Thinking of You

Good afternoon folks, hope you have all had a fabulous weekend. Weather is a right mixed batch here, sun, rain and hails storms and pleased to say at the moment it is sunny so fingers crossed we see a bit more of that yellow thing in the sky.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at  Whoopsi Daisy and this week we would like to see your

Spots and Stripes

so be sure to come and play along. Remember if you use an image from the  Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop then the theme is Anything Goes plus you will win 2 sheets if Random Org picks you rather than 1.

Today I have used this sweet image from sheet #426 and coloured her with my copics and cut with my nesties. A few drops of liquid pearls, stickles and card candy complete her. Papers are from the Capsule Collection by Papermania, ribbon is Anita´s and border is Crafter´s Companion Die´sire Lace Border 2.

Challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz - Polkadots
Crafty Ribbons - Anything with Ribbons
My Heart Pieces - Add Embossing - Dry or Wet
PanPastel - Dreams
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 203-44
Sweet Stampin´ - Anything but birthday - Thinking of you
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Lots of Layers - 7

Shall we Dance?

Afternoon peeps, hope you are not all freezing, boy was the frost thick this morning but thankfully the sun is peeping through at times here in Chorley. An early start for me this morning as had acupuncture at 9am, only another month to go hopefully.

Today a new challenge starts at Whoopsi Daisy and we would like you to

Punch It Out

I am afraid there is not much punching, only Martha Stewart´s fabulous lace doily punch,  as my arms, shoulders and back are still pretty bad, got a shock with phone call yesterday for an MRI scan at 6pm - yep on a Sunday evening, the good thing at least I didn´t have a sleepless night with the short notice!

I have used this sweet image from Sheet 420, she reminds me so much of our daughters when they were young and going to all sorts of dance classes including ballet. I have coloured her with my copics, inked around image and added lots of glitter with stickles. Papers are from Papermania´s Lucy Cromwell pad, gems and pearls from Mei Flower and lace and ribbon from stash. Sentiment was cut from the Cricut,  scroll die was borrowed from my daughter and am I glad I made good use of it when she visited for a few days, think I may have to treat myself to it. I always check out  Sweet Sketch Wednesday as I love playing with their sketches.

Challenges:

2 Sisters - Flowers for Spring
Crafts and Me - Ribbon and Lace
Diva´s By Design - Put on Some Pink

House of Gilli - Anything Goes with Flowers and/or Ribbon

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - 3-2-1 ... 3 pearls, 2 papers, 1 image
Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 197-67
The Corrosive - Just Dance

Use a Digi

Good morning all I hope you are all well. Ooh it sure is a white out and the snow is still falling, being out of town there isn´t much traffic here and the roads are as bad as the pavements so it´s a stay indoors day again for me
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This weeks theme at  Whoopsi Daisy is

USE A DIGI

You can use any digi to enter the challenge but if you use an image from the    Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop you will win 2 sheets rather than 1 and let me tell you there are lots of beauties to be found there plus some freebies too.

I have used this girlie girl from sheet 389 and coloured her with my copics, isn´t she a cutie? I´m back to playing with my punches and this is my favourite corner punch ,both flowers have been punched and embossed and the brads are from Papermania and I think I got the wee flowers around image from the 100 peseta shop in Spain. Not sure whose backing papers they are as front page has come off the book, messy crafter I know! Ribbon is SU and sentiment from an old See D set.

Challenges:
Allsorts - Flower Power
Charisma Cardz - Punch It - use at least 2 punches
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Dream Valley - Girls, Girls, Girls
Moving Along With The Times - Happy Birthday
Stampin´for the Weekend - Something Girlie
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Sweet Stampin´ - Show us your frillies
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Flowers
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use 3 Different textures

Lili of the Valley #97

Good morning folks, not a very nice morning here I´m afraid. We´ve had torrential rain, thunderstorms and lightening all through the night and it looks pretty bleak at the mo but never mind we do have a fabulous theme at Lili of the Valley to brighten our day!
This week we would like to see your projects using the theme of
Here Comes Summer
and the lovely Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to spend in the Store but remember the main image on your creation must be a Lili of the Valley stamp for you to qualify to be in the draw for this fab prize.

I have selected Cricket from the latest release It´s a Boy Thing , coloured with my copics and prismas then cut out with my nesties. Papermania papers which I have had forever, Martha Stewart zig zag punch which has lain neglected for yonks and my all time favourite clear sentiments also from Lili of the Valley.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing

Dream Valley - Old and New ... old papers and punch, new stamp

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday - this fabulous sketch

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Old Supplies ... papers , punch and nesties

Stampavie and more - Summer

The Corrosive - Birthdays

Lili of the Valley and a Sneak Peek

Good morning peeps, ooh it is a bit chilly here in good ole UK, even our grandsons commented whilst leaving for school this morning. We had a good flight over last night and arrived on time.


We have a fabulous theme for you this week at Lili of the Valley - ANIMAL ANTICS and would love to see your interpretation of this.


I have used "dad´s the word" which will be released on the 11th May and this is one release you will not want to miss. I have coloured with copics, cut out with my nesties, papers are from Papermania and ribbon from stash.

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Pixie Cottage - Sketch plus One for the Boys
The Crazy Challenge - Cards for Men

My grandson Josh loves to spend time in my craftroom colouring along with me and I think he has done pretty well considering he is only 9 years old. He has made this card for his parents anniversary bless him, mind you that is not until September!

Josh has inked up Lucky Cats and coloured with prisma pencils and chalks. Both his sentiment stamp and mine are from the Clear Stamps range from LOTV. Papers are K&Co, ribbon is SU and flowers from WOC.


Challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anniversary
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch




Back to the sunshine tomorrow, another flying visit!

Lili of the Valley Challenge #91 - Peach & Green

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and enjoying warmer climates now that April is here. Thursday always brings us a fabulous new challenge from Lili of the Valley and this week we would love to see

Peach & Green

I have inked up one of Mollie Harrison´s fairies and she is called "Free", such a pity this is the first chance I have had to ink her up but rest assured you will be seeing her much more on my blog, can´t get over my obsession with fairies lol. I have coloured her with my copics and cut out with my nesties. She just cried out for the glamour dust treatment to her wings and being a lover of glitter how could I deny her this small pleasure! I adore the Clear Additions also from Lili of the Valley and this sentiment is one of my favourites.

Papers are a mixture of MME and PM, roses and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts .

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Glitter

Flutter By Wednesday - Open but use a fairy, butterfly or angel

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with an optional extra of Something New ... my stamp

The Corrosive - Pastel Colours

The Crazy Challenge - Just Add Flowers

The Pixie Cottage - Sketch

Lili of the Valley #75

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and ready for a brand new challenge at Lili of the Valley . This week we have a fabulous SKETCH designed by our very own Bev and Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to be spent on the Lili of the Valley website for one lucky winner but remember you have to use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Die Cut Image to be eligible for the prize.

This week I have used "Collecting the Tree" and pretty chuffed with myself as I am well on target for a change with my Christmas cards. Paper is Joyeax Noel from Papermania, large poinsettia from Wild Orchid Crafts , embossed panel with Ice Crystals Cuttlebug folder and ribbon from stash.

Coloured with copics and prismas and added polar white flowersoft and glamour dust for a snowy effect and cut out with my nesties.


Challenges:


A Spoonfull of Sugar - Anything Goes
Cards for Men- Christmas Cards
Christmas Stampin´ All Year Long - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Christmas is Coming
Simon Says - Snow it Up
The Pixie Cottage - Sketch and/or Let it Snow

Guest Designer for The Crafty Pad and a few challenges

Good afternoon peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying the aroma´s coming out of the kitchen from your Sunday roast. I am honoured to be GD with The Crafty Pad and this week´s theme is

Red & Green.

I really enjoyed using the "Christmas Personalised Mini Story Book" which can be found HERE and I hope our adorable grandsons will enjoy reading it as they love nothing better than a good story book and I sit for hours reading with them when I am over.

All papers are from the Joyeux Noel pad by Papermania, poinsettias from Wild Orchid Crafts

I have glittered all the edges and am afraid to say the wording has been blurred out for obvious reasons, sorry.

Sissix die cuts and sizzlets words.

All images coloured with copics and prismas.

Embossed die cuts which I have had forever.
Spellbinders snowflakes and gems from stash.

The images and verses have been cut out with nesties.

I adhered two square cards together to make this wee book which consists of 6 pages.

and you still have plenty of time to make one of these books for those special wee folks in your life. The direct link to the product is HERE

Challenges:
Craft Your Days Away -Christmas Trees
Crafty Creations - Beautiful Insides
Crazy 4 Challenges - Circles
Creative Craft - Starlight starbright
Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Christmas Anything Goes
One Stop Craft - Snow People
PaperPlay - Let It Snow
Paper Cutz - Christmas Bling
Secret Crafter Saturday - Handmade Gifts

Lili of the Valley and a couple of Sneak Peeks

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and ready for a new challenge at Lili of the Valley.
This week we have another fabulous SKETCH by our very own Bev, I do so love her clean and easy designs and look forward to viewing your take on this.
Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to be spent on the Lili of the Valley website for one lucky winner using a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Die Cut Image.

You may have noticed the DT showing Sneak Peeks of the new stamps which are being released next week at the NEC then they will be available on the Lili of the Valley website from 12th November.

Today I have another sneak peek, "Time for a Cuppa" from the Tea and Chat collection, coloured with copics and prisma pencils.


Sentiment is also a new release and is from the Dreamy Days collection.




Flowers and pearl sprays are from Wild Orchid Crafts , dp is Papermania, gorgeous pins again from Posh Pins & Charms , MS punch, and brads from stash.

Challenges:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Let´s get Punchy

Creative Card Crew - Let´s Punch It

Simon Says - Punch Em

The Crazy Challenge - Tons of Shapes

The Pixie Cottage - Guest Sketch and/or Metal ... used the metal

Totally Tilda #3 - Stitching

Good afternoon peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying a relaxing weekend. We had a fabulous holiday in UK but the time just flew by and we weren´t ready for our return to Spain. It was wonderful to see and play with our grandsons´ but unfortunately we didn´t have time to visit our eldest,Ryan. Let´s hope we can sell up and return to UK permanently.

Anyhoo onto today´s card, Totally Tilda have set the theme for

Stitching
So we want to see lots stitching on your creations be it real or faux.

I decided to get my needle out and enjoy a bit of hand sewing, pattern is by Chris Bosman and I think perfect for this Tilda. I coloured with prismas and chalks and punched all the corners. Paper is from an old pad by Papermania and flowers from where else but the fabulous Wild Orchid Crafts, their service is fantastic and I brought another order home with me.

Challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge - In the Garden

Paper Cutz - Anything goes

Fairy Fun Friday´s - Punch It

Who´s for cutting it up?

Morning peeps, hope you are all well and had a really good weekend. I am on cloud nine cos count down time is here for some lovely cool weather, roll on Wednesday when I can escape this heat - UK here I come! Maybe better get a wee crafty shopping list ready, what thinks you?

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams and this week we would like to see some

MATERIAL

on your creations but you must use material other than ribbon or trim to be in with a chance to win this weeks prize.

Bloomin heck hubby wasn´t too pleased when he saw I had cut into his shirt, poor darling does the ironing and said at least I could have let him wear it first, hey come on I didn´t want a sweaty bit o material - trust men!

I decided to cut the circular panel with my nestie and now wish I had mounted it onto white card - this shirt is/WAS so fine and the orange card does show through a bit but whey hey it is all in the aid of completing a challenge ROFL.

I have inked up Sailing Boat from Lili of the Valley and coloured with copics and prismas, these stamps are such a snip at only £3.75 each. I stamped onto the shirt with versafine to create the sails and again onto the orange card for the mast and flag. I also recycled some wire from a wine bottle to create the wee beaded dangly, added a cute wee yacht charm sent by a friend, spacer and brad all from stash. Backing paper is by Papermania and corners are Double Do dies.

Challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Favourite Things ... mine are Lili of the Valley Stamps

Creative Inspirations - Recycle

One Stop Craft - Summer Fun

Secret Saturday - It´s a Man´s World ... Male related

Simon Says - Sing It Baby ... Little Boy Blue ... Sailing

Stamptacular - Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails ... just for boys

3 Challenges

Woo hoo two cards in one week, I can´t believe it but again the challenges this week have inspired me so much that I just had to sit down and play.
First excuse, well this is what I tell hubby, was to use my new MSLD punch which I adore despite receiving another two of her punches on the same day and Stamp Something allowed me to do just this as their theme this week is "Favourite Somethings".
I had my image all coloured for Penny Black Saturday Challenge and their theme is a recipe of 3 brads, 2 ribbons and a flower then I couldn´t believe my luck when I espied the gorgeous sketch by Dawn at Inspirational Card Sketches, will definitely use this one again.



MSLD punch,PB clear stamp,papers/brads from PM and ribbons and flower from stash.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

The theme this week over at Penny Black is "Get Well Soon"



I have chalked the background and used my Prisma´s to colour PB´s Arrangement image and added some glamour dust to flowers then raised this onto a nestie and again onto PM´s Retro Flower papers.I don´t have a get well soon stamp so had to use peel off´s and some flat backed gems then finished off with some toffee treats and Bosscut flourish.

ABC meets Truly Scrumptious

The theme this week at ABC is B is for Blue and Brown, pop over and see the fabulous DT and Guest Designer Bev´s cards.

Truly Scrumptious have their first challenge and it is to use this beautiful sketch and you have until the 3rd March to enter. Again pop over and see the great DT cards for inspiration.


Recipe. Image by Sugar Nellie. Papers by Papermania. Studio G sentiment.Ribbons, flowers and Toffee Treats from stash.


The very talented Sharon at cards n greetings kindly passed on this gorgeous award to me, do pop by her blog and say hi and enjoy her wonderful creations.
I wish to pass this onto 5 very special people in my life and these are Marcea, Bev, Susie,Sally and Sam. These ladies are mega talented crafters so grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy their beautiful creations with buckets full of inspiration.






The very lovely Maxine passed this award onto me but as I have already passed this on myself it is now available to any person whom wishes it and joins in both these challenges.

Going for 6

Evening peeps, oh I am naughty as trying to fit in as many challenges as possible mainly because I am still have trouble with "my peeps", see specialist tomorrow about my cataract, and my leg is still giving me gyp but after a couple of months one would think I should be used to it by now, hey ho here we go.

Stamp Something theme this week is For your Valentine. Whiff of Joy theme is a recipe of 3 Different Backing Papers, 2 Flowers and 1 Brad or Button. ABC is A for Anniversary or as they are being very kind by allowing a Valentine/Love theme too. My Time To Craft theme is Going for Gold. Kaboodle Doodles are celebrating their very first challenge of the year and the theme is a Love Theme and last but by no way least is Arty Girlz with their theme of Flowers.




Recipe.
3 Papers from Sugared pad by Basic Grey.
2 flowers made up with a Papermania silk flower and an Xcut retro flower punch with a flat backed pearl for centre. Just had to add a wee bit art glitter to these.
1 Gold Papermania heart brad.
Melinda blowing Kisses by Whiff of Joy, coloured with prisma´s and touches of glitter. Sentiment is a Studio G stamp.




My dear friend Susie passed this wonderful award onto me and I wish to pass this over to Jacqui at Cat´s Whiskers,Rachel at Papercrafts by Rach, Sharon at Cards n Greetings. Bev at All the things I love and last but not least Marcea at Marcea´s crafting corner.
Be prepared with cuppa in hand as these ladies all make awesome cards and will keep you engrossed for hours.

3 Challenges in 1 perhaps

Hiya peeps, I hope you are all enjoying a lovely quiet evening with a bit of crafting thrown in for good luck.
Ouch I am well out of my comfort zone here but thought as I have joined Blogland it is now time for me to try out new techniques.
Penny Black Challenge 33 Theme is "Frame It"
I have used PB´s kickin stamp and coloured with prisma´s, about time I had a play with these,and I have used 3d pads to raise a die cut sissix frame.
ABC Challenge X is for Theme is for an X somewhere on your project. I have marked X´s around the sissix frame with an embossing pen and heat embossed these in gold.
One Stop Craft Challenge 13 Theme is "Charmed". I have suspended a gold embossed charm "hand made with love" from a pink ribbon, sorry you can´t see this clearly but I am having probs with sciatica and can´t stand still. OK who had that wise crack!!! Don´t worry I am aware it is the set on of auld age teehee. -x-



I have gone with backing paper from PM Raspberry Champagne Creative Tones and hand punched some flowers and leaves then added gems to centres.