Happy New Ribbon Girl Challenge :)

 

 

A very good morning lovely peeps and hope you are all OK today.
It’s still verrry cold here but the snow is going – yayyyyy!! BUT I think it may be back during next week (boooo, hisss!!)

So the best thing to do I reckon is to stay indoors and do a bit of crafty crafting :)))))

So it’s a brand new year for challenges' over at  The Ribbon Girl Blog and today's challenge is a colour challenge  which is ……

… Pink and Ivory!

There are 2 prizes up for grabs -  a £10 voucher from Lisa and Laila at Lili of the Valley

plus a £10 voucher towards a spending spree at The Ribbon Girl

Now these colours are right up my Straße, and I don't think I am alone either cos the DT creations are super dooper fab so if you get a sec go and have a mooch. You won't be disappointed fo sho!!!

So what did I do then?

This is the very chap right here.

I used one of the new Magnolias  - Tilda With Dot Bow (which you can get from Simon Says Stamp) and gave her the Distress Inks treatment and these are the colours I used -

Skin - Tattered Rose & Vintage Photo
Cheeks - Worn Lipstick & Tea Dye
Hair – Antique Linen & Walnut Stain
Clothes – Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick

I’m getting a bit more used to them now :)   

What you can’t see on the pic is that I’ve added some Diamond Stickles (I blame the photographer!!).

Some beautimous Ribbon Girl stuff here – I’ll put the list at the end with pics.

The papers are a bit of a mash up from various Nitwits collections – Bear Girls Too,  FQB - Mr and Mrs and FQB - Grin 'n Bear It

It’s so useful that they all work together so well.

Those Kort & Godt Pink Rolled Paper Roses are just so pretty – LOVE them :)

 

Do you like this little heart banner (and please excuse the grainy as hell pic peeps!!)

It’s made from a

Simon Says Stamp String of Hearts Craft Die

The card base is an On The Edge - Top Notch card base from Craftwork Cards (check out the inked edges again – I don't know what’s coming over me lately with all this inking etc etc lol!!).

Ok so here’s the stuff from The Ribbon Girl that I used today.
If you click the pic it will take you straight to the right place in the shop.

         

 

        

 

          

Only one more week to go before the brand new Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only challenges start and I am sooo excited by this (you can read all about it here peeps)

 

And a bit more news – there is a brand new collection coming from Lili of The Valley ……

… which are perfect for Valentines Day as well as Anniversary's etc or even just for loved up peeps and even better news is that you don't have to wait long to see them cos they go on sale tomorrow, wooohoooo!!

Right on that note I better get off and get on :) We are off to watch Kyla horse riding and then Nik, Em and I are off to do a bti of shopping. I have no doubt at all in my mind that Miss Kyla will be joining us because there is a Claire's Accessories there and it is to her what craft shops are to us!!

Enjoy your Sunday and see you in the week. Stay warm and safe and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

Totally NOT My Usual Style But I Do Really Like This :)

Hi there lovely peeps and a very Happy Sunday to all xxx

Today sees a brand new colour challenge over at  The Ribbon Girl Blog and it is ;;;;;

… an absolute cracker - one of my faves in fact.

We used the following pic as a source of inspiration ….

… and isn't it pretty :)

We have 2 fab prizes for you as well. Firstly there is a

from Lili of The Valley,

plus …..

… this beautimous lavender ribbon kit from the Ribbon Girl.

So…

.. this is what I did and I think you’ll agree that this is not a bit like my usual style.

But I am always really  envious of the gorgeous cards that people like the lovely Kim Piggott and Debbie Dolphin make, so inspired by them and with a bit of shameless casing of the amazing layout that my LOTV teamie June used on one of her fab cards, plus a bit of kraft card that I got from the NEC and which has been sat on my desk for aaaaages,  I had a bash.  Not quite up to Kim & Debbie’s standards I know, but  I have to say that I really do like this. So perhaps this is a taste of things to come ;)

I used Tilda Catching Stars and coloured her with these Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E21, R00, R20

Hair – E41, E43, E50, E81

The rest – E04, RV0000, RV00, RV35, RV95

The papers are all from Grin n Bear It collection from Nitwits

Ivory Pleated 5/8" Satin Ribbon,  12mm Cream Picot Cotton Lace and 32mm Cream Fine Vintage Style Straight Edge Flower Lace – gorgeous, and all from The Ribbon Girl :)

And talking of gorgeous, I am still loving these sentiment tags -  Set 24 from Lili of The Valley

More from the same tag set plus a bow made from 25mm Mauve (Old Rose) No 977 Berisford Satin and topped with a button  from the Pearl Button Mixture pack

    

Here I used a 30mm Pink Two Tone Mulberry Paper Open Rose,  two Pink Two Tone 15mm Pretty Blossoms and a couple of 25mm Green Rose Leaves – all from The Ribbon Girl of course :). And there’s a couple of leaves punched from kraft card using a Martha Stewart Frond Leaf punch from Simon Says Stamp.

Three Sugar and Spice self adhesive pearls from The Ribbon Girl to finish off ……….

and we’re done!!

And on that note I’m off to finish the hoovering etc  (booooooooring) and then his Lordship has a tennis match this afternoon which means that I get 5 hours to sit and craft – ohh what bliss!!! I don’t even have to do his dinner because he will get that at the tennis club after he has finished the match -  woohoooo!!!! I should really be mopping the floors but  it’s too good an opportunity to pass on -  I can always do the floors later!!!

So I hope that you have a nice afternoon doing whatever you are doing and I’ll catch up with you again soon as soon. Take care and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

Sunny Sunday :)x

Hi peeps and a very happy Sunday to all xxx

Please excuse my lack of posting these last few days – it’s been a bit topsy turvy here with work and one thing and another – all sorts of stuff happening really!! None of it very exciting really but just very time consuming!!

Anyhoos I will catch up this week but today, it is my absolute honour today to be part of the GDT for this month’s Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge ….

… which is green and yellow and the winner this month will get to chose either a green or a yellow Special Selection Ribbon Kit from the Ribbon Girl shop

You've got until midnight UK time on Sunday April 3rd to submit your creation so why not nip over and have a moochie at the DT cards – all so very gorgeous and all different so oodles of inspiration to be had :)

So this is my lemon lovely – all clean and fresh – apart from the inked edges on the image :)

I coloured Tilda with the Copics and did a really numptie thing (yes not at all  like me I know!!) and carefully put all my Copics away … before making my list so I have no clues which ones I used but the hair and skin will be my usual suspects and the clothes will be lots of Ys, YGs and Es

I think!!!

It was the second numptie I did this week because I only realised that the date I had planned for the Easter Projects workshop at Purple Butterfly Crafts was next Saturday and of course I will be in Brum for the weekend (mooching on the Saturday  ie sitting gabbing in Wetherspoons probably - and on the LOTV stand on Sunday so do come and say howdy if you are about xxx

So poor Lesley had a bit of ringing round to re-organise the ladies who were due to come and thankfully they are all still OK for the following week.

So hugest of apols to all from this red faced piggy here!!! I will hopefully make it up with an extra nice class for you xxx

This beautiful ribbon is of course from The Ribbon Girl shop and instead of twirling the twine stuff I usually use, I went for this …

… loopy trim which you can get here 

The satin micro spot  ribbon can be found here. It’s FAB quality – well, it’s Berisfords so enough said :)

The paper is from a Do Crafts pack I got from Purple Butterfly – Lemon Sorbet – and there’s good old Martha’s PATP Eyelet Lace Punch getting over-worked again. Incidentally, you may wonder why I always seem to use this PATP punch. Well I can reveal that the reason is  … it’s the only one I have lol!!

But there are lots of these bad boys over at Dies To Die For so I may just have to go and check them out and give this poor sod a rest!!!

But something I do have loads of is gorge Wild Orchid Crafts blooms and I used a selection of them here, along with some self adhesive pearls.

I chucked some Glossy Accents over the eggs and over Tilda’s boots.

I am OK with the eggs but I am wondering if the boots look a little bit too ‘S&M’ for  poor Tilda?

My old dad used to call big boots ‘clod-hoppers’ – I have no idea why but that just came into my head then lol!!

               

Okee-dokee that is it for today.

Have a great Sunday and do nip over and check out the challenge if you get a sec peeps.

See you soon if not sooner and huggiest of hugs to all xxx