Sent with Flowers

I have a cute little Hedgehog with a lovely bunch of flowers to share with you today. He was a free kit with one of my Cross Stitch magazines and he is designed by Margaret Sherry. You will probably recognise the desig style from her range of Penny Black stamps.

I wish we could see more of these little guys around in my garden! We do not get them into the garden as yet - I think it is because the houses are so built up and there is a long alleyway to get to our back garden!

Thinking about gardens I have spent the evening pulling all my tomato plants up as they have developed blight :( I managed to salvage a dish of tomatoes from about 6 plants! Not good at all.

Anyway,I would like to enter this little guy into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday #495 Add a Banner/Flags (banner held by two butterflies)
AYLI - Flora or Fauna. For this card I went for both, as you do usually find them hand-in-hand and to use both on a card makes it much more natural.

A Snowflakes Promise #44 Anything Goes (Spring themed)

And before I go I thought you might be interested to see my plants before I went away:

That last is a Brussels Sprout plant believe it or not - the caterpillars had a great time!

Thanks for looking and hope to see you on Wednesday!

Hugz Tinz

Shaker idea

Well we finally had some sunshine today!! It makes a lovely change from all the rain, and so we went up to the lake district and went for a boat ride across Windemere. I didn't take my camera so there are no pictures I am afraid, but I had great fun feeding the geese, swans, ducks, gulls and jackdaws lol. I have a lovely nip on my shoulder where one of the baby Canada geese crept up behind me and then pecked at me - little terror hehe. And I had to grab one of the cygnats by the beak to stop it from pecking at my arms (daddy also told him off lol).

Anyway, I have made a shaker card with the new Christmas image from Limited Runs, for the new progressive challenge - I think I am just in time with the uploading of this, whew.

I coloured the image (provided by Limited Runs for the progressive challenge) with Promarkers and then cut close to the edge of the outline. I stuck this to a circle of foiled snowflake card. I then used a green die-cut snowglobe and added acetate behind the snowglobe centre. I added fine glitter, course glitter and stars inside this shaker element, and added a ribbon to the top to finish. A name can be added in peel-offs to the centre of the snowglobe base.

I would like to enter this for the following challenges:
Limited Runs Progressive
PFP 412 Let it shine
Die Cuttin' Divas #334 3D, shaker or shaped
CRAFT #433 Christmas
addicted to stamps #152 Christmas
Christmas @ Sweet Stampin'

I thought you might like to see the moth eggs that are on my back door window - I wonder if they will have hatched by the time I get home???

here are some more pictures of the eggs:

Thanks for looking and I will share some photos from my holiday with you shortly too!!

Hugz Tinz

Wild Flowers - Country Diary

Well I am posting from lovely (and excedingly wet and windy) Lancashire today. We are away for a week and it is lovely not having to thik about work at all! (Apart from the Avon). Anyway, I have a new card to share with you all, which is a cross stitch based upon the Country Diaries illustrations.

I have also made up a Poppy design - again from the Country Diary illustrations:

Both were free kits with Cross Stitch Magazines and the illustrated cards came as part of the kit, however I have added a butterfly peel-off to the poppy card to add a little more interest.

I would like to enter these creations into the following challenges:

TIOT - Stitch It

The Card Concept #77 Weathered Florals

 

As you like it - Flora or Fauna (I love the Country Diary illustrations and they are very popular with the Grandma's too!)

I have taken some pictures of a butterfly in my garden too:

Thank you for looking again,

Hugz Tinz

Under the Sea

It is Thursday and time for a new challenge over at Aud Sentiments. We have an easy one for you this time with challenge #188 being an Anything Goes theme - just remember to show us your sentiment! Our lovely sponsor this time is IKEsART and I have used Mermaid 3 for my creation.

I die-cut a circle in a pearlescent blue card blank from Hobbycraft. The image was coloured using promarkers (including the metallics) and was printed onto a teardrop shaped background. This was layered inside the card, behind the apperture. I then used a swirl die-cut on the one side, and two seahorses on the other, slightly overlapping the aperture to give a feel of depth. The sentiment was added on an angle.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
IKESworld challenges - mythology
City Crafter #378 Pick a background (I chose the blue - although there is a little purple speckle mixed in too).

C4C401 Ocean or Beach
SSSociety #124 Anything Goes
CraftingbyDesign - Anything Goes

I thought you might like to see my indoor tomato plant lol:

look at those roots!

Thanks for looking again,

Hugz Tinz

Birthday Tricks

Welcome back to my second DT post of the day. This time I wish to tell you about our new challenge over at Creative Moments. We are always anything goes, but the twist for challenge #126 is to make something for a Grandparent, as it is Grandparents day on the 10th. Our lovely sposors for this challenge are QKR.

Unfortunately my printer started to play up before I had printed out an image from the sponsor, and so my card does not have a digital image, but rather is made using a Cross Stitched design. It was made for a lovely ladies birthday, because she made the point that once you become a grandparent you see things anew - dolphins are a new passion lol.

I made the card base using pearlescent blue card as it looks like water. I then lined the inside with a moochrome paper that was easy to write on. The two bottom squares I added a floral patterned paper and the peel-off sentiment (Birthday - Wishes). For the top I added a 'wave' with scalloped blue ribbon and then layered the stitching onto a piece of gingham card to match the hoop.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams - patterned paper
Alphabet Challenge - M for Make your Mark (Cross Stitch)
SSS513 
TIOT - Stitch It
C4C401 Ocean or Beach

And here are some Lepidoptera pictures :)

Thanks for looking again,

Hugz Tinz

Is it really so close to Christmas??

Hi guys,

It is time for a new challenge over at I Love Promarkers, and we have a nice easy one for you this time. We want to see Animals on your creation! We are sponsored by the lovely Little Miss Muffet. Do pop over to the challenge blog for further information and to see the rest of the DT makes :)

I have used Little Miss Muffets Reindeer Yuletide for my card. This image was a firm favourite with the DT.

Promarkers - March Hare (ltd); Ruby; Umber; Burnt Sienna; Pear Green; Crimson

Dies - X-cut large label dies (layered onto patterned paper from stash) and a snowflake edging die from Craft Stash cut on X-cut glitter self-adhesive paper.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
ATSAM #258 Holiday
Cute Card Thursday #493 Too Cute
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #349 Add some sparkle
Jingle Belles - Inspired by a song (Rudolph of course)
Addicted to stamps #152 Christmas
A snowflakes promise - Anything Goes
 ABCChristmas - T for Trio (gems and papers - oh and leg warmers lol)
open-minded crafting #19 Airy in August (now themed)

I have a dino update - I think this is at approximately 40 hours now:

And I also thought you might all want to see my new bedding set!!!

Thaks for looking,
Hugz Tinz

Wedding Memories

Hi there,
What a lovely day we had yesterday, to lead to this very wet and drab day today. However, yesterday was the day that mattered as a friend was getting married. Therefore, the creation I have to share with you today is of a memory book that I made for them, for a few photos of the night.

 It folds out with the backs remaining blank for any writting they wish to add to explain the photos and the day lol and is made using KRAFT card.

 So this is the front. I embossed a heart design on some foil and curled two of the edges to give a more vintage feel (the photos thet will be added are polaroids - so I wanted the design to fit-in with these). I then added some hearts and a sentiment.

For this panel  used some bronze peel-offs and coloured them in watercolours on the KRAFT to make a monochromatic effect - similar to a faded photograph.

The final page I made very crisp and monochrome with setiments that encourage this photo to be one of the bride and groom. I did use a butterfly punch on the top corners to stop it looking too geometric though.

I would like to add this creation for the following challenges:
Country View #55 Metal (front panel)
MTTC #353 Krafty
Kort 'o' mania #182 Anything Goes
City Crafter #377 Monotone colouring (panel #2)
Allsorts #431 New Beginnings

I have another fish tank update for you (about 154.5 hours on this one):

Nearly there!!! Yippee - going to do some more on this one later I hope!

Thank you for looking,

Hugz Tinz