A Bit of Meljen to Brighten the Day!

Morning everyone.  Ooh we got glorious sunshine today.  I think the rain and the thunderstorm yesterday must've cleared the air.  I've been with some new images   today for a few challenges.

My first card is a fairy rabbit called Garden Bun Bun by Meljen Designs and available exclusively at Whimsy Stamps.  A bit different yes, but oh so fabulously fun!

This card will be entered into the following challenges

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Pollycraft - Bold and Bright

Stamp with Fun - Fairies

My Time to Craft - Butterfly Bliss

The sentiment is by Raindrop Echo Designs and is also exclusively available from  Whimsy. 

The butterflies are by Papermania, as for the paper - I can't find the label now, which would not be a surprise if you could see my craft table lol - sorry!

 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the day.

Mel X

Mother's Day/Special Lady and some Exciting News!

Morning everyone, hope your all well and enjoying the upturn in the weather!!   I sooo hope spring is finally on its way!

I've a card for you today and some news that I've been BURSTING to tell - I so hate keeping secrets, it nearly kills me lol!  I've been invited by the lovely ladies at Totally Papercrafts Challenge to join their design team - OMG, OMG, OMG!!!  These girls are so very talented and I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to working with them!

Also joining the team are some well known faces in blogland;

Joey, Janneke and Elaine

The challenge this week at Totally Papercrafts, set by the lovely Lorraine, is

MOTHER'S DAY / SPECIAL LADY

 Paula at Pollycrafts is sponsoring and she will be giving away the brand new and totally gorgeous ''Sweet Dreams Springtime Retro'' set plus you will find another little surprise on the challenge blog for ALL our readers - HAPPY DAYS!!!

Here is my first DT card for the Challenge........

RECIPE

Image - Pollycraft (LilyBean Fairy)

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Papers - Basic Grey ( Origins)

Cardstock - Stash

Lettering - Basic Grey

Flowers - Prima

Yellow flower sticker - Basic Grey

Bumble Bee Brad - Basic Grey (Porcelain)

Spacer and Pearl Brad - Stash

Card Candy

Be sure to check out the cracking makes from all my teamies here and we'd love it if you could join in the fun with us too.

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says - Mother's Day/Girly
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Mothers Day/Flowers
Crafty Calendar - Flower Power
My Time to Craft - Just for Mum
Cute Card Thursday - Lucky Green

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I have some other exciting news I'm still sitting on cos and are "Secret" lol, but within the next few days I will hopefully have a few "sneak peaks" to tease you with lol!

Thanks for stopping by.  Take care and happy crafting!

Mel X

A One Off Performance!!

Evening everyone, it's been a while since I joined in over on Dotties World.  The theme this week is Valentines and I decided to have fun by trying to use a Charmed image that may not usually be one's first choice for the occassion!  Tricky - so where does a gal go for romantic inspiration? CHICK FLICKS!!  This card will also be entered into the following challenges;

Double Dutch - Be My Valentine

Roses on Paper - Pink, Brown and Cream

Stamp with Fun - Hearts

Creative Card Crew - Valentine's

Everybody Art Challenge - Valentine

My Time To Craft - Hearts & Kisses

Stamptacular Sunday - Love is in the Air

Stampin for the Weekend - Love is in the Air

Pile It On - To the One You Love

Dottie's World - Be My Valentine

So ladies, hankies at the ready please lol, let me introduce you to George Swayze and Dottie Grey...

You may recognize the text from the chorus of the theme tune to Dirty Dancing, go on - how many of ya started singing along lol!! I don't have any large heart die cuts so I improvised and got a free template off the net, the site is called enchantedlearning.  It's worked out quite well.  Not sure about the papers now - might be a bit too busy - kinda messy - but then love's like that sometimes eh!!

RECIPE

Image - Charmed Download

Colouring Mediums - copics and watercolour pencils.

Papers - Basic Grey

Pink Jewel - Papermania 

Cardstock - Stash

Flowers - Prima

Card Candy

Thankyou so much for stopping by my little crazy haven!  You've have to excuse me now as I reach for me bottle of lambrini and box of choccys ROFL!!!  Oooh brings back memories lol.

Take Care

Mel X

Three Snowflakes - Also Known As............................

How Many Digis Images Can You Fit on One Card? LOL!  Morning everyone, brrr it's a bit nippy!  I've been bursting to post this next card but had to wait for daylight to take the pics!  The neighbours now think I'm deranged as was in the back garden in my pj's trying to get it!!!  It's a very dull and grey day here and I needed natural light and no flash on the camera!!

We have a good size garden and my early New Years Resolution is to spend more time out there sorting it out now the children are a bit older - particularly as its the reason we bought the house in the first place!  I love my garden - in all seasons apart from the dull, grey and wet really!

Now, enough waffling/teasing and onto the card.  This card will be entered into these challenges;

Dottie's World - 3 Snowflakes

Crafty Creations - Traditional Christmas colours 

My Time to Craft - Yuletide Wishes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes (plus DT call)

Simon Says Challenge - Merry Christmas

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Free for All

I certainly had fun here, this is what I came up with.................... 

 

Even Pete likes this - too bad he's already got his card LOL!   I've been wanting to play with some of the background images from the Pixie Chicks downloads over at Charmed Cards and Crafts. I also wanted to see what I could do with some acetate!  I've used an 8x8 card for this and sized all the downloads to fit right.  The fence background was printed twice to allow me to cut and layer the signpost.  I coloured the images with copics and watercolour pencils - adding red berries to the climbing plant to add to the Christmas feel.  There is A LOT of layering on this and the acetate works perfectly to protect it all.  The snowflake stickers, (papermania I think) were added on top of this to add further dimension and at the bottom I added some white flower soft.

 Thisis the card underneath the acetate.  The sentiment is also a download from the Pixie Chicks range though I changed the colour of the text in photoshop for this project. 

White flower soft was added in parts and some areas was chosen to have a dusting of glamour dust to give a lovely frosty effect.  Glamour Dust was added to the wings of the pixies and parts of their clothing. 

Well thats is from me for today.  Will be packing away my stuff soon for Christmas and banishing it to the loft in order to free up the dining room.  So far keep finding more excuses to keep it down - like "just one more challenge"  LOL!  Take care everyone, I hope you like what you've seen and thankyou for looking!

Mel X