Floral @ MAWTT

Hi guys,

It is my turn to host the challenge over at MAWTT and as we are well and truly into Spring I decide that florals was the way to go. I do not use my flower stuff often enough, so this made me have a look at what I had and make something.

I used a fancy flower stamp set that came free with a magazine. I stamped the inside of the flower using 'evergreen' Distress ink, and the outside of the petals with Crushed Sapphire Distressed ink. I also stamped the sentiment from the same set in between the two flowers. Finally I added some vintage style toppers.

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

CountryView - Spring

AYLI - Flowers or ribbons (This is a difficult one - I have gone with flowers if I am posting the card, as I prefer to use ribbon as bows).

MTTC #394 Spring Flowers

daring cardmakers - Blooming Wonderful

Can't wait to see what you are inspired to create

Hugz Tinz

Beaded flowers

I have a beaded flower to share with you today. It will eventually become a brooch but at the moment I cannot find my pins!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

MMM #94 Diamonds (flower centre)

TIOT - Springtime (actually spring related this time!)

MTTC #395 Spring Flowers

notjustcards - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Animals @ Creative Moments

Hi guys,

We have a new challenge started over at Creative Moments today, and yes it is Team B's turn to do the challenge, but I loved the images from our sponsor - Morgan's Art World (You will need to join Facebook group to view images) - and so I decided I needed to play along with this one :D. I used the precoloured Jaguar in Snow .

I made a card base using black glitter card, reminiscent of the snow in the nighttime. I die-cut the printed image using the X-cut scalloped circles nesting dies. I also cut some gold tissue paper using the next size up. I then added a sentiment panel. To finish I placed small square diamantes onto the sentiment panel, and then two larger ones on each of the bottom corners.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz #458 Anything Goes

polkadoodle wk16 Spring

dragonflydreams - include an animal
AYLI - Fav animal - Cats have always been one of my favourite animals, but as I am getting older I just seem to love em all haha.

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Birthday @ Aud Sentiments

Hi guys,

It is birthday time over at Aud Sentiments!! We have the lovely Polkadoodles sponsoring us for this challenge, which is Aud Sentiments 9th Birthday!! and so I used Party Little Dude for my card. (AND I have actually used a birthday SENTIMENT too this time!)

I used a celebratory patterned base card (well lovely bright colours anyway) and coloured the image with promarkers after layering the sentiment onto the balloon before printing. I then added a blue birthday sentiment.

Promarkers - Hair = Canary, Mustard and Peach. Skin = Cool Grey 1, Satin, Pastel Yellow. Balloons = Pink Lobster, Tropical Orchid, Blue Pearl, Pink Carnation. Others = Terracotta, Walnut, Raw Sienna, Lavener, Warm Grey 4.

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

ATSM #337 Make your mark

craftingbydesign - Anything Goes

Can't wait to see your creations,

Hugz Tinz

Embossing @ I Love Promarkers

Yup it is time for a new challenge over at I Love Promarkers, and the optional challenge for this one is to use some embossing on your project. We are sponsored by the lovely IkesArt, and I have used Saucy-Steampunk.

I used a pastel card blank for the base. I coloured the image with Promarkers and then die-cut using a fancy frame nesting die. I also used the nesting dies to cut out a frame from Kraft card. I ripped parts from the frame to ensure the image was fully visible. I then cut a square from the same car and layere patterned paper over it - but this I cut on an angle to follow the pattern and give a bit more of an edgy feel to the card.

Promarkers used - Cool Grey 5&4, Henna, Metallic Red Gold, Fuschia Pink, Ice Grey 2 and Cool Grey 2 for the hair, Satin.

Finally I added some charms and embossed the far right (although I should have done this before sticking the image panel down! Grrr.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

PFP #489 Patterned Paper

ATSM #337 Make your mark

notjustcards - Anything Goes

ikesworld #119 D for die-cuts

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Subtle snow

Hi there,

I made a cute little Christmas card last night that I want to share with you.

So this was a really easy one to make. I used a 3x3" card blank and added a strip of ink down the centre (using a Papermania gold ink pad). I then added a forever friends bear to the centre of the card. Finally I stamped the sentiment using the gold ink onto a parchment paper (no idea what make the stamp is), and then I die-cut it into a circle.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

AHSC #312

SimonSaysWednesday - No designer paper

CRAFT #509 Christmas

SimplyLessisMoore #393 Subtle colours

WinterWonderland - Cute Christmas

I also have some babies from Tenerife to share with you

So cute!!

Have a lovely evening,

Hugz Tinz

Patchwork Nature

Hi there,

I decided to make a no-colouring card using a little fox stamp as my main image, as we saw a fox on the roundabout just outside our estate.

I used a square base card and added some papermania patterned paper to the background. I then added a printed strip of silhouette pattern printed onto pearlescent card (I can't remember the name of the designer). Finally I stamped the fox and the buttons from a Patchwork stamp set that was free with a crafting magazine, onto a gingham oval that I had in my stash. I added this to the card base using 3d foam pads to raise it up from the background. What is your honest opinion about leaving the image uncoloured?

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

ATSM #336 Anything Goes

Catchthebug - Back to nature

Sweetstampin' - Get Ready for Spring

inkspirational #184 Pop it up

intaas #55 CAS with blue

Cheerful Sketches

dragonflydreams - include an animal

I thought I should also share a dino update with you. It is from last month though - I need to get a more recent picture!

At this point the third Dino had taken 28hr36 taking the overall time to over 201 hours.

I also thought you might like to see my blue tits visiting the nest box!

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz