Hi all, it's snowed.. and snowed... and snowed,  schools are closed today, there's several layers of the last few days that it's so treacherous to be venturing out anywhere, instead my table's been covered with several wins and I simply couldn't wait to use this one from Nutcrafters (wonderful people), i've quite a collection to get through ( I feel incredibly lucky and will be sending some simple cards for the Postpals children as it seems a while since I sent a batch off). This wonderful image is called 'bouquet for you'..coloured with Promarkers, ideal for a thankyou card! Digi papers were free from Craft fairy on one of the scrapbooking freebie websites, fab pink grosgrain ribbon with gorgeous stitching, sentiment from American Crafts stamps.

 

You may notice a sneak peek on the inside, ever so slightly.

 

I'm still creating a few personal gifts as this time of year seems to be full of birthdays, and  joyous ocassions. Still I like to make time for challenges too so there are several.. Nutcrafters 'flower power' as is Allsorts, One Stop craft 'thankyou', used the sketch from Sketch Saturday, Stampin for the weekend 'girlie' as is Dream Valley, Totally Papercrafts 'embossing',CCT 'diamonds are forever..the rhinestones on the butterflies', I Love Promarkers 2nd, Paper Pretties 2nd, Glitter n Sparkle 'sentimental', Crafts and me 2nd, and Bearly Mine 3rd. Many thanks for the lovely comments, all so appreciated, stay in the warm, bye!

Afternoon, what a cold spell we're in for...it is totally freezing and we're expecting our fuel bills any day now! Certainly not looking forward to that instead today I'm focusing my little energy on countryside and much warmer days. Everything here is digi..paper from Stephanie Weightman's blog some time ago, she gave away papers that were being aired on QVC, brilliant image and gorgeous sentiment from the lovely Paulette from 'for the birds' blog hop. Thankyou to their fab team who showcased very well all the beautiful digis! And yes it's one of the triangle cards that I've got into recently with an offsided topper. Satin Ribbon from The Pretty Little Ribbon shop, charm was part of a win.

 

 

Some challenges...LEJ 'metal', Craft Your Passion 'gone country', Crazy 4 'shape it up', Allsorts 2nd, Bearly Mine 2nd, Crafts & Me 2nd and Papertake 4th. Heating is going on full blast, the snows just started to fall! Take care everyone if your out and about.

Good evening all..still very chilly, crisp and we'll be having some more snow Friday!  Stay warm and safe if you're experiencing this kind of weather where you are...onto my card which is another triangle one using  a very new LOTV stamp from their fab release and was one i chose 'telephone ted' (I'm loving my win, there's so much I've not even had time to ink up but will get to it eventually), coloured with Promarkers, side sentiment from American Crafts clear stamp, bottom one from 'thinking of you' stamp. Leaf dies from Marianne Creatables, flower die from Baby Face cuttlebug, button from Fantastic Ribbons, pink twine from Meiflower and a scrap piece of ribbon attached, found a lilac epoxy heart in my stash for the telephone centre.

 

 

Challenges entered are...I Love Promarkers 'layer it up', Crafts & Me 'something new..stamp', Kaboodle Doodles ' buttons', Paper Pretties 'ribbon' as is Totally Papercrafts, Bearly Mine 'anything goes' as are Bunny Zoes 2nd, Glitter n sparkle 2nd, Live Laugh Stamp 2nd, and Allsorts 'dies 7 punches'. Many thanks for popping over, until next time bye!

We have snow!!! It's sooo cold that I'm not planning to venture anywhere in a hurry. So I thought I'd make another baby card (you can never have enough). Wonderful image from Sassy Cheryls, no dp's again, tried chalking some clouds around the image, just love this plain look with a few embellishments, Tags and top sentiment from LOTV newest sets (love them), top peach triangle is left over from a previous card, button dies from Cuttlebug Baby Face, coloured with my trusted Promarkers, single pearl to finish on some sheer ribbon.

 

Several challenges...Promarker 'peach & blue', Sassy Cheryls CAS, Bunny Zoes 'anything goes' as are Gliiter n Sparkle, Papertake 3rd and newest challenge Live laugh Stamp, Totally Papercrafts 'ribbon', Incy Wincy 'tic, tac, toe...went with distress, pearl and tag', Wags n Whiskers 'celebration', Crafty Catz 'button & bows', Pink Gem 'new beginnings'. Many thanks for the lovely comments, take care and stay warm indoors! 

Hi, hope everyone's looking forward to a rest after a hard working week..bitterly chilly and expecting flurries of snow in a day or two for us. So even though we've just finished with christmas, I thought it may be a good idea to make some special but simple ones for friends who have had a bit of sadness around this special season. No dp's on this one..instead, embossing, bit of lift with foam pads and sprinkle of Glamour Dust. Wonderful meeces are House Mouse from the 'singing angels' rubber sheet ( I won them from their fab challenge blog..thanks Barry and House Mouse). Sentiment from American crafts, corner holly stamp and bottom border free from a magazine. I absolutely love this one, many more on the sheet to play with too! Coloured with Promarkers.

 

Challenges entered are 10... House Mouse 'hugs and kisses at christmas', ABC christmas 'a for animal', Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas 'no Rudolph', Crafty Hazelnuts monthly challenge 'anything goes' as is Christmas Cards All year round, Christmas at Sweet Stampin 'cold & frosty', CCC 'snow & ice', Love to Create 'winter wonderland', Christmas Card Challenges 'rip it ,tear it, sand it', Jingle Belles Rock 'all things new..HM stamps'. That's all for now, stay warm all!

Happy Friday to all! Hope everyone is shaking off those nasty viruses. We're feeling a bit better after more than our fair share and pleased to say I still have been creating presents for upcoming birthdays. Today I'll show a gift box with its own lid, I made a couple of these before christmas, paper is from Michele (I've been a follower for a while and these gorgeous papers were given to followers on her fab blog..many thanks Michele, at last I've found a good use for them). Gorgeous 'friendship' image from the lovely Paulette that I've touched up with Promarkers to give them a little colour, made it into a tag, cream lace and ribbon from stash. So it looks like this present is mostly made from digitals.

 

 

 

This is the top of the lid, sentiment from Paulette.

 

 

So lots of challenges...Sir Stampalot 'friendship', Crafty Ribbons 'new beginnings' maybe new friendships, Creative Craft, Crafty Creations 'new' (image and sentiment) as are Incy Wincy, Crafty Calendar, I Love Promarkers 'tag it', Inky Impressions 'sentiment', Inky Chics (fab new challenge blog..yippeee) 'anything' as are Dream Valley, Papertake 2nd, Totally Papercrafts 'ribbon', Craft Your passion 'vintage, shabby chic', and Stamptacular Sunday 'don't be square'. I think there's enough there!!! Wishing you all a fab day and thankyou for all the wonderful comments.

Morning! Today I've got this fab digi sentiment from the lovely Paulette to show you. I've outlined with my black Promarker, fine liner for the doodling and faux stitching, lovely ribbon from Meiflower, inexpensive butterfly charm and a dangling cut out butterfly from a strip of acetate. I also coloured in the word 'friendship' with yellow Promarker.

 

Challenges entered are only 5..LIM 'black,white plus a splash of colour' as is Simon Says, Flutterby Wednesdays, Allsorts 'cas' and Stampin for the weekend 'anything goes'. Hope that the flu's and colds are under contol, they just seem to be non-stop this year. Take care all!

Well, I'm back with another post..I received a lovely triangle christmas card and yes you can guess I've kept it nearby as a template to use. Image is from Saturated Canary 'rainy day' from the fabulously talented Krista. Coloured with Promarkers, Polka Doodles paper, pleated lace, glitter glue in her lovely hair and single rhine stone for flower.

 

 

 

So challenges are 10...Saturated Canary song theme, mine is 'Umbrella by Rihanna', Crafty Creations 'anything goes' as are My Mums Craft Shop, Papertake Weekly, Crafty Catz. Bearly Mine 'something old- lace, something new- image', Paper Pretties wednesday 'bling', Charisma 'monochrome' as is I Love Promarkers, Creative Inspirations 'celebration'. Wishing you all a fab evening!

Hi to everyone, hope there's a good start for 2013 for all! I thought a bit of crochet was in order for today, I do have a card done but I thought I'd post these wonderful headbands that I've crocheted over the holidays. Very quick to make and very happy young ladies to give them to. The grey is chunky wool, deep width as she wanted it like that, flower and vintage button (of which I've many), the navy is ordinary double knitting wool, slim as it's for a 6 year old (everything has to be pink) to go with a lovely outfit. Finished with a single sparkly gem sewn in with cotton thread. Nice little earner if any one wants to give it a go. Bye for now.

 

 

Hi to all, hope that christmas was good for you and those that were unable to join in the joy and festivities I do hope that 2013 is going to be much kinder...the world can sometimes seem grim and doomed but we set a foot forward, looking onwards to positive outcomes! My card is to celebrate 'friendship'..Krista gave away this fabulous SC digi image 'Nikki'..she's absolutely gorgeous with her skates on ready for the winter, I coloured her with Promarkers. Their challenge has a lovely pic for inspiration, used one of my fave corner grunge stamps from Stempelglede..it's heat embossed, paper is d/load from Polka Doodle cd, framed grunge sentiment from LOTV (love it), bottom sentiment is from a QVC foam stamp many years ago that I separated by masking it off. Finished with lovely posh ribbon from Meiflower, and some glitter glue.

 

 

Challenges are several..Saturated Canary, Stamptacular Sunday, Paper Pretties, Bunny Zoes 3rd, Crafty Sentiments, Bearly Mine, Papertake Weekly (going with anything goes), Simon Says, Crafts and Me, CCT, Stampin for the weekend and Promarker 2nd. Wishing you all a very 'happy and bright 2013!'

Happy Saturday to you all! I thought you might like to see what I've been knitting alongside making cards. I picked up this inexpensive tank top pattern early on in the year from my local charity shop..very old pattern but I enjoyed working with it and my hubby bought me the wool (double knitting). I knitted the cream in it to vary from the pattern and I'm so glad to say he loved it to bits!!! He's a broad shouldered, big chested man and he's asked for a couple more to keep him warm in the winter months, I'm more likely to start knitting sometime after summer 2013 as they are big, I don't like to put my knitting needles down for long as things never get finished when I do that. Back in a bit with my card.

 

Morning crafty bloggers...today I've got a couple of quick makes. I've wanted to make these crackers for a while after seeing them across blogland..they look difficult but far from it. I got a freebie pre-coloured template from one of the cardmaking sites (the blue one which does come with its own topper but at the last minute it's gone missing would you believe it, had it in my hand, then the next minute its gone (: Beautiful template, I used it to make another from one of Nikky's fabulous cd's Sundae of Seasons paper (see below), sentiment is old wooden stamp, single punched out snowflake on top left, lovely twine from Meiflower which could easily be used to hang on the christmas tree! I think you can see what I filled mine with, but any little stocking filler miniature toys would do too. Lots of fun with this one, I've 4 to make for us as these will be gone.

 

So as there are many  christmas challenges at the moment I'll go for another 10...Charisma, Christmas Crafting, Stamptacular sunday, Crafty Ribbons, Ladybugs Crafts Ink, Christmas at Sweet Stampin 2nd, Love to Create, Bunny Zoes 2nd, The pretty little ribbon 3rd final and Crazy. Onward to the next creation, bye!

Good evening to all...at last my card entry is completed for the House Mouse challenge, was lucky to win the last one, many thanks, so looking forward to a spend with my gift voucher. This one is 'finding  friendship'  unique image, love it! Coloured with Promarkers, slight dusting of Glamour Dust, used up some scrappy bits of d/loads and finished with a ticket sentiment.

 

So challenges are 10... House Mouse, Joanna Sheen, Here come the boys, Bunny Zoes, Paperplaytime, Love to create, I Love Promarkers, Paper pretties monday, Crafts and me and Totally Papercrafts. Many thanks for stopping by.

Hi, today it's a card but not really a celebratory one...I try to keep one in my box for those delicate moments when someone has lost a loved one and the last thing on their mind would be 'happy ...' so I kept it very minimal (hope you can see the spellbinders impressabilities embossing stencil) bit of faux stitching, fab sheer ribbon from Meiflower, lovely sentiment from LOTV (comes with the new stamp 'thinking of you'), bit of glitter glue, punched out X Cut snowflakes with mini brad, some stamping in a row on the right side. This is already on its way to a very dear friend who lost her husband a couple of months ago after 48 years of marriage, she's such a wonderful lady, joy to be around and always there to help. I'm thankful she has a brilliant family who I know will help her adjust.

 

Close one of the charm and snowflake

 

Inside just says it all... from Elzybells stamps.

Challenges entered are... Paper Pretties wednesday, Christmas at Sweet stampin, Cute card thursday, Incy Wincy 2nd, LEJ Designs, One Stop Craft, Simon Says, Crafty calendar, Glitter n Sparkle and The Pretty Little Ribbon 2nd. Wishing you all a good day.

Morning to all! Today I've used 'thomas with champagne' LOTV stamp for my celebratory card..absolutely love this image, there's such a variety of cards you can make using this one..brilliantly cute! I'm hoping everyone is warming up with plenty of mulled wine during this freezing fog period, very chilly again. There's champagne in order for today..coloured with Promarkers, paper from stash, as is narrow ribbon, stamped sentiment is old wooden one, now I know there's 3 punched out snowflakes that I'd glittered in a batch for a reason (LOTV challenge asked for 3 dies/punches) and I do think that I misread it and placed 3 of..so please disregard it if it's not the right one, I won't mind at all!

I left the tag plain as I'll want to place the persons name on it, no glitter (ran out) my daughter will be getting me some later today. So 10 challenges..LOTV, Creative Craft, CYP, Sparkles Forum, Cutie Pie, Pretty Little Ribbon shop, Cupcake Craft, Incy Wincy, Joanna Sheen and Dream Valley. All these challenges are based around christmas, have a good day all!

Hi, what a chilly day it's been, I thought a bit of warming up with some hot drinks was in order...I found this gift box freebie kit on one of the cardmaking sites and gave it a go (it's the pink one which comes out pre-coloured and you just glue it altogether) the blue one I made myself for the boy version using some d/load paper from Creative Cottage which is sadly no more. So the digi image on the boy one is from Paper Pretties 'winter warmer', (a win, many thanks), coloured with Promarkers, sentiment from a stamp in my stash.

 

The tops of both using an oval and some freebie stamps that came with a magazine.

 

Closer one

 

The inside bases lined.

Maybe a tangerine or two is less fattening. Hope you liked the inspiration...I'm afraid there's lots of challenges to get through mainly on the Christmas theme so I'll list them here..Papertake Weekly, Lexis Creations, Promarker, i Love Promarkers, Ladybug Crafts Ink, LEJ, Stamp and Create, Natalie & Amy, Paper Shelter, Allsorts, Love to create, Paper pretties Wednesday, Sentimental Sundays, Incy Wincy, Bunny Zoes, Creative Card Crew and Dream Valley. Whhhhopppeeee..that's a lot there! Many thanks for coming over, stay warm wherever you are, bye!

Good evening crafty people! Hope all is well in the crafting community...my card is showing my latest win from LOTV..absolutely stunning stamps, if I was a millionaire I'd buy them all!!! The centre image is 'playtime kitten', perfect for a baby card,coloured with Promarkers, mini tags and bottom wording stamps from 'babys companion stamp set', paper from Nikky's Sundae of Seasons spring section, faux stitching, a fern punch used, ribbon and paper rose from stash and oh the base card is using the Go Kreate dies from My Mums Craft shop.

 

The inside..didn't want it to be too busy as the front just says it all really, washing line is from the Babies Companion set and the sentiment from a Nutcrafters wedding set. As my base was black, I thought it's always a good idea to make life easier for the person writing it.

 

The Back using 'everyday grungy messages'.

 

Hope you like this one as much as I've enjoyed creating it!!! Challenges I'm entering are firstly LOTV 'pastels', Glitter n Sparkle 'flowers' as is J and C Creations, Paper Pretties Monday 'use ribbon', Craft Pad 'stitching', ABC 'c for clear out'..the black card was bought some years ago, House of Gilli 'anything goes'. Many thanks for visiting and hope you'll keep an eye on the LOTV Ideas to inspire blog for oodles of fab inspiration from their very talented team, bye for now.