Squiggles All loved up challenge reminder

Wow we have had a lot of lovely entries so far for our current challenge ' all loved up ' and I have made another card for a bit of extra inspiration for you all.

Don't forget if you use a squiggles image then you get an extra entry to the draw and we do so love to see them used.

The Squiggles Store has some great offers including love birds on a special at just 99p. If you have a really good looky about the store you may discover some freebies too!

I have used this most adorable fairy, who of course is bringing love in her large gift. She is available here and is called fairy gifts.

Coloured with promarkers, used a small round sentiment then stamped the 'with love' onto it. Used an embossed card and some die cuts from DCWV. The beads and cord are from my stash and yes it was a creation that I started then decided I didn't like the colours, Go figure. But I then made this card and thought that it went rather well with it. So a few alterations here and there and suddenly this all fell together. The wee butterfly I found alone and very sad, stuck to the underside of one of my embelly boxes??!

Sorry about the squiffy picture, must be something about the 7 year old who was jumping up and down beside me saying ' can I do that mummy, can I use the camera mummy '. Just gotta love that stage, bet he won't be using the 'mummy' word much longer :-(

Close up of the image.

Isn't she cute!

Challenges

Totally Gorjuss - 118 - Lurve

2 sisters - I Heart U

Allsorts - Free and Easy February Pt2

Pink Gem - Fairies

Charisma Cardz - Things with wings

Southern Girls - 37 - Magic and Mystery

Fussy and Fancy - with all my heart

Stamp and Create - Valentine/Heart

Papertake weekly - Anything goes optional extra add a heart

Thanks for looking, sorry I haven't popped any creations on lately have been having a massive clearout and move round. We are finally finishing off the roof this year, yippee!!  Of course it does mean a lot of extra work, but so so worth it.

Hugs to you all

Heidix

With love ....to my hubby

I have coloured this tickled pink image with my promarkers and whispers pens.  The flowers are prima, papermania, marianne creatables and from my stash. The heart & butterfly bling is from my stash as is the ribbons.

LOTV Round sentiment, cut up doily heavily distressed with my chalks, peel off with love, colour altered with my promarkers and extra glitter added. Punched out a couple of hearts in the two main colours blue and yellow.

Challenges!

Top Tip Tuesday ch 69 - Valentine

Belli Challenge - Valentine/Hearts

Fab 'n' Funky 106 - Use a Digi

Flutterby Wednesday 188 - Open Challenge

Crafty Anns Challenge 58 - Love is in the air

Polka Doodles - Show some love with hearts

Sweet Stampin - To the one I love

One Stop Craft Challenge - For the one I love

Stamp Scrap & Doodle - die cuts or punches

Dream Valley - Valentines

Thanks for popping over

hugs heidi xx

Love Birds at Squiggles and Giggles

Look at these gorgeous Love Birds at a special price of 99p at Squiggle Stamps for a limited time only!!

Coloured with promarkers and then liberally glittered with my stickles.

I have used a rub-on for the sentiment and used pearlescent paper to layer up and some tiny brads.  Also popped on some super flower gems.

I love Promarkers  challenge 101 is purple and pink and I am sharing this with them.

Just to remind you the current Challenge at Squiggle Stamps is 'ALL LOVED UP'

If you use a  Squiggles image on your card you can enter twice!!

Lots of lovely images in the store and some like the love birds above have been discounted for this challenge. You may even find some freebies.

Thanks for looking

HEIDI xxx

Squiggles Saturday says we're All Loved Up

And here is a lovely valentine card just for your perusal.

I have used squiggle stamps 'Lovey Dovey', which is available in rubber and digi.

I have coloured with my promarkers,  and followed a sketch. I used a LOTV sentiment, that fell in my basket the other day and lovely glitter on the wings of the birdies.

The ribbon has been recycled from a present that I received last year. Have added faux stitches and edged with pigment chalks.

Challenges !

Cupcake craft challenges - All you need is love

Passion for Promarkers - Recycle (pink ribbon)

Crafty Catz 117 - Things with wings

Allsorts - use one or more hearts

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Ribbons

Totally Gorjuss - Keep it Simple Silly (KISS)

Catch the Bug - Stella says Sketch ch 103

Thanks for looking

Hugs Heidi x

Be My Valentine ATC's

Well I have finished my ATC Banner for my Hubby, hope he likes it after all this hiding each one sometimes very carefully cos they have still been wet.

I have got lovely and messy, with my chalks, inks, glossy glues and various other sticky icky lovely stuff.

So thanks Neil for thinking up such a fun project. Have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Here are a few other pics (rather a lot so you might need a cuppa) and a wee bit of info on making each one.

This 'B' ATC is made using versamark onto a script rubber stamp, then a light coloured chalk over it, next using my stazon I stamped an image of two birds. The letter is made from a square of newspaper printed card. I cut out the black card and stuck it to the newspaper print to form a shadow image, I glittered with stickles and sprinkled small beads accross it (sorry don't have any micro beads). Added a wee heart attached witha pearl brad.

The 'E' ATC is made by this time versamarking the atc first, then applying various coloured chalks diagonally. I stamped down one side with a small stamp and tied in the effect on the E that I cut out from card and inked with a terracotta (pale). The butterfly is a sizzix die, which has been embossed and altered again with inks and chalks.

The 'M' atc has been embossed and then chalked, the flower made as per Neils Instructions (Here) The tag I used is one from a dragon/fairy pack that I have in my stash and the M is from a stick on pack, that I have then silver matt coloured.

The 'Y' atc has been gently coloured (one half) with a peachy chalk and then stamped with white ink and then stamped again with the 'with love' sentiments on top. I have added another wee heart charm and a swirl that I have carefully cut out after stamping the shape onto plain card. The 'y' is hand cut from corrugated cream card, onto that I have then used silver inks and chalks

The 'V' atc again has been embossed and pigment inked, the wee pic is from a HOTP booklet from ages ago, the wee heart I snaffled from an old broken bracelet. The V has been handcut from glitter card then glittered and chalked.

The 'A' atc has been versamarked with a script stamp and chalked. The Roses have been added with Stazon. The flower as before (See Here) for how to make. The 'a' is covered with copper glitter and a Mother of Pearl heart added to the top rhs corner.

The 'L' cut from card again and the heart from mirror card and stamped with a fairy image with stazon. I cut out a crown which I covered with black glue and small metallic beads. The base of the atc is lightly checkered which was done by covering certain areas and then chalking what was left and moving these around, then stamped over with a whispers stamp in 'butterscotch' using my penny black snow scroll.

The 'E' atc I made from some 12 x 12 sheets. A whole piece and then added some strips. The die cut sizzix butterfly is cut from gold card then embossed, then glue and metallic beads added. The 'E' has been made with the same idea as the 'B' but using black glue and metallic beads filling the blank spaces.

The 'N' has been made using a stick on n from a pack and stippled with red plastic paint. The atc has been gently embossed and chalked, then the frame was hand cut from card and tinted using inks and a sentiment stamped and a piece of fibre attached.

The 'T' atc has been embossed and then chalked. The T has been made from card , inked and then corrugated, and again another gorgeous home made flower (by the way, I cut each of these layers out by hand for each of the flowers, but the effect is brilliant)

The 'I' atc was the most messy and the one I am least happy with, but here goes, an image stamped on the atc and then painted around the edge with green, allowed to dry and chalked over in many pinks and purples. The butterfly has been silvered and the 'I' was coloured with greens and blues (chalks), then gently varnished to glisten.

The 'N' atc has strips added from the sheets of the 'E' atc. The N & Heart has been coloured with red/orange ink and stamped with a wee heart. The heart was cut from card and the N also.

The 'E' atc has been put together from two atc's, I have embossed one, then attached half of the other after carefully tearing it apart, this side was peach coloured and the embossed side was very gently brushed with chalk. The E was hand cut and then glittered, and then another die cut butterfly with dark reds and terracotta inks.

At last this is the last one, an exclamation mark. Gently chalked atc, with a stamped coloured image (coloured with promarkers) and highlighted with my white pen. The ! has been cut from corrugated cream card, inked red, then glittered.

Thanks for bearing with me, if you made it this far. Hope you like them, I have enjoyed this little challenge and am now going to post it and link it to :-

Neelz Expressions - Valentine ATC Banner challenge

A Spoonful of Sugar challenge 138 Lets see some love

Paper take weekly - Have a heart

My Partner in Crafting Crime 19- Love minus red or pink

Passionate for Promarkers wk 86 - Let there be love

Fab n Funky Challenges - Tempting Texture

Flutterby Wednesday 141 - At least three hearts

Love and hugs

xxx

red hearts go wild

One of my all time fave bears. Adorable Forever Friends, coloured with my promarkers and layered up to a sketch by stampin' piper at Friday Sketchers.

Again I have used Kanban tartan card for base, cos I love it.

I have used some die cut hearts, a large nestibility eyelet circles and contrasting corners, which I have dulled down slightly with a black chalk on the edges.

Finishing off with a gorgeous black and white plaid ribbon.

I think out of all three of my tartan cards this one is my fave.

I am entering this card into

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge 97 - Hearts gone wild

Teddy Stampers Challenge 29 - Love Bears

Friday Sketchers 140 - Sketch by Stampin' Piper

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 35 - Free for all

CES challenge 22 - Red and Romance

Die Cut Dreams challenge 82 - Lots of hearts but no sentiment

Hope you enjoyed visiting

Hugs

xx

Heartfelt Just for Fun

I just found this image in my 'old stuff' box, and it made me think of the challenge over at Just for Fun, which this week is Heartfelt with a monthly theme running through everything of 'Wings', perfect eh?

So I have followed the current Critter Sketch (see below) using mostly white cos I wanted the main focus to be on the image, but then the all white effect was too much so I swapped the gingham and satin white ribbon with a couple of more robust colours and added in the red grossgrain and the lace with hearts.

I have coloured with my promarkers and highlighted the heart with sparkly glitter glue and hand written the sentiment. I also added stickles to the raised parts of the stars that I cut out using a sizzix green die and then embossed.

I am entering this card into :-

Critter Sketch challenge 50 - sketch by Colleen

Just for Fun - Heartfelt Wings

Winter Wonderland - Reach for the Stars

Allsorts Challenge wk 89 - It must be Love Love Love

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 120 - Valentine

Thanks for looking

xxx