You're so Special

Good morning everyone and it's my birthday today :) ...  I am now 49 years old!!  Me and hubby took the day off and when he asked me where I wanted to go, of course I said to the beach lol :) 

So before we go out for the day I thought I would post my card for the new challenge that started yesterday at 

Crafting By Designs

The theme for this week is 

You're So Special 

and being Mother's Day in Malta last Sunday I thought I would make a Mother's day card ... someone more special than that there couldn't be.

 We are all using digi images from our sponsor Alicia Bel and I got to use this real sweetie Teddy Bear with Balloons which I colored with my promarkers.

The winner this week will get 3 digi images from our sponsor.

 

 

 I am entering my card in these challenges today:

Crafty Creations 341 - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Gals 123 - ADD FLOWERS

Creative Moments 118 - ANYTHING GOES

Die Cuttin Divas 317 - ALL ABOUT TAGS

 Passion for Promarkers 395 - TAG IT

Thank you for looking

xxx

Inspired by a Song or Film

It's raining here in Malta.. not much, but still it's raining, and it also rained yesterday! It seems that the seasons are getting weird and crazy to me, it hardly rained in Winter, and raining now instead! I really do hope it settles down so we can start going to the beach soon :)

Anyway, it's Wednesday today so time for another challenge at 

I ♥ Promarkers

The theme for this fortnight is 

Inspired by a Song or Film

 I'm sure you can see which film is my inspiration for my card :) Wonderwoman of course!! and thought this image Super Samantha from our sponsor Digital Delights would be perfect for a MUM! 

Quite a simple card... just stars dies and letter dies for the wording, but very colorful and fun!

The prize from Digital Delights is a $5 gift voucher for our winner

but we also have another sponsor this week. Letraset who are giving away another fabulous prize.

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Die Cuttin Divas 268 - ANYTHING GOES WITH DIE CUTS

Crafting From the Heart 114 - ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Crafting With Friends 21 - ANYTHING GOES

Fussy and Fancy 164 - DIES and/or PUNCHES

Simply Papercraft 29 - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking 

xxx

A Mother's Day Card

I still managed to find some crafty time to make some last minute Mother's Day cards in my busy schedule and so I thought I would make a quick post to share this one card with the cute Boofle.

The clear stamp is from DoCrafts and I colored it with my promarkers. Papers are oldie ones and were freebies in a magazine, the sentiment from Simon Says and the border punch is Martha Stewart.

I am entering my card in these challenges today:

Stamping Sensations May Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Southern Girls - SPOTS/DOTS

Charisma Cardz 10  - MOTHER'S DAY

Paper Crafting Journal - SPOTS and/or STRIPES

Thank you for looking

xx

Clean and Simple

Back from my Bokwa class today and oops .. I remembered that I still hadn't put up my post for today! My son has been using the laptop non stop in the evenings (taking breaks from the studying for his O Levels) so I am ending up not having any time to use it myself!!

Anyway, so better get on to my card now as it is already so late and tomorrow I have to wake up very early to do my run! I will soon be participating in another marathon, next Sunday, but this time just a 10 km one.. Looking forward to that :P

So here is my card now.. a Clean and Simple one for the new challenge that started today at

I ♥ Promarkers

For my card this week I decided to use this gorgeous freebie stamp from a magazine to make another Mother's Day card. Mother's Day in Malta will be celebrated in May, so I'm still making them at my leisure.

I of course colored it with my promarkers, the sentiment stamp is from Simon Says and then I just embossed a border and added two punched butterflies.

We have two sponsors this week.

Dr Digi's with a prize of two digi images of the winner's choice

and Crafty Ribbons, offering a £10 voucher as a prize.

Entering my card in these challenges today.

Dream Valley 78 - MOTHERING SUNDAY

Divas By Design - ANYTHING GOES

Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking

xx

Anything Goes

Good morning everyone. I hope you are fine and having a good week. My younger son has just started his 'O' Levels and so I'm busy with lots of taxi driving. He says he is doing ok, so fingers crossed he is really doing ok!

Anyway, today is the start of a new challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers 

and the theme for this week is

ANYTHING GOES

While doing this card I was completely alone at home... hubby had decided to go out with his friends to watch football, both sons were not here, so I was all alone... and this is when I really enjoy myself ....  pure bliss :) 

To make my card I used an image from one of our sponsor for this week, Stitchy Bear Stamps. Colored it with my promarkers, DP were magazine freebies, die cuts, sentiment stamp from Simon Says and two pearls to finish it off.

 

 

We have two sponsors this week

Marianne Design with this fabulous prize 

and  Stitchy Bear Stamps

 offering $10 voucher to spend in their store. Wow!!!

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Dream Valley 78 - MOTHERING SUNDAY

Craft Your Passion 206 - MOTHER'S DAY

That Craft Place - FLOWERS and/or MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking

xxx

Simply Does It

Hello, good afternoon everyone. A quickie post today as I have to be out soon. Got an appointment in Sliema and then I am going to visit mum, pick up a birthday cake which I will be taking to the office tomorrow... as it's my birthday on Saturday :P .. back home to prepare dinner and then finally go to Bokwa tonight!!!! Wow busy busy Wednesday.

So better get it on then .. yay .. so since it's Wednesday it's time for another challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers

The theme for this week is

SIMPLY DOES IT

I didn't usually like doing these cards, and normally found them quite difficult, but now I really do like them .. you just need a gorgeous image and you can't go wrong :) 

So I decided on one of my Tilda stamps, which I don't use that often unfortunately .. and of course I coloured it with my promarkers. The butterfly die cut is Memory Box, I just embossed around the white card, three gems, sentiment .. and that's it!

This week again we have two fabulous sponsors

J & C Creations and also Hobby Book

      

Prize from J & C Creations is a £10 voucher while from Hobby Book is 5 digi images.

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Creative Inspirations Wednesday 214 - MAGNOLIA MADNESS

Everybody-Art-Challenge 236 - PURPLE

Crafty Ribbons 45 - NO DESIGNER PAPER

Moving Along With The Times - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Totally Papercrafts - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

2 Sisters Challenge 143 - MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking

xx

A Mother's Day Card

Good morning everyone and a Happy Mother's Day to all the mummies out there :) It's Mother's Day here in Malta today and we are having lunch at home, bringing our elderly parents over... they prefer this instead of going out... and I don't mind too.. as long as I'm not cooking and eating something good that includes fish :P

Anyway, I thought I would share one of the Mother's Day cards that I did this week.. a totally different one from the cards that I usually do.. no coloring .. no DP.. just clean and simple this time.

To do my card this time I used.. again.. stuff from my new goodies :) yay .. There is the Memory Box butterfly die, using this one for the first time, and the Die Namics daisies die again

I cut a circle with my spellbinders die and then stuck on the daisies over it, leaving blank spaces and just sticking the daisies together from the tips. Underneath I also added a sheet of nice vellum paper.

I printed the sentiment on my computer and I did the two embossed lines with my hougie board. Three pearls to finish it off and that's it.. but of course, it wasn't a quick one as I inked all the butterflies and daisies from the edges and then had quite a long task sticking the butterflies from the centre. .. 

Entering my card in these challenges today.

Totally Papercrafts - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Moving Along With The Times - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Crafty Ribbons 45 - NO DESIGNER PAPER

Dream Valley 56 - NO SQUARES ALLOWED

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Simon Says - THINGS WITH WINGS

Craft Your Passion 161 - FLORAL DELIGHT

Papertake Weekly- ANYTHING GOES

Divas By Design - ANYTHING GOES

Penny's Challenges 126 - DIECUTS and/or PUNCHES

Whimsy Inspires 59 -ANYTHING GOES

Flutterby Wednesdays 239 - OPEN

2 Sisters Challenge 143 - MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking today

xxx

Elsie

I've been a really busy bee yesterday .. a crafty bee that is  :) .. This is one of the cards I did. A mother's day card using a gorgeous stamp from Sweet November, Elsie.

I decided to colour her just like the image on the packet, with my promarkers, and then matched her up with this fun DP from Papermania. The tulips die is Memory Box, while both the grass and the fence are Die Namics and the clouds dies are a W Plus 9 die, which I had got from Simon Says last time.

I really love how it turned out, so bright and fun I think... :)

Entering my card in these challenges today.

All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Love to Create 64 - FOR MOM or SPECIAL LADY

Sweet Stampin Challenge - CREATE A SCENE

2 Sisters Challenge 142 - BINGO BASH (patterned paper, image, bugs)

Corrosive Challenge 173 - MOTHER'S DAY

Some exciting news now woo hoo :)

I did the Top 5 at Cupcake Craft Challenge!

 

with this card

 

Thank you for looking

xx

Put a Button On It

It's a Public Holiday here in Malta today, and a nice and sunny day too, so off we went out for lunch in Marsaxlokk. Really enjoyed it :) .. back home I realised that I still hadn't uploaded my DT Card for today as today it's a new challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers

The theme for this week is to add button.. or more on your projects.

For those who know me, will know that I very rarely add buttons on my cards as I don't manage to like them much.. so wasn't an easy challenge for me.. but well finally I added two buttons, which unfortunately my eyes still don't like that much ha ha :P 

To do my card this week I used a Martha Stewart border punch, for the pretty pink flowers I used my new Impressions Obsession Daisy die and for the leaves another die.. DieNamics I think. Butterfly was from an old card.. shop bought of course and the beautiful image, Serenity, is from our sponsor for this week, Just Inklined. Lucky girls we were each given a free image to use to make our cards yay :) 

The prize for the winner this week is 3 digi images from our sponsor Just Inklined.

Entering my card in these challenges today

Crafts And Me 131 - FLORAL FRENZY

Fab 'n' Funky 169 - LOTS OF PINK

Whimsy Stamps Challenge 58 - PRETTY IN PINK

Bearly-Mine Challenge 84 - ANYTHING

Passion for Promarkers 196 - TO DIE FOR

Crafty Ribbons 44 - ANYTHING GOES WITH RIBBON

Southern Girls - BUTTON UP or SHOW SOME FLAIR

Wags 'n' Whiskers 102 - MAY FLOWERS

One Stop Crafts Challenge 226 - BUTTONS AND BOWS

The Corrosive Challenge 173 - MOTHER'S DAY

Freshly Brewed Challenge - FLOWERS

Thank you for looking

xxx

Chloe with Daisy

Hello everyone. Today I took the day off again. Had some errands, laundry to do but I spent most of it in my craft room :) What a joy .. and it would have been a near perfect day if only I had my Bokwa class tonight!!

Anyway, this is a card I made this morning, using a stamp I had won some time ago from Pink Gem Design.

I colored Chloe with my promarkers, adding some glitter star dust stickles on the flower and glossy accents on the butterflies on her pigtails. 

The papers are all magazine freebies and the sentiment is from Crafty Sentiments.

I'm really pleased with how my card turned out today.

Entering my card in these challenges today:

A Gem of A Challenge 71 - EASTER/SPRING

Craft Your Passion 154 - RIBBON or LACE

Everybody Art Challenge 228 - SPRING

Passion For Promarkers 190 - BUTTERFLIES

Simon Says Challenge - EASTER / SPRING

Fussy and Fancy 85 - SPRING DAYS

Card Makin Mamas - IT'S SPRINGTIME

Crafty Catz 175 - SPARKLE (on the flower) WITH A BOW

Dream Valley 52 - MOTHER'S DAY

My Mum's Craft Shop March - SPRING HAS SPRUNG

Some exciting news now... I had two wins last week! First at   Simon Says Challenge and then at  Here Come the Boys Challenge.

Woo hoo .. it has certainly been a lucky week in blogland for me.

Thank you for looking

xx

Mother's Day Card

Hello, Happy Mother's Day to all the mummies out there today, wishing you a lovely day with your families. We're off for lunch with my mother and family and today, being Mother's Day I thought I would post one last Mother's Day card which I did this week. 

Quite a simple one this time, no colouring but just using dies, three different ones from three fabulous companies. The butterfly is Spellbiners, flowers are Memory Box and the basket is of course Marianne Creatables.. first time using this one.

Some challenges for my card now

Top Tip Tuesday 76 - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days 33 - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Truly Scrumptious 80 - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Ribbons 19 - FLOWERS

CES Challenge 85 - ANYTHING GOES

and some exciting news too yay :D 

I made the Top Tipper last week at Top Tip Tuesday with my tip to do textured card.. check it out here.. winning some lovely digis from Robyn's Fetish

  

made the Top 3 at Delightful Sketches with this card

  

and the week before I had won the challenge at Passion for Promarkers winning a pack of Promarkers.

Woot woot, so exciting :D

Flower Power

Please click here for my Birthday Candy and here for the Crafty Sentiments Blog Hop.

Hello everyone, another sunny day here today, 28C .. quite hot ... looks like it won't be long before we'll be heading to the beach! Today I have my DT Card for the new challenge at Sweet Stampin and the theme for this week is FLOWER POWER.

I decided to use one of my LOTV stamps for this card, one that I hadn't yet inked .. how could I?!! :[

Well I'm so happy I used it today, I loved how it turned out, a very quick card it was too and perfect for a Mother's Day card which I needed. 

Image I coloured it with my promarkers, paper was a magazine freebie, corner die is Cheery Lynn and centre one is Spellbinders Nestabilities.

A close up of my butterfly.. its' one of those Dimensions stickers from Anita's, so pretty I think.

We are this week sponsored by My Favourite Things who are offering a fab $25 gift certificate and we also have our fabulous monthly sponsor, Joanna Sheen with another great voucher of £10 to spend in the store.

      

I thought I would take this opportunity to post a photo of me with Pamela, also a DT girlie at Sweet Stampin, who is in Malta at the moment for a holiday with her husband. We met last Tuesday for dinner and again yesterday for a coffee and a quick visit to my place.... My hubby came too for dinner (he's taking the photo) and we all had so much to talk about. It was lovely to meet up, will be remembering this time and looking forward to their next holiday on the island, when they come again.. I think they will  :D  

Some challenges now of course yay :D

Lili's Little Fairies - YOUR FAVOURITE CRAFTING TOOL (my Sizzix Big Kick)

Truly Scrumptious 80 - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Ribbons 19 - FLOWERS

Card Makin Mamas 45 - FLOWERS

CES Challenge 85 - ANYTHING GOES

Joanna Sheen Challenge - FLOWER POWER

Paper Sundaes 119 - MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking today

xx