DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends. 

I hope all is well with you and that you had a good Christmas.

It really is lovely having the children off school and college, the only problem is I loose track as to what day it is and I nearly forgot to post this card!

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

This time we are using sketch #25 and our optional theme chosen by the lovely Janet is no designer paper.

Our Sponsor for this challenge is the wonderful StampFairy 

The prize for the lucky winner is $10 gift certificate to spend at StampFairy.com

Thank you to Stampfairy for letting the DT choose an image to use for this challenge. 

I picked Paul and Pauline in Love as I do have a soft spot for pandas.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - StampFairy Paul and Pauline in Love coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Forever Friends Kraft Notes

Memory Box Precious Hearts

Sentiment - Woodware

Various ribbons from stash

Sketch to follow for this challenge

                                                         

If you take a look at the Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

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

Sentimental Sundays - Pick from Favourite themes - I picked Challenge #141: Love is in the Air
Bearly-Mine - Anything Goes

This is my last post of the year so I would like to say a big thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given me during my first full year of blogging. It has been fabulous to be able to share my creations and get so much inspiration from all of you too.

Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

big 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

Plentiful Petals to say Thank you

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

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

My card today is a very simple thank you card with some wonderful items from Dies to Die for.

I used a fabulous Die-Versions Die along the top edge of my card. I placed the die over the fold thus cutting through both layers of the card and leaving the top intact.

The flowers are Die-Namics Plentiful Petals which I have shaped slightly with an embossing tool.

Items Used:

Papers Bo Bunny Double Dot Blush and Tutu

Memory Box Mini Scallop 

Die Namics Plentiful Petals

Die-Versions Express Edges - Thank you

This is my last scheduled post for a week, although I will still be around to comment on your wonderful blogs.

 I would like to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas. 

I hope it is filled with love, laughter and happiness. 

                                           

Big hugs to you all.

 

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 

DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and had a good weekend.

We finally decorated our tree and put up our decorations yesterday so Christmas has definitely arrived here now and it looks lovely!

A couple of you have spotted that I just have reached 500 followers - I can hardly believe it! Thanks to each and every one of you for your continued support, I feel so honoured to have you there. I will be sorted out some candy after Christmas.

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

This time we are using sketch number 24 and our optional theme is Glitter and Sparkle.

Our sponsor for this challenge are

Inky Impressions and Ooh La La Creations

You have already seen the cards I made for my beautiful daughters so here is the card I made for my wonderful son. Do you spot a slight penguin theme going on, I do love them and luckily my family do too!

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV Penguin Presents coloured with Promakers

Papers - LOTV Frosty Christmas

Sentiment - Pink Gem Designs

Whimsy Layered Snowflakes 

Stickles - Stardust

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Gems- Hobbyhouse Rhinestone Sparklers

Here is the sketch for you to follow

If you pop along to the  Sketch 'n' Stash 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:

Dream Valley - Christmas
Allsorts Challenge: Snowflakes

Fab´n´Funky Challenges: Snowflakes

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

Contemporary Christmas - Ready Teddy Go 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.

My next card is to remind you about the Ready Teddy Go Challenge.

Our theme this month is

Contemporary Christmas

There is a fabulous prize package for the lucky winner (please see challenge blog for more details)

I have used an adorable Wildrose Studio Stamp and I used one of my favourite colour combinations.

So cute!

Items Used:

Stamp - Wildrose Studio Christmas Teddies, coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Krafy Christmas

Embossing folder - free with a craft magazine

Die-namics Pierced Rectangle Stax

Marianne Designs Creatables Snowflake

Ribbon and Gems from stash

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Small blue gems

If you pop along to the Ready Teddy Go 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:

Graph'It Markers - Anything Goes

Dis Digi Designs - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with Ribbon
ABC Challenge - B - Blue, Bows and Bling

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

Bye for now

hugs

Joanna Sheen Challenge - mid way reminder

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

I have 2 posts today so I will get straight onto my first one which is a reminder of the 

Joanna Sheen Challenge which is running to the end of the the month.

The theme is

Make it Sparkle

The Prize for the lucky winner is a wonderful £30 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CHALLENGE BLOG. This is the last Joanna Sheen challenge as the decision has been made to close it down. As you can imagine the DT are very sad about this. Not only did we love being part of such a fabulous team we know how much you enjoyed taking part.

Anyway, onto my card.

I have used a cute House Mouse stamp. There is lots of sparkle on the branches and flowers, I am not sure if you can see it too well on my rubbish photo.

The flowers are made from felt cut with Cheery Lynn Rose dies.  I stitched them together rather than using glue, they do look quite pretty in real life.

Items Used;

Stamp - House Mouse Winter Candle coloured with Promarkers.

Papers - Dovecraft Vintage Christmas and magazine freebies.

Dies - Cheery Lynn Holly Flourish

Cheery Lynn Holly Corner

Cheery Lynn Medium and Large Rose

Imagination Crafts Detail Sparkle - White Shimmer

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

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

Cheery Lynn Designs - Sparkle and Shine ( unfortunately it doesn't show up too well on my card!)

I hope lots of you will be able to take part in what will be our last challenge!

Thank you for stopping by, I will be back later.

Bye for now

hugs