The Musings Of A Chocoholic

Sugar Creek Hollow............

2012-01-28T13:00:00.004Z

Wow another weeks gone and we are fast approaching Valentines day which is our next busy occassion at work, on Thursday I went to a meeting and got to try some of the new Easter Eggs that Thorntons are making this year, Banoffee, Eaton Mess and Lemon Merangue, I have to say the eaton mess one is soooooo scrummy, strawberry flavoured chocolate with freeze dried berries and merangue mixed in.........sorry if this has got you all thinking hmmmmm Chocolate, its part of the job to try them all, which is why I shall never be a size 14 again let alone a 12.

For my card today at Sugar Creek Hollow, I used the delish papers called Ella Blue by g.c.d. studios a lovely collection of browns and blues the papers have a linen texture to them and some even have a flocked effect, I stamped straight onto the papers using the Butterfly stamp set by Tim Holtz and then mounted butterflies on top of two of them for added dimension. the ribbon is by Marianne, love the check effect.

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow..
This week we have a color challenge for you. We want you to make
vintage, shabby chic or primitive cards featuring CREAM, BLUE & BROWN.

One random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge
to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card
of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the
running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our Design Team has created wonderful cards with this color scheme to
inspire you. If you want the details on their cards, just click on
their name and you will be taken directly to their blog.

Challenges

Crafty Catz......things with wings

Simon Says.....anything goes

Secret Crafter......ribbons

One Stop Craft......stitching real or faux

Crazy 4 Challenges......layer it up and embellishments

I have some stamps for sale click here to view

Spring Clean........

2012-01-26T19:33:00.001Z

Evening peeps, I'm getting bad at not blogging at the moment, slap on the hand for me .......lol, I have been pretty busy with a meeting on Wednesday and housework today as well as playing catch up with a couple of Dt cards.Thought I'd have a bit of a clear out of my craft room and sell some of my stamps, so if your interested in any of them please email. All of my stamps have been well looked after and in some cases only inked once. original prices of stamps were £3.99 and £5.99(Toby Tumble)

£2.75 inc p&p....SOLD

£2.75 inc p&p

£2.75 inc. p&p

£2.75 nc p&p

£2.75 inc p&p

£2.99 inc p&p

£3.75 inc p&p

Hugs n smiles

Ooh La La......

2012-01-23T09:00:00.001Z

Bonjour peeps, well today is Monday and the start of another week, not looking forward to the weather this week as it sounds like its mostly rain especially for tomorrow.....oh well I think I'll take Ethan to Jam Jam Boomerang and have a play on the slides and climbing frames tomorrow, I need some excercise.......lol
Todays card is for the new challenge at Ooh la La, the theme this week is to use a double image, rather than use the same image twice on the front of the card I decided to decorate the inside as well, with a smaller version.

The images are from the Carnival of Colour Cd.

Have a great day

hugs n smiles

Red Roses......

2012-01-22T16:25:00.001Z

Afternoon peeps, another weekend nearly over but at least I had a little play time this morning before going to a local train show.......there are some really talented people out there as some of the lay outs are so detailed, Richard managed to spend some of his money, my son has sooooo much train stuff he just needs to get the time to start a lay out of his own although he's trying to persuade his dad to convert the attic, I did say that if the room was big enough I'd have the attic as a studio and he could have my craft room for his trains.....seems a fair swop to me.....lol.
Being as valentines is approaching I thought I'd make a couple of cards, now I haven't inked up these two stamps in a long long time and its been ages since I used these K.&Ko papers as well, I'm trying to be good and use up some of my older stash. The key I embossed in gold and the heart chip board shape I covered with matching paper then sprinkled red glitter into the glossy accents and let it dry. The image has been coloured in with Prismas which I coloured yesterday in my lunch break.......stops me eating chocolate.......lol. and if you believe that you'll believe anything.

Challenges

Penny Black (monthly).........love and hearts.

wags n whiskers......valentines/ love card.

Poodles Parlour.....Valentines/ love.

Really Reasonable ribbons.....Valentines.

Papercrafting Journey.......floral. add flowers or papers

Crafty Creations.....Valentines.

Magnolia mania......sketch.

Creative Card Crew.......seeing red

Corrosive challenge....I heart you

Hugs n smiles

Sugar Creek Hollow

2012-01-21T13:00:00.003Z

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and a new challenge. This week we want you to GO GIRLY and make very feminine vintage, shabby chic or primitive cards.

One random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Check out the girly vintage cards created by our incredible Design Team. They are joined this week by a wonderfully creative Guest Designer, Claire Chapman.

Now I'm just loving the theme this week so for my card I've gone pink and black, the stamp I've used is by Stempelglede........I know the images are Christmas designs but I covered the sentiment up with flowers so I think that you could then use the image for other occassions, I also did some recyclying on this card as the pink angel hair behind the image was actually a wrap around some flowers I recieved ages ago, I'm getting terrible for saving everything now I becoming quite a little hoarder.........lol. The backing paper is from My Minds Eye Blush, and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.The lace stamp is a B Line design and is a scrummy detailed lace stamp which I embossed with white embossing powder by Wow and I definately think it has the wow effect, stamps are available from That's Crafty.

lace detail

Challenges

Fab n Funky.....Bingo (2 diff. papers, Florish and Vintage).

Pixie Cottage.......embossing.

Truly Scrumptious.......something forgotten (angel hair).

Gingersnap Creations......favourite DPs.

(MME.....Blush).

Try it on Tuesdays......do you believe in fairies.

Flutterby......open theme

Moving along with the times.....things with wings

My Sheri Crafts.....new things (stamps)

Have a lovely weekend

hugs n smiles

Polkadoodles.......

2012-01-20T07:44:00.002Z

Morning peeps hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend althought the weather forecast isn't good it sounds like it should be great for crafting, although I have a certain little visitor staying over night on Saturday so no early cuppa and craft for me on Sunday.
Todays card is for the new challenge at Polkadoodles, this week Nikky has drawn us a sketch to follow, I've used quite abit of artistic licence for this one.....lol. we also got to play with a stash box stamp but the papers I've used are from The All Around and Everywhere Cd.

Challenges

4Crafty Chicks......summer in January.

Totally Gorjuss.....welcome

Have a great day

hugs

Jingle Bo......

2012-01-19T16:04:00.003Z

Afternoon peeps, thought I'd post this card today although its another Christmas one, I coloured the image before Christmas hoping to make it before the big day but I didn't get time so I made the card this week and finally fininshed it today.
The image is from Teddy Bo.com another sweetie of an image and I used Prismas for the colouring. The papers are from First Edition, I made a stepper card because I wanted to create a scene with a layered effect, so the first step is made up of several torn papers in white and blue to represent the snow, I then used Snow Writer by Decocraft for the snow and added stickles to the top of that when it had dried for added sparkle.I also placed a folded tree ontop of another tree which had been distressed using Pine Needles and then embossed in Cosmic Shimmer Aurora to get a dimensional one.

Challenges

Little Red Wagon......2 different ribbons.

Paper pretties.....use glitter.

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas.......use a dig image or paper.

Teddy Bo.......anything goes.

Crafty Cardmakers......no floral embellishments.

Heart song inspiration.....glitter and or white on white.

Hooked on Craft......try something new (stepper card).

My Craft spot......snow much fun.

Labybug crafts Ink.....bows

Paperplay....ribbon every which way

Chocolate coffee and cards....glitter

Hugs n' smiles

Sketch n Stash......

2012-01-16T07:36:00.002Z

Morning all, brrrrrr its cold again this morning,well thats another week gone, I hope you all had a great weekend, I had a lovely relaxing day yesterday and managed to get my DT card done, watched Sherlock (loving this new TV series) and generally didn't do alot of anything else.....a perfect Sunday.

Well its back to work today but on the bright side its another challenge at Sketch N Stash, todays sketch is by our fabbie teamie ......Julie. Lots of lovely layers to this sketch so you you really play around with your papers to create a lovely layout. You can put embellishments where you want. Don't forget to use your old and new stash.

This weeks winner gets £10 to spend

For my card I have gone for a Spring look using this little sweetie by Karen Middleton, the image is called Primrose Chick have to say I love her designs and this one is perfect for Mothers Day or Easter, the papers I have used are from Prima......Annalee, such pretty colours and so fresh and spring like. The image is coloured with Prismas. For my old stash I used the lace and the image is my newest.

Challenges

Crafty Pad.....sparkle and glitter.

Moving along with the times.....spots and or stripes

Cooking it with Katie....show me some pink posies and pearls.

Pollycraft......bingo (Flowers, punches and pearls also Diecut, lace, and pearls).

Pink Elephant......favourite colours, pink lilac

have a great day.

Cutie pie.....ribbon(mine is a paper ribbon across the middle) and lace.

hugs n smiles

Little Star......

2012-01-15T11:45:00.005Z

Morning peeps, what a glorious morning all frosty and white with the sun shining, a perfect day for crafting and that is exactly what I did when I got up first thing this morning, I love Sundays a whole day off with usually nothing to do, well apart from the usual chores, I always get up and take a cup of tea with me into my little oasis and have a play and this mornings card is what I created, although I did colour the image in previously.

I dug out some old papers that I had from Kars which were perfect for this shabby Winter card, I left off the word Christmas so that it could be either a Christmas card or a winter Birthday card. The image was coloured with Prismas and I used Snow writer for all the textured snow as well as tea Dye and Broken china inks for the distressing, the trees were then heat embossed with Aurora embossing powder by Cosmic Shimmer.....love this stuff and I think I'll need some more real soon.

The image is by Karen Middleton, she does do sweet images and this one is called Little Star available at Cuddly Buddly.

there are quite a few challenges that this card fits in so appologies for entering so many......

Challenges

Sketch saturday......sketch.

Totally Gorjuss........be a star.

Sweet Stampin'......glitter and bling.

One Stop Craft.....on the spot and ribbon.

Crazy 4 Challenges.......monochromatic blue.

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas......use a digi image.

Fussy and Fancy.....let it snow.

Stamping for the weekend.....out with the old (use old stash, papers, snowflakes and ribbon).

Totally Papercrafts.....spots and stripes

ABC Christmas......anything Christmas goes.

Creative Beli.....Snowflakes.(old embellies, snowflake buttons, and ribbon)

Simon Says.......spots and strpies (paper and ribbon).

Stampavie .......winter.

Pixie Cottage......stitching.

Creative Card Crew.....snow days.

Digital Tuesday....punch it out (snowflake border)

Papertake.......make it cute and use a diecut.

Stamptacular......texture.

Pile it on......fuzzy friends

Better go and do a couple of chores before catching up with Sherlock Holmes.......loving the new TV version

of this, and then its back to catch up on a DT card for next week.

have a great day

hugs n smiles

Sugar Creek Hollow......

2012-01-14T13:00:00.004Z

Afternoon peeps, firstly thank you for your lovely comments that you have left me this past week and secondly appologies for not being around much this week, I have had Ethan until later on in the evening and as all you Grandmas out there know its tiring, I'm hoping that next week will be back to normal and I can get some time to post some cards rather than nodding off in the early evening.
So here we are again with another fabbie theme at Sugar Creek Hollow for you.......show some embossing.
We got to play with some images from The Digi Doodle shop.....just love this image but it did take some colouring as there were so many elements but it was well worth it.

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.
This week we have a great challenge - EMBOSSING. You can create your vintage, shabby
chic or primitive card with dry or heat embossing.

Join us in saying hello to Digi Doodle Shop, a lovely new sponsor who
will be providing one random winner with a $10 gift certificate to their store. The random
winner will also receive a winner's badge from Sugar Creek Hollow to
display on her blog. In addition the Design Team will select one
project as Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a
badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

The Design Team has used a number of the fabulous images from Digi Doodle Shop and have
created some wonderful inspiration for you.

For my card I used some new papers from My Minds Eye Lost and Found called Blush a gorgeous collection of scrummy papers, I coloured my image with Prismas and added a gold Sakura pen for the highlights,I sanded back the embossed card for a more shabby effect.

Challenges
The Stampman......use red.
Delicious Doodles.......all things new (papers).
Crafty Catz.....use something new (papers).
Alphabet Challenge......Y is for You can choose.
Paperplay.....In stitches.
Crafty Creations......Something new.
Gingersnap Creations......ribbon.
Everybody art.....shabby.
Cupcake......something new.
Simon Says Stamp and show.....red letter day.
Shabby Tearoom......vintage boudoir
Ces .....Vintage dahling.
Digi Doodle Shop.....embossing

Hugs n Smiles

Ooh La La......

2012-01-09T09:00:00.002Z

Morning peeps, first of all just to let you know Lee, Ethans dad has had his operation on Saturday and is now back home recuperating.......well as much as a boistress three year old will let you, so thank you for your comments and best wishes most kind of you all and also a big thank you for all the lovely comments I recieved for my previous post.......its your inspirational comments that really make it all worthwhile.

Well today sees the start of a new challenge as well as a new start for me with the team at Ooh La La Creation Challenges.......the theme is New Beginnings, new home, wedding, new baby, lots of choices for you. For my card I chose to do a wedding one using images from the Passion for Fashion Cd, love the vintage images and papers and the cd is on sale at the moment for just £6.99 with free p&p.

inside of card

Challenges

Dream Valley ....anything goes.

CES.....anything goes.

Crafty catz.....new beginings.

Crafty Ribbons......new beginings.

Lollipop Crafts......Anything new goes.

By The Cute and girly......new beginings.

Crafty Cardmakers.......no floral embellishments.

Cupcake..........something new

hugs n smiles

Sugar Creek Hollow......

2012-01-07T13:00:00.039Z

Afternoon all......well here goes, today is my first day as a member of the Sugar Creek Hollow design team, I was thrilled to be asked to join them as I love vintge as well as doing cute designs, so now I have the perfect excuse for doing more vintage designs.

I appolgise for not getting round to any blogs last night but Ethans dad was taken into hospital with appendicitis, so after taking down one of the Christmas trees, bathing Ethan and putting him to bed I was totally pooped, you should have seen Ethan with one of my T shirts on pinned up to stop it falling off because we weren't pepared for him to be stopping the night......he looked so sweet.

Happy New Year and welcome to our first challenge of 2012 at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to save some trees and RE-PURPOSE PAPER TOWELS, TOILET PAPER OR COFFEE FILTERS. Instead of buying some designer paper for your project, go to your kitchen or bathroom and grab one of the above items and let's see how you can transform it and incorporate it into your vintage, shabby chic or primitive card or other paper-crafted project.

This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our new Design Team is in place and everyone has worked hard to create some inspiration for you. If you want details on how they re-purposed the various items, click on their names to go directly to their blogs.

I have made the flowers on my card as well as the background with the text on from Kitchen paper, I spritzed a couple of sheets with Tuscan Sun, Vintage Rose and gold glimmer mists, I then heat dried them and used the Tim Holtz flower die to cut out several layers at the same time, I used the two smaller flower dies it was a bit fiddly separating all the layers, (tip .....use a pokey tool to slide in amongst the layers ) I added brads from Basic Grey to the centres of the flowers. The text stamp is from The Artistic Stamper and I used a deep purple, I then stuck this down with matt multi medium. The main paper is from My Mind Eye called A Beautiful Life which I then wiped White Picket Fence stain over the top......great effect.

Don't forget to pop over to see what the other members of the team have made,

and remember no cute designs for this challenge.

Challenges

Truly Scrumptious.....shabby pastels and paint

Have a lovely weekend

hugs n' smiles

Polkadoodles.......shades of grey

2012-01-06T07:48:00.001Z

Morning all, today is back to work day........drat, I was just getting the hang of having days off, having fun making cards, watching TV, eating Turkey sarnies, and just generally chillin', and now its getting up early and work, oh well nearly the weekend, and being as its Friday it also means that its the first challenge of the year at Polkadoodles and this week Nikky has set the theme .......Shades of grey with a sketch to follow as well.
For my card I've done an anniversary card which is from The Love and Cherish Cd, I printed the main image onto textured card for a more canvas look and as you can see not a drop a colour in sight.....lol, I did add silver to the edges of the card with a Krylon marker pen.

There is also a fabbie prize of a selection of grey

Flexmakers from Letraset.

Oh well better go and get ready

for work.

Tri-Fold Shutter card..........

2012-01-05T13:16:00.001Z

Morning peeps hope you haven't all been blown away with this awful weather, and its still as bad again this morning, thankfully everything is still in the garden, I expected a few fence panels to be down being as the wind as been so strong. Sorry didn't get round many blogs yesterday as we went to London for a day out, haven't been for a few years, so we had a wander round, I manged to find Blade Rubber stamps shop and picked up a gorgeous book by Somerset publications and a couple of new My Mind Eye paper books......scrummy vintage designs. We also went to the Transport museum in Covent Garden, Ethan would have loved it there as you could get on most of the exhibits. Problem with going to London after walking around for most of the day we then have to drive back, however this time I was prepared for the journey as I read going down and then read coming back and i managed to read the best part of a book.......don't worry I wasn't doing the driving, left that to hubby.
Thought I'd share a card that I made for Polkdoodles, I've never done one of these before, they look great when they're finished but it takes abit of filling up of all of the spaces. I followed the Tutorial at Top Tip Tuesday. The papers, image and sentiment are all from The Pretty Tuff Cd at Polkadoodles.

Challenges

Crafts 4 Eternity.....use a quote.

Craft us Crazy.......anything new or funny (new star dies).

Top Tip.......anything goes.

Simon Says.......something new (new star dies).

Cute card Thursday......use something new (star dies)

Lady Bug Ink Crafts.......use new stash (Star dies)

Have a great day

Monochromatic.....

2012-01-03T07:50:00.000Z

Morning all, gosh what a horrible morning so windy, guess it'll be a mad dash around the garden later standing all my pots up that have blown over.
I had a play on Sunday using one of my new stamps that I had for Christmas, before Lin closed at LB Crafts she made up goodie boxes for sale, so my staff at work brought me one as did my hubby for Christmas, I just love these as you never know what you are going to get, but Lin must have made up one up especially for me as it had my name on it and when I opened it, it was full of yummy girlie things in pinks, purples and sparkly, am I that predictable......well yes, although I do love lots of other colours as well, and my home is decorated in anything but pink and purple......lol.
So my card today is using one of the stamps from B Line, the papers are from First Edition Dreamcatcher, lurvvvve the muted shades in this pack. I used three different ink pads to ink the stamp masking off parts of it, the text stamp is from Darkroom Door another of my new stamps for Christmas.

Challenges

Sir Stampalot....monochromatic.

Happy Daze......something new (stash or technique).

Artistic Stamper......vintage.

Fashionable Stamping......anything goes but use a new piece of stash.

Just For Fun.....anything goes

Simon Says stamp and show.....something old and something new (new stamp & Old lace)

Have a lovely day,

just hope the weather is a bit better

where you live.

Sketch n Stash......

2012-01-02T08:51:00.003Z

Morning peeps hope you have all recovered from New Years Day festivities, I was sooooo tired and went to bed early and even had a lie in this morning which is unheard of for me, nice having a few more days off, I could get used to this but its back to work on Friday, still a few more days of crafting.

Today card is for the new challenge at Sketch n Stash........the first one of the new year and the sketch for this one is by fellow teamie Michelle.

we are sposered by Heather Ellis designs and the winner gets to choose 3 digis.

For my card I used the new papers from First Edition called Dreamcatcher......, a collection of yummy pinks and purples but some are really muted shades. My old stash used is the butterfly sentiment and butterfly punch from Martha Stewart as well as the lace.I've coloured the image in with a combo of Promarkers and Flex Markers.

Challenges

Paper Sundaes......something old and something new.

Fussy and fancy.......animal image/Happy Birthday.

Jelly Park.....something old and something new.

4 Crafty Chicks......something new (papers and image).

Charisma.....anything goes.

Rainbow lady......anything goes.

Heart Song Inspiration....anything goes

Pink Elephant......anything goes.

Pile it On......anything goes

Bearly Mine......anything goes

Have a great week.

Ready-Teddy- Go......2012

2012-01-01T08:27:00.000Z

Morning peeps hope you are all well and not too many hangovers this morning, very quiet for us last night as I was looking after Ethan whilst his Mum and Dad was partying so I guess they'll have a hangover this morning.
Being as its the first of the month its time for another challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go and the theme this month is .....In the Pink, and you know me I lurvvvvve pink. I did keep my card nice and simple with an embossed square tied up with ribbon with a Teddy Bo tag on and some bling.

Challenges

Teddy Bo .......birthstone ( I did my daughters with a smidge of mine......Rose and sapphire).

Totally Gorjuss......something happy

Simon Says.......anything goes.

Top Tip.......anything goes.

hugs and best wishes for the new year

Review of 2011 part 2......

2011-12-31T07:26:00.000Z

Here are my favourite cutie cards for 2011. I've had a fun year joining Polkadoodles and Ready Teddy Go design teams so I get to indulge my other passion of cute images.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Happy New Year

Looking forward to playing along with Oh La La and Sugar Creek Hollow

this coming year as I've joining their Design Teams starting in January for 6 months

hugs and best wishes to you all

Have a wonderful New Year

.........Heres to 2012.........

Diddy Doodles.....

2011-12-30T19:02:00.000Z

Loving the name of this new challenge blog that Nikky from Polkadoodles has started, to join in the fun you have to be 16 or under and she has recruited two very talented girls Caitlin who is 15 and Darcie who is 7 to inspire. The challenge will be over a month so no shirking on the homework....lol.
The theme this month is ......Thank You.

just click here to join in the fun

Review of 2011.....

2011-12-30T07:50:00.001Z

Thought I'd do a review of 2011 and pick my favourite projects from each month, this year I've split this into 2 posts this one is for my favourite arty projects and the next is for my favourite cutie images, the year has gone so quick and there are lots of exciting things to look forward to in the New Year, unfortunately I didn't win the lottery so I shall still be going to work......which plays havoc to my waist line.......lol. Have you all made your New Year Resolutions, mine are: try and slim down, notice I say try...... at school I was told to try harder, not sure how long that resolution will last, another is to decorate the inside of my cards as I tend to focus on the front and neglect the inside and my final one is to start Scrapbooking again as I haven't done a LO in a couple of years and I've got lots of fabbie pics, and I thought if I did that I'd get through my stash alot quicker and then I wouldn't feel gulty when I brought more because.....well....... I'd need it.....lol.

January

February

March.....class with Lin Brown

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Challenges

I'm entering the card I made in August into the challenge at The Stampman

This is their 3rd year of annual awards

Happy New Year to you all

New Year.......exciting news!!!!!

2011-12-28T20:26:00.000Z

Just had to let you know that Nickky from Polkadoodles has launched a new stamp club

Pen & Paper Circle is the brand new Polkadoodles Club!

*No costly membership signup*

Choose which issues you wish to subscribe to on pre-order only....

See the kit design before you order!

Great value!

Following the huge success of our Christmas magazine in conjunction with Practical Publishing we were overwhelmed with requests to produce a regular project magazine. So, we decided to go one better and give you an exclusive project kit AND magazine instead!!

Each Club issue will include a special exclusive* set of Polymer stamps, a printed paper pack, special Club offers and discounts PLUS our special, EXCLUSIVE CREATIVE CHRONICLE Club magazine which gives you 12 full colour step by step tutorials and inspiration on how to use your kit, with special projects from Nikky and the amazingly talented Design Team. Each magazine issue will include special offers and news from Polkadoodles, together with a preview of the upcoming next issue.

We realise this is not the cheapest Club around but QUALITY is really important to us and rather than give you a crummy photocopied badly instructed project sheet with your stamps we decided to go the whole hog and get our brilliant Design Team to contribute with Nikky instead. We are certain this magazine will be a collectable and we are working on bringing you some added extra's such as an organiser binder etc to build your tutorial library. Each issue will include at least 12 step by step tutorials complete with full colour photographs and loads of hints and tips from the team which will prove invaluable.

PRE-ORDER BY 18TH JAN 2012 (orders will ship 15th Feb 2012)

This first issue includes 10 printed A4 papers and an A6 Polymer stamp set as per graphic attached (includes large girl stamp, sentiment stamp and 2 flowers) together with the first Creative Chronicle issue.

To get your pre-order visit the Polkadoodles store click here

Happy Christmas.....

2011-12-25T13:46:00.001Z

Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas, shared with your loved ones.

Santas been, just hope he left me some crafting goodies.....lol

hugs and best wishes to all of you

Just for you........

2011-12-24T07:29:00.006Z

Morning peeps, phew it was busy yesterday and on top of that the weather was dreadful, lashings of rain, such a miserable day and most people came in soaked, oh well only one day to go and then its feet up time.....yay.

I'd like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and thank you for your inspirational comments that you have left, so todays cards is .......Just For You.
The image is by Sylvia Zet from Wee Stamps, the image has been coloured in with Promarkers, I wanted a real soft subtle look to the card, the papers are a combination of DCWV and First Edition, I used loads of glitter on this one......well it is Christmas.

and Happy Christmmas from Ethan.......

Challenges

Creatalicious....purple, green, pink and white.

CRAFT........pastelles for Christmas.

Paper Pretties......let it Snow.

Craft us crazy.....Christmas.

Top Tip.......anything Christmas.

Papertake......last Christmas card.

Simon Says......bingo (Ribbon, Gems, and glitter/sparkle)

Stampin' for the weekend......anything goes.

My Mums Craft shop.......anything goes.

Delicious Doodles.......anything goes.

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards......add a tag

Totally gorjuss......for someone special

Sweet Stampin'.......sparkle and bling

Crimbo Crackers........snowflakes

Digital Tuesday....winter wonderland

Have a lovely Christmas Eve

Off to work now as it will be mens day today......the ones who definately

leave it to the last minute and then in the afternoon we ussually get

a few tipsy men in who just buy the biggest box of chocs that they can find......not

sure if its guilt

Monkeying around......

2011-12-21T07:18:00.000Z

Morning peeps, I think I'm ready, the shoppings done, the cards are wrote and sent, the pressies are wrapped ready for Santa to pick up, just got to get the Turkey.......yay. Today we are having the first day of our party buffet at work, for two days we bring in party food and then we have a buffet lunch, I do it over two days as all the staff don't work on the same day and I don't want anyone to miss out so its party time again tomorrow as well.....yummy. Ethan is joining us today so I'm just hoping he leaves some food for everyone else......lol

Todays card is a Lilyboo design from Cuddly Buddly I've used two images one called Monkey and the other called Jungle scene, the images were coloured in with a combination of Prismas and Promarkers. I did get a bit carried away with the sizing so had to keep the embellishments to a minimum.

Challenges

Bearly mine......anything goes.

Everybody Art......anything goes.

The Cutie Pie Challenge.....use a sentiment.

Crafty Pad.....anything but Christmas.

Have a great day

Sketch n Stash.....

2011-12-19T07:17:00.001Z

Morning peeps hope you are all well and are in readiness for this week, I finally finished my cards and got them wrote yesterday, it was lovely because I was sitting in my room looking out to the snow that was falling although it didn't last very long however. I didn't manage to get any pressies wrapped so that will have to wait for Tuesday now as I haven't got Ethan that day. Did you all watch the final of Strictly on Saturday so glad Harry won he was amazing although so was Chelsee.......brilliant finale.

Today challenge at Sketch N Stash is a fabbie sketch by Sue

The winner gets to spend $15 on digi images

The image I've used is Toby Tumble available from Cuddly Buddly called

Christmas Surprise, I've used Prismas to colour the image.

I made the wreath and added beads and a bow and then mounted the sentiment

behind it

Challenges

Bearly Mine......non traditional coloured Christmas card

Papertake.....I'm dreaming of a (Favouite colour scheme, pinks and green).

Cute Card Thursday.....stripes.

Crafty Catz....santas hat.

My Mums Craft Shop .....cute and funky Chrsitmas.

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge.....anything goes.

Creative Inspirations.....anything goes

Creative Beli.....merry Christmas (beads old stash)

have a great day

hugs

Polka Doodles......

2011-12-16T07:22:00.006Z

Morning peeps are you getting excited yet another week to go and its .......CHRISTMASSSSSS!!!, sorry I'm getting a little carried away with myself, have finished the last of the shopping yesterday, we went to Leicester with Ethan who demolished his Grandads scone with cream when we went for a coffee, getting it all over his nose, fingers and just about any where else he could but he so enjoyed it, we had brought him a childs picnic box meal with fruit, cisps, sandwhich and drink in, but he pinched the scone before we'd even sat down and his poor Grandad had to go and get himself another cake .....this time he came back with a strawberry tart covered in yummy strawberries and Ethan pinched some of them as well, not only that he ate his crisps and banana from his meal as well, hes getting expensive to take out......lol

Todays card is for the new challenge at Polka Doodles which I picked......the theme is 'Through the Window' so you're looking through to the design, apologies if this is a bit of a challenge but it is the last one until the new year, we will be back on Jauary 6th with a new challenge for, and there is also a £10 giveaway to spend at Polka Doodles for one random lucky person.

As soon as I had a play with the stamps called Be Neighbours I knew I wanted to create a Christmas scene, the image has been coloured with Prisma pencils on Kraft with lots of sparkle I used a white gel pen for the snow effect, the papers are from The Magical Winter Cd 2 and the tree and sentiment is from The Christmas Boutique pack which was brought out earlier in the year and is available at WH Smiths.....you get stamps, embellishments, papers, stickers and an inspirational booklet by the teamies over at Polka Doodles. the snow on the windows is Flower Soft and looks realistic although it stuck all over the acetate window due to static......lol, so I spent alot of time cleaning the window.

Challenges

Paperplay......Christmas.

Papercrafting Journey.....Christmas.

4 Crafty Chicks.....Christmas card.

Charisma......last Minute christmas makes.

Glitter Geeks......anything goes.

Stampin' for the weekend......Christmas

My Sheri Crafts........let it snow

Dream Valley.....Christmas.

Addicted to Stamps......snowflakes.

Hope you all have a lovely day

the weekend is nearly here.....yay

Simply Christmas......

2011-12-15T07:27:00.003Z

Morning peeps sorry for not getting round many blogs but I'm snowed under, well not literally but ts starting to get busy and we've now got to open at 8.30 am until 6.00pm so I'm just getting back home ready to dash off to the train station and pick up my son who is studying until quite late at University, hes been going in at 6.00am and geting back at 7.00pm,we eat a late tea and then fall into bed pooped......only just over a week to go and then we can chill and sleep.
Thought I'd show a simple Christmas card today, the image is from Delicious Doodles I've used Prisma pencils to colour the image in with a smidge of Sakura pens for highlights, the sentiment is a stamp from Tim Holtz embossed in gold......, the die is a Marianne one and the papers are Papermania.

Challenges

Pixie Cottage.....anything goes christm as style

Stampavie.....red

Divas by Design.......Merry Christmas.

Crafty Creations.......embossing and glitter.

Auds Sentiments.....winter holiday sentiment.

ABC Christmas......anything goes.

make my Monday....red ribbon

lollipop crafts....Happy holidays

Hooked on crafts.....Christmas.

Cupcake.....sparkly, shiny, gleams

CES......traditional Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas.....Traditional Christmas.

One Stop Craft......traditional christmas colors

Crafty Ribbons....traditional christmas colours

Really Reasonable ribbon.....anything goes & ribbon

Just started to rain here and we may get some snow later.....fingers crossed

I do love a sprinkle of snow for Chrsitmas

Hugs n smiles

Stepper card.....

2011-12-12T07:24:00.003Z

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely weekend, I've managed to get two of the christmas trees up yesterday, only one to go in my sons room, but I need to get in his room first with a duster and a vacumn cleaner and hes busy fininshing off a project that he is doing at University so it might have to wait a couple of days. It took me all day to get the trees up and decorate the room and I'm pooped not only that I'm now coming down with a cold and my sore throat is coming back.....drat. I've ,well I say I, what I really mean is my son has popped on another blog background so that its also dressed for Christmas........which I think looks so sweet. I thought I'd post a non Christmas card today as I spent the early part of yesterday morning doing a production line of Christmas cards ready to post this week, just need to finish them off. The image comes from Pretty Tuff which is the latest Cd from Nickky at Polkadoodles the papers and sentiment are also from the same Cd. I made the teddy by covering a diecut in matching paper distressed the edges and then added glossy accents onto the diecut sprinkling in silver glitter.....you get a lovely glossy sparkly bear which makes a great embellishment for this sweet image. The matching buttons are also a die from Dy-namics.

Challenges

Crafty Pad........no birthdays or Christmas.

Corrosive Challenge......anything but a Christmas card.

Allsorts ....use two colours and white.

Crafty catz......anything goes

Totally Papercrafts.....anything but Christmas.

Cute Card Thursday......anything goes.

Wags n Whiskers.....fancy folds

Off to work now, I've relented and let the staff start playing Christmas music

for the next two weeks, as soon as I go out the back I just know they'll change the Cd

to play Slade or Wizard rather than something more traditional and the volume seems to go up as well......hmmmm!

We shall all be wearing our Christmas head gear, I ussually have a halo.......lol, well I have to look angellic,

the others have Santa hats or Reindeer antler bands so we all look festive and have some fun

as it will be soooooo busy for the next two weeks.......well I hope it is.

Polkadoodles.......

2011-12-09T07:22:00.001Z

Morning peeps .......what a week I've had, feeling ill for most of it, but at least my throat is alot better, just felt ill all day yesterday and ended up going back to bed......which is a no no for me, however my grandson came up and put tinsel all over me whilst I was trying to get some sleep so I must have looked a right sight in bed decked out in gold and red tinsel.........bless.
The theme this week at Polkadoodles is ........'a quick Christmas card', actually I think I'd better get my skates on as I still need to make a few more otherwise it will be shop brought again this year. I really need to start earlier.......think that will be one of New Year resolutions.
The image used is from Magical Winter CD 1 and all I've done is added a bit of colour using Flex markers and sparkle. the card was embossed with a snowflake embossing folder and the background paper is also from the same Cd, just added doodling for an accent.

Challenges

Delightful challenges.....Blue Christmas

Creative Inspirations.....Snow much fun.

ABC Christmas......anything chrismassy goes.

Top Tip......Let it snow.

Crimbo Crackers......embossing.

Ladybug challenges.....snowflakes and sparkle

Moving along with the times......christmas last minute

Have a great day

hugs

Vintage Christmas......

2011-12-06T16:23:00.000Z

Afternoon peeps just go back from Jam Jam Boomerang, the soft play area for Grandchildren and their nanas.....lol. I wore ordinary trousers today instead of jeans and you go down the slides much faster, infact probably a bit too fast. Oh well we had fun although I shall ache again tomorrow. I have the mother of all sore throats and I've had it for over two days now,my glands in my neck are all up and I'm beginning to look like a hamster I can hardly swallow and none of the throat sparays are making a difference, think if its no better tomorrow I shall have to pay a visit to the docs, never had a sore throat like it before and I've run out of ice lollies.
Todays card is using a feebie down load from Cuddly Buddly by Karen Middleton called Holly Bauble, the papers and ribbons are from Cart-Us which I found at my local garden centre Melbicks, they have a good craft department there so I can combine looking for things for the garden as well as things for crafting and they have animals, birds, reptiles and fish for Ethan to have a look at.

Challenges

Sweet Stamps....Christmas bling.

Papertake.......anything goes, with optional dangly item.

My Time To Craft......Vintage Christmas.

Creative Card Crew......tis the season.

Pile it on......Bling it up.

Make my Monday......seasonal and add glitter.

Heart Song......Christmas card and/or red green and white.

Christmas cards AYR......anything goes.

Secret Crafter....photo inspiration of a tree with red, green and gold.

Think I need a Nana nap now as I haven't slept very well for the

past two nights, zzzzz.........

Sketch n Stash......

2011-12-05T07:16:00.001Z

Morning peeps thank you for all your lovely comments about my new DT position but its back to work this morning only three weeks to go and then I get a few days off to rest and play with my crafting goodies that Santa is going to bring me.......well he'd better cos I've been oh so good this year......lol. as if. We went to Olney yesterady but I was feeling rather rough as I'm coming down with a cold so I was shivery and achey, I hate colds, so we didn't stay long as it was really busy there and this morning I'm feeling no better my glands are well up and I have a dreadful sore throat......oh well no time to feel sorry for myself.
Today sketch at Sketch n Stash is by our fabbie teamie Chrissie.

The winner will win $15 to spend in their store.

For my card I used pink and gold as the colour combo, the papers are from Papermania, I have to admit I can't remember the name of the stamp manufacturer. For the flower I glimmer misted some card in various shades of pink and then gold embossed the flower a couple of times cutting out the petals and layering some of them for added dimension. I then aded some beads for the centre.

Challenges

Addicted to stamps......Christmas card.

Glitter Geeks.......decoupage.

Chocolate, Coffee and cards......celebrate.

Divas by Design......anything goes.

Oldie but a Goodie.....Christmas no red or green.

Sir Stampalot.........Bingo (ribbon,mist, pearls)

Off to work now, hope you all have a lovely day

hugs

Sugar Creek Hollow......

2011-12-03T13:00:00.012Z

Ohhhh I'm hoping that I've done this right as its the first time I've scheduled a post and the reason why .........I've been asked to join the team at Sugar Creek Hollow......yay I'm thrilled to bits but a smidge nervous but at least now I have the perfect excuse to make more vintage style cards which I love doing.

Welcome to Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and a new challenge. Before I get to the challenge, let me tell you about some changes to the Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team.

First, we are losing a couple of our wonderful designers because of family commitments. Marsha has been with Sugar Creek Hollow since the very beginning and her wonderful vintage designs will be missed. While Heide hasn't been with us as long, she has inspired us all each week with some gorgeous designs. Renee is going to stay with the team but will be scaling back her participation. Starting in the New Year she will become our Feature Artist and will show us all how Recycling and Repurposing are done the vintage way when those challenges come up. These ladies have made valuable contributions to the Sugar Creek Hollow team and have become lovely online crafting friends.

Next, we have three new designers coming on board and they are joining us with their vintage beauties for the challenge this week so you can get a preview of what they will be showing you starting in January.

Give a big welcome to:

Linda Payne from Payne Holler Cards

Peggy Marsh from The Wired Angel

Daniele Haddon from The Musings of a Chocoholic

Now on to our challenge. With Christmas close at hand, our challenge to you this week is to make CHRISTMAS CARDS IN NON-TRADITIONAL COLORS. Don't forget that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge and want you to create in those styles.

We have a lovely new sponsor this week. Please welcome Delicious Doodles who will be providing one random winner with 4 digis of her choice. The random winner will also receive a Sugar Creek Hollow winner's badge to display. The Design Team will also choose a Card of the Week and the creator will also receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Don’t forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.

To inspire you all of our current and our new designers have created some fabulous Christmas cards in non-traditional colors using a couple of the images from Delicious Doodles.

For my card I chose the image Crofters Cottage, I used blues and lots of sparkle to add to the lovely image. The background paper is a lovely sparkly embossed vellum paper from Papermania, I made the frame over the image by embossing with a dots folder and then swiped frayed burlap over the raised dots then I added glamour dust to the tops of the dots. The tree die is by Marianne designs which I distressed and then embossed with Aurora Cosmic Shimmer powder.For the snow I've used a Wow distressing powder which gives a puffed up effect with sparkle in......just loving this.

Challenges

Chocolate Baroque.......white Christmas

Totally Papercrafts......let it snow.

Rainbow lady.......based on a carol (in the bleak midwinter)

Just for Fun......Winter.

Artistic Stamper.....Christmas

One Stop Craft......let it snow

Sweet Stampin'......its snowing (sentiment is a stamp)

By the cute and girly......let it snow

Crafty Calendar....Cold and Frosty

Have a great weekend

Off to Olney tomorrow to see the Dickens Christmas event.

Ready- Teddy-Go.......

2011-12-01T07:44:00.001Z

Morning peeps have you all opened the first window on your calendars today only 24 days to go to the big day now ......gosh this year has flown. Today sees the start of another monthly challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go and the theme this month is a nice easy one.......Anything goes, for my card I've used one of the cute Fizzy moon images, I've used Prismas for colourig the image and the doiley has been distessed with peeled paint and sprtitzed with glimmer mist and Stardust stickles added for bling and the papers are First Edition ......the sentiment has been embossed with Aurora cosmic shimmer. The winner of this months challenge gets a selection of Me To You Bear Designs......can't be bad so what are you waiting for.

Challenges

Bearly Mine.......my favourite things, bears, flowers (lilies), pink.

Oh La La......lots of sparkle.

Stamps and fun= Creativity.......distressing.

Lollipop Crafts.......B is for Bear, bling, Birthday.

Simon Says......anything goes

Fab n Funky......anything goes

Divas by Designs......anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks......Birthaday.

Cooking it up with Katie.....anything goes.

Charisma Cardz......spots (paper)

hugs n' smiles

Fudge......

2011-11-28T07:39:00.000Z

No not the sort you eat although I am partial to that as well.......todays card features a character called Fudge who is by Czes Pachela who created Toby Tumble at Cuddly Buddly.The image is called From Me To You He's so adorable and easy to colour in, I've kept the colouring simple to just a couple of colours and the papers are from First Edition Christmas Joy, talking of which they have just brought out another 3 must have paper pads which are delish.......and of course I've added sparkle, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges

Cute Card Thursday........sketch.

Wild Orchid Crafts.......a childs christmas.

Delicious Doodles.......hairy legs.

Ohhhh I forgot yesterday to tell you I found another use for baby wipes, they clean white PVC frames brilliantly as well as the rubber sealant, I use them to clean everything, they remove tea stains off work surfaces when Mr Muscle can't shift them, they clean wooden floors sandwiched between kitchen paper brilliantly, as well as cleaning my rubber stamps which is what I originally brought them for oh and cleaning Ethans derriere when he was a baby.......my house is as clean as a babys bum........lol

hugs and smiles

Let it Snow........

2011-11-27T14:32:00.001Z

Afternoon peeps, just sat down after cleaning the windows in the conservatory ready for Christmas, I spring clean just before I put the tree up, sad I know, its just at this time of the year the windows look dirty when the sun shines.....you know what I mean. So I've just got the rest of downstairs to do next week. I've nearly finished my shopping which is just as well as it was really busy at work yesterday.
I fininshed this card this morning and it features sweet Teddy Bo dressed as a Snowman, I've used blues and purples to colour this delightful image as the theme for the Teddy Bo challenge this week is Christmas but no red and greens, the papers are some from a craft magazine ages ago, I thought it was about time I used up some of my scraps.

Challenges

The Sweet Stop.....sketch

Sweet Stampin'......Punches and dies.

Crazy 4 challenges......some snow.

Crafty Catz.......Snowman.

Totally Papercrafts.....Christmas,

4 Crafty Chicks....snowflakes.

Charisma....snowflakes.

Ladybug Crafts Ink......Winter Blue.

Teddy Bo.....no red and green Christmas.

Addicted to Stamp.....christmas card.

Dream Valley......sparkle.

Paper Sundaes.......winter wonderland.

Ribbon Girl........Jingle all the ways to Christmas

Think I need a Nana nap after all that hard work

hugs n' smiles

Polkadoodles.......

2011-11-25T07:46:00.000Z

Morning peeps well I don't know what happened to Thursday just a blur, I did do a sales event at a Spa selling cards and chocolates but unfortunately hardly anyone turned up so it was a disaster evening if you know what I mean, oh well its Friday and its time for another challenge at Polkadoodles and the theme this week is to use the colours of the Italian flag which are red, green and white, the theme was chosen by Miria who lives in wonderful Itlay near Rome......ciao hun.
I've kept my card very simple using the lovely Rudolph script paper from The Paper Boutique CD, the word stamp is from Crafty Idividuals as is the Santa image in the stamped frame, that stamp is by Viva.

Challenges

Papercrafting.......anything goes.

Moving along with the Times.....ribbons and bows.

Crimbo Crackers.......Santa.

Simon Says.....tag your it.

Paper Pretties.....tags.

Little Red wagon.....christmas theme.

Delightful Challenges....... Red and green

Frosted designs.....sketch.

hugs n smiles

Santas list........

2011-11-22T18:30:00.000Z

Evening peeps well I've not done much today as Ethan is poorly and we've spent most of the afternoon curled up on the settee watching kids TV, we did go out earlier to get some food shopping so ot much crafting done today oh well not much on the telly on a Tuesday so I'll play catch up as I have a couple of DT cards to do.
However I did make this one a couple of weeks ago and being as Christmas is fast approaching I thought I'd enter this card in a few challenges. The image is by Karen Middleton called Santas List available from Cuddly Buddly as are the digi papers. The image has been coloured with Prisma pencils and lots of glamour dust for bling.

Challenges

Papertake.......Christmas

Everybody Art......Christmas card.

Digital Tuesday.... Sparkle and Shine.

Pollycraft.....Christmas.

Lollipop Crafts......anything goes.

Crafty Pad.....Red, Green and gold.

Glitter Geeks.....christmas shopping.

Really reasonable ribbons.......CAS Christmas and ribbon.

hugs 'n smiles

Sketch n Stash........

2011-11-21T07:23:00.003Z

Ohhhh its Monday and back to work after my couple of days off, we had a lovely day in York on Saturday, we walked until our feet ached, the train museum is well worth a visit for young and old alike, its lovely to see Historical trains like the Mallard and the Golden Arrow up close, there is even Queen Victorias carriage complete with bathroom. I didn't realise how big these trains were, the wheels stand taller that I am and we were expecting to see just a couple of trains not loads of them. i managed to get most of the rest of my Christmas shopping done......feeling very organised this year. On Sunday we went to Warley train show at the NEC and we took Ethan with us, he thoroughly enjoyed himself and even had a play on a Steam train, pulling all the levers he loved looking at all the layouts and didn't want to leave but we were shattered....lol
Todays card is for Sketch N Stash and this weeks fabbie sketch is by our teamie Kevin, loving this sketch. I've gone over board with gems and glitter for this one......lol

The winner gets to choose 4 images of their choice.

The image and papers are from Cuddly Buddly, the image is called Elisa Christmas Star and is coloured with Prisma pencils. The Poinsettia is a Marianne die and the corner die is from Spellbinders.

Challenges

Winter Wonderland......Cutie.

Dream Valley.......stitching real or faux.

Totally Gorjuss.......swirly whirly.

Oh La La......bingo (gems, diecuts, flowers)

Pile it On.....things with P (Poinsettia, pink, polka dots, pink)

Pollycraft......Christmas

hugs n smiles

Polkadoodles........

2011-11-18T07:41:00.001Z

Morning, another glorious day yesterday, we went to Olney to visit LB Crafts and Lin let me buy some of her plastic 12x12 stacking paper trays for £1 each which I've been after for quite a while so I was well over the moon..... thanks Lin, her shop closes the week before Christmas but she will still be teaching......yay. I did end up spending a smidge more as well on stamps which my hubby and daughter are buying me for Christmas, I still want them wrapped up though........lol.On the way back we stopped of at a craft centre just outside the village of Weedon on the A5 and my Mum fell in love with a tree which was about 8' high now considering I had filled the boot of the car with 20 shelves we still managed to get the tree in which I brought her for Christmas but the car was rather full with us all in and a tree.......lol.
Today see the start of another challenge at Polkadoodles this week the theme is a shaped Christmas card, I made a stepper card with papers from the Magical winter Cd, I love the papers on this Cd. I've cut some of the trees out and then mounted them on top of each other for dimension.

Challenges

Paperplay.....shaped card.

Stampavie......anything but square.

Paper Pretties.....non traditional christmas colours.

Digital Tuesday........Christmas time.

Oh La La.....Bingo (ribbon, diecut, and sparkle).

off to York tomorrow for a shop and to go to the train museum

and the day after that I'm going to a train show so I'm having a chuffing weekend.......lol

hugs for the weekend

Winter Wonderland.......

2011-11-16T07:44:00.002Z

Morning peeps the challenge at Crafty Individuals this month is Winter Wonderland and I had a couple of hours yesterday afternoon after Ethan had gone home so I had a play in my craft room and then being as the football was on the telly last night I managed to finish this hanging.Instead of making a Christmas card for my sister and brother-in -law I make them an ornament for their tree, so this is for them. I think there is more glitter on this than I have ever used before......lol.
I started off by re-cycling an old Cd using Viva Ferro to get the texture, marking out the mini shadow box before applying the paste. If you heat dry Ferro you get lots of little bubbles which makes a great texture, I then used Viva precious metal paint to highlight. The box was painted using Viva crackle paint and again highlighted with precious metal paint, the images in the box are all from Crafty Individuals Christmas book as is the stamp of Santa on his sleigh. The tree is a Marianne die which I distressed with broken China and then heat embossed with Aurora embossing powder from Cosmic Shimmer the snowflakes were done in the same way and then lashing of stickles added to everything......told you I like glitter.....lol.

Challenges

Crafty Individuals.....winter wonderland.

Oldie But a Goodie.......let it snow (santa sleigh is oldest stamp).

Crafty Cardmakers......recycle (Cd).

Papercrafting journey......embosssing

Pink Elephant.......embossing.

Crafty Creations......recycle

ABC Christmas.....w for winter sports

Divas by Design.....monochromatic

Fab n Funky......baby its cold outside

Hugs n' smiles

Monday morning........

2011-11-14T07:35:00.002Z

Morning all, hope you all had a good weekend and feel energised ready for the start of another week......can't say I am, I'm feeling tired before I've even started, at least I've got a couple of days off at the end of the week for a rest before the Christmas rush starts at work, although I've got a feeling I'll probably be catching up with all those jobs that need to be done before Christmas and not crafting which is what I want to do.....lol.
Talking of which I finished this card yesterday featuring Toby Tumble.......so sweet but it did take a while to colour, I wanted to get the snow to look realistic so after finishing the colouring with Prisma pencils, I added glamour dust and then painted with white acrylic paint over it building uo the layers in places for depth and texture. The image is called ..... Got something for you and is available fom Cuddly Buddly. the papers are from First Edition called Christmas Joy.

Challenges

Paper Sundaes.....digital images.

Totally Gorjuss......Christmas traditional.

Wags n Whiskers.....Christmas.

Crimbo Crackers.....make it sparkle.

Divas by design.....use metal.

Creatalicious..... Christmas with sparkle

Crafty Calendar......Winter wardrobe

Cupcake......twos company

Heartsong Inspirations......Gold or glitter.

Pollycraft......friends.

hugs n' smiles

Polkadoodle.......

2011-11-11T07:54:00.001Z

Morning peeps gosh the weeks are flying by at a rate of knots, I can't believe its Friday again, so that can only mean one thing its time for a new challenge at Polkadoodles, this week I got to choose the challenge so being as I love all things girly and pretty I chose the theme 'Pearls and Swirls' with pretty pastels and not only that there is a fabbie giveaway from Letraset for the winner......ohhhhhh. The winner gets a set of ultrafine Promarkers, so what are waiting for........
My card featues Maddie from the Pretty Sweet Cd, there are lots of delish papers and images to choose from as well. Image was coloured with Prisma pencils.

Challenges

Cooking up with Katie.......use a different fold, make it fancy and add flowers.

Corrosive Challenge.....with a flourish.

My Mums Craft Shop.......sugar and spice

Poodles Parlour........when I grow up

Hugs n' smiles

Blue bird......

2011-11-10T20:14:00.000Z

Evening peeps hope you're well and haven't had too much rain today, its been mild here so we went out on a Garden Centre crawl,.......bit like a pub crawl but with coffee and cakes instead of beer. I couldn't help resisting to buy Ethan a wooden whistle the kind that you pull the end out and it varies the whistle, hes taken to sticking 2 fingers in his mouth and then shrieking as if hes whistling......I've never been able to whistle like that myself, there must be a knack to it but hes obviously seen someone whistle like that and thinks he can do it as well.......now hes got a proper whistle so he can make a lot of noise, I did appologise to my daughter.......tee hee!!! I'm such a naughty Nana. Right I want you all to practice whistling now................
Todays card is from the new release at Cuddly Buddly from Karen Middleton called Star Birdie, the papers are also by Karen Middleton called Enchanted Wishes. When I went to the NEC there was a stand with some fabbie new dies on and this little birdcage was one of them......I'm so in love with it and at just £4 it was a definately must have.

Challenges.

C.R.A.F.T..........cute.

Charisma........cute.

My Time To Craft......sun, moon,stars.

Digital Tuesday......anything goes.

Ok you can all stop whistling......lol

hugs

Vintage Christmas......

2011-11-08T09:35:00.004Z

Morning peeps hope you are all well, I'm up bright and early waiting for my Grandson so won't get the chance to blog later because I will be too busy playing trains and horsey around the house......my poor back again!!
I've made a vintage Christmas card that I thought I'd show today as it seems ages since I've done anything remotely distressed or grungy. The stamps I've used are from Viva, lots of lovely Vintage Christmas designs and at only around £5.99 a sheet they are brilliant value and they stamp well, I ussually prefer rubber for a better image. I've spritzed all the images with lashings of Heirloom gold perfect pearl mists which doesn't show that well on the photo. The papers are a gorgeous Christmas book that I picked up in a sale last year in fact I brought two of them as the papers are divine and I didn't want to use them because I can't get any more......sad I know!! the paper pad is called Joyful Peace by Tina Higgins from g.c.d studios. I added vintage glass glitter by Melissa Frances to the edges of the Poinsettia die by Marianne designs and then added the button with the the threaded ribbon through on top. the sentiment is the freebie stamp on the cover of this months Craft Stamper Magazine designed by the Stampman......it dropped through the door at the right moment.

Challenges

Make my Monday......vintage/traditional christmas card.

Sunday Stamper.......Christmas.

One Stop Crafts....three of something (3 Stamped images,3 DPS)

Addicted to Stamps......shabby/vintage.

Ribbon Girl......jingle all the way to christmas.

The Stampman.....collage style card/background.

ABC Christmas....V for vintage.

Pixie Cottage.....Christmas.

Three Muses.....vintage collage/memories

Top Tip Tuesday......anything Christmas, my tip is use glossy accents to adere glass glitter because its a chunky glitter it doesn't stick well with other glues

Truly Scrumptious.......Bingo (lace,flower,Ribbon)

Really Reasonably Ribbons......Christmas

Hugs 'n' smiles

Sketch n Stash.......

2011-11-07T07:18:00.001Z

Morning peeps well thats another week done and Christmas is fast approaching, less than 50 days for crimbo shopping.....arggggh. At least I've made a start, I've got Ethans pressie for him but I can't tell you incase he reads this post and it spoils the surprise.......lol. (I know..... he's only three).
Todays sketch at Sketch n Stash is by our lovely teamie Vicky.......great sketch hun.

Simon Says Stamp has very kindly donated $15 to spend in their

store for one lucky winner.Check out their on-line shop for lots of delish crafting goodies,

better make a cuppa before you start though.

For my card I've used one of those delightful images from Teddy Bo called.......Ballerina Bea.The image was coloured with prismas and the papers are from First Edition called Hideaway. I added little tiny flower sequins around the edge and popped a small pearl in the centre to create the flowers.

Challenges

Secret Crafter......flowers, ribbon and lace

Digital Tuesday......Cute and Cuddly

Teddy Bo......pastels

Heart Song......anything goes

Have a great week all.

hugs

Pretty Tuff.....

2011-11-06T19:23:00.002Z

Evening peeps just got back form the NEC with my daughter, I really look forward to our girlie day out, I did have to deposit her on a seat for awhile as she wasn't feeling too well, cup of tea with 5 sugars in later and she was feeling better so I guess her sugar level was low due to lack of food......I did stick to my list but got side tracked only a smidge in fact my daugter kept asking when I was going to start spending......lol, I must have been feeling ill as well, I did buy quite a few dies as there were quite a few bargains to be had and it would have been rude not to buy two or three of them. I did manage to catch up with Nickki from Polkadoodles, her stand looked lovely, loads of samples and goodies, when I went back in the afternoon she was still swamped so I'll have to catch up with her another time. The card that I've made features one of the new images from the CD Pretty Tuff, the papers are also from the same CD which was launched at the NEC this weekend and will be available to order online tomorrow.I used my prismas to colour the image.

Challenges

Our Creative Crew.....masculine card.

Totally Papercrafts......stitch it.

Poodles Parlour.....Lets hear it for the boys.

Paperplay.......Button up.

Oh La La......stitching real or faux.

Simon Says.......Buttons

Off to unpack my goodies

hugs

Trash to Treasure.....

2011-11-05T21:20:00.000Z

Just wanted to let know that the ubber talented Lynn Stevens is having a three year blog anniversary giveaway, her art is awesome and if you want to check out her blog Trash to Treasure click here to be transported to a world of inspirational goodies. Sorry for not getting round to many blogs tonight but my silly computer is playing up. Thank goodness for my son who has just fixed it for me. I'm off to the NEC tomorrow and I've written a list which I know as soon as I get there will probably be out the window......lol

Polkadoodle......

2011-11-04T07:48:00.001Z

Morning peeps, hope you are well, its Friday and that can only mean one thing its challenge time at Polkadoodles, and the theme this week is a shaped card, this is a centre stepper card using the delish papers and image from the Cd Pretty Sweet. If you struggle with guy cards check out the CD Pretty Tuff, lots of papers and images for all those guy cards and is availabe soon from Polkadoodles, the launch is at the NEC so if you're going this week pop by and say hi to Nickky and see her latest Cd. The image whch is called bella has been coloured with prismas.I've cut out some of the flowers from the paper and added lots of stickles to the centres as well as around the edges.I'm off to the NEC on Sunday just hope there are some goodies left to buy......lol. I am taking a list this year trying to be good which I know will be out the window as soon as I get to the first stand.

Challenges

Stampavie.......anything goes.

Creative Inspirations.....lashings of sparkles.

Dream valley......anything goes.

Charisma......cutsie

Colour Create......Turquoise,deep pink and ivory

Have a good day and thank you for your comments

hugs

Ready Teddy Go......

2011-11-01T06:34:00.002Z

Morning peeps hope you all had a Happy Halloween yesterday and had lots of trick or treaters, we didn't get so many this year so I've got lots of chocolate skeleton, ghosts and pumpkin lollies left to eat, however I did get an extra special trickster knock on the door dressed as a mini Frankenstein........how cute is my little monster Grandson Ethan. My daughter did a brill job on the makeup he was a lovely shade of green, when he knocked on the door instead of saying Trick or treat he said hello Nana its me and walked into the hall and started to get undressed.....hasn't quite got the hang of it yet, his mum and dad did take him round the local neighbours and he returned with some sweets and a a packet of crisps which he gave to his uncle.......bless.

Today sees the start of our new monthly challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go, the challenge is to make an easel card using your fave teddy stamps.The stamp I've used is one of those cute Fizzy Moon ones called Little Star, coloured with Prismas and lots and lots of glitter. The papers are Fizzy Moon 'Celebrations' even the delish papers have glitter.......lol and just in case there wasn't enough glitter I added diamante stars for a bit of added bling.

Challenges

Pollycraft......anything goes.

Lollipop Crafts.......Anything goes.

Our Creative Cnr.....fancy folds.

Sweet Stampin'......anything goes.

Papertake......anything goes with a bit of bling

have a great day, I'm off to an area meeting in Luton

gonna be another long day........

Polkadoodle.........

2011-10-28T07:28:00.003+01:00

Morning peeps firstly thank you all for your kind and supportive comments about my daughter,shes back home and resting if that is at all possible with a 3 year old, but hes great for cuddles, secondly whats happened to the weather, rained all day on Thursday, yuk......don't like the wet stuff and thirdly I went for a health check that the local docs invited me to, and apart from having slightly raised cholesterol I'm not in too bad a shape .......lol, she gave me a diet sheet telling me which foods to avoid but when I said I worked for Thorntons she said that was ok because the chocolates are yummy, although I've got a slight feeling that they are on the foods to avoid list.
Anyway todays card is similar to last weeks card in as much that I've used the same sweet image from Wee Stamps called Silver Fairy. I've gone for similar colours again, I tend to use the same colours for a time before I move onto the next ones, I'm like that with food I'll have the same sandwich for dinner for weeks until I get fed up with it......I guess I'm just weird.!!!! don't all agree at once please.
The papers are from the Polkadoodle Cd Magical winter part 1, I lurvvvvve these grey lilac colours and are perfect for any occassion. The theme this week for the Polkadoodle challenge is mythical creatures so you can join in with your faries, unicorns, dragons etc.I've made a shaker card, not done one of these before, I used a lovely vintage chunky glitter for the inside and the flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts.So don't forget to join in the fun this week.

Challenges

Truly Scrumptious......shaker card/box.

Paper Pretties......embellish it, flowers, brads, bling.

Lollipop Crafts......Embellish it.

My Craft Spot......use acetate.They have the most delish looking twine and seam binding in awesome colours......I need to move to America.....lol.

Papercrafting Journey......Use a digi papers and image)

Crafty Ribbons......Bingo (Punch/dies, Flowers and ribbon)

Charisma......anything goes

Totally Papercrafts......glitter it

Crafts 4 Eternity.....Magical mystical

Off to work now to put up the Christmas tree in the window......talk about early

hugs n' smiles

Too cute to spook........

2011-10-26T07:31:00.003+01:00

Morning peeps, I shall be glad when today has gone as my daughter is in hospital, we were all devastated by her bad news but know that they have made the right descion for her and her family. I shall be in bits all day hoping that she is ok and I know that she is going to be so upset as she has been all week.Its horrible seeeing your child suffer even if she is 28, she'll always be my baby and I wish I could take her pain away.
I've been a busy beaver this week making cards to keep my mind occupied and this is one I made yesterday, when I saw this sweet cutie on Sylvia Zets blog I just had to have her........so sweet !!!,the image is called Hazel the Witch and shes too darn cute to spook I love all the details in the image and that little Vampire bat is adorable, I've coloured the image with Prismas and added Diamond Stickles around the edge. The paper was a freebie from Bearly Mine designs, which I have to say is perfect for Halloween without having to use any other papers.

Challenges

Top Tip Tuesday......Trick or Treat.

Die Cutting Divas......Halloween sing purple, orange, black and green.

Pollycraft.......spooky goings on.

Magical Mondays.......Halloween.

Crafty Pad......Halloween.

Sweet Stampin'......Trick or Treat.

Allsorts.....Halloween.

Stampavie.......Halloween

Simon Says.......anything goes.

Fab n' Funky........Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

My Mums craft Shop.....Spooktacular

Back to work today

hugs

Faces.......

2011-10-25T08:02:00.000+01:00

Morning...... gosh its dark this morning, not looking forward to the dark mornings and early evenings apart from anything its so hard to get good light to photograph finished pieces, I spent the weekend re-arranging my craft room again after another trip to Ikea I brought some wooden drawer units that are just begging to be altered, I want to find some 12x12 paper storage preferably the trays but can't find any anywhere so if anyone can help please can you let me know. I'm hoping when I go to the NEC that someone might do storage.....that doesn't break the bank.....lol. Todays card is one I made having a play on Sunday, one of the challenges this week is faces so I started off masking and layering a couple of Gison girl images and misted the background, then started adding images from Crafty Individuals, the background paper is from Graphic 45, I hate cutting up these but if I don't I won't have any excuse to buy more.......lol. i did use the border of the paper to make the ribbon band so nothings wasted.I love the lace which is from Kaisercraft, a real deep vintage colour, yum yum.Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges

Sunday Stamper........Autumn colours or theme.

Sugar Creek Hollow......colours of autumn.

Our Creative Corner......faces

Fashionable Stamping......coffee and cream with a touch of dark chocolate.

Moving along with the Times......vintage.

Oh its just getting lighter so I'm off to have a play in my room,

before my Grandson arrives although I might get a day off......lol

hugs 'n' smiles

Sketch n Stash......

2011-10-24T13:37:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps I could have sworn that there was another week to go for this challenge but no today sees the start of another challenge at Sketch n' Stash, phew the time is flying by, I'm trying to get mt DT cards done in readiness for Christmas and in doing so I've managed to make extra cards for the same challenges, I'm slowly going batty ......lol, well it nearly Halloween........lol again. However todays card is following the delightful sketch from our lovely Gemma......lovin' this one,

We are sponsered by Pollycraft this week

the winner get to chose 10 digis of their own choice

ohhhhh what a fabbie prize

I've used an image from Wee Stamps by Silvia Zet called Rose and Felix........I coloured the image with Prismas and the papers I've used are from Nit Wits called Promises, lots of lovely turquioses and lilac papers to choose from. lots of glitter again using star dust stickles and glamour dust.

Challenges

Simon Says.....inspired by nusery rhymne/fairy tale (rapunzel).

Pixie Cottage.....sweet as candy.

Cupcake.....Denim and lace

Off for the next couple of days to support my daughter and help

hubby build a shed

hugs

On the wings of.....

2011-10-22T19:58:00.001+01:00

Evening peeps time to put my feet up and watch the dancing whilst typng this posting featuring Crafty Individual stamps,the challenge over there this month is things with wings, I think I've made the challenge by the skin of my teeth. I've used a microscope slide holder painted with Fresco paints and the main butterfly stamp has been stamped on tissue paper, the images are also from Crafty Individuals, I've used metallic foil to add highlights, the butterfly pops up when you open the slide holder.The edges have been distressed with gold dabber.......
Its all kicking off with the dancers and judges tonight, think there'll be fisty cuffs soon as they're all arguing with each other......great drama, Craigs off on one again.

Challenges

Crafty Individuals.....things with wings.

Totally Papercrafts......layer upon layer.

Fab n' Funky.......torn or distessed.

Corrosive challenge......Flying things

Spooky hanging......

2011-10-21T08:04:00.002+01:00

Morning peeps Halloween is fast approaching I'd better get some goodies in, last year we had alot of Trick or Treaters and the year before none so I'd better be prepared. Todays challenge at Polkadoodles is to create something Halloween and there is a free digital download to use if you want to. For my hanging sign I used the Halloween sentiment off the downlad and the image is from The Sundae of Seasons Cd.......this is such a versatile Cd as you get lots of delish papers and designs. The image was coloured with Prismas and the background distressed using Chipped Sapphire Dried Marigold and Black Soot.Just to let you know that I layered my image by using the fence in the background and then layered the spooky Dracular ontop......just like masking but on a PC instead.

Challenges

Crafty Calendar.......Spooky.

Crafty Cardmakers.......Cute spooky.

Hooked on Crafts.....Something spooky.

Creative Cardcrew.....Spooky fun.

Digital Tuesday.......Happy Halloween.

Papertake......Spooky hues.

Divas by Design.....Something spooky

Stampavie and More........Halloween.

Alphabet challenge.....S for soon be halloween.

Jelly Park.......use an image that is a costume.

Stampin' for the weekend.......spooky.

The Poodles Parlour.......Spooky Halloween

If the Shoe fits........halloween/fall

On a sad note I just wanted to let you know that my daugher had

her amnio test results back and unfortunately it was bad news.

hugs

Autumn/Halloween........

2011-10-18T20:01:00.003+01:00

Evening peeps what a glorious day today although a smidge cold, might have to get my coat out soon, usually the hot flushes keep me warm......lol, I have had an inky play today using lots of techniques to create this Autumn/Halloween card, I started with a paper from Bearly designs and added extra distressing to the edges, the pumpkin doiley was sent to me by Diann at Dianns art spot......thank you so much.The pumkin label is a download that I added Picket Fence stain to.....love the effect you get and oh so easy to achieve as well as distressing the edges with Walnut Stain. The other pumpkin I embossed with Ultra thick embossing crystals, I then crumpled the embossed image to get cracks in it and again I used walnut Stain to rub in the cracks for a more aged look. The leaves were created by glimmer misting paper with oranges and greens and then I used one of the freebie stamps that you get on the front of The Craft Stamper magazine to stamp on this, embossing part of the inked image with Copper embossing powder from Wow.The little girl image was stamped onto tissue paper and then using Claudine Helmuths matt multi medium to stick it down, this then becomes see through so you can see part of the background.

Challenges

Shabby Tearoom.....Pumpkin Garden.

Creatalicious.....distress the edges.

Paper Sundaes.....Halloween/Fall.

Dream Valley.....Halloween

Addicted to Stamps.....Halloween

One Stop Craft......Halloween.

My Sheri Crafts......pumpkins.

Drunken Stampers.....Halloween

Crazy for challenges......up and coming holiday, include heat embossing.

CES.....forever Autumn.

Wags n Whiskers......fall colour.

Stampin for the weekend.....colours of Autumn.

Fussy and Fancy.....Fall or Halloween

Alphabet challenge......S is for soon be Halloween.

Really Reasonable Ribbons......Halloween

Rainbow lady......falling leaves.

Top Tip......layer it up

Oldie but a Goodie.....Forever Autumn (stamp is oldest)

Phew I think that is a record of challenges for me

Thanks for taking a peek

hugs

Silver Fairy.......

2011-10-16T15:19:00.001+01:00

Afternoon peeps hope you are all having a fabbie weekend, thought I'd post a card this afternoon as its motor racing on the TV.......a must see by hubby on Sundays, not into it myself its the droning noise, it fair puts me to sleep, so before I take a Nana nap I thought I'd better get typing.I coloured this Wee image by Sylvia Zet whilst I was on holiday and I've been playing with the LO for the past week, I don't know whether you guys do the same but I usually have several cards on the go in various stages as I can't just do one, well I very rarely make a card from start to fininsh in one sitting. The image is called Silver Fairy as you can see I've gone for dusty grey lilacs for the colouring using Prisma pencils and galmour dust for the glitter highlights. The papers are from Polkadoodles and Elusive images now Chocolate Baroque. Swirls are Marianne dies, flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts. The edge of the image has been distressed with Dusty Concord and Milled Lavender and then Stardust stickles added to parts of the edge.Underneath the edge of the image there is a heart shaped doiley which was misted with Tattered Angels glimmer mist.

Challenges

Allsorts ......Lavender and lace.

Totally Gorjus......Bingo (Bow, pearls and bling) (flowers, swirls and bling)

Frosted designs,.....fancy trim (lace).

Fairy Fun Friday......sugar and spice and everything nice.

Crafty Ribbons.....ribbon and lace.

Charisma.....In stiches real or faux

Bunny zoe crafts......lace it up.

Think I'll dash out and plant a few bulbs before the rain comes

brrrr......supposed to be cold this coming week

guess its time to get out the jumpers

Hugs n Smiles

Spooky.........

2011-10-12T08:06:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps first things first........the draw of my Birthday blog candy

drum roll please......

.............

.........

Yay its Frea,

please send me your address and I'll get the pens in the post to you Frea.

Now for todays card its a spooky Halloween card, well there are so many challenges for Halloween cards this week that it would be rude not to make one......lol. The background paper is a Freebie from Bearly Mine Designs, I have to say this is sooooooo lovely and I coudn't help my self but put glitter on the web for lots of sparkle. The image is from Polkadoodles and is available on the Sundae of Seasons Cd with lots of other Halloween designs to choose from. I added a teeny spider that I made from a black pearl and Black sewing thread for the legs, I added Glossy Accents to the legs to make them thicker.......that was a smidge fiddly.......lol, Ethan said he didn't like it as he's scared of spiders, along with crocodiles, lions and tigers which all live in my house...... apparently.The image was coloured with Prismas and distressed with Dusty Concord and Dried Marigold

Challenges

Everybody Art......Halloween.

Creative Card Crew.....Spooky fun.

My Time To Craft........Orange a nd black.

Papertake.......use three different shapes (square, oval and rectangle)

Stamps+Fun=creativity.......Halloween.

Heartsong......use diecuts and/sponged background.

Cupcake.....halloween.

Fussy and Fancy.....Halloween or fall.

Charisma......black and orange.

Crafty ribbons......Boo-tiful Halloween. pretty spooky.
Simon says......halloween or Goth
Pixie Cottage.....Dark and spooky

My daughter has got her amnio test this morning so I shall be on tender hooks

all morning worrying about her,

then we've got to wait a few days for the results

Oh well I'll keep busy a work.

Hugs

Sketch n Stash.....

2011-10-10T07:40:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps so glad to see so many cards entered for the last challenge using my sketch, the winners have been chosen, it was sooooo hard to pick just three as there were so many gorgeous designs, oh well on to this Monadys sketch at Sketch n Stash and this has been done by our fabbie Angie .......shes so good to us, as she makes our sketches look extra scrummy after we have given her our rough drawings.

This weeks sponsers are

Simon Says Stamp have kindly donated $15 to spend in their store.

They have so much scrummy stamping stuff you'll need a day to choose

and they've included free shipping.

For my card I have used one of the new Christmas Lady images from Karen Middleton called Mistletoe. I have never coloured a life like face before so I was nervous about doing this one.....but not one to be put off a challenge I had a go, the results were better than I thought they would be, I used Prisma Pencils adding bling with Stickles and Glamour dust. The papers are from Cuddly Buddly called Toby Tumble Christmas Papers which I've had for ages, but I love the mistletoe design which is so apt for this image. Just to let you know Kim has got over a 100 free digi images including papers on the site, might be best to sort by price to find them but there are some real sweeties.

Challenges

CES......seeing red.

CRAFT.....bright colours.

By the cute and Girlie.......Anything goes

Have a lovely day at least its not raining

just very windy

hugs

Brrrr.....

2011-10-08T19:55:00.001+01:00

Evening peeps what a change in the weather it is brrrrr..... cold, so I thought I'd dig out a snow covered card. I'm watching Strictly whilst typing this so it might take a while to get to the end of the post, that Craig is sooooo mean to the poor dancers, thank goodness for Len, I love how he puts him in his place anyway back to the card this one features that sweet little Bunny called Toby Tumble with his little Ted called Hello There available from Cuddly Buddly.

Challenges

Sweet Stampin'.....in stitches.

Secret Crafter......anything goes as long as it Sparles.

One Stop Craft......anything goes.

Raise the Bar.......furry friends.

My Mums craft Shop.....all creatures great and small.

Ladybug Crafts......no DPs

Simon Says......sparkle and bling

Poor Anton hes got another left footed gal, you gotta feel sorry for the guy

I'd love him to to get to the final......but it doesn't look like it again, but hes sooooo funny.

have a great Sunday

hugs

Polkadoodle......

2011-10-07T07:36:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps I'm feeling a whole better this morning, trouble is I've lost a day of crafting after sleeping for most of yesterday and I slept all night, anyway I'm awake now and its Friday and that means another challenge at Polkadoodles, this weeks theme is Handmade Flowers, a nice easy one for you to join in with, sorry another card from the Pretty Sweet Cd from Polkadoodles but I do so love these images.....all girly, the image I've used is called Maddie and the papers are from the same Cd, lots of scrummy shabby designs to choose from and oh so pretty......however for all you boy image lovers, I've heard a rumour !!! As you can see I kept the colour palette simple to just three colours in lovely pastel hues, adding pearls to the centres of the flowers.The image was coloured using a combo of Flex markers and Prisma pencils. The markers are great for colouring larger areas and then you can highlight with the pencils on top.

Challenges

Fab n Funky.......Die cuts/punches.

Auds Sentiments......happy birthday

Digital Tuesday.......we like to party (birthday)

CES........Gorjuss/girly.

Fairy Fun.....sugar and spice

Have a great day although the weather here is yuk, dark and raining

Oh well better get ready for work

Shabby .......

2011-10-06T17:49:00.001+01:00

Afternoon peeps well I can honestly say I have slept most of the day today, I have a thyroid problem and its a real pain as some days I am so tired and all my joints ache, I can hardly stand up and today was one of those days,which is why I slept most of the day and I'll probably sleep all night, perhaps I'm turning into a dormouse.....lol.
Todays card is a shabby autumn card, the image is actually from a spring image from a Polkadoodle Cd called A Sundae of Seasons, I loved the picket fence which I coloured and then added crackle glaze to and distressed with Tea Dye ink. The flowers were coloured with Prismas, I added glossy accents to the buttons in the centre. The papers are from My Mines Eye......'my beautiful world', I love the gorgeous shabby colours, I did add a colour wash of Picket Fence over the top as well just to distress the papers a smidge more, and there's not any glitter on it.....now thats a first for me.Oh well back to work tomorrow for hopefully I'll stay awake mind you I'm seriously thinking of puttting a sofa in my office come tearoom so have a power nap on in my lunch break.....I'll need an alarm clock to wake me though.....lol.

Challenges

Pixie Cottage......fall.

Truly Scrumptious......Distressing.

Stampavie.....Autumn.

Bunny Zoe Crafts.....sketch.

Divas by design......buttons.

Shabby Tearoom......Shabby Autumn.

Paper Sundaes.......lots of layers.

Totally Papercrafts.....Autumn.

Allsorts......flowers.

Artistic Stamper......Autumn colours.

Creative Inspirations.....friendship

Paperplay.....Autumnal colours

Moving along the times.....Autumn Leaves

Hugs n' Smiles to you all

All tied up.....

2011-10-04T19:47:00.001+01:00

Evening peeps, another lovely day but we can expect snow next week so the rumour goes......lol, I had Ethan today, when he arrived at 8.00am this morning i was sweeping up leaves, such a thankless job as there seems to be as many leaves left as when you first started, after I had gathered a large pile of them Ethan stood in the middle throwing them in the air......such fun, he then got his play lawn mower out to try and mow them up.We spent a lovely day playing tents and hopping around on a space hopper, then we went to the local soft play area and slid down slides and climbed and walked across ropes.......my knees are killing me now.......lol.
This is a card that I made as a sample for Polkadoodles, the image and papers are from the Magical Winter Cd part 1. I love the papers as they remind me of brown paper.I have crimped the panel for added dimension and used string to tie around the panel adding a snowflake using one of the dies from Marianne, just had to add lots of glamour dust for the snow and icicles, the image has been coloured with Prismas and blended with Sansador.

Challenges

Papertake.....anything goes.

Christmas cards ayr......punches/dies.plus 1 halloween colour (black)

Crafty Cardmakers......anything goes.

Heart Song.....anything goes.

CD Sunday......natures wonder.

Crafts 4 Eternity......anything goes.

Hugs n' smiles

Stamp out......

2011-10-03T07:42:00.000+01:00

Just read a letter by Mo Manning on her blog about stamping out image theft.......pop over here to read it. I am so behind her on this,it really annoys me when anyone steals whether its images, films, and video games, I know from what my son does and how long it takes him to create something to be used in a game......Hours and hours, and then someone comes along and doesn't see why they shouldn't just download it for themselves and not pay.....its THEFT and if you stole a product from a shop you would be prosecuted. Without artists in any category there would be no entertainment, whether its reading, watching a film, playing a video game, colouring in an image for a card.......Ok thats my rant over for the morning
Hope you all have a great day

Polka Doodles.........

2011-10-02T15:48:00.002+01:00

Nickky at Polkadoodles has put out a design team call so if you're interested read on....

New Design Team Member Call..........

Okkkaaayyyy! We're looking for some new teamies to join us here at Polkadoodles!

Yep, we need some new blood to join our lovely talented team on this challenge blog and also to make samples for shows and TV! So, if you LOVE colouring and you're great with your Promarkers, Copics, Prisma's and Watercolours (or any other colouring medium) and it's your speciality then please email us with a link to your blog and NO MORE than 50 words about yourself and why you want to be on the Polkadoodles team. It doesn't matter if you're a cardmaker, scrapbooker, a stamper or a CD crafter, we need someone who can be versatile and fit within the other talents on our fabulous, happy team. We look for all kinds of abilities and styles so you've gotta be in it, to win it, as the saying goes! You MUST have a blog where you post regularly. You MUST be able to commit to participating in the challenge blog 3 times per month, making TV samples when required AND commenting on challenge entries each week, so please ensure you can do all this before you apply - this is a permanent position and you must be able to offer the commitment we need. We will consider entries from around the world but as we need people who can also make samples, because of time constraints entries from the UK may have an advantage - if you're not in the UK please don't let that put you off, really we just need someone awesome, and we're looking for more than one person!! We will be choosing someone over the next two weeks and results will be posted here. Please do not leave comments etc, all bloglinks must be sent by email by 13th OCTOBER. Please ensure your links are correct and link to the homepage so we can see your blog properly. email us (sales@polkadoodles.co.uk ) with a link to your blog and NO MORE than 50 words about yourself and why you want to be on the Polkadoodles team. (please note: Final decision will be announced on this blog after 13th October) ---- GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! We can't wait to see your work! xx

Ready-Teddy-Go......

2011-10-01T07:22:00.002+01:00

Wow 1st October and super hot, could be snowing next week though......lol, we should all be in for a really warm weekend, hopefully get the rest of my gardening done in preperation for the Spring. Its also the begining of a new challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go, some lovely entries again last month, the theme for the third challenge is 'Punch it out'..........so we want to see you use punches for this challenge, I used a Martha Stewart punch to create this lacey frame, I threaded gingham ribbon through it and finished with a bow, the image is another Teddy Bo design this one is called 'Scratchy' Bo baby and trains. haven't done a baby card for a while, just loved this image, mind you i say that about them all. I haven't actually used any design papers under the image, I just mounted it on white card for the lace effect to show up. Image coloured in with Prisma pencils and Star Dust stickles added to the egde, a nice and simple layout.

This months challenge is sponsered by Kerry at Ladybug Crafts Ink
The winner will get two free digis of their own choice.

Challenges

Wags n'whiskers......hand made something (frame)

Papercrafting Journey.......die cuts or punches.

Cute Card Thursday....animal crackers.

Crafty creations......clean and simple.

Digital tuesday.....blue and white.

Cupcake......teddy bear.

Off to work and another record breaking day

of ice cream sales with all this sun

hugs n' smiles

Create and Craft......

2011-09-30T19:23:00.005+01:00

Ohhhhhhh my cards were featured on Create and Craft today on the Polka Doodles section, kind of weird seeing your work on display and featured up close, I was really nervous about doing my cards as I didn't know whether they'd be good enough, in fact the one that was featured several times was the one I liked least.......so I thought I'd share it with you. The papers were printed on a pearlescent paper as I wanted a sheen to it, the image is also from the same Cd which is a new one called Pretty sweet. I made the faux buttons using the Die-namics button dies. The image was coloured with Prisma pencils and there is hardly any glitter.....must have been feeling ill at the time....lol

Thanks for taking a peek

Your comments mean a lot to me

hugs and best wishes for the weekend.

Polka Doodles

2011-09-30T08:02:00.002+01:00

Morning peeps wow aren't we being spoilt .....Summers back, in fact its better than summer because at least it cools down at night so you get o sleep. Yesterday we went to Olney, took my Mum and Ethan and we sat ouside at the pretty Courtyard cafe sipping cappucinos and munching on burgers, yum yum, it is such a pretty little village and of course LB Crafts are there so I just popped in......well it would be rude not to, I brought mostly glue as they do the mini glossy accents and multi medium pots which are so handy and don't dry out before you've used it up.
Todays challenge at Polka Doodles is a card with an age on it, I didn't get around to making a sample card this week......slap my hands so I thought I'd show you the card that I've made for Ethans 3rd birthday on Sunday, as I've probably told you hes into Pirates in fact thats all he talks about, yesterday he pointed to the floor and said there was a cannon ball there (Pretend....vivid imigination) so I said to him to pick it up before I fell over it he replied "No as it was too heavy"...........now what am I supposed to say to that, I just burst out laughing. My sister has brought him a dress up Pirate outfit, hes going to love it. Anyway back to the card, I had a go at a stepper card using the Land Ho papers and image from Nitwits to build up the layers, I'm sure he'll love it, well I hope he does.

Challenges

Simon Says......anything goes.

Pixie Cottage ......pop ups.

Pile it on ......fancy folds.

Our Creative Corner......use a number.

Dream Valley......buttons.

Frosty Designs.....fussy cutting

My mums craft shop......Dress up

Don't forget to enter my Birthday Candy......see previous post

Yo ho ho off to work I go.....

hugs n' Smiles

Birthday Candy......

2011-09-27T17:21:00.000+01:00

Evening peeps its my Birthday today, firstly thank you for the lovely cards that I have received Annette, Chrissie and Sue, so sweet of you.......... I thought it was time that I had a little give away of my own...........a pack of Aqua Markers from Letraset and some ribbons, You get 12 lovely colours in the pack. So if you want to be in with a chance to win what do you need to do: well it would be nice if you became a follower but its not compulsary, it would be nice if you posted a pic on your side bar to spread the word and then leave a comment so that you are entered into the draw.....easy peasey, and I think I'll be adding a little extra in the way of chocolate to the winner, well I am a chocoholic so it seems only fair to share some of my favourite chocs with you as well.......lol.The draw will take place on Tuesday 11th October.

Todays card is from a new release of Christmas designs from karen Middleton available from Cuddly Buddly, she sure has come out with some cute cuddly Christmas designs and this one is called Perfectly Puppy, the papers are a digi download called Quilted Holly, you get a delish range of papers in greens and pinks including some non traditional patterns which I love. I have scored the puched border to make it stand out and used layers, but all in the same paper.

Challenges

Magical Monday.....Christmas in September.

Sketch Saturday.....sketch.

Ribbon Girl.....jingle all the way to christmas.

Fussy and fancy....try a new technique (scored punched border)

Crafty Ribbon......anything goes

Have a great day, I'm going to take it easy......lol

well I am a smidge older.

Hugs n' Smiles

Sketch n Stash......

2011-09-26T08:07:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely restful weekend, I spent the day finishing off my daughters bridesmaid dress ready for her best friends wedding next week, I have had to unpick and re sew every seam and then shorten it as well.......nightmare, thank goodness it was raining on Sunday as I would have wanted to be in the garden,I've still got to put bulbs in ready for next spring.
Todays sketch at Sketch n Stash is by........me,

The winner gets to choose 4 images of their choice

Hope I didn't make it too complicated for everyone, I have gone with a Pirate theme as my Grandson is into Pirates, he watches Jake and The Netherland Pirates, its his favourite programme at the moment, he'll come out with 'Way hey no way' and make us all laugh, the papers are from Nitwits Land Ho collection, I have printed them onto a pearlescent paper for a lovely sheen, and added a mini scrolled up map and gems for the treasure as my embellishments, it was hard to add other embellies to this keeping with the theme, which is why I've kept it very simple.The stamp is a Nellie Sneldon one called Young Rebels Brave Captain........so Ethan, he went home on Friday with the beginnings of a black eye.......opps. The teamies have done some awesome cards so go check out the rest and good luck.
P.S. back tomorrow with some candy.......so watch this space.

Challenges

Allsorts.....clean and simple.

Sweet Stampin'.....anything goes.

Stamping for the Weekend......what a cutie.

Moving Along with the times......3 design papers, 2 types of embellies(map and gems), 1 image.

Truly Scrumptious......clean and simple.

Oldie but a goodie......one for the boys ( stamp is my oldest).

Top Tip.......kids/ teenagers.

Crafty Pad.......stitching.

Paper Sundaes.......anything goes.

stamps with fun=Creativity......anything goes

Hugs n' smiles

Polka Doodles......

2011-09-23T07:21:00.002+01:00

Wow its Friday and that means another challenge over at Polka Doodles again.......'very distressing', thats the theme this week, so you can tear,use distress inks and grunge it up and just have fun, this week the lucky winner gets a set of the new Flexi markers donated by Letraset......the prize is the very pale set which is gorgeous and is a must have.I have kept the colour scheme to 2 colours for this card I used Bundled sage and Dusty Concord distress inks for the distressed edges and Prismas for the image, just had to have a smidge of glitter........lol

the stamp I used is called Babsie and is from the Fairy Flutterby collection.

The papers are from the new delish Cd called Pretty Sweet

Challenges

Simon Says.....Dies to Die for.

Hooked on Crafts.......lace and ribbon.

Oh La La.......punches/dies

Stamp with Fun......anything goes.

Addicted to stamps......stitching

My Sheri Crafts......sew simple.

Digital Tuesday.....People images

Crafty Creations.......fabulous fairies

My mums craft shop......male/female image

Wags N' Whiskers.......lace real or faux

Thank you for all your supportive comments about my daughter

shes got to wait a couple of weeks for the amnio test, and then she'll get the results 3 weeks after that.

Have a great weekend

Hugs n smiles

Pearl......

2011-09-19T19:06:00.000+01:00

Evening peeps hope you are all well, today is my 30th wedding anniversary so hubby has brought me a beautiful pair of pearl earrings, however we have had some bad news from my daughter, her blood tests have come back, it seems there is a 1 in 5 chance that the baby has Downs Syndrome so we are all upset, as she has now got to make her mind up to have further tests which she's been told could cause her to miscarry........I really feel for her and hope that things get sorted real quick for.Sorry no card today as I'm busy doing some Dt cards......soon to be revealed.
hugs

Christmas Fairy......

2011-09-17T19:26:00.001+01:00

Evening peeps.......yay another weekend and its raining so no guilt crafting for me. Hope you have all had a lovely Saturday, must say I've felt a bit yuk today, probably after the long day we had yesterday, mind you it took rather longer to get to Oxford than we thought due to the 'sat nav' taking us via the scenic route ......3 hours to do a one and a half hour journey, we nearly ended up back at home. So for the first time ever we were late for the meeting.
Thought I'd show the other version of the Christmas Fairy, this time I used traditional christmas colours.

Challenges

One Stop Craft......girly.

Frosted Designs........punches

PaperPlay......punches and dies.

Papertake......things with wings

Winter Wonderland......girly

Off to watch Doctor Who now and then some colouring

hugs n smiles

Polka Doodles......

2011-09-16T06:49:00.003+01:00

Morning all, its Friday, one day till the weekend......again, speeds by at a rate of knots. I'm off to Oxford today for an area meeting, 2 hour journey there and back so its going to be a very long day, hopefully we'll get lots of chocolates to munch during the day to keep us going. We managed to get more gardening done yesterday despite Ethan moving the soil around to different parts of the garden, then using an obelisk frame as a basket ball net to put stones and lumps of earth through shouting he'd made a basket and slam dunk.....he had fun, we're just shattered.We all went out in the evening for a meal to celebrate my mums 82nd birthday, she still does all her own gardening, just hope I have the same amount of energy at her age......lol
This weeks challenge at Polka Doodles is called 'White out'.......so no colour allowed except for the ink of the image and you can use glitter......phew!!! thank goodness for glitter. I thought this might be quite a hard challenge but I enjoyed, using different white papers and embossing to create this card. I used a chandelier image from the Love&Cherish Cd at Polka Doodles as well as the backing paper. I also used an embossing folder from Cuttlebug called Damask.

Challenges

Fab n' Funky.....Bingo (Embellishments,Ribbon, Die cuts)

Simon says......inspired by a song.(White diamond by Kyle Minogue)

Stampavie.....Pearls and lace.

Pixie Cottage......Fussy & Fancy.

Pink Elephant......vinatge

Hugs n' smiles

Ice Cream.......

2011-09-15T13:34:00.003+01:00

Afternoon peeps I forgot to show these the other week, so better late than never as they say, these two cards are from a new collection called Little Iggies, simple style graphics but with a cute factor,these two cards were made from Little Iggies Ice Cream, not that its ice cream weather any more, just cold, although today its a bit more pleasant. The papers are from Cuddly Buddly also.The images were coloured with Promarkers and Prisma pencils.

couldn't resist adding glitter to the coloured areas, went for a very simple colour scheme with just a splash of colour and very simple embellishments.

Single images coloured and mounted, again papers and sentiment are from Cuddly Buddly.

I've got a couple of Dt cards to do this afternoon, but my hands are full at the moment

with my Grandson wearing us out.

Challenges

Moving along with the times..........Sparkle.

Cute card Thursday.......anything goes.

Digital Tuesday.....celebrate the seasons (summer)

Craft us crazy........goodbye to summer or school theme

Hugs n Smiles

Sketch n Stash..........

2011-09-12T07:30:00.003+01:00

I can't believe that another two weeks has flown by and its time for another fabbie sketch from the teamies at Sketch n stash, this weeks sketch is by ........well actually is a free choice sketch this week so you can use any of the previous sketches that we've done in the past, just don't forget to tell us which one you used cos' we check you know......lol.
For my card I chose sketch no.42 and used one of the new Karen Middleton Christmas images at Cuddly Buddly called Angel Girl.I use glamour dust for the stars and to outline the cloud......well you know me I've got to have lots of glitter especially for a Pink Christmas Card..............lol.Don't forget to let us know your old/new stash, I used old papers and buttons and the image is new, just released,

steph@simonsaysstamp.com

we are again sponsered by the generous Simon Says who are giving the winner $15 to spend in their store.

I created the lacey square by putting 4 of the corner dies by Marianne together and then placing my

image on the top. The background papers are called Frosted Lace, you get a pink and blue version of lots of snowflake papers, available at Cuddly Buddly.

I coloured the image with the new Flexi-markers from Letraset and Prisma pencils.

Challenges

Stampin' for the weekend....tickled pink.

The Stampman .......monochrome plus one colour (pink and yellow).

Digital Tuesday......Fairy wishes

Magical Mondays.....anything goes.

Pile it on......Layer it

Have a lovely day although its very windy here again today and more rain

Off to work to put out Christmas choccies ......only 105 days to go......lol

hugs

Morning.......

2011-09-11T09:57:00.002+01:00

Morning peeps, you can tell Christmas is fast approaching as we've got Strictly Come Dancing back on Saturday nights.......yay, I so love all the sequins and glitter, my favourite dance is the quick step. My parents used to be professional ballroom dancers and my dad even had a quick lesson on the train platform from Len Goodman when he came to judge at one of their competitions at their school of dance. Alas they never managed to turn us into dancers but it wasn't through the lack of trying.... my hubby is unteachable......talk about two left feet. So its feet up and watch it instead. Another favourite programme is Doctor Who so I had a great Saturday night watching my two fave programs whilst knitting another shawl for my new grandchild.......bliss.
Today I thought I'd show you a couple of cards I made for my Nephew and my daughters partner, he's a big Arsenal fan so I made one using the emblem which I layered but I couldn't resist adding a smidge of gold glitter......lol, the background paper is from A Polka Doodle Cd called Not for girls, although I'm sure there are lots of girls who love sporty cards, so its well worth a look.Kept the card very simple just added a sentiment.

My Nephew is a great golfing fan so I thought this image from Teddy Bo was perfect for him, now he had been complaining saying that this year was a nothing kind of birthday as he wasn't a teenager any more and his next birthday is his 21st. so I thought I'd add the number 4 on it for a giggle as I'm sure that this is a golfing term ......well I hoped it was. The papers are First Edition.....Hideaway, and the image and sky I coloured using Prisma Pencils.The sentiment is from Cuddly Buddly.

Challenges

Totally Gorjuss.......its a man thing.

Crazy 4 Challenges.......use the colours, orange, olive green, yellow and brown.

Jelly Park.....a card that is passed on.

Praire Fairy......anything masculine.

Crafty Creations......anything but square (Arsenal card).

Fab N Funky......something funny (golf card with the number 4).

Have a lovely Sunday, at least its not raining yet just very windy with some sun

fingers crossed I might get out into the garden later

hugs n smiles

Polka Doodles......

2011-09-09T07:41:00.006+01:00

Morning, hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend, today sees the start of another challenge at Polka Doodles and this week the challenge is called 'setting the scene', I've used my new Garden Neighbour stamps to create this little scene.......these are soooo darn cute, I layered the roof and trees for added dimension,and I used Prismas to colour the image, the papers are from the Cd .....Sundae of Seasons, told you it would be my favourite as there are so many delish designs on it.The flowers are made using the stamps from The Daisy Doodles stamp set.......so love the name, and you get lots of mini designs including trees, flowers, owls, sentiments etc and are on offer at the moment. I've got a feeling I'm going to be doing some dressmaking this weekend as my daughters dress needs altering ready for her friends wedding in a few weeks time and she's 'maid of honour' I need to let out the seams and shorten the hem so I've got my work cut out for me, either that or finishing off the border in the garden ready for all the spring bulbs we brought yesterday at the garden centre, mind you when we got there they were putting in all the Christmas decorations......I think it spoils it as its far too early, so I guess we won't be visiting for a while now as I don't like a big build up to the day and I don't want to spoil the excitement for Ethan telling him there is still lots of weeks to go before Santa arrives. Saying all that though we have had our Christmas deliveries start at the shop and we are going to be doing advent calendars from next week for sale........I don't know!!!

Challenges

Paperplay......use 2 or more stamps.

Stamp Something Friday......anything goes

Delicious Doodles.....Fresh start (new stamps and papers)

My Mums craft shop......lots of layers

Totally papercrafts......cute with buttons

Have a great day

Easel card.......

2011-09-08T19:23:00.000+01:00

Evening peeps, phew what a week, I've had my Mum staying with us whilst she has had a new heating system installed,its been quite hard work hence I haven't been able to blog as much so I'm making up for it by adding a second post today, I have been working on this card over the past three days snatching half an hour here and there. Its ages since I've made an easel card, so being as there are a couple of challenges this week for one it seemed a great excuse to have a go.The papers are from Nitwits and I've printed them on a pearlescent paper which came out really well. The image is Daisy Chain featuring Teddy Bea, I have used Prismas to colour the image, adding Star Dust stickles to the centres of the flowers.

Sentiment and candy from The Craft works

Challenges

Top Tip Tuesday......easel card.

Bearly Mine......flowers, flowers, flowers.

Teddy Bo......say it with flowers.

Aud Sentiments.....card/sentiment for a girl.

Bunny Zoe crafts......Easel card.

Simon says.....multi fold cards.

Truly Scrumptious.......decorate the inside of your card.

Paper Creator.......Easel card.

Totally Gorjuss......sketch.

hugs

Snowbuddies......

2011-09-08T15:18:00.000+01:00

Afternoon peeps, today sees the launch of the new Christmas collection by Karen Middleton at Cuddly Buddly, this image is called Charming Snowbuddies and is one of three super cute snow people, there is also a collection of sweet angels on clouds. I've used the new Flexi markers and Prisma pencils to colour the image with a smidge of Sakura pens for the berries and holly with lots of Glamour Dust for sparkle, I think the new shades of markers are a must have, I've used Antique White which I think will get used quite a bit.

Challenges.

Try it on Tuesday........Monochrome.

Papertake......anything goes.

My Time To Craft......just between friends

Pile It On.......B is for ....blue, button, bow.

Back in a while with another card

hugs

Holiday......

2011-09-04T20:42:00.000+01:00

My holiday/working in the garden is almost over.......and I didn't manage to get all my jobs done but at least over half the fence panels are painted, the lawn is down and I've only got 1 more border to weed and riddle ready for the spring bulbs to be planted, hopefully we.ll get that done over the next week.We had rain this morning so I didn't feel guilty going to a local Paper Craft show and I was quite good......well good for me anyway, although I have been on a bit of a spend earlier on in the week at Stampezee which is a local shop that is closing down, its a real shame as it was my local so to speak.
Thought Id share a card with you that has been sitting in my back up folder for a while, this image is called Milly's Bug Lantern and is by the artist Barbara Anne Williams at Cuddly Buddly as is the sentiment which is also from The Garden Vignette range and the papers. The image was coloured with distress inks.

Challenge

Cuddly Buddly......distressing, vintage and flowers.

Alphabet challenge......P for pretty pastels.

Stamp Something Friday......use a digi (papers)

My Mums Craft shop......1,2,3 =1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments

button, ribbon and pearls.

Digital Tuesday...Going buggy (bug)

Off to Drayton Manor theme park in the morning weather permitting, as they have Thomas Land, which just happens to be Ethans favourite place.

Hugs

Polka Doodles......

2011-09-02T09:15:00.004+01:00

Morning peeps, I've been away for a couple of days to North Wales, my hubbys Brother and wife live in Barmouth and we've never got round to visiting them there, that is until Wednesday. Now I used to go to Wales an awful lot as a child, as my parents had a caravan there for many years and I seem to only ever remember the rain although the sun did shine from time to time. Well when we got there it was lovely and warm and we sat out in the garden looking over the wall to the beach and sea. I have never eaten sooooo much food Bara Brith, chicken stew, Lemon meringue pie and then a little while after that fish and chips, I had to pass on the pudding this time as we were totally stuffed good job we had a long walk on the beach later.We then watched Avatar on their new 10 foot screen ......yep that's right a 10 foot cine screen and projector, so guess who has been going on about getting one of these now......yes you guessed......hubby and son. We hadn't booked a hotel but after being introduced to Eric a very friendly hotelier he found us a room with a gorgeous view of the sea and beach, he looked after us so well and the next morning we had a full English breakfast and was totally stuffed again. After breakfast we drove to Porthmadog and went on The Ffestiniog Steam Railway......my son is a train addict, the weather was gorgeous again, in fact it was 30 degrees.......1st of September, amazin'.....oh well enough of my mini holiday on to todays card.

Todays challenge at Polka Doodles is 'Autumn Leaves', as soon as I found out for this challenge I just knew I wanted to make a wreathe, so I cut out quite a few leaves (which are from Sundae of Seasons CD) to create todays card and then added a smidge of glitter stickles to the edges for bling.

the papers and borders are also from the same CD,

the buttons I made using the Die-namics button die in the same background paper.

Challenges

Stamps and fun=Creativity.......dots and stripes.

Top Tip.......Shabby Chic.

Just for Fun......say it with words.

Crafty Creations......use 3 or more dies(buttons, scalloped and stitched circle)

Craft us crazy......Autumn colours

Hugs n Smiles

Reddy-Teddy-Go

2011-09-01T20:05:00.006+01:00

Hi to all you Teddy lovers out there, its time for our second challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go.....Autumn Colours, not sure we had that much of a Summer, August was real let down weather wise and now Autumn is looming hopefully we'll get an Indian Summer as they call it.......its been gorgeous today, just as the children are back to school.
My card for the challenge features Teddy Bea and was one of the first images I brought, I have a confession with this one, I had to cut around the coloured image and mount it on a backing paper because my dear Grandson got the pens out and when I wasn't looking added his own bit of colouring to it just catching the boot......that's why the flower had to go there......that'll teach me to let him play in my room of stash and turn my back for a nano second. The papers I've used are from First Edition called Summer Breeze......yep I know the challenge is called Autumn Colours but they seemed to fit.The sentiment is from Cuddly Buddly

Looking forward to visiting your amazing creations again this month.

Challenges

Charisma.......Anything goes.

Crafty Calendar......let sleeping bears lie.

Craft us crazy.....Autumn colours and or favourite embellishments (flowers and pearls)

hugs