Cute Card Thursday ~ For a child

This week the challenge on Cute Card Thursday is to make a card for a child!

Once again we have some fabulous candy to give away this time donated by Ali from Clevercut who is very generously giving one lucky winner a set of super cute Polly and Pip stamps. You can see the pic of them on the challenge blog!

I did a concertina type fold on my card and used this cute Precious Moments image sent to me by Nicola of My Paper World.

The design team have come up with some amazing cards, do pop on over and check them out and get more information and inspiration from their blogs!

Supplies: Pink cardstock, yellow DCWV textured cardstock

DP ~ Basic grey 'two scoops'

Embellishments ~ Flowers, pearls and spacers from RAK from Camilla, small flowers, brads and ribbon from stash

Award

I have been given this fabulous award by Bernie (craftyb), Vicki May (juscoscards) and Joanne (Bubbles)

Thank you all so much, I really appreciate you giving this award to me and for your kind words!

I am going to duck out of passing it on for now, I might come back to it when I have had a think! The rules for this award are :

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.

Sarah Kay Challenge ~ Lilac

My Sarah Kay stamps arrived yesterday just in time to play in the new Sarah Kay Challenge

the theme for the first challenge is Lilac!

Not a huge fan of purples must say but I did get this paper in a pack and thought it would be a good reason to use it! Also got these gorgeous flowers in a RAK from Camilla so I had to make something lilac anyway!

I kind of quite like it for not liking lilac, funny isn't it?

Donna and Lorraine are giving away a fab new Sarah Kay stamp as blog candy for their first challenge.

Here is the inside, just love decorated insides! Actually, had to decorate the inside as the front was so heavy I needed to balance it!
Supplies: Cardstock ~ white textured, Lilac plain, white creative smooth

DP ~ got in a mixed pack from TracyJanes crafts, unsure of make

Stamp ~ Sarah Kay

Embellishments ~ assortment from stash

A spoonfull of sugar ~ for the boys

Here is my card for this week's A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge the theme this week is

One for the boys!

Our super talented Camilla has donated a fab new stamp for the candy this week, a Sweet Art Ebony stamp from Sugar Nellie.

I have used my new Karate Kid stamp from Sugar Nellie, it was waiting for me when I got back from holiday and I knew it would be perfect to use for this challenge.

I have coloured it to look like my nephew who is becoming a teenager in a couple of weeks, he even has the yellow belt so that was the inspiration for the colour scheme. Luckily, I had this fabulous Crate paper which has hints of yellow in it but still looks like masculine.

I did do a bit of stamping on the paper as it looked a little bare at first.

The fab coins came in my lovely little birthday package from Camilla.

Don't forget to enter into my blog candy draw in the post below!

Supplies: Cardstock ~ cream textured, DCWV textured white core

DP ~ Crate 'new garden collection'

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Karate Kid', Autumn Leaves 'ticketed' 'for the record 2' 'big swirls'

Embellishments ~ coins and photo corners in RAK from Camilla, Dovecraft brads, photo turns and ribbon from stash, photo hanger from hardware store

Blog Candy

Blog Candy to celebrate my Blogoversary ( a couple of weeks ago), my birthday ( a week ago) and my counter very close to 30,000 hits!

Many thanks to all of you who come along and visit, those who leave me lovely comments and good wishes and those of you who have sent me fabby things over the last few weeks!

Here is a little token of my appreciation!

Just leave me a comment below the post and I will chose someone at random to win this little lot plus some images of your choice! closing date midnight (GMT) saturday 19 July.

To make it interesting you can tell me what your favourite birthday present was for your latest birthday or your most unusual present. For my birthday this year my DH bought me a load of wood which he and my eldest son are going to make into a raised vegetable bed and also a cold frame to start off my veggies! I hope it will be made by spring hehe!

More blog candy alert!

Check out these blogs, fabulous blog candy on offer!!!

Fran

Ying

Jennifer

Claudia

Ila

back from holidays to more birthday cards!

We are just back from our holiday and I found loads more birthday cards waiting on the doormat! They were sent to me by the Tilda and friends group, my SBS sisters and from the spoonfull of sugar girls. Thanks a million to you all, what a fabulous birthday I had!

I have loved receiving all your gorgeous cards!

Here are the cards I came home to!

CCT ~ The Great Outdoors

This week the Challenge over at Cute Card Thursday is

The Great Outdoors.

We have another fabulous sponsor this week with the most amazing prize but you will have to click the link above to have a look and see what it is!

While you are there check out the fabulous Design Team's cards for more inspiration!

I got these fabulous images from Debbie, thanks a million!

Still short of time, if there is anything you need to know just yell!

Thanks for visiting and hope you are all having a fab week!

A spoonfull of sugar ~ circles

Here is my card for this week's A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge, the theme this

week is Circles!

I used dotty paper, nestability cut out circle and scalloped circle, Pearls and even used a cut off circle for the card shape. Is that enough do you think?

Katharina sent me this fabulous image with my birthday card, thank you, how perfect is it for this challenge? I have once again used some embellishments from Camilla.

Don't forget to pop over and check out the blog candy and the rest of the design team's fabulous creations, you won't be disappointed!

I won't post supplies this week as I am scheduling my posts and am really pushed for time, but feel free to ask if there is anything you need to know!

More birthday cards

Here are some more of my fabulous birthday cards, many thanks once again to you all!

Birthday Cards

Here are some of the gorgeous cards I received in the past few days! They are all so fabulous and I have felt very special this week, thank you to you all, there is nothing quite like receiving a hand made card!

I will save some to show another day!

Cute card thursday ~ No patterned paper

The challenge this week at Cute Card Thursday is No patterned paper!

What this means is you can't use any bought patterned paper but feel free to make your own using stamps, inking, doodling etc.

I had great fun making some patterned cardstock, I used my Basic Grey Wintertime stamp set to make this flourishes pattern on some textured cardstock. I also added some inking to the edges.

I used more of my bits and pieces sent to me by Camilla, I have so enjoyed using these I cannot thank Camilla enough for these fabulous goodies! If you would like to win some of these gorgeous embellishments pop over and enter into Camilla's blog candy draw, she has a fab

sketch for you to use.

This week we have another fabulous sponsor, Maggie of Banyan Craft is donating some

gorgeous tear shaped card blanks for one lucky winner to be chosen at random next week!

The rest of the design team have come up with some fabulous ideas for this challenge, all amazing cards do pop over and take a peek!

Supplies: Tools ~ sewing machine, cuttlebug, nestabilities

Cardstock ~ dark brown, cream textured, DCWV white core cardstock

Stamps ~ Sarah Kay, Basic Grey, Autumn Leaves

Embellishments ~ flowers, spacers and charms in RAK from Camilla

fab mail week

I am so lucky! I have had lovely mail every day this week, I feel very special and so look forward to the postie coming. How disappointing it will be when it all ends and she only brings bills!

My lovely SBS4 sister Chris sent me this gorgeous RAK and fabulous card. How fantastic are all these goodies? Thank you so much Chris, you made my day!

I have loads of birthday cards to share with you but my computer is on a go slow tonight so I will post them tomorrow and share them over the next few days!

I also have some blog candy to offer you but I want to add something more to it first so watch this space!

Spoon Full ~ Checks

This week over at A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge the theme is checks.

Once again there is some fabulous blog candy this time donated by Donna at

Krafty Crafts

When I was looking for some checked paper I found this gorgeous tartan effect pattern which screamed out Hamish's kilt. I adore wee Hamish so just had to use him!

I also used some of the fab buttons and charms that Camilla sent me last week, just love them too!

Supplies ~ Tools ~ sewing machine

DP ~ Basic Grey

Stamp ~ Hamish in kilt by Sugar Nellie

Embellishments ~ Dovecraft brads, rub on, raffia and eyelets from stash, charms and buttons RAK from Camilla

saturday workout ~ handcutting

This is my entry into the Saturday's workout challenge which is to use hand cutting!

I had to hand cute the cover as it was too large to put in my guillotine, also I hand cut the little handle at the top with a craft knife and of course I cut around my figures, so this is so well qualified for this challenge!

I hoped to post this last night but unfortunately my computer froze again, it is being such a pain!

Anyway, this is my version of the beautiful gift bag that Camilla sent to me, see the post beneath for hers!

I had some brown paper bags that I wanted to decorate for the teacher's end of year presents so was delighted to not only receive such a fab gift but also the inspiration I needed to make my presents.

I did get Camilla's permission to use her bag as a template before casing it! I also used some of the gorgeous flowers and charms she sent me!

Supplies: Tools ~ Cricut,

Cardstock ~ burgundy, cream, white creative smooth

DP ~ Laura Ashley, Basic Grey 'Dasher' and 'Mellow'

Embellishments ~ assortment from Camilla

Gift from Camilla

My birthday came early last week, I received this fabulous gift in the mail from Camilla.

This is the most amazing gift bag so beautifully decorated i was absolutely thrilled with it and imagine how ecstatic I was to find some gorgeous bits and pieces inside!

I haven't shown you the back but it was just as stunning as the front, Camilla is one incredibly talented lady, if you haven't yet seen her blog you really must go and take a look at her fabulous creations.

I have some more gorgeous cards to share with you over the next few days!