Lydia 18th

Close up of shoes

Soon my 'baby' will be 18. She would only wear shades of purple, and the more velvety and flittery the better! If I dressed her in anything else off it came and on when the purple dress, purple socks, purple cardi...
I made the little shoes from a svg I made ages ago for a card for my elder daughter Sophie.   It does not show too well but they are made from a scrap re-cycled of velvetely brocade paper I found in my stash, I think it was originally from a doll dressing up pack. Black glitter cardstock, bows and ribbons, bling, rub-ons from stash.  Brocade embossing folder. SU punch out of purple plum cs, nestie and I made a key SVG and cut it on the e-craft. It is bit fussier than usual for me but Narelle on FMS did say she likes layers and 'fullness'!!
Challenges: I used the layout from  Freshly made sketches #58
Unstampabelles # recycled
Sir stampalot October-challenge - Punch Away

LIM week 66 yellow

This week at Less is More This week we are back to a colour challenge and the chosen colour this time is

Y E L L O W

Other colours may be in evidence as long as the main focus colour is yellow.

Yesterday a box arrived with a Sew Easy, and some punches, 2 for stamens.I had been playing with the SU mixed bunch punch off and on all week and liked the embossed look on the flower.   I made the card from  kraft card  from my stash, so this week Chrissie and Mandi my 'white space' is kraft!

It has been abusy week here, Ella had her first 'toiletage'... I nearly cried when I saw how short her hair is now .  She absolutly hates being brushed but her long hair really needed to be shorter for the summer. at least now I can brush her without a fight, hopefully by the time it all grows back for the winter she will be more co-operative!  She likes to dig and roll and it was a nightmare keeping her hair from getting all matted up. 

Before..

So much hair going..

Ella is unimpressed with her first bath....

After blowdrying..

After.. I wonder what Toby thinks of my new hair do???? 

LIM week 65

It has been a busy old week. 3 seasons in one day, this morning it was sunny and 18c, lunch time it clouded over and just now we had a hail storm with 1-2cm stones!
this card is for my nephew Ollie's 3rd birthday.  I used the SU cupcake punch with craftworks card blank and scraps from my stash.  If you look really carefully you will see a tiny shrink plastic charm with a SU punch pals (I think?) stamped with stazon and shrunk.  I did this last week for LIM 'charms' but didn't manage to get the card uploaded in time so i used it one this one.

This is Stumpy 'helping' me to tidy up my desk........

Oh.. folded Christmas Tree!

Less is More this week is Three Shades of Green.... not my favourite colour AT ALL. So green made me think of christmas, hunting for green paper I found the lovely SU Paisley petals and a bit of white card all ready embossed with christmassy words.  I used Old Olive (i think) cardstock, the tree pot is the bottom of the SU cupcake punch and the folded tree idea I have seen a few times on pinterest but think originally it was Vicky's blog I saw it on.  This didn't work out with enough contrast between the layers so I will hopefully have another attempt this week with different paper Less is More #62 colour.

Magnum

This is my 3rd card for Less is More #53 colour-aqua my lovely new Magnum 1/2 price stamps arrived this week, shame the same could not be said for my Ecraft which is stuck at some La Poste near the armpit of beyond and will probably end up going back because the Lazy ******* courier could not be bothered to actually deliver it! As I'll be busy getting my eyes cut open next week I can't go and get it. This is the last time I bother trying to buy crafting goodies in France, except from Alison's SU :-)

I masked off the main stamp with post-its so I could have more palm trees and Aqua sea!, coloured with Promarkers. the sentiment is computer generated. There is lots of white space on this one!  I used my lovely new SU border punch. I could not resist adding the dead fish from the 'add on' set. I did the embossing on my long neglected Crafters Companion Pro, it looks a bit wonky on the pic.
Other challenges:

Happy birthday Mr D.

As I am snowed in this week (-8c) I have decided to try and do a few more challenges using my newly organised stash and get ahead with this years cards.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday #227   I think it is the first time I have actually entered although I have liked the sketches for ages.
I used: Stampin' Up! image, sentiment and punch, Pink Petticoat swirly paper, lined paper, ribbon and kraft card from stash, oval nesties, Friskars texture plate in the Wizzard for the embossing.  I would also like to enter these challenges:

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ anything goes

 Cards for men #3-seeing red 

Here come the boys favourite song Born to be Wild 

Ribbon carousel - anything goes

Craftyribbons for the Men or Boys         Pals Paper Arts - Any reds  Birthday sundaes

Feeling Blue

Less is More  this week is 'cut it out' Chrissie and Mandi want to see cards with apertures. Sir Stampalot January is Monochromatic so I have used shades of Blue.Papertake - happy-highlights (bling on the flowers, heat embossing on the stamped sentiment.
I used: Old Blue pearlised card, bling from my stash,  DP inside is Papermania, X-cut embossing folder (which also cut out the aperture, New SU sentiment stamp from  'Happiets Birthday Wishes'.
(My cameras battery has died so this is scanned and the aperture does not show up too well, but it is there!)

Purple

As my other half is away this week I get more time to play in my craft room.  I'm still half way through a major re-organisation EDIT and hoping to keep it a bit more tidy in 2012! (some hope :-) giben up now and hidden it all in a cupboard.

So this week at Less is More we are on week #49, Predominantly Purple
 I love purple so had a good old hunt through my scraps box.  I found this lovely handmade paper and used my new Triple Treat flower stamp embossed with WOW grape, sentiment and punches from my mega Stampin' Up Christmas order. the sentiment is actually straight but looks odd as I tried to straighten the photo. I always have photo problems as my craft room window is below the roof overhang over the terrace so I don't get much direct light. 
: Lady Bugs - New Stash (SU stamps & punches)
Clean & simple - Sketch  FTL172 Teriffic sketch this week
One stop craft challenge - Bingo  (Heat Embossing, punches, flowers)
Simon says stamp - New something  (New Stampin' up punches and stamps)

Santa

This is my second stepper card using the fab Little Claire stamp, coloured on the pc for the bricks and the rest with promarkers, star glitter pen, cricut trees embossed then inked a bit. DTs are both  Pink Petticoat the snow paper was perfect for this card the text is' the night before christmas' Santa is wearing viva glitter pen in red!

Challenges: Simon says stamp Simon-says-anything-goes
Cardmad Fairy -Winterwonderland   Divas by design anything-goes   Sundays with crissy.-anything-goes-

Green trees

 Card stock, ribbon, rub on, bling all from stash, svg file from (?) embossed with embossing folder.

I have been finishing off christmas cards so I can post them in England later today.  I'm off to see my Mum, sisters and daughters, can't wait!  I didn't want to miss a week and managed 2 green cards for
This weeks 44 challenge at  Less is More is GREEN ... which, after red is not exactly my favourite colour either! Anyway I had a bit of a disaster and enveloped up the second card before I realised I had knocked the camera and missed the edge. The image is SU in always artichoke then highlighted with sakura stardust pen you can't really see the colour or glittery effect in the picture sadly. Ribbon, DP new Craft creations  white snowy sky, alas you cannot really see it! I bought lots of 4 x 12" sheets which arrived yesterday. I used the sketch from Sweet Stop, more or less!

Other challenges for first card I would like to enter are:
Other challenges for second card I would like to enter are:
Sweet stop # sss136 Sketch

Santa on the roof

I posted off to Australia my first christmas cards yesterday... wow how fast time flies!  Using challenges is such a great way of getting a pile of cards that are all different. This one is going to my little nephew who is two.
I used:
Little Claire image the house walls I coloured digitally, promarkers for the rest, Viva glitter pen for santa, cutting file for the trees which I inked over with darker green and sprayed Crafters Companion glitter spray on them. Pink Petticoat snow and text papers, embossing folder and card, ribbon bows
from stash. snowflake punches.
I would like to enter:
Little Claires - Shaped cards
The Ribbon girls Jingle-all-way-to-christmas
Totally papercrafts #94 Christmas
Creatalicious challenges - Christmas Make  sure it Sparkles!
 Crimbo-crackers. #3 Santa
Papertake Christmas Ccrackers
Charisma cardz #46 Snowflakes
Sweet Stampin Punches & dies  (trees and snowflakes)
Papersundaes  Winter wonderland
Purple butterfly crafts Its-cold-outside

Pink Diva Shoes

I am a huge Pink Petticoat fan and am making tons of cards with this Diva download .  I also used: Promarkers, Snowflake embossing folder, sakura starlite pen for the sparkles, liquid pearls,nesties & Nellie dies, pink and white pearl CS from stash, organza polka dot ribbon from stash.
I would like to enter: Ribbon Carousel - Holiday-hoopla (Christmas)
The Ribbon Girl Colour challenge #13 Pink- & white
I love Promarkers #93 Anything goes
Crafty Emma's Challenge - Snowflakes (embossed)
Sundays with crissy 23 Christmas-card-using-non traditional colours (pink & w
hite)
Divas by design #15Monochromatic (Pink)

Dasher

This is my 2nd attempt for Less is More #42 Theme 

Silhouettes

 n. A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a basically featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black.

So more white space on this one!

I used: Image, SU Dasher, sakura starlite pens in black and clear, nestie border and oval dies, Gina K sentiment stamp, Papermania snow embossing folder.

I would also like to enter:

 

Cards & Cats #2

Another new Challenge for me this week isThe Ribbon carousel 28-pillow talk with Andrea the inspiration picture is of a pile of pillows some of which are hot pink, ivory/cream and turquoise. We also have to use ribbon, mine was from Doodlebug.

Stumpy 'helping' with the photography!

Clean and simple I used this great sketch for a 2nd Pink and turquiose card. using the same supplies as the previous card except for nestie stars, punched stars, lovely new SU oval punches.