Glittery Flowers for a Birthday Girl

There was a freebie image of the fairy to help along the October Lily-Boo Too challenge! For their second month it is a sketch challenge:


And I made this Birthday card using papers from Funky Seasons - Cold Snap collection. I've lightly inked the edges in blue and doodled a line around the inner layer and also the triangle shape under the image.

The fabric flowers are from my stash - the hard glittery ones came from a mug swop I took part in - my sender was Sarah (hello!) and they fitted in with the colour scheme perfectly! And I wrote the name in my very own posh handwriting!


The image was coloured with watercolour pencils and the obligatory glitter glue on the wings. The image is quite apt really, as Emily does look a bit like her. Just without the wings. Although, probably as a 4 year old, she will have a set somewhere.

• Backing papers: Cold Snap collection on Funky Seasons by Funky Hand
• Image: Lily Boo Too freebie, coloured with watercolour pencils and glitter glue
• Glittery flowers: From Sarah in a swop
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

Sparkly Thread!

I do like a sketch, and this weeks Pink Elephant challenge was a nice and simple sketch! I just can't fathom messy ones with too much going on!


I've used papers and image from my new Patti Picklicious cd - I've coloured the image with watercolour pencils, inked the edges and also the sentiment (from the cd too). It actually looks more zingy in real life - I took the photo early evening and I don't think it was the best light!

The sparkly thread was from a nice package of stash sent to me by Sarah as part of a swop a while ago - I knew I'd use it some day!

This is actually an A6 sized card which I don't use particularly often unless I print the backing paper off at the wrong size and can't be bothered to print any more....

• Backing paper, image and sentiment: Patti Picklicious cd
• Sparkly thread: From Sarah
  
  

Cupcake Alert!

The Cute Card Thursday challenge this week is:

"FOOD & DRINK"

Create a card with an item of food or drink on it somewhere - as simple as that!

I'd bought a few chipboard templates a while ago but not got round to using them (unless you count taking them out of the pack a few times and looking at them!) One of the templates was a cupcake which I thought would be perfect for this challenge. Plus I really should make more shaped cards as I really enjoy it!

The cupcake wrapper (is that the correct terminology?!) has been cut from pink corrugated card and the fondant iced top is from Funky Daze (Fun Daze collection). As I liked the dot pattern, I decided to layer it a little and randomly so it looks like the icing is slithering down the bun. Yum!


All edges have been inked in pink and I've added some tiny beads for sprinkles - I think they were a freebie from yonks ago and I'd just not used them before. I've used two ribbons around the middle of the cake (the organza was donated by Enfys - the spotty one I bought from Hobbycraft) and the daisy brad was from a lovely lot of stash as part of my camper van swop with Alex last summer.

Inspiration for the colours has been drawn from Molly and Izzie - but be warned - don't visit if you are hungry!

I think I could be making more of these as they look so good! And they passed the 'what is it test' - asked the boys what they thought it was. Slight pause before they both said CAKE!! Just need to watch Jacob as he will probably try and scoff it!

• Backing papers: Funky Daze
• Template: From Craftwork Cards
• Ribbon: From Hobbycraft and Enfys
• Brad: From Alex
• Gem sprinkles: From my stash
  
  

Mug Swop - Look What I Got!

This taped shoe box arrived last Wednesday. Yeah - its my mug swop stuff!


All this was inside the box and came from Molly and Izzie (otherwise known as Sarah!)

Lots of lovely ribbon, flower embellishments and some tea bags, a mug (well, it was a mug swop!) some lovely backing papers, brads, buttons.....

Some glittery thread and a very glittery and fab butterfly and a butterfly ring (you can just see it in the background)

And a lovely felt flower which I've not decided where to hang it yet so its still living in the shoe box!

And this is the mug! Shown from both sides for the pattern. The mug and tea will eventually end up at my other desk in Manchester, so at least when I'm there I can have a cup of tea!

And I do like my cups of tea!

Thanks to Sarah for the stash and also to Jenny for the organisation of it all! And if my mug swop partner is reading this - yours is on its way!!!