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

Where have all my flowers gone

Hiya folks, hope you are all well and not feeling the cold too much. Weather is a right mixed batch here and I´m trying to muster up the courage to go out shopping.

What do you think to this wee cutie pie, she is called Cyber Mummy Susie by artist Heather Valentin for Addicted To Stamps and only available from Scrapbook Stamp Society

I have coloured her with my copics, cutting out with nesties and layered her onto BG papers. Ribbon is from Stampin Up, Martha Stewart Lace Doily punch for borders and a rub on greeting which I´ve had forever.

Challenges:

2 Sisters - Punches and/or Dies

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Card with a Sentiment

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or Bows

One Stitch at a Time - Be Square

Sketch and Stash - Sketch #76

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Totally PaperCrafts - Anything BUT Christmas

The Crafty Pad GDT - Lace and Bows

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend with plenty of sunshine. It is roasting hot here today so a stay in the shade day for me.

This week at The Crafty Pad we have a fabulous theme for you to follow so time to play again with some of your favourite embellishments

LACE & BOWS
I have printed off the sentiment and Fairy Chloe on Daisies, available from The Crafty Pad Designs, and cut out with my nesties, coloured with copics and prisma pencils, glamour dusted her wings and added a wee bit of stickles to the flower centres. Papers are SU, lace ribbons and gems from my stash.

I have used the sketch, rotated, designed by Carly for Flutter By Wednesday. Carly's wee sister shares my birthday on May 31st along with my grandson Ryan who will be celebrating his 18th. Carly is celebrating her sister´s birthday with some blog candy so do check out her blog for full deets.

Challenges:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday - Sketch
Kaboodle Doodles - Tic Tac Toe ... digi, lace, flowers
PaperPlay - Sparkle Galore
Papertake Weekly - Bloom & Grow
Simon Says - Sparkle & Shine
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

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 #90 - Spring

Good evening peeps, so sorry this post is so late in the day but I am having mega problems with Spantel, my ISP server, but whey hey better late than never! Thursday always bring a brand new challenge from Lili of the Valley and this week we have a theme of

Spring

When I think of Spring I always think of Weddings, mainly because I think I too was a Spring bride many moons ago!

I have inked up I Do, coloured with my copics and cut out with my nesties. Papers are Stampin Up, pearls and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Flowers have the stickle treatment and veil has wee touches of glamour dust.

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers 113 - BUTTONS, BUCKLES, BOWS, BRADS.....NOT!!!!!

Charisma Cardz - Bling & Sparkles Cooking it up with Katie - Sparkle, Shine & Shimmer Colour Create - Pastels Cute Card Thursday - Couples Paper Pretties- Bring on the Bling Papertake Weekly - Dawny´s Sketch

Lili of the Valley - My Favourite Colours

We have a wonderful theme for you this week at Lili of the Valley - My Favourite Colours.
Ooh there are so many gorgeous colour combos and Pink and Mint have always been one of my favourites so have gone along with it for this week.

I have coloured Pom Pom with copics and prismas, isn´t she adorable? Papers are K&Co, ribbons from Stampin Up and sentiment is a See D.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Things with Wings

Paper Pretties - Card for a Child

Sketch and Stash - Fabulous sketch from Jackie - just perfect for my new stamp

How wonderful to be back into crafting and blogging after 3 long months of ill health, glad to say I am more or less back to my old self at long last and hope to catch up real soon.

Lili of the Valley #67

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well. Wow where has this month gone? Can´t believe we are into the last day of September already.
This week at Lili of the Valley we have another fabulous SKETCH for you to play with, 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. Remember to be entered for the prize you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation.
Did you know that Lili of the Valley are now stocking fabulous Super Smooth card for stamping and colouring with Copics and Promarkers? You know how hard it is to get a really good quality card that enables you to blend perfectly, well this card really does that and it is such a reasonable price too - 50 A5 sheets for £5 so if you would like to purchase some of this card just click HERE to go direct to the page.

I have inked up New Hat cutting out with my nesties and coloured her with my copics and prismas, added liquid pearls to her dress and smidgings of stickles.

Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts also got the stickles treatment cos I love my glitter.

Papers are BG´s Urban Prairie, thank you Sylvia I love these. Sentiment is Stampin Up, lace and card candy from stash.

Challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvelous

Creative Craft - Glamour Puss

Fun with Shapes and more - Lace

Down By the Riverside

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying yourselves. Time, for me at the moment is very precious and I have had to take a back seat with blogging but do hope to catch up with all my buddies real soon. The de-cluttering process is going great, I should never be allowed so much storage space cos I am a hoarder but whey hey I have reduced a triple double wardrobe to less than one and helped clothe the homeless into the bargain! OMG it was like Hazel giving Viv the same treatment in Emmerdale. Thank goodness only 3 more bedrooms to go and smaller wardrobes so should be much easier!

This week we have a fabulous theme for you at Lili of the Valley

One for the Boys

I now find this challenge so much easier especially with the wonderful range of stamps available at Lili of the Valley and what a snip they are at only £3.75 each. Have you checked out the fabulous new Christmas Range yet, if not, why not - go on take a look and spoil yourself, you know you´re worth it?

I have coloured "By the River" from the Boys/Mens Collection available from Lili of the Valley , with both copics and prismas and added only the lightest touch of glamour dust - cutting out with my nesties. Papers are My Mind´s Eye Bloom & Grow, sentiment from Stampin Up, gems and charm from stash. I did pinch a wee bit of hubby´s twine, which he uses for the rigging on his model ships, to attach the charm.

Challenges:

Crafty Creations - Transportation ... my charm
Crazy 4 Challenges - Anything book related ... Down by the riverside ... Tanah Keeta Song Book
Cupcakes - Books and Stories ... As Above
Fab´n´Funky - What'eva
The Crafty Pad - Lemon, Lime and Mango
Stampin´Sisters in Christ - Water either in word or image
Truly Scrumptious - Sketch with optional extra to use a knot ... I tied 3 on the twine

Die Cut Dreams #59

Good morning folks, hope you have all had a fabulous weekend. We have just lazed around cos it is far too hot to do anything else, roll on our holiday to UK where we hope to find some real cool weather.

Monday again and that means a new challenge at the Die Cut Dreams and this week is the first week we have the new and very talented Design Team sharing their stunning creations so be sure to pop over to the blog to view or better still pay them a visit - links can be found on my sidebar. Lyn AKA Spyder and Linda are our Guest Designers this week along with Vikki our monthly sponsor from Posh Pins and Charms

The theme for this week´s challenge is

GINGHAM

use anything you wish , any colour you wish, as long as your creation has Gingham on it.


I have used gingham ribbon from my stash.

I have coloured my image, from Cuddly Buddly, with copics and prismas adding touches of glamour dust, gems to his waistcoat and a pearl to the walking stick. Papers and sentiment are from Stampin Up, corners are Double Do´s.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Dressing Up ... well he does have his Top Hat and best Waitcoat on rofl
Mami Doodles - Anything goes
Simon Says - We are all going dotty

Totally Tilda #2

Good morning folks, hope you are all well. Gosh where have the last 4 weeks gone? From today Totally Tilda are going fortnightly, wow we were overwhelmed with the amount of beautiful entries for Challenge #1 and hope you will all come back and play again with our new challenge.

We are very fortunate to have Bert Pickles AKA Fairy Prairie join our DT, welcome onboard sweetie - and also a warm welcome to Katie who is our Guest Designer this challenge.

We are also very lucky to be sponsored by the lovely Nikki from Bunny-Zoe Crafts and the Prize for one lucky person is;

Our challenge for this fortnight is to

Make a SHAPED CARD

But NO Squares OR Rectangles and NO Easel cards.

Susie gave the DT some of her new die cut cards on stands to play with and they are now available in her shop at Die cut Dreams and what a dream they are to work with.

I challenged myself to make use of my neglected punches and really enjoyed myself. They are just normal punches, not circular, and the best way I can describe their use is to cut a 5 or 7cm circle in centre - depends on pattern spread of the punch, it really is a case of trying for yourself. I then punch at 12, 6, 3 and 9 0´ clock then twice inbetween each of these.

I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas and cut her out, ooh that stem did test my patience rofl. Roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I don´t think you can go overboard with them - they are so addictive, memo to self ... place another order. Sentiment is from Stampin Up, cut with my nesties and layered onto another punched shape and that´s about it lol.

Challenges:

Crafty Ann´s - Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
Crafty Creations - Summer Lovin´
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Texting Crazy
One Stop Craft - Patterns

Die Cut Dreams - Tilda in Blue

Good morning folks, welcome to a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams.
This weeks challenge theme is

Tilda in Blue

Your card has to be mainly Blue, you can use skin and hair colours and a dash of black and white with a minimal dash of another colour. This week we are also joined by our very special guest designer Trisha and if you need a little inspiration just take a look at the stunning creations our fab Design Team have created, links are in my sidebar.

I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our new teamies, Liz Marsden, Dawn, Deb‘s R, Tracy, Pamela & Crafty Chris who will be joining us from next week.

My circular card is from the Shaped Cards on Stands from Die Cut Dreams and at only £2.99 for 18pieces, making 6 cards, this is a real bargain. I covered the plain circle with paper from my stash and added a doily.
I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas with a touch of glamour dust, roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts, sentiment is Stampin Up and cut with my nesties.

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Anything but Square

Craftalicious - Birthdays

Lots To Do - Shapes

Ooh La La Creations - Birthday

Stamp Something - Something Flowery

The Stamp Man - Anything Goes

Totally Stampalicious - Birthdays

Carol Singing

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Lili of the Valley. This fortnight we have a wonderful

Sketch

for you, designed by our very own Bev. This was a dream to work with and one I will be using over and over again.

I have inked up "Carol Singing" from the new Lili of the Valley Christmas 2010 - Christmas People Collection. Ooh they are all adorable and I count myself so fortunate working with all these fabulous images and you can get yours too at Lili of the Valley.
I have coloured with copics and prisma´s and just had to add touches of glamour dust cos chrissie cards need to glitter, well that is my excuse and I´m sticking to it - just like the glitter does to me rofl. Papers are Stampin Up, the gorgeous roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, punch is a Martha Stewart and the card candy is from my stash.



Challenges:

Christmas Stampin´ All Year Long - Bling It Up
Cupcakes - Cats & Dogs
Ooh La La Creations - Christmas in July
One Stop Craft - Pink, Blue, Green & a hint of Red

Life´s a Beach with Earth, Wind or Fire

Good morning peeps, hope you all had a lovely weekend. Looks like everyone is having a heatwave although it is a tad too hot for me.

Die Cut Dreams theme for this week is

Life´s a Beach

So let´s see your seaside themed cards and projects.

I knew straight away which stamp I was going to use and can you believe this is the first time I have inked her up. I have coloured Tilda with copics and raised her with 3d pads. I love this set of sentiments from SU and was so lucky to receive these as a birthday present from a dear friend and fellow DT, thanks again sweetie. I have cut them out with my nesties and mounted onto yet more. Papers are from the Vintage Collection available at Bearly Mine Designs and the flowers are of coarse from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges:
Just Magnolia - Sketch by Bev
Allsorts - Embossing
Corrosive - Flowers, Flowers, Flowers


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Sweet Pea Stampers have set the theme of

Earth, Wind or Fire

I chose Wind and used Ching Chou Kuik´s "Zinnia" from her Asian Mystique cd and added little bits of glitter. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the gorgeous pins are from Posh Pins, papers, ribbons and pearls are from my stash.

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges - Sketch
ABC - Xtra Dimension
Magical Crafts - Flower Power
Quirky Crafts - Ribbons

Lili of the Valley Challenge #56

Good morning peeps, I hope your day has got off to a good start ... hey not long to the weekend so plenty of "me" time ahead. I spent the day in Gibraltar yesterday and literally shopped until I dropped and came home with more than a few outfits so now I am all set up for the summer.

This week at Lili of the Valley we have a fabulous

SKETCH

for you made by our lovely Dawny.

I have inked up Wedding Couple and coloured with my copics cutting out with my nesties, added a wee bit glamour dust to the flowers and liquid pearls to her dress.

I was over the moon when my order arrived from Wild Orchid Crafts and now I have a super collection of these fabulous roses in lots of different sizes. Papers are SU, organza ribbon and pearl slider are from a lovely blogging buddy.



I wish to combine my card with Secret Crafter Saturday who have set their theme for Weddings/Anniversaries and Creative Craft who want you to "Stamp It Up".

Two sketch cards today

Good morning and what a glorious morning it is here on the Costa del Sol, wall to wall sunshine and a kiss goodbye to the rain. I still can´t believe we were in UK this time last week, it sure was a flying visit due to the volcanic dust and cancelled flights but 3 days were better than none and it was wonderful to see our youngest grandson christened and be with our family.

Anyhoo onto today´s cards.
This week at Sweet Pea Stampers we have

A Beautiful Sketch

for you to follow designed by our very own Anne and once again we are sponsored by the very generous Lynette from Sweet Pea Stamps .
I adore Ching-Chou Kuik´s artwork and these stamps are just so addictive.

Challenges:

My Time To Craft - Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything goes

Materials:

Image: Red Hearts

Sentiment: Sweet Pea Stamps

Ink: Copic Ciao

Papers: BG Indian Summer

Punch: Martha Stewart

Pearls and gems from my stash

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This week´s challenge at Die Cut Dreams has been set by our lovely Susie and she has chosen the theme of

Tilda in Pink

Susie is addicted to Tilda and her favourite colour is pink and she has set this theme for her upcoming Birthday on Friday. Have a great day sweetie!

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Girly Card with Flowers

Crafty Angels - 1 Ribbon, 2 Papers, 3 Flowers

Creative Card Crew - April Showers bring May Flowers

Just Magnolia - Sketch

PaperPlay - Pretty Pastels

Totally Stampalicious - Flower Power

Materials:

Image: Tilda with flowing hair

Sentiment: Stampin Up

Papers: BG Sugared

Die Cuts: Nestabilities

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls, lace and ribbon from stash