Floral Birthday Card

Hi crafty friends, hope you're all well & warm. And safe. It's blowing a

gale here......and it's so, so cold. The craft room is definitely the place to be!

My daughter asked me for a card for one of her clients (she's a trainee hairdresser)

and as usual, I don't get much notice lol! Luckily I'd just got the latest

copy of Papercraft Essentials and I thought the free gift of the Fresh Florals kit

would be just perfect. The colours are just beautiful, such a lovely kit to work with.

I started with a navy blue base, added the distressed paper columns then 

layered on the toppers & finished with a piece of bakers twine. Then I mounted

the whole lot onto a 6x6 card blank.

There's lots more in the kit so you'll definitely be seeing more makes.

Thanks for calling & whatever you're up to I hope you manage a little crafty time.

Don't forget, there's still time to play my challenge here.

xx

Feeling Floral!

Hi crafty friends, welcome to my cold, windy & wet corner of the

Yorkshire Coast. Hope you're all warm & well. Don't think I'll be venturing

 much further than the craft room this weekend!

Today I have a little card to share. The beautiful papers & layered topper 

are from the Paper Posies collection by Dovecraft. Such a beautiful

collection featuring decoupage toppers, paper pads, puffy stickers, wooden

hearts & wooden tags ......and lots more too!

I distressed the papers, layered everything onto black card & finished with

 some gorgeous flowers then placed it all onto a 6x6 card blank.

Rightio, that's me for today.....thanks for calling & for any comments

 you might leave.....see you soon!

Don't forget, there's still time to enter my Love Is In The Air challenge.

xx

challenges

it's a love thing at Dragonfly Dreams

anything goes at Through The Craft Room Door

love/Valentine at Aud Sentiments

no image at Moving Along With The Times

Wendy's die challenge

Challenge #1 Something New Winner!

Hello my crafty friends, hope you're all well & warm.

I'll start with an apology for being so late in announcing the winner of my

last challenge......health issues again mean I'm not having much if any crafty

time. I really need to learn to pace myself lol.

Anyway, enough waffling from me.....the winner of my SOMETHING NEW

challenge is...............

******it's you, CAROL the CRAFTY STAMPER******

and here's what Carol made

So beautiful, especially love all the layers and that gorgeous image.

Here's a pic of your prize, Carol

and I'd love to invite you to join me as Guest Designer.

If you send me your snail mail details I'll pop your prize in the post

asap.............and could you leave me a comment on this post please, so I know

 to look out for your email.

And here's a badge for your blog

Well done, Carol....and thanks again to everyone who entered, hope you'll

join me  for #2 Love is in the Air.............see you there!

xx

Crafty Cardmakers - Love is All You Need!

Hello! 

We have a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers today, the theme is

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

Should be a nice, easy theme with Valentines Day just around the corner and as 

usual, we love to see any & all makes.....and if you're in need of inspiration

then please pop on over and have a look at the fabulous Dt makes....we're

a real varied lot so there will definitely be something for everyone!

My brief this time was a Valentine's card but not traditional, not sentimental or

lovey dovey and definitely no red and/or pink! Took me a while to come up

with an idea but finally I got there! I layered up black, orange and

white card.......added the die cut sunshine, stamped the sentiment and

finished with a hand drawn smiley face.....job done. It makes me smile every

time I look at it!

Thanks for calling today, hopefully I'll be back tomorrow!

xx

Wendy's  die challenge

Challenge #1 - Something New

Hello crafty friends.....happy Saturday......and welcome to the 1st challenge of

the year where the theme is......

SOMETHING NEW

A nice, easy start for us I think.....could be a new home, a new job, new stash

or like me.....a new baby! EEEk no....not me having a baby lol, like me

as in making a new baby card!

I went for a new baby card as I got the gorgeous die cuts for Christmas & couldn't

wait to use them. A real CAS style card for me, I've found myself drawn

to this style more & more recently.

Rules

1 - You must follow the theme set

2 - One entry, new makes only

3 - You must be a follower of this blog

4 - Please link your entry post back to this blog

So whether your style is frilly & fancy, CAS or even grungy & gritty you

can enter your make.....and as usual, there'll be a surprise prize for the

lucky winner. And if you fancy joining me as a guest designer then just add

GD after your name!

Good luck!

xx

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Black & White with Crafty Cardmakers!

Hi crafty friends, hope you're all well.

Apologies for not posting & commenting, I've been a bit under the weather these

 last few days.......hopefully I'll be able to catch up with you all soon.

So.......there's a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers with the theme of

BLACK & WHITE

A nice, easy challenge I thought then my mind went blank! Once I got going

I loved making this card.....I managed to pack in a few layers but still keep

it looking fairly CAS. I used my old favourite banner dies & then as per Wendy's

 challenge I used a never been used yet quote die from Hunkydory.

Love how these make for a quick, easy card. I finished with a faux gem.

If you fancy joining us then do pop on over to the main blog, we'd love to see

you......and if you're low on inspiration you'll certainly find some there!

Thanks for calling & for any comments you might leave....see you soon.

xx

Wendy's die challenge

Another Memorydex Card

I love making these Memorydex cards, they're such a great way to use up any bits & bobs

 from the scrap box and they look so pretty on the Rolodex.

For this one I used papers from the Craftwork Cards pad - Heritage Rose - my favourite

base of black card. I cut & layered the butterflies with my Xcut dies, added a

banner die and finished with Tim Holtz stickers.

Short & sweet today as time's getting on & I have lots to do.....thanks for calling,

have a lovely weekend.....see you soon.

xx

Don't forget, there's still time to play in my SOMETHING NEW challenge here.

challenges

Wendy's  challenge #6
anything goes at Dragonfly Dreams
anything goes at Through The Craft Room Door
layered die cuts at Tuesday Throwdown