Feeling Spoiled

Good evening everyone well my second post today and  its to showcase the March New Release stamps over at All Dressed Up Stamps .They are all just fabulous and  its hard to decide on a favorite  they are so lovely

So here they are

Pretty Bonnet

Clunk Clunk

Feeling Spoilt

Flowers for Mum 

For my Design Team card I was given Feeling Spoilt and I really was as I just love this stamp so much. I hope you like it as well. I apologise this is photo heavy but a very difficult card shape to photograph.

Card Open

Card Closed

Close Up of the Stamp

Left side

Right Side

Card Recipe

Triptych card art stencil by Dutch Doobadoo was from Noor Designs

Stamp is Feeling Spoilt from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Pion Designs Linnaeus Botanical Journal Plumbago PD 6204 from Live and  Love Crafts sadly closed now.

Blue Card is Tim Holtz

Paper overlay on the inside I got from Ross Papercraft Show

Die is Little Darlings Gilded Oval Die set from Dies to Die For

Leaf die is Marianne Flowers and  leaves 

Pearl string is from The Hobby House

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts, Hobby Craft and my stash .

Frame was originally wooden from The Works.I painted it with white Gesso and then inked it with Blue Distress Ink to match.

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley but I can no longer see it on their site 

Well that's finally it sorry its so long. I hope you can take a look at the new stamps and maybe have a little treat you can get them now in the Etsy Shop. Enjoy the rest of the evening. Love and  hugs Carole x

Fifi Bubbles

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers its Wednesday so its the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs and the theme this week is Pink Pretty and  Girlie. I'm sure a few of you will enjoy that I know a lot of you are big pink fans.
Our sponsor this week is

Crafty Sentiments Designs 

 Prize - choice of 3 single images

For my Design Team card I used a lovely Girlie image called Fifi Bubbles

The inside

Card Recipe

Flower shaped card from Craftwork cards

Pink Papers came free in a magazine

Stamp is Fifi Bubbles painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Die is Marianne Circle ,Leaf and  Flower

Lace, Ribbon and  Pearls are all from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop

Flowers are Wild Orchid Craft

Resin frame is Melissa Francis from Live and Love Crafts I made it into a mirror by adding a piece of silver mirra card to the back

Sentiment is from Lili of the Valley Everything's Better set 

Some clear Wink of Stella on the Bubbles

Corner rounder on the sentiment

I was a bit disappointed with my background idea I tried to get the impression of steam but not sure it came out the way I thought it would. 

I hope you can pop over and  enter the challenge especially all you Pink fans Have a great week. Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into  In The Pink What's New Challenge my new goodies are the stamp Fifi Bubbles, the lace and ribbon and the LOTV sentiment stamp. 

Three Little Christmas Girls Present Card

Good evening to all my friends and followers today is the launch of our new monthly challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps the only challenge rule is you must use an All Dressed Up Stamp. There is always a fab prize of some digital stamps for the winner and also the chance to be in the top three..

For my Design Team card I used the lovely stamp Three Little Christmas Girls. If you are thinking of buying this you also get the three girl stamps along with the three girls together great value . I've also used a Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art Present Stencil to make this card. I've made a couple of these in the past normally for special birthday cards as they take a lot of paper,card and time but I decided to make a Christmas one using this fab stamp.

The Inside

Close up of the stamp

Card Recipe

Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art Present from Noor Designs

Stamp is Three Little Christmas Girls from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design I wish from Noor Designs you need 12x12 paper and double sided for this design to work well.

Die is Spellbinder opulent ovals

Tree die is Joycrafts

Wooden Sentiment is from Live and  Love Crafts 

Pearl String is The Hobby House

Lace is from Brenda;s Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop 

Pine leaf die is Marianne 

Holly leaf die is Joy crafts

Berries are Wild Orchid Crafts and Ross Paper craft Show

Roses are from Hobby Lobby in Florida

This stencil doesn't come with a stand so I usually make one and fasten to the back so it can be stood up 

Enjoy your week everyone and I hope you can pop over to the challenge blog. Don't worry if you don't have an image there are a lot of freebies on the blog page just click here on Freebies . Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Noor Design Challenge Winter

Pink and Girly

Good morning to all my friends and  followers today sees the launch of a new weekly challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge and the challenge theme this week is Pink and Girly.
We have a fab prize this week aren't they lovely ribbons.

jam pot ribbons

For my Design Team card I decided to use one of the recently released Lili of  The Valley Seasons Girl Stamps Summer I loved painting her.

Close up of the stamp

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Papers are Maja Design Summer Basics from Live and  Love Crafts

White card is Tim Holtz

Stamp is Lili of the Valley Summer painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Background lace paper overlay is by Heidi Swapp from Joann's in Florida

Lace is from Crafty Ribbons

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

The pink bead trim is a charm from Michael's in Florida

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley sadly I can no longer see them on the site maybe they will bring them out as a Digi !!

Wink of Stella on the flowers dress and  butterflies

Well I hope you all enjoy the rest of the week and you find time to enter the challenge. Everyone seems to love making pink and  girly  Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into In the Pink Challenge Get out your Rubber

F

Hippie Chick

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers today is the launch of a new Anything Goes Challenge over at All Dressed Up Challenge Blog as always the theme is Anything Goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp.if you don't have an image then they have some great freebies available on the blog you can use.

For my Design Team card I've used a very pretty stamp called Hippie Chick

The Inside

Card Recipe

Flower shaped card is Craftwork Cards a gift from my friend Carol

Stamp is Hippie Chick from Hippie Chick All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Fika Shall we have coffee The heights of the south from Live and Love Crafts ( thats a lot of words for a piece of paper !!)

Marianne Circle, Leaf and flower die

Joy Craft  butterfly die

Lace is from Whitby Crafts

Sentiment is from a Crafters's Companion Kimono stamp set

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Small pearl flowers are Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon

Pearl string my stash

Well this is a great challenge so I hope you can find time to join in.  Have a great week love and  hugs Carole x

You Are Beautiful

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope everyone is well and  having a great week. As its that Wednesday I'm here to launch a new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs The theme for this weeks challenge is You Are Beautiful.

We have one sponsor Lunagirl who sell some fabulous vintage photos and  images.

Sponsor:  Lunagirl 

Prize - $15 gift certificate to store 

For my Design Team card I used a vintage photo from the Daydream sheet

Card Recipe

6x6 blank card 

Image from The Lunagirl sheet Daydream

Papers are Pion Grandma's School Book Blue Wings sadly now discontinued I think it was from Live and  Love Crafts ages ago.

Cream Card is Tm Holtz

Dies are Spellbinder Decorative Labels Eight, Magnolia Doohickey leaf and swirl die and Joycraft Vintage Flourishes leaf die,

Lace was from a haberdashery stall on Bakewell Market

Blue butterflies are from a Pion cut out sheet

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the cream hessian flower from Michael's Florida

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Pretty Grungy Sentiments sadly I can no longer see them on the website such a lot of their stuff is no longer available so sad.

Small round cameo is from The Hobby House .

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the week a busy one for me as I've got visitors coming on Friday for a few days so some crafting and jobs to do before they arrive. I hope you can pop over and  enter this challenge they are all always very popular. Love and  hugs Carole x

Greek Window Seeing Red

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers . As its that Wednesday again I'm back to launch another challenge over at Crafting by Designs and this week the theme is Seeing Red so use loads of red in your project .

We have one sponsor this week

Stitchy Bear

Prize - choice of 3 digi images up to $10 value

For my DT card I decided on an image called Greek Window

Card Recipe

6x6 scalloped edge Kraft card

Papers are Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics from Live and  Love Crafts

Stamp is Stitchy Bear Greek Window painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Lawn Fawn stitched edge rectangle die

Lace leaf motif from Bakewell Market

Flower Wild orchid Crafts

Bow and  Fringed trim my stash

Wooden embellishment The Works

Wink of Stella on the flowers 

Sentiment is LOTV

I apologise for the photo quality the light this last few days has been so dark.. I hope you find time to enter the challenge this week Have a great week love and  hugs Carole x

First Christmas

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. I need to apologise firstly as I've been a bad blogger this last week but I've been so busy that I've rarely had any time to sit at my computer for any length of time, so at last I'm posting something to share with you all.
This is the Christmas card I've made for Miles First Christmas and couldn't resist using the lovely stamp by Mo Manning called First Christmas.

Card Recipe

6x6 card

Stamp is Mo Manning First Christmas painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Designs Vintage Frost Basics from Live and Love Crafts

Die-namics inside outside rounded square die

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Sentiment tags and Christmas Sentiment tags

Pom Pom trim is from The Ribbon Girl

Silver narrow tinsel my stash

I plaited three pieces of bakers twine to make the base string for the garland

Wood Christmas stockings are from Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft Show

Charms are from my stash

Wink of Stella on the Bauble and Christmas Stockings

Sentiment made on the computer

Miles December 2015

I've also added a photo of Miles with Father Christmas we are so looking forward to seeing him over Christmas. He's such a happy little boy.

I hope this coming week is better for me and I can get round to all your lovely blogs.

Enjoy the week especially if you like me have to battle M&S for the last fresh food shopping !!!

Love and  hugs Carole x

Summertime Fun Blog Hop

Good morning  to all my lovely friends and  followers and a special welcome to those who are arriving from Sharon's blog

Today sees the launch over at Crafting by Designs of a fun BLOG HOP CHALLENGE The theme is

SUMMERTIME FUN

Show us something fun that you love to do for the summer;go to the beach, skipping rope, eating ice cream, growing flowers, riding bikes,you get the idea.

We have THREE great sponsors for this blog hop

challenge, and two will be given to random winners.

                                                                    Milk Coffee                                                                          

Prize: 3 single images

The Eastwinds

Prize: 3 single images

 Di's Digis

       

        Prize:  $12 voucher to the store

To be eligible for our third prize, you must do the following:

• Enter a project for this challenge AND
• Visit ALL the blogs in the lineup below AND
• Leave a comment at each of the blogs AND
• Leave a comment on Crafting by Designs blog with your email address

Here's the Blog Hop lineup:

Sharon:  http://www.sharonsscrappin.blogspot.com

Carole:  http://cjpcraft.blogspot.com/ You are here next hop Julia

Julia: http://paperandscrapscreations.blogspot.com/

Doris:  http://momsbeenscrappin.blogspot.com

Maureen:  http://maureenjscott.blogspot.co.uk

Lisa:  http://papercraftbliss.com

Rene:  http://craftlane.blogspot.com/

Crafting by Designs:  http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com

For my Design Team project I decided on an image from Milk Coffee called Rope Skipping Girl .

The Tag

Card Recipe

Shaped card Craftwork cards

Papers Maja Design Summer Basics Live and  Love Crafts and  LOTV Snow Princess

Stamp Milk Coffee Rope Skipping Girl coloured with Copic and  Promarker pens

The flower border I added to the bottom of the image is from an old Docrafts set.

Spellbinder Fleur de Lis die

Memory Box gate die

Leaves and flowers are from Magnolia Doo Hickey die

Other leaves from Marianne die set Circle Leaf and Flower

Tag Magnolia Doo Hickey die

Butterfly Joycraft die

Ribbon and lace from my stash. Green trim Crafty Ribbons

Pearl String The Hobby House

Twine Michael's Florida 

Purple wooden flower button Whitby Crafts

Don't forget to leave a comment at all the
blogs to be eligible for a chance to win the prize
from our third sponsor.

This blop hop will be open until
June 23.  Good luck everyone.

Baby Things

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers and a special welcome today to my new followers Jean and Jac I am so pleased you are following my blog and  I hope you continue to visit and enjoy my posts
My post today is to show you some things I have been making for our new Grandchild due in 7 weeks time. Our Son and  Daughter in Law have had an extremely difficult route to get to this stage and its is going to be a much wanted and loved baby for all of us. Its our first grandchild so we are very excited.
These are some things I have made for the baby

A Door Hanger for the Nursery

Door Hanger Recipe

MDF Door Hanger from the MDF man GNPE

Papers are the gorgeous Maja Design Vintage Baby pad from Live and Love Crafts

Stamp is LOTV Cosy Pram stamped and fussy cut its lightly coloured with  Derwenr Inktense Pencils

The images and  borders are from the pad.

Baby Charms I bought ages ago from a sewing shop in Grassington

Wood Baby letters are from Whitby Crafts 

Heart Lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington

Letters from a Pion cut out sheet also Live and  Love Crafts

Resin Frame is Melissa Francis again from Live and  Love Crafts

I used the neutral colours to match their landing decor as we don't know the sex yet

Baby Shoes

 Baby Coat

Baby Shoes and  Coat Recipe

4 ply Baby Merino Wool I brought back from New Zealand its so soft and a lot cheaper than in England

Duck shaped buttons Boyes stores

Coat pattern is Patons but very very old

Baby Shoes are from an internet pattern 

I have to say my knitting is a bit rusty its years since I made anything however it did bring back lots of happy memories as I knit this coat for my Son when I was expecting him 37 years ago!!.I must say I was delighted with those little shoes but the reason there are two pairs I knit two left feet first time around silly girl so we now have two pairs I knit two right feet second time .Its not long to go now so we are all hoping things go well for them in these last few weeks they will be amazing parents.

I hope you all have a great Bank Holiday weekend we are just relaxing after being away the last two weekends. I may go to Northallerton this afternoon as I need a water colour pad which I can get from The Art Shop there and you never know I might just go in The Craft shop and  Betty's as well !!

hugs Carole x

70th Birthday Card

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope that you are all well and  keeping warm I just hate the winter weather I'm definitely a sunshine girl.
On  New Years Day it was my friend Lyn's 7oth birthday and this is the card I gave her. She lives part of the time in Malta and I gave her the card before Christmas to take back with her. I spoke to her today on the phone and it reminded me I hadn't put it on my blog. She did say the weather was lovely in Malta so I was a bit jealous.
My card is using a Lili of the Valley stamp Time Flies one of my favourites .

Card Recipe

7x7 card

Papers LOTV Timeless Victorian

Image Time Flies LOTV painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Organza rose ribbon Boyes stores other lace from my stash

Sentiments LOTV Pretty Grungy Good Times

Flowers WOC and my stash

Small metal frame Michaels Florida

Butterfly die Joy Crafts

Pearls The Range

Sewing Machine and topstitch thread

Shabby blue frontage Live and  Love Crafts

Cut out letters Pion sheet Live and  Love Crafts

 

I know that Lyn loved this card and I hope you all do as well. It was my husbands birthday yesterday and we had a lovely meal out last night at Café Lilli in Norton one of our favourite restaurants the food was great. Enjoy the weekend whatever you are planning and  I hope you do some nice things .

I also want to say thank you for all the lovely comments you have left on my recent posts I say this every time but you really are such special kind people .Hugs Carole x

I'm entering this in Graphit markers Shiney and New Challenge my shiny and new things are this new Joy Craft butterfly border and the small metal frame I've used both for the first time. I also think the gorgeous bead flowers would cover the shiny aspect, A Gem of a Challenge Something New  Joy Craft butterfly border and small metal frame. Winter Wonderland Challenge things with Wings and Dragonfly Dreams Challenge Favourite colour and  mine is purple/lavender.