Tantalising Tangerine

Just Bex Challenge- Now Orange is not a colour I tend to craft with, but rename it Tantalising Tangerine and it takes on a whole new persona. Your challenge is to create a card using an Orange colour scheme and 1 point will be awarded for completion of this challenge.

I really enjoyed this challenge as my new Whipper Snapper stamps arrived from the States this morning. So I thought I'd make a lovely Hallowe'en card!!

I coloured the image with my Sakura pens and edged with black ink. The card is covered with some scrummy orange Bazzill and Doodlebug striped paper. The ribbon is also Doodlebug.

To finish the card, I added 2 purple gems and edged the whole card with black ink.

Letters

This challenge is from July on the Just Bex forum- Think of a word...maybe your name or initials..then either use wooden blanks from somewhere like http://www.woodenletters.co.uk/ or chipboard letters, maybe you can cut some out or robo them, you decide and then TART them up!!

I decided to make this for my daughter Ceara. I thought it would look lovely on her bedroom door!!!

I bought a large chipboard letter, this one measures 8" tall. I then covered it with a dotty sheet from my DCWV Nana's Kids stack. It looked rather bare still so I decided to ink around the edges with my pink Dew Drop.

I then added a large bloom, with Doodlebug rub-ons spelling my daughters name in the centre and some various pink and orange ribbons and ric-rac behind. I then added a few bright flowers and some sticky gems for the centres.

Sugar 'n' Spice

The Just Bex challenge is... Anything edible for this challenge please.

So here is a card with my new Doodlebug stamps. The background is from my DCWV Nana's Kids stack. It actually co-ordinates really well with the Doodlebug colours!! I have used the Frames and the Birthday stamp sets, stamped with Doodlebug ink lol. The ribbon and sequins are also DB lol!!!

The Winner..

of the Blog Candy is

CAKVD said...
Congrats on the 1k! Now the hit counter will rise much faster! You've got a great blog here.Cheryl KVD
05 August 2007 18:44

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Thank you to all who entered and well done to Cheryl KVD!!!!!

Mmmmm Doodlebug

I got two sets of the Doodlebug clear stamps today. I won them from a US seller on ebay, and got them for half the price of buying from UK, and same postage rate too!!! I got the Birthday set and the Frames, and they are both delicious!!! I already have a few sets, so these will go nicely lol!

I can't wait to have a play with them tonight!!!!

Blog Candy!!!!!

OK, the hit counter now reads 1003, so here it is.....

All I want you to do is leave me a comment below... please only one comment per person otherwise I'll be here forever lol!!! If you pass this onto your friends and they mention your name in their comment, you will get entered again!!!

Easy peasy, it'd be silly not to when there are Love, Elsie 'Betty' embellishments going for grabs!!!

I will close this on Tuesday evening at 10pm and give the results on Wednesday... so come on, get commenting lol!!!! And I am happy to send anywhere in the world too!

I forgot to add.... you'll also get a card made by me using some of the Love, Elsie stuff!!!!

Watch out... Blog Candy

I'm just off to the In-Laws in a bit, but tonight I shall be putting on my first ever Blog Candy... this is to celebrate my upcoming 1000 hits and to say thank you for all the fantastic comments I have received!
Old and new blog visitors are welcome... and tell a friend... if they say you told them, you get given another ticket. I'll givev full details later... but keep an eye out...


And one clue.... Love, Elsie!!!!!

More LO's

Here are the ones I made yesterday, again I made a few more, but if I showed them all you'd get bored lol!!!

Another LO of my precious daughter. Again these pages are for my holiday scrapbook.

The paper used for this one is Rob and Bob. The chipboard frame and ribbon slide are Dovecraft. Then I thought I'd try something different and tied 3 different ribbons around a section of the main ribbon. The results are quite pretty!

These monkeys were soooooo gorgeous but had the sharpest teeth you could imagine lol!!!

Very basic page, See-D stamps were used for the title and brown Sakura pen for the doodling.

Stash!!!

Woohooooo, I finally got my stash parcel today... I have been waiting patiently, wondering if it would make it through the strikes lol!! No pics tonight I'm afraid, but I will tell you what I got...

Hallowe'en Doodlebug chipboard house!!!!
Doodlebug Christmas papers
Love Elsie chipboard buttons- Riley and Betty
Love Elsie gel stickers!

Then I went to the Papermill to get some DST, naturally ended up getting a few more things...

Dovecraft Christmas brad packs
Dovecraft Christmas chipboard stickers
Red and Green buttons

So after a nice little spend up, I came back and have made 3 LO's and a card!! I will pop them on tomorrow as lighting isn't the best at this time of night.

A few from tonight

Ok so I've not done any crafting for the past few days, hence the lack of entries... but I am back, here are two of the 4 LOs I've made this evening...

I adore this picture of my daughter lol... so I used some bubblegum Bazzill for the strip down the middle. Some more paler pink Bazzill to mount the photo on and then the lettering 'On the run' using my Urban Lily stickers. I then had a try at some doodling using my Sakura souffle pens... I'm rather pleased with the results!

I used some blue Bazzill for the strip down the LHS on this LO. The 'Smile' stamp is from my Doodlebug clear stamp set. The gorgeous 2-tone flowers are from bumper packs at Craftsulove, then finished with sticky gems.