AUD Sentiments - Anything holiday

Our new challenge over at AUD sentiments is 'Anything Holiday' (with a sentiment)

Our lovely sponsor this time is Polka doodles and I've used this sweet snowman digi for my project.

The poinsettia is made with a marianne die set and the sentiment is from a sheet of die cuts. the ribbon is from crafty ribbons and I've inked the edges of the paper with distress inks.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Charisma #46 - Snowflakes

Time for a new challenge at Charisma! Thanks to Natalie for choosing the theme of Snowflakes!

Here are our wonderful sponsors for this challenge:

PRIZE ONE

Crimson cloud are offering 3 packs of die cuts of one winners choice!
PRIZE TWO
is a £10 Voucher from the lovely Joanna Sheen!
PRIZE THREE
The lovely Sally-ann at Digistamp Boutique is offering a lucky winner 6 individual Digis of their choice!

PRIZE FOUR

And finally, a mini surprise only available to our Facebook entries!!

Here's my inspiration card for you, as you might have noticed this snowflake stamp has cropped up a few times on my blog recently! I'm loving trying out lots of different techniques with it and getting so many different looks from just one stamp!

This time I've used gold and pink glitter embossing powders from a company called 'Wow' who make the most fabulous range of embossing powders you could ever wish for!

The papers is from a Basic Grey pad which is not christmas related at all but I thought the colours tied in very nicely! The ribbon is from stash and the sentiment is from craftwork cards. The little glittery snowflakes are made with a Marianne snowflake die!

Thanks for stopping by today :)

4 Crafty Chicks - Snowflakes

C.R.A.F.T. - 1/5 - 'Unusual Christmas'

Colour Create - 1/1 Color Inspiration* Pink, White and Gold

Moving Along With The Times - 1/3 - Ribbons and Bows
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
House That Stamps Built -- Christmas card+snowflake
Little Red Wagon - Christmas
Scrapbook Sisters - Christmas
City Crafter Challenge - Must mention challenge in post - A Pink Christmas
Creative Craft Challenges - 2/3 - Free For All Week
Everybody-Art-Challenge - Christmas Card  
Paper and Such Design - 1/2- No Colouring Stamp Stick & Go
Paper Take Weekly - Christmas Crackers!
Partytime Tuesdays - 2/3 - Snow Us What You've Got
Hooked on Crafts - Punches and /or Diecuts
Kaboodle Doodles - Baby its cold outside
Paper Creations Ink - Christmas
Paper Playtime - Say It With Sentiments
Pollycraft - Christmas Fun
Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes at Christmas
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Rockin Robin!

This is a Pink Gem image I coloured yonks ago with my prisma pencils and he was feeling a tad neglected! So I took pity on him and finally used him on a card, I think he looks much happier already!

I've followed the Sketch over at Sketch n Stash and my neglected stash is this poor little guy!The papers are from my huge pile of Xmas scraps and I've used a border punch by MS and a Martha Stewart doily die. The ribbon is from stash, the corner die is sizzix and the greeting and card candy are from craftwork cards.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Create Me Pink Challenges - Use A Digi 

Creative Craft Challenges - 1/3 - Free For All Week

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #138 Sparkle & Shine

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Christmas Card

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - 1/1- Winter Blues !

Partytime Tuesdays - 1/3 - Snow Us What You've Got

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - 1/2 (must use digi) - Christmas

Forever Friends - must include animal - Christmas is Coming

Hooked on Crafts - Punches and /or Diecuts

Paper Creations Ink - Christmas

Pollycraft - Christmas Fun

Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes at Christmas

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

2 Sisters - Let it sparkle

One Stop Craft - BLUE

Fabulous Friday - die cuts  

Floweret - Christmas

Phindy’s Place - 2/3 - Christmas cards

Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge - must use digi - all about birds  

Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - 1/1 - any cute image

Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle
Forever Friends - M - must include an animal - Something old (digi), Something new (MS Doily die)

Moving Along With The Times - 2/3 - Let It Snow  

Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

 Thanks for stopping by :)

Are no two snowflakes alike?

Well certainly not when it comes to resist embossing!

I've used this big snowflake stamp from Inkadinkado, and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then inked over the middle with milled lavender distress ink and around the edges with broken china.

The paper is from Papermania and the ribbon hole punch is by fiskars. The ribbon is one I got from the USA and the greeting is from craftwork cards.

Thanks for visiting :)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:


Get Hippity with Ippity - 1/1 - Embossing
Hooked on Crafts - Punches and /or Diecuts
Paper Creations Ink - Christmas
Pollycraft - Christmas Fun
Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes at Christmas
Fashionable Stamping Challenges - 1/3, no digi allowed - "I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas"
Let`s Ink It Up - 5E, Must use rubber stamp - Show us your Favourite Technique
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
PanPastel UK Challenge - 1/2 - Frosty and Bright
Pile It On - Anything with a "P" (DT Call)
2 Sisters - Let it sparkle
Crafty Emma - 1/3 - Snowflakes
Rogue Redhead Designs - only one designer paper
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Embossing
Crafty Catz - 1/1 - snowflakes
Floweret - Christmas
Phindy’s Place - 1/3 - Christmas cards
Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas

Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle

Moving Along With The Times - 1/3 - Let It Snow

Paper Crafting Journey - Embossing
Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter Challenge - 2/3 - snowflakes

My first Saturated Canary card

I am totally in love with Saturated Canary digis, but I've been initimidate by colouring them so I only bought my first 2 just the other day! I'm not the worlds best colourer and shader so I'm not completeley happy with her hair on this one but I think it's a reasonable first attempt!

I've coloured with Promarkers and used Antique linen distress ink around the edges of the image. The paper is by My Minds Eye, the ribbon is from stash and I've used a cuttleug Divine swirls embossing folder which I've used textured card in and sanded the raised swirls. The corners are cut from a Sizzix die, and the sentiment is a LOTV stamp.

 I have followed the Sketch at Willow Sketchie Challenge:

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - 1/1 must use a digi - texture

Fabulous Friday - die cuts 

Patties Creations -1/2 - birthday or Thanksgiving

Paper Crafting Journey - Embossing

Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

Sassy Cheryl's -2/3- Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Fantasy 

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - 2/2 (must use digi) - Anything goes with a Digi

Hooked on Crafts - Punches and /or Diecuts

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Some Women Only

Squigglefly - Happy Birthday )

The Pink Elephant - Embossing

Stamptacular Sunday - Must use a stamp - Punch It

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - Birthday Card

Crafty Ribbons New England range

I was lucky enough to recently participate in the Crafty Ribbons 'New England' themed ribbon challenge, and here's what I made with this gorgeous collection:

These fab Christmas shoes are by Bugaboo and I've coloured them with promarkers. The edge of the image had been inked with Worn Lipstick DI. I've tied three colours of ribbon around the edge and used the happy christmas ribbon as the sentiment. The embossing border punch is by fiskars.

I made this little notebook with my guillotine and my crop a dile! The sweet ribbons hold it together. The paper is by My Minds Eye and I've added a flourish stamped in the corner and a little chipboard robin and tree.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

 

Crafty Ribbons - Anything BUT a Card
Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Red and Green

Paper Crafting Journey - Embossing

Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter Challenge - 1/3 - snowflakes

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - Christmas Time

Sassy Cheryl's -1/3- Anything Goes

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - 2E, (must use digi) - Anything goes with a Digi

Hooked on Crafts - Punches and /or Diecuts

Karens Doodles - 1/1- Anything BUT a Card 

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Use Any Freebie (ribbons)

The Pink Elephant - Embossing

Stamptacular Sunday - Must use a stamp - Punch It

Seasoned with Mica powders!

I am loving my Mica powders at the moment!

Here I've used an Inkadinkado snowflake stamp with versamark and dusted three shades of mica powders over the top. Just a bit of ribbon and of course some gems to finish off!

The only problem I have with Micas is they are blooming hard to photograph! Thats not going to put me off them though! :)

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Craft Your Passion - Let it Snow
Creative Stamp Friends - Light Cards
Stamps R Us - 2/2 - Bling It On
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Floweret - Christmas
Jellypark Challenges 1/2 - non traditional Christmas colors
Mami Doodles - Christmas
Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - 1/1 - at least 2 Different Ribbon
Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle

Funky Tree

This is a really cute idea on saw on our stand at the NEC, so I can't take credit for the idea but this is my take on it :)

The tree shape is a peel off and I've painstakingly added different gems and buttons to fit into the little circles! when I was getting towards the end I got a bit lazy and finished off with a few different shades of stickles. The greeting is a personal impressions stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

MONDAY

Cards For Men - must be masculine - Christmas Card  

Critter Sketch - Monochrome

Stamps R Us - 1/2 - Bling It On

SUNDAY

One Stitch At A Time - Black and White

SATURDAY

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Allsorts - 1/1 - Black White and one other

FRIDAY

Floweret - Christmas

Mami Doodles - Christmas

Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas

THURSDAY

Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle

WEDNESDAY 

Crafting for all Seasons - texture

Inky Impressions - glitter

  

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

I keep getting christmas songs stuck in my head recently! I can't help but sing along with my internal jukebox which annoys my colleagues no end!

I made this christmas card today using one of my new stamps from the NEC. The company is called Indigo Blu and they have a fantastic range of unusual gorgeous stamps.

The one I've used here is called Bare Forest, it stamped beautifully first time with versamark ink and I then dusted it over with silver Mica powder to bring out the image.

Recipe:

Bare Forest stamp with mica powder

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Silver and blue card.

LOTV sentiment stamp

MS Snowflake border punch and single snowflake punches.

Stickles for the falling snow

Thanks for stopping by :)

Challenges:

SATURDAY

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Marks Finest Papers -Your favourite technique

One Stop Craft - Ribbons and Lace and a DT Call

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Traditions

FRIDAY 

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - must be Christmas - use a stamp that has never seen ink Fabulous Friday - embossing

Fairy Fun Fridays - no black lines

Floweret - Christmas

Mami Doodles - Christmas

Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas

THURSDAY

Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Make It Sparkle

 Delightful Challenges - 1/1 - Snowflakes

 Paper Crafting Journey - Embossing

WEDNESDAY

Crafting for all Seasons - texture

Inky Impressions - glitter

TUESDAY

Partytime Tuesdays - 1/3 - Bling It On

Stamp-N-Doodle - Sparkle & Shine

Top Tip Tuesday - 1/3- Anything Christmas Goes 

MONDAY

Heart Song Inspirations - 1/1- Anything Goes

Squigglefly - NO Patterned Paper

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Winter

There She Goes - Holiday Projects

 

a sneaky peek

Can ya tell what it is yet?

Well it's not finished at the moment, so I'm just going to tease you with this little close up :)

F1 Smashbook page

So this is another page I've done in my 'Things I Heart' Smashbook! F1 race Weekends are marked on the calendar in our house, as sad as it sounds we try not to miss a race!

Anything can happen and as proved by Lewis Hamilton in 2008, World Championships can be won or lost at the very last corner of the very last race.

 The quote in the middle of the page was already there and is the reason I picked this particular page of the book! As you can probably tell we are McLaren supporters!

There is a blank page opposite this one so I may decide to update it every year entering the latest world Champion!

Lets hope the mighty Sebastian Vettel has a bit more competition next year as this past season has been quite a one horse race!

Even though the championship has already been decided, we will still be watching the remaining races, of course ;)

I really enjoyed doing this page and hope you have enjoyed browsing ;)

Thanks for stopping by, do drop in again soon :)

AUD Sentiments - Thank you

This week at AUD Sentiments, our challenge is to make a Thank you card or a Thanksgiving card!

We are sponsored by the lovely Wee Stamps, and I got to play with this cute fairy digi for my project :)

What I used:

Prisma pencils, scalloped circle nesties, Tattered Rose distress ink, paper scrap from stash, inverted corner punch, LOTV sentiment stamp, flowers, ribbon and gem from stash.

Thanks for visiting me today :)

My First Smash* Book

I've discovered I'm a very slow 'smasher' so I'll be sharing pages from my books one at a time!

This is the cover of the Black book, which I'm going to fill with things I love (or 'heart' as we say in our house!)

cover is by no means finished but I will keep adding little things here and there whenever the mood takes me!

I've started off a couple of pages inside too, here's a sneaky peek ;)

 

NEC Stash!

My last day at the NEc was sunday but it was so exhausting it's taken me until today to recover properly, and now I'm off to work this afternoon, and college tonight! So back to the daily grind! But first I want to show alllll the stuff I got from the NEC! Most of it is from the stand I was working on as I didnt get many breaks but I did manage to sneak off to a few other stalls ;)

Here's all the Smash stuff I bought! Probably went over the top a bit but I just had to get one of everything lol :)

These are a lovely range of stamps, I wish  I could have afforded the whole lot but for the time being I just got a map backgroud and some trees :)

These 2 are matching stamp and die sets by Hero arts, I just couldnt resist!

Lots of dies! mainly Marianne ones but I did sneak in a set of Xcut squares too!!

Lili of the valley die cut sheets, 12 for £10! so naturally one of each lol ;)

LOTV tags stamp set

a copious amout of peel offs, not that I really need any but I have some ideas for my smashbooks with them :)

This is a lindsay mason christmas set, will come in handy for knocking out quick xmas cards!

all the embellies I got! The feathers are so cool! Got some Stickles which I dont have yet, and some candy bonbons which were 6 packs for a fiver

boring adhesives but necessary nonetheless

pretty papers! I really need to stop buying paper till I've sorted out a new home for them as my paper stash has now outgrown it's basket! also an embossing folder and an MS punch.

just a couple of distress inks

A gorgeous house and a key box that I'm planning to alter for christmas pressies

more boring stuff, card blanks!

and finally, some cut and dry, Flitter glu and gilding flakes! can't wait to play with these!

I am back to work and college now for the next 4 days so wont have chance to play properly until saturday!

Hope everyone else that went to the NEC had a great time and it was fab to meet those that stopped by to say Hi!  :)