One for Crafty Sentiments. Wow, I loved this digi image free from their blog for their Black and Red # and is going on for a door hanger today. Couldn't glitter up any of those X cut punch snowflakes as this little family member has enough allergies to deal with and glitter/glam dust would only irritate her... so I opted to place silver sequins in their middles...gorgeous red paper is from the talented Martine, wonderful!!! Sentiment on tag is from a freebie mag, bakers twine is 'really' what it is, from my kitchen (my flour comes in a bag with loads of it used for the closure, and I've saved lots of it through the years in the hope it'll come handy one day). Staples used on this one and small strip of ribbon.

So the other challenges entered are Winter Wonderland A Decoration, Secret Crafter is a Christmas gift, Digital Tuesday Let it snow, Crazy Challenges Staples, Whoopsie Daisy Holiday, Papertake Weekly is Cut it out, Die Cut Dreams Anything but a card NO CARDS, A Spoonfull of Sugar is Anything Goes as is a new one to me Beary Sweet #. That's it for now, just like to say to my followers and the really nice people who take the time to visit and read my posts 'thankyou'!

Morning all. It's a very chilly one! Today I'll be going on a hop to the Wild Rose Studio...they've got a sketch challenge going on, a nice simple one but I've none of their fab stamps yet and are on my evergrowing stamp wish list!!! So I thought I'd make a matching set used some d/load papers I found in my files while having a tidy up...I didn't realise how much space i'd used with so many files, but I'm hoping slowly to get through it. Papers are from Making Handmade Cards .Com Floradoodles, LOTV image (nearest one I've got to Dulcie's fab illustrations) for their Glitter & Glitz, Lovely Lace for CES # (used some cream folded in half), Wags N Whiskers Lavender & Lace, Crafty Purple Frog Flowers, Stamp Something Thanks, Stamptacular # Time for Giving NO CARDS, CRAFT # Vellum, Creative Card Crew Give Thanks as are two new ones to me...Paper Pretties with a hop too and Crazy Challenges. Just hope my set qualifies for an entry. I've used a pretty flower with Glamour Dust in the corner, sentiment are stamps from American Crafts and cord on bag is from my hubbies new shirt. Just perfect and re-usable!

One for Cuddly Buddly! They've started a new challenge on their blog and their very first 'Cozy Christmas'...used one of their own freebie images, absolutely love this digi skating couple, couldn't just make a card but had to go a little further to make this step card. Used my new Impressabilities Snow plate (I bought off Crafters Companion for their 5th birthday celebrations) for embossing faux snow, had these fab digi cluster of trees from Pollycraft (a freebie maybe from last year all printed for a card i never got round to doing) blinged the tops with Glamour Dust, sentiment from Caz and scrummy yummy ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, lovely people, they even sent some freebies in my package I won from them recently, thankyou to them!

There are Sooo many challenges this one fits into...Lexis Creations Traditional Xmas colours, Stampin for the Weekend Winter, Just Cute Bears Winter Birthday, Paperplay Let it snow as is Anything #, One stop craft is Snow people, Quixotic Paperie Not square/rectangle, Creative Inspirations Winter Wonderland(landscapes), Crafty Pad Red/Green, OSAAT choose a season (christmas), Keep it Simple Evergreen (fir trees, and really this is a very simple card if your components are precoloured or using minimal decoupage pieces), and ofcourse Pollycraft Glittery Christmas. My pics aren't looking good at all, daylight is very poor, I'm not good at photography as I tend to mess up my settings, will need to look at them once more though. Have a good Sunday all!

Thankyou to all that entered my little candy, there were 12 entries. Miss random org (also known as my daughter) shouted out N0. 4 which is...

Ukka

Congratulations to you Ukka, please email r(dot)dosanjh1(at)sky.com and I'll get those goodies in the post Monday. Thankyou to all who visit, it means so much and I love to give a little in return. If you didn't win this time, please try again, I'm having random drawings for faithfull followers, I hope you'll still come to see what is going on in my little corner. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! Ruby x

One of my faves! Penny Black # is one of them and their fab images..although on this one is an old image from Hugs. Penny Black at Allsorts # is It's getting to look alot like christmas, Allsorts is a super sketch i followed, Totally Papercrafts is Snow & Flakes and ABC Christmas is X Xmas (didn't go with the xtra option this time). Hope you like this one, there's plenty of Glamour Dust and bling...strip of acetate to pop out the image, hedgy holding a white snow covered fern. I'll be back later to announce my winner!

Hello, it's Kaela's day! I'm so thrilled with this image that Faith has given over at Designed 2 Delight, super, super and super again. My card is a titchy witchy 8cm square. I'm entering into their sister challenge Double Delight 'Sparkle' and Faith said we could give her a smile as she comes without one. Well I wouldn't want to frighten the little girl this is going for by sending her a 'mouthless' card. Used the fab sketch from Stampin for the weekend, gorgeous papers from Creative Cottage Poppy Delight, some stamped out butterflies from my Dandelion & Daisy set.

...inside...

...it's an easel card with a matching origami style box made from a square piece..

...blue braid is only attached in 2 small pieces to save some for another card, absolutely love it at the moment...

I've used Brights Promarkers, only ones I have apart from the Pastels one. There's acetate to give Kaela some life with those pretty wings and the same with both butterflies. I'm not sure where the sentiment is from but I found it in my Bugaboo d/load file.

So the other challenges entered are Polka Doodle Gift Box, Wags n Whiskers 'acetate, tissue,vellum', Crafty Cardmakers 'card & matching gift', Digital tuesday 'Anything with wings', Party time Tuesdays Easel card plus you must have 'birthday' somehwere, Whoopsie Daisy is Easels too, Ellephantastic is 'add a butterfly', Flutter by Wednesdays Open theme, Crafty Creations 'beautiful Insides', Rainbow ladys 'edge it' use some kind of punch, Simon Says 'Sparkle' and Fab n Funky is Forget me not (my sentiment, I'd not used it all but found it while tidying up files). My candy ends tomorrow at 6pm GMT, please come back to see if you won!

Two posts in one day. For my second post i have a card to show direct stamping onto card stock, i love doing this but always try each stamp onto scrap paper to see how i really want it to turn out. Poppy outer stamp is separate to the middle one as is the stem, all from Elzybells, sentiment is Penny Black Hugs sheet. Torn some green card ,distressed it a little with old black inkpad, bit of glamour dust for middle of poppy which is stamped with Vivid Red dye ink pad...not too much as this one would obviously be used for a sombre occassion. Found a few challenges to go for and i know sympathy cards mostly show subtle soft colours but I went with the 'Field of Poppies' and as i was watching QVC...saw Martha Stewart Fringe scissors I decided to make a fringey grass for my card.

So Charisma is Sympathy, Crafty Catz is Tearing, Crafty Sentiments is Remembrance as is Rainbow Ladys (new blog to me) and also Daring Cardmakers, I think my dare was straight onto the card!!!

One for Crafters Companion! Afternoon all, didn't think I'd get around for along time to make this card for CC One for the Girls, super sketch to work with (hope I've got all the pieces there...followed Just Cute Bears & Friends colours Black, White and 1 other (red), same as Party Time Tuesdays Pic inspiration and you must have 'Birthday' somewhere on your creation, Teddy Stamper are celebrating their 1st Birthday with a fab hop, so I'll be on that tour aswell after, Anything # is Emboss it, Paper Play is Ribbon,Lace and Flowers, OSAAT is favourite colours and Secret Crafter is Sparkle & Shine.

Lovely ted bear is Popcorn from Crafters Companion, I received in my parcel order free for their 5th birthday. Used 1 promarker beige and 1 copic red, still waiting for my second parcel from QVC to try and mix some promarker colours, first impressions of these pens are how smooth they work into each stroke, great, still got lots to learn though. Machine stitched red ribbon onto lace and fab ticket is from here! There's candy at the top from me and I'll be back in a bit!

One for the Boys! I have run out of cards to send to Postpals (the boy ones) so I thought I'd make a small batch to keep me covered for emergencies too. The braid/ribbon I had bought many months ago, didn't match with anything at home but just thought it would come in handy one day...and it matches so well, adds texture, with this Digi d/load from Creative Cottage Wild West Monkeys, fabby pre-coloured kit with the scope of quick easy cards, love them, orange is from PP Autumn blossoms. I thought the kids would love something a bit different from the norm of a flat card, so I placed a little acetate tab to make it bounce back. I've almost used every scrap as you can see from the corner bits on the bottom card, gorgeous sentiment from the lovely Paulette who gives away soooo much on her fab blog! These will be flattened before I send them off as the postage rate here is sky high if a little bump stops the whole letter going through their plastic measuring thing. Sometimes I've got to take a few embellishments off anyway especially for the much younger kids for obvious reasons. So all is good today...

Do you think it will go for any challenges...ofcourse it will, namely Cards For Men 'Animals', Pixie Dust Studio # 'Men/Boys in our lives', Stamp Challenges 'Something Digi', Crafty Cardmakers 'Stitching' and One Stop Crafts # is 'pop-ups'. There's candy at the top from me. Hope it's a good Sunday wherever you are, bye!

One for Wags N Whiskers. This time I used my cute win Joy Ride from Nikki over at Bunny Zoes. I'm sure this little girl is modelled on Nikki's daughter, look at those plaits, I used to have a pair just like them but not so long...gorgeous image, was a joy to colour her in, painted some bike skid marks so she's not flying through the air, look at the kitty, really enjoying that ride in the basket, hoping to try out some Promarkers on images soon, just waiting for the rest of my order from QVC! I've used the fabby papers from The Creative Cottage Poppy Delight, check half circle is something saved from a previous card, sentiment 'Bestest Friends' done on the computer in Leftovers Font, Happy Birthday is stamp from See D's, paper flowers from Simon Says, gems free from a mag, sequins from stash. Challenges entered are WNW sisters/friendship,Sweet Stampin is a pic inspiration (gone with the colours),used sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp, MAWTT is Nice & Bright include flowers and ribbon, (forgot my ribbon which was a bow under one of the flowers,sorry), and Cute Card Thursday is Anything Goes. Fabby!!!

Give Thanks in Remembrance. Today I spare a thought for those who have given their lives in wars, their families who dearly miss that loved person who is no longer with them and that on this day in the UK we take time to remember on the 11th hour, 11th day and 11th month.

Onto my creation... is very much a harvest/autumn card...fab digi image and sentiment from Faith at Designed 2 Delight and for their own # using this fab Harvest Basket, sister # blog Double Delight is CAS (clean and simple),CES Forever Autumn, as is Sew Many challenges, Digital Tuesday never used stash mine is (ric-rac) which I recently bought, Creative card Crew Give Thanks, Crafty Creations Buttons and new one Sparkle-Challenge is a lovely simple sketch, just right! Papers are Autumn Blossoms from Pink Petticoat. Looking at my attempt of the ric-rac bow, it looks a man jumping up and down. Back in a bit!

For my second post. This is the gracious Ballerina Fairy once again, just love her to bits and I'll be making a few special cards for Postpals using her, so many thanks Michelle at The Pixie Cottage. This particular card is for their own challenge which is a fab sketch and Recycling (manilla envelope used instead of Kraft card), Crafty Pad is 1 circle and 2 ribbons (pink one layered over the white), Fab N Funky Kraft, Lime & Pink, Pixie Dust Studio, Blue, Pink & Lime (well not much of the blue apart from her eyes), and a new one to me Paper Play Circles. There's still room for more entrants for my candy if you would like to enter, until next time, bye!

A crisp and chilly morning to all! Today I've a little bag to show... I made out of some old DCWV square sheet. No scissors used, and very easy to make as shown on Create & Craft by Hayley West. This creation is showing off these lush and wonderful Gingerbread Ribbons sent to me in a candy bundle from Crafty Ribbons, really really fab quality and I hope they made a lot of money at the NEC, so deserved as they're really generous people! This is no longer with me as I sent it off to Dorset with some other samples but took pics before sending them off :)))) I adore my X Cut snowflake punch, another fab purchase I made some years back and has lasted so well...tag is also from Crafty Ribbons as is the narrower green & red which I've doubled up. All is needed is a hole punch to thread through, bit of tissue paper to hold the yummy goodies and ready to hang on the christmas tree!

Close up of this really yummy ribbon and I shall enter in the Crafty Sentiments #Gift, Christmas Card Challenges is a pic inspiration so I would love to hang these on my tree at christmas, I've got the right colours on my project, Bunny Zoes Crafts Monthly # Christmas but not a Card and lastly a new one I found Keep it Simple # Shape Up. My creation is a hand shaped project. Hope it will do, back in a bit!

This is one for High Hopes. Please meet She-Baa, lovely stamp to work with for christmas and even easter, so easy to cut around too and i hope you like my little creation. It's not a big card and could have gone overboard with lots of snowflakes and as I'm building up my own collection of cards to send to the special angels, everything has to be fairly flat and this is perfect! So this is a Stair Step card, could have been a normal one like the talented dt's have done over at their blog but I'd tweaked my own template long ago and had to give it a go. Tree in the background is from Toodle & Binks, comes with lots of hearts around branches but I cut them off andsaved them. Paper is from Martine, loving these, sentiment is from Sweet N Sassy Snowflake set heat embossed with blue inkpad and clear embossing powder, X cUt snowflake punch used, blue gems for their centres and bell, blue metallic effect braid from the haberdashers, yes I've had another spend, it's a wonder what you can use on your cards...

...placed some white tissue paper subtly stamped with silver & white snowflakes for snowy effect...

...heat embossed sentiment

...the back, so sorry for dark shading on the bottom left (it's not a smudge), it's on the camera lens,and can't seem to get rid of it...personalised stamp from Scrapmagasinet. I've used it so much and still is the same! There's so many challenges this one fits, so I'll mention them and link up but if i don't meet the requirements please disregard my entry...Charisma 'with love @ christmas', CCT 'gently does it', Bah Humbug 'fancy folds',Winter Wonderland' sing a christmas carol (mine is Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright), Top Tip Tuesday 'christmas inspired', Anything Challenge, Ellephantastic 'blue',Crafty Calendar 'winter wonderland xtra of snoflakes', Allsorts 'twas the night before christmas', One Stop Craft 'embossing', One stitch ata time 'winter wonderland' and Crafty Purple Frog is 'sparkle'. I think you can see the Glamour Dust, mirri card and braid is kind of sparkly too. There's candy at the top, all I ask is come back to see if you've won! Bye for now all.

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!!!