Cold and frosty

It's time for our very first challenge of 2018 over at

Stamping Sensations

and this month we want to see 

Cold and Frosty Colours

We have an amazing prize up for grabs with a fabulous collection of

Sizzix Products!

Just please please please remember

Stamping must be the central point of attention and interest

I went a bit mad with my Christmas presents and made two cards this month!

I got some lovely new Sheena Douglass stamps and some new Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens and Spectrum Aqua watercolour pens. Santa was sooooo good to me this year!

For my first card I used the watercolours pens and glycerine for my background and stamped some tree tops and the little bird which I coloured with promarkers.

I then splatered some Gesso to create snow. The sentiment was stamped then I added some glue and glitter.

Items used:

Watercolour card, spectrum noir acqua pens, Sheena Douglass stamps, memento ink, versafine ink, glycerine, glitter, lilac card.

For my second card I used sparkle noir pens for my background, along with my Sheena Douglass stamps, promarkers, snowflake stamp and white gel pen for snowy highlights.

I love making these backgrounds but those spectrum noir sparkle pens leave such a mess on my hands. I am seriously thinking of wearing rubber gloves next time!

I an entering first card into

The Crazy Challenge - winter wonderland

Craft Rocket - winter

Sweet Stampers - anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

Penny Black and more - something new (stash)

I am entering second card into

Crafty Sentiments Designs - snowflakes

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

Cute card Thursday - anything goes

Fairy tale challenge - a new technique (watercolour backgrounds and stamping)

Classic Design Team - anything 

Allsorts - something new (stamps and some pens)

613 Avenue Create - something new (my stash)

Be sure and pop over to STAMPING SENSATIONS for lots of inspiration and I look forward to seeing your take on our challenge.

We three kings....

Forgot to post these earlier with all the Christmas chaos!

I made these using my Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens which I LOVE!

The stamp I think is from Papermania, (only a guess) but if you know better let me know as it is unmarked.

I used 3 different colours for the background and lots of water.

The stamp has been stamped with memento and coloured with promarkers.

I would like to enter these into

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - anything Christmas goes

4 crafty chicks - glitter (whole thing is glitter)

CRAFT - anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes

Simon Wednesday challenge - anything goes

Card Mania - Christmas

Dream Valley - Christmas

Well how did your Christmas go? Hope it went well.

We had a lovely family get together at our house. It was a real pleasure having all but one of my kids and his family here. We really enjoyed having the company of our two beautiful Grandsons who were super excited about the whole thing.

Nearly time to start that diet now lol.

Back to my craft room clear out again, but I will be back on Saturday with a

Tutti Design make.

Did you know they have a great end of year sale on at the minute?

Check it out HERE

Oh little town of Bethlehem

I had four religious cards to make and thought this image from Mo's Digital Pencil would be perfect!

The background is done with Sparkle Pens and water, the images are coloured with promarkers.

The background papers are from my Artylicious Cd.

Embellishments are pearls, hessian bow and a star brad.

I am entering these into

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - anything goes

I Love ProMarkers - anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes

Inspiration Destination - anything goes

The Crafter's Cafe - Christmas related

Passion for ProMarkers - add a sentiment

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

Always Fun Challenge - A Christmas Carol (Oh little town of Bethlehem)

Crafting from the heart - anything goes

I was at dentist today to get a broken tooth fixed. She thought maybe I needed a root canal so she dug pretty deep!! But when she had finished it turned out I couldn't get one as I have an irregular shape under that tooth and a bit of infection! So the tooth was cleaned and well filled and all fingers are crossed it behaves itself! It's still a bit sore but managed to get some food in earlier to stop the howling stomach lol.

Thanks for popping by.

Snow folk!

Our November challenge over at STAMPING SENSATIONS is now up and running and this month it's all about

ONE LAYER CHRISTMAS

 This month we have an amazing prize up for grabs
In fact a first and second prize sponsored by

This month I got my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens out again to do a bit of watercolouring for my background. I am not one for doing single layer cards so this was a challenge but I did enjoy getting messy again.

I stamped my Molly Blooms snowmen stamp using memento black ink then carefully added my blue spectrum noir glitter pen around the edges of the stamped area.

I spread the blue glitter pen ink, using a broad brush soaked in water, across the card to the edges. I then added splodges of water while the ink was still wet and after letting it soak slightly I mopped up the excess with a paper towel, which gave me the lighter parts. I filled these with hand drawn snowflakes using a white gel pen.

The snowmen have been coloured using my promarkers and a bit of glitter glue.

I then finished the card with some faux stitching using the white gel pen.

What you think? I'm pretty pleased with it. I do love this technique which I saw Sheena Douglas do.

I am entering this into

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge - anything Christmas

Crafty Friends Challenge - Christmas

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Classis Design Team - anything goes

Craft Rocket - Christmas is coming

Creative Moments - anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - watercolour

Card Mania - anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

Right that's me for a few days. Hope you get time to enter our challenge this month.

Enjoy your day.

Girlie night out!

Time for our April challenge over at STAMPING SENSATIONS and this time its

ONE FOR THE GIRLS!!

We are kindly sponsored by 

PDA sell quality cardstock, pre scored cards and envelopes, essentials such as Spellbinder dies and embossing folders, Imagination Crafts beautiful Sparkle Medium, and some cute charms and crystals from Hobby House. The website is always changing, so call back regularly for all the latest products. There is a fabulous £40 voucher for the winner.

For my card I used

Stamps from Kanban

Papers from Daisy Company

Digi stamp of shoes and bags

Coloured with promarkers and spectrum noirs

I am entering this into

Crafty Calendar - anything goes

Creative Ladybirds - anything goes

Creative Moments - anything goes

Brown Sugar - anything goes

Creative Fingers - anything goes

The ABC challenge - Everything goes

Classic Design Team challenge - anything goes

My Time to Craft - girlie

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

So there you have it, be sure to pop by the CHALLENGE BLOG and get loads of inspiration from those very talented ladies.

I have started a CLEAN 9 diet this morning, wish me luck!! I have a wedding to go to at the end of the month and after Easter I am beginning to take on a bit of a chocolate egg shape lol. This diet is from Forever Living and it only lasts for 9 days, more of a detox than a diet I suppose though there is not much food involved!!

I'll keep you posted as to how I get on. Have a great Sunday and here's hoping the weather is nice where you are because it has been raining for a few days here now! April showers??

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.

Chilly weather!

Finally made it to my blog, I have been missing in action for nearly two weeks!

Life just got in the way and something had to give :(

I have a Christmas card to share with you today.

I was lucky enough to win some lovely digi stamps and this one one of the ones I choose.

Image - Drawn with Character

Papers - Nitwits and background from Craft Artist (Fizzy Moon winter wonderland cd)

Medium - coloured with promarkers and spectrum noir glitter pen

Embellishments - marianne snowflake die, snowflake punch, pearls

I am entering this into

ABC christmas - wild thing Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas extra - anything Christmas

52 Christmas card throwdown - friends and family

Christmas card challenge - anything goes

CD Sunday - snowflakes

Stampavie and more - snowflakes

Creative Inspirations - festive fun

Simon Wednesday challenge - Christmas

Whimsy Stamps - anything goes - holidays

Its been a busy two weeks, a lot has happened and none of it very good but onwards and upwards!

Everyone's health is improving, things are settling down, but bad news hit our estate last night when a neighbour got word that his son had been killed in a car accident in Australia. The shock of it hit everyone in the area hard, my heart goes out to the family who are really heartbroken.

I hope things are ok with everyone in blog land, I am sure you are all super busy but hopefully healthy and happy. I will get round to visit you all within the next few days and thanks so much for dropping by to see me.

Pamper those girls

Sorry about the dull photo, its was taken in a bit of a rush and I should really have checked it first. But I was pretty pleased with the card. When I first saw this image on a card on one of the challenge blogs I just had to go and get it! I thought it would be perfect for this lady who minds who two grandchildren and is a very young 60 year old.

Image - Mo's Digital Pencil Too

Papers - Nitwits

Embellishments - bow, paper flowers, paper buttons

Medium - coloured with chameleon pens and spectrum noirs

I would like to enter this into

DP2 - anything with green

Inky Impressions - special lady

As you like it  - fav digi/stamp and why 

I have loads of rubber stamps but use far more digi stamps basically because they are cheaper, more accessible, great for any size card, what's not to like :)

Cute card Thursday - celebrate

Crafty CATZ - buttons and bows

Colouring  Crazy - spring colours (green and yellow)

Suzy Bee - anything with stripes or spots

CCC Digi creations - one for the girls

Craft your passion - anything goes

My eldest son is heading off again after 4 months at home and I am so going to miss him! My daughter has headed off to until the weekend so its just me and Squirt for a few days. Hubby will be off tomorrow then back to work so its going to be a quiet house :(

How often do we long for peace and quiet and as soon as we get it we're ready for the hills lol.

Anyway that's my moan over. With all this peace and quiet I hope to visit you all a lot this week.

Hope its going well and Happy St. Patrick's to you all.