Champagne Garden

Good morning folks.

Hope you are all well today?

Last day of June and I am still wondering when our summer will begin.  

Looking forward to Saturday when I will be going to the NEC for a new craft show with my mate Wendy.  Some major retail craft therapy.  Apparently this is a new show and if I am honest Wendy and I were not going to attend but I was lucky enough to receive some complimentary tickets so it would be rude not to use them - hee hee.

I will let you know how it went - the show I mean, the day with me mate will go brilliantly, always does.

We start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations today.

Our theme is  

Always Anything Goes.

My craft room is still packed away so I have been playing again in Serif Craft Artist.

The digi kit I have used is from Louise Tiller and it is called 'Champagne Garden'.

If you want to see more samples from our design team please follow the link HERE to the challenge and so you can enter your own projects.

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

Take Care.

Natalie is 40

Good morning fellow crafters.

We start a new challenge at Crafty Girlz Challenge today.

Our theme is the usual 'Always Anything Goes'.

It was a free week for the design team this week.

My craft room is almost packed up ready for the electrician to start his rewiring so my post today was actually made for a fellow slimming worlder - Keefy.  It was a friend of his named Natalie and yes it was forher 40th birthday.

I chose to use the lovely shoe stamp from Chloe Creative Cards which I stamped and embossed in a red embossing powder several times on to cream card then the red polka dots paper and also the plain red co'ordinating paper.

The papers were from a digi kit within serif craft artist and I don't know which one because I just entered red and picked two.

I have also glittered the heel of the shoes.

The sentiment was designed in serif, coloured in serif and printed out.

For the flower buckle I have used parchment and a flower die from Dreamees which I embossed using a wow embossing powder finished off with a couple of pearls.

To see more designs from our DT just follow the link HERE to our blog and don't forget to enter your own project into the challenge.

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

Take Care.

Buttons 'n' Bows

Good morning all, hope you are all well.

I do love Friday's, mainly because I don't work and today I am off to the hairdressers with my Mom and then out to lunch.

We have started a new challenge however at Simply Create Too.

Challenge 111 has a theme of
Use Buttons and Bows

My shopping list for my post today is: -

8x8 white base card
yellow card
silver card
white card
handbag die from tattered lace magazine
stamps from Honey Doo Crafts
Blue parchment and blue embossing powder
heat resisitant acetate and yellow embossing powder
blue ribbon
buttons.
embossing folder
sentiment from John Lockwood stamps

My layout design was actually from the same tattered lace mazagine which had the handbag die as a freebie.

To see more designs from our DT follow the link HERE to our blog where you can also enter your own project.

Don't forget your can enter any creation you have made so long as you follow the theme of

Buttons and Bows.

Thank you for visiting today.  See you soon

Take care.

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.