Candy Time ...

It's hubby's birthday next week, and a milestone one at that, so i thought to celebrate I would offer up some candy ...

 So I am offering ...

2 Sugar Nellie stamps

£10.00 Lili of the Valley voucher

some doillies

some MME papers 

paper flowers

ribbons

and anything else I feel like adding
up until the candy closes!!

Just a few rules:

please post a pic of this candy on your sidebar
(not in a blogpost!)
(and I will check)

You don't need to be a follower -
if you want to be by all means do,
but it is not a necessity

(No candy blogs will be considered - I will check)

I will post world wide
(but note P&P charges will apply for the voucher)

No I will not swap the stamps!!
(I have been asked before!)
What you see is what you get!

Closing date:

Sunday 30th September 10.30pm

I will draw the prize soon after ... 

Just add your name to the linky thingy...

That Craft Place Challenge

The theme for this fortnight's That Craft Place challenge is make your own background ...

I am pants at backgrounds!!!!  But thanks to a lesson from my lovely friend Ali, I managed to have a go at this!!

I used this Paper Artsy stamp - Crowns and castles 4-  and coloured it in using copics.  I made a cloud mask and use broken china distress ink to create the sky.  The swirl grass from the same stamp set were stamped in mown lawn distress ink.  The dp is Bo Bunny Market Place, and I added some twine and buttons to finish it off.


Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes 
Charisma Cardz - for the guys
Southern Girls - spots and stripes

Basic Grey Challenge

This week's Basic Grey challenge is ribbon and lace and usual we are sponsored by the lovely Heidi from

I used this fab Stampendous stamp, Halloween Magic, and coloured it in using my copics before adding some crackle glaze to the watch face, glamour dust to the mask and collar of her dress, and stickles at her feet.  The dp is Basic Grey Eerie, and I added some purple lace webbing, black ribbon, a fussy bow, pearls and lots of diecuts courtesy of my That Craft Place DT buddies - thank you girls!

 CHallenges:
Creative Card Crew - purple
Crafts and Me - favourite colour (purple)
Creative Inspirations - bingo (ribbon, pearls, stamp)
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Stampavie and more - glitter
Divas by Design - fairies and fantasy
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes 
Crafty Catz - lace and ribbons

Reach for the Stars

 Bit of a mad panic going on - off to Whitby today to meet up with the family and friends for Dave's birthday.  We're ssing the brother-in-law, who has also had a birthday and I have lost his card!!!  SO in a mad panic I have knocked one up this morning - colouring not what I would really like, and I didn't have time to search for papers - so a grubby WoW was in order!!!
The image is a LOTV one, I embossed the cardstock with a gears folder and then distressed everything with vintage photo ink.  I cut the stars out using my nesties, and wrote part of the sentiment and stamped the rest using an alphabet set i have (really don't like the r!!).  Finally some hessian lace to add a bit of texture ... done, just in time to get the girls and go!!

Challenges:
Lili's little fairies - white with a hint of ... brown
Cute Card Thursday - letters and numbers
DutchDare - CAS
Do you stack up - scallops
My mums Craft Shop - stars
I lOve Promarkers - masculine card
Fabulous Friday - embossing

 

Totally Papercrafts challenge

Its Friday - wohoooooo!!!  And me and the family are off to Whitby for the weekend to celebrate hubby's birthday.  But before I get going, its time for this week's Totally Papercrafts challenge and the theme this week is pretty pastels

 This weeks fabulous sponsor is

And the winner will receive 2 stamps of their own choice!

 I used Sparkle and Shine from Sugar Nellie's latest digi release, and coloured her using copics.  The sparkle is glamour dust and U added some pearl drops using a Viva Decor pen.  The dp is Nitwits, and I added some ribbon, and punched snowflakes with pearl centres.  A few more pearls and a Craftwork Cards sentiment to finish it off.

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch

J and C Creations - cute Christmas

Creative Inspirations - bingo (snowflakes, white, ribbon)

Stampavie and more - glitter

CRAFT GDT challenge

This is my final week as GDT for the CRAFT challenge, and the theme is make your own embellishments.

Now I have always had a bit of a soft spot for Little Cotton Rabbits, and own Albie and Winifred, and my younger sdaughter adores Winifred particularly, often stamping her up and colouring her in, before sticking her all over her bedroom!!  So I treated her to the full set of Little Cotton Rabbits ... and got Ballerina.  We had a colouring session at the weekend, me, Beth and the wee bunnies - I coloured Ballerina very much to Beth's specifications ... not what I would have chosen!! As the colours really don't match any papers I have, we have gone for WoW for this card - I say we as Beth 'helped' me with the embossing - she does love my CB!!! Having embossed the cardstock, we distressed it and created 'snow' all over my desk ... perphaps more snow than was really necessary!!!!  I cut the roses out of felt using a Marianne Creatible die, rolled them and added flat pearls.  Beth wanted butterflies (???) so she puched some out and we added a pearl to one of them.  Finallt some foliage, ribbon, viva decor pen pearls and some more flat backed pearls, and a LOTV sentiment and we were done.

Whilst Beth is an eager bunny on the colouring and creating front, she is rubbish at tidying, so it took me a while to get myself all straightened out!!

 Challenges:
Sugar Bowl - sketch
Creative Stamp friends - new stamp
Crafty Boots - children's stories (velveteen rabbit)
Stamptacular Sunday - bling it on
Pile it on - fabric/felt
Totally Gorguss - thank you
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes 

Autumn Hazel

Here is Hazel from Sugar Nellie - I just love her sitting on her shroom - very autumnal!  I coloured her in using promarkers and flexpens and added some glamour dust to her wings,  The dp is First edition Boho Chic, which I distressed and stitched.  I added some muslim, gingham ribbon and a bow with a leaf charm hanging from it.  I made the flet flowers using felt that I liberally sprayed with walnut gold glimmer mist to give it an aged look, and a Marianne die.  I added pearls to the centres, and a decorative corner with a pearl to finish.

Challenges:
Crafting for all seasons - things with wings
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Fab n Funky - f's (fairy, felt, flowers)
Stampavie and more - glitter
Paper Pretties - Fall inspired
Divas by Design - fairies and fantasy
Sugar Bowl - sketch
Stamps and fun=Creativity - autumn
Everybody-art - autumn
Tuesday Throwdown - fall colours
Passion for Promarkers - autumn leaves
Pile it on - fabric/felt (muslim and felt flowers)
Secret Crafter - distressing
Sweet Stampin - add a charm
Love to Create - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
CMC - fall colours
Frilly and Funky - fall into fall 
Crafty Sentiments - autumn colours

WOYWW

Its Wednesday, and this week needs to be going just a wee bit faster than it is!!!!  Its also hubby's birthday today - he's got to work late so we will be celebrating at the weekend.
As it is Wednesday its time to have a peek at people's crafty work space courtesy of the lovely Julia.  Here's mine last night ...
In the middle of the 'making birthday boy his card' session!!!  Like to leave things to the last minute - adds a bit of spice to the occasion!!!  So here is my colouring ... and a bit of snowflake spray masking I did before I got onto the colouring.  Oh and in the background some of Beth's colouring - she thinks she might, just might put these onto cards!!

And here is the card in all its glory!!!

LOTV Striker image, coloured in promarkers and flexpens, and the dp is Basic Grey.  Sentiment stamp from Whimsy.  Just a wee bit of twine, no other embellishments - well I'd only take them off when the card came down!!

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Bearly Mine - add a sentiment
Dream Valley - celebrations
I love promarkers - male theme
Fab n Funky - something beginning with f (football)

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Embellishment heaven!!

I love Krista Smith's images, from the rubber Simply Sassys from Sugar Nellie, to her own Saturated Canary digi range, and now her fab rubber stamps. This is Autumn, and I coloured her using my promarkers.  I went for a soft autumn colour palette, rather than rich reds and greens this time.  The dp is First Edition Boho Chic and it has all been treated to a bit of distressing courtesy of my trusty TH distressing tool.  I added some punched flowers, a doilly,  ribbon, bow, buttons, muslim, star dust stickles and some flat backed pearls - bit of embellishment heaven going on today!!!!! Finally I added the sentiment at a jaunty angle so it fitted!!

Challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday - bling it on (pearls and stickles)
Creative Stamp Friends - new stamp
Stamps & fun=Creativity - autumn
Creative Craft - anything goes
Bearly Mine - add a sentiment
Everybody-art - autumn
Tuesday Throwdown - fall colours
Passion for Promarkers - autumn leaves
I love Promarkers - occupations (gardener!)
Pile it on - fabric/felt (muslim)
Saturated Canary -  b's (bling, buttons, bow)
Anything Goes - sketch
Craft your passion - buttons and bows
Secret Crafter - distressing
CMC - fall colours 

A bit of flower power

I love these cute LOTV critters .. .and this bear is just adorable with his patchwork flower.  He is coloured in copics, and I used a Viva Decor pearl pen for the pearlised dots. The dp is Memory Box, and I stitched it.  I added lace, gingham ribbon, a fussy bow, buttons, paper flowers and a PB sentiment stamp.  Oh and the flower charm tied through the button with twine.   

Challenges:
Make it Monday
Lili's little fairies - flower power
Sweet Stampin - add a charm
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Totally Gorguss - thank you
Craft your passion - buttons and bows
Crafty Cardmakers - stitching and lace
Ribbon Girls - pink and green
Love to Create - anything goes
Eureka Stamps - animals

Crafting Time DT

This week's theme is a sketch ... I have adapted a wee bit to make it a little more card friendly.  I have also used my latest crafting addiction on it - mega gliding flakes and FlitterGlu - you can get a starter kit here.

 
I used this Christmas IndiogBlu stamp Merry Christmas Deer, and FlitterGlu to 'ink' up the stamp before stamping it onto the black cardstock.  I then rubbed over the inked image with mega gliding flake in Winter Dawn, and rubbed them off using my fingers and then a scrubby thing aka scoochy foam!  I matted the image and Bo Bunny papers up onto red and black cardstock.

And here is a closer look at those gorgeous, sparkly deer.

  

Callenges:

Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp and Show - for the love of sparkle 

Let it snow

I am having a bit of a lazy morning, watching Saturday Kitchen, but I thought I would share with you a Christmas card I  made yesterday. Sorry about the picture quality - I used my ipad and a photo editting package that is refusing to let me save it in high quality.  I'd have used my camera but the children have 'lost' it!!
 I used my spell binders snowflake dies, red and white card stock, a bit of stitching, a gem and a Craftwork cards sentiment. Really quick and easy - need to try it in blue now!! And thanks to Erika for the inspiration - I love her spellbinder creations.

Challenges
Creative inspirations - early Christmas
Less is more - 3 challenges ( bit of red, bling, let it snow)
Allsorts - inspired by a song (let it snow)

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

With Sympathy

I really don't like making sympathy cards, but needs must and this is one for the family of one of Dave's close work colleagues, who sadly died 3 weeks ago - funeral is on Monday and Dave is a pall bearer.

 I used a couple of Go Kreate Die sets to create the card, and simply embossed along the bottom of the card blank, and embossed one of the mats, before adding a Memory Box butterfly with pearls at its centre.  Finally I stamped the sentiment.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - emboss it
Fab n Funky - things with wings
Paper Pretties - no patterned papers
Charisma Cardz - things with wings
Cute Card Thursday - a different shape
Little Miss Muffet - anything but square
2 Sisters - things with wings

Inky fingers ...

I am in a tag making mood - beats Christmas cards LOL!!  Got a couple of DT projects using tags on the go, but thought I would make one just for the fun of it, and having been quite girly recently, I have gone for masculine and grungy!  I coloured the tag using pumice distress ink, and layered it up on the corners.  I also coloured some scrap card with the ink, adding a bit of broken china.  Having dired the tag (cos I'm impatient!) I places my TH compass mask over the corner and misted with glimmer mists - did both corners. (Note to self, put the mask away before drying the tag with your heat gun, or you might melt the mask that you left abandoned on your craft sheet!!!!)  Once the tag was dry I stamped over it using TH stamps and IndigoBlu stamps.  I added TH tissue tape, before adding theIndigoBlu train stamp that I had stamped onto that scrap of cardstock.  I used the left over bit to make the banner and stamped over it with the IndigoBlu compass stamp.The banner and image were attached using my mini stapler and I stuck some watch parts to the image.Oh and everything is distressed of course using my trusty, but getting blunt!, TH distressing tool.  Now I just need to wash my hands!!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - tape it
Do You Stack Up - flags
DutchDare - snips and snails
Fabulous Friday - traingles
Fuss n Fancy - trip around the world
Anything but a card - anything but a card

Totally Papercrafts challenge

This week's challenge theme has been chosen by my lovely friend, Susan, and she has chosen a nice and easy theme -

For A Child

(this can be anything from a birthday card for a child to a congratulations on the birth of your child... as long as the papercrafted item is to be sent to a child I don't mind!)

And we are sponsored this time by ..

Meljen's Designs

Meljen's are offering 4 digis of the winners choice to the winner!

It will be my neice's birthday soon ... can't believe she is going to be 8!!! I have used this  cute Magnolia image, that bear is adorable!  I only bought it recently, and this is its first inking - how bad is that!!  Having coloured the image in using my copics I die cut it out and added stickles to the edge and around her feet.  The dp is Basic Grey Eva, I so love these papers, and am sadly running out of them :(.  I liberally distressed and stitched them, even tearing some of it  *GASP*.  I added some muslim, flowers, lace and ribbon, and a button heart to finish.  The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.

Challenges:
Pile it on - stitching
Craft your passion - bingo (distressing, flowers, buttons)
Crafty Cardmakers - stitching and lace
Oldie but a Goodie - show us your ribbon
Addicted to Stamps - bingo (circle, free, birthday)
Stampavie - sparkling
Crafts and me - roses
Divas by Design - layers
My Mum's Craft shop- hearts and flowers
Moving along with the times - girly girly and prim and proper
Inspire me Friday 
Fat pages and Cards with Attitude - anything goes
Just add ink - children's card
Just Magnolia - What's new
Delightful - distressing
Stampin for the weekend - feeling floral
Crafty Catz - buttons

Autumn colours

I used Windswept from Sugar Nellie, and coloured her in using my promarkers.  The dp is Basic Grey Mellow, and I distressed and stitched it all, belfore adding a LOTV sentiment, ribbon, muslim, a Whimsy corner, flowers and pearls - a bit OTT on the embellishments today!!

Challenges:
Eureka Stamps- Autumn Colours
Addicted to Stamps - Autumn Colours
One Stitch at a Time- Autumn
Sugar Bowl - sketch
The Crafty Pad - Autumn Colours
Colour Me Creative - Fall Colours
The Paper Shelter - fall colours
Tuesday Throwdown - cutting corners
Oldie but a Goodie - show us your ribbon
Pile it on - stitching
Addicted to Stamps - bingo (circle, free, birthday)
Divas by Design - layers

Moving along with the times - girly girly and prim and proper

CRAFT GDT

This week's CRAFT challenge is children.  We are sponsored by ...

Trimgym's Digistamps and Images
The prize for winner 1 is 3 digistamps OR 2 easel card sheets OR 1 paper pack of choice from her blog.

  Stitchy Bear Stamps

Bugaboo Stamps

 

 

 

 I used this cute Bugaboo child and coloured her using my promarkers and flexpens.  The dp is First Edition Boho Chic, and I added Memory Box die cut flowerts, a Whimsy corner, ribbon and a Craftwork Cards sentiment.

Challenges:
 Tuesday Throwdown - cutting corners
Creative Craft - anything goes

Butterfly and heart

I like a bit of white, and a bit of embossing ... and Erika has gor me all inspired with white, kraft and red ... and I needed a birthday card, so this is what I came up with LOL!!
The heart has been cut out of grungeboard, painted with red acrylic paint and covered with rock candy crackle paint.  I embossed the white cardstock and added red and kraft coloured ribbon before popping the Spellbinders Doilly on on 3d pads.  I wrapped some twine round the heart, added a Heartflet Creation butterfly, embossed with a script folder, and a button with twine tidied through it.  Finally I added the Craftwork sentiment.

 Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - emboss it
Fab n Funky - things with wings
Paper Pretties - no patterned papers
Twisted Tuesday - something that flies and 3 types of embellishment (ribbon, twine, button)
Creative Craft - anything Goes
Celebrate the Occasion - birthday + twine and a button

Squirrel Special Delivery

Not one of my best cards - not feeling overly creative today - full of a cold, ear ache, coughing and can't swallow - so not great!

I just love these new Christmas digis from Sugar Nellie - this one is Squirrel Special Delivery, and its coloured using my promarkers.  I have kept it all very embellishment free as I am going for cards that fit easily through the post!!  I added stickles to the ground for a bit of frost. The dp is Nitwits and I added rinnon, pearls and a Craftwork Cards sentiment.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch
J and C Creations - cute Christmas
Creative Inspirations - Christmas in Septemeber
Stampavie and more - glitter

Desk takeover!!!

 Its Wednesday and time to show off your craft mess ... sorry I meant space over at Julia's amazing blog - yep its Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday ...

Well I have had a bit of a desk take over ...

This Ellie, my older daughter Ellie's BFF!!!  The girlswere making charms for their school bags - so all my fab charms have been used!!

 And here is my Ellie using plyers to help open and attach the rings.

The concentration was amazing!  Kept them quiet for nearly an hour!
  And here are the chamrs finished - Ellie took the photo to take to Beavers for their creativity badge.

So I spent the evening tidying up the charms, jump rings from all over the place and rounding up all the little silver bells that Ellie split over the floor!!  Today I am going to have a crafty couple of hours to catch up with missing out last night!