Pixie Dust Studio - British Invasion release day

It's all about the dress!


We have the release of the fabulous "British Invasion" release at Pixi Dust Studio today and this collection is in honour of the up coming Royal Wedding in the UK next month - I know that I can't wait to see what Kate (or Catherine as now is known) will wear. We will be in Spain on holiday at the time of the wedding, but I know that there are plans for a street party on the street where we have our apartment so that should be real fun (As long as I get enough time to watch the TV coverage of the wedding!!)


I have chosen to use the Royal Wedding image on my card here, but I have just cut the bride out to use on the card as I have made the card to give to a the daughter of one of our friends on the morning of her big day (I have also made a card for the two of them!). The papers are from a NitWit collections download and I have cut the little flowers with a Martha Stewart punch.

The sketch that I have followed is the one this week at Cute Card Thursday and I am also entering this card at Allsorts challenge where they are looking for cards for a special lady.

Here is a picture of all the images in this fab new collection - all just perfect to fit in with the Royal celebration and everything British.


I will be back tomorrow for the Pixie Dust challenge and another card using a image from this collection.

Karen x

Missy Claus for Cute Card Thursday

Where did the weekend go? I had planned to get this post done on Saturday morning, but I just appear to have lost 48 hours and here we are - Monday morning again.

It is really cold here today and looks like we are set for snow this week here in the Highland of Scotland. I certainly am putting on more and more clothes everyday!

I have another Christmas card to share with you today using another of the fabulous images from the Toybox collect at Pixie Dust Studios. This one is called Miss Claus and you can purchase her Here. She comes with a sack of toys, but I had to leave that part off in order to fit into the design layout of this card.


The papers are by Stampin Up - just love these ones and the sketch is the current one at Cute Card Thursday.

Keep warm and have a great week.

Cute Card Thursday - Metallica

I had started this card yesterday for Kimmie's Birthday Challenge, but when I re-read the details I discovered that I had not used a button so laid it aside and started again!

I am snowed in today as the trains are not running between Aberdeen and Inverness so I have had time to do a bit of blog hopping and am now able to use this card as I have now added some metal spacers to the flowers and also a couple of flower charms so that it meets the criteria for this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge.
DP is Basic Grey Sultry and the stamps is one of the new Sharing Sherbet ones from Pollycraft - I just love these new ones. Flowers are prima and all other bits and pieces are from my stash. I have used this week's sketch from Friday Sketchers.

I am now off to phone my DH and see whether he fancies taking me out to lunch - fingers crossed.

Hope the weather is not too bad wherever you are.

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday with PTW sketch

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday this week is to create something Lilac. I have used the sketch on Papertake Weekly. The light is really bad here today and this is the best picture that I have been able to get. The colours are a bit blue looking as the piece with the snowflakes on it should be more lilac. (I will try for a better picture in the morning and upload it if successful). I am so behind with entering challenges but my visitors have now gone home and I will get caught up a bit.



Image is precious moments, DP Winter Wonderland by Crafts House, I have cut three different sized snowflakes with the cricut and layered them before covering them with glitter sugar, jewels and ribbon from my stash.

Cute Card Thursday with Basic Grey DP

I have managed to combine two challenges into one card. I had decided to follow the challenge on Basic Grey this week which was to use glitter somewhere on your card and had already started this one before I had checked this week's Cute Card Thursday Challenge only to find that it was to use red and green. I already had some glitter on this poinsetta but I have also added some stickles to the sentiment which is Woodware,just to give a bit more sparkle as I have not put any on the image as she looks just fine as she is. I am still awaiting some Magnolia stamps for a couple of these Tildas to sit on, so for this one I have cut a present out of some DP and sat her on it. The DP is Basic Grey Dasher collection.



Thanks for looking.

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday with Sketch from Sketch Saturday

Here is my card for Cute Card Thursday which is angels and fairies this week. I have used the sketch from Sketch Saturday which is a great one and a fairly simple on, but looks great when finished.

I have used Basic Grey Dasher again - I just love these traditional colours. Magnolia stamp is one of the New Christmas ones and at long last I have managed to track down some nice Christmas Flowers. I went to the local Garden Centre at the weekend and managed to find a poinsetta garland thing which I have now taken apart. Took me ages as there must be about 60 flowers and leaves on it. This should keep me going as I also managed to find a couple of other stems which I still need to dismantle. This garland was a snip at £5 which I thought was excellent for the number of flowers I will get from it.



I returned to work last Thursday and had forgotten how difficult it is to keep up to date with blogging while trying to fit work in. So, I apologise for not being up to date with my blog - I know that a couple of people have sent awards to me and also someone has tagged me - I promise I will get round to it over the next couple of days.

I have also just finished a commission for a local flower shop for some Christmas Cards. My husband has gone to drop them off today so I hope they are happy with them and hopefully more orders will follow from this initial one. Their theme for their beautiful windows and displays is traditional red, green and gold so I really enjoyed this one and have only made one of each design for them so as to keep them special.

I would also like to thank everyone who left lovely comments on my blog while I have been off work - they were very much appreciated.

Over and out!!

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday & Whiff of Joy Challenges

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday this week is to use buttons and bows on your creation and I have used this beautiful new Willow with umbrella stamp to make this birthday card, the sentiment is also from Whiff of Joy. I also would like to enter this card on my first Whiff of Joy challenge which was this wonderful layout created by Heather.



Karen x

Sketch Saturday & Cute Card Thursday

I have made this card which fits 2 challenges. I struggled a bit with the sketch on Sketch Saturday as I did not have a stamp the right size and ended up having to turn the sketch through 180 degrees so that the sentiment runs down the right hand side rather than along the bottom.
The challenge on Cute Card Thursday is to make an animal Christmas Card and I have used another of these cute Forever Friends stamps, this one being part of the Christmas 3 piece set, The small presents are also one of the Forever Friends range of stamps and I have masked off part of another one of these stamps to get the sentiment. I think the papers are doodlebug, but I may be wrong with the striped one.



Thanks for looking
Karen x

A Spoonful of Sugar and Cute Card Thursday

I am entering this card for 2 challenges this week. The Challenge on A Spoonful of Sugar this week is a wonderful sketch by Debbie and over on Cute Card Thursday the challenge is to make a card using bright colours and I think these colours certainly are bright.
I have used another of Katharina's Whiff of Joy wonderful stamps - Charlotte trimming the tree, these brilliant K & Company papers that I am just loving and I have cut the snowflakes with cuttlebug and quickutz dies.
Thanks for looking and have a good weekend.
Karen x

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 20

This weeks challenge is "Things that Grow". I have chosen to use this cute Sugar Nellie with her watering can and flower. The papers are a download from Sweet Shoppe designs and the small tile was in a packet that came free with Papercraft Inspirations a couple of months ago.
I had wanted to try out copic markers but my local art supply shop does not stock them, but he suggested that I try Letraset ProMarkers. I only bought a few colours until I tried them out and I am quite impressed with the results. Let me know what you think. I don't think that this is the end of my watercolour pencils but it made a pleasant change to use something different.

Thanks for looking

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 19

This weeks challenge is to make a card with animals only - no people allowed. This was quite hard for me as most of my stamps have people on them and I only have a few with animals.

I have the CC designs It's my birthday set and I have used the dog with the presents a few times. I had never used the cat with the presents so this is the one I have used here. I also have now used up all this DP and used the same layout that I used for the dog one as it goes really well with these stamps.

Thanks for looking.

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 18

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday this week is to make a card for a child. I have used one of the Hanglar images and some download papers from Cuddly Buddly. The flowers are from this months Rebecca's stash pack with a bit of stickles added. I think this card looks just right for a little girl on her birthday.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 16

The challenge this week over on Cute Card Thursday was to make a card with no patterned paper. This was certainly a challenge to me as I just love patterned paper. However I am really pleased with how this card turned out and think I will probably make some more. I enbossed a square of slightly pearlised card with one of my cuttlebug embossing folders and matted it onto pink and then onto green. The stamp is from Panduro and the sentiment Studio G. The flowers as ever are Prima.

A Spoonful of Sugar and Cute Card Thursday

I needed to make a birthday card for someone today and I knew that it would fit this week's A Spoonful of Sugar challenge which was to make a card for any kind of celebration. I then checked out Cute Card Thursday this evening to see what this week's challenge was and could not believe it when I read that it was to make a birthday card.

So here is my card that fits both challenges.

I used a Hanglar image, Deja Views Little Ones collection papers and embellishments and a prima flower, sentiment CC designs stamp.

I really enjoyed making this card and I think it looks perfect for a little girl's birthday.

Karen x

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

This week's challenge was to make a card using 3 different embellishments. I made this gate fold card and I have used ribbon, gems and a flower. The stamp is by CC Designs - It's my birthday set.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Here is my card for this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge. I am back to pastels this week again - I do love pastels!

Magnolia stamp, K&Co Sparkly Sweet papers, embelishments from stash.

It has been a beautiful day here today so hopefully the rest of the weekend will be the same.

Karen
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