Dancing Ducks for Easter...

Good morning, we are off school shoe shopping soon (yawn!) and maybe some lunch out. I am enjoying my time off work so far. Oldest son is off to Norfolk tomorrow for the weekend with his rugby team so I have his packing to do later today. He's very much looking forward to it :-)

I am going to give this card to my mum and dad for Easter. I've gone for white ducks so not much in the way of colouring was required ;-) As soon as I saw this cute image I thought Easter but I think it would be suitable for other occasions too, maybe anniversary...?

Supplies:
Image - Dancing Ducks by Circa Designs coloured with Promarkers
Paper - can't remember, sorry
Resin flower, ribbon & pearl - stasg
Other - Memory Box Precious Daisies die, Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish die, Whimsy Stamps Picket Fence die, Spellbinders oval & scallop oval dies, brown inkpad, kraft card

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

Divas by Design - Easter/Spring

Papertake Weekly - Spring Has Sprung

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Easter

Crafty Boots - Easter

Crafty Catz - Springtime

Easter gifts

Good morning! We are at home today as we have an engineer coming to service the boiler and the timescale they have given is 8.30-6.30!!! I hope to get a bit of crafting done and will ignore the ever growing pile of ironing ;-) I usually sort something to give to the boys' teachers for Easter and this year this is what I put together. There are 3 Creme Eggs in the bag and I made 10 bags in total (6 for the boys' teachers and teaching assistants and 4 for the ladies I work with at school). I used a pre-printed image to speed up my production, it is an old Peter Rabbit image made into a round shape so all I needed to do was print and cut.

close up pic of the gorgeous cute image...

Supplies:
Image -  Peter Rabbit Round Tags from Nicecrane Designs
Tissue paper & ribbon - ebay
Gift bag - Hobbycraft
Creme eggs - Sainsbury's!
Other - Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, brown inkpad

I would like to enter my Easter gift bag into the following challenges:

Anything But A Card - Spring Forward

Dream Valley - Easter

Alphabet Challenge - D for Die Cuts

Brown Sugar - Clean & Simple

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything But A Card

Crafty Catz - Springtime

Blossoms & Blooms

Happy Sunday:-) Today is the start of a new challenge at Penny Black & More and I have been asked to be a GD. The theme is Blossoms and Blooms so right up my street :-) This is an older Penny Black stamp but I think it's so pretty...

Supplies:
Image - Brushed Bouquet by Penny Black coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Papers - Promises from LOTV
Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons
Resin flower, pearls - stash
Other - Spellbinders Floral Oval die, Spellbinders oval die, Memory Box Alphabet Soup die, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Cart-Us lily border punch, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

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

Alphabet Challenge - D for Die Cuts

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Jellypark Friday Challenge - Mother's Day/Important Female

Creative Corner - April Showers Bring May Flowers

No Flowers Allowed!

Good morning, I for one am very glad it's Saturday. It's been such a busy week and I can now relax as I'm off work for just over 2 weeks :-) It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'No Flowers' hosted by the lovely Helene. Our wonderful sponsors are Craft Fairy and Digistamp Boutique. 

 

 

offering a £15 voucher and

  

 

offering a £10 voucher

 

I initially broke into a cold sweat at the thought of not adding flowers as pretty much all my cards have flowers on them (apart from those for a male!). I then spied a fabulous cute cat image at Digistamp Boutique and had a flick through my paper stash and came up with this. I fussy cut the image to get rid of any white space...

Supplies:

Image - Duchess Cat by Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - RSVP by Basic Grey

Sentiment - Garden Vignettes by Barbara Anne Williams from Cuddly Buddly

Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons

Button & pearls - stash

Other - Marianne Designs Home Sweet Home die (for the heart shapes), Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, Star Dust Stickles, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

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

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Yipes, Stripes

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Crafting For All Seasons - Dies & Punches

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - 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:-)

Nanna's Birthday

Good morning, only one more day at work after today then it's the Easter Holidays!!! This is a card I made for a friend who complained that you can't buy cards with the name Nanna on, it's always Nan or Nanny. I said I could help and made this using a fab vintage image from Nicecrane Designs...

 I love the image so much I added it to the inside too...

Supplies:
Image - from the set Enchanted Spring from Nicecrane Designs
Papers - sorry can't remember
Ribbon, charm, button - stash
Other - Fancy corner die, twine, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card

Flowers galore...

Happy 1st April everyone. 4 more days of work then it's just over 2 weeks for me :-) Here's another Mother's Day card I made for a friend. The brief was cats and flowers and this cute image combines the 2 perfectly...

 A close up of the cute cat...

Supplies:
Image - Duchess Cat coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - can't remember sorry x
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat
Buttons & ribbon - stash
Flowers - The Ribbon Girl & stash
Other - Poppy Stamps Sitting Cat die, Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card, Star Dust Stickles

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

Crafts 4 Eternity - Special Mums

Glitter n Sparkle - Mother's Day

Dream Valley - Mothering Sunday

Pile It On - Floral Fantasy

That Craft Place - Buttons

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Bye x

Use Those Dies!

It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'Use Those Dies' hosted by the lovely Brenda. Our wonderful sponsors are Let's Create and Flonzcraft. 

I have made a vintage card using a silhouette stamp from our sponsor Flonzcraft. I have used one of my favourite dies from Spellbinders...

Supplies:

Image - Girl Reading Book from Flonzcraft

Paper - old MME 

Flowers - The Ribbon Girl and stash

Buttons - stash

Ribbon - Craftwork Cards

Other - Spellbinders Floral Oval die, Spellbinders oval die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

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

Divas by Design - Buttons & Bows

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes with Buttons

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon & Buttons
Crafty Catz - 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:-)