Sketch and Stash Challenge

This is my Sketch and Stash Challenge card - I needed to follow a sketch and then use something new (only read about the new bit after I had made the card!)....my new is the digistamp Cherry Kisses from Pollycraft.
Am quite new to all this so any constructive criticism is gratefully received!

Big thankyou to Joanne!

Joanne has proved to be my angel! There was me, merrily asking people to comment on my cards - and the comment thingy had stopped working! Thank goodness Joanne had my email and let me know! Think it was just a general blogger thing - have now changed the format for comments and it works again fine! thanks Joanne and feel free to try and leave comments - if you cant leave a comment, leave a comment and let me know!!!!

Funky Fairy Challenge

Here is my CASE - copy and share everything.  The challenge was set by Funky Fairy! 

As everyone will recognise, I copied Joanne's card.  It was so great it would have been silly not to! 

I used some little wooden bunnies that someone gave me ages ago.  My new Funky Fairy digistamp (yay!) which I coloured with watercolour pencils.  I had the papers lurking in my stash somewhere.  The card is for my buddy's birthday!  Mustn't tell her about this blog until after the 7th!

The only thing I didnt do was add a ribbon or somesuch - I just didnt have the room!

Ruthiex

Feeling inspired but intimidated

Have been looking at so many blogs over the last few days - Funky Fairys DT, challenge blogs etc etc - now although I feel very inspired I am also feeling really intimidated.  Cant see how I will ever get half as good as all the wonderful crafters out there!

Now to the point of this post - would anyone popping in take a few moments to comment on my cards - BUT I dont want the usual "lovely card, well done" - I would rather have some constructive criticism - like "Why on earth did you think colouring the fairy's wings was a good idea?" or "why not try adding.....".  I know this can be a bit of a tough ask so I promise I wont take anything personally - I also promise not to reply unless a reply is requested (that way I wont be trying to "defend" what I did!) - this way I can genuinely learn from the comments!  I'm a tough cookie so dont worry about upsetting me - if I dont agree with the comment then thats my own look out and what I get for asking for comments!!!

Go on then ---- go for it!!!

Oh and thanks!

Fairy card for little one!

And this is the card for her little girl. 
I used an image from lily of the valley (I think!) - I put gems on her wings, her necklace and her antennae.  The butterflies are little glittery ones.  The white paper is pearlised.  And the little flowers on the corners are kind of jelly raised glossy thingies!  Ooooo and also embossed the wings and skirt with a glittery pink embossing powder (she was originally wearing a lilac dress and had plain wings).  Such a shame I took such a bad photo - it was a lot more glittery in real life!

The leftover paper from FF

I decided to use the leftover paper from FF challenge to make a "Sympathy" card.  This was such a sad situation, the lady who passed has left behind a little girl who will be starting school any day now - she so desperately wanted to see her little one into school.  I have made the card to be very innocuous because of the little one seeing the cards at home.  I then made a special fairy card just for the little one so that she gets some cards too!

Just getting the hang of all this!  The pic below is the wedding card challenge from Funky Fairy!  We needed to do something old (the decoupage that I made ages ago and then found in a box this weekend), something new (FF swirl paper), something borrowed (the stamp - thanks Emma) and something blue (the embossing powder and brad).  Its the first challenge I have ever entered so was dead chuffed to win -ok so it was just a random pick!!!  Thanks so much to FF!

Pop over to FF and check out their blog hop and the latest challenge!

Funky Fairy's Challenge

First Post

Hi there

Am not really expecting anyone to see this but wanted somewhere to post pics of the cards and stuff I have been making!