Sugar Bowl - March

Hello All,

I am a little late with this post - whoops!!! Its time for a new challenge at the Sugar Bowl as always its a theme of anything goes, and there is some fabby sugar up for grabs so well worth joining in, I'm hoping to bump into you over at the sugar bowl.

I have used one the fabulous scrapberry image enjoy the journey, which can be found here I coloured this a while ago, when I first started Alyce's classes and I can certainly see the difference. I have teamed this up with some papers from Melissa Francis. I have added a little detail by adding some stamps from Bo Bunny, some have been done with a grey memento ink, and some I have embossed in seafoam white

As always thank you for looking
Hugs Juls

Snow Day

Hello All,

Well we are covered in snow here in the north of Scotland ... As my husband has an outside job, it has been a bit of a snow day, so he was able to spend some quality time with our daughter and I was able to spend some quality time with my craft stash!! LOL

This was an image I coloured up a few weeks ago, I think to date it is the colouring I am most proud of. The image is from Hannah Lynn, and yes I was inspired by Elsia from frozen ... I have a frozen obsessed little girl, what can I say!! .... I have coloured this one up with my copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20
Eyes: B99, B24, B91
Eyeshadow: V01, V04, BV23
Lips: RV09, RV06, RV02, E04
Hair: BV25, E71, E43, E41, E40

Owl: W9, BV23, BV31, BV20, YR12

Dress: BG09, BG07, BG05, BG02, BG01, BG000, B16, B14, B12, B00

I have stamped around the image with some snowflake stamps from WRMK and embossed with WOW snowflake sparkle embossing powder, then I have colour tinted the paper with distress ink, Tumbled glass. I have then stitched round the edge with some sparkly thread.

I have teamed it up with papers Bo Bunny/Country Garden. I have used Heartfelt dies with co-ordinating stamps, ( Leafy Bloom )again they have been stamped and embossed with the WOW powders to match the snowflakes. and I have used an x-cut punch and cottage Cuts -Winter Bloom for all the snowflakes.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - For the Girls
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Just Inspirational - Handmade flowers
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Crafting for all seasons - Dies & Punches
4 Crafty Chicks - Things with Wings
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Fussy & Fancy - Tic Tac Toe ( Die or Punch, Ribbon, Wet emboss )
That Craft Place - Film Inspired - (Frozen)
613 Av - Anything Goes
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

As always thanks for looking
Crafty Hugs
Juls

Baby Girl

Hi All,

This is a card I have made for a friend who has just had a baby girl the fabulous image is from Connie Fong/Sweet pea stamps I have coloured up with my copics:

Mother:
Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E13, E04, R20
Hair - W9, W7, W5, W3, W1
Dress - RV69, RV19, RV17, RV14, RV13, RV11, RV10
Baby:
Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E13, E93
Dress - RV14, RV13, RV11, RV10

I have teamed it up with papers from Tilda/classic and have used dies from Sissex (roses) Heartfelt creations ( leaves ) Provo craft (corner) Marianne Craftables (swirl)

I would like to enter this nto the following challenges:

Crafty Calender - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe Crafts - One for the girls
Make My Monday - Two Fav colours ( black and pink )
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Just Inspirational - handmade flowers
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Any Occasion other than birthday
Dream Valley - Fav colour combo ( black and pink )
613 Av - Anything Goes

As always, thanks for looking
Crafty Hugs Juls

Geeky Love

Hi All,

Trying to get my blogging butt in gear and post more regularly ... I was doing so well in January (sigh) ...... Anyhoo a little make from me, I have used an image from Make it Crafty ... I have coloured with copic's ( I have just purchased the Kit and Clowder pencil class ... so my pencils will be getting a dusting off very soon!! )

Copic's used:

Boy:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11 E93
Hair: E18, E15, E13, E11
Trousers and Shirt: W9, W7, W5, W3, W1
Jumper: W9, B99, B95,B93,B91

Girl:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair: E29, E25, E21
Bow, Skirt & Socks: W9, R89,R85, R83, R81
Jumper & Shoes & Flowers: E08, YR18, YR14, YR12, Y21

I also added a watercolour background.

I have teamed it up with papers from My Minds Eye - Oh La La .... no die cuts this time, I just did some fancy cutting round the papers to create the embelishments .... despite my huge collection of dies, I still find myself falling back to these old techniques.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Calender - Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes
Crafty Card Makers - Love Love Love
Deep Ocean - Love is all around
Digi Tuesday - Love is in the air
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy - All about Love
Chocolate, Coffee, Cards - Love is in the air
613 Av Create - Anything Goes

As always thanks for popping by and taking a look, its much appreciated
crafty hugs
Juls

Anniversary Fix

Hi All,

Sorry I have not been around blogland much, things have been sooooo busy, hopefully I will get chance to catch up with all your lovely creations.

This is a card that I made for some friends, I have merged 2 images from Redonkdoodles for this one. The card turned out to be a labor of love. I have coloured it so that it looks just like the couple in question. I have been colouring with copics since 2010 and I have never had a big blob of ink fall onto my colouring ..... after 2 evenings of colouring guess what!! ... after wanting to burst into tears I went on to try and fix, so I tried to remove with colourless blender and then darkened the shirt to cover the orange staining that left ..... as a result of all the panic I failed to keep a note of the copics used.

I decided to keep the card simple and I rummaged through my scrap papers, to put the card together.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafting Cafe - Your Fav Technique ( colouring with copics )
Crafty Calander - Anything Goes
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Love is all around
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Chocolate Coffee cards - Love is in the air
The Craft Place - Anything Goes
613 Av Create - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking Crafty Hugs
Juls

blowing kisses

Hi All,

I had so much fun colouring up this one, it was done a couple of months ago, I was so excited to learn how to colour curly hair ... That I was suddenly pulling out all my images, that I bought and loved, but was a little daunted by as I was not sure how to tackle curly hair, thats part of the reason I love Alyce's classes so much they have really helped to give confidence.

This is a fabby image from saturated Canary, which I have coloured using copic's:

Skin E00, E11, E13, E15, R20
Lips - R59, R29, R22
Eyes - E39, E13, W2
Hair - W9, W7, W5, W3, W1
Dress E17, Y17, Y08, Y06, Y02
          E17, R05, R02, R00
Hearts - C5, R29, R27, R22
Boots - W9, W7, W5,W3, W1

I decided to keep the card fairly simple. I have used some paper from My minds eye - Kate&Co and Bo Bunny - Hello Sunshine.

I have used a couple of dies from x-cut to add some embeishments.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - Hearts
Make My Monday - Bright Colours
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Paper Take weekly - warm colours
Penny's Paper Craft - Anything Goes
Simon Say's - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Fairy Tale - Something with a heart
613 Av Create - Anything Goes

As always, thanks for looking
Hugs Juls

The Sugar Bowl

Hi All,

Well that's another month past and it is time for another challenge in the Sugar Bowl. I have used a Simply Sassy image from the lovely Krista Smith, you can find this little sweetie here

Well I will give you a bit of a laugh, I just posted this card off to my mother in law yesterday, as she has a bad back, and my little post it note that I keep on the back of my cards with colour combo & materials used got posted too ...... whoopsie!!!! So when she gets it I may get her to send me the details so I can update my blog for you.

Anyway would really love to see you in the sugar bowl, love to be inspired by all your work. Also there some fabby prizes up for grabs, a first prize of 4 digi's a 2nd prize of 2 digi's ..... & the first prize goes up to 6 images if we ave a 100 or more entries, so lets full the sugar bowl :-)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Sister Act - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking
crafty hugs
Julia