Beth's Little Card Blog

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #186!

2012-01-28T09:00:00.000Z

Morning! Here we are at Saturday again and there's a brand new Penny Black Saturday challenge again! This week, we're thinking slightly ahead to those lovely spring days, Floral Frenzy!

This week we are sponsored by our lovely regular sponsor, Fantastic Ribbon! If you win, you can choose any 4 rolls of ribbon from their website!

Here's my card! I absolutely love this stamp!! But this card has been a slow and steady process all week finishing up last night! I've not really had much chance to sit down and make a whole card so one night I chose which image & sketch, the next I chose the papers and coloured in and last night I put it all together - complete with actual machine stitching!! My machine and I don't get along when it's paper I'm sewing so it's a little wonky in places, all adds to the 'handmade' effect! I've used a bit of 'Artistic license' with the sunflower by making it pink but I thought it sort of looked like the flowers in the background paper! Oh and also this sentiment is an Elzybells one! Thanks for stopping in and have a great weekend!

Challenges;
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
My Mums Craft shop - Flowers
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
ABC Challenge - H = Happy Birthday
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Gems

Pretty green butterflies!

2012-01-26T15:03:00.000Z

Hello! I hope you're all well! Here's a quick card I've made and I'm actually really pleased with it! These dies were part of what I spent my $20 Simon Says Stamp winnings on from the last Top Tip Tuesday challenge, (I also got the MFT star border and the MME Kraft pad - thanks guys!) so I thought it only right I should show them off on their new challenge, so this card is using their sketch. I'm loving negative die cutting at the moment - have I said that before?! ;-)
Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges:
Top Tip Tuesday - this sketch -->
Less is More - Hole or Aperture
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - You're a Gem
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Pippi Longsocks - so cute!!

2012-01-25T08:30:00.000Z

Good morning! Just skidding in with another late entry! Trouble is, I make a few cards at the weekend for various challenges, but without posting them all in one day then nothing for the week, it means I have to sneak them in before a new challenge is posted! But anyway, I am super-duper organised here making my lovely niece's 3rd birthday card a whole 10 months in advance!! I just bought this stamp and couldn't wait to use it so I thought I'd just get ahead, I may end up using the card for someone else and making another but for now it's hers! :-) I quite enjoyed taking the time to colour her in, I think that's why I'm enjoying using die cuts too as it means I'm not colouring on every card so when I do, I really linger over it and have fun! Enough of my theor-ising (is that a word?!) have a lovely day and thanks for visiting!

Here's the challenges -
The Sugar Bowl - this sketch -->
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Blue & pink
Papertake - Happy Highlights
Crazy 4 Challenges - Child's card

Geometric mens card!

2012-01-24T10:42:00.001Z

Morning! Mega quick post this morning to show a card I've made for a few challenges, I really like the shapes and layout on Jen's card, plus it's scraps box friendly so I kind of just copied it with different papers! I hope you like it, thanks for visiting!

Challenges:
Case Study - this card -->
ABC Challenge - H = Happy Birthday
Cute Card Thursday - Music & Dance
CAS-ual Fridays - Black & White only

Beau-Tea-ful day!

2012-01-23T15:06:00.000Z

Hello and Happy Monday! I've quickly popped on to show you this card I made at the weekend, I think I'm going to give it to Jamie's mum for her birthday at the weekend but I'm not sure it's 'her' so I may make another one! I'm loving my die-cuts at the moment, especially these cute MFT ones! I made the sentiment on my pc then printed onto Safmat film. I stuck the film over the whole panel instead of just cutting around the sentiment as I thought it would show, I'm glad I did as it gives the pink panel a lovely sheen! I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges;
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
Stamp with Fun - Cute Vintage
Colour Create - Pink, Green & optional extra Handmade flowers
Daring Cardmakers - Kitchen-alia
Winter Wonderland - Easel card

Wedding Cake!

2012-01-22T18:05:00.000Z

Hiya! I wanted to leave this post until the morning, mainly so I didn't have to use these awful photos! Haha! But I made it for the Shabby Tea Room challenge and it closes in about 5 hours so no time to wait! I sort of lost my way with the sketch, the text panel is now a cake and the Clean and Simple look has sort of gone! :-) I used up a few more scraps from the scraps box though which is good!
I made it using these new Wedding cake stamps I just bought. I ordered them from Craft Superstore at lunchtime on Friday (for £1.99 - bargain!) and they were here Saturday lunchtime! I love it when that happens!I was out last night though so making a card with them had to wait til today. I've made a few other bits and bobs so I'll show them in the week, thanks for visiting!

I thought this looked a bit like the flowers on the cakes in the photo

Here's the challenges;
Clean & Simple - this sketch -->
Papertake - Blooms & bling
Sparkles Challenge - New stash
The Secret Crafter - Food & Drink
Simply Create Too - Love is in the Air
The Shabby Tea Room - this photo (grey, lilac, peach, pink, lace & a metal embellishment) -->

Penny Black Saturday challenge #185!

2012-01-21T08:24:00.000Z

Good morning all! It's the weekend - yey! - and time again for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! Thanks to all who took part in our Anything Goes theme - it was definitely popular! This weeks theme should be too - Crafty Bargains! Show us what you bought in the sales, with your gift tokens or some cheeky freebies! There's this beautiful stamp to be won from Crimson Cloud!

Here's my card - yep I'm back to Christmas cards again! Mainly because I nabbed this cute stamp in the sale at The Glitter Pot - half price! And the paper was half price too - woo hoo! When I was colouring the image, the blue was quite similar to the paper, but as I kept going, and when it dried, they're nothing like!! Oops! Never mind 'ey?! Thanks for looking, have a great weekend - I hope you can join in with us!

Here's the Challenge list;
Simon Says Stamp - this sketch -->
Papertake - Bling, Bows, Blooms & Buttons (I've used Bling & Bows)
ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Valentine Birds!

2012-01-19T08:30:00.000Z

Hiya! I'm back again with another card, this time a really simple Valentines one using these sweet bird stamps, I'm sure this has been done before with them but I thought I'd give it a go! :-) Thanks for looking!

Challenges I'm entering;

Less is More - One Layer & Birds
Passion for Papertrey - Valentines
Paper Sundaes - Any challenge from the last year, I've picked Valentines (Challenge #54 from last January)

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #72!

2012-01-18T09:00:00.000Z

Hello! And welcome again to another Truly Scrumptious challenge! I can't believe we're up to challenge 72!?! This week was Bente's turn to choose a challenge and she's opted for Something Forgotten, dust off the boxes of craft stash at the back of your cupboards and see what's been left there!

We're sponsored by Whiff of Joy for this fortnights challenge and the winner will be able to choose a stamp!

Here's my card! I thought in honour of our sponsor this week, I would dig out a Whiff of Joy stamp, I've got so many lovely ones but, like everyone else I'm sure, older get buried beneath all the new, shiny ones! I'm glad I've brought this back to the surface though as it's a really handy one, although in this card I didn't want to colour the bottle green so now it looks like a bottle of ale chilling!! Whoops! I've glittered the bubbles and ice bucket plaque and added some glossy stuff to the ice cubes, not sure it shows! Thanks for looking, I hope you can join in with us!

And here's the other challenges this is for:
I {heart} 2 Stamp - this sketch -->
Whiff of Joy - Love is in the Air
Basic Grey Challenge - Something New (Memory Box border die)

Little Sleepy Head!

2012-01-17T08:30:00.000Z

Hello! I'm back again this morning to show you a little baby card I've made. I've made it a bit of a mission to use up more of my scraps and I thought this sketch was perfect for that. I've gone for another clean and simple style card to show off the cute image. I coloured the little hanging mobile in pastel colours (badly but never mind!) then I coloured some little clear gems to match it. Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a lovely day!

Here's the challenges:

Sweet Stop Sketch - this sketch -->

CAS-ual Fridays - Scallops

My Mums Craft shop - One for the Girls

Lili's Little Fairies - Fave LOTV stamp - well it's my favourite new one! ;-)

Have a Tweet Birthday!

2012-01-16T08:23:00.000Z

Hello! Monday morning is here again, boooo! On a good note though, today is mine and Jamie's 2nd weding aniversary! We had such a nice, lazy weekend in Rye, I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a quite and chilled weekend. The weather was perfect too, dry, sunny and crispy cold! We got back yesterday evening and I made this card for my brothers birthday - not til April, I'm organised for a change! But when I bought this stamp & die set, I really wanted to make his birthday card from it in a 'Twitter' style as he's always on it! Then this weeks Daring Cardmakers challenge is a Social Networking theme so I thought I'd go for it! I've left it fairly embellishment free as it's a men's card and I thought it would make the bird stand out more. I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by, I'm off to think up something special to cook for our anniversary dinner tonight!!

Here's the challenges list:
Daring Cardmakers - Miraculous Social Networks
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
Winter Wonderland - Birthday Wishes
ABC Challenge - H = Happy Birthday
Crazy 4 Challenges - Monochromatic Blues
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Monochromatic

Penny Black Saturday #184!

2012-01-14T09:57:00.001Z

Good morning! Yey it's the weekend!! And a lovely one for me as we're off to Rye for a night for our wedding anniversary, staying in a cosy inn with a big fireplace and some wine - bliss!
But before I head off, here's my card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, thanks sooo much to everyone who entered last week, it was so nice seeing how my card had inspired people in different ways! This weeks theme is nice and easy - Anything Goes! Simple!
This weeks prize is from our regular sponsor 1-2-3 Stitch with a $20 voucher to their online store!

Considering the easy theme, I really struggled with this card, I think I need to be told what to do a bit more! But then this stamp just arrived all by itself in the post (!) so I made a simple little card with it! I've selectively glittered some of the hearts and made one of them red to pop it out a little. Also, I keep seeing negative die cutting on cards and think it looks fab so I tried that too! I hope you like it! Have a great weekend!

Here's the challenges I'm entering:
Sweet Stampin Challenge - All that glitters
Papertake - Die cuts
Case Study - this card
Penny Black @ Allsorts - Love & Hearts

First 2012 Christmas card!

2012-01-11T09:53:00.000Z

Morning! As the title suggests, I'm back to Christmas cards again! With making so many until practically Christmas Day I find it hard to just stop! Haha! But this is a nice a simple one. Excuse the dark photos, I need to get brighter lights for my light box. Somebody recently asked where I got the silver thread from but I can't remember. It's on a big roll and is something I've always just had. If anyone knows of anything similar, I'd love to know as I'm running low on it, thanks!
Thanks for stopping by!

Here's the challenges;

Less is More - Predominantly Purple
CAS-ual Fridays - Chipboard
Paper Sundaes - Saturated Colours
ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Ever After!

2012-01-09T12:44:00.001Z

Hello! I hope you're all well and had a good weekend! Mine was very quiet, I was going to say saving money but that's not been the case as I've been lured in by all the online sales and new season craft stash and bought way too much - oops! One thing I bought was this beautiful MME Love Me paper pad, I'd seen it on a few blogs and had to have it so here's a card made with it! It's also using ..ahem.. a new stamp too! One thing I didn't buy though; you may remember a couple of posts back me saying Jamie had got me a few crafty bits for Christmas, well one of them was this We Are Memory Keepers Sew Easy tool, it's like a little wheel that punches stitch holes to either leave as the are or sew through without faffing with a sewing machine. I decided to sew on this card, it's maybe a little too 'homespun style' for this card and I think I need a bit more practise to keep the lines straight but I like it nonetheless! ! I hope you do too, have a great Monday!

I've paper pieced her dress and blinged up her engagement ring!

A close up of the little button, heart thingy!..

..and this cute banner, the sentiment comes with the image.

Here's the challenges it's for:
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
Cupcake Craft - Something New
Cute Card Thursday - What's new?
Allsorts - Paper Piecing
Crazy 4 Challenges - Something New
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Spots & dots

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #183!

2012-01-07T08:30:00.000Z

Good morning and welcome to the first Penny Black Saturday challenge of 2012! Thanks so much for all the entries into our Make a Tag challenge! The winner is posted over on the main blog!
This week, and indeed year, we thought we'd try out a new challenge; for the first Saturday of every month we'll be asking you to CASE one of our teamies fave cards, and, as 'B' is near the beginning, my card is first! Here's the card I've chosen from back in July 2010;

Not sure why, but I'm just particularly fond of it! Just feel free to interpret it as you wish! Colours, layout, image etc...

This week we have the lovely Ribbon Girl as our sponsor with this bundle of lovely ribbon-ness-

and this pretty stamp from Penny Black -

And here's my card! I didn't want to just make an exact copy but one of my fave things about this card was the layout so I decided to flip it over and make a bit more of a manly card but kept the doodling, elements and the sentiment the same. I also chopped off a bit of the stamp so it fitted on this card layout. It's a new years resolution to use up more of my scraps and although this used mostly new papers(!) the brown paper was at least scraps! I've had a bit of a re-jig of my craft space today and chucked out an obscene amount of packaging from embossing folder etc and made loads more room! I can't believe I was holding onto it! But at least it's all sorted now, and there's also space for my scraps so hopefully they'll be easier to use up! I keep meaning to give a little tour of my mini craft room so that might be coming up soon!

Have a great weekend, thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - What's New? (this pad - to me anyway!)

Papertake - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious #71!

2012-01-04T09:00:00.000Z

Good Morning! This post is for the first Truly Scrumptious challenge of 2012! We've had a little break for the last couple of months so hopefully you'll all be glad we're back and join us for this fortnights challenge! This time around was Anja's turn to pick a theme and she has chosen Shabby Pastels & Paint!
And our sponsor for this challenge is Bunny Zoe Crafts!

Here's my card! At first I struggled with the paint side of the challenge but when I read Shabby Pastels I imediately thought of a baby girl card - not sure why! But it gave me a chance to dig out some neglected stash and make this! I hope you like it, thanks for visiting!

The only paint I own apart from Dulux is a few pots of Twinkling H2o's, hopefully the shimmer shows up in this pic.

This tag came with the papers and the sentiment is an Elzybells one.

Here's the challenge list:

Sketch Saturday - this sketch -

The Shabby Tea Room - this photo inspiration & things with wings - hmm, might have to look closely for my little butterfly! Sorry about that!

Allsorts - New Beginnings

My Mums Craft shop - Something New

Sweet Stampin Challenge - New Beginnings

Papertake - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Something New

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

2 years already?! : )

2012-01-03T17:48:00.000Z

Hello again! What a hideous day!! I thought the house was going to blow over! And also it's my last day off, booo! I love my job but I hate routine!
Oh well, I'll stop whingeing and show you this card I've made for mine and Jamie's 2nd wedding anniversary on the 16th, it's gone sooo quickly! I made it for a few challenges but I feel I should credit this card by Jen del Muro, I saw it back in September and added it to my Pintrest board, then when I saw this weeks Case Study challenge, it reminded me of it so it's sort of an amalgamation of the 2! I really wanted to get the die set from Verve with the big U & I on it but the postage was almost the same as the dies!!So I just looked through my fonts til I found the right 'u', made it the size I wanted it, flipped it over so it faced the wrong way, then printed it onto the back of my card so when I cut around it, there was no lines showing where I'd cut! Much cheaper! ; )
I hope you like it, I ~~hope~~ think Jamie will! Thank for looking!

This one shows up the shimmery cardstock...

...and hopefully this one shows up the dimension - this is definitely not a 'postable' card!

Here's the challenge list:
Case Study - this card by Amy Sheffer
CAS-ual Fridays - Use kraft & twine
Less is More - One word
Papertake - Anything goes

Because I Care

2012-01-02T13:08:00.000Z

Hello! Well everything's back to normal again, half of me doesn't like new year as I just think it signals the end of the festive season and I Love Christmas! But I've still got a couple more days off so I've time to make a few cards!
This one is for this weeks MFT Wednesday Sketch, I always seem to be at the later end of the week! But it gave me a chance to use this cute little teapot die set! I thought it would make a nice get well card. I've also used this sweet little teacup brad, the colours are such a close match, I'm dead chuffed! But also wanted to use one of these brads as they were from Jamie for Christmas, he doesn't often venture into craft shops without being dragged there by me but he went to Hobbycraft on his own and picked up some really sweet little stocking gifts, and these were one of them!
I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

How cute is this little teabag shape?!!

A close up of the paper pieced teapot & brad.

Here's the challenges it's for-

My Favourite Things - this sketch
Paper Sundaes - Something Old & Something New (my new is the teapot dies & brad and the old is this Fiskars punch I've had for yonks!)
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
My Mums Craft shop - Anything Goes

Fave 5 of 2011!

2012-01-01T01:51:00.001Z

Hello and Happy New Year!!

I hope you've all had a lovely evening, whether it be painting the town red or snuggled asleep by 10:30! We were somewhere in the middle, scoffing an Indian takeaway and watching TV, but weren't the London fireworks amazing?!! Made me sort of want to go next year! :-)

I'm here with this post for Debby's Favourite 5 Cards of 2011 Challenge!

So here they are! Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back soon as I actually made a card today! First time in a couple of weeks! See ya! xx

from July

I love this cute Forever Friends stamp and I was pleased with how the dimension showed up on this card

from August

I mainly love this card as the sketch was fab, gorgeous papers and image and beautiful lace! Nothing to do with me!

also from August, my birthday actually!

I absolutely loved the card that I CASEd to make this so I think I was quite proud that I managed to like the card I made from it! I also this think Penny Black sunflower is stunning!

and another from August - must have been on a role!

This a fave purely from a self centred aspect! Beautiful image but I was quite proud of my colouring and was so grateful to receive a couple of 'Top 3' awards for it!

from September

Again, another CASE study card that I loved! I like letting go of the clean and simple fixation that I try and achieve and just layer and add to my hearts content! Also, this was my lovely husbands 30th birthday card from me! :-)

My Fave 5 Christmas cards of 2011!

2011-12-26T13:16:00.001Z

Good morning! And a very Happy Boxing Day to you all! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas Day yesterday! Mine was very chilled, lots of food, drink and laughs, just how I like it!

I thought I'd pop by to join in with Debby's Favourite Five Christmas cards of 2011 challenge! As I was looking through my cards I realised two things; 1 - I didn't really make that many Christmas cards this year but had lots left from last year that I gave out (despite all the new Christmas stash I bought to make them - oops!). And 2 - when I'm making cards I'm not really that happy with my clean and simple cards but when I come back to them, they seem to be my faves, weird huh?! Anyway, here they are, thanks for stopping by!

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #182!

2011-12-18T20:10:00.000Z

Hi, sorry this is so late! But welcome to my last Penny Black Saturday challenge card for 2011! Where has this year gone??! This weeks challenge will run until 8pm January 6th so loads of time to enter if you're a little bit busy at the moment! For this weeks challenge, we're thinking that you may have made and posted all your Christmas cards (although I still have a few hand delivered ones to make!) so this weeks challenge is to Make A Tag! (You could also pop a tag on the front of a card if you're still wading through them!)
This weeks prize is a bundle of Penny Black goodies from the Design Team!
Here's my tag, I thought I would make a tag for a wine bottle as these seem to be a pretty popular gift with my family and friends (and me FYI! ;-)). I wanted to use rub ons for the text but had ran out of 'e's! Then I thought of printing some, but all seemed a faff so I wrote them instead - so lazy! Also, excuse my colouring - got a bit splodgy here and there! Thanks for looking though and have a fab weekend!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter:
PaperPlay - Christmas
My Mums Craft shop - Cute & Funky Christmas
Paper Sundaes - Celebrate

Supplies:

Home Sweet Home!

2011-12-13T08:35:00.000Z

Good morning! Well this is early for me! I slept really badly with the wind howling through the windows so I thought I'd get up and make myself useful! I've made a card with this weeks My Favourite Things sketch using these gorgeous Homespun Birdhouse stamp & die set, I had such a nightmare getting hold of them, you'd have thought I'd have used them sooner! They're a dream to work with though and I've just ordered a few more as a little Christmas present to me! ;-) Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave!

(I'm pretty sure I've stuck that birdhouse on the wrong way - oops!)

Here's the challenges:
My Favourite Things - this sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge - Anything but Christmas
Crafty Pad - No Birthdays or Christmas

Supplies:

Poinsettias!

2011-12-12T12:43:00.001Z

Good morning! I'm back briefly with another Christmas card - I don't have many more to make now which is good! I'm not too sure about this one though. I made the base of the card, then added all but the Poisettias and got stuck as to what to add next! Then I got so sick of staring at it that I just plonked these 2 flowers on! I've made it for this weeks Case Study challenge, I cased the layout, the double ribbons and the poinsettia. I hope you like it!

Here's the challenges:
Case Study - this card
Simon Says Stamp - Photo inspiration - although not sure it shows anymore ;-)
My Mums Craft shop - Traditional Christmas
Basic Grey Challenge - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Christmas

Supplies:

Penny Black Saturday 181!

2011-12-11T01:08:00.001Z

Hello, sorry this is so late, work gets pretty manic for me at this time of year - not that I'm complaining!! ;) But better late than never for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, and this week Domi has designed a great sketch for us to use! Here is it, I've flipped it upside down for my card.

Our fab sponsors for this week are 1-2-3 Stitch with a $20 voucher to their online store!
I hope you're having a lovely weekend and the Christmas shopping crowds have been kind to you!!

Here's the challenges I'm entering into: (sorry there's so many - couldn't resist!)
Allsorts - 2 colours + white
The Shabby Tea Room - Pink, Gold, White, Snowflakes & Flowers
Papertake - Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge - Y = Yippee it's Christmas!
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Things with Wings
Oldie but a Goodie - Christmas, no red or green
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland - Let it Snow
Totally Gorjuss - Let it Snow
Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas

Supplies:

Simple Snow Scene!

2011-12-09T13:47:00.001Z

Hi again! I did get a bit more time to make another card last night after all, although this one only took about 20 mins (now I look at it I'm not sure why it even took that long - probably just me faffing!) I bought this die almost as soon as I saw it in shops but it's taken me til now to use it, I think because the other cards I've seen made with it are amazing and it daunted me a bit - weird huh?! But anyway, here it is, I hope you like it!

Here's the challenges I'm entering:
Winter Wonderland - Let it Snow!
Less is More - Green
ABC Christmas Challenge - Y = Yippee it's Christmas!
Creative Inspirations - Snow
Top Tip Tuesday - Snow

Supplies:

Papertrey Christmas Tags!

2011-12-08T19:48:00.001Z

Hello! What a hideous day we're having! Hopefully all the people in the north reading this are tucked up snug indoors!
I'm here to share a little christmas card I've made - another one! It's using the cute little Tiny Tags set from Papertrey, I thought I would use lots of the different shapes with it. I haven't linked to all of the words as they're from 6 different stamps set and I thought it would be a bit tedious making a note of them! If you're curious to know about one, just let me know in the comments and I'll find out for you. Also, I'm not sure where the glitter paper was from, Create & Craft maybe...?
I might be back tomorrow with a card, if not I'll be back at the weekend, bye for now! xx

Here's the challenge list:
Passion for Papertrey - Red & White Christmas
Paper Sundaes - Sundae Bar (I've used red & die cuts)
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Bingo (bottom line - Punch, tags & Ribbon)
Papertake - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Supplies:

30th Bubbles!

2011-12-07T18:27:00.001Z

Evening! Just flying by to post this little card I've made! I love this stamp so expect to see more of her from me! It's for my friend's 30th on the 17th! Thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges:

Mojo Monday - this sketch

New blog Runway Inspired- (2nd photo)

Cute Card Thursday - It's just a number

Papertake - Anything Goes

Supplies:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #180!

2011-12-03T18:42:00.000Z

Afternoon all! I hope you've had a nice Saturday! I've spent most of it moaping and sneezing feeling sorry for myself! Haha! Hence the lateness of this post! It's for another Penny Black Saturday challenge, this week the theme is Total White Out! Everything apart from your image should be white (ish!)
This week there are our 2 regular sponsors giving away the prizes, Penny Black Inc with the cutest stamp - I've not seen it before and wish I could enter for this one! And The Ribbon Girl with some beautiful Cotton & Cluny Lace.

Here's my (very sparkly but doesn't show) card! I'm not getting on too well with the new light box, I think my lights are too dim, but anyhoo, I hope you like it!

Here's the challenges I'm entering this into:
Mojo Monday - this sketch
The Shabby Tea Room - white, neutral, silver & glitter
Oldie but a Goodie - Christmas no red or green
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Snow
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge - X = Xerox a card (I've used the single colour scheme and silver embossed PB Tree stamp of Samantha's card from this post)
ABC Challenge - E = Embossing

Papertrey Snowflake

2011-11-28T08:54:00.001Z

Good morning! I hope you've had a lovely weekend! We went to my neice's 2nd birthday party yesterday, it was really fun, she's so sweet! I've just popped on to show a simple little christmas card I've made. It's using some of my new Papertrey goodies! I hope you like it, have a great monday - if there is such a thing!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter this into:
Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (the new stash is this stamp and sentiment)
Papertake - Christmas
Passion for Papertrey - Christmas
Creative Inspirations - White, blue & grey (I've used silver, hopefully still ok)
Crazy 4 Challenges - Snow
The Ribbon Girl - Christmas
Paper Sundaes - Winter Wonderland
Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle

Penny Black Saturday #179!

2011-11-26T09:30:00.000Z

Good morning! It's saturday morning - yey! Which means another Penny Black Saturday challenge! I can't believe how quickly this month of Christmas challenges has gone, I hope you've all enjoyed them and now we're all hopefully at least 4 cards closer to being organised! This weeks challenge is to make a Christmas card with both Red & Embossing (wet or dry is fine). I didn't realise until I'd finished that I've ended up going for wet and dry embossing - show off! I've used this new (to me anyway!) embossing folder - I love it! And it may be featuring on a few last minute christmas cards of mine!
This week, the lovely Fantastic Ribbons are giving away 4 rolls of ribbon to one lucky winner!
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a lovely weekend! BTW this photo wasn't taken in my new light box - I'm yet to test it out - lask of decent lights and all that! :-)

Papertake - Christmas Crackers!
Oldie but a Goodie - Let it Snow
The Ribbon Girl - Christmas
Less is More - a bit of Bling
Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle

For my Mum & Dads Anniversary & WOYWW!

2011-11-23T12:11:00.001Z

Good morning! What a lovely sunny day! In my last post I mentioned I'd been meaning to make a light box to take some piccys of my cards in, so I decided to get on with it! It's quite a pretty one actually as is used to be one of those storage boxes from Ikea but the bottom fell out of it so it was headed for the bin. Then I found this tutorial, it's brilliant as it's collapsible so doesn't take up any space.The only difference I made was to use baking paper as I didn't have any tissue paper, I'll change it if it turns out not to work very well. So as that's what's covering my desk I thought I would share with the lovely peeps on WOYWW! Also, it's a little peek at my new craft desk! I'll pop up some proper pics another time! :-)

Second up is a card I've made for my mum and dad's wedding anniversary (33 years - wowzers!) It was the other day though so this photo wasn't from the new box! ;-) The image is a retired Stampin' Up! one so I don't have a link I'm afraid. I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter into:
Totally Gorjuss - Swirly Whirly
The Ribbon Girl - Pink & White
Colour Create - Pink, White & Gold

Bethlehem

2011-11-21T15:46:00.001Z

Hello! I just thought I'd pop on and show you a quick Christmas card I made for a few challenges, the photo is dreadful again but not a lot I can do about it today, my camera is rubbish and the sun hasn't bothered to get up! ;-) The maroon looks just like brown and the sparkly black looks a bit flat, if I get some better light or get my backside round to making a light box, I'll take a better one! I hope you like it!

It's for these challenges:
Case Study - this card (1st photo)
Play Date Cafe - these colours (2nd photo)
ABC Challenge - D = Dazzle

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #178!

2011-11-19T17:55:00.001Z

Afternoon! I hope you're having a nice relaxing saturday! We have, my craft room is all set up now so I've been making this card in it! It's a bit late as it took me ages to get everything sorted and put away, I've never had a desk before, just used to spread everything out in the floor so it's lovely! Pics to follow! It's been a nice end to a week that could have been awful; we let Poppy out for the first time on wednesday morning. She's not really an outdoorsy cat so we thought she'd only be gone half an hour as she doesn't know the area. Hours later and still no sign, so we had a sleepless night and hoped she'd turn up in the morning - nothing! We felt sick all day on thursday so Jamie printed off some flyers with her photo and our details on it and thursday night we went around the area posting them through doors. We'd been back 15 mins and she just strolled up to the front door meowing!! We're so relieved!! She was probably shut in a garage or something. She's got a scratch on her nose but is otherwise fine! :-)
But anyway, this post is for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, we're onto week 3 of our month of Christmas challenges, this week is Green + Trees! And to spur you on there's 2 cute stamps to be won, one from Penny Black Inc and one from Carole!
Here's my card, I hope you like it! Excuse the awful photo!

Here's the challenges it's for:
Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (this pad has been in storage for 7 months so is very neglected!)
Cards for Men - Christmas card
Top Tip Tuesday - Tags
Winter Wonderland - Aww what a Cutie!

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #177!

2011-11-12T11:19:00.001Z

Good morning! I hope you've had a good week, we've been decorating my new craft room - soooo exciting! This is just a quick post to let you know there's a brand new challenge over on the Penny Black Saturday challenge blog. We're continuing with our month of festive themes, this week it's Gold + Presents! I didn't realise how many PBs had presents in them but all of the DT have managed to use a different one!
This week we are sponsored by 1-2-3 Stitch who are offering a $20 voucher to their store!
Here's my card - it's quite a diddy one at only 8x12 cms - perfect for all the miniature stamps!
Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter this into:
Clean & Simple - this sketch
CAS-ual Fridays - Include a tag
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Mouse
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas

A card for the F-I-L!

2011-11-06T15:28:00.000Z

Hello again! Wow, 4 posts in as many days! I've just popped on to show a card I made for Jamie's dads birthday this week using some yummy Waltzing Mouse stamps and some equally delish Basic Grey - Ambrosia papers, I think he liked it! Thanks for looking, I hope you're having a nice relaxing Sunday!

Here's the challenge list:
Mojo Monday - this sketch
Basic Grey Challenge - Anything Goes
Cupcake Craft - Leaves

Penny Black Saturday #176!

2011-11-05T10:14:00.000Z

Good morning! I hope you're all well! It's time for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge and today is the first of a month of Christmas challenges. To kick things off, the theme this week is Silver and Snowflakes/Snow. It doesn't need to be totally silver, just prominent.
We're sponsored this week by 2 fab companies: The Ribbon Girl with a gorgeous bundle of ribbons and Penny Black Inc with 2 fantastic stamps!
Here's my card using a new Christmas stamp I bought, I thought it would be great for winter birthdays too. The pink snowy paper is a digi one printed onto shimmery paper, and the grey card is the same so looks quite silvery, I hope it shows in the last picture.
Thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!

Here's the challenges I'm entering this into:
Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (this stamp is a newbie!)
Stamp with Fun - Buttons
Papertake - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons
PaperPlay - Button Up

A Star is Born!

2011-11-04T12:00:00.001Z

Hello! I've just popped on to show a super duper quick card that I made, it's a baby card but I wanted it to be a little bit funkier than most baby cards! I hope you like it!

It's for these challenges:

Case Study - this gorgeous card by Kryssi Ng (I've cased the top fold card, the negative die cut frame and the layout)

Less is More - Stars

Papertake - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #69!

2011-11-03T10:31:00.001Z

Good morning! I hope you're all well! Another fortnight has been and gone and it's time for another Truly Scrumptious challenge. It was meant to be yesterday but it's not been put up yet, not too sure why but I'm sure it'll be here soon. This time was Mandy's turn to pick, and she's come up with a game of Bingo! Daubers out, here's your playing card:

Just choose a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row and include all those elements on your card! I've chosen the bottom row of Glitter, Punches/die cuts & Ribbon.

This week we are sponsored by Crafty Individuals.

Here's my card. Ive got stuck in a real rut of trying to make quite clean and simple cards so I thought I would force myself to choose a fussier sketch. I really stuggled and its not even that fussy! Oh well, I'm pleased with how it came out!

How beautiful is this deer cutout?! I have Tracy @ Dies To Die For to thank for this as it was in a gorgeous selection of die cuts popped in with my order - I love it!

Another love is this cute little tag! I recently teamed up with Mandi on a Papertrey order to try and spread some of the postage cost (still got stung with customs charges but never mind!) and this was one of the sets I ordered, its sooo cute!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter this for:

Sketch Saturday - this sketch

Creative Inspiration - Lashings of Sparkle

Papertake - Anything Goes (plus Bling!)

Thanks for looking!

Penny Black Saturday #175!

2011-10-31T09:44:00.002Z

Good morning! Sorry this is much later than planned - and sorry for sounding like a broken record apologising for being late all the time! But I'm back with a card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, and this week it's this fab sketch from Nat:-

It's so interesting to see how differently everyone interprets a sketch, for example the flowers have become gems on my card, snowflakes on others! The DT's cards are gorgeous, definitely worth a look! And this week we are sponsored by Fantastic Ribbons who are offering 4 rolls of their lovely ribbons to one random entry.

Here's my card, I love this big sunflower stamp! And that's why I decided to lay off the flowers around the edge - overkill maybe! Here's the other challenges it's for:

Case Study - this beautiful card (I've cased the stitched and inked edges, flower focal point and scalloped circle & matching border combo!)
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Anything Goes

Penny Black Saturday #174!

2011-10-22T19:03:00.000+01:00

Hello! I hope this finds you well! It's time again for the Penny Black Saturday challenge! Thanks for all your fab On The Move entries! This week is another great theme, Too Cute to Spook! Penny Black do loads of fabulous Halloween images to hopefully it shouldn't be a tricky one! Plus, this week there's a sweet little Halloween Hedgie stamp up for grabs!
This theme gave me a great excuse to (buy) and use these gorgeous little Mimi stamps! My little niece Lulu is having a Halloween party for her little friends on Friday so I thought I'd make this card for her, and as she's only 2 I didn't want it to be too scary so this little fancy dress Mimi is perfect I thought!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter it into:

I {heart} 2 Stamp - this sketch

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Halloween

Allsorts - Halloween

PaperPlay - Use Black

Paper Sundaes - Halloween/Autumn

Papertake - Spooky Hues

ABC Challenge - B = Boo

Cat's Corner - Halloween

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #68!

2011-10-20T22:02:00.000+01:00

Eveing all! Sorry this post is so late but I've been moving house all week. Almost everything is up together now (downstairs anyway!) But there's another challenge up over at the Truly Scrumptious challenge. This fortnight is was Lisbeth's turn to choose a theme and she opted for Shaker cards/boxes. This is not something that came easily, and I'm not a big fan of the crad I made either - although that's more down to how garish the red around the frame looks!! Not sure why that is! But anyway, there's a fab prize of 3 digi stamps from Sketching Stamper to be won by one ~~brave~~ lucky crafter!!

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter into:

Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (everything on this card is sorely neglected and the stamp has never seen ink!!)
ABC Christmas Challenge - U = Unused stash (see above!!)
Top Tip Tuesday - Layers

Thanks for dropping by! xx

Happy Blog-day to me..!

2011-10-15T17:25:00.002+01:00

Ooh I've just recived a comment from this lady saying 'Happy Blogoversary', I thought 'is it?'! So I checked and yes, today is this little blog's 4th Birthday! Wowzers! It's flown by! Thanks to all who have popped over here or left a comment in the last 4 years!

Penny Black Saturday #173!

2011-10-15T08:52:00.000+01:00

Good morning! Sorry for the absence but I've been a busy (and poorly) little bee! Work was mad, then I got a ridiculously bad cold (almost bordering on man flu seriousness!) which wiped out my time and mojo and now I'm in the process of moving house! Lucky for me as this weeks challenge on Penny Black Saturday is On The Move (a total coincidence!), so we'd like to see house move related cards or featuring moving things (cars, bikes etc). This week we are sponsored by the lovely Carole who has put a gorgeous stamp up for grabs.
I decided to make some little new address cards as I'm going to need to send them anyway! They're fairly self-explanatory! I hope you like them, thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Images - Penny Black 'Critter Party' & 'Bubbly' clear sets

Colouring - Copics

Paper - Jillibean Soup

Card blanks - Hobbycraft

Sentiment - made on the pc & printed onto Safmat film

Other - Square Nestabilities

BBQ card

2011-10-03T20:29:00.000+01:00

Hello! Just a quickie from me! I hope you've all been enjoying this lovely sunshine in the UK! I've got quite an apt card to share today, it's a mens card so it's fairly simple. I hope you like it!
Challenge list:

Papertake - this sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Sir Stampalot Challenge - Food Glorious Food
Paper Sundaes - Lots of layers
ABC Challenge - A = Anything Goes

Supplies-

Image - 'Grillin' Joe' by High Hopes
Colouring - Copics
Papers - Basic Grey 'Offbeat'
Sentiment - Personal Impressions & a Stampin' Up oval punch
Pearls - stash
Other - Nestabilities Labels One

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #171!

2011-10-01T09:28:00.000+01:00

Good morning! Another week has been and gone and it's time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! Thanks for all the entries into last weeks Monochromatic challenge - gorgeous cards! This weeks theme is Down on the Farm! Penny Black have zillions of stamps featuring cow, pigs, chickens etc so hopefully it won't be too tricky a challenge! This week we have 2 prizes; a festive stamp from Penny Black Inc and a gorgeous ribbon bundle from The Ribbon Girl!
I've decided to go festive with my card as I don't think I've used this stamp before but I think it's really cute! It's with some digi papers and some seam binding which I love but I haven't matched the colours very well! :-P I hope you like it, have a fab weekend!

Here's the challenges:

Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (neglected stash is this stamp, no new stuff I'm afraid!)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Animal Crackers

The Ribbon Girl - Christmas card

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black '12 Days of Christmas' clear set

Colouring - Copics & 'Broken China' Distress Ink

Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Fairy Lights' collection

Sentiment - made on the PC & a Stampin' Up oval punch

Seam binding - The Ribbon Girl

Gems - stash

Other - plain & lacy square Nestabilities

Snowy Polar Bears!

2011-09-30T16:35:00.000+01:00

Afternoon all! Isn't it gorgeous today?! I can barely believe it! I'd almost consigned my summer clothes to the loft! Ironic then that I've decided to make a christmas card complete with snow!?! It's for this weeks Less is More challenge amongst others, here they are:

Less is More - this sketch

Allsorts - Keep it simple
Cupcake Craft - Bears (technically not a teddy bear but so cute so hopefully it's ok!)

Cute Card Thursday - Animal Crackers

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Thanks for looking, I'll be back in the morning with my Penny Black Saturday card xx

Supplies-

Image - Lili of the Valley

Colouring - Copics & Stickles

Sentiment & banner - Waltzing Mouse

Snowflake - Cuttlebug die

Gems - PaperMania

Waltzing Mouse sketch #66 & others!

2011-09-27T13:08:00.000+01:00

Hello again! I'm back to share another of the cards I made over the weekend. It's a little christmas one using this weeks Waltzingmouse Sketch. I'm not too sure about it (my card that is!) I wish I owned more of the stamps so I could attempt to make cards as gorgeous as the DTs, but I have to be boring and save my money for the new house (although I'd be moaning if I'd spent it all on stamps and couldn't get the Laura Ashley furniture I've got my eye on!)
It's using the MME papers and chipboards that came free with this months Card Making and Papercraft magazine, I've got the full size but it's in storage!! Arrghh!!!
Anyway, here's the challenges, bye for now!

Waltzingmouse Sketches - this sketch

The Ribbon Girl - Christmas card

Simon Says Stamp - Punches & die cuts

Totally Stampalicious - It's got Wings
Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Birds of a Feather

Supplies-

Frame & sentiment - Waltzing Mouse
Papers & robin - MME 'Snowed In'
Ribbon - stash
Holly - Elzybells stamp
Glitter - Stickles
Other - Nestabilities 'Circles' & 'Labels 14'

Purple haired witch!

2011-09-25T19:01:00.004+01:00

Evening all! I hope you're enjoying a relaxing sunday. I've had a proper card making sesh as Jamie's been at work today. Here's one of the cards I've made. It's for Halloween, one of my fave kind of cards to make! Here's the challenge list, thanks for looking!

Sketch Saturday - this sketch

Cupcake Craft - Black & Purple

Simon Says Stamp - Die cuts & punches

Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween/Autumn

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Anything Goes

Supplies-

Image - The Greeting Farm 'Spooktacular' digi set

Colouring - Copics & 'Dusty Concord' Distress Ink

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Border - Fiskars 'Sunburst' punch

Sentiment - made in the PC & a Kars punch

Swirl - Waltzing Mouse

Gems - PaperMania

Other - Circle Nestabilities

Penny Black Saturday #170!

2011-09-24T16:08:00.000+01:00

Hello! Sorry this is later than planned but I've had a manic week and only got time to sit down and make a card today! But it's a card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, this weeks theme is to use a Monochromatic colour scheme, and I think pretty much all of the DT have used different colours!
This weeks prize is from the lovely people at Fantastic Ribbons!
Here's my card, it's a pretty simple one because I'm making some samples for some baby announcement/thank you cards (hi Susannah if you're reading!!) I thought the sentiment could be changed and a photo in place of the stamp but wanted to keep it simple if I'm going to be making quite a few. Anyway, thanks for looking! Here's the challenges I'd like to enter this for:

Sweet Stop Sketch - This sketch

Sweet Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft shop - Boys or Girls card

Simon Says Stamp - Die cuts or punches

Papertake - Creature Comforts
Oldie but a Goodie - One for the Boys
Top Tip Tuesday - Card for a child

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black 'Baby Hammock'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Gems & ribbon - stash

Stars - Dovecraft & Woodware punches

Sentiment - Elzybells & Stampin' Up oval punch

Truly Scrumptious #66!

2011-09-21T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good morning! Welcome to another Truly Scrumptious challenge! I can't believe 2 weeks have flown by already! This time the theme was mine to choose, and I've gone for Clean & Simple - then my mind went blank! But I decided to make a fun little Halloween card, they're the only kind of card that I make just for fun - and I love them! I've made it from more digi bits, even though I should probably be using up some of the tonnes of stash I own! I'm not happy with how they've printed though, they don't normally do this so I'm not sure if it's the program I used or my printer, grrr!

These are the other challenges I'd like to enter this card:

Clean & Simple - this sketch

Crazy 4 Challenges - Pumpkins

Totally Gorjuss - Anything but square

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

Image & papers - Pink Petticoat 'Spookie Doodlies' & 'Woodgrain' in Tangerine

Ribbon - from a bag of meringues!!

Sentiment - Personal Impressions

Pearls - Kanban

A digi thank you!

2011-09-20T12:44:00.001+01:00

Hello all! I hope you're having a good tuesday - whatever that may be! I've just popped on to show you a little thank you card I've made. It's a bit of a 'CASE' card as I always love the cards Lucy Abrams makes so I thought I'd take a leaf out of her book and play with the many (many...many) digi bits and bobs I've collected over the years! This flower is a digi from Rhonna Farrer @ Two Peas in a Bucket but I think it must be retired as I can't find it anymore. And it's paper pieced onto papers from my joint fave designer Zoe Pearn (along with Pink Petticoat!) Here's the challenge list:
PaperPlay - Punches & dies
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Alter/Recycle (the ribbon is from a box of chocolates)
Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes

Thank for looking!

Supplies-

Image - Rhonna Farrer digi stamp

Papers & tag - 'Delightful' by Zoe Pearn

Pearls & ribbon - Stash

Border - X-cut scallop punch

Sentiment - made on the PC

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #169!

2011-09-17T09:13:00.000+01:00

Good morning all, I hope you've had a great week! Jamie had a fab 30th Birthday, lots of celebrations then we're off to Scotland in a few weeks to have a proper knees up!

It's time again for another Penny Black Saturday challenge, this weeks theme is Friendship! How lovely! And there's a very appropriate stamp up for grabs this week from our fab ex teamie Carole, (where is she? We miss her!) Anyway, here's my card using this cheeky bunnies stamp - actually called Bunny Friends! - I couldn't resist using the carrots paper! I hope you like it, thanks for dropping in!

Here's the challenge list:

Sketch and Stash Challenge - Any sketch (I've chosen this one, sketch 6 flipped, and there's no new stash on this card but this stamp is pretty neglected and I'm sure I've never used this sentiment!)

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

PaperPlay - Punches/dies

Totally Gorjuss - Not square

Creative Inspirations - Anything goes

Papertake - Things with Wings (the little butterfly!)

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black 'Bunny Friends'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Cosmo Cricket 'Garden Variety'

Butterfly - EK Success punch

Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch

Gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Cat Studio

Look away Jamie! ;-)

2011-09-14T12:04:00.000+01:00

Good evening! I know it's late but I really wanted to post this card I've made for this weeks Case Study challenge which finishes soon, coincidentally it's also Jamie's birthday card so while he was watching Sky Sports or some rubbish, I put this together, and it's using some of my 'best stash', IE the bits you'd normally just gaze at! On this card it's this sparkly metal frame and this cute little corkscrew charm that I only have the one of so would usually leave it in the jar!! I'm pretty pleased with how it's come out though so hopefully he likes it! Thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges:

Case Study - this card from Julie Lacey

The Shabby Tea Room - Boys will be boys & photo inspiration (I've taken the colour scheme, silver accents and numbers from the photo)

Cute Card Thursday - In the Office (string coloured with a red Copic

Top Tip Tuesday - Birthday
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Men's card

Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes

Basic Grey Challenge - Celebrations (bit cheeky but the red paper is from the Bittersweet pad)

Cards for Men - Anything but square
Stamp Something - Anything Goes

Supplies-

Stamped frame - Waltzing Mouse 'Holiday labels 14' & Distress Ink 'Aged Mahogany'

Sentiment & text paper - Pink Petticoat 'Big Fella'

Red paper - Basic Grey 'Bittersweet'

Frame & brads - Making Memories

String, charm, twill & gems - stash

Numbers - Hobbycraft

Embossing - Cuttlebug folder

Penny Black Saturday challenge #166!

2011-09-11T14:55:00.000+01:00

**Oops, I worte this yesterday morning and left it in draft by mistake but I'm too tired to change what I'd written so bear with me!**
Good morning all and welcome to the weekend and another Penny Black Saturday Challenge! This weeks theme is 'Delicious' and there's a feast of yummy cakes and chocolates on display from the DT, I think I'm going to find it hard not to snack whilst I'm browsing the entries this week!!
This weeks prize is a $20 voucher to spend at 1-2-3 Stitch!
Here's my card, I realised that I don't really have any foodie PBs, I may have to rectify that! ;)

Here's the challenges I'd like to enter this into:

I {heart} 2 Stamp - this sketch

Stamp Something - Anything Goes

Papertake - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft shop - Layer It Up

I hope you have a lovely weekend. We're hosting a BBQ for about 25 people today for Jamie's 30th birthday so I'd better get going! If I remember I'll try and post a pic of the cake I've made! See ya! xx

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black 'Critter Party'

Colouring - Copics and stranded glitter*

Papers - My Minds Eye 'Lime Twist - Happy Go Lucky'

Sentiment - Elzybells

Gems - Hobbycraft

Other - oval Nestabilities

*my mum got me some lovely crafty bits for my birthday including a set of 24 of these stranded glitters, they're gorgeous and she got them plus some funky gems from a shop selling Nail Art bits! Good tip huh?!

Truly Scrumptious #65!

2011-09-07T09:56:00.003+01:00

Morning, me again! I'm back as its time for another Truly Scrumptious challenge! This fortnights theme is to Decorate the Inside of your Card! Hmm, doesn't seem so tricky, except I'm rubbish at this challenge for some reason so I've kept it pretty simple! I enjoyed making the front of the card though! I went to the Make It craft show ages ago and saw people demonstrating with these stencils, I loved it and had to have it, and as all my Christmas stuff is still in storage til we move, (if ever!!) I thought I'd use it to get on with some festive cards! I hope you like it!

Here's the challenge list:

Totally Gorjuss - this sketch

Papertake - Anything Goes

Oldie but a Goodie - Christmas in September (not sure if I'm allowed this as it's not a stamp but I've had the stencil more than 6 months)

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles - Ric rac, lace or fabric

Supplies-
Image - Dreamweaver 'Bare Trees' stencil & embossing paste then covered in Glamour Dust glitter

Ric rac - stash

Gems - Hobbycraft

Sentiment - made on the PC

Quick 30th card

2011-09-06T16:00:00.001+01:00

Afternoon all! I've just popped by to show a card I've made for a friends birthday. We're all from the same year at school (albeit different schools) and we all turn 30 this year! Agghh!! It's a men's card, hence the simple design and its for these challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays - Red, white, black & book cover inspiration --->
Papertake - Anything Goes
Less is More - Metallic

Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Numbers -Pink Petticoat templates onto silver mirror card

Embossing - 'Swiss Dots' & 'Happy Birthday' Cuttlebug folders

Brads & ribbon - stash

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #167!

2011-09-03T10:24:00.002+01:00

Good morning all! I hope you've had a lovely week! Mine's been pretty frustrating, we're waiting to exchange on a house (and have been for 6 months) and it's been put back again! Arrggghhh!! Oh well, not much my moaning can do about it and at least the sun is shining! :-)
It's saturday so time again for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, this week it's Make A Scene! You can use other Penny Blacks to make them little friends or backgrounds or even do a bit of doodling like me! I drew out the little fireplace in pencil first, added my Penny Black little animals then went over in pen and coloured in, I hope you like it! All entries will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 2 prizes, a fab stamp from Penny Black Inc or a gorgeous green ribbon bundle from The Ribbon Girl.
It's for these challenges:
My Mums Craft shop - 1-2-3 (I've used 1 charm, 2 ribbons and 3 stamps)
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Sweet Stamping Challenge - Anything but Birthdays
Penny Black @ Allsorts - Get ahead for Christmas
Crafters Companion - Christmas Wishes
Thanks for looking, have a great weekend! xx

Supplies-

Images - my doodling & Penny Black 'Christmas Critters' & 'Holly Jolly'

Colouring - Copics & Stickles

Paper - Dovecraft 'Christmas Fancy'

Sentiment - PC

Ink - Distress Ink 'Old Paper'

Charm - Bunny Zoe Crafts

Ribbon & gems - Hobby Craft

Holly - Quickutz die

Other - Nestabilities Lables 1? 8? not sure!

Penny Black Saturday #166!

2011-08-27T08:30:00.004+01:00

Good morning! I hope you've all had a good week and are now enjoying the long Bank Holiday weekend (if you're in the UK that is). We're up in Sheffield staying with my father in law which should be fun!
It's time again for another Penny Black Saturday challenge, and unforunately we're saying bye to our teamie Ali this week :-( she's a bit snowed under with other DT stuff so we wish her well!
Onto the challange for this week, Nat has designed a sketch for us to use;

And there's 4 rolls of ribbon to be won from Fantastic Ribbons!
Here's my card, I don't know what happened with my colouring on this one, I'll blame it on the lighting! Thanks for looking!
Here's the challenges it's for:
Cat's Corner - No Cats!
Case Study - Signiture Style (lots of doodling , simple layering & bright colours)
Totally Gorjuss - As you like it
Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Papertake - Die Cuts

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black 'A Gift for You'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Echo Park 'Spring Time'

Flowers - EK Success punches

Gems - stash

Sentiment - Paula Pascual

Ribbons - stash

Other - Circle Nestabilities

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #64!

2011-08-24T21:39:00.000+01:00

Hello! I hope you're all having a lovely week so far! I'm a bit busier than last week so I'm not managing to post or make cards as much :-( Other than that it's ok! I'm back for this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge, the theme is Rocked Up Pink! And we're aptly sponsored by Digi's with Attitude!
Here's my card, I wanted to go down the 'rocked up' route so who else other than a Kenny K image! Mixed with some digi papers and voila!

Here's the challenges:
Sketch Saturday - this sketch
Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Papertake - Die Cuts
Stamp with Fun - Summer
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - Layers
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you can join us!

Supplies-

Image - Kenny K 'Troublemaker'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Summer Driggs 'So this is Love'

Ribbons - stash

Stars - Woodware punches

Sentiment - Daisy Bucket

Gems - birthday stash!

Penny Black Saturday #165!

2011-08-20T17:50:00.002+01:00

Hello! It's the weekend again and a fun one for me as its my birthday today! Jamie has to work which is a shame but we went out for a lovely day yesterday, first up Zorbing!! Ha ha! It was so fun! Then a look around Dorchester and Poole then a fish and chip dinner in Bournemouth, it was great!
But anyway, its time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! This weeks theme is Shabby Chic, one if my faves to look at although I'm not sure I always nail it!
This weeks prize is a really sweet stamp from our former teamie Carole!
Here's my card and I'm not going to take any credit for the design but when I discovered the Case Study challenge back in May, I saw this challenge and have wanted to design a similar card ever since. I'm also really inspired by Chupas cards who's on the DT, for her beautiful coloring of flowers and how she makes them a focus on her cards, I'm not a massive fan if using paper flowers on my cards so I love the stamped & coloured ones! So would you believe it, this weeks Case Study challenge is to case one of Chupas cards! So here it is, I hope you like it, have a fab weekend!
Challenges;
Case Study - Case one of Chupa's cards - I've chosen this one
The Shabby Tea Room - Polka Dots
Paper Sundaes - Just saying Hi
Papertake - Bingo (lace, ribbon & free)
My Mums Craft shop - Summer
Creative Inspirations - Favourite Stamp

Supplies-

Image - Penny Black 'Sundial'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Pearls, ribbon, lace & doily - stash

Sentiment - Paula Pascual

Tag - Kars punch

Thank Yoooou!

2011-08-17T17:16:00.001+01:00

Afternoon! Urgghh, what a horrible day! More of an excuse to stay in and make things! I'm back again with another card, this time a summery one using this cute Greeting Farm stamp.

Here's where I'm entering it -
I {heart} 2 Stamp - this sketch
Basic Grey Challenge - Sizzling Summer
Stamp Something - Dogs or Summer
Daring Cardmakers - So Kawaii
Top Tip Tuesday - Thank You
Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies-

Image - The Greeting Farm 'Forest Friends'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Basic Grey 'Lemonade'

Ribbon - stash

Leaves stamp - Personal Impressions

sentiment - handwritten

Winter Wonderland

2011-08-16T14:49:00.000+01:00

Afternoon all! Just a quickie post to show you this card. I hope it shows up as it's virtually impossible to get a good photo of the white on white style cards - especially with my camera! I've embossed above and below the image and added some flower soft under foot and some Stickles around the edges.
Here's the challenges -
Simon Says Stamp - All White
Winter Wonderland - Light it up
Oldie but a Goodie - The Great Outdoors (well...they're decorating the tree outside...!)
The Ribbon Girl - Use a ribbon

Papertake - Bingo (Pearls, Ribbon & Free - Flower Soft)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

Image - Elzybells 'Penguins Decorating Tree'

Colouring - Copics

Embossing - 'Snowflakes' Cuttlebug folder

Ribbon & pearls - Hobbycraft

Sentiment - Studio G

Back again!

2011-08-15T11:31:00.000+01:00

Yep, me again, 3 days in a row and still more cards to show! Lets see if I can post everyday, although maybe I shouldn't tempt fate while my mojo is here or else it'll run away again! Anyway, I hope you're having a good monday so far! Today's card is a clean and simple one for a couple of challenges. Inspired by this weeks Less is More challenge of One Layer and Inking as I'm a total Copics girl and they do not work on one layer cards! So I needed an idea to get some colour in, I made it by masking off the strip - although not brilliantly so don't look too closely ;-), then blending different Distress Inks. Then stamped the flower twice side by side over the top. Although now I look I realise I've kind of wandered away from the sketch! Hopefully it's still ok! Thanks for looking!

I'm entering into these challenges:

Clean & Simple - this sketch, combined with...

CAS-ual Fridays
Less is More - One Layer & Inking
Cute Card Thursday - Clean & Simple

Supplies-

Image - Hero Arts 'Flower Meadow'

Distress Inks - 'Peeled Paint', 'Shabby Shutters', 'Crushed Olive', 'Stormy Sky' & 'Boken China'

Twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tea for two...

2011-08-14T11:52:00.001+01:00

Morning! Wow, 2 post in as many days, plus I have another ready to show, plus I have a whole day to myself to make more! Whatever next?! I'm hear to show a card I made last night for a couple of challenges. It's using this sweet Hero Arts stamp which I 'needed' then proceeded to ignore for months! But I was inspired by this weeks Shabby Tea Room challenge (which I've only recently discovered!) and a new one goes live soon so I whipped this up! I hope you like it!

Here's the challenges it's for:-

Sweet Stop Sketch - this sketch

The Shabby Tea Room - Tea theme plus blue & green

Papertake - Grow Your Own (handmade flowers)

Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Ribbon Girl - use a ribbon

Supplies-

Image - Hero Arts 'Teatime Silhoutte'

Papers - DCWV 'Nanas Nursery boy' & PaperMania 'Rose Garden'

Brads - PaperMania

Flower - Sarah's Cards ltd

Border - Martha Stewart 'Doily Lace' punch

Sentiment - Waltzing Mouse

Ribbon & Lace - stash

Other - Square Nestabilities

Penny Black Saturday #164!

2011-08-13T09:00:00.001+01:00

Morning all! I hope you've had a good week! This is scheduled as I'm in London seiing my sister in law and family so probably having squishy cuddles with my 20 month old neice!
It's time again for a Penny Black Saturday challenge! This week is Touchy Feely, we'd like to see lots of texture on your cards and there's a $20 voucher for 1-2-3 Stitch for one lucky entry!
Here's my card, I hope it's feely enough! I've embossed both card panels, scruched up the twill and added some glass glitter to the flowers.
It's for these challenges-
Top Tip Tuesday - Straight Lines
Stamp with Fun - A Tag
Cute Card Thursday - Clean & Simple
Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Supplies-

Image - 'Flying Stars' by Penny Black

Colouring - Copics & glass glitter

Card stock & button - stash

Embossing - 'Swiss Dots' Cuttlebug folder & 'Wings' Craft Concepts folder

Gems - Papermania

Tag - Woodware punch

Sentiment - made on the PC

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #63!

2011-08-10T11:12:00.001+01:00

Good morning, I hope you're all having a nice week so far! It's time again for another Truly Scrumptious Challenge! This the theme is Lace it Up! We'd like to see either lacing like a shoelace, lacy punches or just some pretty lace on your card. We're sponsored by Stamp & Create this week who are giving away $25 to spend online!
Here's my card using one of my fave pads of the moment, the For the Record pad - love it! Along with a digi stamp and some buttons, job done!

It's for these challenges-
Sweet Stop Sketch - this sketch
Cupcake Craft - Sew Mad
Creative Inspirations - Buttons & Stitching
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Anything Goes
Thanks for looking! xx

Supplies-

Image & sentiment - Pink Petticoat 'Material Girl'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Echo Park 'For the Record'

Lace & twine - The Ribbon Girl

Buttons & pearls - stash

Poppies!

2011-08-08T15:47:00.000+01:00

Afternoon all! I hope this finds you well! I've just popped in to show you a card I've made for a few challenges, I'm quite chuffed as it's the first card I've made in ages that isn't for a DT and not specifically for someone else but 'just because', the Mojo had put a stop to those until now! I thought I would just sit down and colour for a bit without faffing with different papers and this card came about, it took flippin' ages which is why I didn't chop any off or add a ribbon over it!
It's for these challenges-
Allsorts - Red card
Less is More - Colours of our flag
Daring Cardmakers - August flowers (Poppies/Gladioli)
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Cute Card Thursday - No designer papers
Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies-

Image - by Christine Dark (Sketching Stamper)

Colouring - Copics

Sentiment - Daisy Bucket

Card - Core'dinations

Penny Black Saturday #163!

2011-08-06T09:47:00.000+01:00

Morning all! Where did this week go?! it's the weekend already and time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! Last week we had loads of gorgeous entries but the winner of our September Guest Designer spot is Jules!! Well done!
Now this weeks challenge couldn't be easier, Anything Goes! As long as we see some Penny Black in there you're good to go! This week we have fab prizes from Penny Black Inc and The Ribbon Girl!
I've decided to go a bit festive with my card. All of my christmas card making stash is still in storage until we move (hopefully by the end of this month!) We had no idea how long it would be and I'm missing it! But I bought this pad last week so I can start making a few more festive cards now!

I've made it for these challenges -
Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch
PaperPlay - Christmas
Papertake - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Christmas in August
Have a lovely weekend, thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Image & sentiment - Penny Black 'Holly Jolly' clear set

Colouring - Copics & Stickles

Papers - Dovecraft 'Christmas Fancy'

Ribbon - stash

Gems - Hobbycraft

Other - Nestabilitles circles

Penny Black Saturday #162!

2011-08-01T18:42:00.000+01:00

Good evening! I hope you've all had a lovely sunshiney Monday! Sorry this post is so late but two of my closest friends got married on Saturday, Jamie was Best Man and I was doing the hair so we kind of got a bit caught up in everything and I forgot all about my little blog!
Anyway, this post is for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge! This week is Penny Black-ground! We'd like to see you use your PBs to make a background for your card! Tricky huh?! This weeks prize should spur you on though...a Guest Designer spot for the whole of September!!
I thought it would be a good excuse to use the little extra stamps that come on the clear sets, these flowers and little butterfly are from the Mimi in Paris set and I've stamped them in rows using different colour Distress Inks, they went a bit blobby so I'm not really happy with it but Kath's given me a good tip to try, inking them first with Versamark a few times, I'll let you know how it goes! Thanks Kath!
This card is also for these challenges:
Allsorts - Free & easy
PaperPlay - In the Garden (flowers, hedgehogs and butterflies!)
Colour Create - Pink, green & white
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Whatever you fancy

Supplies-

Images - Penny Black 'Mimi in Paris' & 'Critter Party' clear sets

Colouring - Copics

Sentiment - Paula Pascual

Dies - Circle Nestabilities

Punch - Oval Stampin' Up punches

Ribbon & gems - stash

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #62!

2011-07-27T10:29:00.000+01:00

Good morning! Well that was a slightly longer break than I intended! It was the ol' mojo disappearing after a holiday (which was lovely by the way!) But I forced myself to sit down and just make something. It might have something to do with the Copics course I went on on Sunday with Wendy at Stamps & Memories, it was lovely! And I learnt some new techniques which hopefully I'll be trying out soon!
So it's time for this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge, it was Michele's turn to pick the theme and she's chosen Buttons & Bows.
Meljens Designs are sponsoring us with 4 images to be won!
Here's my very simple card, didn't want to tax my brain too much!
It's also for these challenges:
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Girlie
Stamp Something - Something Embellished
Allsorts - Free & Easy
Less is More - Buttons and/or ribbon
I hope you like it and thanks for coming to see me after my vanishing act!

Supplies-

Image - Forever Friends 'Baby Clothes Line'

Colouring - Copics

Paper - Paper Mania

String - The Ribbon Girl

Buttons - stash

Embossing - 'Swiss Dots' Cuttlebug folder

Sentiment - Elzybells

Penny Black Saturday #158!

2011-07-02T08:00:00.000+01:00

Good morning! I hope you've all had a lovely week! And if not, it's the weekend now! Time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! This week we'd like you to choose your Desert Island stamp! Your fave in the world that you always go to! This week we are sponsored by Penny Black Inc and The Ribbon Girl!
Here's my card using this beautiful stamp, I have a feeling quite a few people might choose this one! It's so pretty!

Hmmm, should have used the anti-static bag on this one!

Supplies-

Image - 'Flying Stars' by Pennt Black

Colouring - white embossing powder & Stickles

Papers - 'Lilac Avenue' by Kaiser Craft

Rinnom - The Ribbon Girl

Brad - stash

Sentiment & Flag stamp - Waltzing Mouse

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #60!

2011-06-29T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good morning! I hope you're all having a lovely week so far! I'm on my hols at the moment to this is a scheduled post for this weeks Truly Scrumptious challenge! It was Lisbeths turn to pick a challenge and she's chosen Things with Wings! Stitchy Bear Stamps are our sponsor for this challenge, they provided fab images for us to use but I had to make mine before they arrived.
Here's my card! It's for my sister-in-law as she's just moved house!
I hope you like it!

Supplies-

Image - Elzybells

Colouring - Copics

Papers - 'For the Record' by Echo Park

Sentiment - half PC, half Elzybells!

Gems - Paper Mania

Ribbon - stash

Penny Black Saturday #157!

2011-06-25T08:00:00.006+01:00

Hello! It's the weekend again and time for Penny Black Saturday challenge! Thanks so much for all the gorgeous entries into our 3rd Birthday celebrations! All the winners of the prizes will be announced today, but who were the mystery prize holders?!

Was it me??!!

No sorry! But thanks so much for hopping over here though!

And now for this weeks challenge, Stitch Up! We'd like to see stitching on your card, real or faux is fine. Mine are faux, it's a little strip of stitches on a stamp and I keep forgeting I have it but love it when I remember again! Also I've using this stunning new PB stamp, I love it! And I thought I'd make the 'Happy' of the sentiment more obvious as that's what sunflowers make me!

This week there's a fab stamp to be won from Crimson Cloud!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

Image - 'Sundial' by Penny Black

Colouring - Copics

Stitches stamp - Stamps Away

Paper - Gingham in Willow from Pink Petticoat

Ribbon - stash

Sentiment - 'Say it Loud' by Waltzing Mouse

Twine - The Ribbon Girl

Inks - 'Brushed Corduroy' Distress Ink

My first 'Case Study' card!

2011-06-20T08:30:00.001+01:00

Morning! In about 10 minutes a taxi is arriving to take us to the airport where I'm off to Greece for 2 whole weeks!! I'm not sure I've ever needed a holiday more! Running my own business is fun but my initial plan of working less is not really panning out that way and I'm knackered!! But I've rustled up a little card after I'd got my DT cards to schedule done, and it's for this weeks Case Study challenge. Basically they have a 'Muse' everyone month who makes a card each week for you to draw inspiration from, here is Jill Foster's card for this week:

*sigh*

And here is mine! I've used the layout, the pin pricked border and the splattery, inky background albeit in different colours. I really enjoyed making it, when we move and I get all my stash out of storage, I'm sure I've got some mica powders I could try it with. It's made by inking up the paper with various Distress Inks then flicking it with water. I got a bit too much in the middle and made like a puddle effect but I still quite like it!

Here is the challenges I'm entering this into:

Case Study - week 44

Crazy 4 Challenges - twine or thread

Cute Card Thursday - Birthstone colours (mine are diamonds and pink sapphire)

Supplies-
Butterfly - Marianne Design Creatables 'Butterfly 3'
Inks - Distress Inks in 'Barn Door', 'Worn Lipstick' and 'Spun Sugar'
Thread - The Ribbon Girl
Gems - Anita's
Label - Cuttlebug die
Sentiment - Wild Rose Studio

Penny Black Saturday #156 ~ Our 3rd Birthday Blog Hop!!!

2011-06-18T09:56:00.002+01:00

Good morning! It's the weekend again! Yey! And time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! not just any challenge but our 3rd Birthday Challenge and blog hop!! I can't believe it was 3 years ago, here's a link to my post for challenge 1! A lot has changed since then! (Although it seems I've come full circle re the CAS look!)

But back to the present, this weeks challenge is Pesky Critters - nice and easy! And there's loads of fab things to be won, all the details & pics can be seen on the blog;

3 stamps from Penny Black Inc

A Clear set of your choice from PB Stamps

$20 voucher to spend at 1-2-3 Stitch

A ribbon and embellishment selection from The Ribbon Girl &

16 rolls of gorgeous ribbon in a handy dispenser from Fantastic Ribbons!

But there's a twist! These 5 yummy prizes are hidden away on the Design Team's blogs, even we don't know which is which yet so no cheeky bribes! ;-)

All you need to do is make a new card to the theme, link your entry with Mr Linky, hop around all of our blogs leaving a comment as you go, and the winners will be drawn from the eligible comments and announced next Saturday! Easy peasy! Here's a list of the DT blogs to make sure you don't miss any off and stay in the running -

Ali,

You are here ---> Beth

Debby,

Domi,

Helen,

Jenny,

Kath,

Liz,

& Pauline

Good luck everyone!

And now for my card, it's quite a simple one as this week's been hectic so it's all my fragile mind could manage! But I'm going to Greece on Monday so that should sort me out! I'm also going to enter it into these challenges:
Stamp Something - Pretty Papers
Top Tip Tuesday - Open theme
Totally Papercrafts -Die cuts & punches
My Mums Craft Shop challenge - Seeing spots

Supplies-

Image - 'Cheesecake Parade' by Penny Black

Colouring - Copics

Papers - 'Pixielicious' by Cosmo Cricket

Sentiment - Paula Pascual

Ric rac - stash

Oval - Stampin' Up punch

Gems - Anita's

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #59!

2011-06-16T00:38:00.004+01:00

Good evening! OMG I could barely even believe it was wednesday and it's already thursday!! I totally forgot what day it was and forgot all about this post but here it is anyway! It's time for another Truly Scrumptious challenge and it's my turn this week so I decided to design a sketch for you, and here it is-

I can't wait to see what you make of it! Hopefully follow it closer that I did! ;)

Here's my card using more of my new obsession - Waltzing Mouse stamps! Also, did you notice a bit more colour creeping into my ink collections? I've been stocking up on more Distress Inks, as you do! ;)

I'm entering this into a couple of other challenges:

Stamp Something - Punches

Top Tip Tuesday - Open theme

Simon Says Stamp - Bingo! (bottom row - shape, ribbon & sentiment)

Thanks for looking!

Supplies-

Frame & sentiment - Waltzing Mouse

Papers - Summer Driggs

Inks - Distress Inks 'Barn Door' 'Old Paper' & 'Vintage Photo'

Twine, ribbon & charm - stash

Border - Fiskars 'Sunburst' punch

Gems - Paper Mania

Other - Stickles & Nestabilities Labels 14