Bright bright bright!

I'm sure by now you have realised that I prefer muted earthy colour, but today I have gone bright and cheerful, and I must admit that when I make a bright card I really do enjoy working with those colours. I'll have to do more.

I am doing this both for the Charmed Delectable blog, to showcase our Charmed Delectable Irresistible Annie stamp, and also for the Copic Colour Challenge. The colours they want you to use this week are these:

...and I used them to colour my little Annie in with:



Products used for this card:
Stamp: Charmed Delectable Irresistible Annie
Papers: Basic Grey Lime Rickey; plain textured cardstock
Embellishments: Basic Grey Lime Rickey Element stickers; K&Co Wild Raspberry Floral Accents; sentiment is a Rub-on.
Tools: Martha Stewart Edge Punch; Nestabilities
Misc: Distress Inks, Copic Markers
Everything except the Copics is available in the Charmed shop.

I have stepped down from the Copic Challenge Blog Design Team so this will be my last for them.
TFL ♥

Copic Colour Challenge

Tis Wednesday and time for another Copic Colour Challenge. I almost didn't make it as the realisation that it was due today didn't hit me until about 11pm last night; when I was thinking about going to bed! That's the Bank Holiday for you, puts everything one day in front, and as you get older that easily confuses. If you look closely you may spot evidence of my late effort, so try not to look too closely please LOL

The colours this week are very Victorian; they are perhaps a little austere, but I love them together:

I thought them perfect for Annie sitting oh so pretty on her stool.

I decided to make this card for a dear friend who lost her husband this week two years ago. It is perfect as a remembrance card I think.

Here is my little card recipe:

• Stamps: Delectable Annie Sitting Pretty and Stool, coloured in with Copics.
• Papers: K&Co Que Sera Sera. I coloured in the bottom strip with Cardinal red Copics.
• Embellishments: K&Co various: "Thinking of you" is Que Sera Sera. Flowers, Chipboard and Pearls are Ancestry. Butterfly Rub-on is AB Lotus.
• Tools: Nestabilities and Martha Stewart Edge Punch

Update 29 May: Just added the stitching I didn't have time for. I didn't have an appropriate colour thread so used a yellow one and coloured it with a Copic marker. Result is colours exactly to match the background.

I hope you will join us in the challenge this week on the Copic blog. Pop over and see what lovely projects the design team members have created to inspire you.

TFL ♥

Copic Colour Challenge

Time for another challenge on the Copic Challenge Blog. I chose the colours this time, nice bright and summery to go with the fine weather we are having at the moment:

The red and yellow together creates perfect apples, don't you think?

I used two of the new stamps from the WOJ summer collection. I stamped the boy then realised he was a seated figure (doh!!), I therefore just drew a little wooden one-seater bench behind him.


Didn't have the light when I took these pictures and as I made it for someone I didn't have it in my possession for long. Here are the products I used:
Stamps: Whiff of Joy
Papers: K&Co and Basic Grey
Various Rub-ons for edges and sentiment
Flowers are K&Co Wild Raspberry, Sun is K&CO Sea Glass chipboard.
Shapes cut with Nestabilities dies
"With Love" and wooden bench done by hand

Pop over to the Copic challenge blog and see what the talented ladies on the team have come up with.

Don't forget the celebrations on Dottie's World. Today it's a treasure hunt!! Lots and lots of gorgeous stash to be won so don't miss out!

TFL ♥

Copic Colour Challenge

It's Wednesday and that means Copic Colour Challenge. I had to use one of the new Charmed Delectable stamps, in fact two of the stamps: Annie sitting Pretty and the Accessory stamp Tree Stump with Bluebells.


Here are the Copic colours we had to use this week:

I layered K&Co papers and edged with a K&Co border (Cut 'n Paste). Pearls were coloured with a green marker pen. Branches are cut with two McGill punches.




Pop over to the Copic Challenge blog and see what amazing creations the other DT members have come up with.

TFL ♥

Copic Colour Challenge

Time for another Copic Colour Challenge. This was a really tight squeeze for me butI managed to do this card in under an hour. Believe me when I say that is quick for me, I'm not a quick crafter! I'm really really happy with it though.

Juliet chose the colours for the challenge this week, and these were it:

I coloured the main image, a Sugar Nellie stamp, with these and coordinating colours. The flowers are white sheer Maya Road flowers, which I coloured with RV34 and then doodled a little on with a white pen. Spellbinders Nestabilities and Borderbilities dies used here, papers are K&Co Cut 'n Paste, Basic Grey Lilykate (Celery) and ATC plain cardstock.

I used a little gold charm to hang from the brad in the centre of the flower.

... and these were my colours used:

Looks a lot but then I used the three yellow/orange pens just for the little chick! LOL

Pop over to the Copic Colour Challenge blog and check out the amazing work from the other DT members.

TFL ♥♥

Copic Colour Challenge

I love the colours on the Copic Challenge blog today, wonderful warm and rich, reminiscent of Victorian lace and cobbled streets.

The image I chose was perfect for the colours I think:

Everything has been coloured using the three colours. I used two large scalloped rectangle Nestabilities and coloured the larger one in the YR07 with R59 dots. All the Prima flowers and the Borderbilities border have been coloured with the three colours - even the brads! The ribbon is K&Co Life's Journey and I am offering a pack within the Candy bundle on our sister blog "Charmed Delectable Stamps " (along with loads more of course).

These were all the colours used on my card.

Pop over to the Copic Challenge blog and check out the other cards from the design team members and then join in challenge :-)

Thanks for looking and have a lovely day xx

Copic Challenge

Time for another challenge on the Copics Challenge Blog. The design team were each sent a stamp from this weeks sponsors, Toodle and Binks to use on our projects. Here is my finished card using that stamp:

The required colours today are:

I didn't have two of those colours so picked appropriate shades closest to them.
These were all my colours used for colouring the main image:


Thanks for looking xxx

Copic Challenge

I do really like the colour challenges on the Copics Challenge blog, they make you use combinations that perhaps you wouldn't normally try. This is the combination today:

I didn't have R22 but used a colour as close as possible:

As I used Willow with Cookies (Whiff of Joy stamp) I went with a cookie theme; the background is Karen Foster Cookie paper so it's cookies all round - yum yum ☺☺☺. I created the sentiment myself.

These were all the colours used:

Pop over to the Copic Challenge blog and check out the utterly gorgeous creations of my fellow DT members.

Thanks for looking xxx

Copic Colour Challenge

It's Wednesday and therefore time for another challenge on the Copic Challenge blog. It's a colour challenge this time and these are the required colours.

That RV04 really is a shocking pink, if you don't want to use it too much then a little bow or whatever coloured in the shade would suffice. The frame (cut on my Silhouette) has been edged with R20 as well as being used on the main image. I did make this last minute in the middle of the night so please excuse any stray "brush strokes".


Papers are K&Co, flowers Prima, brad and rub-ons are Basic Grey. The little charm is a Marion and Me Charm. All available at Charmed Cards & Crafts.



These were all colours I used:



Pop over the Copic Challenge Blog and see what the other DT members came up with.

TFL and have a lovely day.
xx