Snowman Pinup

Hi there, I'm back today with another image that I haven't yet used.  This time it's 'Snowman Pinup' from Sassy Studios, I won this image quite some time ago (no where near winter!) and knew it would be a good image for Christmas, especially for those hard to make for men in our lives!  I have coloured her with copics, spectrums and sakura clear stardust, the sentiment I got today at The Range, the paper is DCWV and I added some black cs and white organza ribbon.  Kept it simple as the paper is quite glittery.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers #105 ~ CAS

Crazy Challenge #159 ~ Snowy Winter

Incy Wincy Designs ~ For the men in your life

LEJ Designs #81 ~ Button, Bows or Beads

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketchie time ~ # 65

Totally Papercrafts #195 ~ Ho Ho Holidays

TFL

Crafty Catz # 209 ~ Santa's coming to town

Happy Friday, well my holiday is almost over but still got the weekend to enjoy and as it's Friday that means it's time for a brand new fun challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week it is the turn of the lovely Nick to choose the theme and she would love to see a card with at least one Santa on it, well with Christmas nearly upon us that should be a nice easy one for you and we have a great sponsor for you ...

MEI FLOWER CRAFT

Either a £20 worth of goodies

or a £20 voucher to spend in our online store.

added 31/7/13 They no longer post to the USA

For my card I have used 'Santa's Wish List' from Crafty Sentiments Designs coloured with copics and spectrums, paper is Bearly Mine Designs and then I have used some coloured cs scraps for the circles and the present which was cut on the Cricut, finished of with a stamped sentiment and some gold glittery ribbon from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday #286

Totally Gorjuss # 211 ~ Childs Christmas

Allsorts #234 ~ Bring on the bling 

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

LEJ Designs #81 ~ Buttons,Bow or Beads 

TFL

Happy Gingerbread

Back again!  I was looking at the different images stored on my pc today and realised there are some that have never seen the light of day so decided it was time to rectify that!  So I have used a cute Gingerbread Man by Meljens, printed him onto Kraft and used sakura stardust pens and white gel pen to add details, papers are Bearly Mine Designs and I finished off with some card candi and a resin sticker from a while ago!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity #151 ~ Glitter and Sparkle

Creative Card Crew #50 ~ Sweet Treats

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketchie Time  #85

TFL and now I'm off to check out what else hasn't seen the light of day!

Snowman Skates

Yay I managed to play in my craft room! but not until last night! lol and here is a card I made.  Cute image is from Bugaboo, coloured with spectrums and glamour dust added, papers are from Bearly Mine Designs and I've teamed it up with some Kraft and blue mirriboard.  Sentiment is a sizzix die and I finished off with some gems from my stash.  I am now planning on spending the afternoon in my craft room after some lunch so I may be back later!  Mind you I do also have some DT things to work on for later in the month too!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity #151 ~ Glitter & Sparkle

Allsorts #234 ~ Bring on the Bling

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #184

Sentimental Sunday #182 ~ Winter Wonderland

Crazy Challenge #159 ~ Snowy Winter

Bearly Mine Challenges #114 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Use some Red

Welcome to Wednesday and a fabulous new challenge over at Divas By Design.  These week we want to see some RED and we have a fantastic sponsor ...

Delicious doodles

Told you it was fantastic!  Ok so on to my card, well I thought I'd have a go a getting a bit vintagey, it's not something I do very often and I find it quite hard but after I'd coloured up the wonderful Robin from Delicious Doodles and checked out my papers I found the background paper from Bo Bunny and just thought it worked so well with the image but the image looked a bit 'clean' so I set to with my cotton wool, ink and stamps, then I found some scraps of Christmas paper embellishments added those then thought I'd better stop there while I was liking what I had achieved! lol, hope you like it too.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Sweet Stampin' ~ Cause for a celebration
Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes
TFL

Skating Nikki

Hi there I have a card to share with you that I've made this evening, I have used the gorgeous digi image Nikki from Saturated Canary, coloured with copics, papers are Raspberry Road, the mittens are a sizzix die, the ribbon is a magazine freebie from a year or so ago and I've used some card candi, all the edges have been distressed and inked.  I'm actually on holiday this week and keep promising myself more time in my craft room but haven't done that much yet so maybe tomorrow!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary #57 ~ Distress

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

OSAAT #191 ~ Bingo ~ Gem/Dies/ribbon

Sketch 'n' Stash #126 ~ all old stash and I rotated the sketch

Bearly Mine Challenges #114 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Hop! Hop! Hop! Day 2

Morning, did you check out all the fabulous work by Team A and collect all their letters on this fun hop?  If not I suggest you go check out the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog and get hopping!

So welcome to day 2 of our blog hop where we will be showing you 5 new digi's available instore.  Remember to collect the letters (13 altogether) collect them in order and they will spell a phrase -Please send the completed phrase to scattyjan_814@msn.com and leave a message on the Inspirational Blog to say you have.

You could win a prize

Also if you would like the chance to spend 2 months with us as a GDT 
please pop GDT after your name.

Enjoy the hop.

Winners will be announced on the 28th.

You should have arrived here from Nicole's blog

The order for day 2 with team B is:

Kelly
Jackie W
Céline
Nicole
Jac (thats me!)
Aunty Sue
Inspirational Blog

So onto my project, I have used 'in the background' and although she is'n't a Christmas image I have made her one as I seem to be in Christmas card mode at the moment (as I'm sure lots of us are! lol) The card base I embossed, the window is already cut (this is the last one of a pack of 5 that I got years ago!) the scene beyond the window is from Bearly Mine Designs and I have added copious amounts of glitter not that it shows very well in the pictures.  The cute image has been coloured with spectrums and then fussy cut before mounting on the card using foam pads.  The sentiment is from Sheena Douglas Bah! Humbug! 1

Oh I almost forgot to tell you what my letter is, in case you hadn't already guessed!  It's O

A close up to try and show some glitter.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter #138 ~ Christmas is coming

Crafty Creations #249 ~ Thanks Giving or Christmas

Stampin' for the Weekend ~ Feeling Festive

Crafts 4 Eternity #151 ~ Glitter & Sparkle

Thanks for hopping by now its time to hop over to Aunty Sue's blog xx

Hop! Hop! Hop!

Well who doesn't enjoy a good blog hop?  Over the next 2 days the 2 teams at Crafty Sentiments Designs are having a fabulous blog hop to celebrate the release of 5 new digital stamps and you are sure to want to join in. So ...

...Hop along with us over the next 2 days starting over at the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog and collect the letters (13 altogether). Collect them in order and they will spell a phrase then please send the completed phrase to scattyjan_814@msn.com and leave a message on the inspirational blog to say you have.

You could win a prize

Also if you would like the chance to spend 2 months with us as a GDT
please pop GDT after your name.

Enjoy the hop.

Winners will be announced on the 28th.

The order for day 1 with team A is:

Inspirational Blog
Caz 
Rachel
Audrey 
Susan F 
Cathy
Jackie R
Diane

See you back here tomorrow for my hop project, have fun hopping x

Tags & Bags with Crafty Catz

This week it's my turn to set the challenge over at Crafty Catz and I chose the theme of 'Tags & Bags'  Don't panic! the part we are really looking for is the tag but I know some love to make matching bags & tags so that's great too.

Our fabulous sponsors this week are

CRAFTY RIBBONS

AND

DIGI STAMPS 4 JOY

PRIZE  5 DIGI IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

Fantastic prizes wouldn't you agree.  So here is what I made, I recently won a challenge and the prize was a voucher for Crafters Companion so I treated myself to the Sweet Treats boards which is a selection of boxes and bags and a cute birdhouse. So I decided to go with a bag and I'm pleased with how it turned out for a first attempt.  The paper is MME Winterwonderland (couple of years old now).  I cut a tag from the same paper and added an image from Digi Stamps 4 Joy, coloured with spectrums, to the tag I added a poinsettia die cut and a stamped sentiment from a set of stamps that happened to fall in my basket when ordering the embossing boards! oops! The tag is attached with some cream ribbon and then I have put wide red ribbon round the bag and added a large fabric flower from my stash. I hope you will find time to join us this week.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' ~ Use tags

Created with Love #67 ~ Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky #194 ~ Anything Goes

Hopefully this has sheduled ok as I'm at work today and then on leave for a week, yipeee!  Thanks for stopping by x

Snowy Post Box

Ok short and sweet post as I need to get this entered into the challenge over at Delicious Doodles, which this week is C&S.

I have used the beautiful Snowy Postbox from Delicious Doodles and coloured it with my spectrums and added glitter, white and red cs and stamped sentiment and a few gems, that's it!  Love how this turned out and so quick to colour too! lol

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Delicious Doodles #62 ~ C&S

OSAAT #190 ~ Anything Goes

Love to Create #92 ~ Sketch

Crafty Creations #249 ~ Thanksgiving or Christmas

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Its Christmas at Crafty Sentiments

Good morning all, well Christmas is drawing ever closer and I don't know about you but I haven't made nearly enough cards yet so this weeks challenge over at Crafty Sentiments, chosen by the wonderful Caz, is Christmas!  Yep, that easy! We have a really fabulous prize for you this week and If you use a CS image you get 3 entries into the random draw if you are also a/or become a follower on the Inspirational blog you also get 3 entries - If you do both you get 6 entries.  WOW! 

Gorgeous die set don't you think, so lets see those Christmas projects and don't for get if you do use a CS image make sure you put a #3 next to your name, I'd hate for us to miss your creation.

Right on to my card, and I have used the oh so cute 'Snowballs' which is one of the recently released new stamps which are available at the Crafty Sentiments Design Store.  Coloured with Copics and Spectrums and a little glitter added, papers are Bearly Mine Designs and Kraft and I finished off with a couple of snowflake brads.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks #168 ~ Snowflakes

Totally Papercrafts #193 ~ C&S

OSAAT #190 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

Created with Love #67 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

No squares allowed

Yay its Friday, only today and the weekend left to work then 2 glorious days off!  Mind you it also means it's time for a fabulous new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this time it's the wonderful Christine who has chosen a theme of Anything But Square and we are sponsored by 

ALOTA STAMPS

Fabulous!  So I decided to try something a little different and turned to my trusty Cricut for inspiration and found this fabulous pot of utensils which I thought would work wonderfully with 'Sweet Treats' stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs, which inspired me to use Kraft as the base to echo the gingerbread and then I remembered the cute gingerbread men Quikcutz die and hey presto my card was realised!  Great fun to make, will be looking at my Cricut for more inspiration for sure.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

OSAAT #189 ~ Holidays

Challenges 4 Everybody #33 ~ Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky #193 ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Creations #248 ~ Dies & Punches

TFL

Something Snowy with Divas

Good morning all, well this post is sheduled as I am just starting a run of 7 shifts in 5 days plus 2 sleep ins so I'm gonna be kinda busy, my apologies if I don't get round and visit as much as I'd like to.  Still it's Wednesday so time for another fabulous challenge over at Divas By Design and this week we are looking for 'Something Snowy' and I knew just what I stamp I wanted to use for this challenge!  We are sponsored this week by 

Bunny Zoes crafts

So now to my card, I have used the adorable 'Snow Angel' an new stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs and I've coloured her with my copics.  Paper is from Raspberry Road Designs and I coloured the sentiment with copics to match.  Sentiment is a sizzix die cut, also used snowflake punch by Tonic Studios, and angel die cut by Quikcutz and icicle border die both of which are cut out of glitter cs

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' ~ Christmas is coming

2 Sisters #169 ~ Christmas Sparkle

OSAAT #189 ~ Holidays
Papertake Weekly ~ Snow & Ice
LEJ Designs #79 ~ Seasons Greetings
TFL and I hope you find time to join in with our challenge this week.

Come on Teddy

Good morning all, I have a card to share today that I made using one of the newest stamp releases from Crafty Sentiments Designs, just love these stamps they stamp beautifully and are a dream to colour.  Anyway this card uses the stamp 'Come on Teddy' coloured with copics and spectrums, sentiment is a sizzix die, button and thread from my stash and the paper is a very old freebie piece from a magazine and some very old s/a ribbon, can you tell I've been rummaging in my Old Christmas Stash! lol

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes (optional extra ~ Christmas)

Creative Card Crew #48 ~ Teddy Bears Picnic

The Paper Shelter #136 ~ Winter Fun

Fab 'n' Funky #192 ~ Traditional Christmas Colours

TFL

Time for a little photo inspiration with Crafty Catz

Good morning, well here we are it's Friday again which means it's time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week it is the turn of the fabulous Linda to pick our theme and she gave us all this fabulous photo to take our inspiration from.

and we have a fabulous sponsor this week too!

SATURATED  CANARY

PRIZE......2 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

And the DT were very lucky and got to use some stunning images from our fabulous sponsor, you really must check out all the gorgeous creations by the super talented DT.  For my card I used the awesome 'Gothica' coloured with my spectrums and my inspiration from the photo is how I came to do my background.  I embossed a piece of black cs then turned it over to the debossed side and filled the design with glue then covered with different glitters, the peeloff sentiment is added to a die cut label from Crafty Cutters at Crafty Sentiments Designs and I finished off with some faux stitching in silver and some grey ribbon.  This was fun to do and I'm still clearing up glitter! lol

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

OSAAT #188 ~ Use a digi

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Ribbon, twine or fibres

Bearly Mine Designs #111  ~ Anything Goes

TFL

For all the 'Guys' out there

Good morning, it's time for  a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and this week it's my turn to pick the theme as tonight is Bonfire Night aka 'Guy Fawkes' night I thought it would be a good time to see cards for all the 'Guys' in our lives.

Our prize this week is this gorgeous stamp ...

and we are having a GDT call so do check out all the details over at Crafty Sentiments.

So onto my card, I have chosen the stamp 'Party Horn' which is available at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Store, he is coloured with copics and spectrums and the papers are Bearly Mine Designs and some Kraft cs, I finished off with some brads and a peel off sentiment from my stash and a little stardust pen on the champagne.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody #32 ~ Anything Goes

TLF

Paper piecing with Crafty Catz

Good morning, well here we are it's Friday and time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz but before I get to that please welcome Nikki to our happy team as GD for November.  Ok so this week the wonderful Nina has chosen the theme of 'Paper Piecing', I love this technique but don't seem to remember to do it too often! lol  We also have a great sponsor this week, it's 

Digi Darla

                                                               PRIZE .......5 images of winners choice

And the DT was lucky enough to get to have a play with some fabulous Digi Darla images.  For my card I have used 'Ashley with Roses' and I teamed her up with some gorgeous papers from Bearly Mine Designs,  I love paper piecing with digi papers because you can print them out at a size to suit your image.  After paper piecing I have coloured my image with copics and spectrums.  I added soem ribbon, flowers and gems from my stash and finished off with a stamped sentiment and did some distressing round the edge of the background and inking round the ovals.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

LEJ Designs #77 ~ Anything Goes

Friday Sketch #55

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody #32 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Black & Gold

Ok I'm just about to head off to bed but wanted to share this card first as one of the challenges I want to enter it into closes Saturday and I'm at work from 7.30am to 10pm and then sleeping in so wont be home till 8am or so on Saturday morning.  I was working on this card this morning before going to work but hadn't had time to put it together and photograph it, so here it is now ...  The gold embossed cs I have had for several years, (only got 1 piece left now), cut the reindeer on the cricut using the Gypsy Wanderings matted on to black then gold circles cut using spellbinder dies which are then layered onto another cricut cut using the paperlace cartridge which in turn is layered onto another piece of the gold cs and a couple of lengths of ribbon added.  Really like how this turned out (actually turned out how I had hoped, so often my cards look totally different to how I imagine them at the start! lol)  May even try this in some other colours.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Hiding In My Craft Room #121 ~ Use a Critter (only recently found this challenge but love the inpsiration I'm finding for Cricut stuff - Thanks Roberta x)

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #180

TFL and now its time for bed xx