If the shoe fits ...

Well it's the last day of my holiday today, back to work tomorrow on a 10-10 shift with a sleep in! Ha ha back with a vengence! So I thought I might as well have a little play here in the craft room.  It started with the shoe and went on from there.  Papers are from First Editions and are New Bloom with some off cuts of cs including whitewash and glitter, some have been embossed.  Various circle dies used, the shoe die was a recent magazine freebie, the flower stem die is also a recent buy and the sentiment is cut on the Cricut.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Creative Fingers #102 ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments ~ Dies and/or punches
Crafting From The Heart #98 ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Creations #308 ~ Hearts
Feeling Sketchy #138
Thanks for stopping by x

Is it just me ...

... or does everyone else get covered in glue doing decopatch?! After my mixed media project the other day I thought I'd do some more decopatch on a corner bookmark. Now I'm afraid I always cheat on these bookmarks and use a square envelope as my starting point instead of doing some fancy folding and to be fair the envelopes haven't let me down yet! lol. So after sticking down my envelope and then cutting a corner off I coated it with decopatch glue and torn pages from an old book, after tearing up the pages I also inked them (I really did get messy! lol) then stuck them to the back and the front of the envelope corner which has really given the bookmark added strength. While that was drying, I cut the frame and wording out on the Cricut using my new cartridge 'small talk frames and tags', brilliant cartridge, very versatile. made a back panel which I also decopatched then I coloured the fabulous image from TEW called 'Lucy Loo Mad Hatter' with a mix of my markers then attached her to the frame and added the back panel and finally added this to the envelope. This has be done to enter the Facebook challenge over at TEW where the theme is 'Not Now ... I'm Reading'

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

Ruby's Rainbow #122 ~ Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #102 ~ Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart #98 ~ Anything Goes
Not Just Cards #29 ~ February
Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #310 ~ Ahoy Me Hearties

Well shiver me timbers if it isn't Friday already, where has the week gone?  That means time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our wonderful Nick has chosen the theme, and in case you hadn't already guessed its a 'Pirate' theme and we have a fabulous sponsor too

FABRIKA FANTASY

PRIZE.....3 DIGI IMAGES 

I decided to make a flag this week and had a play with Cricut to get the flag shape and also to cut the 'girlie' skull and crossbones.  The 'danger' sentiment is also cut on the Cricut.  I added the other sentiments cut using the sizzix neon mini alpha and finally added a die cut star burst.

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

Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #29 ~ February

Crafting From The Heart #97 ~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by x

1st attempt at mixed media!

Just wanted to share with you a project I've been working on which is my first attempt at doing some mixed media.  Been wanting to dabble but not really plucked up the courage till now!  So I took a piece of mountboard 12"x8" and covered it in deco mache paper, once dried I added some stars by stencilling through some metallic off cut with blue ink, then I a brown ink pad and went round the edges, put a top layer of decopatch glue on and left it to dry while I coloured the fabulous KennyK image, which is a limited freebie but you need to join the Facebook Club.  She is coloured with a mix of my marker pens and pencils, then I used my new Spectrum Sparkle pens, oh wow they are gorgeous, I had up until now been using Sakura Stardust pens but mine are old and drying up and not so reliable any more and I loved the fact that these have brush nibs, I am certainly not disappointed!  Unfortunately the sparkle doesn't show in the photo but I love their subtle addition to the image.  Anyway enough raving! I added a piece of mesh then cut out the flowers from some Kraft cs and beautiful papers sent to me by a friend in Poland which I have been saving to use for the right project and as this is for me I thought I deserved them! lol.  Once I'd made the flowers I then coated them with the decopatch glue and fixed them in place with some hot melt glue.  I used glossy accents for the flower centre and added some micro beads.  The sign is made from some s/a cork sheets I bought recently and the 'Jacs Playground' is cut on the Cricut from s/a white paper.  For my first attempt I am pleased with how this turned out, might just have to buy myself some acrylic paints and put my Cricut to good use making some stencils.  This was a lot of fun, a bit messy, but a lot of fun! Now I just need to decide if it is going to hang on the door to the craft room or the craft room wall!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Aloha Friday #64 ~ Favourite colour combo~ blue and brown

Simply Create Too #101 ~ Sparkle pens, new cork sheets

Creative Fingers #101 ~ Anything Goes

Just Us Girls #328 ~ wild card week ~ Tic Tac Toe ~ Dies cuts, stamp, flower

Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #29 February

Ruby's Rainbow #122 ~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by x

At Your Age!

Just thought I'd pop on to share the card I made for BILs partner who turns 50 tomorrow.  I have used the fabulous Stella from Bugaboo and I tweaked the sentiment slightly.  Stella is coloured with copics and Spectrums and I added glossy accents here and  there!  Used the new Cricut cartridge to cut out the sentiment, now its time to go play some more!

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

Tuesday Throwdown #278 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #105 ~ Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #326 ~ They say its your birthday

Feeling Sketchy #137

Thanks for stopping by x

Feeling blessed

Well today I have had a fabulous day and I just wanted to share with you a picture of the wonderful crafting goodies I have received for my birthday:

2 boxes of Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens

Cricut Small Talk Frames & Tags cartridge

Xcut Feather dies

Signature Die Trailing Flowers

'A' plates for the Cut N Boss

double side tape and hot melt glue sticks

Cricut 12x12 cutting mats (not in the pic)

I am really looking forward to having a play tomorrow, after I've been food shopping! lol  And the best bit is that I have a week off work too! yay!  

Also got a fab cd by Train too.

I am definitely blessed xx

Crafty Catz Challenge #309 ~ Kids

Sorry I'm late posting today but the internet crashed out last night while I was trying to do my post then the laptop was spending forever installing updates, I gave up and went to bed! So here I am now, just got back from having a cortisone injection in my thumb and an xray. Last injection looks like another op is on the cards! Anyway I'm really here to post about this weeks challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our fabulous Cindy has chosen a theme of 'KIDS' and we have an awesome sponsor in the form of 

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS

Prize is 3 digital images 

So for my card I have used this cute image from Crafty Sentiments called 'Why Not' and coloured him up with Copics and Spectrum Noirs, the patterned paper is from First Editions Neroli pad, used some cs from stash which I embossed then cut the stars using a new star die set. The sentiment is one I downloaded free a long time ago from Sentimental Sundays. When I was putting the card together it just looked to clean and smart so I attacked it a postal franking stamp and then grunged it up with some black ink, it looks so much better now that its not pristine, well it is for a boy! lol. Hope you can come along and play with us this week.

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

Crafty Sentiments Designs ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Card Makers #156 ~ Punches and/or dies

Crafting From The Heart #96 ~ Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Tic Tac Toe ~ Embossing, red, die cut

Tuesday Throwdown #278 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew #105 ~ Anything Goes

Simply Create Too #101 ~ Something New ~ star die cut set

Thanks for stopping by x

A little monochrome fun

Here's a little card that took a long time to come together, despite using a sketch!  I think it was more about the colouring and I couldn't decide if keeping the image monochrome too was the way to go!  I finally decided it was and here is my end result.  Used the awesome Kenny K image, background glittery paper is Santoro of London and the flowers are cut on the cricut from a scrap of grey checked paper, added the film strip die cut and coloured the image with Spectrums.

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

Sketch Saturday #395 (only just! lol)
Come And Get It ~ Embossing
Crafting From The Heart #95 ~ Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations #343 ~ Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #101 ~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #308 ~ Girls Just Wanna ave Fun

Hello, yes I'm running a wee bit late and no excuses!  So let's get right down to business, it's Friday so time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week the theme has been chosen by our wonderful Nina and she has chosen Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, fabulous choice and we are sponsored by 

stamping boutique

Prize 3 digi images

And the DT were given some fabulous images to play along with.  I chose Ginah and coloured here with copics, spectrum pens and pencils and first edition markers, I then used the pens to make the spotty background which I have seen others do but never had a go myself, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!  papers are First Edition Blank Canvas, embossed the circular panel and then added die cut pennant and die cut rolled flowers.  Hope you like it and get a chance to come on over and play along with the Crafty Catz this week.

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

Come And Get It ~ Embossing

Crafting From The Heart #95 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Inspierations #343 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #101 ~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by x

Do you believe ...

... in Love at first sight?  Got this great sassy image from TEW and thought the sentiment would be perfect!  They are also have a challenge over on their blog which is black and white with  1 other colour and I went for a bright splash of yellow :-)  The image is coloured with a mix of Copics, Spectrums and First Editions.  I have embossed the black cs with a diamond embossing folder, the stars are die cut and are part of a new die set and finished off with some little black gems.

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

Crafting From The Heart #94 ~ Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow #120 ~ Show us something new ~ my star die cuts are new.

The East Wind #47 ~ Black, White & one other

Creative Fingers #100 ~ Anything Goes

Come and Get It ~ Embossing

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #307 ~ Word Art

Good morning, it's Friday so it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week it is the turn of our wonderful Tracey to choose the theme and she would love to see Word Art/Words as the main image on your card and we have a fabulous and generous sponsor who have given the DT fabulous images to work with and that sponsor is 

BUGABOO

prize...7 images of winners choice

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

Crafting From The Heart #94 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations #342 ~ Florals

Crafting For All Seasons #117 ~ Monochrome

Everybody Art #351 ~ Text is the image

Tuesday Throwdown #276 ~ Add dimension

Thanks for stopping by x

White Christmas

Hi, don't panic I'm not starting early on my cards for Christmas, this is actually one from last year that I didn't get round to posting on here and while I was looking at a few challenges I realised that this card would fit a couple of them so here it is ...!

I used a Crafters Companion Accordian Die and then I cut some double sided self adhesive sheet (using for the first time) with an overlay ivy leaf die which I then glittered with glamour dust.  Then I embossed the inner panels and added some cuts using the Cricut.  Its a shame the glamour dust don't show up too well in the photo it was very sparkly in real life.

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

Brown Sugar #180 ~ Anything Goes 

Creative Fingers #100 ~ Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs ~ White with a splash of colour

Thanks for stopping by x

Polar Bear Dancing

I seem to be very slowly getting back into crafting after the Christmas break, hopefully I'll soon speed up again but for now here is a card I made with the freebie image from The East Wind this month, unfortunately I was too slow for their first challenge of the year but I went ahead with my card anyway.  I have used paper from First Edition New Bloom and Dreamcatcher flowers and leaves are from my stash. I have done some dry embossing and die cut some banners.  The cute image is coloured with copics and spectrums.

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

Creative Inspirations #342 ~ Florals

Brown Sugar #180 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #100 ~ Always Anything Goes

Simply Create Too #100 ~ It's Party Time

Sweet Stampin' ~ Flowers

A Gem of a Challenge #160 ~ Female Birthday

Crafty Sentiments ~ Baby It's Cold Outside

Come And Get It ~ Baby It's Cold Outside

Crafting From The Heart #94 ~ Anything Goes

Feeling Sketchy #136

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #306 ~ Flowers stamped or digi

Good morning and Happy New Year to you all!  Wow it's been so long since I blogged and I had the good intentions of blogging and crafting throughout the holiday period and it just didn't work out that way!  So here I am back with the first challenge of the new year from Crafty Catz and this week it's the turn of our fabulous boss lady Carol to choose the theme and she would like to see 'FLOWERS' but this isn't about adding all those gorgeous flowers we all have though you can add those too but it's about stamping flowers (rubber or digi).  Our wonderful sponsors this week are

A DAY FOR DAISIES

PRIZE......ADFD WILL PROVIDE 3$ GIFT VOUCHER

this is equal to 3 images of winners choice

and 

prize

A Day For Daisies were also kind enough to give the DT some fabulous images to play along with.  I chose Mr Rooster who I coloured using copics.  The papers are First Editon Blank Canvas and the smaller piece I have used an old background stamp (hardly every used!) stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with some very old holographic embossing powder which when it picks up the light does look very pretty. The small flowers are a die cut and the bigger flower is cut on the Cricut and has a brad in the centre which is attached to a simple little tag with a simple stamped sentiment.  I wanted to keep the background and embellishments fairly muted so the colours on the Rooster stood out more.

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

Sweet Stampin' ~ New stash/event the image is my new stash

Crafty Sentiments Designs ~ Anything Goes

Robyns Fetish #297 ~ Anything goes

Come And Get It ~ Happy NEW Year ~ new image

Crafty Boots ~ Something Old, Something New

Crafting From The Heart #93 ~ Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter #230 ~ Punches and or dies

Little Red Wagon #323 ~ Thank You

Creative Inspirations #342 ~ Florals

Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Catz Challenge #305 ~ Sparkle and Shine

Can't believe how close it is getting to Christmas! Everyone talking about their decorations and wrapping the presents, my decorations are still in the attic! lol Anyway as it's Friday it's time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Catz and it is our last one until the New Year.  For this weeks challenge our wonderful Naomi has chosen a theme of Sparkle & Shine.

I have used an old stamp which I heat embossed in antique gold after stamping on to Kraft which I mounted on red mirricard, then I dry embossed the background piece of Kraft with a reindeer folder from Design Objectives and again mounted onto red mirricard.  Added some red thread, red ricrac, red gems and finally a couple of little red bells.  

here's a picture of the card taken with the flash to try and show the shine a little better.

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

Allsorts #340 ~ Clean and Simple

Crafty Sentiments Designs ~ Christmas Card

Come And Get It ~ Merry Christmas

Crafty Boots ~ Christmas

Crafting From The Heart #89 ~ Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge #211 ~ Christmas

Crafty Cardmakers and More #153 ~ Depict the poem Twas the night before Christmas ~ I have used the reindeer parts of the poem for my depiction.

Crafty Creations #304 ~ Happy Holidays

Thanks for stopping by x

Merry & Bright

So here is the second card I made at the weekend this time using a new image which was part of my prize from Aurora Wings ~ Christmas Lights Sprite.  Coloured up with copics and I added glamour dust to all the fluffy bits and 3d glaze to the little lights.  Paper is Bearly Mine Designs and the frame is cut on the Cricut as are the Christmas Lights which I added 3d glaze to then added some wire and finished off the card with a stamped sentiment.

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

Aloha Friday #62 ~ Christmas

Brown Sugar #175 ~ Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #99 ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs ~ Christmas Card

Come And Get It ~ Merry Christmas

Crafty Boots ~Christmas

Crafting From The Heart #89 ~ Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge #211 ~ Christmas

Creative Card Crew #102 ~ Holiday Season

Thanks for stopping by x

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