White wedding card

Hi everyone :) 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! :D :D

This week over at Papertake Weekly there's a Pick of the Year challenge - you can choose ANY challenge theme from during the year and make a card to go with that :)

Please don't use the same card though me darlins, it has to be a new one!!

The challenge will close at 8am on January 7th so you have 2 weeks cos we are having a Papertake week off  :)

We are sponsored by the lovely peeps across the pond at Simon Says Stamp so we have a fabulous $20 voucher to give away !!

Woo Hoo !! :-)

I chose the theme from August - Occasionally :) 

I made a wedding card for a friend, and here it is :)

The groom is big into music so it had to include something to do with music on it.

Ingredients

LOTV I Do

Embossilicious Petit Dots and Spellbinders Music embossing folders

LOTV Simply Sophisticated sentiment in silver embossing 

Pink gems and lace from Ribbon Girl

Coloured with Copics and Promarkers

Ribbon from stash

MS border punch

Stickles

I'm going to bed now but I'll add my list of challenges to add it to in the morning :)

Sweet dreams and have a lovely christmas :)

Tags xx

Card by my niece

Evening everyone!

Thanks again for all the good wishes on my engagement :)

Just sharing a card that my 8 year old niece Hana made for my sister's birthday today, she loves the chance to get her mitts on my craft goodies and she was ill earlier so we took advantage of her needing downtime from all her social activities to make a card :) She's very heavy handed with her colouring - last time she bent some of my promarker nibs haha, so we stuck to the Crayolas this time :P

I stamped out the images and did the cutting and tied the bow for her and she did the rest (i held the paper while she held the heat tool too!) :) She couldn't choose which image she wanted so decided to use both.

I'd like to enter this in a few challenges on her behalf:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stamp it out

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bling it on

Ribbon Girl Christmas Craft Challenge - Children Crafting

She'd love to hear what everyone thinks of her masterpiece :)

Have a lovely Christmas everyone, best wishes to you all, and have a wonderful time with your loved ones, and bigs hugs to everyone who's missing loved ones, can't be with their families or are dealing with illness or pain this holiday season - you especially are in my thoughts. 

Love and best wishes

Tags xxx

Jingle Bells

Evening everyone! I'm a couple of days late with my GDT card for Papertake Weekly, oopsie! I was travelling home from holidays all day Tuesday and Wednesday so didn't get a chance to post. I'm sooo tired now and my body clock is all over the place haha! Just so glad that airports and luggage and buses and all that jazz is done with, but I am rather missing the Florida weather I must say :P 

So for everyone who's been asking, here's a picture of my ring :) I love it so much haha :)

Anyway, back to crafty business, over at Papertake Weekly this week, the theme is

Last Christmas….Card of the Year!

So any festive/Christmas card please :)

Our sponsor this time is the wonderful

Ribbon Girl

who are providing our very lucky winner with the fabulous prize of 

to spend on beautiful goodies from their store :)

So here's what I made!

Ingredients

Meljen's Designs Prancer image

LOTV Grungy Christmas sentiment

Bo Bunny papers

Memory Box Precious Stars

Gold Pearls, ribbon and red lace from Ribbon Girl

Gold embossing powder, gold Stickles, Stickles

Coloured with PMs and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

As You Like It - Fave Christmas Stamp (I have lots of favourite Christmas stamps, I love this one for kiddie cards and fun cards - he has attitude!)

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - Ribbons and Pearls

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Party Time

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Last minute Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bling it on

Stampin for the weekend - use some red

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Something Old (papers are from last year)

Thanks for looking :)

Tanya xx

Vintage Christmas Card

Hi everyone 

Thanks to everyone for the messages of congratulations and good wishes - I'll have my ring later, so the next blogpost I make will have a picture of it ;) 

So here's a card I made shortly before going on hols, hope you like :)

Ingredients

LOTV Pups with Present

LOTV Krafty Christmas papers

LOTV background bits postcard

Memory Box Pinecone border die

Spellbinders Floral Oval die

Wooden snowflakes

Aged ivory frantage - I added in some gold embossing powder too for some extra gold glittering :)

Fluffy Stuff

Coloured with PMs and Copics

Gold pearls from ribbon girl

Computer generated sentiment

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Let it snow

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Santa is Coming

Crafty Little Fairies - Let it snow

Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho Christmas Challenge

Live and Love Crafts Challenge - Stardust

Cute Card Thursday - Christmas Catch Up

Crafts and Me Challenge - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Christmas

Incy Wincy Challenge - let it snow

Passion For Promarkers - include a sentiment

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Snow Cute

Morning all

I'm in sunny Florida right now, weather's beautiful and I'm a happy camper!! 

It's been a rollercoaster of a week! Literally and figuratively. I've gone on some CRAZY rides in Universal Studios, I literally thought I was going to die on the Hulk rollercoaster. No joke. 

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is just…indescribable. It is the most magical place on earth, and I never want to leave here haha, just wow! 

And to top the wonderful time we spent in The Wizarding World, my boyfriend got down on one knee outside of Hogwarts Castle, and asked me to marry him…Needless to say, I SAID YES!!! :D 

We're both massive Harry Potter fans, and it was a Very Harry Potter Proposal haha, he presented me with this:

For any non-Harry fans, this is a Snitch. It is a huge part of the Harry Potter story, and very symbolic, and it's just the most amazing way to be proposed to ever. I cried like a baby. It was just before closing time in the park, so it was very quiet, just the two of us… so romantic :) i couldn't have asked for a more perfect proposal! 

We went ring shopping the following day, I chose a beautiful white gold ring with three stones, it had to be resized though so I don't actually have it just yet, when it's on my hand I'll put up a picture ^_^ I'm the happiest girl on the planet right now :) And the luckiest one! 

Anyway onto crafty matters. 

Yesterday (yes I'm a day late, sowwy!) the Papertake Weekly challenge for this week opened, and here's the info for this week's challenge :)

The theme this time is

Christmas Creatures

and quite simply we just want you to include a creature on your Christmas card or project :)

We are so pleased to welcome Whiff of Joy

and this week’s up for grabs prize is AWESOME cos we have not one but 2 of the new digi images for you.

So this is what I made :) Hope you like it!

Ingredients

LOTV Snow Cute

LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiments

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia

Me to You papers 

Hobby House Self Adhesive Pearls

Hobby House Pearl Brad

Pink ribbon and button from stash

Pink baker's twine from Ribbon Girl

Glossy Accents, Glamour Dust, Stickles

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

Card Makin Mamas - Christmas/New Year

Ribbon Girls - Ho Ho Ho Christmas Challenge

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Ribbon

Pile it on - P is for… (penguin, pink, pearls, poinsettia)

Passion for Promarkers - Include a sentiment

Partytime Tuesdays - Winter Wonderland

Incy Wincy Challenge - Let it snow

My Mum's Craft Shop - Winter Wonderland

Deep Ocean Challenge - Santa is coming

Thanks for looking, and head on over to Papertake Weekly to see the inspiration and enter your own projects :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Clean and Simple

Morning all!

I'm a day late with my Papertake Weekly GDT card this week, because I was on an aeroplane all day yesterday - I'm writing this post from sunny Florida! :D :D I'm in Orlando with my wonderful boyfie :) Two weeks of sunshine, I'm so excited :D We're having a chill out day today to prepare for the madness of Universal Studios tomorrow, eeeee :D 

Anyway, back to challenges, the theme at PTW this time is

Anything Goes

theme with the optional extra 

to do a clean and simple (CAS) or less is more card.

But remember this is only an option and if you don’t want to use this theme then you don’t have to. The main thing is to let loose your creative stuff and make a card that pleases YOU :)

The sponsor this time is the wonderful 

Lili of The Valley

who are providing our lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their beautimous store :)

So here's what I made, I went for very clean and simple :)

My lovely neighbour who always orders lots of cards off me asked for a load of simple Christmas cards, so this is one of those :)

Ingredients

LOTV Simply Sentimental sentiment

Memory Box Snowflake Die

Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

Gems

Glitter paper

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Deep Ocean Challenge - Santa is coming

Totally Papercrafts - Ho ho holidays

Totally Gorjuss - Snow's the way to go

Ribbon Girls Challenge - ho ho ho christmas challenge

Stampin for the weekend - feeling festive

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Winter/Christmas

Divas By Design - Feeling Festive

Thanks for looking, and head over to Papertake Weekly for some fabulous inspiration from the DT :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly Sketchie Sketch :)

Evening all

Today over at Papertake Weekly,  we have a fab new sketch for you to follow, and here it is….

It's a Sketchie Free For All - which means you can choose any of the Papertake Weekly sketches, which can be found on the blog :) 

The sponsor is the loverly Simon Says Stamp, who I'm about to make a massive order with, and spend all my money…so I wish I could enter to win this prize hehe ;) 

The prize is a $20 voucher to spend in their fabulous store :)

So here's what I made, hope you like :)

Ingredients

Meljen's Designs Bitty Christmas Tree Bears

Bo Bunny papers (I think)

Memory Box Precious Stars

Ribbon from stash

Charm and red lace from Ribbon Girl

Pearl and pearl brad from The Hobby House

Fluffy Stuff, Stickles

Coloured with Promarkers

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Add a Bow

Totally Gorjuss - Child's Christmas

Crafty Little Fairies - Lace and Pearls

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Favourite Colour Combo (red and green for Christmas!)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Countdown to Christmas

Stampin for the Weekend - Feeling Festive

Thanks for looking, and head on over to Papertake Weekly to look at the fabulous inspiration from the lovely DT ladies :)

Tanya xx

Vintage Christmas

Evening all

I had a nice shopping trip in Dublin with Mum and my sis, hobbled about the shops with plenty of painkillers and muscle rub haha, was fun just the same though :)

Before I went off, I attempted my first vintage-style Christmas card ever! I got a page of gorgeous vintage images from Live and Love Crafts, they're so beautiful…not sure I did it justice though :) 

Ingredients

Image - Pion Design vintage images

Maja Design papers

Pearl string

Bark heart

Mittens charm

Cheesecloth, lace, pearls from Ribbon Girl

LOTV Christmas Sentiment Tags

Shabby White frantage

Spellbinders poinsettia die and floral oval die

Cheery Lynn holly flourish die

Memory Box pine border die

Pearl sprig and pearl embellishment from WOC

Wooden snowflakes from stash

Closeups of some of the details :)

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Live and love crafts challenge - christmas inspiration

Stampin for the weekend - feeling festive (sentiment is stamped)

A Creative Romance - vintage style

Inky Chicks - Pearls and Swirls

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - favourite colour combo (sepia)

Crafty Little Fairies - lace & pearls

Crafts and Me challenge blog - vintage christmas

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - shabby chic/vintage

ABC Christmas challenge - w for winter wishes

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

polar bear christmas

Evening everyone

I'm went to Dublin today for a Christmas shopping trip with my mum and my sister, unfortunately I tripped over a hoover that someone left out last night in the dark corridor at the top of the stairs and went facefirst into the carpet haha, my ankle is now massive and purple and I'm bruised all over and so sore :( hobbling around the shops definitely lost some of the excitement :( I hurt my wrist as well so couldn't carry much shopping either :( SAD TANYA likes to moan hahaha.

I made this a couple of days ago. Hope you like.

Ingredients

Pink Gem Designs Baby Polar Bear

LOTV Circular Christmas Sentiment

Memory Box Snowflake

Martha Stewart Punched Snowflake

Memory Box Star border

Darice Stars embossing folder

Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

Gem and snowman ribbon from stash

White ruffle-edge ribbon from Ribbon Girl

Stickles

Silver embossing powder

Coloured with Promarkers

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - W for Winter Wishes

The Ribbon Girl Challenge - White on White

Ready Teddy Go - Use Embossing 

Deep Ocean Challenge - Favourite Colour Combo (white on white)

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Papertake Weekly - Thanksgiving

Evening everyone,

I meant to have this up earlier but somehow it got left in drafts. Today over at Papertake Weekly, the challenge theme this time is 

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is 28th November so a card or project for that this week please or you can just make something that says 'thank you'.

The sponsor this time is the wonderful ladies over at

The Ribbon Girl

who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their amazing store :)

So here's what I made. My niece just had a lovely week recently at a horse-riding camp, and asked for a thank you card to give them, so I made this. I kept it super-simple!

Ingredients

LOTV Me and My Pony

Coloured with Promarkers

LOTV Simply Sophisticated Sentiment

Satin Ribbon and pearl from Ribbon Girl

Stickles and Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanksgiving/Thanks

Totally Papercrafts - Clean and Simple

Pile It On - With Thanks

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Autumn Colours

I Love Promarkers - Red and Green

Dream Valley Challenge - Clean and Simple

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Favourite Colour Combo (red and green is one of my favourites especially at this time of year!)

Crafty Little Fairies - Top of the Pops (America - Horse with no name)

Thanks for looking, and do head over to Papertake Weekly and look at all the fabulous inspiration from those wonderful ladies over there :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly GD card - Snow and Ice

Hi everyone :)

I'm Guesting Designing for Papertake Weekly for the next three months! I'm so excited about that, there is so much talent on their Design Team, so it was a complete surprise that they're letting me anywhere near that hahaha! 

So onto this week's challenge and our theme is

Snow & Ice

and quite simply we just want you to use  blue or 'cold' colours on your card or project or you could also include snow / ice somewhere. Or both :)

Whiff of Joy are sponsoring the challenge, and providing a fabulously festive rubber stamp for the winner, check it out on the Papertake Weekly posting :)

Here's what I made, for a Christmas card order that I received from a friend :)

Ingredients

LOTV Snow Family

LOTV Frosty Christmas Papers

LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiment (looks black from this pic, but is actually silver and heat-embossed!)

Memory Box Snowflake Die

Hobby House Pearl Brad

Pearl/Diamante Embellishment from WOC

Ribbon and pom pom trim from Ribbon Girl

Glossy Accents, Red Liquid Pearls, Glamour Dust, Stickles, Fluffy Stuff, Silver Embossing Powder

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Pumice Stone Distress Ink around the image, stamped with memento tuxedo black

Closeup of the shiny :D

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Winter Blues

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

Crafty Little Fairies - Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Winter

I Love Promarkers - All that glitters

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Got Ink?

Ribbon Girl Challenge - Add Sparkle…LOTV

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Christmas Is Coming

Thanks for looking, and do pop over to Papertake Weekly to look at the fantastic creations the Design Team have come up with, as always they're beautiful!

Tags xx

Penguin presents

Hi everyone

I was sick last week hence the no posts, flu-type thing, no energy, spent most of the week dozing on the couch. Very unusual for me, I usually just battle on through, that wasn't an option this time though. However, since I slept so much last week, I'm literally not able to sleep any more. I spent THE WHOLE NIGHT last night wondering when I'd finally fall asleep…and it didn't happen. At all. Even though the previous night I only drifted off at 6 am and was awake again by 9… So tired now I don't even know if this rambling chat makes ANY sense…hahaha. Anyway. Cards. Here's one :)

Isn't this little penguin adorable? :D

Ingredients

LOTV Penguin Presents

MS Snowflake Punch

Me to You papers from a couple of years ago

LOTV Greetings Postmarks Sentiment

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Hobby House pearl brad

Pink pearl string, pom pom trim and gem from Ribbon Girl

Ribbon from stash

Fluffy Stuff, Stickles, Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Ribbon Girl November LOTV Challenge - Add Sparkle

Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Christmas is Coming

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Winter

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Challenge - Pink and White

Crafty Catz Challenge - Photo Inspiration (patterned paper in firework pattern)

Cute Card Thursday - Animal Magic

Crafty Little Fairies - Christmas in November

I Love Promarkers - All that glitters

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Owl Christmas Card

Evening all

I have another Christmas card today :) 

I used an owl image that I got last year, such a cutie!

Ingredients

Cozy Winter Owl - Meljen's Designs by Whimsy

Hobby House Self Adhesive Pearls

LOTV sentiment

LOTV Winter Wishes paper pack

Memory Box Bianca Snowflake

Cream satin ribbon

Hessian mesh from Ribbon Girl

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Liquid Pearls, Stickles, Distress Stickles, Fluffy Stuff, Glamour Dust

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie FFA (I used sketch 73)

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Snow

Hobby House Challenge - Pearls

Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo (Bow, pearls, glitter)

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Ribbon

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Bingo (snowflake, glitter, distressed)

Allsorts Challenge - Christmas Cheer

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Christmas Caroling card

Evening all :)

The Christmas panic is starting to set in, I'm going away for the first nearly three weeks of December, so everything Christmas-crafty has to be done before then...aaaaaahhhh. I really didn't think the whole starting Christmas cards in October through properly :P 

I used this gorgeous little image from Lili of the Valley, I got it last year and love it :) so cute! I coloured this some time ago, so my colouring isn't exactly up to scratch on this one :P 

Ingredients

LOTV Carol Singing

LOTV Christmas Grunge Sentiments

Bo Bunny papers

5mm Hobby House pearl from Midnight Magic self-adhesive pearl pack

Satin ribbon

Holly charm from Ribbon Girl

Papermania silver embossing powder (around sentiment)

Coloured with Promarkers

Glossy Accents, Glamour Dust, Snowtex, Liquid Pearls

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Metal Mania

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie FFA (I used #84)

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Christmas cheer

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Ribbon

Creative Inspirations - Bingo (snowflake, pearls, stamped image)

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

Whimsy Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, and I'll be back tomorrow with another card :D

Tags xx

James bear again (he's just so cute!)

Evening everyone :)

I made another Christmas card last night, using another gorgeous James Bear image from Lili of the Valley, they're just so perfect for every Christmas card, love him!

I also used the Woodland Wishes LOTV papers too, so beautiful :) I also went with a darker brown than usual for my bear, and I really like it :D 

Ingredients

LOTV James Bear In the Snow

Woodland Wishes Paper Pack

LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiments

Button was a present from my mum

Ribbon and lace from Ribbon Girl

Fluffy Stuff

Glamour Dust

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Sketchy Free for All (I used sketch 68)

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Ribbon

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Challenge - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Button it up

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx