Friday 30 August 2013

Morning blogland and all you crafty people. Wow, I'm in the swing of things for presents and gifts at the moment..I've altered/covered another jotter/notepad for a boy this time (kept it quite plain I might add). Digi paper from PolkaDoodles cd, circle from one of the mens bundles I won long time ago with added brad, stamped with a mini Studio G stamp, top sentiment from Nutcrafters, bit of doodling around edge, strips of ribbon to finish.


Digi image from Whoopsie Daisy, coloured with Promarkers.

Challenges...Love to create 'back to school' as is Crafty Ribbons, CYP 2nd entry, Charisma '1 patterned paper, 1 image, colour, emebellishment (brad), sentiment. Bearly mine 'digi days', Dream valley 'for a child', Party Time Tuesdays 'anything goes' as are Created with love, Challenges 4 everybody 3rd entry and Make it monday. Wishing you all a fab weekend!

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Good afternoon, many thanks for taking the time to visit. I do hope you like my latest creation which is an altered notepad. Kiddies will be back to school next week here and I've a little lady in mind so this is where it'll be making its way! She's an avid reader at the tender age of 7 and likewise her handwriting is outstanding, so I hope this little gift will settle her in to the new school year. I've covered this very inexpensive jotter with digi paper from Crafts Beautiful website, lovely sentiments and tag stamp from the fabulous Nutcrafters, beautiful 'Alice' image from the very talented Krista's Saturated Canary, coloured her with Promarkers, butterfly EK Success layering punch used,  pink twine and butterfly charm to finish.



Challenges entered are Saturated Canary 'wings', CYP 'office supplies', Crafty Sentiments 'make it girly', Challenges 4 everybody 2nd entry, Pennys Challenge 2nd, Crafty Creations 'shabby chic', CCT, Wags n Whiskers and Simon Says are all 'back to school'. Your lovely comments are always appreciated, bye for now.

Friday 23 August 2013

Hi, many thanks for visiting and leaving such kind comments..I forget to say sometimes but they're all very much appreciated! I hope that all is good in your part of the world. Summertime gives me thoughts of camping even though I've never been myself ( I do like my comforts and being warm) I must add. This a lovely 'Sally and Bella go camping' digi from the wonderful Sassy Cheryl images...they are just so much fun! I made another circle card,  pretty much the same colour combo as my last one, only so much dies and punches used, green paper is a digi, pink I made my own background stamped with flowers, image coloured with Promarkers, fern punch, Marianne Creatables flowers, epoxy sticker heart, gorgeous grunge message from LOTV ( love these ones), butterfly punched with EK Success layering punch, Martha Stewart fence punch in the background and pearls to finish.


Onto the challenges...Sassy Cheryl, 'happy birthday with their images', Pennys challenges 'dies/punches', CYP 2nd, Love to create 2nd, Creative Craft 2nd, Papertake 2nd, Fab n Funky 'you can stick it...epoxy heart sticker', Paper Shelter 'holiday time..camping time', Totally Papercrafts 'tags & hearts', Stampin for the weekend 'butterflys'. I make that 10, now off to  look  at some more challenges out there..wishing you a happy weekend. 

Tuesday 20 August 2013

Hi to everyone, hope all is well. With all this lovely summery weather I'm finding it hard to sit and make  something to show you...after all we haven't had a beautiful  summer like this for such a long time that eating cold salads outdoors is a real novelty  in our part of the world and I do love the opportunity when we get a still mealtime without rain. Hope that it lasts a bit longer! So onto my circle card which is featuring a lovely stamp (used for the first time) from LOTV..gorgeous vase of flowers, comes with the sentiment too which fits nicely onto a Nutcrafters scroll stamp. Paper is a digi which somehow I've managed to cut off where it came from, coloured image with Promarkers, the insects have been decoupaged, scrap of ribbon, button from stash and a bit of glamour dust to finish.


So this one I'd like to enter firstly LOTV 'shabby chic', CCT 'buttons', Promarker 'fave combo...mine is green & pink', Papertake 'flower power', Glitter n sparkle 'anything but square', Creative Craft 'not a square', CYP 'summer flowers', Love to create 'fancy folds', Make it monday and Challenges 4 Everybody 'anything goes'. Wishing you all a fab evening, bye.

Wednesday 14 August 2013

Hi all, a card so soon you may be asking. Well I'm trying to use up some of my previous wins and as Summer is still hanging around I inked up this beautiful 'let it grow' from Nutcrafters. Gorgeous image to colour, love their stamps!!! Coloured with Promarkers, used plenty of dry embossing, MS doily punch, tiny butterflies punched, Cuttlebug Baby Face die cuts for sentiment, hope you like it!


So challenges entered are...Nutcrafters 'butterflies & bows', Papertake 'occasion', CCT 'dieing for a punch', I Love Promarkers 'summertime', Creative Craft 'tic-tac-toe..green (hope you can see the grass, pearls, twine', Cuttlebug Mania 'embossing', CYP 2nd, Challenges 4 Everybody 2nd and Make it Monday 2nd too! Finally the fab sketch I used from Friday Sketch. Hope everyone is doing well and taking advantage of this gorgeous weather we're having in the UK, bye.

Monday 12 August 2013

Good evening all. I've managed to make a 'friend' card using up items that have been in the left over box..backing paper is digi d/load scrap from another card, the pink I'm not sure where from but the lovely bee is from Pink Petticoat (they come with a sheet of sentiments too) great digi's for quick cards. Coloured with Promarkers, glamour dust added, faux stitching, sentiment from Baby Face Cuttlebug dies, re-used some twine from a garment tag and top text is stamp from a magazine. Forgot to take a pic of the back as I've folded over the backing paper for something different.


So onto some of my favourite challenges I'd like to enter... Papertake, Crazy, Challenges 4 Everybody, Make it Monday all of which are 'anything goes', CYP 'twine/string', Party Time Tuesdays 'friendship', Bunny Zoes 'bingo..gone with 'tag, sparkle, flowers', Promarker 'clean and simple', Glitter N Sparkle 'summer' and finally used the fab sketch from Sketch Saturday. Bye for now.

Thursday 1 August 2013


Good afternoon to all in blogland!!! As you can probably guess I've had a very 'looooooong break' for various reasons and I won't bore anyone as really what you would like to see is what I've made on my return. My desk was ashamedly left with remnants of my very last card from all those months ago but a quick tidy up and away I went with a cutaway card. I mean to say I slightly shaped the front...the gorgeous seaside image 'at the beach' is from Crafty Sentiments a freebie  (what a fab way to start off), used some old digi paper with shells stamped using a Promarker pen as is the top with the sentiment. Image coloured with Promarkers too. 


Hoping to get round to my fave blogs and see what changes there are if any, beautifully hot, hot, hot outside, this is what we've been waiting for but I must admit 'it's a bit too much for me'.
Challenges entered Crafty Sentiments, Simon Says 'anything goes' as are these..CCT, Party Time Tuesdays, Crafts & Me, The Paper Shelter, Word Play challenge. Enjoy the rest of the day, bye.