Anything goes at C4E

Inside the little envelope is a Tetley teabag!!

The challenge over at Crafts4Eternity this week is ANYTHING GOES!! Can't get much easier than that now so if you can tear yourselves away from the Royal Wedding and join our challenge we will drop by and leave you lots of  love:)

The prize this week is 25 stamped images!

I went with a card for a Mum. This Mum loves tea and tea parties with her family and she is 85 years old!

Image - Crafthouse Press cupcakes

Papers - Daisy Company

Embellishments - 3d the images, made a pocket for a teabag, ribbon, tag, glitter

Medium - promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV stamp

I would like to enter this into
Fairy tale challenge blog - for Mum

Lollipop Crafts - shabby chic or vintage (shabby chic)

City Crafter - Mother may I?

Crafty Creations - white space

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Mother's day 

The Paper Shelter - for Mum's
CRAFT - a tag, 2 squares and a circle and ribbon

Craft Us Crazy - Mums and flowers

Totally Papercrafts - glitter
Papercraft Star - photo inspiration

Christmas card gang!

This fortnight we had a lovely sketch to play with from SALLY. I liked the sketch and decided to keep a white background and just use stripes of paper. The papers and the image are all from Craft House Press  using the Emma Thomson Dandelion collection.  Its a twisted bunny image lol. I added faux stitching, some card candy and sentiment. If you want inspiration from any of the other ladies just click on their names in my sidebar.
I would like to enter this into

Christmas card Challenge - bows (little bow on my present)
Jingle Belles - white as a ghost, a present, a bow and christmas traditional colours
Winter Wonderland - photo inspiration (I used the red)
PaperPlay - critters galore
CRAFT - animals/pets

That lady's got style!

Just posting one of my many Mother's day commissions. This is for a lady with style;)
Image - Craft House press stamp and free dress digi
Papers - old ones from qvc
Embellishments - distress inks, glitter, punched flowers, leaves, card candy
Medium - promarkers
Sentiment - Stamping All Day
I would like to enter this into
Sarah Hurley - Mums the word
Delicious Doodles - for Mum
Dutch Dare card challenge - distressing
Fab n Funky - shabby chic
Scrapbook Sisters - mothers day

Crafthouse Press - Gorjuss Christmas girls

I wanted to make something that little bit different for my Niece's two little girls this Christmas as I was giving them money instead of a present (a bit of a cop out but I just hadn't a clue what to get a 3 year old and a 5 year old:() So I used the lovely Gorjuss Girls Kit from HERE. But I added some red to the stripes and popped a Christmas tree in the background. I just love this little box cards, they look so much nicer in real life and the little girls rang to say how much they loved them:) The little fox in the image was extra special to them as they lost their Grandad last year (my brother in law) and his surname was Fox. My sister has a fox garden ornament which the girls love to talk to:)

I would like to enter these into

Lollipop crafts - fancy folds

The Shabby Tea - Scandinavian Christmas photo

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

For Fun Challenges - anything goes

Aud Sentiments - anything goes

Anything Goes Challenge - letter C (Christmas)

Crafthouse Press - cracker Christmas

I have a few more kits to use from Crafthouse Press and this is one of them. Its a lovely little decoupage set from Daisy and Dandelion, just pops out ready to add 3d foam. I mounted it on to red card from my stash. The background papers are from Patchwork pals, I love the warm colours and lovely patterns of the patchwork. The sentiment is stamped using Papermania stamps.

I would like to enter this into

Scrapbook Sisters - patchwork

Card Makin Mamas - anything goes

If you get time, please pop over to Crafthouse Press and check them out. They have load of new stash coming soon which you will probably see on QVC.

Cupcakes at Crafthouse

I made this card using a lovely new stamp from the FABULOUS range at Crafthouse Press. This stamp will be available soon. Its a great stamp to play with, good size and definitely easy to colour and lends itself to being able to add as much or as little decoration to the individual cupcakes. I used promarkers to colour mine and added lots of glitter!

Image - Fabulous cupcakes from Crafthouse Press

Papers - dovecraft

Embellishments - card candy, fiskars border punch, ribbon, cupcake sticker, glitter

Medium - promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Create4fun Challenge - followed their sketch

Stamp with fun - squares (used square card and square matting)

Crafts and Me - glitter

Crafthouse Press - Gorjuss girls

I have another GORJUSS kit from Crafthouse Press for you today. This is just one of the loveliest little kits I have ever played with.

I have taken a few images to show the depth you get to these little 3d cards. I can honestly say it only took me 10 minutes to make this up. The kit comes ready to pop out. You get 5 box card sheets, 5 box card blanks and 5 envelopes!!

Having made one I really wanted to get on to the next one! I decided to see if I could simply take it to another level and make it a bit more personal. I punched three butterflies from the leftover sheet and added some glitter. I used another strip of leftovers and cut a grass edge and coloured with a promarker. There is just so much more you could do to change the initial appearance if you wanted to!

The side panels and back panel are all included in the kit, even leaving you a space for a sentiment on the back. I have kept the leftovers from the kit to use on another card as they are such lovely shapes.

And the best thing of all is that they fold flat for posting!!

If you would like to see more of these little kits then pop over to the Crafthouse Press!

I would like to enter these cards into these challenges

Flutter by Wednesday - Window card (the one with the butterflies)

Keep It Simple - shape up

Alphabet challenge - B for birds (the first card)

Fairy tale challenge - anything goes

Stamping vacation - embellish it (corner adornment)

Crafthouse Press

I had a wee play with a lovely decoupage pack I got from Crafthouse Press. This comes as a kit pack. You get backing paper and a sheet of decoupage which you can produce two cards from. This is one of the them, there are lots of layers but you don't have to use them all. I added a little sentiment to the tag, a big bow and a little candy cane. A quick and easy card. To go with the card I made a matching tag. The kit is from the Dandelion selection by Emma Thomson and you can find it HERE.

I am entering this into these challenges

Christmas Card Challenges - include candy canes

Totally Stampalicious - big red bow

Crafthouse Press

I have been doing a bit of designing again with some gorgeous new products from The Crafthouse Press. This is one of the stamps due out very soon from the Vintage Memories collection. This one is Golf. Lovely stamp to work with, easy to colour and I love the scene it creates with little effort.

Image - Crafthouse Press

Sentiments - Flippin men series

Papers - paper pizazz

Embellishments - stapler, ribbon, stamped images from flippin men golf stamps

Medium - pencils, pro markers

I am entering this into these challenges:

Tag You're It! - tag with scallops

The Stamp Man challenge - cards for men

Sweet Stampin Challenge - anything but a card

Bee Crafty's Card Challenge - non crafting item - staples