Aster

Good morning everyone.  May has come and gone so quickly and I now have to pack up my craftroom for a couple of months as we are being rewired.  I am soooooo not looking forward to this but it cannot be put off any longer.

Mind you it will give me a chance to tidy up my craftroom - I am such a messy crafter - plus I am getting a little more organised AND I will re-organise my craftroom when I begin to unpack so there are some pros to this.

I haven't seen you for a while but I have to say my friend Wendy and I went to a craftathon organised by Phil Martin and Chloe Endean on Sunday 22nd May.  What a super day we had.  It is the first time we had been and we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  Met some lovely ladies, spent loads and we each managed to make 4 cards and get completely covered in glitter.  Well Chloe was in the house!

Phil, Chloe and their teams worked so hard to make sure we all had a fantastic day.

Definitely will be looking out for next year.

Crafting From The Heart starts a new challenge today.

Our sponsor is

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

I have used a delighful digi stamp from our sponsor called 

Aster - Its about being dainty bloomin treasures.

I kept my card simple with just some matting and layering and embossing.

I did print my image out onto watercolour card and used distress markers to colour it in and although you can't see it fully I have glittered around the edges a couple of layers.

To enter your own project into our challenge and to see more samples from our design team please follow the link HERE to the blog.

Don't forget we also have a FACEBOOK page where more challenges are held.

Thank you for visiting today and I do hope to see you again soon.

Shelby

We have a lovely new challenge starting at Get Creative today.

Our theme for this challenge is BINGO

I have used

Glitter | Printed Paper | Blue

Our Sponsor for this challenge is: -

The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette

My shopping list 

digi image called  'Shelby' 

8x8 plain base card

print paper from my stash

white card for matting & layering and frame

Chloe Endean Pretty Flowers stamp

parchment 

Wow Starry Night embossing powder

white glitter

sentiment - John Lockwood stamps

sentiment - Phil Martin corner stamps

tattered lace die for leaves

distress markers

To see more samples from our design team all using different digi stamps from our sponsor please follow the link HERE to our blog and to enter your own project for a chance to win a super prize from our sponsor,

Thank you so much for visiting and I do hope to see you again soon.

May with her Cupcake

Good morning everyone.

We start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations.

Our theme is 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor is 

Angies Digital Stamps

I have used a lovely digi called 'May with Cupcake'

I have coloured May in with distress markers and copic marker pens.

Some matting and layering using Creative Expressions Double Edged Pierced Rectangle dies and some embossing using an 8x8 embossing folder from tattered lace.

My frame behind May was cut on my BSC from Tattered Lace USB1.  All finished off with my usual flowers which I have die cut using Creative Expressions Daisy dies and leaves with some card candi as centres.

If you pop over to our blog you will see more samples from our design team and don't forget to enter your own creation into the challenge.  Just follow the link HERE.

Thanks for visiting today and hope to see you again soon.

Victorian Tea

Good morning folks.

Good job I have scheduled this post as I shall be travelling back from a weekend away with my Mom.  We have been on our yearly 'mommy/daughter' weekend and this year we have been to Alvaston Hall in Cheshire for a weekend of pure relaxation.  Pamper treatments, good food, good wine and good company what more could a girl want.  No guilt at leaving hubby at home with Enya our briard to fend for himself, I am sure he has had a lovely peaceful time of doing nothing.

Well, we start a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart this morning.

Theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Lunagirl Images

I have used an image called 'Victorian Tea'.

There are a sheet of tags and images and I used the teapot and cup with one tag.

They were quite easy to cut out and I still have loads of tags left for other projects.

I have used a 5x7 card with some matting and layering.  The die is a spellbinders die and the patterned paper was a freebie from the latest tattered lace magazine. Added a little bit of embossing and hey presto a useful, easy little card.

If you follow the link HERE to our challenge blog you can enter your own project and also see more samples from our design team.

We also have a facbook page for your to join where you can enter another challenge and also showcase your own makes.

Thank you for visiting today and I hope to see you again very soon.

Take care.

Floral Birthday

Good morning everyone.  Hope your day is starting as you would like.

A new challenge at Crafty Girlz is beginning this morning.

We have our usual theme of 'Always Anything Goes'

Our Sponsor for this challenge is

Scrap N' Dipity

For this months challenge I have used a digi stamp from our sponsor called Floral Frame.

I have coloured my image in using distress marker pens.  The sentiment is from a set of stamps by John Lockwood from Creative Expressions.

I have die cut a frame using creative expressions double edged pierced square dies.

The flower is stamped onto parchment using pastel lemon embossing powder and stamps from Honey Doo Crafts.  The leaves are dies from Creative Expressions.  All finished off with Tonic Nuvo Pearl White drops.

To see more samples from our design team using more digi stamps from our sponsor follow the link HERE. Don't forget to enter your own challenge whilst you are visiting.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope to see you again soon.

Cool Summer

Good morning everyone,  As I schedule this I am seriously hoping this morning is a lovely, dry warm morning with blue skies and will remain so the whole weekend especially in Cheshire as I shall be packing to go away for my weekend with my Mom to Alvaston Hall in Cheshire.

We also start a brand new challenge at Simply Create Too.

Challenge 109 has a theme of

'Thank You'

I have played with my serif craft artist programme which I absolutely love.

The digi kit I have used is called Cool Summer which is available from the Daisytrail website.

To see more ideas from our design team and to enter your own 'thank you' project into our challenge just follow the link HERE

Thank you for visiting and take care.

The Paris Collection

Good morning again.  My 2nd post today is to tell you about a challenge beginning today at Crafting From The Heart.

Challenge 110 has the usual theme of

'Always Anything Goes'.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

 Stamps by Julia Spiri

The digi stamp I have chosen to use is called 'The Paris Collection'.  Such good value as it also comes with accessories.

I have done some paper piecing with her dress and used a black lace paper from craft artist. I then coloured her hair, skin and bows on the dress using copics.

I have fussy cut her out using my BSC on direct to cut mode.

To make the actual card I have used a set of dies from Tonic Studios  called 'Twisted Veranda'.  My flowers were dies from Tattered Lace and the leaves are from Sue Wilson.

To see more samples using stamps from our sponsor and to enter your own project into our challenge please follow the link HERE to our blog.

We also have a Facebook page to join and share your makes.

Thank you for visiting my blog again today and I hope to see you soon.

Take care

Challenges entered

Craft Your Passion Challenge 310- ATG 

Our Crafty Corner challenge 9 - ATG

Tulip Girl

Good morning folks.

We have a new challenge beginning today at Get Creative.

Challenge 38 has a theme of 

Pink + 1 other colour

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Sami Stamps.

For my card today I have chosen to us a digi stamp from our sponsor called 'Tulip Girl'

You will have guessed from my card I chose white as my other colour. Although I have to apologise as I have just realised the black hair.

My Shopping List

Digi Stamp - Tulip Girl

white card

backing paper from Baby Bumper digi kit - serif craft artist

tonic dies and tattered lace dies

cosmic shimmer pink embossing powder

stamps from Hobby Art for the flowers

Copics used

E000 | E00 | E01 = skin

C5 | C7 | C9 = hair

R85 | R81 - flowers on dress

To see more designs from our design team who will be using different stamps from our sponsor follow the link HERE to our blog and don't forget to enter your own project into the challenge, just remember to follow the theme.

Thank you for visiting today and I do hope to see you again soon.

Take Care

Challenge entered

Craft Your Passion challenge 310 - ATG

Our Crafty Corner challenge 9 - ATG

Golden Splendour

Good morning folks.  Hope you are all well.

Sunday 1st May - isn't this year speeding by?  Bank holiday Monday tomorrow - looking forward to a crafting day for me, what will you be doing?

We start a new challenge at Creative Ladybirds challenge today.

Our theme is the usual Always Anything Goes.

I have recently bought some new stamps from the very talented Phil Martin - Sentimentally Yours.

What a pleasure they were to use.

The tag across the middle and the topper behind it were from Phil's stamps and have been stamped and embossed using cosmic shimmer gold detail embossing powder.

The background was also made using stamps but those were from Dreamees.

Flowers are a die but I can't remember where that was from I think it was a spellbinders die and the leaves are a sue wilson die.

I finished the flowers with nuvo tonic pearl drops.

To see more samples from our design team and to enter your creation into the challenge follow the link HERE.

Thanks for visiting and do take care.