Wednesday 29 September 2010

Fancy Floral Card

Another week has flown by, had a great day last Sunday at a craft show at Alexandra Palace. Lots of new stash to play with, wish I had more hours in the day. Other good news is that we are offically house hunting now, so I may get that craft room that I've been dreaming off. :-)

Here's my DT card for this weeks challenge at CRAFT which is fancy floral (challenge 70), our sponsor this week is Die Cut Dreams



This was the first time I have made a flower. The flowers layers were cut using my slice machine with two different basic grey papers , there were edged with a pink promarker and lots and lots of glitter. They are held together by a pearl brad and silver flower.

The leaves were made using my new woodware leaf punch, the scrol die cut was something I got in a swap from another trimmie. The background papers are from Papermania, the image is a Sugar nellie stamp coloured in with Promarkers and the ribbon is from the hobby house.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out the other DT members for this weeks challenge.

I'd like to enter this into:
Little red Wagon - challenge 48 make your own embellishment
Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvelous!
Scrappy Frog Challenge - Flower power, make your own flower


Wednesday 22 September 2010

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 69 DT Card

It's Thursday again and time for another time challenge at C.R.A.F.T. This week's challenge is 'teenagers'. Our sponsor this week is Toucan Scraps
The winner gets to choose a project from Angela's shop


The design team this week got to play with one of her paper packs 'City Street' Digi Paper

I'd never used digi papers before, but wow they are great, no problems with finding co-ordinating papers as the papers in the pack all work together.

Here's my DT card, dont forget to check out the others at C.R.A.F.T


Paper: Toucan scraps - City Street
Image - Sugar nellie coloured in with Promarkers
Thats my boy stickers - Doodlebug
Birthday wishes - Not sure (I got it in a swap from another Trimmie)
Buttons - Papermania

Thursday 16 September 2010

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 68....

This weeks challenge at C.R.A.F.T. is colouring pencils. The colouring part was definitely a challenge, as I'm now addicted to Promarkers. I had to borrow some colouring pencils from my 2 year old !!. The rest of DT made some amazing cards so check out the other designs.
Our sponsor this week is The Crafty Pad, the challenge winner gets to choose 2 digi stamps from the online shop.
The image I've used is the very cute Molly the Cat and birdhouse digi images from The Crafty Pad. Debbie has lots of great digi images for sale, so check them out.
Now onto my DT card for this weeks challenge:


The papers used here are all by My Minds eye, the flowers and brad centers (with added sparkle) are from Papermania. The message and card candy from craftwork cards.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Baby's First Christmas....

This is one of my new stamps from Lili of the Valley that I couldn't wait to use, the toddler is so cute. I had no sentiment to say 1st Christmas so I made my own using rub ons and heart tags. The image is coloured in with Promarkers and most of the other things on the cards are from Doodlebug apart from the stickels blue and silver glitter and the clear snowflakes (not too sure where they are from).

I'm entering this into Die Cut Dreams Christmas club - challenge 34 - childrens Christmas

Wednesday 8 September 2010

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 67

Today is my debut as a DT member fo C.R.A.F.T. I'm so excited.



This weeks challenge is based on a


colour palette called Adas Slave





We have a fab sponsor Sew Many Digital Stamps. The winner of the challenge gets to choose 5 digi images from the online shop. She has some wonderful designs so pop along and have a look.


Here's my DT card. I used a digi image from our Sponsor called Duncan with Owen. My youngest son is called Owen, so I couldn't resist making a card using this cute image



Image - Sew many digi stamps image coloured in with Promarkers. The background is coloured with H2Os

Scalloped circle - cut using Slice machine

Paper - Background, papers made by Ei and the strip of paper cut with a Marth Stewart border punch is from 'My Minds Eye'

Green Brads - Papermania

With love stamp and Birthday Wishes message - Daisy and Dandelion

Heart gems - Papercellar

Heart charm and green ribbons - my stash



Have a look at the lovely creations made by the other deisgn team memebers for this challenge on C.R.A.F.T

Monday 6 September 2010

First day of school...


I am so proud of my oldest son. Today was his first day of school. He looked adorable in his uniform and was so excited about school, by 7am he was all ready with shoes on and book bag in his hand asking 'when can I go to school?' over, over and over again, bless him. So no tears when I left him (from either of us) and he was happy when I went to collect him. He's looking foward to going back tomorrow so he must have enjoyed it.
Here's a piccy of Liam all ready in his uniform, isn't he cute.

One of my first Christmas cards for 2010

I thought it was time I got started on Christmas cards for this year. So out came the Christmas Tilda's Stamps.



Stamp : Tilda (Magnolia stamp) coloured in with Promarkers and stickles glitter

Paper: from craftwork cards, decorated with circle border Martha Stewart punch

Snowflakes: die cuts from craftwork cards

Ribbon: Stash

Message: from a set of Smirk Christmas stamps

I'd like to enter this into:

Die cut Dreams Christmas - Challenge 33: Tilda in Pink

Just Magnolia - week 71: Anything goes

Aly's Sunday Challenge: Pretty in Pink

Sweet Stampin Challenge - challenge 42: Winter wonderland

Saturday 4 September 2010

Great news, I'm on the DT at C.R.A.F.T challenge....

Yipeeee, I found out that I've got one of the new DT places for the C.R.A.F.T challenge blog. I'm so excited, it's the first ever DT I've been on. I can't wait to work with the other members of the DT, now best get thinking about my first card..........