PPPPick up a Penguin...

Hello, happy Wednesday. We had a fab day at London Zoo on Monday. Having my hair cut today and then off for my flu jab later, thought it was a good idea when I booked it but feeling nervous now :-( The rest of my day is going to be taken up by cleaning and sorting. I made these 2 CAS cards using the same paper pad and same image but they look very different, what do you think...

Supplies:

Image - from the Arctic Fun set coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Winter Wonderland by Dovecraft

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Buttons - Dovecraft

Sentiment tag - Craftwork Cards

Other - Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, brown inkpad, Star Dust Stickles

Thanks so much for looking x

Happy Monday :-)

Good morning lovelies, it's the first day of our school holidays and we are off to London Zoo, the weather is supposed to be fine so we should be in for a good day. I have another Christmas card to share with you today using one of the super cute images in Digistamp Boutique's Arctic Fun set...

Supplies:

Image - from the Arctic Fun set coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - Winter Wonderland by Dovecraft

Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons

Green ribbon (layered behind seam binding) & bakers twine - stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Buttons - Dovecraft

Other - Marianne Design Creatables snowflake die LR0125, Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, kraft card, Star Dust Stickles, Liquid Pearls, brown inkpad

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

 Digistamp Boutique - October competition

Jingle Belles - Not a Creature Was Stirring

Crafting For All Seasons - Buttons & Bows
Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Use Kraft

Thanks for looking, hope you have a lovely day x

Just Christmas...

Good morning peeps, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts today and our theme is 'Just Christmas' hosted by the lovely Brenda. Our wonderful sponsor is Cuddly Buddly.

Cuddly Buddly generously gave the DT several festive images to play with for the challenge. I chose Snow Buddies and added a sentiment to the bottom. I stuck to traditional festive colours...

Supplies:

Image - Snow Buddies coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - Dovecraft Modern Christmas (last year's I think?)

Spotty button - Little Gingham Bear (lovely facebook shop)

Flowers, pearls, ribbon & metal corner - stash

Other - Star Dust Stickles, brown inkpad, twine, kraft card

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Divas by Design - Festive Florals/Christmas Flowers (white poinsettia)

Simon Says Stamp - Use Kraft

Crafting by Designs - Get Ready for Christmas

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)

Catching a lift...

I really love the cute image on this card, it was fun to colour but didn't take long as the main character is a polar bear standing on a block of ice so lots of white ;-) I dug out some older festive papers and my ancient but much loved Marianne Design snowflake die...

Supplies:

Image - from the Arctic Fun set coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - Dovecraft Modern Christmas (last year/year before?)

Ribbon & buttons - stash

Sentiment tag - Craftwork Cards

Other - Marianne Design Creatables snowflake die LR0125, Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, kraft card, Star Dust Stickles, Liquid Pearls, brown inkpad

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Digistamp Boutique - October competition

Passion for Promarkers - Let's Get Krafty

Thanks for looking x

Take Note...

Good morning, only 3 more work days after today then I have a week off with my lovely boys :-) I found this little A6 notebook in the sale in my local Sainsburys and I loved it. I bought it home and decided to add a couple of 'bits' to it and give it to a lovely friend for her birthday...

Supplies:

Notebook - Sainsburys

Ribbons & resin flower - stash

Dies - Memory Box Alphabet Soup, Marianne Design Craftables Circle & Flower Stitch set (only used the flower)

Thank you for looking x

It's all about embossing...

Good morning peeps, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts today and our theme is 'Embossing' hosted by the lovely Helene. Our wonderful sponsors are Crafty Devils Papercraft and Flonzcraft.

 

I first thought I'd make a white on white card but then decided to keep a white embossed background and add some touches of colour...

 Closer look at the embossed background...

Supplies:

Paper - 25th & Pine by Basic Grey

Buttons & green twine - stash

Other - Cheery Lynn Christmas Noel die, Sizzix snowflake embossing board

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Deep Ocean - Christmas in October

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas

Oldie But A Goodie - Christmas (embossing board is more than 3 years old, twine is one year old)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Goes

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)

Season's Tweetings 2...

Morning! It's nearly Friday :-) We've had a bit of a rubbish week as Jack has a nasty ear infection and has been feeling pretty yuck :-( This is another card using the same cute robin set as my card on Tuesday. This one is rather bright...

Supplies:

Image & sentiment - from the Cute Robin Chicklets set coloured with Promarkers

Paper - 25th & Pine by Basic Grey

Lace - stash

Buttons - Crafty Ribbons

Other - Spellbinders rectangle die, brown inkpad, Star Dust Stickles, twine

Thanks for looking x

Season's Tweetings...

Good morning peeps, happy Tuesday to you :-) We went on a class trip to Lush yesterday afternoon and had a go at making soap. It was a but messy but really good fun. We went to a local ice-cream parlour last week and sampled several different flavours. Have to say I am rather enjoying this change of job ;-) We are off to a cathedral on Thursday, I am a little less excited about that trip...!

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I have but am starting to panic that I haven't done as much as I should have done. We are buying the boys a games console & games between them and I have just ordered slippers, pyjamas and dressing gowns. Christmas musts! I have ordered my mum and dad one of the ceramic poppies on display at the Tower of London. When the display is removed they will have one of the poppies sent to their home to keep.

 

Here's another quick Christmas card for the box.

Supplies:

Image & sentiment - from the Cute Robin Chicklets set coloured with Promarkers

Paper - Krafty Christmas by Dovecraft

Ribbon - stash

Button - Little Gingham Bear

Other - Spellbinders rectangle die, brown inkpad, Star Dust Stickles, twine

Thanks for looking x

Cream & Brown...

Good morning peeps, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts today and our theme is 'Cream & Brown' hosted by the lovely Jo. Our wonderful sponsors are A Passion for Stamps & Crafty Ribbons.

 

I chose to make a Christmas card. Cream & brown are not usual festive colours but I really wanted to use this snowflake paper. My seam binding is from our sponsor Crafty Ribbons and it has photographed darker than it is in real life...

Supplies:

Paper - Back To Basics Christmas Modern by Dovecraft

Sentiment die cut - Craftwork Cards

Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons

Pearls - stash

Other - Crafts Too Christmas Foliage die, Quickutz corner die, brown inkpad

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

 

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)