'Lil Bookworm fairy'

Well what a pants few days I have had health wise. We had a fabulous day at Rhyl airshow, only for me to forget to take my pain meds before we went. So I was in agony by the time we got home. I kinda fell into bed & stayed there or on the sofa for the next two days. managed to get myself moving yesterday. But my damn back, I still can't stand up straight!

Anyhoos, I won't be doing that again lol

I'm here to share with you my latest creation for the Sweet Pea Progressive challenge on FB. Can't wait to see what this months free image is...

I decided to give this card to our Danni, for when she starts back at college next week. She passed her three A levels so decided to stay on an extra year & squeeze 5 A levels into one year!!! She's mad lol

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Crafting Musketeers- autumnal colours

Naughty or Nice- ribbons or bows

Inspiration Destination- ATG

Dream Valley - back to school (college)

Ching-Chou Kuik- autumnal/fall colours

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- 'Lil Bookworm Fairy' by Ching Chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Lil Fairy

Skin- blush, 09 & 08

Eyes- leaf green

Hair- primrose & 106

Dress- frosted jade, 72 & 70

Wings- honeydew, 63 & 62

Flowers- frosted jade, 72 & leaf green

Books- light fawn, 87, 86, 102, 119, 115, 110, lush green, french navy & walnut

Pencil- gold & caramel

Kitty- warm grey 1, 118, 117 & fresh bloom

Ground- morning mist

Tim Holtz distress inks

Colour distressing done using Vintage Photo

Papers & Embellishments

DP- Curiosity Corner' by Dovecraft

'brown & blue' card from the 12 x 12 coloured stack by Papermania

My stash- silk ribbon

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'Collall 3D glue with tools

Sizzix Bigshot

'Just Because' die cut by Die'sire from Crafters Companion

'Paperclip' die cut by X-cut

'Ribbon' border punch by Woodware

'Scribbles #3' die cut by Sizzix

'6" square white scalloped edge card blank' from Natalie & Amy's

Thank you for stopping by today, sorry I haven't been around to see you lately. They girls are both back at college next week so fingers crossed things will settle down then.

Hugs xx

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Carnation Love

Good morning, on this yukky wet Sunday morning. I was meant to be off out on my bike with Nige today for a pint in the beer garden. But I don't think thats gonna happen!

Anyhoos, as you have probable noticed if you are a regular to my blog, I have quite an addiction to Sweet Pea Stamps. Well one of my favourite artists of theres has her own FB page & was giving away a freebie as long as you coloured her & had her uploaded by today lol Yeah cutting it fine I know, but I've been busy & spent quite a lot of time in bed over the last few weeks. But anyhoos here she is all finished ready to go in a frame on Danni's wall, as soon as she saw her coloured she asked me if she could have her...little babe xx

Challenges I Would Like To Enter
Ching Chou Kuik Facebook- blooms
I Love Promarkers- anything but a square
Whimsy Stamps- anything but a square card
2 Cute Ink- water themed
Love to Create- anything creative

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- Carnation Love' by Ching Chou Kuik

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Hair- ice grey 1, 120 & 118

Eyes- 66 & 64

Tail- frosted pink, 42 & 32

Dress- oasis, 63, turquoise, 72 & frosted pink

Flowers- green shoot, holly, purple velvet & spring lilac

Jewellery- frosted pink, island lagoon, turquoise, oasis & 72

Sand- sand dune & 84

Moon- soft lime

Panpastels

Sea- phthalo blue

Sky- ultramarine blue shade

Tim Holtz distress inks

'Prima Donna Petals' picked raspberry, mowed lawn & squeezed lemonade

Papers & Embellishments

My stash- brown card

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

Sizzix Bigshot

'Resplendent Rectangles' die cut by Spellbinders

'Prima Donna Petals' die cut by Die-namics

Thank you for stopping by today, if I haven't been by to say hi yet I will be around soon.

Hugs xx

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Blue Kitty!?!

Today's My Time To Craft post is a little bit late....no idea where my week goes to! I did pop into The Range today & a few crafty things fell in my basket lol! I am loving the new 'Back to Basics' colour range...problem is...I NEED them all lol

Anyhoos today is a very special day in the Swinscoe household. Our baby stinky butt is 1 today, I can't believe it, its gone so quickly from when I found out he had been born to now!!!

This is a picture of Nico & his siblings taken about 2 hours after he was born 

And this is my boy today, trying to eat me lol

I never in a million years thought he would be the wonderful friendly & so loving skunk that he is. He has certainly won my heart & Nige thinks the world of him too

Happy 1st  Birthday to my gorgeous Nico 

Momma loves you xx

Ok now on with my creation for My Time To Craft, this week we have a fabulous sketch for you to follow, you will find it here or at the end of my post.

Mmm the kitty wasn't meant to be blue, I picked up the wrong Promarker. But after all that I kinda like it lol

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Di's Digi's - load on the flowers

Crafts 4 Eternity- wood (she's in the woods)

Crafting by Designs- flowers

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- 'Purple Woods' by Ching-Chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Skin- blush- 09 & 08

Eyes- apple cider & 59

Hair- orchid, 83, 82 & 78

Lips- 82

Dress- apple cider & 108

Kitty- bright green, 57, pastel blue, 68, 67, pale blossom & 37

Wings- pale blossom, 38, 37 & 34

Trees- pale blossom & 37

Background- storm clouds, 120, 119 & bright green

Image- 'flowers, leaves & stem' freebie from a magazine

Flowers- pale blossom, 39 & 38

Leaves- apple cider, 108 & 60

Papers & Embellishments

'Pot Pourri' card candi

My stash- white paper & blue card

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue

'Collall 3D' glue with tools

Sizzix Bigshot

'With Love' mini die cut by Tattered lace

Flowers stamped using 'Versafine' onyx black

'6" square white card blank'

this weeks sketch

Thank you for stopping by today, enjoy the rest of your weekend

hugs xx

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Northern Nightfall

Hi & welcome to my tiny part of the world wide web, so glad you stopped by. Today I have my creation for Try Stampin' on Tuesday creation to share with you. After making my card using a 'Ching-Chou-Kuik image the other day & having so much fun colouring it in, I decided to have play with another of her images...& oh I just love it!!

You will find the sketch to follow here, or at the end of my post.

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Crafty Cardmakers- wings

Eureka- four legged friends

Di's Digi Designs- animal

Dragons Lair- animals

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- 'Northern Nightfall' by Ching-Chou-Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Skin- sunkissed pink, blush & 08

Eyes- leaf green & 59

Hair- blue grey 1, 68 & 67

Headdress- bright green & 60

Dress- lipstick red, 116 & 106

Wings- pink carnation, 42 & 41

Unicorn- pink mittens, 37, 36, 115, 114, glacier blue, 67, fuchsia pink, 116, 42, 40, 30, 80 & 38

Flowers- wild cranberry, fuchsia pink, 42 & 30

Water- stone blue, 72 & 71

Riverbank- caramel, 103 & 99

Trees- bright green & 60

Panpastels

Sky- violet, permanent red, ultramarine blue shade, diarylide yellow & black

Papers & Embellishments

DP- ? by Imaginations Crafts

'Believe' from the sentiment tag set #24 by LOTV

White gelly roll pen by Sakura

My stash- black card & glitter gems

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'6" square white card blank'

this weeks sketch

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you have a fab Tuesday

Hugs xx

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'Hidden Treasures'

Today's post is late, I was waiting for my sand (glue) to dry. then Katie wanted to go shopping for make-up & clothes the same as every teenager does...but she wanted me to go with her! The downside to this is I always end up spending on her & she goes home with the same amount of money she left the house with....crafty madam!! Then when we got back I realized I hadn't taken my meds, so decided to have a snooze to give them a chance to work. Well that was at 2pm....its now 6pm oops.....all Nico's fault he decided he wanted snuggles so ended up having skunky snuggles for an extra hour as well lol.....

Anyhoos enough of that, here's why I am here.

Today's challenge over at My Time To Craft is a fab sketch, made by DT member Jo (thanks hunnie)

You can find the sketch here....or at the end of my post.

I thought I'd use yet another image I have had for ages & never used, to be honest it scared me! The thought of colouring it all in & getting it all to how I want....scared the **** outta me !!

Glad I gave it a go tho xx

She is just beautiful. So glad you can see the sand, I did wonder when I did it.

Sand pinch from Freddie's viv ...our leopard gecko heehee!!

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Ching-Chou-Kuik- under the sea

Challenge Up Your Life- embossing

Inspiration Destination- ATG

Clear It Out- ATG stashed items...card candi

Get Creative- add a tag

Image & Colouring Mediums 

Image- 'Hidden Treasures' by Ching-Chou-Kuik

Promarkers/Flexmarkers-words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Skin- sunkissed pink, blush & 08

Hair- daffodil bloom, 106, 96 & 86

Eyes- 63

Lips- 42

Clothes- arctic blue, 66, pale blossom, 41, oasis, 63, marine & wild cranberry

Jewellery- gold & cranberry

Vegetation- leaf green, 59, meadow green, 47, chartreuse, 55 & 54

Flowers- pale blossom & 41

Butterflies- arctic blue, 66, pale blossom, 41, yellow & 20

Fish- halloween, 23, 22, sapphire, 75, 73, tropical orchid & 42

Tikki torch- cinnamon, oasis, gold & 25

Rocks- icicle, 117, 116, purple & 82

Shells- boysenberry, 42, 116 & 35

Sand- march hare

Sea- glacier blue & powder blue

Sun- yellow & 21

Sky- glacier blue 

Papers & Embellishments

'live & dream' from the sentiment tag set #24 by LOTV

My stash- sand, turquoise card candi, white card & turquoise card

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'Collall 3D' glue with tools from Natalie & Amy's

Sizzix Bigshot

'Bubbles' embossing folder by Darice

Sentiment tags stamped using 'Jet Black' Stazon

'6" square white card blank' cut down to 5" vertical

This weeks sketch ...

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you have a fabulous weekend & the weather is great for you. I'm hoping its warm tomorrow so I can go out on my bike with Nige & start my summer exercise routine again. It really helped with my M.E last year so fingers crossed

Hugs xx

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Moonlight Whisperings

I hope all my lovely followers who are Mommy's had a fabulous Mothers Day. I had a great day, breakfast in bed...fried egg on toast (my favourite) some fabulous crafty stash of the girls, Nige & Charlie dawg...but I had a special present of Nico a box of Malteser's just off him..he is a good stinky butt lol xx

Anyhoos enough of that, the reason I'm here today is to share with you my creation for 

'Try Stampin' on Tuesday' this week we have a great sketch for you to follow. You can find the sketch here, or I will pop it on at the end of my post.

I just love these images & just had to purchase a few more digi's when she had an offer on over Mother Day weekend x

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Crafty Cardmakers- special women
Melonheadz Friends- animals
The Crazy Challenge- in the dark
OSAAT- women
Through The Purple Haze- special women

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- 'Moonlight Whispering' by Ching-chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir pencils- numbers

Skin- coral, sunkissed pink, blush & 08

Dress & glove- slate & 120

Mask- slate, 120, cool grey 1 & 118

Hair- molten red, 106 & 101

Kitty- muted pink, 34, cool grey 1- 118, slate, 119, bright green, 53 & 52

Flower- tulip yellow, azure, 70, 69 & chartreuse

Doodles- black

Panpastels

Moon- diarylide yellow & burnt sienna

Sky- violet shade & violet

Papers & Embellishments

DP- 'Noir et Chic' by First Edition 

My stash- sentiment, ribbon & red paper

Tool & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'Collall 3D' glue with tools from Natalie & Amy's

'6" square white card blank' from Natalie & Amy's

Thank you for stopping by today, please pop over & see what fab creations the DT have made using this great sketch

We are also having a DT call, so if you love following sketches & using anything you want to make your creations....pop over here & check out the DT call post

Hugs xx

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'Moth Maiden'

It's time for a new challenge to start over at My Time To Craft. Make sure you pop over & see what fabulous creations the DT ladies have made using this weeks challenge theme. Which is......

LACE

add some lace to your creation, either actual lace or lace doily real or die cut is great!

I decided to use an image I have had printed off for ages, but sadly not had the courage to colour her hair. Well after lots of practice lately & I myself noticing my hair getting better I thought 'why not give it a go'....so I did & I'm really happy with the finished result. But there is still lots of 

improving to be done! 

You can see where I have added another layer to the moths, just to lift their wings up.

I didn't want to add to much to my card, but now looking at it I'm not sure lol!

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Crafty Catz- for a special lady
4 Crafty Chicks- things with wings
Moving Along With The Times- pink/purple/butterflies
Southern Girls- winged things
Fab & Funky- lace

Image & Colouring Medium

Image- 'Green Moth Maiden' by Ching-Chou Kuik

Promarkers/Flexmarkers- words

Spectrum Noir Pencils- numbers

Sansodor

Skin- coral, sunkissed pink, blush & 08

Eyes- leaf green

Hair- frosted pink, 120, 106, 42, 40 & 33

Dress- lavender, 79, 78, 77, apple, 48 & 47

Butterflies- lavender, 42, 38, frosted pink, oasis, 71 & 63

Papers & Embellishments

DP- 'Fairy Flora' by Prima

My stash- lace, blue paper & burgundy card

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'Collall 3D' glue with tools from Natalie & Amy's

'Small Butterfly Trio' punch by Tonic

'5" square white card blank' from Natalie & Amy's

I hope you're having a wonderful Saturday, I'm having a crafty morning & a moojie afternoon/night with Nige. No idea what we are watching yet tho ....

Hugs xx

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'Fantasy'

Sorry today's creation is a few hours late, my little stinky butt had his love plums removed yesterday. So I have spent quite a bit of time with him since he came home. As well as catching up on sleep, from not sleeping much on Thursday night through worrying about Nico!! Muppet I is!

Anyhoos, today's DT creation is for My Time To Craft, where the theme is.....

FANTASY!

mermaids, monsters, fairies etc & your good to go!

I decided to use one of my favourite ever Sweet Pea stamps...

Challenges I Would Like to Enter

Crafty Catz- pretty women

The Stamping Boutique- water colouring 

Cuttlebug Mania- any die cuts

Live & Love Crafts- things with wings

Sparkles Monthly- things with wings

One Sweet Challenge- celebrate the holidays

Image & Colouring Mediums

Image- 'Love is Gone' by Ching-chou-kuik from Sweet Pea stamps

Promarker/Flexmarker

Skin- coral, sunkissed pink & blush

Derwent Inktense pencils

Hair- bark, oak & sicilian yellow

Dress- mallard green, dark aquamarine, green aquamarine & fuchsia

Wings- dark aquamarine & fuchsia

Roses- iron green, mallard green, felt green, shiraz & hot red

Panpastels

Background- burnt sienna, diarylide yellow & ultramarine blue shade

Papers & Embellishments

DP- 'Fairy Flora' by Prima

Sentiment computer generated

My stash- yellow card & pink card

Tools & Glues

'Collall' all purpose glue from Natalie & Amy's

'Collall 3D' glue with tools from Natalie & Amy's

Sizzix Bigshot

'Butterfly Vine' border die cut by Memory Box 98458 

Thank you for stopping by today, have a great weekend.

Please pop over & see what fab 'fantasy' creations the DT have made to help inspire you!

Hugs xx

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