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Tuesday 31 August 2010

Passion for promarkers #67 – DT card

Hello everyone, I hope everyone in the UK had a lovely Bank Holiday – at least the weather was nice for a change! I’m back to share with you my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge. I had the honour of choosing the theme this week and I decided upon “teddy bears picnic” as there are so many really cute teddy bear images around at the moment. So as long as you use a teddy bear image and colour it with either promarkers or aqua markers you will be eligible to win our prize this week.

Here is my teddy bear card:

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good luck card (3) close up

We are sponsored this week by Joanna Sheen and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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The rest of the DT have created some gorgeous samples once again this week so why not pop over and take a look. All your comments are always appreciated.

I still haven’t had a chance to go around all the challenges so will play catch up later and see if my card fits in with anything around at the moment. 

Here are a couple of challenges I can enter it in:

By the cute and girly challenge – theme for August is "animal antics"

Pile it on challenge – “farewell to summer” i.e. goodbye, farewell and good luck cards

Kaboodle challenge – 2 patterns, 2 plains, lace and/or flowers

Pollycraft challenge – add a little nature i.e. animals, flowers, leaves etc

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – get well or good luck

I hope you will have a chance to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous cards. Thanks for stopping by today.

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Card ingredients:

Image: wild rose studio (Milton & Co) – Milton with flowers

Papers: basic grey – max & whiskers paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, sentiments created on pc, SU oval all punches, lace from wild orchid crafts, PM adhesive gems, MS border punch

Monday 30 August 2010

Cupcake craft challenge #106 – DT card

Hello everyone, I’m back with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week’s theme has been set by Victoria and she has chosen “use a digi image or greeting”, which as you know is a very easy one for me, as I love my digi images.  Here is my card:

CCC challenge 106 - use a digi image

CCC challenge 106 - use a digi image (close up)

Our sponsor this week is Glitterbabe’s Art and the lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.

Glitterbabe's Art

The rest of the DT have created some gorgeous samples for your inspiration so why not pop over and take a look and leave them a nice comment :)  We will also be announcing the winner of the cupcake followers candy, so definitely worth a visit to see if you have won the gorgeous goodies :)

I have used the sketch over at Friday sketchers challenge and I will be back later to link my card to any other challenges I can find that it fits in with!!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your Bank Holiday and that the weather is good wherever you are.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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CCC challenge 106 - use a digi image

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique - ‘Rocky and present’

Papers: Dovecraft – jolly happy Christmas paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, lace from wild orchid crafts, large white snowflake RAK, MS snowflake punch, craftwork cards sentiment, SU oval all punch, polar white flower soft, pearls from the hobby house, white gel pen

Stamp with Fun #74 – DT card

Happy Bank Holiday Monday crafters - woohoo! an extra day off from work (sorry if you live outside of the UK).  I’m here to share with you my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a lovely sketch by Saphira to use.  Here is the sketch:

SWF #74 sketch

and here is my card:

SWF #74 - sketch

SWF #74 - sketch (close up)

Sorry the pics are up to my usual standard (useless in other words).  It doesn’t help that the glare from the mirri card is almost blinding lol! 

The rest of the DT have as usual created some gorgeous samples to inspire you so why not pop over and take a look.  We appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I’m still behind on my challenges, so will try and catch up tonight and link up my card if it fits with any! 

I’ll be back later with my card for the cupcake craft challenge so until then thanks for stopping by. 

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SWF #74 - sketch

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique - ‘Felicity’

Papers: Dovecraft - ‘winter wonderland’ paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, MS and dovecraft snowflake punches, MS embossed snowflake border punch, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment from studio g clear set (99p range), white gel pen, gold gel pen

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Passion for promarkers #66 – DT card

Good morning everyone I’m back to share my card for the new passion for promarkers challenge.  This week’s challenge has been set by Debs and she has chosen a sketch with the added theme of autumn colours.  Here is the gorgeous sketch:

PFP challenge 66 - sketch and autumn colours

and here is my card:

PFP challenge 66 - sketch & autumn colours

PFP challenge 66 - sketch & autumn colours (close up)

Our sponsor this week is Stampeezee and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

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The rest of the DT have created some amazing samples once again this week, so why not pop over and take a look.  All your comments are very much appreciated. 

I still need to catch up with all the challenges going on at the moment, so will link up my card later. 

I hope you have a wonderful day and I can’t wait to see what you create this week with Deb’s sketch.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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Card ingredients:

Image: Penny Johnson (for Stampavie) – “looking chic”

Papers: Papermania paper pad – Hampstead, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ribbon from stash, MS border punch, ek success retro flower punches, pearls from the hobby house, colorbox chalk ink pad for inking around the edges of paper/card

Monday 23 August 2010

Cupcake craft challenge #105 – DT card

Hello again, I’m back to share with you my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Keep reading to the end of my post as I will be announcing the winner of my personal blog hop candy.  This week’s challenge has been chosen by the lovely Shelly and she has chosen “blue and green” as our theme.  For my card I stamped yet again (!) and used another new stamp, this time it’s “snow white” from kraftin’ kimmie stamps (isn’t she so beautiful).  Here is my card:

CCC challenge 105 - blue & green

CCC challenge 105 - blue & green (close up)

I cut around the image as she was a little large for the sketch and even though I’m not very good at cutting out things I even cut around the star flourish (a clear stamp by verve) which took me forever lol!

Our sponsor this week is the cutting cafe and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi sets of their own choice (and you will be spoilt for choice as they have lots of lovely images and sentiments to choose from). 

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The rest of the DT have created beautiful samples once again this week so why not pop over and take a look, you won’t be disappointed!!  Whilst you are there why not leave them a nice comment as they are so appreciated. 

Again I’m still catching up with all the challenges so will link my card up later but I know I can enter my card at cute card Thursday challenge (as I used their sketch) and also kraftin’ kimmie challenge (whose theme is “you’re a star baby”). 

Now for the exciting bit, as you know we were celebrating our 2nd birthday over at cupcake craft challenge last week and we had a blog hop for you to take part in with lots of lovely prizes up for grabs.  All the winners are being announced over on the main blog along with the new challenge but I also would like to announce the winner of my personal blog hop candy (which was a gorgeous stamp set by the greeting farm called “xmas sweeties”).  The lucky winner is:

SARI

Congratulations Sari, please can you email me with your address and I can get your candy on it’s way to you.  Thanks to everyone for taking part. 

Don’t forget we still have our cupcake madness prize up for grabs – if you enter two or more challenges during August you will be in with the chance of winning 3 x CC designs stamps courtesy of Crafts U Love.  

Not only that we have some cupcake lovers candy up for grabs and all you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this Cupcake Lovers Candy is follow a few simple rules (check out the challenge blog for details).  Once we have reached 1000 followers, we will randomly draw a winner! Easy Peasy!

You definitely deserve a prize just for staying with me for this super long post!!  I appreciate all your comments and your visits to my little ‘ol blog lol!  Thanks for stopping by today

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CCC challenge 105 - blue & green

Card ingredients:

Image: kraftin’ kimmie stamps – snow white

Papers: papermania rose garden, wild rose studio polka dot paper, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, MS border punches, MS leaf punch, SU oval all punches, ek success retro flower punch, nellie’s choice stamen punch, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment from clear set by personal impressions, star flourish by verve stamps

Stamp with fun #73 – DT card

Yay I’m back with a card to share with you.  My neck and shoulder are still aching if I overdo things but at least I’m not in constant pain anymore!!  Over at stamp with fun challenge this week we have a lovely easy theme for you “a card for a girl” so we expect to see lots of gorgeous entries :)  For my card I actually stamped (I know!) using my new whiff of joy image called “Willow with coffee 2 go”.  Here is my card (sorry the pics are a little dark but I took them late at night):

SWF #73 - card for a girl

 SWF #73 - card for a girl (close up)

Our sponsor this week is cute stamps and cards and the lucky winner will win this gorgeous magnolia doohickeys die (I am so jealous):

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The rest of the DT have created some gorgeous cards to inspire you once again this week, please pop over and take a look and leave them a nice comment, they are very much appreciated. 

I am not up to speed with all the challenges around at the moment so I will link up my card later when I have a chance to catch up.  I can however enter my card into the Papertake challenge this week as I followed their sketch. 

I am so happy to be back and would like to say a big thank you for all your lovely get well wishes – it definitely lifted my spirits.  I’ll be back a little later with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.

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SWF #73 - card for a girl

Card ingredients:

Image: Whiff of joy stamps – Willow with coffee 2 go

Papers: pink paislee – 365 degrees paper pad (from Crafty Emma’s store), SU chocolate chip card

Tools: promarkers, SU choc chip ribbon, SU oval all punches, ek success retro flower punch, nellie’s choice stamen punch, sentiment from craftwork cards, adhesive stones from Joanna Sheen, sakura stardust pen on bracelet

Monday 16 August 2010

Cupcake craft challenge #104 – 2nd anniversary blog hop!

Once again this week I am apologising for the lack of DT cards to show you – I still haven’t been able to craft since my accident.  However I couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to join in with the fun over at cupcake craft challenge this week, even if it has taken me almost all week to type this post lol!  

Welcome to the Cupcake Craft Challenge 2nd Birthday Blog Hop and Cupcake Trail! :)

If you've just come from Catherine’s Blog then you are in the right place!  While you're here, please leave me a comment and then pop over to Donna’s blog next.  Don't forget to enter this week’s “All the Two's” Challenge at Cupcake to be eligible to win Design Team Cupcake Candy or this week’s fabulous sponsored prizes.  For all the details of the blog hop and to see what amazing prizes we have up for grabs pop over to the challenge blog. 

If you complete the blog hop and enter a card into this week’s challenge I am offering a prize of a gorgeous stamp set from The Greeting Farm called ‘Xmas Sweeties’.  I will randomly choose a winner from the comments left here on my blog.  xmassweeties

If you think you've lost the cake crumb trail, you can go back to Cupcake and start from the beginning!

Good luck with your entries, you have until 8pm on Saturday 21st August to enter and all the winners will be announced on the Cupcake blog on Monday 23rd August.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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Monday 9 August 2010

Candy winner and an apology!

Hi everyone – just a quick post today to announce the winner of my blog candy (how exciting).  Firstly I just want to let you know that I’m not ignoring you and to apologise for the lack of DT cards this week.  I know some of you are already aware that I was in a minor car accident last Tuesday and as a result I have been suffering from whiplash.  My neck and shoulder are still causing me some pain and discomfort and because of this I’m off work recuperating.  My lovely son is doing me the honour of typing this post for me whilst I closely keep an eye on him!! 

Ok, now for the bit that you are all interested in – the lucky winner of my blog candy.  I want to say a big thank you to everyone that took the time to enter and for sharing the news about my candy throughout blogland!!  Without any more blabbing from me, the lucky winner of my candy is -

No. 168 (chosen by random.org – sorry I couldn’t get the picture up from the blog) and that is                                    SUE U

Congratulations to you Sue U – please email me and I will arrange for you prize to be sent out to you. 

Have a brilliant day and thanks for stopping by.

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Sunday 8 August 2010

It’s candy time!

** MY CANDY IS NOW CLOSED **

WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

** This post will remain at the top until 8th August**

I know it’s about time but I’ve finally got around to photographing my candy!! I will be adding a few more things before it ends (such as stamped images etc) but wanted to get it posted whilst I had the chance.

My candy is to say thank you to everyone who visits my blog and leaves me such lovely comments and also as I’m so thankful for my DT positions and the challenges wins I’ve personally had recently. So here is what is up for grabs (sorry for the terrible photo):

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So in detail here is what’s in my candy:

1 6x6 Basic Grey Kioshi paper pad

1 6x6 Core’dinations whitewash cardstock pad

1 Sugar Nellie ‘peek a bunny’ un-mounted stamp (Elizabeth Bell)

1 Sugar Nellie ‘butterfly fairy’ un-mounted stamp (Mary Hall)

1 Mo Manning ‘ Bella and Bronte’ clear stamp

1 Whiff of Joy ‘shy Willow’ un-mounted stamp

50 white cherry blossom paper flowers

25 yellow gardenia mulberry paper flowers

50 pink aster daisy mulberry paper flowers

50 yellow open rose (10mm) mulberry paper

1 pack of 160 pink and white pearl stamen

1 metre of white insertion aglaise lace

I metre of white cotton lace with ribbon insert

I pack of assorted ribbons

1 pack of self-adhesive rhinestone chipboard letters

I hope you like what I’ve included :)

Now I don’t have too many rules but to in with a chance to win my candy please can you:

1. Spread the word by adding photo of my candy in your sidebar and a link back to my blog

2. Leave a link to your blog below

3. Only one entry per person

My candy will end on 8th August 2010 and I will announce the winner the following day.

That’s it! You don’t have to become a follower and I will post my candy worldwide.

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Tuesday 3 August 2010

Passion for promarkers #63 – DT card

Morning everyone, I’m here to share with you my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week’s challenge has been set by Tracy and she has given us a sketch to use.  Don’t forget that to be eligible for the prize draw you must follow the sketch and use your promarkers.  Here is the sketch:

PFP challenge 63 sketch

 

Here is my card:

PFP challenge 63 - sketch

PFP challenge 63 - sketch (close up)

 

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store. 

joanna sheen

The rest of the DT have created some amazing samples so please pop over and take a look.  We appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

OSAAT challenge – sketch and/or a little pink (I’ve gone for a little pink again!)

The crafty pad challenge – ribbons and flowers

Crafty creations challenge – summer lovin’

Creative craft world challenge – holiday and fun

For fun challenge – summer colours

Hanna and friends challenge – favourite movie - “cocktail”

Crafty Ann’s challenge – lazy, hazy days of summer

Totally papercrafts challenge – going to the movies - “cocktail”

Catch the bug challenge – sweet summertime

One stop craft challenge – patterns (all my papers are patterned)

Mami doodles challenge – anything goes

Digi doodle challenge – punch or cut me (I punched my flowers)

Dutch dare challenge – anything goes

Paper play challenge – anything goes

The Pink elephant challenge – something yummy (alcohol lol!)

Incy wincy designs challenge – summer fun

Crafty angels challenge – something old, something new (my promarkers are old, image is new)

I hope you will have time to enter our challenge this week.  I can’t wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs. 

Don’t forget you still have time to enter my candy (which ends on 8th August) and also the PFP AquaMarkers candy which ends on 16th August.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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PFP challenge 63 - sketch

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – summer quencher

Papers: MME freebie from CM&P magazine, SU whisper white card, green card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, PM adhesive gems, ek success retro flower punch, nellie’s choice stamen punch, SU whisper white ribbon, sentiment from personal impressions clear stamp set (can’t find the packet at the moment lol)

Monday 2 August 2010

Cupcake craft challenge #102 – DT card

Hello again, I’m back to share with you my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Firstly I would like to say a big welcome to Faye as this is her first official week in charge of us at cupcake and also a big thank you to Donna for working so hard to make the challenge blog such a success.  This week’s theme has been chosen by the super talented Kathrin and she would like to see some distressing on your creations.  Now you know it’s not my most favourite thing to do but I seem to have done it quite a lot recently!  Anyway here is my card, which was an order for a friend in work:

CCC challenge 102 - distressing

CCC challenge 102 - distressing (close up)

I attempted to make my own roses, after seeing a few tutorials around blogland and I’m quite pleased with my first go at it.  I will definitely be trying these again.  I distressed all the edges of my card and paper with a small pair of scissors. 

We are sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a $20.00 gift voucher plus free shipping – I’m very jealous lol! 

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Also starting this week we have a monthly sponsor for August – Crafts U Love - and if you enter two challenges or more throughout the month your name will go into the draw to win 3 CC Designs Stamps – how cool is that!  Check out the challenge blog for more details!

Crafts U Love

The rest of the design team have created some amazing cards as usual so please pop over and check them out.  We love reading all your comments and our challenge blog wouldn’t be the success it is without you. 

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – all about babies

Craftalicious challenge – handmade flowers

Simon says stamp challenge – going dotty (my papers)

The treehouse challenge – seeing spots (my papers)

Allsorts challenge – dressing up (my dress can be used for dressing up)

Challenge up your life challenge – celebrations

One stop craft challenge – patterns (my papers)

Totally gorjuss challenge – baby

OSAAT challenge – sketch and/or a little pink (my card fits the pink theme)

Rosie D’s challenge – all creatures great and small (not sure if my teddy bear will count)

Digi doodle challenge – punch or cut me (punched my leaves)

Right that’s me done for today.  I hope you can join in with our challenge this week.  I can’t wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for PFP.  Thanks for stopping by. 

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CCC challenge 102 - distressing

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – simply baby collection

Papers: dovecraft – back to basics paper pad, kraft card from elzybells

Tools: promarkers, sentiment created on the pc, circle nesties, MS frond punch, verve baby sentiment stamp, stickles on flowers and hem of dress, buttons from stash, PM adhesive stones, white gel pen

Stamp with fun #70 – DT card

Good morning and welcome to a brand new week over at stamp with fun challenge.  We have a wonderful sketch by Andrea-Emmi41 to use this week and I’m sure you’ll love using it – I definitely did.  Here is the sketch:

SWF sketch 70

and here is my card:

SWF #70 - sketch 

SWF #70 - sketch (close up)

We have a brilliant sponsor this week – Delicious Doodles – and I had the honour of using one of their digi images on my card called ‘frosty the snowman’. 

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The rest of the DT have done a brilliant job once again this week, it’s amazing how different the sketch can look!!  Please pop over and take a look and leave them a nice comment if you have the time. 

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Paper sundaes challenge – stitching (faux stitching around my image and sentiment)

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – include birds (my image has a small robin – so hopefully my card will count)

Digital Tuesday challenge – dazzle us (adhesive gems)

I love promarkers challenge – Christmas in July

Little red wagon challenge – Christmas in July

Digi doodle challenge – punch or cut me (punched my snowflakes)

Simon says stamp challenge – going dotty (my background paper)

The treehouse challenge – seeing spots (my background paper)

Stamp something challenge – Christmas in July

One stop craft challenge – patterns (all my papers)

Our creative corner challenge – Christmas in July

Rosie D’s challenge – all creatures great and small (again hopefully my little robin will count)

Ok that’s it from me for now.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for cupcake craft challenge.  I really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for me.  Thanks for stopping by.

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SWF #70 - sketch

Card ingredients:

Image: delicious doodles – frosty the snowman

Papers: Daisy & Dandelion – a winter’s tale paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ribbon from stash, sentiment by craftwork cards, SU oval all punch, MS snowflake punch, PM adhesive gems, letraset fineliner pen, circle nesties