Puuurrffeection @ Pins HQ

A week goes by very quickly at Pinspirational Challenges HQ and we have another challenge for you all!

We've all been inspired by this weeks Pins image, which is below:

 

Cute isn't it? Aww! :) Our sponsor this week is: Fresh Brewed Designs

Here's my creation below:

I used a white square 5 x 5 card base, with a Tiddly Inks Wryn image. The papers used were from the Love Letters collection from the First Paper Edition 6 x 6 paper pad, added with pink and white twine on the edge. I wanted the card to be simple and not overloaded too much embellishments! And you know how much I love embellishments! Simple but sweet!

Please join us at our Pinspirational Challenge Blog, check our DT creations and welcome our new DT member Eesha! Enter into our challenge this week! Spread the word out and get your friends and fellow crafters to join in and you can win our challenge! :) Good luck!

Challenge starts from Tuesday 11th Sept to Monday 17th Sept @ 12 midnight (Newfoundland Time)

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(Pin)spirational Challenge 13 - Cuuuupcaaaakes!!!

Hi there, thanks for stopping by this week!

Today at Pinspirational Challenges we have been inspired by this picture below:

With our awesome sponsors: Melonheadz

So hopefully with the weather getting a little bit warmer, these cupcakes would be awesome for any Summer party! With this in mind, I've created this card below:

I used the Prima Madeline 6 x 6 collection, with beige / cream cardstock as the base. The image is from Tiddly Inks and she was coloured in using Promarkers and the following colours: Cocoa for the hair, Soft Green and Rose Pink for the dress, Caramel and Cocktail Pink for the cupcake, Poppy and Forest Green were used for the cherry on top, with Oatmeal for the face and hands.The buttons were from a stash that I had, and the butterfly was from the Sizzix Butterfly Sizzlits collection which I ran through my Sizzix Sidekick!

Give this weeks challenge a try and see what you can come up with and create from the inspired image! And if you get stuck for ideas, have a peek at our brilliant DT creations!

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Aud Sentiments Challenge 56 - Any Sentiment for a Child's Birthday

I am thoroughly enjoying being part of a great Design Team at Aud Sentiments! Thanks ladies for the first great fortnight! :)

The challenge this fortnight is to create a card with Any Sentiment for a Child's Birthday. So get your creative heads on and enter in our challenge this fortnight via the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog. Team A have come up and created some gorgeous cards to inspire you, so check out their creations on the blog! My creation is below:

Our challenge this fortnight is proudly sponsored by Tiddly Inks - below is a little bit about them:

Tiddly Inks offers digital stamps and digital papers, created by Christy Croll. Christy is a self-trained illustrator who likes simple, cute and quirky drawings with a sense of humor. She draws what amuses her, which means some days it is quirky and cute and other days it is a bit of a twisted gothic feel. 

So check out the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog for the challenge, as well as submit your entry into our challenge!

She's Leaving on a Jet Plane...

My friend Cheryl from our 'Secondary School Collective' - we go waaaaay back, like 15 years (I sound reeeaaally old!) is leaving the hum-drum-hustle-and-bustle of London town to move to Cheltenham :( and here's a little card I made for her to say: "Dooooon't gooooo!!!"

Cheryl and I went to Secondary School together in London, she was in 'L' and I was in 'C' (our registration / form class was named after letters!) and we shared some classes together, ('N' and 'O' - I know, more letters!) but more significantly and to a certain extent even now we share the same circle of friends, we also more recently, live near each other too.
Chez is moving to Cheltenham to live and work with her partner, Marcus whom she's been with for nearly six years now - so technically it was inevitable! :( But... although I am sad to see her leave the city in which she's lived, worked and studied all her life, I'm pretty chuffed for her, and she's a pretty awesome chick and I hope it all goes well for her! Next step - wedding bells... LOL.

So as with many ocassions, I made a card for her - as my friend Kayleigh would say: 'Mel has a card for EVERYTHING!' to wish Chez all the best for the future.
I used a Tiddly Inks image for the centre focus, coloured her in with some Promarkers (Oatmeal for skin, Cocoa for hair, Forest Green for dress, Rose Pink for stripey sleeves and Cool Grey 4 for shoes. The flowers were coloured in with Sunflower, I think) I tend not blend all my colours, because I can't quite work it out and me and blending and shading doesn't particularly work well - anything for a simple life! The 'Best Wishes' text is from a Lawn Fawn stamp I have and the papers were a mix of Glitz 6 x 6 Paper - Pretty in Pink and another piece from my stash (can't remember the paper collection, sorry!). The ribbon is from Anita's Arts and the tag is from K&Company, the buttons are from a stash I had, and the flat back pearls are from Paper Cellar.

Tiddly Inks is pretty much on my image hit list for colouring - look out for some more cards with Tiddly Inks inspiration! :)

Colouring with Harriet

As a 26 year old, on occasion the child within me sometimes makes an appearance, especially when it comes to colouring in!

I bought a some Greeting Farm rubber stamps (Travel Anya, Swett Anya & I Heart Sweaters stamps) a few days back and being colouring them in on my lonesome :( can take a bit of time, I brought them with me to my friend Harriet's band rehearsal so that I could colour them in - while she rehearsed with her band - with my ever growing colllection of Promarkers :)

So after drumming with her brother Daryl and two friends Steve and Shane, she took a few breaks in between to help me colour in some black and white stamped Greeting Farm images. I also got her to colour in some Tiddly Ink digital stamps and Some Odd Girl digis also. Her efforts are pictured above with Cuddle Anya (stamp with the Bear Hat and Teddy Bear), Travel Anya (Air Hostess in which she styled it on her manager / friend Chantal) and the I Heart Sweaters couple (wrapped up in a jumpers and scarves!)

Harriet did a pretty great job, colouring in is not easy, especially trying not to go over the lines and finding a good colour combination to colour the outfits in! She did make a few them clash on purpose though! But they still looked awesome! I thought the colours still went well together! I'll be making some cards, or tags with these! :) Thanks Harriet!