Wedding card

Evening all

I should be in bed, but I'm catching up on Doctor Who and can't tear myself away from it :P So I'm sitting here with the cats and catching up on some blogging as well :) I have lots of unblogged cards, so I'm trying to get some of them up :)

I made this for a customer looking for a wedding card featuring the couple's son, so this is what I came up with.

Images - Some Odd Girl

Papers - Maja Design

Lace and charm from stash

Ribbon upcycled from a Pandora gift bag

Pearl string from Live and Love Crafts

Spellbinders Die

Liquid pearls, Stickles

Coloured with Copics

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

Live and Love Crafts - Make It Sparkle

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Sparkle

Cute Card Thurs - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes

Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo

(Pearls/Cute stamp/Lace)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Party

Penny Papercrafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, night night!

Tanya xx

Chihuahua Friends :)

Hey everybody,

I hope you all had a lovely, safe and happy Christmas. Best wishes for a prosperous, healthy and happy 2016. Thinking a lot this week of people who are having Christmas without their loved ones, be it for the first time or the twentieth time, that empty space is always so much bigger at this time of year.. I had a lovely Christmas, got lots of new craft supplies and Harry Potter stuff!! I got a new box set of the books, the illustrated edition of The Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter calendar and AMAZING fleecy Hogwarts PJs! :D I couldn't get the matching robe in my local Primark so I may need to travel to find it :P God I love Harry Potter so much haha :) 

On to crafty things again, here's my second card for the Crafty Friends Challenge Blog Anything Goes challenge. We're sponsored by the wonderful Toadstool Printables and Sami Stamps. This card uses a Sami Stamps image. I requested this image as a custom stamp from Sami, isn't it gorgeous?? It's now available for sale right here in the Sami Stamps Etsy Store, it's called Merry & Bright.

Ingredients

Image - Merry & Bright from Sami Stamps

LOTV sentiment

Doodlebug paper

Spellbinders border die

Tulle, diamante gem and snowflake charm from Ribbon Girl

Snowflakes were a gift from my mum

Frantage, Liquid Pearls, Glossy Accents

Coloured with Copics 

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

ABC Christmas Challenge - Z is for Zoo Animals

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Sparkles

Papertake Weekly's Final Challenge (cries) - favourite PTW challenge

 I went with Let It Snow from a few weeks back... I'll miss this challenge, the themes and DT cards and prizes have been consistently amazing, I'm sorry to see it go. Thanks for everything ladies!

Winter Wonderland Challenge - Christmas Bingo

Snowflakes/Glitter/Pearls

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make it Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Inky Chicks - Merry Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, and enjoy the rest of your holidays!

Tanya xx

Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Evening all,

I'm here with my first card for Crafty Friends Challenge Blog's challenge this week, which is the wonderful Anything Goes. 

We're very lucky to have two fantastic sponsors this time:

Sami Stamps

and 

Toadstool Printables

I used two images from Sami Stamps for my cards, and this is the first one :) 

Ingredients

Sami Stamps image - Curious Gifts

LOTV Sentiment stamp

Ribbons and trim from Ribbon Girl

Martha Stewart Snowflake Border Punch

Embossalicious Embossing Folders

Memory Box Corner Die

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Liquid Pearls

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

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Sparkle

ABC Christmas Challenge - Y is for Youngsters

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Digichoosday - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Merry Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Die Crazy

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Just a Pinch... (of glitter for me!)

WInter Wonderland Challenge - Christmas Bingo 

(Snowflakes/Animal/Ribbon or Snowflakes/Glitter/Pearls)

Thanks for looking and do pop across to Crafty Friends to join in :) 

Tanya xx

Crafty Friends DT Post - One for the Girls

Hi all!

Sorry I'm a bit late, I'm playing catch-up still - I've been ill a lot lately so I'm trying to take things easy :) Getting out and about tomorrow to meet a new friend for coffee, first time out of the house in ages, baby steps :P

Anyway, onto crafty things.

This week's theme over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog is ONE FOR THE GIRLS.

We have two amazing sponsors this time.

All Dressed Up who are providing our lucky winner with 2 digis from their webstore

and

A Day For Daisies who are providing the lucky winner with a $12 gift voucher for their store. 

I used a beautiful image from All Dressed Up called 3 Little Summer Girls for my card :) 

Ingredients

Image - 3 Little Girls from All Dressed Up

Beach background from Make It Crafty

Papers from LOTV

Spellbinders oval die

Ribbons, charm, bling from Ribbon Girl and Ebay

Coloured with Copics

Liquid Pearls, Glossy Accents and although you can't really see it, loads of Stickles

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

All Dressed Up Challenge - Anything Goes
As You Like It - Favourite Season and Why  (Summer because I have SAD, winter is long, dark and torturous)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Sparkle
Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Penny's Papercrafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Ribbon Girls November Challenge - Use Any Image

Thanks for looking
Tanya xx

Wedding Anniversary card

Evening all :) 

Lots of news since my last blog post ^_^ I've been busy! 

Long post! TL;DR I got a new cat, I started college, I had labs and I've been busy with cards :P 

A nearby animal sanctuary put up a picture of a cat on their page, and she reminded me strongly of my two beautiful furbabies that I lost during the past year. I miss them both so much, so when I saw this little beauty's picture, I had to rescue her. She's about 10 months old and has already had a litter of kittens the poor thing, so first thing was getting her neutered. She got her stitches out yesterday so she's good to go now :) She's got boundless amounts of energy and is just great! Her name is Sparky (going along with the theme of Tim Burton movie afterlife dogs that I started with Scraps and Zero) and she is adorable. 

Look at that face!!!

I started back with college in September as well, which was absolutely a huge step for me. It's only part-time and online, but still a big deal for me - it's the first thing I've done since having to leave college in 2011 when I became ill and ended up in hospital for 11 months, so yeah, I'm pretty happy to be back doing something worthwhile with myself :) Great for the old self-worth and all that :) 

I had to go to Dublin to attend labs for it during the week and I was SO NERVOUS about those for the longest time! I was terrified that I'd be a miserable failure at everything, but I managed OK and everyone was just lovely, so helpful and nice! The air pressure in the labs was weird and because I have really low blood pressure it absolutely messed with my head so I blacked out three times, felt like such an idiot but everyone was just amazing and caring and made me feel like I wasn't a nuisance even though I knew I was. I had the best two days ever. I'm loving the course and loved the labs and am now trying to write up my reports and get it down from the 11 pages I have to the 6 pages they want, why can I not stop my fingers typing?! 

So aside from lectures, labs, studying and assessments, I've been horrendously busy with cards. SO MANY ORDERS! I told people in September that I was going back to college and would need more notice always, and so far I've had more orders than ever starting with "Hey Tanya so I know it's really short notice but...." And when I see that I cry a little bit inside. Not to mention that my crafty inspiration dried up and I wasn't able to make anything halfway decent at all for like a whole month. It was painful :P 

Anyway if you're still here after all that verbal spew, I appreciate your attention, it feeds my ego ahahaha :P Here's my card that I would like to show you today, I made it a while ago but never got around to blogging it.

Ingredients

Image, papers, sentiment - LOTV

Ribbon, gem, Liquid Pearls, Stickles - Ribbon Girl

Doohickeys heart border die

Heart, scalloped heart, fancy rectangle - Spellbinders

Coloured with Copics

Sentiment is heat embossed

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

Ribbon Girls - Anything Goes

ABC Challenge - U for Unlimited

Cute Card Thursday - Birds/Animals

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Pink and Green

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya x

Crafty Friends Challenge - Your Favourite Colour

Hi everyone!

The latest challenge over at Crafty Friends went live yesterday, and the theme is to USE YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR. 

We have two fantastic sponsors this time!

Digi Stamps 4 Joy

and

Pickled Pot Pourri

I have used a gorgeous Digi Stamps 4 Joy image on my card called "Tweety Birds".

Generally speaking, I'd say purple or burgundy is my favourite colour, but with regards to crafting and cardmaking, especially at this time of year, I cannot get enough of kraft! I absolutely love it on cards, and find myself pairing it with every other colour there is, everything goes with it so well and it just warms everything up nicely :) 

Ingredients

Image - Tweety Birds from Digi Stamps 4 Joy

Papers - LOTV

Flowers - present from my mum

Ribbon from Ribbon Girl

Burlap from a giant roll of it I bought from Amazon! 

Doohickeys fence die

Coloured with Copics

Gold Stickles, Liquid Pearls

Sentiment printed on the computer

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

Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Distress It

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Cute/Spooky (I chose cute!)

ABC Challenge - T is For Two (two birds in my image, two of the smaller kraft flowers)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Throwback (I chose "autumn is in the air" from October 5th)

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Magnolia Only Anything Goes Challenge (I used a Doohickey Fence Die)

Thanks for looking and do pop over to Crafty Friends, and join in!

Tanya xx

Walking in a Winter Wonderland...

Evening all

Over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, this fortnight our theme is PICK A SONG - Make a card inspired by a song :) We are sponsored this time by 

All Dressed Up

and also by

Stamps By Julia Spiri

This is my second card for this challenge and I'm using an image by All Dressed Up :) 

It just didn't want to photograph well at all! It looks much better in real life. 

Image - All Dressed Up

Nitwits Papers

Ribbons, tinsel, charm, diamante embellishment and pompom trim from Ribbon Girl

Marianne Design tree die

Memory Box snowflake die and snowflake border die

Sentiment printed off the computer

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Glamour Dust, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls

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

Papertake Weekly - Christmas

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Tweens and Teens

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Lots of Layers/Textures

Crafting for all Seasons - Layer it up

Creative Inspirations - Something Sweet

Cute Card Thursday - Things with wings

All Dressed Up Challenges - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Cute Critters/Christmas

Thanks for looking, head over to Crafty Friends and check out my amazing DT's cards, and enter yourself!

Tanya xx

Pick A Song

Evening all

Over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, this fortnight, our theme is PICK A SONG - Make a card inspired by a song :) We are sponsored this time by 

All Dressed Up

and also by

Stamps By Julia Spiri

I've made three cards for this challenge, this one is my first one. I've used a Julia Spiri image for this one :) 

Isn't she adorable?!

Ingredients

Image Julia Spiri

LOTV Sentiment

Nitwit Papers

Charm from Ribbon Girl

Ribbon and jute from stash

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Liquid Pearls, silver gel pen

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

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Teens and Tweens

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting For All Seasons - Layer It Up

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes

Don't forget to pop across and check out all our DT's lovely cards at Crafty Friends, and join in yourself! We'd love to see your makes :) 

Tanya xx

Wedding card

Evening all

Here's another card for you :) This card was made for a friend to give to a special couple. I posted it to my friend, and for some reason, it never got delivered and got sent back to me. So during this time I made another card for her really quick and sent that one off to her. This one came back to me with a big tear in it, but I really liked how I'd coloured the image and didn't want to waste it. It had been personalised, so I ripped the personalised sentiments off, and...improvised :P 

The giant bow covers up the tear that the postal system added, and the dewdrops cover up the blemishes where the personalised sentiments were popped up on foam squares. I was pretty happy with how it turned out :) 

Ingredients

Image and Sentiment - LOTV 

Ribbons, dewdrops and gem from Ribbon Girl

Embossalicious embossing folders

Doohickey heart border die

Spellbinders oval die

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Frantage and Glossy Accents

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

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Love This Technique (mine is dry embossing...and hiding mistakes haha)

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Any image

As You Like It - Favourite Die (one of a few favourites, the spellbinders oval is great for adding some fanciness to occasion cards)

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Favourite Occasions (I love making wedding cards, not so sure on how much I actually like weddings though :P )

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya x

Shabby Chic 65th Birthday Card

Evening all

I made this one a while ago as well, hope you like :) 

I just love the LOTV mice images! Or any cute mice images, mice are adorable...as long as they're not in my house :P 

Ingredients

Image and sentiment tag - LOTV

Marianne Design Numbers Dies

Maja Design papers

Seam binding from Live & Love Crafts

Pearl trim, organza trim, pearl embellishment and lace from Ribbon Girl

Cheery Lynn Doily Die

Spellbinders decorative oval die

La la land banner die

Coloured with Inktense Pencils

Frantage powder, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls, Distress Inks

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

As You Like It - Favourite Die (la la land banner die, it works with any type of card, male, female, baby, thank you, so versatile, and really adds detail and the finishing touch to any card)

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Fancy and Feminine

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Vintage

Cute Card Thursday - Numbers

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Shabby Chic

In The Pink - Ribbons and Bows

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Use a Stamp

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Use a Stamp and Die

Thanks for looking :)
Tanya xx

Shabby Chic Baby Girl Card

Evening all

I made this card aages ago, but am only catching up on my blogging now :) 

I coloured the image in with Inktense pencils, I've only coloured a couple of images in using them, and this is one of them.

Ingredients

Papers - Maja Design

Image - LOTV

Lace, pearl trim and dewdrops from Ribbon Girl

Seam binding from Live & Love Crafts

Liquid pearls, frantage

Cheery Lynn Doily Die

La La Land bunting die

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

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - fancy and feminine

Craft your passion challenge - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Vintage

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Shabby Chic

Fan n Funky - Shabby Chic

In The Pink - Ribbons and Bows

Penny's Papercrafty Challenge - anything goes

The Pencil Cases - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stamp and Die

Simon Says Stamptember - Use a Stamp

Thanks for looking :)
Tanya xx

Bingo Themed Birthday Card for a granny

Afternoon everybody, 

I made this card a while back, I was pretty happy with it haha. It's an 8x8 card, so bigger than most of my cards, as I usually make 6x6 cards :) 

The brief was a card to give a fun-loving, bingo-attending grandmother, and this is what I came up with :) 

Ingredients

Image - Mo's Digital Pencil

Bingo embossing folders are Tim Holtz

Cheery Lynn Doily Die

WOC and Kort & Godt roses

Gold glitter ribbon and cream lace from Ribbon Girl

Sentiment printed off the computer

Coloured with Copics 

Frantage powder, stickles and liquid pearls

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

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafting For All Seasons - Tic Tac Toe (patterned paper/bling/lace)

Creative Inspirations - Warm Colours

Mo's Digital Challenge - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya xx

Birthday card for Larry

I'm going again! Second card in one night, whoulda thunk it! (Diane J, I'm blaming you :P haha)

I made this a while back for my neighbour to give her brother in law. I find man cards very hard to do because I love my pearls and bows and gems and glitter, but I think I did ok with this one :) Hope you like.

Ingredients

LOTV image

LOTV/Nitwits paper

Handmade paper my mum bought me

LOTV sentiment

Sentiment printed off the computer

Button and button twine from stash

Straw bow upcycled, it came on a bouquet of flowers my sister got from her boyfriend hehe :)

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

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Upcycling

As You Like It - Favourite Layout (because it's easy and looks good every time)

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Monochrome

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - For The Boys

Incy Wincy Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Take Your Pick - Buttons (There's a button under the small brown bow! A wooden one) :) 

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya xx

Clearing the backlog :)

Hi everyone

I haven't blogged much lately, but I sure have been busy in my craft room!! I'm going to try and blog every day and get some of the cards that I've made up here :)

It's so difficult keeping track! I've made a LOT of cards, and the making them up is taking up all my blogging time :P I need to balance everything out, I'm really not good at time management unfortunately :(

So anyway, here's the first card from my archive of made but not blogged cards :) Hope you like!

Ingredients

Image - LOTV

Sentiment tag - LOTV

Papers - Maja Design

Pink lace, cheesecloth, dewdrop and pearl string from Ribbon Girl

Cream seam binding from Crafts And Me

La la land bunting die

Marianne Design numbers dies

Spellbinders oval die

Everything else from stash

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

Crafty Catz Challenge - Golden Oldie

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Take Your Pick (Technique Distressing/Vintage)

Penny's Papercraft Challenge - Girly

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with a stamp and die

Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute and Girly

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Use a Sentiment

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya xx

Crafty Friends DT Card - Use a Sentiment

Good afternoon

Here's the card I made for my DT post at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, this week's theme is 

USE A SENTIMENT

Lovely and easy :) 

We're very lucky to be sponsored by two wonderful companies this time!

We have the wonderful 

Oddball Art Company

and the beautiful

Small and Round

The design team were privileged to have the use of some images from each amazing artist. I used this gorgeous image from Small and Round - I loved colouring her in!

So here's my full card, hope you like it :) 

Ingredients

Image - Thinking of You from Small and Round

Papers from stash, Nitwits I think

Coloured with Copics and Distress Ink for the background

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Diamante from stash

Ribbon and lace from Ribbon Girl

Dies by Spellbinders and I can't remember who makes the fan die

I printed the sentiment myself

MS leaf punch

Liquid pearls, frantage, stickles

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

Penny's Papercraft Challenge - Girly

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Use a Sentiment

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Take your pick - Colour theme Lilac/Purple/Blue

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking and do head over to Crafty Friends and check out my talented teamies' cards ;) 

Tanya xx

Crafty Friends DT Post - Anything Goes

Hi everyone!

I'm very late with this posting, jetlag won't leave me alone! So tired, all the time. Anyway, enough moaning!

The Crafty Friends Challenge Blog is back in business! We started off last saturday with a wonderful easy ANYTHING GOES challenge, and we have two fantastic sponsors: 

A Day For Daisies

and

Beccy's Place

They're both providing fantastic prizes for our winners, so get entering!

I used an image from A Day For Daisies for my card, it's called "Flowers in my Garden"- isn't she beautiful? 

Here's my card in its entirety.

Ingredients

8x8 card base

La La Land heart banner die

Lawn Fawn Stitched Sunshine

A Day For Daisies image as above

LOTV Country Lady papers

Burlap from a giant roll of it that I got in America! 

Ribbon from stash

Copics

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

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Summertime

Crafting When We Can Challenge - Summer Fun

Cute Card Thursday - Ladies Only

Creative Inspirations - Girly

Creative Card Crew - Die Cuts

Dream Valley Challenge - Distressing

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Tanya xx