tilda and friends ATC - double trouble

Here is my ATC for this week's Tilda and Friends ATC challenge. I love making these sweet little cards, just the right size for using up little scraps!

The challenge this week was 'double trouble' to use 2 of everything on your ATC.I didn't manage 2 images but just about 2 of everything else, 2 DPs, 2 bows, 2 buttons and even 2 words!

I wish someone could slow down time, I don't know where today went!

Hope tomorrow goes a bit slower but I know it won't as I have even more to fit into it than today!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Luvvie' and Studio G sentiment

Embellishments ~ buttons and ribbon from stash

Cute Card Thursday ~ Wine and Dine

The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is Wine and Dine. It can be food or drink related or both. Do check out the amazing DT cards this week, you might be surprised how many of us used alcohol related images!

We have another amazing prize this week a voucher kindly donated by Poppicrafts!

We have a new guest designer this week, Sharon has created a stunning gift bag and tag.

I have seen a couple of these envelope cards around and I thought this was a good opportunity to try one myself as I will add some money or a voucher in with this card. I made the envelope using my scor-pal. The DP wasn't double sided so I had to put 2 sheets back to back resulting in a lovely thick envelope.

The DP and lettering are from the Basic Grey Sugared pack, you can win one of these here!

The sweet image is Magnolia from the summer kit collection. She is my Tilda of choice for adult cards, you can see why! She was coloured with watercolour paints and distress inks.

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Magnolia

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Basic Grey Sugared buttons, Lace and ribbon from stash.

Thank you so much for dropping in, hope to catch up with everyone soon, have a great day!

2 Sweet Challenges!

I made this for the Sugar Bowl Christmas challenge, just had to make one of my Sugar Nellie Gorjuss girls fit! Today as I was making it I realised it also fits the Spoonful of Sugar challenge with my torn edge book page!

This Gorjuss girl was coloured with watercolours and distress inks. I did a lot of stamping around the edges with the distress inks too!
Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Gorjuss girl', Inkadinkado stamp and postmark, Basic Grey 'Winterland', Autumn Leaves 'for the record 2'

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Basic Grey button, Hat pin from Ebay, pearls and ribbon from stash

Just found out that I won the Ismaki challenge from last week (grin)!

Thanks for dropping by!

Whimsy DT card and Stamp Something Challenge

The Stamp Something Challenge this week has a winter theme, Cold and Windy!

This week Whimsy Stamps are sponsoring the challenge and Denise is giving one lucky winner a $20 gift certificate to spend at the Whimsy Online Store!

This cute couple are the Whimsy Penguin and Seal from the Animal collection! This cute stamp is among others in the Whimsy Winter Sale just now!

This isn't my usual style of card but very occasionally I like to do something clean and simple.

Supplies: DP~Sandylion 'snowflakes'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Animal collection 'Penguin and Seal'

Tools & Embellishments ~ Sewing machine zigzag stitch, MS punch, Cricut die cut snowflakes and tag, doiley, brad and clear baubles. Nestabilities for inside.

My Blog Candy!

As promised my Blog Candy to celebrate making the Whimsy Stamps Design Team and I also just noticed I was over 60k hits!

Okay so here it is.... A Basic Grey Sugared 12x12 collection pack

Basic Grey Sugared Rub-ons,

Basic Grey Sugared Brads

Basic Grey Sugared Buttons

A Sugar Nellie stamp 'Chick-a-dee' designed by Elisabeth Bell

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A Whimsy Stamp of the winners choice.....kindly donated by Denise of Whimsy Stamps!

You can check out the Whimsy Stamps here to choose which one you would have if you win!!!

So what do you have to do?

*Add yourself to my followers list (I will use this list for the draw)

*Please link my candy on your blog, if you don't have a blog leave me a comment here and I will still include you in the draw.

Do this by Sunday March 8th and the winner will be announced on Monday 9th March by midday!

Good Luck!

oh yes, I will post internationally!

Denise is having a design team call for Whimsy Stamps currently, it ends on sunday 1st March, you can find the details here!

Whimsy also has a sale on the Winter stamps at the moment so head on over and get yourself a bargain!

SBS 4 ~ Homepage competition

Just a very quick post to drop in my SBS 4 Homepage Competition Card. I am a member of this fabulous group, we have been together for over a year and become good friends during this time. We have regular little swaps and competitions between us, I always look forward to our next little fun project! This is our current competition, to replace our homepage photograph. I thought this was a sweet phrase which sums us up nicely.

The remit set by Marcia was to make a card in chocolate and teal and add some bling!

Supplies: DP ~ October Afternoon and Basic Grey

Stamp ~ Sarah Kay ~ A little help from Margot, 7 gypsies 'notting hill'

embellishments ~ Papermania adhesive stones, punched out flowers, prima flower

Must go and put my feet up, been a busy day and I am whacked! I have my blog candy to post but will do it tomorrow as my eyes are getting a bit fuzzy.... and that is before the glass of wine!!!

Have a fabulous weekend, hope to catch up with what you have all been doing in the next day or so! Thanks for dropping by!

Cute Card Thursday ~ Animal Magic

The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday this week is......

Animal Magic!

~As soon as this cute Whimsy Stamp arrived at the weekend I knew it had to be him, I just love this naughty bunny! This stamp is called 'Whimsy Bunny with Snowman' and can be bought here!
He reminds me of the hare that runs around in our garden and at this time of year eats my crocus flower heads! He is so naughty too but I love him so I don't mind really!

We have a new sponsor this week, Craftaway have given us a gorgeous cute Riley stamp to give away! They have 20% off until saturday so it is well worth a visit, a good time to stock up on that Bazzill and your favourite DP!

We also have Silvia as our Guest Designer again this week, you can see her fabulous card and the regular Design Teams beautiful creations here!

I decorated the inside but kept it fairly plain as it took me forever to do this card.....why is it that sometimes a card will take a whole day or longer and others will take a couple of hours! I kept moving things about and changing things on here, you know how it is?
Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Dasher' and 'Figgy Pudding'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Animal Collection 'Bunny with Snowman'

Inkadinkado 'Merry Christmas Postage stamp set'

Embellishments ~ Prima 'Christmas Pail', charms from Ebay

Tools ~ Sewing Machine,

Colouring ~ Watercolour Paints

Thank you so much for your visit, I hope you find time to play along with us!

Have a great day!

Everybody-Art-Challenge ~ Bag!

I found the perfect challenge for me over at Everybody-art- Challenge this week, the theme is Bag!

Seeing as I am bag crazy this week I just had to play along!
I loved seeing all the other bags on the challenge too, so many bags to make so little time!

This little cutie is Knight Connor from the Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection. Isn't he adorable? My youngest son loves him so I decided he had to be on the party bags! These bags are so easy to make so it won't be a problem to make a few for the party goers! You can see a mini tutorial of some similar gift bags here! The bag inners were sent to me by my good friend Debbie, I can't remember where she got them from unfortunately!

The shield made a perfect little embellishment seeing as boys rarely like flowers on their cards! I will be using this a lot with Knight Connor!!!
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I also made a sweet girly one with Pajama Time Emma, again from the Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection. There are 2 fabulous new kids stamps to be released shortly, you can check them out here!

Don't forget Whimsy Stamps are having a DT call right now, closing date is Sunday 1st March! See here for details!
Thank you so much for dropping by!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic' and 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection 'Knight Connor' and 'Pajama Time Emma' images coloured with watercolour paints and Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Karen Foster charm, Scrappers floss, brads, ribbon.

Whimsy Stamps DT card and news!

Here is my very first Whimsy Stamps DT card, yey!

Denise has just announced a DT call which will run until sunday 1st March!

If you are interested in joining this fabulous team (I highly recommend it!)

then check out the details here!

Other Whimsy news....there are sneak peeks of the 2 new kids collection stamps, they are so adorable, check them out here!

I used the amazing sketch from Ismaki 09/008 designed by Beatrix!
The option this week is stitching, well I didn't need an excuse!

I used the super cute Whimsy Animal Collection Owl stamp, I think he is the cutest owl ever!

I created a little pocket inside the card so I can add a little something!

Whimsy Stamps are now shipping to USA , UK and Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Poland

Supplies : DP ~ Basic Grey ' Sugared'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Animal Collection 'Owl'

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Heidi Swapp brads, spacer and charm from Ebay, Kaiser adhesive stones, ribbon, sentiment made in Word.

Tools ~ Eyelet setter, sewing machine, L-Em leaf punch

Stamp Something ~ 3D somethings

The Stamp Something Challenge this week is hosted by my good blogging pal Alex! Her fantastic theme this week is '3D somethings'. This is right up my street just now as I am really enjoying making other items and altering things. A year ago I wouldn't have known where to start but I predict this year, for me at least, will be the year of the handmade gift bag/box!

This was a paper bag with a shop logo on the front and back but I soon covered that up! Most of the flowers were punched out, the sentiment scroll was made with folded card and the flap was made using nestabilities.

The image is Sugar Nellie 'Picking Apples' designed by Elisabeth Bell.

A side view to show that it is 3D!

The back is very plain, I might still add a couple of little flowers yet!

I am off to have a little play with some inks and paint!!! My new DT stamps have just arrived from Whimsy Stamps, I can't wait to ink to them up!

I am so thrilled to have joined this fabulous team that I am sorting out some blog candy to celebrate which I will hopefully post later in the week! Make sure you add yourself to my list of followers as this is where I will choose the winner from!

Supplies: DP ~ Sandylion, Kelly Panacci

Stamp ~ Sugar Nellie 'Picking Apples'

Embellishments ~ heart charms from Ebay, Papermania metal charm (pulled from flower), beads and ribbon from stash. Crystal stickers Pearls.

Tools ~ Cuttlebug and nesties, L-Em leaf punch

sugar bowl challenge ~ Easter bag

Here is my boy's Easter bag, this time made with the adorable Hamish from Sugar Nellie, this stamp is called 'Lambing Time'.

AS I have used only one piece of patterned DP this project fits perfectly in The Sugar Bowl challenge! Double sided paper is allowed!

I have hidden these bags away as my youngest DD had been eyeing up these choccies on my desk so they will get these on Easter Sunday. I need to make 2 suitable for teenagers next!

The Tutorial for these bags is here

Supplies : DP~ 'Imaginisce, ' For Peep's Sake'

Stamp ~ Sugar Nellie 'Lambing time'

Embellishments ~ Basic Grey buttons, ribbon from stash, charm from Ebay, twine recycled from some packaging.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Signs of Spring!

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday this week is

Signs of Spring!

I don't know about you but I am enjoying seeing the first signs of spring, the daffodils are just beginning to sprout (after being buried in snow for a week!). It is quite mild this week but I hear that it won't last and another cold spell is on it's way, oh well, enjoy while it lasts!

I decided to make a little Easter treat as I always think of Easter when I think of spring! As soon as my fabulous Whiff of Joy Spring kit arrived I knew I had to make a sweet girly one, I am busy making a boyish one too which I will share tomorrow!

I used instructions from the Scor-pal projects site, it is so amazing there, you can find allsorts of fabulous creations. This one is the Halloween Treat Bag, it is so easy to make!

The instructions are very clear and easy to follow. I used a velcro fastener to keep mine together in the hope that it doesn't get completely destroyed when it is opened!

We have a fabulous new Guest Designer this week, pop over and check out the beautiful card by Orka
Please check out the Design Team's fabulous blogs and find out more about how they made their beautiful spring creations!
thanks so much for dropping by, hope you all have a great day!
Supplies: DP ~ Imaginesce 'for peep's sake'
Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy 'spring kit stamp'
Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Kaiser adhesive pearls, ribbon from stash

multi challenge card

I think I have managed to make this card to fit into three challenges! I used Debbie's fab sketch on Spoonful of Sugar, the recipe from Whiff of Joy Challenge and added wire to fit into the Arty Girlz challenge!
The recipe was 3 papers, 2 flowers and 1 button/brad. My 3rd paper is inside as is my 2nd flower. The button is under the metal flower centre, I had to put that on top as the wire coming out the button looked a bit untidy. You have to look quite closely to see the wire but it is around the flower centre!

This is one of the new stamps from the Whiff of Joy spring kit, isn't she sweet?

Supplies: DP~ K&Co 'Blue Awning'

Stamps ~ Whiff of joy 'spring kit', SU 'Circle of friendship',

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, rub-on, doiley, wire, beads, ribbon

Exciting news!

Some fantastic news to share! Denise Lynn owner of Whimsy Stamps asked me to join her Design Team! I will be mostly be designing for the Kids collection, you might remember my card here using the very sweet Emma stamp. Watch out for more of these adorable stamps soon!

Ismaki 09/007~ Melinda blowing kisses

Manue designed the sketch over at Ismaki this week with the option pink and blue.

I did rush to finish this as my gorgeous Whiff of Joy spring stamps just arrived and I can't wait to ink them up!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'periphery'

Stamps ~ Whiff of Joy 'Melinda blowing kisses' 7 Gypsies 'Notting Hill'

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Leone Em leaf punch, lace and metal plaque from stash

Award

I just got this fab award from Andrea, thanks so much, it really means a lot coming from you!

I am awarding this to everyone who has commented this week as you have all made my week, thanks to you all for keep coming back and leaving me such sweet comments!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!