Cheeky chimps anniversary love

An image from the Digi Stamp Boutique which I have coloured with my PM's and glittered with stickles.

Which I have to confess has already left the building and I very nearly forgot to photograph it so that I could share it with you. Life is fairly hectic in the Mainland household at the moment.

It is an Anniversary card for my parents who are celebrating their 45th this year, so went for the blue colours cos I found out it is meant to be celebrated with sapphire, of course then I remembered that you can actually get pink and green sapphires as well, but think the blue was the right choice.

I found some pretty little white heart brads to put in the centre of the flowers made from prima and also some from the pound shop from last year.(the gold ones).

The ribbons are velvet and are from my stash box, as is the snippet of lace and the gold thin ribbon bows which I tied and then fixed with two tiny gold brads(dropped one of these and it is officially mia, they are so tiny)

The large piece of organza ribbon with gold edging is from a box/present, so a bit of recycling there too! 

Nearly forgot to mention the giant DCWV brad, these are gorgeous, one of those items you almost don't use cos you love them so much (you all know what I mean!!!)

The papers are freebies, papermania and a couple small snippets of gold from my stash that are so old their make escapes me?

Challenges

Crafters Companion ch 25 - Time to embellish

Craft your passion challenges - Anything Goes

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in bloom

Passion for promarkers - lots of layers (more than three)

Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Bingo (Flowers/Easel/Lace)

Pixies Snippets challenge 

Thanks so much for looking see you soon with the other cards I have been making this week.

Heidi x

Sweet pea anniversary wishes

Hmmm might have gone a little overboard on the photos.  Coloured with my promarkers and then glittered with stickles. This is snow fae from Sweet pea stamps.

Yet again, I am afraid that I have used my flower punch, funny how you go through phases with certain tools. I added gems, pearl drops and pearls.

Close up

And just a simple peel off for the anniversary wishes.  For another of my aunt and uncles ( I have a fair few!)

Challenges

Crafts and me - Things with wings

ATC And Cards with attitude - Anything goes

Papertake weekly - Anything Goes

Craft your passion 100th - Anything Goes

Hooked on Crafts - More than one fold

Allsorts - Spread your wings

Catch the bug - Anything Goes

CES - Flower Frenzy

Thanks so much for popping over, I have a huge pile of squiggle projects to share with you tomorrow so watch this space.

Heidi xx

Anniversary card using Penny Black Hedgies

Top picture with no flash, bottom one with.

The real colours are somewhere in between.

This is a cute little PB hedgy stamp, that I have coloured with a mixture of Promarkers and Whispers pens.  I have used some lovely papers from a candy win from a whiley back and am afraid I do not know their name Sorry. The green 'ribbon/lace' is my most recent purchase from Cullen Crafts. I have layered up onto checked paper and distressed all the edges with my scissors. The rose is a beauty and I have recycled it from a package that I made at Christmas that got water damaged (leaky roof).The wee charm is from my stash, and I punched out wee hearts from some more of the checked paper.

The sentiment is LOTV and this card is an anniversary card for my aunt and uncle who celebrate 41 years together next week.

Challenges!

CES - Check it out

PB Saturday - Floral Frenzy

Pile It on#5 - Just Because

Cupcake Crafts Challenge - Recycle (flower)

Incy Wincy 131 - Flower Frenzy

Deep Ocean ch 18 - Love You!

Crafts and Me - Bright Colours

Simon Says - Animal Antics

Craft us Crazy - Anything Goes

Crafty Purple Frog - Show us some love

Little Miss Muffet - Valentine and /or Love

Moving along with the times - Have a heart

Thanks for visiting

Hugs Heidi

xxx

Squiggles saturday challenge is 'Celebrate'

I have made this card for my husband, as it is our anniversary on 31st December.  So have used the oh so cute penguin called 'Chilli' from Squiggle Stamps.  He is lovely to colour and so sweet!

The challenge over at Squiggle Stamps is 'Celebrate'

Soooo many ways to interpret this one....this is the season to celebrate!!

We know this is a super busy time of year so this challenge will stay open unti Fri 6th Jan at midnight - with a £30 gift voucher on offer....now that would be something to celebrate!

psssssst - head over to the {STORE} and celebrate with 20% off all Digi Stamps

Don't forget if you use a Squiggles Image, then you can link up twice.

Hugs Heidi and thanks so much for popping over. xx

Cute little LOTV Bunnies

This is an Anniversary card with some cute little LOTV bunnies on it.  I have coloured with my Promarkers. I have used ribbons, multi coloured glittery lace, gems, stick on butterfly  and some die cut hearts as embellishments.  The  sketch I followed is from Crafty Catz.  The hearts are cut from some special chip paper (gold in colour as it is for a golden wedding anniversary)

I am entering this into:-)

Charizma Cards #37 - Sky

Crafty Catz #100 - Sketch

CES #53 - Layer it up

Thanks for looking

Hugs Heidi xx

Glitter Hearts and lots of flowers

Now then this is a pretty tag to send instead of a card, found some Kraft card in cupboard and off I went.

I recently bought a couple of new wood stamps, a penny black and a house mouse. Well what can I say it was buy one get one free or a BOGOF offer, to you and me.

So then about the image, it is called Glitter Hearts and I have coloured with my Promarkers and have glittered every heart in sight, love it!

The image has been matted onto some of the handmade papers that my sister bought for me a couple of years back not sure where they came from though.

The flowers are from a die cut £1 set from the market in chichester, and the one that i have crinkled etc is made using the same diecut flowers but made wet and then crushed and dried and you've guessed it, GLITTERED!

Pearl Hearts have been popped in the centre of two of the large flowers adorning the holder and some smaller gemstones into two of the others on the top end of the tag.

 I have used some gorgeous purple wrapping up ribbon (the wide sort ) and have threaded a whole piece through the hole at the top of the tag and then I have carefully seperated strands and then curled.  I have had such fun with this creation.

I am entering this into :-)

Deep Ocean Challenge 07 - Hearts

Bearly mine Challenges - Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

Hugs and Smiles

Heidi x

Sweet Pea Anniversary

Okay lost count now of how many posts today, but here goes another.  This is a sweet pea image called midnight waiting, quite possibly my fave sweet pea at the moment, as it is so lovely to colour.

The image is coloured with my Promarkers,  and the card is an Anniversary card for great friends of mine.

I made an easel card for a change and used lots of glitter and flower punches.  I added brads, gems and  pearls. Then used a sentiment peel off and faux stitched around the oval that I put it onto.

I am entering this card into :-)

Bearly Mine Challenges - Bring on the Bling

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes in August

Creative Inspirations - Use Fave image

Critter Sketch  - Wedding / Anniversary

Thanks for looking

Hugs from

xx

Freaky Fairies and Squiggle Stamps too

Last post from me for today, have neglected the house for two long me thinks.

This particular card I couldn't stop adding more and more stuff to, so I apologise now for the overdose of embellies.

The colours I chose were pinks and purples, just because.....

The gorgeous image is from Squiggle Stamps and is so so sweet, these lovey doveys are great to colour and then in a moment of even more stamping, I added the birdy banner from the same company.

Glitter seems to have landed on most items and have used some sparkly gemstones on the flower middles.

I used a woodware leaf punch to add some extra foliage and then as if that wasn't enough I stamped inside with some silhouette fairies in a soft purple ink (DCWV stamps).

Whats wrong with me ?

To top it all I then went and changed my blog background, wow what a day! Let me know if you like it or not.

Anyhow I am entering this monstrosity into the following challenges:-{ so that they too can see when crafting goes slightly eccentric or is that erratic.

Magical Mondays - Banners and Glitter

Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes in August

Sir Stampalot - Whatever you fancy (kind of apt as it was whatever I was fancying at that moment)

Thanks for looking and I hope not freaking out too much.

hugs

xx

All at sea over you

I found this quote by Shakespeare and decided to make a card inspired by its verse. I have followed a sketch and used a gorgeous Sweet Pea image coloured in with my PMs. I added three buttons which are fantastic parrots ( a little piratical!) The sketch with its two triangles reminded me of the flags that a ship/boat uses to signal other sea goers.

Around the image I used a lovely fringy fibre to simulate a little movement. As I write the wind is picking up here and all the trees are creaking, sounds very like being on an old boat in a high sea, well at least how they portray it on the tv anyway.

I drew faux stitching along my 'flags' and put a pale blue insert inside, with faux stitching along its edges.

I am entering this card into :-

Creatalicious Challenge - Two Tone

Allsorts Wk 96 - For a special lady

Sketch Saturday wk 148 -

My Partner in crafting crime ch23 - 3 or more buttons

Thanks for looking, hope you are all keeping well and warm!

Hugs Heidi xx