Peg leg Pete

Morning - I thought I'd have a break from the christmas creations just before December kicks in and the festive period takes hold. So I have used Peg leg Pete to make something a bit different.

I do love Christmas but it seems to start earlier and earlier every year... I refuse to put my decorations up until December starts but then don't want to take them down as everywhere looks so bare afterwards.
So I am taking a stand and Peg Leg Pete is my little bit of rebellion against the early Christmas... He is such a fab image and so full of character. I purposefully added a general greeting so I can use this card for any occasion.


I used anchor paper from Project life Becky Higgins collection called Baby Boy. All the other papers are from Doodlebug. The red zizzag and wood effect are both from the Kraft in colour collection. I used lime swiss dot to cut the banner using the Die-namics die. I stuck the letters from Hobbycraft on to spell out "Ahoy" and attached this to the card using 3d foam.
The compass in the right is a stamp from Stampendous Changito Pirates collections and I coloured it with a gold pen, some star dust stickles and a red gem in the centre.  I also used stickles on the cuffs and collar of Petes shirt, along with gold and silver pen to add some metallic detail.

To colour Peg Leg Pete I used these promarkers & flexmarkers -
Skin - Spice, Coral, Soft Peach, Blush, Antique White.
Jacket - Polar Blue, Capri blue & Midnight blue.
Hat & Trousers - Cool Grey 1 - 5
Casket - Caramel & Raw Sienna
Boot & Leg - Caramel, Raw Sienna & Saddle brown.
Shoulders & parrot - Poppy, Ruby & Cardinal red.
Parrot - True Blue & Sky Blue, Lime zest & Lime Green.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -
Crazy for Challenges - Sketch 
Crafty Catz - Masculine
Creative fingers - ATG
Simply papercrafts - ATG.
4 crafty chicks - Masculine.
Crafty Girls creations - ATG 
Southern girls - pattern paper.
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Simon says - ATG




Right - I need to go and get ready for Church. Need to pray for some dry weather as we are off to York for a few days to make a dint in the Christmas shopping. Excited as we are going to Jamie Olivers restaurant for dinner one night too... You know how much I love my food!
Hope you all have a lovely day,
Liz
(:(|)x

All dressed up - Christmas Tree

I made this card using All Dressed Up image called All Dressed up for Christmas.

My Minds eye papers from the I believe collection, which is already glazed and glittered, was mounted onto Kraft card. I glued red ric rac ribbon at all the joining points. Once i had coloured the image - I used Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut the image and a mount from red bazzill bling and kraft.  I put some gold stars and clear gems on to the tree and also some red gems at the top & bottom. I made the skirt and wings sparkle by adding some Diamond stickles over the top of the coloured image. Finally - I coloured a Happy Christmas peel off with Soft Green promarker to match the papers.

I used these promarkers & flexmarkers to colour the image -
Skin - Spice, Coral, Soft Peach, Blush, Antique white & baby pink cheeks.
Hair - Satin, Terracotta, Burnt Sienna, Walnut & Raw Sienna.
Tree - Pale Citrus & Pear Green.
Star - Vanilla & Raw Sienna.
Top - Cardinal Red & Red Sweater
Skirt & Wings - Honeydew & Pastel Green.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges -
All Dressed up - Spots & stripes (facebook)
Fab n Funky - Christmas 
The Paper Shelter - A Christmas Card. 
Christmas cards all year - O Christmas tree.
Emerald Faeries -o christmas tree

ALL For now,
Liz (:(|)x

New Home

Today is the new challenge from I Love Promarkers and the theme is New Home. The sponsor is  Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps  and I have used an image called mushroom town

To make this card I took a card and folder the top in half to make it a mountain fold. I printed and coloured the image and then die cut it with a scalloped Nestibility. I trimmed the bottom section and tied a ribbon around the base and knotted this through a tag. I used Peel offs to put the greeting on the tag and added a few red gems to match the dots on the Mushrooms.
I used gnome paper from Pebbles and mounted this in red card bazzill card.  I used a die-namics die to cut some grass and then my Silhoutte to cut a Mushroom shape. I added this to the card with 3D foam so it sat above  a little and held the fold in place. Finally I added some stickles to the tops of the Mushrooms and in the holes of the die cut.

To colour the image I used promarkers & flexmarkers -
Top of Toadstool - Red, poppy, Ruby & Cardinal
Bottom of Toadstool - March Hare & Tawny Owl.
Doors - Raw sienns, Henna & Cocoa
Sky & Windows - Powder blue
Grass - Grass, Emerald & Honeydew.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -
Ribbon Girl - use any image
Allsorts - Use 3 dies

Santa Selfie

Morning All - Sorry I'm a little later than usual posting this morning but its because I'm using this "Hot of the pencil" image.... Called Santa Selfie from Dr Digi. This will be available very soon to buy -so watch the website!

 

I actually added loads of glitter but not sure you can see it very well in this photo... glitter for snow is compulsory in my opinion. I saw this image and had to have it - Its traditional christmas with the very modern phenomenon that is the Selfie!! I have so many friends that this image is perfect for.

We had our Girls night out on Friday and headed to the Christmas markets in Chester - It really got me in the Festive spirit - as did the Gluhwein!! I love Christmas but when is it appropriate to put up the decorations... It has to be December at least for me but there is a fully decorated tree in a neighbouring house.

To make this card I used striped paper from Doodlebug Santa Express collection. I also cut a strip of green paper with a deckle edge blade from Simple Stories December Documented collection. I trimmed the image down to a thin stripe and glue it altogether, whilst wrapping some Snowflake ribbon around the top. This is a great layout for using up scraps. I added a Craftworks card Christmas greeting and also some Doodlebug letters to spell out "Santa Selfie". My finishing touches to the image were Diamond Stickles to the snowman and Star dust stickles to Santa's beard. I added a little glaze to the phone and used some black gems to make the Coal on the Snowman's face pop out a bit more.  

I used these Promarkers and flexmarkers -
Santas skin - Spice, Coral, Soft Peach, Blush & Antique white with Baby pink cheeks & nose
Hair & Beard -  Warm grey 1 & 2. Powder blue eyes.
Shirt - Shadowed with Icicle
Pants - Poppy, Ruby & Cardinal Red
Boots & Braces & Snowmans Hat - Warm grey 5, 4 & 3
Snowman - Blue Grey 1 & 2 & Powder blue.
Scarf - Poppy & Cardinal, Grass & Emerald.
Carrot - Bright Orange & Gold
 Stick arm - Raw sienna & Cocoa.

So i'll witter no on more and let you see this fab new image!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges -
My Time to craft -Let it snow
Jingle Bells - Left overs.
Winter Wonderland - 1-2-3
Creative Knockouts - NO square cards
The Sisterhood - Its beginning to look a lot like christmas


Enjoy folks
Liz (:(|)x

O Christmas Tree

A new challenge is starting today at I Love Promarkers. The theme is Traditional Christmas and it is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique. The image I've used is called Princess Jennifer Latte Decorating the tree.

The papers I've used are from Doodlebug North Pole collection. I've mounted them all onto Black to make them stand out more from each other.
I used the Emerald promarker on the Christmas tree wooden embellishment to co-ordinate it with the traditional Christmas colours and I coloured the ribbon and stars on the tree with Gold pen. The greeting is from Bella Blvd - Make it Merry and the ribbon tab is from American craft.
I added some glaze onto the Baubles to make them shine and also some diamond stickles on to the fluffy cuffs.  Finally I added some Doodlebug sprinkles gold star and dots along with an stripey enamel dot to match everything together.

I used these pro & flexmarkers to colour her -
Skin - Coral, Soft Peach, Blush & Antique White.
Hair - Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber & Walnut.
Clothes & Baubles - Poppy, Ruby & Cardinal Red. Powder Blue on cuffs.
Boots & Box - Raw Sienna & Burnt Umber.
Tree - Grass, Emerald, Lush Green & Pine.


I would like to enter this card into these challenges -
The Shabby Tree rooms - O Christmas Tree (3w)
Whoopsi Daisy - Lots of layers. (2w)
Pile it on - Holidays / celebrations (w)
Lacy Sunshine  - tictactoe (2w) - i've gone diagonal.
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge - Red & green (w)

Hope you like card this week - don't forget to say Hi when you stop by!
Liz (:(|)x

All dressed up GDT

Morning - Today I can post this card that I have made using All Dressed Up image called All Dressed up for Christmas.
I am honoured to be asked to be a Guest Design team member for these beautiful images, which you can purchase on Etsy (Just click on the link above.)

The base pattern paper is from Websters Pages All that Glitters collection. I used gold mirri card to cut the Merry Christmas greeting using a Lawn Fawn die cut and glued it to some co-ordinating ribbon. I also used the gold card to mount the image - both of which I cut using the Friskars cutter. I cut the banner from Dear Lizzy Foiled vellum - I actually put white behind this so the pattern of the base card didn't show through. Once I had coloured the tree, I used petal pink Liquid Pearls on the baubles and Gold Pen on the ribbon and stars. Finally I added Diamond stickles to the wings and skirt to make them sparkle and some Gold peel off corners. 

I used these promarkers & flexmarkers to colour the image -
Skin - Spice, Coral, Soft Peach, Blush & Antique White.
Hair - Satin, Terracotta, Burnt Sienna, Walnut & Raw Sienna.
Skirt & Present - Pale pink, Baby pink & Cocktail Pink.
Tree, Wings & Present - Honeydew & Pastel Green.
Tree trunk - Raw Sienna & Walnut.

I hope you like her ... I'm really pleased with her sparkle!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -
Crafty Calender - Sparkle, bling & embellishment. (M)
Disdigi design - TicTacToe - (M) I went straight down the middle with this one!
Alphabet Challenge - T is tis the season (m)
Christmas stamping - ATG (2w)
Craft for the Craic - Something glittery (M)
Graphit Markers - Xmas sparkle (W)
Craft Challenge - Christmas (W)
Crafty ribbon - Christmas tree (W)
Creatalicious Challenge - Merry Christmas (m)
Ribbon Girl - Use any image. (2w)

Thanks for popping by - leave me comment if you do!
Liz (:(|)x

Retiring Professor.

Morning! For todays card I have used this image called Professor Dummkopf  from Dr Digi. I love this image and he has so many uses...

I made this card on specific request from my other half  - his friend and colleague was retiring. And he picked this image to use on the card that I made for all the team to sign. They are all forensic science geeks so Prof D was perfect. (I can call them that because Geek is chic these days!)

I've used paper from Heidi Swapp collection called No Limits. I mounted the panel from this pad onto black and then green glitter card. I cut a die-namics banner and the word "happy" from black card. I then added green letters from Doodlebug to spell out retirement. I added some green gems and the letters to spell out the name. Finally I used some glaze on his glasses and boots to make them shine.

I coloured Professor Dummkopf using these Promarkers / flexmarkers -
Skin - Spice, Coral, Soft Peach, Blush & Antique white.
Clothing - April Shower & Powder blue, Cardinal red, and Khaki shirt.
Hair & tousers -  Cool grey 1 - 5.
Drs Coat - Shadowed with Blue Grey.
Boots & Glove - Lime Zest, Lime Green & Pear Green.
Clipboard - Cinnamon, Caramel, Sandstone & Raw Sienna.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -
Scrappers Delight - Challenge 50 (m)
Creative Fingers - ATG (w)
Jos Scrap shack - ATG (w)
Crafty Girls Creations - ATG (w)
Creative Knockouts - Something to say (w)
Inspiration Destination  - ATG
The Crafty Addicts - ATG - Use a die cut. (m)



Have a lovely day - fingers crossed it stops raining at some point as I need to go for a run (Got a white frock to fit into soon...)
Liz (:(|)x