Merry Christmas Polar Bear

Good morning, hope you are all happy & well and are all organised for the big day.

I have a very easy tutorial over on the Crafters Companion blog, to show you all how to make this cute little Polar Bear fold back card. Details and step by step tutorial HERE

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a really lovely day.

Cocktail Menu for New Years Eve

Hi folks, hope you are all happy & well.

I have had a wonderful day out with my Daughter Sam & my gorgeous Grandsons, Bradley & Joseph. We spent a lovely few hours at Clumber Park, we had a lovely walk, some sneaky Xmas shopping, visited the church and even had story time with Santa. Perfect Day!

I have my Crafters Companion The Inspirers make to show you all. It is in fact a tutorial to make a New Years Eve cocktail menu. You can find the full tutorial here with all the measurements and details.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely evening.

Nordic Christmas

Good morning, hope you are all ok and having a lovely weekend.

I'm not sure where the time is going over the last few days, but it's flying. Been so busy at work & home so me & Hubby took some time out yesterday, we went for a walk around Clumber Park and then had a coffee & cake in the cafe. It was so lovely, the decorations and lights look gorgeous. Then home to watch some Christmas films whilst eating Santa jelly babies. Perfect day!

I have a card to show you that I made with the Nordic Christmas collection from Crafters Companion.

I coloured it in with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a really lovely day.

LOTV Launch Sweet Peas

Good morning lovely bloggers, hope your week is going well.

I'm so pleased to be able to share with you a sneak peek of one of the brand new releases heading our way from LOTV on Friday.

There will be 8 animal trios, 5 mice, a rabbit and 2 new sentiment stamps. Eek! they are all so cute, you won't be able to choose. This little cutie is called Sweet Peas. 

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a great day.

Snowman time

Good morning, hope you are all happy & well.

I have a card to show you that I made using a super cute Digistamp Boutique image. I love this cute little snowman.

I used : Winter Rosie from Digistamp Boutique

Go-kreate & Memory Box dies

Spectrum Noir Pens & Pencils - Skin FS3 & 1 Cinamon & Russet Hair - LY1

Girl's Hat - CG3, 2 & 1 Sage 

Girl's Scarf DR5 & 3 Black 

Coat - EB2 & 1 Coffee Bean 

Snowman's Hat - IG10, 8 & 6 Black 

Scarf EB2 & 1 Coffee Bean DR5 & 3 Black

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely day.

Crafters Companion Mind Blog Hop Winner

Hi Folks, I'm back to let you know who my winner was from the Mind Blog Hop.

First of all thank you all so much for visiting and leaving a comment on my post.

So without further a do, the winner is................

Lorraine

Congratulations Lorraine, please contact me, my email is in my profile over to the right ------->

Thank you all for visiting, hope you all have a lovely afternoon.

A Gem of a Challenge #184 - Anything Goes

Good morning, hope you are all ok and have a lovely weekend ahead.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge


This will be our last challenge of 2016 to give the Pink Gem Design  team a festive break, 
we will be back on Sat January 7th 2017.

Our last challenge theme this year is

***ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES***

ANY image Stamped OR Digi is allowed on your paper creations..


As this challenge will be running for 4 weeks & the teams will be having a break 
 NO comments will be left on these entries..

We will have 3 Random prize winners,  for this challenge only, 
each winner may choose 

2 Individual Digi images OR 2 Card Topper Kits OR one of each 
(no sets or sentiment sets)  

of the winners choice from   PINKGEM DESIGNS.

I used : Christmas Freddie from Pink Gem Designs

Spectrum Noir pens & pencils

Trimcraft papers

Spellbinders & Sue Wilson dies

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a lovely day.

LOTV Sneak Peek

Good afternoon, lovely bloggers, hope you are all happy & well and had a good week.

Woohoo! it's the weekend!

LOTV have a brand new launch heading our way. There are 16 new super cute animal stamps being released on 16th December as digis and rubber. As well as 8 new Trio stamps, there are also some gorgeous new mice images from a new artist to  LOTV

I have a little sneak peek of one of the adorable new stamps. I will share my card made with this cutie, next week.

There are lots more sneak peeks over at the Ideas To Inspire Blog, LOTV FB page. 

So here's my sneak peek I used Sweet Peas, which is so adorable!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a really lovely evening.

Catitudes - Purrfect Together

Good morning, hope you are all ok.

I have my Crafters Companion The Inspirers DT card to show you all today. I made this using the gorgeous Catitudes collection.

I used : Fizzy Dizzy stamp set

 8 x 8 paper pad

 Heart Balloons, Champagne Glass & Elegant Chandelier dies

 Spectrum Noir Pens & Pencils - Cats - Black, IG10, 8, 7, & 6 Black. Heart - PP4 & 2 Sorbet. Champagne - Pink Blush & Sorbet.

All the above lovely lot is available from Crafters Companion

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a great day.

The cutest polar bear

Good morning lovelies, hope you are all ok.

It's looking very festive here, we spent yesterday evening putting up the tree and lots of decorations. Up to now the cats haven't been bothered with it all, fingers crossed that keeps up. In recent years our Christmas tree has ended up being a huge cat toy, usually they wait while you leave the room and then run hell for leather & jump straight in the middle of it. It's the jangling baubles that gives them away.

I have my Crafters Companion The Inspires DT card to show you that I made using the most adorable polar bear.

I used : Crafters Inspiration 12 freebie CD printable's

Textures Hessian embossing folder

Sara Signature & Gemini dies

All the lovely lot above is from Crafters Companion

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely day.

Crafters Companion Mind Blog Hop

Hi lovely bloggers, hope this post finds you all happy & well.

Crafters Companion are  taking part in the 'Mind' Crafternoon for charity on the 9th December in their stores. 

A Crafternoon means getting together with friends, family or colleagues to hold an afternoon of crafting and raise money for Mind – a fun way to help us be there for everyone with a mental health problem. Can't make it to one of our stores for our Crafternoon on December 9th - join in our online fundraiser HERE to get involved! 

How can you help raise money for this wonderful cause?

Pop over to the online event to check out the 'Crafternoon' Itinerary:

Crafters Companion are also holding a raffle which has some amazing prizes up for grabs -

Raffe £2 per entry 

Prizes: 

1st - £100 voucher

2nd - £75 worth of Colorista goodies! 

3rd - £50 worth of Die'sire Create-a-Card Christmas Dies!

You can buy your raffle tickets HERE 

I am so proud to be taking part in the inspirational blog hop, to spread awareness and raise money. 

So pop over and join in, for lots of fun and inspiration. 

There are lots of prizes up for grabs along the way too, just leave a comment on each blog in the blog hop and a winner will be chosen at random to win a die/stamp/element used in each project.

Here is the Blog Hop List

Crafters Companion UK

Jen Fisher

Angela Clerehugh

Sam Lewis

Gemma Hynes

Sally Mitton

Angela Harkness

Soraya Lara

Janine Quinn

Laney Delaney

Julie Woolston

Donna Mosley

Laine Webb

Kelly Lloyd

You should have arrived here from 

Julie Woolston

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I have a tutorial for you all, to make a very quick and easy Christmas treat bag.

You will need : Die'sire Christmas Edge'able's Mr. Snowman

Die'sire 'Create a Card' Cut In Collection - Traditional Wreath Die

Crafter's Inspiration Issue 12 - Winter Edition freebie dies set

Centura Pearl cardstock

Sara Signature Little Angel Collection - Luxury Ribbon Simply White

Step 1 - Trim a piece of blue Centura Pearl card to measure 8.5 inch  x 10 in.

Score at 4 inch from either edge of the 10 inch length, turn the card and then score 2 inch from either edge of the 8.5 inch length. You will now have a square section at either side in the centre. Snip into both of the score lines of the square until you reach the score line as shown.

  

Step 2 - Fold all the score lines and glue the sides to create a box. 

Step 3 - From the length of  an A4 piece of Centure Pearl white card, trim a 1 inch piece. Using the cut in border die from the Traditional Wreath die set cut out twice along this piece to create an handle. Trim two pieces of white Centura Pearl measuring 4.5 inch x 3 inch & cut out Mr Snowman on each one. Then attach the handle as shown and adhere both Mr Snowman to the front & back as shown.

Step 4 - Cut out several snowflakes from the freebie die set and affix randomly around the box. Adhere a bow to either side to finish.

Thank you so much for visiting me on the Crafters Companion Mind Blog Hop

Now hop over to Laine Webb for some more Crafty Inspiration & another chance to win a fabulous prize.

Christmas Sparkle

Good morning, how are you all? Hope you are all ok.

As it's Saturday I have been awake since 5am, I'm not sure why I wake up at this time, usually it's Ely, one of our cats getting me up for his breakfast, so maybe I just expect to be woken and get ready for it. Who knows.

So, I've been having a look on my laptop and found a few cards I haven't blogged yet. So here is one of them.

I used : Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens from Crafters Companion

Sheena Douglass Poinsettia stamp & die set 

Sara Signature Merry Christmas die

GoKreate dies

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a lovely day.

LOTV December Challenge

Good morning, hope you are all ok.

Thank you so much for your lovely well wishes, I'm feeling much better today. My two gorgeous Grandsons will cheer me up later, they are coming over to do a little Christmas crafting. We are going to make a huge snowman to put on their kitchen door.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at LOTV FB page

The theme this time is Winter. 
So it can be anything wintery - Birthday, Christmas, Anniversary, Wedding, New Baby - or anything else you can think of :-)

There are 3 prizes on offer and the winners will be drawn at random from all the entries;

1st - £20 LOTV voucher

2nd - £15 LOTV voucher

3rd - £10 LOTV voucher

To enter, just post your photo in this event - and don't forget to check back to see if you are one of the lucky winners :-)

To be eligible, your card or project will need to fit the theme and feature an LOTV image. 1 Entry per person please. The challenge closes at 6pm UK time on Wednesday 14th December, so you have plenty of time to get those creative juices flowing :-) We will announce the winners asap after that.

I used : James Santa Stop Here Digi stamp

Christmas Grungy Messages stamp set

Spectrum Noir pens & pencils - James EB 1 & 2 Maple & Espresso

Hat & scarf DR7, 5 & 3 Black

Wooden handle EB5 & GB10

Snowman hat IG10. 9 & 8 Black

Tonic & Sue Wilson dies

Gems from stash

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a lovely day.

Colorista creations

Hi folks, hope you are all happy and well & snuggled up warm.

I've been not been very well over the last couple of days, in fact I ended up sleeping for about 12 hours yesterday when I got home from work. Still feeling yuk! today but hopefully after a hot bath I will feel a bit better. Thank goodness I'm ill now and not in a couple of weeks.

Anyhoo! enough of my whinging.

I have a couple of cards to show you that I made using the gorgeous new Colorista card kits from Crafters Companion. Each card kit comes complete with adhesive insert & envelope.

These were both coloured with the fabulous Colorista blendable pencils.

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely afternoon.

Hoot, hoot, hoot it's Christmas

Hi folks, hope you are all happy & well.

I'm getting really festive now after a visit to a lovely Christmas fayre with the family yesterday. We had a lovely time. Lots of Christmas goodies, decorations and music. Ooh! it won't be long will it?

I have a Christmas card to show you all, I really enjoyed colouring in this cute little owl.

I used : Woodware stamp

Spectrum Noir Illustrator pens - Body – light yellow & ivory
Beak & feet – raw sienna, goldenrod & caramel
Branch – earth brown, natural brown & sand
Holly – camo green & bamboo
Scarf – camo green, bamboo & meadow
Hat, stockings etc. – blue grey 1 & flame red

Tattered Lace & First Edition dies

LOTV papers

Ribbon from stash

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I really appreciate all your visits.

Hope you have a lovely evening.

A Gem of a Challenge #183 - Snowmen

Good morning, hope you are all happy and well.

I've been up and about early as usual on a Saturday morning. Ely (the cat) seems to prefer his breakfast earlier at the weekend so makes sure I'm up to get it him. He then goes back to bed! He's upstairs all snuggled up, he does look cute though.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge

Our New Challenge this week is 

Snowmen

You may use ANY Digi OR Stamped image on your Paper Creation

Our hostess for this chall is Talented Teamie Pamela

The prize as from January 2016 is 

2 Individual Digi images OR 2 Card Topper Kits OR one of each 
(no sets or sentiment sets) 

of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS.....

I used : Snowflake Chilly 

Spectrum Noir pens & pencils

Spellbinders dies

Martha Stewart punch

Papers are a very old mag freebie

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog, hope you have a really lovely day.

Hattie & Buddy

Hi folks, hope you are all happy & well. I'm late with my post tonight as I got a bit carried away with sorting out my craftroom.

I have a Christmas card to show you that I made using a very cute Digistamp Boutique image.

I used : Hattie & Buddy from Digistamp Boutique

Spectrum Noir Pens & Pencils Face - FS3 & 1 Cinamon, Russet & Flame Red

Coat - CR3 & Carmine

Scarf & Hairband - BT3 & Prussian Blue

Dog - TN2 & 1 Cinamon & Russet

Hair - LY1 & Yellow Ochre

Marianne Designs dies

LOTV sentiment

Cardbase cut on Cameo

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely evening.

Catitudes - Carmen

Hi folks, hope you are all ok, I'm a bit late with my post today as we've spent the day in York with friends. We had a lovely day, lots of yummy food and drink and lots of shops and the Christmas markets too. I love York especially at this time of year.

I have my Crafters Companion Spectrum Noir TV DT make to show you all. This is one of the samples I made for the launch.

I used : Carmen stamp set 

Spectrum Noir pens & pencils - Cat - TN7, 4, 3 & 2 Cinamon & Russet. 

Cushion & Headress - CG3, 2 & 1 Jade. 

Bag & Headress - IB3 & 2 Prussian Blue. 

Cat Silhouette, Oriental Additions & Dainty Accessories dies. 

8 x 8 paper pad.

All the lovely lot above is available from Crafters Companion

Thank you all for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely evening.

Polar Bear Festive Hugs

Good morning, hope you are all happy & well.

I have a card to show you that I made using the free goodies that came with the latest Crafters Inspiration magazine from Crafters Companion.

 The freebies are all so gorgeous, lots of pretty printables on the CD, a gorgeous Leonie Pujol embossing folder and a Sara Signature die set and on top of all that a Sheena Douglass stamp set.

I also used : Sara Signature Lazy Daisy die

Gemini dies

Doily & pearls from stash

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, hope you all have a lovely day.