Tickled Pink Stamps Birthday Blog Hop.....

Hey everyone, Emma here....

This month we are celebrating Tickled Pink Stamps second Birthday...Whoooo Hooooo!!!  So we are having a special kind of Blog Hop starting today where the Pink Ladies have all made creations using one of their favourite stamps from the different releases over the last year, and all you FABBY 'Hoppers' have to do when you are on the hop is tell us which one of the stamps  is your favourite and you can be in with a chance of winning a $25 Voucher for Tickled Pink Stamps!!!  How amazing or what!!!!!!

Now if you have arrived here from the lovely Debbie you are on the right track!!!!....

....I have made another notebook, I am LOVING making these at the minute!!!  I already have quite a few all ready and gift boxed to give away for Christmas gifts!!!  The papers I have used are all from my stash, I distressed, glittered and machine stitched them all as always, the lace and ribbon are from the market...

.....I used the Bind-it-All machine as always.....Boy do I love that little machine hehehe!!!!...

......I have used the extremely sweet 'Lil Little Lolita Willow' from the 'Lil Little' collection designed by Christina Dee and available at Tickled Pink Stamps. I adore this collection!!!!  I have watercoloured her with Distress inks...

.....My flowers are a mix from Hobbycraft and the twisted rose that you can see here I made myself {Tutorial HERE on how I make them!!!}  The very cute Birdcage charm is from Crafty Emma's Store....

Now your next stop on the hop is Eulanda....have loads of fun everyone!!!!

Thanks so much for looking and for the fabby comments...

Biggest huggles

Emma

xxx

Challenges entering:

Lothian crafts-anything goes

Truly Scrumptious-distressing

Colour create-lilac, grey and white

Creatalicious-distress your edges

By the cute and girly-anything goes

Papertake weekly-3 different shapes

Bee Crafty-bling

Josie and the mini pizza box....

Hi Susan here....

Today at Crafty Emma's Challenges a new challenge has just begun and the theme is 'Anything but a Christmas Card'...

The sponsor for this challenge is:

One lucky winner will get their choice of 3 images.

For full details of the challenge and to check out the fabulous inspiration from the design team call over to Crafty Emma's Challenges and join in the fun with us all.

Now onto my creation....

I had a lot of fun making this mini pizza box, if you want to make one yourself look HERE.... The card I used for the box is a beautiful pearlescent red card from The Paper Mill Shop. The other backing papers and ribbon are bits and pieces from my stash. I inked and distressed the backing papers.

I filled it with some red tissue paper and fancy soap and talc.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

This cute little digi image has been designed by Marina Neira and can be found at The Stamping Bazaar Store, take a look at the special offers available for a short while there. The image is called 'Josie with Pinecone'. I used Promarkers to colour the image in and then gently inked the edge of the topper before layering it onto a scalloped piece of green card.

These beautiful Christmas tickets can be found HERE.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Allsorts - Last minute Christmas projects

Pile it on - Its all in the wrapping

Creative Card Crew - Anything goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my project, and for all your wonderful comments, they are very welcome. I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

Untraditional Christmas Colours....

Hi Susan here....

This is my second card as a guest designer at Crafty Emma's Store, a new challenge has started today and the theme is a fabulous sketch, for full details of the challenge and to see some fabulous inspirational ideas from the design team call across to CES Challenges and join in the fun with us all.

Now onto my card....I wanted to make a Christmas card but I also wanted to get away from the traditional colours that we all tend to use....so I took a look in a 12x12 scrapbooking pad from HOTP called Sarapapers, and fell in love with these papers for the rich burgundy and pink colours. I have distressed all the edges and then glittered with stickles. The centre border panel I used a Martha Stewart punch on the edges then glittered. My ribbons and pearls are all from our local market. I love making those swirls.

This cute little digi image is from The Stamping Bazaar Store, designed by Marina Neira and is called 'Kitty among Presents', I have used Promarkers to colour the image, the edges have been distressed and glittered.

My flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, I made and coloured the leaves from white card.

This beautiful sentiment image is a mix of two, the frame and the wordart, from Raindrop Echo Designs, designed by Ann Vento. I coloured the frame on the computer, joined the two images together then cut it  out and glittered the edges.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Karber Weekly Challenge - Sparkle

Stamp with Fun - Advent

Digital Tuesday - Animals at Christmas Time

Dutch Dare Card - Christmas card

Stamp Something Challenge - Christmas Card

Thank you so much for looking at my card and for all the wonderful comments you leave, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx