Quixotic Challenge #5-Charms

Afternoon friends! Tis Wednesday so that means its time for another Quixotic Challenge, and this week the challenge is to use charms on your project, as picked by Martine. I decided to use a Miss Anya since she's been a bit neglected of late, and if you don't have this set yet (why would that be?!) you can buy it here! I think this card will be going to my niece for her birthday this month. I can't believe we're in December! I need to start posting cards soon I guess, and I'm already getting in a panic over the handmade gifts that I'm soooo behind on now!! Oh well, am sure it'll all get done:)

All the papers are from the gorgeous Cosmo Cricket Early Bird pack which you can grab from Quixotic Paperie here. The charm is one of the many gorgeous embellishments that you can buyhere. At the moment I seem to be making cards with a very minimal amount of embellishments, not sure what that's about, but everytime I try and add stuff it never looks right.

Here's a close up of the fabulous Miss Anya:~

I'm going to enter this over at Papertake Weekly and Simon Says Challenge as their theme this week is also charms!

Well that's all from me today, I hope you find time to join in our challenge, and don't forget you can combine it with as many as you fancy! Also the more times you play in a month the more chances you have of winning the fabulous Quixotic Paperie gift voucher:)

What do you reckon to my new wintery looking blog? I'm keeping my fingers crossed for snow before the end of the month! Take care, and I'll be back with something to show tomorrow.

Sugar and Spice

That's the name of the new collection at Sugar Nellie which you can check out here, and very fitting it is too:) Something for everyone me thinks, even cute babas:) This girly, named Elise, was my fave when I saw her on the peeks at the Sugar Nellie blog and had to ink her up right away! I LOVE her dress, is such a perfect party dress me thinks. Oh don't you just love little girls party dresses?!!! Soooo cute, with there big satin bows and frills! Has made a nice change from making wintery cards as well, feels like I've been making them half the year!

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp 'Elise' available here, copics to colour, bazill swiss dots, MME Be Loved paper pack from Quixotic Paperie here, prima say it in crystals here, red satin bow from stash, hero arts sentiment available here

Here's a little close-up:~

Ooo have to tell you about the red bow, you'll never guess where it came from! Tesco were having a bit of an offer on Baileys and since its Christmas and all that.....and all the bottles have these gorgeous red bows on right now! I thought it would look perfect with Elise's party dress!

The layout is from the fab sketch over at Friday Sketchers this week.

Hmm think that's all from me today, gonna watch the X Factor in a sec and eat some cake that I made this afternoon. Yum! Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for popping by to see me and for any comments you might leave, I love hearing from you:) Hugs xxx

Dreamy

Afternoon friends! How's your week gone? Good I hope! If not then at least it's Friday today and the weekend is almost here:) Mine's been a bit topsy turvy, been waiting to hear about this house (I HATE waiting!) and then today we finally heard that we've got it and fingers crossed might get to move in next week at some point:)

I've called my post dreamy because even though this beautiful Sugar Nellie stamp by Leanne Ellis is called 'Poinsetta Girl' she just seems so dreamy and ethereal to me. Love her! Have coloured her with copics and added some Shimmerz in gold glimmer to her ruffle. Here's a little close-up:~

All the papers are Cosmo Cricket jolly by golly which are available here. Also used some fab Prima flowers from the E-line (what a bargain!) which you can buy from Quixotic Paperie here.

Since Simon Says Challenge have a winter theme this week I shall enter my card over there (one of these days I shall win that shopping spree!). Am also entering this over at Colour Create, haven't played there for ages, but their challenge this time around is green, red and white, also Papertake Weekly whose challenge is christmas crackers:)

Mr postie brought me a parcel from Sugar Nellie today full of their gorgeous new releases-sooooo sweet! Check them out here, so you'll be seeing some of those lovely stamps soon from me!

Well am gonna run now and start thinking about cooking dinner and stuff. Shall have to start packing too! thanks so much for stopping by today and any comment you might leave:) Hugs xxx

Penguin Love

Hi guys! I've been gone a few days huh, didn't intend to be at all but things have been all go over here, we could be moving house end of the week, all very exciting! With that going on I haven't been able to settle to craft, too jittery, and we've had the in laws over for the weekend too so was also busy cooking and stuff-lovely weekend though:) But I have now managed a card!

When my Sugar Nellie DT stamps arrived a few weeks ago I got this adorable Diane Duda stamp, called 'Penguin Love'. Totally appropriate name me thinks! I love penguins! I've coloured the adorable pair with my copics and used some Cosmic Shimmer iced jewel crystals for the snow and then stitched around the image on my sewing machine.

Stuff: Penguin Love by Diane Duda for Sugar Nellie available here, copics, sewing machine, Cosmo cricket jolly by golly paper available here, MME Love Me Do papers available here, wooden snowflake here, shimmerz paint in angel wings to paint wooden snowflake here, bling from stash, stampendous sentiment, ribbon from stash, bow easy template here.

Here's a little close-up:~

A lot of the products I used from Quixotic Paperie are actually on sale right now till midnight tonight at 10% off as the discount is on all Prima, Cosmo Cricket and MME products so do check it out! Also Elaine is offering a HUGE 15% off all Martha Stewart punches (including all the new ones-around the edge etc) so now's the time to stock up and on Spellbinders the same discount applies!

The layout of the card is courtesy of the fabulous sketch over at Friday Sketchers. Loved it! I'm also going to enter this over at Simon Says Stamp as they want to see animals this week, KL stampin and Scrappin who want to see snowflakes, and caardvarks who want us to 'colour it'

Well that's it from me! Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you might leave-I love hearing from you!

Quixotic Challenge #3-Kraft and Red-DT card

Afternoon all! Hope everyone's well! Half way through the week already, where is time going! Back today with another Quixotic Challenge, the theme this week was picked by the fabulous Judy, who chose kraft and red-but if you don't have any kraft you can use brown instead. Beautiful combo and it gave me a kick up the bum to use my kraft cardstock that I've been eyeing on the shelf for ages!

Since I saw Amy's beautiful Sweet November fairy stamps I had to have them! They are so funky, I just love em so I've used Fidget Goblinspider on this card-seriously are these not the best named stamps ever:) There's 4 of these beauties available and you can buy them all fromQuixotic Paperie here. Total dream to colour too:)

Stuff: Fidget Goblin spider available from Quixotic Paperie here, copics to colour, Shimmerz blingz paint in fire engine red to colour her hair available here (LOVE this stuff!), Basic grey nook and pantry paper available here, sewing machine, kraft cardstock from stash, hero arts anytime sentiment available here, buttons available here.

Here's a close-up:~

I'm going to enter this over at Creative Inspirations who want to see some sparkle and Flutterby Wednesday who has an open challenge, as long as your project has wings:).

I hope you can join us this week for our kraft and red challenge. If you don't have any kraft you can substitute with brown:) Look forward to seeing your creations! Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave-love hearing from you.

Sugar Nellie DT, an Easel Card

Evening lovelies! Hows your weekend been? Good I hope! I've got an easel card to show you today, using 'Peace Angel', one of the fabulous new Diane Duda stamps from Sugar Nellie. I just love Diane's whimsical style! This image, although perfect for Christmas/Yule cards is so versatile you can use it all year round. I coloured her with copics and added some Shimmerz bling in gold glimmer to the wings (love this stuff!).

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp 'Peace Angel' available here, copics to colour, Basic Grey wassail papers available here, shimmerz in gold glimmer available here, prima flowers spritzed with shimmerz spray in mudpie here, glamour dust, spacers available here, cappucino pearls availablehere, nesties, buttons from stash, tulle available here.

Here's a little close up:~

The layout is from the fab sketch over at Midnight Madness and am also going to enter it over at Basic grey challenges who want to bling and glitz as do cute card thursday. Well am gonna love ya and leave ya, X Factor will be on soon! Thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you might leave xxx.

Quixotic Challenge #2-Stitching!

Hey everyone! Tis Wednesday and that means it's time for another Quixotic Challenge! This week I've picked the challenge and I want to see stitching on your projects. As little or as much as you like, hand or machine! Don't forget the more times you enter within the month the more chance you'll have to win the fab prize of a £20 Quixotic Paperie Voucher.

Elaine sent me one of the gorgeous new Twinkle Tot stamps by The Greeting Farm which you can purchase from Quixotic Paperie here. She was a joy to colour! Tellin ya though-I want her hat! Too cute! For the papers I've used some yummy Basic Grey which I got from the NEC-think they're from the Blush collection. All the stitching has been done on my little janome mini sewing machine. Now the ribbon, would you believe, is actually from an old box of Thorntons chocolates, and I'd obviously kept the ribbon and it's been sat in my ribbon draw since last year!

Stuff: Twinkle Tot stamp by The Greeting Farm available here, copics to colour, Basic Grey papers, sewing machine, dcwv glitter stack, ribbon from stash, Martha Stewart valentine lace punch.

Here's a little close up:~

The layout of my card is from the gorgeous sketch over at Sketch Saturday this week and am also going to enter this over at LaLaLand who want to see us get punchy!

I loved visiting you all to check out your entries last week and I hope you'll join in again! Don't forget you can combine our challenge with as many others as you fancy!

Thanks for popping by today and for any comments you might leave me-I love hearing from you and try to come visit you back as often as I can! xxx

Winter Love

Morning guys! How's everyones week going so far? Good I hope! I'm still poorly but hopefully will be feeling better soon once my antibiotics have kicked in:)

On Friday I got my monthly Design Team package from Sugar Nellie and oh my how sweet it is! I will never get used to receiving dt packages, I always feel like the luckiest crafter alive to be given such wonderful stamps and goodies! I just had to use this new Diane Duda stamp first, tis my favourite I think and they're called 'Winter Birds' and are available to buy here. To see all the new releases from Sugar Nellie go here as Leanne Ellis, Diane Duda and Mary Hall have all got new releases out-you're gonna love em! I thought these birdies would go super well with my new MME Love Me Do paper set available here from Quixotic Paperie-they are soooo gorgeous! I thought these beautiful birdies would be fab as a Winter anniversary card perhaps or even a not so traditional Christmas card to a loved one. I might save it for Ian for our 1st wedding anniversary in January;)

For the layout I've used the sketch over at the MME blog because even though its more geared towards a scrapbooking layout there's no way I could resist having a shot at the fab prize they've got since I love MME so much! Also I'm going to enter this over at Cute Card Thursday (another awesome prize this week!) where the theme is primary colours, and Allsorts where they want to see sparkle!

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp 'Winter Birds' by Diane Duda available here, copics to colour, MME Love Me Do paper pack and accessory sheet available here, Cosmic Shimmer iced crystal jewels (think that's the name!) for snow on branch, flowersoft polar white for earmuffs, sewing machine, dcwv glitter stack, stickles for adding glitter around hearts, accessory sheet of MME paper pack, hero arts sentiment, distress ink in broken china.

Here's a close up of the cuties:~

Well that's it from me today, back to my sick bed! Thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you might leave-I love reading them and do try to come visit you back! Be back tomorrow with another Quixotic Challenge DT card!

New stash...and a Stationery Set for Christmas

Evening all! Ooooo I had a fab time yesterday but am so poorly today! Full of cold and a sore throat! Eww. But back to yesterday! Early start to get ready and out of the house for 6:30, but mum was running late then on the way the car started blowing smoke through the heaters, they weren't clearing the steam and I thought we weren't going to make the coach at all at that point! So I decided we should carry on, keep the windows down and wipe the windscreen with a cloth all the way! Oh my was it freezing! Then when we parked the car we had to run for the bus! Oh what a fun morning! Still once we got the coach all was fine and we could chill for a bit!

We had such a fab day at the NEC but twas soooo packed you could barely move, but it's always that way isn't it really! I also got to meet Kim Dellow, Kim (paperbabe), Jo, Heather, and Tara. I hope I didn't leave anyone out! Lovely to meet up and say hi! Missed Marlene though and then I forgot I had her number by which time I realised I did it was about 4pm and I had to make a mad dash round to get the bits I'd eyed up before going home! So here's what I got: ek success snowflake border edge punch for £9.50 (bargain!!!), few copics I didn't have, 25 sheets of basic grey for £5 (another bargain!), a plate of paperartsy stamps, 4 different frames for altering, pencil case for altering, ribbon, and nesties. Think that was everything!

Now then, onto my little project! This year (Christmas) I am mostly giving handmade gifts, I always wanted to from like the age 10 but they always turned out rubbish! So this year is the year! I haven't given myself much of a headstart so we'll see how it goes. Anyways, this is a stationery set I made and am quite chuffed with it really. Tis very simple in terms of design but was quite time consuming mostly because I did a lot of stitching but I do like the effect. I've included in the set 6 cards with envelopes, notepaper (all stamped) and a little bookmark. Not one sheet one dp paper was used!

Here's a pic of the inside plus bookmark and one of the cards:~

Stuff: Penny black stamp, coredinations cardstock, card blanks from stash, su choc chip cardstock for cards, sewing machine, distress inks in frayed burlap and tea dye, ribbon from the NEC, bling from stash, tulle.

Over at Stamping For The Weekend they want to see our festive goodie boxes. I'm not totally sure this qualifies but I made it with this challenge in mind so hopefully and it is for a Christmas gift! This also fits well for the Saturday Spotlight Challenge as they want to see us use a stamp repeatedly. Finally am entering this into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, the challenge there this week is to create a project with a song title or lyrics in mind soooo, mine is Sweet Like Chocolate by Shanks and Bigfoot (because of the colour scheme). Remember it? Hehehe.

Well am gonna go now and snuggle up on the sofa with hubby and watch the X-Factor results! Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave. xxx

Excited!

No card to show am afraid but will have a project to show probably Sunday once I've bought some ribbon to match, you'd think in the mountains of ribbon I have I could find something suitable but no! Anyways...am off to the NEC tomorrow! Wohooo! Early start for me, leaving the house 6:30am! If you want to meet up send me a quick email tonight otherwise if you see me about say hi! I'll be the one with the black and red/pink hair in a purple jumper! Ha, don't think it'll be that easy somehow in the huge crowds but ya never know. Shall post a pic of the bits I buy when we get home:) Enjoy your Saturday whatever you get upto. xxx

A Traditional Christmas

Morning all! How's your week going so far? Tis almost the weekend! I can't wait for Saturday, off the NEC I go! Tis also Bonfire night tonight, I think we're going to a local display, haven't been to a display for years!

Today I've got quite a traditional Christmas card to show. I got this gorgeous stamp in my dt kit from Elaine, called 'Two Turtle Doves'. You can buy it here, and since Elaine is having 10% off at the moment, it's a bargain! The actual stamp is a heart shaped bauble with holly then this cutie inside but I masked the bauble off and just used the main image this time.

For the layout I've used the fab sketch over at Cupcake Craft Challenges this week and I'm also going to enter into the Belli Challenge who want to see raffia or twine.

Stuff: Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Two Turtle Doves stamp here, copics to colour, Basic Grey Wassail paper here, liquid pearls in silver pearl here, SU sentiment, twine from stash, pin from stash, charm from here, tulle in french vanilla here.

Here's a little image close-up:~

I think that's it from me today! Hopefully have something else to show you tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you might leave me-love hearing from you! xxx

Quixotic Challenge Day-Our 1st Challenge!

Afternoon everyone! Today is the first day of the new challenge blog, Quixotic Challenges which shall run weekly, and there's prizes! Every month a prize will be given to a randomly drawn winner, if you enter each week you will have more chances to win the monthly prize. You can also combine our challenge with as many others as you wish! You can use whatever stamps and other products that you wish too, no restrictions. To celebrate Elaine's birthday, (Happy Birthday hun!), the challenge is to make something for a birthday, card or whatever else you fancy!

For my card I used this cute little chappie by Paper Makeup stamps called Teddy Fairy available to buy from Quixotic here. To continue the birthday celebrations Elaine has put 10% off ALL in stock items at Quixotic Paperie ending 8th November.

Stuff: Paper Makeup stamp Teddy Fairy here, copic ciao and sketch to colour, DCWV The Green Stack, Nestabilities large circles, sewing machine, wooden stars from Quixotic here, gold glimmer shimmerz paint from here, sentiment by elusive images.

Had such fun using the wooden stars and adding Shimmerz to them. I am totally addicted to Shimmerz now, its such fab stuff and totally different from all the other glittery stuff you've got in your stash! The layout is courtesy of the fab sketch at create4fun.

Here's an image close-up:~

Please do join us for our first challenge! We look forward to seeing your Birthday creations! Thanks for popping by today and any comments you might leave-I love hearing from you! xxx

A Little Warning!

Afternoon all! Just wanted to do a quick post to warn you about something just incase you get the same thing. I had a comment left for me from a blog friend saying some not so nice things (not about my cards), in anycase it wasn't from the person who left the comment but if you clicked on the persons name it would take you directly to my friends blog to make it look like they had left the comment. Hope that makes sense! In any case should you get any comments from me or anyone else that aren't 100% nice then you know what's going on!

Anyways, hope you're having a lovely afternoon!

Happy 2nd Birthday Sugar Nellie!

Morning everyone! Sugar Nellie stamps are 2 years old today! Happy Birthday SN! There's gonna be lots of fun over on SplitCoastStampers in the Sugar Nellie forum tonight so do pop along, there'll be lots of sugar to be given away too! In celebration of Sugar Nellie's birthday I've got this alternative Christmas card to show ya. I've used Manga Girl #2 and used MME Colourful Christmas papers for something not so traditional. Nice and bright and fun me thinks:)

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp Manga Girl #2 available here, copics to colour image, MME colourful Christmas paper pack (sentiment from the accessory sheet included) from here, Bazzill tulle in tink pink here, bling from stash, snowflake charm from here.

Here's a close-up~

For the layout of the card I've used the fabby sketch over at Midnight Madness, love playing over there! Am also going to enter this into the following challenges: Papertake Weekly (spots and stripes), Tuesday Taggers want to see a burst of colour, and Crafty Angels want to see a charm.

Also before I go I must tell you about the exciting deliveries Quixotic Paperie now has in stock! The brand new release of Kraftin Kimmie stamps are available to buy NOW here, AND the totally gorgeous new Greeting Farm stamps (Twinkle Tots) have arrived! Have you checked em out yet? They're available to buy HERE now. Hurry as these are bound to fly off the virtual shelves!

Thanks for popping by, and for any comments you might leave-I love hearing from you! xxx

Happy Halloween!

Morning lovelies! Thought I'd show a pic of the cupcakes I made yesterday, it doesn't happen often! They're all gone now though! Not too bad are they? Still I don't think Martha Stewart needs to worry just yet! hahaha. Have a fun Halloween (Samhain) whatever you're doing, and to those in the Southern Hemisphere Beltaine Blessings to you:) Be back later with a card!

Stamp Something DT meets Sugar Nellie DT and I'm back!

Hi lovelies! I've been missing for just over a week and some of you have been wondering where I got to! Thanks for your concern! But actually I've been away for a few days to visit family, which I had planned to mention but I didn't end up getting online with one thing and another. Seems to have been a busy week all round:) Missed you all while I was away! So how have you all been? I have been sneaking in a few minutes here and there to check mr google reader out to see what you've all been upto! I'm sorry to say that I seem to be totally behind in my blog visiting, emails and the lot, I'm so sorry if I haven't replied to you, I shall do all those things shortly. Right onto the card, and then a bit more chatter;)

Todays card is for my Stamp Something dt card, with the challenge this week being cute and fuzzy, good theme isn't it? I've used this darling stamp I got in my dt kit from Sugar Nellie. Totally gorgeous! I absolutely loved colouring her and her little friend in:) All the papers are Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly, love this paper stack! The sentiment is by Stampendous which I got a little bit stung by while I was away as I picked it up, didn't notice the brand and for some reason thought it was 99p but then realised after I'd paid it was £4.99!!! I could buy a Sugar Nellie stamp for that! So you'll be seeing it a lot in different variations so I get me moneys worth! hahaha.

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp 'Angel Wishes' available from Funkykits here, copics to colour, sakura clear stardust pen to add glitter from Quixotic Paperie here, Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly papers, bling from stash, SU choc chip cardstock, Papermania felt ribbon (from last year), sewing machine, distress ink in frayed burlap and worn lipstick.

Here's a little close-up:~

I'm going to enter this into a few challenges: Winter Wonderland (open theme), Simon Says (all that sparkles), The Pixie Cottage (celebrate), LaLa Land (ribbon).

So what plans do you have for the weekend? Any Halloween parties?! We're having a little party tomorrow then Saturday night we're taking Leo to a local country park that are having a Halloween party for kiddies-it sounds so fun! I'll tell you all about it after! We got lots of Halloween decorations and stuff yesterday and this afternoon Leo helped me bake some cupcakes which I'll ice in the morning! I'll have to take some pics of Leo in his costume to show you-he's wearing this skeleton outfit with glow in the dark bones! Cute! Well I shall be back soon with another Christmassy card probably tomorrow:) Take care and thanks for popping by to see me and any comments you might leave, I love hearing from you xxx

Quixotic Blog Hop Day!

Good afternoon everyone! Today we're having another Quixotic Blog Hop day, with each of the DT using the gorgeous Elisabeth Bell stamp for SCACD called Danni! That means there's a prize to be won! So what could you win? If you leave a comment on all the Design Teams blogs (links are further down) you will be entered to win the following:

1 Danni stamp (as used in all our creations today)

1 Bag of mixed charms

1 Bag of flat backed pearls

A winner will be drawn randomly on Wednesday 28th October at 1pm GMT.

A few pics today for my project! When I got my 2nd DT package from Elaine she sent me some of her newly arrived wooden shapes and in with the mix was this lovely large heart available here and such a bargain at 99p! When I saw it I couldn't wait to start altering it!

Here are some step by steps for the heart plaque:

• Paint the edges with Adirondack acrilyic paint dabber in Cranberry or similar and leave to dry.
• I used some Tim Holtz grunge shapes for the wings, I painted them in the same Cranberry colour and whilst wet spritzed some Shimmerz in Mudpie. Leave to dry until tacky.
• Apply Tim Holtz Sepia Accents (whilst still tacky) which will give it a protective finish, with a warm tint and used in this way (wet and with the Shimmerz) also gives a light crackled appearance. Leave to dry.
• Apply adhesive to the wooden heart and cover with paper-I used some MME which had been spritzed again with Shimmerz and inked with distress ink in frayed burlay and aged mahogany.
• File edges of heart to neaten.
• Wrap some tulle around the heart-I used Bazzill tulle in truffle available here.
• Adhere grunge wings to the heart with strong adhesive.
• Cut Danni out with a circle nesties shape and matt on brown core-dinations card.
• Colour Danni and mount onto the plaque.
• Add a butterfly from the brown Prima Say it In Pearls sheet

Here's the main pic of the card which matches the heart plaque. Danni is coloured with copics and Ranger Sepia Accents applied to image after the wings were painted with Shimmerz Spritz in Mudpie (combined with the Sepia Accents it applies a light crackled effect). Used more Prima Say it in Pearls . Machine stitching all around the edges of the MME papers and image. All other ingredients are from Quixotic Paperie.The layout of the card was using the fabby sketch over at A Spoonful of Sugar. Since I've also used Danni I think I fit the criteria over at Flutterby Wednesday too.

Here's some close-ups:~

Flower details:~
So here's the links of the other DT members that you need to visit and leave comments with, I haven't seen their projects yet so am off to visit them myself! No doubt they will have created fabulous creations though-they always do!

Elaine

Carole

Kim

Judy

Rosette (Guest DT)

Good luck! Thanks so much for stopping by today! xxx

Quixotic Paperie DT project

Evening everyone! Hows your weekend been? All is good here, nice chilled weekend, just had a yummy chinese takeaway and gonna watch the x-factor results show in a sec! I am totally lovin Stacey and Jamie (I LOVE his hair!). Anyways...

On Saturday I got my second DT package from Elaine for Quixotic Paperie, ohhhh it was full of goodies-thanks Elaine! Was hard to chose what to make first. As you can see though I went for this totally adorable girly by Kraftin Kimmie stamps (Moonlight Whispers) 'Charlotte' available from QP here. She is just the cutest right? She reminds me a bit of both Angelica from the Rugrats and Lola from Charlie and Lola. Anyways...she was such fun to colour, especially the hair-I think curly hair on girls is so cute! I also made a little gift box to go with the card from a Papermania template I bought a few weeks ago.

Stuff: Kraftin Kimmie stamp (moonlight Whispers) 'Charlotte' available here coloured with Copics, Basic Grey Bittersweet papers, Bazill tulle in truffle from here, heart charm from here, mesh butterflies from Steph (thanks Steph!), red organza ribbon from stash, sentiment by dcwv, sewing machine, SU choc chip cardstock, fibres from stash.

Here's a little close-up:~

I'm gonna enter this into the follow challenges: Ildi Co's Creative Challenge-In stitches, Paperplay Challenges-Favourite Embellishment (Ribbons), If The Shoe Fits-Bling (on the butterflies)

Thanks for popping by and for any comments you might leave-love to hear from you! Enjoy the rest of your evening xxx

Stamp Something DT Project

Afternoon everyone! Not a card to show you today! I've made a notebook with my Bind It All and used one of my Sugar Nellie stamps from the Autumn Kit again with some yummy basic grey Indian Summer papers for my Stamp Something DT project. Aren't those colours just fabulous?! How could I resist buying those papers! So the challenge this week is to add Bling-really easy one right? Can't wait to see your sparkly entries!

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp from the Autumn Kit available here coloured with copics, Basic Grey Indian Summer paper pad here, sizzix flower die, kanban bling, tulle to decorate binding from here, SU cardstock in choc chip, sewing machine.

I've got a few bits of Quixotic Paperie news for ya today as well, Elaine has had a delivery of the totally gorgeous Basic Grey paper pads here including Nook and Pantry (had to order mine first thing!), eerie, Eskimo Kisses, and as used on my notebook Indian Summer papers, wooden shapes for altering here (I got some of these this morning and they're fab so you'll see some makes from me with these!)

Also these gorgeous crochet flowers in tons of colours-love em!

Have a fabulous weekend everyone-so what is everyone getting upto? Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave-I love hearing from you. Speak of which I have transferred my email addresses so if you want to get in contact (I like a chat y'know!) then please use my new addy which has been updated in my profile and the email postcard thingy on the right sidebar. See you soon xxx

P.S. Sugar Nellie fans-have you seen the new sneak peeks on the SN blog? Annie's back!

A Special Arrival

Evening all! Today's card is for my good friend Eliane, who I lived with at Uni, and she's just given birth to a baby girl! So huge congrats to Eliane and Greg! Can't wait to see the pics! I've gone for a bit of a different colour scheme from the usual pink, and chose purples, green and brown, and they go quite well together me thinks! Must say I am soooo glad I bought this Whiff of Joy stamp when the collection came out cos it's had a fair amount of use-more than I thought! Will get much more too as quite a few friends are pregnant at the moment! Awww I want another!

Stuff: Whiff of Joy stamp by Elisabeth Bell coloured with copic ciaos and sketch pens, Basic grey Wisteria papers, core'dinations cardstock, SU cardstock in choc chip, sewing machine, pearls from stash, pins (how beautiful is that big fancy one!) from Quixotic Paperie here, nestability label die, lace from here, lilac organza ribbon from stash, pokey tool for paper piercing around nestie frame.

I'm going to enter this over at Cafe Mojo (been too long since I played over there-hello Mavens!) as their theme is a momentous occasion as a new arrival certainly is that! Here's a little close-up of the main image:~

That's all from my tonight, I'll be back tomorrow with my Stamp Something DT project. Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave! Sleep tight xxx

Sugar Nellie DT meets Sketch Saturday

Evening all:) How we all doing? I'm not too bad, am having some back problems right now or at least worse than usual and am waiting on an appointment for another MRI scan but eh, I'll live! Anyways crafting is a happy distraction and have been playing with another of the Sugar Nellie Country Cousins Christmas stamps, I love this little chap-off posting his rather long list to Santa:)

For the layout I've used the fab sketch over at Sketch Saturday, it's been too long since I've joined in over there! Am also entering this card at: Cupcake Craft Challenges (buttons and stitching), and Everybody Art (shapes or punches). All the papers are the from the Cosmo Cricket jolly by golly paper pad, have added some little twinkly highlights here and there with some Shimmerz in pixie dust. Love that stuff! You just paint it right on, not messy at all and dries really quick. Decided it was high time I got my snowflake punches out, wish I could tell you the brand but I've no clue am afraid, I also added shimmerz to the punched snowflakes too, and popped some bling in the centre:)

Stuff: Sugar Nellie Country Cousins stamp available here, copics to colour, shimmerz bling in pixie dust here, buttons and raffia lace from Quixotic Paperie, Cosmo Cricket jolly by golly papers, SU cardstock in chocolate chip and sentiments by SU from Zoe, sewing machine

Here's a little close-up:~

Thanks for popping by and any comments you may leave-love reading them! I'm off to have some dinner and then watch the Twilight film (have finished the first book now!), might have to have some more crafty time later though as Katrina's blog candy arrived today that I won and it's so fab!!! Thanks hunny-hope you're feeling better! See yas soon xxx

Mojo Time!

Evening everyone! Ooo I think I'll just about make the mojo monday deadline by the skin of my teeth! I hope anyways-am not much good at understanding all this time zone business with + this and - that! Tis contest time again...and I'm telling ya it is my mission to win once over there at some point...

Hope everyone's had a lovely weekend! In the end me and Ian went to Lincoln shopping on Saturday as our 'time away' and had a lovely time:) Had a leisurely lunch...had a wander then spent a good amount of time in the bookshop having a little read while drinking iced coffees, then back home in time to catch the X-Factor. Lovely! Both me and Ian love reading, I don't read now as much as I did before Leo, I often listen to audio books now, while I craft! But yesterday I decided to buy the Twilight series since well, it seems, everyone has read em and loves them. Have been resisting getting them as I didn't think it would be my thing, am not much into vampires but so far so good:) Am really enjoying em!

Anyways....I came on to show you my card! I got this super cute girly by The Greeting Farm as soon as Elaine at Quixotic Paperie got her order delivered the other day! Had my eye on her since she came out, I think she's fab! Totally enjoyed colouring her in too:) Elaine has also got all the other new Greeting Farm releases in over at her shop so fill yer boots! I used some more Urban Prairie papers, and had went wild and used two different thread colours on my sewing machine! hahaha.

Stuff: Laundry stamp by The Greeting Farm available here, basic grey urban prairie papers, distress ink in worn lipstick, sewing machine, tulle from here, bling from stash, core'dinations cardstock, pins from here

Here's a little close up of the girly...dreaming of better things me thinks, at least she looks pretty though, I don't look that good sorting out the washing!

I'm also gonna enter this over at Anya Ink, a new challenge blog set up by my Beautiful and super talented friend Tracey and Marcia, who makes gorgeous creations too! The challenge there this week is to use patterned paper (easy right?!) so do go check it out! Also at Caardvarks (new blog to me!) they want us to do something fabulous with ribbon,

I'm ashamed to say I haven't been getting round to visit you all....and I'm so sorry! I shall though! I am keeping a keen eye on everything through my little google reader...am watching! Soon I'll get round and do some visiting, thanks for coming by to see me and any comments you might leave-love hearing from ya!

Incase anyone's interested this card will be going over into my etsy shop shortly to find a new home:)

World Card Making Day Blog Candy Winner

Hi everyone! Back quickly with the results of the winner for my World Card Making Day Candy!

The winner was, as picked by random.org was no.31 which is...........

Jessica Lynn

If you can email me hun I'll get your candy in the post! Well done! Thank you so much to everyone that entered! I'll have more candy for you soon!

Enjoy the rest of your evening, I'll be back tomorrow with a fun card:)

Sugar Nellie DT meets Stamp Something DT

Afternoon everyone! Nearly the weekend-wohoo!! Am really looking forward to this weekend as Ian has a rare weekend off and my mum is going to look after Leo for a whole day! Yea! Not sure where we're going yet but can't wait all the same!

Today's card is the last little Sugar Nellie lovely from my Autumn Kit, I think I might have saved my favourite till last! I just think this little boy peering at the last leaf on the tree is adorable-I love his little belly! So cute! Fantastic value as well for the price! This card is also for my Stamp Something DT card, with the challenge this week being brown and another colour-though I've used a couple of others! The prize this week over at Stamp Something is a set of copics-what better incentive to play along!

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp from the Autumn Kit, coloured with copics, DCWV The Green Stack available here (half price offer!), raffia lace from here, button from here, sewing machine

For the layout I've used the fab sketch over at Everybody Art and I'm also going to enter it for Stampin for the weekend for their yummy Autumn colour challenge. Here's a little close up of the cutie:

Well I'm gonna dash off to start the dinner, have a great weekend whatever you're going to be doing, and I'll see yas soon! Thanks for popping by and any comments you might leave-love hearing from you!

Sugar Nellie Door Hanging

Evening everyone! Hows your week going? Good I hope! Yesterday my Sugar Nellie DT package arrived and I just had to ink up this sweet little witch right away! Was hoping to have had this finished yesterday but Leo's been teething again (how he can't have them all yet I don't know!) so my craft time has been seriously eaten into, as has my sleeping time! Anyways..was so thrilled to have got this Mary Hall stamp in my package, she's just perfect for Halloween, and especially ideal for kiddies-some of the Halloween stamps around are quite scary!!!!!

I promised my friend Michelle I'd make her a door hanger/wall hanging for Halloween so this shall be going to her and her little boy. I'm also going to enter this into a few challenges, Simon Says Challenge (Halloween challenge), ASOS (Halloween theme), Fun with Shapes and More(Halloween again!), Pile It On (3d-my image has been raised by silicone glue), and the layout is courtesy of the sketch over at Midnight Madness.

Quite oddly I've not used any embellishments but I really wanted to show off the image and the gorgeous foiled papers, and well, just anything I tried to add, looked too 'overdone'. Here's a little close up:

Stuff: Sugar Nellie stamp by Mary Hall 'Little Witch' available here, ATD premium papers available here, copics to colour, sewing machine, core'dinations cardstock, spider web ribbon from here, black mirri card

Well I'm gonna catch up on a bit of tv, and then best get to bed as we're off shopping tomorrow:) Thanks for stopping by and any comments you might leave, I love reading them! Am sorry for being a bit absent on my blog visiting of late but will hopefully get to catch up a bit soon! xxx

A Simple Christmas Creation

Evening everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend, there was lots of fun stuff going on in blogland wasn't there to celebrate World Cardmaking Day!

My card today is a Christmas creation, but much more on the cleaner side than my usual, but everytime I started adding embellies and layers to it it looked wrong so this is how it turned out! Am quite pleased really. The gorgeous stamp, one of the new Sarah Kay's from the Noel collection is courtesy of the fabulous Elaine from Quixotic Paperie as she popped it in my dt package. Thanks Elaine! He's such a cutie isn't he! A pleasure to colour in too! The layout of the card is from the Card Patterns challenge blog (have totally fallen in love with their sketches), and am also entering this over at SimonSaysChallenge (green and red-the holly has green!), Creative Inspirations (Christmas in October) and Stamp with Sarah Kay (animals-think the little lamb counts). Here's a little close up:~

Stuff: Sarah Kay sheperd stamp available here, copic ciao and sketch to colour, distress ink in frayed burlap (used around image, sentiment and papers), Cosmo Cricket jolly by golly papers, jute ribbon available here, bell charms available here, su sentiment, bling from here, sewing machine.

Just a heads up, Funkykits are now selling the new Country Cousins Christmas stamps, get em quick girls before they sell out-they're soooooooo sweet! Also Quixotic Paperie are now selling the new Kraftie Kimmie stamps-you must check these out!