For Lynne

Hiya crafty peeps!

Are you often making personalised birthday cards? Not for family or friends, but for people you don't personally know?

I'm not making many cards like that really, they are challenging 😊.

Today's card is for Lynne - girlfriend of my man's work mate son... phew hope you understand what I wanted to say LOL!

What I know about Lynne? Name, age and that she loves books, not much... but enough to make nice card I think 😊.

For this card I choose 'Lil Bookworm Fairy' from Ching Chou Kuik.

I thought my card will look nice with a bit of vintage touch. Brownish/turquoise and pinkish papers, image and sentiment shaded with copper inkpad on edges plus piece of cream lace.

Could add few goldish pearls but decided not to as sometimes less is more.

That's all for today! 

Hope you like my new card 😊. 

Till next post friends! 

My 2018 favourite makes

Hiya Crafties!!!

Today I'm making little review of my makes from whole 2018 and choosing my faves :)

January

Delilah from Conie Fong

February

Twinkle Tulips from Polkadoodles

March

Dark Lilies from Ching Chou Kuik

April

Emma Rose from Conie Fong

May

Happy Unicorn from Alicia Bel

June

Butterfly from Conie Fong

July

Dandelion dreams by Angela Poole

August

Gelsey from Little Miss Muffet Stamps

September

What's up monster from Kinda Cute by Patricia

October

Princess Snow from Kinda Cute by Patricia

November

Little Snow Gnomes 2 from Fabrika Fantasy

December

Peony Delight from Conie Fong

Choice wasn't easy...

Which of my cards you like the most?

Till next post Friends!!!

Dandelions glow

Hiya crafty Friends!

Today bit melancholic card with beautiful image called Dandelions Glow created by Ching Chou Kuik.

Wanted her in purples and green... I used Prismacolor pencils to colour her, also added bit of glitter glue here and there..

Bit of paper tearing...

And 

Here's my newest card

Hope you like it.

That's all for today.

Till next post Friends!

Dark lilies

Hiya Crafties!

Did you saw image called Dark Lilies created by Ching Chou Kuik?

I love it!

When friend asked me for card for Mother's Day for her Dad's partner straight away I thought about Ching's image (you can find it here ).

She wanted card in purples and pinks so... here what I've made:

To colour this beauty I used Prismacolors pencils. 

Decided to use 2 pinky and 1 purple papers for this project. 

As recipient of this card is not my friend's Mum or Stepmum, but she likes her - we decided to add 'For someone very special' sentiment.

For finishing touch I added 3 goldish pearls to top right corner of second layer.

My friend loves this card.

What do you think about it? 

Till next post friends! 

For 21yo girl

Hiya crafties!

I was asked for birthday card for 21yo girl with beautiful image from Ching Chou Kuik called Luna Whispering - freebie for Kit and Clowder FB group members.

You can find lots of beautiful images of Ching's in her Etsy shop.

Here image after colouring

I decided to leave her partially in greyscale.

To make this card I decided to use 2 patterned papers and grey cardstock for layering.

To finish my card I added circle sentiment layered on grey scalloped circle and 3 white pearls.

What do you think about this card? Will be good for 21 years old girl?

I want to enter it to:

* WWODT - Challenge #1

* TTCRD - Feb 6 2018 - Anything goes

* The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #45

* The Little Miss Muffet - Challenge #182

That's all for today!

Till next post friends!

My Top 20 for 2017

Hiya all!!!

As it is almost end of year I decided to choose cards I like the best from these I made through the year...

I thought first: 5, but... you know :) 10 wasn't enough big number too, so... here's my 20 in monthly order or at least my faves from each month :)

Dragoon from Sasayaki Glitter

Flower vase - freebie from Conie Fong

Cupcake from Alicia Bell

Flower on the beach from Conie Fong

Free Spirit from Ching Chou Kuik

Moonflower Lullaby from Conie Fong

On the garden wall - LOTV

Dragonfly from Ching Chou Kuik

My first ATC card :)

Tori the Dragon from Conie Fong

Butterfly Kisses from Conie

Girl on mushroom from Julia Spiri

My first DT card for Particia Alvarez with Elephant and Stork.

Bella Rose from Conie

Cute images from Kuleczkowo - Princess, Dragon

Poppy Love from Ching

Mermaid from Patricia Alvarez

Bella from Conie

Tilda with Hawaii flower

and cute Xmas penguins from Conie :)

Which of them you like the most???

Till next post!!!

Poppy Love

Hiya dears!

Today I have for you girly card with beautiful image created by Ching Chou Kuik called Poppy Love.

Few good months flies by since I coloured last Ching's creation... hmmm... definitely will colour another one soon 😊.

Here's coloured image before I placed it on my card:

Yes, again I back to red hair, but... really I couldn't think about different colour for her 😊. You can find this image here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/514077845/poppy-love-instant-download-digital?ref=hp_rv

I decided to make my card simple, one patterned and one bold coloured paper.

As you can see I die cut border on piece of green cardstock, used two pieces of dotted ribbon and few gems to complete my design.

I hope you like my new card.

Till next post!

Dragonfly

Hi Friends!

Today I'll show you rather simple layout inspired by card I saw few weeks ago on Pinterest.

In my opinion - nice, clean and beautiful in its simplicity.

For this little project I used one of my fave images from Ching Chou Kuik called: Meet Dragonfly which you can find here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/196478837/meet-dragonfly-digital-stamp-instant?ref=shop_home_active_23

All I needed for today's card was: coloured image, 2 pieces of patterned paper and piece of ribbon.

Image coloured with pencils, colours used: yellow green, emerald green, light blue, ocean blue, red-brown, 2 shades of orange, gold and violet. I partially cut out the image before I place it on my card with foam tape. 

Beauty of this layout is in all possible changes/additions you can make in it, only limit is your own imagination.

You can add flowers,  bows, butterflies, gems, change position of second layer, rotate whole layout if to think about few ideas for using this card as a sketch.

What else you can do with this layout?

Write your ideas in comments please 😊.

That's all for today friends!

Till next post!

Fairy...

Hiya Friends!

Oh, wasn't writing for a bit... midterm break for my lil boy 😊. Also my man took few days of holiday, so we spent some time on short trips.

This cute pie was waiting a bit to be placed on card, so.. today 'Lil Bookworm Fairy' created by Ching Chou Kuik.

You can find this beautiful image here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/216132157/lil-bookworm-fairy-digital-stamp-instant?ref=shop_home_active_3

I decided to use rather pastel colours on it, soft beige, light blue, gold, bit of red, orange, yellow and olive.

I distressed edges of all layers with scissors and added nice piece of twine with gold thread to make a bow.

We can say kind of rustic look.

What do you think about my card?

Hope you like it 😊. 

Till next post friends!

Beauties of the Sea

Hiya Crafties!!!

Oh yes my friends! Mermaids again!

Why? May Challenge at Ching Chou Kuik's Facebook group :).

Believe it or not, for this challenge we have plenty of beautiful images to choose from! Just check mermaid section in Ching's etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gjzcck?section_id=15928892.

For my card I decided to use image called: Free Spring (here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/500658045/free-spring-instant-download-digital?ref=shop_home_active_20).

I wanted my mermaid to have this kind of vintage look, more sea like coloured... hope I successed :)

I used 3 patterned papers in bluish/creamy/beige/brown colour combo. All three pieces I distressed with scissors and inked edges with brown ink.

I coloured my mermaid with pencils - used: gold, olive, ivory, spring bud, emerald green, golden yellow, light brown, yellow clay and yellow green. I also distressed image with scissors and inked it.

To be honest with you I'm not using laces in my cards often, but this time I decided that combo of white lace and two tone beige ribbon will work nicely on my new project - right side of card.

My sentiment (from Sweet Dixie) I placed of bottom left corner, then add 3 green gems on left top corner.

And what do you think about my Beauty of the Sea?

Till next post friends!!!

Watercolour pencils in card making.

I have 2 boxes of watercolour pencils... hardly used them before...

I'm not great with drawing but... do I really need to draw to have a proper use for my pencils?

I know one thing for sure - lots of practice in front of me 😊.

Here one of my first watercolour 'landscapes' 😊.

Cherry blossoms tree - kind of funny looking, but hey.. i'm learning 😊.

Then I thought: Why not try use them on stamps?

Results? Look below:

Winnie from Polkadoodles - I think I used bit too much water here 😊.

Monarch - image created by Ching Chou Kuik. Here used bit different technique and less water 😊.

So, my friends.. what do you think about using watercolours for card making? Good idea or not?

Till next post!