CAS New Home

Evening all :)

Hope you're all well and have had nice weather! :D It's been so sunny here today, so I'm happy for now :)

My sister and niece moved house a little while ago, so this is one of the new home cards I made for various family members to give them :) 

Ingredients

Image - Garden Bird House by Meljen's Designs

Medium - Promarkers

Ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Bling - Ribbon Girl

Pearls - Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment - printed off the computer 

Paper - Doodlebug glitter paper

Everything else - Stickles, Fineliner, Glossy Accents

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

Meljen's Designs Challenge Blog - Colour Challenge

Sister Act Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarker - Ribbon/Lace/Twine

Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Design - Photo Inspiration

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Ribbon/Lace

Creative Inspiration - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Thanks for looking :)

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Birthday Boat

Evening all

Today over at The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog, I'm Guest Designing again! This is my last day GDing for them, so I'd like to say a huge thank you to the whole team for having me - it's been a pleasure :)

The theme this time is a 3, 2, 1 Recipe Challenge!

The sponsor for the challenge is Di's Digi Downloads, and they're providing the winner with a $10 voucher for the store!

So here's the card that I made :) I used three pearls, two papers and one image :) 

Ingredients

Image - Stamp Fairy - Barry Fishing

Medium - Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV General Greetings Small

Papers - LOTV Country Gent

Pearls - Ribbon Girl

Hessian mesh - Ribbon Girl

Twill tape - Ribbon Girl

Button - Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl

Ribbon - Ribbon Girl

String - Ribbon Girl

Corners - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Everything Else - Glossy Accents, Stickles

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

Simon Says Stamp - Into the Woods (Wooden boat!)

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Boys

Totally Papercrafts - Buttons

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Penny's Papercrafty Challenge - Circles

One Stop Craft Challenge - Furry Friends

Here come the boys - Buttons

Dream Valley Challenges - Animals

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Ribbon or lace

Cute Card Thursday - Tie it up

Thanks for looking - and do head over to the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog and have a look at the fabulous DT creations :)

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Sweet Stampin GDT - Doilies and Dies

Whoops, just saw that this was sitting in drafts, my mistake! Sorry this is late!

Hi everyone

This is my last week Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, and this time, 

the theme of the challenge is 

Doilies and Dies.

The sponsor is Cuddly Buddly, who are giving the lucky winner a £10 voucher to their store. The monthly sponsor is Ribbon Girl, who at the end of the month provide a £10 voucher for their store, so get entering :)

Here's the card that I made for the challenge, hope you like it, and thanks to all the girls over at Sweet Stampin for having me as Guest Designer for the month! <3

Ingredients

Image - LOTV Moving Day

Medium - Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Postmark Greetings

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl

Hessian Mesh - Ribbon Girl

Ribbon - Ribbon Girl

Pearls - Ribbon Girl

Paper - LOTV Country Gent

Fence Die - Magnolia Lovely Fence

Flourish Die - Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish

Doily Die - Cheery Lynn French Pastry

Corner Die - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Everything Else - Stickles, Glossy Accents, Distress Stickles

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

Bearly Mine Challenge - Anything Goes

Whimsy Challenge - Anything Goes

Corrosive Challenge - I've Been Framed

Stampin For the Weekend - Monochrome

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Penny Black at Allsorts - Sew Special

Dream Valley Challenge - Animals

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Ribbon/Lace

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Crafts and Me Challenge - Lots of Layers

Thanks for looking!

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Just For You

Evening everyone :)

The sun is shining here, I love this time of year :) New growth and baby animals everywhere, so idyllic!

Anyway, I was asked by my neighbour to make her a card for a girl, so this is what I made :) I love this image so much :)

Ingredients

Image - LOTV Swing Time

Sentiment - LOTV Simply Sophisticated

Medium - Promarkers

Everything Else - Stickles, Fineliner

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

Sister act challenge - anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Blue and Brown

I Love Promarkers - anything goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Animals

Divas By Design - Friendship

Thanks for looking :)

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Howdy

Evening everyone :)

Hope you're all well...my heart goes out to everyone in Oklahoma, whose lives have been interrupted and torn apart...stay strong...

I made this card yesterday, the image had been sitting on my desk all coloured in waiting to be used for such a long time! For some reason the colour on the photos looks a bit washed out...they're far more vivid in real life. I paper-pieced her necktie too, it's not very obvious from the pics maybe.

Ingredients

Image - Howdy by Mo's Digital Pencil

Papers - Lil Wimmin Too by Nitwit Collections

Ribbon - Ribbon Girl

Lace - Ribbon Girl

Baker's twine - Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl

Twine - Ribbon Girl

Hessian - Ribbon Girl

Doily Die - Cheery Lynn French Pastry

Stars - Darice

Letters - stash

Medium - Promarkers

Everything else - Stickles, distress stickles, glossy accents

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

Papertake Weekly - Paper Piecing

Passion For Promarkers - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Designs - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Ribbon and Lace

Whimsy's Challenge - Anything Goes

The Squirrel and the Fox - Here come the girls

Pile it on - Add fabric or felt (cheesecloth and hessian)

Totally Papercrafts - Diva

Crafts and Me - Lots of Layers

Fab n Funky Challenge - Ribbons and Lace

Thanks for looking :)

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Final Forever Friends DT card - for a child

Hi everybody

This is my last DT post for Forever Friends Challenge Blog, 

it was a difficult decision to make, but we've decided that it's time to say goodbye to our beloved bears, so we're going to close the challenge blog. 

We do, however, have some good news - myself, Diane and the entire design team are moving to a brand new challenge blog! 

Crafty Friends

is the newest weekly challenge blog on the block!

The first challenge will go live on June 1st, and between now and June 30th, we have a fabulous welcome candy going on over there, so please do head over, follow the blog, enter the candy and come back again on June 1st to enter our first challenge! 

We're all very excited about this brand new venture :) We have our fantastic design team, some amazing themes lined up, and of course amazing sponsors too! One door is closing, but another amazing door is opening right up :)

So anyway, onto the details of our last ever Forever Friends Chllenge!

Our theme this time is

For a Child

We have two sponsors for this last challenge.

Our randomly selected winner's prize is sponsored by

Cupids Clear Stamps

who are providing our lucky winner with this clear stamp set:

Code: BASET2 Baby Pram & Toys 

Pack Size 10cm x 15cm

Contains 8 seperate clear stamps

Size of Pram 5.6cm x 5.3cm

Plus...

A handmade stamp of the winners choice

Here is an example of what is on offer.

Our Forever Friends Favourite, as chosen by the design team 

from all cards using Forever Friends products, 

is sponsored by 

who are providing our lucky winner with a $12 voucher for the store.

So here's what I made, using A Day For Daisies "Umbrella Splash".

Ingredients

Image - Umbrella Splash by A Day for Daisies

Medium - Promarkers

Embossing folders - Petite Dots by Embossilicious and Spots and Dots by Cuttlebug

Border - Martha Stewart punch

Sentiment - LOTV Greeting Postmarks

Corner - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Pearls - Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon - from stash

Bakers twine - Ribbon Girl

Clouds - Memory Box

Everything else - Glossy Accents, Stickles

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

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - No Designer Paper

Crafts and Me Challenge - Use A digi

Totally Papercrafts - Diva - Young or Old

Totally Gorjuss - Water

The Squirrel and the Fox - Here come the girls

ABC Challenge - N for Not just one

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Spots or Stripes I chose spots!

Joanna Sheen - Girls Girls Girls

Fab n Funky Challenges - Favourite Embellishment - has to be glitter. I actually don't think I've ever made a card without stickles on it haha :P 

Thanks for looking! Do head over to Forever Friends, leave us some love, and enter the challenge :)

Tanya xx

Sweet Stampin GDT - Oodles of Doodles

Hi everyone!

Today I'm Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, where the theme for this week is Doodles!

Simple as :) I only recently discovered doodling on my cards, so this is pretty new to me! But boy do I like it :D Pretty much every card I've made this week has been doodled on haha, it's addictive :D

The sponsors for this challenge are

Crafter's Companion

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

AND

Sir Stampalot

who are providing two rubber stamps :)

The monthly sponsor is 

Ribbon Girl, 

who are providing a £10 voucher for their store, which is up for grabs at the end of the month :)

So here's the card I made :) I've never been one for CAS (because I'm terrible at it, haha) but I've been enjoying making simpler cards the last little while :) I had to have my customary sparkle in there though, I don't think I have EVER made a card without some Stickles, haha!

Ingredients

Image - Meljen's Designs - Hello Bunny String

Medium - Promarkers

Everything else - Fineliner pen, Stickles

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

Passion For Promarkers - Doodlicious

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Animal Antics

I Love Promarkers - Simply Does it

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Let's Sparkle

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - No Designer Paper

Crafts and Me Challenge - Use a Digi

Thanks for looking, and head over to Sweet Stampin and look at all the fabulous DT inspiration :)

Tanya xx

New Challenge Blog! Crafty Friends!

Hi to all my Crafty Friends :D (see what I did there? :P)

We have a new challenge blog starting! We're called Crafty Friends, and we're a weekly challenge blog, with fabulous sponsors, fabulous challenges and fabulous prizes :D What's not to love?!

Our first challenge is on

Saturday 1st June 2013

And we have fabulous opening candy too! 

The candy is sponsored by the fabulous

Joanna Sheen

Offering 1 lucky winner a pack of Giordano Decoupage Sheets, Forest Friends Two.

Offering 1 lucky winner a Thomas KinKade Project Book with CD (see here for more details)

AND 

Oak Pond Creations

Offering 1 lucky winner the choice of 2 digis from their web-store.

Help us to spread the word, this is a challenge blog not to be missed :)

Tanya xx

Cutie Pie GDT card

Evening all

Today over at the Cutie Pies, I'm Guest Designing again! The challenge this week is a photo inspiration challenge! The sponsor for the challenge is Crafty Ribbons, who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for the store.

Here's the picture:

I LOVE balloons. 

As soon as I saw it, I thought of this gorgeous stamp by Lili of the Valley :) It's called The Lost Balloon.

Ingredients

Image - The Lost Balloon - LOTV

Sentiment - LOTV Greetings Postmarks

Embossing Folders - Petite Dots and Lattice, both by Embossilicious

Ribbon - Ribbon Girl

Baker's Twine - Ribbon Girl

Pom Pom Trim - Ribbon Girl

Button - Ribbon Girl

Cloud Die - Memory Box

Corner Die - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Gems - Ribbon Girl

Medium - Promarkers

Everything Else - Glossy Accents, Snowtex, Stickles

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

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - No Designer Paper

Stampin For the Weekend - Button it up

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Lots of Layers

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Let's Sparkle

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - Add some glitter

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Spots or Stripes

Passion For Promarkers - Birthdays

Stamping Sensations - Embossing/Texture

Whimsy stamps challenge blog - Anything goes

Thanks for looking :)

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Sweet Stampin GDT - Clean and Simple

Hi everybody

I'm Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog for the month, and this week, their challenge is Clean and Simple. Not my strong point haha, but I did my best :P 

Their sponsor this week is the fabulous 

Lili of the Valley

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

The monthly sponsor is the amazing

 Ribbon Girl 

who are providing one lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their fabulous store at the end of the month :)

So here's my CAS card. This is the first time I've tried real stitching on my card, and I kind of like it! I don't have a sewing machine though so it's not the neatest haha :D

Ingredients

Image - Lili of the Valley - Pretty Bouquet

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley - Simply Sophisticated

Medium - Promarkers

Pearl - Ribbon Girl

Everything else - Distress Stickles, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls, Stickles

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

Crafting For all Seasons - Monochromatic

Crafty Catz Weekly - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Let's Sparkle

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - CAS

One Stop Craft Challenge - Add some glitter

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Penny Black and More - Sew Special

Totally Papercrafts - CAS

Without Words Challenge - Floral

Thanks for looking, and do head over to Sweet Stampin and see what the DT have made!

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World of Warcraft Birthday Card

Hi everybody

A while ago, one of my boyfriend's friends asked me to make a birthday card for her World of Warcraft obsessed boyfriend. I could find NO WoW digis, images, colouring pages etc, so it took a while for me to think of what to do lol, so eventually this idea came to me...There's loads of WoW pictures out there designed for use as computer desktop backgrounds, so I found a suitably impressive image of Deathwing, a boss that you have to beat in the game.

I added some white gen pen to his scales to brighten it up a bit, and some Stardust Stickles and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles on the firey bits. I printed the picture out twice and decoupaged the dragon and the mountain he's standing on.

Then I went onto the WoW website, armed with the names of the recipient's characters and printed them out too: this is his warrior.

I printed him out twice and printed the sword out an extra time and decoupaged them; I added gold gel pen and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles to his armour, and gold gel pen, silver gel pen and Glossy Accents and a gem to the sword.

This is his Death Knight.

I printed him out twice and the sword an extra time as well, and used lots of gold gel pen and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles on the armour and sword along with Glossy Accents on the sword.

I came up with this sentiment, I think I must've seen it somewhere before, but it's perfect for any gamer cards! I found a free font online that looks like WoW font.

And here's the finished creation, the characters are mounted on black card so they can open to show off the background. The customer was happy with it, so I hope her boyfriend is as well. 

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

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Things with Wings (the dragon)

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Add some sparkle

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Let's Sparkle

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Shaped card

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - one for the guys

Dream Valley Challenge - No Squares Allowed

Thanks for looking :)

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2nd Forever Friends DT Card

Hi everyone

Me again with my second Forever Friends DT card. Our theme this fortnight is PASTEL COLOURS, and we're sponsored by

Whoopsi Daisy Digis

who are providing our Randomly Selected Winner with 4 sheets of digis :)

and

Oak Pond Creations

who are providing our Forever Friends Favourite with 2 digis from her store :)

I posted up my OPC card, which you can find HERE and this post is for my Whoopsi Daisy card :)

I used the Whoopsi Daisy image from Sheet 370, isn't it so cute :)

Ingredients

Image - From Sheet 370 by Whoopsi Daisy

Medium - Promarkers

Embossing Folder - Lattice by Embossilicious

Butterflies - Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Ribbon - From stash

Corner - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearl - Ribbon Girl

Gems - Wild Orchid Crafts

Everything Else - Glossy Accents, Stickles, Liquid Pearls

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

Craft your passion challenges - floral delights

Crafts and Me - Floral Frenzy

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Mail

Passion for Promarkers - To Die For

Allsorts Challenge - Add some sparkle

Stamping Sensations - Embossing

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

By the Cute and Girly - Flowers

Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :)

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Forever Friends DT Card

Hi everybody

Please excuse my not so fantastic cards today, I've been ill all week and it took all my energy to make these, so they're not top notch unfortunately :( Hope you're all enjoying your bank holiday weekend!

Today over at Forever Friends sees the latest Fortnightly Challenge going live. 

Our theme this time is Pastel Colours. 

We have two lovely sponsors: our Randomly Selected Winner is sponsored by 

Whoopsi Daisy Digis

who are providing our winner with 4 digi sheets of the winner's choice.

Our Forever Friends Favourite prize is sponsored by 

Oak Pond Creations

who are providing our lucky winner with 2 digis of the winner's choice.

This post is for my Oak Pond Creations card, I'll be back in a while with my Whoopsi Daisy card :) 

I used the image Reading Rabbits for this card, and I thought it would be a suitable mother's day card, it looks like Mummy Rabbit is reading Baby Rabbits a story :)

Ingredients

Image - Reading Rabbits by Oak Pond Creations

Embossing Folders - Lattice by Embossilicious and Divine Swirls by Cuttlebug

Medium - Promarkers

Ribbon - from stash

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls - Ribbon Girl

Corners - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Sentiments - LOTV Sentiment Tags

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

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Add some sparkle

Brown Sugar - Mother's Day

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Mother's Day

Penny's PaperCrafty Challenges - Animals

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Swirls

Stamping Sensations - Embossing

Pile It On - For a mother

As You Like It Challenge - Dies/Punches - my corner die appears on nearly all my cards haha :) I'm still trying to develop my style, I have a couple of styles that work for me - one is distressed, shabby chic, messy; and this is more clean cut and tidy :)

Thanks for looking, be back soon with my Whoopsi Daisy card :)

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