The Pixie Cottage Guest Designer DT card and Quixotic Challenges DT

Bit late again-well quite late! This seems to be a habit at the moment-things seem to be just crazy busy around here at the moment! Anyways-how's your week gone? Good I hope! Hope everyone has enjoyed their lovely long weekend! Yesterday I went with my mum to a craft show near Lincoln which was very fun-bought some new goodies! Today we went to a local tractor rally as Leo loves tractors, was a nice little afternoon out since the sun was shining:)

Wednesday was my last week as Guest Designer for the Pixie Cottage-4 weeks seem to have gone by very fast! Thanks Michelle so much for asking me-I've absolutely loved working with the stamps-they're so fun! This last card uses Little Mermaid by Alisa Ramirez! Look at her eyes! Aren't they fab! You can probably see I added lots of Glossy Accents-makes the image pop me thinks:) All the yummy papers I used are Tim Holtz which you can snag at Quixotic Paperiehere. I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges My Time To Craft (vivid greeting cards) and Polka Doodles (sew and sew) and Cupcake Crafts (summer delights).

Also going to show you my DT card for Quixotic Challenges (below)-the theme this week is embossing so I decided it was high time I got my much neglected embossing folders out! I used a Cuttlebug folder think it's called 'about you' and cut out the word precious and sanded it (I used core card). How adorable is the image! It's by the Greeting Farm and comes as a super cute set it's calledOliver and Amelia the buddies set-Oliver is such a perfect image for a little boy card isn't he?! Very fun and easy to colour too. All the papers I used are from the newly released Max and Whiskers paper pad by Basic Grey-everytime they bring a new release out I just have to get it-it's a sickness I tell ya! I'm going to enter this card at One Stitch at a Time (something new challenge-the papers)

This week is going to be lots of fun for 2 reasons! Tomorrow is Quixotic Paperie's 1st Birthday! I can hardly believe it! There's going to be a super fun blog hop with VERY special guests-it's going to be awesome! And, there'll be lots of prizes! I can't wait!

Also tomorrow it's a new Whimsy Digital release-I won't be on the blog hop cos my team is doing the challenge this month instead but the images are all fantastic-so keep your eye out for that too!

I'm sorry for being such a rubbish blogging friend of late-I have just so busy and still haven't caught up. I've been crazy busy with orders from my Etsy shop and my new Folksy shop which is great-I couldn't be happier about that-it's exactly what I wanted-but along with other things everything's been keeping me on my toes-so I am sorry if I haven't popped round recently! Thanks for stopping by today and making it to the end of this long post! I really appreciate you coming to see me and for any comments you leave! See you tomorrows guys!

The Pixie Cottage Guest Designer DT card

Morning all! Lovely, bright and sunshiney here today! It's my 3rd week of being a Guest Designer for the Pixie Cottage and this week the challenge is 3D-so use dimension on your projects-nice easy one right? The image I've used today is one of the gorgeous new stamps available by the Pixie Cottage called Alisa in Wonderland. Isn't she fab? A lovely whimsical take on the Alice in Wonderland theme me thinks-I just can't get enough Alice in Wonderland!

For my card I used the fab sketch over at The Pink Elephant and am also going to enter it at Papertake Weekly (flowers), Creative Inspirations (punches), Cute Card Thursday (Someone special).

Aren't those papers yummy-they're the new Basic Grey Capella collection which I had to nab straight away when Elaine got them in stock. The charm, tulle and gems are all also from Quixotic Paperie.

Should anyone be interested this card has been listed in my etsy shop here, and in my folksy shop:)

Well that's it from me today-just a quickie! Don't forget my Sweet Pea candy is still open here, and check out my Whimsy blog hop post for the chance to win the new release!

Where did the week go? and The Pixie Cottage DT card!

How can it be Thursday! I had such great blogging plans-and I have quite a few posts to write up as well! It's been a crazy busy week here, we've all been poorly with colds and my etsy shop has been crazy busy for about a month-which is great but time has just flown by! As I am based in the UK I decided to also open a Folksy shop to run alongside my etsy store. Here it is if you want a peek!

Right onto my card! Wednesday was my second week Guest Designing for The Pixie Cottage and the theme this week is vintage/distressing! My favourite! For this card I used the fabulousSouth End Girl Stamp. She is such a versatile image I know I'm going to use her over and over! I got some lush papers from my friend Clare the other day-I've never heard of the brand before now but they're by GCD studios and the pack is called Ella Blue. I also used some text to paper piece the South End girl stamp-I think it's quite a cool look! The flower is a nestie die which I got recently and this was the first chance I've had to play! Ooo and the tag is from one of my tag sets available here if you're overseas or here if you're from the UK.

Angle shot-I'm making sure I decorate my insides of the card at the time instead of leaving them till they get sold or get sent off! Got to be more organised!

I'm also going to enter this at Paperplay who theme is brown and..and Crafty Cardmakers, and I also followed the sketch at Midnight Madness.

Right then I'm gonna go off and get the dinner cooked! Thanks so much for stopping by and for any comments-I love hearing from you! I also have another giveaway to post so I'll be back later-keep your eyes peeled!

Guest Designer Card for The Pixie Cottage!

Morning all! Hope you're day is going well so far-it seems plain hectic here but that's 2 year olds for ya! Now today I'm here to show you a card I made for the Pixie Cottage after a couple months ago the fabulous Michelle emailed me out of blue and asked if I'd be a guest designer for a month! I jumped at the chance-their stamps are so adorable and there's a real mix of styles too so I've had great fun playing with them:) If you haven't got any Pixie Cottage stamps yet you can buy them here:)

The challenge today at The Pixie Cottage is to Make Your Own Charm, there is also a sketch which you can follow too or you can use either or. Now firstly I pondered on using shrink plastic but in the end I went with creating a tag into a charm-hopefully that will give a few people some different ideas and will be able to play along. For my card I've used the gorgeous new Spring Hannah with Butterflies-isn't she sweet? Here's a little close-up:~

I've gone with quite muted soft tones using the Basic Grey Wisteria papers all distressed with antique linen. I've also followed the sketch at Create4Fun.

I'm also going to enter this at:

Creative Card Crew (April flowers bring may showers)

Charisma (girly card with flowers)

CCT-Make your own

Sentimental Sundays (someone special)

KL Stampin Scrappin (decorate inside as well as out)

Sir Stampalot Challenge (blossoms and buttterflies)

Well that's it from me today! Come back later for the new brand new Whimsy Digi Release hop! See you soon, and thanks for stopping by and for any comments you might leave xxx