Sketch, Hearts and a little distressing....

Another challenge card for Dottie's World DT. A super sketch challenge this time set by Nicole.

The card is also entered into Creative Card Crew Challenge - where the challenge was "distressing" and A Spoonful of Sugar, where the theme was "Hearts". The distressed element is the edges where I used my Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, and a liberal use of my distress inks.

Here is the sketch from Nicole for Dottie's World:

Products used:
Image from the Sugar & Spice digi-stamp bundle. I coloured in with Copic Markers.
Paper: Basic Grey (Vintage Floral from the Sublime collection) and black plain cardstock
Bows are made from black satin ribbon. Flowers are K&Co paper flowers.
Sentiment is a rub-on - K&Co I think. The hearts are Fancy Pants rub-ons.
I always use Distress ink for edges etc
Pearls are Blue Awning pearls coloured with Copics to get the shade I wanted.
I used Nestabilities for the shapes and a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser for the rough edges.


Pop over and see what the other design team members have created for your inspiration. I hope you will join the challenge.

Thanks for popping by ♥

New Goodies!

We have been waiting for the new Basic Grey collections, Origins and Sugar Rush, along with Imaginisce Sweet Cheri and Glimmer Mist, and due to adverse conditions there were delays. At last they arrived today and we could ship the pre-orders that had been waiting.

Many shops may stock Basic Grey but very few stock entire collections - we do. Each time a new collection is released the amount of products within each grows. but you will find them all at Charmed. This time they seemed to have exploded and each collection was literally bursting at the seams! Pop over to Charmed Cards & Crafts and check them out :-)

The Sweet Cheri range is perfect for Valentine and include those adorable clear stamps for under a quid!

Not had time to craft this week so I thought I'd show you a little layout I did for the Charmed Craft Talk journal circle recently. The theme here was "Space" and that could be interpreted in many ways. This was my interpretation, largely because I crave a little "me time":






Thanks for looking :-)

B-ring out the Old, B-ring in the New

A great challenge on Dottie's World for our Digi-stamps this week, where Adele asked you to b-ring out the old and b-ring in the new: "dig out something from your stash, blow off the dust and put it to use with a new item that you have recently bought or been given as a pressie! As long as you use a Charmed Download, the rest is up to you."

My card uses some old twine (but unused I hasten to add) and the new items are a few Silhouette designs that I purchased last week.

I used a Charmed download from our new Sugar & Spice bundle and coloured her in with Copic markers. The frame here is a Quickutz Silhouette download design.

For those of you waiting the new Basic Grey is arriving this week, along with Imaginsce Sweet Cheri and limited edition Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists - these are new to Charmed Cards & Crafts but we will be stocking the ranges from now on.

Thanks for popping by :-)

Easel Cards

This type of card is just fab. It takes a simple card and makes it look complicated and dead difficult. Have a look how to make these cards right here on the Charmed Cards & Crafts site. If you haven't visited our idea section then I implore you to look, we have some fabulous work from our design team.

You can make them as complicated or as simple as you like, they always look great.

I used Imaginisce Perfectly Posh paper
Queen & Co's Mini Felt Fusion has been wrapped around the top.
Prima Lace for the bow
K&Co Que Sera Sera Adhesive Gems
Prima Sugar Coated flower
I coloured the image with Copic Markers
a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser was used to roughen the edges of the paper.
I created the personalised greeting myself.
Nestabilities was used to cut the scalloped frames.
There's also a Basic Grey Glazed Brad on there - from the Sugared or Sultry collection I think.

Did you know that we are probably the largest K&Co and Basic Grey stockists in the United Kingdom? We stock a huge selection from these two giants, as well as many other fab ranges, such as Prima, Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants, Karen Foster, Hot Off The Press, Martha Stewart, Imaginisce and many many more. Charmed Cards & Crafts really are your one stop shop :-)

Thanks for stopping by ♥

Candy Winners

Happy New Year to you all! I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all the best for 2010.

Using Random.org as always here are the two winners for our blog candy this time:

Winning both bundles, Boy Oh Boy and Sugar & Spice and the two stamps:

Winning Boy oh Boy and Sugar & Spice:

Congratulations both and commiserations everyone else. Thanks for taking part xx

Number 85 is

Laney' Place

and number 48 is

Renata Elenbaas

Laney I need your postal address and email address and Renata I need your email address. You can submit them both to us here.

We'll have more candy soon so keep an eye out for that :-)

Christmas Candy

This post will stay on top until 1st Jan. Scroll down for new posts.

Fancy something sweet? I promised you a little candy and here it is. All you have to do is to leave a comment and link to it on your own blog to be in with a chance of winning. I have added Mr Linky but no idea if it works LOL PLease leave a comment in the normal way too after you have posted the link.

One person will get the whole lot and another will get the "Boy oh Boy" and "Sugar & Spice" bundles.

Good luck and Merry Christmas.

It's a Girl Thing

I have the headache from hell today, and I strongly suspect it was brought on from an overindulgence of chocolates! It was my birthday yesterday and I had so many chocolate gifts that I absolutely had to try - and one unfortunately led to many!

To try and alleviate my pain I decided to make a card for the Sunday Challenge on Dottie's World. As the theme was "It's a girls thing" I used one of our brand new "Sugar & Spice" images, they are just too cute for words! This card was uber quick to make, apart from the colouring in it took me under half an hour, and that's quick for me - and then two hours to get the pictures taken, the light is awful at the moment.

A very simple inside ready for the greeting

I used one one of the new Martha Stewart Deep Edge punches for this card, isn't it fab?

This is such a lovely image drawn by our Lou. You can get it for free if you win our blog candy :-)

Products used here are:
Image from the Sugar & Spice digi-stamp bundle. I coloured in with Copic Markers.
Heart border is paper from Imaginisce Perfectly Posh, all rub-ons and ribbon are from that range too.
Plain cardstock
Cake inside the card is K&Co Madeline Chipboard
Prima Swirls
Tools used: Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, Nestabilites dies, Martha Stewart Deep Edge punch.

Very simple card to make as the edge and the image really is all it needs.

I mentioned it was my birthday yesterday and one of the highlight of my day was when a totally beautiful, and absolutely massive, bouquet of flowers were delivered. They were from my very special friend Lou, just take a look!! Sorry for the backdrop, the only place I can get any light is in the conservatory.

Totally stunning!! Thank you so much Lou my darling ♥♥♥♥♥xxxxxxxxx

I also got cards from some of my wonderful forum members, Mellie, Shell and Lea. Here they are with my card from Lou:



In order of the picture the cards are from: Shell (who also gave me a box of Hotel Chocolat Pink Champagne Truffles, cor they were nice (yep, all gone), then Lou's card, Mellie's card and Lea's card. Thanks girls xxxxxxxxxxxx

I hope you are all enjoying the Christmas break. Thanks for visiting ♥

Merry Christmas!

It is Christmas Eve and in Denmark that is the day that all the children have been (im)patiently waiting for since last Christmas Eve. Living in England we celebrate both days, so double the work for poor ol' mum (i.e. me LOL). What better way to celebrate than by giving away some presents to YOU!! We are already giving away every single day on the Charmed Cards & Crafts site, which will culminate in three draws at the end of the month.

Our candy here is for anyone, anywhere in the world. I am going to post the candy later today. In the meantime I want to show you a card made with one the stamps we are giving away (we are not giving away this stamp of course but a fresh copy LOL. This stamp is part of our Mo Manning stamp range.

Simply decorated inside:

I told you yesterday how I chose two designs to replicate and this was the second of those.

Products used:
Mo Manning stamp coloured in with Copic markers and trimmed with Flower Soft Polar White.
Paper is Bo Bunny and Plain Cardstock
K&Co Evergreen tags are on the front and I coloured the edges in red.
K&Co Evergreen Tape also on the front
K&Co Snowflakes
Circles were cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities dies

So pop back later today and add your name to the candy draw.

Noel Peace....

Noel Peace - that is the name of the stamp I used for the card I am showing you today, and I will be giving away one of these in my aforementioned candy.


Once again I embellished the inside of the card. Nothing too fancy but it really makes a difference.

I was running out of time so decided to take a couple of my designs and make similar cards. This was one of them. One of the things that takes me the longest when colouring images is deciding which colours to use, when you already have them in front of you it really does make the process so much quicker.

Here are the products used on my card:
Stamp is Sarah Kaye Noel Peace, coloured with Copic markers
Paper is K&Co Evergreen and Plain Cardstock
Dress it up Buttons Garland and "Rejoyce".
Imaginisce Polar Expression Ribbon
Bo Bunny Bauble Sticker matted on plain cardstock (I've just realised this is one I have forgotten to put on site, I'll link when added).
The "December 25th" is a K&Co Evergreen Layered Tag Accent
Circle are cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities dies

Thanks for visiting the Charmed corner of the Web :-) ♥

...and yet ANOTHER day closer!!

Well if your children are anything like my children then you will be hearing a lot of happy screeches and joyful laughter, as well as Christmas songs being belted out continuously :-) Tis indeed beginning to look like Christmas, which leads me nicely to my card:



Decorating the inside of my cards have become a norm now, I love the heaviness and quality of the card upon completion.

Image coloured with Copic markers. Products used:
K&Co Evergreen paper, "NOEL" Epoxy alpha stickers, Fa la la la la and chipboard pine cone.
Plain cardstock
Distress Ink
Pearls
Prima Lace
Tools: Martha Stewart Pine Edging punch - Tim Holtz Paper Distresser.

Thanks for visiting ♥