New Challenge!

Some exciting news!

Pop along to the A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge blog and add it to your bookmarks ready for Tuesday when the first challenge will go live!

You can use Sugar Nellie images and also the new Rachelle Anne Miller images so a great opportunity to use those fabby new stamps!

Best of all, there is blog candy to be given away!

Next a couple of awards.

Isn't this one so cool? I love it, the very talented and sweet Bernie of Crafty B gave me this award, thank you so much Bernie and you rock my socks too!

Isn't this pic just fab?

I love this award, circle of friends, it is so hilarious!

My lovely friend and crafting buddy Debbie of Crafting Fairy gave me this award for being in her new Design Team, see the above new challenge ! Thank you so much Deb, it is such an honour!

Who to pass them onto is always so difficult as you all deserve them so I will have a little think about it!

I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!

CCT ~ Sketch challenge

The challenge this week on Cute Card Thursday is a fabulous sketch by Katharina.

This week we have some scrumptious blog candy to give away, some Bootiful Stampz very kindly donated by the very talented Sally at Aunty's store

you can see a picture of them under the challenge post for this week, they are so cute!

While you are there take a peek at the DT's cards, they are so amazing, then pop in to check out the blogs and the fantastic cards they make.

Supplies: Tools ~ Cuttlebug, nestabilities, scalloped edge scissors

Cardstock ~ Cream textured, dark pink and white creative smooth

DP ~ Autumn Leaves (I think , it came in a RAK from Bernie and I got it all mixed up)

Stamp ~ Hanglar

Embellishments ~ Sticker, half pearls and ribbon from stash

Tilda & friends Glorious Green

This week on Tilda & friends ATC challenge the theme is 'Glorious Green'.

This was quite a quick make as I seem to be so short of time just now.

I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!

Supplies: Tools ~ sewing machine

DP ~ Basic Grey 'two scoops'

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'Tilda in heart dress' Autumn Leaves ticket stamp

Embellishments ~ Flowers 'flora doodles' and 'scissor sisters sweet bella blossom' Papermania adhesive stones

Cute Card Thursday ~ Vacation/travel

This is my card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge which this week is a

vacation/travel theme.

We have been given a fabulous Magnolia 'Paris Tilda' stamp to give away this week so the holiday theme was very obvious to us!

I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to use this fabby new stamp from Sugar Nellie, it is Hamish and Maggie 'rockpool fun'. I really enjoyed colouring this one!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ Cream textured, brown and olive, white creative smooth

DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic'

Stamp ~ Sugar Nellie 'Rockpool fun'

Embellishments ~ Love Elsie ' toby' sticker, brads, ribbon and seahorse charm from stash

Ismaki #12 & Saturday's workout

I made this card using Ismaki sketch 12 and also used a faux linen background for the challenge over at Saturday's workout! I added some bling for the option of 'sparkle' at Ismaki and the linen background was some fab textured card that I rubbed down with sandpaper to show up the white core. I also distressed around the edges.

Supplies: Tools ~ sewing machine

Cardstock ~ Cream textured, brown and olive textured from DCWV mat stack

DP ~ Basic Grey 'Mellow'

Stamps ~ Hanglar

Embellishments ~ Sticker, MM cheeky flat clip and some flat backed blingy stones from stash

New blog!

No creating done this weekend so far, weather has been too nice to stay indoors! The garden is getting the attention this week!

If you like to see photos like this one I have just launched my photographic blog which you can see here I will be adding many more photos of animals and scenes!

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Thanks for visiting!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge ~ Gems and Jewels

The Cute Card Thursday challenge this week is to use gems or jewels.

We have been given some gorgeous Zoomz from Kay at Stamp Galaxy so these will go to one of this week's participants chosen at random.

The design team cards are fantastic do pop on over to check out all their blogs!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ cream textured, brown and white creative smooth

DP ~ Basic Grey Mellow, DCWV Old World, some from RAK from CraftyB!

Stamp ~ Hanglar

Embellishments ~ Dovecraft Charm brad, Woodstone Collection Sticker, Papermania Adhesive stones, ribbon from stash

Tilda and friends ATC ~ Bugs

The Tilda and friends ATC challenge this week has a bug theme! the only Magnolia bug I have is the dragonfly so I supplemented it with the sheep and a Studio G butterfly and snail! I used some paper from my RAK from Bernie, thanks again B, they are all gorgeous!

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'sheep' 'dragonfly' Studio G 'snail' 'butterfly' 'flower'

Red Panda and RAK

One of the reasons for my internet absence over the weekend. We went off to see this gorgeous creature on saturday! It is a red panda, they are so cute and we were lucky to be there during feeding time! They live at the Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie in Scotland so if you are ever near, it is so worth a visit. They do such fantastic work there!

I have tons more great photos but I will start up a new wildlife blog as soon as I get some time.

I got this fabulous RAK delivered over the weekend from Bernie of CraftyB!

Thank you so much Bernie, it is all fabulous stash, I love it all and can't wait to use it! The papers are gorgeous and I don't have any of them so you can imagine the oohs and ahhs when I started looking through them!

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend, it was amazing that we in the Uk did so well with our Bank Holiday weather! It was so lovely to see the kids out in their summer clothes yesterday!

Cute card thursday ~ In the garden

Here is my card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week. The new theme is 'In the garden!' a lovely easy theme for this week, come along and play!

I based this card on my youngest 2 who are having a birthday soon and also our little dog, that is why she is coloured in such a patchy way, I was trying to capture the look of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, yeah I know this one is a bit big but the children won't notice!

I have to say a huge thank you to Claudia for these gorgeous images as mine still haven't arrived. I don't know why but mine seem to come way after everyone else who orders at the same time!

I want to wish you all a fabulous weekend ~ I may not be around much over the next few days as we have family coming to visit us for the weekend!

supplies: stamps ~ Magnolia and flowers are Panduro

DP ~ Basic Grey 'Dasher'

Homepage card and awards

I made this card for a competition we are running on our SBS group for a homepage picture. The theme was friends!

I used a gorgeous Hanglar image and Basic Grey two scoops.

supplies: Cardstock, cream textured, olive smooth

DP ~ Basic Grey 'two scoops'

Stamps ~ Hanglar

Embellishments ~ flora doodles, Papermania flower, eyelets, mulberry flower, ribbon and brad from stash

I have been awarded these 3 awards by Camilla, I am just so honoured to receive them Camilla has a fabulous blog and makes the most amazing cards.

I normally do duck out of awarding these but this time I am going to name a few people in no particular order!

1. Debbie ~ only been blogging a very short time but already she has really made her mark on the blogging world and is a true source of inspiration

2. Hannah ~ been blogging even shorter but she is an amazing talent and we had all better watch out as she is still only 10!

3. Seleise ~ my SBS sister, I would like to thank Seleise for her regular visits and sweet comments even though I know what a busy life she leads and of course she sent me the most fantastic parcel in our secret sister swap!

4. Flossie, ~ makes fabulous cards and is a regular visitor no matter what, I always look forward to your comments and you never let me down!

there are so many more people I could name for many more reasons, I really appreciate you all visiting and leaving me such lovely comments, thank you!

Owl ATC

Here is my dotty ATC for Tilda & friends ATC challenge and also my embossing entry into the Saturday's workout challenge.

I ran my cardstock through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder, I love this look!

I cut a branch from my new Magnolia tree, the tree is so big so I was glad I could use just a branch!

The owl is Magnolia too, he is a cutie! The ticket stamp is Autumn Leaves, I just got this from papermaze yesterday, they were very quick to deliver! Only 1 day, fabulous service!

supplies:Tools ~ cuttlebug, swiss dots embossing folder

Cream and brown cardstock, Creative white smooth cardstock, DCWV textured mat stack

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'owl' 'tree' Autumn Leaves 'ticketed'

Embellishments ~ gems from stash

Debbie's blog candy challenge

Here is my entry for Debbie's blog candy birthday challenge. You were to make a girly card with ribbon! You still have until monday to enter, you can win some fabulous goodies consisting of a gorgeous pack of Laura Ashley papers, Flora Doodles flowers and a Magnolia Tilda stamp! Now what are you waiting for? hop on over and enter, I know you want to! You can see the goodies here!

For my card I used the fabulous tutorial Claudia showed us on her blog, it looked complicated at first but once done it is actually very easy. I am going to use these in future for image swaps, they make fab little pockets!

Supplies: Tools ~ cuttlebug, nestabilities, ribbon hole punch

Cardstock ~ pink and olive green

DP ~ sorry, had it ages and it has nothing written on the back

Stamp ~ Panduro

Embellishments ~ Provocraft rub-ons, Papermania adhesive stones, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis

I am sorry I am so behind with my visiting, I set aside a few hours last night and no sooner had I sorted some emails than my computer seized up, took me the rest of the night just to try to get it running again. Hope to get round everyone later!

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!

Papertakes ~ Katharina's sketch

The Papertakes weekly challenge this week has a sketch by Katharina. She has provided a fantastic sketch and they are also offering blog candy! A fabulous Bella stamp!

I love the sketch and I am sure I will be using it again. I used my Basic Grey Archaic papers as they go so perfectly with William! Thanks to Andrea for the image!

Supplies ~ Cardstock ~ cream textured and brown

DP ~ Basic Grey 'archaic'

stamps ~ Magnolia 'sitting William' 'goblin fungi' handmade card stamp unknown make

Embellishments ~ ribbon from stash

CCT Girls just wanna have fun

This week the challenge over on Cute Card Thursday is

Girls just wanna have fun!

Well, it was only fair to have girly cards this week after cards for the boys last week!

We are lucky enough to have some blog candy on offer again this week, very kindly donated by a member of the design team! Go on and check out their blogs, they have produced fabulous cards again this week!

I used my new Sugar Nellie stamp 'Lola's tea party', it is sooooo sweet! I can't wait for them to release the new Maggie and Hamish stamps, especially the little lamb one! You can see them over on the Sugar Nellie site, so cute!

Supplies: Tools ~ cuttlebug, nestabilities

Cardstock ~ White textured, green and white creative smooth

Stamp ~ Sugar Nellie 'Lola's tea party'

DP ~ Laura Ashley 'comtemporary'

Embellishments ~ Cricut cut flowers (thanks Debbie), Papermania adhesive stones, Provocraft Memory rub-on, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis, button and eyelets from collection.

Tilda and friends ATC wet and windy

Whoops, almost didn't make it intime! the theme this week at Tilda and friends ATC was wet and windy and had me stumped! Luckily, I remembered I had this snowman so have gone for frozen wet! The background is embossed but isn't showing too well, I also put glaze onto the star and the heart buttons.

don't forget the new ATC challenge will be up tomorrow with a brand new theme, the DT make fabulous ATCs to inspire you!

Supplies ~ Cuttlebug, snowflake embossing folder
stamps ~ Magnolia 'snowman'
embellishments ~ ribbon from stash, Papermania adhesive stones

Cafe Paris!

I got these sweet cafe stickers from my DH at Christmas and when I saw Yings blog candy challenge to base your card on a photo of a cafe I knew I had to use them! Of course the other obvious choice was Paris Tilda which was kindly sent by Andrea.

I used the Ismaki sketch #16, set this week by Beatrix.

I am also entering this card into the Saturdays Workout challenge, this week is the very first challenge and the theme is 'distressed'. I inked the edges of my papers and also the papers were already distressed.

Supplies ~ Cardstock ~ cream and brown

DP ~ Basic grey 'motifica' pack

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'Paris Tilda'

Embellishments ~ Stickers by Craftwork, ribbon from stash

Tilda & Co girly blue card with flowers

The Tilda & Co challenge this week is 'Girly but blue' as not many girly cards are made in blue colours! The odd thing is I had these things on my desk ready to use today to make a card for Anne's blog candy challenge to make a card with flowers on! I thought this pretty paper would be perfect! So here is my card for both challenges!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ White and navy textured, white creative smooth

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'Tilda with flower', not sure who makes the other stamp

DP ~ Imaginesce 'For peeps sake'

Embellishments ~ Papermania adhesive stones

RAKs

Busy day again so no creating unfortunately. I do intend to make up for lost time very soon!

I received these gorgeous cards a little while ago so thought this a good time to share!

The one on the left is from Heather who sent me some fab images along with it, will be using them soon! The card on the right is from my Secret sister from SBS4 Seleise who also sent me the fabulous goodies below! I so enjoyed doing our secret sister swap as I had no clue for days who had sent my first set of goodies as clever Seleise had them posted from different states!

The sweet ATC is from Marlene who got me hooked on these gorgeous panduro images! I am sure you all know Marlene, her cards are so amazing!

Look at all the fab goodies I received in one parcel, the Hershey chocolates I have to say, went down a treat! Aren't the stamps so fantastic, I am looking forward to making them into something soon, already stamped out and ready to go! Just need to find the time to do the go!

Spring Lamb anyone?

No creative makes today unfortunately, the only painting I did today was magnolia on my walls. Anyway, saw this cute little lamby just behind our house and just had to get some photos.

Awwwwwww!

CCT ~ It's a Man's world!

This week the theme at Cute Card Thursday is 'It's a man's world!'

We have once again some fabulous blog candy donated by a kind member of the design team.

A brand new Sugar Nellie stamp!

Please go and see the other DT cards, they are so fabulous!

I made a birthday card for my brother as my masculine themed card this week. My friend Debbie kindly stamped this image for me, it was so perfect for this theme!

I used Nicola's fab sketch #8 for my layout, it was perfect for what I wanted, not too fussy, I like fussy but not so much for a man!

The papers are Basic Grey's Archaic, also perfect for men's cards!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ cream and brown

DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic'

Stamp ~ Magnolia

Embellishments ~ picture hanger, buttons, ribbon and studs from stash

Penelope's first outing

My new Sugar Nellies came yesterday, yey! This one is Penelope, she is so sweet! They are the new ones by Rachelle Anne Miller, can't wait to colour the other two! The Penelope stamp comes with these backing papers which are Heidi Swapp, they are so bright, the photo really doesn't do it justice!

I used Ila's sketch, she has blog candy up for grabs for the winner of her sketch challenge. Wait for it, 3 High Hopes stamps, check them out, they are so cute!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ White, dark pink and pink

DP ~ Heidi Swapp

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Penelope' and 'See D's'

Embellishments ~ ribbon from stash, Papermania adhesive stones, Flora Doodles flowers

Sweet sugar challenge, no patterned paper!

The Sweet Sugar challenge this week is to produce a card without any patterned paper!

Yikes, now that is a challenge!

I used textured cardstock and my swiss dots embossing folder to get some interest into the background but still wondering if I should have stamped it. Too late now!

Supplies: Tools ~ Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, swiss dots embossing folder

Cardstock ~ White and dark pink, light pink Bazzill

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Winifred' and Panduro 'baby'

Embellishments ~ Doodlebug flowers, Dovecraft brads, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis

Ismaki # 15 another pink Tilda!

Yes, Bernie, I am definitely in my pink phase! Will try another colour tomorrow!

I used the Ismaki sketch #15 for this card, had to turn it on its side though to do what I wanted with it.

Just got these new flowers today, they are Flora Doodles I bought from Joanna Sheen, as soon as I saw this one I knew I had to use it today! Thankfully, the Ismaki sketch had a flower on it!

Supplies : Cardstock ~ cream and pink and white creative smooth

DP ~ Sandylion, Kelly Panacci 'stonewashed pink' and 'paisley pink'

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'Tilda in heart dress'

Embellishments ~ Flora doodles, rub-ons, ribbon from stash, Papermania adhesive stones

DCM butterfly flutterby

The DCM dare this week was set by Jo and is called 'butterfly flutterby' you need to have at least one butterfly somewhere on your card!

This is one of my new Panduro images, they were such a bargain and even more of a bargain this week as they have a sale on their stamps until wednesday!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ white and pink

DP ~ DCWV and spotty paper is some gift wrap

Stamps ~ Panduro

Embellishments ~ Ribbon, safety pin from stash, flowers from Papermania and Panduro, button from Panduro.

Katharina's blog candy

I am sure all of you want to know how you can get your hands on one of these gorgeous cute stamps! Well, pop over to Katharina's blog and join in her birthday blog candy draw, you only have to complete some small requests to enter and you could win this fantastic stamp!

4x4 oriental

This one is a little bit late for the 4x4 oriental challenge which was a week ago now. I wasn't happy with it so I didn't post it before now. It did take ages to make as took a lot of cutting.

Got a busy weekend ahead now as we have our school fair tomorrow so baking etc today, don't know if I will get a chance to create anything. Shame as I just got my new Panduro stamps yesterday, all mounted now and waiting to be used!

Hope you all have a great weekend too!

Stamp ~ Clarity

Cute Card Thursday ~ things with wings

The theme on the Cute card thursday challenge this week is 'things with wings'

I found this lovely cute butterfly stamp in my collection which has never found its way onto a card until now. Pop on over to see the fabulous DT cards and for more information on the challenge, I hope you get time to play!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ white and olive

DP ~ Laura Ashley ~ 'contemporary'

Stamp ~ Inca 'heart butterfly'

Embellishments ~ ribbon from Ribbon Oasis

Tilda and friends ATC cooking it up

Tilda and friends ATC challenge this week is a cook up!

the recipe is 1. Bow, 2. flowers, 3. colours (excl. flesh tones)4. brads or gems

I made this very quickly this afternoon using Dala Tilda and Goblin stump. I love how quickly