Cheers

Back again, gold star for me!

Image - Saturated Canary

Papers - from my scrap box

Embellishments - punched flowers, gems, pearls, ribbon

Medium - promarkers and pencils

I am entering this into

Brown Sugar - anything goes

Creative fingers - anything goes

Chocolate, Coffee and  cards - stripes and polka dots

Paper creators crafts - polka dots or gingham

CCC digi creations - anything goes

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

The Corrosive challenge - girls, ladies, women

I love using this Saturated Canary stamp, the way you can hang her hand outside the box. What a shame the shop will be closing down in August!! So if you need or desire any of her images you best get over there before then! Have a great weekend, and thanks for dropping by.

Flower Power reminder

I'm dropping by with a mid month reminder for our challenge of

FLOWER POWER

over at Stamping Sensations.

There is a great prize up for grabs so be sure and pop over there.

It was my turn to challenge myself and do a technique I hadn't done before and I went with colouring with pencils on kraft paper, and using a bit of gesso as well!

I made this card for my Aunt's birthday. It is totally out of my normal cardmaking skills and definitely was a challenge but a lot of fun.

Items I used

Papers from a Papermania pad called Rose Garden, kraft paper, pink card, doilies

Stamps - summer flowers (geranium) from Creative Expressions, Happy Birthday stamp freebie from magazine

Coloured with Pencils and Sansodor solvent, gesso

Embellishments - lace, MS heart punch, Tonic rectangle die,  Tonic Flower punch and stamp, Tonic Leaf punch and stamp, bow, pre printed butterflies from Nitwits, letters from Papermania pad, pearls

I coloured my flowers and then set about making the flowers and putting the card together. This took way longer than the colouring lol, thought I would never be happy with it and finally settled with this!

Hope you get time to join our challenge and best of luck to you all.

I am entering this into

Moving along with the times - in the garden

Creative Inspirations - nature

Creative Moments - anything goes (twist spring has sprung)

Rubys rainbow - the earth laughs in flowers

Inspiration destination - anything goes

Clear it out - anything (old papers) mine or well over 2 years old

The Crazy challenge - flowers

Craft your passion - anything goes

We had lovely weather yesterday for St.Patrick's Day. Went to Mass and sang my wee heart out lol (thankfully they had the words on the screen or I wouldn't have remember the second verse).

The rest of the day was spent indoors as I took a funny stomach and was fit for nothing!

My grandkids are still away on holidays so looking forward to seeing them next week.

Have a nice weekend.

Flower power!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mummies/Grannies/Great Grannies and anyone playing the role!

I hope you all get spoiled rotten.

Its time for a challenge over at STAMPING SENSATIONS and we have a great prize on offer today from

BE CREATIVE

The challenge is

FLOWER POWER

so shows us your lovely flower stamps!

I went with a stepper card for this month.

Dies - Tattered Lace stepper die and foilage die

Stamps - Creative expressions summer flowers, Molly Blooms 'flowers for sale'

Papers - gingham and green card from my stash

Medium - coloured with pencils and spectrum sparkle pens

Embellishments - ribbon

I am entering this into

Dies R Us - shaped cards

Incy Wincy - personalise it

Creative Moments - anything goes

Creative Knockouts - flower power

Creative Fingers challenge - anything goes

Challenge up your life - die cutting

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

I haven't posted in a while simply because

1. my internet has and is very poor 

2. when I did get on it wouldn't upload my photos so not much point in posting without one.

Luckily, after a third try, and getting everyone else in the house off the internet I got this post prepared! So frustrating!! I will hopefully be back tomorrow with my Teddy Bo card which has refused to appear so far!

Hopefully everyone will have a lovely day and I'll send a hug for all those who are missing their Mum's today.

Thanks for dropping by.

Game on!

I am getting worse at this blogging business! Finally getting to post a card.

One for the boys this time.

Image - Bugaboo

Papers - from my stash

Medium - pencils

Embellishments - stamped wording and game control cut on my scan n cut

I am entering this into

Fab n funky - male birthday

Tuesday Throwdown - layer it up

Incy Wincy - personalise it

Craft your passion - anything goes

A Gem of a challenge - boy's birthday

Allsorts - birthday wishes

The ABC challenge - Beginning with B (boy,birthday, boyfriend)

Chocolate, coffee and cards - anything goes

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Brown Sugar challenge - anything goes

I had a lovely day out dandering around the shops with my husband. It was wet and grey but we had a lovely time, stopping for some lunch and later coffee and a cookie :)

Busy time with Mother's Day round the corner so hopefully I will get to post again soon.

Keep well everyone and smile when you can!

XOXO

A quick post for Valentine's Day!

This is a card for two little ones to give to their Daddy.

I used

Image - Digi Stamp Boutique

Papers - Daisie Company

Embellishments - letters from Tattered Lace dies

Medium - coloured with pencils

I am entering this into

Digi Stamp Boutique - February challenge

Crafty  Calender - love is in the air

Craft your passion - anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers - love love love

The Cutie Pie Challenge - cutie love

Crafting from the heart - anything goes

Dream Valley - valentine's day

Cardz 4 guys - valentine or love

Creative card crew - love

Inky chicks - love letters and/or hearts

Its 9pm so I am going to switch off and go and relax for an hour before bed!

Its been a lovely sunny day here but I have been hard at work in my craft room so missed it lol.

Hope you are all well and thanks for dropping by.

Party like a penguin!

Popping in to share another card using one of the new releases from

TEDDY BO

I have used a mix of some of the cute little penguins which you can find HERE

I kept my card fairly simple as I wanted to show you the penguins.

I printed them directly onto my paper and used a faux emboss behind them. I printed the centre penguin and cut him out so I could place him in front of all the other penguins and seals.

They have all been coloured with pencils.

Be sure and pop over to the Teddy Bo Challenge blog and check out all the wonderful inspiration from those talented ladies.

I am entering this into

Crafting by designs - anything goes

Inspiration destinations - anything goes

Creative Fingers challenge - anything goes

Alphabet challenge - Y for you choose

The ABC Challenge - A is for animals

Allsorts - cas

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

Well so much for getting to walk at the beach on Sunday. When we arrived the heavens opened, the wind howled and its was freezing lol. But I had packed a wee flask of coffee and a few bars of chocolate so we happily sat looking out the window! Better than sitting at home at least.

Bring on the spring!!

Have a great week and thanks for dropping by.

Over the moon...

Good morning from a very WHITE NI!

We had a good fall of snow overnight and its still coming down!

This card was made for the lovely couple who are probably on their way to the Church as I post this!

Hope she has a horse and carriage lol. But the photos will certainly be amazing.

I used

Image - All Dressed Up

Papers - from my stash (yes still using them), mirri card

Embellishments - ribbon, punched flowers, pearls, punched leaves

Medium - coloured with my pencils!

I am entering this into

All dressed up - anything goes

Just Us Girls - tic,tac,toe (ribbon, pearls, 3 layers)

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - flowers and ribbon

Crafting by Designs - add a flower

Inspiration destination - anything goes

Pennys Paper craft - celebrations

Fan-Tastic - anything, twist use flowers

Crafty Cardmakers - punches and or dies

Here is another version using the same image

Well my day out has had to be cancelled because of the snowy conditions, roads are really bad! Why aren't we more prepared for this stuff! Everything just comes to a halt.

So I guess I will have to slum it in my craft room!

Have a great day everyone.

Easter bunny or bear?

Morning everyone. 

I have a lovely new Teddy Bo image to share with you.

Isn't he  just so cute!

I have used him to make a little Easter card.

Image - Easter Teddy Bo 

Papers - We R Memory Keepers

Medium - pencils, glitter

I am entering this into

Crafty Sentiments - anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - anything goes

Creative Card Crew - anything goes
Simon Wednesday challenge - create with critters
Ruby's Rainbow - animal magic

Be sure and check out the Teddy Bo Blog for loads of amazing inspiration!

And why no do some shopping for your own Easter cards.

Have a look in the Teddy Bo Store

And don't forget to follow the Teddy Bo page on Facebook too!

I'm just back from walking the dog and its howling out there, take your breath away!

Worse to come tonight so I am locking myself in my craft room until the Grandkids arrive.

Have a great day!!