Mojo Monday #124 & Color Q #18

Good Morning! I just want you to know that I really, really struggled with this card!  Mainly I stuggled with the colour challenge - getting that yellow in was a killer!  When I saw it on the CQ blog it all looked gorgeous together but trying to make it work with my card was tough!  I loved the sketch from Mojo Monday.  I've used a stamp my friend bought me for Christmas, I'm afraid I don't know the brand.  I stamped it several times. Twice in white, one for the rectangle and then on the second I cut the girls out and raised them up on foam.  Then stamped onto the various papers to make the dresses, then paper pieced it all together.  I love the way it looks.  But I have to say it moved me out of my comfort zone working with a stamp that was essentially a real person instead of a cutesie drawing - I think that was the first time I've ever used that type of stamp! Thanks for taking me out of my comfort zone Lorraine I love the finished effect of this stamp!

Here is the sketch and colour challenge details for you to see.

Thanks for stopping by. :)

Cased Card!

I just cased (copied) the most beautiful card.  You can find the original card by Lea here.  Lea's blog, Lea's Cupcakes and Sunshine, is absolutely bursting with beautiful cards - go check it out.

Here are my two versions of it. I didn't read Lea's instructions until after though, so it turned out I did mine slightly differently! I made a mask of my little heart and then stamped over the mask, so the hearts are in one continuous piece of cardstock.  And obviously I didn't have the same stamps but I just LOVED the idea.

Thanks for looking.

Meet Felicity

Now I know that technically speaking she should be called Freya as that was the name assigned to the pattern.  But I didn't want to call her that (long story!) so Felicity was born instead!

This dolly took me three long evenings to make and was only finished at 11.30pm on Christmas Eve as a Christmas gift! Talk about cutting it fine!!

As I said this is the 'Freya' pattern from Melly & Me.  I just love their work, the colours are always so vibrant and fun.  I have used Darla fabrics from Tanya Whelan, which I just LOVE!  I made a couple of cards using the little swatches from her website. You can see it on my Papercrafting blog right here, (3rd picture down).

Two pictures for you on different backgrounds/lights, couldn't decide which picture was best so you got both!

Thanks for looking :).

Another Christmas Gift to share...

Remember the rocket t-shirt I made for my little nephew with his picture on? Well I made him a rocket toy to go with it!

If you are interested you can download the pattern from a wonderful blog called The Long Thread.  I absolutely love this blog, it is so inspirational! Thanks Ellen.

Get Sketchy #23

Here is my card for this week's Get Sketchy Sketch.  Now there is a story behind this.... but this card is actually going to be for my brother-in-law!! I know it's a bit of a girly image.  When we were visiting them last, my daughter was playing horses with him and he was (graciously) getting down on all fours and letting her sit on his back.  She started calling him "Shetty" (short for Shetland!) which we all though was hilarious! Anyway when I realised I had this digital image from Pink Cat Studio, that matched my daughter perfectly, she has plaits after all, I realised I had to make him this card!

Here is the sketch it was based on, I just flipped it.

Thanks for looking. :)