Love is.....

We are back with another lovely challenge for you over at LADYBUG CRAFTS INK and this time the theme was chosen by the lovely Julie

LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT

So basically something with a love theme:)

We have a few changes for the prizes this time round so be sure and check out the news on the challenge blog!

Kerry has lots of exciting things happening very soon!! So keep checking back.
We also have 3 new permanent members joining our team, so welcome SALLY, DIANE and CATHERINE. They have been our guest designers and were so brilliant we just had to keep them:)

For my card I went with a funny romantic theme.
Tip: look at your stamps and think outside the box, it surprising how many different ways you can use them!
Parts of the stamp, decoupage the image, make it quirky by adding a funny sentiment!

Image -Guilty Jack

Papers - red and white card from stash

Embellishments - felt flowers, marianne die, brads, embossing folder

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Sentiment - handwritten Love is.... straight from the garden!

I would like to enter this into

Cards for men - seeing red

Simon Says - anything goes

Hotshot Craft - flowers

Totally Gorjuss - KISS

Willow Sketchie - followed Shell's sketch

Sentimental Sundays - dry embossing

Paper Sundaes - valentine's

Stamps R Us - valentine/love
Top Tip - valentine card

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Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Club Challenge 3

Well I am back with my Christmas club card and it was my turn to set the challenge and I choose CRITTERS. Of course I had to play with this lovely house mouse image, perfect little critters:0
Image - House Mouse
Papers - from my Christmas scrap box
Embellishments - gems, candy cane rub on, gorgeous ribbon from Crafty Ribbons
Medium - coloured with my spectrum noirs (made their faces a wee bit too pink)
I would like to enter this into
52 Christmas Card throw down - rhinstones (I used 6)
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge - square
Christmas Card Challenge - favourite technique (colouring with markers)
Christmas cards all year round - untraditional colours
Dream Valley - animals
Sassy Studio designs - Christmas/winter using scraps
Stamptacular challenge - diamonds or pearls (diamond gems)

Red love!

Well its my final week as guest designer with The Crafty Pad and the challenge this week is 

Show some valentine/anniversary love and include some red in your project!

Debbie kindly gave me these gorgeous LOVE BIRDS to use for my card. Aren't they just adorable and only 59p in the sale!

Image - Love Birds

Papers - white and red card from stash

Embellishments - heart embossing folder, heart punch, stitching, heart nesties, white brad

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Sentiment - white peel offs

I would like to enter this into

Digital Tuesday - something new (love)

Crafty Purple Frog - show us some love

Cooking it up with katie - hearts, punch and embossing

Stampin' for the Weekend - embossing

Crafty Catz - things with wings

Allsorts - one or more hearts

Digi Designs challenge - valentine

Squiggles and Giggles - all loved up
One Stop Crafts - stitching
The Cheerful Stamp Pad - birds of a feather

I'll be back later with my Christmas Club card.

Sizing things up!

This is the card I made for my son's birthday from his Grandparents. He is golf mad, plays in the rain, sleet, snow and sunshine and watches it on tv! So he did get a kick out of this one.

Image - Digi Doodle Shop
Papers - from my stash
Embellishments - card candi, nestie die, tee peel off
Sentiment - from Stamping All Day

I would like to enter this into
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Cards for Men - boys and their toys
Creative Inspirations - anything goes
Simon Says - anything goes
Digistamps4joy - one for the boys
Shopping our Stash - winter blues (used the blues)
Joanna Sheen - celebrations

Daisy fans!!

Tomorrow on Create and Craft at 11 am the fabulous Linnie from Whoopsi Daisy will be releasing a gorgeous new cd featuring Daisy and Friends!! Here are two links to check out the content of the cd, which is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLfWYvUMKtg 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfuQTJ5chg&feature=youtu.be 

I have watched both of these and am totally amazed. The cd is bursting at the seams with gorgeous digi images, coloured images, papers, book marks, etc etc etc. If you get time watch the show tomorrow and show.

Now onto my card

This is number 3 in the set of five for the same girl. I did a lot of paper piecing on her outfit and balloon and cut the flowers from my cd.

Image - Simply Sassy Carnival Balloon

Papers - from Me to You cd

Embellishments - ribbon, blue braiding from LCI, candi, flowers

medium - she is coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

The Sugar Bowl - followed the sketch and did paper piecing

Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspiration (used pastel blue and pink)

The Ribbon Girl - pink and blue

Bunny Zoe's - photo inspiration, pastel colours and flowers

My Mum's Craft Shop - flowers

Moving Along with the Times - blooming marvelous

Hot Shot Craft - flowers

Hugs

All you need is love.....

Friday already, where on earth did the week go!! I had some lovely visitors yesterday. My sister and her daughter who live in England are over for a visit. It was so lovely to see them again:)
Our challenge this week at Crafts4Eternity is CLEAN AND SIMPLE. Not something I do a lot but always love having a go at it. We are sponsored this week by Crafts4Eternity and the winner will get 3 digi images of their choice. I have used one of their digis for this card. This little cutie is called Tom with Hearts. He is so lovely to colour in.
Image - Tom with Hearts from HERE
Embellishments - fibres
Papers - sentiment is from Funky Fairies which is made into my backing paper
Medium - He is coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Aud Sentiments - use the word LOVE
Let's Craft and Create - valentine
Anything Goes - to the one I love
Oldie but Goodie - have a heart (image is well over a year old)
There She Goes - love is in the air
The Cutie Pie - favourite song (All you need is love - Beatles)
Cupcake Craft Challenge - all you need is love
The Corrosive Challenge - I heart you
Pan Pastel - two of something (heart balloons)
TTT Challenge - text me

Is it a day for umbrellas?

This is the 2nd of 5 for the same girl. I went with an Anya stamp today. I did a bit of paper piecing on the umbrella and added gems for the buttons.

Image - The Greeting Farm - Anya

Papers - new papers from Creative Craft, white card

Embellishments - embossed butterflies, dotty embossing folder, stitching, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, gems, glitter

Medium - she is coloured with spectrum noirs and promarkers

Sentiment - me to you cd

I would like to enter this into

Anyone for Anya - bling it on

Sunday Sketch and Stash - followed their sketch

Paper Sundaes - paper piecing (the umbrella)

Flutter By Wednesday - embossing

Cute Card Thursday - you're a gem

Handbags and gladrags!

Chanced a walk with Squirt this morning but ended up walking at snail pace but do feel a slight improvement:)
I have an order for 5 cards for the one girl and this is the first of them. She is 17 and very girly and her favourite colour is yellow so had to do at least one card with yellow.
Image - Saturated Canary
Papers - Dovecraft and pink card from stash
Embellishments - punched flowers, nestie circle die, ribbon, pearls, spellbinders border die, glitter
Medium - she is coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Saturated Canary - punches and dies
Whimsy Stamps - pearls or bling
Fab 'n'funky - photo inspiration (yellow and eyes)
Cardmadfairy digi days - ribbons and bows
Stamptacular - polka dots
Simon says - anything goes

Teed off!

Was going to say good morning and noticed its after 12 already. Have been to the doctor's this morning as I took a pretty bad asthma attack last night and feel a lot off colour today. He has put me on an antibiotic as the infection I had from Christmas hadn't fully cleared up, so hopefully I will recover soon. My chest is so sore after the episode last night though:(

I have a card to show today that I made for my son's birthday yesterday. He is golf mad as some of you know so I got this cute little digi image from Kerry at Ladybug Crafts Ink (thanks Kerry) and he had a good laugh at it.
Image - Magnum and Lily - Fore
Papers - freebies
Medium - coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter it into
CRAFT - use numbers
Nadia's Challenge - boy card/stamp
Hooked on craft - something bright (papers)
Celebrate the Occasion - masculine birthday

Remember all cling stamps are HALF PRICE at Ladybug Crafts Ink for the month of January!!

Easel bear

I won the challenge over at Forever Friends last time and it let me be their guest designer for this challenge. The theme of the challenge is more than one fold so I went for an easel card.
Image - Forever friends stamp
Papers - forever friends pad
Embellishments - punched some flowers and added pearls, marianne circle die, gorgeous ribbon from Crafty Ribbons £1 sale!
Medium - he is coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Creative craft Challenge - the colour blue
Scrap Creations - die cuts
DYSU - patterns
Totally Papercrafts - make your own flowers
Card Makin Mamas - something old (stamp and papers)
Sentimental Sundays - die cuts and sentiment
Dream Valley - animals
Forever Friends Monthly - shaped card
Winter Wonderland - easel card

STRIKE!

This is my second week as Guest Designer with The Crafty Pad and today the challenge is Let's see something for the Boys! Debbie gave me this gorgeous 10 Pin Bowling image which I have coloured with my promarkers. I matted it onto the scallop circle which I coloured to match. The card itself has been embossed using my circles embossing folder. I finished with the word strike made up from glittered letters. I coloured a green circle to match and popped it behind one of the letters.
I would like to enter this into
2 Sisters - embossing
Cards for Men - boys and their toys
Inky Impressions - shape it up
Charisma Cardz - clean and simple
Stampin with the dragon - anything goes
Fairy tale challenge - at the movies (Kingpin)
Phindy's Place - shaped cards
Be sure and pop over and check out The Crafty Pad's new images  (a lot of the images are only 59p) and the gorgeous cards by the design team. There is also an amazing tutorial showing you how to make your own watermark!
Welcome to my two new followers:)

Raid at the office!

Our challenge this week at Crafts4Eternity is OFFICE STATIONERY! So dig out those paperclips, staples, index cards, post it notes etc etc and come join our challenge. The prize this week is sponsored by

and the winner will get their choice of 3 digi images. Suzette is releasing new images every Friday!!

For my card I went with paperclips in the image, a home made index card and staples in the ribbon.

Image - House Mouse

Papers - Funky fairies

Embellishments - spellbinders corner and border die, ribbons, faux stitching, staples, ticket sentiments

Medium - coloured using promarkers

I would like to enter this into

The Poodles parlour - valentine/love

The Squirrel and the Fox - critters

Crafty Purple Frog - anything goes

PaperPlay - ribbons every which way

Craft us Crazy - valentine/love/animals
Joanna Sheen - celebrations

Love is in the air!

Love is definitely in the air at CRAFTY RIBBONS!! Our challenge this time has been chosen by Carol and she wants to see LOVE in RED and BLACK! Perfect colours for valentine's day:)
The prize this time is

For my card I used this gorgeous red ribbon you can find HERE and the little valentine hearts where cut from a string of hearts which you can find HERE.
Image - Teddy Bo
Papers - Funky Fairies, black card from stash
Embellishments - gorgeous lush red ribbon and red hearts from CRAFTY RIBBONS
Medium - coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Really Reasonable Ribbons - valentine's day theme
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - be my valentine
Creative Card Crew - seeing red
The Teddy Bo Challenge - anything goes
Digital Tuesday - romantic card
I Love ProMarkers - anything goes
Crafty Creations challenge - valentine theme
Scrapbook Sisters - my sweet valentine
Ruby's Rainbow - valentine or red and black
Crafter's Companion Monthly - love is in the air

Don't forget the CRAFTY RIBBONS January Pack Sale, £1 a bag!! I spent loads and will have enough ribbon to last me all year lol. All gorgeous and nearly too nice to use!!

Opps nearly forgot! The winner of the lovely bunch of ribbons from the blog hop is LINDYLOO! Well done, if you email me with your address I will get them out to you. Thanks to everyone who played along and left lovely comments.

Back again!

What a morning I have had!! I had promised my son I would pick him up at the golf course then take him to his work. Of course I got the times wrong, arrived at the golf course which is a 20 minute drive only to find I was an hour early. So I just had to sit there and twiddle my thumbs knowing I had so much to do at home, infuriating but my own fault:( Anyway I finally got back and finished this card off just in time for the challenge at Lili's Little Fairies:)
Image - Lili of the Valley
Papers - Bevs gingham paper
Embellishments - stitching, ribbon, ms star punch, pearls
Medium - she is coloured with copics
Sentiment - pulled out my Stamping All Day circle stamp
I would like to enter this into
Lili's Little Fairies - favourite LOTV stamp
Charisma Cardz - Happy Birthday
Stamps R Us - card for a kid
Crafty Sentiments - anything goes
Truly Scrumptious - something forgotten (my circle stamp)
Creative Inspirations - favourite colour plus white (pink)

Over the threshold!

I have a wedding card to share with you today. I got this cute little Marianne Stamp a while back and really love it. 

Image - Marianne stamp

Papers - from my stash

Embellishments - doily, heart pearls, peel off corners and borders, ms border punch, ribbon

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Marianne's Design Divas - new (new love)
Marianne Design Challenge Blog - anything goes
My Mum's craft Shop - favourite colour combo (pink and silver)
Papertake Weekly - buttons, bows, blings and blooms
For the love of crafting - love is in the air and pink
Alota Rubber Stamps - hearts (3 pearl hearts)

Crafty Ribbons blog hop

If you are looking to join in the Crafty Ribbons blog hop you can find the post HERE

Another resolution!!

I had promised my daughter last year that I would do her an album of her University experiences, well the ones we can talk about lol. But unfortunately I never got started so here I am today. Be gentle, this is the first page I have done in ages and am a bit out of kilter. I used the lovely scrapmap from Creative Craft World as my incentive. The photo is of Searlait on the day she was leaving home. The back kitchen was stuff to the gills with all the stuff she wanted to bring including lot of food to keep her going till she got her bearings. It was such a sad day and her little face (which was trying to be brave) says it all:(

Papers are from Laura Ashley, (sorry I went with the grey now) red paper from my stash, the sticky ribbons I have had for over a year or more. The lovely loopy flower is from Laurie:) matched perfectly. I punched some leaves out of newsprint and made some heart diecuts. Hopefully this is the first of many.
Also entering this into
Simon Says Stamp and show - anything but a card

Bow crazy!

Time for a new challenge over at Ladybug Crafts Ink and this week Sue choose the challenge theme and she wants to see BOWS! One bow or lots of bows, whatever tickles your fancy!! I played with my new stamp which I bought in the half price sale, yep HALF PRICE on all cling stamps, so get over HERE and grab yourself a bargain!! The car image I had on my computer but not sure where I got it:( The card is for a lady who loves driving her little white car and shopping!

Image - shopping Nikki
Papers - We R Memory Keepers
Embellishments - BOWS, pearls, glitter
Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into
Stampin for the weekend - out with the old (papers are old, image is new)
Stamping Sisters in Christ - use something new (my stamp)
Sparkles Challenge - new crafty goodies (my stamp)
PanPastel - anything goes
The Crazy Challenge - tic tac toe (ribbon, image and pearls)
Incy Wincy - bold and bright
Party Time Tuesdays - birthday card or project

Get well soon

I had made this card with the intentions of entering the Tiddly Inks blog hop but with all that was going on with me over the weekend I missed it lol So I will enter it in the challenges below.
Image - Tiddly Inks
Papers - Me to You cd
Embellishments - buttons, ribbon, fancy cut scissors
Medium - coloured with promarkers
Sentiment - stamp unknown
Challenges:
Willow Sketchie - followed Miria's lovely sketch
Just Inspiration - photo inspiration
The Poodles Parlour - use buttons
Sparkles Forum - new crafty goodies (image and papers)
Sentimental Sundays - ribbon with sentiment

Welcome to my three new followers Alyce, Guna and Taranjotkaur!!

Guest at The Crafty pad

I was invited to be a guest designer at The Crafty Pad for the month of January and this is one of the images I was given to play with. She is called Lulu, isn't she very sweet:)  Debbie has released some beautiful images this month so if you have time pop over and check them out HERE. The challenge  this week is 'Show us your New Year Sparkle!'
Image - Lulu Birthday Cake
Papers - Dovecraft
Embellishments - ribbon, gems, glitter, ms star punch
Medium - she is coloured with copics and promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Paper Play - in stitches
Totally Gorjuss - stars
Celebrate the occasion - child's birthday
Whimsy Stamps - happy birthday

Christmas Club Challenge 2

Its time for our 2nd card of the year at the Christmas club and this time it was Keryn's turn to challenge us. Keryn demanded that we keep our cards as flat as possible, so no layers, ribbons, pearls etc. That was a hard one for me lol. I bought myself some gorgeous new darcy images so couldn't wait to get playing. I printed her on the card but then printed her again on card suitable for colouring as I didn't want the colours seeping through. I coloured and cut her and stuck her on top of the printed image. The sentiment is a rub on and I stamped some snowflakes in blue and added the tiniest bit of glitter, not bumpy at all Keryn:0 I even kept to my resolution of finishing off the inside as well.

We have two new members to our club, so welcome Anne and Lorraine and be sure and pop by and see their creations today.

I would like to enter this into
ABC Christmas challenge - anything Christmas
Christmas card Challenge - flourishes or anything Christmas
Creative Stamp Friends - winter
Tuesday Throwdown - baby its cold outside
Deep Ocean Challenge - lots of white
Crafting for all Seasons - snowmen or snowflakes
The Sisterhood of crafters - let it snow
Crafty Catz - use something new (my image)
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge - use a digital image or papers
The Cheerful Stamp pad - let it snow
Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspiration (snowflakes)

Well my scope test was not nice but I am sure glad it is over. They didn't give me anything other than a throat spray so I was gagging and burbing the whole way through it:( The doctor did tell me that I had inflammation and has prescribed a 6 week course of tablets. He also took a biopsy and will get back to me on that one. I will still have to wait to be seen about my gallbladder though:( Thanks to everyone for the lovely wishes yesterday.