Recent Bunny Finish

 Hi all,

I finally finished stitching my easter decoration - now I just need to make it up.

This was a free cross stich kit with WOCS magazine.

I would like to enter this stitching into:

ikesworld #151 Fur or feathers

dragonflydreams - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking. I will share this fully made up once it is completed.

Hugz Tinz

Polar Decorations

 Hi guys,

We have our last challenge of the year starting today over at Creative Moments. I am not on the 22nd DT but as always I have made a card to play along with my teamies.

The bears are cross stitched on plastic canvas, cut out and a thread loop added to the top to make a hanging decoration. I then used a frame that came with a cross stitch kit to make an aperture frame to stick the decoration to in order to make a card. Finally I added a sentiment sticker.

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Christmas Cheer @ I Love Promarkers

 Good morning,

It'll soon be Christmas! Therefore for our last challenge I have made a Christmas card. As always we are anything goes as long as you use Promarkers, however our optional twist is to add a flower to your creation.

Here is my card

I have used Rory tis the season from Heather Valentin - Colour of Love  who are sponsoring us for this challenge.

I used poinsettia paper from the 12 days of Christmas papermania paper pack to cover the card base. I then matted a panel onto gold mirror card. I matted the image onto gold mirror card and layered the panels together. I then added a foiled sentiment and an Anita's pearl poinsettia.

The promarkers I used to colour the image are:

Warm Grey 3, Grey Squirrel

Walnut, Raw Sienna, Pastel Beige

Canary, Yellow, Pastel Yellow

Pastel Pink, Pale Pink, Fuchsia Pink

Poppy, Cardinal Red

Slate, Lilac

Blue Pearl, Duck Egg, Bluebell

Marine, Emerald, Grass, Mint Green, Apple Cider, Pear Green

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

PFP #621 Anything Goes

craftycatz #576 Christmas Celebrations

craftyhazelnuts #572 Quick and Easy (apart from the colouring)

AYLI - Fav Christmas Embellishment - I do like the look of poinsettias

AudSentiments #289 Christmas/Winter

jinglebelles

WinterWonderland

CraftyCalendar - Christmas

dragonflydreams - Anything Goes

I also have the first of my Christmas trees to share with you :) Especially for TheCardConcept.

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Night before Christmas

 We have a new challenge today at Creative Moments, and I have made a Christmas card.

I added a backing paper from a free gift that came with a magazine, to a narrow card base to give a Christmas feel. I then fussy cut the image - which is Mouse sleeping from our sponsor Patties Creations.

I coloured the image with Papermania watercolour brush markers. I then stamped the sentiment onto the side.

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

CCEE2148 - Christmas song lyrics

PFP #621 Anything Goes

TIOT - Snowflakes (backing paper)

AudSentiments #289 Christmas/Winter/New Year

JingleBelles

SweetStampin' - Anything Christmas

IkesWorld #151 Fur/feathers

ABCChristmas - Y for Yummy

WinterWonderland - Anything Christmas

CraftyCalendar - Christmas

613AvenueCreate #12 Any Holiday

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Fun folds @ Christmas

 Hi guys,

It is time for our final challenge of 2021 over at MAWTT and Christine wants to see your Fancy Folds.

I had already created this card blank but hadn't used it, so I decided it was about time. It is a Z-fold card that allows the different layers to be seen when the card is closed. I used a 'The Snowman' theme for my card using various different toppers. To the front panel I added the foiled sentiment and a felt bauble.

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

CountryView - Christmas

ChristmasCraftCreations - Fun Fold

ABCChristmas - Z for ZigZags (shape of card blank)

MMM #162 Cute Christmas

SimonSaysWeds - Christmas

Christmas is coming @ I Love Promarkers

 Hey everyone, 

We have a new challenge started today at I Love Promarkers, with the optional theme of Christmas! Yes it is only just over 3 weeks away now. However, if you don't celebrate Christmas you can always play along with anything goes - the only stipulation is that you must use promarkers (or their varieties) on your creation.

I coloured the image using promarkers - I wanted it to look like a snow scene, so left much of the tree cover white, but looking at the images from other DT members I don't think this was the best option. I die-cut the image into a square and then added onto a Christmas tree base card, using holly ribbon peel-offs on the corners to add some shimmer, Finally I added the peel-off sentiment.

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

PFP #620 Christmas Critters

TIOT - Winter Wonderland

intaas #122 Winter

CountryView - Christmas

Kitty Thanks You

 Hi guys,

I have used the sketch from AHSC for todays card:

This is the sketch -

As you can see I have adapted it ever so slightly as my squares were slightly too big to follow the sketch exactly. I used some scalloped squares from my stash and stamped a kitty onto two of them. These I used next to the sentiments. 

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

SUYP #72 Furrything Goes

613avenuecreate #11 Thankfulness

AYLI - dies or stencils - again I am choosing dies because you can cut several of the same thing and then save them in your stash for later to arrange as you wish.

Audsentiments #288 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Contemporary Christmas

 Good evening,

I have another Christmas card to share with you all today.

I used a Robin on cage designer paper to cover the card blank. The bauble topper I already had made up in my stash, so I used this and layered a foiled sentiment panel onto this.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

intaas #122 winter

dragonflydreams - Christmas/Winter

Winter Wraps

 I have a beading related Technique in focus over on my facebook group currently until the end of November - found here. The technique is Russian Spiral Stitch, which makes a hollow cylinder of beading and can be used for various purposes. I have made mine into a bracelet for a gift for christmas.

I used wintry colours for my band and the instructions that I followed can be found here.

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

CountryView - Christmas Gifting

intaas #122 Winter (This is made in winter colours)

craftycatz #573 add some metal (metal clasp)

RiverofCreativity - The Gift

Allsorts #651 One for the girls

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Leaving in gold

 So a colleague at work is leaving on Friday and I have tried to make a stylish but masculine card for him, with a hint of celebration rather than being too depressive. It is also the day our new challenge starts at Creative Moments.

I layered a black card over the base card and added golden domes. I then matted together black on gold mirror card and wrapped with gold glitter ribbon, adding a solid gold bow to finish. I die cut the inside of the balloon from gold card and then die-cut both parts in black card, to make the balloon shaker element. Unfortunately I was out of the letter E so I used a gold gel pen to make C's into E's on the sentiment in the balloon and added gold glitter. I then wrote the sentiment on the bottom panel (badly I know).

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

Sweetsketchwednesday #218

craftycalendar - Anything Goes

AYLI - Dies or stencils - I find dies are much quicker to work with and so am more likely to use them

audsentiments #288 Anything Goes

inkspirational #252 Photo inkspiration

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Birthday Squirrel

 Good evening

It was a friends birthday recently and he really loves squirrels. I remembered I had this image on a calendar and so I recycled the image into a card for his birthday.

I simply trimmed the image to fit the card blank and added a peel-off sentiment (in two sections). I didn't think it needed too much extra embellishment.

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

CraftyCalendar - Anything Goes

Inspirationstation #18 Wood photo (the squirrel is sitting on a tree branch and the overall colours are the same)

AudSentiments #288 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

No patterned paper

 hi everybody,

We have a new challenge starting over at I Love Promarkers, with the optional theme of No Patterned Paper.

We are sponsored by SheepSkiDesigns

and I have used Christmas candle.

To start I took a 6x6 card blank and using a leaf stencil covered the background with versamark ink. I then used Copper Heat It Up embossing powder to create the patterned background. A peel-off in an iridescent colour was added to a piece of plain white card and placed in the top right, aiming to look like the sentiment is reflecting the light from the candle flame.

I coloured the image using the following Promarkers - Warm Grey, Wild Cranberry and Lush Green for the Poinsettias: Twilight Sky, Dusky Pink, Ivory, Crimson, Daffodil Bloom and Lemon for the candle.

I then fussy cut this image and added to the card base.

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

PFP 618 Anything Christmas

SimonSaysWednesday - Make Your Own Background

Allsorts #650 Christmas

MTTC #470 Texture

ABCChristmas - x for Xerox

dragonflydreams - Christmas/Winter

DigiDoodleStudio #44 Christmas/Winter

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Birthday kitty

 Hi guys,

I created a card using a sketch for a challenge that has expired - idiot. However, I had fun using the sketch and so I am going to share my creation with you anyway.

I started by using Cosmic Shimmer Neon Paste and a stencil to create the patterned right hand side. I then used a border die-cut for the border between this pattern and the plain card. I used a scalloped circle die-cut on starry paper and layered a scalloped square die-cut with a kitty stamped onto it in blue Distress ink. I layered these over the edge of the card and trimmed the excess. Finally I added a star sticker to the plain side, and added a birthday sentiment.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

SUYP #72 Furrything Goes

ATSM #418 Birthdays

AYLI - Favourite circle embellishment - die-cuts as they can be used for a variety of purposes

alphabetchallenge - P for patterned paper (circle embellishment)

ATCAS #210 circle

MTTC #470 Texture (border pattern)

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Snowy Wishes

 I have a cross stitched Christmas card to share with you all today. This one has some added sparkle through the use of metallic threads.

This was a free kit with WOCS magazine and it came with the illustrated card blank, so I just stitched the bear and the snowflakes that are within the aperture.

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

CRAFT #617 Christmas

Audsentiments #287 Christmas

craftycalendar - Anything Goes

dragonflydreams - Christmas/Winter

Countryview - Christmas Gifting

Sparkles at Christmas for Creative Moments

 hi everybody

Our new challenge started today over at Creative Moments, with a new sponsor - Mirtillamente.

The image I used is Catherine. I used the pre-coloured image and added glitter glue in the appropriate colour to the outfit to really make her sparkle - it is Christmas after all. I used a Christmas patterned base card in green and fussy cut the image. I then added some peel-offs to finish.

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

SimonsaysMonday - Any Holiday

craftyhazelnuts #567 Beginning with H (High Sparkle and Hip)

audsentiments #287 Christmas

ABCChristmas - W for Whimsical

Winterwonderland - playing the 'for a child' option

dragonflydreams - Christmas/Winter

Make it funny @ I Love Promarkers

 Our new challenge starts today at I Love Promarkers, with the optional theme of 'Make it funny'

Our sponsor is Dr Digi, and I have used Demento Alone.

I coloured the image using Promarkers and then fussy cut. I added the title to the label with a normal fineliner pen and hand-wrote the sentiment. I decided that keeping this CAS was best.

Promarkers - satin, cinnamon, raw sienna, soft peach, tequila sunrise, pink carnation, baby pink, pale pink, peach, lemon, pastel yellow, moss, grass, duck egg and chine blue.

I would like to enter this into the following challenge:

Allsorts #648 Add a Sentiment

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Diamond Owl @ Moving Along With The Times

 Hi guys,

It is November already! How this year has flown by! This months challenge theme over at MAWTT is Anything But a Card. I have made a diamond art picture - I find these really therapeutic - especially as I love cross stitch, but these require much less concentration!

I would like to enter this little girly into the following challenges:

AYLI - Critter or People - Critter as I find them so much more versatile and more enjoyable to watch come to life

SimonSaysWednesday - Anything Goes

craftycatz #570 Anything Goes

C4C608 Texture

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog,

Hugz Tinz

Butterfly scenes

 I have made a CAS butterfly scene today using some toppers that work free with a crafting magazine.

I cut the topper out and added it to the bottom of a card blank. I then took a foiled sentiment topper and added a 3D Anita's butterfly to match the sentiment.

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

craftycatz #570 Anything Goes

SimonSaysWednesday - Anything Goes

SOS #457 You don't bring me flowers

Alphabetchallenge - O for Outdoors

CASology #396 View

Thanks for looking, hugz Tinz

Spider delight

 Hi guys,

I want to share with you my recently finished spider decorations tonight.

They were really fun to create. I used acrylic paints for the base, painting them with a sponge to keep the paint light, and in some cases patchy. The grey one used steel paint and then dark silver glitter sprinkled onto the abdomen and left to dry. The red one used red paint and red glitter. The black one was the grey paint covered with black embossing powder, and then a mix of green and black embossing powders for the abdomen. Finally the blue one (M.balfouri) I just painted the legs as the abdomen is naturally a beige colour.

I would like to enter these into the following challenges:

ikesworld #149 Trick or treat

craftycalendar - halloween

SimplyCreateToo #175 All things spooky

CountryView - Halloween

modsquad - halloween

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog,

Hugz Tinz

Pumpkin patch endings

 Hi guys,

I decided to finally start putting the recipe book together that I have had in my stash for a while. So I have done the front cover - in a pumpkin theme of course!

The image is one I coloured quite a while ago but then never used. I thought she went really well with the rest of the images. I used autumnal stickers, a pumpkin pie topper and lots of oranges to create this front cover.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

polkadoodles wk43 Autumn

inspirationstation #16 pumpkin patch

SOS #456 pumpkin spice and everything nice

TheCardConcept #162 Fall Fun (flowers, vegetables and font)

MTTC #468 Autumn colours

CountryView - Autumn colours

DigiDoodleStudios #43 Fall

I also have an book review to share with you this time!

The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis

Soleen Rousell comes from a lineage of women who guarantee that anybody who wears one of their wedding dresses will have a happy ending. They are skilled both with needles and with charms, but they don’t serve just anybody – they have to be sure that the people who they provide the happy ending to are the right pairing. However, this ability comes at a cost – love seems to be out of reach for these ladies, with heart break following rapidly if they do fall in love. The family call this a curse.

When a young lady who is going through a heartbreak of her own, decides that she wishes to buy Soleen’s now derelict shop for use as an art gallery for unknown artists, a new friendship slowly blossoms. Soleen is reluctant at first, but she sees something of herself in the young lady that encourages her to come out of her shell to help. As the gallery nears its opening day, and Soleen opens up about her past, the present starts to be full of surprises, and they are not all good ones.

This is a really gripping story of heartbreak, determination and hope, as well as looking at how fragile relationships are in general. It is well worth reading.

Hugz Tinz

Autumnal birthday

 Hi guys,

I have made a CAS Autumnal themed birthday card for you today:

The image was coloured using Promarker pens. I then fussy cut the image and added it to a creamy slimline card blank. I then stamped the two autumnal sentiments using Whispers ink pad.

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

DigiDoodleStudio #43 Fall/Halloween

CountryView - playing Autumnal colours

ATSM #416 Make your mark

ThePaperPlayers #563 CAS birthday

polkadoodles wk43 halloween or autumn

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Slow and Steady

 Hi guys,

There is a new challenge started over at Creative Moments (as always the theme is anything goes). Please pop over to the blog to see what creations the DT for this second challenge of the month have created.

As always I have played along, but using some of my own stash (as I am on the first team of the month rather than the second).

The image was coloured with Promarkers and then fussy cut. I used two different washi tapes on a slimline cardblank, and layered the image onto these. I then used stickers to add the sentiment and a couple of accents while keeping the design CAS.

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

613AvenueCreate #11 Anything Goes

ATSM #416 Make your mark

AYLI - Critter or People - Critter as I much prefer animals in real life, and I find them much easier to colour

Punched Dragonfly Celebrations

 Hi guys,

We have a new challenge starting today at I Love Promarkers - as always we need to see you using Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Aquamarkers or Triamarkers on your creations. The option twist the I am playing is to use a punch or die-cut.

I coloured the image using the following promarkers - Olive Green, Summer Sun, Primrose, Blush, Icicle, Sky Blue, Pine and Cardinal Red. I then fussy cut the image and added to a red card blank. Then I punched the dragonflies from green glitter self-adhesive paper from X-cut. I left space for a suitable sentiment to be added.

The image is from Hetty Clare and is called Happy hour.

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

613AvenueCreate #11 Anything Goes

PFP #614 Dies or punches

Spooky Matrimony

 Hi guys,

I have a friend getting married this month and so I combined halloween and a wedding.

Firstly I added the two stripes of halloween themed washi-tape. Then I drew the ghosts onto the card blank, adding the required wedding attire to them both. Finally I use chameleon pens to write the sentiment in yellow and orange.

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

CRAFT #614 Halloween/Autumn/Thanksgiving

craftycatz #568 Trick or Treat

intaas #119 use mostly yellow and orange

TIOT - Halloween Time

Alphabet Challenge - N for no layers

AddictedtoCAS #208 Spooky

SimplyCreateToo #175 All things spooky

ikesworld #149 Trick or treat

craftycalendar - Halloween

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Penguin fun

 Hi all,

We have a new challenge started today over at Creative Moments. As always it is an anything goes theme. This month we are sponsored by Cute As A Button Digital Stamps.

I have used Penguin for my card.

I coloured this image using Chameleon Pens and then fussy cut. I layered a sentimental patterned paper onto a card blank and then added the penguin.

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

ABCChristmas - V for Vocabulary

SweetStampin' - Christmas in September (digi stamp)

The Texture of Music

 Hi guys,

A new challenge has started today over at I Love Promarkers. 

Our sponsor is  Digi Doodle Studios and I have used Rockin' Reed.

I coloured the image using the following Promarkers - Daffodil Bloom, Oatmeal and Honeycomb for the hair - Tawny Owl, Morning Mist, Budding Rose and Daffodil Bloom for the drumkit - Morning Mist for the skin - Pastel Green, Blue Pearl and Umber for the clothes.

I used my paper cutter on the wavy setting to cut the image and layered it over an embossed crown from my stash. I layered these onto a splatter patterned card and then stamped the sentiment and a cat and heat embossed using Cosmic Shimmer embossing powder.

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

MMM #158 Embossing

SOS #455 Musical Notes (I hope this is ok as there are not any actual notes on this, but he is playing music?)

ATSM #415 Die-cut/stencils

CCEE2139 Musical

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Simply Christmas for Santa's Little Helper

 I have made a very simple Christmas Card for a special child

I used an inkpad to colour a peel-off in yellow and then stuck this to the centre of a card blank. I then used some purple snowflake stickers to accent the card and smudged some of the yellow ink around them to give a bit of a messy feel. I think I could have increased this a little bit, but I was worried it would look too messy!

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

Avenue613 #11 Anything Goes

SimplyLessisMoore #453 Purple and yellow

Jinglebelles - Dashing through the snow

CraftyHazelnuts #562 For someone special

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

BINGO Roses

 Hi guys,

Sorry I am late - I lost track of what day it was and what DT needed to be completed! :(

However here I am now with my DT creation for Caroles fun BINGO board over at MAWTT.

I have used the middle row - image, patterned paper and glitter.

The image is a Bugaboo image - unfortunately the shop is now closed. I coloured this with Promarkers and then fussy cut. I die-cut a panel of patterned paper (this was free with a magazine) using X-cut large oval nesting dies. I then die-cut the sentiment onto X-cut self-adhesive glitter paper. To finish, before layering together, I added PVA glue to the rose petals and sprinkled glitter onto them.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

DragonflyDreams - Happy birthday

Thanks for looking,
Hugz Tinz

Vintage Christmas

 Well I think stained glass is pretty vintage anyway, so I went with it.

I inked an embossing folder with gold papermania dye ink and then embossed a card blank. The folder I used looks like it could be frost creeping onto a pane of glass so I thought it was great for a stained glass centrepiece. I then added the topper to the centre and a die-cut gold sentiment to the top.

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

inkspirational #248 retro (stained glass must be retro right?)

mttc #466 Embossing

MMM #158 Embossing

SimonSaysMonday - touchyfeely

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

A circle in a square

 Hi guys,

Our new optional theme over at I Love Promarkers is 'Make it Square'. As I was following a sketch for this one, I decided to use a square card, but place the image into a circle within the square base.

Our sponsor for this challenge is one I haven't worked with before - Ching-Chou Kuik and I have used Hummingbirds.

Promarkers used - Hair - Orchid, Amethyst and Winter Berry. - skin - Pastel Beige and March Hair. - hummingbirds - Forest Green, Island Lagoon, Amethyst and Metallic Green. others - Metallic Gold, Lime Zest, Marine, Salmon Pink, Carmine and Hot Pink.

The sketch I followed is from CheerfulSketches.

I would also like to share this at the following challenges:

craftycalendar - Anything Goes

TIOT - going round in circles (circle within a square)

Daringcardmakers - going round in circles

Allsorts #642 real animals

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz