Dancing Hedgies

Evening Everyone!
Wow! It sure is chilly this evening - winter is definitely here! Just thought I'd show you my latest entry for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is 'Floral Frenzy' where you have to show flowers somewhere on your image or layout. I had this fab image of three ballet dancing hedgehogs and teamed them up with some pretty pink cardstock which is covered in a spray of little white flowers. I was hoping for a Spring like look but with this cold weather perhaps a snow scene would have been more apt!
Anyway, I layered the Promarkered hedgies up on a gold matt punched with a lovely Martha Stewart punch, added Stickles to their tutu's and a little pretty sentiment. I made this card for a friend who likes simple layouts with no fuss so I avoided flowers and bling and quite like this 'non fussy' style for a change.
Over at Simon Says Stamp this week the challenge is Animal Antics so I hope to enter this card there too. Why not head over to both challenge sites and join in to win some really lovely prizes!
Thanks for looking. Keep warm and I'll be back soon with more creations.
Best wishes
Karen x

Festive Hedgies

Afternoon All!

Are you starting to feel festive yet? How's your Christmas shopping going? And have you put pen to paper to get that long list of cards written? Well, ready or not I thought I'd help get you in the mood with this little boxed card I made using the Penny Black 12 Days of Christmas stamp set.

I've created a star card - with a pair of hedgie carollers on the front - to showcase the stamp images and for a festive feel used red and green card. The lacy edges were made using a Martha Stewart punch and each panel was cut with a Spellbinders die before inking with red and green ink and colouring the images with Promarkers. The red mirri card helped to add a bit of glitz, checked gingham ribbon tied the star card together and I made a matching box decorated with pearl gems and the partridge in a pear tree image from the stamp collection on the lid.

I hope you like my little card as much as I enjoyed making it. The challenge over at Penny Black and More this month is for 'All Creatures Great and Small' so I think this set of characters should fit in just perfectly! Why not pop over and enter - they have some lovely prizes to be won and fab inspiration from the Design Team.

I would also like to enter my card into this week's 'I Love Promarkers' challenge which is 'Anything Goes' and the 'Christmas Crackers' Yule themed challenge over at 'Papertake Weekly'.

Anyway, thanks for looking.

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Dancing Hedgies

Hi everyone!

Hope you're having a good weekend. Just thought you might like to see a little card I've made using a cute image of three ballet dancing hedgehogs - how fab are they!? Somehow, despite their little outfits, I can't imagine them being too light on their feet! The challenge over at Penny Black Saturday is Shabby Chic so I decided to go for a muted pink and blue colour scheme teamed with white, distressing the edges of my papers or inking them up in soft pastel colours. The papers used are Papermania's Rose garden pad which is full of vintage shabby chic patterns, perfect for this style of card. I coloured the image with Promarkers, added a little bit of sparkly pink organza ribbon and a touch of subtle bling - if there is such a thing ha! ha!

Anyway, thanks for looking and I'll be back soon with some more projects to share.

Best wishes Karen x

I'd also like to enter this card into Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge which is 'Free and Easy'.

Spring Bunny

Hi Everyone.

Today I'd like to share with you a little card I made using a diddy little rabbit from Penny Black. The challenge at the Penny Black Saturday site this week is to have a green theme so I thought this would work perfectly. I coloured the image with Pro markers and layered it on My Minds Eye paper before adding a little bling and ribbon. A really simple little card but I like it. I also hope to enter it in the Stamp Something challenge which this week is to create 'Something Sweet'.

Thanks for looking - I'll be back later to show you some Joanna Sheen Design Team work that I've completed with a beachy theme.

Bye for now

Karen x

Spring Bunny

Evening Everyone!

Tonight I'd like to share a little easel card I've made using the Martha Stewart 'Cherish' punch to give it a lovely shape. I chose Spring colours and used DCWV papers from their 'Posies' stack. The image is a little Penny Black bunny coloured with Pro markers and the flowers I punched and layered myself before adding a gem in the centre. I made it into an Easter card and used the sentiment and some ribbon as a way of making the easel stand up. Hope you like it!

I'd like to enter this into a few challenges:

• Penny Black Saturday's 'More than one fold' challenge.
• Sir Stampalot's 'Spring is in the Air'
• Penny Black at Allsort's 'Welcome Spring'.

Thanks for looking!

Bye for now

Karen x

Love Is... Hedgie

Afternoon Everyone!

This afternoon I whipped out my Martha Stewart punches to see what I could create and decided to make a Punch Around the Page card using the 'Cherish' design and turn it into a fancy easel card. I know Valentine's Day is all about Hearts and Flowers but the men in our lives don't necessarily appreciate the flowers bit so this is my attempt at a man's Valentine card using vintage, toned down colours. I know its still cutesy but you can't help but love the Penny Black Hedgies and they're great to use with your Pro markers!!! The inside greetings stamp was one from a versatile set by Personal Impressions where you stamp the sentiment and the circle border seperately. The 'Love Is' sentiment was typed on the computer and the red and cream stripy paper was from Dovecraft.

I hope you like it and plan to enter it into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is 'Love is', Oldie But a Goodie - 'Have a Heart' challenge - which is also the theme of Papertake Weekly - and A Passion for Promarkers which is 'Let there be love'.

Anyway,best be off.

Bye for now

Karen x

Loved Up Hedgie

Hi Everyone!

Where has this week gone? I can't quite believe its the end of January already! To top it all I nearly missed the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is 'January Sales' - an open theme to create something with items that you've bought in the sales. Well, better late than never - here is my entry. I've kept it simple and used a lovely little hedgie stamp with hearts stuck to his prickles. January also saw the arrival of some lovely Ameican Crafts textured foiled card in different colours in my craft room and a fab corner punch from XCuts which I've found to be great for slotting pics or images into and using like a photo corner. A little faux stitching, a peel off and a lace flower that I made myself and my little card is complete. I hope you like it.

Have a good week and pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge site to see what task is instore for us over the next seven days.

I'd also like to enter this card in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge which this week is 'Animal Antics'.

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Hedgie Challenge

Evening Everyone!

Just a quick post to show you my latest card. I hope to enter this in the Penny Black and Friends Saturday Challenge so my image features one of my favourite - and cute - little hedgies. I've created an easel card with an extra little tag inside. The papers are DCWV and I've embellished it with green gingham ribbon and a charm. The flowers were stamped, coloured with the Pro Markers and covered with Glossy Accents whilst the centres were created by adding tiny micro beads which I think give a really good effect - I will definately use them again. For a change I used copper coloured mirri board.

I would also like to enter it in the Totally Papercrafts Challenge which this week is Happy Birthday and the Creative Card Crew's 'Fancy Folds' challenge.

I hope you like my latest creation. Thanks for looking.

Karen x

Hedgie Carollers

Evening All!

Now that the nights are drawing in its really hard to take a good a pic where the colours look like they do in real life -or is it just me!

Anyway, this little card actually looks more vibrant 'in the flesh' but hopefully you can get the gist. The papers are the latest Henbury Lane Christmas collection and a little piece of Anna Griffins'. I flit between liking lovely wintery blues and aquas or traditional reds and greens for my Christmas cards - tonight these little Penny Black Hedgies - coloured with Promarkers - made me feel all traditional!

The sketch this week was a great one from the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and I punched the flowers and holly leaves before adding gems and a sentiment from the Forever Friends selection. Hope you like it!

Bye for now

Karen x

I would also like to enter this in the Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge which this month is to 'Punch Away', Totally Gorjuss - Wild Thing challenge and The Secret Crafter - Anything Goes. I also thought my card fitted in with the colour scheme on the Passion for Promarkers Challenge which was reds, white and green.

Puss in Pink

Hello Bloggers! Sorry I've been away for so long. I've been commissioned to write a book as part of my day job so over the last few months my time has been spent solely on that but now, at last, its winging its way to the publishers in the hope that its what they were looking for, I can get back to a few crafty sessions!

The card below is one I've just made using the free My Minds Eye papers in the Cardmaker and Papercrafting magazine - which are lovely, sherbety colours. I hope to enter it in the:

• Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is a recipe of 1 circle, 2 papers and 3 flowers
• the Creative Card Crew's Cute and Girly theme
• Papertake Weekly's White and Bright challenge
• Cute Card Thursday's 'Whateva' challenge
• Simon Says Stamp 'Sing it Baby' challenge where my card is linked to the Alison Moyet song - Love Letters Straight From Your Heart.

The flowers are made from the same Marianne die except two of them were cut smaller to make them look different. I ran them through the cuttlebug in a script and dotty folder before I inked them with Worn Lipstick Distress ink and spritzed them with Cosmic Shimmer spray before adding a clear gem that I coloured green with my Pro Markers. Hope you like it!

Best wishes

Karen

Froggy Thank You.

Hello everyone. I thought you might like to see the latest card I've made which I'm entering for the folowing challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Ribbontastic

Creative Inspirations (sat) - Thank You

Pink Elephant - Add Green

Stamp Something - A recipe of designer paper, buttons and ribbon.

My froggy stamp is from Penny Black which I coloured using Promarkers - he is layered and framed using my latest Nellie Snellen die which I love! The main design paper is DCWV and the little flowers I made myself with a punch and gems. A really colourful card to cheer someone up! Thanks for looking!

Bunny Combo Challenge

Evening bloggers! Tonight I wanted to share a card with you that I made to combine two challenges. First the Simon Says Stamp 'recipe' challenge where I used Three embellishments of ribbon, flowers and pink jewels, two patterned papers of K&Co florals and a yellow linen patterned textured paper (which unfortunately doesn't show up very well no matter how many times I take this photo) and one image of some lovely Penny Black Bunnies. At the same time, Penny Black's Challenge was to use three colours - pink, yellow and green and the result, I hope, is a really pretty Easter Card or Spring birthday card. Thanks for looking - I hope you like it!

Hedgie on the Move

This is my entry for the 'Moving' challenge over on the Floral Fantasies blog sponsored by Sir Stampalot. There are some fab prizes to win so why not head over there and enter your crafty creation!

I have used a Penny Black Hedgie stamp and some Papermania paper and even added a little strip of paper pleating. I also hope to enter this card in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is 'For Someone Special'.

Deck Chair Hedgie

Sorry about the bad lighting in this pic - it is 9.55pm and these energy saving bulbs aren't like the old ones!!! Some of my pink bits look a bit peachy but they are pink in 'real life'! For this design I used Papermania linen effect paper, a K and Co diecut mat pad from their Wild Raspberry collection and a punched border using a Martha Stewart punch and a leaf punch to add to the corner flowers. As this design covered a lot of areas I would like to enter it in a number of sketches.

One Stop Craft Challenge - Fancy Edges and Corners

Creative Card Crew - Punch It

Spoonful of Sugar - Lots of Layers

Allsorts Challenge - Pink and Brown

Papertake Weekly - Pretty in Pink

Charizma Cards - Anything New ( My latest Penny Black and Wild Raspberry Diecuts)

Crafty Cardmakers - Whats New (Penny Black image and Wild Raspberry diecuts)

Pink and Grey Easle Card

Love this colour combo of pink and grey and my favourite little Penny Black hedgies! Got this stamp plate called 'Wonderful' for Christmas and have set myself the task of making as many cards as poss from this selection so sorry if you keep seeing them but I love 'em!

I've tried to enter this in a few challenges including the Penny Black Saturday Challenge sketch, Charizma Cards 'New' challenge as some of the papers I bought after the New Year (DCWV and K&CO pink Amy Butler 12x12), also Cute Card Thursday's pink and grey challenge and Creative Inspirations (Wed) 'New' challenge. Hope you like it! Thanks for looking.

Orange Themed Penny Black

This will be my first challenge for Friday Sketchers. I like the way you can make this sketch as complicated or as simple as you like - and thought the colours set off my little Penny Black Hedgehog!

Blue Flowery Penny Black Hedgehog

This card was made using Sketch Saturday's latest challenge. Its a great sketch for using up all your odd bits and pieces! I'm also hoping to enter this in Cute Card Thursday's Challenge. The background in an Anna Griffin paper and the punch used was Martha Stewart's Lace Doily.

Pink and Brown themed Penny Black

This is a 6 x 6 card I made using Penny Black 'prezzie giving' hedgehogs for my latest Challenges. I love the Pink and Brown theme so am entering this in the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge and the Charizma Card Challenge - as well as the Allsorts Challenge using their great Sketch idea. The papers used are Papermania with a lovely linen effect which unfortunately you can't see very well here.

Flowery Fun

I made this card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge of New Beginnings using my new Penny Black stamp, Martha Stewart punch and papers that I got for Christmas. Love the summery feel to this card which seems a long way away now that we are in the gip of winter!!!