Hot Cocoa Ants - Doodle Pantry Challenge DPDC51

I was trying to decide if I should paper piece the mug of this image but in the end the Copics won lol. I really enjoy colouring these images, not sure if it is because my hubbie is called Ant lol.

I found this paper in my stash and decided to base the whole card around it, I love this colour scheme and it made me want a large cup of hot chocolate.

Ingredients
Image : "Hot Cocoa Ants" Doodle Pantry
Paper: "Home for Christmas" Papermania
Card: Recollections Kraft
Sentiments: studio G
Dies : blueprints 1, 2, stitched circle and circle staxs and horizontal stripes all mft

Copics:
Ants - N9, 7, 5
Marshmallows - E51, 50, 00
Cocoa - E29, 27
Ladder - E35, 34, 31
Ground - E44, 43, 42
Sky - BG10
Cup - R59, 39, 37, 35

Challenges - Doodle Pantry Challenge DPDC51

Doodle Pantry Christmas Card - challenge 46

You may remember me admitting to running out of time to make my hubbie a Christmas card last year, well to rectify that and also use the image I was going to last year his is the first christmas card of 2014. I used Doodle pantry "stocking ants" and coloured to match the gorgeous colours of the echo park "winter wishes" kit. I adore these colours and it made me feel all cool and chilled whilst I was making it.

As I have used snippets for the card and most of the backing papers I am going to join in the fun at the snippet playground.

Ingredients
Image: "stocking ants" Doodle Pantry
Card: "Enchanted evening" Papertrey Ink
Paper: "Winter Wishes' Echo Park at Jessica Sprague
Dies: Blueprints, 1, 2 and 13
Sentiment: 'for everyone" Clearly Besotted

Copics;
Ants - N7, 5, 3
Blues - B99, 97, 95, 93, 91
Violets - V17, 15, 12
Shadow - W1, 00, blender

Challenges: Snippet Playground
Doodle Pantry

It's Pumpkin Carving Time.....

Just wanted to say hello to my new followers, big waves, thank you for wanting to follow my little blog.

Ok so my hubbie is called Ant, his favourite holiday is Halloween and his favourite part is carving the pumpkin, so this image is just perfect. Over the last few years he has carved headless horsemen, haunted houses, Frankenstein and a black cat and every year I can't wait to see the new creation. I adore the ant images from Doodle Pantry and have bought so many now I think I have every birthday, valentines, Christmas etc covered for him for at least ten years but does that stop me getting more, oh no it doesn't lol.

Ingredients
Image: "Pumpkin Carving Ants" Doodle Pantry
Papers: "Happy Haunting" Pink Petticoat (on offer for £2.99) and "gingham" Pink Petticoat
Card: Snippet draw
Bakers Twine: Studio G
Brad: Studio G and stash
Punch: "Dripping goo" Martha Stewart

Copics:
Ants: N7, N5, R24
Ground: E44, 43, 42, 41
Sky: B01, 00, 000, 0000
Pumpkin: YR09, 07, 04, 16, 15, 12, Y35, 32, YG97, 95, 93
Knife: N3, 2, E79, 77, 74

Challenges: Snippet Playground
Doodle Pantry

Movie Date Night

I don't know about anyone else but life sometimes gets busy and the small things get left out, things have been like that for a while so I decided to try something different. Hubbie loves the cinema and apart from the dine in experience I can take it or leave it, but I decided that we needed a night out together and the cinema seemed the idea place to start.

I made this card as a kind of coupon to be redeemed once there was a film he wanted to see, it didn't need to be one I was particularly interested in but no horrors was my only condition.

Ingredients:
Image:"movie ants" Doodle Pantry
Papers: "Twill Tape" Crimson red by Pink Petticoat
Dies: "ticket border" and "ticket" both MFT
Sentiment: MFT
Cardstock: "rela red" stampin up and black snippets

Challenges: Doodle Pantry
                   Snippet Playground

Ice Ice Baby

Before I get to the card I just wanted to say hello to my new followers and thank you all for the wonderful comments on my Audrey Hepburn card, it really means so much as I was really struggling with my card making and this has renewed my mojo.

Ok so now I am showing my age but I loved that song lol. I saw this image on the Doodle Pantry blog and knew it would be perfect for my cousin who plays ice hockey, only problem was his birthday was in January, so I wondered do I buy it now or wait, in the end I decided to buy it now and make his card ready for next January, now before you all think wow she is organised I will let you into a little secret, I will probably not be able to find this next January and will end up making a different card and then finding it a few days later but never mind I enjoyed it anyway lol.

So it is very red and grey and reminds me of a 1980 boy bedroom, all it is missing is the diagonal stripes. (confession time, hubbie had a bedroom decorated like that with a red radiator no less lol) oh how times have changed.... I looked up the colour of a hockey puck and stick and they were both grey and originally I was going to colour the ant's in brown just like we have in the garden but that looked a bit weird so red they are, now they remind me of the fire ants that always bite my hubbie (also called Ant lol) when we visit Florida.

Ingredients:

Image: "Hockey Puck" Doodle Pantry

Papers: "Martie" Sassy Designs

Cardstock: "Real Red"(snippet) and "Basic Grey" both Stampin up

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Doodle Pantry DPDC32

Happy Birthday Gareth

It is hubbie's youngest brother's birthday today and I am finding it hard to believe that he will be 30 next year, especially as he was only 5 when I met my hubbie lol. As long as I have known him he has loved burgers, any kind but one of his fondest memories is staying with us as a teenager and hubbie making him a burger with cheese and special sauce inside. Everytime we have a bbq he mentions it lol. Oh and the special sauce was just ketchup and mayo mixed to make it pink.

As soon as I saw this image I thought of him, especially as hubbie is called Ant lol. I bought the papers especially for this card and the bonus was the images that came with it, love the ketchup bottle and the ketchup spill is genius. As you can guarantee that he will spill something on every visit. I found the font called "Antpile" and thought it looked like a marching ant troup and was perfect for this card. I have tried to create a picnic feel and hopefully I managed that.

The card itself is a twisted easel as it had to top this card I made him last year. I can't imagine what I will have to make next year for his big 30.

Ingredients

Image: "Cheeseburger" Doodle Pantry

Papers & Bottles: "All Fired Up" Nit Wit

Cardstock " Real Red" Stampin Up

Button: Dress it up

Challenges:

Doodle Pantry Monthly Competition

Doodle Pantry Ants

Well I have been trying to reduce the snippet mountain before it becomes an avalanche and used all scraps to make this card. The backing card is last years christmas card where I made a hash of the front so used the back for this one, the wainscotting was created using my hougie, white scrap card and an antique linen distress ink pad. I have been watching you tube a lot and started with craft room tours and am now happily watching "stamp tv" so this card was made after watching Gina k.

I made this card for my hubbie to say thank you for all the cooking he has done since my fall, not that he didn't do all the cooking before but he has been making me cakes too lol. So why the red ants I hear you ask, well his name is Ant and in Florida if there are fire ants anywhere they seem to be attracted to him lol.

I have been admiring these images for ages but thought they would be difficult to colour but they aren't in fact they are a joy and as there is a sale on I am off to buy a few more.

Ingredients

Image: "Baking Ants" Doodle Pantry

Papers: "From the Heart" Nit Wit Collections

Brads: Stash

Challenges:

Snippet Playground

Doodle Pantry
Digital Tuesday