For a healthy heart

...exercise your faith. This lovely sentiment is by TCP Studio.
A sweet little Tilda card to share with you today.

Designer paper is from Basic Grey June Bug collection. The image is coloured with pencils and then cut out. The background is sprayed with Glimmer Mist Cross My Heart using a template that I cut with the Cricut from the Storybook cartridge.

The picture quality is not ideal, but I would like to show you how I coloured her skirt, trying to mimic the paper.

The sentiment is a stamp from TCP studio, stamped in red and then raised with Glossy Accents. The branch and the flowers are from Magnolia, the corner die is from Spellbinders.

Just a quick view of the inside of the card.

Happy Mother's Day

A happy day to all mothers, but especially my very own dearest and darling mother.

The designer paper is from Basic Grey June Bug. The card is embossed and left largely blank so there was room to add a handmade paper tissue flower. The flower is sprayed with Glimmer Mist Bubblegum. The leaf is from Spellbinders.

The image is from Lili of the Valley and coloured with polychromos. Unfortunately the paper got a dent in it and it looks as if she has a dirty cheek now :). The sentiment is from Woodware.
Enjoy your very special day everyone. Hugs.

Get well

After having disappeared off the globe...
Not really, I was still around, but free time has been reduced to nothing. Where I used to be able to enjoy the odd day off and fill it with crafting and homework, now I have hardly any free time.
Work has become an ugly beast and demands all my time. At work, there have been big changes as the clinic manager has left and I have resumed the acting role; not easy doing the work of two.
Hopefully in the near future, things will change for the better and I can get back to regular crafting. I am still fortunate to call myself fairly young :) and have luckily enough energy to share.
Some exciting occasions on the horizon: a baby shower, my friend's bridal shower and a wedding,... meaning enough crafting opportunities and ideas coming in floods...
I have made some cards and this one today is a get well card.

The designer paper is from Melissa Frances Kitchy Kitchen.

The stamp is from Motivet and coloured with Faber Castell polychromos pencils. I am still very disappointed that Motivet has left the UK market. I am not even sure if they are still trading. They used to have such delightful images. I am glad I bought them when I did.

I did an effort to decorate the inside of the card as well. I think since 2012, I have been treating every card this way. The sentiment on the front and inside are from Crafty Secrets Feeling Yucky collection.
Hope to be back with a post soon, thanks for all the visits even when I was not posting. Hope to hear from you soon.

Blooming with sweetness

Happy Valentine to all, but specially to my one and only beloved one.

Websters Pages papers are most delightful and so soft in their make-up, they really suit the Magnolia stamp.

Colouring with colour pencils.

The flower is handmade from old magazine papers.

A safe landing

My next card is for someone who is going through a rough time. Life isn't always easy and the hard times may bring us low, but as long as we remember that every cloud has a silver lining and there is a God who watches over us. so here is to you who struggles...

Prima papers from the Jack 'n Jill collection are used as the background papers. The stamp is from Crafty Individuals and coloured with pencils.

The sentiment is from TCP studio and stamped on a Magnolia die cut tag.

The flowers are by Prima and altered with Tattered Angels spray mists.

You are truly amazing

A new card for you today with a super cute image from Nellie Snellen, Smookie the dragon sitting in the moon.

 I used papers from Jillibean Soup for this card on a kraft card base.

My image is coloured with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. I am really pleased with the colouring and so love working with these pencils.

Shimmery, shiny Prima flowers sprayed with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist in green and yellow and Iridescent Gold with Card Candi centres. The leaves are made with a Spellbinders die from white tissue paper and then sprayed with Cherry Blossom Glimmer Mist.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts and stamped in pink Brilliance ink and mounted on a corrugated kraft label.

The tide always turns

Hello and welcome to my first card for the month. I used this lovely angling
Tilda with a cut from the Cricut cartridge Animal Kingdom. The papers I used are from K&Co Wild Saffron. The image is coloured with Polychromos colour pencils.

I do love the shading and blending possibilities I have with these Polychromos pencils and I had fun applying several shades of Stickles too.

I have you in my heart

Just got to love those adorable Magnolia stamps. My fondness for them has grown over the past year and I have bought a few more. What I like is that they are so cute and one image lends itself for multiple occasions.
I have made another Valentine card with Tilda holding a heart.

The image is painted with Cosmic shimmer paint. The branch swirls are a stamp from a collection by Making Memories. The flowers are from Magnolia and sprayed in Cherry blossom pink Glimmer Mist. Little pearl pen dots decorate the image.

The edges of the image are distressed with Antique Linen crackle paint and the corrugated card has the Picket Fence version.

I used October afternoon paper and stamped the ledger paper with  LOVE YOU. This is a gadget stamp from the sweet brand that makes these love sweets. I found the stamp at Waterstones'.
The sentiment stamp is one by Hero Arts and stamped in red Memento Ink.
This card is for the Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love challenge .

You're my sweetie pie

Another Valentine card for today with a very simple design.
I used an Inkadinkado stamp and kept the colours to brown and blue. The blue images are stamped on ledger paper from October Afternoon Let's fly a kite. The brown spotted paper is also from the same pad.
The ribbon is from American Crafts.

The squares are just punched with Woodware punches. The blue star paper is from another paper collection by Jillibean Soup.

I don't make many of these clean & simple cards, because I like to fluff things up. Gives me a break from my daily routine where work keeps me strict and in line. I love to see the work of other card makers who do keep it to simple straight lines, but for me this is quite hard to do.

Happy Birthday with Tilda

Little cook Tilda is sending you a sweet birthday cupcake.
Meet my new Magnolia card with soft pastel colours!

The image is coloured with Polychromos pencils. The lace is from Polkadoodles, the design paper is from Melissa Francis 5thAvenue and so are the pearls.

I made my own flowers with paper from the 100th Womans Weekly edition. It had a copy of the very first edition in lovely brown paper. I sprayed it with Perfect Pearls. The leaves are made from tissue paper and sprayed with Cherry Blossom Glimmer mist.The sentiment is a stamp by Inkadikado.

The brads are from Making Memories.

I love colouring with my new pencils. I have always loved colouring and it is definitely my preferred medium.

Get ready for Valentine

Hi,
I am back after a while. Where does the time go? I find it harder to keep up with my posts. Having moved my laptop away from my craft desk, hasn't helped.
I spend less time on the internet, although I still browse but use my I pod. It is a very small screen, so I try to keep my online time to a minimum.
Here is my card for today. With Valentine on the way, it had to be with red and a heart.

 A lovely Magnolia stamp with Tilda holding a heart, colored with Polychromos pencils and Sansodor. The sentiment stamp is from Kaisercraft. Pretty velvet Petaloo flowers with white Prima flowers and Marianne Design leaf. Cute little button brads pop through the holes of this Martha Stewart border.

Gorgeous Websters Pages paper form a 6x6 mixed pack.

The ribbon is from Dille and Kamille, which I bought on our last trip to Belgium in the city of Brugge.

Happy Birthday to my Sweetheart

Hi,
today I will share with you the birthday card I made for my sweetheart's birthday.
I used my all time favourite stamp brand Crafty Secrets and choose this happy Kewpie set. They look so cheeky and cut and were just the neatest thing for a funny card for my man.

All the paper used is from October Afternoon. My DH loves green, so I picked that as the main colour.

I stamped all the images with Memento ink and then coloured them with Polychromos pencils.

Love these cheeky ones!

Celebrate the New Year

Wishing you all a prosperous 2012. Hope you had a lovely time.
Here is my first card for the year with a Lili of the Valley image, which I thought was quite suitable for the theme.

 I used my new Polychromos pencils and Sansodor to colour the image. I used Basic Grey Kioshi papers.

Handmade tissue paper flowers, which I sprayed with Glimmer Mist, the die I used is from Marianne Design and the leaves are from Spellbinders.

Kioshi brads for the centres and vintage silver glass glitter on the edge of the bottom flower.

Love my new pencils. My Christmas present from my sweetheart, 120 Polychromos from Faber Castell in a mahogany box.

Hugs with a Motivet stamp

Hope you all enjoyed a lovely Christmas together.
I have a sweet and soft pastel shades card to share with this cute little hippo from Motivet.

I made the card from Tim Holz's Kraft resist paper and lined it with soft pastel pink card. The other papers are from Melissa Frances.

 The image is coloured with Cosmic Shimmerz.

The flower is made out of plain white paper with a Spellbinder die and the sprayed with Glimmer Chalk in Mint Choc Chip. The leaves are a die from Marianne Design and also sprayed with a few shades of Glimmer Mist. The sentiment is a stamp from Lili of the Valley.

Hark the herald angels sing...

Wishing you all the merriest Christmas ever. Hope it brings you peace, love and joy.
Sharing this Christmas card with you today with a new stamp from Lili of the Valley.

I used a kraft card as base and K&Co Que Sera Sera papers. I made a stamped background paper with a Hero Arts Cling stamp and Memento ink and covered the image with Glamour Dust.

 The main image is coloured with pencils and Cosmic Shimmer paints.

The sentiment stamp is also from Lili of the Valley. The little iridescent rounds are stickers by Paperchase.