Little glittery seahorses and mermaid ATC

It's been a while since I made an ATC (artist trading cards) so I thought I'd give it a go again. I've been away to see my mom before Christmas and brought my copics to practice my coloring skills. I love making ATC's out of those images since I don't have to bother about matching them up with any papers. Coloring that way makes it more free.

The image I have used is by Elaine Cox and it's called little seahorses mermaid by sweetpea stamps.

Challenges:
Simon says stamp - bingo (ribbon, gems and glitter)
Stampin for the weekend - anything goes

Amigurumi Smellie the ellie

Hi, how fun of you to stop by this blog today. My name is Smellie (the ellie) Yes, I know, it is a bit corny, but I like making people laugh and happy so it was perfect for me. Soon I'm going to live with a lady that needs support to quit smoking. I'm sure I will be able to smell if she has been smoking and if I do that I'm going to trumpet as loudly as I can. And if that doesn't help I'm going to complain that I smell like smoke - yuck! So in all ways I hope my name will help her out.

I was crocheted by Katarina after a pattern made by Irene. Aren't I the cutest? I measure about 10cm (4") and I'm only 5cm (2") tall. No wonder I'm afraid of mice.

Here's my super cute braided tail. Escaping from the camera is quite fun.

Oops, I've been running around so much I made myself dizzy :)

Pearly tag

For this tag I've been practicing my copic skills and I think it turned out pretty well. I used a pearly accent to make the swirly dots pattern. Think it is a wonderful tag for Christmas for the man in your life.

The image is called a bunch of love from sweetpea stamps.

For an angel

Here is a Christmascard I made with not traditional colours. Every webshop I wanted to get paperpads from different webshops, but they were always out so I decided to make Christmascards with the papers I had. This one could actually work all year around, but I think the image is better for this time of year. The saying says: "for an angel" and I'm sending it to a woman I shared room with in the hospital a couple of years ago. She really helped me through a very hard time and we became friends.

I have used papers from basic grey. The background paper behind the image is actually a cut-out from a previous project. I made the circle to fit in the aperture. The image is coloured with promarkers and I added some glitterglue to the wings to make her extra magical.

Challenges:
cupcake craft - look at the light
promarkers - celebrations
sir stampalot - bingo (punch, tags, ribbon AND pearls, stickles, ribbon)
stamptacular - Christmas glitz
whiff of joy - sketch

Decorating the tree

Here is another Christmascard that I made. I already had the image coloured which saved me tons of time. It's quite simple, but I wanted to put focus on the trees. I added some glittery gelly roll on some of the details and text. I'm actually surprised that I like it so much because it's so simple.

Challenges:
Paper sundaes - anything Christmas
Papertake weekly - anything
Promarkers - celebrations
Stampin for the weekend - Christmas

Sweetpea Christmas bloghop

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Fundraiser for Brandon's family

One of my favourite blogs have started a fundraiser for a family in true need. If you are able to help somehow, please do! There are a bunch of e-bay listings starting at 99c kindly donated from all parts of the world. I have listed a couple of items in my etsy store, where all the money raised will go to this family of a grandmother with cancer and four little boys:

MY ETSY

You can read the whole story on Claudia's blog.

Winter (whiff of) joy

I'm making the last of my Christmascards this weekend so my table is in a total mayhem again. Good thing I had a couple of coloured images left from last year. Most of them were already matched up with papers so I had half the job done. I didn't make any advanced layouts although I think this one turned out really well. I did use a sketch for it and thankfully it came together without any hassle (which is unusual)

I used papers from prima (North country) and a Martha Stewart punch for the lace. The image is coloured with promarkers.

Challenges:
Alphabet challenge - W for white Christmas
Crafts and me - Snowflakes
Crafty catz - Anything
Cute card thursday - anything
Papertake weekly - Anything goes
Sketch and stash - Sketch
Secret crafter - Creatures big and small
Stamptacular - Blue/brown/tan
Totally gorjuss - Let it snow
Winter wonderland - Let it snow

Sweetpea Christmas bloghop

Hello and welcome to sweetpea's Christmas bloghop. If you've come from the very talented Karina's blog then you're on the right way. If not, start at the beginning at the sweetpea blog and find out how you can win a $20 sweetpea candy. The idea for this hop is to get you superinspired to use your favourite sweetpea stamps for your Christmasprojects. With the right colours, papers and sentiments you can make a card for any occasion no matter what it looks like. I even went all out and used non-Christmas papers. I like living on the wild side :)

The image I have used is from my favourite illustrator ching chou kuik (shhh, don't tell anyone). I've had a soft spot for her images since the beginning and always go back to them. This one is called fluttering butterflies from plate 38 (and it's actually on sale now for only $2!) I really wanted to work with this image as it has a lantern that I wanted to emphasize. Didn't know if I could pull it off, but I must say it really looks like it's glowing. The colouringmedium I used are oilpencils as I know they are able to give this glowing look.

You are almost at the end of the hop. Please leave a comment before you go to our next very talented DT member  Sharon.

Santa with penguins

Somehow I'm panicky about my Christmas cards. How did this happen?! AGAIN!? I even had one card left from last year and made one or two earlier this year. I need about 7 more. Whaaa, and I only have until next week. Oh well, there's always next year :)

For this card I have used a stamp from Whipper snapper (thought it was a high hopes, but it's not) It's coloured with oilpencils. I'm really starting to love this colouring medium. I'm superpleased with how it turned out. I added some distressglue to the white parts of the image. The papers are from a prima paperpack called north country. I just love these papers as they are super cheap, a lot of papers in every pack (48) and the quality is perfect for edge-distressing.

Challenges:
Color create - Red, white, green
Creatalicious - Christmas and sparkle
Crafty catz - Christmas + optional sparkle
Cute card thursday - Numbers
Everybody art - Sketch
Paper sundaes - Red and stripes
Papertake weekly - Anything
Pile it on - Bling it up
Secret crafter - Photo inspiration