Charisma Cardz - Stitching

Back again today with another card!  :)  This one is for our new challenge over at Charisma Cardz where this week our theme is 'stitching'.  We would like to see real or faux stitching on entries this week, and are sponsored by Some Odd Girl and The Stamping Boutique .

I used a fab image called Alice Mae as she looks just like my neice who is almost 21 :) 

This card is 8 x 8 inches (its huge!) and I hand-stitched and distressed K&Co papers, layered, punched and die cut bazzil kraft coloured card, and followed the great sketch over at Sketch Saturday.  The flowers are WOC, dies are spellbinder and the PATP is Martha Stewart.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Sketch Saturday - Fab Sketch

Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes + sparkle

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Emerald Faeries - Punches/Dies

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Lace it up

Creative Craft Challenges - Congratulations

Ladybug Crafts - Tag it

Truly Scrumptious - Distressing

I am currently playing catch-up on commenting this week, but thanks ever so much for visiting my blog today,

Autumn Colours - I ♥ Promarkers

Yay, Im back! :)  Hope everyone is having a great week, and the weather isnt too wet where you are. 

This weeks theme on I ♥ Promarkers is 'Autumn Colours', and over the last 2 weeks we have had rainbows, rain, wind, sun and even the first sight of snow on Ben More up here!  We are sponsored by Letraset for this weeks challenge, who are generously giving a fab pack of Promarkers as the prize, so its well worth joining in.

I used a gorgeous Sweet Pea image on this card and hand stitched and distressed Prima papers.  I used Spellbinder dies and McGill punch for the frondy leaves and the flowers are WOC.  The larger leaves are from quite old stash, as is the old necklace bead, and I also used an MS punch for the loop border.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Paperplay Challenges - Autumn

Do You Stack Up - Brown

Crafts and Me - Orange

Stamptacular Sunday - So Distressing

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Emerald Faeries - Punches/Dies

By The Cute & Girly - Anything Goes

In A Sweet Pea Dream - Anything Goes

Stampin for the Weekend - Colours of Autumn

Crafty Cardmakers - Anything Goes

CLP Challenges - Fab Sketch

Moving Along with the Times - Autumn Leaves

Thank so much for looking at my blog today,  and I will be catching up later :)

Spooky! - I ♥ Promarkers

Morning bloggers :)

Today sees the start of a new challenge at I ♥ Promarkers and our theme this week is 'Spooky'.  We are sponsored by one of our regular and most fabulous sponsors Joanna Sheen who is offering the winner a £10 voucher to spend online.

I followed the fab sketch over at Saturated Canary and the gorgeous image is Witches Cauldron. The spiderweb background was cut out with my digital die-cutter (and it took blimmin ages!) lol, and the bats were also cut on that.  The flowers are WOC, charm and ribbon from stash.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Saturated Canary - Fab sketch
Moving Along with the Times - Spooky Halloween
CES Challenges - Gorjuss Pretty girls
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Halloween
Emerald Faeries - Punches and Dies
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling
Allsorts Challenge - Flowers
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Halloween

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

Lilac and Lace - Sweet Stampin

How daft has the weather been then!! lol  It was so warm here yesterday I took my dogs for a swim and had all the windows open!  What a lovely end to the summer :)

Todays DT card is for our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin which is Lilac and Lace.  We are sponsored by Tiffany Doodles, and this is such a pretty theme I hope you find time to play along.

I used a gorgeous digi-stamp from Crafts and Me (which I have had for ages!) and the papers are Flowersoft.  Flowers are WOC, and the strandy glitter was a freebie with a magazine this week. :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafts and Me - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Things with Wings

CES Challenges - Totally Gorjuss/Pretty girls

ABC Challenge - Anything Goes - welcome back ABC! :)

Bunny Zoe Challenge - Fab sketch

Allsorts - Flowers

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, have a smashing weekend and good luck to everyone in the challenges. 

Charisma Cardz - Love

Thanks for putting up with my whinging yesterday :)  I often helps to get it off your chest eh? lol

Now then, todays new challenge over at Charisma Cardz is 'With Love'.  We are sponsored this week by Digi Stamp Boutique, and the DT have made some really gorgeous creations, so if you get time to pop over and play you should take a look.

This card was quick and simple.  Paper is Anna Griffin and I used Spellbinder flowers and frame dies, MS heart punch and McGill branch punch.  I paper pricked the edges, and the pearls, charm and ribbon were from stash.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Magnolia Mania - Photo inspiration

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and I will catch up later tomorrow when my internet is turned back on :)

I ♥ Promarkers - Distressing

Morning :)  Never mind about an Indian Summer, we had a monsoon (almost) yesterday! lol.

Anyway, today sees the start of a new challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers, where this week we are sponsored by Digi Doodle Shop and our theme is 'distressing'.  

I used this cute image from Digi doodle shop, and distressed, inked and hand-stitched the prima papers.  The dies are a mix of spellbinders and marianne.

Now talking of distressing and a bit of a whinge.... again on my favourite subject - my crappy internet and Avanti as an ISP!.

Below is the new price plan for my satellite internet:

So basically, I currently pay £23.50 (+vat) for 25gig a month @512kbps.

They now want to charge me £58.75 (+vat) for the same usage, or drop me down to a measly, meagre and very mean 10gig a month for the same price I am paying now :(

WHAT UTTER PANTS!!! :(

This will absolutely cripple me!... I am so razzed off.  I cannot justify (or afford) £58.75 a month for the same amount of internet I get now, its such a rip off!..

Anyway, I just wanted to share that, as sometimes I get a little behind with my commenting, and its mainly down to watching my limit :)  I will always visit back, but often I can only pop along a couple of times a week, so I hope everyone understands I have to space my usage out a little.  Once they throttle me to 12kbps, the internet is virtually broken for me as it just doesnt load pictures!

I intend to fight them on this, as I am absolutely convinced that the Scottish Executive did not award them the contract for rural broadband and envisage it being this extortionate!

.......and breathe! :)

Now, I will be entering my card in the below competitions:

Sketch Saturday - Brill sketch, thank you.

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Autumn

PaperPlay Challenges - Autumn Leaves

Crafts 4 Eternity - Autumn Days

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and good luck to everyone in the challenges,

One Stop Crafts Challenge - Easel Cards

Well, its the weekend! :) yay! I am currently in a brilliant mood after watching Karl Pilkington last night in An Idiot Abroad (my hero!) He makes me laugh SO much! :D  

Anyway, our new challenge this week over at One Stop Crafts is Easel Cards :)    We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Stamps and if you remember I got this great image from there a while back.

Now, I really like making easel cards, they use up loads of scrap and always look really special, and you can just bung loads of embellies on them! :)

They just arent that easy to photograph! lol.

Anyway the gorgeous flowers are the new spellbinders floral die 2, and I was thrilled with how they turned out! 

I used Martha Stewart PATP, Marianne dies, Prima Botanical Papers and the chipboard tags were free with a magazine.

I am entering this card in the following competitions:

One Stitch at a Time - Punch it

Emerald Faeries - Pearls

Ooh La La Creations - Punches/Dies

Paper Playtime - Easel Cards

Simon Says Stamp - Dies to Die for

Crafty Creations - Fabulous Faeries

Stampin for the weekend - What a cutie

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope everyone has a fabby weekend!  :)

I ♥ Promarkers DT Card - Numbers

Morning :)

Todays challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers is to create a project with numbers on it.  We are sponsored this week by Crafty Emmas Store who is offering one lucky winner a £10 online voucher to spend instore. Fab prize!

I used a super-cute Sugar Nellie stamp for this card, (this stole my heart when I saw it) and followed the sketch over at the Sugar Bowl.  The papers are HOTP and the 'Dec 25th' was cut from my digi-die cutter.  I also used Marianne and Magnolia dies and an MS snowflake corner punch.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

The Sugar Bowl - Fab Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Dies to Die for

Crafts and Me - Stripes

Crafty Creations - Faeries

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

PaperPlay Challenges - Punches & Dies

Bah Humbug! - Flourishes and Swirls

Emerald Faeries - Pearls

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

Flowers - Sweet Stampin

So today over at Sweet Stampin our new challenge is 'Flowers' (with an optional sketch).  

We are sponsored this week by Stamp Galaxy and I used a super-cute snowman image from our monthly sponsor, Heather Ellis.  An absolute breeze to colour! :)

Im really enjoying making frosty christmas cards atm, and used MME free papers, snow white glitter card, MS snowflake punch and poinsetta dies.  The frosty frond branch was cut on my digi-die cutter, and the double-die mat was Nellie Snellen.

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and I hope you find time to play along with this weeks challenge,

Charisma Cardz - Sky

Considering the grey skies we have had this week, it was nice to imagine something blue and clear like this! :) lol.

So, todays challenge over at Charisma Cardz is to have 'sky' on your project and there are some fabulous cards by the rest of the DT, so worth taking a look.  We are sponsored this week by Kenny K and Crimson Cloud, so gorgeous prizes too!

I used a cute little Sugar Nellie image, Marianne  Dies and some pearls from stash.  A really quick card to make as the dies did all the work :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

The Stampman Challenges - Monochrome

CES Challenges - Make it Spooky

Simon Says Stamp - Song or Film - Mr Blue Sky (ELO)

Saturday Challenge - Inspired by song - Mr Blue Sky (ELO)

Magical Mondays - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Things with Wings

Creative Inspirations  - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and good luck to everyone in these challenges. 

I ♥ Promarkers - Travel or Transport

Hope everyone is not too soggy today? :)  We have had so much rain here, its halfway up the field and the river burst its banks about 2 days ago.  I dont mind, but I am a bit fed up of putting frogs back outside! :D lol.

Anyway, today is the start of another new challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers, and this week our theme is travel or transport.  Our fabulous sponsors again are Letraset, so its a brilliant prize and well worth playing along for.

I used another Kenny K image called Val Ventura and I thought she looked perfect for the theme of travel with some jungle type foliage and papers.  Quite a simple card really, the leaves are spellbinders and the flowers are ebay.  The papers are Prima Melody and the 'explore' tags are a print and cut embellishment from my digital die cutter. 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Do You Stack Up - Texture

Die Cut Dreams - Flower Power

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Flowers

By the Cute and Girly - All things bright and beautiful

Thanks so much for looking at my blog, and good luck to everyone in these challenges,

Food and Drink - One Stop Craft Challenge

G'Mornin :)  It's the start of a fabby weekend and a fabby new challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge today!  This week our theme is Food and Drink, and we are again sponsored by Robyn's Fetish.

I love how cosy Forever Friends bears are, so this image seemed perfect for this theme.  Its a digi-stamp from one of the FF cd's and I paired it with some HOTP scraps (yep, scraps) Spellbinder and Marianne dies and an  MS snowflake punch.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafty Calender Challenge - Bears

One Stitch at a Time - Use a digi

Christmas Card Challenges - Chocolate, cream and raspberry

Crafters Companion - Christmas Wishes

Forever Friends Challenge - Use your dies

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for looking, and have a great weekend,

I ♥ Promarkers - Metal or Charms

This card drove me nuts!... I lost the original image I had coloured for these papers and spent so long faffing around looking for them, that I gave up and had to colour this image in in about 15 minutes! I hate rushing too.  I suspect one of my dogs thought it looked tasty, but neither of them were owning up ;) lol

Anyway, this is my DT card for I ♥ Promarkers where this week we are sponsored by one of my very favouritest online shops - Joanna Sheen.  We had a fabulous response last week to our anything goes theme, and this week we would like to see metal or charms on your designs.

I used HOTP papers, Marianne and spellbinder dies and a christmas tree charm from stash. 

Now - hands up who couldnt resist buying any of the new LOTV releases yesterday then? :D  It was just so hard to choose, as they were all so gorgeous!  I decided to use this stamp after spotting it on the site and remembering I hadnt inked it up before! Naughty me! :D

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Lili of the Valley - Fab Sketch

Moving along with the Times - Handmade Flowers

PaperPlay Challenges - Make your own flowers

Craft Your Days Away - Make own flowers

Crafters Companion - Christmas Wishes

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

Anything But Birthday - Sweet Stampin

Morning :) It feels like such a long week for me, and whilst I have enjoyed the extra craft time due to the internet being off, you really do feel out of touch even after a week! :)

Anyway, today over at Sweet Stampin our theme this week is 'Anything but Birthday', and we have an optional sketch to follow designed by Vicky (which I loved!).  We are sponsored this week by Tiffany Doodles and also our monthly sponsor is Heather Ellis.  Fi and Abi have got some fab things lined up on the Sweet Stampin challenge blog, so its really worth checking out and playing along if you can, not to mention seeing all the other fab DT creations! :)

For my card, I used another MIC steampunk image, and really got carried away colouring all the folds on her dress.  I used Prima papers and hand-stitched them with metallic thread, and also wound it round the cogs for extra detailing.  

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Stamp Something - September digi day

I cant wait to see what everyone creates this week, so I hope you can play along.  Have a fabby weekend, and  I will be popping along to visit everyone soon, as I am still catching up :)

Anything Goes - Charisma Cardz Challenges

Im BACK!! :D What a rotten week it was without t'internet! :(  (My ISP is rubbish!)

Anyway, this is my DT card for Charisma Cardz where this week our theme is 'Anything Goes'! :)  We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and Pink Cat Studio, and dont forget you can always share your creations on our Facebook page too, where there is often an exclusive mini prize.

Continuing in my theme this week, I have used another steampunk image, this time from Kenny K, and there was so much detail on this it was just lovely to colour.  I have again used Prima papers, MS doily lace punch, and the swirly whirly background panel was cut on my digi-cutter.  The pearl cluster strips were from QVC and the metal star brads were from ancient stash :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Craft Catz - Metal and Lace

Papercutz Challenge - Wish upon a star (metal star brads)

Totally Gorjuss - As You Like It

Stamptacular Sunday - Divatacular

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious - Rocked up Pink

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and good luck to everyone in these challenges :)