Awards Galore

Wow so many awards. I have been so remiss in the past in showing awards on my blog. This is because i get so absorbed in my crafting that i forget people have awarded them to me

These awards have been awarded to me by:

Nice blog Award: Maria
Fabulous Award: Kathryn, Leanne

Encouraged Award: Kathryn

Butterfly Award : Kathryn, Jude
Pop over and look at there fantastic blogs

All for the Encouraged and Butterfly, Nice Blog Awards all you have to do is: 1) Put the award on your blog 2) Put a link on your blog of the blogger who gave you the award 3) Nominate 5 other bloggers 4) Leave a comment on their blog notifying them
For the Fabulous Blog Award you have to also state 5 things you are addicted to... mine? My kids, crafting, my blog, forums, Olives

I am supposed to pass these on to 5 other people but i am having a hard time in choosing just 5 so I am going to award these to all my blogging friends who visit my blog. Please take whichever award you would like. You all derserve one

Last one for Tonight

Ok so yes I have been really busy today with my crafting but it's not that often i get the chance just to keep going like this lol. The last one for tonight is using the sketch#6 by Dawny on PWC. DP Dovecraft Retro Flowers. CS mint green. Image Penny Black coloured with my whisper pens and water brush. Sentiment Irecieved in a RAK, Gems from my stash

2 sketches 4 u challenge

There is a great sketch from Laura this week on 2s4u. It took me ages to decide what to do but in the end I decided on a baby card. I didn't want to make this one a fussy card so I stamped the background ladybirds with my versamark and then dusted over with a baby blue chalk. The stamped image is dovecraft and i have been dying to use it for days now. Even though i've used it in the past that was a long time ago. I coloured it with my whispers Gingham Ribbon from my stash.

The little envelope I made with Velum tied the gingham ribbon around it and added just a little message to it. I may do the message again as it's looking a little tatty and i'm not too sure about the stamped letters that I have used. I may hand write a message

mojo monday 69

This card is made by using sketch 69 on mojo monday Red CS. DP Paper Mania Velum. Give the CS a pink hue. Pink Hand made paper. Crotchet ribbon in cream that i recieve in my Secret Santa. Hearts P.etc. stickers that i recieved in my secret santa.
The card looks a lot better in real life. I just couldn't get the lighting right tonight to show it to it's best. I really must invest in a light box

Magnolia v Stampavie

On Magnolia v Stampavie this week the challenge is to make a handmade gift. After the fun I had making the last notepad, I thought i would go one step further this time and make a storage box and a matching notbook as a gift. Again using my BIA ( it has been totally underused since i bought it)

CS Dark Chocolate brown. DP Laura Ashley Galleria Glittered. Image coloured with whisper pens and water brush. Ribbons from stash

Saturday Challenge

This weeks challenge on Saturday Challenge is 'Anything but a card' So I decided to have a play with my BIA and make a notebook DP's from my scrap box. CS Dark Chocolate brown and Milk Chocolate Brown. Ribbon Deco Craft Ribbon. Image Penny black coloured with whisper pens and water brush

Cupcake Challenge #21

This week on Cupcake Craft Challenges we have a great sketch by Lauren This sketch was really fun and easy to use and it was the ideal sketch to use for my OH Birthday cad form the children.
DP Dovecraft masculine. Image a decoupage image i have had in my stash for a while. Ribbon is off our christmas cake (come one don't tell me you don't keep all these bits and bobs)
Tanke a trip over to the blog and see what the rest of the DT have done with the sketch

Boys card

How hard is it to do a card for a male. I noticed that in my card stash i had very few male cards so decided to use the sketch at Sketch Saturday to make one. The sketch is great but i still struggled not to make the card too feminine. Image Sugar Nellie that I recieved in a RAK, coloured with my whisper pens and water brush. DP's from my scrap box (still trying to use it all up) star gems and ribbon from my stash

Pink and Brown

The Penny Black Saturday challenge this week is Pink and Brown. I had some of this lovely pink and brown DP left from PM. It has a lovely flock effect on it and i'm really sad that i have no more left. Pink ribbon in the corner is from my stash and it wrapped with some lovely brown fibres. Flower from my secret santa. Image from the PB fresh new day collection, coloured with pearly watercolours

Two Shades of Blue

While searching blogland for new challenges. ( that i didn't have to stick to specific products), I found Our Creative Corner. The challenge on there this week is to use 2 shades of blue and one neutal colour. So straight away I hit my scrap box ( I really am trying to use up all those bits of DP and CS that I have lying around). Here is my final design that I came up with. DP out of my scrap box so not sure what they are anymore. Image I think is a Sugar Nellie, that I had sent to me in a RAK. I have coloured it with water colour pencilsrest of embellishements are from my stash.

Friday sketchers 34

Ok last one for tonight. I think i need to go to bed.
This card is made using the sketch on Friday sketchers. The heart in the centre of this card is fabric cut using my heart die on the cuttlebug. I think i might try more fabrics with my cuttlebug and see what i can come up with

Charisma Cardz Thursday Challenges

A new challenge blog has started this week called Charisma Cardz and i am really excited to see what sort of challenges we are instore for.
The first challenge is PINK
Create a card, atc, scrapbook page or altered item. You can use any type of image you want to!!
Here is my card for their first challenge. For this card i decided to raid my scrap box as I really need to use up all my bits and bobs. The pram is a die cut sent to me in a RAK. I really enjoyed making this card

CCT 42

Ok so yes i have been making cards for challenges all day and am still going strong, I'm just feeling in a really crafty mood today.
This next card is for Cute Card Thursday.
The challenge this week is:
'we would like to see you use something you got for Christmas on your cards (if you didn't get anything suitable for Christmas then you can use something that you bought yourself over the holidays)!' I had to think long and hard for this one as most of the crafty stuff i received for christmas wasn't really cute. I searched through my stamped images to find an image to use and then as i had just received my prize from Trimcraft I chose a backing paper from this that would go well with the image. I also used one of my embossed cards and ribbon from the prize. All of these Laura Ashley Galleria. I had some fibres in one of my secret santa's so i found one that matched well and used this on my card. In the end i was quite pleased on how it turned out.

Spoon full of Sugar challenge #33

On Spoonful of sugar this week there is a fabulous sketch by Nikki and i just had to have a play with it. And as I received my prize Draw Prize from Trimcraft this morning I thought it was a great opportunity to use some of my prize with the sketch. DP Laura Ashley Galleria glitter pack. and ribbon from my prize. CS for matting very pale green. Image Magnolia Tilda that I received in a swap, water coloured colour box inks . Flowers from a secret santa and brads from my stash.

sketch and stash

I've just found this wonderful ne challenge blog Sketch and Stash.
Every 2 weeks there is a sketch to follow and all you have to do is use your new or never used (or hardly used!) stash on your creation! This is your chance to fall in love with all that stash again or just to show off with your brand new stash!!
Here is my card for their first sketch The image is one I had sent to me by one of my blogging friend a while ago but have not had chance to use. I coloured this with my watercolour pencils.
DP from my stash had it a long time but never used it. Little bear is a peel off stuck on to glitter card and then highlighted with my whisper pens. Ribbon from stash.

Evergreen and Grape

Sorry about the photo in this one i just couldn't get the lighting right. On Roses and Paper the challenge is to use Evergreen and Grape somewhere in you design. I used the sketch on Mojo Monday for this card. The DP is some i recieved from a blogging friend a while ago. Ribbons and gems from my stash. Image coloured with water colour pencils

Two into one

Coudn't settle down tonight so thought i would have another play with the challenges. For this one I used the sketch on Our Creative Corner and the theme I used from Papertake weekly which is 'Seeing Spots'. The DP is Basic Grey which is absolutely beautiful and i used the swiss dots embossing folder for the bottom. Sentiment is See D's and the heart embellishment is onw that was sent to me in a swap. The ribbon across the middle is laura ashley and the red ribbon from my stash.

more family cards

Working through my family cards this week so that i don't have to rush them at the last minute like I usually do. For these 2 cards I have used the sketches on 2 sketches 4 you. Everything used to create this card was sent to me in RAKS from blogging and forum friends so not sure who they are by, but i do know the papers are by the same company.
The sentiment is hand written.

The papers on this card are Docrafts and they have a lovely texture to them. I haven't much of these papers left so i might have to go and do some shopping and see if i can find some more. The embellishments are glitter peeloffs stuck onto blue CS. Pink gems added to give it a bit of bling and yet again the sentiment is hand written.

A card for my OH

I needed to make a card for my OH's birthday later this month and as he is working away for a couple of days I thought this to be the best opportunity. I hope he doesn't see this, but don't think i have to worry too much as he is not interested in my blog.
For this i used this weeks sketch on Just christmas and birthday cards and made a large square card out of 2 A4 sheets


The DP's are Dovecraft masculine, decorated with some nice brads from my stash Hugs and kisses sentiment is a velum sentiment sent to me in one of my secret santa's the rest of the sentiments are peel offs and rubons

Cupcake Challenge #20

This week at Cupcake Craft Challenges Lauren has given us the challenge 'Glitter' to give us inspiration and here is the card that i made with this subject.

I have used one of my new stamps i bought just before christmas Redhotbed Lilly May and i glittered the wings and the crown with stickles. The yellow BP is also a glittered paper. I used DST around the card and then sprinkled with glitter to give a border effect

Why not pop over there and see what the rest of the DT have done