New Release and Sneak peek...

Hi all I hope you are all well. I have seen some really mind blowing pictures of the damage Sandy caused to the East Coast of America so really thinking of all those affected. I have been hard at it creating some Christmas cards this week. I am today sharing with you a card I made using Delicious Doodles images.

Card Recipe

Design Papers - designed using CraftArtist 2

Images - Christmas Scroll Border and yet to be named New Release hop over to the Delicious Doodles Facebook page to name her and a chance to win her.

Pens - Promarkers

Stickles

Seam binding

Snowflake - Crafty Embellies 

Gems -stash

Sentiment - Inkadinkadoo

Challenges I am entering are

Creative Card Challenge - Special occasion not birthday ( I choose Christmas)

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Fabulous Fibres ( Seam binding)

Simon Says Stamp - Get in shape (anything but square I choose DL card)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Geisha Girl xxx

Morning I hope that all my American and Canadian friends are safe the natural forces of nature are being very unkind at the moment. Please stay safe. I am sharing my DT card for the wonderful monthly challenge over at Natalie and Amy's Challenge. This months challenge is " Colour Me Happy" We want to see your favourite colours of the moment.

Card Recipe

Card Blank - 6 " by 6" square

Geisha Emma - by CC Designs Main Image

DP made using Permanant Red Shade Pan Pastel and Marianne Design Eline Huis Butterfly stamp set

Glossy Accents

Spectrum Noirs

Ribbon,Gems and Flower from stash

I love Red and Black together so I wanted to share this card with you for this challenge. I love the drama that Red and Black creates. I also think it is a great combination for Oriental cards.  I hope you can join our challenge this month and checkout the store lots of gorgeous goodies are arriving all the time xxx

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Countries (Japanese Geisha Girl)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Teabag Folding Christmas Cards

Hello with the winter nights now drawring in I have been starting Christmas card making. I thought this year I would try to make less cards with people on. Here are some of the teabag folding christmas cards I made last night.

Card Recipe

Card Blank 4" by 4" - Natalie and Amy's Store
Design Papers - From a selection at Natalie and Amy's store Christmas section
Buttons - From Stash
Sentiment - Inkadinkadoo stamps

A slightly different layout in the photo above.

I am entering the following challenges with these cards.

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Christmas
Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Fright Night

Hello I hope you are all having a nice week even if the weather is sad xxx I am sharing my Delicious Doodles Challenge DT card with you.

Our theme is "Fright Night" I have made a stepper card using Halloweenie Frankie. I coloured with alcohol pens and used some Paper Mania Capsule collection papers from Natalie and Amy's store.  I added some plastic spiders as I know lots of people who are frightened of them.

Challenges I am entering are:

Charisma Cardz - Don't be Square

Cute Card Thursday - Something Scary

Hope you all enjoy your Halloween weekend xxx
Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Twas the night before Christmas...

....and we all want it to snow. I have been making Christmas cards again with the gorgeous Snowflake Collection from Delicious Doodles. I have been truely inspired by these gorgeous images.

Card Recipe

Image - Delcious Doodles Snowflake Collection

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Spray and Sparkle

A5 Black card folded in half

Pan Pastel 

Versamark

Sentiment stamp Inkadinkadoo

I printed out the different snowflakes from the gorgeous Snowflake Collection. I then used different colours from my Pan Pastel collection to colourise the snowflakes. I then added stickles to the snowflakes and glossy accents. I let them dry overnight.

I folded a sheet of blank A5 black card in half. I then used my versamark to print my sentiment and gently dusted over some Pan Pastel. I sprayed the front of the card with Iridecent Spray and Sparkle. I added my snowflake to the card with foam pads. I have done two colourways to show you. I will be batch making more of these cards for Christmas so simple but so effective.

Challenges I am entering are:

Digi MakeOver Challenge - Weather

Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Combining Digital stamps with Traditional stamps

Hello I hope you are having a great Monday and that you are not too wet. I have been playing today with the beautiful Digital stamps released at Delicious Doodles called Snowflake Collection. I thought I would share with you how I combined them with Traditional stamps.

4" by 4" card

Card Recipe

Card blank - 4"by4" square and 6" by 6" square

Pan Pastel - Magenta

Versamark - Watermark Stampad

Spray and Sparkle Iridescent

Glossy Accents

Image - Delcious Doodles Snowflake Collection

Sentiment stamp and stamp  - Inkadinkadoo

6" by 6" Card

I printed out my digital image to the size that I wanted to fit my cards. I cut it out. I then inked up my desired stamp with Versamark. I stamped the image in various places to make a pattern. I then gently added some Pan Pastel using a make up sponge. I sprayed the snowflake with spray and Sparkle. On the 4 by 4 card I added glossy accents and gems and let it dry overnight. I added a sentiment using versamark and panpastels directly to my card and sprayed with spray and sparkle and added the snowflake with foam pads. With the 6 by 6 card I adhered the snowflake to the cards and then added the glossy accents and a card candy embellishment.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

One Stitch at A Time - Use a Digi

One Stop Craft Shop Challenge - Anything Goes

I hope you like my two very clean and simple cards made using digital and traditional card making techniques.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

New Release Snowflake Collection

Hello hope everyone is well with winter nights drawring nearer. Delicious Doodles have a great new release this week called Snowflake Collection you get three delicious snowflakes for £2.50 they are so versatile you will love them.

Card recipe

Image/DP -Delcious Doodles - Snowflake Collection

6 by 6 Card blank

Stardust Stickles - Natalie and Amy's store

Card Candy

Pan Pastel - Natalie and Amy's Store

Sentiment stamp - Inkadinkadoo

Nestibility

I have made two cards to show you using the collection. I adore making my own DP's using my graphics package and I used all three snowflakes in the collection. I then just printed off some snowflakes in different images to use as toppers and decoupage. I used some pan pastels over the snowflakes and some stardust stickles. I added a sentiment Noel to each card. On the green card I added card candy.

 Challenges I entered are:

Cute Card Thursday - Glitter (stickles)

Paper Craft Journey - Add some bling (lots of stickles for me)

ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes (U Up to You)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Ceramic painting tutorial - Using a digi stamp

Hello I love painting ceramics at the moment. I have decided to make a dinner set for my family using ceramic plates and the digital image Remembrance from the  Delicious Doodles shop. I love my ceramic pens and using them with digital stamps so here is a little tutorial for you all.

Plate Recipe

Blank Ceramic Plate

Ceramic Paints

Carbon Copy Paper

Digital Image

Biro pen.

Step One

You will need a clean blank ceramic plate

Step Two

Print out your desired Digital Image to the size you want it to be on the plate. Cut out a piece of Carbon Copy paper to match the digital image. Place it under the image making sure you have it the correct way to transfer the image.

Step Three

Take the biro pen and trace over the image where you  want you design. You will need to press quite hard and you may need to shape the image to the plate.

Step Four

Your image on your plate should look something like this.

Step Five

Take your black ceramic pen and draw over the carbon copy design. Your plate should now look like this.

Step Six

Take your green ceramic pen and colour all the parts you wish to be green.

Step Seven

Keep building your colours up here I have used two contrasting shades of red. Add some gold to the centres of the poppies for a finishing touch.

You have now finished your plate. It should look like the picture at the top of this page.

Rub out any lines left from the carbon copy with a rubber and follow the cooking instructions on the pens or paints used.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Geisha Girl

Hi there I am sharing another crafty retreat card. I love this stamp set by CC Designs called Geisha Emma. I got mine from Natalie and Amy's Shop.

Card Recipe

Geisha Emma Stamp 

First Edition Bo Ho chic papers

Glossy Accents

Spectrum Noirs

The challenges I would like to enter are :

Anything Goes Challenge  -Make your own embellishment (paper flowers)

Craft Room Challenge - Oriental

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Pan Pastel Peacock

Hi everyone hope you are all having a great week mine is whizzing past. I came back from A Crafty Weekend Away yesterday and at the weekend I have my sisters hen night. I have made this card using a cock rather than a hen (sorry had to do it).

Card Recipe

Local Rubber King Stamp

Pan Pastels - Natalie and Amy's store

Scalloped Square card blank - Natalie and Amy's Store

Versamark - Natalie and Amy's store

Card Candy

Black card stock

Spray and Sparkle

It is an image by Local Rubber King Stamps you can find images at Natalie and Amy's shop.

It comes with feathers so I used these for the background. I used versamark to stamp the feathers and the image and I used a mixture of green and blue shades of pan pastels over the images. Once I had done this I sprayed with Spray and Sparkle to create a glitter effect. I layered up the card. I love the softness of the pastels on an image.

Challenges I entered are:

Creative card Crew - Birds

Loves Rubber Stamps - Out of the box technique (I made own background with Pan pastels and glitter spray, versamark and stamp)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

New addiction Pan Pastels....!!!

Hi everyone I am back from a fantastic four days at "A Crafty Weekend Away" organised by the lovely Amy (co - owner of Natalie and Amy's Store). It was so fun. I got to make a whopping 23 cards and do some other crafts such as resin jewellery and ceramic painting. We enjoyed a great girlie time. Chatting, giggling, drinking tea, coffee, wine, eating, hotub and more.

I became slightly addicted to Pan Pastels and the most fun I had with them was creating my own backgrounds.

Here is a card I have made for some challenges. 

Recipe  - Pan Pastels  from Natalie and Amy's shop

Inkadinkadoo stamps

Back to Basics Christmas Paper  from Natalie and Amy's shop

Glossy Accents from Natalie and Amy's shop

Scalloped Square 6 by 6 square Card

Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle 

Versamark watermark pad available at Natalie and Amy's shop.

I created the backing papers by stamping the image with versamark I then used different shades of pan pastels over the images. I sprayed with Crafters companion Spray and Sparkle and then repeated with my second image. I then cut out some baubles from the Back to basic papers. I stuck on with a foam pad and then added glossy accents. I added some faux stitching to finish the card.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

2 sisters  - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Snowflakes

Totally Gorjuss Challenge - Traditional Christmas Colours

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Painting the tiles

Hello I should be on my way to Shropshire for my craft retreat so I am trusting that Mr Blogger publishes for me. Four days of crafting,giggling, chatting and much more hee hee. If you want to check out what I am doing click the tab at the top of my page.

This weeks challenge for the wonderful Delicious Doodles challenge is Monochrome. I decided to paint a tile with ceramic paints. Not sure if it is going to be a hot plate or a candle base yet. I used one of the butterflies from Butterflies to make this tile. I used blue tones as my colour.

This became a bit addictive so I now have quite a few tiles painted and awaiting cooking in my oven. I hope you can join in the challenge looking forward to seeing what you make.

Challenges I am entering are:

C.R.A.F.T - Monochromatic

My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps - Monochromatic

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Sneaky Peak time ....

Hello I have been packing and colouring in today. I wanted to share a sneaky preview with you of this beautiful image called Remembrance. It will be available in the Delicious Doodles Store very shortly.

I wanted to place the beautiful image in a field of poppies so I used the perfect image to create the field of popppies from the store called Sniffing Daisies. I cut away the girl from the image and resized and cut and pasted to give the illusion the cross was in a field of poppies.

I coloured the image with Spectrum Noirs. I then mounted onto a card and added faux stitching.

Challenges I am entering are: 

Diva's By Design - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Longing for the weekend

Hello I have 3 more sleeps till I go on my Crafty Weekend Away I am so looking forward to seeing everyone and having four days of crafty fun. So today I have been practising with my new Sweet Pea Digi stamp Longing from the Rebecca Sinz collection.

I coloured her with promarkers, flexmarkers and copics. I added sakura stardust to her wings and I used a glaze pen to do the faux stitching. I used DCWV papers The Chateau Lavender matstack. I decoupaged the flowers from the papers xxx

Challenges I am entering are :

Crafty bloggers network challenge - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Toreads again they are so cute!

Hello I have been busy making 3 birthday cards today but I have just one to share as I have to give the other two before I show.

I have been colouring up the cutie Toreads. This is a gorgeous boy Toread Xeru. I have to say he is so darn cool.
I decided to colour with my much neglected Promarkers. The background is made from elements from the CD rom. I used a stamping companion sheet and an embellishment sheet. I added glossy accents to the bow, eyes, horn and vines. I used a sentiment from the stamp set. I faux stitched the edges.

Challenges I am entering are:

Allsorts  -Autumn Leaves and Fall

Dutch Dare Challenge - Fall in the Air

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Hark the Herald Angels...!!!

Hiya hope you are all well and enjoying your Sunday. I am posting a card today that I have made for a few challenges. It is another Sweet Pea Stamps digi Hope by Rebecca Sinz.

I coloured her up with Spectrum Noirs my favourite pens at the moment. I then mounted her onto some DCWV metallic stack silver card  and a DL card blank from Natalie and Amy's Store.  I added some faux stitching.

To embellish the card I used a snowflake from Crafty Embellies. I added some red pen and some ice stickles.

Challenges I am entering are:

Spectrum Noir Monthly Challenge - Holidays

Glitter and Sparkle Challenge -Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Down in the Garden

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Could'nt colouring another Sweet Pea Digi xxx

Hello I am showing you another card I have made using a Sweet Pea Stamps Digi this time I used Ching Chou Kuik's "Where we met". I love this image and it shouted Christmas at me.

I coloured with Spectrum Noirs and cut out leaving a fine white boarder around the image. I used First Edition Stocking Filler papers to create the background to this card. I added a ribbon and a wooden snowflake embellishment (from crafty embellies) I coloured it with a spectrum noir. I also added some stickles and a gem to make it glisten. I also used glossy accents on the antlers.

I then added a  few more gems to finish the card off.

Challenges I have entered this card into are:

Winter Wonderland - Across the miles
Simon Says Stamp - Glimmer and Sparkle

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

Hello hope everyone is enjoying World Cardmaking Day! I am despite a really bad back. Went to bed on Wednesday night and it suddenly started aching and has not subsided since. Think back to back labour pains :0(.

Well yesterday I cheered myself up by purchasing Sweet Pea Digi Stamps yes DIGI finally we can purchase our favourite fantasy images in digital format. This weekend there is a special offer if you purchase 10 stamps you will get a voucher to redeem on your next purchase which means you get two images for free.

This image is called Joanne Schempps Dolphin Kiss digi . I decided to colour her with an autumnal feel using spectrum noirs available at Natalie and Amy's store. I added a sunset and I added some stickles, white gel pen and for the dolphin some glossy accents. The cardstock is DCWV Metallic stack again from Natalie and Amy's Store as are the stickles and the glossy accents. I used a backing paper from the first edition Boho chic paper pad again from Natalie and Amy's store. I added a branch from my Crafters Companion Toreads CD rom and I added some prima flowers, mulberry flowers and pearls from my stash.

Challenges I am entering this card into are:

Crafty Catz - Autumn

Simply Create - Autumn/Fall

Charisma Cards - Bling
Crafty Anns Challenge - Film (Flipper thanks Kym xxx)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Toreads .... Aww.... cute, cute, cute

Hello I am so happy to be playing with these cutie pie's today. I received my Pick of the week today and had to check out the theme over at Crafters Companion Challenge blog. It is "Birthdays" so here is my card.

I used the various components from the Toreads CD rom to make my card. I used the card companions and the embellishments sections to make up my card. I added some glossy accents to the embellishments and image. The whole card is made from elements from the CD. I faux stitched around  the edge of the composition and also used some inks on the edges of the branches to add interest.

I decorated the inside as well as the outside of my card. I hope you like what I have done.

Challenges I am entering are as follows:

Crafters companion Monthly Challenge blog - Birthdays

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Happy Birthday

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes and optional Celebrate

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

"Snow Cuddles"

Hello hope everyone is well. I am sharing a new release from the Delicious Doodles Shop called "Snow Cuddles". Isn't the image just fabulous.

I coloured the beautiful image with Spectrum noirs. I cut it out and added some glitter and some gems to the snowflakes. I used the Back to basics Vintage Christmas papers from Natalie and Amy's store as my backdrop for the image. I added a bow and some more gems and  some faux stitching.

The image is released today along with a Mermaid image so hop on over and take a look.

Challenges I am going to enter are:

Anything Goes Challenge  - Animals

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Glitter and Bling

Created With Love - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale