Happy Monday! Today I thought I'd show a small card to say 'thankyou'..as it's the season for Thanksgiving, I say thanks for all the nice people who exist in the blogging crafting community, truly supportive  nice bunch of people, I'm thankful to them as they've made me realise my potential over the years and there's never a stop in creativity, just simply a 'pause'..it could be because life has thrown something at you unexpectedly and you feel your lowest...take one day at a time, pick yourself up! Before this goes onto another subject I'll get onto my card using flower freebie d/load from Donna at Bearly Mine(many thanks), all stamps from American Crafts stamps, tiny bit of twine, glamour dust to finish. I've layered flowers onto each other starting with the lowest building them up, gorgeous aren't they?

 

 

Challenges entered are 10...Nutcrafters 'ribbon/twine', Inky Impressions 'lots of layers,' Love to create ,Autumn Colours, ABC 'a for appreciation/thankyou' as are Paperplay, Poodles Parlour (sadly their last one), Incy Wincy. Simon Says 'get in shape', Bearly Mine 'flowers galore', LEJ 'anything goes' 2nd entry. Hope all is well with everyone, bye.

Hi to a fab Saturday, hope everyone is as well as can be! My creation is a bookmark for an avid reader who actually involves herself that much in her reading book that she puts on a 'voice' for the part in speech marks...well what can I say, and she's only 6!

 

Well if you enjoy Nikky's fab cd's you'll recognise the trees and snowman from Sundae of Seasons..gorgeous creative digis on there to keep you busy all year round! Coloured with Promarkers, punched out mini stars, old 'cherish' stamp stamped in Walnut Stain, white gel pen highlights, gorgeous hearty ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, finished off with a dusting of Glamour Dust. Oh a little foam pad to give the  rounded appearance on the snowman. Hope you like and now for some challenges, at least 10...Polka Doodles firstly 'christmas & Kraft', Hooked on Craft 'No red/green Christmas', ABC Christmas 'V for vibrant', Ladybugs Crafts  Ink 'p for ...pink/purple', Crafty Sentiments 'stars' as is Totally Papercrafts, Crafty Ribbons 'christmas' as is Crafty Pad, Sparkles Forum Christmas 'contemporary Christmas', and Christmas Stampin 'anyhting goes'. Wishing you all a great weekend ,thanks for the visit, hope you'll come again!

Hi and a warm welcome to my blog..today I'm thinking of all the people and friends caught up in the hurricane over the pond and praying that they will get help with the difficult times they're experiencing. Having said that...Please meet 'farmer Oliver' from Sparkle's lovely range of stamps. I've had him since last year would you believe it and only just inked him today..you may see another creation using him. He's so cute isn't he, holding onto his corncob, fab image, perfect for 'thankyou' cards..many thanks Sparkle. Base round circle of which I cut 2 was an old back of an invoice book, I simply saved it and has come in handy now, distressed with my unpicker. The stripey was an old bit left from Shabby Princess digi d/loads from last year, luscious satin ribbon won from Allsorts blog and is from The Pretty Little Ribbon shop, white gel pen faux stitching, top sentiment from Elzybells, image coloured with Promarkers and a ticket to finish off.

 

 

Second circle sandwiched to the first but only partly to allow it to stand.

 

Challenges entered are 10.. Sparkle Creations 'pic inspiration' as is Craft Your Passion, Cutie Pie 'distress your cards', used sketch from Fetch a Sketch, Pretty Little Ribbon shop 'autumn', Love to create 'lots of layers', LEJ Designs 'anything goes' as is Paperplaytime, Crafty Catz 'male card' and Allsorts 'in stitches'. Thanks for your visit.

Hi to all, hope everyone is safe and well wherever you are. My card is a creation using Krista's 'fancy' digi image which was given away so freely..really kind lady!!! I've a little collection of the ones as freebies tucked in a file and come in so handy. Coloured with Promarkers, using a Go Kreate frilly die, fabulous luscious satin ribbon from a win over at Allsorts blog from The Pretty Little Ribbon shop..lovely variety of colours in a beautiful bundle wrapped in pink tissue paper..so many many thanks..it may take me a while to get through them. Pearls from Meiflower..love those too. Bit of doodling round the shapes to bring it together..top sentiment from Elzybells (sadly no more).

 

bit of stamping across the freebie d/load paper (top lilac from Bearly Mine, bottom green from Shabby Princess).

 

 

Sentiment from Elzybells

 

So I'm sorry for the quality of pics today, it's got dark really quickly and have only got a spare moment to do this. Challenges entered are 10.. .Poodles Parlour 2nd 'anyhting goes' as are Stampin for the weekend, Paperplaytime, Fashionistas week 2, Bearly Mine, Stamptacular sunday 'not just ordinary card', Creative card Crew 'fancy folds', Charisma 'son't be square' CRAFT ( won some gorgeous d/loads, thankyou) they've got '1 image, 2 papers, 2 flowers..mmmmm oops think I forgot those and sentiment' and last but not the least Saturated Canary 'shaped card'. This card and some others I've made will be posted out to the lovely Krista to take to the hospital she'll be visiting in December. Will get those out tomorrow so they'll have plenty of time to get there. That's all for now, hoping for another cardmaking session soon.

Good afternoon all. Today we have mist in the air and less of the fog..not too cold but perhaps cold enough for these hedgies to go into hibernation. He's a real cutie, was free with a magazine and from County Companions. Coloured with Promarkers (can you tell I'm still experimenting), lots of embossing, gold mirri card with a piece of ribbon, chalking slightly on the edges of the card and a string bow with slight dusting of glamour dust on his fur/spikes.

 

Only a small number of challenges entered..Charisma 'clean & simple', Papertake 'glitter & sparkle', LIM 'autumn', Nutcrafters 'round & round', and House of Gilli 'emboss it'. Have a fab middle of the week!

Hi, yes I'm on a bit of a roll with my creations especially as I've 2 children (girl & boy) who are expecting a little hand made treat for Halloween..we don't really celebrate it but wouldn't stop the kiddies having their bit of fun. So this is the male version of a treat bag to go with the girl one made a couple posts down. Made out of 2 sheets of A4, I found this one much easier and quicker to make..I think it's all down to experience. Cat and pumpkin digi image from here, ghost digi's resized from here, a bit of white sakura pen art for cobwebs, embossing just like the girl one, tag made from Studio G mini stamps.

 

sides embossed too

 

back to reveal freebie d/load scrap from Bearlymine

 

Both together

 

So that's all set to go and for some challenges now mainly Halloween themed..Crazy 4, Forever Friends, Sweet Stampin, Craft Your Passion 2nd entry, Cards For Men, Partytime Tuesdays, One Stop Craft 'anything goes' as are Bearly Mine, Poodles Parlour, I Love Promarkers 2nd entry, some new challenges found, House of Gilli, Fashionista and Crafty Mess. Thanks for visiting and leaving such lovely comments.

Hi and a quickie card to show you this evening as it was an emergency card request from my daughter to give to a friend who's just had her first baby! Wow, it's been a while since i made a card so quickly... but can you guess where I got this digi image from..Sassy Cheryl's 'special stork delivery', they do a girl one too, 'many thanks!. I won a voucher to spend in their fab store and I want them all, all gorgeous images, very, very cutesy. So there's a scrap strip of gingham from a previous card, some silver mirri card, embossing, image coloured with Promarkers, chalked some clouds in the background, stork embellishment from Create & Craft website some years back and the heart button too. Scrap of posh ribbon from Meiflower. Sentiment done on the computer. Glamour Dust added to baby's blanket.

 

So that's what I've been up to.. and now I shall have to enter it in some challenges. Flutterby Wednesdays 'any winged creature', I Love Promarkers 'anything goes', Cupcake Craft '2's company' 2nd entry, Cupcake Inspirations is a fab pic inspiration..I've gone with the blues & yellow, Cute card Thursday 'got glitter', Creative Card Crew 'birds', and Digital Tuesday 'warm & fuzzy'. Have a super weekend all!

Good afternoon/evening all. My creation is using a template from Cardmaking Downloads website..great inspiration there be sure to visit! Just normal black cardstock used, some bits of last years cards (both strips, top & bottom). Gorgeous freebie image from Janet over at Pink Gem..many thanks! Coloured image with Promarkers, Marianne Creatables flower dies, made my own bat cutouts, white sakura pen for highlights, flourescent orange ribbon, tag made with Studio G mini stamps with orange promarker. Used cobweb embossing folder whilst the template was flat, used wet glue to put it all together. Glamour Dust added to the cobweb.

 

sides embossed too

 

a little pumpkin patch on the back with my own spider web with white sakura pen in the corner

 

Cute Witch digi image from Pink Gem

 

Sooo many challenges I'd like to enter..Pink Gem 'flowers' as is Totally Papercrafts, Kaboodle Doodles 'fall', Simon Says 'eerie inspiration pic', I Love Promarker 'anything goes', Papertake Weekly 'fright night', Crafty Sentiments 'bows/ribbons', Fab n Funky 'orange, black and 1 other (white), Cupcake Craft '2's company', Craft Your Passion 'which witch is which', Paperplaytime 'boo-ville', Cutie Pie 'halloween', Love to create 'trick/treat something sweet', Inky Impression 'anything but a card', Sassy Cheryls 'orange & black' ..super challenge (I won their last challenge so can't wait to play with their own images), Crazy 4 'halloween treat' and finally but missed so much ALLSORTS challenge 'too cute to spook'. Hopefully I'm now getting back on track with challenges...so many have closed down but then there's plenty opening up. I've had fun creating this, have a great time crafting, bye.

Hi to all, it feels so much like Autumn today but I've a birthday card to cheer everyone up. Would you believe these backing papers are Summer Driggs latest Autumn freebie..for some reason they came out of the printer looking very much ike a blue instead of brown..I don't know why???? I'm still pondering that one ..they were too good to waste away to the bin so I inked the edges with my cinnamon Promarker pen and brought them to life just a little bit. Hope you like what I've made, ticket sentiment I used as a tag from here, cute stamped image from Sparkle Rubberstamps called 'celebrating Chloe' with walnut stain distress. Phlox flower die, scrap of lace and pearl from stash. Not forgetting the paper piecing on her dress.

 

 Lots of challenges entered..followed fab sketch from Sparkle Rubberstamps challenge, Bearly mine 'pearls & swirls (on the paper), Promarker 'shabby in blue', Crazy 'handmade flowers' as is Totally Papercrafts, Natalie & Amy challenge 'birthday' as is LEJ Designs, Forever Friends 'bingo..went with blue, lace, tag which is my ticket', Cute Card Thursday 'paper piecing', CRAFT 'monochromatic', Crafts & Me 'anything goes', My Mums Craft shop 'tickets', Simon says 'dies and/or punches', Paperplay 'simply cute'. Until next time,bye.

Hi and happy crafting day to all. My creation is a wonderful stamp image from Nutcrafters..I won a voucher along while back now and chose several of their fab stamps so many thanks Nutcrafters, this one is called 'walk in the park', coloured with my Promarkers, fab d/load paper from Summer Driggs. Top sentiment made on the computer. Oh, nearly forgot the trousers are paper pieced!

 

Challenges entered are 10...Nutcrafters 'paper piecing', Crafty Sentiments 'anything goes', I Love promarker 2nd, Joanna Sheen 2nd, Stamptacular Sunday 'pic inspiration', ABC 'male themed', Papertake ' creatures great and small', Kaboodle Doodle 'fall colours/falling leaves', some new challenges I found whilst blog hopping Sassy Cheryls 'birthday' as is LEJ Designs. So that's all about it for now, many thanks for visiting.

Happy Friday all! Hope everyone is well and in good health. Onto my creation which is using a gruffie bear image called 'finding friendship'..I love this image, stamped with Walnut Stain distress ink, so easy to colour with minimal technique (my kind of colouring)!!!Base cardstock is dark brown and slightly ribbed,  coloured with Promarkers, fantatsic freebie papers from the wonderful Summer Driggs, 'brother' sentiment from computer, the top one is a stamp from See D's stamps, some fab drawstring trim to finish off the tag.

 

Challenges entered are 10 mainly Autumn themed..House Mouse, Joanna Sheen 'down in the garden'..I know there's no fairies in mine but I do find the odd squirrel and fern, also they're having an autumn blog hop full of talented inspiration so do go and have a look, Crazy 4 'leaves' as in the paper, Crafty Catz, Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, Kaboodle Doodle, Cupcake Inspirations, I Love Promarkers, Promarker challenge 'for a man', and DYSU'warm colours'. Hope you've found something inspiring, many thanks for visiting!

Hi to all blogland and in particular crafters! My creation is using the fab Krista's digi image 'boobie love' freebie..gorgeous images, love them all. Coloured with Promarkers, pearls from Meiflower, Wendy's sentiment freebie, distressed paper from Polka Doodle cd, bit of scrap ribbon for the Breast Cancer logo with staple. This is one of the cards to be sent to Krista soon, 'thankyou' for your generosity Krista! As October is breast cancer awareness month I thought this card could do for maybe someone who's come out the other side amazingly a survivor through this horrid illness or someone who's just taking one day at a time.

 

I'd like to enter this one into several challenges, firstly Papertake Weekly's 5th birthday 'anything goes, optional celebrate'..this was one of the first challenges i came to in blogland and entered. So a massive 'Happy 5th Birthday' PW!!! Cupcake Craft 'think pink' as are Craft Your Passion, Dream Valley, Saturated Canary 'office supplies..staple', Bunny Zoes 'distressing', Crafts and Me 'fave colour..pink', Link Up For Pink, Love To Create 'thinking of you' and Flutterby Wednesdays. So there we have it, until next time, bye.

Hello blogging friends. I've made time today to make a 50th birthday/anniversary card. I like these simple type of card normally fairly quick to make but it seemed forever that I should get it finished. LOTV image' thomas with champagne', lightly coloured with my Promarkers, glamour dusted the champagne bubbles and on the present, written hand sentiment on tag, lots of embossing, white lace, rhinestones and silver pearls from Meiflower, sentiment at top from the lovely Wendy at Digital Doodling, made my own 50 in silver mirri card, flowers and leaves from Marianne Creatables.

 

 

I'd like to enter in 10 challenges..firstly Lil's Little Fairies 'white with a hint', The Pretty Little ribbon 'lace and pearls', Stamptacular Sunday 'bling', Party Time Tuesdays 'anything goes' as is Simon Says, Creative Inspirations 'bingo- flowers, glitter, stamp', Fab n Funky 'flowers', Cute card Thursday 'numbers and letters', Papertake weekly 'sketch 72' and Stampin for the weekend 'floral'..sorry they're not in colour. Thankyou for your visit today, hoping to create another card to show. Have a brilliant weekend all! 

Hi to all! What a blustery day it's been but we have the wonderful sunshine to top it up. I've been wanting to do a number card for a while..it's a full A4 folded in half, with plenty of embossing with the cuttlebug, numbers are new d/load printout but I can't remember where they were from as I've forgotten to name the folder (could be from cardmaking download site), font from the computer, as ever the brilliant old Forever Friends with cake stamp coloured with my Promarkers, I've used this one several times since buying it, just adorable bears, lace at the bottom, sheer ribbon from Meiflower at the top and some bunting cut out from scraps of Donna's freebie d/load. Love this one so much, it's going to be hard giving it away!

 

Challenges entered are 10..Forever Friends 'embossing', Poodles Parlour 'here come the girls', I Love Promarkers 'bunting', DYSU 'birthdays', Papertake weekly 'things that make you go awwww', My Mums Craft Shop 'anything goes' as is Stamp and Create, Charisma 'doubles..2 numbers and 2 wording bits', Simon Says 'put a stamp on it' and Dream Valley 'something old, something new'..old- FF stamp, new- number printout. Well that's it for today, keep well everyone and enjoy the crafting!

Hi and a little card (well not so little) to show you with not much on it as it's for 5 challenges some of them asking for precisely that. Hope that all the crafty bloggers are well and enjoying the bit of good weather we've had today in the uk! It's so warm that a good potter round the garden was called for but I didn't see many of these beautiful creatures about...it's such a shame that this year I've only seen a minimal amount, looking onward to what next year will bring I think. Sentiment stamp from Daisy & Dandelion set was stamped first, cut out the wonderful butterfly from Nikky's cd d/load (can't remember which one it was, it was printed afair few months ago), laid the small one onto the larger one, then applied some Glamour Dust trailing behind it, it didn't quite look right(empty) so I added the flowery border but couldn't on the left side as there wasn't enough room so i thought I'd use the American Crafts dotty border to finish that side. Hope it doesn't look too odd but i got it finished in the end. Stamped with walnut Stain distress ink, flowers coloured with Pink Promarker. Challenges entered are Simply Less is Moore 'brown & pink', Charisma 'no embellishments', Flutterby Wednesdays 'birthday' and don't forget the butterfly or fairy, Papertake Weekly 'anything goes' and Joanna Sheen 'going dotty'. Many thanks for coming over, enjoy the rest of today!

Happy Monday! Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to the week ahead...suppose to be a good sunny week. My card is using some old See D's stamps, coloured with Promarkers, sentiment is part of a Hero Arts stamp..just masked off the rest of the wording. I've  also layered up the middle flower and there's Glamour Dust all round. Honeycomb paper is a Pink Petticoat d/load, I thought this would encourage all the bees to come out ;)..added some faux sticthing to finish.

 

So my sunshiney card is for 10 challenges...ABC 'w for wishes', CCT 'stitch in time', My Mums Craft shop 'all the 3's..3 flowers, stems and leaves', I Love Promarkers 'anything goes' as are Simon Says, Party Time Tuesdays with a blog hop for the lovely Jen who's battling with cancer at the moment, Natalie and Amy new and very 1st challenge, Bearly Mine 'anything that glitters', Papertake Weekly 'chosen sketch 64', Creative Inspirations 'Bingo..chosen ribbon, flowers, glitter'. I'm pleased to be looking in on my fave challenges and they're all fantastic for getting back into blogging, have a brilliant day all!

Hello crafty bloggers, it's been a long time now since I created a card, I've been thinking about all the fun I used to have here. Lifes happenings get in the way and due to a bereavement in my family it set me back a little, hopefully things are settled down a bit so I can send some love to needy children. I'm really hoping I've not forgotten too much, how to link things and that my brain cells are ready for some imaginative creativity! So i thought the lovely Krista's 'Ava' would be a good start..a freebie and as always a joy to colour in with my Promarkers, paper is a d/load from Cardmaking downloads website freebie from Clipart Fairy I believe (hope that's right), tried a different thing with the beautiful Mei flower ribbon, gathered it up by pulling the top thread after machine stitching on a larger stitch, sentiment is a digi from Polka Doodle cd, stamped text is from Cuddly Buddly. Bling is from stash.

 

 

This one will be sent over the pond  along with some others that I'm hoping to make as a donation for Krista's 'Give Big' charity for a Childrens Research Hospital. Incidently this card fits quite a few challenges.. Saturated Canary (pic inspiration), Cute Card Thursday (bling it up) as is The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, followed sketch from Sketch Saturday, Crazy (anything goes) Stamp and Create (stitch it up), J and C Creations (new challenge blog with 'something a little bit different..ribbon). Wishing you all a great evening and hope I've not missed too much in blogland.

Afternoon all! Hope that all those hailstorms yesterday haven't done too much damage..the sun today is glorious but still a chill in the air. Hoping for better days soon but onto my shaped card which is using the Go Kreate dies, some freebie paper from I think 'Far far hill', amzing digi image from Ladybug crafts Ink i won some time ago as part of a set, coloured with Promarkers, ribbon and pearls from Meiflower, CC Designs Phlox flower dies, EK Success layering butterfly punch which I absolutely adore!

Strip of acetate for the extra butterfly flying off.

Added some Glamour Dust to finish. Now onto the 10 challenges I'm entering..firstly Ladybug Crafts Ink 'anything but square', Oldie but a Goodie 'wings' as is 'Paper Sundaes, Crafty calendar 'wings and acetate', Stamptacular Sunday 'butterfly kisses', Pretty Little ribbon 'blossoms and butterflies', OSAAT 'use your faves..butterfly punch', Bunny Zoes monthly # 'anything goes' as is Truly Scrumptious and a new challenge just started J and C Creations 'all that glitter' (hope you can see some of it there). That's all for now, hoping to make another card soon and not leave it too long this time. Bye.

Welcome all to my blog, well what a whirlwind of warm air we're having lately, it seems they may be change tomorrow. Can't wait for the gardens to fill up with big blooms..and this card fits so well with my thoughts today, Penny Black stamped image from Hugs set, coloured with Koh I Noor pencils and blended, several of Nikkys Polka Doodles d/load papers, my MS fence punch, card candy and sentiment stamps I picked up long time ago in £1 bins.

So, I'm getting to the challenges fast today..all 10 of them..Polka Doodles 'distressed' (used some fab distressed papers and roughed up the circle image), PB Friends 'case it', Penny Black and More 'london celebrates', One Stop Craft 'celebration' as is CRAFT..they're 3 years old and having a hop too! Crazy 4 2nd entry, Sweet Stanpin '4 legged friends', Bunny Zoes monthly challenge 'ribbon/twine', Cupcake Inspirations is a pic and Here Come the boys 'hobbies..does gardening hedgehogs count?' So that's the lot and there are many challenges I've wanted to enter for a long time and have got there today! Keep well all and thanks for all the lovely comments left.

Hi all! I've a pink and black card to show today..it's been a long time since I took part in Linnies whoopsie daisy challenges, I'm hoping it's not too late again. Linnie gives away some gorgeous digi images and i have every intention to use them and create wonderful cards. So I've used the scrap of paper from my last card by Michelle Coleman, some MS punches, EK Success Layering butterfly punch, CC Designs Phlox flower dies, stamped sentiment from American Crafts, coloured with Promarkers, tiny pearls on butterfly from Meiflower, rhinestones from stash.

Challenges entered are..10!!! Whoopsie daisy 'pile on the flowers' as is Crafty Catz, Promarker 'bright & light', Charisma 'pink & black', Incy Wincy 'girly', Craft Your Days 'just for children', Crazy 4 'gardening' as is Alphabet, Poodle parlour 2nd entry and last but not least Stampin for the weekend 'layer on layer' (hope I've got enough there), and they're celebrating their 3rd anniversary with a hop so I'll be heading over soon as i've done this. Many thanks for visiting, I'm looking forward to having the whole family at home tomorrow as it's Bank Holiday here!