Good afternoon. It's a fine sunny day where I am although a little chilly...the sun does wonders for your motivation, it certainly worked for me the last couple of days! I have this cute digi penguin couple to show and tell today from Paula at Pollycrafts, it was, yes you guessed it FREE along with the fab sentiment which I turned into my tag. Put some pink mascara with my glitter pen on the ladies eyelashes, but i don't think it can be seen on the pic. The papers are a story to tell in themselves...when I stumbled upon a few websites giving free d/loads ( a few years back now) not realising I shouldn't use ordinary copier paper i went a bit mad, ink was running out quickly, more than usual as the paper was soaking it up, printed loads from a few various magazine sites and i'm trying to use them up now. I simply can't bin them because they were off the new printer which came with it's own expensive inks. So that is the explanation and the papers are from DoCrafts website, oh my word the paper looks extremely thin, the embossing is showing through. I think I shall enter in 5 challenges Pollycraft 'It's chill time', Bee Crafty Christmas 2, Totally papercrafts Tag it!, sketch from Stamp Challenges and Crafty Catz 'Spot & Stripes. There's not many entries to my candy, so if anyone wants to enter you're more than welcome! Back in a bit.

A good day to all! Faith has given away the most gorgeous Laughing Giraffes image this week, there's single ones in the bundle too, will give them a try at a later date. This is also for their sister challenge Double Delight. I used the sketch over at Truly Scrumptious with option of petals, pearls & pins (which I've made myself with some dressmaking pearls), used the fabby colour theme from Wags N Whiskers challenge Black, White and Sepia (wasn't too sure what that colour looked like so followed the teams ideas)...so glad they let us use any image, I used a digi wreath frame from Paulette as is the fab sentiment for Digital Tuesday Frame plus digi, added some butterflies for Flutter by Wednesdays, entry for Simon Says Are you all white, Cooking it up with Katie is Swirly (embossing folder), Black (sentiment is in black) and Texture is in the embossing and lace). Lastly CRAFT is Dry Embossing, so there we have it...looking closely the lace and pins look more like a butterfly too, back tomorrow with another!

Back again. This one is for LOTV challenge, fabby sketch, used one of their own stamps 'Thomas with Champagne' thankyou Pauline, couldn't believe it's not been used and will be making a few New Year cards with this one! Sentiment is from Crafters Companion. Used gorgous violet seedpod d/load from Pink Petticoat Autumn Blossoms, lovely design...Christmas Stampin is Purple & Silver, A Spoonfull of Sugar is Relish to Embelish, gone with a Monotone sort for CRAFT challenge, Everybody Art is Untraditional Christmas, Winter Wonderland is Mousey Christmas and One Stop Craft challenge are having their 2nd Birthday celebrations and a blog hop, so what a fantastic round of challenges! My candy is on top side bar if you'd like to enter, only a few have entered so there's a good chance of winning, bye for now!

Hi and welcome to another post. I was one of the lucky people to win a bundle of the most gorgeous ribbons from the blog at Crafty Ribbons, wonderful Gingerbread Men Grosgrain amongst so many others...and took on the challenge to create at least 2 projects with them. Well, got a bit carried away and will show them here on my blog. They've all gone to Dorset but i simply had to take my pics before they got parceled off! I've got to give enormous credit to Wendy at Digital Delights By Louby Loo...I used my digi win of the wonderful Gingerbread House from the Sketch Saturday challenge I won some weeks back :))))). It's enlarged to fit most of this card, been a bit daring to mix burgundy cardstock with all the shades of pink as you can see. Lots of Glamour Dust, X Cut snowflake punch used as well as my trusted MS Doily Lace punch and a couple of rhinestones, card candy...paper is some great digital d/loads from Kaboodle Doodle Contemporary Christmas set.

...close-up of this wonderful scrumptious ribbon

...inside of the front

...inside of card, could easily be a New Home card for Christmas, Child's card with some home made gingerbread men biscuits, yummy!

...back, my personalised stamp from Lisbet at Scrapmagasinet. I couldn't help but enter in a few challenges namely Cute Card Thursday So Transparent, MAWTT card for child, Sir Stampalot Christmas Traditions, Crafty Creations Fables & Fairy Tales...mine is Hansel & Gretel and the 5th one but not the least Karens challenge over at Dotties Wonderful World Anything Christmas. A giveaway of some Bo Bunny Noel collection paper pack is being given away, lovely! Back in a bit.

For my second post! Here we have Ballerina Fairy from The Pixie Cottage, this was one of my wins from there Thankyou Michelle! She is a real cutey, lovely to colour, adore her so much...perfect to cheer up a little girl! I'm entering her in 4 challenges, for their own challenge which is a sketch and Metal (those orange flowers have a metal backing unfortunately you can't see it well, well the blue braid has a metallic effect...used some really fab paper d/loads from The Creative Cottage called Poppy Delight (they've had a discount sale at the weekend so I treated myself but still want more) what super fabby quality of printing, love these bright colours soooo much. So it's going for their own challenge Embossing (on the orange paper), The Secret Crafter Anything that flies (fairies and butterflies on paper) and Totally Papercrafts Bling it on (glamour dust on her lovely wings, sequins). Hope you like this one too, nearly forgot the adorable sentiment is...I'm more than postive it's from Paulette but will double check. Have a good evening and don't forget to enter my candy at the top, bye!

Good afternoon to all! I keep meaning to enter The High Hopes challenge every week but never get round to it, I'm really trying to beat the deadline today for entries so better get on with the post... using their own image Pillow Fight girls, absolutely a cutey with young girlies who like sleepovers, used a very clean simple sketch for Fab N Funky, Stitching for The Crafty Pad, Incy Wincy is Anything Goes as is Lexis Creations and Reasonable Ribbons challenge is Winter (blue, white & silver). Used some sparkly braid I got at the weekend, papers from Martine....

...Inside says 'Birthday Sleepover...Yippeeee!!!' using 'Leftovers' font. Back in a bit with another, while you're here take a look at my candy...some stamps included if your an avid stamper!!!

Last day of the month! And it's Halloween, if you're celebrating please stay safe! Today I've a card for the Ribbon Girls #2 Red & Green, used the teen image from Sarah Kay, just love colouring her...so easy as she's very well illustrated, backing paper is from the lovely talented Martine (a freebie), sentiment is a freebie from a past magazine d/load, found some fabby sparkly ribbon from years ago, a bag full of pre-made red ribbons and sequins today. Challenges entered are ABC Christmas V vertical, well I've used a slimline card, I bought so many packs when I started crafting, don't think it could get any more vertical than this and used their 1st sketch, Bah Humbug is Presents, Christmas Card Challenges is Candy Canes (look closely at the sentiment, r's repesent canes) and OSAAT is Christmas Modern. Hope everyone is enjoying a fab Sunday...the clocks went back, an extra hour of rest and i wonder if there are crafters out there doing an extra hour of crafting to catch up, don't miss my candy in the side bar if you'd like some free goodies, good luck!

Welcome Crafty Bloggers! As promised here is my candy for a lucky person to win. I missed my 2nd Blogaversary in June this year, reached over 25,000 hits since then, so it's celebration time! I do like to give something back to the blogging world of crafters as anyone who visits regularly and reads my posts would know I've won a fair share of candies myself and this candy to one of you has something for men, ladies and kids. It consists of Daisy & Dandelion sheet of clear stamps 'Marshmallow does DIY', lovely laces, navy cord, pink paper flowers and selection of handstamped images in Memento ink. Oooh nearly forgot 2 stamps from Crafters Companion...I won a large bundle of stamps, Sooo generous these wonderful people are, there were some duplicates, too much for me to keep so they're included as well.

What do you have to do? This is the hard bit...leave me a comment here on this post, open to all, you must come back to see if you've won, draw closes Friday 19th November 6pm GMT and the best of luck!

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Happy Thursday all! It's that fab day where I can show you a digi image from Faith at Designed 2 Delight. He is called Scarecrow Teddy and Hat, used ths fab sketch from Friday Sketchers but too late to enter, used colours Brown, Sage and Cream for Creative Inspirations, Crafty Creations is Halloween/ Autumn (I went with the latter) and Cards for Men is Anything Goes. Backing paper is from Crafters Companion website, all the others are freebies from Shabby Princess.Sentiment is a stamp from Personal Impressions from QVC! Looking at the card properly it looks like he's gazing upwards at the text...bye until next post!

Hi, this is my LOTV card. I try so hard to not get this one done last minute but here I am again 'last minute'...using this cute kitty with flowers, papers were a freebie d/load from some years ago off one of the magazine websites, it was a little small so i cut it to make space for my lace and ribbon and the problem was solved. Crafty Pad have a Christmas theme, ABC G for Glitter (Glamour Dust used), Everybody Art is a pic inspiration similar to Crafty Catz Black, white and 1 other (red), followed the sketch from Just Cute Bears & Friends...fab news now we're allowed any animal not just bears!!! Fabby. Winter Wonderland is recipe: 2papers, 1 ribbon, 1 snowflake & charm, Bah Humbug is Elegance (I've used my Debbie Moore Fireworks Punch for circle), Christmas Stampin is Something Metallic(charm), Creative Card crew is Punches as is Simon Says (X Cut snowflake). Back tomorrow, candy is sorted just need to take a pic!

October is for raising awareness. Hi all, hope you'll like my little project, it's for the Just Magnolia Think Pink challenge, used a carton template from a couple of years ago for the Create 4 Fun #43, Sweet Stampin #49 is Anyhting but a card as is Crafty Sentiments, Allsorts #75 Spots and Stripes, OSAAT All Celebrations, I think you'll agree this month is not only to raise awareness but to celebrate all those women who have come through Breast Cancer and are with us today despite all the chemotherapy and radiation treatments and looking to having more memorable times with their loved ones. Incy Wincy #65 Lace & Pearls (on Tilda's pigtails), A Spoonfull of Sugar Let's get Punchy (Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch used for a strip along the top) and Papertake Weekly is Sparkly & Bright. I've tried to get all different shades of Pink on here...can you tell and as Tilda normally stands in a puddle I've given her grass today. Behind Tilda is the lovely Journalling stamp Katarina sent me as part of a candy, sentiment is from one of Crafters Companion Popcorn Bear sets i bought, flower is a stamp by Anna Griffin from QVC, dotty paper from Kaboodle Doodles Contemporary Christmas, stripey one from The Creative Cottage Fairy Wishes. Thankyou for visiting, happy crafting all!

Hi and good day to you all! Today I've got this wonderful digi image from Meljens Designs, freebie from their blog...it's a little mini card which could easily be a tag with a present for someone really really special who has braved through the horrible disease Cancer. As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month i've seen so many creations dedicating posts and cards to very special people who have/are going through treatments and many many hours of decision making I'm sure. I have a lot of admiration for those souls who take in their stride what life throws at them...and before I really get tearful get to the challenges quick...I'm entering for which are ofcourse Meljens Anything Goes, fab sketch from Cute Card Thursday, Stamp Challenge Digi, Inky Impressions Add Flowers, and one I found recently Crafty Purple Frog Challenges New Blog Anything Goes. Thanks for taking time to visit me, candy will be up soon!

This one is for Pollycrafts! I do love it when generous people give out freebies for us to play with and in return we can promote their wonderful work. Paula is sooooo generous that every Friday there's a freebie waiting to be snatched!!!! This spooky cat has gone dotty with my white Sakura pen, i was 'cleaning' away the purple marks that had leaked out from the image and had an idea of a spotty cat, pumpkin papers from Crafters Companion website. So Pollycraft #66 is Purple, Green and 1 other (orange), A Spoonfull of Sugar is Halloween, Fab n Funky Things that go bump in the night, Lexis Creations Spooky as are CRAFT and Creative Inspirations, Kaboodle Doodle Bat on your card, Digital Tuesday Yellow, Black & Purple (got 2 of the colours right, please disqualify me if orange doesn't look a yellow, it doesn't to me :))))) and followed the super sketch at Papertake Weekly. I'm sorting out some candy for next week, so please come back and see!

At last one for PB challenge. I've missed one of my fave challenges for quite some time, only because i wander off to give a little support elsewhere :))) papers from various offcuts, PB image from Hugs sheet, sentiment stamped from American Crafts with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, some card candy, brown grosgrain ribbon, butterflies from Daisy & Dandelion set stamped, cutout and popped onto foam pads. So i followed the Penny Black sketch, used Autumn Colour for Penny Black at Allsorts, Crafty Creations Green, Brown & Red, Simon Says Thanksgiving, and Flutter by Wednesdays used butterflies! Wishing you all a very happy and crafty weekend. Next week should have some delicious candy...missed my 2nd blogaversary in June and have noticed my counter at 25,000 hits so please come back to see what's on offer.

Truly a 'Beautiful Blessing'. That is the name of this elegant digi stamp from Faith at Designed 2 Delight Digital Stamps...this only needed minimal colouring but i can see the distressing could be taken further by more different techniques. Followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday, Charisma Cardz is Vintage, Incy Wincy is Pink/Brown, Crafty Pad is Distress/Torn, and 3rd final entry for Top Tip Tuesday Anything Goes. Paper is the Summer indoors from Crafters Companion CD, some card candy which I bought from QVC and absolutely love it but keep forgetting to use, fern and daisy punches used, ticket from the lovely Caz, buttons from stash! Have a pleasant evening all!

One for Pink Gem challenge. Hi everyone, I'm still cutting around my images...can you tell, hope you like this one, using their own image and sentiment (i've had a little spend over at Janet's last weekend, couldn't resist the sale), followed their sketch, used my win papers from Papertake Weekly from the fantastically talented Liz. These are Autumn Blossoms range and i can't tell you how fab they print out clear edge to edge printing which my computer normally doesn't do but i was sooo happy to find the paper coming out with no white strips all round so no wastage! Just loving all the papers and so perfect for this season, the ticket is a stamp from American Crafts. Other super challenges entered are Totally Papercrafts Autumn, Cards For Men Birthday, CES Male and Top Tip Tuesday(2nd entry) Anything Goes. Hope to be back with another!

I'm back with my second card. It's for all the Halloweeen challenges out there, used the lovely sketch from Creative Inspirations, backing paper free from Crafters Companion website, digi image precoloured Sherbet the bear freebie from The Ceative Cottage. Challenges entered are Everybody Art, The Creative Cottage, Stamp Challenge, Polka Doodle, MAWTT, Stampin for the weekend. I'll be back in a couple of days, have a good weekend!

Happy Saturday all! Hope all is well everywhere...today I've this really beautiful fairy from Pollycrafts entering for their own challenge Fairy Tale as is Creative Card Crew, used the fab sketch from The Pixie Cottage and Stitching (hope it's okay to use the die cut swirls from Spellbinders), Crafty Creations is to use a number, there's a butterfly for Flutter by Wednesdays (hope there's a tiny bit of Autumn feel), used some old QVC papers to give the colour palette for CRAFT challenge and Cute Card Thursday is Butterflies, Bees, bugs really! Back soon with another.

Hi and here is my second card for today. It's for Faith's ongoing fabby challenge Designed 2 Delight Digital Stamps using the freebie digi image so suitable for the card it was intended for...added some flowery ribbon from stash, zig-zag some faux stitching and stamped straight onto it with Penny Black sentiment. Entry for Digital Tuesday #80 Sew Special, ABC f for flowers, Create 4 Fun #41 use a digi stamp and Colour Create #55 is pink, green and cream. Bye for today!

A Thanksgiving Day. This must be an understatement, my card was suppose to go on my blog yesterday but I was soooo captivated with all the news coverage on the Chile Miners all day, a fine moment in history is recorded, what a brilliant morning it is to find out all are out and safe. My image is from Belles N Whistles Hearty Thanksgiving for their own new challenge blog BNW challenges,can you tell I'm in that mode of cutting around almost every image on my cards lately...papers from The Shabby Princess d/loads, gold heart from Spellbinders corner dies, ticket from here, mini buttons from Create & Craft, all the rest from stash. It's my entry for Bunny Zoes Crafts challenge Autumn love, Sir Stampalot Autumn Breeze Buttons & Bows, used the sketch from Sketch Saturday and lastly but not least Papertake Weekly 3 of a kind. Shall be back with another card later!