Well, I've made a start..........

.... on my christmas cards that is!! :) lol 

I have been meaning to make a christmas card for weeks, and am perpetually shamed when I visit so many blogs with beautiful cards all made nice and early and organised for xmas.

So, I followed the great sketch on the Forever Friends blog, and coloured this gorgeous digi-stamp (Do-crafts F.F.cd) with my pro-markers.  I spent hours last week sorting my colours and trying different combos to try and get the right shades for these bears - Im such a perfectionist! lol

I made the poinsettas from Marianne Dies, and edged the red paper with a ruby PM.  I found this fabby glitter in a small packet tucked inside a kit, and it looks amazing in RL!  I used HOTP papers, MS punch and sentiment from a Forever Friends kit.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Forever Friends - Great Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Bling it on

Stamptacular Sunday - Pile it On

Creative Inspirations - Digi Day

The Crafty Pad - Circles

Pear Tree Designs - Colourful

Paper Playtime - Digi Friends

The Crazy Challenge - 3 different DP

Craft Your Passion - Show us Your Layers

Top Tip Tuesday - Squares

Tuesday Throwdown - Brads or Eyelets

Christmas Stampin All Years Long - Favourite image

Moving Along with the Times - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Glitter

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything Goes

Wags n Whiskers - Dies or Punch

Thanks so much for looking, hope everyone has a great BH weekend,  Im now off to watch the wedding! ;)

I ♥ Promarkers - DT card

Well, here we are at Wednesday, (this week is flying by!), and so sees the start of a great new challenge over at I ♥ promarkers.  This week the theme is 'No Design Paper', so I got busy with lots of punches, dies, chalks, glitter and embossing. 

We are sponsored this week by Digi Doodle Shop and I used one of their cute little images for this card called Fairy and Daisy.  There is a great half-price sale on at the moment, so well worth checking out the site.

I used cuttlebug dies and an embossing folder, and also Marianne and Spellbinder dies.  I chalked the edges of all the cardstock and die-cuts and also glittered like crazy to give it some sparkle.

I am entering this card in the following competitions:

Cute Card Thursday - No Text

Fussy and Fancy - Springtime

Totally Gorjuss - Bling it on - I think glitter counts as bling?

CES Challenges - Spring colours

Stamptacular Sunday - Pile it on

Paper Sundaes - Sparkle, punches & yellow

Creative Inspirations - Digi Day

Bling it On - Digi & bling

Whoopsi Daisy - Fairies

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for looking at my card today, and good luck to everyone entering these challenges

One Stop Craft Challenge - Chocolate DT card

2nd Post of the Day

Today is a new challenge over at One Stop Craft, where the theme is 'Chocolate', and we are being generously sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear stamps.  Our DT have totally rocked this theme, and created some really gorgeous projects for inspiration. :)

Now, the sentiment........I dont have many hero's in life (apart from the divine Richard Armitage ;) and of course my dad :)! ), but if I had to name a 1-2-1 it would be Charles Dickens. Of all the people who ever lived and are living, Charlie Dickens is the ONE person I would choose to sit down and have a chat with. I cant put it more simple than that really.......

I am always interested in people's 1-2-1's, so if you feel like leaving a comment, I would love to read it. :)

I am dedicating this card to my good blogging buddy Bridget, who recently sent me a wonderful parcel of stash, which I couldnt wait to put to good use in this card.  I was so thrilled to receive post all the way from Nebraska!!!  :D Its the first time I had ever seen or used Stampin Up products and I have to say they are brilliant. Thank you Bridget :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Stamptacular Sunday - Magnolicious
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Layers
Stamp with Fun - Birthday
The Crazy Challenge - Friendship
Whoopsi Daisy - Free and Easy
Craft Your Passion - Spotted
Papertake Weekly - Spots and Stripes
Everybody Art - Pearls
Top Tip Tuesday - Open Challenge
Tuesday Throwdown - Polka Dots
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Flowers
Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Sweet treats for Easter
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Celebrate - I chose friends
Totally Gorjuss - Bling it on
Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, I hope everyone has a cracking Easter.

Sweet Stampin DT Card - Easter

First post of the day

Cor! :) The weather here for the Easter hols is gorgeous, and I hope everyone is enjoying some sun and/or a few well deserved days off work. 

So the challenge over on Sweet Stampin this week is Easter.  There are lots of fab challenges with the same theme this week, so I hope you will share your creations with us.  Also, checkout the rest of the DT's cards for some extra special inspiration :)

I have used a sweet bunny image from Di's Digi Downloads who are our sponsors this week , and there is also a very cute freebie if you visit the site.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Dream Valley Challenges - Easter

The Crafty Pad - Easter

Scrappy Frogs - Easter

Stempeltraeume - Easter

Die Cut Dreams - Easter

Pear Tree Designs - Easter

PaperPlay Challenges - Easter

Crafty Sentiments - Easter

Crazy 4 Challenges - Easter

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Layers

Craft Your Passion - Spotted

CES Challenges - Spring colours

Digital Tuesday - Pretty punches

Tuesday Throwdown - Polka Dots

2 Sisters Challenge - Cute picture inspiration

Kaboodle Doodles - Thoughts of easter

Creative Inspirations - Animals/pets

Cute Card Thursday - No text

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Flowers

Fussy and Fancy - Springtime

Craft Your Days Away - Easter

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you will pop back later and see my 2nd DT card today. :)

My first DT card for ..............???

Oh wow!  I have been waiting to share this news for days, and its been killing me! :) lol.

..................I have been asked to join the DT for I LOVE PROMARKERS !!! :) Woop woop!  This has long been one of my favourite challenge blogs as everyone knows I love my promarkers!  I feel so lucky and honoured to be asked to join such a talented team.

So this weeks challenge is real simple - Anything Goes - which is brilliant,  and we are sponsored this week by Sentiments 4 You, - you can resize these circular sentiments to fit any nestie - which is perfect.

I spent ages looking for the right colour card for matting my image and sentiment, and I remembered that the very clever Coops once suggested that you dont need to buy coloured card - just colour your card with your promarkers - simples! lol   So I just used my blush PM and coloured the backing card, scalloped nestie and the fleur-de-lys die.  Genius, and it took seconds.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

CLP - Great Sketch

Do You Stack Up - Scallops

Just Magnolia - Happy Birthday

2 Sisters Challenge - Bingo - Ribbon+Gems/Pearls+Flowers

Stamptacular Sunday - Magnolicious

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Layers

Stamp with Fun - Birthday

Whoopsi Daisy - Free and Easy

A Spoonful of Sugar - Celebrate Something

Everybody Art - Pearls

Top Tip Tuesday - Open challenge

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Anything Goes

7 Kids Challenge - Spring colours

Crafts and Me - Pink and Sweet

Thanks so much for looking, have a smashing day, and good luck to everyone in these challenges.

Blue Birthday

Hope everyone is good today? :)  This will be a short post from me, as I think I slept funny and hurt my neck, its sooooo painful, and will be much better off being busy than sitting in front of my pc ;) lol

Now, I've had this image coloured up for a while (I love colouring LOTV!) and finally got round to doing something with it.  I followed the fabby sketch over on I Love Promarkers, and raided my stash for scraps of HOTP papers, card candy, ribbon and brads, and also used scraps for the flowers.  I added stickles and bling for a bit of sparkle ;)

I am entering this card in this weeks below competitions:

Lili of the Valley - Birthdays

I Love Promarkers - Great Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - For a child

Passion for Promakers - Make own embellishments

Crafts and Me - Ribbon

Frosted Designs - Use Brads

Do You Stack Up - Scallops

Creatalicious Challenges - Two Tone

Fussy and Fancy - Card for a child

Totally Gorjuss - Fluffy

CES Challenges - Monochrome

Dream Valley Challenges - Things with wings

Lexis Creations - Monochromatic

Aud Sentiments challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - 2 x 2 - 2 flowers, 2 DP

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional

Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle and Bling

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Celebration/Birthday

Cooking it up with Katie - Recipe - 1 image, 2 DP, 3 embellies (2 flowers + 1 bow)

Thanks so much for looking, have a great day, and good luck to everyone in the challenges.

Peaches and Green

I have been caught out twice today in pesky April Showers! lol :) So I am sitting quite soggy at my dads today and thought I would share this card I made for the Lili of the Valley Challenge.  This week the theme is Peach and Green - class! 

I used K&Co papers (peach dots) and some peach Kanban card.  I made the roses from my new Marianne Creatables 'english rose' dies, and it took a wee bit of practise, but I'm quite pleased with them.  I distressed and sanded the edges of the papers (including the roses) and hand stitched the papers round the edge.

I am entering this card in the following competitions:

Lili of the Valley - Peach and Green

Simon Says Stamp - Spring colours

Flutter By Wednesday - Open Challenge

Cute Card Thursday - Totally Tropical - I think these colours are quite tropical :)

Wags n' Whiskers - Ribbons and Pearls

2 Sisters Challenge - Spring

Craft Your Days Away - Spots and Stripes

Stamptacular Sunday - Girls and Swirls

Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings

The Crafty Pad - Spring is in the Air

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressing

Magical Monday - Pearls and Swirls

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional

Top Tip Tuesday - Spring has sprung

Crafty Calendar Challenge - April Showers, May Flowers

Passion for Promarkers - Make your own embellishments. 

Creative Belli Challenge - Sewing

Fresh Brew Designs -  Flowers

Your Next Stamp Challenges - Stitching

Craft Us Crazy - Spring/Easter

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Stitching

The Rubber Cafe - Spring/Easter

If the Shoe Fits Scrap It - Spring

Candy Pink - Sweet Stampin DT card.

2nd Post of the day

Woop Woop! :)  This is my first DT card for the Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog where this week there is a fabby sketch to follow - I love sketches! ;)

We are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe's Crafts (which is awesome!) and also our monthly sponsor  Bugaboo Stamps who have gorgeous, cute, funny and really original digi-stamps.

Why not pop over and take a look at the rest of the DT's fabulous creations and also play along this week for a chance to win a great prize :)

For my card, I used a Kenny K image called Vikki Viscious, and coloured her in sparkly pinks and black. 

I used a cuttlebug embossing folder, handmade paper strip, MS punch, spellbinders and Marianne Creatables Poinsetta dies.  The roses are WOC and the DP is MME.

I am entering this card in the following competitions:

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - Pretty in Pink

One Stitch at a Time - 3d

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Wags n' whiskers - Ribbons and Pearls.

The Crazy Challenge - Just add Flowers

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Dies, Punches & Ribbon

A Spoonful of Sugar - Tons of Texture

Crafts and Me - Glitter

Creative Inspirations - Punches and Dies

Colour Create Challenge - Pink, Black, White

Crafty Sentiments - Glitter it up

The Stamp Man - Embossing

Scrap Creations - Recipe: Ribbon, Flowers, Pearls

Kaboodle Doodles - Lets get girly

Karens Doodles Challenge - Fancy and Feminine

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Ribbon and Pearls

Thanks so much for looking, and I appreciate every single comment left :)

Good luck to everyone entering these challenges, and have a really great weekend!

Shabby Spring and a lot of bling!

So a Happy Mothers Day to all mums and nans in the UK today :) 

Todays card is again using on of my favourite LOTV stamps - Dandelion Clock.  There is just something about this image that captivates me and keeps me wanting to get it out time after time.

I used K&Co papers and followed the fab sketch over on Simon Says Stamp. I distressed, hand-stitched and beaded the papers, corners and image.

The flower is K&Co (with added bling and distressing), and the gems in her hair are tiny clear acrylic dots.......

.........and made the dragonfly dangly out of jewellery findings - simples :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Lili of the Valley - Spring - Dandelions are spring flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Fab Sketch
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Dies, punches and ribbon
By The Cute and Girly - Cute and Girly
The Shabby Tea Room - Photo Inspiration
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Glitter and Glitz
Everybody Art - Brown and Pink
Top Tip Tuesday - Nature inspired
Tuesday Throwdown - Florals
Allsorts Challenge - Bloomin Blossoms
Passion for Promarkers - Bugs - I think dragonflies are bugs?
Cooking it up with Katie - Sparkle, shine and shimmer (2nd entry)
Fab n' Funky - Shabby chic
Charisma Cardz - Bling and Sparkles
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Glitz and Gems
Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings
Debs Creations - Emerald Fairies - Gorgeous inspiration banner!
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Distressing
The Crafty Pad - Flowers
Wags n' Whiskers - Ribbons and pearls
Frosted Designs - Bling
One Stitch at a Time - 3D
Do You Stack Up - Light pink, mauve and clear (I have clear acrylic dots in hair)

Thanks so much for looking, have a fabulous day, and good luck to everyone in these competitions