An Easter or Spring sentiment

Hi everyone, there's a new challenge at Aud Sentiments. We'd like to see your Easter or Spring sentiments. We're being sponsored by Prairie Fairy. Here's my card using one of their fab images...

I've coloured using Copics. The rainbow backing paper and the pink card are from my stash. I've coloured two white flowers to match the flower in the image and added a doily. The sentiment is computer generated and cut with a Spellbinder Framed Tag One die. The image is matted on pink card cut using the Spellbinder Stately Circles die.  I hope you pop over to the challenge and take a look....

I would like to enter this for the following:-
The Paper Shelter - Animal Magic 
Bearly Mine - Anything goes 
City Crafter - Wings of an angel 
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Birthdays 
 
Hope you have a lovely day, see you again soon
Helen xx

Tag - you're it for Dutch Dare

Hi everyone, there's a new challenge starting at Dutch Dare today...Tag - You're it! We'd like to see either a tag on a card or a tag itself. We're being sponsored by Crafty Sentiments and I was lucky to be given Benson Bear to play with. Add a bit of ink and mica powder, some copics and a couple of love hearts...and here's my tag...

Here's a close up of the image...

 

And here's a close up of the sentiment...

 

I hope you'll pop over to the challenge and have a look. See you soon.

Helen xx

 

 

In the garden with Ruby's Rainbow

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Ruby's Rainbow. Our theme for this challenge is 'In the garden'. Here's my card...

The image is Crafty Sentiments (Primrose - Garden Flowers), coloured using Copics. The image was cut out using a Spellbinder Opulent Oval die, the butterfly is Cheery Lynn and the border is Marianne. I've added ribbon from my stash.

I hope you'll pop over to the challenge and check out the inspiration from my fab team mates...you won't be disappointed.

I would like to enter this for the following:-
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything goes 
 Fab 'n' Funky - Flower power
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Flowers and pearls 
Make it Monday 

Thanks for visiting, I hope to see you again soon.
Helen xx
  

Love you sew much

Hi everyone, I hope you're all well. I'm here to share a card I've made to enter a challenge, for a change...I seem to only post DT pieces nowadays. I really must start making more time for crafting 'just because...'

I love House Mouse but up until Christmas I only had my project book, which I've used for this project. My best buddy Sue bought me a couple of stamp sets for Christmas and I managed to buy some Christmas ones reduced a couple of weeks ago. I spent Wednesday evening mounting them all on Cling-Too and am looking forward to making some Christmas cards soon, you can never start too early. Anyway, here's my card...

I decided to make a Mother's Day card as it won't be long now and I have 3 mums (my own, my husband's and my late husband's). This is for my mum. When I was a child she used to make me skirts and also dancing costumes. I used a Stampin Up stamp to make the cotton reels, paper pieced with white card coloured with copics and added a scissor charm. Here's a closer look...

  The sentiment is computer generated and cut out using a  Spellbinders Framed Tags One die (another of my new ones)...

My mum always reads the verses in cards so I've added one inside which I got from my Crafters Companion Toread cd...

As I mentioned earlier I'm entering this for the current House Mouse Challenge - I love you sew much.

Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.
Helen xx

 

Sparkles - Lace it up

Hi everyone, hope you're all well. It's time for a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges and this time our theme is called 'Lace it up' and was chosen by the lovely Shaz. We'd like you to either add some lace or perhaps lace up some eyelets.

We're being sponsored by Floppy Latte Designs, who are offering the winner $6 to spend on digis at their store.

I was lucky to be given a lovely image and some papers to work with. Here is my card...

I've coloured with copics and cut the image out with a Spellbinder die (Adorning Squares). This die is one of the new ones my gorgeous hubby bought for me recently from Create and Craft. I've added some lace, ribbon and candi from my stash. This is a different style of image for me as I normally do cutsie so I'd really love to know what you think of this one. Should I start making a few more 'grown up' cards?

I hope you'll hop over and have a look at the inspiration from my fabulous team mates.

I would like to enter this for the following:-
Jen's Digi Stamps - Ribbon and Lace 
Make it Monday 

Thanks for looking and thanks for all your lovely comments, they're always appreciated.

Happy crafting
Helen xx
 
 
 

Show your inner sentiment for Aud Sentiments

Hi everyone, I'm here to share my design piece for the latest Aud Sentiments challenge. This time we'd like to see the sentiment on the inside of your card. We're being sponsored by Rick St Dennis and the design team were very fortunate to get to use some of his fab images. Here's my card...

 

And here's the inside...

The backing paper has been in my stash for years. I picked out one of the colours to mat the paper with and coloured my image to co-ordinate with it. I used distress ink (faded jeans) whilst the image and the sentiment were still in the Spellbinder (Decagon). The inner sentiment is computer generated. Here's a close-up of the image...

The 'Birthday Boy' sentiment is a Daisy and Dandelion message tag mounted on a Spellbinder Framed Tag, inked with faded jeans, with a brad added...

 

I hope you'll pop over to the challenge and have a look at the rest of Team A's fab inspiration. There'll be more inspiration from Team B next week.

I would like to enter this for the following:-
Fab 'n' Funky - What's inside 
Forever Friends Monthly Challenge - Animals 
Make it Monday 
Crafting when we can - boys cards 


Thanks for visiting, I hope to see you again soon.
Happy crafting
Helen xx
 

Birthday balloons

Hi everyone, I'm playing with my new toy. My lovely hubby treated me to an iPad and I'm playing about to find out what it can do. I found an app to add a signature to my photos so I don't have to use photoshop. I'm even playing with the cloud and photo stream... Ooh get me. I'm not usually that adventurous nowadays but being married to a techie geek means I need to make an effort...I used to be intelligent once...but then I had kids!

Here's a card I made for my best friend Sue's birthday last month. She bought me some House Mouse stamps for Christmas and I couldn't wait to use one....

I made a shaker card. The image has been coloured using copics. The backing paper was from a cd. The sentiment is LOTV. The sentiment was cut out with a spellbinder die. I cut the frame by hand, including a black mat, visible on both the outer and inner frame. I used extra sticky tape to add glitter to the frame, adding a star to finish off. I then added the little mouse balancing the candle, using foam pads.

I would like to enter this for House Mouse - anything goes with special cuts

Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.

Helen xx

Be Mine for Dutch Dare

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at

Dutch Dare card challenges 

Our theme this week is 'Be Mine' so we'd like to see your Valentines creations.

Here's mine...

We were lucky enough to work with an image from our sponsor 'The Paper Shelter', this one's called Crocodile love. I've coloured using copics and used a Spellbinder Stately Circles die to cut out both the image and the sentiment, also Paper Shelter. Here are a couple of close ups...

 I added a small bow to the sentiment.

The backing paper is from the Me To You With Love paper pack, which came free with a magazine recently. I've matted with black card and added black card candi to finish off. I hope you'll join us this week. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create...

I would like to enter this for the following:-

Make it Monday 

Tuesday Alchemy - anything goes 

Fab 'n' Funky - Valentines/hearts 

Fresh Brewed - Hearts and dots 

Perfect Sentiments - Red and White 

Party Time Tuesdays - Love and Romance 

Thanks for visiting. I hope I'll see you again soon.

Happy crafting

Helen xx  

Roses for Ruby

Hi everyone, I hope you're all keeping well.

It's time for a new challenge at

Ruby's Rainbow 

This fortnight we'd like to see roses on your creation. Here's my card...

I made this for a friend to give to her mum. The papers are all first edition, Spring Feast and Daydream. The distressing is Tim Holtz Forrest Moss. I stamped the papermania image using versamark and used silver detail embossing powder.

 

I made the roses using the Spellbinder Bitty Blossoms dies and the same papers as the backing papers. I then added a butterfly made using a Cheery Lynn die and the papers used for the image and it's backing.

 

 

 I needed to make a box for this card so I used the dusky pink card I used for the matting on the front to make the lid, adding some of the backing paper and a butterfly. The bottom of the box is plain white. I used a Hougie board to make the box.

 

I would like to enter this for the following:-

Make it Monday 

Joanna Sheen - 3 2 1 3 papers, 2 types of embellishment, 1 image 

Artistic Inspirations - embossing 

Lady Anne - Anything goes 

Craft Your Passions - Pastels 

 

Thank you for visiting. I hope you'll hop over to Ruby's and have a look at the wonderful examples from my talented team mates. 

Hope to see you again soon.

Happy crafting

Helen xx