Thanks a Bunch!

A new Sunday, a new challenge on Dottie's World - and today we are giving a way a FREE image to everyone who joins in!!

Our lovely Adele set the challenge this week and she wanted a thank you greeting on it plus of course a Charmed download. I used the free image we are giving away this week and here is my card.

Hmm, looks a little wonky on the picture but it really isn't at all wonky irl.

OK you ask, where's that thank you greeting - well yes, confession time. I hadn't read Adele's description thoroughly, focused on the "bunch" and missed out the "thanks" - but I rectified quickly and added it inside instead.

Here is the lovely image we are giving away this week, created by our Lou:

Prima lace adorn the inside of the card, along with a couple of flowers cut with Nestabilties. I used Tim Holtz papers inside and out.

Remember you have got to be in it to get it, so if you want to get your mitts on this beauty all you have to do is enter the challenge.

Here is largely what I used:
Free Pixie image coloured with Copic marker pens.
Plain cardstock
Tim Holtz paper from the Shabby Vintage pad
Brown Prima Lace
Large Imaginisce Brads (Glass Pebble)
Prima flowers
Blue flower outside and flowers inside were cut with Nestabilties
Alpha's are K&Co
Prima Pastiche Pebble
Martha Stewart Punches Bird Branch - edge and corner punches.

Thanks for popping by. Have a great Sunday ♥

Strawberry Fairy

I must show you a very special gift I received a few weeks ago from my lovely friend Maddy, isn't it amazing? Check out the level of detail!! And it's even better in real life!!!



Maddy is without doubt the Queen of Fimo, as well as a damn fine card maker; if you haven't seen her work you have truly missed out, pop over to her blog and take a look :-)

Triple Image Card

I fancied having a go at other digital images other than the Charmed downloads and purchased three lovely ones from Mo Manning. I merged the images to create a little scene and coloured it in with my Copic markers. This is one of my all-time favourite cards I think, it's very heavy as it's layered with plain and patterned cardstock and a size A5 so quite big; a really substantial card.

I wrapped a plain cardstock card in patterned double-sided paper inside and out - Basic Grey June Bug - that is why it became quite heavy, and I must say I love that.

I have no fancy set-up for taking pictures, so it's pot luck really how they turn out and I sometimes need to take loads to get a decent one. I couldn't get a good one for this card, and it wasn't for the lack of trying! So it's better IRL than it looks here ;-)

I'll enter this into a couple of challenges:
Allsorts: Birthdays
One Stop: Summer Breeze

OK, so you are going to get quite a few pictures as I don't know which one to choose, as per usual. None of the photos show the true richness of the colours.

I drew stitching around the edges inside and out with a black Sakura Gelly Roll Glaze pen.

The inside of my card:

The words on the tree branch and bag are rub-ons -The gorgeous metal corners and black & white ribbon is K&Co Life's Journey - red crystals are also K&Co, Citronella I think - Paper is Basic Grey June Bug - Hip Hip Hooray wording on the front, Happy Birthday wording inside the card, the two balloons on the front and the cupcake inside are all from the new K&Co Happy Birthday 2U collection .

Thanks for not shouting at me for showing a million and one pictures of the same thing ha ha ha.

Bye for now xx

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 ♥

Scene 6

Another Pixie scene example card, plus this one is a second example card also for our Sunday challenge on Dottie's World. Again this image is part of the FREE (uppercase!!) bundle comprising eight Pixie Scenes. Remember you can get this only if you have already purchased our two Pixie Download collections

The challenge is FLOWERS, lots of them and in different colours. As you can see there are plenty of flowers on my card. The Pixie scene comes exactly as you see it here, complete with frame and sentiment. After printing I deepened the colours here and there and glossed flowers with Glossy Accent.

Easier to see the edging against a black background. I punched a border using Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page punches.

The two big flowers are Fancy Pants die-cuts. I sanded down the edges of all the paper with a Basic Grey Precision File.

A simple inside. Again all edges of the paper has been sanded down with a Precision File.

Nestabilities dies to cut the shapes here. Rub-on for sentiment.

Thanks for visiting ♥

Flowers Challenge & Scene 5

Time for another challenge on our digi-stamp blog - if you have any of the Charmed challenges then please pop over and join in, we would love to see your work. Our lovely Gunn set the challenge this week and she wanted to see lots of flowers in different colours on our projects. I created two cards for this one but will post my second card tomorrow as I need to finish the inside. Both of the cards use scenes I created from our Pixie Download collections, remember you can get them for free (see earlier posts for details).

So here is my first card:

I decorate the inside too. The two flowers were cut with Nestabilities dies and the edges treated to a little Perfect Pearls.

Here is Holly Pixie on a toadstool. I used Glossy Accents and a little gold Stickles for a 3 dimensional effect.

The branches around the rim of the card were cut with a Martha Stewart Branch punch with a little Gold Stickles on them. The main picture is simply one of our FREE new Pixie Scenes, it comes complete with background and sentiment. I glossed and glittered it a little then matted on plain cardstock. All the roses are Prima. The red ball trim is Fancy Pants.

I folded a strip of the main paper in a concertina style and used it as a decoration, very simple but effective:

I hope you are enjoying your Sunday, and you have better weather than we're having here in London. We had that promise of a lovely summer just a week or two ago, and I thought the heating was going to stay off until Autumn, but since then it's been flippin' freezing and the heating has well and truly been resurrected. Grey skies also means that pictures are more difficult to take, I know many set up these little cool light tents and I really want one of those, at the moment it's in the conservatory on a couple of pieces of white bazzill LOL

Thanks to all of you who have entered our May Candy. I hope you get a chance to also have a little gander around the blog whilst you are here :-)

Thanks for visiting the Charmed corner of the Web ♥

Wednesday Inspiration

I have created yet another example card with one of the images from our free Pixie Scenes bundle (see Monday's post how to get it).

I love the image of the old gnarled tree with the Pixie tree house and here I have merged it with no less than seven of our Pixies. After printing I have added Glossy Accent and Stickles here and there for depth. I inked the edges and layered on distressed plain cardstock. The border are Martha Stewart edge and corner punches (Woodland Branch) and I added a little Prima lace and a few pearls (again white pearls that I coloured exactly the green I wanted). That's it! Mega economical card.

Pixie Scenes #3

Another Pixie scene example card, we are of course giving a bundled of eight scenes away for free if you have purchased our two Pixie bundles.

After printing the scene I coloured in the grassy area at the front and deepened some of the other colours, plus added a little shade. I added touches of very fine glitter dust to the grass, mushrooms and flower. I inked around the edges with Tim Holtz Dried Marigold.

The scene was layered on brown and orange cardstock (I distressed the edges first with a Tim Holtz paper distresser). The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Origin 6x6 pad. Again I coloured white pearls with a green marker to get the colour I needed. Prima Roses and Lace.

See yesterday's post for instructions on how to get the free downloads.

-xxx-

Scene 2

I spoke yesterday of the bundle of scenes I created to give to those of you who have purchased out popular Pixie bundles - if you haven't already bought them then why the heck not? They are gorgeous and available world-wide! :-) I gave one example card yesterday and here's another, using another scene from the free bundle:

I inked the background with blue distress ink after printing and added a little Glossy Accent here and there. The image is layered on pink and black cardstock. The card is size approx A5.

Butterflies galore here as I created a border using Martha Stewart edge and corner punches: Monarch Butterfly and a K&Co butterfly. The pearls were white pearls that I coloured pink.

So, to get the free scene bundle just email through your order number and we will send you the download link. The scenes are easy to use, just insert into a Word document and resize. There's a re-sizing tutorial HERE.

I've got another example card tomorrow, using another scene, and hope you will pop by then.
Enjoy the rest of the Bank Holiday Monday xx

All Sewn Up!

I hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. True to form it has been bucketing it down, and as I type this Saturday evening the noise from the rain is overwhelming as it drums against the windows. Lets hope the rain lets up just a little so we can get out there and soak up a few rays.

It is the Sunday challenge on our digi stamp challenge blog, if you have any of the Charmed downloads then please pop over and join us, we would really love to see your work.The lovely Nicole set the challenge this week and she wants to see some stitching, any stitching, plus one of our downloads of course.

Now I was in a hurry and just didn't have the time to colour in an image, so I decided to use a compilation of images from our Pixie download bundles that I had made some time ago. This is already coloured in so all I did was print it out. I made a number of these "compilations" and will be giving them to anyone who has purchased both the Pixie bundles, all you have to do is email through your order numbers and I will email the scenes to you.


The stitching here is on the right-hand side where I used raffia ribbon to produce a stitch-like border. I also added a little faux stitching, some of which I glittered with gold dust.


This was an incredibly economical and quick card to make. Here are products used:
Images from our Pixie collections. I used images already coloured.
Plain cardstock for card and matting, and a bit of scrap brown patterned paper for the stitched border.
Gold dust
Raffia, Leaf gems and Pearls - TOP TIP: Colour white pearls with a brown marker pen for instant golden pearls. Use the appropriate hue for the depth of colour you require.

Leaves cut with a Martha Stewart border punch
Holes for my raffia stitching was done with a Martha Stewart Ribbon Threader Border Punch.

Please ignore the white pearls you see above the card in the top right-hand corner - that's another story and they are not part of the card LOL

Thank you for visiting the Charmed corner of the web. Remember that if you have purchased our Pixie bundles you can get the scene I used above by emailing me HERE (we will need your order numbers).

xxx