Happy Saturday, tomorrow is Mothering Sunday in the UK..hope all mothers new and old get a well deserved pampering! Today this is exactly how I feel (I might just send this one to myself), loved making it as it didn't need much brainpower, gorgeous springy digi image from Paper Pretties called 'April', coloured with Promarkers, stamped a fab sentiment and striped stitching from American crafts stamps. Found a lovely bit of posh ribbon to finish!

So this was made mainly for the LIM challenge blog which is 'one layer with stripes and spots', Crafty Catz 'stitched up' as is Pennys challenges, Created with love 'anything goes' and Paper Pretties 'texture..i used dry embossing. Wishing you a fab day and many thanks for the kind comments.

Hi, thanks for coming over today, as promised it's a special post. The very lovely Brenda from Stamping Sensations asked me if I'd like to guest design for March's Monthly challenge, ofcourse it was a 'yes' and a huge pleasure to be invited. I won some fab goodies in January from Stix 2 so many thanks to them for that too! The theme for March is 'The Great Outdoors', my little offering is a LOTV girly stamp 'milly and my dog', absolutely love this one too just like all the others. I went with one of my 'now' very typical triangle cards...hope you're not fed up of seeing these!  Image coloured with Promarkers, sentiemnt from Nutcrafters set, MS fence punch, created my own tree, heart from Spellbinders die set, leaves from Marianne Creatables, pearls from stash, finished with bit of glamour dust on the grass, oh I deliberately left one side of the fence overhanging! Really that's it on my card, there's so much to see over at the challenge blog, alot of amazing talent that's mind blowing. I'd like to thank Brenda and the fab team for all their hard work that is put into running of challenge blogs, prizes etc, very challenging work in itself I'm sure. Hope you too have a moment to join in this month and you never know there may be a prize with your name on it. 

Some challenges I'd like to enter..Natalie & Amys 'dies', Inky Chicks 2nd, Paper Pretties 2nd, Crafts & Me 2nd, Simon says 2nd, My Mums Craft shop 'spring', Cupcake Inspirations are celebrating their 200th challenge with a hop and some gorgeous prizes! Have a brilliant Sunday all until next time, bye.

Happy St. David's Day! It's already the first day of March..can't wait for the weather to be a little warmer so I get to potter around and actually do a bit of planting. I'm hoping it's not too long, yesterday was a beautiful sunny day. Onto my circle card which has been a 'work in progress', there's been so much happening to me the last 2 weeks I nearly gave up!!! But at last you can probably guess it's for the Ideas To Inspire blog where there's tonnes of fab inspiration and they're celebrating 9 years of LOTV..I remember when I first saw both talented ladies on the Create & Craft channel many years ago. So 'A Very Happy Birthday LOTV!' I love all your stamps, some of them I've been very lucky to win and then others I bought but just not had the time to give them a  first inking, ashamedly they're still in their wallets. I used digi paper from Polka Doodles cd, absolutely wonderful fairy image 'cake glorious cake', beautiful to colour, used Promarkers, decoupaged the yummy cake, lace from stash, seam binding from Crafty Ribbons, spellbinders heart die, leaf dies from Marianne Creatables, scroll, tag stamp with sentiment from the wonderful Nutcrafters, the bottom sentiment from 'little dot LOTV stamp'. Finished off with glamour dust on the fairy wings!

So the challenges this one will go for as follows..Ideas to Inspire 'birthday' as is Inky Chicks, Simon says 'anything' as is Crafty Ribbons, Bearly Mine 2nd, Kaboodle Doodle 'bling', Paper Pretties 'punch' (the whole in the tag)', Crafts & Me 'punches & dies....leaves, heart', Promarker 'circle cards', Cupcake Craft 2nd, Flutter by Wednesdays '3 or more layers..cake', I Love Promarkers 'pearls, lace', and Stamping for the weekend 'lace'. Lots again I'm afraid, come back Sunday for a special post and many thanks for visiting!

Hi, I'm here at last!!! What a morning I've had??? I won't go into too much detail except to say my dentist and doctors are wonderful people. This week is my last week as Guest dt member for Crafty Creations challenge blog, wow..I can't believe how quick it's all gone, it's been a pleasure to work with you Bernie and the wonderful dt always have superb creations for our inspiration. I've loved the different themes and you never know i may apply for a dt post in the future, so many thanks for having me as a guest. Onto my card for the theme 're-invent yourself..case one of your own creations'. I've cased the triangle card i made in week 2. I used a digi image from Di's Downloads called 'wheelbarrow ted', coloured with Promarkers, digi paper from one of the freebie site, sentiment and banner from Nutcrafters, button die cut from Baby 

Face dies and bit of twine to finish.

So the challenges I'm entering...Cupcake Inspirations 'pic', Come and get it 'just add water..watering can', Cute Daisy May 'sentiemnet', CCT 'cas', Bearly Mine 'anything', Totally papercrafts 'spring', Cupcake Craft 'shaped card', Love to create 'wrap it up, twine, string etc', Creative Inspirations 'buttons & bows'. Hope you'll all have a fab rest of the day..and don't forget to join in over at Crafty Creations.

Hi, it's my 3rd week as GDT at Crafty Creations. What fab themes...'tic, tac, toe' is this weeks and I went diagonally with 'buttons, pearls, gems'. My creation is a gift bag (love making these) using freebie paper from Stephanie Weightman's blog last year QVC Qintessentially Country Garden, gorgeous digi image from Di's Digi Downloads 'summer swingtime', coloured with Promarkers, sentiment from one of Krista's SC freebies. Die cuts from Marianne Creatables, old charm and twine from stash. Hope you enjoyed the inspiration, please take a peek over at the challenge blog, it's very easy to get a card in, there's so many combinations of tic, tac, toe there and gorgeous loveliness from the dt.

Now for some challenges...Di's Digi Designs 'pearls & lace', Crafty Ribbons 'buttons', Stampin for the weekend 'distressed..paper', Crafty Catz 2nd, Bearly Mine 2nd final, Crafty Sentiments 'fancy folds, not square', Kaboodle Doodles, Glitter n Sparkle, Papertake 'buttons & bling', Created with Love 'things that fly, birds, ladybirds', Ribbon Girls 'turquoise'. There we are..hop  over to CC to see the other wonderful work, bye for now.

Beautiful sunny day it is today, hope it's the same where you are. Quick sharing of my card which I really wanted to get in for some challenges. There's alot of embossing there..present die and embossing from cuttlebug dies as is  the dotty and bird swirls, some ribbon, pearls and wonderful tag stamp and fab sentiment from Nutcrafters. Simples!!!

Now for the challenges..firstly Simon says 'white on white', Joanna Sheen 'black & white', Charisma 'anything' as is The Pretty Little Ribbon shop, Creative Card Crew 'Happy Birthday' as is ABC challenge and Inky Chicks, Crafty Catz 'tic tac toe..pearls, dies, ribbon', Bearly Mine 'lace, ribbon, twine...I've used ribbon', Incy Wincy 'pop it up..foam pads used under each layer'. I make that 10..wishing you all a sunshiney day..I'm off outdoors to potter around the garden.

Hi and happy valentines if you're celebrating today...me..it's not really anything special, although my hubby has made an effort with a dozen red roses so it did brighten up my day! Hence my card combo..gorgeous cute image from Di's Digi's (fab win from the Christmas Crafting blog that is sadly no more) Many thanks. Paper scrap from digi d/load, heart bird stamp from Craft Stamper mag long time ago, sentiments and banner from the wonderful Nutcrafters. Image is called 'hello ladybird', coloured with Promarkers and slight dusting of glamour dust and oh the punch is Fiskars Sunburst. As it's a black card I always tend to put an insert. Thanks for taking a peek today.

So onto the many challenges mainly love themed..Di's Digi Designs, Glitter n sparkle 2nd, Dream Valley 3rd, Come and get it 2nd, I Love Promarkers 'one for the girls', Penny's challenges 'colour combo..black & red', Sandys Crafty Creations 'anyhting & birthday', Crafty Ribbons 'anything & ribbon', Crafty sentiments, Love to create, Kaboodle Doodles, Cutie Pie, CYP, Allsorts 2nd, Digital Tuesday 'up up away..ladybird, bird', CCT 'eye for detail...the little girl seems to be counting the spots on the ladybird', and finally Papertake 'hearts & flowers'. Alot there, have a fab day whatever you're doing.

Hello there, today's my 2nd week as a guest designer at Crafty Creations. Thankyou for the opportunity, the theme is Love /Hearts, well there's no shortage of that in crafty blogland with Valentines coming up, hope everyone is full of love! I went with one of my fave triangle shaped card, using the fab digi image 'Angel watering' from QKR (win from Kaboodle Doodles..thankyou both), love the showering of love there, coloured with Promarkers, paper from Nikky's PD cd Sugar Birdies. Found an epoxy heart in stash, banner with sentiment from Nutcrafters, some cutout hearts from scrap paper and coloured in, glamour dust to finish!

 

 

 

Many thanks for coming over to see my little card..now for some challenges...Polka Doodle, CCT, Charisma 2nd, Come and get it, Dream valley 2nd, Glitter n sparkle, Stampatcular sunday, Cupcake Inspirations, Totally Papercrafts and Allsorts. I make that 10! Have a brilliant day all.

 

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone's having a great weekend..My creation today is a very inexpensive gift bag, super digi image 'latte' from Krista Saturated Canary, gorgeous to colour in with Promarkers, digi stripey paper from Crafters Companion, hearts scraps from previous card, Fab sentiment from the lovely Paulette bird and flowers from American crafts stamps, brilliant pink spotty ribbon from Meiflower.

 

 

 

I'd like to enter in 10 challenges..Saturated canary 2nd entry (they're really close to getting 100), CYP 2nd, Incy Wincy 2nd, Paper Pretties 2nd, Charisma, Bearly Mine, Simon says, Creative Inspirations..it's their 200th challenge!!! Inky Impressions, Dream Valley. Thanks for your visit!

Hi again, I'm showing a card made with a d/load paper from the Sizzix website (freebie), and also the SC digi which was a freebie too from Krista called 'find the silver lining' comes with some sentiment messages but I've used a grunge message from LOTV. A couple of buttons to finish. Image coloured with Promarker.

 

 

Challenges entered are mainly love themed..Saturated Canary 'use colour pic for inspairation', Love to create 2nd, Papertake 2nd, Totally Papercrafts, Creative Craft, fab n Funky, Incy Wincy, My Mums craft shop, Paper Pretties, Crafty Catz, Fetch a sketch (sketch used, added the sentiment), Kaboodle Doodles and CYP. It's a quick post today!

Look what's arived this morning!!! The lovely Brenda  from Stamping Sensations sent this fab bumper prize I won a little while ago on their challenge blog. Thanks Stix2 and Stamping Sensations. Back in a bit.

Morning all, today is a special post for one of the challenges I love to participate in...it's Crafty Creations and the lovely Bernie asked me if I'd like to guest design for February...well you know what the answer was! I was delighted to be asked so it had to be a big 'yes' immediately. Thankyou for inviting me. I hope you all enjoy the inspiration with my first creation for their fab challenge 'black, white and touch of one other'. Mine was pale blue.

 

I made my own carton in black card, used some old d/load black check/gingham paper on all four sides, used 'football bears' LOTV stamp, part of my win, separated off each bear to pop up for all sides, finished with stamp sentiment from 'everday grunge' stamps set, individual footballs using a stamp from See D's, card has the full stamp in its glory, I love these fun bears, balls are decoupaged on the card, image coloured with Promarkers, twisted threads to make twine. Super birthday sentiment LOTV too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thankyou to the Crafty Creations team for all their wonderful inspiration and amazing talent, hope you'll be able to play along too! Now for some challenges...I Love Promarkers, it's their 3rd birthday.. so a massive 'Happy 3rd Birthday' to them, Promarker 'boys and their toys', LEJ 'anything goes' as is Papertake, Love to create are celebrating their 1st year so many congratulations to them too, Live, laugh, stamp 4th final entry, Pink Gem 'gingham/checks', Crafty catz 2nd, LOTV 2nd and Stampin for the weekend 'metal..charm'. So that's about it for today, many thanks for popping over, hope to see your creations on Crafty Creations, bye!

Happy Monday to all! I hope everyone's had a good weekend and looking forward to another fab week. Onto my creation which is a pretty little gift bag for a little madam..she really wants to grow up quickly, has a fascination with jewellery and beads already and all in all loves 'pink'..a little bit here is enough I think. I made the bag itself out of inexpensive paper, d/load papers from Crafters Companion website, fab LOTV stamp 'pots of love' I chose  as part of my win, coloured with Promarkers, EK Success layering b/fly punch, MS doily lace punch, Spellbinders heart die cut and embossed, sentiment comes with the stamp.  Pearls and ribbon from Meiflower. So I think some lovely bracelets and charms would fit nicely in this. Hope you like it!

 

 

 

 

So onto some challenges which again are several and mainly on the theme of 'love'...Bearly Mine, I Love promarkers, Promarker, My Mums Craft Shop, Sweet Stampin, Joanna Sheen '3 papers, 2 embellies..charm and butterflys, 1 image', One Stop Craft, LOTV, Flutterby Wednesdays, Crafts & Me 'fave embellie..butterflies', Natalie & Amy 'new..stamp, old..bag template', Allsorts 'cute', Simon says 2nd, Crafty Creations 2nd, Crafty Ribbons, Totally Papercrafts 'own embellies..butterfly',  and Crafty Catz. Thankyou for your lovely comments on my blog, they're always very much appreciated and I'll be here again on Wednesday with a special post.

Hi, it's nearly the end of the week and so much still to do. I've been on a kind of a roll with bookmarks..it makes a change from sending a normal card to PostPals. Some children after surgery and illness find it extremely difficult to settle back into school, I thought the sporty little boy from Faith would be ideal and the fab sentiment from Nutcrafters to give positive thoughts! Found some fab twill type fabric ribbon in my stash today and put it to some use. Image called 'skater boy' coloured with Promarkers, all backing papers from scraps from Polka doodle cd's. Corners cut with decorative scissors. Stamping on the twill from LOTV stamps.

 

 

Ready to be sent off... and now for some challenges, Crafty Creations 'anything but card', Creative Inspirations 'one for the guys', Cards for men 'transport..can a skateboard do the job?', Cute Daisy May 2nd, Allsorts 'male', Simon says 'anything', CCT 'different corner', Crafty Ribbons 'anything and ribbon' and Here come the boys 'bingo..blue, free (twilled tape) image'. That's about it, thankyou for popping by.