Pink Spring Cards

This is a card I made for Mother’s Day.  No digi stamp in this one!  But lots of flowers! I used three different Marianne Creatables Flower Dies to cut out these paper flowers.

I am entering this card in the ‘In the Pink’ Challenge – Floral/Mother’s Day

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This card is for my sister-in-law’s birthday.  The image is from Saturated Canary and is coloured with Promarkers.  There’s some more handmade flowers here using a Marianne Creatables Die.  This is an easel-style card, with a pocket for a little tag on the inside.

I am entering this in Saturated Canary challenge #39 and the I Love Promarkers Challenge – Ribbons & Bows.

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Thanks for visiting.  Please leave a comment.

Dee x

DIY Strassed Bling Shoes

I got these shoes today to wear for my birthday and thought they were a bit too plain.

So I decided to ‘bling’ them up.  I got a present of a rhinestone setter gun a while ago and it’s been sitting gathering dust since then.  Time to put it to some use!  It came with some 3mm clear hot fix rhinestones so I used those.  I could have done with a few more but overall I’m happy with the results.

 

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Dee x

Valentine’s Cards

This card was made for a seven-year-old girl to give to her long-term boyfriend! The image is from Saturated Canary, coloured with Promarkers. The paper flowers were made with a Marianne Creatables die.

I am entering this card in the Saturated Canary Chellenge – Colour Inspiration

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I made this card for my hubby. I used a freebie image I picked up from Melonheadz a whole ago, and Coloured it with pro markers. I put glossy accents on the little love birds and the heart.

I am entering this card into the Melonheadz challenge – Valentines

Thanks for looking.
Dee x

PS My friend has borrowed my camera, so I’ve been taking pictures with my phone. I’m not happy with how the cards look in the photos, they’re better in real life, I swear!!

Spring Cards

Two cards today.  The first has the image ‘Lonely Hearts’ from Sassy Cheryl, coloured with promarkers.  I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sassy Cheryl: Back to Nature

Sketch Saturday: Week 245

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The next card has a cute image from Mo Manning, also coloured with promarkers.  I had another go at the distress inks here, leaving the circle nestie in place for a white border.  I’m not too sure about the results!

I am entering this card into Mo’s Digital Challenge – Anything Goes.

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Thanks for visiting, please have a look around and leave a comment.

Dee x

 

Jen’s Buns

This is a simple recipe for all-in-one buns that I got from my friend Jen. She got it from her Mam, (who does not like buns being called cupcakes!) and the recipe has changed a few times along the way!

Ingredients
150g butter (softened)
3/4 cup caster sugar (170g)
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1.5 cups flour (210g)
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
1/4 cup milk (60ml)

Method
Cream the butter and sugar together.
Add in the eggs and vanilla and beat well.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into another bowl. Add half of this into the first bowl and gently combine. Add half the milk and gently combine. Repeat with the rest of the flour mix & milk.

You can also take the lazy route and bung all the ingredients into a food processor or blender and whizz until combined.

Fill bun cases to 3/4 full (12 large muffin-sized ones or 18 fairy cake size).
Bake for 5 mins at Gas mark 7 / 220 Deg C. then reduce the temperature to Gas mark 5 / 190 Deg C and bake until golden on top and spongy to the touch (another 15 mins for large buns, 10 mins for small).

The last time I made these I made a hole in each (cooled) bun with a cupcake plunger and filled the hole with raspberry jam before topping with buttercream. Delicious!  (If you don’t have a cupcake plunger, you can use an apple corer or a teaspoon).

 

 

 

 

Do give these a try, and leave a comment below when you do!

Dee x

50 Shades of Grey card

For all the Fifty fans.

When I first saw this image by Saturated Canary I had to have it, even though I didn’t know what I would use it for!  Well it turns out, Valentine’s Day is perfect for it.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, and embellished the card with grey ribbon and black pearls.  I am entering this card into the I Love Promarkers Challenge – Love is All Around.

You can see my 50 Shades inspired bookmark here.

And a fun blog post at the Den of Dilemmas ‘ 50 Shades of Paddy’ here.

 

Please feed my blog with comments.

Laters x

First attempt at Distress Inks

SO my crafty new year’s resolution was to try out Distress Inks.  I was advised to start with light colours to start with, so I bought ‘Old Paper’ and ‘Spun Sugar’ by Tim Holtz, and a blending tool.

 

The first card uses ‘Old Paper’ and an image from Saturated Canary, coloured with Promarkers.

I am entering this card in the Saturated Canary Challenge – Song Inspiration.  This engagement card is inspired by the song ‘Make You Feel my Love’ by Bob Dylan, more recently covered by Adele.

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This next card also has an image from Saturated Canary, coloured with Promarkers.  This time, I used ‘Spun Sugar’ Distress Ink.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

In the Pink – Pink and Pearlie

Sketch Saturday – Week 240

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The last card has some distressing aswell, but not with inks!  I used some Core’dinations black card, and distressed the edges with a scissors to show the white core.  The image is from Mo Manning (I use this one a lot!), coloured with Promarkers (Cool Grey 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5).

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Mo’s Digital Challenge – Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers – Monochrome

I attended the above wedding over a week ago, the day after Christmas, but with it being a busy time, I only got around to making the card yesterday!  My gift for the couple was 120 cakepops for the wedding!  The colour scheme was purple, so I got some purple lollipop sticks and purple gel food colouring from Cake Couture so that they would match.  You can see my tutorial for cakepops here.

Thanks for visiting!

Dee*