Steampunk v Sugar Nellie

You all know by now, that my first love when it comes to stamping is Sugar Nellie - and it has stayed that way for a number of reasons, heres just a couple, 1. because it's local to me and I like to support local business, 2. the service from funkykits is second to none. 
Anyway, I have a pretty good selection of Sugar Nellie rubber from across the ranges - I have my favourites the same as everyone else. But I don't have a huge number of Leanne Ellis stamps, they do appeal to me but I've never been very sure of how to use them.
Well that has changed!!
I was totally inspired by Kath's sneaky peeks last week of her steampunk demo at the House of Sugar on Saturday, and when I was in The Papeterie on Friday I spotted "Journey" and I just had to have her.

Image: Journey from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers
white card scraps embossed with cuttlebug and crafts too embossing folders and trimmed to 6cm squares, blue core'dinations card, buttons and bakers twine from stash


Kath, you can breathe easy - no buttons in the nuddy here :)
I made this card for the challenge Kirsty posted on the shiny new Letraset blog which is red, white and blue. Why don't you have a go, Kirsty will be showcasing some of the entries.


I'd also like to enter my card into...
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - sketch
Papertake Weekly - something round - buttons and embossing
Creative Inspirations - embossing
Fab n Funky - put away those papers

A Dash of Scarlet

Well I think I'm coming skidding in by the seat of my pants for this week's MIC challenge - or I've completely failed to work out the time difference between Scotland and Queensland :) And I should apologise for the photo, it's now stupid o'clock and I've had to photograph the card under my daylight lamp rather than actual daylight.


Just a wee head's up.... remember to enter my candy here - it closes on Tuesday.

Image: Butterflies & Pigtails from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: Cool Greys, Warm Greys, Ice Greys, Burgundy, Crimson, Poppy, Lipstick Red and Pale Pink.
craftwork cards card blank, kanban gingham cardstock, black and white cardstock, EK Success Punch from The Papeterie, Prima e line pearls


I'd like to enter her into:
Make It Colourful - Black with a splash of red


I'm off to bed now, in the hope that I've caught the deadline for MIC - we'll no doubt be up at the crack of dawn as Faith has a little friend staying for the weekend. Thankfully this little friend is quite easy to look after - he's a teddy bear that the nursery class made at the build-a-bear-workshop and he gets to stay with each of the class for a weekend. Muggins here has to write in his journal about all the things they get up to together (bit of artistic licence there methinks) and I have to add pics too... her are the first 2...

 Faith & Willow with Bertie the Bear

Faith all cuddled up with Violet on the left and Bertie on the right

Sneaky Peekies

It's looking like another beautiful day, so this is just a quick post so that I can get on with the housework and outside to enjoy it. I was hoping for a bit of peace today, but Willow's off sick so that's not going to happen - mind you she's not a bad patient really.

Thought I'd share a couple of sneaky peeks of what we'll be doing at my class at Simply Create on 14th May - there are still some places left so if you want to join us then please contact Jacqui to book your place.

we'll be using the fabulous Simply Sassy stamps from Sugar Nellie and I'll be showing you how to colour them with promarkers.
I have another class at Simply Create on 18th June where I'll be showing you what else you can do with promarkers besides colouring images - lots of fun techniques. Again contact Jacqui to book your place, don't hang about as places are limited.


Have you entered my candy yet? you still have a few days to enter - and remember if I reach 100 entries then I'll be adding some more goodies to the pot. :)