Vintage and Lace

The challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge this week is all about Vintage so I came up with this card that I hope will fit the description!

I'm also entering it into the challenge over at a Spoon Full of Sugar as they want a card with lace on this week and the two just seemed to go so well together.

It was a tough one for me as much as I love the vintage style of cards, I don't think I'm a natural at this type at all and it seems 'harder' for me.
Anyway I got it done- eventually! so here it is...

The stamp is a country companion from Sugar Nellie and the papers I chose in the end are K and Co's wild saffron range. The lace, button and pin I got from a local haberdashery and the rub on 'dream' is a kaisercraft.
The flowers are a mixture- prima, papermania and cut out from other paper.

Hope all is well with everyone,
Gill xx

Cute Card Thursday- A sporting Chance

Over at Cute Card Thursday this week, the challenge was to make a card on a sporting theme. I finally went for one of my cute Messy Rabbit stamps from Joanna Sheen as he makes such a fab footballer!

I used some DCWV papers from one of their huge stacks and a papermania scalloped card as the base card. The ribbons and buttons are from my stash.

Hope everyone is well,
Gill xx

Penny Black Challenge- Week 50

Well over at Penny Black Saturday the challenge this week was Buttons!!

That's never a problem for me- I doubt I make many projects without buttons on at the moment- they're a definite obsession of mine!!

This penny black image is called Bibliophile and I've coloured it using watercolours.
The papers and buttons were both from my stash so I'm not really sure on brands this time but the ribbons and brad are from Brenda Pinnick and Dovecraft.

We had a lovely day out today at Delamere Forest with all my rabble and the mad puppy!! These two are of all of my kids together- yep in the distance as they all hate standing for photos since I started scrapping in earnest, apart from my baby Oliver. Okay he doesn't have much choice but he managed a cute smile!!

Managed a few photos and got a couple of nice ones for some future scrapping projects... which is what I'm off to do now- after a bit of blog hopping!

Hope everyone is well,
Gill xx

The Next Level....

There is a new challenge blog being launched over at the Next Level... I've just signed up to become a follower and I can't wait for the first challenge to start!

Why not pop over and have a look for yourselves... here

Gill xx

Stamp Something Challenge

Over at 'Stamp Something' this week, the challenge is a sketch from a DT member, Emily.

I love working with sketches, they really help- paticularly if you're feeling a bit low on mojo that day!

My owls have been coloured using my coloursoft pencils again, I can sit and colour with these for hours. The papers are DCWV, the Green stack, and the little branches and birds have been cut from one of their sheets too.
The flowers are prima and the buttons are from stash.
Thanks for looking!!

Gill xx

A Spoon full of Sugar!

I made this card last night for the challenge over at A spoon full of Sugar blogspot. This week's challenge- 52- was to make a card for a celebration. I chose to make this a birthday card as I have a few coming up this month in our family!

The image is a Penny Black stamp called chicky night. It has been coloured using derwent coloursoft pencils and the background papers are sassafrass lass, including the flowers which were cut out. Lettering was american crafts rub ons and the stitching effect is hand drawn.

Thank you for looking!
Gill xx

My Coco Cat

I thought I'd take a break from the challenge cards tonight and worked on a layout of one of my beautiful siamese rescue cats from Gibraltar. This is Coco, my chocolate point, who when we took her in was covered in fleas, ringworm and goodness knows what else! She was tiny with a very loud meow!!

For the layout I've used a cooredinations background card with papermania scrapbook cat papers. The ribbon down the side was bought from my local craft store and the buttons and lettering are from my stash. The birds are rub on's, Kaisercraft and the detailing is doodled on by hand.

Hope everyone is well, I'm off to watch Greys Anatomy and Bones now!
Take care,
Gill x