Monday, 31 December 2012

"Frosty Winter"



Hello and welcome to my blog. Well it is nearly Christmas so this month I will be doing  "Frosty Winter"

Now as you all know I make cards, that is my passion but I also do other crafts. So this month I have made a Bracelet. Using Blue and Pearl beads Also i made the box that goes with it.

  So here it is......



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Thanks for stopping and looking at my Blog

Stella xx

Friday, 30 November 2012

Halloween / Autumn 2012



This month it is Halloween / Autumn

Now I have made 3 things for this challenge, the first is a card.....


I made this card by firstly using white card stock, ran it through my Cuttlebug with a dots embossing folder. Then I inked it using purple ink. I heat embossed some scriptwriting onto black card stock. added some orange card stock with ribbon on the top and a bow. coloured the image with my pro-markers. To finish it I add the words.

My second is a card using Autumn colours


I heat embossed the flowers on some photo paper that i have inked, using the same dots folder I inked the edges with orange ink and added a ribbon and bow 

My third is a little bag



I used a bag template ran it through my GC using the same embossing folder coloured some images and stuck them around the bag 


Thanks for popping by to look at my blog

Stella xx  

Monday, 29 October 2012

Fairy card

Hello everyone, here is a 6x6 card I made using lots of different small stamps and inks 


Thanks Stella x


This card will be entered into the following challenges 



Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Halloween 2012

Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing great, well Halloween is nearly upon us so I thought I would make a card and here it is.


I used a black base card with Orange and Purple with a very cute Witch that I have coloured using my Pro-Markers.

This card will be entered into the following challenges 


fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk ~ Orange, Black And Choice 






oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ Purple, Black and Stripes 







Monday, 22 October 2012

Day out in the summer

Hello everyone sorry, I have not been here for a bit, but lots going on at home. But I'm back now so here we go. 

Here is an 8x8 Digi Scrapbook page.

This LO is of my grandson Joshua that was taken in August this year. We went to Chester Zoo for my Birthday




Thanks for stopping to look at my blog

Stella x



This LO will be entered into the following challenges 


thecraftypad.blogspot.com.au ~ use and Animal 







Monday, 1 October 2012

Things with Wings



Hi everyone, I have no idea what has been up with me this month, but I made 3 cards in total for this challenge and I was only happy with the last one lol. I bet we all have months like that. Anyway to my card for this month


 I used my scoreboard to make the wall, I used my inks to make the background and coloured the Titla with my copics and the wings well they also coloured with my copics but then heat embossed with a glitter embossing powder.


Thank you for stopping by to look at my Blog

Stella xx

P.S I nearly forgot to tell you Please pop back here on the 15th for something special xx

Ok I told you to keep your eye out well here it is....
I was asked to make a video on a card for this months challenge and here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnRSgJe0NHQ&list=UUb2P_WNjXMR43mxdmNMto4A&index=1&feature=plcp


Sunday, 16 September 2012

Bring on the Bling with friends

Hello everyone, well I didn't get much crafting done today but I did get 1 card made. It is a friendship card for my best friends to put a smile on her face, it is an 8 x 8 card. I used the masking to get the 3 ladies together. Here is the card



Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog 

Stella xx


This card will be entered into the following challenges 







natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk ~ Anything goes 




cutedaisymay.blogspot.co.uk ~ Make it Girly 





Saturday, 15 September 2012

"Christmas" 2012

Hello everyone, hope you are all well. It is getting very close to Christmas so I have started on my cards. This one is an easel card with a Crafters Companion stamped image, in Red Gold and Blue



Thank you for stopping at looking at my blog 


Stella xx


This card will be entered into the following challenges 

littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk ~ Stand Up Straight 



cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk ~ Christmas in September 

stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk ~ Starting Christmas early 






Saturday, 1 September 2012

Buttons and Bows

Hello everyone, well it is September where did the summer go. This month I will be using "Buttons and Bows". SO here is my LO for this month challenge 


 I have used a picture of my granddaughter who always has a smile on her face.

Thanks for stopping to look at my Blog

Stella xx


 This LO will be entered into the following challenges

 thehappyscrapperschallenges  ~ Buttons and bows

jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk~ All about the children

cutedaisymay.blogspot.co.uk ~ Buttons or bows

papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk ~ Things that make you go AWWWW

mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.co.uk ~ Buttons


Tic Tac Toe


 This month it is Tic Tac Toe 
Here is a grid with 9 prompts, you must choose 3 of them only by choosing a line to create your example with.
Choose by going up & down, side to side or diagonally in any of the 3 lines. Here is the grid 





           Bright
    Colours



      Flowers
      



     Ribbons



        Buttons



            Lace


        
   Eyelets


     Die Cuts


         Glitter
    

       Pastel
  Colours

When I looked at the grid I just could not pick 1

So here is the first one......
Bright Colours, Flowers and Ribbon 

I used my embossing folders on the background. I then got my embossing pen went over the flowers and heat embossed them in bright yellow. Inked the edges with my Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink. Coloured the Tilda in Yellow and Orange and added the bright orange ribbon and bow and card candi 

Card Number 2
Button, Lace and Eyelets


Now this one I made into a congrats card because you never know when you will need 1. When you look at this you can see what I have done lol, The stamp set is from Stampin Up. The border bit that the lace is sat on is a Martha Stewart Punch, added Baker's Twine also from Stampin up. The buttons are from my tin.

Card Number 3
Die Cuts, Glitter and Pastel Colours

Now the people who know me know that these 3 things together and I'm in heaven. So here is my card for this 



As you can see from the second photo it is all about the Die Cuts, I have used the Spellbinder Dies to make the larger flower, Spellbinders Bitty Blossom to make the smaller ones, Spellbinder Foliage to make the leaf's added a few rosebuds and hat pins. the Swirl die is from Memory Box, The Ovals are from Spellbinders and the letters are Sizzix. To make the glitter backing paper I heat embossed it with Heat It Up Holographic Embossing Powder. Oh, I forgot to say this is an 8x8 card.



Thanks for stopping by to look at my blog 


Stella xxx


Monday, 20 August 2012

Vintage Card

Hello Everyone, How are we all doing, the sun is shining here for a change. Anyway, today's card is a vintage I have used 3 lots of different spellbinder dies, 3 flowers. my scrip stamp and my words stamp and some lace. All inked up using my Distressing inks. Here is my card



Thank you for stopping and look at my blog

Stella xx


This card will be entered into the following challenges 



http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk ~ Map, News Print, sheets Music, Script 






Sunday, 19 August 2012

Fairy in the garden

Hello Everyone, Today's cards is a fairy card. 

Here is my card



Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog

Stella xx



This card will be entered into the following challenges 









Saturday, 18 August 2012

Friendship

Hello everyone, today's card is for my friend who has just come out of the hospital. Back to my card I have used a Digi image as the main focal point, added some flower and butterflies. Here is my card 




Thanks for stopping at looking at my blog 

Stella xx 


This card will be entered into the following challenges 



http://ccmonthlychallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ Challenge 27 Best friends 

http://critterchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk ~ Challenge 128 ~ Using a Digi Image 


http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ Challenge 128 ~ Friends

http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ Challenge 173 ~ Child's play

http://oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ Friends ~ My butterfly Die is over 6mths old 




Blackpool 2012

Hello everyone, Hope you are all well. Well, I have been off work for the past 2 weeks so we have had a few days out with the grandchildren. We have been to Chester Zoo and Blackpool. Here is a Digi LO for our day out at Blackpool. We all had a lovely day and the sun was shining all day long. 



This LO will be entered into the following challenge

Thanks for stopping to look at my blog

Stella xx




Saturday, 4 August 2012

Olympic Torch

Hello everyone, for this month I will be "SPORT". For those who know me, I don't do sports, well not for years anyway, But I did have the honor and privilege to hold one of the Olympic torches. It will be a day I will never forget. Here is my layout 




Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog 

Stella xx
  

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

"Embossing"

Hello and welcome, This month is EMBOSSING.

It could have been Dry Embossing ie. Using a Die-cut machine or a Lightbox
or
Heat Embossing ie. Embossing Powders & a Heat Gun.
You can also buy Pre-Embossed  card stock 
or 
Improvise by creating your own embossing effect. 

Here is my card and what I used 





Well, this was right up my street, because I love to emboss. I like how it brings some touchy-feely texture to even the simplest of cards.
I have made a wedding card for this month, using my embossing folder to do the background, and then heat embossed the flower and leaves to give it that bit more bling.
Here is what I did... I used the large Intricate Heart, La Rue Heart, and the 2 Cupid Hearts all from Memory Box. I used the Lattice Embossing Folder from Creative Expressions. Gold Embossing Powder. To make the gold dots around the outer edge I used Dylon 3D Pearl Paint, it works in the same way as liquid pearls only cheaper, and lastly to make the flowers and leaves I used Spellbinder Dies.



Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog

Stella xxx

Sunday, 29 July 2012

All bright and Digi

Hello and welcome to my blog, This month I want to use something using bright colours and a Digi image. This card is a 6 x 6 square using the colours Yellow x 2, Blue x 2 and browns.
Here is the colour we had to use


Here is my card 



Thanks for stopping by to look at my blog

Stella xxx



This card will be entered into the following challenges

http://blog.oozak.com = Bright Colours





Just good friends

Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well. One of today's cards is for a very dear friend, I used small stamps of flowers leaves and a fairy. Here is my card





Thanks for stopping to look at my blog

Stella xx


This card will be entered into the following challenges 




Saturday, 28 July 2012

In the country

Hello everyone, well the weather is still nice, the odd shower but the garden loves it and that brings me right into my card. I have used the masking technique to make this card, I stamp and masked the tree and coloured them with my Promarkers. Die-cut the fence and stamped and coloured the Tilda. here is my card.


The Tilda is coloured in the following

Skin = Satin, Vanilla and Pale Pink

Trees = Forest Green, Lime Green, Leaf Green, Tan and Sandstone

Hair = Tan, Sandstone and Vanilla

Flowers = Magenta and Leaf Green

Dress = Flex Markers ~ Sorbet and Pale Blossom

Sky = Aqua Markers ~ Aquamarine

Grass = Aqua Markers ~ Celery



Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog

Stella xx


This card will be entered into the following challenges


http://tildastown.wordpress.com = Name your Technique











Sunday, 22 July 2012

Birthday card

Hello everyone, well what a lovely day we have had here in Manchester, let us hope it is here to stay. Today's cards I made for my sisters-in-laws Birthday in a few weeks.  It is an 8x8 card in pink and black. I used Blossom Tags and Accents and Moroccan Accents Dies. The image is a Magnolia coloured in using my promarkers.

Face = Oatmeal, Satin, Vanilla and Dusky pink
Hair = Sandstone, Tan and Vanilla
Dress = Blossom, Flex Marker~Muted Pink and Pale Blossom
Jumper = Cocktail Pink
Ribbon = Cocktail Pink
Shoes = Flex marker~Pale Blossom
Socks = Flex Marker~Muted Pink
Wings = Sukura Gelly Roll Metallic Pink
Hearts = Sukura Gelly Roll Metallic Silver

And to finish it off I added some pink ribbon, Diamond Gems and Glitz It Glitter Glue and some hand made flower is Pink and Black.

Here is my card


This card will be entered into the following challenges 




http://pinkinksketchchallenges.blogspot.co.uk = Challenge 28 Karens Sketch 

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.ca  = let's Make a Birthday Card 

http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk = Challenge 15 Black Card Stock


Thanks For popping by if you would like to join in then please pop along to these blogs and join in 

Stella xx


Animal crackers

Hi everyone, how is everyone today, well today's card Animal Crackers. So the card I have made is one for my grandson who is potty about Dinosaurs. it is a 5 x 5 square card that I have cut the middle out off. coloured in 2 Dinosaurs with my promarkers and added some spellbinder leaves. Here is my card.




Thanks for popping in to take a look

Stella xx

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Black and White

Hello, This is the second card of the card. It is a black white and pink card. I did tell you I was hooked on the colours lol, anyway here is my card


This card was made for a very good friend of mine hope she likes it.



Thanks for stopping to look at my blog 

Stella x


This card will be entered into the following challenges



Sunday, 8 July 2012

Birthday Celebrations

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. So this month is Birthday months for my family so here is this month make but this time I have done a Digi scrapbook. This is my granddaughter Jessica's Second Birthday. So here is what I came up with...



I made it as a sawing page with lots of different shades of pink.  


Thanks for popping by

Stella xx


This will be entered into the following challenge 




Friday, 6 July 2012

Christmas in July

Hello everyone, well Christmas is only 5 months away so I think I better get my finger out and get my Christmas cards made. So here is the first of many. This is an 8x8 card. I used my Martha Stewart Around the page punch on the blue background. I used Popcorn The Bear Christmas as the main image and as the background papers. Some white and blue ribbon, some craftwork card candi and 3 embossed snowflakes. Here is my card...




Thanks Stella xxx



 This card will be entered into the following challenges

ccmonthlychallenge.blogspot.co.uk ~ HO HO HO Christmas



http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ~ Christmas in July with an Animal


Thursday, 5 July 2012

Summer Time

Hello everyone, what is with all this rain??? I have made a card that should show the weather we should be having.  I followed a sketch Layout for this card. It is a 6x6 card, with an embossed background inked in blue, edged with yellow embossing powder. Two yellow panels that have been embossed with yellow powder and an image of a boy waiting to get into the pool.




Thanks Stella xxx



This cards will be entered into the following challenges

fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk ~ Challenge 29 Summer Holidays

pinkinksketchchallenges.blogspot.co.uk ~ Sketch # 27 Sandy's Sketch 



Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Pick and Mix

Welcome, this month I wanted to make a card I just did not know what. So I looked and I looked and I looked and then out of the blue it hit me, I knew what I was going to make. 

 I hand-stamped the wallpaper, I made the brick background and the window. The fence, leaves and the flower all die cuts and punches.





                                       Thanks for stopping and taking a look at my blog

                                                                          Stella xx

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

July Challenge

Ok it is the start of the month and it is challenge time again here the layout


Lets see what you all come up with xx


Just Magnolia

Hello everyone and how are we all doing? Right, I was doing a bit of blog hopping and found a lovely blog called Just Magnolia, well I just love Magnolia so I started to have a look and found that it is a challenge blog and I love them too so I felt like I was in heaven. Anyway, I had a look at the challenge and this is what I came up with as long as the main image on my creation was a hAnglar & sTanglar or Magnolia stamp everything was good.


So here is what I came up with 



Thanks for popping by

Stella xx 



So if you want to join in this challenge then pop over 
justmagnolia.blogspot.ca and add your creation.


Monday, 2 July 2012

Anniversary Card

Hello Everyone, I have had a busy day but it is all good, crafts, crafts and more crafts lol, lots of cards made. This card I made for my husband for our 23 wedding anniversary. Here is my card



Thanks for stopping by to look at my blog 

Stella xx



This card will be entered into the following challenge 



All Gold

Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying this weather, I know I am. Well back to the card I have made, I have been doing a bit of crafting with a good friend of mine, and when I looked at her craft stash I fell in love with this Tilda and I had to make a card to go with it, I used some of my spellbinder dies, gold glitter ribbon and some papers. Here is my card




Thanks for stopping and looking at my blog

Stella xx



This card will be entered into the following challenges 

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk = Gold, Silver or Bronze



Sunday, 1 July 2012

Only Words

Hello everyone, I think I am on a roll at the moment with my cards. Todays card was only using words so a card made with no Image, well that is easy for me as I think words work better and can come from the heart, don't get me wrong I do like my images but words, well here is my card anyway. It is an 8 x 8 cards in white and topped with black and pink. After I made another card in black and pink I have fallen in love with the 2 colours, I think they work very well together. 



Thanks for popping by 

Stella xx

This card will be entered in the following challenges 


circles all around

Hi everyone, well up in Manchester we have had the sun for 2days now, hope it is here to stay. I have a very busy day yesterday making lots of cards. This one is all about circles. The background was made using my circle dies in different sizes which I then glued into place, used 3D paint on the edges of the card and the fairy was coloured using my lovely ProMarkers

Here are the colours that I used 

Wings = Blossom and Fuchia Pink
Dress = Cocktail Pink
Skin = Satin, Vanilla and Pale Pink
Hair = Tan, Sandstone and Vanilla 
Hat = Cocktail Pink
Flowers = Magenta and Lime Green




Thanks Stella xx



This card will be entered into the following challenges  

joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.co.uk = Going round in circles
ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk = challenge 125 ~ Circles