Hi, it's the weekend starting, and hopefully a couple of days rest before the next week begins. Well I've had this digi image for a long time from Crafty Sentiments and never tire of using her for little girl cards. Coloured with Promarkers, gorgeous dig i paper from Michele 'thankyou', home made pins, die cuts from Marianne Creatables, sentiment is stamped with a freebie from a mag.

There's 10 challenges entered..Oldie but a goodie 'have a heart' as is Inky Impressions, Little darlings 'polka dots' on the dress and card candy centre, Crafty sentiments 'lace & pins', Creative Inspirations 'anything goes' as is Simon Says 2nd entry, I Love Promarkers 'purple & pink', Promarker 'recycle something..pins', Crafts & me 'pink & sparkly' (got one there but forgot the sparkle..ooops), and Cupcake Craft 2nd entry 'all you need is love'. Thankyou for the kind comments, wishing you all a fab weekend!

Another middle of the week... and today I've got this cute Whoopsi Daisy digi image freebie to show off, she's just made some jam, fabby for people who love making home made condiments, paper is scrap from previous recent cards and from Polka Doodle Sugar Birdies cd and so is that fab sentiment. Heart is from Spellbinders, die cut and embossed, image coloured with Promarkers.

This one is for 5 challenges, Whoopsi daisy 'let's bling it up', Sir stampalot 'monochrome', Cupcake craft 'all you need is love', Simon says 'anything goes' and One Stop Craft 'under the weather'. This one is going to a Post pals child, if you can spare a card and a bit of postage, it's such a worthwhile effort. Thanks for leaving your lovely comments, so much appreciated!

Hi to a bright Monday! Yes it's me...and I'm still shrugging off those nasty bugs and desparately hoping for an end so i can do my crafting in one go. This girly set I'm pleased to say was brilliantly easy using the same Sugar Birdies CD from Polka Doodles (the boy one is under this post and was very well received). This one had to be made up ready to give by hand and love it to bits that I nearly kept it for myself to store kiddy cards in!!! The sentiment is a Penny Black stamped with walnut stain ink.

I just wanted to say i've had some trouble leaving comments at some blogs, not sure why but the blogs that open the tiny comment box are fine, so I wonder what it could be... my fave blogs where i usually like to leave some love may wonder why i've stopped but to reassure those lovely crafters i hope it is blogger to blame not me that's forgotten how to do things with my computer, oh well!
There are many challenges...CES 'anything but a card' as are Little Claires and Incy wincy, Hooked on craft 'something bright', Scrappy Frogs 'lace', Dream valley 'animals', Stamptacular sunday 'seeing spots', Crazy 4 'child's card', Crafty Calendar 'new news, buttons & bows'... new thing i've started to do is line my envelopes!!! Papertake weekly, Craft Your passion 'bingo colours..pink, red and brown', MAWTT 'things with wings'. Hoping that 2012 has started well for everyone, we're at the end of January already, that was quick!

Morning and a big hi to all. It's been a long time since i posted anything, reason being we are still recovering from these never ending colds. Hopefully they'll all go away after they've toughened up the old immune systems!!! So, my project is a gift box with matching card using Polka Doodle Sugar Birdies CD...fantastic cd, absolutely all sorted out for a present. Everything is precoloured from there, just used the Penny Black sentiment stamp and some matching blue ric rac which I've had a long time not used. After alot of sniffles and tissue boxes used up, all finished, this will be hand given to a little fella well stocked with birthday cards and a few treats.

I've missed some challenges so to catch up there's several...Creative craft 'blue', Incy Wincy 'bold & bright', Stamp and create 'anything goes' as are Anything, Crafty Purple Frog, sew Many and Secret Crafter, Craft Your Passion 'in the bag/box', Stamps r Us 'kidding around', Hooked on craft 'try sometning new..box', Partytime Tuesdays, Truly Scrumptious 'something forgotten..ric rac', My Mums craft 'fave colour combo..lime and blue', Crafty catz 'somehting new', Stampin for the weekend 'out with the old..ric rac', Alphabet 'you can choose', Crazy 4 'mono in the blues'. Pheweeee that's alot, hoping to make a girl version box soon, take care all!

Hi again for another posting. This is the same stamp as used on my previous card (see post below) except it's coloured with Promarkers, digi paper from Nikky's Polka Doodles, bit of recycled black ribbon and there we have it!

So another 10 challenges I'm entering some of them 2nd entries...Simon Says, CES, Crafty Ribbons, Papertake Weekly, Fab n Funky, Cute card Thursday, My mums craft shop. Dream Valley 'anything goes', Cards For Men 'recycling...ribbon bits', Pile it on 'manly cards'. Wishing you all a fab evening, thanks for all your visits too.

Good afternoon to all this fine Sunday. It seems a while since I posted a creation...the new year has brought all the bugs and viruses in our household and it seems everyone is unwell...but i managed to make this one using some New free stamps that came from Papercraft Inspirations issue 95 'country companions'. Really nice set of stamps although I had a bit of trouble getting them off the acetate, evrything stamped straight onto the card is from the set, coloured and blended with Koh i noor pencils, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, lovely heart charm from the fantastic Emma ( won a voucher to spend there from their challenge blog and found some brilliant products, many thanks).

There are 10 challenges... CES 'anything goes' as is Stamps r us, Sweet stampin 'new beginning' (maybe a new friendship) as are Bling it on, Crafty Catz, Cute Card Thursday, Crafty Ribbons who are having a blog hop too, For Fun and My Mums Craft shop, Flutterby Wednesdays is an open theme as long as there is an fairy, butterfly etc. I hope all is well in blogland (the land of all crafters), back in a bit with another!

Good afternoon. Today I've made a rather simple card using a new d/load paper from Anice and cut out the letters. The floral curved frame is a new stamp set that came free with a mag, coloured it with Promarkers, i wanted to put some glamour dust on the flowers but I've mislaid the tub, will sprinkle some on when i find it! So all in all, cutting, sticking and a little bit of stamping. Hope you find time to say thankyou for all those lovely pressies over the festive season too.

There are 10 challenges I'm entering...Get Funky & Craft 'thankyou' as is Promarker, Creative Inspirations, Stampin for the weekend 'anything goes' as are Crafts & ME 3rd final entry, Charisma 2nd entry, Inky Impressions and Papertake Weekly. Simon says 'something new' as is Fab n Funky. Enjoy a fab rest of the day and many thanks to my regular friends who take the time to leave nice comments.

Happy New Year and a very good evening to all! The weather to the start of this brand new year is very treacherous at the moment with gale force winds, i do hope they die down soon. Onto my creation today is using a fab new digi image from Ladybugs Crafts Ink 'love and marriage' bench image ( i won the whole shebang on the blog hop release last year , yippeeee...thanks so much!!!) Paper is a freebie d/load from Jak, some old sparkly ribbon from a christmas cake, cream lace from stash, stamped heart with sentiment from Paper Pretties set ( love it)... I cut out the middle, image coloured with Promarkers and I just noticed a couple of black dot remnants on the male hunk!!!

This one is for 10 challenges...Ladybug Crafts Ink 'anything goes plus new stash', Charisma 'anything goes', Crafty sentiments 'love & marriage', Paper Shelter 'tie a bow', Digistamps 4 joy 'new & old', Creative Craft 'resolutions...to share out more love', Pretty Little ribbon 'my valentine', OSAAT 'use a digi', Ribbon Girls 'red, black, cream', Rainbow Ladys 2nd entry 'your choice'. Many thanks for visiting and i hope this year is going to bring everyone much happiness and success!

Hi to all! My creation for today is a very long time coming...I've wanted to make one of these tea light candle cards but sadly not had extra time to work out how to make it...well after browsing several blogs I measured something that resembles it. Paper is a scrap from last years d/load from Martine, I really enjoyed using this fab Simply Sassy stamp 'Bookclub' from Sugar Nellie I won from their blog hop (many many thanks!), just fab as I am always looking for easy ideas to create and send to Post Pals (however this set I'll keep to hand give and will definitely make more Bookmarks to give out), the ribbon is recycled from a posh gift bag, blue bow I found in my stash, thin acetate used for tea light bit, fern is a punch and flowers are Marianne Creatable dies. Image coloured with Promarkers.

Lots of challenges entered...many are 'anything goes' such as, Paperplaytime, Party time Tuesdays, I Love Promarkers, My Mums Craft shop, Crafts & Me, Rainbow Ladys, Simon says and Secret Crafter. Bunny Zoes 2nd entry 'fancy folds', Crafty Sentiments 'bookmarks', Ladybug Crafts 'bingo board...ribbon, flowers, punches/dies', Promarker 3rd entry 'celebrations', Inky Impressions 'something new 'stamp', Paper Shelter 'tie a bow' and last but not at all least followed the Sugar Bowl sketch but didn't use the option . Thanks for visiting, enjoy the celebrations into the New Year and be safe, until 2012, bye!

Morning all! Please don't worry...this is still Ribenaruby's blog, I hope evryone has had a good christmas and still enjoying the festivities into the New Year. I thought I'd show you my little knitting project since this has took time off my cardmaking, the cards have been scarce on here the last few weeks. It started out with 'I can knit that in a week, it's made with chunky wool', well two and a half months later it's arrived!!! The cardigan was a request from my teenage daughter and the last time i knitted up a full adult size jumper was 20 years ago for my husband!!! The brain cells are slowly deteroriating it looks like :( but I got to the end, she specifically requested longer in the arm as she wanted the cuffs up to her fingers.

Now my daughter cuts off labels that irritate the back of the neck...so i thought i'd use my tiny personalised christmas stamp with the santa on it from Scrapmagasinet but mask off the oval and santa just to reveal 'handmade by ruby' bit stamped in Memento ink...lightly tied with the same wool so she can easily remove it!

No challenges entered....but you may notice on this pic the addition of pockets...she said she specifically requested 'pockets', kids, what would you do without them. So there they are, knitted and sewn on with leftover wool and brain cells! I used a SIRDAR pattern 9259, Crofter Chunky, smallest size with a cream 'life chunky' wool by Stylecraft, 75% acrylic, 25% wool, needles 5 1/2 and 6 1/2 mm. Hope this has inspired some one out there to pick up your knitting needles and start practicing again, all in all a really simple pattern. My daughter loved it so much that she fell asleep on the sofa still wearing it. Have a great day!

Hello all merry bloggers! I needed some more extra cards for families...so i came up with this one to make into a batch...just a normal A5 piece of card, printed straight onto it with Lucida Handwriitng font (I always do a dummy test on copier paper first to see where it sits first to avoid wastage of valuable card), punched out snowflakes from received colour envelopes, used some twine, punched out tiny circles of scrap and a gem.

So challenges are many... Papertake Weekly 'last minute xmas cards', Paperplay, Hooked on craft 'xmas with punches/die cuts', Dream Valley 2nd entry, One stop Craft, Simon says 'bingo...twine, gems , sparkle', My Mums craft shop 'anything goes' as are Crafts & Me, OSAAT, Little Darlings 2nd entry, Crimbo Crackers 'snowflakes', Cupcake Inspirations pic, Crazy, Crafty Hazlenuts Christmas challenge and Jingle Belles Rock. So all that is left to say is many thanks for taking the time to visit and have a very Merry Christmas, take care all.

Hi to all! The christmas holidays have started and the shopping is well underway. I needed some extra handmade cards but they had to be quick so I reached for Nikky's Paper Boutique Creative christmas CD...and wow there was something I was looking for...A christmas wreath. These are just perfect for family to family cards, pre-coloured printed straight out and cut around, came with a decoupage bit but i left it off as these had to be real quick, added a touch of twine and silver gem, there we have it. What a life saver!

So this is for 4 challenges...Polka Doodle 'last minute', Pixie Cottage 'anyhting christmas &their 100th challenge with a hop too', Charisma is also last minute and DYSU 'winter'. Have a brilliant Saturday.

Good evening all and a very cold one it is. Today my card is all about keeping warm...I used this lovely House Mouse image called 'yarn tales' and to me i thought they could be saying something to each other as the computer printed sentiment depicts. Coloured with Promarkers, paper digi d/load from Cuddly Buddly. I applied some glamour dust to give that festive feeling to the ball of wool.

So these are the fab challenges I'd like to enter. House Mouse 'warm & fuzzy', Joanna Sheen 'christmas', Oldie but a goodie 'xmas animals', Creative card crew 'tis the season', Papertake Weekly 'xmas cards & fave colour theme...red & green at the mo', Party time Tuesdays 'red & green', Stamptacular Sunday 'xmas & glitz', Cupcake Inspirations is a pic, Dream Valley, Come and get it 'red, green and 1 other..brown', Secret Crafter 'creatures great & small', CES 'traditional xmas', as are One Stop Craft and Crafty ribbons, Crafty Creations 'xmas plus a sentiment', Little darlings and Crafts & Me. Whooopeee, that's a lot, thanks so much for visiting today.

Hello everyone. Welcome to my newest follower! Almost another week gone by and no card... but here is one using the fab LOTV stamp Little Dot birthday wish. Absolutely brilliant stamp comes with that sentiment, i masked off the side flowers as i wanted to cut it out. Coloured with Promarkers, used some scraps of digi papers, so handy for these type of card.

So as usual there are many challenges...LOTV firstly 'pink, white & silver', Magical Monday 'pink, silver', Allsorts 'it takes 2...colours white & pink', Sweet Stampin 'things with wings', Totally papercrafts 'anyhting but xmas', Crafty Catz 'anything goes' as is Cute Card Thursday, Inky Impressions 'use ribbon', I Love Promarkers 'shaped card', Promarker 2nd entry 'celebrations' as is Paper Shelter, Crazy 'more than 1 fold', Bunny Zoes 'shaped cards', Cupcake craft 'bling, sparkle' and finally used the brilliant sketch from Sketch Saturday (hope you can see it on the middle part). Many thanks for popping by my blog, have a great evening all!

ETA: Entry for Penny Black at Allsorts' birthday'.

Welcome to the middle of the week. Today my creation is showing a LOTV image 'dads the word', part of a win I had there some time ago 'thankyou'...paper from the fantastic Summer Driggs freebie d/loads, image coloured with Promarkers, everything else from stash. Hope you like this ted bear, it's the first time I inked him but I'm sure he's over 6 months old. I must use these lovelies more...you will see I masked off the 'dad' word and tool box it comes with and I can see it used for female cards too if you mask off the tie!

So the challenges are 10...LOTV 'anything but christmas card', Oldie but a goodie 'no red or green', Promarker 'celebration', Crazy 2nd entry 'anything goes' as is Papertake weekly 2nd entry, Cards for men 'make 2 of something'...they're also celebrating their 2nd birthday and have a blog hop, Here come the boys 'man in your life', CES 'bear necessaties', Craft your days 2nd entry 'buttons or bows' and Creative craft 'stitching'. There you have it, have a pleasant day all!

Hi again, I must say first of all to the 3 new followers to my blog 'thankyou for choosing to follow'. I am always glad to see that crafters have taken the time to come to my little blog and then if they like what I have here they themselves have chosen to follow, so I'm very happy :)))) That said, I'll go over to my card with a digi win from Rainbow Ladys a little time ago, it's from Glitterbabe and a lovely girly image 'ice dancing', coloured with Promarkers, digi paper from Creative Cottage which is no more sadly. Sentiment is a stamp set from Sweet & Sassy.

So there are many festive challenges in blogland at the moment...Poodles parlour, Hooked on craft, Crazy 'anything goes' as are Come and get it, Simon Says and Papertake weekly, Dream Valley, Bling it on, Allsorts 'going round in circles', Sweet Stampin, One Stop Craft, Rainbow Ladys, Craft your days away,Crafty catz, Pretty little ribbon shop and My mums craft shop 'keeping warm'. That is exactly what I'm doing wrapping myself around the cardigan pieces I'm knitting...there is snow coming soon and it definitely is cold enough for it. Take care all and thankyou for the wonderful comments you take time to leave.

Hi everyone, I'm still here...over a week now since i made a card but i have a very good excuse of knitting a chunky cardigan for a loved one in my family and it's nearly finished...one sleeve to knit and the collar then I'll be done!!! Just incase you didn't know, I knit too and crochet aswell. It's clearly becoming a winter pastime now and maybe every year I can pass down a hand knitted jumper or cardi ;))) something you can't buy from the shops and means so much more. Anyaway onto my card which is a stamp free from a mag some years ago, the sentiment is quite tiny but comes along with other stamps on the little sheet too, coloured with Promarkers, hope you like it!

Challenges entered are 10...Stamps R Us 'embossing', Simon Says 'anything goes' as is Craft Your Passion, Hooked on craft 'winter wonderland', Pollycraft 2nd entry 'christmas', Cupcake inspirations is a lovely pic, I Love Promarkers 'snowmen/snowflakes', Kaboodle doodle 'christmas colours', Charisma 'spots' and Colour Create 'red, white, greem option of snowflakes'. Have a great evening all.

As promised, here is what else I've been up to. This is what I bought when I was choosing some voucher wins. Thankyou LOTV, I'm fast approaching to being one of your No 1 fans, they're all so adorable and very difficult to choose!!! This is 'cake glorious cake' from their latest release and is just right for all those birthdays, comes with a fab sentiment which I'll use another day. Papers from old Kaboodle Doodle digi d/loads. I stamped some swirls using a Simon says stamps, flower and leaf dies from Marianne Creatables. Friend and age using Baby Face Cuttlebug dies, card candy covered with pink Promarker and silver gem added, glamour dust added to cake and fairy wings. Image coloured with Promarkers.

Challenges entered are many...LOTV 'anything goes', Crafty Purple Frog 'someone special', Stampin for the weekend 'friends', Allsorts 'bunting', CES 'special milestones...18', Sweet Stampin 'punche & dies', My mUms craft shop 'things with wings', Ribbon Girls 'pink & white', Bearly Mine 'all my faves..digi d/loads', Promarker 'swirls & sparkles', I Love Promarker 'anything goes', Creative Craft 2nd entry 'free for all' and followed the sketch over at Sunday Sketch & stamp. Hope you enjoyed my creations today, bye.

Hi all to a fab Sunday. I thought I'd make another teen card for a male using one of Sparkles stamps, Turntable Josh, i love his trendy gear!!! Papers are so old, I believe the blue one was a website d/load freebie and the green is a scrap from Kaboodle Doodle. Coloured with Promarkers.

This one is for only 6 challenges...Sparkle Creations 'team Josh', Sir Stampalot 'blue & green', sketch from Friday Sketch, Cupcake Craft 'teen boys', Creative Craft 'free for all' and Fab n Funky 'happy birthday'. I've had a mini craftathon today, there's another creation coming up!

Morning all to a crisp Thursday. Today my creations are a set...consisting of a shaped card and a tag or could be used as a bookmark. There are 2 digi images used, trees scene and the wonderful Casper Silvermist from the lovely Paula at Pollycraft, 'thanks for this freebie' handcut shapes, sentiment is from old Whispers stamp using Promarkers to schieve the red/green words, snowflakes, are one of their stamps too! Coloured images with Promarkers. The digi paper is from Funky hand 'freebie', ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and 'cool dude' sentiment from Crafters Companion boy set.

Many challenges entered...Pollycraft 'christmas fun', Cupcake Craft 'teen boys', Cards for men 'fancy folding', Stamptacular Sunday 'boy oh boy', Dream Valley 'stitching', Crafty Pad 'festive colours', Get Funky & Craft, I Love Promarkers 'anything goes', Crafty catz 'snowflakes' as is CES, Paperplay 'shaped card', Papertake 'christmas crackers', Everybody art 'christmas card', Pixie cottage 'make a set', Simon Says 'tag your it', Crafty ribbons 'make a tag', Crafty calendar 'winter wardrobe'. So there we have it, what a lot!!! I'm getting to grips with working from a lap top, rather than my 12 year old desk top (: and it's too fast for me. You may notice my posts are everywhere!