Stitches 'n Swirls at Elisabeth Bell's World

Hello peepsicles! HOW many posts this week? Oh my! I can't keep up, think I need a bloggy PA lol!
Today is Challenge day over at Elisabeth Bell's World with my wonderful teamies - and my first EBW post, yay!! Exciting! I am loving being on the GDT over at EBW and Digibells, it's really pushing me into making lots of cards for me,me,me!!  This month we had the theme of Swirls and Stitches - two of my favourites!
I used this adorable Li'l Princess image which is a digi over at Elisabeth Bell's gallery for a snippet of casheroo.

 I love this image and I have to say I was well pleased with the colouring on this one, it's so soft. I must admit I did spend longer than my usual rushy 5 mins colouring this and you can tell, it does take a little while to get colouring spot on I think. I wish I always had hours to spend on one image LOL! I used a mix of Promarkers and Flexmarkers on this.

 The Papers are a mix - the blue gingham is from Magical Winter (although a wintery CD there are so many bits of it that can be used all year round), and the pink dot and check is again from Pretty Sweet, I am so in love with that Strawberry colour it may well inspire a whole collection of it's own I think!

 We got lots of new Marianne Design creatables in the shop this week and I am loving these pretty flowers...

 The sentiment ticket is from the brand new revamped Candy Doodles collection - looove these cute little tickets, watch out for lots of stamps coming with these...

hmm, piccie overload maybe, but who cares LOL! Have a great weekend everyone - you can catch me on Create and Craft Tuesday morning at 10am with more Candy Doodles - so I will be prep prep prepping all weekend! xx

Summer Fever

My blog seems to have turned into a Digibells blog LOL!! I've made tons of cards lately but I can't share any of them at the moment, I'm so sorry! There are good things to come though!
Over on the Polkadoodles blog today we have a Summer Fever challenge going on to blow away the winter blues and a chance to win my brand new Candy Doodles Collectors edition CD - make sure you're in it to win it!

You can get the new CD here. Candy Doodles was my second ever collection but it has been supervamped and now has a brand new collection of digi characters and paper called Candyland, together with some great new sentiments too - you'll LOVE it! And if you already have the old CD, we have a special UPGRADE version for you to trade in!! What a fab idea!! 

On another point, just a reminder about issue 2 of the Pen & Paper Circle too! We are now taking orders for this and you only have until 7th March to get your order in and snag yourself a copy! I have to say I love the stamps and CD on this issue, the papers are totally SCRUMMY, and the stamps are sooo versatile!! I've lost count of how many people have asked me if we're reprinting Issue 1 and can we bring it back because they missed it...the answer is a big NO! The whole idea of the Circle kit is that you pre-order and know exactly what you're getting up front in terms of stamps - I don't know another kit club that offers you that peace of mind, so what do you have to lose!?? Get ordering now!x

24 Feb - Creative Genius!

It's Friday, yay! And it's my turn to host the post over at Digibells today! Have you done the blog hop yet? See below or over on the Digibells blog!
This week I picked one of my fave images "Creative Genius" from the Elisabeth Bell gallery (lets face it, they're all my faves really!).  In a fit of laziness at not being bothered to bring my pens back upstairs from the weekends shows I decided I would go back to basics instead and picked up a plain old cheapo HB pencil.

Now, the trick with doing this technique is that you really do need to pay attention to the shading but there are a few different things you can try too - I love the texture you can achieve with pencils of any kind. On this image I used a crosshatch pattern... 

The card itself will be my Mothers Day card this year I think. I decided that to really show off the image and the shading it was best surrounded by white so I got out my Marianne Design swirl dies and this GORGEOUS new Anja die which isn't shown to it's best in this photo I have to say, it's been swamped a bit by the flowers. Its one of the new Creatables and only cuts on one side so you can use it as a border or a pocket, it's so versatile, I love it!  Talking of the flowers - see on the photo how they look blue against the rest of the card? They ARE white, they're made from our Ultimate Graphic and considering that I thought the other elements and the card were all made from a brilliant white cardstock the flowers are showing a true blue white against them - it never cease to amaze me at how great this card is! 

Have a great weekend everyone! x

19 Feb - Patti's Kisses

It's a Lissy Bee & Digibells day! Yay!
Today I decided to use this beauty of an image for this week's post. This is called Patti's Kisses - isn't it adorable?...

I haven't done much doodling lately on cards so I went a little overboard on the border here but it's nice to have a change I think! These papers are all from the Magical Winter CD yet again and are the most DELISH auberginey purpley colours...in fact, if you have Promarkers, this colour is called SHALE. It's one of those tones that changes colour depending what else you put it with - it can be purple or brown or even blue-grey, loooove this colour so much and I have to say I blummin' love this card too! I think the whole colour scheme works really well.

I'm still in need of that light meter, am heading off to track one down right now! In the meantime make sure you checkout the Digibells blog this week for lots of inspiration and go download your Patti's Kisses right now!