Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish everyone the merriest of christmases - I hope you get all you wanted and more!

My last easel card... for now!

A friend asked if I would make a card for him to give to his wife for christmas - the spec was sparkley and to put her name on it!

So this is what I came up with...

And here's the easel bit..

I used miss Anya and coloured her with my copics (I love saying that!). Mariva has lovely red hair, so I gave Anya red hair too.

I made a snowflake using my spellbinder die and acetate, I coated it with glossy accents and clear glitter and embedded a few swarovski's in it - including a huge one for the centre.

I used spellbinder dies for the computer generated sentiments. Again, I can't remember the name of the papers - I can't wait til I have the internet in my craft room again and I'll have all the info I need at hand, but that'll be in the new year.

I also made a box to put the card in but didn't take a pic.
Plus I made one very similar for my little sister - just changed the wording.

I hope you liked it, thanks for dropping by!

Holly for Holly

Here's my christmas card for my gorgeous wee neice Holly

As you can see it's another easel card

The fabby image is from Mo's digital pencil, and it's the first one I coloured with my brand new copic markers! I wasn't completely happy with the skirt but I know it'll take a bit of practise with them.

I'm afraid I can't remember who the papers are by, I'll try to find out. The ribbon, swarovski's and wire was from stash.

Thanks for looking!

Blog award

I can't believe I haven't blogged in so long - I've been so busy lately but I don't know where the time goes!

Anyway, I recently got an award from the very talented Andria at Iona Rose Designs, and I hadn't actually gotten around to blogging it.

So here's the award

And along with the award I have to answer some questions. One word answers only...so here goes:

1) Where is your cell phone ?- Pocket

2) Your Hair? - Brunette.

3) Your Mother? - Brilliant!

4) Your Father? - Fantastic!

5) Your favourite food? - Stir-fry

6) Your dream last night? - Weird!

7) Your Favourite drink? - Coke

8) Your dream/goal? - Happiness

9) What room are you in? - Living

10) Your hobby? - Crafting

11) Your Fear? - Dying

12) Where do you want to be in 6 years? - Hilltown!

13) Where were you last night? - Ma's

14) Something you arent? - Thin :( (see below!)

15) Muffins? - Yum! (see above!)

16) Wish list item? - Copics

17) Where did you grow up? - Hilltown

18) Last thing you did? - Cleaned

19) What are you wearing? - clothes

20) Your TV? - MJ

21) Your pets? - Cats.

22) Friends - Best.

23) Your life? - Full.

24) Your mood - Good.

25) Missing someone? - Ryan

26) Vehicle? - Mini

27) Something your not wearing? - Cape :)

28) Your Favourite store? - Craft.

29) Your favourite colour? - Red.

30) The last time you laughed? - Today (I laugh a lot!)

31) the last time you cried? - Last night (from laughing!)

32) Your best friend? - Aislinn

33) One place that I go to over and over? - Toilet ;)

34) Facebook? - Yes

35) Favourite place to eat? - Home

I hope my answers were ok!

Thanks for looking!

Another Bright Christmas!

Another Christmas card for you.

For this one I used one of the gorgeous images from Whiff of Joy and coloured with my promarkers. I coated the candy cane with glossy accents to give it a 3d feel and make it nice and shiny!

The papers are Cosmo Cricket Jolly by golly - I love these bright and cheery papers!

Challenges...
Just the one this time, A Spoon Full of Sugar - Non traditional christmas colours, nice and bright so hopefully it counts!

I had a really lovely birthday and was spoilt rotten! I got loads of lovely goodies including some CD's and DVD's (including Public Enemies with the yummy Johnny Depp!! Swoon!).
My gorgeous wee 2 year old nephew Ryan had a crafty day of his own with his mum mum and he made me a card! Aparently he picked the stickers and stuck them on himself for his auntie neena! Although his mum mum helped him do the writing. He also made a picture of his handprints with paint - I'm sure they had lots of fun doing that! It'll go up on my fridge for sure!
I also got VIP tickets to go to Topgear live - their roadshow is in Dublin this week and I'm going to see them on sunday!
But the present that totally blew me away was from my wonderfully fantastic parents! :D
They got me a set of 72 copic sketch markers and a blender pen! I nearly fell off my seat when I opened it!! I did feel a little bad afterwards though that the markers got the reaction they did compared to everyone else's presents!! I really loved all my presents!
So a huge thank you to everyone for their lovely gifts!

Also a huge thank you to all my crafty friends who sent me yummy handmade cards. They're all really beautiful. I'll take a pic when they all arrive as I've been told that there will be a couple of late comers - Totally understandable particularly at this time of year. So thanks again!

Thanks for dropping by!

Blog Candy Winner!

Ok, I did use the random.org thingy, but haven't a clue how to show it on here! So I'm afraid you'll just have to take my word for it!

The winner is.....


Ila!


Congratulations Ila! If you can email me (sheena_fitz@yahoo.co.uk) with your info I'll get it sent to you ASAP!

It's my blogiversary!!

CANDY NOW CLOSED
Check back later for winner!

I can't believe it's been a year today (11th November) since I started my blog!
The year has flown past and I've met (virtualy speeking!) lots of really talented people out there.
I've learnt so much about papercrafting and cardmaking since I started blogging - as well as spent an absolute fortune on all the new must have gadgets and gizmo's and papers and stamps and pens and...!!!
So to celebrate, I'm doing my first blog candy!
And as I'm sure you'll know (if you've been following my blog) I'm not the most organised person in the world (soon to be rectified though!) so you won't be surprised to hear that I haven't actually finished gathering up the candy!
I've taken a picture of what I have gathered so far though so you can have a taster of what it is!

As you can see I've got a 6x6 K & Company paper pad, a reel of silver ribbon (I believe it's 25m), one of the big butterflies that I used on a recent card, a couple of blingy bits, a selection of flowers and a Maya Road tin to put it all in.
I've also ordered a couple of Sugar Nellie stamps to add to it but they haven't arrived yet.
Plus, I'm going to the craft show in Belfast tomorrow so will hopefully pick up some things there.
Plus, as I sort through my craft stuff for moving, you never know what I might find in there to add to it too!!

What I'd like you to do to be in with a chance of winning is...
1. Become a follower
2. Leave a comment
3. Post about my candy on your blog (or your sidebar)

Just the usual really.
I'm leaving it open until my birthday which is December 3rd so there's plenty of time!
Hopefully, I'll pick the winner using that random.org thingy, but as I've never done this before, it might be a bowl of shredded paper with numbers on them!

I think I've said all I need to... someone let me know if I've missed anything!

Good luck!

Thanks for dropping by!

Last Chance

Today is the last chance to enter my blog candy.

I've added a couple of other things (but forgot to take a pic) including a cuttlebug die (which I must point out has been used but not very much so it's like new) and a couple of stamps. Also the 2 Sugar Nellies have arrived and are ready to go again!

So good luck everyone!

Christmas Carols

Another Christmas card to add to my collection

For this one I used the fab image by Mo Manning at Mo's Digital Pencil.
I coloured it with...you guessed it, my promarkers!

The papers are Stampin' Up! Merry Moments.
The sentiment circle is a download from Pollycraft, also coloured with pm's.

Challenges...
Cupcake craft - Red and Green (Ok, so I've a lot of brown too, but there is red & green!)
And Stamp with fun - xmas.

Thanks for looking

WOYWW

As promised (all be it a little late!) here's my pic for WOYWW on Julia's blog.

As you can see, it's a wee bit messier than last weeks brand spanking new room, but I don't think it's too bad!
You can just make out the laptop that's nearly burried under a pile of papers and card!
The Baubles are for a card that I'm gonna make 4 of, and they were coated with glossy accents last night before I went to bed, so I'll finish them off tonight.
Other bits and pieces that should've been put away - cos I've finished with them! lol!

So that's me for this week!

Thanks for looking!

Merry & Bright

Another christmas card.

I used my promarkers (and my one and only copic!) to colour this gorgeous Kraftin Kimmie stamp. The papers are Imaginisce Polar Express.

I used a snowflake shaped button from my stash and some wire to make the swirls along with some very thin slivers of paper to make the twirly bit at the side (that is in fact the technical term "twirly bit"!) and I added a swarovski crystal bead to the wire and also some stickles on the buttons and trim on her skirt for a bit of glam!

I didn't follow any particular sketch for this (for a change!) but it does fit a few other challenges:
The Pink Elephant - to use your favourite colouring medium (which is at the moment my promarkers but I'm hopefully getting some copics for christmas! I'll still love my PM's though!)
The Cuttlebug Spot - Winter (I used the snow embossing folder - don't know what you call it but it's the one that looks like falling snow - on the blue band across the middle of the card.)
And Papertake Weekly - Christmas crackers (It's a christmas card!)

I think I'll never be finished my christmas cards on time - I added another one to my collection last night bringing my total to 10, so only another gazillion to go!

I'll be back tomorrow with another one and I have full intentions on keeping up the WOYWW pics!

Thanks for looking!

Finally, A Christmas Card!

I actually made this card a while ago, just never got around to blogging it. That doesn't mean to say that I've got loads of christmas cards made - I have a total of 9 now made, and 5 of them are the same design!

This is the one that I have five of, if you get me!

I did follow a sketch, but as it was a while ago, I can't remember which sketch it was.

I do remember that it's miss Anya and I coloured her with my promarkers.



The papers are Basic Grey, Wassail and I think the sentiment came from a Joanna Sheen set - but I'm not 100% on that!
The snowflakes are a spellbinders create a flake and are coated with polar flower soft.

I've decided that as I'm so far behind with my christmas cards that I'm not going to decorate the insides, so hopefully that'll take a bit of the pressure off.

Thanks for looking!

My new craft room!!!

Hi all!

I've finally got my new craft room finished last night!! I started moving stuff on saturday and was carrying boxes into my house at 2am sunday morning!! The furniture was moved on sunday in gale force winds - a desk almost landed in my precious Bert (my mini) but thankfully that disaster was avoided! Thanks to my brother in law for helping me move the furniture - he was astounded that I managed to get it all to fit into my tiny second bedroom!! But I got it all to fit! I had a little path around all the boxes of stash in my kitchen and living room until I got it all sorted away on monday night and last night, I couldn't believe I have so much stuff!! (well, I knew rightly, I just didn't want to admit it!!)

Here's the before picture of the room when it was my second bedroom..

Hardly room to swing a cat (not that I'd do that anyway, think of the mess it'd make! JK!)

And here's the after picture of my new craft room!!

Ta dah!!...

i do have a lot less space than I had in my parents attic, but at least it's my space. And I think it was a genious idea to flip the 2 bookshelves upside down and put them on top of the desks. I still have plenty of work space and I have everything within easy reach!

I thought I'd use this oppurtunity to join in on Julia's blog for "What's on your workdesk wednesday". Perfect oppurtunity saying as it's just newly sorted and relatively tidy!! lol!!
So at the minute there's not much to comment on except a chrsitmassy image that I've coloured and is waiting to be made into a card, and a handbag charm that is the first thing I made in my new craft room. I'll probably blog it later, so I'll not say any more about it.

So there you go, I'm looking forward to getting home from work (in about half an hour) and getting stuck into making something! I'll try to post my desk again next week - I'm sure it won't look quite as pretty!!

Thanks for dropping by!

Holly's birthday card number 2!

This is the card I made for Holly from myself.

And guess what?? It's an easel card! My first atempt at one and I have to say, I love them! They're so easy to make but look so impressive!

I coloured Tilda with my PM's

Papers are Basic Grey "Nook and Pantry" which I thought went really well with the big magnolia bun!!

I followed Mina's fab sketch at Just Magnolia - I thought I'd make use of it saying as I met Mina at the craft show in Belfast last week! It was great to meet someone from blogland. Plus I spent a fortune!!

Thanks for dropping by!

Holly's Birthday Card

It was my gorgeous wee niece's 1st birthday on sunday. And of course I was still making her cards on saturday night!!

I made this card from my mum & dad - her grandparents

I used a Gorjuss girl coloured with my pm's.

The paper is Basic Grey (I think it's call lemonade).
I got the sparkly "1" from Joanna Sheen's online shop and the other bits are from my stash. The sentiments are computer generated.

And this is the inside

It fits 2 challenges
1. the sketch from Stamp Something
2. Glitz and bling from Basic Grey Challenges

Thanks for dropping by everbuddies!