Birthday wishes to you

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

My card this week I took the simple approach and kept it flat.  Coloured the image with pencils and layered it with co-ordinating papers

Items Used

Sentiment and die from Tonic Verso Live, Laugh, Love/ Single Banner

Lace from my stash

Bling gems - Docrafts, Hawthorn & Bramble

Distress Ink - Wilted Violet

Pink paper from my stash

Patterned paper from first edition - Dreamcatcher 8x8 pad

white cardstock

image from Lacy sunshine - Rory's Butterfly

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Karen Xxx

Happy April Fools

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Firstly can I apologise for this blog post being late, its been a little hectic in our household this week, packing the husband off for a few days and then one of my fur babies getting herself hurt.  This meant multiple trips to the vets, resulting in surgery on Monday morning.  So here is my card for this week Brown Sugar Challenge.

The card base was 6 x 6 white and layered with patterned paper.  The image was coloured with pencils and cut with a spellbinders lacy die and using a pair of scissors I cut the lace part off.

I handmade the flowers from a spellbinders bloom die and added a little glitter glue to the tips of the petals to make them sparkle.

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Items Used

white, orange and white cardstock

patterned paper - Papermania Hampstead, A warm welcome

crayola and steadtler coloured pencils

spellbinders - lacy circles and Blooms Number 3

tattered lace - beautiful blooms

cosmic shimmer glue

1mm foam tape

dovecraft glitter glue

8mm flat backed pearls

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Karen Xxx

Gone But Never Forgotton

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

I must admit this layout was very difficult to do and believe it or not took me well over 3 weeks, lifting it to do it and then just looking at the photo and putting it aside again.

This is a layout of A Special Lady my Aunt Minnie.  She passed away about 5 weeks ago and it broke my heart. She was a right old age of 92 and if she had've lived till the end of next month she would have seen her 93rd birthday,

 This woman has touched so many families hearts.  She lost her husband over 18 years ago and they were self sufficient couple they grew there own vegetable and fruits and anyone one who knew her, knew her for her knitting, crocheting, jam making, her love for flowers and gardening, sewing and baking.  This lady was so good to me as a child and an adult and I always said she was my second mum,  She didn't have any girls just a son but she had a great granddaugther, So this layout is going into a box frame so I can put it up on my wall.

Under the main photo I have put a journalling spot trimmed with paper lace trim using a spellbinder die. 

The bling is a champagne colour swirl gems from Zva, the pattern paper was from a Recollections paper pad.

The flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts.  The dates were created using my little Sizzix side kick using the plates from the Sapphire.  The dies were again from Quickutz alphabet and

I used Sizzix alphabet to do her name. I went round the age of the cream card with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to tone down the colour of the cream card.

 I am hoping to do a 8 x 8 version of this only using a photo of my mum and Minnie together and put it into a box frame for my mum.  My mum was devastated when she passed away and my way of thinking is that she can look and treasure this till the day she will meet her again.  Right sorry folks this post has got a little bit morbid, 

List of items used -

Wild Orchard Crafts - Opens Roses 25/15mm, Rose leaves, Cherry Blossoms and Sweetheart Blossoms

Bead Spray

Recollections Paper Pad - Graceful

Spellbinders Dies -  Labels One and Vintage Lace Border

Distress Inks - Vintage Photo

Sizzix Cute Girlie Alphabets

Quickutz Script Alphabet

Lace from my stash

Green and Cream cardstock

Self adhesive crystals from Zvacreative.com

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Collall 3D glue

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Karen Xxx

#121 Challenge

                                                      

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here is my project for

Brown Sugar 

Our theme this week is - Use 2 or more colours

Here is my card for this theme - I was at a demo day in Paperworks, Dungannon on the 8th November and our fab demostrate was Ruth Hamilton.  She demostrated this card and I asked her if I could use it with my Dt project this week. 

Items used - 

Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils

Red and White cardstock

Blue Stampin up ribbon

Clear Gems

free pattern paper from a magazine

Digi image from our sponsor below

Sponsor - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

 

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Karen Xxx

Little Pixie

Hi everyone

Its long past Friday, but its a new challenge for 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

Apologies for being so late with my DT post,  I couldn't find my digi image, then I couldn't decide what colour scheme I want and finally deciding what to do with the image.

So here what I have come up with

Our theme this week is Triangles

This week I thought I would do a layout just using the digi image, which you will find in our sponsors website.

The triangles in my project are my flowers are formed in the shape of a triangle and the pearls in the top right hand corner as well

The items I used in this layout are

12 x 12 paper from Trimcraft Santoro Merigirl

Promarker to colour image - Lime Green, Ivory, Blush and Caramel

Fleximarkers - Surf Blue, Soft Mauve,Tea Rose

Flowers - Wild Orchard Crafts

Bling - Creative Expression Pearl Swirls

Ribbon -Grosgrain from Stampin Up - Crushed Olive

Lace from Stash

Glue - Hot Glue and Cosmic Shimmer PVA

Die - Spellbinders - Grand Decorative Ovals

Distress Ink Pads - Shabby Shutters, Victorian Velvet, Milled Lavender

Our sponsors this week is

Scrapper Delights

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Karen Xxx

Happy Birthday Princess

Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its starting to get a little colder here and its well seen as I have the pleasure of a sore throat and a bit of a cough. 

Well were at the end of another week and that means we have another wonderful challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog.

Our theme this week is - Anything Goes

My image this week is  BBKakes - Flora Fae and colour

with my promarkers.

White card is used for the base card and for my image and sentiment.

I used blue card stock using stormy sky distress ink around the edge, embossed

with tiny dot from spellbinders.  Stamped and embossed with a christmas reindeer, believe is or not as I started out making this as a christmas card.

the flowers and made from blue and white card stock using the bity blossoms die from spellbinders, the folage is a tattered lace die also cut out of blue and white card.

The bow is made with cream seam binding coloured with the stormy sky distress ink with a wild orchid bling in the middle.

I used little bling gems above and below the sentiment.

Our sponsors this week is 

Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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Karen Xxx

#105 Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its hard to believe that we are into a new month already, is it me or does anyone else think this year is flying by.  Well dear I say it, its Friday again and its time now for another challenge for Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is Colour.

So here is my project -

The size of this card is not quite 6x6.  I am trying to use up what I've got in my stash so I apologise for not knowing the brand of the patterned paper I used and I thought it was the closet to the colour palette we had to used.  The image from our sponsors was coloured in with my promarkers and I attached yellow card candy to highlight the flower centres.  It was mounted onto a decorative circle from Spellbinders and then mounted onto blue card stock from my stash.  The flowers are from wild orchid crafts.

The kraft and blue flourishes are from a Spellbinders D-lites die - Corner Sprigs and the little flower in the bottom right had corner was made with Spellbinders D-lites die - Blooms 2 the centre is a blob of 3d collal glue with glitter over the top.  The birthday wishes stamp is from a freebie collection I received in a magazine stamped onto kraft card and punched out with a stampin up label punch.  The bling swirl is from a set I got out of Works bookshop ages ago and never used.

 Our Sponsors this week is

Robyn's Fetish

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Prize - 3 digi images of winners choice

Entered challenges -           Sister Act Card Challenge

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Karen Xxx