Pigtail Gabby!

Yesterday I decided to make a cascade card, at least that's what they were called when I first started  making cards  many years ago, I decided to Google the name before doing this blog post just to make sure I had it right, only to find that the cascade card has moved on a bit since my day, they mostly seem to be two cascade cards joined together to make a more intricate design, but dotted amongst them were a couple of my kind of cascade cards so I have decided to stick with the name, otherwise I would have to call it a diagonally cut, concertina, trifold card, which is a bit of a mouthful LOL!

Anyway, here it is!

Image - Pigtail Gabby illustration - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers  - Little Lady Digital Scrap Kit - Just so Scrappy

Go Kreate scalloped circles die

Lifestyle nesting circles die

Tonic geared border punch - Diamond border

Die-namics Upsey Daisies die

Ribbon - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding invitation sample #3

We are going with a black, white and silver combo today, I don't know why but I ended up with a few black and white samples, I think it's probably because it's such a classic look.

Lifestyle nesting rectangle dies

Lifestyle nesting circle dies.

Silver peel-off wording - Craft Creations

Buttons, ribbons and black metallic cord - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Just Ducky!

We have a thing about ducks in my house, started by my hubby when the kids were young, they have to be yellow and fluffy and are usually called Billy (don't ask me why), it's carried on through to the grandchildren as well. You may have noticed that my watermark has a duck in it, I also have a Links bracelet and one of the charms is a little yellow duck, so when I saw the super cute Quacky images over at Digistamp Boutique I just had to have them and am already planning hubby's birthday card with the one holding the gift.

In the meantime I have coloured up this little cutie called For You Quacky and made quite a simple card, although I did go a bit wild with the ribbon as I am always trying to find different things to do with it and after playing around a bit came up with this idea. I think it looks OK, although if I do it again I think I would use a coloured piece of card rather than white, I'm thinking that a nice Spring green would have worked well with the yellow and orange combo.

Digital stamp - For You Quacky - Digistamp Boutique

Ribbons and gems - Meiflower

I am entering these challenges with this card.

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  Must Be Square #30 Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps  - # 164 Easter

Top Tip Tuesday  - #124 Cute

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Easter Animal

Craft Your Passion - No Designer Papers

Digi Makeover Challenge - must use digi - Anything Goes + DT Call
DigiStamp boutique - April customer competition

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invite sample #2

Here's the second of this years Wedding Invitation samples and today's is a bit more traditional than yesterday's.

Centura Pearl Mink card - Craft Creations

Pearl and diamante heart topper, ribbon and pearls - Meiflower

Thanks for calling in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invitation Samples 2014 - #1

As some of you will know I am a member of the design team for Meiflower and as part of the team every year I make a selection of Wedding Invitation samples showcasing her products, these samples are displayed on Mei's stall at all the craft fairs she attends, they are in cellophane bags with an ingredients and suppliers list in the back, they are then attached to boards with velcro, so that if people see something that interests them the card can be taken down and details copied, because it is the best shape for the boards Mei likes all her card samples to be square, but many of my designs could easily be adapted for different shaped cards.

Over the next couple of weeks, in between my regular posts, I will be sharing these samples with you, so today we have sample no.1 which would also work well as a 'Save the Date' card.

6 x 6 deckle edge card blanks - picked up at a show, not sure what company

Pearl paper - Craft Creations

Lifestyle nesting rectangles die

Die-versions - Little Lizzie Font

X-cut palm punch - small heart

Satin ribbons, silver metallic cord and gems - Meiflower

See you tomorrow with sample 2

Thanks for popping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Spots and Dots

Yaayyy ! it's time for our monthly challenge over at Paper Creator and this time around the theme is

Spots and Dots

You can use anybody's products to enter, but don't forget if you use a Paper Creator product you get two entries into the draw and with a chance of winning a £10 store voucher so it's definitely worth giving it a go.

Onto the challenge theme - Spots and Dots - now what exactly is the difference between a spots and a dot, I wasn't quite sure so decided to interpret it as large circles are spots and small circles are dots, so polka dot paper, ribbon and buttons have dots, but the buttons themselves are spots? still none the wiser LOL!

I decided to use a spotty dotty background paper and then die cut spots of different papers for decoration, layering them up with foam pads for dimension.

Image - Sweet Little Avery illustration - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Lovebirds digital scrap kit - Just So Scrappy

Lifestyle nesting circle dies and Tonic layering circle dies

Lin and Lene circles border die

X-cut palm punches - pointy butterfly large and medium

Off to the Sincerely Yours craft show at Leigh this morning, wonder what I'll buy? I bet a die or two will find it's way into my bag LOL! then off to visit my mum as it's her birthday today, and finally settle down and watch the Grand National.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from my teamies

Thanks for stopping by,

have a lovely weekend

hugs,

Colette xx

Come fly with me!

Well - here it is my first challenge post as a design team member over at The Paper Shelter, I'm sooooo excited to be part of the DT and be lucky enough to play with the fabulous images on offer in the store.

The challenge this week is

BUTTONS

and we would love it if you would play along with us.

If you win the challenge using a TPS image then you will win a $30 gift certificate for the store, if you win using any other image then you will win your choice of 3 digi's from the store and as there are so many beautiful images to choose from it's a win/win situation whichever way you look at it.

I actually have two cards to show you using the same image, the first one is a stepper card made from acetate, I wanted my Giraffe in his little airplane to look like he was flying above the clouds pulling his happy birthday banner behind him.

Image - Funny Giraffes - The Paper Shelter

Clouds and tag - two by two digital scrap kit - Just so Scrappy

240 Micron Acetate

Orange cord and buttons - Meiflower

I wasn't very happy with the clouds, they weren't very fluffy, so I decided to make a regular card as well - I used one of the clouds from the image, re-sized to make it bigger and coloured it in to look (I hope) fluffier.

The papers, sun and tag came from the same kit as above and I used a few dies for the extras.

Die-namics - Simply Scallops Medium ( thought they could represent little hills in the distance LOL!)

Die-versions - Little Lizzie Font

Joy Crafts - 6003/0028 Flags

Pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

I am entering my card into the following challenges

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -Must Be Square #29 Use A Patterned Paper

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge  - Birthday's

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes

2 Cute Ink Challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything but Square

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx