Key to my heart...

What a gloomy Saturday it is, absolutely perfect weather for staying indoors and getting inked up :-) Our new stamps should be arriving next week, and it will be absolutely thrilling to see them in the flesh. In the meantime Louise Brigden and I have been showcasing the stamps on our new blog "Charmed Delectable Stamps" to whet the appetite. Here is a card using the adorable Annie & Ted stamp.

I love these metal keys by K&Co. They are from the new Life's Journey collection (as opposed to the old from from about 5 years ago) and just like antique real keys. The flower is Prima.

I used K&Co Que Sera Sera paper for the background, and a Que Sera Sera notepad sheet for the centre. The butterfly is also Que Sera Sera and I decorated it with a few pearls. Ribbon is We are Memory Keepers. Annie and Ted were coloured in with Copic markers.
I really hope we are going to be seeing our Annie stamps as part of glorious projects all over the Web. :-)

Thanks for visiting xx

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 ♥♥

Teenage Card

Teenagers aren't the easiest people in the world to create for, and teenage boys must be amongst the hardest. The new download collection by Louise Brigden soon to be released at Charmed Cards & Crafts will surely cater for this area of concern, plus most of the images would be great on a girlie card too- perhaps together with images from the Holly & Madison collections. The new collection features Mikey, boyfriend to Madison (& Holly I expect).

On this card I layered the image on several mats cut out with Nestabilities Label Three dies. I tried to make the smaller patches at the back look like jean pockets. All the chipboard is by Rusty Pickle, the stars were coloured with my Copics, and the rest inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink "broken china". The ink was also used for inking all the edges on everything else. The dotted paper is K&Co Broken China. I didn't realise both were "Broken China" until just now LOL

The sentiment "Cool" was created in MS Word using Word Art.

There are some great images in the new bundle, you'll love it!!

TFL ♥♥

Sunday Challenge

It was my turn to set the challenge on Dottie's World today - or rather the world of Dottie, George, Holly, Madison, Girls about Town, lots of animals and... (shhh, come back Monday and you willl find out). That got you guessing I bet, and no, it's not our new stamps :-)

My challenge this week was:

CHRISTMAS! Yes really! The weather is getting warmer but lets not forget that cosy feeling we only get at Christmas. It's never too early to start preparing for the big day so this time I want to see a Christmas project, what you do is up to you as long as you include a Charmed download.

....and I am giving a prize to one of the entrants.

Here is my DT card:

I used "Karen" from the Girls about Town bundle, and Reindeer Dottie from the Christmas bundle (both from Charmed Cards & Crafts). I composed the background from various images and decorated with Snow Writer (it was almost empty so there's not as much as I wanted) and Glossy Accents. The lace is new in at Charmed Cards & Crafts (I love it!). Papers are from a mixed K&Co paper pad I had and the swirls are cut on my Silhouette from one of the papers. I used Copics to colour in the images. The sentiment was done on the computer.

Well I don't know about you but I could do with a mince pie and a glass of mulled wine now!!

Have a wonderful Sunday xxx

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

Candy Winner....

I hope you have all enjoyed a nice relaxing Easter with lots of chocolate :-)

I promised a winner for the Copic candy today so here we are. All comments have been given a number but when drawn I checked for date, whether a link was posted on the blog, whether the blog owner had coloured an image in, if "a second chance" then checking if the item was a Charmed download. People entering more than once, were automatically disqualified altogether. We also had 12 off-line entries from: Jean, Laura, Andrea, Cindy, Audry, Marion, Carmen, Louise, Angie, Caron, Jan and Sandra - and these were all given a number also. So we had to get a number from 1 to 759, inclusive. The number was chosen on Random.org and this was the result:


If my counting is correct that is "Pickle". Many congratulations to you!! Can you please email through your address to our customer service department at Charmed Cards & Crafts so we can get your Copic markers to you.

We frequently have draws and candy at Charmed Cards & Crafts so don't despair if you didn't win, there is always the next time.

Thanks for entering xxx

Blog Candy with a Twist!

What a blog candy!! Fancy getting your hands on 72 Copic markers?? No you didn't read that wrong - I really did say 72!!!

Charmed Cards & Crafts have teamed up with Graphics Direct Ltd to bring you this fantastic prize. Graphics Direct Ltd are without doubt the cheapest place to get your Copics', and with outstanding customer service to boot. Although we sell several markers, such as Le Plume, we highly recommend Graphics Direct Ltd for THE place to get your Copics'.

The twist is that we want you to link to a project on your blog (in your comment) that either uses a download or a stamped image that you coloured in.

• Link to a card you made with a download or a stamped image (does NOT have to be one of ours)
• If you are using one of the Charmed Cards & Crafts downloads then you get two chances (please enter two comments, in the second just write "my second chance). All entries will be checked.
• Please mention the candy on your blog.

This will run until 10th April. This post will stay on top until then. The final draw will be entirely random.

GOOD LUCK!! x

UPDATE 11th APRIL: The candy is now closed, comment entered from today will not be counted towards the draw, which will take place Easter Monday. Thank you so much to all who entered xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bundle of Joy...

Have you seen the new Spring range of stamps by Rachelle Anne Miler? We received them for the shop last week (click here to see them) and I had to have a play with the new "Bundle of Joy" stamp. Coupled with that I just got the rest of the new Spellbinders dies in yesterday(here they are) and the 12" Borderbilities dies are gorgeous!!! I just had to use one. I also used some of our new lace on my card, it's just so gorgeous and I had been dying to use it. So a combination of quite a few new goodies here.

I used half of my Borderbilities border for the top.





I decided to decorate the inside too this time.
Here I have taken part of the image and matted it on a circle cut with a scallopedNestabilities die. I used the second half of my new Borderbilities die here.



I'll jot down exactly what I used here:
Bundle of Joy Rachelle Anne Miller stamp coloured with Copic markers
Nestabilites dies: Scalloped quare and Scalloped Circle
Borderbililties die: Classic Lace
Paper: Imaginisce Baby Powder, K&Co Itsy Bitsy Paper Pad, White and Blue ATC cardstock
Imaginisce Baby Powder Brad
Imaginisce Baby Powder Baby Boy Rub-Ons
Maya Road Sheer Flower coloured blue with a Copic marker
White Lace
Tim Holtz broken china Distress ink

Reminder: Today is the last day for the Copic candy (you have up until midnight). Wow we have received a huge amount of entries!!! The actual draw will take place Easter Monday so the very best of luck!!

Don't forget the new candy on our new Delectable Stamp blog.

TFL
xxx

MORE Delectable Blog Candy

Our Copic candy is almost at an end but if you are not successful then hop over to our new blog set up to showcase our new range of delectable stamps. We are giving away a fantastic box of candy over there.

This is what we are giving away:




Here are a few peeks of our new stamp range, you can see more on the Charmed Delectable blog:





Why not pop over and check it out and be in with a chance of winning that great pile of delectable candy :-)

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