ABC Challenge - A is for Animals

I made this tri-fold card for the new ABC Challenge, it's made using lilac SU cardstock, cuttlebug animal dies, my fave. cuttlebug spotty embossing folder and other dies.

Thanks for looking!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 17

This weeks challenge is "The Great Outdoors". I bought myself the I Love My Garden set by Woodware - it's so cute, but I'm not sure about the end results of this card, but seeing how much time I spent, it's going to have to do!!
Coloured with watercolours and then sakura jelly glaze pens.

SBS18 Challenge #8 - All Things Beachy

I am sponsoring this weeks SBS18 Challenge, and up for grabs is all this lovely stuff.... ... a stencil, stickers, stamped images and a stamp (on ez mount).

Go on - you know you want to - click on the SBS18 banner to leave a link to your entry, by next Tuesday 8th July.

Here's my DT effort ...


I used the Summer By The Sea SU stamp set, coloured with watercolour pencils, some gold paper, pale yellow embossed with cuttlebug embossing folder, some raffia down the side embellished with some shell beads, and a tag.

Sketch #5 Sketch Saturday Challenge

My entry for this weeks sketch saturday challenge.

Penny Black Colour Challenge

My entry for the Penny Black Colour Challenge, which was to use pink, brown and green. (And my new stamp, of course!!!).

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

SBS18 Challenge #7 - Just to Say

Just Because - I was competely lost for ideas with this one, and so I put a few bits and pieces together and this is what I came up with !!
The stamped greeting says "Just Because" on the flower, embossed in gold.

http://sbs18challenges.blogspot.com/

Sketch #4 Sketch Saturday Challenge

My entry for this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge.
Maybe I'm feeling a bit blue - I have the funeral tomorrow for my great aunt who died last week, and I'll miss her lots.

http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 16

This card has been made for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge. The challenge is to use No Patterned Paper!

I used some SU cardstock and stamped it with a background stamp, adding die cut photo corners, stamped image and raffia ribbon with stamped and utee'd tag, which says best wishes, but it hasn't photographed very well. I'm really loving using my spring card template - can you tell!!??

Sketch Something CHALLENGE

I made this at my card workshop last night so I thought I'd use the sketch for the Sketch Something Challenge.

Hope you like it!

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/

Tilda & Co ~*~ 25 ~*~ We gone Dottie...

I made this card for the going dottie challenge using some dotty paper that I got free with a magazine! I'm not too sure about the end result - maybe a bit rushed (again), but on the whole I think its OK!

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #21

Here's my attempt at the cupcake challenge on this week's Taylored Expressions blog.

Helped by my son, he also wanted to eat the card - yum! I love this set of stamps - it has got to be one of my fave's!!! and the glitter card - another favourite of mine!

http://tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/

Penny Black Challenge & Cute Card Thursday

I have made this card using a Penny Black Stamp, with a brown base and orangey type floral paper, a bit of ribbon and punched flowers. Hope you like it.

French Storage idea!!!

I just thought I'd share this storage idea that I picked up in a French market while on our travels in Brittany last week. I bought it for about 8 euros in a market, and it was the only one I had seen, until I turned a corner and saw loads of other stalls selling similar things!! Some had 4 or 5 baskets, all around the same price - typical, hey!!!

Anyway, I'm quite pleased with it - I immediately thought it would be ideal for all those little bits and bobs in my crafty room!!!

Papertake Weekly Feelin' HOT HOT HOT!!!

Here's my entry for this weeks Papertake Challenge, colours haven't come out too well on the stamped image - the card is just TOO HOT for the camera to cope with!!!

Tilda & Co Challenge #24 Serendipity

I loved having a go at this technique - Serendipity, one I've never tried before.

SBS18 Challenge #6 - Lilac

This is a card I managed to make while in sunny France. I'm not too sure about it myself, but with limited resources and time, it was the best I could come up with. I made the stamped image 3d, layering it 3 times, and it is dangling on the ribbon, which obviously doesn't really show in the picture. I just wanted to try my new spring card template!
Luckily, it also fits in with the SBS18 challenge #6, being that it's lilac!!!

Papertake Weekly To Die For!

Here's my attempt at the To Die For challenge, I just wanted to use my new spacey dies, and this was a great opportunity. My little boy loves them, too!

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

Magnolia Challenge ~*~ 22 ~*~ None Card Week!

I was determined to do this challenge - a great excuse to get my beads out (again) and combine them with shrink plastic! The only thing I find hard with Magnolia challenges is that I only have 2 stamps - ahhh!!

http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/

SBS18 Challenge #4

Here's my entry for this weeks SBS18 Challenge - a non conventional fold, with red, black, pink and white.

I used white cardstock for the base, layered the stamped two-step stampin simple sketches stamped in ruby red, cameo coral and rose regal, onto white, layered onto black sparkly paper. I also used my xyron to make sparkly laminated danglies that hung from pink and red ribbon, and a few brads and greeting to finish.

Hope you like it!

Only Joking Blog Candy

Made using pink cardstock, pink DCWV glitter card, Queen & co Kissy Fit flowers, letters and ribbon slider, plus ribbon and one of my fave stamps.
Hope you can see it clearly - the glitter card doesn't photograph very well, and the flowers are quite shiny too!!