The Sugar Bowl Challenge... Little Apprentice

 

Hi Ladies....

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Well lookie here - I'm back again - yes - TWO posts in one day! 

At The Sugar Bowl we have a brandly new challenge for you this month - it's another Anything Goes one - but we need you to use a Sugar Nellie image of course!

I chose to use Little Apprentice (another of my all time favourites) and coloured her in red to match the dotty paper.

Card Recipe:

Image - Little Apprentice

Sentiment - done on PC

Colouring - Copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Reds: R24, R27, R46, R57

Greens: G2,  YG63

Shading on Skirt and Fur: C1 and C2

Shading around image: B0000, B000, B93

Wand and Lollipop: YR24

Uni Poska Marker Pen for white dots

Red Dotty paper from stash

Glitter and Glossy Accents

Why don't you head on over to The Sugar Bowl to check out what the lovely DT have come up with - all truly inspirational!  Then get using your Sugar to create a fabulous entry for us to see! 

Big Hugs

And the wait is over.... they're here!!

Hi Girls...

Well today's the day for the brand new Sugar Nellie Winter Wonders release over at Funky Kits...  you need to get over there NOW to see these fabulous new images...    And to celebrate, we've having a blog hop today - which is really, really exciting!

But.......  now as you know I'm a sentimental old lady... (ok I'll take the 'lady' bit off that sentence..).. and there's a few other Sweeties who are just like me....  So to cut a long story short, we felt a little bit sorry for the other little creatures (particularly the fairies, who we never like upsetting)...  in case they felt sad and neglected with the new little buddies pushing their noses out of joint...  Soooooooo  we decided to be different and do the hop with these instead!!

I got out one of my all time favourite Christmas images...  Little Apprentice... and decided to decoupage her properly.... with lots of layers!  And blimey... was I fed up with fussy cutting by the time it was finished??!! She was worth it though I think...  and I gave her loads of fairy dust to make her feel invigorated for this Christmas season coming!

Card Recipe:

• Image - Sugar Nellie Little Apprentice
• Dies - Nestie Circle and Scalloped Lace Circle
• Embossing Folders - Sizzix Holly and Spellbinders A4 Dotty
• Sentiment - LOTV Grungy Christmas Sentiments
• Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch
• Gems, twine and Glitter from stash

Now... on with the hop!  If you've arrived here from Jennifer's blog... you're in the right place...  and you should then head on to Vicky here..  but if you need to find your way or want to start from the beginning... here's the correct order with links.... or you could head over to the Sugar Bowl Challenge blog and start from there!

Lisa - Wishcraft
Lis M - My Craft Blogumentary
Janine - Crafting Crackers
Pat - Cards 2 Cherish
Susan - Mixamatoasties
Pam - Pami's Crafty Creations
Mina - PinkPuds
Wendy - Lolly Dolly Crafts
Fiona - Fi's Cards and Crafts
Jennifer - My Inky Hands
Christine - Handmade by Christine (ME - YOU'RE HERE)
Vicky - Vixx Handmade Cards

Now, there are gorgeous candy prizes to be had along the way if you leave a comment on each of the blogs - then make sure you get yourself over to

to check out the new release!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a fab time blog hopping!

Thank you so much for any comments you leave..  and for popping by..
Big big hugs

Christine xx

PS..  Anyone eagle-eyed enough to spot one of my cards on the LOTV show on Thursday on Create and Craft?  More about that tomorrow!! x

It's Anything Goes at Anything Goes!

Hi Peeps

It's time again for another challenge at Anything Goes!  This time our theme is actually also 'ANYTHING GOES'....  nice and easy huh??  So we look forward to seeing lots of fantastic entries.  We had some beauties for our last challenge.... why don't you pop over to the Challenge Blog HERE to see if you were amongst the top five??

Soooo  for my card, I chose a lovely little Sugar Nellie image called Little Apprentice.  I used her quite a few times last year and love colouring her - she's so adorable!  I coloured her with my copics (available from The Craft Den).  Of course, she has to have lots of glitter.... well, no self respecting little fairy would be seen without it, would they???

The DP's I've used are from LOTV - as is the little sentiment (from the Harrogate show - yes - another bit of my new stash - you are seeing it s-l-o-w-l-y!)..... and I've distressed both the image and the sentiment with Tea Dye Distress Ink. I've used a scallop circle nestie for the main image, and left it in place while I sponged the DI.

Think that's about it..... hope you like what you see, and that you'll join in with this fab challenge.  Don't forget you can always see more inspiration from my lovely teamies if you pop over to Anything Goes HERE.

Happy crafting!
Big hugs
Christine x

Santa's little helper...

Hi Girls..
Well I just had to get another Christmas card done, as I seem to be a bit behind!  I had a little time to get in my craft room this afternoon, and this is the result.. hope you like! This little cutie was soooo easy to colour... and she came to life as I shaded and blended...

Card recipe:

• Sugar Nellie Little Apprentice (fab gift from a lovely friend..)
• Sentiment - Stampendous Cling Little Christmas (from Samuel Taylors Leeds on Saturday)
• Promarkers (Reds & Greens), Copics - Flesh
• Nestie Shape for image (can't remember the number and need to go upstairs to find it!!
• Tiny Tabs & Tags Tim Holtz for Sizzix die for the sentiment (again from ST Leeds on Sat)
• Paper - Tinsel & Twig 12 x 12 from Girls Paperie
• Bazzil base
• Metal corner - from Ebay
• Gems - from Mei Flower
• Glamour Dust, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Ribbon - from stash

Weird.. i get stray glitter on my face, just like this little lady!

OK, yes, you found me out, and I own up.... I DID spend on Saturday... just a bit.... but I had to, didn't I?  To justify me going? yes?.....  YES????  Come on.... i wanna hear a resounding chorus to back me up!! hehe

Now........  just a quickie... to welcome my new followers... thank you choosing to follow me, I'm so happy that you have!  And I've just noticed I only have two to go to have 100!!!  Come on, I only need a couple out of the woodwork somewhere to show willing...  (the phrase pulling teeth comes to mind..  ooohhhhhh sorry Nic if you're reading this!

Better go and put my feet up now, my legs have been so achey today... now it's gone a bit colder I'm really feeling the bit of arthritis I have..
Take care all and happy crafting..
Hugs
Christine x
PS ... Am entering this card in the Wild Rose Studio Festive Frolics Blog Hop Challenge