Rockin' Robin

I managed to squeeze in some much needed crafting over the weekend but didn't get chance to post the cards until now, so my first card uses a very old digi stamp from Charmed Cards And Crafts and is from the Dottie & George Bumper Christmas collection.  I chose Dottie dressed up as a Robin, gotta love her knobbly little knees, I've used Kraft & green cs, red mirricard and paper from Bearly Mine Designs teamed up with some ribbon I got last week in Lidls and a peeloff sentiment which I coloured red.  I must admit to having a soft spot for Dottie & George as they were the first digi stamps that I used when I started off my card making journey so it's always nice to bring them out once in a while.

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

Aloha Friday Challenges #62 ~ Christmas

Brown Sugar #175 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #99 ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs ~ Christmas card

Come and Get It ~ Anything Goes Christmas

Crafty Boots ~ Christmas

Crafting From The Heart #89 ~ Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge #211~ Christmas

Papertake Weekly ~ Fun Fun Fun

Creative Card Crew #102 ~ Holiday Season

Thanks for stopping by x

Holly Sprite

So I have had an enjoyable time this afternoon, snuggled up in my craft room and creating.  I recently won a challenge and the prize was $10 to spend at Aurora Wings and I found myself 3 wonderful images, the first of which I have used on this card I am sharing this evening.  It is Holly Sprite and I went with traditional colours and also used some glamour dust and a little flower soft.  Paper is Bearly Mine Designs.  I have embossed the red cs then added some die cut holly leaves topped off with some gem berries, now to start on another card!

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

Sweet Stampin ~ Sparkle and Shine

Crazy Challenge #211 ~ Everything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #318 ~ Traditional Christmas Colours

Aloha Friday #62 ~ Christmas

Creative Fingers #99 ~ Anything Goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #78

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #304 ~ Let It Snow

Over at Crafty Catz this week it's my turn to choose the theme and as we are now in chilly December with Christmas fast approaching (too fast for my liking!) I thought a simple challenge of Let It Snow would work in all our favours, as long as it don't snow for real where I live! lol.

We are grateful this week to be sponsored by 

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS

Prize is 3 digital images 

And the DT we very lucky and were given some wonderful images to play with.  For my card I have used the very cute Snowman Birdhouse, coloured with copics and spectrums and of course some glamour dust! Kraft cs for the mats and birds die cut and the papers are from a kit from Bearly Mine Designs.  Keeping my cards simple this year to cut down on postage costs! lol

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

Sweet Stampin' ~ Sparkle and Shine

Crafty Sentiments ~ Winter

Come And Get It ~ Anything Goes with a Sentiment

Crafty Boots ~ Spots or Dots

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Winter Wonderland

Crafting From the Heart #88 ~ Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #101 ~ Cold Outside

Little Red Wagon #318 ~ Traditional Christmas colours

4 Crafty Chicks #275 ~ Winter

TFL

Crafty Catz Challenge #303 ~ Masculine

Oops I am running somewhat late today, was busy yesterday and forgot to shedule my post for today's new challenge over atn Crafty Catz where this week our wonder Christine has chosen the theme of 'Masculine' and we are sponsored by the wonderful

FRED SHE SAID 

PRIZE ......$15 GC to the Fred She Said Store. 

Now a little while ago I was browsing round Hobbycraft and came across this wonderful little stamp and just had to have it!  I stamped it onto Kraft then heat embossed it with black powder and added a little black gem star, matted it onto black cs which was then added to more Kraft matted on black, The sentiment is again heat embossed and I finished off with a little wooden moustache I also heat embossed with black and some black gems. 

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

The Crazy Challenge #211 ~ Everything Goes

Crafting From The Heart #87 ~ Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Tic Tac Toe ~ emboss/free/for a man

The Paper Shelter #229 ~ A Christmas card

Fab 'n' Funky #283 ~ Christmas

4 Crafty Chicks #274 ~ Masculine

Creative Fingers #98 ~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by x

More shades of blue!

Good evening, well here I am to share another card with you today, 2 in one day it's been a while since I managed that!  This card is made from papers and scraps I had on my desk from my Crafty Catz DT card this week hence more shades of blue!  This time I have used an image from Sami Stamps called 'Hot Cocoa' coloured with copics and spectrums, papers are from Barely Mine Designs and I have added some blue cs which I have embossed and chose to use the words here instead of any stamped sentiment and the card is finished off with some organza ribbon and 3 little white snowflakes oh and just a touch of glamour dust!

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

Robyns Fetish #290 ~ wet or dry embossing

Crafting From The Heart #86 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #100 ~ Sprinkle

Crafty Sentiments  ~ Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter #228 ~ Brr it's cold outside (white/blue/silver/grey) 

4 Crafty Chicks #273 ~ Inspired by Christmas song ~ Baby it's cold outside

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #75

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #302 ~ Shades of Blue

Good morning all, it's time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week the theme has been chosen by our fabulous Dianne and she would like to see 'Shades of Blue' and we have an awesome sponsor for you, it's 

BUGABOO

prize...7 images of winners choice

The DT team were very generously given some images to play along with and boy have the ladies been busy and made fabulous pieces for your inspiration so be sure to hop over and check them out.  For my card I used Bug Snow Friends, coloured with copics and spectrums and lots of sparkle in the form of glitter, glamour dust and Detail Sparkle (that I had forgotten about!).  The papers are all from Bearly Mine Designs with cs from First Editions.  The button is using the Epiphany Crafts punch, the little snowmen are an x-cut punch then filled with glitter, the trees are PM and the branches and flowers are Die'sire and I added some little beads to them for some more sparkle! Hope you get time to join the Crafty Catz this week.

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

Sweet Stampin' ~ Wrap up warm

Crafting From The Heart #86 ~ Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly ~ Let It Snow
Creative Card Crew #100 ~ Sprinkle
Thanks for stopping by x

A Little Holly Fairy

Ok, I've realised that the C word is actually not that far away and I really do need to get on with my cards so that they are ready to post! Without further delay here is one I have made today using a fabulous digi stamp from Charmed Cards And Crafts which I have had for several years and she always comes out at least once this time of year!  The colours are traditional but a little muted/vintage, the wonderful papers are Bo Bunny, again quite old but I do still have scraps of it.  The upturned flower pot is a Cricut cut and all the other die cuts are Die'sire dies, added a tiny bit of glamour dust to her dress and boot tops, well it would be rude not to!  She is also slightly raised using foam pads.

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

Creative Fingers #97 ~ Anything Goes

Come And Get It ~ Winter Hholidays

Crafting From The Heart #86 ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #100 ~ Sprinkle

Creative Inspirations #336 ~ Festive fun

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #301 ~ Girls Only

So I am enjoying having Ria home for a few days just a shame I gotta work!  As it is Friday that means time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our wonderful Anna has chosen the theme 'Girls Only' so masses of scope for pretty feminine pieces of creativity and we are sponsored this week by;

stamping boutique

Prize 3 digi images

I have use the wonderful Jennifer Birthday for my card and used a mix of copics and first edition markers with touches of sakura stardust pens.  Background paper is  First Edition New Bloom and the cs and paper for the flowers are all cut from scraps.  The image, mat, sentiment and mat have all been cut on the Cricut.  The ivy, bird cage and bird, and flowers are all various diecuts and I finished my big tag off with some ribbon.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Allsorts #336 ~ Ribbons & Bows

Come and Get It #94 ~ Lots of sparkle (background paper is glittered, gems and sakura stardust dots around image, not easy to show in the photo)

Crafting From The Heart #85 ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #26 November ~ Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks #272 ~ Ribbon

TFL

A Happy Little Post

The other week I won the challenge at Sweet Stampin' with this card

And this is the awesome prize I received in the post at the end of last week from Stix2, oh and a glue stick which seems to have missed it's photo opportunity! lol

And as if that wasn't happy news enough, while chatting to Ria via messenger and skype it turns out she has no lectures Wed-Fri so she is coming home for a visit.  I'm feeling really excited that when I finish work tomorrow at 8:30 she will be at home.  :) :) :)

Crafty Catz Challenge #300 ~ Winter

Good morning well the weather here today in Dorset certainly fits with the theme over at Crafty Catz this week, our wonderful Aunty Sue wants to see Winter on our projects well looking out of my window this morning, we've got wind, rain, fog and it's cold so I think that classes as wintry!  Just missing something else that I am not going to mention but is shown on my card! Anyway we have a wonderful sponsor for you, this week it's

CREATIVE CLASSROOM

So onto my card which should have been nice and easy and straightforward but everything that could go wrong did but I wont bore you with all the details but is safe to say I now have a little less hair! lol  So I have used this cute image from Crafty Sentiments Designs and coloured him with copics, spectrums and first editions, added glamour dust to his snow balls and liquid pearls and a touch of flower soft to his hat. Cut him out and layered him onto the background which has been embossed with swiss dots, some ribbon and a bow, added the stamped sentiment, matted it all onto some blue cs and added the die cut mittens, He turned out ok in the end!

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

Sweet Stampin' ~ Dies and/or punches

Allsorts #335 ~ Christmas

Crazy 4 Challenges #310 ~ Christmas

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #26 ~ November Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart #84 ~ Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky #280 ~ Dies and/or punches

Creative Inspirations #334 ~ Sparkle

Creative Fingers #97 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Crafty Catz Challenge #299 ~ Tag it

Good morning, well here we are it's Friday, boy does it seem to come round quick at the moment, I seem to be ever playing catch up, mind you I have been working extra hours at work so that kinda reduces my 'me time' somewhat, still never mind.  Right as it's Friday that means new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week it is the turn of our wonderful Janette to host and she has chosen the theme 'Tag It' so we need to see a tag somewhere on your creation or you could make a tag.  We have a fabulous sponsor this week too ...

THE PAPER SHELTER

 $10 Gift Certificate

So I decided to make a tag and I also included a tag on my tag! lol I have used the fabulous image Pizza Chef from our very generous sponsor.  He is coloured using copics, spectrums and first edition markers.  The base tag is quite big 8.5 x 4.5 and I covered it in some gingham paper as it reminded me of a table cloth! The flowers and pocket and smaller tag are some red paper that I got in a bundle, the flowers are Die'sire dies and the white branches are a die cut too.  The smaller tag is a sizzix die cut and is the bigger of a set of 3 then onto that I have matted a recipe for friendship that I found on the internet, there are loads of them! Finished off with some eyelets, a hello friend cuttlebug die cut and some pearls.  I have given this to a friend at work who needed a little cheering up and I'm happy to say it was gratefully received.

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

Crafting From The Heart #83 ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #25 ~ October

Creative Card Crew #99 ~ Over The Edge

4 Crafty Chicks #270 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

A Little Haunting

Good evening all, well I just thought I'd pop on and share a Halloween card that I've made to play along with at The East Wind this week (actually challenge finishes tonight so I've cut it fine!) Anyway I have used the beautiful image Aurora Mushroom and I have given her a Halloween makeover using copics and spectrum pens and pencils, the background paper is from Bearly Mine Designs and then I have added die cut bats and various other cuts using the Cricut and the October 31st cartridge.  I hope you like her x

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

The East Wind #41 ~ Halloween

Not Just Cards #25 ~ October

Die Cuttin' Divas #238 ~ Picture Inspiration

The Paper Shelter #224 ~ Trick or Treat

4 Crafty Chicks #269 ~ Happy Halloween

Aloha Friday #59 ~ Halloween

Brown Sugar #169 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #96 ~ Anything Goes #2

Crafts 4 Eternity #249 ~ Halloween

Chocolate Coffee and Cards #102 ~ Halloween

Sweet Stampin' ~ Halloween

TFL xx

Crafty Catz Challenge #298 ~ Monsters ~ Spooky or Cute

Good evening, yes I know I'm late today, don't ask! but I'm here now and it's time to tell you about the new challenge over at Crafty Catz, this week our fabulous Nick has chosen the theme and being this close to Halloween it's very relevant, Nick would love to see your MONSTERS ~ SPOOKY OR CUTE and we are sponsored this week by

RICK ST DENNIS 

PRIZE......3 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

The DT were very kindly given some images to play along with, you really should check out all the fbulous work the girls have done, you won't be disappointed!  For my project which is a wall hanging for Ria for her room at uni I have used the awesome Clockwork Dragon.  Loved the image as soon as I saw it, has such fabulous detailing.  So for this I printed the image onto purple cs and matted it onto silver mirriboard, this was then mounted onto black cs edged using the TH Steampunk die.  This was then added to the purple cs background and embellished with black pearls, stamped sentiment and flowers cut using Die'sire dies out of black paper and a page from an old book which had first been inked with purple and then edged with black ink, and some JS ivy corner die cuts. I hope she likes it, her boyfriend is on his way up to London with it as I type! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafting From The Heart #82 ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #25 October, Anything Goes

Brown Sugar #169 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #96 ~ Anything Goes

Fussy And Fancy #150 ~ orange, black or purple

Thanks for stopping by xx

Crafty Catz Challenge #297 ~ Anything Goes

So it's Friday and it's my weekend to work! Ugh! much rather be home crafting!  Anyway as it is Friday that means new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our wonderful leader Carol has chosen everyones favourite theme ~ Anything Goes!  And we have a fabulous sponsor in the form of ...

BUGABOO

For my card I have used the fabulous Christmas Ornament Gal, coloured with copics, spectrums and first editions, I decided to glitter the bauble, well who doesn't love a sparkly bauble?! I thought I'd keep the back ground simple and embossed the smaller purple cs with a freebie folder I got from a magazine quite some time ago, stamped the sentiment into the speech bubble die cut, added some dotty ribbon and finished off with some rhinestones using a heat setter.

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

Allsorts #332 ~ No design paper

Sketch Saturday #382

Crafting From The Heart #81 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #98 ~ Ribbon

Fab 'n' Funky #277 ~ Make it square

Crafty Creations #300 ~ Don't be blue

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a crafty weekend xx

Crafty Catz Challenge #296 ~ Embossing

Good morning, it's Friday so that means time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week the wonderful Cindy has chosen the theme of  'EMBOSSING ~ heat or dry', I do love a bit of embossing!  Our fabulous sponsor this week is 

KENNY K 

For the embossing on my card I have used Embossalicious Banner folder, (love that now I have my cut 'n' boss I can emboss larger pieces! lol) and embossed the dp which is Papermania Happy Days, I used several KennyK images and cropped them to fit in my sizzix film strip die cut they are coloured up using a mix of Copics, Spectrums and First Edition markers.  The sentiment stamps are Crafty Impressions and cut out with a ticket die.  The card was finished off with some black pearls.  I didn't get chance to take a pic of the inside but it say 'It will make people wander what you've been up to on your birthday!  I made this card for Ria who celebrated her birthday last week up at uni in Camden I am pleased to say she was thrilled with the card.

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

KennyK's Krafty Krew  #204 ~ Anything Goes + optional twist Happy Everything

Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes (#2)

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky #276 ~ Sassy Ladies

TFL

A Little Autumnal

As I drive to fro to work I've started to see the changes in the colours of the leaves on the trees, it's really beautiful and the quote I have used for my card does sum it up beautifully too, so here is my autumnal inspired card.

I have used DP from The Paper Shelter, added some leaf embossed orange vellum (had the vellum for absolutely ages) and topped that with this gorgeous image from TEW 'Aurora Maple'.  The sentiment actually came from Sentimental Sundays probably a couple of years ago now.  Aurora is coloured with copics, spectrums and First Edition markers with a tiny bit of white gel pen for highlights, card is finished off with some orange card candi

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

The East Wind #40 ~ Add Texture

Crafts 4 Eternity #246 ~ Woodland

Simply Create Too #95 ~ Autumn Splendour

Allsorts #331 ~ Nature

Sketch Saturday #381

A Gem of a Challenge #145 Autumn

Crafting From the Heart #80 ~ Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Design ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Creations #299 ~ Falling for you

Crafting For All Seasons #111 ~ Autumnal Hues

TFL

When the going gets tough ...

... the tough get vodka! at least they do today!  And no not me! lol  A friend finished working at the unit I work at yesterday and we had a collection for her and I made the card.  She is famed for her love of vodka so the card and bottle of Polish Bison Grass vodka were very fitting and I'm pleased to say she was very pleased!

For my card (sorry not a great picture due to the gold mirricard) I used a fabulous image from Bugaboo called Tequila, it comes with a fab sentiment too but for this card I generated my own.  She is coloured with Spectrums and First Edition markers, I added glossy accents to her boots, glasses and glass and used glitter pens for her glasses frames and jewellery.  I embossed the gold mirricard with Embossilicious Banners folder and the black cs was die cut with part of a London silhouette die by x-cut but unfortunately it doesn't really show up very well.  Finished off with some liquid pearls.

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

Little Red Wagon #309 ~ Emboss Folder Love

Crafty Boots ~ Gold or Silver

Not Just Cards #25 ~ Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart #80 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Crafty Catz Challenge #295 ~ Fantasy/Fairy Theme

Ooops, I'm running a little late, seems to be the story of my life at the mo but I'm sure normal service will resume soon (I hope). This Sunday it's Ria's birthday and it's hard not being able to share it in person with her now she is at Uni but her boyfriend is with her this weekend and my Mum & Dad are visiting today so at least she isn't on her own.

Anyway enough of my mauddling! You're probably here to check out the new challenge over at Crafty Cats and this week the wonderful Naomi has chosen the theme of Fantsy/Fairy. We have a fabulous sponsor

Morgan's Artworld

And they are giving our lucky winner a 3 images of their choice

The DT were very kindly given some gorgeous images to play along with and I have used 'Gerient & Enid' which you can find here  This image really made me think of old books so I wanted to try and incorporate that into my card.  I stated by embossing a piece of Kraft and then using versamark ink and perfect pearls powders I set to trying to make the craft look like old leather then I added the brads to give the impression of it being old padded embossed leather (not sure I got totally right but was pleased with this as my first attempt).  Then I cut some corners from Kraft and heat embossed them with antique gold powder.  I printed the image 2x onto kraft and and cut out them mian image from 1 leaving just the border which I added to the other image using foam pads for some added depth.  I heat embossed with the gold powder round the edges of the frame and added the sentiment banner. The 'book' is then held shut with some string.  Overall I am really pleased with how this turned out, it matched the vision I had in my mind! lol  I hope you like it too, don't forget to check out the rest of the amazing cards that those Crafty Catz have been busy making for your inspiration.

I have included this view taken with the flash to try and show the effect of the powders on the Kraft and the gold embossing

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

Robyns Fetish #283 ~ Square or Rectangle cards

Come And Get It ~ Clear it out (use a stash item) my pearl powders haven't seen the light of day for a very long time!

Crafty Boots ~ Gold or Silver

Crafting From The Heart #79 ~ Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Take your Pick ~ I used Autumnal ~ browns and golds and Technique ~ Embossing I used both heat and dry

Little Red Wagon #309 ~ Use and Embossing folder

Crafts 4 Eternity #246 ~ Woodland

TFL