Candy winner!

Hello friends.  Thank you to everyone who entered my candy to win the gorgeous Wild Rose Studio “Mia with kitten” stamp.  I really appreciate all your support of my blog and love reading your generous comments.  I used random.org to choose a winner and that is:

No.21

*** SHELLY ***

Congratulations Shelly.  Please email me and I’ll will get your stamp out in the post on Monday.  I will be posting another ‘mini candy’ over the weekend so keep your eyes open!!  Thanks again to everyone who took part in my first mini candy.  Have a wonderful weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.

 

Mini Candy!

Good evening dear friends. I’ve decided as I missed my blogaversary many months ago (oops) that I am going to offer several “mini” candy’s, so as many of my friends can have a chance at winning something sweet!! My first candy is a super cute stamp from Wild Rose Studio called “Mia with kitten” which I somehow managed to buy twice, so this stamp is brand new and in it’s original packaging! I recently used this image on a card here. This what you can win:

All you have to do to win this stamp (plus some extra bits and bobs that I can lay my hands on) is to leave you name with Mr Linky and add a pic/link in your sidebar. You don’t have to become a follower – unless you want to of course – and I will draw a winner next Friday at 7pm. Good luck.

Winter wonderland challenge–DT project

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you’ve had a brilliant week so far – the weekend is nearly here woohoo!  I can’t believe how quickly this week has flown by – not that I’m complaining of course. 

I’m here this morning with my DT project for this week’s winter wonderland challenge.  This week the lovely Suzi has set the theme and she has chosen “robin redbreast” so we want to see all your images featuring robins – simples right !!  I decided to make a door hanger for a change:

I am still waiting (not very patiently by the way lol!) for my printer ink to be delivered so I had to search through my stamps for a suitable image.  I was super pleased to find this adorable wild rose studio ‘Milton & co ‘ stamp called “Milton & robin” to use.  I coloured the image with a mix of promarkers and flex markers simply added a large ribbon bow and pearls for decoration.  I used my circle nesties to cut out the aperture for the door handle.  I have to say it looks much nicer IRL and I’m quite happy with the finished result – for once haha!

Our sponsors this week are pink gem designs and they are offering 4 digis of the winner’s choice and also squiggle stamps who are offering 2 digis of the winner’s choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my door hanger in the following challenges:

Wild rose studio blog – Christmas card/creation + blog hop

Allsorts challenge – bear with us

CES challenge – seeing red

Mark’s finest papers challenge  – no designer paper

One stop craft challenge – anything goes

Christmas crafting challenge – little robin red breast

Little Claire’s challenge – Christmas

Clean and simple challenge – anything goes

Whoopsi daisy challenge – let’s do Christmas

Crafty boots challenge – zoo or animal themed

Lollipop crafts challenge – critters

Anything goes challenge – dies, punches or both

Oldie but a goodie challenge – wings

ABC Christmas challenge – u is for unused stash (the stamp and ribbon)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – remind you of a song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

Meljen’s challenge – use a ribbon

Crafty Ann’s challenge – inspired by a Christmas song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

Daring cardmakers challenge – add a bird

Jingle belles challenge – inspired by a holiday song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Becky, Prasanthi, Carol and Craftingdelights *waves hello*.  Thanks for following me ladies, I hope you will pop around again soon.  Don’t forget to check out my mini-candy (which is a sticky post at the top of my blog) for your chance to win a cute stamp by wild rose studio.  The candy ends 7pm tonight. 

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: wild rose studio – (‘Milton & co’ stamp) “Milton & robin”

Papers: none, SU real red cardstock, white MIC cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ribbon from the ribbon girl, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Passion for promarkers #121–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I trust you all had a good Monday – mine started off badly – my alarm didn’t go off and me and the boys were all late for work and school.  Don’t you just hate rushing around, especially when it’s just to get to work lol!  However my colleagues in work are the best and they covered for me until I got there. 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week the lovely Andie has set the theme and she has chosen “Christmas critters”, so we basically want to see all your animals enjoying Christmas!  As our sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique I thought I would use one of Sally-Ann’s images and was going to use one of the new “offers of the month” images for October, however my printer decided to run out of ink over the weekend and I hadn’t had a chance to print out my image.  Therefore I have used an older image, but still as equally as cute.  Here is my card:

The image is from the “cute nativity collection” and I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The paper is from the dovecraft ‘let it snow’ paper pad and kraft card is from elzybells (what am I going to do when it runs out lol!). 

As I mentioned our sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Clean & simple Sunday challenge – anything goes as long as CAS

The crafty pad challenge – vintage

Dream valley challenge – monochrome

Whoopsi daisy challenge – let’s do Christmas

Heart song inspirations challenge – use die cuts and/or sponged background

Lollipop crafts challenge – critters

My mum’s craft shop challenge – all creatures great and small

4 crafty chicks challenge – monochromatic

Do you stack up? challenge – use brown (hope kraft is ok?)

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – too early for Christmas?

Crafty Ann’s challenge – inspired by a Christmas song (‘while shepherd’s watch their flocks by night’)

Fun with shapes and more challenge – shabby/vintage

Raise the bar challenge – furry friends

Totally papercrafts challenge – animals

Little Claire’s challenge – Christmas

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Kay Roche *waves hello*, thanks hun, I hope you will visit me often.  Don’t forget to check out my mini-candy (which is a sticky post at the top of my blog) for your chance to win a cute stamp by wild rose studio.  The candy ends 7pm on Friday.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – image from ‘cute nativity collection’

Papers: dovecraft – ‘let it snow’ paper pad, kraft card from elzybells

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, dovecraft snowflake punch, personal impressions sentiment, charm from stash, pearls from the hobby house, baker’s twine from the pretty little ribbon shop, nesties labels one small

Cupcake craft challenge #163–DT project

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends, I’m back as promised with my DT project for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Louise has set the theme and she has chosen “Halloween” so I expect we’ll have lots of entries this week.  As I have made quite a few cards for Halloween I decided to make some cute treat holders:

I had a bit of a disaster with my printer over the weekend and had to frantically sort though my stamps to find something suitable.  I found this super cute Elzybells image (which I think I used last year lol) and coloured the images with my promarkers.  The treat holders are really simple to make with only 5 score lines in total and then tied together with some pretty gingham ribbon.  I haven’t filled them with anything yet but the possibilities are endless and they are perfect for any time of the year.

Our sponsor this week is cupcake cards and crafts and they are offering one lucky winner their choice of one paper collection of their choice.

Don’t forget we also have our “icing on the cupcake” sponsors and for October we have two!!  Firstly we have Polka Doodles and they are offering one lucky winner a copy of their ‘pretty sweet’ CD collection.  Our second sponsor is Scrap Affair and they are offering one lucky winner a 5 pack of promarkers. 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my treat holders into the following challenges:

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (I was inspired by the halloween cake)

Cutie Sunday challenge – Halloween

Quirky crafts challenge – something spooky

Crafty creations challenge – create a crafty decoration

Creative craft world challenge – Halloween

Delightful challenges – make it dimensional

Freshly brewed challenge – pumpkins

I love promarkers challenge – spooky

Little darlings challenge – fall or Halloween

Meljen’s challenge – Halloween

Pixie dust studio challenge – anything but a card

Card makin’ mamas challenge – fancy folds

Fussy and fancy challenge – fall or Halloween

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – Halloween

Simply create challenge – something older than 6 months (my stamp)

2 sisters challenge – Halloween

Catch the bug challenge – anything but a card for Halloween

Challenge up your life challenge – Halloween

Crafty calendar challenge – spooky (3rd entry)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create. 

Don’t forget to check out my mini-candy (which is a sticky post at the top of my blog) for your chance to win a cute stamp by wild rose studio.  The candy ends 7pm on Friday.

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Ingredients:

Image: Elzybells – ‘pumpkin girl’ stamp

Papers: authentique – ‘6x6 bundle collection – glowing’, SU basic black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, personal impressions sentiment, gingham ribbon from crafter on FB, stamping up word window punch

Stamp with fun #132–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you all had a fab weekend, but boy don’t they go by too fast.  I can’t believe it’s time for work already groan!!  However on the positive side it also means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a wonderful sketch by Tina to work with.  I had been asked by a friend at work to make a card for her daughter’s 21st birthday so I decided to combine the two!  Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I have used a gorgeous image by Sugar Nellie stamps from the simply sassy range called ‘retail therapy’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The colour scheme was chosen by my friend as her daughter loves these colours.  I have to admit I did struggle to find papers that complimented each other and most of these have been in my stash for years.  It does look much better IRL and my friend was very happy with it!  I recently treated myself to some new magnolia doohickeys dies – the flowers and swirl – and I love them already so expect to see them on all my cards for the next few weeks lol!.  The card is 8 x 8 in size and as it was such a layered sketch I think I worked really well on a larger size card.  

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Corrosive challenge – purple + 1 other colour (mine is teal)

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – anything goes

Aud sentiments challenge – happy birthday

Crafty purple frog challenge – layers

Hanna & friends challenge – bingo (lace, pearls and dies)

Fairy fun challenge – sugar and spice and everything nice

The poodles parlour challenge – birthdays or buttons or brads (I’ve used brads and birthday)

 Simply create challenge – older than 6 months (my papers)

One stop craft challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Dawn Lancaster, Julie-Ann, Wishes, Jane Gould, Nicola Jayne Saul, Elaine, Cath, and KarmaFran *waves hello* – thank you so much for joining my little bit of blogland, I hope you will visit me again soon.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today. 

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – simply sassy ‘retail therapy’

Papers: basic grey – ‘romani’ paper (now retired I believe), plain paper from stash, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace from wild orchid crafts, magnolia doohickeys flowers and swirls dies, brads from stash, making memories ‘cheeky’ shimmer letter and number stickers,personal impressions sentiment, clear and simple stamps sentiment, circle nesties

Charisma cardz #40–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are surviving the dreadful winds and rain we’re having at the moment.  I was drenched just walking from my car to work yesterday – it’s going to be a long winter I think groan!!

On a happier note it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge today and I am delighted to have set the theme this week.  As it’s almost halloween I thought I would choose a colour theme of “black and orange”, although you don’t have to make a halloween card unless you want too of course.  Here is my card:

I have used a super image which was kindly given by our sponsor Pink Cat Studio and she is called ‘Lily witch’ and I coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The dotty paper is echo park from the ‘dots and stripes – candy shoppe collection’ and the borders were created with my martha stewart drippy goo border punch.  The fun ghosts were die cut using a sizzix sizzlit die.

As I mentioned our first sponsor this week is Pink Cat Studio and they are offering one lucky winner 5 digital stamps of their choice and our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 gift voucher (excl p&p) to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Come and get it challenge – Halloween

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – include fruit (she is holding a pumpkin)

Bows and berries challenge – photo inspiration

Karen’s doodles challenge – Halloween

The pink elephant challenge – trick or treat

Digital Tuesday challenge – we like to party

Freshly brewed challenge – pumpkins

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something punched

Party time Tuesday challenge – show us your shapes (circle, ghost) 2nd entry

Tuesday throwdown challenge – Halloween

Crafts and me challenge – use a digi

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – die cuts and punches

I love promarkers challenge – spooky

Little darlings challenge – fall or Halloween

My mum’s craft shop challenge – all creatures great and small (cat & frog)

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use polka dots

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – Halloween

Crafty calendar challenge – spooky

I hope you will be able to join in with my colour challenge this week and I really look forward to seeing what you create.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio – ‘Lily witch’ digi

Papers: echo park – ‘dots and stripes – candy shoppe collection’, SU basic black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, personal impressions sentiment, circle nesties, MS drippy goo border punch, sizzix sizzlits ghost die, papermania adhesive stones