Wings of romance

Over at Stampalot this month we have a photo inspiration challenge! You can decide to use lace, flowers, cute girl, beautiful lady, pretty soft colours or whatever you see in the photo.

The prize, which is sponsored by

SIR STAMPALOT is

For my card I went with the pastel colours, flowers and lace.

Image - Marianne stamp

Papers - Do Crafts Enchanted fairies cd

Embellishments - lace, flowers from Crafty Ribbons, silver pearls, spellbinders die,glitter

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Paper and Such Designs - wings and things

CD Sunday - allsorts

Divas by Design - let's celebrate

Heck of a challenge - anything goes

Ladybug Crafts - anything goes

Hope you get time to join us this month and remember you can enter 5 other challenges along with ours.

Have wings will fly!

The challenge this month at Stampalot is take flight.

I decided to make a little gift voucher card to give to my daughter. She is a big fan of Starbucks!!

The image is a stamp my lovely blogging friend Brenda gave me. Its from Crafts and Me and is called In the Wind.  She has been coloured with promarkers.

The papers are from my stash and the bias binding is from Crafty Ribbons.

The little butterfly border holding the voucher is a cupcake liner from the pound shop. It is actually pink but doesn't look it in the photo:( I added a few punched butterflies to finish it off. 

We have a love prize up for grabs again from the fabulous Sir Stampalot!

 Well worth entering, don't you think?

I would like to enter this into

Saturday Challenge - a gift
2 Sisters Challenge - anything goes

Fairy tale Challenge - friends
Scrapbook Sisters - things with wings
Joanna Sheen - try something new (a gift card holder)

Thanks for taking time to drop by and see me, I really appreciate it.

Crafty Passion at Stampalot!

I hope you aren't sick of my crafty passion for baby cards just yet!! But here I am with another one and a wee reminder of our challenge over at STAMPALOT this month which is CRAFTY PASSION!

So come on over and join in, we have an amazing prize up for grabs and a design team that is full of inspiration. I mean these girls really know how to put a card together. They are an amazing bunch of talent and I certainly always get inspiration from them.

For my card I have went with my favourite baby stamp from Magnolia. The papers are digi papers from Pink Gem and Daisie Company. I have added stitching (another passion) and coloured with promarkers. The beautiful ribbon is from Ladybug Crafts Ink.

I would like to enter this into

The Ribbon Girl - photo inspiration

The Squirrel and the Fox - kids or babies

Party Time Tuesday - lets get punchy (ms border punch, nestie die cut circle)

Tilda's Town - card for man or boy (Baby Edwin)

If you get time I hope you will join our challenge. Remember you can enter 6 challenge including ours. Be sure and check out the gorgeous new stamps and products now available at the newly re-vamped Sir Stampalot website.

Crafty passion!

Time for another challenge at Stampalot. Where does the month go? We have another gorgeous prize up for grabs this month from Sir Stampalot but first you need to know what the challenge is right?

WHAT'S YOUR CRAFTY PASSION?

Great prize from Sir Stampalot!

My passion is definitely Baby Cards, just ask Lisa Jane!! My favourite stamp is this Magnolia one, which I find works perfectly for girls and boys. My third favourite has to be a toss up between my promarkers and ribbon;)

For my card I used

Image - Magnolia Stamp

Papers - Daisie company and live card from stash

Embellishments - ribbon, paper buttons, punched borders, spellbinder dies, button embossing folder

medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Craft Your Passion - things with wings

Clear it Out - anything goes with more than one ribbon (used two)

My Mum's Craft Shop - favourite stamp (definitely my favourite baby stamp)

Tilda's Town - Let's Celebrate

 Hope you get time to join us this month.

Dreaming of cake!

I WON FIRST PRIZE WITH THIS CARD AT JOANNE SHEEN CHALLENGE!

First Sunday in June so its time for our challenge over at SIR STAMPALOT!

This month we have a lovely bingo choice game for you.

I went with

Pink , brown and bling! I got this lovely stamped image from my friend Brenda:)

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Dovecraft

Medium - promarkers

Embellishments - ribbon and bling

The prize this month, sponsored by Sir Stampalot is

I would like to enter this into

Scrapbook Sisters - anything goes

Joanna Sheen - remember when?

Truly scrumptious - pretty in pink

The Ribbon Girl - use ribbon or lace

Penny Black and more - fav things (pink and ribbon)

Hope you get time to join in and remember you can enter 6 challenges including our.

Stampalot challenge

Hope you all checked out the Stampalot blog to see if you were one of the candy winners!!

The winner of my candy was

LOLS

Please contact Brenda to get your prize at  brenda@ibas.co.uk 

We are back again today with another super prize by the lovely people at 

SIR STAMPALOT!

And all you have to do for a chance to win is make a project with the theme

MEDALS AND MONARCHS

For my card I used a lovely new set of stamps from Pennyblack, its hilarious lol and I teamed it up with these lovely papers from Nitwits. The ribbon is a sneak peek of the lovely ribbons available from Crafty Ribbons. This will be perfect for my brother lol. Be sure to check out the design teams cards for some inspiration!

Image - pennyblack
Papers - Nitwits
Embellishments - ribbon, stamped bunting
Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into
Cupcake Craft - best of British
Cards for Men - texture
Crafty Cardmakers - for the boys
Penny Black and More at Allsorts - London celebrates

Now remember you can enter 5 challenges plus ours, so SIX in total. Good luck.
Welcome to my newest follower!!

Birthday bash at Stampalot!

Well you can guess from the title that we are celebrating our 2nd Birthday over at 

Stampalot challenge blog!

What better way to celebrate than to have a blog hop with lots of prizes!! But we want you to work a wee bit for the prizes so we have a grid. You can pick up a letter at each of the design team blogs after leaving a comment and when you decipher the words leave a comment on the main blog and email the answer to brenda@ibas.co.uk...simple!
So onto my card.

The challenge this time is HAPPY BIRTHDAY and I have used the gorgeous stamps set from Hero Arts which also happens to be my prize kindly donated by Sir Stampalot!! Its a gorgeous little stamp set

I used one of the little girls, papers from my stash, coloured with promarkers. I add some white ribbon from my stash and velvet ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. The sentiment is a stamp from SeeD stamps and I used my nesties for the shapes. The flowers were punched from MS punch and I added some pearls.

Now if you have arrived her from the fabulous SALLY'S blog then you are on the right track. If not, and you want to join the hop, just go to the Challenge blog HERE. Next stop after me is the lovely  CLARE!

Oh and don't forget my letter, I did give you a hint but just in case its T. And remember to leave us all a comment to be in the draw for the prizes! There will also be a main prize for the challenge winner and the top 3 will also receive a nice little prize too! Good luck.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

craft your passion - monochromatic (shades of pink)

Simon Says - anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - stamp it

2 Sisters - birthday fun

Can we inspire you!

 This month at Sir Stampalot we were all given two lovely kits to play with so we naturally had two projects to make but you are only going to be seeing one from each of us today. The second will be shown later in the month when they will also be some exciting news!! Shhhhh!

So for this month's challenge we would like you to take inspiration from any of the design team cards. You can use the colours, the embellishments, the card layout, whatever inspires you. Just let us know in your post where you got your inspiration:) And the reward for playing along will be.....

a surprise from the lovely people at Sir Stampalot!! Janice and Andy are back home from America with lots of new goodies so be sure and pop over to the website and have a drool!

Hope you like my card!!

Image - Country Companions stamp

papers - from Sir Stampalot kit

Embellishments - button, ribbon, pearls, swirl die cut, ms star punch, faux stitching

Medium - coloured with promarkers and pencils

Sentiment - CC Design be Happy sentiments (thanks Mary J)

I would like to enter this into

One Stop Craft - button it

Cute Card Thursday - signs of spring

Papercrafting Journey - anything goes

Simon Says - anything goes
PanPastel - use a stamped image

I hope you will join us this month and remember you can enter 5 other challenges along with ours, so 6 in total!

Remember to enter my candy HERE if you are interested in My Memories Suite!

Let's go out to the garden!!

 Our challenge this month at STAMPALOT is IN THE GARDEN. We want to see anything related to the garden. As ever there is a gorgeous prize by our sponsors SIR STAMPALOT!! 

Look at the array of stamps up for grabs, among other gorgeous goodies.

For my card I went with an easel shape. I used loads of different stamps - 

Main image - Molly Blooms from Sir Stampalot

Background stamps - Patchwork Pals wall and tree

Grass and flowers stamp - Paperartsy

Embellishments - butterfly, felt flowers, brads ms border punch

Papers - from Kaiser Craft La Di Da collection

Medium - coloured with promarkers and chalks

I would like to enter this into

Allsorts challenge - free and easy

PaperPlay - get in shape

The Crafty Pad - fresh spring colours

Crafts and Me - bright and cheerful

Flutter By Wednesday - open
Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspiration 

We are looking forward to seeing your GARDEN creations and remember you can enter up to 5 other challenges along with ours, 6 in total:)

Sir Stampalot - monochromatic

 Oh boy am I late with this. I totally wrote down the wrong date for the start of our challenge at Sir Stampalot and only I came across Ruth's lovely card I might have been 4 days late:(  Good start to the new year eh, my marbles are in a right state lol. Anyway our new challenge has started and we want to see all things monochromatic! The prize will be a lovely surprise for one lucky winner from the lovely people  at  SIR STAMPALOT.

For my card I went pink and used
Image - Magnolia Baby Tilda
Papers - gingham papers from stash
Embellishments - ribbon, doily, charm , pearls and glitter
Medium - she is coloured with promarkers
I would like to enter this into
Simon Says - anything goes
The Paper Shelter - tie a bow
Inky Impressions - something new
Allsorts - new beginnings (2nd entry)
Addicted to Stamps - something new
Remember you can enter 5 challenges plus ours at Sir Stampalot. Good luck and thanks for dropping by.
Off to clean my marbles lol.
I'll be back later with my first Christmas Card Club of 2012!

Bingo!

Our December challenge at Sir Stampalot is a Bingo choice board! Which should give you all lots of options and look at the prize that the good people at Sir Stampalot have donated!!

 This is the bingo choice. I chose the centre line LACE, FLOWERS and TAGS. 

The flower tag is from  The Big One cd which has been decoupaged. I stamped the little House mouse image and placed him below the flowers, like he is looking up. I added lots of embellishments including lace, peel off corners, peel off borders, border die from Crafty Sentiments, some lace and some pleated ribbon.

I hope you all get time to enter, imagine receiving that brilliant prize in the new year!!

I would like to enter my card into

Anything Goes - decorative or altered corners

Paper Pretties - thank you card

Divas by Design - anything goes

The CD Sunday Challenge - things with whiskers

Glitter Geeks - decoupage

I'll be back later with my Christmas Club card, just have to make it lol.

Must never be seen??

Our challenge this month at Sir Stampalot is BLUE AND GREEN! Not a combination I often use but luckily I found these lovely papers which seemed to suit perfectly. I made a thank you card and followed the theme of the dragonfly from the papers.

Image - Molly Blooms stamp and Our Daily Bread sentiment stamp

Papers - Basic Grey wisteria pad

Embellishments - sizzix dragonfly die, peel off borders, bakers twine, circle nestie

Medium - coloured with some promarkers

The prize this month is a big surprise from the lovely people at Sir Stampalot. Be sure and pop over and check out the new Tim Holtz distress ink pads in gorgeous winter colours!

Remember you can only enter 5 challenges plus ours so thats 6 in total. Good luck!!

I would like to enter my card into

Tuesday Throwdown - thanks

Flutterby - thankful

My Mum's craft Shop - with thanks

Fussy and fancy - thankful and feature a sentiment

Food glorious food!

Hubby's operation went well, finally got home after 7 hours waiting. He was very groggy and sick but has slept a lot and will be dosed with painkillers for a few days. Thanks for all your kind wishes:)

 The start of the month means another lovely challenge from Sir Stampalot and this month is all about food!

And to follow with that theme just look at the prize, gorgeous or what! All supplied by the lovely
 Sir Stampalot! 

So for my project I decided to tie in my food theme with halloween as we always have either apple pie or apple crumble. I have had this gorgeous Elizabeth Bell stamp for a long time and never inked it up!! Perfect opportunity now:)

I made a little cake box to go along with it but will probably just fill it with rhubarb and custard sweeties.

Image - Belles and whistles Mmm Yes Please stamp

Papers - funkyfairies gingham, orange card from stash

Embellishments - MS border punch, flower punch, card candi, faux stitching, halloween ribbon, circle embossing folder

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Elizabeth Bell's World - photo inspiration (orange, brown, yellow, cream)

Simon says - anything goes

For Fun Challenges - warmth (warm colours, warm pie)

Creative craft World - autumn/fall

Totally Papercrafts - autumn
Elphine House - tasty treats

We have a new design team member joining us. Welcome to the team Ruth!!

Hope you all get time to join our challenge this month:) and remember you can enter up to  6 challenges including ours.

Hugs

Hi there!

NEWS NEWS NEWS!

Watch out for a new weekly feature that Sir Stampalot are promoting, starting tomorrow. It’ll be called ‘Freebie Friday’ and it’ll be sent to you via their email newsletter so if you haven’t already signed up, you’ll need to sign up before end of day today, HERE

Or use the “stay intouch… sign up to smudges” icon on the home page of their website (left hand column.

 A busy morning for me today, this is the first of two posts. Its 1st September, my 32nd Wedding Anniversary and where is my hubby....back to school lol. He wasn't a teacher needless to say when we got married, in fact he was at university! We were so young lol. Anyway onto my card.

Our challenge this month at Sir Stampalot is IT'S A FRAME UP! we want to see a frame somewhere on your project.

Of course there is yet another fabulous prize from the lovely people at SIR STAMPALOT! Feast your eyes on this!

If your not in you can't win so come and give it a go. Just remember you can enter no more than 6 challenges in total, that's including ours:)

Image - Magnolia stamp

Papers - Me to you Cd

Embellishments - frame cut on cricut, embossed and glittered, dotty and flower embossing folders, wording from cricut machine. Punched and embossed flowers, brads, cricut leaves, sizzix dragon fly, gems, glitter, embossed butterfly...phew that's well embellished lol.

Medium - she is coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Polka Doodles - spots and dots

The CD Sunday - just because

Magnolia Down Under - texture

Paper Sundaes - magnolias

Fab n Funky - go mad with embossing (think I did)

Sir Stampalot challenge

Hi everyone, finally got to post something, I have been trying for a few hours now and in the end it would only allow me to upload one pic so if you want to see the wonderful prize from the lovely people at Sir Stampalot then you need to go to the challenge blog HERE.

This month the challenge is a real easy one ...ANYTHING GOES! The design team were all given a lovely MOLLY BLOOM stamp to play with, I just love my little one to bits. They are so cute and lovely to colour. If you fancy treating yourself you can check them out HERE.

Image - Molly Bloom stamp from Sir Stampalot

Papers - DCWV

Embellishments - ribbon, handmade banner, twine, sentiment oval

Medium - coloured with promarkers

I would like to enter this into

Dream valley - ribbon

The Crafty Pad - bold and bright or pastels

Stampavie and more - more than 3 layers

Stamps R Us - there was a little girl

Pear Tree designs - stamp something

I hope you all get time to enter the challenge this month. The prize has lots of gorgeous Molly Bloom craft stuff so certainly worth your while.

I will be back with another design team post about 9 and will announce the winner of my candy then too:)