Gratitude...

Our challenge this week at Crafts4Eternity is all about clean and simple and I just hope you enjoy it more than me lol. I have 3 cards scrapped  and in the bin before I finally came up with this:(

But we do have a lovely sponsor this week

so please do join our challenge and give me much needed inspiration!!

Image - a used stamp I bought at my local craft shop

Sentiment - Penny Black

Medium - coloured with my prisma pencils

I would like to enter this into

Paperplay - appreciation/thank you

Charisma Cardz - no embellishments

Perfect Sentiments - anything goes with sentiment

Word Art Wednesday - uplifting sentiment

Fashionable Stamping - anything floral/handmade flowers

Welcome to my newest follower Jackid68!

Splish splash!

I am a bit late with this but better late than never.  I made this just this morning for our challenge over at Crafts4Eternity which is all about water!

I didn't want to make a card as I wouldn't really send a summer theme card but thought a little wallet for money or holiday photos would be a more useful idea.

The image is from Digi Stamp Boutique, papers from Daisie Company, stamps from WOJ.

They are coloured with promarkers.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Suzette from

I would like to enter this into

The Crafty Pad - summer vacation

PanPastel Uk - create a scene

The Squirrel and the Fox - the sea

Truly Madly - summer fun

Incy Wincy - beach days

Lollipop Crafts - fun in the sun

Digital Tuesday - child's play

Digi Stamp Boutique - use their images

Sorry for the terrible photos. My light refuses to stop flashing this morning and as it teaming outside I can't get out to get a good photo:(

Relax!

Our challenge this week at Crafts4Eternity is a colour challenge. I have gone with the sand colours.

We have two sponsors for you today so be sure and give it a go.

I won't bore you with too much detail as this is the second of three posts for today!!

Image - Sassy Studio Designs

Background - cloud template, water template, chalks 

Papers - DVWV

Embellishments - stickers, ribbon, glitter

Medium - she is coloured with promarkers and chalks

I would like to enter this into

Divas by Design - for a female

Scrap-Creations - beginning with D (digi)

Craft a Scene - the great outdoors

Anything goes Challenge - summer days

Paper Makeup Stamps - keep cool

Hope you get time to join our challenge. Pop over and check out the lovely inspiration from the design team.

Brilliant Birthday!

This is the first of two posts today so hope you get time to drop by again later.

We have had two days sunshine and I have really been soaking it up!!

Our challenge over at Crafts4Eternity this week is all about

BIRTHDAYS!

Easy or what!! We also have a fabulous sponsor for you

 Our lucky winner will get $10 to spend on their fabulous images!

My card today was made for a girl's 21st. She is very into high heels and yes she has pink hair!

Image - Sassy Studio Designs

Papers - from my stash

Medium - she is coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Divas by Design - happy birthday

My Mum's Craft room - birthday girls

Simon Says - anything goes

Incy Wincy - let's party

The Corrosive challenge - cheeky, saucy, sassy

Going round in circles!

Our challenge over at CRAFTS4ETERNITY this week is all about CIRCLES!

We have our regular sponsor

Have you seen their newly released Christmas stamps!!

So get your circle projects ready and enter our challenge. You can use circle shape cards, circles on your card or circle papers or embellishments, the choice is yours.

I have went with circle paper.

Image - Karen's Doodles

Papers - We R Memory Keepers

Embellishments - quote from The Big One CD

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Craft-room Challenge - sports

Kaboodle Doodles - sports

Paper Makeup - make your image pop (have 3d the golfer)

Top Tip Tuesday - circles

Well my treatment at the dentist is finally finished, thank goodness. I am a lot  lighter pound wise, and my jaw is still pretty sore but more of an ache from all the work. Now if we just had some sunshine before I forget what it looks like!

School's out forever!

Well it is for this lady  who has just retired from teaching.

The challenge this week at CRAFTS4ETERNITY is a colour challenge. Please pop over and check it out. We have our two regular sponsors this week so lots of prizes up for grabs.

I went with red mostly but have added some of the other colours from the photo as well.

I used a lovely Magnolia image but she lost a bit of her earrings when I was cutting her out lol. The frame and flowers are from Do Crafts cd, the background is from Craft Artist, book from my digi stash.

I would like to enter this into

Passion for ProMarkers - use gingham/checks

There she Goes - sewing and stitching

Crafty Creations - anything goes

The  Crafty Bloggers Network - anything goes

Tammy's Scrapin Corner - anything goes any artist

I am off out for the day, not sure where we are going. But its just hubby and me so it should be a nice relaxing day, which is what we both need:)

On the road again!

 The challenge this week at CRAFTS4ETERNITY is all about the olympics! So lets see your projects with a sports or Olympic theme! We are sponsored this week by

The winner will get their choice of digi images from the shop.

For my card I went with a lovely image from Just Ink lined. It was made for my brother in law who is a keep cyclist and does triathlons.

Image - Just Ink lined

Papers - from my stash

Embellishments - hand written words,

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Pile It On - for a guy with a sports theme

Kaboodle Doodle - a boy's life

Cards for Men - Happy Birthday

Top Tip Tuesday - one for the men

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - sports

Cutie Pie Challenge - one for the boys

Feeling a bit better today, mouth still swollen though but the pain has subsided. Thanks for all your nice comments yesterday, they did cheer me up.

We have the funeral of our friend tomorrow.

Bare Necessities

Our challenge this week at CRAFTS4ETERNITY is all about bears! We want to see any kind of bear image, papers, embellishments or themes. Who doesn't like bears lol.

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Janet from

so definitely worth while entering our challenge:)

I used one of the lovely bears available from Crafts4Eternity Store called 

BATH TIME SAM Isn't he cute?

Image - Bath time Sam

Papers - Kit n Kraft

Embellishments - dotty ribbon from CRAFTY RIBBONS, glitter glue

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Sentiment stamp - PSX

I would like to enter this into

Craft your days away - teddy bear

PanPastel Uk - anything goes

Love to Create - anything goes

Incy Wincy - anything goes

Digital Tuesday - amazing animals

J & C Creations - animal antics

Welcome to my newest follower Shelby!!

Colour challenge at Crafts4Eternity

Its Crafts4Eternity challenge time and this week we have a colour challenge for you!

The prize this week is sponsored by

I have used one of their fabulous images for my card this week.

Image - Sassy studio designs

Papers - cover from my Wellington bear pad

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Sentiment - from a quote book

Embellishments - pearls and ribbons from Crafty Ribbons pine cone collection, peel offs

I would like to enter this into

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Stampin Sisters -  something that reflects you (the sentiment lol)

Willow Sketchie - bold and bright

LEJ Designs - recycle

HOPE bookmark

Hello there everyone. Friday again and time for another challenge from CRAFTS4ETERNITY. These week its all about Dashing Dads! Well anything male or for father's day:)

I decided to go with a bookmark which my daughter will give to her Dad with a book token. I kept it fairly simple as I thought the beautiful image and words were just enough.

We are sponsored this week by

 Be sure and pop over and check out their website! They have just released a gorgeous set of stamps!

For my bookmark I used

Image - HOPE from Crafty Sentiments

Medium - spectrum noirs

Embellishments - pearls, braiding from Crafty Ribbons

I would like to enter this into

One Stop Craft - father's day

PanPastel Uk - boys/father's day

Crafty Cardmakers - no cards, tags or atcs (bookmark)

Celebrate the Occasion - father's day

My Mum's Craft shop - clean and simple

Papercraft Star - father's day
Thanks for popping by.

Come fly with me!

Friday again! But what a rotten week of crazy weather. We have had hailstones, thunder, lightening, torrential rain and high winds, just waiting on the snow! Crap weather for June:( Isn't it just as well we can craft:0

Our challenge this week at CRAFTS4ETERNITY this week is all about TRAVEL. So any project that portrays types of travel, or things to do with travel, will do the job. We have two prizes up for grabs this week too so all the more reason to join.

and

For my card I went withImage - Digital pencil tooPapers - We R Memory KeepersEmbellishments - aeroplane digi, sentiments, card candi, cricut letters and numbersMedium - coloured with promarkers, chalks and spectrums
This card is for a young man who is about to embark on flying lessons. He wants to eventually become a pilot.
I would like to enter this intoDP2 - anything goes with a Mo imageCharisma Cardz - travelCRAFT - male cardDigi Doodles Shop's Best - male cardCreative Inspirations - card for a maleDesmet Designs Challenge - for the men and boysPapertake Weekly - anything goes (option male card)Scrappy Frog - celebrate menEnjoy the weekend everyone.

I am SOOOOO late!

Oh boy am I late or what with my post for CRAFTS4ETERNITY. I didn't even have this card made till 6pm! Anyway there was lots of gorgeous inspiration from our design team girls so no problem...right:)

Our  challenge this week is a right royal one. So anything related to royalty...prince, princess, kings, Queen etc. Anything with a royal theme. We are sponsored this week by CRAFTS4ETERNITY and the winner will get their choice of three digis. Michele and Berit have used a cute little elephant princess this week on their cards, you could be playing with that adorable image if you are our winner next week:)

For my card I went with a little Magnolia Prince image which I got from my lovely friend Crafty Chris in my birthday card. Thanks so much mrs!!

Image - Magnolia

Papers - Nitwits

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Embellishments - spellbinder die, cricuit, wooden car embellishment, ribbon from CRAFTY RIBBONS

I would like to enter this into

Here come the boys - anything goes

Cupcake Craft Challenges - royalty

Tuesday Throwdown - masculine

TopTip Tuesday - use old stash (papers and cricut)

Simon Says -anything goes

Just Magnolia - anything goes

Fairy tale challenge - boys/men

Magnolia-licious Challenge - photo inspiration

Tomorrow is our last day of the BEST OF BRITISH so hope you get time to stop by and see my last card.

Hexagons!

Sorry about my card, I am not pleased with it at all but my energy levels where no good to me at all today. Between the heat and my ailment I was just useless:(

The challenge over at Crafts4Eternity is 

HEXAGONS

I was puzzled for a time wondering what I could do and this is what I ended up with.

We are sponsored this week by

and the winner will get $10 to spend in their shop!

Image - Crafty Sentiments stamp
Papers - pink and white card from stash
Embellishments - embossing folder, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons
Medium - coloured with copics
Sentiment - CC stamps
I would like to enter this into
Joanna Sheen - Birthdays
Pan Pastel Uk - pastel colours
Charisma Cardz - no flowers
Papercraft Star - birthday card and/or bag

Hope you get time to join our challenge and don't forget to pop by the Inspiration Blog for

I won't spoil the surprise of what the prize is today so be sure and check it out, you won't be disappointed!

Little angel!

I am here very early today as I have a double post for you so be sure to come back later if you can:)

Our challenge at Crafts4Eternity is WINGS, anything with wings right down to an aeroplane!

The prize this week is by our lovely sponsors at

so definitely worth your while entering!

For my card I used

Image - Magnolia stamp

Papers - pink gem knitted papers (I love this papers)

Embellishments - machine stitching, pearls, nestie circle dies, punched flowers and flowers from stash

punched leaves, glitter, embossing folders

Medium - coloured with spectrum noirs

I would like to enter this into

A Gem  of a challenge- followed their lovely sketch

Going Buggy - May challenge with wings

Paper Sundaes - thing with wings

Bunny Zoe's - anything goes

Oldie but Goodie - things with wings

Die Cuttin Divas - flowers

Creative Belli Blog - new baby (old stash was the flowers)

It's a Magnolia Challenge - bingo (blue, pearls and flowers)
Fussy and Fancy - new  baby

Hope you can come back for my next post!!

Blinging wedding!

Well the rain has arrived here, just in time for the holiday weekend:( Luckily I cut the grass yesterday!! (Yes I do put my hand to mundane stuff now and then lol)

Today at Crafts4Eternity we have a lovely easy challenge! Just show us some ribbon on your card or project!

The prize this week is sponsored by our very own Michele and the winner will get their choice of 3 digis from the shop

Has my wedding card got bling or what!

Image - Karen's Doodles

Papers - digi papers

Medium - coloured with promarkers

Embellishments - Sparkly ribbon, glitter and gems

I would like to enter this into

Just Tracys - anything goes

Unique Crafters - use ribbon or fibres

Lollipop - anything goes

Craft Your Passion - texture

papertake - anything goes

Lets craft and create - special occasion

Scrapbook sisters - gems and glitter

Welcome to my newest follower Suzee!!

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Place an order from today until midnight on Bank Holiday Monday and just enter     weekend      into the voucher box during checkout.
A £3.25 discount will be applied to your basket.
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The SECOND way to play with our ribbons is to enter our Friday FREEBIE by leaving a comment below.  As today is the first Friday of the month it is VOUCHER FRIDAY.

We will pick a winner on Tuesday from our "Bingo" bag like normal.