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