Good Luck!

For Stella

 

 

Hi and Good Morning Everyone :) Happy Wednesday!.

 

My card today again mixes old and new dies from Cheery Lynn, and I really had a blast making this sweet card.  I started off with a 6 x 6 inch blank card base, and layered flowersoft papers onto lilac and white bazzill card, and then set about playing with my dies.

 

I created the bottom lace border using a strip of white card cut with the City Girl Edger, and added lilac ribbon and a tiny border from the Expandable Tiny Borders die.  I tucked the Grass border just above it, and this runs behind the image panel. 

 

I used my favourite Sunflower Doily (Although I do love them all lol) and layered circle and scalloped circle stackers in the centre with my main image, adding tiny flowers around the edge.

 

I created the floral spray using the Daisy Strip, Darling Daisies and Olive Branches and added a butterfly and tag.  I made flowersoft lavender sprigs, and finished off with  a bow, pin and pearl heart .

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

B126 - Grass Border

B261 - Tags 2

B147 - Olive Branches

B259 - Daisy Strip

A196 - Darling Daisies - also Tiny Green leaves on doily

B188 - Embellishment #2 - Tiny Flowers round doily

DL122AB - Small Exotic Butterflies

B162 - Lace Corner Deco B

XL- 5 - Scalloped Circles

L-4 - Classic Cirles

B308 - City Girl Edger

DL181 - Sunflower Doily

B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and dont forget our challenge this week over at Cheery Lynn Designs is Embossing, so I hope you find time to join in.

 

Have a smashing week!

 

 

Its a Boy!

Hi and Good Morning! :)

Today sees the start of our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin, where this week our theme is 'Its a Man Thing'.  We are sponsored by Cuddly Buddly, and also our monthly sponsor - The Ribbon Girl.  Awesome prizes, so well worth playing along.

 

I dont make a lot of male cards, but this week was rather special - we had a long-awaited new arrival in our family (all the way over in Oz), and thanks to the wonders of modern technology (Facebook - lol) I was able to see baby pics within minutes of his birth and I was so proud !  Welcome to the world little Tom ! :)

 

I layered MME papers onto Kraft cardstock and coloured in this sweet Mo Manning image with PM's.  The mesh die and sentiment are Cheery Lynn, and the other dies are a mix of Memory Box, Marianne and spellbinders. The colours look a little less grubby IRL, but it was such a dark day when I took the photo, I just couldnt seem to get it in a decent light.

 

Now I want to apologise for being a bit of a bad blogger in returning my visits again lately :(  We still have the same problems with our internet, and its so slow its almost like pulling teeth.  It can take me an hour to get round just a handful of blogs, but I do try to catch up with everyone at least once a week.  Certain times of the month (and certain times of the day) we get throttled and its a real struggle trying to make our allowance last till the end of the month.   

 

I really do appreciate every visit and every comment :)

 

Hoping you have a smashing weekend!

 

Cheery Lynn Designs - Doilies

 

Hi and Good Morning - I hope everyone is having a fabby week so far!

 

My card today is for our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs where our theme this week is 'Doilies'.  As always the lucky winner will receive a $20 coupon to spend online at the Cheery Lynn Store. 

 

Cheery Lynn make the most amazing doily dies!  There are so many to choose from, all with a really different feel from traditional to fantasy, and all gorgeously intricate.

 

My card uses a 6 x 6 inch scalloped card base, and I layered some freebie papers onto white American Crafts cardstock and coloured a cute Mo Manning image to match.  I used the classic French Pastry Doily die, and added a strip from the Mesh Border die chopped down to size to make it narrower, and edged at the top with a strip from the Expandable Tiny Border dies.  The bottom part of the mesh strip is finished off with some red gingham ribbon and the Lady Kate Edger border tucked underneath to make a sweet frilly panel.

 

The flowers were so quick and simple using the Daisy Strip and look really bright topped off with red card candi.  The digi-sentiment was cut out with one of the lovely sentiment frames and I added a couple of red brads, pearls and a charm to finish.

 

All dies uses on this card are:

 

B259 - Daisy Strip

DL102 - French Pastry Doily

B254 - Mesh Border

B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders

B189 - Sentiment Frame

B278 - Lady Kate Edger

CM-2 - Card Maker Scalloped Rectangle

 

I hope you find time to join in this week and you still have lots of time to enter.  Dont forget there is always fresh daily inspiration from the rest of the talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog.

 

Have a smashing week, and thanks so much for visiting my blog today.

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty in Pink

 

 

 

Hi and Good Morning :)

 

Our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs this week is 'Tickled Pink', and it was lovely to play with some light floral colours and shapes, especially in January! lol.  The lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend online in the Cheery Lynn Store, so a fab prize too!

 

I used a 6 x 6 blank card base and layered First Edition papers onto 300gsm ice white pearl card.  This cardstock was also used for the doily, border and corner die cuts,  and it gives a brilliant clean cut, even on the most intricate dies.  The 2 corner dies are from the  Lace Corner Deco I  set, and the beautiful border at the bottom is the Border Carnivale Die trimmed with some spotty pink ribbon and a bow.

 

I then matted an adorable Mo Manning image onto the gorgeous Sunflower Doily die.  This is a fabulous size, as it fills a 6 x 6 card pefectly, but still gives you lots of room to add other embellishments.   The large flowers use both sizes of the Judy's bloom dies held together with pearl brads.  The smaller flowers are Darling Daisies, and the leaves are a mix of Pine Branches and Olive Branches

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

DL181 - Large Sunflower Doily

B174 - Lace Corner Deco I

DL129 - Border Carnivale

C184 - Judy's blooms

DL112AB - Small Exotic Butterflies

B146 - Pine Branches

B147 - Olive Branches

Build A Flower - Embellishment #1 - Stamen

A196 - Darling Daisies

L-4 - Silver Stackers - Circles

XL-5 - Scalloped Stacker Circles

 

 

I hope you find time to enter this week, we love seeing your Cheery Lynn Creations! :)  Dont forget there is always fresh daily inspiration from the rest of the talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

Die-ing for a Challenge - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Anything Goes

Crafts & Me - Favourite embellishment - Pearls

Totally Gorjuss - Flowers

 

 

I hope everyone has a smashing week and thanks so much for visiting today.

 

 

All That Glitters - Sweet Stampin

 

Good Morning and Happy Weekend - YAY!!

 

We have a new challenge today over at Sweet Stampin where this week the theme is 'All That Glitters'.  We are sponsored by our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen, and our weekly sponsor is one of my very generous teamies - Natalie, with this fabby prize from her shop Iva Nova Chest:

 

 

 

 

 

I coloured up a gorgeous image from Mo Manning with PM's and layered up white bazzil card and MME xmassy papers.  The dies are Cheery Lynn and the border punch is MS. 

 

I will be entering this card in the below competitions:

 

The Sketchy Challenges - Fab sketch!

Live & Love Crafts - Christmas

Divas By Design - Feeling Festive

I ♥ Promarkers - Cute

 

 

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today and have a smashing weekend,

Smashing Pumpkins

Good Morning fellow crafters and bloggers :) back again for a 4th day running - woah !

Our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs this week is Corner Adorners, and as always the winner will get a fabulous $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn website.  There have been some stunning creations made this week with the new release dies from Cheery Lynn and I thought I would showcase a few more of the new dies today on this cute seasonal birthday card.

 

I started out with a 6 x 6 Kraft card base and layered cream and green bazzil cardstock, MME papers and inked the edges with brushed corduroy DI.  I used a fabulous Mo Manning image called Punkin (which is the first digi I ever bought), and then had a great time playing about with some really fun dies.

I joined each Corner die with one of the brilliant Expandable Tiny Border dies - this is now officially my new favourite border die - I love it! :)  I added acorns in the corners, extra leaves and I used the Quilling Strip die to make the rolled swirls in the top corners too.  The wonderful Fall Pumpkin dies cut beautifully and have great texture, but most of all I love the twiddly bits that come with them - they too are so much fun! 

Finally, the mini 3d pumpkins were - yes, you guessed it -  nicked out of my pot pourri bowl - lol  :) 

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

Lace Corner Deco A

Dimensional Small Leaves # 2 - Acorns

Quilling Strip

Expandable Tiny Borders

Wreath Strip

Fall Pumpkins

Happy

Birthday

 

I hope you find time to play along with our challenge this week and dont forget there is also daily inspiration from the other very talented members of our DT over on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

I am entering this card into the below competitions:

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes
Mo's Digital Challenge - B is for Boys & Birthday
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Too Cute to Spook
Stamptacular Sunday - Boo-tacular
Emerald Faeries - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Boo
Creative Craft Challenges2 - 3 - I have 3 pot pourri pumpkins on my card
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Favourite - Technique - Die Cutting
Simon Says Stamp - Eeerie Inspiration
 

Have a smashing day, and thanks so much for visiting my blog.

 

Ice Ice Baby - Christmas in July - Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge

Good Morning :)  todays card is for our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs where this week our theme is 'Christmas in July' and as always the winner will receive a fabby $20 voucher to spend  on the Cheery Lynn Website, so well worth joining in!

I wanted to go with something very wintry and frosty for this, as thats half the fun when you make them in the summer! :) lol.

I used a 6 x 6 square card for my base, and hand-stitched  Vintage Lace Bearly Mine papers onto snow-white Crafters Companion pearlescent card. All the die-cuts are in 300gsm pearl card and this heavier card-stock cuts like a dream for even the most delicate and intricate designs. The large snowflake is the gorgeous Italian Flourish Doily die, to which I added glossy accents and crisp ice glitter. The smaller snowflakes are cut using the 4 x 4 Snowflake Plate and this is brilliant - it cuts 20 snowflakes in one pass, all different shapes and sizes and these are excellent for layering on top of each other too.

I coloured this gorgeous 'Winter Fairy Halla' from Mo's DP and matted onto the 2nd smallest size Circle Silver Stacker and the co-ordinating Scalloped Circle Stackers I thought this made a nice change having it smaller and offset and not smack bang in the centre as I really wanted to show off how beautiful the doily looked as a snowflake.

The corner dies are just one from the set of Lace Corner Deco C (with added snowflake on top) and the icy leaves behind the image are the lovely Pine Branches.  The beady spray was from QVC, the Pearl brad is from Joanna Sheen and the gorgeous Pin was made by my blogging buddy Karen :)

All dies used on this project are:

CL103 - Italian Flourish Doily

C146 - Snowflakes

B163 - Lace Corner Deco C

B146 - Pine Branches

Classic Circle Silver Stackers

Scalloped Circle Stackers

Classic Square Silver Stackers

Scalloped Square Stackers

I hope you find time to join in this week, its never to early to make a start on your christmas cards or scrap-book pages. Dont forget there is always fresh daily inspiration over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog too.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Christmas

Creative card Crew - Swirls & pearls

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Things with Wings

Crafters companion - Ho Ho Ho Christmas

ABC Challenge - S = Surprise - Christmas in July!

Winter Wonderland - Monochromatic

Stampin for the Weekend - Show your Style - I use a LOT of dies!

The Stampman - Bling it On

Chocolate Coffee, Cards - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Can you Digi It

Crafty Catz - Show Us Your Metal

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Girls, Girls, Girls

Thanks so much for checking out my blog today, I hope you have a smashing day!

The Most Fun Ever!!

Thats how much fun I had making this card!! :D lol

Morning everyone :)  Todays new challenge over at Sweet Stampin is 'Summer Fun' and we are sponsored this week by Stamp And Create who are offering the winner a massive $25 gift certificate and also one of our regular monthly sponsors - the brilliant Joanna Sheen .

Now I have had this wee fella for ages and this is the first time I have used it! Shame on me!  Its one of my favourite Mo Manning images as it just makes me grin!

I coloured with PM's and Flexmarkers and attempted for the first time to make a cloudy background - that was fun!  I cut out my own clouds with my Cameo and just coloured round with the Glacier Blue Flexmarker.  The Pinwheels and Starfish were also cut on my digicutter, and added beads to the starfish with glossy accents.  The papers are MME, and I printed my own sentiment.  I also used Marianne and Spellbinder dies and MS punches.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Mos Digital Challenge - At the Park

Papertake Weekly - 3-2-1 - 3 Starfish, 2 pinwheels, 1 sentiment

Creative Card Crew - Song Inspired - 'In the Summertime'

Digital Tuesday - Butterflies

Simon Says Stamp - Summer Inspiration

Cute Card Thursday - Punch Drunk

Moving Along With The Times - Get Krafty

Do You Stack Up - Boys/men

PaperPlay Challenges - For a Man + twine

Fussy & Fancy - Boy Attitude

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Fathers Day

Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Die cuts - vacation

Make My Monday - Masculine Cards

Crafters Companion - Time to Embellish

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - For that Special Guy

I hope everyone has a smashing weekend, I am off to Inverness for the day for a mooch around! :)

Cheery Lynn Designs - Roses

Good Morning fellow crafters and bloggers! :) I hope everyone is having a great week!

This week over at the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge our new theme is 'Roses'. 

As always we have a great prize of $20 voucher to spend online in the store, and this month we have an extra special  monthly prize of a BIG SHOT for a random winner selected on the 2nd July!  Brilliant! :)

For my card I used one of my favourite Mo Manning images and coloured her with PM's and Flexmarkers.  I hand stitched K&Co paper and made the roses using pearly pink and shimmery pink  paper from my scrap box.  The very best thing about making your own blooms is that you can make them match perfectly, and use up all those oddments! :)

Sandy has done a brilliant tutorial on making Roses from Cheery Lynn Dies HERE using  the Large Rose, Medium Rose and Miniature Rose dies.   

I made 3 different size blooms from the same 3 size dies including the rose-buds by cutting 3 layers of each size for the larger roses, and just scaling down in size for the smaller ones.  They are secured with tiny brads and a blob of Viva Decor Pearly Pen. 

All dies used on this card are:

B133 - Lace Light Deco Border

D134 - Small Leaves #2

DL151 - Victorian Romance Flourish

DL199 - Scalloped Rectangle Reflection

B152 - Miniature Rose

B154 - Medium Rose

B155 - Large Rose

B181 - Build a Flower (for the green underneath of the roses)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Simon Says Stamp - Summer Photo Inspiration

Crafts & Me - Roses & Pearls
I ♥ Promarkers - Tutti Frutti

Passion for Promarkers - Layers

Mo's Digital Challenge - Anything Goes w/Mo Image

Deep Ocean Challenge - Sewing

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Girls, Girls, Girls

Stamptacular Sunday - Fairy Fever

Crafters Companion - Time to Embellish

Sweet Stampin Pixies - Summer

Crafty Calendar - Flowers in bloom

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

Forever Friends - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Everybody Art - Roses

Top Tip Tuesday - Sparkles Galore

Papertake Weekly - 3-2-1 - 3 pearl hearts, 2 pearl pins, 1 tag

Penny Black & More - All My Favourite Things - Dies, Flowers, Pearls and a cute image!

You have until Sunday to join in, so lots of time to enter and I look forward to visiting and seeing some gorgeous entries. There is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

I hope everyone has a smashing week and thanks so much for visiting today

Bling It Up - Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge

Morning fellow crafters and bloggers :) Back again today with my DT card for Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge where this week our theme is 'Bling it Up'.  The winner of the challenge will win a $20 voucher to spend in the online store and as there are some GORGEOUS new release dies this week, this is a brilliant prize! :)

Now, I can definately say I was inspired by my sister when making this card! lol :D  We have a brilliant friendship and though we live 600 miles apart, its just about perfect! ;)  I know she would really appreciate this card too as I am guilty of cutting her fringe off when we were little whilst no one was looking! ;) I thought it looked much better lopped off, but mum had to drag her off to the hairdressers to get it finished! lol :D  Soz Sis!

I have had this funny Mo Manning 'StepSisters' image for ages, and this is the first time I have used it, but I think I grinned the whole time I was making this card, they have such funny cross faces! I hand-stitched MME Vanity Fair papers, and used just one corner die from a set of 3 in the new Lace Corner Deco H set and also used the new Mini Fanciful Flourish die on the dotty panel.

I made the larger flower from the Sweet Williams Die and added stamens from the new Build a Flower #1. 

The base of the card has the new Spring Flower Burst doily, and again I repeated the corners, flowers, stamen and the Queen Anne's Lace border die.

All the dies used on this card are:

**New** - B181 - Build a Flower #1

**New** B173 - Lace Corner Deco H

**New** - B1175 - Mini Fanciful Flourish

**New** DL221 - Spring Flower Burst Doily

DL199 - Reflections Scalloped Rectangle

D137 - Sweet Williams

B152 - Miniature Rose

B154 - Medium Rose

B155 - Large Rose

B160 - Queen Anne's Lace Border

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Mos Digital Pencil 2 - Tickle My Funny Bone

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes

CES Challenges - Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge - Make it girly

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Inspiration photo

Divas By Design - Lots of Pink - Hope this is enough pink, if not then please delete my entry :)

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope you find time to play along with our challenge.  There is also fabulous daily inspiration from the rest of the DT on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog, and all the details of the gorgeous new releases can be found on the Cheery Lynn Designs website.

I will be back again tomorrow (twice!) so I hope you find time to pop back,

New Beginnings - Sweet Stampin

Oooh - I hope everyone had a smashing time over Christmas!   We had a really wonderful few days, but I was banned from entering my craft room - bah!   LOL :D

Anyway, I managed to rustle up this card for our new challenge at Sweet Stampin this week, where our theme is 'New Beginnings'.  Now you can interpret this in lots of different ways, and the DT have come up with some really gorgeous inspiration for this too.  Our fabby sponsor this week is Angel Crafts .

Santa bought me some awesome stash this year, and though I haven't had time to play with any of it properly, I did manage to use my new Silhouette Cameo on this card to cut out the fireworks.  The cute image is Mo Manning, and I thought it was perfect for a New Year card. :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Happy New Year

Totally Gorjuss - Happy

Thanks so much for looking at my blog, and good luck to everyone entering the challenges.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)

I ♥ Promarkers - Christmas Trees

Hope everyone is having a lovely week :)

Now this weeks theme on I ♥ Promarkers is Christmas Trees, and we are sponsored by Stampeezee who are offering our lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend online.  Fabulous prize!

I loved colouring in this little urchin angel by Mo Manning, and knew just what kind of feel I wanted on this card.  My only problem was that I dont appear to have very many christmas papers that are not 'in your face christmassy', so I had a good mooch through my stash and found these vintagey papers by K&Co in a 108 page massive pad.

I hand stitched the papers, hand beaded the borders and used a mix of Spellbinder, Marianne and Nellie Snellen dies.  The sentiment was found in a crafty bitz bag and I added stickles, glitter and adhesive pearls to the trees and corners.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Anything christmas with pearls
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas traditions
Stamptacular Sunday - Punch it
Truly Scrumptious - Vintage/Pearls
Dream Valley - Stitching
Sparkles Forum Christmas - Angels
Deep Ocean Challenge - Vintage
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Cute
Totally Papercrafts - Victorian
Crafter's Companion - Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Do You Stack Up - Inspired by song - Hark the Herald Angels Sing.  My favourite christmas carol ever, it reminds me of victorian carolers singing in the streets, snow, angels and good old Charlie Dickens.

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, I will be back tomorrow with another card ;)

Glitter and Glitz - I ♥ Promarkers

I had a lovely birthday on Saturday, though the weather was really grim, so thanks so much for the wishes and emails :)

Now todays new challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers is 'Glitter and Glitz', and we are sponsored this week by the very fabulous and generous Joanna Sheen. Awesome prize!

I used a real cute Mo Manning image, another one which makes you smile while you are colouring it, and matched it to some old Brenda Pinnick papers, word stickers and card.  The flowers and leaves are WOC.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Any celebration/holiday

Totally Papercrafts - Glitter it

Stamptacular Sunday - Borders & Frames

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

By The Cute & Girly - Christmas Girls

Emerald Faeries - Christmas Red

Bah Humbug - Dies - spellbinder frame and borders

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Bling

Creative Inspirations - Lashings of sparkle

Thanks so much for looking and good luck to everyone in the challenges,

Puppy Dogs Tails

.........and I always thought it was 'slugs and snails' ;) lol

This is another one of my most favourite Mo Manning images - Toby is 2.  There is something a little comical about tiny tantrums after the event, and this image just makes me smile.  Dont you just want to give him a cuddle? lol.

I made this card following the great sketch on Sketch Saturday, it was a breeze and I loved it. :)  I distressed and hand-stitched HOTP papers, and just matted and layered with Bazill cardstock and added a few card-candy dots, flourish die and MS punched borders.  The sentiment was from an old K&Co QVC kit.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Mo's Digital Challenge - Lets hear it for the boys
Sketch Saturday - Great sketch
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Slugs and Snails and Puppy dogs tails
I Love Promarkers - Card for a male
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Kids
The Crafty Pad - Use a digi
One Stitch at a Time - Something for Boys
Creative Card Crew - No rubber - use digi

Thanks so much for looking and leaving comments - it makes my day reading them.  Good luck to everyone in these challenges, and have a great day,

Little China

Im not going bonkers honest! :) lol. 

You know when you get something in your head.......... a rogue idea and you just run with it????  Well this was mine! ;)  This little teacup fairy inspired me to create a tablecloth background to go with the english tea-cup.  Im not too sure I pulled it off, and it is a little less frothy looking in RL.

I stitched the lace through the holes of the MS punch and then added beads in a flower design to secure it.  Its only raised about 3mm from the backing card and is quite soft, not dense.  I cut the blue leaves from the inner part of the lace and used the MS PAP punch again only smaller.  The image was coloured with pro-markers and a little shimmer from a sakura crystal glitter pen was added around the tea-cup flower design, (just like I remember my aunties having;) lol )

I am entering this project (tentatively) in the below competitions:

Mos Digital Pencil - Spring colours and flowers - I stitched beads to look like mini flowers, I hope this qualifies.

Crafty Cardmakers - Fairies and 2 paper punches

Magical Mondays - Lace

Do You Stack Up - Anything goes - 3rd entry

Stamp Something - With flowers

Sweet Stampin - Oh so girly! - 2nd entry

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Digi Mondays - Anything Goes

Lexis Creations - Flowers

Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone in these challenges,

Love is............... unconditional

Well, its the start of a new week, and we have snow again in our part of the country.  Only about 2-3 inches, but thats enough for me :) lol.

Now, I made this card........ just because.  I love this image, and every time I see it on anyones cards it just takes my breath away.  I was in a dither when I bought it, as I am a real doggy person, but I loved this cute kitten, so I guess I will have to go back and get the puppy as well! lol.

I hand-stitched the HOTP papers onto bazzill and normal cardstock, and then layered punches and nesties. It just looked a bit lacking in sparkle and I didnt want to overcrowd with flowers and leaves, so I threaded some green star beads onto the rose stems and twisted them into shape. 

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Mos Digital Pencil - Lots of Love
Totally Papercrafts - Friendship
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Flowers
Top Tip Tuesday - Girly
Tuesday Throwdown - Stitching
Flutterby Wednesdays - Anything Goes
PaperPlay Challenges- Stamp it out - Digi or rubber
Stamp Something - Anything Goes - Digi
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges - In the roll of a die - I used fleur de lys die and also square nestie dies
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Love, Love, Love
Sweet Stampin - Spring flowers
Sundays with Crissy - Love is........
One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes digi
Stamp with Fun - Love
Magical Monday - Love

Thank you so much for looking, and good luck to everyone in these challenges.

Chocolate Orange - Featured Stamper on Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Today there is a new challenge over on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog, and its to follow this great sketch by Melissa.  I was delighted to win their judged challenge last week and was really inspired to make this card as this weeks featured stamper.  What an honour! :)

I used a fabulous image called 'Bossy' from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I love these images and seem to smile the entire time I am crafting with them.  The challenge on Mo's DP2 blog this week is 'Orange, Yellow & Red'. 

Now, anyone who knows me knows that Orange annoys me ;) Not the fruit, or the chocolate (obviously) just the colour.  I had to dig really deep in my stash to find anything orange - it was all buried!  I coloured this image with pro-markers and printed my own sentiment.  I used a sheet of paper from a free stack of MME, and the rest is assorted kanban patterned card.  The flowers, ribbon and charm were also from old stash.

I will be entering this card in the following competitions:

Mos Digital Pencil - Orange, Red, Yellow
Fab n' Funky - Digital stamping
Crafty Creations - Heat it up - I think this fits in with warm, hot and spicy.
Paperplay challenge - Layer it up
Do You Stack Up - Patterns - I have 3 different DP/Patterned papers and card on this project. 2nd entry
Crafty Catz - Flowers
Crafts 4 Eternity - Polka Dots
Cutie Stampers - Stripes
Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes
CES - Bold and Bright
Stamptacular Sunday - Anything Goes
Pear Tree Designs - Flowers
Ooh La La - 3 of a Kind - 3 bunches of flowers
One Stitch at a Time - Photo Inspiration - Orange, gold, green
Paper Playtime - Digi Monday - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Flowers

Thanks so much for looking, and good luck to everyone in these challenges.