Tuesday 31 December 2013

Time for Tea


Another sample for Stamposaurus, this time using the new cute teatime set. The teapot and cup are plain so I decided to doodle some flowers on them.
Stamp set - Stamposaurus
Medium - Copics and Sakura blue star and rose star pens
Paper - Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique
Other - doily, DI Victorian Velvet, card candi

Challenges
AGOAC Anything Goes 
The Squirrel and the fox Anything goes 
The Paper ShelterAnything Goes 
Creative Inspirations Anything Goes

Tomorrow I will be sharing my five favourite non Christmas cards from 2013. I will also be having some candy in January including some of the above papers.

Monday 30 December 2013

Let's Fly


I hope you are enjoying the change from so many Christmas cards. I do plan to keep making them all year though so expect to see them in between all the other cards all year.
Image - The Crafty Pad (digi)
Papers - MME Blush and Prima Lyric
Die - MB swirly tree
Punches - MS rose leaf and fern, bird border
Roses - Wild Orchid
Butterfly - Prima

Challenges
Sweet Stampin' A little bird told me 
Papertake Pick f the year (July Die-ing for a Punch) 
Bunny Zoe Wings 
Crafts - Too Challenge You Natural world inc any winged creature 
Crafts and Me Anything Goes 
Creative Knockouts Anything Goes 
Cute Card Thursday Anything Goes

Sunday 29 December 2013

Gorjuss Christmas


This is my second post today. Please scroll down for today's card.

I thought I would share this photo with you off all the Gorjuss Girl goodies my lovely hubby bought me. One calendar for downstairs and one for my craftroom, a diary, mouse mat, luggage tag, magnet, coaster and tins. 

I had some lovely crafting items too from friends a £15 LOTV voucher, paper, pearls and a stamp. Hubby bought me some toppers and decoupage I wanted for quick makes to sell, a £10 Hobbycraft voucher and amazingly he chose two First Edition paper pads for me.

I hope you all got some new crafty stash, leave me a comment and let me know what you got.

New Sewing Stamps


Something different from Christmas cards today. As some of you know I make samples for Stamposaurus for their new stamp launches and they have 6 new stamps out. This is the sewing set. I have coloured them with Copics and teamed them with some tape measure ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and Marianne Design's papers, Michaels border punch, baker's twine and a Tim Holtz stitch stamp. Check out the website for the full range of new stamps. I will be bringing you some more samples shortly.

Challenges
Stamping Sensations Free and Easy 
Crafty Creations Anything Goes 
Allsorts Brown with blue, aqua or turquoise (any combo)
Creative Card Crew Anything Goes

Saturday 28 December 2013

My Favourite 5 Christmas cards of 2013


Every year Debby asks us to choose our favourite 5 Christmas cards for the year. Always so difficult to narrow it down to just 5 but I have managed it.

The first one is my Hubby's card. I really enjoyed colouring these little cute creatures and making a vintage style card with the gorgeous Craftwork Cards Christmas Post papers.


This one was only on my blog on Boxing Day. Another gorgeous LOTV stamp, loads of layers, frantage, lace, sharms. In fact lots of my favourite things here.


Regular readers will know I used this new Woodware stamp in a few different ways and this is my favourite. I paper pieced it and made a many layered card.


I love Delicious Doodles scene digis and teaming this one with some raffia lace and diecuts made a striking card, traditional yet modern.


My final choice is one of, if not my favourite Christmas stamps of all time. Here she is in my favourite colour combo with some of my fave lace on one of the shaped cards I have loved using this Christmas.


Well, that's my five. I look forward to checking out some of the entries.

Friday 27 December 2013

My favourite Christmas stamp (probably)


I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas. This is probably my favourite all time Christmas stamp coloured in my fave colour with my fave lace. I love the amount of white on this card too.
Image - Whiff of Joy
Medium - Copics
Papers - Echo Park Winter Wishes
Lace - Wild Orchid
Die - MB traditional star
Card blank - Craftwork Cards

Challenges

Sweet Stampin' White plus one 
Dream Valley Christmas 
Kaboodle Doodles Christmas 
As You Like It Favourite Christmas stamp and why (I love Elisabeth Bell images and this one is so beautiful. I love her dress and it is such a challenge to colour.) 
Southern Girls Christmas wishes 
Charisma Anything Goes 
Divas by Design Anything Goes 
Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards or any not shown
Papertake Pick of the year I chose Last Christmas card of the year

I will be back tomorrow with my favourite 5 Christmas cards of 2013.

Thursday 26 December 2013

Jingle Bells


I hope you have all had a lovely day ysterday. This is the Christmas card I made for my good friend Lynsey (and Will and their little girl Grace of course). Lynsey actually bought me the stamp as part of my Birthday present so I knew she liked it and I know how much both she and Grace love fairies and pink.
Image - LOTV
Papers - Nitwits Woodland Wishes from LOTV
Lace - Crafty Ribbons
Gauze - LOTV shop
Other - wooden sentiment and embellie, stickles, frantage, vintage tag and number from NEC, baker's twine, bell charms, TH distressing tool, DI Victorian Velvet

Challenges
Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards/any not shown 
That Craft Place Anything Goes 
Ali-Craft Christmas 
Bunny Zoe Wings
In the Pink Pink Christmas
 CCAYR Christmas Stocking 
Heck of a Challenge Colourful 
My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas 
Stamping Sensations Free and Easy 

Tuesday 24 December 2013

Christmas Eve


Well here we are on Christmas Eve and I thought this an appropriate card to post today. I hope Santa brings you lots of goodies on his sleigh.

Image - Penny Black
Medium - Copics
Embossing folder - Crafter's Companion with sanded Core'dinations
Stars - Woodware punch and crimper
Die - Spellbinders floral oval
Other - Stickles, DI Frayed Burlap

Challenges
Penny Black Christmas
Natalie and Amy Cute and Cuddly Christmas
BizzyBecs Christmas 
Sketch Saturday Any sketch after 215
Which I rotated

Monday 23 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 23


Sorry my posts have been a bit short but they have all been scheduled as we have been without a laptop for almost a week so I haven't easily been able to add the more personalised bits to my posts as I would normally do. Trying to do it on an iPad is such a fiddle.

Can you believe it is already 23rd December and we are almost at the end of our fabulous advent calendar event on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. Today our sponsor is


This is the card I made for my Mum's husband to give her.
Images - LOTV
Medium - Copics
Papers - Nitwits Woodland Wishes from LOTV
Sentiment - LOTV
Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons
Die - Tatterd Lace ivy
Other - charm, Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen, baker's twine

Challenges
Ready-Teddy-Go Contemporary colours
Papertake Last Christmas card of the year
 Bearly Mine Anything Goes 
Aud Sentiments Christmas 
Cute Card Thursday Celebrations 
Delightful Celebrate 
Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards/ any not shown




Sunday 22 December 2013

Fairy Tag



I made this tag for my friend Lynsey's Christmas pressy. I used one of thePrima tags with a large LOTV diecut and fussy cute the image. The papers are DCWV Winter combo, ribbon Crafty Ribbons. I used an MB snowflake die and MS cherish border punch.

Challenges
Sparkles Anything but a card
Totally Gorjuss Quick Christmas
Crafting from the heart Anything goes

Saturday 21 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 21


Day 21 of the Advent Calendar has arrived and Christmas will be here before we know it. I hope you are playing along at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where today our sponsor is Crafty Individuals with a fabulous prize.

I have made a simple card today using a Tim Holtz reindeer diecut coloured with DI Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain with added white souffle pen dots. The papers are Bo Bunny Rejoice and the gorgeous owl ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons of course. The sentiment is one of the LOTV grunge sentiments with a little red glitter pen added.




Friday 20 December 2013

Numbers


My DT card today is for the challenge of numbers at Winter Wonderland. Today we start our option of non Christmas makes for just a few weeks. We realise that you may not have any Christmas makes left to create so you an choose to make something for Christmas or not as long as you follow the theme. We have a wonderful sponsor again

Teresa is very generously offering a £10 voucher.

I have used Craftwork Cards Christmas Post papers,sentiment and candi with a lovely Delicious Doodles digi. I just coloured a few bits of the image with Copics and added stickles. I love these shaped card also from Craftwork Cards and will have to invest in the Go Kreate dies to make them myself.

Challenges
Creative Moments Anything Goes/Winter Wonderland
Crafts-Too Challenge You Natural World, any winged creature
A Creative Romance Sparkle at Christmas 
That Craft Place Christmas
Dream Valley Christmas
Bunny Zoe Wings
Crafting from the heart Anything Goes

Don't forget to hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.


Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 20


I normally use the ribbon that you buy specially for gift wrapping but how much nicer to use the beautiful Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. I have used 3 different ones to wrap 3 presents together and also on my tag which I made with Spellbinder and Marianne dies and Bo Bunny Father Christmas papers.

Hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog to see what the rest of the DT have made and enter for today's prize sponsored by 


I will be back at 9am with my Winter Wonderland DT card.

Thursday 19 December 2013

Crafty Little Fairies and Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 19


A lovely easy challenge for you this week at Crafty Little Fairies, anything goes. As long as you use a stamped or digi image you can play along. I have made another calendar using a sweet Penny Black stamp which has been coloured with Copics. The paper is First Edition Dreamcatcher. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and I have used 2 Joy dies with sanded Core'dinations.

My calendar is also featured on Day 19 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar which I hope you have been playing along with. You can find all the details on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog.

Challenges
Bunny Zoe Wings
Crafty Catz Aything Goes 
Sparkles Anything but a card



Wednesday 18 December 2013

Hubby's Christmas Card


Hubby's Christmas card always seems to be one of the last I make. I am glad it was as I bought a few more LOTV stamps when they recently had a 20% off sale, well it would have been rude not to I thought. I have fallen in love with these cute animals and knew he would appreciate the image. He likes the vintage style too and I wanted to make a card which wasn't girly. It's an 8x8 card so plenty of room for embellishments.
Image and grunge postcard - LOTV
Medium - Copics
Papers - Craftwork Cards Christmas Post
Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons
Dies - Memory Box snowflake, Dee's Christmas trees, Cheery Lynn Santa
Other - Wooden snowflakes, DI Frayed Burlap, Stickles

Challenges
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Last minute Christmas makes 
A Creative Romance Sparkle at Christmas 
Sweet Stampin' Last minute Christmas 
Totally Gorjuss Special Christmas wishes 
Here come the boys Anything goes for boys 
Sister Act Anything Goes 
Delicious Doodles Hairy Legs 
That Craft Place Christmas
Natalie and Amy Cute and Cuddly Christmas
Papertake Last Christmas Card of the Year

Have you entered today?

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 17


Here we are at Day 17 of the Advent Calendar at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. That means this time next week will be Christmas Eve. I hope you are all ready for Christmas. Today we are sponsored by

Image - Di's Digis
Medium - Copics
Papers - Echo Park Winter Wishes
Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons
Dies - Memory Box
Other - pearl, Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen

Challenges
Simon Says Let it Snow 
Divas by Design Anything Goes
Penny's Feminine with a sentiment

Hop over now and enter for your chance to win.

Monday 16 December 2013

Simply a Snowman


I made this card for my Mum to give her husband. It's an 8 x 8 card which allowed me to use 2 of the stamps from the Stampendous stamp set. I have kept this a simple layout to show off the image which has been coloured with Copics. The papers, hearts and candi are Craftwork Cards Christmas Post . I added a wooden sentiment and snowman coloured with DI Vintage Photo.

Challenges
Without Words Nearest and Dearest (Christmas)
Simon Says Let it Snow 
Creative Inspirations Traditional Christmas colours
Bizzy Becs Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Whatever is urgent to make
Sweet Stampin' Last minute Christmas

 I really appreciate all your visits even more at this very busy time of the year. We seem to be out and about even more than ever this year. This week is a whirl of visiting and meals. I think I may meet myself coming the other way one day! 

Please see above from my Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar post

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 16


Welcome to Day 16 of the Advent calendar at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where our sponsor is


I made some bottle tags to sell at my last two craft fairs and was pleased to sell 3 of them. They were so easy to make but look very effective. I used the large Prima tags as these are nice and heavy duty. I cut off the top with the tiny hole and diecut a larger hole with a Spellbinder and then scored across. The ribbons are all from Crafty Ribbons of course and I used some Little Claire's toppers, Memory Box and Cuttlebug dies and MS Snowflake punch.

Challenges

Crafty Catz Anything Goes 
Sparkles Anything but a card


I will be back shortly with a card.

Sunday 15 December 2013

Guest Designer at Marianne's Design Divas


I was amazed and thrilled  to receive an email recently asking me to be a guest designer at Marianne's Design Divas. I thought I would make a Birthday card for a change as I need to build up my stock ready for next year's craft fairs. I love making card using various dies and all the dies are Marianne Designs. I used 2 squares from a set I won from Shirley, my favourite parasol, mini butterfly with comes with the topiary tree and 2 flower dies. I love the embossing on these diecuts and used sanded Core'dinations with them. The paper was also in my candy win, sentiment, finding and pearls are from stash.

Challenges
TTCD Anything Goes 
Crafting From the Heart Anything Goes 

Don't forget to hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.

Saturday 14 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 14


I hop you are all playing along with the fabulous advent calendar at Crafty Ribbons. You can enter once every day and today we have another fabulous prize


So hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and check out the work from the DT before entering.

Image - LOTV (a Birthday pressy from Lynsey)
Medium - Copics
Papers - Christmas Time from Whimsy
Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons
Snowflakes - MS punch and MB die
Other - Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen

Challenges
Send a smile 4 Kids Winter Fun 4 Kids 
Ali-Craft Christmas 
Crafts and Me Anything Goes
That Craft Place Christmas
Papertake Christmas Creatures
Kaboodle DoodlesNon traditional Christmas colours
Simon Says Let it Snow
Fab n Funky Snowflakes

Friday 13 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 13


Here we are at Day 13 of the advent calendar and today we have another fabulous prize for you

so hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.

This is another of the calendars I made for my craft fairs. I bought a Papermania chipboard album to make them and I have used Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique paper. The image is from one of the LOTV Art pads, roses from Wild Orchid, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and I used a MB banner die.

Challenges
Lili of the Valley Anything but a card
Allsorts Anything but Christmas
AGOAC Anything Goes
Crafting when we can Countdown/calendar



Thursday 12 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 12


Welcome to Day 12 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar. I hope you are playing along every day to win great prizes. Today Crafty Ribbons are offering a fabulous prize and you can find all the details on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. I have used that Woodware stamp again and paper pieced it with some Bo Bunny Father Christmas holly paper and added some pearls. Everything else on the bag is from the Craftwork Cards Christmas Post pack.

Challenges
My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas 
One Crazy Stamper Winter or Holiday 
Penny Black and More at AllsortsTraditional Christmas colours
Totally Papercrafts Anything Christmassy but a card
Dream Valley Anything but a card
Sweet Stampin' Ribbons
That Craft Place Christmas
Creative Card Crew Holly or poinsettia


Wednesday 11 December 2013

Crafty Ribbons advent Calendar Day 11


Yes we are up to Day 11 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar. I hope you are playing along at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. Today we are sponsored by Delicious Doodles. I have used this gorgeous image and just coloured the post box and front door with Copics. The fence is a Doohickey die and the tree Dee's with added Hobby House pearls. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons of course.

Challenges
One Crazy Stamper Winter or Holiday
Delicious Doodles Christmas
Stampin' for the weekend Use some red
My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas
Sweet Stampin' Ribbons
Ali-Craft Christmas
Incy Wincy Let it Snow
Crafty Sentiments Christmas