Two Hearts, One Love.

I just had to join in the fab Blog Hop and challenge that's going on over at House Mouse and Friends.

They have some amazing prizes on offer and I love seeing the antics of all these little cuties.

This stamp is from the 'Love - Sunflower' set, coloured with Copics and some Glamour Dust.

I thought that, by using the 'congratulations' stamp, the card is a bit more versatile and it can go in my stash ready for an engagement, an anniversary or a wedding. What do you think?

I have seen people do this 'ruffled ribbon' style on their cards and thought I would try it out. I put a strip of DS tape where I wanted the ribbon and pleated the ribbon up as I went along. Then I was left with the pleats all sticking up!!! So, I added a piece of narrow ribbon on top to keep them flat.

Perhaps I should have researched how to do it first!!   :-) Youtube here I come!

Challenges.

House Mouse and Friends - Love theme, with more than one Heart

Moving Along With The Times - Have A Heart

Cupcake Craft - Pink and Red as the main focus. (hope there's not too much green on there!)

Allsorts - Free and Easy

Crafty Calendar - Love and Marriage with Lace/Pearls as Optional Extras

Bling It On - Love is All Around

Supplies.

House Mouse Stamp - Love Sunflower.  Copics.   Glamour Dust

XCut nested Heart Dies.    Congratulations stamp from Wild Rose Studios.

DP - K & Co Classic K

Pearls and ribbon from my stash.

Winter Tea Lights

Hello crafters, time for another Totally Papercrafts Challenge

and this week our theme is

Christmas in August

Just perfect for adding to that Christmas pile 
and if you haven't started your Christmas cards yet,
I don't want to panic you, but there are only 18 weeks til the big day! Eek!!

I made this little tea light gift.

I started with a 144mm x 144mm card blank and scored it 20mm from the centre score line. When folded this leaves one side longer than the other, so I just trimmed off the excess length to make them equal.

I decorated the front of the card with the cute Penny Black, Mademoiselle Noel stamp and a Christmas DP from last year K & Co, Peppermint Twist.

Remembering to place a piece of ribbon between the mat black card and the card blank.

The 'winter' stamp is stamped in silver and embossed.

I made a little box to fit my four tea lights. 

To create the 'window' I cut out a piece from the lid with a label nestie and covered it, on the inside, with a piece cut from a clear plastic bag.

When I went to cover the base in my red DP, the only piece I had left, had a little flower shaped punch cut into it,

this meant I had to place my box to one side, but I think it looks ok.

Remember again, if you're making this, to put a piece of ribbon between the mat card (black in my case) and the card blank itself.
 

Here's a close up of that image - coloured with Copics and with some added sparkle to her 'fur' trim.

It doesn't really show up well, but it's there!

The little doggy was cut from a label that was in the DP pack.

I hope you will join our challenge this week and don't forget to check out the fabulous work of the DT.

Challenges.

Make it Monday - Linky Party
Penny Black at Allsorts - August Challenge Free & Easy

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

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Supplies used.

Penny Black Stamp - Medemoiselle Noel, coloured with Copics and Crystal glitter.

DP - K & Co Peppermint Twist.

Catslife Press Stamp 'winter', 'just for you' stamp and twine available at Crafty Emmas

Snowflake punch and stickles glitter

Ribbon and card candy from my stash.

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Love is in the air...

I'm going to stop playing with my blog background now... honest!!

I think I have settled on a less 'in your face' dotty design.

Today I am showing you an Anniversary card that a friend asked me to make. 

She thought it might be for a Ruby Anniversary, so I went with colours for that, but left off any specific sentiment.

 I followed this week's sketch over at the Create4fun Challenge, so there are lots of layers on here, mostly stitched in place on my machine.

I love this stamp from Penny Black and it's great to colour.

I used Copics

and a glitter pen on her bow

and dotted on the flowers.


























Challenges - 

Create4fun - Sketch
Top Tip Tuesday - Wedding/Anniversary
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Sewing
Simon Says - A Stich in Time
Aud Sentiments - At least 2 words on your sentiment.




Supplies - 
Penny Black stamp from J'aime Paris set
Happy Anniversary stamp - Papermania Scrolls & Sentiments.
DP - K & Co Classic
Pearls from Crafty Emma's Store.
Sheer Ribbon.

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Stop and smell the flowers!

Today, I am showing you a card that I was asked to make - the brief was for a 'pretty' card, but not to have 'little girls' on it!!!   Hope they like it!

I used this cute Penny Black, Bountiful stamp, coloured with Copics and the hedgie and butterfly are 3D'd. I also added a sprinkling of glitter to the stamp and the flowers.

With all those flowers, pearls and the lace, I kept the background simple - stitching just one layer of pretty DP in place.

Challenges - 

Charisma Cardz - Pink & Green

Stamp Something - Pretty Papers

Penny Black - Pesky Critters - plus their 3rd Birthday Blog Hop - Congrats everyone.  xxx

Supplies

Penny Black Stamp - Bountiful

DP - K & Co, Classic    Stickles glitter.

Blooms, lace and adhesive pearls from my stash.

Craftwork Cards Sentiment.

Spring is in the air!

Well, it's definitely not springlike here in Yorkshire, but we live in hope!
I am excited to show you my card today, as it's my first one as Guest Designer at A Gem of A Challenge

If you haven't joined in with Janet's challenges before, go and check them out. They are now going to be running fortnightly and Debby is the host this time around, with a wonderful sketch to follow.

It's so nice to make something other than Christmas cards - and I couldn't resisit using this cute Spring Chloe, all wrapped up against the chilly spring weather, in her pretty coat and ugg boots, and her cat by her side.

Spring Chloe and the Happy Birthday circle are on sale as polymer stamps at the Pink Gem store, so head on over there and grab yourself a bargain!

This challenge is being sponsored by Letraset and the prize for one lucky winner is a set of Promarkers.

Stamps are coloured with Copics and the little flower was dusted with Making Memories Scrapbook Shimmer.  DP is K & Co, Classic.  Lace and string from my stash.

Challenges -
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with the optional extra of adding some lace.

There are some fab new products in the Pink Gem store for January. Janet has made some Cutie Pie papers and gorgeous, matching decoupage sheets.
Here's a quick peek at the 'Oh Boy' papers.

Totally Papercrafts #41 Tag It !

I am dazzled, I tells ya !! You gals certainly love your 'sparkle'' - we had a fab response to our 'bling it on' challenge last week. Thanks to everyone who joined in - check out the Totally Papercrafts blog to see who the lucky winner is.

This week our host is the wonderful Anne, and her chosen theme is

'Tag It'

There are lots of different things you can do for this challenge - make a gift tag, a christmas tag, or add a tag to a card. Check out the awesome work of my teamies - guaranteed to get your mojo flowing!!

Here's my project - a little set of Christmas gift tags.

This started out life as a 'matchmakers chocolate' box. Don't you just love it when you have to eat the contents of a box, just so you can use it for something else!!
I used green card to make some dividers, so that my tags would sit in nicely,  then I covered the box with DP and added the cute 'Coco and Presents' stamp, from this week's challenge sponsor Digi Stamp Boutique

Don't look too closely at the tags - I cut them with my Slice machine, which can have a mind of it's own sometimes! It doesn't seem to have cut properly on the right hand side.

Anyhoo, I inked the edges, added some embellies and threw some glitter around in the hope that no-one would notice the mis-shapes!

Stamp - Coco and Presents, Digi Stamp Boutique, I paper-pieced the sledge and coloured the rest with Copics and stickles glitter.

DP - K & Co Peppermint Twist, which also contained the die cuts I used on the tags.

Slice machine - Fa La La Design.

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Baby It's Cold Outside !!

Just a quick post today - it's already taken me half an hour to try and upload these pictures!!
I even tried to do it from Picasa Web Albums, but that was all gobbledygook to me.

Here's another Christmas card to add to the pile... not very traditional, but I think it's kind of cute.

Challenges I am entering...

Sketch Saturday - Fab sketch chosen by Paula
Cupcake Craft - Happy Hour - with all Faye's talk about a tipsy hot choklit I NEED one now!!
Crafty Emma's Store - Get Ahead, Get A Hat - Do you wear hats? I love them.
I have my eye on one of those woolly ones with ear flaps and dangly bits...
hubby says I can have one.. it will be dark out in the winter, so no-one will see me !!!

:-)

 

This fabulous digital stamp is from Sassy Studio Designs, coloured with Copics and a glitter pen.
Design Paper is K & Co, Peppermint Twist.
Raffia lace from Bunny Zoe's Crafts

Snowflake cut with Slice (Fa La La) covered with Diamond Dust and with a brad in the centre.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon and adhesive pearls from my stash.

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Dear Santa... I can explain!!!

I am so glad I saw the challenge over at  Winter Wonderland, to make a 'male' Christmas card,
it reminded me that I need cards for my male relatives and friends.

This one is for my nephew.

I followed Dawny's great sketch from Papertake Weekly.How do you stick your papers on??   My new role of double sided tape is about as much use as a chocolate teapot, so this is stuck down with Pritt Stick. I thought it might warp the paper, but it looks ok so far.  I am hoping that when I come to use the card it will all still be in place.

The Pollycraft Santa was coloured with Copics. I added Flower Soft (polar white) to his beard and coat trims and a couple of small brads as buttons. The I layered him onto the card with foam pads.

Challenges I am entering...

Winter Wonderland - A Male Christmas Card

Papertake Weekly - Dawny's Sketch
Creative Inspirations - Christmas in September  (October now, I guess!!)

 Charisma Cardz - Christmas Crafting.

Digital Stamp - Pollycraft Santa.
Fa La La Stamp - Catslife Press, coloured with Copics and edged with stickles glitter.
Design Paper - K & Co, Peppermint Twist.
Polar White Flower Soft.  Small Black Brads.

Tutti Fruit Tea!!

Ha!Ha! Do you like my title?
I thought I was so clever when that popped into my head...
:-)
(I need to get out more!! )

Just a quick, cute project to show you today..
this little Apron, with a pocket to hold Tea Bags.

I am entering this for this week's Secret Crafter Challenge,
where the theme is

'Strawberries and Cream'.

Thanks to Penni, for letting me know about the
'Just Us Girls Challenge',
that I am also entering.
I can't believe that their challenge is this apron card, with the same template!!
They must have been sending vibes out to me this morning.
Check out the awesome DT work over there.

I love how this little apron turned out,
and I can just imagine a whole row of them in my kitchen.
All the fruit teas in their appropriate coloured aprons...
blackcurrant, peppermint, mandarin..

I used the apron template from PaperScrapz,
and covered it with K & Co 'Classic' DP
The ribbon, adhesive pearls, brads and eyelets are from my stash.
I stuck the little tags down with a piece of 3D foam,
dusted the edges of them with pink chalk
and made the 'Tea Time' text on my comp.

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Pppp... Pick Up A Penguin

Woohoo.... another Christmas card finished...
only 1 more to go :-)
I have followed the sketch over at
Papertake Challenge.

This card is for a family with little kiddies,
so I have used my cute penguin stamp from
Gillian Roberts and added plenty of sparkle.

Recipe :
Stamp - Gillian Roberts, Penguin and Tree,
coloured with Copics and stickles glitter.

I 3D'd the penguin.
Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist.
Punched snowflakes covered with Diamond Dust.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.
Ribbon from my stash.
xxx

Christmas Cupcakes

I am really happy with my first attempt and an 'easel' card.

They are easy to make and I think they look really stylish.

This is for the challenge over at Simon Says,
where the theme is
'All That Sparkles'.

I thought it would be nice to make a Christmas card,
using a stamp that wasn't just for Christmas,
so I had a rummage, and came up with these
cupcakes from Simon Says Stamp.

I paper pieced the cases, with sparkly paper
and added sticky pearls, diamonds and stickles glitter
to the frosting.

Do you like my bow?

It took me 100 attempts to get it like that... lol*

Recipe:
Stamps - Savor Sweet Cupcakes, from Simon Says Stamp.
Design Paper - K & Co, Peppermint Twist
Fancy edge made with Fiskars lace punch
Christmas Cupcakes sentiment made on my comp.
Ribbon and button from my stash.

xxx

Christmas Wilbur

I've had a little panic this morning,
totting up the number of Christmas cards I need.
So, here's another to add to my stash.

I have combined 2 challenges.
The sketch is by Ger, from Sunday Sketch & Stamp
(I just resized the circle,
because this was the largest die I had,
and you do not want to see me cut one out freehand.. lol*)
The theme is 'Furry Friends',
at Allsorts

Recipe:
Digital Stamp - Wilbur, from Pollycraft.
I paper pieced the parcels and coloured Wilbur
with copics.
Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist
Ribbon, pearls, flower and metallic tape from my stash.
xxx

Cinder Toffee and Winter Wonderland Challenge

Mmmmm.... cinder toffee.
Not only is it delish,
but it makes your kitchen smell gorgeous.
:-)
As soon as I saw that this week's
Winter Wonderland challenge
was an 'open' theme,
I knew what I wanted to make.
I needed a place to keep my Christmas treat recipes
all together,

So I have covered a little notebook.
As you can see, I threw all my sparkle and glitter at it...lol*

The first recipe inside is for the Cinder Toffee -
so easy to make and a real favourite here.
In fact, I had to be quick to take the photo,
as the toffee was disappearing fast!

Recipe.
Small plain notebook.
Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist.
Die cut 'Bug in a Rug' letters covered with Glossy Accents.
Punched snowflakes covered with stickles glitter.
Adhesive pearls, card candy and ribbon from my stash.
xxx

Winter's Day

Have you seen Elizabeth's images at Softpencil Digital Stamps?
Elizabeth is this week's sponsor at
A Spoon Full Of Sugar.

I haven't seen her work before,

but it is just sooo cute.

I definitely want to be in with a chance of winning some of
her adorable images.
So, here is my entry for their sketch challenge.
Check out the DT work, who have had the chance to play with
some of the images.

Recipe:

Stamp - Woodware, A Winter's Day,
coloured with copics
and sprinkled with Polar White Flower Soft.
Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist.
Punched snowflakes, covered with Diamond Dust.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.
xxx

Bling It Bear

I can't resist a bit of bling -
so I had to have a go at this week's challenge
over at Stamp Something,

where the theme is 'Bling It'.

There is also an awesome prize this week,
of some Copic Spica markers.
Who wouldn't love to win those?

I don't often make shaped cards,
but thought I would have a go at this simple, 'z-fold' style,
and I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out.


I find it hard to photograph glitter,
but I hope you can see that there is plenty of 'bling'
on my card.
The background paper is gorgeous and has a pretty glitter finish.
I also added some stickles glitter to the bear's dressing gown.

Recipe:
Stamp - Forever Friends, coloured with Copics.
Design Paper - K & Co, Peppermint Twist
Ribbon from my stash.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards
xxx

Christmas Lights

Wow!

3 posts in one day... that's a record for me.
Hubby is away on business,

so the housework can wait

and I have spread out my craft stuff

over every available surface.

Here's my entry for Simon Says Stamp,
which is the colour combo Red & Green.
If you enter the challenge, not only are you in with a chance of
winning a fab $25 gift voucher for the
Simon Says Stamp shop,
but you could also visit the DT
and find some hidden candy.

Recipe:

Digital Stamp - Pollycraft, Cherry Kisses Lights,
coloured with copics and stickles glitter

Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist.

Swirl - Sizzix Flourish Die
Punched flowers, spritzed with glimmer mists and stickles glitter.
Card candy and sentiment from Craftwork Cards.
xxx

Twice the Fun!

I had so much fun with this great sketch from Caryn at
A Spoon Full of Sugar
that I decided to use it twice!
I just changed the colour theme and the ribbon detail on each card.
This week's challenge sponsor is Nikki of
Bunny Zoe's Crafts with a fab prize of a
High Hopes stackable Santa Stamp and some Christmas charms.
Recipe:

Stamp - Penny Black Christmas Critters,
coloured with whispers pens, and sprinkled with diamond dust.
Design Paper - K & Co Peppermint Twist
Sentiments from Craftwork Cards

The snowflakes were punched, with a pearl added to the centre,
and then covered with diamond dust.

xxx

Eat cake all day!!

I am craving cake today,
and all I have in the house are cereal bars and fruit bakes!!
I will have to content myself with making
paper cupcakes.. lol*

This is my entry for this week's
Sketch Saturday,
with the fab prize of a $25 gift certificate
for Simon Says Stamp.

Recipe:
The cupcake was made with a stencil I got free
in a cardmaking magazine.
Design Papers are K& Co Classic
Swirl is made with a sizzix die.

Card candy from Craftwork cards.

The lace was my bargain of the week -
I popped into my local button shop yesterday
and they were selling big bags of offcut lace for only £5
xxx

Charmed I'm Sure

This is the challenge over at Stamptacular.
You can create any project, as long as it contains
a stamp and a charm.
Have a look at the cute DT work,
they have lots of different ideas.

I've been noticing these pretty charms on cards
for a while now,

but I don't have any and haven't seen them for sale.
Now come on girls, don't keep them all to yourselves,
if you know of an online UK shop
that sells them please let me know.
:-)

For my charm I improvised...lol*
I used a butterfly bead, a bit of wire and some beads,
left over from a jewellery making set.
The pretty paper is from K & Co, Simply Sweet
and the stamp is Magnolia - Sweetheart Tilda,
coloured with whispers pens.
xxx

Just Magnolia Challenge

Afternoon everyone,
hope you are all enjoying what's left of the weekend.

It's glorious sunshine here - and I have a date with the hot-tub
and a glass of wine!

First - here's my entry for the new, Just Magnolia Challenge.

There is a fab prize for the first challenge -
lots of amazing goodies from the DT team and
the Hobby House

The DT work is awesome,
so head on over there and check it out.

I found a template for this cute little bag in a Papercrafts book I have
and used the challenge sketch on the front of it.

I have no idea what to put in it -
ideas on a postcard please..
lol*
I'm sure it will come in handy for a gift for someone.

Recipe: Magnolia stamp - Sweetheart Tilda,
coloured with whispers pens.
Design Paper - my absolute fav. K&Co - Classic
Shapes cut with my nestabilities and
blooms, ribbon and stick on pearls from my stash.

xxx