Christmas card order

I've made a copy of special cards this year for a girl my brother works with and she asked if I could do here special ones for her family.

Image - Woodward Mr Frosty

Paper - Dovecraft

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Baubles - Stash

Paper - Dawn Bibby

Peel Off - Anitas

High Hopes Christmas

Tracy at Dies to Die For has some fab High Hopes Christmas stamps in stock at the moment and I just had to play with this one. I really love this stamp, as you can also break it down to 3 separate Santas!

Stamp - High Hopes 3 Pane Santas

Paper - Dovecraft

Ribbon - Dies to Die For

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

This is the second challenge at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and it's a fab sketch by Sue.

Stamp - Woodware Mr Frosty Stamp Set

Paper - Doodlebug

Frill - Doodlebug

Buttons - Dovecraft
Glitter -Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Cute Card Thursday & Penny Black Saturday

Well this is my second Christmas card of the year! I am so far behind where I normally am, that I will have to get a move on. I normally make all my mum's cards as well and Matt gets asked for special ones by work colleagues, but not sure if I will be able to this year. I've made this card for this weeks challenge at Cute Card Thursday, which is Christmas Animals and also used the fab sketch on Penny Black Saturday.

Stamp- Penny Black Merry Wishes

Paper - Magazine Freebie

Ribbon - Dovecraft

Embossing - Cuttlebug

Holly - Been in my stash for years!!

Sentiment tag - papermania

Glitter - Stickles

More cards with my Design Kit

I've had another play with the fab goodies I received from Tracy at Dies to Die For.

The first I used this gorgeous little girl from Alota Stamps, she is so cute and perfect for a little girls card. I took inspiration from Gina's card below!

Stamp - Alota Stamps for Dies to Die For

Paper - stash

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

The second card is using on of my favourite High Hopes stamps, Posies for Ewe.

Stamp - High Hopes from Dies to Die For

Paper - Dovecraft

Ribbon - Stash

Flowers & Brads - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge

Another card, another challenge! This time's it's a fab sketch by Nikki at A Spoon Full of Sugar.

Although I have loads of the Sugar Nellie, this little boy with his balloon has to be the one I have used the most.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Dovecraft Masculine

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Bots

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Penny Black Saturday - One for the Girls

Well I had a lovely time on Wednesday night crafting and got a few challenges done. This is for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, which is one for the girls.

I love this Penny Black stamp and decided to use a different colour scheme than pink!

Stamp - Penny Black Light the Night

Paper - Dovecraft

Flower - Bazzill

Brad - Papermania

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Blimey at last some cards

Blimey I have hardly been in my craft room lately, with all this lovely weather it seems a shame to be stuck in doors. I have managed to fit in a couple of cards, although I'm not sure how happy I am with this first one, it just didn't turn out how I imagined!

Image - received in a swap

Paper - DCWV

Butterfly stamp - Magnolia

Flower - Poppicraft

Brad - Stash

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Image - received in a swap
Paper - Dovecraft

Brad - Papermania
Fower - Prima

Friday Sketchers & Papertake Weekly challenge

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is to use die cuts on your project, so I thought I would incorporate this with the Friday Sketchers sketch from last Friday.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Dovecraft Mens

Fishing Rod & Fish - Sizzix dies

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 3

This my take on the third Friday's Sketchers done by Carole.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie (courtesy of Gina)

Scalloped Circle - Cricut Accent Essentials

Papers - Dovecraft Laura Ashley Contemporary

Flowers - Michelle's B'day pressie

Brads - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Lots of cards to share!!!

Made a few cards this weekend, which was really nice to get a bit of crafting done. These have all been made just because I wanted to and I really enjoyed having a play.

Image - courtesy of Maria

Paper - Dovecraft Birthday

Embossing - Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder

Flower - Poppicrafts

Brad - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Image - Penny Black courtesy of Natalie

Paper - Stash

Jewels - Papermania

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Image - Pink Petticoat

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Flower centres - Liquid Pearls
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Stamp - 99p from Craft Central

Paper - DCWV Xmas Stack

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

I've won Michelle's blog candy

I made this little thank you card and sent it to Michelle from Card Grotto this week with some Sugar Nellie and Magnolia images to say thanks for the HighHopes/Whipper Snapper images she sent to me.

Just logged onto my e-mails and had a message from Michelle to say thanks and also to say that I was the lucky winner of her lovely blog candy!!!!! So excited, I love getting crafting goodies and I have been so good lately whilst I'm meant to be on a stash diet so I can't wait to receive them. Thanks Michelle

Image - courtesy of Natalie from Crafting Fun

Paper - Dovecraft Retro Flowers

Embossing - Cuttlebug

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Glitter - Stickles

Cute Card Thursday - It's a Mans World

The challenge over on Cute Card Thursday is It's a Man's World, you need to make a card for a man. I got this stamp ages ago in a half price sale in a little craft shop near me and I thought he deserved an outing (only used him once!).

Stamp - Funstamps Ted

Paper - Dovecraft Masuline

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Ribbons

The challenge this week at Tilda & Co is to use Ribbons on your project, the more the better! This was a tricky one for me as I really don't like to use my ribbons, they are just there to be taken out and stroked every so often and then put back into their jars :o)

Been very hectic weekend, hubby's birthday on Monday so we went out for a meal and a few drinks last night. Blimey I really struggled to get out of bed this morning, don't think I can cope with too much alcohol and we only shared a couple of glasses of wine!!! Going to be a busy week, more work on the house and we have to go over to ikea this week to get some bits that I want, hubby looking forward to that!

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Dovecraft Birthday
Embossing - Cuttlebug Birthday
Ribbon - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Cute Card Thursday - Transport

This weeks challenge at Cute Card Thursday is transport. Well I spent yesterday afternoon at work trying to think what stamps I had that fitted and it wasn't until I got home and looked that I remembered this little boy from Woodware

Paper - Dovecraft Kids

Stamp - Woodware Playtime

Ribbon - Anita's Sticky Ribbon

Buttons - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Papertake Weekly -Making Waves

The challenge over on Papertake Weekly is Making Waves - is to use scallops or zig-zags (or both if your really keen lol!) on your project!

Decided I would use my lovely new Lily stamps, as she is so cute. There are some still in stock at First Class Crafts if you're quick!

Stamp - Pink Cat Studio Lily & Tweet

Paper - Dovecraft Birthday

Ribbon - Little Silver Hat

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Glitter - Stickles

Sweet Sugar Challenge 5

The 5th challenge at Sweet Sugar is to make TWO (yes two!!!) cards for those very hard people in our lives - men and boys! So get your creative thinking caps on and make two male themed cards.

I really loved this challenge, I think the Sugar Nellie range have some fantastic male stamps and really enjoyed using them.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Dovecraft Kids

Embossing - Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles

Anchor - Quickutz

Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Dovecraft Masculine

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

My Paper World - Sketch 7

I love Nicola's sketches and here is my take on sketch 7, it's brilliant. Check out her cards, there are some fantastic ones using the lovely Magnolia stamps.

Hoping to get some more crafting done today, as I have a day off from work to just do as I want!! Apart from the dentist this afternoon :o(

Stamp - Han's PIF

Paper - Han's PIF

Flowers - Prima

Brads - Dovecraft

Spring Flowers

Well I have been in London yesterday and today, it really is a different world than up North!!!! Sorry to anyone who has mailed me, I'll reply this evening when I get home. I have a card though that I didn't get a chance to add on Tuesday night.

I'm not sure on this card, think it might be a wee bit bright! I love this paper from Dovecraft Retro Floral so I tried to use similar colours when I coloured in the image. What do you think?

Image - Hans PIF

Paper - Dovecraft Retro Floral

Pens - Marvy Le Plume

Ribbon - Stash

Gems - Papermania

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Penny Black Dog

Well I liked the layout for the card below so much that I thought I would make one with my new Penny Black stamp and these great papers from Dovecraft

Stamp - Penny Black Dressed Up

Papers - Dovecraft Masculine

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Brads - Stash