Hi there - it 's Tuesday and time for our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers, and this week we have a gorgeous sketch from our gorgeous Michele:

Great isn't it, and as we're being sponsored by the Digi Stamp Boutique, I 've used this fabby Girl sitting on present!!

 The papers are a new Echo Park pad - Happy Days that I got from Crafty Emmas and they are so yummy!! I've paper pieced the present too in the same papers and added my own ribbon and bow rather than use the one on the image. the snowflakes are made with a Martha Stewart stamp and punch set and the sentiment is Waltzing Mouse.

Our sponsor this week, is of cours the fab Digi Stamp Boutique who are offering the lucky winner no less than 6 of their gorgeous digi images!!

That 's it from me for now. Busy, busy at work and at weekends at the moment, so may not be around much this week but will try and visit soon!! 

Candy Winner!

Hello there

Sorry this is a bit late tonight! Forgot I had a Canape making team building session at work tonight!!  Yep honestly!!!  Anyhow, I got through it and my team won!!! So I've come home with a nice shiny new kitchen knife!!

And I've got a rather fabby couple of paper pads to go to .....drum roll please,

- the fabby Danielle -

No 19 in the list of commentators, the number chosen by random.org generator!!

I'm so pleased too, as Danielle really is always stopping by and leaving me encouraging words, so my candy has gone to someone it was meant for! 

Thanks so much for playing along and thank you again for all your support.

I promised a little candy!!

And here it is - a couple of the newest paper pads out from My Minds Eye ( A Beautiful Life) and Crate Paper (Farmer's Market) fresh out at Crafty Emma's store!  Of course I have also bought these for me but let me tell you I nearly kept them both just for stroking!!!  I'm going to leave this up until next Sunday - the 18th - and will announce the winner on Monday 19th. 

This is my way of saying thank you to all the fab people out there who stop by and leave a comment when, as they will know, I can't always find the time to get back on such a regular basis!  You don't need to post about this on your own blog, just leave a comment below and I'll choose a winner by random.org.

Thank you my lovely bloggy friends, you know who you are!!xxxx

CES and Basic Grey Challenges - Lots of Embellies and Brown and Pink

To me that sounds like a match made in heaven which is just as well, as I ran out of time this week to make separate cards for each challenge.  Nightmare week at work but won't bore you with that! 

Back to the business at hand, at CES Challenges we want to see at least 4 different types of embellishments and at Basic Grey Challenges we have a colour theme of Brown And Pink.  At BG of course, you have to use a Basic Grey product!!

For my card, I've used my gorgeous new BG pad, Nordic Holiday, along with  pearl ribbon sliders, divine twine, wooden stars, glittery buttons, pink rhinestones, and Websters trim - the white netting  ( that's well over four!) all from Crafty Emma's Store.  I've  sprinkled some Gold Glamour Dust, that Emma also sells, onto the wooden stars,  having first whitened them with acrylic paint.  The rhinestone swirls were a birthday present and the spotty organza ribbon's from stash.  Oh, and this gorgeous fairy image is by Mo Manning - the Good Witch, Glinda, from The Wizard of Oz - one of my most favouritest Mo images!!

Two fabby prizes for the winner of each challenge too.

Emma is offering  a £10 voucher to the winner of our Embellie challenge at CES.

Follow the link here to Crafty Emma's store to have a little browse just in case your entry is chosen!!

At Basic Grey Challenges we have our regular sponsor, Simon Says Stamps, offering a little spenderette in their online store with a rather nice $25 voucher up for grabs!!



Both sets of my lovely DT maties have got some wondrous cards to share with you so, if you do nothing else week go and take a peek! 

Thanks for popping in!!

No card but look what I won!!

Hello Bloggy Buddies

Krista Smith of Saturated Canary, and the awesome artist behind the Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy range had a competition on FaceBook to name one of her  stunning new digi images that you can now purchase from her Etsy shop here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SaturatedCanaryDigis?ref=si_shop

The prize was the digi itself ( above - a bit small but hey you can see it! ) I think the glory was in naming her!! Can you guess - I won for choosing the name Suzie Stockings!! 

I've extracted Krista's post from FB below:

Name the Stamp Winner...Julie Baker wrote: Oh name her after me - I look just like that in my dreams!! Failing that, how about Suzie Stocking - she looks a bit of a tease!! Fabulous!... This made me laugh-- and I also thought it was perfect...Suzie Stockings. Mz. Julie Baker please email me at krista7smith@yahoo.com for your image!:) Thank you ALL for playing along!:):) It was a super hard choice

What a great start to the weekend.  Busy, busy, off to take son back to Uni tomorrow and then I'm off to Sandown on Sunday to the Craft Show with best matey Lesley!  Oh and I need to make about three cards!! 

Enjoy yours whatever you're doing!!

It's Hopping Day at Mo's!!

Yay, it's the third Thursday in the month so it must be Hopping Thursday for us at Mo's Dream Team.

Your host for today's Hop is our  awesome Mina and we have a theme of Ribbon.

Hopefully, you hopped over here from the lovely Jane's blog, if not, and you want to play along, head back to Mina's and start from there.  As always, hidden somewhere along the way, are two $5 dollar vouchers to spend at Mo's Digital Pencil, so leave a comment on all the DT cards and you could be one lucky winner!

Right, I ought to show my card before you hop off again!

I've used one of Mo's little cutie Elves and this is Little Elf Kin which can be found here at Mo's.

 I decided to make a tent card, so that the cut out image reflected the cheeky imp swinging on the bauble.

The ribbon was in my stash, not sure where from but it has wired edges so keeps it's shape nicely.  The baubles were actually from some present wrapping from  a couple of Christmas's ago and stored safely in my little craft room!   I think the papers are Crate Paper and match perfectly with the bauble embellies!!

You can just see the tent design peeking out here!! 

Now it's time for you to hop on over to the fabby Heidy's blog to see what treat she has in store for you.

Happy Hopping!!

WOJ Challenge 113 Sketch- Where did that last fortnight go!

Yep, me again turning up like the proverbial bad penny!!

Back today with a card for the new Whiff of Joy challenge.  The very lovely Jane has set the challenge and it's to use her very lovely sketch, below!!

I've chosen one of the gorgeous WOJ elves and yes, another Christmas card made!

My backing papers are Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses and I've done a lot of distressing and used an Acrylic Dabber for my snow.  Two of the panels are embossed, one with music and the other random dots to look like snow!  Both are on coloured core card, so that when you sand them back you get the colour showing through.

I've also whitened  the wooden snowflake and the tree and little village to look like snow on the tips.

There will be beautiful cards in spades by the rest of the WOJ DT - so pop on over to take a look! Thanks for popping in and DON'T leave without adding your name to my Sticky Candy post at the top,  Nothing further required - no linking up or reposting, nothing!!

Happy Wednesday!!

Passion for Promarkers - Beary Special!

Hello again - this is my card for our new challenge at PFP and the theme is Beary Special as  chosen by our lovely Lisa!

We have a fab sponsor too - Some Odd Girl with the change to win 3 of their gorgeous Digi Images!

Yep, another Crimbo card from me, this time with a lovely Teddy Bea image.

It's actually quite a simple card for me - I've let the image and papers do the talking!!

Don't forget to pop your name down on my Candy ( sticky post above) - no reposting required - just the fact that you've been lovely and visited me here!!

Hope today is better than yesterday - Monday was not a good day at work!!

New Sketch at Sketch N Stash - can you tell I'm in Christmas mode!

Another Monday rolls around, and the good thing about that means it's time for our next challenge at Sketch N Stash!  This time we have a free choice challenge - just choose a sketch you fancy from our back catalogue of sketches which you can find over on the challenge home page here. - I've gone with Sketch No. 30.  We're being sponsored for this challenge by Simon Says Stamps who are offering a rather fabby $15 dollar voucher to spend with them!

  You may  have noticed  if you are a regular visitor to my blog that I'm well and truly into Christmas mode at the minute! Trying to get as many as possible done before the mad rush of present buying begins!

The fabulous Mo Manning has got some wonderful dwarf images over at Mo's Digital Pencil and I think they are just fantastic for Christmas cards.  This one is Dwarf No 3- look at his fat little belly!! 

The snowflake frame is a new Stamp Around the Page set from Martha Stewart - a recent purchase from QVC and it is brilliant!! I've also used Basic Grey Jovial papers which have been in my stash for at least a year. They suit my dwarf perfectly!!  You  can also just see a little bit of pine needles peeking out that were made using a MS punch.  The wooden snowflakes are Tando which I've distressed a little with Vintage photo Distress Ink and the winter stamp is by Cat's Life Press, bought from Crafty Emma's store, along with the dew drops and mini Christmas Tree button.

My teamettes at Sketch N Stash have chosen some awesome sketches to make awesome cards so check them out if you get the chance!

Have a great week and thanks for popping by!!

Make it Magical or Spooky - our new challenge at CES Challenges

Hello and Happy Saturday. 

Sorry I'm a bit late posting this - didn't sleep very well last night, so have had a bit of a lie -in this morning!   Yes, our theme at CES Challenges this week is Magical or Spooky as chosen by our fabbie Carrie.

Now you might recognise the style of my image as being rather Sassy-like! This is because the stunning artist that is Krista Smith is now selling digis at her Etsy shop here.  This one is called Witch (yes, really!!) and I've teamed her up with the awesom new papers from Prima - Printery and Pixie Glen from Emma's store of course!! I love these new skeleton dies from Marianne Creatables - think they're perfect for the spooky season coming up!!  I've also used Baker's Twine, sparkly buttons and flowers from Emma's - aren't the tiny blue-black rose buds fabby!!  You might also be able to pick up that the broom brush is slightly raised - this is because my colouring went so badly wrong that I had to re do it - couldn't face recolouring the whole thing!

Don't forget to pop on over to CES Challenges, my lovely, fabby teamies there have really done themselves proud - stunning selection of cards to inspire you!

Also, don't forget to comment on my little candy that should be at the top of my blog, this is my little thank you for all my regular followers!!

Have a great weekend!

Challenge 79 at Colour Create

Hi all - isn't this just the most beautiful picture that my fabby teamie, Sylvia, has chosen as our new colour challenge at Colour Create:

Pink, Brown and White or Cream with the optional extra of lace.

I've used a Mo Manning image, the fabulous Damsel  which you can find here,  along with some Pink Paisly papers, a homemade flower  and a sentiment from a mahoosive K&Co set that was one of my first craft purchases about 5 years ago!!

You can just see below that I've toned down the bright gold of my filigree corner with some acrylic paint. Tell you what I didn't do - I didn't add any colour or texture to her collar and cuffs!!  Doh - just noticed!!

Michele's Scrapbooking are sponsoring this challenge, so hope you get  a chance to play along with us and be in with a possibility of winning some crafty goodies!!

Short post from me today, bit busy both at work and home at the moment.  And I so know that I've been a bad blogger of late and just haven't had a chance to visit other blogs - my loss!!  I'm just waiting for delivery of a couple of things then I'm going to put up  that little thank you candy I promised for all you lovely people who still find time to leave a comment here!  Big hugs and thanks to you all!

PFP Challenge 115 - Patchwork.

This week at PFP it's my turn to set the challenge, and I've chosen Patchwork as my theme.  So it could be papers or you could make your own patchwork backing paper, or maybe your image is wearing something patchworked.

Our sponsor this week is Joanne Sheen who's given us at £10 voucher to spend in her on-line store ( and postage is always free!) Hope you can play along!!

For my card, my image has patchwork on her jeans and also my backing paper has a patchwork effect although I seem to have covered most of this up so you can only catch a glimpse of it!  Got my sewing maching out though, to add to the patchwork vibe!!

I bought this little lovely from Funky Kits a while back but think it's an Elizabeth Bell design.  ( First time of inking, yikes!)

The sentiment was cut from some K&CO paper but can't rember the name!

If you played along with us at PFP last week, don't forget to check back to see if you were a lucky winner of the Flexmarkers!  I so want the full set of these!  While you're there, you'll also be able  to check out the awesome cards made by the great DT girls!!

Catch you later!