Especially For You Cards

A Candy Alert and some Photos

2012-02-14T20:20:00.000+01:00

Hello again.. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. I should have a card today for the new challenge at Crafty Sentiments, but I haven't managed it this week :( ........... Always, after I return from a holiday, my mojo just takes some time to return home but I'm so busy too with staying later at work after my holiday, so just didn't have enough time to relax enough to be able to do something!

Well, I did manage a little blog hopping to try to get my mojo back and I also came across this fantastic candy at Tracy's where you can win boxed envelopes for your cards.... just what I need.. so I just had to enter to try my luck. It closes 7th March so click here to join in and good luck :)

And now I also have some photos from my holiday in Italy.

Here me and hubby are in Firenze at Ponte Vecchio, with our friends.

Still in Firenze near the famous David statue!

A freezing fountain.

.. and more freezing water..

Was so cold, but no snow in Firenze.

I loved all the souvenirs

and look at this shop ...everything was made of wood.

In Siena now. Here we found some snow... finally!! I was hoping to see it.

From Siena we caught a bus to San Giminiano. They were filming here.

Was very beautiful here.

more snow.. so we had a snowball fight he he

In Lucca now... no snow... but still soooooo cold

And finally some photos in Pisa. It snowed during the night.. just a little bit on our last day.

Near the famous tower.

and up on the tower all together!

Lovely holiday, we all really enjoyed it, and our new friends made it even more enjoyable :)

Thank you for looking today and welcome to my new followers, thank you so much for following. I'll be coming to see you as soon as I am back to norm :D

Anything Goes

2012-02-12T16:18:00.014+01:00

Hello good morning everyone. I'm back from my holiday to Italy now, arrived late yesterday night. We had a lovely time, weather was very nice and very cold, we were very lucky I think... but I'll be telling you all about my little holiday in another post with some photos as well. For now I have a card for the new challenge at ONE STITCH AT A TIME. The theme again is an easy one this week - ANYTHING GOES and it's also collab week this week too.

For my card I got to use this cute digi stamp from Reece's Scrap Pieces, which I coloured with my promarkers and then paper pieced her dress as well with some scrap paper I found in my stash..

In fact everything I used on this card were scraps or already pre-cut.. in case you haven't noticed I've been trying to use up my stash and scraps as much as possible lately as I want to make room for newer goodies wink wink ;) ... ok so it's not one of my best cards, but the image is so sweet and I am so pleased I used up some of my scraps as well!!

These are the images for this week's Collab Week, so you get all these images free, including the one I used, with any purchase of $7.00.

There are two prizes for the winner this week.

3 promarkers from our sponsor Creative Craft World

and also the mini collab package from our Stitchy Bear Store.

Thank you for looking today.

... hubby is playing Whitney Houston songs at the moment.

What a sad day .. I cried when I heard the news this morning. That Bobby Brown destroyed her!!

RIP Whitney. Greatest DIVA of all time xxx

Love Letters

2012-02-09T17:02:00.000+01:00

My third post for this week... I'm still in Pisa!!! will be returning on Saturday...hope weather is good :[

This time my card I made it for the new challenge at Paperplay as StampFairy are sponsoring this week.

The theme for this week is LOVE LETTERS and I thought I would try doing a Valentine Card.

Quite a simple card today with the darling Barry from the Barry Throughout the Year collection to steal the show :) Coloured him with my promarkers. The papers were free ones from the magazine Cardmaking and papercraft, the border die is from Crafty Sentiments and the heart die from Marianne Creatables.

My challenges for today

Lollipop Crafts 66 - A VALENTINE'S DAY CARD

Cards For Men 3 - SEEING RED

Cardmakin Mamas 38 - VALENTINE

One Stop Crafts 168 - FOR THE ONE I LOVE

The Secret Crafter Saturday 171 - HUGS AND KISSES

Dream Valley 25 - VALENTINE

Joanna Sheen February - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Thank you for looking today

xxx

Love is in the Air

2012-02-08T13:00:00.000+01:00

With Valentine's day just round the corner, it's no surprise that there are so many LOVE themed challenges around .... and it's also the theme at I ♥ PROMARKERS this week... LOVE IS IN THE AIR.

I did not make a Valentine one however... I struggle a bit with these .. don't know why.. errm maybe I need to get me some goodies for this theme ??? !! wink wink :) so well I just did this card and featured the love between a mother and child instead.

The image is from A Day For Daisies and it's also a freebie for this week too, so beautiful I think. Coloured it with promarkers. The gorgeous flowers are from Lorraine, the lovely paper was in the Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine... don't forget you can download the papers for free from their website ...

... and the punch is Martha Stewart... finally!!! I used the corner as well and punched all around.

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and the winner will win a fab pack of promarkers yay!

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

A Day For Daisies 36 - HAVE A HEART (mine is near the sentiment)

Crafty Catz 118 - PINK AND WHITE

Allsorts 140 - FREE AND EASY

The Secret Saturday Crafter 171 - HUGS AND KISSES

Joanna Sheen February - LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Crafty Cardmakers 61 - MONOCHROME MAGIC
Lexi's Creations 58 - LOVE

So that was my second scheduled post for this week. .. I hope weather is not so cold in Pisa!

See you when I come back

Thank you for looking today.

xxx

Let's Get Girly

2012-02-07T10:26:00.002+01:00

Hello good morning everyone.... hope you are keeping warm.. brrr so cold everywhere at the moment. We are off to Pisa today and should arrive late afternoon!!! ... and I have three posts scheduled for this week.

This is my first one with a girly card for the new challenge at Crafty Sentiments.
The theme for this week is

GIRLY

... so nice and easy. I looved it too :)

This is what I did.

For my card today I used one of the latest digi releases at Crafty Sentiments, Kai, and coloured her with my promarkers. The gorgeous hearts border die is also from Crafty Sentiments.

The gorgeous papers were in the January issue of the magazine Cardmaking and Papercraft...

... the leaves die here is Marianne, while other leaves at the bottom of the card are a Martha Stewart punch.

The lucky winner as always will win some lovely digis from the store.

Some news now!

There is a BARGAIN BASEMENT at the moment at the Crafty Sentiments store, so if you would like to make a bargain!!! .... just have a look here.

And some more news now .. VERY Exciting news woo hoo

I did the Top 3 twice this week!!!
At Sirstampalot

with this card

and also at Dream Valley Challenge

with this card

Woo hoo more badges for my sidebar, I love them :D

Some challenges for my card now.
Hotshot Crafts 3 - FLOWERS
Allsorts 140 - FREE & EASY
CES Challenge 71 - GIVE ME WINGS and/or SKETCH
Flutter By Wednesday 188 - OPEN

Thank you for looking today.

xxx

The One I Love

2012-02-04T08:56:00.002+01:00

I'm so busy at the moment! Next week we're off to Firenze and Pisa for a few days, just me and hubby and two friends ;) and therefore have been staying overtime everyday to make up for it at work... so well, just time for nothing else these days but besides that, mum is also a bit poorly this week and so have been visiting more often of course!!

Anyways, want to welcome my new followers over these past weeks now.. thank you for following and sorry haven't been able to hop over to your blogs and say hello yet... but I'll do that as soon as I can.

And now here is my card for today which is my DT Card for the new

Sweet Stampin Challenge

The challenge for this week is THE ONE I LOVE. I thought my stamp from LOTV was just perfect for this theme. I coloured it with promarkers.

These gorgeous flowers were in the candy I had won from Claire, leaves die is Marianne, sweet tiny butterfly is XCut punch, sentiment from Crafty Sentiments and border punch is Martha Stewart.

We are this week sponsored by Stamp and Create

and the lucky winner will win a fantastic voucher from their store

I have some VERY EXCITING NEWS now : D

I won the TOP TIPPER at Top Tip Tuesday last week

with this card woo hoo how exciting

My Tip is ideal for those who do not have a scoreboard if you would like to have a look... and I also did all the scored lines on my cards here with my method as I don't have one of those boards.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

Lili's Little Fairies 5 - SPRING COLOURS

Corrosive Challenge 141 - I {HEART} YOU

Dream Valley 24 - ANIMALS

The Crafty Pad 155 - VALENTINE/ ANNIVERSARY LOVE

By The Cute and Girly February - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Joanna Sheen February - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Hotshot Crafts 3 - FLOWERS

Ladybug Crafts Ink 53 - LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT

Divas By Design 20 - ANYTHING GOES

Flutter By Wednesday's 188 - ANYTHING

Simon Says Challenge - ANIMAL ANTICS

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge 72 - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Thank you for looking.

And don't forget to join my candy here.

Hugs

Stamp Fairy Sponsoring

2012-02-02T16:29:00.001+01:00

I wasn't able to make a Christmas card last week, being so busy, but this week I have one yay : D

This card I made it for the new challenge at Do You Stack Up as Stamp Fairy are sponsoring this week, so me am playing along with the DT girls over there.

The theme is ANYTHING GOES

.. so just the perfect excuse to make a Christmas card.

For my card today I used this sweet stamp from the Christmas Kids collection. I coloured it with my promarkers and then cut all round it and popped it up with foam. Papers are from two different sets, the gorgeous ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, corner stamp from LOTV and the Christmas tree is recycled from an old Christmas card.

I want to show you now the gorgeous latest releases by Stamp Fairy... all so in love :)

Teddy Patches

Molly Valentine Barry Valentine

And I have some exciting news now.

I made the Top 3 at Joanna Sheen Challenge last month

with this card

wooo hooo so exciting :D

My Challenges

Cupcake Craft Challenges 177 - RECYCLE

Lollipop Crafts 65 - ANYTHING GOES

Divas By Design 20 - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking today

A Photo Inspiration

2012-02-01T19:08:00.001+01:00

It is very cold over here today, and weather forecasts predict that it will get colder..... just so not like my card here. .. I think it came out so bright and colourful....

... well it had to be! Look at this picture. It is the theme for today's challenge over at I ♥ PROMARKERS...... be inspired. As for me, I was inspired by the bright colours from this photo..

For my card today I used this adorable Bildmalarna stamp, which lucky me, was one of the goodies in the candy that I had won from Claire last month. So many thanks Claire!

The background paper is from a free paper pack gift in the magazine Quick Cards, the grass die is Die-Namics.. four layers I have there, two of them all popped up ! .... and the rest of the stuff are all oldie goodies from my stash. I've had these cute cats for ages, they are from Papermania... so sweet, I never want to use them and just want to keep them!!!

The butterflies were a free clear stamp in a magazine, as was the pretty floral stamp on the side. I first stamped the image directly onto the paper, and not liking how it turned out, since the paper is coloured, I stamped it again on a white card this time, coloured them with promarkers and then patiently cut out the little teeny weeny flowers and glued them on top of the first stamp.

Our sponsor this week will win a fantastic £10 voucher from Joanna Sheen store.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

Hooked On Craft 16 - SOMETHING BRIGHT

Flutter By Wednesday's - ANYTHING

Crafty Catz Weekly 117 - THINGS WITH WINGS

One Stop Crafts 167 - STITCHING (faux or real)

Crafts & Me - TIME TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY

And here now are all the lovely goodies in the candy that I won from Claire, and this beautiful card and calendar as well.. I am so happy :D Thank you Claire xx

By the way, hubby liked my haircut yesterday, even though not so pleased I cut off so many length from it :0 .. and I got soooo many compliments from my colleagues today he he

xxx

oops it was my 2nd Blogaversary yesterday.. I totally forgot!! .. but of course, I didn't forget the candy.

Click here to join in.

Punches and or Dies

2012-01-31T19:04:00.000+01:00

Today I did a crazy spur of the moment thing...I took son to cut his hair and ended up cutting mine as well! Not that crazy you must be saying, but it is a a bit really, as hubby likes long hair and me looooves very short hair and to please him I keep it long but today well, I just chopped off about 6 inches from it and didn't tell him that I would be doing this : | I wonder what he will say now when he sees me.. .. fingers crossed he will like it he he : D ... I do ..

Anyway, I have a card to show you now for today's new challenge at Crafty Sentiments.

The theme for this week is PUNCHES AND/OR DIES

For my card today I decided to use this really sweet rubber stamp Yummy Treat, which I coloured with my promarkers. I used quite a few punches and dies today, the border die from Crafty Sentiments ... yes, second time I am using it this week, I loved it so much, the rose and oval dies are Marianne, then I also used two punches, the leaf and the corner one on the sentiment.

Ooops and here's me now with my shorter haircut he he

The winner this week will win three digis from the store.

And here are my challenges now

Simon Says Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Cute Card Thursday 201-YOU'RE A GEM

Make It Monday 74 -ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking today

xxx

Twins

2012-01-30T15:33:00.003+01:00

Last year, when Lili of the Valley had a sale and free postage I grabbed the opportunity and got me some of their sweet stamps. This is one of the stamps that I bought...I thought it was perfect for this week's theme over there.... and a perfect excuse to ink it up as well!!

A clean layout today with some gingham paper, which I was inspired to use by another challenge over at CES.

I coloured the sweet image with my promarkers ...

The ribbon is one of those sticky ones from Anita's, while this super gorgeous border die is from Crafty Sentiments. I thought the hearts pop outs from the die were so sweet that I decided to stick them on the card as well.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

CES Challenge 70- CHECK IT OUT

Lili's Little Fairies 4 - OH BOY

Sir Stampalot January - MONOCHROME
Creative Craft - BLUE
Lollipop Crafts 65 - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking today.

I'm off to take son to football now.. yes one of those taxi driving days :)

xx

Thank you for looking today, and don't forget to link up to my candy here.

Candy

2012-01-29T15:55:00.001+01:00

Hello I'm back ... but with some candy now... Well finally!!

I was saying last week that I would be having some candy to celebrate my 400 + Followers.. but it's also my Blogaversary next week .. yay my second one woo hoo :) Can you tell me when it is ?? It is so fun looking back at my first post. I didn't how to do anything and even how to set up my blog address, so it was generated automatically and so that is how my blog address came out so funny woops !!

Anyway, so here is what I am offering and I will be adding some die cuts as well.

I hope you like it and will join in.

As always, the candy is open to my followers, new followers will be able to join in future candies.

Just leave your name with Mr Linky down below and thank you so much for your support.

I will leave it open for one month from today.

Use a Digi with OSAAT

2012-01-29T11:33:00.000+01:00

Hello good morning everyone. Hope you are having a nice Sunday.. I am, yay hubby is back :) .. came late last night and he brought loads of stuff as well.. some clothes, and then some crafty goodies too he he.. just some simple stuff from the stationers as he couldn't find any specialized craft shops but hey I love anything crafty woot woot : D

So onto my card now, which is my DT Card today for today's new challenge at One Stitch At A Time. The theme for today is USE A DIGI and it's also Collab Week this week again !!

The image that I got to use this week is this beautiful silhouette, Oriental Beauty, from Floppy Latte Designs. Luckily I found me some oriental themed papers in my stash which were magazine freebies... and even the fans were in one of the papers as there were four different papers in the set. I cut these out from the other paper and mounted them on black card and then cut around them and popped them up with foam.

I love how it turned out, even though I didn't do any colouring ... it's good to try something different !!

These are the images for this week's Collab Week, so you will get all these images free with any purchase of $7.00, including the one I used.

The sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Store and the prize is the Collab digis.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today

Cute Card Thursday 201 - YOU'RE A GEM

Charisma Cardz 3 - PRETTY IN PINK

Simon Says Challenge - ANYTHING

Truly Scrumptious 72 - SOMETHING FORGOTTEN (the papers)

Thank you for looking today.

Strike

2012-01-28T11:28:00.001+01:00

It is hubby's birthday next month and I still hadn't even given a thought to this and so, like last year, was probably going to leave it to the last minute ... but lucky me, while blog hopping around last week, I came across a fantastic image at Pinky's, which was just perfect for him as he is an avid bowler. Well, I just had to do it straight away, him being abroad at the moment was the perfect time to do it.

The image is from The Crafty Pad, paper from We R Memory Keepers paper pad, which was free in the magazine Simply Cards & Papercraft and stars are Die-Namics. I did the 'STRIKE' word on a Word Document and then coloured it with my promarkers. The Happy Birthday one is a clear stamp.

A close-up of the image, which I printed an extra three times and had so much fun cutting it and layering it up for dimension.

Wow.. so I'm nearly a month early with his card this year yay : D

I am entering my card in these challenges today

The Crafty Pad 154 - LET'S SEE SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS

Birthday Sundaes 40 - A BIRTHDAY CARD

Simon Says Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Nadia's Blog Challenge 23 - BOYS' CARDS

Thank you for looking today

Purple and Pink

2012-01-25T10:00:00.001+01:00

Hello, good morning everyone. Hope weather is nice wherever you are. This is a scheduled post today as not sure if I'll have time after work. Hubby had to go to London on work today, and won't be back before Saturday evening, so I'm going to be a bit busy this week.... I wonder if he will find some crafty goodies to get me : D

Will see will see ; )

So my card now.... a PURPLE AND PINK one for the new challenge at I ♥ Promarkers.

We are this week sponsored by Digi Doodles Shop's Best so all the girls today are using one of the gorgeous images in the store. I decided to use this sweetie, Birdie Birdie and made a Birthday Card... coloured of course with my promarkers, adding some glitter on the centre of the flowers.

The background paper of Kate Knight were a free gift in a magazine, while the one on the side is Papermania.

This is the sketch that I followed to do my card today.

And I am entering my card in these challenges

Sketch Saturday 191 - THE SKETCH

Do You Stack Up 55 - PATTERNED PAPER

Moving Along With The Times 132 - THINGS WITH WINGS

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards 4 - GLITTER

Joanna Sheen January - CELEBRATIONS

Hotshot Crafts 3 - FLOWERS

Lollipop Crafts 64 - WING IT

Make It Monday 73 - ANYTHING GOES

Papertake Weekly - HAPPY HIGHLIGHTS (I highlighted the flowers with glitter)

Thank you for looking today

Lace and Pins

2012-01-24T09:43:00.002+01:00

I survived a dentist appointment yesterday, and I was a good girl too .. he he I didn't cancel : P ... I hate that whizzing sound and well, I hate all that happens in there!!!

But on to something nicer now.. my DT card for today which I made for this week's new challenge at Crafty Sentiments. The theme for this week is LACE AND PINS.

For my card today I am using another gorgeous stamp from this month's newest release Love and Romance, He Loves Me. I coloured her with my promarkers, and then glittered up her hair as well.

The centre and leaf dies are Marianne, paper were in this month's Quick Cards magazine, the gorgeous quilled flowers were in a candy I won from Cebelica and for lace I used my Martha Stewart lacey border punch.

The winner as always will win some of the gorgeous digis from the store.

Some challenges for my card now.

Crafts And Me 67 - USE PINS

Do You Stack Up 55 - PATTERNED PAPERS

Stamptacular Sunday 148- SEEING SPOTS

Allsorts 138 - NEEDLES AND PINS

The Corrosive Challenge 141 - I {heart} YOU (the hearts are on the sentiment)

Hotshot Craft 3 - FLOWERS

Cupcake Craft 176- ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
AUD Sentiments 46 - Use the word LOVE

Thank you for looking today

Embossing a straight line without a score board

2012-01-22T14:47:00.000+01:00

I've had so much interest on my embossing tip from yesterday here .. thank you so much .... BIG SMILE :D ... that I was suggested to upload some photos to explain myself better.. so here goes..........

This is the CD Box that I used.

You will use the groove on the inside of the CD box and of course you need an embossing tool.

Place the card right-side facing down as in the picture, holding it tight. Start embossing the line..

........ slowly and lightly at first until you find the groove ... embossing down til the end.

When you do all the line you can go back up and down for a second or third time until the line is raised enough.

Repeat this for all sides.

Here is my card again which I did using this method to emboss a straight line.

Hope you like it and find it useful.

Thank you for looking today.

Wishing you a lovely Sunday

xxx

White on White

2012-01-21T09:50:00.006+01:00

I had computer problems yesterday.. and big ones too... I was just about to print off some digis when poof .. electricity went off! That was ok .. I said, or thought so..... but that was not ok, because when it finally came back and I switched it on again, it said that a system file was corrupted and of course, didn't switch on! So I called hubby and he said that it was possible that we could have lost everything!! Aaaah my worst nightmare. .... so you can imagine how I spent the rest of the day waiting for him to come home.. which is always so late! Anyway, the good thing was that I didn't lose anything phew.. false alarm, but it was a tough job to fix it, because he stayed til late working on it and going online for help and he says he still needs to work on it....

.. lesson from this......... backup !!! Yes do it because this could happen to anyone and so easily too.

I have something to celebrate now ...400 + Followers woo hoo I couldn't believe it this morning and the + too wow! Thank you everyone for making this happen and a big warm welcome to my newest followers too. It is lovely to have you joining me, this means a lot to me. So obviously celebration means candy .... which I will be doing that next week.. so keep a look out woo hoo : )

Ok so onto my card now.... I have a WHITE ON WHITE card today for the newest challenge at Sweet Stampin. I have to admit that I found this challenge really so tough, especially too since it's been such a long time since I did one of these... but then finally I did it and am really so glad I persisted, because I loved how it turned out.

Used one of my LOTV images today, thought a wedding card would be ideal for this theme. Coloured it with my promarkers and then added glitter on her dress and flowers. Doesn't show much though.

The sentiment is from a Forever Friends stamp set, as I couldn't find the LOTV ones that came with the set!!! .. .. yes 'lost'! Hope I find it soon!

... and I have a tip now for the TOP TIP TUESDAY - if you don't have one of those boards with which you emboss lines, use the groove of a CD box when it's open. I still haven't got me one of those boards, but I find this works just fine when you need to emboss just one line like I did on my card here. Hope you like my tip :)

We are this week sponsored by Bunny Zoes

and the monthly sponsor this month is Joanna Sheen

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

Lili's Little Fairies Challenge 3 - LAVENDER AND LACE

Let's Ink It Up 19 - ANYTHING

Hotshot Craft 3 - FLOWERS

Lexi's Creations 56 - ANYTHING

Southern Girls 36 - WHITE ON WHITE

Pollycraft Monday 123 - BINGO (diecuts, lace, pearls)

Papertake Weekly - BUTTONS, BOWS, BLING, BLOOM (any or all)

Truly Scrumptious 72 - SOMETHING FORGOTTEN (the pearled heart)

Card Makin' Mamas - SOMETHING OLD (the pearled heart)

Cardmad Fairy's Digi Days 25 - RIBBONS & BOWS

Joanna Sheen January - CELEBRATIONS

Stamp and Create January - ANYTHING

Thank you for looking today.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

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EDIT - If you would like to see the step by step for the embossing with the CD case see here.

Clean and Simple

2012-01-19T14:57:00.000+01:00

The theme today at Charisma Cards is CLEAN AND SIMPLE.. .. and guess who is sponsoring this week.. yes .... Stamp Fairy! So here I am joining in the fun with the Charisma girls with a Christmas card, my second one for this week and my fourth one for this year .. yay I'm so pleased :)

For my card today I used the sweet Barry from the Countdown to Christmas 1 collection and also some stars and snowflakes background, which I topped up with glitter, from one of the Friday freebies at Stamp Fairy.

I coloured Barry with my promarkers, a pretty paper from scraps, ribbon, sentiment and gems to finish it off. A very quick card today indeed.. I should have called it Quick And Simple not just Clean And Simple ha ha

These are my challenge for my card

Stamp and Create January - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Cardmakers 59 - NO FLORAL EMBELLISHMENTS

Lexi's Creations 56 - ANYTHING GOES

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards 4 - GLITTER

Fussy and Fancy - LET IT SNOW

Totally Gorjuss 114 - BE A STAR

Pile It On 3 - FUZZY FRIENDS

Thank you for looking today and a big warm welcome to my newest follower Shuly..... one more .... :)

Hugs

Anything with I ♥ Promarkers

2012-01-18T15:49:00.001+01:00

So hello again. Here I am again with my second card for the day. This time it's my DT card for the new challenge at I ♥ Promarkers and the theme for this week is an easy ANYTHING GOES. Just use Promarkers, Aquamarkers, Triamarkers or Flexamarkers on your projects and you're in!

For my card today I decided to use this sweet image, which is a freebie at the moment from Milk Coffee Digi Stamps ............... until the end of this month! I just couldn't resist using her straight away, she is so cute...

.. and her dress was perfect for some paper piecing which I felt like doing this time. So I'm using a new digi stamp today on my card, which I combined with some oldie goodies from my stash, the Prima flowers and the background paper. The dies are Marianne Creatables, border punch is Martha Stewart, Thank You sentiment from Just Wordz and the little bunny stamp is a clear stamp from another stamp set that I have... I thought it was perfect with my little girl stamp :)

The winner this week will receive a £10 voucher to spend at Digital Downloads

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

Marianne Design 47 - ANYTHING GOES

Dream Valley 23 - ANYTHING GOES

Pile It On 3 - FUZZY FRIENDS

Stamp and Create January - ANYTHING GOES

Paperminutes 200- ANYTHING GOES

Divas By Design 18 - THANKS or NEW BEGINNINGS

Thank you for looking today.

Hugs

xxx

A Christmas Card

2012-01-18T15:00:00.000+01:00

Hello good morning. .. I have two cards today and for the first one I am using one of my Stamp Fairy images to play with the girls at the ABC Christmas Challenge as Stamp Fairy are sponsoring. The Challenge is in it's second week and the theme is ANYTHING GOES.... how could I not join in!

For my card I decided to use the sweet Chubby Christmas Angel today and some gorgeous papers which were freebie ones in a magazine. The poinsettia die is Spellbinders and the flourish is Joy Crafts.

Now I want to show you the latest new release at Stamp Fairy

Clementine Winter

I am entering my card in these challenges today.

Pile It On 3 - FUZZY FRIENDS

Stamp and Create January - ANYTHING GOES

Ladybug Crafts Ink 52 - BOWS

Papertake Weekly - BUTTONS, BOWS, BLING, BLOOMS (use any or all)

Thank you for looking

xxx

Love Boat Bunnies

2012-01-17T17:31:00.002+01:00

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post of Sunday, I really appreciate all of them. It really is a tough job being a parent! I remember I WAS just like them, or even worse, but times are tougher now, too much distractions ... I just want them to have a good job when they grow up!

Anyway, here is my card for today, quite a simple one this time.... it really does show when I don't do much hopping and my mind is not relaxed!!

My card today I made it for this week's new challenge at Crafty Sentiments and the theme for this week is ANYTHING GOES

I have of course used another image from the newest Love/ Romance release, this time the Love Boat Bunnies. I coloured them with my promarkers.

The flower and leaf die are Marianne Creatables, border punch is Martha Stewart, the heart gem, paper and lace are some stuff which I've had for quite some time but the pretty little pink butterfly is new .. SMILE .. there is a new Craft Shop where I live, which I never noticed it!!!! Thanks to Lorraine I SAW it now.

I want to tell you now that there will be a Crafty Sentiments stall at The Creative Craft Show in Manchester.. wow wish I could go! .. so if you are over there don't forget to go and say hi.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges today.

Marianne Designs 47 - ANYTHING

Do You Stack Up 54 - PINK

Stampin' for the Weekend 24 - OUT WITH THE OLD (paper, heart gem and lace)

Just Tracys Crafts Challenge - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

and now SOMETHING NEW themes, which for me are the stamp and butterfly

Crafty Creations 152

Little Miss Muffet 26

Card Makin Mamas

Crafty Catz 115

The Corrosive Challenge Blog 140

Thank you for looking today

Hugs

Anything Goes

2012-01-15T11:56:00.003+01:00

I feel like it's been ages since I last posted or done a card, but it's only four days ago, still quite a lot and I don't like. Well I was having some family issues... boys could have done better at the school exams, besides, older son is growing up veeery quickly, and we have to keep another eye on him so he doesn't get carried away ! ..

Anyway, I have a card today finally. ... it's great being on DTs.. .. make myself to post ha ha :) This card today is for the new challenge at ONE STITCH AT A TIME and the theme this week is ANYTHING GOES.

For my card I am using this gorgeous digi image, Brat from Beary Dust Stamps, and I coloured her with my promarkers. The lovely paper is one of the many lovely freebie from Bearly-Mine Designs, flowers are Prima, die-cuts are Marianne Creatables and the leaves is a Martha Stewart punch.

This week it's also the Collab week so you can get all these images here below for free, including the one I used, with any purchase of $7.00 in the store.

We have two sponsors this week, the collab prize from Stitchy Bear Store and also another voucher from Joanna Sheen store. Wow how can you not join in!

I am entering my card in these challenges today.

Marianne Designs 47 - ANYTHING

Bearly-Mine 26 - ANYTHING

Digital Tuesday 142 - PUNCH IT OUT

My Mum's Craft Shop 39 - HERE COME THE GIRLS

Charisma 1 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

C.R.A.F.T. 137 - CELEBRATIONS

Do You Stack Up 54 - PINK

ABC Challenge - H is for HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Thank you for looking today and a big welcome to my new followers... two more.. and we hit a big number yay :)

xxx

Cute and Cuddly

2012-01-11T15:41:00.000+01:00

I have another Christmas Card today. After Christmas I always try to keep doing at least one once a week, but unfortunately always stop midway.. let's see this time for how long I'll keep this up ha ha

So my card today I did it for the new challenge at

I ♥ PROMARKERS

and the theme for this week is

CUTE AND CUDDLY

We are being sponsored this week by Stamp Fairy and so all the DT Girls are using one of the sweet images from the store. I errmm.. used.. again woops ... the adorable Barry from the Barry Countdown to Christmas set1. I love Barry .. always so cute with that look.

I coloured Barry with my promarkers, some embossing today on some white-core cardstock, which I am using for the first time. .. I love how it came out after I sanded it. I recycled the ribbon and cut out the Christmas tree from old Christmas cards (not handmade of course) ...

These are my challenges for today.

CHNC 54 - RECYCLE

Squiggles and Giggles - RECYCLE / UPCYLCE

ABC Christmas - A for ANYTHING GOES

Dream Valley 23 - ANYTHING

Thank you for looking today.

I'm off .. in a rush as always!!! to take son to football.

See you laters

Water

2012-01-10T17:44:00.001+01:00

So here I am again with my second card for today.. and so different than my previous one too! This one this time is my DT Card for this week's new challenge at Crafty Sentiments and the theme is

WATER

I am of course using one of the new gorgeous images from the Love and Romance Set, Annabel the Mermaid, which I am also using for the first time. I coloured her with my promarkers, paper from stash, the heart dies are Marianne Creatables, the corner stamp is from Lily Of the Valley and the lovely sentiment and die are also from Crafty Sentiments.

Quite a simple card this time, but then you can't go wrong with this beautiful stamp.

Really hope you can join us this week. The winner, as always will win some gorgeous digis from the store.

My Challenges

Craft Your Passion 92 - MYTICAL CREATURES

Crafty Cardmakers 59 - NO FLORAL EMBELLISHMENTS

Lexi's Creations 56 - ANYTHING GOES

Magical Mondays - ANYTHING GOES

CES Challenge 67 - ANYTHING GOES

Birthday Sundaes 38 - ANYTHING

The Corrosive Challenge 140 - USE SOMETHING NEW (my stamp)

Thank you for looking today

A Circle Easel Card

2012-01-10T17:19:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone, Happy Tuesday, hope you had a nice relaxing weekend. I have two cards to show you today and this is my first one which I did for the Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday. As I was saying last time, Stamp Fairy will be sponsoring lots of challenges around blogland and we DT ladies will be joining in the fun this way, so here I am today playing with the Top Tip Tuesday girls.

Since the theme is Anything Goes, I decided to make a Christmas Card .. can never have enough of these I think and never too late to start!

The image that I used is Molly Fairy and if you notice, Molly doesn't have her wings! I hadn't meant her to be without them, but after colouring them, I decided that I didn't like the colour that I used, and so instead of throwing it away, I cut them off! I think she still came out so sweet.

Coloured the image with my promarkers, papers were magazine freebies as is the sentiment, and again I am using those lovely bauble stickers.

My Challenges

CES Challenge 67 - ANYTHING

Dream Valley 23 - ANYTHING

Hotshot Crafts 2 - EASEL CARDS

Cupcake Craftroom January - ANYTHING

Stamp and Create January - ANYTHING

Thank you for looking today.

Going dotty with Sweet Stampin

2012-01-07T15:01:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone, and hello to the weekend ... a windy one this time, but not so much as it was yesterday and at least the sun is out now, really pleased that I could hang out the clothes to dry. So, being Saturday, it means it's time for a new Challenge at Sweet Stampin and the theme for this week is

SPOTS AND DOTS

This week we are being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons..

wow look at what you can win

and Stamp Fairy as well

two fabulous sponsors !!

and speaking of Stamp Fairy, where I am also on the DT, the Challenges have been temporarily stopped for now but you'll be seeing Stamp Fairy all around in blogland sponsoring lots of challenges. .. Yes, you'll still be seeing me posting Stamp Fairy cards : ) but on different days this time.

Back to my card, obviously I had to use Barry, this darling Barry Angel, I think he is perfect for baby cards, can never have enough of these. Coloured him with my promarkers and then added some chalk as well.

The corner stamp is from LOTV as is the sentiment, paper from stash, border punch is Fiskars, centre die Spellbinders, stars Die-Namics and card candy to finish it off. Really loved how it turned out.

I want to take this opportunity now to show you the latest release at Stamp Fairy, George and Friends and if you go here there is a really gorgeous freebie which you really can't miss, so cute.

My challenges now for my card
Crafty Catz 114 - NEW BEGINNINGS
Crafty Ribbons 10 - NEW BEGINNINGS + HOP
My Mum's Craft Shop 38 - SOMETHING NEW
Simon Says Challenge - SOMETHING NEW
Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES
Bling It On - NEW BEGINNINGS

Thank you for looking today
xxx

A Christmas Card

2012-01-06T20:10:00.001+01:00

The weather is awful here today.. been so windy since yesterday night and now it's raining really hard as well. I wouldn't have minded it if I didn't have to go out tonight but it was my bestest friend's birthday this week and today we are all meeting up for dinner... so can't miss it definitely!

Anyway, I thought I would post this card today before I go to get ready. This is a card that I made for another special friend, but in blogland this time, and not wanting her to see it before she received it, I hadn't posted it .. but seeing this week's new challenge at Some Odd Girl, I thought it was the right time to do this!

The image, as you might have guessed, is from Some Odd Girl, coloured it with my promarkers... and it is one of those images that I am using for the first time!! I can't believe myself, and she is so cute.

These are some more stuff that I've had in my stash for quite some time and liking them so much, I never used them!! I added a little gem to their centre, a bow and peel offs to finish them off... I'm definitely going to use the rest of them, really loved them on the card :)

So these are my challenges for my card.

Some Odd Girl - BLING IT UP

Bunny Zoe's Crafts 19 - FANCY FOLDS/SHAPED CARDS

Hotshot Craft 2 - EASEL CARDS

Digital Tuesday 141 - WINTER WONDERLAND

Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

Top Tip Tuesday 67 - ANYTHING GOES

Some exciting news now yay
I won the challenge at ABC Challenge

and was the lucky winner of a fantastic voucher from Lili Of the Valley
woo hoo :D

Thank you for looking today

Buttons and Lace

2012-01-04T16:49:00.002+01:00

It is hubby's last day off today and the boys return back to school as well. One of them starts tomorrow and the younger one starts next Monday, and so, before they returned back to school, they have invited over their friends. Yesterday we had five boys here and today we have another five, but older ones this time, and a nice girl as well....

They have just left now, so here I am now posting my card for today which is my DT Card for this week's new challenge at I ♥ PROMARKERS. The theme for this week is BUTTONS AND LACE.

For my card this time I have decided to use one of my really gorgeous Tickled Pink Stamps.. can't believe I have never used this stamp before, she is adorable.

The background paper on my card was a magazine freebie, butterfly is new, as is the doily and lucky me, this was in the candy that I won from the crafty little bee Cebelica. Leaves dies are Marianne Creatables and corner stamps are from Lily of the Valley. I love how it turned out, so pleased that I managed to use some old stuff from my stash too, like the flowers, lace and buttons.

We are this week sponsored by:

and the lucky winner will win a £10 gift voucher from the store.

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge 50 - PAST FAVE CHALLENGE/s (38 Lace and Patterned Paper, 28 Cute with a Butterfly, 27 Use a doily)
All That Scraps - ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Challenge - SOMETHING NEW (doily and butterfly)

My Mum's Crafts Shop 38 - SOMETHING NEW (doily and butterfly)

Bearly-Mine 26 - ANYTHING GOES

Secret Crafter Saturday 166 - ANYTHING GOES

Ladybug Crafts Ink 51 - USE YOUR NEW STASH (doily and butterfly)

Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

Top Tip Tuesday 67 - ANYTHING GOES

Flutter By Wednesday 184 - ANYTHING

Thank you for looking today.

I hope I can now finally do my visiting.. things should get back to routine now.

xxx

Edit - Another Challenge for my card, this time at Fresh Brewed Blog, with the theme USE SOMETHING NEW. Thanks to Stacy for letting me know.

Love and Romance

2012-01-03T10:23:00.003+01:00

Hello, good morning everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Sentiments, the first one for this year, and to start the year we have some gorgeous romantic new stamps being released today. .. Of course the theme for this week just had to be

LOVE AND ROMANCE

Here is what I did.

I coloured the gorgeous image with my promarkers, background paper is from my BoBunny paper pack, the hearts and leaves dies are Marianne Creatables, the sentiment label dies is also from Crafty Sentiments and the Happy Anniversary sentiment is from Just Wordz.

Don't forget there is a SALE at the moment at the store til the end of this week.

Some exciting news now. I did the Top 3 at Just Tracy's last month challenge

with this card

So exciting, another badge for my sidebar :)

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Just Tracy's Crafts January Challenge - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Cupcake Craftroom January Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Joanna Sheen January Challenge - CELEBRATIONS

Simon Says Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Charisma Cardz 50 - ANYTHING GOES

Now you should really go check out the challenge blog to see all the other new gorgeous releases... and this time the winner will win one of the new released stamps! Wow!

My Fave Five Cards from 2011

2012-01-02T21:22:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, it's another new year, so time for me to look back onto my last year's cards and pick my fave ones with Debby.

Here they are.. and I tell you, not an easy task!!

So a Wedding Card to start with. Just love this one for it's simplicity. .. I find the clean and simple cards so difficult to do, so having managed to do this made me feel so good.

and another simple one, but so cute. I had tried the Spotlight Technique for the first time with this card.

Clarabelle now, so fun and cheeky, love it.

And a spooky fun card now. I love that it came so colourful and that I did the background paper myself.

And finally another wedding card. Love the pretty colours on this card and those cute darlings.

So those were my fave from last year. .. it is nice to look back onto last year's card, had forgotten most of them!

Well, I'm off now to watch TV with hubby. He is still on vacation leave, lucky thing :) kids still on school hols and me had to go back to work today SAD FACE :(

Use a Digi with OSAAT

2012-01-01T21:48:00.001+01:00

Hello everyone, Happy New Year to all in blogland!! I'm back now, well, sort of, lots of catching up to do. Today been all day with family, yesterday had guests over, so much to do.. and so I just forgot all about scheduling this post for the new challenge at One Stitch At A Time, the first one for this year. It is also the Collab Week, and the theme is USE A DIGI.

Found it so hard to create something after such a long time, mojo seems to have taken some time off like me, but after some time I managed a bookmark.

The image, called Marjo is from Stitchy, I coloured it with my promarkers, stamped the background with my Inkadinkadoo clear stamp set, the heart die is from Marianne Creatables, the sentiment label die is from Crafty Sentiments and the sentiment, Super Special, is from Just Wordz.

Hope you will come to play with us this week, check out all the details for the Collab here.

Thank you for looking.

Wishing you all the best for the 2012.

Hugs

xxx

2011-12-31T14:31:00.001+01:00

Please click here if you are looking for my Christmas Candy

And here if you are looking for the StampFairy Blog Hop.

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My Candy Winner and a Candy Alert too

2011-12-29T17:32:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and had all your wishes come true. We had a good one too with in-laws and other family and then this week it's been SALE shopping ;) and having guests over, with lots of preparations for this.... so I want to say sorry for not being around at all. I knew it was going to be hard to blog away with hubby on vacation leave and kids at home as well..

Anyway, I thought I would draw the winner of my Christmas Candy today since I should have done that already. Thanks to all who entered my candy and everyone for being around with me.

So who is it this time

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and the winner this time is

Chrissy

Congrats to Chrissy on winning my candy, really hope you will enjoy the goodies and for all my other followers, will soon be having another candy next year... wow it will soon be my Blogaversary again, time really flies, can't believe it !!!!! so keep a look out.

And now I got some exciting news ... yay I was so lucky again last week, this time at Do You Stack Up and won a $10 gift certificate from Inky Impressions

woo hoo :)

... and I had also won Cebelica's candy this month. Lookie at all the goodies. Thank you so much, I'm really going to have fun with these.

I also have a candy alert now at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge. The Candy will stay open til the 6th of January. So go here to check all the details.

No card today unfortunately, am trying to do something but am finding it really hard !!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Wishing you a fantastic New Year

Hugs

xxx

My Favourite Five Christmas Cards

2011-12-24T15:50:00.000+01:00

I wasn't planning on posting anything today, Christmas Eve, but seeing that Debby has the Favourite Five Christmas Cards for 2011 up and running, I thought it would be the perfect day to post my fave five.

Always is so difficult to choose, but finally here they are, I decided on these five.

A Blue and White card which I had made using a free stamp from the Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine.

And a frosty look on a Scalloped Easel Card, love doing these, so simple and fun.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer now, using a StampFairy image.

and another StampFairy image, Barry Winter this time... so cute.

And finally Eira.. love this one, she is so beautiful I think.

It was good to look back onto the Christmas cards I made through the year, thank you Debby :)

I'm off to get ready now. We're going to dinner tonight with in-laws and then to the midnight mass. Tomorrow, Christmas Day, will be spending it at brother-in-law.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

xxx