An award!

The lovely Sally from Sally Bee’s Cards and Chat gave me this award a little while ago and only now I am getting around to posting it (sorry Sally for taking soooo long!). 

I have to do a few things with this award...

1. Thank the person who gave you the award...Thank you, Sally.

2. Post with pride...Done

3. List 3 things you love about yourself.... I love being creative, I think I’m a good friend and I love being at home with my family (I could quite easily become a recluse lol!).

4. Post a picture you love...

This is me and hubby taken at the beginning of this year at our brother-in-law’s party.  I’m not drunk honest!!   

5. Tag 5 other bloggers with this award - I could pick a lot more but here goes…

Shelly , Donna, Michele, Fiona and Crystal

I love these blogs and look at them whenever I can.

I hope you all have a great weekend, the weather isn’t supposed to be very nice but as I say I’m happy to be home with my boys lol!

Passion for promarkers #68 – DT card

Hello friends, I’m back with my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  It is Emma’s turn to set the theme and she has chosen “sweet treats” i.e cakes, ice-cream, sweets etc but don’t forget to use your promarkers/aqua markers to be in the draw for our prize. 

Here is my card:

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design team have created some very yummy cards this week for you to drool over so why not pop over and take a look.  We appreciate all the nice comments you leave for us. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Totally gorjuss challenge – sketch

Aly’s Sunday challenge – pretty in pink

Crafty sentiments challenge – summer inspiration (my colour scheme)

Pile it on challenge – pile on the layers

Creative belli challenge – use old stamps (I hope that includes digi’s as I’ve used an old digi image)

Creative cottage challenge – celebrations

Creative craft world challenge – celebrations

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – material (ribbon)

Cute card Thursday challenge – material girl (ribbon)

Moving along with the times challenge – stitching (mine is faux)

Paper play challenge – in stitches (again faux stitches)

Alphabet challenge – s is for scallops

Frosted designs challenge – photo inspiration (I went with pink, green and white)

Stamp something challenge – something cute (my image)

CES challenge – floral frenzy (my papers and punched flowers)

Challenge up your life challenge – celebrations

Wee memories challenge – wee ones (for babies and kids)

Whoopsi Daisy challenge – pile on the flowers (my papers and punched flowers)

A pocketful of posies challenge – floral fantasy (my papers and punched flowers)

Lexi’s creations challenge – flower power (again papers and punched flowers)

The shabby tea room challenge – tag you’re it (my sentiment is stamped on a die cut tag)

I’m sorry if I’ve gone over the limits of any challenges (for number of challenges combined) but I didn’t have time to check as I had so many to link up – just disregard me if I have :)

My boys were up and organised and and in plenty of time for school yesterday – not too sure if it will be the same scenario today – will let you know.  Thanks for all the kind wishes.  I hope you have a wonderful day and that it’s not raining buckets where you are, as it is here :(  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – birthday Tallulah

Papers: MME – quite contrary paper pad (freebie from magazine), plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, sentiment from See D’s celebration messages stamp set, circle nesties, shapeabilities tag (from ribbon tags trio), Marianne creatables swirl, clip-punch flower punch, pearls from the hobby house, black gel pen, staples, ribbon from fantastic ribbons 

Cupcake craft challenge #106 – DT card

Here I am again, this time with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge.  The theme this week has been set by the lovely Catherine and she has chosen “books and stories”.  Here is my card:

 

I've used an image called 'Mae as Alice' by some odd girl. My card is based on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I remember reading this book as a little girl and thinking how brave Alice was and how amazing all the creatures were. It was my favourite book for many years.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $20.00 gift voucher plus free shipping (I am so jealous as they have lots of gorgeous goodies in their store). 

We also have a sponsor for September and that is Little Claire Designs.  If you take part in two or more challenges this month you will go into the draw to win this cute little stamp:

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples for your inspiration.  They have all explained why they have chosen their particular image so why not pop over and take a look.  We all appreciate your lovely comments. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Some odd girl challenge – sketch

Crafty sentiments challenge – summer inspiration (my colour scheme)

Sentimental Sunday challenge – 1 solid paper, 2 patterns, 3 embellishments (lace, pearls and stickles) and sentiment

Crafty cardmakers challenge – glitter and sparkle (pearls and stickles)

Delightful challenge – cute & girly using pearls and lace

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – material (lace)

Cute card Thursday challenge – material girl (lace)

Digi doodle challenge – write me a message (my sentiment)

Meljen’s challenge – stripes (my gingham paper is made up of stripes)

Simon says stamp challenge – pearls and lace

Alphabet challenge – s is for scallops (on my sentiment)

Crafty catz challenge – 3 embellishments (lace, pearls and stickles), 2 papers and 1 image

Fairy fun challenge – pearls and lace

Stamp something challenge – something cute (my image)

Craft your days away challenge – girly and glitter (stickles)

Ok, so that’s me done for today.  I really want to thank you for continuing to visit my blog, I really appreciate your support.  I know I’m not posting as much as I used to but hopefully this will improve as my neck and shoulder continue to improve too.  Have a really wonderful day and I hope you will come back tomorrow for my PFP DT card. 

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – Mae as Alice

Papers: Dotty paper is papermania, gingham paper from eBay (?), plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, white gel pen, stickles, lace from wild orchid crafts, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment is penny black, oval nesties

Stamp with fun #75 – DT card

Good morning everyone.  I am here to share with you my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  The theme this week is “wedding” and here is my card:

I made this card a little while ago, but didn’t get around to posting it, so when I saw our challenge this week I knew this card would be ideal. 

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples once again this week for your inspiration.  Please pop over and take a look and leave them a nice comment; they are always very much appreciated. 

I can enter my card into the following challenges:

Paperminutes challenge – love

Papertake challenge – just the one (one ribbon)

Crafty creations challenge – white plus one (I chose blue)

Creative cottage challenge – celebrations (wedding)

Creative craft world challenge – celebrations (wedding)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – material (ribbon)

Cute card Thursday challenge – material girl (ribbon)

Sew many cards challenge – Grandparents, thank you or love theme (love theme)

Alphabet challenge – s is for scallops

2 sisters challenge – monochromatic (I used blues)

Allsorts challenge – new beginnings (married life)

Bee crafty challenge – anything goes

Challenge up your life challenge – celebrations (wedding)

Our creative corner challenge – ABC/123 (my sentiment has letters and numbers)

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – clean and simple (this is about as CAS as I get!)

Crafty calendar challenge – blue and flowers (I may be stretching this one as my bride is holding flowers!  I understand if it doesn’t count).

My boys are starting back to school today and they are not happy!!  Being 16 and almost 14 they have got used to just lazing around for the last 7 weeks (more for my 16 year old as he finished early because of his GCSE’s) and they are not looking forward to getting up at 7.30am in the morning.  My eldest has even stayed in bed until 3pm during the holidays – I know terrible isn’t it :)  I’m sure I’ll have some grumpy heads this morning. 

I’ll be back later with my DT card for cupcake craft challenge but until then take care and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – bride & groom

Papers: wild rose studio – polka dots paper pack, SU whisper white card, blue card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft heart punch, ribbon from stash, sentiment created on pc, SU oval all punches, cuttlebug embossing folder, pearls from stash, oval nesties

By the Cute & Girly challenge – Guest DT projects

I am so excited to share with you my guest designer projects for the September By the cute and girly challenge. This month’s theme is “Indian summer” and I have to say I was a little perplexed as to what to make. One of the sponsors this month is whimsy stamps and they offered some images for the DT to use on their projects. I used one of their images called “Emma swinging” on my card. I also decided to make a sweet little gift box after seeing the fantastic tutorial on the Whiff of Joy tutorial blog. Here are my projects:

There are some great prizes to be won for this month’s challenge including:

prize1 - Joanna Sheen £10 voucher

prize2 - Simon Says Stamp $20 voucher

prize3 = Whimsy Stamps $15 voucher

prize4 - Little Snippets $15 gift voucher

And finally they will also choose 2 guest designers at random to join them for their November challenge.

Please pop over and check out the DT cards and projects as they are all gorgeous. I hope you will be inspired to join in with this month’s challenge. I can’t wait to see what your create.

I can enter my projects into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – simply pearls (I used pearls on both my projects)

OSAAT challenge – girlie and/or colour inspiration (both my projects are girlie I think)

Kaboodle challenge – 2 patterns, 2 plains, flowers and/or lace (my card fits this recipe)

Totally stampalicious challenge – anything but a card (obviously my box!)

Hanna and friends challenge – pearls and swirls (my card)

Fun with shapes and more challenge – dots, swirls, flowers and text (my card)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – anything goes

Bee crafty challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – anything goes

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – lattice (my box has a punched lattice border)

Just us girls challenge – template challenge (my box)

Anything goes challenge – say it with flowers (my card)

Stampavie and more challenge – anything but a card (my box)

Your next stamp challenge – anything goes

Wow now I have to go and link them up lol! I hope you have been enjoying the lovely weather we’ve been having – our challenge is quite apt I think!! Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: whimsy stamps - “Emma swinging”

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

Tools: promarkers, EK success swirl punch, EK success retro flower punch, nellie’s choice stamen punch, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment from “happy day” stamp set by the greeting farm, SU scallop border punch, oval nesties

Box ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – chibi india

Papers: basic grey – marrakech paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock, SU whisper white cardstock

Tools: promarkers, MS border punch, MS butterfly punch, SU clear button, twine and ribbon from stash, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

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:

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

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.

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

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:

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

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.

 

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