It's a hedgehog party!

Morning Folks!

Hope those of you in the UK enjoyed the long bank holiday weekend, shame the weather couldn't have been a bit kinder!

This morning, the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers is just starting - Nat has chosen the theme this week - 

KINETIC CARDS

Now, I'll be the first to admit that kinetic cards are soooo not my thing, too much patience required and I always get frustrated if they don't work well. Anyhow, after a tour of Pinterest for ideas, I decided to try a double slider card. I watched this great video here which made everything look easy and set off boldly. I adjusted the measurements to suit a 12cm square card - I just can't think in inches. Everything was going well until I attached the mechanism to the card back and then disaster struck, I hadn't realised that you need to use foam tape so that there is enough space for the back panel to still move. My card just jammed shut!

 Lesson learnt, card binned after trying unsuccessfully to salvage the slider part. There followed quite a bit of snarling and some rude words ... this is version 2:

Closed:

and then opened:

In the end, I was pleased with how this turned out but it did take a while!! I've learnt a few things along the way which I'll share:

• Use a thick strong card for the slider part, otherwise it will just bend
• Freezer bag works well for the slider and doesn't rustle or fall to bits
• Don't forget to attach to your card with foam tape or squares, saves a good deal of stress and swearing when it jams up
• I think it is easier to add the patterned paper to the card tabs when you make them but leave adding the images until you're happy everything slides well
• Keep the decoration on the tabs thin, so it still slides.

Card Details

Penny Black stamps - Your Birthday (centre) and Cheerful Critters clear stamps (a new purchase!)

Sentiment - Crafter's Companion

Coloured with promarkers, wink of stella and stickles

Papers - Dovecraft

Eyelet and ribbon from stash

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

There are some fabulous cards on display!

This week we are generously sponsored by All Dressed Up

who are offering 2 digis to our lucky winner!

Thanks for visiting today and for any comments you like to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Word Art Wednesdays - Anything goes
Crafting From The Heart - Anything goes
Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge - Birthdays
Crafty Creations - Anything goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Ribbon and rubber (there's ribbon on the pull tab)
Addicted to stamps - Animals
Colour Crazy challenges - Anything goes

Hot Pants!

Morning Folks!

Thank goodness it's the weekend, it seems to have been a very long week! Have you got anything nice planned? I'm hoping to tidy my craft room - it looks like a bomb has dropped in there - I think I must be a very messy crafter! 

I'm popping by this morning to share my second card as the guest DT member over at The Penny Black Saturday Challenge this month!

It's time for the mid month reminder for the May challenge, the theme is 

WEDDING / ANNIVERSARY / LOVE

Here's my card, I've gone quite CAS and also used up a few snippets of some favourite papers. The PB stamp I have used is called 'Hot Pants', quite a small stamp but super cute I think and very easy to colour!

 Just realised that the balloon could do with some glossy accents over it - must do that later!

 Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you'd like to leave! Enjoy the weekend!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Deep Ocean Challenge - Furry / Feathered Friends

Simply Papercraft - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Ribbon and rubber

Creatalicious challenges - Anything goes and optional use stencils

Pixie's Snippet's playground - Week 281 / 282

Tag it!

Morning Folks!

We had a great time at Passion for Promarkers last week celebrating our 8th Anniversary and looking at all your Bingo entries - good luck to everyone in the prize draw!

This week, our new theme has been chosen by Lorraine, and it is 

TAG IT  

a fun choice I think! 

Here's my card, using the trusty LOTV tag stamps for my tag element. This must be one of my most used sets of stamps, they are usually found on my desk rather than in a drawer! 

Love the smile on those chubby cheeks but I can't help thinking he needs to watch his fur and whiskers near all those candles! 

Card Details

Image - Penny Black - Forever Smile

coloured with promarkers and stickles

Sentiment tags - LOTV

Papers - Crafter's Companion - Birthday party

Poppy Stamps (?) Banner die 

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

This week the prize is a fabulous set of 12 promarkers, the steampunk collection!

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

Cuttlebug Mania - You are tagged

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Pamie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything goes + opt stencils

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

The Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays

Crafty Friends - Cute

Deep Ocean Challenge - Furry / Feathered Friends

Simply Papercraft - Anything goes

Colour Crazy Challenges - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

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Lots of Little legs!

Morning Folks! 

Can you believe that we are halfway through May already - where does the time go to lately??  

Anyhow, with it being the 15th, the new challenge is starting over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. I got to choose this month's theme so I hope you like it:

4 OR MORE LEGS

Lots of possibilities with that one I thought! 

True to my usual style I went for an animal themed Penny Black stamp which has lots of little legs on:

I've kept the card the card CAS for two reasons, I wanted the image to be the real focal point and also I was so indecisive I couldn't make up my mind whether to add die cuts, pearls, gems or flowers ... after much faffing around I went back to my first plan - ribbon and sentiment!!

Card Details:

Stamp - PB Cheesecake parade

coloured with promarkers

Papers - Dovecraft Bact to Basics - Bright Spark

Ribbon - Anita's 

Sentiment - Crafter's Companion

Please visit the main blog

to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team. I do hope you'll join us this month, I'm looking forward to seeing your makes!

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Ribbon and Rubber

Pamie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything goes + opt stencils

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

The Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays

Craft - Dee Bowz - Anything goes with a Bow

The Ribbon Girls - May Challenge

Crafty Friends - Cute

Simply Papercraft - Anything goes

Colour Crazy Challenges - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Going Dotty

Passion for Promarkers Anniversay and a Turtle!

Morning Folks! 

Brace Yourselves, this is a long post!

We are super excited over at Passion for Promarkers this week as we are celebrating our 8th Anniversay!! Can you hear the popping of corks in the background?? We are not playing the usual party games, instead we'd like you to join us in a spot of 

BINGO

Here's the board we'd like you to use - don't forget to tell us which line you've used and remember you must use Winsor and Newton / Letraset markers on your creations.

We have an amazing number of prizes on offer this week from our generous sponsors:

Bugaboo stamps are offering one lucky winner a $21.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

DigiStamp Boutique are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

 Dies to Die for are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

Uniko stamps is offering one lucky winner one in-stock stamp set of their choice.

 

Alicia Bel are offering one lucky winner a 10 Euro voucher to spend in their online store. 

 Petal Lu are offering a 30% voucher on products  in their online store. 

Both teams have made cards this week so there is lots of inspiration on the main blog, do pop over and leave some love!!

Here's my card, using a really cute digi from Bugaboo called Turtles Birthday which I have had for ages but it is still one of my 'go to' images - it just makes me smile!

I've gone for the bingo line 

Polka dots - square card - Birthday 

The papers are Dovecraft - More or Less (a bargain in The Works recently)

Sentiment - LOTV

Twine and enamel dots from Me to You collection

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Catch the bug - Stella says sketch #509 - loved this sketch:

Crafty Friends challenge - Cute

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Crafty Animals - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything goes

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Crafty Purple Frog - to celebrate the little people ( sent this to my young nephew!)

Come and get it challenges - Birthday Wishes

Pile it On - Animals

Thank you so much for visiting today and for getting to the end of this long post!

EDITED TO ADD:

Cheesecake Dreams

Morning Folks!

Hope you're all OK and looking forward to the weekend! 

I've got a BIG smile on my face this morning as I am the guest DT member over at The Penny Black Saturday Challenge this month!

 Thank you to Helen and the girls for inviting me to join them and for the fab badge!

The new challenge theme is 

WEDDING / ANNIVERSARY / LOVE

Here's my card, I've gone for the Anniversary option. I seem to be in a phase of making masculine cards at the moment, so I'm planning to give this cute card using PB stamp called Cheesecake Dreams, to my hubby for our anniversary. I'm actually getting a bit ahead of myself, which makes a change, as the special day isn't until August!

Card Details

Nesties Dies

Papers - Wellington

Sentiment - LOTV

Brads - Making Memories

Enjoy the weekend!

Thanks for popping over today and for any comments you leave!

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Crafty Friends Challenge - cute

Little Miss Muffet - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Catch the bug - Anything goes

Penny's paper crafty challenges - Anything goes

My time to Craft - Masculine

Henry the sick car!

Morning Folks!

It's the first Friday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over at Making Memories Crafting 

Our new theme is everyone's favourite:

ANYTHING GOES

This month we are being sponsored by Sparkle N Sprinkle

who also kindly gave the design team some images to play with. Here's my card using the fabulous Henry which you can find here in the shop. He was super fun to colour with the trusty promarkers. As this is a 'masculine card', I went with minimal frills - just a silver mirri frame and a few bits of card candi. The stamped sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

I hope you'll head over to the main blog to see some more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

We'd love to see what you have been creating so please try to join us this month!!

Thanks for dropping by today!

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything goes

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Cardz 4 Guyz - Inspired by a film, a book or Music - It had to be Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! 

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Polar Bear Family

Morning Folks!

Happy May Day! I hope those in the UK are enjoying the  bank holiday weekend - must say it's a tad chilly here! 

As it's the first of the month, we have a new challenge starting over at SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE  and the theme is:

SNOWFLAKES

Here's my card, using a Craft Creations decoupage sheet that I bought many, many years ago when I first started card making - in an era before the rubber stamping and colouring addiction! As it's quite a large decoupage sheet I just mounted it, added some stickles to the image for a bit of festive sparkle and a couple of die cut snowflakes with gem centres. The photo makes the card look a bit out of shape, it isn't really, but I was struggling with the reflection off the silver mirri card - so need to improve the photography skills!

Please click the piccy below to visit the main blog

and see the inspiration from the rest of the design team! You have a whole month to join us, we'd love to see what you make! 

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - Add some sparkle or bling

Christmas Card Challenge -