Gothic Gorjuss

Here's my last card of the day:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Swirls & Lace - Bunny Zoe's Crafts

• Sketch - Challenge Up Your Life
• Shades of Grey +1 Colour - Craft Your Days Away
• Black, White +1 Colour - Craft Your Passions

• Texture (Lace) - Totally Stampalicious
• Pearls - Totally Gorjuss

I used the Papermania Capsule Collection for the papers and added the red with a Spectrum Noir pen. The Gorjuss girl is coloured with these also. The flowers are from Heidi Grace and the pearls are from my local craft shop, which is where the lace also comes from. The swirls are cut with a Marianne's die.

xx Mia xx

Tropical Paradise

This card is a little different to the last one:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Tropical Paradise - Tuesday Throwdown

• T for 2 (2 Flip flops) - The ABC Challenge

• Shaped Card - Bearly-Mine

• Summertime - Creative Craft Challenges 2

This card is made using papers, sticker words and card from the DCWV Summer Collection. The flip flops are from my crafting stash that I had forgotten I had they are by a company called Paper Bliss. (Although I don't remember where I got them from).

Now I'm off to use my new Gorjuss stamps that came in the post yesterday!!!

xx Mia xx

Butterflies

This card is one of two that I have made this morning:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Make your own (Paper Flowers) - Papertake Weekly Challenges

• Birthday - The Stamping Boutique, Stampavie, Paper Pretties

• Buttons - Crafty Creations Challenges

• Winged Things - 7 Kids College Fund Challenge Blog

• Photo Challenge (Pink & Flowers) - Shabby Tea Room

• Anything Goes - Simon Says Stamp

• Photo Challenge (Butterflies) - Just Us Girls

 This card is made using a Magnolia image which I coloured using Spectrum Noir pens. All the patterned papers are from the Trimcraft Love Letters Paper Collection as is the tag. I used spellbinder dies for the circles and a Martha Stewart punch for the butterfly. The buttons are from the Papermania Capsule Collection. The flowers and swirls dies are from the Marianne's Die Cut Collections.

xx Mia xx

My last card of the day:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch with Numbers - The Sweet Stop

• Let's Party - Incy, Wincy Designs

• Colours (Red, Aqua and Kraft) - Dancing In Pyjamas

• Celebration  - Hanna and Friends

• Numbers -  Fun With Shapes

The star border punch is from Martha Stewart, the card blank is from Papermania and the star patterned paper (the Wobblers paper pad) and stamps are from Kanban. The image is coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and the inks used for the homemade backing paper are from the Papermania Capsule Collection.

xx Mia xx

Sporty Card

Just a couple of quick entries for today. The first card is for my Father's Birthday in August:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Olympics/Sports - One Stop Craft Challenge, Saturday Challenge, One Stitch At A Time

• Sketch - Sketch Saturday

• Kraft Card - Robyn's Fetish

• Recipe (1 image, 2 Papers, 3 Embellishments) - Ooh, La, La Creations

• Buttons - Phindy's Place

The greeting sticker, image and papers are all from the DoCrafts Me To You range and the card blank is from Papermania. The blue buttons come from my local craft shop, Sew Simple which is worth a trip by anyone that lives in the Norwich area as they have lots of bits and bobs in both card making, sewing and haberdashery amongst others.

xx Mia xx

Elizabeth Bell Beach Card

My last card of the day is of these beautiful little girls at the beach:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Photo Inspiration (Beach and the colours) - Fussy & Fancy

• Summer, Summer Holidays and the Beach - Everybody Art, Stamp-N-Doodle, Just Christmas, Crazy Challenge, The Pink Elephant

• The Ocean - Cupcake Craft Challenges

• Make It Wet - My Time To Craft

• Something British (British Holidays at the Beach) - Try It On Tuesday

• Fun In The Sun -  The Crafty Calendar

The materials used for this card are; the papers are the Spring Chic Me To You collection from DoCrafts, the stamp is from Elizabeth Bell, the jewels are from Papermania and I added clear glaze and glitter on the water and sand from my local craft shop.

xx Mia xx

Sugar Nellie Circle Card

This card is made with my newest Sugar Nellie stamp:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Circles or Circular Cards for - Little Miss Muffet, Crafts 4 Eternity, Top Tip Tuesday

• Monochromatic for - Crafty Catz, Sweet Stampin'

• 2 Dies  - Stamptacular Sunday

• Stitching (Real or Faux) - Crazy 4 Challenges

• Photo Challenge (Relaxing) - Totally Papercrafts

• Sketch - The Sugar Bowl

• Black Card Stock - Creative Card Crew

I used the Papermania Capsule Collection for all the papers, card and for the stick on letters. I used a Spellbinders Large Nestabilities set to create the card blank and the layered circles. The little girl is a Sugar Nellie image and is coloured with black and grey Spectrum Noir pens. The faux stitching is done with black and white fine liners.

xx Mia xx

Birthday Fairie

Here's another challenge entry this time using one of my favourite Magnolia stamps:

This card is for the following challenges:

• Colour Challenge - Just Us Girls

• Fairy - Cute Card Thursday

• Recipe (1 Ribbon, 2 Images, 3 Patterned Papers, 4 Embellishments) - Dutch Dare

• Birthday - Just Magnolia

• All Girl - Let's Ink It Up

• Things With Wings - Sentimental Sundays

• Angels and Fantasy - Southern Girls Challenge

The materials I used for this card are; the papers are from a Heidi Grace Collection called Heidi's Cute Cakes. I just love these papers and although you can't see it in the photo they are texted and some of them are flocked and flittered. They are lovely to use. The flowers are from the first Fizzy Moon collection and the Shimmer dots in the centre are from Papermania. Lastly the ribbon is a recycled piece off a box of Thorntons chocolates I was given by the Grandmother of one of the children that I look after. Yummy and useful! :)

xx Mia xx

Handmade Flowers For The First Time

Hi Everyone,

I've been gone from the blog for a little while but now I'm back. I have a new job which allows me more time with my cards which is great as the job only pays for my crafting stash anyway!!! ;)

This card is using my new Marianne's flower and leaf dies. I have seen dies like this and other similar ones used a lot recently and wanted to give them a try. It took a bit of practice and I definitely need a faster drying glue but I'm fairly pleased with the results.

This card is for the following challenges:

• Romance - Lili's Little Fairies

• Favourite Animal - Charisma Cardz

• Photo Inspiration (Flowers, Green, Pink and White) - Stampin' For The Weekend

• Leaves - Totally Gorjuss

• Flower Power - Bizzy Becs

The materials used are Spectrum Noir pens, the jewels are from Papermania. The stamp is from Lili of the Valley and the papers are from the Spring DCWV set of papers that I bought from QVC in a great box set with two draws full of bits and bobs. the flowers and leaves are from the Marianne set of dies.

Fingers Crossed

xx Mia xx