Baking a Cake!!

Morning Folks!!

I'm here to share my second card as a guest DT member over at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge - and yes, I am still wearing a BIG smile om my face!!

This time the challenge is:

FLOWER POWER OR FLOUR POWER  if you dare!! 

As you can see I did dare and used this cute decoupage to make my card:

  

Have to say that little tail was tricky to cut out!! 

I teamed the baking mice up with some fabric flowers that I have been hoarding forever and a mixture of old and new papers - yes I succumbed and treated myself to the First Edition Spring drop pad - my excuse I think the diagonal pattern looks good with the little baking team. The other papers are from my stash, one unknown and some dovecraft!! The sentiment is from a mulberry wood stamp set - cute font!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Polkadoodles - Spring colours

Oldie but a Goodie - Inspired by a song - Stir it up by Bob Marley (old flowers and decoupage)

Papertake Weekly - The Sound of Music - Stir it up by Bob Marley

Dream Valley challenges - Animals

Crafts 4 Eternity - Sweet tooth

Thanks for looking today and for any comments you leave - I love to hear from you and don't forget to check out the gorgeous cards made by the design team over at House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and the great prizes on offer for this challenge!!

Balloon Bear

Good Evening Folks!

Hope your weekend is going well!! I don't seem to have achieved that much today but I did finish this little card using a vintage Forever Friends stamp that I found lurking in a box in my room - really one day I will be properly organised and ultra tidy with everything in it's place - yeah I know the Flying Pig just went past!! Anyway, here she is looking really cute and bashful! The papers are from my scraps collection, a mixture of DCWV and papermania I think??

Here's a closer look:

I followed this great sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday as my inspiration:

and also the picture inspiration over at The Cutie Pie challenge:

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

Shopping Our stash - Scrap attack

One stop Craft Challenges - Anything goes

2 sisters challenge - 1 (image), 2 (papers) and 3 (embellies - ric rac, flowers & pearls)

Crafty Catz - 3 (embellies - ric rac, flowers & pearls),2 (papers) and 1 (image)

ABC challenge - Not just one

Crafting for all seasons - Think Pink

Papertake weekly - Sound of music - it has to be 99 red balloons by Nena!!

Oldie but a goodie - Inspired by a song -it has to be 99 red balloons by Nena!!

Bearly Mine challenges - Lucky dip - ribbon, flowers and pearls

The Craft garden - Flowers, ribbons, patterned paper & pink

Forever Friends Monthly challenge - Anything goes

& Forever friends fortnightly challenge - Pastel colours

Thanks for looking and also for any comments you might leave - I love reading them!!

EDITED TO ADD 

&  Lucky winner at:

Pink Butterfly gift box!

I'm late, I'm late, Oh how embarassing I'm late posting my project for my second guest DT spot over at

I'm sooo sorry girls!

Anyway, I don't know about you but I'm all Christmassed out! I've only got one last family card to put the finishing touches on and I'm done - thank heavens! The girls over at Creative Craft Challenges have a nice 'Anything goes' challenge and so I decided to ditch the snowflakes in favour of something pink and girly for my friends birthday next month - a little gift box to hold a piece of jewellery! Here it is:

The idea for this little box came from a packet of ready cut gift boxes from Poundland. There are several different box types flat packed in the packet and so I just used them as cardboard templates! A bit fiddly to cut out but great fun to decorate!! I have used a fairly stiff paper from the Henbury Lane collection and some glitter card by DCWV.

The little tag is a nesties label attatched with ribbon and the butterflys are a Dovecraft punch.


The roses have been wired to the top handles and glammed up a bit with a hint of stickles!!

Thanks for looking and I do hope your festive preparations are going OK!

Don't forget to visit Creative Craft Challenges - there are TWO great prizes on offer!!

As usual I can't resist entering a few challenges:

Paperplay - Anything but a card

Allsorts - Anything goes

CES Challenges - Anything goes

Die Cut Dreams - how girly can you get?

&

Papertake weekly - Anything goes

I baked a cake!

We have a colour challenge over at C.R.A.F.T. this week, here's the colour palette we'd like you to use:

We also have a new sponsor - Sam Doodles (click on the piccy to visit them):

So without further ado, here's my card:

I've had this LOTV stamp in my stash for a couple of months but this is the first time she has been inked up and coloured - shameful I know!

As usual, I have used promarkers for colouring in the image and also a little yellow stickles to add a bit of twinkle to the candles. The papers are a combination of Henbury Lane, Forever friends Pink Parfait and Dovecraft Back to Basics. The lacey edges were made using a Martha Stewart punch and the flowers & little metal flower charm are from my stash.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to get busy entering the C.R.A.F.T. challenge, the Dt love to come & visit your blogs!!

I'd also like to enter my card into some challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Yummy, Yummy, yummy (I could eat a piece of that cake!!)

Stamp Something: Something punchy

Crazy4challenges: Birthday

Papertake Weekly: 3 of a kind (3 flowers, 3 dp)

The ABC challenge: F is for flowers

& Delightful Sketches: Metal Mania

Enjoy your day !!

If friends were flowers....

This week over at C.R.A.F.T we have a challenge which I think is going to prove very popular!!
Our theme is :
Fancy Floral

We also have a lovely prize up for grabs from our sponsor :

For my card I have used a Personal Impressions stamp & sentiment from a set that I bought back in March at 'Make It' - can't believe it is the first time this one has been inked up!! My papers are a combination of K&Co and Henbury Lane. As usual my image has been coloured with promarkers and I have added a few flowers stickers (with added gems) from my stash.

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

Papertake Weekly: Great sketch!

Everybody Art: Friends and

The Crazy Challenge: No ribbons or buttons

Thanks for looking

Baby Elephant card!!

Hi Folks!! I'm back to the land of blogging after going AWOL for a while after Easter!! I managed to clear a small space on my desk today and get some crafting done, think I must be the worlds most disorganised crafter - or is it because I am untidy?? Perhaps best not to answer that one!!!

Anyways, here is the result of this afternoons efforts, a cute baby elephant card which might become a 'New baby card' - a family friend is due very soon or if the new baby isn't 'pink' as my nephew would say, I thought it would make a nice kids card!!
The inspiration for this card came from the Sketchy Colors challenge, this week the colours are pink, grey & white and as soon as I read them I thought of my new elephant digi stamp! This cutie is from Squigglefly and it is drawn by Crissy Armstrong who has just started a new challenge blog called Sundays with Crissy. The first challenge is 'To make it a combo' so in my usual fashion I decided to combine this card into multiple challenges!! I used the fab sketch over at Sketch & Stash along with my new digi stamp and a sheet of 12" x 12" paper by American Crafts which has been in my stash since forever (not even sure why I bought it originally!!) . Rather appropriately I think my little elephant fits nicely with the challenge recipe over at The Pink Elephant this week, which is to use 1 image, 2 dies (scalloped and plain circle nesties) and 3 favourite embellishments (layered up flowers). Allsorts this week are looking for petals and pearls and My Time to Craft also have pearls as a challenge. Crafty Angels challenge is 'My favourite things' which could be interpreted in 2 ways for this card - I love elephants (you might have guessed) and I also love flowers on my cards! Then last, but by no means least, Papertake weekly challenge is 'Cutie Pie' which I think this little Ellie definately is!!

I think that 8 should qualify as a 'combo' of challenges LOL, thanks for looking!!!