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

Christmas Cheer at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge

Hello again everyone

As promised I am back with my second card of the day. Please scroll down if you would like to see my Joanna Sheen DT card, thank you.

Today is the start of a new A Little Bit Crafty Challenge.

This month our theme is

Christmas Cheer

Our Sponsors are:

Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Prize 7 free digis

Eureka Stamps

5 digi stamps

and

Bramwell Crafts

Prize details on challenge blog

I have made another Shadow Box style card, I love making these, they are simple to make but they are tricky to photograph, that's why there are 3 photos - sorry!

side view

Close up of the image

Items Used:

Stamp - Hobby Art - Archie and Pals coloured with Promarkers

Spellbinders Labels 28

Memory Box Merry and Christmas Script dies

Memory Box Giovanna Snowflake

Crafters Companion Snowflake Embossing folder

Sparkly pearls and metallic twine from stash

If you take a look at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the  design team.

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

Totally Papercrafts - Ho, Ho, Holidays
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Blue & White

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog once again today. Your support and encouragement means so much to me.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

bye for now

hugs

It's All White at the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

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

My card today is part of the mid way reminder for the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

This time our theme is

White on White Christmas 

you are permitted to use a coloured image provided the rest of the card is all white.

So, I have made a very simple card. The gorgeous poinsettia image from Clearly Besotted Stamps has been stamped with Versamark ink onto vellum and embossed with white embossing powder. It's ages since I have used my embossing powders and it took me a while to find my heat gun. I had forgotten how satisfying it is seeing the powder transformed by the heat!

Image - Clearly Besotted Pretty Poinsettia

Sentiment - Sorry no makers name, it's a very old one!

Cheery Lynn Holly Leaves

Die Namics Blueprints 3 ( circle )

Embossing Folder - Xcut Quilting

If you pop along to the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog you will see the wonderful white creations made by the rest of the design team.

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

Addicted to Stamps - Embossing (heat or dry)

Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Shopping Our Stash - Holiday or Winter

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

Bye for now

hugs

Sparkles at A Gem of a Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends, I hope all is well with you.

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. All is fine here, I have just been busy trying to get ahead with my DT cards so I don't have a rush in the run up to Christmas and then I'll be free to spend the school holidays with my children - I can't wait !

Anyway, I have 2 posts today. So here is my first which is for A Gem of a Challenge

This week the theme set by the lovely Ria is 

Sparkles

The prize for the winner will be.....

2 Individual Digi images

(NO SETS, PERSONALISED WATERMARK'S OR SENTIMENT SETS) 

of the winners choice from PINK GEM DESIGNS.....

For my card I have used the adorable Little Gem with Bauble. The fabulous sentiment is also from Pink Gem designs that you can find here.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs-  Little Gem with Bauble. coloured with Promarkers

Digi Sentiment - Pink Gem Designs - A Magical Christmas

Cuttlebug Snowflakes Embossing folder

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Ice Crystals Border

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Ice Crystals 3 Snowflake

Crystal Glamour Dust

Stardust Stickles

If you take a look at the A Gem of a Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creation made by the rest of this week's Design Team.

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

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - animals

Paper Crafting Journey - Bling it Up

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'll be back soon with my Dies to Die for DT card.

Bye for now

hugs

Use Embossing at the Ready Teddy Go Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

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

My card today is part of the mid way reminder of the Ready Teddy Go Challenge

This month our theme is 

Use Embossing

Wet or dry or even both!

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Di's Digi Stamps who are giving a $12 voucher to the lucky winner.

I used another adorable Bobbi Bear image from Digi Stamp Boutique.  As you can see, I have kept this one fairly simple.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Bobbi and Stocking coloured with Promarkers

Paper - First Edition Silent Night

Embossing Cuttlebug Snowflake Dots

Marianne Design Craftables - Circle,Flower and leaf stitch die

Memory Box Giovanna Snowflake
Imagination Crafts Detail Sparkle White Shimmer
Polar White Flower Soft

If you take a look at the Ready Teddy Go Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team to inspire you.

Lothian Crafts - Use a Marianne Designs Die
Sparkles Christmas Challenge -  Have a Beary Christmas
Digi Stamp Boutique  - November Customer Challenge
Papertake Weekly - Snow and Ice
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Moving Along with the Times  - Furry Friends
Sparkle and Sprinkle -  Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking.

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

Bye for now

hugs

Winter Animals at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Hello to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week.

My card today is part of the mid way reminder for the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

This time our fun theme is

Winter Animals

For this challenge we are sponsored by the wonderful Quixotic Paperie

the prize is a £10 voucher!

I used a stamp that I won last year from High Hopes Stamps, it was good to finally use it and great fun to colour.

Items Used

Stamp - High Hopes Snowy's Friends coloured with Promarkers

Papers - LOTV Krafty Christmas

Embossing Folder - Crafters Companion Let it Snow

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Senitment Tags

Memory Box Precious Snowflakes

Spellbinders Labels 1 and Scalloped Labels 1

Glamour Dust Diamond

Pearls and ribbon from stash.

If you take a look at the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge, you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team

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

Totally Papercrafts - Hearts and Tags (hearts on image, please delete if not acceptable!)

High Hopes Stamps - Pearls or Gems

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

bye for now

hugs

Embossing at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge.

This week our theme is

Embossing (dry or heat)

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

After printing a cute image from the Joanna Sheen House Mouse Project CD Rom, I decided to try something a bit different and made a shadow box card.

It was really easy, there is a fabulous totorial for this on the Papermill blog here

Side view to show the dimension. I love how the card folds flat to fit into a normal sized envelope.

Items Used:

Image - from Joanna Sheen House Mouse Project CD Rom

Crafts Too Embossing folder - Seed Heads

Joy Crafts Vintage Butterfly

Spellbinders Labels 28

Sentiment - LOTV Handwritten Phrases

If you take a look on this Joanna Sheen Challenge blog 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:

Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - Dry Embossing

My Time to Craft - Aperture

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

Bye for now

hugs 

Name that Tune at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends

I hope you are well and having a good week so far.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

The theme this week is a fun one

♫ ♪ Name that Tune ( Inspired by a Song Title) 

For this challenge we are sponsored by the wonderful Bugaboo Digi Stamps they are offering 1 lucky winner 7 digi images of their choice from their store.

My song choice is ♪Love is in the Air♫ I made this card for a very special couple - my lovely brother and sister-in-law who celebrate their Anniversary in July.

The adorable image is from Wee Stamps. It is called Love Trip which is available as a digi stamp HERE and a rubber stamp from HERE. You can also buy this as a topper from HERE

Items Used

Digi stamp - Wee Stamps Love Trip coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - Magazine freebie

Embossing folder Cloudy Sky by Darice

Memory Box Precious Hearts

Sentiment - LOTV Vintage Labels Occasions

Ribbon Trim  and pearls from stash 

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

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

Fab 'n' Funky - Animals

Sweet Stampin' - Cute and Cuddly
Crafty Catz - Pick & Mix, optional add embossing
HobbyCutz  Something beginning with H - hot air balloon and hearts
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes.
Crafty Bloggers Network - Bright and Breezy
I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes

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

Bye for now

hugs

DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends

I hope you have all had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead.

Today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

This time we are onto sketch number 12. Our optional theme set by the lovely Alessandra is Summer Fun.

For this challenge or sponsor is the Wonderful Stamp Fairy

The prize for the lucky winner is a $10 voucher to spend online.

I chose the adorable Clementine Spring, I love her big hat and her floppy ears! I think she is supposed to be holding a plant pot but I think it works okay as a bucket and spade!

Here is the sketch for you to follow:

Items Used

Digi Stamp - Stamp Fairy Clementine Spring 4 coloured with Promarkers

Paper - Echo Park Sweet Girl available @ MCH

Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion Petite Dot

Sentiment - Pink Gem Designs

Memory Box Hello Script available @ MCH

Shell beads from stash

If you take a look at the Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge you will see the gorgeous creations made by the rest of the design team and also see who were the winners of the last challenge.

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

Creatalicious Challenge - All about Summer

Whoopsi Daisy - Fun in the Sun/Summer

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

Bye for now

hugs

Emboss it at A Gem of a Challenge!

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Thank you so much for your kind birthday wishes on Thursday, you helped to make my day extra special. I really did have a lovely day and the weather was glorious.

Today is the start of a new A Gem of a Challenge

This week the lovely Mags has chosen the theme of

Emboss it!

The prize for the winner will be.....

2 Individual Digi images

(NO SETS, PERSONALISED WATERMARK'S OR SENTIMENT SETS) 

of the winners choice from PINK GEM DESIGNS.....

I couldn't resist colouring another of Janet's cute Little Gem images, this one is Little Gem in Bee Suit.

I have added lots of sparkle to the wings, you will just have believe me on that one as it doesn't show up on my photo at all!!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Little Gem in Bee Suit coloured with Promarkers

Embossing folder - Florabunda Embossalicious by Crafter's Companion

Flowers- Joy Crafts Die

Happy and Birthday dies - Cheery Lynn Designs

Spellbinders Hexagon

Ribbon and gems from stash

If you pop over to A Gem of a Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of 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:

Shopping our Stash - No Patterned Paper

Ink Impressions - Birthday or Anniversary
Penny's Challenges - Birthdays
Tuesday Throwdown - Embossing

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

I'll be back later with my DT card for the Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge

Have a good day

bye for now

hugs