Sparkle and Shine in the Sugar Bowl

Hello All,

Its time for another challenge over at the Sugar Bowl. This month we are looking for sparkle and Shine.

This is one of these cards that is fairly plain and simple but took me ages! I started with the fabulous Leanne Ellis - True Love image I stamped and embossed with black embossing powder, I used watercolour pencils to do the background and edges with distress inks, the image has been coloured with a combo of copics and prisma's , unfortunately due to the stamping with embossing powder I ended up with a weird grey shadow under her chin that I couldn't get rid of so I painted over with acrylic's it still shows but I am hoping I got away with it.

All the circles have been filled with Anita's Glaze and sprinkled with glitter. The background paper is handmade, I have used twinkling H2o's I have overstamped with a Bo Bunny script stamp, and I have used a Katy Sue stamp for the flowers  again I used Anita's glaze over them, I finished off with doodling and more glitter .... I struggled getting the "sparkle and shine" to show up on the photo's so I have done a couple of close ups just to prove its there!! lol ...

I also would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Add sentiment
Daring Card Makers - All the other reasons
Sister Act - Anything Goes


As always thanks for looking
Hugs Juls

Just Colour ....

Hi All,

I have been getting really bored with the way I colour, I think its an ok'ish standard, but its just the same all the time, I really wanted to try out new styles of colouring. Mostly inspired by the wonderful array of things I see here in blogland. I hae watched a couple of tutorials, and this is me just trying out a couple of the new tips I came across ..... like having pink as a base for brown hair!! .... think it certainly adds an extra depth to it. Also the way I have done the shading around the nose&eyes is different from my normal colouring, and the way of building up the cheek colour. It prob doesn't even look that much different but I enjoyed playing anyway.

I spent one evening colouring this fab Saturated Canary image, and then I matched it up with a few papers from my scrap pile, and kept it really simple

I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Pennies Paperraft - Add Black or Bling ( have a little touch of both)
Sister Act - Anythhing Goes

As always thanks for looking
crafty hugs
Juls

Gardner Gayle in Wellies

Hello All,

I had a look at the challenge for Saturated Canary and really fancied playing along, I have really wanted to do more "Altered Art" for a while. I normally do a notepad or gift bag. This is my first attempt at something a little different. Certainly needing a lot more practice at this type of thing. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I certainly had a lot of fun.

This is my daughters very first set of Wellie boots, and they started life like this:

As a pair:

  I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary  - Alter it
Creative Inspiration - Pearls, White, Flowers
Totally Papercrafts  - No Squares Allowed

Thanks for looking
Hugs Juls

Under the Umbrella

Hi All,

Please don't go into shock!! 2 posts in a week!!

This is a card I made a wee while ago, but been so busy I have not got round to blogging it yet!! The papers are "My minds eye" and "Tilda" I have used my newly purchase Stamping Bella stamp .... so love this image!!  ..... I had not intended to be quite so heavy handed with the distress ink .. so splashed on some water to try and go with the Rain theme, to try and make it look deliberate rather than hours of coloring turning into a disaster!! ... then a sprinkling of frantage and some resin roses to finish.

I would like to enter this into the following challanges:

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes
MAWT - Shaped Cards
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Totally Papercraft - No squares allowed

Thanks for looking
Hugs to all
Juls

Show Us Your first Nellie!!!

Hello All,

Well, I am so behind at the mo its shocking!! I knew that building an extension would be stressful just didn't realize quite how much so!! ... Also got some majorly stressful things going on with work so that's my reasons for my absence in blogland!!

Onto the more pleasant things in life .... like craft!! LOL, over at the sugar bowl we have a new challenge running, this time we have a little theme of  "use your first sugar Nellie stamp" ... So which stamp began your Sugar addication!! cant wait to find out!!

Have to say it was fun dusting of an older stamp .... I do love this little sweetie, I bought this from one of my little trips to Elgin, along with 2 other Elizabeth Bell stamps .... I now have over 100 Nellies!!

Please check out the challenge over at the sugar bowl, hope to see you there.

I would also like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sister Act - Anything Goes
Stamping for the weekend - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking
Hugs Juls

Sugar Bowl challange 108

Hello All ..... time for my monthly post LOL

I am sorry normal service will resume soon!! We still in the process of building the extension its a family affair, and its going great, we are currently staying in a holiday cottage while the work goes on.

So its time for another challenge at the sugar bowl. This is a bit of a random creation that just kind of happened there was no plan. I was clearing up from an evenings crafting, and saw the little photo cell stamp ... I had just been to Elgin (supposedly tile shopping for the extension - but managed to fit in a little trip to the house of sugar) ... and so I have these Leanne Ellis stamps Catch a Falling Star Fly Free Talking to the birds on my desk. I stamped and coloured them.

The next night I then had to find paper to match my colouring, so came across these WRMK papers ... I had to make a tiny piece of orange paper go rather a long way!!

Please hope over and check out what the other sweeties have created, and please do join us for the challenge, which is create anything you like, using your fabulous Nellies .... I cant wait to be inspired by you all, As always there is a prize of 4 fabby SN stamps up for grabs, 6 if we get over a 100 entries.

Thanks for looking hugs to all

Sugar Bowl Challenge

Hello All,

Wow I cant believe its been a month since I posted, and it is already time for another challenge over at the Sugar Bowl!!

For my card I have used "Room to Bloom" which you can get here  (this is a new image for me, it fell into my basket the last time I popped in to visit the girls in Elgin). I have coloured the image using my copic pens ... and teamed it up with some papers from My Minds Eye.

So I look forward to seeing you in the sugar bowl ... cant wait to see what you will make and inspire me with this month!! Its worth entering as there is a yummy prize of 4 sugary stamps up for grabs and all you have to do is use a Sugar Nellie stamp!!!

As always
Thanks for looking
Hugs Juls