 16, the blues are B93, 95 & 97, the beige tones are E30, 31 & 43, then finally the black/greys are C0, BV20, 23, 25 & 29.  I like those BV shades for colouring 'black'.

Incy Wincy have an anything goes theme this week so I can enter their challenge. 

My Favourite Snowman

He comes out every year, my Serendipity Snowman.  This time he's emerged without any sparkly snow .. .. I had to sit on my hands and firmly put the Stickles back in the box!  I have a couple of customers that like to send cards to members of the Armed Forces and they sometimes have rules about glitter .. .. there mustn't be any. The background is the redone piece I was telling you about yesterday.  In the end I've simply stamped the snowflakes with Brilliance Pearlescent Ice Blue, also  I dragged the edge of my image and the background with the same ink before mounting onto silver card.  It's a simple card, with the image panel 3d mounted for a little added interest - but nothing else! 

I coloured him with my Copics, BG70, 72 & BG90 for the snowman himself, RV63, 66 & 69 for the pink touches, B93, 95 & 97 for the blues, G20, 24, 28 & 29 for the greens, E70, 71, 74 & 77 for the browns, and then shadow with B60.  I had the Less Is More challenge in mind when I started, but I don't think I have enough white space for them - mine got snowflakes stamped all over it!  Instead, I'll enter the Totally Gorgeous anything goes challenge, hopefully they wont mind the lack of sparkle!  And, the Fab 'n' Funky challenge is for no patterned paper this week - so I can enter with them too!

LIM in silver

Today is World Card Making Day - so I managed to grab an hour or two this afternoon to play!  I have made a couple of cards for the Less Is More challenge for a touch of silver - this is the first one, the second I'll schedule for tomorrow so fingers crossed it pops up!

Keeping it simple, I dug out the silver embossing powder and heat gun .. .. although my attempt at creating a snowflake background for the second card with a silver interference powder didn't work as well (dirty Versamark and too hot and sunny in the conservatory so the stamping dried too much before I could get the powder on - but the bits that did work looked good so I might have another go once I've invested in a clean ink pad),  Anyhow, the stamps are all old Elusive Images rubba  from several years back.  I cut out the partridge and fixed him with 3d foam pads so he sits proud.  The text I wanted to bulge a little so I matted it onto silver card then fixed with silver brads.  Silver is so hard to photograph, especially when the sun is shining but I mustn't complain about that!

I'm also going to enter my card in to the ABC Christmas blog challenge for 'T' the twelve days of Christmas - mine is the first day of course!

Frosty Fairy

Today I have another Christmas card to share with you - this time with LOTV Festive Fairy.  I've coloured the stamped image with my Copic pens, but find that those pinky violet shades fade out a lot, so not light fast - at least not in my conservatory.  I did go back and try to darken some areas, and to be honest she looks better in real life.  There's lots of sparkly glitter added to her wings, the snow and around the edge of the scrap of pp I found in my bit box, I think it's a piece of Cuddly Buddly digi from a year or so ago.  My embellishments are created with various Marianne dies and the Nellies Choice punch and emboss poinsettias - I have all 3 sizes and layer them up, then cut up the biggest layer to create the leaves.  A touch of ribbon and bling finishes things off nicely, don't you think?

I can link up to the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge as it's for sparkle and bling, and Flutterby Wednesday also want to see some sparkle on your butterfly or fairy creations.

I'm  not sure when the next project will be ready to share with you - unless you want to see my painted skirting boards.  I've got some gorgeous wallpaper to hang in the bedroom, but I'm a little bit scared of starting it just in case it all goes horribly wrong, I'm telling myself to be brave, take a deep breath and cut the first piece!

CCT ribbon challenge

It's good to be back with the girls on the Cute Card Thursday design team, and this week the challenge is to use lots of ribbon on your creation.  I wrapped my base layer with a length of satin ribbon before mounting my image with 3d foam pads, and used a couple of colours of organza to tie the double bow .. .. not a lot but hopefully enough to inspire you.

The image is LOTV little trumpet angel and she is coloured with Copics along with glitter on her wings and a clear stardust pen for the stars.  Thankfully I managed to colour several Christmas images in odd moments throughout the summer so I have a few in reserve to make up my cards, time is ticking by fast!  I've used a scrap of digi paper for my background mounted onto aqua card, then added the white dots to the edge of the card with a gel pen.  The rest of the white pearls are made with my Wacco pearl maker pen, whilst the embellishments are made from Marianne's mini poinsettia and ivy wreath dies.

Over on the Papertake Weekly challenge blog they are celebrating 5 years of blog challenges!  and with tons of prizes, and an anything goes theme - I'm entering my Christmas card.

WOYWW

 

I've often see the craft desks joining in with Julia and the what's on your workdesk Wednesday, so after sharing my new craft space, here's a zoom in of the cluttered desk.  You see I have a few more coloured LOTV Christmas images waiting to be turned in to something or other, but the main focus is those things on that bit of kraft card .. ..

 

Back in the summer I went to the first UK Stampers Cornwall show in Bodmin and met up with some of my crafty friends from back in Saltash and Plymouth - I do miss our Monday afternoon get-to-gethers.  Anyhow, on one of the stands (sorry I can't remember whose) we did a make and take using the new lightweight Eco stampboard and I split a pack with my friend Wynneth.  When I was getting around to putting my stash away in the craft area, I got sidetracked into having a play.  The board takes ink extremely well - first a stamped swirl background then a selection of different colours of Brilliance pearlescent ink sponged over.  To pick out the dots on the background stamp I went over with a metallic pen, punched a hole with my crop-a-dile then decided to see if my old embossing powders would still be viable.  I like the verdigris finish around the edge of the green version, but the pearl red powder on the red version has over melted the edge a little too much in places.  But hey, they still worked!  to decorate I added the roses and little charms then got to fiddling with bits of wire, beads and flower soft - now what to do with them?  I found a gold ring in a bit box to fit the green version, but will need to get silver for the red to tie in the silver charm - then maybe a few more rings to make them into handbag charms perhaps .. ..maybe tie a little ribbon around the first ring .. .. I'll have to see, until then they will be sat on the desk .. .. waiting inspiration!

And now I'm back!

with a new craft area at one end of the conservatory.  I've made use of the old pine bedroom furniture and although I've still got stuff in boxes, I'm able to start making cards again!  You can see that the garden is very narrow and the lawn a bit of a mess, but gradually it will get straight and tidy, and I will keep nibbling away at the grass and adding more plants to hide the wall.  I would have liked a bigger garden, but as it's only me to look after it all, probably just as well it's just a narrow lawn surrounding the bungallow.

Now I'm off to do a bit of blog hopping and catch up - I'll be back tomorrow with a card to share, untill then, happy craft day!

Still here!

I didn't realise that it's been over a month since I last blogged .. .. so much has happened and yet at times it seamed that nothing was happening at all!  The weather has been so wet and windy it's a miracle that my little wild flower patch has bloomed at all, however, finally there are flowers but I've had to put in a few canes to keep them upright.  My friend Jacqueline gave me some seeds from her poppies and they have flowered too - much to the delight of the local bumblebees.

They are a beautiful pale plum colour and look stunning coming up amongst the painted sage from seed collected from the plants in my old garden before I moved.  Strange that most of them have come up purple, with a few pink and the odd white one - the parents were more evenly mixed.

I have been very busy painting - remember the shed from a few months back, the wood was a poopy brown colour!  After 4 coats of paint it is now a nice neutral stone shade and I have started to plant up a border around the sides.  First in along with the buckets of well rotted from a kind neighbour who keeps chickens and horses, was the geranium Johnson's Blue and a climbing rose called Penny Lane.  I will have to get some rose wires fixed to the sides of the shed, especially as my DH has just given me another rose to climb the other side of the window, but I'm waiting for the builders to finish before risking it going in - I should hate for them to accidentally trample it or drop something heavy as they come around to the new extension. 

Talking of builders, after several delays we finally have things moving again and the end is in sight .. .. my new laundry room is functional although still needs the sink plumbing in and the electrics to be connected.  I spent a whole week painting the walls and ceiling several times and grouting the floor tiles that Jason laid for me, now it looks lovely and bright and clean even though the only natural light is from the half glazed doors leading in and out.  A piece of worktop left over from the kitchen fits perfectly and I rescued one of the old kitchen wall cupboards to put on the wall - and another slow process of 4 coats of paint to cover the orangey doors and turn them white!  Today the door into the garage has been blocked up so my craft area is almost ready to be occupied - more painting first though!  The two new bedroms have been plastered out and will also soon be ready for paint, and the new bathroom is coming along nicely .. .. with the new toilet sitting in the middle of the lounge since it was delivered this afternoon!  I have given up dusting unless absolutely necessary for health or sanity, and with a hole to be cut through into the lounge so we can get to the new bedrooms and bathroom - it can only get worse before it gets better.  I hope that by the end of the summer I shall be settled, come August BH weekend it will be a year since I arrived here and although there will still be a lot of alteration work needed in the old part of the bungalow, having a nice new bedroom, a bath to relax in, and a craft area to escape to will, I am sure, make a huge difference.

Whatever you are doing this summer, I hope you have a lovely time and the sun shines for you.

Anything Goes for LLF

It's an anything goes week on Lili's Little Fairies with a prize of $10 to spend at Nitwits!  I've coloured up another Christmas image with my Copics, this little lass is about to fix the star to the top of the tree - and I've actually added Glossy Accents to both the star and the little bauble but it doesn't show up.  The reds are the R35, 37 & 39 that I've been using a lot recently, the beige/brown tones are the E40 - E47 range,the greens are G20, 21 & 24 but I'm sorry I can't remember what colours I used for the golden shades - probably YR30, 31 and possibly YR21 & 24.

And here's the card - it's a square but on my screen looks more rectangular .. .. oh to get my old software back! The papers are scraps of digi designs I printed off a while back, from Designer Digitals I'm guessing. I've stickled the edges with Glitz for super sparkle and matted with a gorgeous red card from Stampin' Up! but I didn't have enough left to cut a mat for my circular image so had to use a neutral shade and make a base card in the same card to tie it together.  I used the dark Copic red to edge the image and the text but resisted the urge to add more sparkle!  The embellishment is created from various Marianne dies, the mini poinsettia set LRO142 and the sprays from flower sets LRO106 & LRO107.

I can enter Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge for festive foliage, the Christmas Card challenge for bling and Charisma Cardz for sparkle.

It's an extra long weekend for us here in the UK as we celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - I'm not sure what we will be doing just yet - rain in the forecast but hopefully Cornwall will have it overnight and my water butt is empty again!  I have been out and got a large pot of Shades paint to brighten up the garden shed - I chose Natural Stone as I wasn't sure what colour the house walls and base of the shed will be, however, I'm painting over a horrid poopie brown so it might take a few coats! Whatever you are doing this weekend, I hope you have fun and the sun shines for you!  See you next week .. ..

Planes, trains and automobiles

The theme this week on Cute Card Thursday is planes, trains and automobiles - well one of those any way.  Our challenge is sponsored by Heidi from Simon Says Stamps.

For my DT card I've inked up the cute Lili of the Valley little lad with his aeroplanes, very apt for my grandsons just at the moment too as grandad has been making them elastic band aeroplanes to fly from the sand dunes at the beach.  I've coloured with Copics, using E50 & 51 for skin tones with a touch of E02 for blush; hair with E53 & 55; the blues are B93, 95 & 97; the reds R35, 37 & 39; and the beige tones are E40, 41, 42, 43 & 44.  Shadow is C1 and the grass a mix of W2 and YG93.

And here's the card.  It's a C6 but looks square on my screen (still haven't got the editing software sorted) and I've used more of the freebie magazine papers called Portobello Road, diecut the buttons and stamped the text from the freebie set that came with the magazine.  I added the mini red pom-poms along the paper join, but left it at that as boys don't really do frills!

The theme at Moving Along With The Times is 'Cool Brittania' so use red, white and blue; and the Fairy Tale challenge blog want to see cards for boys/men - perfect!