Bring on the cake! part 1

If you've got the latest edition of the Papercraft Essentials magazine, then you will already have seen these cards, but I thought I would pop them on the blog too.

I was lucky enough to be given a fabulous Kate Hadfield collection of digi images and stamps to play with called Bring on the Cake and was commissioned to make seven cards. Here are a few of them the rest will follow in a few days.

I love her images, they are always so bright and colourful. I decided to design my own papers to go with the images, there are 10 plain and 12 patterned and if you like the look of them you can download them for free from HERE.

The Bring on the cake collection comes in either a pre-coloured version or a digital stamp version, the top two cards use pre-coloured images and the bottom one is a digi-stamp. The papers are all from the free download, lace is from stash, flowers are made with X-cut punches and all the ribbons and gems are from Meiflower.

If you don't have the magazine then check it out, it has lots of fabulous inspiration and comes with a free gift of a gorgeous igloo embossing folder and some seriously cute stamps of penguins, a polar bear and a seal, as well as some extra items to dress them up and create scenes.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Figure eight style

We are just about halfway through our Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Creator, so I thought I would pop in with a quick reminder. I have another card to show you that is almost the same as my card at the start of the challenge (cos' I am loving this design at the moment and Paper Creator have so many Sassy Cheryl illustrations that are perfect for it, expect at least another one before Christmas LOL!)

 I like to make them so that when the card is folded the skater hangs over the edge slightly, so although the card is square I have to put it in an A5 envelope. As in the previous card HERE, the bottom strip is covered in glitter, unfortunately it is very difficult to get it to show up in a photo.

Figure eight style illustration - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Up on the housetop - Just So Scrappy

Marianne Creatables LR0191 lamp and sign 

Wreath and snow on lamp post  are from X-cut Gingerbread House die set 

X-cut large and medium snowflake punch

Ribbon and gems - Meiflower

There is still a couple of weeks to get your entry in for our anything goes challenge and with the £10 gift voucher prize you could purchase quite a few of these Sassy Cheryl images and make your own cards..

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Santa Selfie

We have a new challenge starting today over at The Paper Shelter and it's super easy too, our theme is

Christmas is Coming

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice.

I thought that the Santa Selfie image would be the perfect choice for today's tech savvy youngsters.

I kept the card quite simple making the image the main focus.

After colouring the image I added glitter to Rudolph's nose and Santa's bobble and buckle. I made the  sentiment using different fonts and some embellishments from a Nitwits kit, I also added a sprig of holly from the kit to Santa's hat before printing, a couple of  glitter card photo corners and a gingham bow finished the card.

Digital Stamp - Santa Selfie - The Paper Shelter

Sentiment - computer generated

Nitwits HoHoHo collection - images in sentiment and Santa's hat holly

Landscape red card blank - Craft Creations

Glitters - HunkyDory

Die-namics Photo Corners

Gingham ribbon - Meiflower

Check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies at The Paper Shelter challenge blog, 

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Snow much fun!

Oh my goodness! November already, there's only 55 days until Christmas, 55 days!!! think I need to start getting some presents bought, not that I'm one of those people that leaves everything until the last minute or anything (guilty as charged LOL!)

As it is the first of the month it's time for a new challenge at Paper Creator and this time around it is the amazingly simple

Anything Goes

The winner will receive a £10 store credit to spend in the Paper Creator store.

Paper Creator products are not essential, but you will gain an extra entry into the random draw if using them. The challenge runs for the whole of the month and the winner is announced at the start of the next month's challenge.

I decided to combine a couple of Sassy Cheryl illustrations and a fun fold to make my card. The strip across the bottom is decorated with glitter to make it look icy, but unfortunately it doesn't show up too well in the photo. The images are fussy cut and arranged to look like they are ice-skating, which is why I chose to use this fold, I actually love the way it works out and have made a few more versions of this card which will be popping up over the next couple of weeks,

Wind in my hair and Penguin panache digital illustrations - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Nitwits Great White North Collection

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Joanna Sheen Signature die - Classic Christmas tree

Tonic circle and scallop circle layering dies

X-cut medium and large snowflake punches

Stick on gems - Meiflower

Thanks for dropping by to take a look, pop over to the Paper Creator challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from my teamies.

hugs,

Colette xx

Dear Santa

Here's a couple more cards I made for the Papercraft Essentials August issue.

Dovecraft Dear Santa Decoupage pad

Dovecraft Dear Santa 12 x 12 paper pack

Dovecraft Dear Santa 6 x 6 paper pack

Wild Orchid Crafts mixed doilies pack

Hobbycraft Red mini wooden craft pegs

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Holiday Sentiments dies

 Dovecraft Dear Santa decoupage pack

Dovecraft 6 x 6 paper pack

Dovecraft Dear Santa 1m ribbon pack

Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Twine

Marianne Craftables Mini Alphabet and garland CR1281

X-cut large snowflake punch

Red lace – stash

Meiflower diamante Ribbon Slider 

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Winter Princess

It's time for a team B challenge at Paper Shelter this week and our theme is 

Pearls and/or gems

simple enough, just make sure you have some pearls on your card.

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice.

Now, I have to admit that the challenge had changed from what I originally had down on my list, and I hadn't realised this, so I made my card for a completely different challenge, luckily for me though it just happened to have some pearls on it, not as many as it would have had if I had discovered that the challenge had changed sooner, but hopefully enough to qualify (there is 10).

Digital stamp - Winter Princess - The Paper Shelter

Digital Paper - Nitwits Snowfolk collection

JoyCrafts Winter wishes - Ice Crystal 1

JoyCrafts Winter Wishes - Ice Crystal border

X-cut medium snowflake punch

X-cut border bunch - Sparkler

Stick on gems and pearls - Meiflower

Hunkydory diamond sparkles glitter - Silver Sparkle

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

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Helloooo!

I'm back! back to blogging that is, been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (yes - really - that much) busy since I got back from my hols that I haven't had a chance to get any blogging done, even had to miss some of my DT posts this month.

Had a fabulous holiday in Italy, met some lovely people who we are still in touch with and all hoping to go away together next year.

Came home to 3 magazine commissions, two had their deadline extended so that I could do them when I got home and then the third one came in after being home about a week, so they have kept me really busy, on top of that we have had some problems with my mother-in-law and the best news of all, my grandson Will managed to get himself a small part in a play at the Liverpool Playhouse theatre called The Rivals, he did really well at the audition and was thrilled when he got the part, but he needed a chaperone with him at each performance so we all had to muck in to make sure he was chaperoned and there was someone available to look after Charlie as well which again took up a lot of time, the play still has a week to run, so still a bit tied up with that.

Here he is all dressed up and ready to go on.

While we were away Will was also made head boy and was given the lead role in Macbeth at school, which they are performing at a small local theatre, Sooo proud of the him.

I do actually have a couple of cards to show you, part of a magazine commission for the August edition of Papercraft Essentials.

Dovecraft Dear Santa Decoupage pad

Dovecraft Dear Santa 6 x 6 paper pack

Sue Wilson Festive Collection Frosty mini background

Spellbinders Holiday sentiments S2-118

X-cut scalloped border punch

X-cut small corner rounder punch

X-cut large snowflake die and medium heart die

Meiflower mixed size pack of stick on gems

Dovecraft Dear Santa 6 x 6 paper pack

Dovecraft Dear Santa Decoupage pad

Dovecraft Dear Santa 1m Ribbon pack

Green 6 x 6 square scalloped card blank – The Range

Meiflower mixed size pack of green stick on pearls

Wooden stars, small and large – The Range

I made 7 cards altogether so will have more to show during the week.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx