PWC #12 with wings

Again I have made a card for two of the challenge blogs. The sketch is from this weeks Papertake weekly challenge sketch #12 by Katherina. And after using the little bird image from magnolia realised that this would also qualify for Ooh-la-la Creations challenge which is to use something with wings Backing papers Dovecraft contempory. matted again onto glitter paper. Image from magnolia collection coloured with pearly water colours. Sentiment stamped and embossed in gold from dovecraft christmas 99p range.

Christmas animals

I have made this card for two of the challenge blogs. The sketch is A Spoonful of Sugar And the image is for Cute card Thursday for the theme christmas animals The backing paper is Dovecraft winter wonderland and this is matted on to some beautiful glitter paper which gives the card a great sparkle that doesn't show up in the photo. The scalloped edges are also in the glitter paper. The large snowflake is a sizzix die but in white glitter card.
The image is penny black christmas critters coloured with pearly water colours. Two sequin snowflakes and a few dabs of icicle stickles for embelisments

Lims blog candy

Lim has some fantastic blog candy at the moment. Why don't you pop over and have a look and while you are there have a look at her fantastic cards

DDC #2

This weeks challenge on Double Dutch is a great sketch. Yet again I decided to make a christmas card from it as i have so many to make for this year.
The papers and the images i have used are from a Marie Johnstome CD that I printed off ages ago but never got around to using

Christmas card Gift set

The first sketch is up on Christmas cards all year round, so last night i set to and using the sketch made a gift set of six christmas cards. It's a really easy sketch so didn't take me too long to make 6 cards and a box

The pictures and the backing paper are all from C&C Christmas Triple Treasures CD

blog candy at Lil' bit of me

Marlene is offering some great blog candy in celebration of her birthday. Go and check it out

Dolly Dewdrop blog candy

Gill at Dolly Dewdrop is giving away some great blog candy for reaching 10,000 hits. Why not pop over and check it out.

Live and let Die

Caardvarks challenge this week is to create a card using die cuts. And as i've been in a creative mood today i thought i would give it a try.

I used a pearlised backing paper and stamped flowers with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder that has a touch of glitter in it.

The butterfly die is sizzix butterfly #2 that i have coloured with pearly watercolours and then edged with a gold pen.

The sentiment is a woodware stamp that is embossed in gold.

Lots of Sparkle

I had a lot of fun making this card for the challenge on Cute Card Thursday.

The image is from Cute companions, which i coloured with watercolour pencils and then glittered the dress and the butterfly. The backing papers are from the cute companions CD

Crafty Friends Crafty Monday

I think I have said before that a crafty friend Sandra and i get together on a monday to make a card. We choose a blog challenge and both do the same one and see how different our cards are. This week we chose the sketch on Friday Sketchers for our challenge.Once i had finished my card I also realised that it was perfect for the seasons challenge on Penny Black Saturday challenge.Here is how my card turned out, and if you pop over to Sandra's blog you will see how hers turned out

more blog candy

AngelJakki is giving some great blog candy away at the moment why not pop over and take a lookHan also has some great blog candy for reaching 20,000 hit's Wendy is giving away a quickutz teaset die for her blog candypop over to see them and take tome time to look at their creations

New blog facelift

Wow how do you like my new blog facelift? Great isn't it wow i am so pleased with it. It was all done for me by Donna at Crafty Krafts and don't you think she has made a fantastic job. I am over the moon with my new look. Also While she was designing it we were chatting on the live chat she has on her design blog and Donna helped me add a chat to my blog too. So whether you want to ask me a question, purchase any of my cards or just have a general chat why not click on the live chat arrow at the side and if I'm online i'll get back to you. Well Now I have a nice new blog i can show you the card that I made for this weeks challenge on Cupcake craft challenge.This week is Christmas and i already had this idea in my head before Lauren emailed me with this weeks task. The wording I sourced on my computer in my font's file as i wanted a snow capped font. then i used my icicle stickles to give the snow effect.The backing paper inside and out is dovecraft winter wonderland. On the outside i used DST down each side and then glittered.The snowflake is a die cut using white glitter card, mounted onto an acetate strip and the attatched to the card. Why not pop over to cupcake and see what the other DT's have done and have a go at the challenge yourself with a chance to be entered into the monthly prize draw.Donna has also given cupcake a facelift too and it looks great

Another Blog Candy Alert

Donna at Crafty Krafts has some great blog candy of 7 new magnolia stamps. Why not pop by and take a look

Sorry not been posting

Well what a week. Somehow at the beginning of the week while trying to find some backing paper for a particular card I was making, I clicked on a website after searching on google and oh oh I knew straight away that it had taken me to a virus. Everything on my computer went stupid and for some reason my anti virus whish is usually excellent at catching things has missed it and let it through and it attacked my windows system directories and my IM and I couldn't get anything to work. I then had to do a boot scan to try and find the files and delete them which took me ages, but finally I thought i had got it sorted. But them my computer just kept shutting itself down, not like normal where it goes through the shut down process but instead the switched off dead with no warning. when I reboot it it then at first came back with a date of july 2005 and the time midnight. and the last time it happened and I rebooted it came back with a date of oct 10th 2010 and a time of 10:10. So I think there may still be something of a virus there that I just can't find.
I have been busy transfering all my files on to an external drive so that i can totally trash my laptop and start from scratch. Grrrr it's going to take me ages to get all my programmes loaded on again.

Because of all this, I haven't managed to put any of my cards on my blog, especially my DT card for cupcake craft challenges, And i only just managed to get my card posted for Lauren this morning for this weeks challenge. (will be posting that card for all of you soon).

On a happier note. I have got through to the second round for the DT for Silly Monkey crafts. Out of 70 applicants, 18 of us have been chosen to go through to the next round. My Oh wondered what was going off when i let out a squeel of delight lol.
I have had to choose 3 of my best cards to send in for them to see my style and how hard is that. I have had all my cards opened in loads of windows on my computer scrutinising them all and trying to pick just 3, but i have so many cards that i love for some reason or another. In the end I just bit the bullet and chose three and then sent them quickly before I changed my mind again. Now I have to wait and see if I get through to the next round. I'm keeping my fingers andtoes crossed for this one. So if you see a woman walking funny down the road it's probably me suffering from severe cramp from crossed toes lol

Here is the card I sent in for the first round

Pretty Pressings Sketch Challenge

Over on Pretty Pressings, Claudia is running a sketch challenge to win some great blog candy.
Here is my card that I have made for my daughters friend who will be 4 on sunday. the papers are all out of my scrap box, the image is one i had sent to me by one of my blog friends and the embelishments were free with a magazine.

Christmas is coming

The challenge this week on A Spoonful of Sugar is to make a christmas card. Well as i have been making a lot of christmas cards at the moment this wasn't too hard a challenge for me.

Here is the card I finally decided on.

The image is Magnolia Tilda with presents, coloured with pearly watercolours from The Works. Background paper is Dovecraft Contempory Christmas. Ribbons Dovecraft.

CPS 82

Here is My take on this weeks CPS sketch. I embossed some stockings from the dovecraft 99p range of stamps.backing paper from, redhotbed and ribbons from my stash

Crafting Morning

On Monday morning a crafty friend of mine Sandra and I decided to get together and have a go at one of the challenges in blogland and see what we could come up with.
We chose Penny black Saturday challenge to play with and here is the card I made.

The main backing paper I made using my whisper brush markers scribbled onto a piece of acetate. Another peice of acetate was placed on top and then rubbed together to mix the inks. paper was then placed between the sheets of acetate and rubbed down to transfer the ink. The brown spotty paper is dovecraft masculine. The image is from Penny blacks 'Bubbly' range. I coloured this with my whisper pens and koi brush. Due to the card stock i used the colours started to bleed which was annoying at first but then I decided i really liked the effect it gave.

Check out Sandra's blog to see how her challenge card came out, once she has uploaded it lol.

cupcake challenge 5

The New Challenge has started today on Cupcake Craft challenges. This weeks Challenge is the sketch below:
Here is my take on this weeks sketch as part of the DT. The Blue baackground is holographic CS bought cheaply from Home bargains. I then ran some white CS through my cuttlebug after inking up the folder. Stamped image from penny black christmas critters, coloured with pearly watercolours from the Works. Ribbon and sentiment are from the dovecraft range.
Pop over to cupcake to see what the other members of the DT came up with. They are great.

Blog Candy Alerts

There are a few blog candy offers out there at the moment and these are a couple I have come accross today so why not pop over and have a look.

The first one is at Crissy's Art & Heart and it's great blog candy which i would love to win.
The other is Nikki's at Bunny-Zoe's Blog. wow i would really love to win this too.
I'll let you know if i see anymore on my blog hopping treks