Christmas card order

I've made a copy of special cards this year for a girl my brother works with and she asked if I could do here special ones for her family.

Image - Woodward Mr Frosty

Paper - Dovecraft

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Baubles - Stash

Paper - Dawn Bibby

Peel Off - Anitas

Penny Black Saturday - Thanks a Bunch

This weeks challenge at Penny Black Saturday is Thanks A Bunch. I didn't have the right sentiment in the Craftwork Cards flower, so I've had to go with Just For You, buy Ducky is holding a bunch!

Stamp - Penny Black Duckling

Paper - Stash

Embossing - Cuttlebug

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Forever Friends Christmas

I love the new Forever Friends stamps and Gina kindly sent me some images as I am meant to be saving for the baby, esp as my job is uncertain as our company was bought in a hostile takeover! The only problem is after using these today, I have fallen even more in love with them. Hubby has said that he's sure that a little crafting treat won't break the bank, so I might have to take him up on that offer!

Stamp - Forever Friend Christmas Set

Paper - DCWV Christmas Stack

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Glitter - Stickles

Stamp - Forever Friend Christmas Set
Paper - DCWV Christmas Stack

Ribbon - DCWV Holly Jolly

Jems & Holly - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Anita's

More cards with my Design Kit

I've had another play with the fab goodies I received from Tracy at Dies to Die For.

The first I used this gorgeous little girl from Alota Stamps, she is so cute and perfect for a little girls card. I took inspiration from Gina's card below!

Stamp - Alota Stamps for Dies to Die For

Paper - stash

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

The second card is using on of my favourite High Hopes stamps, Posies for Ewe.

Stamp - High Hopes from Dies to Die For

Paper - Dovecraft

Ribbon - Stash

Flowers & Brads - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Papertake Weekly - Sketch Challenge

When I got home tonight I had a great package full of goodies from Tracy at Dies to Die for for my design team duties. This was just the incentive I needed to get back into my craft room!

I decided to use the great sketch on Papertake Weekly to make a card for my gran who hasn't been too well and is waiting for test results. The cute little owl stamp and great papers are both available at Dies to Die For. Sorry for the pic, but it's back to struggling to get a decent picture in our lovely winter!

Stamp - Pink Cat Studio

Papers - Doodlebug

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Whispers stamp

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This weeks challenge at Penny Black Saturday is to use Ribbons on your creation. Decided to use my new Penny Black stamp.

Image - Penny Black Duckling

Ribbon - Stash

Gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Friday Sketchers and Penny Black Challenge

As I'm struggling with my mojo still I decided to have a go at the Friday Sketchers sketch this week and decided to combine it with Penny Black Challenge which is not to use pink on your card.

Stamp - Penny Black Hedgehog Stroll

Paper - Karen Neuburger

Ribbon - Stash

Flowers - Stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Christening card

My brother asked if I could make a christening card for one of the girls he works with, using a picture of the twins. She wanted a large A5 card and the little girls names on it and this is what I came up with.

Hoping this is the start of more crafting! Things at home are a bit mad and crafting is just the last thing on my mind at the moment. Hopefully I can reveal all soon and things will calm down

Embossing - Cuttlebut Hearts Block

Ribbon - stash

Flowers - Dies to Die For

Brad - Papermania

Names - Ellison Small Stuff alphabet

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Papertake Weekly

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is a fab sketch from Katharina

Image - Pink Petticoat

Papers - Magazine freebie

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Gem - Papermania

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge

This weeks challenge over at A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is to use circles on your card. Well my card ended up being dominated by my circle, as I cut is out a bit too big on my cricut, hence the fake stitching to try and make it a bit smaller!!!

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Papermania Retro Floral

Ribbon - Little Silver Hat

Gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Magnolia Challenge

This weeks challenge over at Tilda & Co is a sketch and I love doing these as it makes it so much easier, esp when I am still struggling with my mojo.

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - DCVW

Ribbon - Stash

Fabric Brad - Bazzill

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Cute Card Thursday & Dutch Dare

I've combined todays Cute Card Thursday and Dutch Dare challenge into one card.

The challenge at Cute Card Thursday is to make a card using no shop bought patterned paper, but you can make your own!!! I used versamark with a baby footprint stamp to create a watermark effect and embossed the yellow card.

The challenge at Dutch Dare is to use 3 ribbons and 3 buttons.

The picture isn't great, so I'll try and get a better one tomorrow.

Stamp - High Hopes

Foorprint stamp - Hero Arts

Embossing - Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles

Ribbon - Stash

Buttons - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Thinking of You

My hubby asked if I could make a large card for him and his work colleagues to send to a girl that used to work with them. They had just found out that she had collapsed at her new job and had been in a coma, but she is on the mend now. He wants to sent her a thinking of you card from her old work colleagues.

Sorry about the picture, hubby took it in a rush this morning.

Stamp - Hero Arts Delicate Rose Stems

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers

Ribbon - Anitas

Embossing - Cuttlebug
Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Stamp Something - Monochromatic

This weeks challengeat Stamp Something is to create a project using a monochromatic color scheme. We're loosely defining "monochromatic" as...one color with any number of shades and one neutral (white, ivory, black).

Stamp - Katie & Co 99p bargain

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Glitter

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Friday Sketchers

Well I have hardly made any cards in the last couple of weeks, but I think my mojo might be slowing coming back to me!!!

I was struck down with a migraine last night and have been in bed for most of today so i was really looking forward to hubby coming home. Well little did I expect the be subjected to 2 football matches, how many more weeks is this European Cup!!! Thought I would use this lovely little image I received from Michelle at Card Grotto and use the Friday Sketchers sketch.

Image - courtesy of Michelle

Paper - Papermania Retro Flower

Embossing - Cuttlebug Bloom Dots

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Cute Card Thursday - Patterned Paper

The challenge this week over at Cute Card Thursday is to use Patterned Paper. I decided to use some more of my gorgeous Daisy Bucket paper, which is so pretty I just like to look at it!!!! It was also a change to use my new Tilda, who is so cute.

Paper - Daisy Bucket

Stamp - Magnolia

Embossing - Cuttlebut Swiss Dots

Buttons - Papermania

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

I've won Michelle's blog candy

I made this little thank you card and sent it to Michelle from Card Grotto this week with some Sugar Nellie and Magnolia images to say thanks for the HighHopes/Whipper Snapper images she sent to me.

Just logged onto my e-mails and had a message from Michelle to say thanks and also to say that I was the lucky winner of her lovely blog candy!!!!! So excited, I love getting crafting goodies and I have been so good lately whilst I'm meant to be on a stash diet so I can't wait to receive them. Thanks Michelle

Image - courtesy of Natalie from Crafting Fun

Paper - Dovecraft Retro Flowers

Embossing - Cuttlebug

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Glitter - Stickles

Gina's Blog Candy

Gina is having a lovely blog candy to celebrate 10,000 hits, you need to make a card using a stamp, pretty papers, flowers and ribbons. My mum has asked for a thank you card and I wanted to use this lovely image from Michelle, so I killed 3 birds with 1 stone!

Image - courtesy of Michelle from Card Grotto

Paper - DCWV Spring Stack

Ribbon - Anita's Sticky Ribbon

Flower - Prima

Brad - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

At last a card!

At last I got to sit down and do some crafting and I used this lovely image from Natalie. She is definitely going to the top of my wish list, although I was lucky enough to also get a few images of her from Michelle so should have enough to keep me going for a while!

Image - courtsey of Natalie

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Ribbon - Stash

Clip - Making Memories

Papertake Weekly - All that Glitters

This weeks challenge at Papertake Weekly is to use glitter on your cards, easy for me as I think all of mine have some stickles somewhere. I used Stickles on the giraffe and I also cut the New Baby out of white glitter card.

Stamp- Woodware Baby Zone
Paper - Stash

Lettering - Sizzix Rat-a-tat

Ribbon - Stash

Glitter - Stickles