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DT card for For Fun Challenges: Recipe

2011-06-22T00:00:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,

Arghhh what a day!!! I don't know if it is the pregnancy hormones but I am really irritable today. Everything seems to be getting right on my nerves today, the dogs whining, hubby working on a customers car, neighbours asking hubby and I to help find run away pets and put sheds up etc etc.... I want to scream, OK I have at hubby bless him so I thought I better hide out in my craft room before I upset anyone else lol. And guess what, it worked, I've made a card and feel a little less grumpy.

Right enough of that. Today at For Fun we are being sponsored by TLC Creations, gosh they have SO many digis, freebies and all, so so much to choose from. Along with this we are asking you to follow a rather fun recipe, 2 ribbons, 2 DPs, 1 image and 1 sentiment. Easy peasy right? Here is what I came up with:

I used another male LOTV stamp. Isn't he a cutie? Reminds me of my daddy lol reading the paper.

The DPs I used are both from the 'Good life' forever friends pad. Hey just noticed how the sentiment I used ties in so nicely with the name of the papers too :) The sentiment is a freebie from the TLC site. The image as I said is LOTV coloured with promarkers and prismas. Martha Stewart punch and seam binding from Wild Orchid Craft finished the card off nicely. I cut the circles with my cricuit E and the gems are from stash.

So come on over to For Fun and show us what you can do with this inspiring recipe.

Have a fab day, hope mine just gets loads better.

Cutie little boy card

2011-06-10T00:00:00.000+01:00

Hia,

Finally it is Friday, yepiiiii..... After a very busy week, I have a very busy weekend ahead of me but then I am off work Monday so short week next week. I have my religious baby shower ceremony this weekend. S lots of time with the family etc which will be nice. The last time we all got together (aunts, uncles, cousins etc) was when my gran passed away last July so it will be nice to get together for happy times this time :)

So my card, well this reflects children in my family. Seems when me and my sisters were young we loved to hide in boxes where we snoozed away and then we asked our parents to drag the box all around the house and garden. Then 2yrs ago I found my neice was doing exactly the SAME thing!!! How suprising is that lol, seems we have inherited a box fetish lol.... So this card brings back some funny memories.

No suprises here but the image was coloured using Promarkers and Prismas. I have never used yellow and grey colour themes before so this is a new one for me but I do like it. The image is LOTV, as is the postcard stamp in the background. The sentiment I made using individual alphabet stamps. DP is Forever friends, ribbon, gems and brads from stash.

If I don't see you at the weekend, have a fab one and I will see you all again soon.

Take care all

Dad... Can you fix this pls?

2011-06-09T00:00:00.002+01:00

Hia all,

Thursday right, week is almost over, Yay I hear you say. So far I have managed to post a card everyday this week, how cool is that lol. I love the image I have used today, it will probably be my Daddy's Father's Day card. My dad is a 'never throw, always fix it' guy. Even now I take things back home for him to fix for me lol. He loves keeping busy so is always up to something interesting-Mr Fix it I like to call him. But hey aren't a lot of Dad's like that?

So I coloured the image using Promarker as always and added shading and depth with Prisma pencils. I like the colour them I eventually decided on too, Blue and brown, cute right. The papers are from the linen closet and brads are from stash. I haven't used brads on a card for a long time so it was nice to get them out again. I added a tiny bit of embossing to the corner element. And obviously used a Martha Stewart punch too.

Challenges:

Passion for Promarkers: Colour theme-Blue and brown

C.R.A.F.T: Fathers Day

Crafts and Me: Stamp Something

Creative Inspirations: Card for Man/Man in your life

Fab n Funky: Magnificent Men

Lily of the Valley: Anything Goes

Have a great day guys, see you again tomorrow with another cutie boy card. Oh before I go, I just want to thank all you lovely people out there who have been visiting my blog and leaving me so much love-Thanks xx Also a big hello and Thank you to my new followers. Once I get to my target number of followers I will be adding some candy so keep an eye out, but please only follow my blog if you like what you see and would like to take inspiration from my work :)

Take care all xx

For Fun Challenges DT card - Wedding Card/Gift

2011-06-08T00:00:00.003+01:00

Hi All,

Here is my mid week post for you all. Wednesday, this seems to be becoming my favourite day of the week as its getting closer to the weekend lol. I only have 4ish months left of work before I finish for maternity leave so I am doing my best to fit in as much as possible, its hard work man.

So today at For Fun, we are asking you to make a Wedding Card or gift. I have really enjoyed making this card as I have been on a roll with male cards and it was lovely to get all girly, flowery and ebellishy again lol. You know what I mean right? Also, I love weddings so I found making a card for this rather easy. This week we are sponsored by Meljens so I have used the lovely heart from this.

The snazzy pic

I do like the way this has turned out, I am liking the cards I have been coming up with recently. Think the mojo is surly ON lol. So the main image I used is Little Claire, coloured with Promarkers. The heart is Meljens as I mentioned, also coloured with Promarkers and prisma pencils. The paper is my new stack from My Minds Eye. The flowers and pearls are Wild Orchid Crafts and the seam binding and lace are from my local craft store.

So come on guys, come and make something romantic and share it with us at For Fun. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Challenges:

Sketchy Colours: Red, green and white

One Stop Craft: Texture

Our Creative Corner: Wedding Beauty

The Paper Shelter: Celebrate

Have a great day all.

Take Care xx

Fancy a drink or pressie???

2011-06-07T00:00:00.002+01:00

Hi guys,

How are you today? I am just fine. I have a card stall coming up so I am on a roll with cards lol. I am away this weekend so I need to spend every spare moment crafting otherwise my stall will be pretty empty lol. I seem to have given a lot away recently but it's time I raised some money again. I give some of my earnings to charity so it's sure a worthy cause right?

Anyway, again today I am sharing with you another male card. Rather a simple one today. I have a huge shortage of male embellishments so I kept this one simple while I rack my brains as to what else I can use. I may just have to buy some tag sentiments as they look pretty cool on male cards right. With Father's Day round the corner there are a lot of male card ideas around so if you struggle like most of us with male cards, take a blog hop around and I'm sure you will see something you like and can take inspiration from.

So here is my card:

The snazzy pic

Yes the image again is LOTV coloured with Promarkers and Prismas. The tag was just hand cut and the sentiment is a stamp I have but can't remember where from, sorry. The punch is Martha Stewart. The papers are from a new stack but again I can't remember what this is as I am writing this blog from my friends house while the lovely cooks for me, bless her. The buttons and ribbon are stash.

Challenges:

CES: Clean and Simple

Paper Sundaes: Let's get sentimental

Craft Your Days Away: Father's Day/Special Man

The Crazy Challenge: Father's Day

Right that is me for today. Have a great day and see you soon.

Footy boy

2011-06-06T00:00:00.002+01:00

Hia all,

Happy Monday to you all. How are you? I had a really busy weekend. I had my sister and her boyfriend over which was great fun. Had a BBQ on Saturday and cooked a roast yesterday. The weather was supposed to be amazing but it sure wasn't was it? Rather disappointed I must say. My weekends are just getting busier and busier, I have no idea where the weeks are going at the moment. Before I know it, I am going to be a mum!!! Gosh...

Right today I have another male card to share with you. Yes it is another LOTV stamp, I just love them what can I say.

So this little man was again coloured with Promarkers and then I added my Prismas-these are becoming my next favs when it comes to crafting lol. They just add so much depth I love it. The punch is Martha Stewart, the papers are Forever Friends-Men. The sentiment is also LOTV, the gems are stash.

So am I getting better at these male cards? Let me know as I will be showcasing a good few more over the next week or 2. You never know, you may find an idea you like for your own Male/Father's Day cards. So watch this space.

Challenges:

Lily of the Valley: Punch it Up

Simply Create: All about your dad

Craft your days away: Father's Day/Special Man

Paper Sundaes: Let's get sentimental

Creative Inspirations: Father's Day

The Crazy Challenge: Father's Day

On that note, I shall leave you to it and will be back again soon.

Take care all

A boy card...

2011-06-01T22:44:00.005+01:00

Hi Guys,

Happy mid week all. Wednesday is almost over and the rest of the week too, yay! I have been playing around with cards for boys/men these last few days to see if I can improve on them as I really struggle with male cards and need to get better at them. Also I have bought a lot of LOTV boys stamps so need to ensure they look fabby on the cards right lol.

So here is an image I coloured at the LOTV class complete in a card:

The snazzy shot

So what do you think? I must say I think it looks pretty good considering how my other male cards have come up in the past lol. So image is LOTV, coloured with Promarkers and Prismas. DP is from stash as are ribbon and gems. The sentiment is a papermania one from the male collection.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: Fathers Day/Male card

Lexi's Creations: Fathers Day/Man Card

Stamping Scrapping challenge central: Boys, Boys, Boys

Have a fab rest of the week. I better go and do a little cleaning, I have guests coming over tomorrow and a little of the house is not looking its best, yes it is 11pm here in the UK but anyhow, its got to be done right xx

Final GDT post for Papetake Weekly-Sketch

2011-05-31T00:00:00.001+01:00

Hi Guys,

Firstly gosh, where has May gone? Is it me or is this year going really really fast? First day back to work after the bank hols, did u all have a good one? I sure did. It was our 2nd Wedding Anniversary, hubby took us away then we did some shopping, eating and chilling. It was a great weekend. I finally managed to get some decent/trendy looking maternity clothes rather than huge looking oldie clothes. I cannot believe how bad the range is in most shops. Just because you are pregnant doesn't mean you cant look good right? OK that's enough of the rant lol. Also hubby got me a white iPhone 4 as my anniversary pressie, yepi-I am thrilled as I have wanted an iPhone for such a long time!!!

Right to the card then, sad news today guys, my final week as GDT for Papertake Weekly :( I have honestly really enjoyed working with the girls, they have been great and the DT work there is just awesome so I am honored to have been asked to join in. So this week I have a fabby little card to share with you. I won't lie, I have put a lot of effort into this as it was my last one for my GDT spot. I really do like how it turned out, even hubby popped his head round and said, 'now that is just WOW, keep it up babes, they just keep getting better.' Isn't he a sweety x Love him x

The snazzy shot

Again this LOTV image (Love grows) was coloured at the LOTV colouring day. The flower arrangements were taken from the card instructions we were given on the day. I used the sketch from our challenge this week at Papertake Weekly, its just great isn't it? I'm sure you can call do a fantastic job with this one, so come on come and join us!!!

So same drill image coloured with Promarkers and Prisma pencils, Flowers are all WOC, Papers are mixture of freebies from the colouring day and then some I had. Martha Stewart punch and seam binding. Oh almost forgot the beautiful stickles lol. Right off to learn more about my phone now. I love gadgets so much......

Challenges:

Paperplay: Blossoms and blooms

Top Tip Tuesday: Wrap it with Ribbon

A Spoon full of sugar: Flower Power

Stamp with Fun: In the Garden

Have a great week guys, catch you all soon.

Take Care

Slightly delayed For Fun DT Card

2011-05-26T20:24:00.003+01:00

Hi all,

Ooopsy daisy, I've been a little slow this week with posting my DT Card for For Fun, whoopsi... I have been so busy with work this week but all is good. So at For Fun this week we are asking you to be proud of your country and to show off your Patriotic colours!!! Being Bristish, I used Blue, Red and white alongside my cute image:

This week we are being sponsored by Digi Doodle Shop. We have a little Minature Dachshund so this image is just perfect for me. I think I will give this to DH as a thanks for being you card. I don't like the way this image coloured up for me, it just bled everywhere, I think its because the image is so tiny :( The DP is stash. The grunge backing is LOTV (I love these addition stamps) and obviously Promarkers to colour and gems from stash. Right I need to make some more cards today so off to the craft room I go.

Have a great evening all xx

Papertake Weekly GDT card-Pretty Pastels

2011-05-24T20:00:00.006+01:00

Hi Guys,

How are you this lovely sunny Tuesday? I am good and enjoying the weather. I have had such a busy day today, trying to squeeze in as much work as possible before I get too big to drive around for work. So today I am sharing with you my Pretty Pastels card for Papertake Weekly. As you can see from my Sunday post I coloured this image at the LOTV class. Pretty Rosie Posy-what a cutie right.

The snazzy piccy

So like I mentioned the challenge today at Papertake Weekly is Pretty Pastels, I normally hate pastel colours as I think it all turns out too dull, doesn't photograph well etc. But I love the way this turned out. I tried to keep the DPs lighter than the image so all my hard work colouring pays off lol.

So the image is LOTV coloured with Promarkers and finished with Prisma pencils. The DP is Love letters, flowers and seam binding are WOC and pearls are from stash. Can't wait to see what you come up with this week, I like how this pastel card turned out so I'd love to pick up some new tips from all you out there so show me what you can do.

Right off to do some work now. Got loads to do so better shoot. May even take the dog for a walk, it's such a lovely bright evening it would be a shame not to right.

Have a great evening all

Challenges:

Truly Scrumptious: Anything goes and DT call

Top Tip Tuesday: DT Call

CES Challenge: Embellish It

Stamps & Fun: Flower Power

LOTV Colouring day

2011-05-22T15:51:00.003+01:00

Hi guys,

How are you all this windy Sunday? I am good, bump is growing nicely. No card to show you today however as some of you know I attended the LOTV colouring day yesterday along with some other wonderful ladies. It was a fantastic day out, I really enjoyed myself. So I just thought I should give you a little sneak as to what we all got up to:

So we started off by colouring in James the Bear. The colours that we used and the technique were so different to what I would normally do. As always I stuck to Promarkers. Although the class was designed for Copic and Promarker users. I finished him off with some gorgeous stickles. Can't wait to create a Christmas card with him. He was so easy to colour.

Secondly we coloured the boy with Sail. Aren't we all scared of using Reds? Well now that I have a few more reds in my collection, this was so easy to do also. Can you see where the bleeding came in lol. Ooopss. Normally I would have left the sail white or added grey but perhaps coloured the whole sail however look what we did, coloured using brownish shades and only a tiny bit then in came the blender-how cool does that look?

Next was one of my favourite LOTV stamps-Love Grows. Aren't these just darling? Such a versatile stamp. Ok this was a little time consuming to colour but I just love how it came out, I compared it to the one I did a few weeks ago and boy this is so much better. Again I added some stickles.

Finally we had Rosy Posy to colour. I kinda rushed this one as time was running out but again I love the effect. To all the images we added some pencil shading using Prisma pencils, I have never done this before but boy I so will do so now. It just makes the image pop off the paper. Also I learnt I am rather heavy handed with my Promarkers so I need to watch that as this causes bleeding and obviously wastage of ink. Also I learnt the card LOTV sell (super smooth) is actually super, I am sure to move over to this.

So you must be thinking what about the shopping lol. So look what else I got lol, come on I couldn't not hey. I don't think I got carried away at all. Can't wait to make lots of LOTV cards now lol. Right I better go as hubby has just come back home and is starving and the dog won't stop barking lol.

Have a lovely Sunday xxx

GDT For Papertake Weekly-Anything floral

2011-05-17T12:00:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

How are you? I have had a very hectic weekend and then busy day. It was my sisters birthday so we had a little party for her. Then mum had a little op so I decided to stay with her to help her out etc-it went really well and she will be recovering quickly. Now I am away for a few days for work so I am sad as I miss hubby and my fur baby so much. I don't know if it's the pregnancy hormones but I want to spend every minute of the day with hubby : ( Right enough of the soppy mushy stuff. Lets get to todays card.

So the challenge today at Papertake Weekly is floral, anything floral is fine, floral DPs, flowers, flowery stamps etc. So I decided to use a stamp I've boxed away a long time ago, it's a hero arts stamp, such a pretty little thing. To add a bit of contrast I decided not to use ink but to stamp the image with Promarkers, lol yes I am that hooked to them. Just kidding, lol.... I love the contrast it gives, almost like watercolours hey?

The snazzy shot

So the card, I embossed some bright pink card with the cuttlebug, added some seam binding (loving this stuff) some gems and flowers and there you are, a really quicky this one. I am really missing being on my other DT which closed down so have applied for a couple recently, lets hope I get one hey xx

TC everyone x I will be back next week now as I am away from home for a few days. Oh it's the LOTV colouring day next Saturday, I will let you know all we got up to, I am really really excited and looking forward to it.

For Fun DT card - Sketch sponsored by Soft Pencil

2011-05-11T00:00:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

I am really happy today, it's mid week and I have finally been able to partake in my For Fun DT!!!! Wooohoooo. The girls have been so good to me while I was ill. So today at For Fun we have a fab sketch for you to follow, I am sure you'll love it.

We also have a fab sponsor this week, Soft Pencil. I love their images they are so simple and easy to colour but super cute.

So here is another card I made with DHs cousins at the weekend. They loved this image and chose all the papers etc to go with it, I did the cutting and gluing down.

The snazzy shot

Image was coloured with Promarkers, ribbon, gems, flowers and angle hair from stash. DP is Forever Friends.

Have a great Wednesday everyone, see you again soon.

TC xx

GDT Papertake Weekly - Fancy a Punch...

2011-05-10T00:00:00.000+01:00

Hi Guys,

Happy Tuesday. I know the weekend was a little while ago now, but did you have a good one? I sure did, I had DHs little cousins over Sat and Sun, they are 8 and 10. Gosh we had so much fun but I as they left I realised how exhausted I was lol. The dog was also flat out bless him. And we made 4 cards in total together. One of them is displayed today and another will be displayed tomorrow, they sealed up the other 2 before I could even take a pic. I think we did a great job together, what do you think?

This card is my GDT card for Papertake Weekly, this week we are asking you to get all punchy, get out those lovely punches you all own and die cuts etc and show us what you can do with them. Sorry my pics are dark but the weather has been a little dull.

I will be honest, I started this card end of March for my For Fun DT (Christmas theme) but I never completed it, so with the girls over I thought hey why not, lets finish this off and get them to help out too. OK my craft room is a mess but we had fun.

So the image is Wild Rose Studio coloured with Promarkers, the DP is Papermania, the punch is Martha Stewart and the rest is cut using my Cricut Exp-one to add to my Christmas draw ready for the festive season. With the baby due in Nov I am sure I will be behind this Christmas so I am going to try and make as many Christmas cards as I can before I have less time on my hands.

Hope you all have a great day.

Sorry, long time since I posted, I'm sorry.... But here is why and GDT for Papertake Weekly

2011-05-03T00:00:00.001+01:00

Hi guys,

How are you all? I am really sorry I have been a poor blogger recently. My last post was AGES ago. Well I haven't just been bumping, I have been rather poorly. Firstly it was a tummy bug, then some allergic reaction, then asthma, then a cold/flu (in this weather I know!) and then..... I found out I am PREGNANT!!!!!! This was a complete shock to me and my hubby but after the initial shock (well for me, hubby was delighted from the first moment), I am pleased to say I am feeling really excited!!! This will be our first little one and we are really looking forward to it. We had our 12 week scan almost 2 weeks ago and the baby is doing fine. I am so pleased as the doctors were struggling to get me better without harming the baby, but all seems to be OK. Anyway, I could go on forever about the pregnancy but this is a crafting blog so lets get to what I have been up to shall we?

So having not been able to craft for what seems like forever, I was asked to be a GDT for lovely Dawn at Papertake Weekly. I helped Dawn out back in Dec and she asked if I could help again for the month of May. Seeing as I am feeling better I thought, heck why not? Let's get straight back into it right. Here I go waffling again lol, it's obvious I've been away isn't it? I can't stop lol.

So the challenge at Papertake Weekly today is Anything Goes by Lili of the Valley with an added option to use something round. Well you know me, I love LOTV so what better way to return right? I was a little worried the card wouldn't turn out right as I haven't crafted for ages but I am pleased with it.

So, it's our 2nd wedding anniversary 29th May, so I decided to make a card for hubby. This stamp is just perfect for us at the moment, it's called 'Love Grows' by LOTV, seeing as we have a little life growing in me at the moment and it being gardening time here in the UK, I just thought this stamp would be perfect for our anniversary. I have had it a while but never inked it up. The image is coloured with Promarkers, the flowers, corner embellishment and seam binding are all from Wild Orchid Crafts. The punch is MS and the round stamp is also LOTV. Oh, almost forgot the DPs are 'Love Letters' by Trimcraft.

So guys, pray that I stay well and hopefully from now on I will be back to me usual crafty self. I am totally behind with my DT work so I better go and catch up. Speak to you all soon.

Challenges:

Die Cut Dreams: #88 Wedding (Wedding anniversary card for hubby)

Ladybug Crafts ink: #26 Going Dotty

Top Tip Tuesday: #32 Open Challenge

Stamp with Fun: #109 Lace or Ribbon

Stamp & Fun: #45 Hearts

The Crazy Challenge: #65 Cards for Men (Wedding anniversary card for hubby)

TC all xx

For Fun Challenges DT card - Flowers and Sentiment + GDT Call

2011-03-23T19:29:00.004Z

Hi guys,

How are you all today? What a beautiful day it was today, 17.5deg C in March??? Isn't that just unheard of here in the UK? lol, well I am so not moaning as I have really enjoyed the lovely weather we have been having. Anyways today I am sharing a beautiful flowery card for the For Fun Challenge.

The challenge this week is to use flowers as your focal point on the project and to include a sentiment. We are being sponsored by the lovely people at Digi doodles-and there is a prize to be won, whooppiiii. I think I will use this card for my mum or mother in law for Mothers Day, I haven't decided yet. The DP is from stash so I cannot remember where it is from, sorry. The die cuts are from my Cricut, the flowers are a digi from Digi doodles and the sentiment is just typed on the computer. Oh I forgot to add I embossed the circle with my Cuttlebug them mounted the flowers on top, I think the flowers (coloured with Promarkers) came up gorgeous. The gems are stash too.

Right, so at For Fun I have been asked to coordinate Guest DTs, so we are looking for GDT to work with us for 2wks a month starting from April 1st, I already have 2 girls in April so come on guys if you are interested please email me or leave me a comment and I will let you know if you have been successful.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - #27 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Mothers Day

Paper Cutz - #83 Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - #61 Embossing

Right guys, off to make some more cards now. See you soon.

Take Care all.

Teddy Stampers DT-Embossing

2011-03-18T00:00:00.003Z

Hi Guys,

Happy Friday all!!! Finally the end of the week right? Gosh and what a week it has been. This is my first full weekend home since Christmas!!!! Yes I know crazy right. I don't have anything planned other than crafting lol. I am so behind on my DT projects at the moment, I love to make my cards in advance but at the moment it's a little last minute. Anyways, the rush is over, back to reality now.

So today at Teddy Stampers we want to see embossing and yes lots of it too. Dry embossing like what I have done or wet embossing or both. I must admit, my first attempt at this card was using wet embossing around all the edges but I only have gold and silver embossing powder and they just didn't really go with my all out bright springy colours so I ditched that attempt and decided to distress the edges instead and then add a little ink to exaggerate the distressing. But look I didn't forget the embossing lol. I used my favourite D'vine swirls embossing folder, don't you just love this folder?

The fancy shot

The image is a wild rose studio teddy, coloured with my Promarkers. Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, lace from stash, DP is My minds eye 'Spring Papers' and the butterfly punch is EK success I think.

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz: #11 To Die for

Flutter By Wednesday: #146 Sketch

Creative Stamp Friends: #20 Lace

Right guys, I have a few exciting projects coming up in the next few weeks so do pop back. For now however come and join us at Teddy Stampers and show us your embossing.

Have a fab Friday everyone.

Hugs,

x Meera x

For Fun Challenges DT card - Your Choice

2011-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Hi Guys,

How are you all? Today I am sharing my For Fun DT card. Today the challenge is pretty simple, either a monochromatic card using green or celebrate St Patricks Day, Your choice. What will you choose? I chose the monochromatic option and for this I chose to make a male card. This card is for my Father in Law who recently turned 50!

This card was so simple to put together, I just hand cut the tie shape, cut the Marianne designs flourish using my cuttlebug, DP is Papermania, some gems, hand written sentiment and voila here we go. Oh sorry I forgot, I also embossed the tie then filled the dots to give a slightly different green shade. So quick and simple when there is no image to colour hey lol. I must say I did miss my stamps on this one :(

Right off I go, see you all soon.

x Meera x

For Fun DT Card - Anything Spring

2011-03-09T00:00:00.001Z

Hi All,

How are we doing this beautiful sunny day? Isn't Spring just round the corner now? YAY!!!! And I think my card and the For Fun theme (Anything Spring) this week showcases just this perfectly hey...

I just love the DP on this, it is the Forever Friends for Men DP, and the polka dot one is Papermania Christmas pack. As we are being sponsored by Sweet and Sassy we were given this cutey image to work with, this has been coloured with my beloved Promarkers. The flowers are Papermania and WOC, gems are also Papermania. I added some gorgeous lace and then ran the circle through the dvine swirls embossing folder.

Sorry guys this is short and sweet today as I have a lot going on at the moment and need to sleep before I fall asleep at the wheel tomorrow, scary I know but I am incredibly tired at the moment. Lets just say the bright days are cheering me up.

TC all xxx

Teddy Stampers DT Card - Sketch

2011-03-04T00:00:00.001Z

Hi All,

Happy Friday guys, yay, it's the end of the week and tonight is my work's gala dinner. I am rather looking forward to it as my region is looking very positive for Region of the Year award. Wish me luck as this would be just what we need after all the hard work we all put in, especially my manager. She is the most motivated and hard working person I have ever met in my life, she just doesn't stop. She is just great in every way, wish I was half as good as her.

Anyways, to my card now. This fortnight at Teddy Stampers we are asking you to follow a sketch. I think it is rather a jazzy sketch, I sure had fun working with it, now let's see what you can come up with. Here is my take on the sketch:

Ingredients:

All the DPs are Love Letters by Trim Craft. I love these papers they are just fantastic, I don't think there is even one sheet in the pad which I don't like, how rare is that right? The image is forever friends-coloured with Promarkers, the gorgeous lace with organza is from a local haberdashery store, the flower is Wild Orchid and the butterfly punch I can't remember who makes that sorry.

Have a great weekend guys.

x Meera x

For Fun Challenges DT card - Colour Challenge

2011-03-02T00:00:00.001Z

Hi All,

How are you all. Thanks for coming over to my blog today. The challenge today at For Fun is a colour challenge, we want you to use: Purple, Green and Gold, yes the Mardi Gras theme!!! At first I was struggling with these colours but why? What a great combo it is and here is what I have come up with:

The fancy shot

I absolutely love this card, so much so that I may even send it to Lily of the Valley to see if they want to show case it on their inspirations site! I made this card especially for a brand new couple to come. DH's brother proposed to his girlfriend on valentines day on top of the Eiffel Tower!!! How romantic is that? Well this card is especially for the lovely couple, wishing them all the best for the future and big day.

Ingredients:

Image: Bubble Bath from LOTV. All the DP's are from stash. Ribbon is also from stash, as well as the gold twining. The punch is Martha Stewart ( I used the waste hearts from this punch to decorate the corners with the lovely little hearts), the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is just a peel off.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: Receipe-(1 image, 2DPs, 3 embellishments-ribbon, angle hair and flowers)

Top Tip Tuesday: #24 Favorites (Promarkers, MS punch and Flowers)

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Stamps & Fun: #36 Carnival (Mardi Gras colour theme)

Wild Orchid Challenge: #18 Anything Goes

Come on guys, let's see you use these great colours.

x Take Care x

Meera

A blog award!!!

2011-02-24T23:10:00.005Z

Hi guys,

How are you all? I am so pleased it is almost the end of the week. We are away for the weekend as it is the Father In Laws birthday and we have a suprise party lined up for him tomorrow night. So yes we have a busy weekend lined up. Hope I manage to catch up on some sleep by Monday otherwise next week will be even harder lol.

Anyways today I am delighted to share some news with you. Pauline from my For Fun DT has been so kind and awarded me a 'Stylish Blogger Award'!!!! How amazing is that.

In accepting this, I have to follow these 4 steps:

1 - Make a post linking to the person who gave the award!

2 - Share 7 random things about yourself

3 – Award 7 recently discovered bloggers with this award

4 – Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won the award

Now for 7 random things about me...

1 - I am a bubbly chatty person full of lots of life and happiness

2 - I love dancing and quite often move the coffee table out so I can dance away

3 - I only started cooking properly 4 yrs ago and now enjoy it so much

4 - I was a very rebellious child and I'm sorry mum and dad

5 - I have been lucky to travel loads and hope I can continue to do so

6 - I love the colour pink

7 - I want to try new things in life such as Ice skating and horse riding

Gosh that was hard lol...

Now I'd like to share this award with the lovely girls out there who share my passion for crafting.

Hope you all enjoy the award as much as I did.

Take care all x

For Fun DT Card - Sketch

2011-02-23T00:00:00.001Z

Hi All,

How are you this Wednesday morning? I am trying to be healthy at the moment, me and the hubby want to try and loose some weight but all we can think about at the moment is chocolate lol, why does that happen, you try to be good and then suddenly these crazy cravings come along, arghhhh....

Anyways, today at For Fun we have a sketch for you to follow. It's so simple so please do come along and have a go, I'm sure you'll do a better job than me lol. Yes yet again I am not that pleased with this card. This is a card for my Father in law who will be 50 on Saturday, we are having a suprise party for him on Friday, yepi. I think I start to panic when I make male cards, why? I find it so annoying as I cannot add my beloved flowers and bling :( hubby thinks it is great so we'll stick with this. I need to make 2 more male cards this week, any ideas? Any help or inspiration would be greatly appreciated.

This card was really simple to put together, I cut the scalloped card with the Cricut, added some pearl drops to the scallops, cut a circle using the Cricut and ran this through the cuttlebug using the Happy Birthday embossing folder. I then cut the 50 using the Cricut too, added a little gold and blue ribbon. Oh and some buttons as it was hugely lacking embellishments lol.

What do you think?

See you all soon guys x TC x

Teddy Stampers DT Card - Colour theme

2011-02-18T00:00:00.001Z

Hi Guys,

How are you all. Seems to have been some error with my posting today :( It came up completely blank except the pics :( sorry guys. Anyways lets try again shall we? Gosh what a long yet quick week. I am so shattered today, I need my bed big time and a lie in tomorrow. Other than Monday as it was Valentines day, I have worked all day up to 2-3am, so the lack of sleep and the crazy work schedule has come to an end and I seem to have also. I am just looking forward to my bed now, in fact hubby is so tired he's flat out on the sofa just now lol. Think we've all had a long week.

Anyways to my card today. Today at Teddy Stampers we have a colour theme - pink, brown and white. I love this colour combo, so perfect. This is what I came up with:

A fancy shot

This should be an easy one for you so come and show us what you come up with.

Challenges:

Stamp Something: Something Funky (punch)

Paper Sundaes : #56 pick your toppings (Pink and flowers)

Lexis Creations: #33 Bears

Stamps & Fun: #34 Anything Goes

x x x

For Fun DT Card - Happy Birthday!!!!

2011-02-16T00:00:00.002Z

Hi guys.

How are you all today? Did you have a nice Valentines day? I sure did, my hubby had the day off so cooked me a fabby meal and cleaned the whole house. He is a real gem, back off ladies I'm holding on tight to him lol.... This week at For Fun, it is out BIRTHDAY!!!! YAY well OK almost to the day but Yay. I just want to say well done to Helen for keeping the blog going, before I joined a DT I just didn't realise how much work goes into this, so thanks Helen, we all love you and appreciate all your hard work.

This week we are being sponsored but Michelle Perkett, check out her images they are just great. So all we ask is that you enter and ooze 'Birthday' to us, easy right? This is what I came up with:

I love all the bright bold colours.

Come on over guys, help us celebrate our Birthday.

Challenges:

Michelle Perkett: Your choice

Papertake Weekly: Putting on the glitz (glitter and gems)

Can't wait to see what you come up with, join in here

Thanks,

Meera

For Fun DT Card - Hearts

2011-02-09T00:00:00.002Z

Hi All,

Another scheduled post for you today. The challenge at For Fun this week is to celebrate Valentines so we want to see lots of 'HEARTS' please. We are being sponsored by Bonibleaux Designs-great images for Men can be found here. I have used the Putt Putt Hearts digi which I just love. The car image a Wild Rose Studio stamp. This card will be mny hubbies Valentines card. He has 2 loves in his life, obviously me (well I should bloody hope so lol) and CARS!!! This card it completely perfect for him because he has had his new car in the garage now for around 6-9months ish having lots of work done. He has gone for a cream top and metalic red bottom, so I coloured the car to match and used this as my colour theme too. He can't wait to get this baby back but once it is home I will probably not see him much, yay, more crafting time for me lol.

The image was coloured with Promarkers, I embossed cream card stock then rubbed red ink over it, the sentiment is part of a Wild Rose Studio sentiment. The dotty DP is Papermania.

Right all for now as I am still trying to post some other cards for while I am away.

Have a fab day all and don't forget to join in the fun at For Fun this week.

TC x

Teddy Stampers DT Card - Valentines Bear

2011-02-04T00:00:00.003Z

Hi all,

How are you all doing today? I have had to schedule this post as when you read this I will be in Madrid 'enjoying' my annual work conference lol. Don't get me wrong the conference is amazing, so many of our suppliers come to showcase their products but we NEVER sleep, we work hard all day and then party hard all night to early morning, in the room for a shower and then work again lol. And these antics go on for 4 days! Welcome to the world of sales they say. I love it really but I will need to hibernate for a few days when I return lol.

Today at Teddy Stampers we are asking you to get all romantic lol, show us your Valentines Bear, yay.... I love Valentines day, my hubby pampers me loads all day bless him lol, to be honest he is a sweetie most of the time lol.

Here is my sweet Valentines Bear, bringing you loads of red roses:

Fancy shot

This is the first time I have used lace on my cards, I think I will be using loads more, it adds such a soft, romantic feel to the card. The image is sweet Toby with flowers from Wild Rose Studio, those of you who love teddies like me, must visit Wild Rose Studio, Dulcie has some really cute Teddy stamps. Toby was coloured using Promarkers. The papers are Papermania and DCWV-Spring Stash. The lace is from my local haberdashery store, the gems are stash, the sentiment is also Wild Rose Studio. The roses are Wild Orchid Crafts. The fancy scalloped circle and heart were cut on my Cricut Expression. I added glitter to the edges of these.

Hope you can come and join us at Teddy Stampers, we are being sponsored by Stampin' Dragon.

x Take Care x

For Fun DT Card - Ground Hog Day

2011-02-02T00:00:00.003Z

Hi everyone,

How are you all this lovely day? I have scheduled today's post and will be for the next week and half as I am off to Madrid today, yay!!! It's a work conference and then the hubby, my sister and her boyfriend are coming out there so we can have a few days holiday too. I am really looking forward to it. Due to this my next few posts will be short and sweet, hope that's OK.

Today I want to share my For Fun DT card. I am so proud to share this as we are being sponsored by Little Scraps of Heaven and our DT were lucky enough to have 2 images made especially just for us at For Fun!!! How great is that? This week the challenge is 'Ground Hog's Day' - I'm sure my fellow Americans and Canadians will know exactly what this is but like me some of you are probably think huh? Well this is a holiday celebrated in America and Canada on 2nd Feb. According to folklore if a ground hog appears today and it is a cloudy day it signifies winter will end soon, if he appears and it is a sunny day and he sees his shadow this means winter will continue for 6 weeks. Although I don't want winter to continue I noticed many of my fellow DT's went for the spring image so I thought I should display the winter image instead lol.

So here is what I came up with:

The fancy shot

I love my BOW lol, I have been struggling with bows for so long that I just sat in front of the TV for days practising and I think I am getting there now, yay!!! The image was coloured with Promarkers, I added lots of glitter to show off the snow, The flowers are Papermania and Wild Orchid, punch is MS, flourish is Marianne designs, the DPs are Papermania and Forever Friends. I think that's everything lol.

Right I'm off to schedule some more posts now for while I am off.

TC everyone, thanks for all your continued love and support!

My first LOTV Card!!!

2011-01-26T20:44:00.005Z

Hi everyone,

Thanks for visiting my blog today. Gosh I am so excited!!! I ordered some of the new Lili of the Valley stamps on release day and got them soon after, however as I have been all over the place with work I didn't get a chance to use them :( until today :)

It's my hubby's birthday tomorrow so I just had to ink up one of these babies. This was a real rush job, I got this card made in 40mins as hubby was on his way home so I needed to get it made and hidden before he came through the door lol. Although it was a rush job I think it turned out just lovely.

Yes I know it is very girly lol but hubby helped me chose which of the new stamps to get and as I hadn't used them yet I just had to lol. I'm sure he won't mind the oodles of pink and flowers etc lol.

Isn't the image just the sweetest ever? I particularly chose this because my hubby has always put me on a pedestal and looks after me so well. With the girl sat on a box it was just perfect. Yes I know, I won't be getting any flowers tomorrow lol.

So plan for tomorrow, some exciting things and some not so exciting lol. We recently went to India and were told we need to take our booster jabs in Jan, seeing as we are both taking tomorrow off we decided we will get them done then, I don't mind needles at all but hubby is a wimp lol so I will have to hold his hand throughout lol. Then we have some electric men coming over as we have huge problems with our electric meter, yes I know what a way to spend a birthday right? But you know what it's like you can never take a day off and when you do you have to cram everything into the one day and it just happens to be on his birthday bless him. Now we get to the exciting part, I will bake a cake and make a lovely meal for us. Then we are off to see USHER in concert YAY!!!! LOL We both love Usher so are very excited. Then to make up for getting him jabbed on his birthday I will take him out for a meal at the weekend, see I'm not so mean after all lol.

Right, the card, seeing as that is why we are here lol. Image: LOTV. Medium: Promarkers. Papers: My Minds Eye and Love Letters by Trim Craft. Martha Stewart punch, flowers Wild Orchid and Prima, gems and ribbon from stash.

Challenges: Wild Orchid: #15 Lets get sentimental, Papertake Weekly: #52 Sketch, Aud Sentiments: #20 Love themed sentiment, Lili Of the Valley Thursday Challenge: #81 Sketch, Alphabet Challenge: L for Ladies, Crafty Ann's: #32 Ring in the new and old (new stamp, old DP), Top Tip Tuesday: #19 Flowers

Right guys, hope you have a fab evening. Catch up with you all soon.

x Hugs x

DT Project-For Fun: 6.5x6.5 Accordian card holder

2011-01-26T00:00:00.000Z

Hi guys,

How are you all doing? I am really excited to show you what I have created today. Remember a few weeks ago I posted an accordion file? It was only 6x4' and although it is great for holding my stamped images I couldn't use it to hold my cards as most of the cards I make are 6x6'. Sooo, me being me, I sat and played around and made a 6.5x6.5' holder, yepiiiii. Lol, I am so excited as it turned out perfect and I did it myself!

This is how it looks on the outside

And this is the inside, all nicely sectioned so you can put things in nice and organised.

The main aim for this project was the challenge at For Fun today, we need you to create a card box or holder, something you can give as a gift. My childhood friend is getting married so I have made this for her, although I like it that much I make another and keep this for myself lol. The colour theme matches hers so maybe I should give her this one lol.... hmmmm....

Putting this together was really easy, just follow the tutorial link on my previous accordion file project and change some dimensions, if you are interested let me know and I will pop a tutorial on here for you all to try. The papers used on this project are all Papermania-The Big One. The stamped pretty design is from the Graphicus Damask Hearts collection, I added a few gems to this. The flowers are Prisma and Wild Orchid, to these I added a little sprinkle of glitter to make them stand out a little, and that's all really.

I hope you all come and show us your wonderful creations this week at For Fun. It is the DH's birthday tomorrow so I am off to get things ready for that. Have a fantastic day everyone, catch up with you all soon.

xx HUGS xx

Final GD card for Inspirational Card Sketches

2011-01-25T00:00:00.002Z

Hi all,

Sad times today, my GD spot with Inspirational Card Sketches come to an end today :( It has been really fun being part of the team at ICS, I love the sketches they are always such fun. The sketch today is really fab, this is what I came up with:

Fancy pic

Sorry about the quality of the pics guys, I knew yellows would be hard to photograph. Anyways I guess you get the gist of it right? The image in this card is from Digital Delights, called Little dumpling and stork, isn't it a sweet image? I love it. I have a few of the little dumpling images, I will get round to using them all soon I am sure. I coloured the image with Promarkers. The scalloped circle and circle have been cut on my Cricut Expression. The punch is Martha Stewart. The embossed backing is the 'Baby' folder from Provocraft, put through my Cuttlebug, I then added some yellow ink to it. The flourish is Marianne design again put through the Cuttlebug. The flowers are Papermania and Wild Orchid Crafts. The gems are also Papermania.

I hope you can all join us at ICS today, especially seeing as it is my last GD card for them.

I just wanted to thank Dawn for giving me the opportunity to be part of the team at ICS, I have thoroughly enjoyed every week and will be joining in with the challenges as usual.

xx Take Care xx

DT Card for Teddy Stampers-Anything Goes

2011-01-21T00:00:00.004Z

Hello.....

I am really happy today, why? Because it is Friday and a really good childhood friend of mine is getting married tomorrow, I am really looking forward to her big day and celebrating with her. Unfortunately the wedding is in my home city and the hubby is working so he can't make it :( but my whole family (sisters, parents, niece) have been invited so I am sure we will have lots of fun.

So on to the card, I think this turned out beautifully. The challenge today at Teddy Stampers is-Anything Goes, but obviously you must use a Teddy image. We are being sponsored by Ellephantastic, so some of the DT were given Ellephantastic images to use, I was one of them and I chose the cute Tattie Bear with Heart, isn't he just adorable?

The fancy shot

This card took some time to put together, I just couldn't decide on the final design lol. I am trying to use lots of flowers on my cards, I just love the romance they add to the overall design, I am a softy at heart lol. So off to Wild Orchid it will be after payday lol. After much messing around with the flowers, the colouring and the layout this is what I came up with lol. Typically I would have used red backing card but to be different I tried a silvery grey card, I think this worked. The punch is Martha Stewart. the image was coloured using Promarkers. I added some silver stamped flourishes to the edges of the image to make it blend into the overall design. The flowers are Wild Orchid and Prima. The DP is DCWV-Spring Stack and the ribbon is from stash.

Now it's your turn, come and show us your teddies, remember the challenge is Anything Goes so should be nice and easy, especially with Valentines day around the corner, cute teddies are the way to go.

See you all again soon x

DT Card for For Fun-Glitter

2011-01-19T00:00:00.001Z

Hia all,

How are you today? I am feeling very glittery. This week at For Fun we are asking you to use lots of glitter, gems basically anything which sparkles. I love glitter, I try to use glitter on most of my projects so there was no excuse for me lol.

This is what I came up with:

The arty shot:

Now I could have gone totally mad with the glitter but I controlled myself lol. I added glitter all around the DP, which is Papermania-The Big One. I added glitter to the roses (I love how this turned out, just dab a little glue onto the inside of the roses and sprinkle with glitter, they look so pretty). I then stamped the lovely flourish from Graphicus-Damask Hearts collection with Black StazOn and added gems to it. The beautiful punch is Martha Stewart. I have only just added this to my collection recently and love it, I want to use it everywhere. I am also collecting the little hearts which are cut out from the punch (the waste) to use as confetti one day lol... This card took no time at all to make, probably as there was no colouring involved lol.

Come on guys, I know you all must have something sparkly so come and join us at For Fun, and lets have some sparkly fun today!

GD Card for Inspirational Card Sketches

2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone,

How are you? I am doing just fine today. Again I will be away for work for the rest of the week so have scheduled this weeks posts. Today is my 3rd week as GD at Inspirational Card sketches, so next week is my last :( I am rather sad as I love following sketches, but don't worry like the rest of you I will participate in the challenges instead. Before I carry on, I just wanted to thank all you lovely people who have left me comments, I really appreciate them all and love reading them all too-Thank you. If you visit my blog, please do leave me a comment so I can hop over to see your work also.

Right onto this weeks card then. The sketch is really simple and I am sure you can use it for many themes. I am short on cards for men so this is what I came up with:

And the artistic shot:

The image is a Cocodingo digital image, my favourite from here range, coloured using Promarkers. The music script I just printed off the Internet and distressed the paper, the embossing was done using the 'Happy Birthday' folder in my cuttlebug and the sentiment is an old Hero Arts. I went over the embossing, sentiment and image with blue chalk to give it a nicer finish. A few gems and there you go, job done.

Right off to schedule some more DT posts, see you soon guys

x x

For Fun Challenges DT card - Colour Challenge

2011-01-12T00:00:00.003Z

Hi guys,

How you all doing today? Today is officially supposed to by my first DT card for For Fun Challenges, however as you know I have been making DT cards for this challenge since the end of Dec now. I was so excited when I was accepted that my mojo made me participate in every challenge so far lol.

Today we have a colour challenge for you, all you have to do is use 'Black, Purple and Olive'. I must admit I have never made a card using these colours so I was very excited when I saw this. I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out but I am pleased with the outcome. What do you think?

Before I started, one thing I knew for sure was I had to ink up one of my Tilda's. After all those Christmas cards we've all made it feels nice to be making everyday cards again. Well that's what I think anyways lol. The image is Fairy Dust Tilda which I coloured with my Promarkers, I inked the edges of the image and added some glitter to the fairy dust. The flowers and pearls are from a blog candy I won some time ago now. The ribbon is stash. The butterfly border punch is Martha Stewart and the DP is a mixture of different Papermania.

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft: #124 Something New Flowers

Top Tip Tuesday: #17 Anything Goes

Come on, now it's your turn. Let's see what you can come up with using this beautiful colour combo.

Have a magical day everyone

x x x

GD Card for Inspirational Card Sketches

2011-01-11T00:00:00.007Z

Hi Guys,

How are you all? I am slowly recovering from my bug. I don't think I have ever had the flu but on this occasion I may even say I did :/ The docs said I have a chest, ear, throat and sinus infection. I feel like someone has been kicking my head in all the time, it is so sore. I have never been so down before, I just can't wait to get back to normal. Anyway enough of my moaning. Even though I have been ill, I have been crafting, mainly to distract me and I think in most cases it worked.

Today I am sharing my GD card for ICS. I love how this turned out, what do you think?

The sketch to me was crying out to use the Martha Stewart Garden Trellis punch. I folded the sides behind the image to act as an opening gate, I think this turned out lovely. There are 2 images on this card, both by CC Designs, one is Sweater Brigitta and the other is Field Fence. Both have been coloured with Promarkers. I distressed the edges a little and added a huge flower with a tiny flower in it and a happy birthday sentiment. I am running short on birthday cards after the Christmas rush.

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft: Something New-#124 Stamp and flowers and punch

Top Tip Tuesday: #17 Anything Goes

Right guys, I am off to visit some of your blogs.

Thanks to everyone who takes time to leave me comments, I really appreciate them all x Also I do try and visit everyone who has passed by to see what you have been up to x

Have a nice day x And don't forget to come and play along with us this week at ICS, I'd love to see what you come up with x

An Accordion file project

2011-01-09T20:32:00.004Z

Hi Guys,

Poorly old me has spent most of the weekend in bed or in my new craft room. Hubby and I spent hours before Christmas cleaning and sprucing up my spare room into a guest/office/craft room. With all the hard work that went into it, I thought I better use it before he changes his mind and decides to turn it into a man's room again lol. I won't go into the details but I bet you can guess what I mean. Anyways one of my New Years resolutions was to try other methods of paper crafting-not just cards. So today I have made an accordion file. I have never made anything like this before so was really pleased with the way it turned out.

This is how it looks on the outside

And this is the inside, lots of storage space.

I have a habit of inking up images and colouring them in while I watch TV etc, so decided to use this to store images in. But I am sure you can find plenty of things to to with it. The size of this file is 4x6', for a tutorial on how to make this really simple project please visit the oh so talented Maria Bell. Also if you are interested, I have been playing around with the dimensions so if you would like to know how to make a larger file, visit me near to the end of the month where I will share this with you as partof one of my DT projects.

Challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky - #54 Anything Goes

Lady Bug Crafts Ink - #9 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - #51 Circles

Creative Inspirations - #50 Something New (new project I have never tried before)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I'm off to spend some time with the hubby now before he thinks I've neglected him in my craft room lol xx

Teddy Stampers DT card - Celebrations

2011-01-07T00:00:00.001Z

Hi all,

How are you today? I am a little sad, I'm in sales so January is a scary time of the year, this is when we get our targets for the year and our figures go back to ZERO!!! How scary is that?

Anyways, on a happier note, today I am sharing my first DT card for Teddy Stampers. How exciting. This fortnight we are being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps so we were given some images to play with. I chose the chilly bear, I flipped one of the bears and balanced a heart on their noses. This card if for my DH, we've been together for 8 years now so I thought I would give him a cute card to celebrate our anniversary. This is just perfect for the occasion. On that note, the challenge at Teddy Stampers is 'Celebrations' As it is for him I couldn't add too many embellishments lol, although I almost did put some flowers on but then it would have turned out too girly lol.

The heart was coloured on the computer. The DPs are Papermania and Dovecraft. The border punch is Martha Stewart. The sentiment is again from the computer. I added some glittery stickers to the corners and a bow as it was lacking some embellishments, I always find cards for men difficult to jazz up but I think this turned out just right.

Right guys, I better be off, we've had 2 solid days of team meetings before the year starts properly so now it's off to get the numbers rolling in. Wish me luck. I will let you know how I get on as the year goes by.

Bye for now, take care everyone xx

For Fun Challenges DT card - Recipe

2011-01-05T00:00:00.003Z

Hi all,

I'm going to have to make this a quick post. Firstly where have the holidays gone :( It's straight back into work now isn't it? I am away for team meetings with work so I must scoot but before I go I wanted to share my For Fun Challenges card with you:

This week we have a recipe for you to follow, really simple all you need is: 1 image, 2 buttons or brads and 3 DPs. Simple right? So come on over and join in. My image is from Wild Rose Studio-coloured with Promarkers, I love these images, just adorable. The buttons are from stash and the DPs are Dovecraft.

Have a fantastic day all. I will be back soon and will be back to my chatty self, just work calls so I must go today.

Take Care everyone xx

GDT For Inspirational Card Sketches-January

2011-01-04T00:00:00.001Z

Hi all,

How are you this lovely Tuesday? It's my first day back to work having had almost 2 weeks off. So on a brighter note, I have some fab news to share with you. I applied for the DT for Inspirational Card Sketches, however unfortunately I was unsuccessful. However the lovely Dawn asked if I could be GD for January!!! Obviously I said YES lol, so here is my first GD card for ICS. Hope you like it.

I am trying to make a range of different romantic cards ready for Valentines so here is one design to share with you. Both DPs are from stash, the ribbon is also stash. The sentiment is from Graphicus, I love the font on this stamp. The corners are glittery stickers.

I hope you like this card and more importantly come and join in with this beautiful sketch. I'd love to see what you come up with.

Have a fab day xx

GDT For Papertake Weekly

2010-12-28T00:00:00.000Z

Hi Everyone,

How are you doing now that the big day is over? Finished all the turkey? I had a fantastic time, 2nd year running me and the hubby hosted and did we have fun. We have loved every minute of it and hope the family enjoyed themselves too. Funny how I never used to help when I lived at home and now that we have our own place we love getting everyone around for dinner etc. I've grown up loads in the last few years, gosh... sometimes I think back to what a brat I used to be, I've got to make up for it now hey....

Today I am really delighted to share this card with you. Dawn at Papertake Weekly was looking for some GDT's to help out this week at her final challenge of the year so I applied and she accepted!!!! The theme is 'Be Thankful', considering all the presents we have all accepted recently it is only fair we send out some thank you cards right? So here is one of the many I have made. The rest are the same layout just in different colours.

It was difficult keeping away from the beloved stamps but I wanted something which was simple and quick to mass produce so I could send them out to everyone. I like the way they turned out. The flowers are a mixture of Papermania and Wild Orchid, the DP is Papermania. The ribbon is from stash, sentiment is hand written with inked edges, the punch is Martha Stewart.

Come and join us on this fab event at Papertake Weekly, we are being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp!!! How cool is that?

Before I go, I just want to THANK Dawn so much for this opportunity, I am so lucky to have been chosen for this wonderful event.

Take Care everyone, I will be back soon.

x Meera x

My first For Fun Challenge Card

2010-12-22T00:00:00.001Z

Hi Everyone,

How are you all this very festive, cold and snowy season? I am really excited for Christmas, I am hosting again, so exciting. Yesterday was my final day at work until 4th Jan. My job means even when I have time off I could end up working so this time of year is the only time where I do actually get time off!!! Whooopiiiii lol. I love my job but we all need a break now and then don't we?

Anyway as you all know I am now a fellow DT for For Fun Challenges, my term doesn't actually start till Jan but seeing as I had sometime I thought why not make a card, obviously lol. This week at For Fun Challenges the theme is 'Anything Goes' so no excuses guys come on, get those new toys out that you asked for from Santa and have a play, why not...

Seeing as I am done with all my Christmas projects I thought I better start getting down to my everyday cards again, I'm hoping to do a few fates early next year so need to stock up again. So this week I decided on a male card. This is one of my favourite male cards so far I think, so bright and fresh yet simple. What do you think?

Image: Wild Rose Studio

Sentiment: Papermania

Medium: Promarkers

DP: Forever Friends

Embellishments: Button from stash and glittery blue stickers

Hope you can join us with this challenge

Some really great news!!!

2010-12-17T12:42:00.002Z

Hi Guys,

I have some really lovely and exciting news to share with you all. I have been accepted on 2 Design Teams, yes 2 lol. I am so happy and excited. I found out about one yesterday and then another today.

For Fun Challenges-This challenge will run every Wednesday and there are lots of exciting projects coming up so stay tuned in.

Teddy Stampers-as you can all see from looking at my work, I love teddies so this is just perfect for me. This challenge will run every other Friday so the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. Again lots of exciting stuff coming up so come join us in the new year.

Just want to take the opportunity to thank everyone for all their kind words and support on my blog.

For the One I Love

2010-12-11T19:45:00.008Z

Hi Guys,

I have thoroughly enjoyed making this card today. I needed to make one last Christmas card and I left the best to last. Not only is this my favourite Christmas card I have made this year but it is also for my most favourite person in my life-my hubby : )

It has been a few days since I got a chance to sit down and make some cards, so I was worried my mojo may have vanished but I so love how this turned out.

For this card, I used 3 DPs all Papermania Christmas range, I distressed and then embossed all the edges in gold embossing powder. The image is a cute little Tilda coloured with Promarkers. I added a little embossing to Tilda's bow to keep with the gold theme. The Heart is a Graphicus stamp, stamped with Versa clear ink and then embossed using Gold embossing powder. I added a few white plastic snowflakes and then some gems in the corners.

Challenges:

Totally Tilda: #11 For the One I Love

Sketch Saturday: #133

Sweet Stampin Challenge: #Recipe

Just Magnolia: #85 Christmas Card

Alphabet Challenge: G for Glitter (hope gold embossing counts)

Delightful Challenges: Embossing

I hope the hubby loves it as much as I do

Anyone for Anya? DT Call

2010-12-10T23:46:00.004Z

Hi guys,

Hope you are all well. Sorry for the lack of posts from me recently, I was away for work and couldn't get home due to the snow :( Anyway, it is that time of year when I am stressing and rushing around making lots of cards, however one bit of good news is that I am really on top of my Christmas shopping, woopiiiiieeee....

As I am home now and behind with card making and gagging to get back into doing some challenges I was browsing blogs and look what I found...

Anyone for Anya? is looking for new talent, they are hoping to take on 4 new DT members and I would LOVE to be one of them. So here are a few cards I would like to show you that I have made using Anya or CC design stamps-aren't these images just gorgeous-if I get on the DT I will feel no guilt in purchasing all the images lol....

Hope you like what you see, wish me luck guys xx

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #34: Monochrome

2010-11-29T00:00:00.001Z

Hi everyone,

How are you all this fine Monday? I'm sad :( my time with Craft Your Passion has come to a speedy end :( I have really enjoyed my GDT post so thank you so much for having me guys I really appreciate it. Some of the challenges took me out of my comfort zone, exactly what I was looking for.

The challenge this week is go Monochrome with any choice of colour. I chose blue but like I said you can choose any colour so come on show us what you've got.

This card was lovely to put together. The embossing was done via my cuttlebug and the d'vine swirls folder. I then rubbed some pigment ink over the embossed card. I cut the digi out using my craft knife, added a little glitter (why not) and a little colouring with promarkers. The sentiment is hand written. I cut the sentiment tag using my Martha Stewart punch to create an interesting edge. This card was really easy to put together, great as Christmas is just peeking around the corner now and gosh do we ever make enough cards for Christmas lol. Some years I must admit I have had to make a last minute dash to the shops for some Christmas cards as I haven't made enough but this year I am determined NOT to do that so quick simple yet elegant cards are just perfect.

Right goodbye from me from my Craft Your Passion post, I will come back and visit, don't worry.

Thanks for having me and for all your lovely comments

Challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers: #35 White & Splash

x TC x

Vintage Teddy with favourite things

2010-11-22T22:43:00.003Z

Hi everyone,

I'm so pleased to be crafting again and just as I got into it, I am going be away from home for work again till Monday so no more cards for me till Monday guys :( I'm really sad... So today I wanted to make a special card and not a Christmas themed one, my poor non Christmas stamps have been picking up dust so I had to get this one out. I don't normally work with vintage browns but I love cards that use a lot of brown. So I tried this one, what do you think? I really do like this, it came out just right:

And yes I had some fun taking the pics too lol

I love the way the colouring turned out too. I am thinking a lot more before I plonk colour onto my images. I always added shading but sometimes it didn't flow throughout the image as it should, so I need to get this right now-not that anyone has noticed or if they have they've been too polite to say lol xx

So this card is trying to express all things I love, obviously pink has to be number 1 however I tried to keep it to a minimum as the 2nd thing was to try something new and challenge myself, this for me was to try a different colour and brown it was!!! Number 3 CAKE lol, now who doesn't like cake hey. I love decorating cakes, when I lived at home we always baked at the weekends but seeing as there was 5 of us and lots of family and friends popping over throughout the weekend you couldn't pig out on your creations which was great. Seeing as there is only me and the hubby at home baking is out of the question otherwise we would just pig out completely lol. Infact I nearly asked the hubby for a cake decorating kit for Christmas but I think that could get dangerous and we would be piling on the pounds in no time so for now I will refrain. Don't worry there is plenty of crafting goodies I have asked for lol.

Sorry this post has been me waffling on as usual. So to the ingredients: DP is Dovecraft, Image Forever Friends-coloured using Promarkers, little brown chalk to distress the edges, bit of glitter, a foam sticky sentiment and gorgeous blue satin ribbon.

Entered Challenges: Paper Sundaes: #45 Sketch, Paper Romance: #25 Things we love (trying something new, pink, cake), Fab 'n' Funky: #49 Forget me not (stamp), Forever Friends: Chocolate/Cake

Right guys, off to bed now, see you next week, have a fab one

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #33: Sketch

2010-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Hi Guys,

Happy Monday to you all. I've had a lovely relaxing weekend. Last week was a busy one at work so I needed a nice relaxing weekend and lots of crafting, just perfect. My time with Craft your passion is quickly coming to an end :( next Monday is my last week. I have really enjoyed my GDT post. So this week we are looking for you to follow our sketch and create something fabulous, come on guys lets see what you can come up with.

My card this week is for a boy, I'm pleased with the way this turned out, cards for men are usually difficult for me but this just turned out lovely I think and I didn't even think about it too much I just did it. Maybe that's just what I should be doing right... I used football paper from Forever Friends, I embossed a circle with a large circle folder, I coloured the image with my beloved promarkers, added a few gems and a sentiment on a tag with a tiny bit of ribbon.

Come on guys, come and join in with us this week and have fun x

Spotty winter bear

2010-11-21T17:32:00.004Z

Hi guys,

I'm having fun today making some lovely cards. Some you will have to wait and see but one here for you now. If you're lucky you may actually see some more if I get time to post more today lol. I'm not feeling too great these last couple of days, I've got really bad tummy cramps which keep coming and going. It's really annoying, it woke me up a few times too. Anyway hopefully it will just go away, to keep my mind off it I have been crafting the hours away (and doing house chores in between obviously lol). Thought I could post this and maybe squeeze in another card before the Strictly and X Factor results shows lol.

The DP used is Papermania, from 2 different pads. I have lots of white snowflakes cut out of plastic, I added some glitter to these to make them stand out a little more. The image is Wild Rose Studio Christmas 2010, coloured with Promarkers. I used 2 different Martha Stewart punches and finished off with a few gems and distressed the edges.

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Christmas Stamping All Year Long: #71 Sketch

Just Cute Bears & Friends: #40 Winter Birthday

Happy Crafting everyone x

Fussy and Fancy DT Call

2010-11-20T22:43:00.007Z

Hi Guys,

A brave move for me so wish me luck. After my GDT post with Craft Your Passion, I have now got a hunger for a permanant DT post. I was browsing through blogs today and came across this one at Fussy and Fancy. You've got to be in it to win it right, so I though hey come on give it a go and see what happens. In order to apply I need to display 3 pieces of my best work, well here you go:

I feel these represent me the best-wish me luck everyone xx

I think my mojo's coming back!!!!

2010-11-20T19:23:00.008Z

Hi guys,

I am so excited today, I had a play around with a few ideas today and yes I love what I've come up with lol... Can I say that lol... Are any of you keeping up with Strictly Come Dancing? I love dancing so much, wish I could take part in it, my husband thinks I'm a loony as I've moved my coffee table out of the way and I have been dancing around the living room lol... Hey why not? Today my card is all about circles, glitter, metallic foils, lots of snowflakes and PINK lol my favourite colour. Seeing as I was trying to get my mojo back what better way than to work with my fav colour hey lol. Well here it is:

This is a Woodware stamp of lots of circles making up a wreath. I think I got excited with all the embellishments I've got glittery stickers, glitter, metallic foils, buttons, gems and ribbon lol. Oh I forgot the sequins lol... Gosh yes that is a lot of embellishments. The DP is Papermania pink Christmas. Right off to carry on dancing with Strictly and then X Factor (don't worry I don't sing lol), a night of lots of TV....

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

The Pixie Cottage: #45 Sketch or ribbons and bows-I kept with the ribbons and bows; ABC Christmas Challenge: X for Xmas, Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club: #44 Christmas Anything Goes, The Crafty Calender: #14 Winter Snowflakes, Crafts and Me: #17 Glitter, 2 Sisters: #14 Snowflakes, Crazy 4 Challenges: #64 Circles, Simple Doodles: #31 Cute as Button, Fairy Fun Friday: #40 Buttons and Bows, Top Tip Tuesday: #10 Buttons Galore

Have a fab Saturday everyone x missed you all x

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #32: Diamond Fold Card

2010-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Hi guys,

This is my first post since I have returned from holiday. The holiday was amazing, we did lots of travelling and it was just great. I saw the Taj Mahal... that was just a stunning day. Anyways, this is a card blog not a holiday blog so before I go on and on about the holiday let me tell you about my card.

This week at Craft Your Passion, we were asked to make a diamond fold card, this I found really difficult to start with. I think I've lost my mojo because first I just couldn't figure out the folds (so simple now, I don't know why I was being so dumb) then I couldn't make my mind up about what to put on it. The image I wanted to use didn't look great to me when I made it smaller so I decided to cut the image out instead to make it work. To be completely honest I still don't know if I like it or not :( I found this image difficult to work with as I couldn't decide what theme I should go for. As Christmas is round the corner and I need to keep adding to my Christmas cards (don't we all) I decided to emboss the side panels in a snowflake folder to keep to the Christmas theme. Overall this is a really simple card, the instructions on how to make this card are here. I coloured the image in promarkers and rubbed some chalk over the embossed card. Very simple indeed.

Guys I will be back with some more fun cards, I need to get back into it, I just can't get started that's my problem, 3 weeks away from it all and this is what happens tut tut tut.....

Thanks for all your comments while I was off, keep them coming, it may help get my mojo back x

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #31: Double Anything on Your Card

2010-11-08T00:00:00.001Z

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all very well. Wow week 2 already for me as GDT for Craft Your Passion. Doesn't time just fly. So this week at CYP we are asking you to 'Double Anything on Your Card'. Simple right? Well I think I went a little mad with this one lol. So here it is...

Close up of image

I wasn't so sure what to do with this image when I saw it but I love the way this card came out. I think the red and black theme really goes with this. Such a naughty but nice image ; ) So what did I double? Well it may be easier to say what I didn't double lol. I used 2 main colours (red and black), 2 dp's (both papermania), 2 ribbons (from stash, silky red and polka dot red) and finally 2 flowers (one papermania and one rose from Wild Orchid). You don't have to go and double everything like I did but hey I just couldn't help myself lol.

Now come on, play along with us at Craft Your Passion and show us what you'll double. Thanks for stopping by and for all your comments, I love reading them all x

x x {{ HUGS }} x x

Craft Your Passion: Challenge # 30 Anything Goes GDT

2010-11-01T00:00:00.001Z

Hi Everyone,

What a fab start to the month. I am away in India however I have pre-scheduled this post, really hope it works, I did test one and it worked fine so I'm sure it will (fingers crossed). Today is my first attempt at a GDT spot for Craft Your Passion, this weeks challenge is 'ANYTHING GOES', so no excuses guys, come and play along with us x Here is my card...

Close up of image

I really like this image, I wanted to add to my Christmas card collection so I coloured the bird like a Robin and then coloured the flowers to look like poinsettia's. The image goes perfectly with the backing paper. The paper is from Papermania. The image was coloured using Promarkers and chalks. I added a little ribbon to the corner of the image and a Papermania flower with a rose on top (Wild Orchid). This image is so versatile, you could use it for any theme of card, next time I use it, I will be making a contemporary card I think....

Now head off to Craft Your Passion to check out the gorgeous DT creations and play along with us-remember ANYTHING GOES and you could win some fab digi's.

x TC x

GDT For Craft Your Passion!!!!

2010-10-11T20:15:00.000+01:00

Hi Guys,

Before I go on holiday I wanted to share my fab news!!! Lovely Laurette from Craft Your Passion has asked me to be a Guest DT for the month of November. How amazing is that. I am so chuffed as I have not been blogging for long, woohoo!!!! I am absolutely delighted (smiling from ear to ear lol). However as some of you know I am off on holiday on Wednesday till 3rd Nov (nice long break) so I have made up 2 cards today for the challenges ready for Laurette to post while I am off. I will be back for the second week however I didn't want to leave making the card last minute so made it today too. I'm so proud for being so well organised. Ok the packing is so behind, but once I have posted this and pre-scheduled my GDT posts I will carry on.

Please come and support me on my adventure with Craft Your Passion for the month of November, the challenges start every Monday and you can win some fun digis. Obviously do play along now as always too lol.

x x x

Really touched by Blog Award and some exciting news...

2010-10-08T18:13:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,

Gosh finally it is FRIDAY, this just feels like the longest week ever. It has just been SO busy. I am off on holiday next week for 3 weeks to India and work has really got on top of me, I am a field sales rep so I have been out seeing customers all day then coming home to action all my days events and been trying to make cards, as well as packing and house chores and walking the dog and being a wife etc etc.... Yes much like everyone's life I guess but then it gets worse, my laptop broke, which my darling hubby fixed, only to find my work blackberry died the next day!!! This just completely put my work life on hold as I couldn't do ANYTHING while I was out and about for work so have been working late every night then waking up after a handful of hours of sleep so yes I really pants week....

Anyway, now that I've let that out, I have 3 bits of REALLY good news, and this is what has kept me going all week. Firstly I am off on holiday next week, I am so excited, I haven't been to India for 15yrs so only have childhood memories and lots of poorly memories lol (my fault completely, I didn't listen to my parents when they said don't eat or drink something lol) the hubby has never been so we are really looking forward to it.

The second bit of news, I had an email from Laurette of Craft your passion, she has asked me to be a GDT for November, I just cannot believe it, I am absolutely delighted and excited. I haven't been blogging for long so this just blew me away, I just can not wait to get started, in fact, am I supposed to be sharing this? : / Anyway I just had to as I am rubbish with keeping such exciting secrets lolz.

And the last but surely the most touching and special news is my Blog Award. This I had to read and check many times before I believed it. I am one of those people who is just unlucky (not looking for sympathy but I never win anything or get anything, I just keep working hard and hope that one day things will get better) and you know what they just are. My job is really demanding, I love it but it can take over my life this is why this year I thought I really have to do something to keep me sane and it is my crafting. Like I said already I am new to blogging yet someone as talented as Sally Atkins (check out her blog if you haven't before, it is just fab) really blew me away with this award:

Thank you so much Sally, I really appreciate it x

In order to accept this award I have to tell you 7 things about me and then pass it to 7 bloggers, so here goes:

I am an extremely bubbly, happy go easy character
I never switch off, I'm always doing something
I love my hubby, fur baby and family loads
I was a huge rebel as a child and teen and have changed a lot since, I am so pleased I did, thanks to the hubby
I love going to the gym and keeping fit and active
I grow my own veg and am a keen gardener
I like to express myself and my personality in my work

Now to the blogs I want to pass this award to. I love visiting your blogs and find them extremely inspiring. Thank you x

Maria (it was from stalking your blog that I started my own)
Mackenzie (again I stalked your blog loads before I plucked up the courage to start my own)
Mandy (your work is just amazing)
Lisa (your work and colouring is beautiful)
Chrissy (you are just so talented and generous)
Debs (again just great work)
Jacqui (just great talent and inspiration)

I hope you all have a wonderful day x

Long time no see?

2010-10-05T21:02:00.002+01:00

Hi Guys,

How are you all? I'm still not feeling great but pondering on. I have been away with work last week, got back home on Sunday night and just had so much to do around the house. Last night I spent crafting, it was so nice to just be able to do some cards again, it's been absolutely ages. This is going to be a LONG post, go grab your cuppa and hung on with me.

Today I have 5, yes 5 cards to show you. Some I started before I went away for work and some I made yesterday. I will go through each one individually. I have had a few orders for Christmas cards, but they want traditional, as you can see from my previous work I am not really into this, but then I found this below. I think these cards are just great, what do you think?

Front of card 1

Inside Card 1

Front of Card 2

Inside of Card 2

Front of Card 3

Inside Card 3

Sorry about the pic, they were really hard to take, just couldn't get the lighting right. These are 3 designs from a Trinitage range. Decoupage isn't really my thing but when I saw the sample card at the local craft show I thought, hey how great is this? OK it isn't really decoupage, but the images are lovely and very traditional. Hope the guys like these who are looking to order some traditional cards.

The way it works is, the images come printed on a sheet of A4 paper, you cut them out and make some cardboard tubes to stick the layered images onto and design to your hearts content... Simples... lol OK if you want some more informed instructions, just email me and I can send them over, it is really easy and looks great. I kept the fronts really simple because the cards are displayed in the pop up format so the front isn't really seen. I added some glitter to the images (can't not hey)...

Challenges:

Cards 1,2,3-City Crafter Challenge Blog: #25 Hooray for the holidays

Cards 1,2,3-Charisma Cardz: #39 Christmas Crafting

Card 2-A Spoon Full of Sugar: #124 Sparkle and Shine (although all cards would qualify except cricket card lol)

Card 3-There's Magic In The Air:Magical Monday-A Christmas Card inc Snowflakes (the front of the card has snowflakes on it)

Card 3-ABC Christmas Challenge: T if for Tree

Card 4

Sweet Mandy of of A Sprinkle of Glitter very kindly sent me some candy through the post and one of the images is Sleeping Tilda in the card above. What better timing of this arriving? My cousin had a baby girl yesterday and this card is just prefect for her, the timing couldn't have been better!! I coloured this with Promarkers. The flourish is cut using a Marianne D die, how cute is that? The flowers are from Wild Orchid and Papermania. The ribbon, paper and gems are from stash.

I am entering Card 4 into the following challenges:

Pollycraft Monday Challenge: #64 Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant: #85 Childhood

Just Magnolia: #75 Anything Goes

Stamp Something: Something to celebrate

One Stop Craft Challenge: #100 Congratulations

Craft Your Days Away: #5 Babies

Front of Card 5

Inside Card 5

Challenges:

Card 5: Stampavie and More: #110 More than one fold

This is a gate fold card for a friend, as you can tell he is a huge cricket fan. The image, sentiment and DP is Papermania. For the inside of the card I just stamped loads of cricket related images, again from the Papermania range all around the inside. For the inner I coloured the items in chalks and added some shading around the image to make them look like they are flying around, can you tell?

Right almost to the end now. Recently I won a beautiful blog award, thing is I need to tell you 7 things about myself and forward the award to a few people, I already have 3 definite candidates, just going to browse some more blogs now to find some more beautiful blogs, yes I know all of them lol.... This is so hard x Come back to see if it is yours x

Bye for now x

Romantic 30th

2010-09-26T18:38:00.002+01:00

Hey my second post for today.

This card is for my brother in law, he is 30 soon. My sister wanted a romantic card for him with 30 on it, just to remind him how old he is lol. So here is what I came up with. A really simple design as this is what she asked for. Also as it is for a man I didn't want to glam it up too much.

This card was easy to put together, I stamped these absolutely beautiful heart stamps from Graphicus with versa ink, covered them with gold embossing powder, used a heat gun to emboss the powder then cut the hearts out. I cut the 30 using my Cricut and the tiny hearts are a punch. To these I added tiny gems. The ribbon is from stash. I just love these heart stamps. It is a fab set, check it out here.

This card is entered for the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar: #122 Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz: #38 Anything Goes

Allsorts: #71 Plain and Simple

Crazy 4 Challenges: #56 Bling (the gold embossing and gems)

Keep it Simple: Gold Dust

Sentimental Sundays: #22 Dimension (embossing and the middle heart is on foam)

That's all for this post, I'm off to make some more cards now lol x

I'm Back!!!

2010-09-26T15:25:00.002+01:00

Hi guys,

Oh I have missed you all so much. I am back..... YAY!!!!!

In terms of how I'm feeling? Well I can just about sit now for a decent period of time so that means I can CRAFT AGAIN!!! I am so behind with my cards. I have 2 urgent orders and one is complete and below. This card is made especially for a footy mad young lad, he loves Lionel Messi and Barcelona AND he is going to be 10!!! This card just turned out lovely, I am sure he will love it.

This is the front of the card. The boy who the card is for is a huge Messi fan, however I couldn't find a decent picture of him for the card. Then I found this shirt with the number 10 on it. As the boy is going to be 10, I had to work with this. The rest of the card stemed from here.

This is the inside of the card. A clipart of a football pitch. I added 3 gems to the centre and goaly box so that when the card was stood up in it's display position the top had something to lean against and stand in the correct position.

This is the card in it's display position.

Another pic of the card in it's display position.

This card was great to make as it is a completely different style for me and I always struggle making cards for boys/men however this is one of my favourite male cards. I hand cut the footballs from a small bit of scrap dp (Forever Friends-For Him). I cute the sentiment with my Cricut E, I alternated the maroon and navy to match the Barcelona kit. I love it. What do you think?

This card is being centered into:

A Spoon Full of Sugar: #122 Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz: #38 Anything Goes
Allsorts: #71 Plain and Simple
Crafty Sentiments Designs: #36 Use your scraps (footballs cut from scrap dp)
One Stich at a Time: #32 Anything Goes

So good to be back! Hopefully if I carry on as I have been, trying to relax and rest, then you should see loads more of me in the coming days x Take care everyone x

Ouch : (

2010-09-17T13:45:00.000+01:00

Hi Guys,

I just wanted to let you all know I am still here but unfortunately I've had a rather nasty fall. I was moving my craft stuff upstairs and basically fell down the stairs. I have really hurt my hand, ankle and back. I am on really stong pain killers and they are making me feel really rough : / According to the doc I should be better next week. I had an Xray today just waiting for the results. Wish me luck as if I have broke anything I will need an op and I can't face that. My mum and dad are coming over to look after me today, I have never missed my mum so much : ( I know still a kid at 25, I should be ashamed of myself.

I will be back as soon as I can x

Magnolia Blog Candy

2010-09-13T19:00:00.000+01:00

Ying is having a fab Blog Candy give away to celebrate her birthday. Hop along, you'll be crazy to miss out!

x Good Luck x

A Blue-tiful Christmas

2010-09-12T20:27:00.002+01:00

Hi Guys,

Oh I just love the way this turned out. I must be honest and say this did take me all day lol. I kept getting interrupted but the end result is lovely. My hubby wants this card lol, I'm not sure what he will do with it but we love it. What do you think?

This card looks so much better in the flesh.

Card Recipe: The image is from the Forever Friends collection, the DP is Papermania Chatsworth Vintage collection, the large flowers are Prisma and the small ones are from Wild Orchid. The Pearl pins are from a flower arrangement that I had lol. I hand cut and wrote the tag. Ribbon and Gem is from stash. Image coloured using Promarkers. I added some glitter around the image and on the Santa hat.

This card is entered into:

Simon Says Stamp: Holiday Fun

Pile it on: #35 Pile on the Layers

Crafts and Me: Gems and sparkle

Wild Orchid Challenge: #5 Pearls and Pins

The Shabby Tea Room: #26 'Tag You're It'

Just Cute Bears: #34 Photo inspiration (my colour combo came from this)

ABC Christmas Challenge: S for Santa (hope a teddy Santa is OK)

Paper Sundaes: #35 at least 3 different embellishments (Ribbon, gem, flowers, Pearl pins)

Come and play along with us.

Aud Sentiments September Candy

2010-09-12T13:23:00.000+01:00

Hi All,

Hop over to Aud Sentiments to take part in the September Candy. If you love Ribbon you've gotta go NOW!!!

Good Luck xx

A man card

2010-09-11T22:35:00.001+01:00

Hiya all,

Hope you are having a fab day. I sure am, I spent most of it crafting (who doesn't love that). Then helped the hubby cook and back to crafting, although this will have to be my last post today, sorry xx

I really am pleased with this card. Like most of us, I find cards for men rather difficult. But this was lovely to put together and turned out rather sweet. What do you think?

Card Recipe: Stamp Wild Rose Studio 'For Men' collection. The dotty paper is Papermania 'The Big One' and the football paper is Forever Friends 'Just for him' I love this paper, shame you can't buy it in individual sheets :( The football in the corner is from stash using a sizzix die I think. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and that sit, simples....

I'm going to look at some of your work now before I go to bed, I will be back tomorrow with some more fun ideas.

This card is entered into:

Papertake weekly: #47 Sketch (I played around with the sketch a bit, hope that's OK)
City Crafter: #21 One for the Boys
Crazy 4 Challenges: #54 Colour scheme came from this
xx Have a fab day xx

Stamped Candle

2010-09-11T20:58:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Right I finally got round to doing it! Woohoo! I have seen a few of these and not managed to get down to trying it so I saw a challenge on Charisma cardz (#36 Try Something New) and thought I should pull my finger out and try it. Sorry about the pic, I just couldn't get a decent picture, I took the candle all around the house with me lol.

So here it is:

Yes I know it is NOT the most beautiful thing I have made but it WORKS!!! I just picked a simple stamp (from Graphicus) that didn't need any shading etc to test this technique. All you do it stamp an image onto a tissue paper, colour it using your preferred method (I used a Promarker). Then cut out the image, position it onto the candle, cover the whole candle (all the way round) with paper, wax paper or grease proof paper (I used an A4 sheet of paper). Heat over the stamped image with a heat gun, spread heat evenly, remove the paper and your image should have adhered to the candle. The kinda mistake I made is that I didn't really know when to stop lol. Then I just added a little glitter around the image to finish it off. I would love to make some Christmas ones but before I do I thought I would light the candle at home and make sure it is 'safe'. Don't want any accidents now do we? Lol

So the candle is lit in my living room right now and it looks lovely. It will probably be a few days before we get to know if it is safe. I hope it is as I would love to try it again. Give it a go and let me know how you get on, or if you have any tips. I would love to see your creations so leave me a comment so I can come take a look.

Hope you enjoy, I sure did x

Fairy dust Tilda

2010-09-11T16:34:00.001+01:00

Hiya again everyone.

Another of my creations for you today. This time I went back to my favourite colour Pink. This is the first time I have used this stamp, it was a treat to colour and I added sparkle to the fairy dust.

I created this step card sometime ago when I was playing around with my at the time new hougie board. It makes cards like this so simple to make. I bought my hougie from my local craft shop 'Hooked on Crafts' in Kingswood, Bristol-Nik is really nice and very helpful. It's great because it has cm on one side and inch measurements on the other, no need to purchase 2 boards now.

Card Recipe: Stamp is Fairy Dust Tilda, DP is Dovecraft Piece of Cake, sentiment is a freebie from a craft magazine from some time ago, rest from stash.

This is card is entered into:

Flutter By Wednesday: #121 Pink
Aud Sentiments: #10 Best Wishes

Thanks for stopping by x

Cute Dog

2010-09-11T13:26:00.001+01:00

Hi Guys,

Gosh what a busy week I've had. Work has been so busy also I've had a rather poorly Ricco (my sweet fur baby). Me and the hubby have been so worried about him, turns out he had 'dog flu'. He is still on meds but hopefully on the mend, in fact he's sleeping on my lap right now bless him, rather uncomfortable for me but as long as he's OK hey. Anyway so this is why I have been a little incommunicardo this week, sorry guys.

This card is for him, Ricco is a Miniature Dachshund but I don't have a dachsy stamp so this is a get better soon card for him.

The stamp is from Wild Rose Studio, sorry can't remember what it is called. They also have some cute cat stamps.

Card Receipe: DP Papermania, The Big One. Image coloured with Promarkers. Large flowers from Papermania and small ones from Wild Orchid, gems are also Papermania.

I love how this card is so simple yet elegant. Here's hoping Ricco gets better soon.

This card is entered into:

Just Cute Bears: #33 Dotty
A Spoon full of sugar: #120 Animal Crackers

Thanks for stopping by guys xx

How pink...

2010-09-03T18:51:00.001+01:00

Hi guys,

This is my favourite card today, probably because it is SO pink lol. I do love the Orange one I posted earlier too, anyways...

This is Milton with Robin from Wild Rose Studio. I think I've got the full Christmas collection from Wild Rose lol, I do love Dulcie's designs they are fab. Check them out here.

The sketch for this card came from The Sweet Shop #71 where I am entering this card.

Receipe: All DPs are from DCWV Christmas Multistack-Rose tinted Christmas, the image is coloured using Promarkers, I added lots of glitter to the image, a snowflake punched using Xcut and ribbon is from stash.

I just wanted to say a BIG THANKS to everyone who has left me such lovely comments, I really appreciate them all, they mean so much to me and keep my mojo going, thanks guys.

Crafters Companion Sketch

2010-09-03T17:17:00.001+01:00

Hiya again all,

Hope you are having a fab afternoon. Isn't it strange making a Christmas card in the sheer heat? Lol well better to start now than rush it later in the year hey.

Here is Christmas Milton from the Wild Rose Studio range. Isn't he lovely...

I had so much trouble with the ribbon on this one, my scissors had gotten all sticky and it kept pulling the ribbon, I had to chuck so much away : (

Receipe for card: Papermania DP, Martha Stewart Doily punch, Xcut snowflake punches. Rest from stash

This card is entered into:

Crafters Companion monthly challenge: #4 Sketch
Papertake Weekly: Just the one (one dp and one ribbon)

xx Thanks for stopping by xx

Bright Orange Pixie

2010-09-03T15:24:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone,

How are you all today? Another beautiful day here in England. This is where my colour scheme came from today, the day started a little dull so I decided to get the bright colours out and hope the day brightens up, and guess what? It so worked, I finished the card and the SUN came out lol.....

I've not made a tall card in ages. I'm pleased with the way this turned out.

Recipe for card: Dovercraft Wild Blossom DP, C.C. Designs Birgitta on a tree stump stamp coloured with my beloved Promarkers, Flowers are a mixture of Papermania and Prima. Ribbon bow from stash. Scalloped Martha Stewart punch.

Card entered into:

Alphabet Challenge: S for Scallops
My Time to Craft: #105 In the Garden

Come and play along with us

xx TC xx

Toby with flowers

2010-09-02T21:14:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well. If you are in the UK hope you've managed to enjoy the beautiful weather we've had recently? I wanted to capture this onto a card and here it is:

This is Toby from Wild Rose Studio, isn't he a cutie? I love spring and summer because I am a keen gardener and I grow my own veg, and this time of year is when my garden looks at it's best. I love going into the garden picking my dinner for the day and flowers for the house, it's just great.

Recipe for the card: Toby with flowers stamp-coloured with Promarkers, Papermania flowers, DCWV Spring stack papers, Martha Stewart punch. I added liquid pearls to the image backing card. The rest is from stash. I must say I used the double sided tape from Do Crafts on this card for the first time ever and it really doesn't stick very well, not impressed. Has anyone else had this problem?

I am entering this card to:

Cute Card Thursday: #128 Material Girl (Ribbon)

Teddy Stampers: #18 Sketch

Thanks for stopping by

My first Magnolia....

2010-09-02T16:58:00.003+01:00

Hi guys,

Now that I have used my FIRST ever Magnolia stamp, I can see why everyone is so addicted to these. I must admit I wasn't such a fan of these until I started blogging, they are absolutely fantastic stamps, I am so going to get addicted. My husband still isn't a fan BUT he hasn't seen my card yet lol. Hopefully he'll love it and then I won't feel so guilty when I go shopping for more lol... Well he has his cars and I have my crafting so it's fair she says. Any my hobby is no where near as expensive as his lol.... Anyway enough domestics, down to business.

My card is just gorgeous, I spent a lot of time thinking about this as it is my first Tilda and I wanted to do her justice. I am spending a lot more time planning my cards now then I ever have, I guess when you blog them you want them to be perfect right? Also I am loving the results recently so definitely sticking to the planning. Sorry drifting off again. So the card lol....

I don't think I could have done her any more justice, what do you think?

Just look at her face, she's just too cute

The sketch for this card came from Just Magnolia. The recipe for the card: DP My minds eye-Spring, Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, Longing Tilda stamp, Promarkers to colour image, tiny butterfly punch, Cricut to cut circle and tag, computer typed sentiment. Rest from stash.

Guys, could you do me a favour, as I am new to Magnolia stamps, could you list for me your favourites to help me build my collection? Now I know some of you will say all of them lol, but I can't afford to buy them all (I wish) so for now, just those you couldn't live without? I will really appreciate this.

This card is being entered into:

Just Magnolia Week #70 Sketch by Dawny
Aud Sentiments #10 'Best Wishes' Sentiment
One stitch at a time: #28 Girlie
The Creative Cottage: #22 Celebrations
Challenge up your life: #26 Celebrations
Cupcake Craft Challenge: #106 Let's get digital
C.E.S.: #1 Anything Goes
Oh Alice: #28Child of the pure unclouded brow
CSAYL: #62 Anything other than Christmas

Thanks for stopping by guys x TC x

Friday Sketchers

2010-09-01T22:16:00.001+01:00

How many posts have I made today? Lol, I'm on a right role with my cards hey...

So this one has turned out a lot sweeter than I had imagined, don't you just love it when that happens?

The DP is a selection of Papermania, the image is Milton with Stocking from Wild Rose Studio, the flowers are also Papermania. Gems, glitter and brads from stash.

This card is entered into Friday Sketchers: #117 Sketch (this is where I got the sketch from)

I will keep this post short and sweet as I have had many today haven't I? Do leave your thoughts on this one, I love seeing your comments. Also become a follower if you've enjoyed what you've seen on the blog so far.

x

Pastels

2010-09-01T21:11:00.002+01:00

Hia,

Ready for another project? Well this one is really out of my comfort zone. When I look at pastels I always end up making new baby cards but today I pushed the boat out a bit and went for a Christmas card. The inspiration came from Colour Create Challenge #52 Pastel Lilac, Pastel Yellow and Pastel Mint where this card is entered.

The card stock the image is mounted on is Pastel Lilac as is the chalk I rubbed over the embossed card stock. The embossed card is mounted onto Pastel Yellow and the ribbon is Pastel Mint. I added some glitter around the stamped image. I used a tiny snowflake punch to punch a shiny silver flake which is on top of the bowl. The snowflakes are on the corners are plastic embellishments with gems stuck on them. The embossed card stock was done with the D'vine swirls Cuttlebug folder. The actual card is shimmery metallic cream. For once I have not used any DP!!! Lol Yay...

A close up of the image, again this is Milton from Wild Rose Studio. I just love these Milton Christmas stamps. They are just too cute. I coloured Milton with Promarkers.

Leave me a comment with your thoughts x TC x

Let's get traditional

2010-09-01T16:43:00.001+01:00

Hiya again,

I've been looking through my Christmas cards that I have made this year and think they are great but a little contemporary so for this one I tried to get a little traditional. Not normally my style but it's turned out super cute.

Oh sorry about the lighting, the suns out and I can't find a decent place to take pictures. The stamp if Forever Friends Christmas Collection, the DPs are all from Papermania Joyeux Noel and the ribbon is stash. I added some glittery snow to the bears feet. The image is coloured using Promarkers. I think this has turned out rather sweet. What do you think?

This card is entered into The Pixie Cottage #34 Sketch
Paper Sundaes: #33 Christmas in August

Come and play along with us

xx

My first C.C designs card

2010-09-01T15:38:00.004+01:00

Hi all,

Hope you are having a great day! I so sure am, remember yesterday I said I am really excited because I was waiting for my order to come through the post? Well some of it arrived today and wow am I a bouncing bunny or what lol....

So two of the stamps I ordered were from C.C. Designs, the Butterfly Nora and Field Fence for some of my stamps to sit on. For this card I have Nora sitting on the fence.

I love this card so much, in fact I think it's my favourite (ok one of my favourites). I love it so much I couldn't stop taking pictures lol hence a few more pics than usual.

The main reason for making this card is for the HUGE event on at Flutter By Wednesday, you must hop over to see what it is all about, believe me you will not be disappointed ; )

Anyway so you're now thinking how did she do it? So postman arrived at 12pm I ripped the package open dropped all the stamps onto the sofa and randomly chose one with my eyes closed. I picked Butterfly Nora, then as I thought about how to put the card together I decided to add the fence to the overall design. So Nora was stamped and cut out (a little fiddly but well worth it), then the fence was stamped on a separate card stock, Nora was then stuck onto the fence. As this card is especially for the Flutterfly challenge #120 Birthday Blow out, I used the butterfly paper from Dovercarft, Wild Blossom. If you love bright colours, pink, flowers and butterflies this paper is perfect. The sketch is also from the Flutterfly challenge, I played around with lots of different papers/ribbon etc but I love the finished product and it took me 3hrs to complete. The image is coloured using Promarkers and I added a little chalk to the background and a little glitter to Nora's wings. The sentiment is Papermania, in the open space of the stamp I added a tiny butterfly using the same DP as on the body of the card. A few gems and there we are, a lovely attempt at a fab sketch. Be sure to play along, there are so many prizes how can you resist?

This card is also entered into:

One stitch at a time: #28 Girlie
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog: #37 Happy Birthday
Allsorts Challenge: #67 Park Inspiration
Pollycraft Monday Challenge: #59 Add a little nature
Pile it on: #34 Farewell to Summer
Sew Many Challenges: #24 Happy Birthday
The Creative Cottage: #22 Celebrations
Challenge up your life: #26 Celebrations
Oh Alice: #28 Child of the pure unclouded brow
C.E.S: #1 Anything goes
CSAYL: #62 Anything other than Christmas
My Time to craft: #105 In the Garden

Right off to make some more cards now with my new stamps x See you soon x

Everybody Art Challenge card

2010-08-31T23:03:00.002+01:00

Hey,

Me again, lol. Told you I may be back with another card today didn't I? Well here I am. Take a look. I am not too pleased with the picture, the card looks lush in reality but I don't like the way it photographed. Do you ever get that? Anyways, it's such a cute card, The DP is again DCWV Christmas Multi Stack-Rose Tinted Christmas. The image is from the Forever Friends Christmas range of stamps. I love colouring these bears, they are so pretty. I used a light shade of blue chalk on the stamped card and some glitter on his feet. The flowers are Prima's with gems from stash. The sentiment is Wild Rose Studio, same as the one I have used on my previous card today.

The Sketch is from Everybody Art challenge #106. I love a good sketch, it just gets my creative juices flowing. My husband thinks this card is so me, I wear a lot of pink and grey, in fact the colour theme came from my outfit today lol. I have a grey top with pink on it. It's 11pm and I can't stop crafting lol, I may just make another card. In fact wish me luck guys I have bought a plain candle today and I want to try jazzing it up with some of my stamps,I have seen this being done on other blogs but have never tried it myself so I should probably prepare for this. If all goes well I will post the outcome tomorrow, OK I will post even if it goes horribly wrong (I do hope it works though). Fingers crossed for me??

Right off to find some handy tips on the candle. Leave me a comment if you have any tips for me or links to some? Thanks for stopping by!

Along with Everybody Art, this card is also entered into:

Aly's Sunday Challenge: AS24 Pretty in Pink
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: #74 Pretty in Pink
Crafty Cardmakers: Spotlight Challenge - Glitter & Sparkle
Paper Sundaes: #33 Christmas in August

Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge

2010-08-31T21:48:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone,

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted something. I've had a great few days, me and my husband had a few days away in beautiful Cornwall. We had a great break, lots of sun and beautiful beaches. We got back last night and I was dying to get on with some crafting today. Hopefully you will see a lot from me over the next few days. I have a lot of ideas fluttering through my head, just so excited to get them onto paper (so to speak lol) Over the weekend I placed an order on some more goodies, I won't tell you what I got but I am so excited, you shall see why soon...

So to the card. The sketch for this came from Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge blog, I am entering this card into the current challenge #57. I changed it around a bit to fit my image. Another image from Wild Rose Studio, this is Milton with Sledge (isn't he cute?) I hope I get this many presents this Christmas lol..... I coloured Milton with Promarkers and then added some glitter. The ribbon and gems are from stash. The snowflakes are plastic embellishments I bought a few years ago, I love digging through my stash, you never know what you can find. Why don't you go through yours and see what you can come up with?

The DP is from DCWV, The Christmas Multi stack, Rose-Tinted Christmas. I love this paper pack, it's SO PINK!!!! You will see lots of Christmas cards using this paper stack from me.... The sentiment is Wild Rose Studio. Right I'm off, going to make some more cards now, you never know I may be back with another later.

Along with Tuesday Morning Sketches this card is also entered:

Crafty Cardmakers: Spotlight Challenge - Glitter & Sparkle
Thanks for stopping by. Leave me a comment with your thoughts on this card xx

Christmas challenge card

2010-08-25T21:50:00.006+01:00

Hello again everyone, hope you've had a fun day. Today I made another Christmas card, as you can see from my previous post I coloured this image over the weekend, however I added some glam to it today. I added lots of glitter to the card at the base of the teddies feet for snow. The ribbon on the right is red but looks almost black in the picture lol. I added some stretchy ribbon to the top of the stamped image, to this I added a tiny snowflake cut from shiny silver card. I also used a Martha Stewart punch on the right, added a few gems and vola....

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes: #32 A Sketch

Quixotic Challenges: #38 Shiny Happy People

Colour Throwdown: #107 Colour challenge

The Pink Elephant: TPE81 A Sketch

Wild Orchid: #4 Make it Sparkle

Totally Stampalicious: Texture-Licious (my ribbons)

Creative Inspirations: #41 Christmas In August

The Crazy Challenge: Never too early for Christmas Cards

Christmas Stamping All Year Long: #61 Ribbon

Creative Card Crew: Sparkle and Shine with Digi Shack

Hope you've enjoyed my creation.

TC xx

Look what I've been up to....

2010-08-23T22:11:00.001+01:00

Hi Guys,

Over the weekend and today I stamped all these and coloured them in. Some need slight additions to finish them off but oh am I a happy bunny or what. Isn't it great when you've got images ready to go. I like to have a few of these all ready to go for any cards I need to do in a hurry.

To be honest I would have made some cards too but I am not very impressed with my dp stacks at the moment. I need to go shopping for some funky Christmas and general papers. Any ideas guys? What are your favourite papers at the moment? Have you seen any that you think gosh I so NEED that? Leave me a comment to let me know as I would love to see what is out there before I go shopping lol.....

Thanks guys xx

Lots of folds

2010-08-22T21:38:00.000+01:00

Right onto my fun yet faffy card of the day... This card started off a nightmare as I couldn't get the folds right. The problem was that I wanted the folds to fit my stack of 6'x8' cards, it's much easier to make if you are just using standard cardstock so don't be put off. I'm just trying to clear my stash pile. Anyway, once I worked out how to make the folds fit my 6'x8' cards the rest was easy peasy...

Let me know if you want the details on how to do this. If I get enough interest I may even post my very first tutorial. Let's see....

So onto the finished product:

You've seen the stamped image on my blog before, this is Toby with Roses again from Wild Rose Studio, isn't he adorable. I coloured Toby with Promarkers and added a Ruby border to the card he was stamped on. I fixed Toby to step one on the centre of the card. On step 2 I added a red ribbon bow and on the final step a sentiment from Wild Rose Studio. The sentiment is actually from the Christmas range, stating 'With Love at Xmas', as you can see I just inked the 'With Love' part, this way I can make my own sentiments out of stamps I already own. Great idea right??? Oh do you see the butterflies on the card with the sentiment on it? All I did was cut a rectangular strip of white card and then punched some of the smallest butterflies on the butterfly border punch from Martha Stewart, I think this looks fab. What do you think? The dp is 'My Minds Eye-Spring'. A few flowers and gems in the corners from stash to finish it off.

This picture shows the card stood up so you can see the folds and now you can also see the full Toby image. The previous image is when the card is laying down flat.

This photo shows you all the folds in more details. Great project for me today. Now that I have figured out the folds I will sure be back with more of these.

This card is being entered into the following challenge:

Teddy Stampers: #17 Teddy Bear's Picnic (I see Toby bringing some roses for the picnic host)

Hope you a fun weekend, I sure did xx

Butterflies.....

2010-08-22T21:12:00.002+01:00

Hi all, it's time for another challenge card. I love butterflies and this is what I've come up with today. I was aiming for a simple yet elegant look and I think this has turned out just beautiful.

It was really easy to put together, I punched the butterfly and added some sparkly glitter to the top of the wings. Then I got some cream card stock to mount my papers onto. The papers are Papermania Signature, Chatsworth vintage collection, they have a linen texture, very swish. I have plowed through my paper stacks and pulled out the ones I haven't used for a while, this was one of the stacks. Where the papers come together I added some cream silk ribbon. The sentiment is from one of my forever friends stamps. I added 3 aqua gems to the butterfly to finish the look. I think this card would also work nicely for some invitations....

A close up of the butterfly

I have entered this card into:

Crafty Creations: #81 Butterflies

Charisma Cardz: #33 Die cuts

Polka Doodles: #33 Vintage Style

Craft Your Days Away: #2 Wings

Flutter By Wednesday: #118 1 part sparkle, 2 parts dp and 3 parts buttons/gems

Come and play along with us xx

2 Cute Rubber Stamps DT Call.....

2010-08-20T20:07:00.000+01:00

Hi All,

2 Cute Rubber Stamps are on the prowl for some new DT members, I have applied, wish me all the luck. If you are into seriously cute images be sure to check out their images, you will be in love. Just my type of cuteness. Hop on over if you would like to apply.

Hmmm... Candy.....

2010-08-20T19:38:00.000+01:00

Aud Sentiments have some fab August Blog Candy to give away. The sponsor is Denami Design-pop over to their site for some seriously cute supplies.

Hop over to be in with a chance xx Good Luck xx

Cute Christmas

2010-08-19T22:29:00.000+01:00

Wow another busy day today... And another card for you all!!!

I just love how this turned out, so pretty and pink. I'm sure knuckling down to make my Christmas cards lol. This is another pretty stamp of Milton from Wild Rose Studio, this is Milton with Robin. I coloured the image with Promarkers and added sparkly glitter to the image. The dp is Papermania and the ribbon, flowers and brad are from stash. I love the dp so I just kept the rest of the card simple to show off the dp as much as possible.

I hope you like it, leave me a comment with what you think of this cutie xx

This card has been entered into:

Crafts and me challenges: #11 Petals and Pearls (sorry I couldn't find my pearls so I added a brad instead, hope this is OK)
Aud Sentiments challenge: #9 Anything goes and DT call
Just Cute Bears: #30 Buttons and Blooms (I used a brad instead of buttons hope this is OK)
Moving along with the times: #60 Glitter

xx

One for the boys

2010-08-18T20:58:00.001+01:00

Hey again guys, hope you are all well and had a great day. I am SHATTERED so only one card today, sorry. I may make another but will not be posting it today.

So here goes:

The inspiration for this card came from the challenges the card is being entered for. ABC asked for Blue, Belli asked for Round and Metal (hence the brads and gems and round sentiment), the sketch came from Truly Scumptious and the overall colour theme came from Colour throw down.

The image is Wild Rose Studio for Men, they have some nice stamps for male cards. My husband is MAD about cars so he loves this stamp. Shame his birthday isn't until Jan, in fact I might just write a nice message for him and give him this. Any excuse hey ; ) ... The car was coloured using Promarkers and the paper and card is from my stash.

This card is being entered into:

ABC Challenge - B is for Blue

Creative Belli Blog - #98 Round and metal

Truly Scrumptious - #39 Sketch and optional Brads, button & bows

Colour Throwdown - Challenge #106

Hope you love the card as much as I do, see you again tomorrow for some more challenge cards. Please leave a comment if you pop over to have a look around my blog, I love to hear your comments. Thanks to everyone who has left me comments already, I REALLY appreciate them all!!!!

xxx

Few more challenge entries

2010-08-17T23:56:00.004+01:00

Hiya everyone, how's everyones day been? I've had a busy few days with work and I've spent most evening crafting and I feel great. Isn't it just so therapeutic? I find it so...

Anyway to today's cards. I have 3 beauties for you today. It's amazing how quickly I put these together today I'm so proud, normally I colour an image and play around with sketch's for ages before I finally glue anything down lol...

Card number 1 is another stamped image of Milton with Poinsettia from Wild Rose Studio. This time he is in blue, so more of a winter/Christmas look rather than just for Christmas. For this card I was aiming for the 'Vintage' look, I have never made a vintage card before, do you think this works? I like it regardless.

For this card I tore the white card Milton was stamped on to give a worn, rustic look. As the edges looked a little rough I decided to add some glitter to give the image a lift. The image was coloured with my beloved Promarkers. The dp is Forever Friends, Just for him. The ribbon is from stash and the flowers are Prima, E line Brown to add to the vintage look. Let me know your thoughts xx

Milton had been entered into my first ever Vintage challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - #3 Vintage

Creatalicious Challenge - #13 Vintage

The card below is for the Cupcake Crafty Challenge, #104 Happy 2nd Birthday Cupcake. Some fab prizes here so be sure to pop over and play along yourself. The theme is 2 to celebrate their 2nd birthday, so a card with ***Two Papers, Two Ribbons and Two Flowers*** I've used the flowers on the stamped image as 1 flower element, and then the flower in the corner as the 2nd. Again there is a ribbon on the stamped image and one on the die cut. And I have used 2 dp from the Forever Friends, Just for him range, although it goes with this girlie card lol.

This is my favourite for today, why? because it's PINK!!! Meet Toby, he is also from the Wild Rose Studio range, this image is 'Toby with Roses'. The dp is Dovecraft 'Piece of Cake'. If you like pink as much as I do and cakes, you MUST get this dp, it's perfect. All my images were coloured using Promarkers today, as it is getting late I won't list techniques and individual colours however leave a comment if you need any further details and I will sure get back to you.

Toby will be entering his first challenges with me at:

Party Time Tuesday - #12 Pink, Brown and white

Inspirational Card Sketch - #79 Meljen's design

I love this pic xx

I'll be back tomorrow with some more ideas, be sure to pop back x

CES Challenge

2010-08-17T17:45:00.001+01:00

Hiya,

Just to let you know Crafty Emmas new challenge is up and running at CES Challenge Blog. It all kicks off with the first challenge starting on Saturday 28th August, but get on there now to enter for the candy. Good luck xx

My first Christmas card this year

2010-08-16T23:14:00.003+01:00

Hi all, hope you had a nice Sunday and Monday. I sure did, finally getting some nice weather here again. Anyway you're thinking so where is this card? Well here you go, but before I show you, just to say I've had all the Wild Rose Studio Christmas stamps in now and I am so excited to use them, I just had to make a Christmas card and it's only August lol.... So I went through a few Christmas challenges and have made this to participate.

So here is cutie Milton with Poinsettia. I love how this card came out, I am trialing a few 'simple' designs that are easy to replicate for when the rush starts for Christmas cards. I find simple cards difficult sometimes but I love how this came out. I used the sketch on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog.

I coloured Milton with the Satin Promarker. The Poinsettia with the Ruby Promarker. The paper is from Papermania. It's really nice, double sided and really thick, so almost like card which gives the card a nice quality finish. I added a few gems to the corners to add a little sparkle. Let me know what you think.

This card had been entered into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - Q for quick n easy
Christmas Stamping all year long - Challenge #60 designer paper
A spoon full of sugar - Challenge #117 Christmas
Stampavie and more - Challenge #104 Christmas in Summer
Creative Card Crew Challenge - Sparkle and Shine
My Time to Craft Challenge - #103 Glitter & Glitz
Craft your Passion - #19 Anything goes
Crafty Anns Challenge - #21 Christmas in August

Thanks for looking, I'd love to know what you think so please leave me a comment xx

Lots of pink

2010-08-14T19:16:00.006+01:00

So this is my first challenge card. I'm going to try and enter it in as many challenges as I can as it is my first... Wish me luck.

The image is from Gorjuss Girl stamps from Sugar Nellie. I coloured her in using Promarkers. I used Ivory for the face and blossom for the cheeks to give her a bit of a blush. She has a tiny little heart in her hair which I coloured in Ruby, the dress also has tiny hearts in it. The dress was coloured in Blossom and Rose Pink. I just added a little grey to the tights. The pink backing card was punched with a Martha Stewart butterfly punch, isn't it just great? I love these punches. The white lace band is also a Martha Stewart punch. The pink paisley paper, flower embellishments and gems are just from my stash.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

City Crafter wk 17 - Hearts
Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly
Party Time Tuesday #11 - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday #117 - Open Challenge
Wild Orchid Challenge #3 - One for the Girls
Magical Monday Challenge #2 - Pink and White
Cupcake Craft Challenge #103 - Lace
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #35 - Pretty in Pinik

Thanks for popping by.