Anything Christmas Goes at A Gem of A Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you and that you are having a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new

A Gem of a Challenge
This time the challenge lasts for 4 weeks and the theme is
❄Anything Christmas Goes❅

The prize for the lucky winner is

 2 Individual Digi images OR 2 Card Topper Kits OR one of each 
(no sets or sentiment sets) 

of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS.....

For my card I used the adorable Penguins with Snowman.

Items Used:
Digital Stamp - Pink Gem Designs, Penguins with Snowman
coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Sorry I can't remember, I think it may be Galeria Papieru!
Dies - Memory Box Precious Snowflakes
Die-Namics Blueprints 20
Sentiment- Woodware Christmas Trees
Stardust Stickles

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

Passion for Promarkers -  Mega Christmas Challenge - Use dies and/or punches

I ♥ Promarkers - Snowman

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today, I really do appreciate it.
I am planning on having a big catch up looking at all of your wonderful blogs this evening!

Bye for now,

hugs,

Happy Penguins - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely crafting friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Today I am here to share another Christmas card made with the adorable
Happy Penguins from DigiStamp boutique, the sentiment is included with the image.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp and sentiment - DigiStamp Boutique Happy Penguins

coloured with Promarkers

Papers - old stash think they may be Carta Bella?

Die-Namics Blueprints 20

Impression Obsession Snowflakes Die

Stardust Stickles

White Gel pen

I'm so sorry if I haven't been around to visit your blogs for a few days, things are quite hectic here at the moment. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now.

Hugs,

Use Ribbon and Bling at Pink Gems Designs Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you and that you are having a good weekend.

I am so happy to back designing for the fabulous Pink Gem Designs, thank you so much to Christine, Janet and the rest of the team for their support and understanding and allowing me to have such a long break!

So, today is the start of a new

A Gem of a Challenge
This time the theme is
Use Ribbon and Bling

The prize for the lucky winner is

 2 Individual Digi images OR 2 Card Topper Kits OR one of each 
(no sets or sentiment sets) 

of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS.....

For my card I have used the adorable Snowflake Wonder. In case you are wondering my ribbon is tucked under the lower edge of the image!

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Snowflake Wonder 

coloured with Promarkers
Memory Box Merry Christmas Banner
Law Fawn Stitched Scallop borders
Papers - Crafter's Companion Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas 
Xcut small snowflake punch
silver gems
ribbon


Thank you all so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and always love to read any comments you may wish to make. I will try my best to get around to visiting all your fabulous blogs soon.

Bye for now,
hugs,

Sketchy Penguins - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Hello my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

I am here today to share a Christmas card made with the adorable

Sketchy penguins from DigiStamp Boutique.

Materials:

Digi-stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Sketchy penguins

coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Crafter's Companion Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas 

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Stamps

Dies - Die-Namics Wonky Stitched Rectangles Stax

Memory Box Twilight Snowflakes

Stardust Stickles

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now

hugs

Merry and Bright - DigiStamp Boutique DT Card

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Thank you so much for your comments on my previous card, your kindness and support means so much.

I am here today to share a card that I made with an adorable new image from DigiStamp Boutique. The sentiment is included with the image.

Items Used:

Digistamp - DigiStamp Boutique Merry and Bright

coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Echo Park I love Christmas

Dies - Go Kreate Large Frames Frilly #10

Die-Namics Mini Scallop Stitched Circle Stax

Die-Namics Stitched Circle Stax

Stardust Stickles

White and Gold gel pens.

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today, I really do appreciate it.

I will be back later to have a look at all of your fabulous creations.

Bye for now

hugs,

Oreo and Penguins - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are all well and having a good weekend.

Firstly, I would like to start by saying thank you for all the positive and kind comments I received on my last cards. To be honest I was quite nervous returning to blogland but I didn't need to worry - you have all made me feel so welcome! 

Today I am here to share a cute Christmas card I made using an adorable DigiStamp Boutique image.

Items Used:

Digi-stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Oreo and Penguins 

Sentiment - DigiStamp Boutique Sketchy Snowman

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - An old pad from LOTV sadly no longer available 

Memory Box Bristol Snowflake

Die-namics Stitched Mini Scalloped rectangles

Tonic Studio Scalloped Square Layers

Stardust Stickles

Silver Adhesive Gems

Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my card. I plan to have a good catch by looking at all of your fabulous blogs later this evening.

Bye for now

hugs,

Pippin Penguin - DigiStamp Boutique DT Card

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. 

I am here today to share my DigiStamp Boutique DT card featuring the adorable Pippin Penguin. 

For my card I have used the black outline image, there is also a fabulous coloured image with this set.

The holly leaves are from the wonderful Christmas Accents Set .

Items Used:

Digital Stamps - DigiStamp Boutique Pippin Penguin

and Christmas Accents Set

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - LOTV Festive Trimming

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Sentiment Tags

Memory Box Stitched Square Layers

Stardust Stickles

White Fine-line pen

Red Button Twine - The Ribbon Girl

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

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image Challenge

Graph'It - Christmas colours

Papertake Weekly - Animal Magic
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and look at my card today, I really do appreciate your continued support and encouragement. I always enjoy reading any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

 

Little Festive Robins

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you, I'm sending hugs to those in need of them.

As it was raining all day Sunday and my children had loads of homework to do I managed to find some time  to make a couple of Christmas cards for friends and family.

For this card I  used one of my older LOTV stamps and made a centre stepper card.

Sorry about the rubbish photo, we had no sun at all yesterday!

Items Used:
Stamp - LOTV Little Festive Robins coloured with Promarkers
Sentiment - LOTV Simply Sophisticated
Papers - Imaginisce
Dies - Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles
Memory Box Holly Vine
Cheery Lynn Holly Leaves
Small red pearls

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

Crafty Little Fairies - Not a Square
LOTV Monthy Challenge - Merry Christmas
Stamping Sensations - Simply Christmas

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

Favourite Colours at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week the lovely Natalie has picked the theme which is to use your

Favourite Colour Combination

For this challenge we are sponsored by 

Little Claire Designs 

Prize -  1 stamp set

So, like many of you, there are several colour combinations that I like to use. As you can see by my blog design, one of my favourites is turquoise aqua and white. I think these colours can be used for most occasions, this time I have made a Christmas with them.

Items Used:

Stamps - LOTV James In the Snow coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Penny Black Snow Scroll Stamp

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Wishes

Papers - Wild Rose Studios Frosted Lace

Cheery Lynn Mini Pearl Circle

Cheery Lynn Snowflakes

Crystal Glamour Dust

Pearls

Craftwork Cards Shaped Card Blank

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team for this week.

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

Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Only One DP

Penny Black and More – Get Ahead for Christmas

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I know I always say it but I truly appreciate each and every one of you for you support and encouragement.

Bye for now

hugs

Cute Penguin - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends

I hope you are having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

 I am here today with my DT card for DigiStamp Boutique

This time I have used an older image from the Cute Penguin Set.

Luckily, I already had this one printed out as my printer has decided to stop working. I can't complain, it's very old and has served me well over the years!

Items Used:

DigiStamp - DigiStamp Boutique Cute Penguin Set coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Dovecraft (old ones from a couple of years ago I think?)

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments 

Clearly Besotted Tags Along Die Collection

Die-Namics Blueprints 13

Spellbinders Circles

VersaMark ink

White Embossing Powder

Crystal Glamour Dust

Woodware Snowflake punch

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

One of my crafty friends, the lovely, kind and talented Squirrel is running a fabulous challenge on her blog to 'make something penguiny'. I ADORE penguins so of course I am entering my card into her challenge.  Check out all the details HERE and see all the wonderful inspiration from Squirrel together with the equally talented Jayne and Annette.

I am also entering my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Christmas Critters
Glitter n Sparkle - Use a Digi 
          Sketch Saturday - another fabulous sketch!

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

Cute Robins - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are well, sending hugs to those in need of them.
Thank you so much for you kind supportive comments recently, it means so much to me.
Sorry if I have been quiet, my children are off school and college until Monday so we are making the most of our last few days together. I am going to miss them so much when they go back, I love having them at home.

Anyway, I am here today with my DT card for DigiStamp Boutique
This time I have used a couple of images and sentiment from the Cute Robin Chicklets set.

Items Used:

Digi-stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Cute Robin Chicklets coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Dovecraft Krafty Christmas

Die-Namics Fishtail Flags Stax

Memory Box Giovanna Snowflake

Glamour Dust

Button from Stash

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

Sketch Saturday -  Pick ANY sketch (from 215-324)

I have used Sketch #293 (one of my favourites!)

Winter Wonderland - Gingham or Checks
Allsorts  - Early Christmas Makes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pies - Two's Company

Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my card today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

bye for now

hugs 

Christmas in July at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope all is well with you, sending big hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week the lovely Lorraine has chosen the theme of 

Christmas in July

For this challenge we are sponsored by the wonderful DigiStamp Boutique with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner.

I was really pleased to see the theme this week as it has forced me to make a start on my Christmas cards! Actually, I enjoy making them so there will be no stopping me now I have found my festive papers, dies and glitter.

The totally adorable image is Bobbi with Stocking from DigiStamp Boutique and the pretty papers are from LOTV.

Items Used

Digi stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Bobbi with Stocking coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Sentiment Tags 

White Embossing Powder

Papers - LOTV Winter Wishes

Centura Snow White Card

Dies - Die-Namics Pierced Oval Stax

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Borders

Memory Box Precious Snowflakes

White Glitter Domes

Glamour Dust - Crystal

If you take a look at the  Passion for Promarkers Challenge, you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of this week's Design Team

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

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin' - Christmas in July
Inky Chicks Christmas in July
Christmas cards all year round Non traditional colours
Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Digi ( it doesn't get much cuter than Bobbi bear!)

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it, your support and encouragement means so much to me.

Bye for now

hugs 

My Favourite 5 Christmas Cards of 2013

Good Evening Everyone.

I hope you all well and have had a wonderful Christmas.

  I have enjoyed spending time with my family, it really has been lovely.

Unfortunately, I haven't got any new cards to show you today but I thought I'd join in with Debby's fun challenge and pick my top 5 Christmas cards this year.

I did enjoy looking through my cards but it took me ages to choose my favourites as I am my own worst critic and I am so indecisive!

Anyway, before I change my mind again here the are ( you can click on the title to take you to the original post)

Hedgy Shuffle! 

James Bear in the Snow

Sweet Snowman

Christmas Owls

Polar and Penguin

Thank you Debby for running this fun challenge. I have really enjoyed seeing all the wonderful cards everyone has been sharing.

Thank you all once again for your wonderful comments this last year, your support and encouragement means so much to me.

Bye for now

hugs

It's Anything Goes at Crafty Little Fairies Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week in preparation for Christmas. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.

This time our challenge will run for 2 weeks and we have been kind to you with our theme of

Anything Goes

For this challenge we are sponsored by

DELICIOUS DOODLES and HOBBYKUTZ

So, onto my card. My final Christmas card to share with you this year. The fun image is one I bought from From the Heart Stamps after seeing Viv's fabulous card here. It just made me smile and hopefully the person receiving it will too!

Items used - 

Digi Stamp - From the Heart Stamps Seven Christmas Birds coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Doodlebug designs

Cheery Lynn Holly Leaves

Red Pearls

Stickles - Stardust

Polar White Flower Soft

If you take a look at the Crafty Little Fairies Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

My Time to Craft - Christmas birds

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Last minute Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Last Christmas card of the year!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really appreciate it especially as I know how busy everyone is at the moment.

Bye for now

hugs 

Let it Snow at Crafty Little Fairies Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.

This week our theme is

Let it Snow 

Our sponsors for this challenge is are
The Ribbon Girl, prize - £10 voucher
and
Stamposaurus , prize - 2 fab stamps

I used one of my older LOTV images but definitely one of my all time favourites. I just need the remember who I have already given it too!

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV Snow Bears coloured with Promarkers

Papers - First Edition (not sure of the name they are a quite old!)

Marianne Design Craftables - Circle,Flower and leaf stitch die and border

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Ice Crystals Border

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Pearls and ribbon from stash

If you take a look at the  Crafty Little Fairies Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
The Ribbon Girls - Ho Ho Ho Christmas Challenge
Songbird Challenge - ♫ Merry Christmas Everybody ♪
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge- Winter ( old papers and stamp)
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Christmas
Party Time Tuesday - Winter Wonderland

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really so appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

bye for now

hugs

Include a Sentiment - Passion for Promakers Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014! 

Our theme is a nice easy one 

Include a Sentiment

 Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – look at all these prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

WOW!!

So onto my card.

A few weeks ago I discovered Lee Holland's wonderful illustrations (available here) and I instantly feel in love with them.

I made this card for my wonderful hubby, which is good as this is one card that I have made that I really do like so I am glad I don't have to part with it - that doesn't happen very often I can tell you!!

I think this is one of the cutest images ever!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Lee Holland Penguin and Polar coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Whimsy Holiday Noteables 2

Penny Black Snow Scroll

Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush (used on ice berg)

Papers - Dovecraft (very old!)

Memory Box Bianca Snowflake

Memory Box Giovanna Snowflake

Memory Box Precious Hearts

Shaped Card - Craftwork Cards

Hobby House Rhinestone Sparklers

If you pop along to the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the design team. I hope lots of you will be able to join in with this one.

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

Live and love crafts - Stardust

My Mum's Craft Shop - Christmas
Graph'It Markers - Colour Mixing / Anything Goes
Lisa B Designs - All the Glitters
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - For someone special - This is for my hubby!
Cutie Pie - Special Friend ( this is for my very best friend - my hubby, hope that counts!)
Stamping Sensations - Free and Easy
As You Like it - Favourite Digi and Why - This image is totally adorable, I love penguins and this image just makes my heart melt!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I really do appreciate it so much and I love to read any comment you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

A Very Cute Penguin!

Hello everyone

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Yesterday I showed you the Christmas card I made for my younger daughter.  Here is the card I made for my older daughter using another adorable penguin from Pink Gem Designs.

I placed a sheet of glittered vellum onto of my patterned paper and then added an embossed frame. 

For some reason my camera doesn't like pink, this is much prettier in real life!

I am pleased to say both of my beautiful girls were thrilled with their cards, the smile on their faces when they opened them was just magical! I honestly feel that I am a lucky mum to have such wonderful children!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Cute Penguin coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas sentiment tags

Paper -  Forever Friends Kraft Notes

Papermania Holly Flourish Glitter Vellum

Embossing Folders - Crafter's Companion Snowflakes

 Cuttlebug snowflake dots

Die-namics Tree Lines 

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Snowflake

Woodware snowflake punch

 Hobbyhouse Rhinestone Sparklers

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

In the Pink - Embossing ( not sure if I have enough pink - please feel free to delete if not!)

Winter Wonderland - Embossing

Little Miss Muffet - You've Been Framed!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comment you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs