Super Mum!

Time for a Doodle Dragon Studio challenge! I'm not sure if I really thought my card through properly for the challenge which is the sketch below:

As I've made a Super Mum dragon......!! Someone will see the funny side won't they?!! Anyway, image is by Dustin Pike and I've coloured her with felt tips and a bit of white gel pen for highlights. And yes, I forgot to colour the clouds.....!

The papers are from Tinker and Co and are freebie downloads (the kits are really good!) and I've sort of used my Nesties die for the image shape - I drew round it as a template as I'd not left enough card around the image.....

This card is becoming a bit of a disaster! The sentiment is a Studio G mini wooden alphabet set and I've doodled around the edges of the card. Flowers are from The Craft Garden and the gems are from my stash.

• Backing papers: Tinker and Co freebies
• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with felt tips and white gel pen
• Flowers: The Craft Garden
• Sentiment: Studio G wooden mini alphabet
• Gems: My stash
  
  

New Home!

The challenge for January for The Craft Garden is

New

So, using the brand new cd from Funky Hand - did you see it's launch earlier today on Create and Craft? If you didn't you missed a great show from Anice and you will have seen this new shoe / new home creation of mine! Don't worry if you missed the show - she is on again next week with details in my sidebar!

I've used the brand new Funky Hand cd Dreams Come True. All the paperbased elements are from the cd including this funky boot which is a digi stamp that can be resized as big as A4 with no image quality loss!
I've used various papers from one of the collections (there are 12 colour collections) and paper pieced the front image along with some chalking to give it definition.

I've used photos of Funky Hand's new offices before they moved into it in early January as it was an old mill before.

Each page swivels out so you can view the front and back and I've used two buttons and some thin brown organza ribbon to hold it all together.

The colour collections, as you would expect are fantastic and along with the word books - you can actually select which letter and colour you want on the paper rather than being stuck with just the one option, plus all the alphabet, numbers and other characters and over 30 digi images that you can resize, overlap and move around the page before printing!

So I recommend you popping over to Funky Hand to buy it before all the stock is gone!

I thought this boot would fit the Craft Garden challenge perfectly, because it is not just a new cd, but it is for a new office!

• All digital papers and letters: Dreams Come True from Funky Hand
• Images: Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

Making a Start ....

.... on Valentine's Day cards! I am trying to be organised and now with Christmas out of the way (for a while until I start chipping away at those cards!) I thought I'd make a start on Valentine's cards, so be prepared to see quite a few in the coming weeks!

I have a little basket of them placed outside the Managers office at nursery and I sell quite well - last year I only had a few left!

The current Crafty Garden challenge is this sketch which was originally for a layout, but can be adapted for a card.I've used papers from Patti Picklicious cd by Kirsty Wiseman which have been printed onto wonderful 300gsm ivory linen effect card. I've dotted tiny black dots around the edge of the main panel for a little definition.

The heart stamp was a freebie on a magazine last year which I found in my stash. The two flowers have been layered and are from The Craft Garden - there is a matching tiny red button in the centre but you can't see it too well.

I really do like these papers especially the red so be expecting more of these!!

• Backing papers: Patti Picklicious by Kirsty Wiseman
• Flowers: From The Craft Garden
• Stamp: From my stash
  
  

Fairy Sparkle

The Craft Garden has a monthly challenge, which, in theory is a good idea as it gives me all month to think of something and then make it. But I still leave it to almost the last minute!

This months challenge is:

Sparkle

I'd already coloured with watercolour pencils the Dustin Pike fairy (and sparkly wings) so decided to use her and try and find papers to go with it.

I found the 6 x 6 DCWV The Christmas multi stack last time I was in The Range so one of the papers has been used here. It is layered onto a sheet of almost mirri board card and the fairy has been layered onto a smaller piece. The ribbon is from my stash (I've had it ages so can't remember where it was from originally) and the very very glittery (my face is testament it's glitteriness!) snowflake is from Asda (15p tree decoration).

And I now realise that the fairy has been stuck on the card a little wonky. Ah well, too late now!

• Backing papers: DCWV Christmas 6 x 6 multi stack
• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with watercolour pencils and a little glitter glue
• Snowflake: Asda
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

Get Funky! Challenge 4 - Autumn Woodland

It's the start of a new month which means a brand new Get Funky Challenge! For November, it is the turn of the very talented Enfys to set the challenge and she choose:

Autumn Woodland

This can be interpreted however you like but as long as you use at least one item from Funky Hand (and there are a lot to choose from!) you will be in with a chance to win a £20 voucher to spend on Funky Hand products and you have until 30 November to enter. You will also be treated to a sneak peak of the brand new cd that Anice is busy working on - the colours are fantastic and it will be something very different to the previous Funky Hand products!

The Design Team have been very busy with this challenge and there are some wonderful examples - so pop on over to Get Funky to see them and also to find out who won Allison's October Halloween challenge!

I attended 3 Weddings over the summer - in fact it was 3 Weddings in 6 weeks so I now am in the middle of making 3 acrylic Wedding albums for the happy couples! Hayley and Stephen is now complete and now David and Janis' is also finished!

David is one of my cousins and now lives in Edinburgh with his lovely wife Janis and here is my interpretation of the November challenge:

I've used papers from Now That's Funky - the Sweetie Pie collection as they fitted in well with the colour scheme from the Wedding.

They had a piper playing in full Scottish dress as Janis walked down the aisle and also as they walked out of the room as husband and wife.

The bridesmaids wore a wonderful shade of orange - quite unusual but very striking, so the album colour theme revolves around orange, off white and brown.

I've used a number of past sketches from Carol's Sketch Fun Challenge blog to help me with the page layouts and each page is mirrored on the reverse (mostly!) Carol has stepped down from all her Design Team commitments due to the success of her status as an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator. She is greatly missed by the Funky Hand Design Team and I will sorely miss her but will still 'see' her on her challenge blog and SU blog. So I thought it apt that I use Carol's talent for sketches in this challenge. Thank you Carol for the inspiration!

All the Wedding photos were either taken by me or my Dad.

The butterflies on the last two pages were on the glasses on each table when we had our meal so a few of them came home with me! The one above is two layered up to show off the wings.

So there you go! Quite a mammoth post but I really did need to show the whole album! I hope you can join in with this challenge over on Get Funky - good luck and you have until 30 November to enter!

• All papers: Now That's Funky - Sweetie Pie collection
• Ribbon: From my stash
• Gems: Hearts - Club Green, Round - Pound Shop
• Flowers: Orange - Prima Daisy Doodles, White and tiny brown Prima's - The Craft Garden
• Brads: Papermania
• Pins: Made by me
• Butterflies: Taken from the tables at the Wedding!
  
  

Lots of Blooms!

I really must stop blog hopping. It is very bad for my time! I've found another challenge blog! Actually, I tell a lie, I found it whilst searching for white Prima flowers on ebay. I'm in the process of making three Wedding acrylic / acetate albums (I've only shown two of them to you as the third will be revealed as part of the Get Funky November challenge!) and I've run short of white Prima flowers.

So I ventured onto ebay. Found a seller with lovely blooms and a direct website link. So I click and I then buy!! A nice mixture of different sized and coloured Prima blooms and I must say, very quick shipping! Ordered on Monday afternoon and arrived on Wednesday and cheap postage and packing rates too!

Anyway, whilst on the lovely flower website (The Craft Garden) I notice that they have a blog and also a challenge running! It is a monthly challenge and this is their first one, which is:

To Use Flowers

Yeah! So I have - two more sides of Donna and Danny's acrylic Wedding album are completed.

In case you were wondering, the strange reflection on the acrylic is the French door handle as I take my photos in front of the huge windows.

I bought a lovely selection of blooms and the white Prima flowers will be on the third Wedding album!

• Backing papers: My Minds Eye 'Bella, Bella' 12 x 12 double sided papers and Rayher brown 12 x 12 paper
• Everything else: My stash