All Dressed Up for Passionate Paper Creations and Friends

Evening all

My beautiful cat Sparky got hit by a car last night, she survived but she's badly injured... She dislocated one of her back legs and tore a load of tendons and ligaments, my poor poor baby :'( Our supremely amazing vet took her in last night (a Friday night! At 9 pm! Would you believe it!) and took care of her, he gave her loads of medications to bring the swelling down and painkillers, x-rayed her and then this afternoon he performed surgery on her to insert screws into the joint to give it some support - the surgery went well, she's recovering in the vets now and will be there until at least Monday. My heart is broken for her. She's so brave. Our vet is actually a hero, he's basically spending his whole weekend taking care of my beautiful baby, all you vets out there deserve so much recognition for the amazing work you do! <3 

Top that with having a million things to do for college this week and only understanding about half of them, and I'm a grumpy seriously stressed out Tanya!! 

Anyway, back to happier craftier stuff... 

This weekend, All Dressed Up are doing a promo with Passionate Paper Creations and Friends. And Wendy is also offering 20% off all digis at the All Dressed Up Etsy Store this weekend too - the code is in the banner above :) 

I made a card using the beautiful image Flyaway Butterfly - isn't she so pretty :) 

Ingredients

Image - Flyaway Butterfly from All Dressed Up Stamps

Papers - Dovecraft Floral Muse

Ribbon and lace - Ribbon Girl

Floral trim - Live and Love Crafts

Butterfly border die - Joy!Crafts

Spellbinders Decorative Labels 8 

Memory Box Pippi butterfly die

Small butterflies part of a spellbinders die

Coloured with Copics, I used distress inked around the edges and on the diecuts

Stickles, liquid pearls

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

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Chocolate, coffee, cards - stripes/polka dots

(stripey ribbon, polka dot paper)

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Let's do the polka

Creative Inspirations - Favourite things 

(copics, diecuts, ribbon, lace)

Deep Ocean Challenge - Spring is in the air

Fab n Funky challenge - girly and pretty

Incy Wincy - Colour me Wonderful

(Copics)

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking - and do head over to All Dressed Up for a look :)

Tanya xx 

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - For a Child

Hi everyone!

Today over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, our latest challenge theme going live today is FOR A CHILD. 

We are sponsored by the AMAZING 

Pink Gem Designs
and they very generously provided images for us to work with :)

I used the fabulously fun-to-colour Space Miki from Pink Gem Designs

Ingredients

Space Miki from Pink Gem Designs

Papers bought from Etsy, I can't remember the seller

LOTV sentiment

Martha Stewart stars border punch

Dewdrops and ribbon from Ribbon Girl

Liquid Pearls, Stickles

Coloured with Copics

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

Copic Marker Germany Challenge - Use Green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog - Happy Birthday

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Anything Goes as long as it's a card

Through the Purple Haze Challenge - Layers

Crafting For All Seasons - Die-cuts/Punches

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Penny's PaperCrafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Colour Me Wonderful (Favourite Colouring Medium - Copics!)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Hobbies/Interests 

Thanks for looking, and do head over to the Crafty Friends Challenge Blog to see all the other beautiful DT and GDT samples using fabulous images from Pink Gem Designs.

Thanks for looking!
Tanya xx

Dreaming of Summer :)

Good evening everyone!

I'm writing this from my hotel room after a loooong couple of days in the lab... It's nice to be able to get to enjoy some free time in the hotel at last! I'm away from home doing lab training for my college course at the moment, the days are draining physically and mentally but I feel good (albeit very tired and a bit shaky) after doing them :) The air pressure in the labs is kind of strange so makes me feel a bit out of sorts, but I am finished for now :) Enjoying the hotel with my mum and sister, going to sleep in a bit later in the morning :D 

Anyway, back to crafty stuff :) Today over at All Dressed Up Stamps, there have been some lovely new images released - they're all fab so you should take a look :D I made a card using the gorgeous new "Dreaming of Summer" image - isn't she gorgeous?

Ingredients

"Dreaming of Summer" from All Dressed Up Stamps

Nitwits Collections papers

Martha Stewart doily border punch

Lawn Fawn stitched cloud dies

Spellbinders fancy rectangle die

Ribbons, embellishment, charm, dewdrop from Ribbon Girl

Stickles, Liquid Pearls

Coloured with Copics

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

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Spring is in the air

Crafting For All Seasons - Die Cuts / Punches

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Spring is in the Air

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

In The Pink - Dies/Punches

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Anything Goes as long as it's a card

So go and have a look over at the All Dressed Up Facebook page for more cards made with these new images, they're really gorgeous!

Thanks for looking

Tanya xx

All Dressed Up Facebook Challenge DT Post

Good afternoon everyone

Thanks so much for all the good wishes on my last post - I'm doing OK but still a bit sore and stiff - not broken though so that's good!

Today is the first of the month, so the new challenge is open over at the All Dressed Up Facebook Page. The theme for this month is INSECTS/ANIMALS. We've had a slight change to the rules this month; all images MUST be hand-coloured, and we'd like to know what medium you're using :) For my image, I used Copics :) 

I used the gorgeous Christmas Deer for my card - I'm trying to make a few Christmas cards during the year this year - first time for everything :P haha

Ingredients

All Dressed Up "Christmas Deer" image

Sweet Dixie fan die

La La Land Snowflake Banner Die

Spellbinders poinsettia dies

Nitwits/LOTV papers

LOTV tag sentiment

Ribbons, bling, charm, diamante embellishments and cheesecloth from Ribbon Girl

Frantage, Liquid Pearls, Stickles

Coloured with Copics

A closeup of my flower :) 

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

As You Like It - Bingo

Fussy&Fancy/Gems/Ribbon

Copic Spain Challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafting For All Seasons - Use Dies/Punches

Creative Craft Cottage - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - anything goes

Fab & Funky challenges - christmas

Fussy & Fancy Challenge: Pastel Colours

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girls Challenge - any image challenge

Thanks for looking, and do pop over to the ALL DRESSED UP FACEBOOK PAGE and have a look at all the beautiful DT cards, and be inspired to enter yourself :)

Tanya xx