Frame it!

It's my turn to set the challenge on Dottie's World this week and I chose "Frame it" plus a few dots. I framed my card inside and out with hydrangea petals, plus I created a frame made from gold liquid beadz.

I cut a frame out of cardboard and adhered the liquid beadz to it. Once it had dried I stuck it onto my card and added another frame with the petals. This is quite a large card, measuring 18cm x 18cm from petal to petal.

The sentiment is from our new Once Upon a Time collection. I printed it out, cut it with Nestabilities and stuck it onto a larger scalloped circle cut from Tim Holtz Shabby Vintage paper. I then enamelled this centrepiece with clear enamel.

You can see the enamel better in this picture. The girl is from our Holly & Madison collection. I wanted her to hide surprise flowers so drew a bouquet behind her after printing her out. I then coloured the image with Copic markers.
The Blue Prima Mini Roses are mounted onto wooden buttons. Lace is Prima and the pearls and crystals are K&Co Sweet Talk.

I decorated the inside too. I used Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby papers - Prima Fairytale roses (Pink) and a Blue Prima Mini Rose, plus three blue Prima pearls. The edges were inked with brown distress ink and a dotted border drawn with a Copic marker.


Please pop over and join the challenge - we are giving away a voucher to one lucky participant this week :-)

Sketch it!

Another glorious Sunday (I hope so anyway, as I'm writing this Saturday evening I have no idea what the weather will be like tomorrow - one can always dream!). I am planning to get plants for the garden this weekend, surely there is no chance of frost now? It's almost June for goodness sake!

It's the Sunday challenge at Dottie's World and I set the challenge this week. I used a sketch that I created for our forum members a while ago. So the challenge is to use the sketch and one of our downloads. You can see the sketch HERE.

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:
Basic Grey Challenges: Punch it
Sukkersött: 3D Effect

Dare you to digi stamp challenge: Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday: Someone Special

Please excuse the copious amount of pictures.

I decorated the inside too, I really like doing that these days, seems bare without it now! I used a K&Co Wild Saffron Rub-on there and decorated with pearls and dotted coloured spots with my markers.

Other products used:
Image from the Holly & Madison bundle coloured with Copic markers.
Papers: Basic Grey Scarlets Letter and plain cardstock. The cream cardstock is pearlised.
Embellies are Pearls (I coloured the red ones with my markers) and Prima roses
Tools: Nestabilities for the circles
The sentiment is Fancy Pants die-cuts

If you have purchased any of the Charmed Downloads then please pop over and join the challenge.

Have a great Sunday and thanks for stopping by ♥

Buttons!

I hope you are all enjoying your Bank Holiday weekend. Weathermen in their infinite wisdom promised blazing hot sunshine today here in London, but it is a rather grey and murky day. Not that I am complaining, can't say I enjoy the heat all that much; and if it's a hot summer you will no doubt hear me complain quite a lot about that!! Clearly we all feel the heat differently, what one enjoys and can't get enough of, another (me) finds stifling and oppressive.

Anyway, enough weather talk. Let me move onto the Dottie's World challenge. This week the lovely Adele set the challenge and she wanted to see some buttons or beads. I used "Holly in the Garden" from the original Holly & Madison digi-stamp bundle, it's my favourite image from that bundle.



The papers, borders, "Love" and bee are from Basic Grey's Wisteria range.
"A weed...." is K&Co Cut & Paste.
Leafy branches with gems are K&Co AB Lotus.
Buttons are Basic Grey and the purple metallic brads are Dovecraft
I drew some extra flowers on the card, including a little bunch in Holly's hand.

The image was fairly loosely cut around and I coloured in the background with a colour as closely resembling the background as possible.


Pop over to Dottie's World and see what marvelous creations the other DT members have come up with.

TFL and enjoy your day ♥

Sunday Challenge - Charms

Juliet set the challenge today on Dottie's World and she wanted to see something dangly on the cards (snigger), such as a charm, as well as a Charmed download.

I used Madison on the Beach, from Holly & Madison's World Tour, as well as Mikey from the new collection (download button in side bar).

My dangly charm is a Marion & Me "Beach Babe" charm, which I hung from a Tim Holtz Swivel Clasp.


The sentiment is a mixture of stickers and rub-ons:

Some of the other products used:
Basic Grey Porcelain Paper
K&Co Que Sera Sera Note card
Nestabilities die
Martha Stewart Zig Zag punch
Prima flower dotted to make it look like drops of water
Marion & Me Metal heart corner
Tim Holtz ink
Various pearls, crystals and brads
The images were coloured in with Copic markers

Pop over to Dottie's World and join the challenge :-)

TFL and have a great Sunday ♥

Inspiration Challenge....

Sunday can mean only one thing: time for another challenge on Dottie's World. This time the lovely Louise set the challenge and she chose for us to gain inspiration from a dreamy picture.

I loved this picture so much that I decided to use it in full on my card. It's a very simple card using just the picture, a few swirls, Madison in Venice (from the Holly & Madison's World Tour collection), a bit of multi-coloured ribbon and some pearls and rhinestones, with a doodled border.

I used Copics to colour in Madison. Picking a colour from the dreamy inspiration picture I coloured in the edge of my card and drew shadows around the swirls. The lettering on the inspiration photo was added on the computer.

Pop over the Dottie's World and see the wonderful ways the DT used the inspiration, it's amazing how we all differ.

Thanks for looking. Have a lovely Sunday ♥

Mikey and Madison

These images do go so well together. This is my Monday Mojo card created for Dottie's World. I used two Charmed digi-stamps on my card: Mikey and Madison (from the World Tour bundle). Certain elements from the Madison image were erased to fit in with what I wanted to do here.

Products used:
Mikey and Madions digi stamps
K&Co Que Sera Sera papers and rose
K&Co "Celebrate" Chipboard (all occasions adhesive chipboard)
Cream Lace
Frame is cut with a Spellbinders Borderbilities die
Edges are cut with a Martha Stewart Edge punch
Flowers cut from the brown paper with a daisy punch
Pearls are K&Co Margo
Dovecraft metal flower brad
Edges were inked with Tim Holtz Distress ink.
Doodling done by hand
"A beautiful couple" I did on the computer
All available from Charmed Cards & Crafts. Image was coloured in with Copic markers.


TFL ♥

Easter Card - The Chocolate Egg House!

Wouldn't you like to live in a house like this? Or at least go visit and swipe an egg or two!! This is a big card, standing at 25cm tall, made for my Monday Mojo spot on Dottie's World. The house, base of roof, door and garden path was made from American Traditional plain cardstock (available at Charmed Cards & Crafts).

The roof was covered in eggs cut on my Silhouette and painted with Copic markers. A strip of Felt Fusion Easter Eggs sits at the bottom of the roof.

I used two of the Charmed Cards & Crafts digi Stamps, namely Easter Holly 3-in-1 from the Holly and Madison bundle, and Henry Hare from the Animal Magic bundle. The grass, chicks and vine was cut on my Silhouette in white cardstock and coloured in with copics, as was the two main images. A Karen Foster rub-on was used for the sentiment.

Holly was attached to the card using foam pads to slightly elevate her.


Thanks for looking. Have a lovely day xxx

Twice, or even THRICE as nice!

The lovely Adele set the challenge on Dotties World today and she wanted to see two or more of the Charmed downloads.

I used three of our "digi stamps":

• Room with a View (Front) from the Back to Front bundle
• Holly in the Garden from the Holly & Madison bundle
• Scruff from the Animal Magic bundle

My mojo was sadly lacking and I spent ages either thinking about what to do or faffing about doing it!! Pop over to Dottie's World and see what the other DT members came up with.

TFL and have a lovely Sunday xxx

Oriental ....

I haven't posted the card I made for my Monday Mojo spot on Dottie's World, here it is:

...and an alternative version cutting around the parasol:

The Holly & Madison bundles are so versatile. The original is perhaps more generic but don't let that put you off the second bundle. I think the card(s) above could be used for anything, whether Mother's Day, Birthday, Friend, or "just because"; so just because it features an oriental image that doesn't mean it's going to be difficult to use. The K&Co Mira products would look fabulous with this image too; here I am using mainly DCWV Far East products.

Please join in the challenge on Dotti's World, last day tomorrow! It's a fun sketch challenge PLUS you could win a prize just by entering :-)

TFL
Karen xxx

Copic Challenge - Pictorial Inspiration

Interesting challenge over on the Copic Challenge blog today. This challenge is based on this picture

I used the picture to its full potential, exploring colours and shapes equally. The horizontal lines are represented by both the flowers and scalloped chippie shape. The vertical panels are obvious and all the colours were plucked from the painting.

Everything has been coloured with Copics, from the images through to the background papers, the Chippie shape and even the flowers. I used an image from our latest Holly & Madison's World Tour download bundle.

The meaning behind the three pictures? Well I wanted to focus on a strong colour from the painting for each one. It is intended to be the same girl on holiday (see how she gets browner in each picture?), so same bag, hat and shoes but a girl can't wear the same bikini every day!

It's quite a plain and simple card but it shows the Copics well I think.

These are the colours used:

Please join in the challenge, we are sponsoring it so you can get your hands on a free download bundle of your choice ☺As usual the other DT members have created some stunning work.

TFL x

New Download Collection!

The Holly and Madison collection has expanded! The girls have gone on a world tour and had some fun :-) This great collection is now available ONLY at Charmed Cards & Crafts. Here is a card made with one of the fabulous images, one of my favourites in fact: Madison on safari; this is my Monday Mojo card on Dottie's World today.

The frame and palm trees were cut on my silhouette. Ribbon is Basic Grey Urban Couture, everything else K&Co.

The image, frame and palm trees were coloured in with copic markers, I also used Distress inks on the blue and the earth. These were (some of) the Copic colours used:

Plus loads more pinks and blues I forgot to add, oops. The blues used were: B00, B01

Why not pop over and get this great collection? You know you want to ;-) Here it is

TFL xx

Sunday Challenge - Fabric

Good morning everyone! Well not good morning as it's 20:20 on a Saturday evening as I write this, I always schedule the Dottie's World's Sunday challenge DT post so that I don't sit there bleary eyes and write on a Sunday morn. So for all intents and purposes GOOD MORNING!!! Hope you slept well, I sure did!! LOL

On to the challenge! This week the lovely Nicola set the challenge; Nicola simply wanted to see some sort of fabric on our projects, it could be anything, even a bit of ribbon. I used some gorgeous totally lush fabric brads from the K&Co Ancestry collection for my compulsory element and some Prima lace ribbon for good measure.

Now this image is from the new collection "Holly & Madison around the World" which is COMING SOON! It features Holly in England but is not yet available. Just thought I'd tease you a little ;-) Holly's adorable sidekick here is Scruff from the Animal collection. Actually, come back tomorrow and I'll tease you a little more with my Monday Mojo card and yet another new image.

The patterned paper is K&Co Lotus Tea Rose and I cut out three of the flowers from the paper for the top.

The plain paper is Basic Grey

Fabric Brads are K&Co Ancestry

Lace Ribbon is Prima

Everything I used is of course available in my shop: Charmed Cards & Crafts.

The images are coloured in with Copics, and these are the colours I used:

Why not pop over to Dottie's World's and join the challenge? The DT will all pop over and check out your blog :-)

Thanks for coming to visit xx

Copic Challenge #2

I have been looking forward to this second challenge from the Copic Challenge Blog and actually managed to do it on the first day!

The challenge was to use the following colours:

• B02 - Robin's Egg Blue
  
• R05 - Salmon Red
  
• YG23 - New Leaf
  

I only had B02, the other two I had to improvise and get as close as I could, which was R08 and YG13



These were the markers I used for the image:

I used the wonderful Madison in the Garden image from the Holly & Madison bundle. Cosmo Cricket background paper; green bazzill embossed with a Cuttlebug folder; Prima flowers, Hot Off The Press brads; Basic Grey Urban Prairie Flower, bee and borders.

Thanks for popping by, I appreciate your visit xx

Colour Combo - Blue & Brown

The challenge this week on the Basic Grey Challenge blog is "Colour Combo". I can't recall ever using just blues and browns so decided to have a go with that combination. I did enjoy this and really like the outcome. I can't quite get the colour right on the picture but it is browns and blues.

Another image from the Holly & Madison bundle, coloured in with Copics. Basic Grey Periphery papers. HOTP small blue brads, Large Prima brad for the flower and Prima lace ribbon. Bazzill Flowers. Maya Road Rub-Ons. Pine branches cut with my McGill punch.

Copics used for my image are: E00, E21, R32, E04, E35, E37, B14, RV06, E02, E04, E15, N1, C2, C3, B32, B34, B45, N3

Thank you for visiting. Have a wonderful Sunday xxx

Blast from the Past

The challenge on Dottie's World is "A Blast from the Past" whereby you take an old card and "update it" on a new card. The exact specs were: "I want you to dust off one of your old cards and make a new one following the exact same layout but use different papers and a different image." I found this quite hard as I didn't particularly like my earlier work, but a challenge is a challenge so here we go.

This is the new card

which is a based on this old Christmas card.

The gorgeous Madison Cowgirl image can be yours just by entering the challenge, so what are you waiting for? :-

Copics used for my Cowgirl image is: B21, B23, B24, R20, E00, E02, E33, E43, E51, E38, E37, YO2, YO6, Y15, Y17, G12, G14, G16. The pop-up flowers and frames were cut on my Silhouette. Basic grey Mellow papers, various Basic Grey buttons.

xxx

Show or Bin?

We were having a conversation on the Charmed forum the other day about projects that you just can't get right. I suggested that there should be a song for crafters called "Rip it off and start all over again" and this card is one such example. Took me ages yesterday to colour in and cut out etc and I am just not happy with it. It was a toss between binning or showing but in view of time spent I'm showing ;-) Do you bin or show??

Holly & Madison downloads coloured with Copics. Basic Gre Ambrosia papers and brads, Prima flowers.

TFL xxx

Spring has Sprung

It really has, not just on my card. It's such a gorgeous sunny day today, no-one would ever think it was thick snow and utter chaos out there just a few weeks ago. So what am I doing on this glorious day? Making cards!!Yep, it's my second post of the day, I'm blogging like the clappers!!!!!

This card was inspired by the challenge on Cute Card Thursday. The challenge there was to featured something spring-like on the card, the theme was "Signs of Spring" - This could be interpreted through your image, an embellishment or even your colour-scheme.

So here we go, my take on that challenge:

Another gorgeous image from the Holly & Madison download bundle coloured in with my Copics. The background is a mixture of Copics and Distress Inks (I have yet to get my airbrush system out of the box, quite scary that!).

Copics used are: N1, B14, RV01, B00, G07,G12, G14, G05, G99, E00, R32, E11, E31, E33, E37, E13, E35, YO6, Y17, Y15, YR02, YR04, YR07, YR09, YR23, YR24.

Thanks for visiting xxx

Challenges... and want some free Copics??

Woohoo! This is the third challenge card I am blogging in a week! It's my new Copic's, they are screaming out to me to be used. Did I tell you I purchased a second set? And listen to this, Charmed Cards & Crafts (my shop) and Graphics Direct (absolute best place for Copics) have come together to enable one lucky person to get a set of 72 pens FREE OF CHARGE! Wow eh? Thought that would get your interest!! Watch this space for further news.

So back to the challenges. This one is from a Spoon Full of Sugar and involved a sketch, this is my interpretation:

Madison image from the fabulous Holly & Madison download bundle. Frame and umbrella were cut on my Silhouette. Maya Road chipboard flowers, I coloured the larger one with my Copics and the smaller one I covered in coordinating Basic Grey paper. All paper here is Basic Grey Ambrosia.

The copics used for colouring in my image are: R32, R37, R39, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG45, BG49, Y8, Y11, Y13, N1, E00, E11, R20

Oh and pop over to Dottie's World tomorrow for a FREE Holly download image!

Thanks for looking xxx

Grungy Birthday....

I have always been an earthy kinda gal and so happy that the grungy, shabby chic look is now in fashion. Grungy and shabby to me doesn't imply old and tattered, it's earthy colours, distressed edges and lots of Tim Holtz inks ;-)

So I used some of the gorgeous papers from Basic Grey on this birthday card I made for Nicola, DT member on Dottie's World - this card has to double up as my Monday Mojo submission on DW as I am so short on time these days.

Image is Madison 3-in-1 from the Holly & Madison Downloads, coloured in with my new Copics'. Papers are from various Basic Grey collections: Color Me Silly, Mellow and Ambrosia.

The swirl is a plain Rusty Pickle chipboard swirl that I coloured in two coordinate with Madison's clothing. K&Co Cut 'n Paste border.

Bazzil flowers, Woodware Pearls, Hot Off The Press Brads, H&Co "Hooray" chipboard.

TFL
xxx