Welcome to my 2 new followers, great to see you here. Another Pollycraft image for this thank you card I need to send to some friends. I do love bears and this one is so cute. Main paper is Rose Garden, rest are scraps from various packs. I added some gems to the centres of the flowers in the circle which was cut with a Nellie die. I came home yesterday to flowers and ribbons from 2 challenge wins, which was lovely.
As I told you last Tuesday Erin has organised 4 blog hops for Bella. 8 year old Bella developed a serious illness at Easter. Although the survival rate was very low, she was a brave fighter and made it through a 5 day coma. Tragically, she lost her arms and legs to the disease. You can read the story in depth here.
Firstly welcome to my lovely new followers. It is such a lovely surprise to go onto my blog and find some new followers. I was chosen as one of the top 3 at Die Cut Dreams this week, thanks Susie.
This is my second post for today. Please scroll down for my Winter Wonderland DT card.
When I saw the challenge at Penny Black was travel or holidays I was stumped for a while as I couldn't think of a suitable image. Then I remembered this girl with her suitcase. I'm a little late as the new challenge starts tomorrow so hope I am not too late with this one as I really like the way it turned out. Papers are Henbury Lane and Rose Garden by Papermania. I added some pearls, Primas, paper roses and sticky ribbon. I used the fab sketch from Papertake. Passion for Promarkers want to see your favourite things on a card. This one features 2 of mine, holidays and reading.
My last card is another of the LOTV bears. I added glossy accents to her sunglasses and some faux stitching around the image. I used my MS PATP for the pink paper. The glitter stripe was made with a strip of double sided tape. Sentiment is K&Co and flowers are Prima with brads.
Here is my DT card for this week's challenge over at Winter Wonderland. It is Kate's first challenge and this week she is looking for strawberries and cream. I used this cute digi bear from Stitchy. I ended up with slightly lilac pink but it is pretty isn't it. The papers are some old Papermania I think. I added lots of glitter to the wings and the foam snowflakes and used glitter card for the Sizzix cut corners. Go check out the other lovely DT cards which are more strawberry colour than mine turned out.
This is my second post for today. Please, please, please read my previous post and send a card to Bella.
The colour challenge of blue and yellow to go with their sketch at Stampin' for the weekend was another challenging one as yellow is a colour I rarely use on cards. Papers are K&Co Daisy and Kate Knight. I didn't have any yellow flowers so I coloured white flowers with tulip yellow Promarker. The image is from Pollycraft.
This card is going to a very special little girl, Bella. You can read more about her here tomorrow. I love this LOTV fairy on tiptoe, she is so lovely to colour and glitter. Papers are Papermania Capsule collection, flowers are Prima.
This jolly pirate is a Pollycraft image which I haven't used before. Papers are K&Co Hopscotch and Papermania Hampstead. I added some doodling and doodled squares with buttons.
It's Friday once again and her is my GDT card for Crafts 4 Eternity where the challenge this week, along with the great sketch, is a sport theme and use an arrow. Now my first thought was an archer but I didn't have one of those. I'm thinking Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, now, yummy. I did find this golfer lurking in my stash of images, no idea what make he is as he was a gift. Papers are K&Co Hopscotch and I made one of the strips an arrow, clever, huh! The embellie is part of a golfing set I bought in America and the colour goes perfectly with these papers. The corner stickers are from an old pack from Lakeland. There are so many challenges wanting male cards so hope to see you joining in this week.
I am also entering this card into the following challenges who all want male cards this week, Totally Gorjuss, Stamptacular, Crafty Cardmakers, Cupcake, Incy Wincy, Pear Tree Designs, Creative Inspirations, Polka Doodles. Our Creative Corner's challenges is Gotcha cornered.
This week at Winter Wonderland our challenge is a festive tree. I found this image in my Christmas stash box which was another RAK. I think this one came from Christine in Canada as the teddy had a stars and stripes flag. I added white glitter flocking to Santa's beard and fur and the tag went over the flag. The papers are some old ones as are the little tree stickers. I added a Christmas tree brad to the flower so that's 5 festive trees. The number of entries is growing every week now so more and more of you are seeing the benefit of getting ahead with those Christmas cards. This week's fab prize is 3 digis from Delicious Doodles so get creating.
I haven't been able to spend much time on the computer the last 2 evenings as I have been working on spreadsheets so much at work I think I have strained my eyes a bit so apologies I haven't visted as much as usual.
I don't always have much time for crafting and blogging at the weekend but as hubby went for a haircut Saturday afternoon I had time for another scrapbook page. I am so glad I have got back into this as I am really enjoying it. There used to be a lovely parade at EPCOT in Florida which was called Tapestry of Dreams. Children had to write their dreams and the dreamcatcher pictured here would take them.
There were some wonderful characters in this parade and the most haunting music. Sadly they don't have a parade at that park anymore. The main paper is K & Co Hopscotch with SU and Henbury Lane papers added, Sizzix cut swirls and some doodled squares with buttons from stash. I used the June sketch from Practical Scrappers. Buttons is the challenge at Allsorts.
Time for a Gorjus girl I thought. They were everywhere when they first came out and now you don't see them so much. I glittered the spots and trim on her dress. Papers are Papermania with Prima flowers and punched fern leaves.
Well it is still more like Autumn today. Chilly and gloomy with some rain first thing. It does seem a bit warmer now but nothing like Summer. This is my GDT card for Crafts 4 Eternity where there is a lovely sketch with lots of layers, my fave, and the need to feature strawberries and lace. I have used the gorgeous WOJ image of Willow. The main paper is K&Co. I used my MS trellis punch and flower doily punches, punched ferns and Wild Orchid flowers along with some pink lace, sentiment from Craftwork cards layered on a nestie die cut and a photo corner from stash. you can win 2 digi stamps and the sketch is such a great one to use so I hope you will all join in this week.
The second card is my DT card for Winter Wonderland. This week Danielle has chosen the lovely challenge of a traditional Christmas flower. There are some great stamps on offer for the lucky winner too from the Stamp Barn. I chose one of my favourite Anyas for this one and added lots of glitter. The two papers are Dovecraft Traditional Christmas, full of poinsettias and holly. (The strips are from the sheet of paper.) I made the poinsettias with a nestie, X cut punch and gems and added gold holly leaves. It seems that more and more of you are getting those Christmas cards made which is great to see.
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I was making my Winter Wonderland DT card for tomorrow's challenge and thought why not make 2 Christmas cards. The weather is more like Autumn than Summer here anyway. I chose one of my new Squiggle digis for this one and what a cutie she is. I added lots of glitter and snowflakes, which feature on the papers too. The blue ones are foam and the others were made with my MS punch and pearls.
I can now share my hubby's anniversary card with you. He was so pleased with it which is great as it took a long time to make with 2 images to colour. They are 2 of the new bears from Pollycraft. The sentiment was done on the PC and the roses are Wild Orchid. I used my MS heart border and large heart punches and the leaves are from a Woodware punch.
This is another of my fave stamps from WOJ. I think I love it as she is indulging in my fave pastime when I am not crafting. I couldn't find the right colour pink flowers in my stash so I used white ones and coloured them with PMs and added some pearls.
My final card today, whew, are these cute PB mice, which remind me of making daisy chains when I was a little girl. I added some faux stitching and used my Cuttlebug D'vine swirls embossing folder and large Sizzix swirl with Wild Orchid cherry blossoms and a large flower from Bo Bunny.
I couldn't believe it when this number came up as that's my very good friend, Lynsey. Congratulations. 
Finally I was really pleased to make the top 3 at Susie and Vikki's Christmas Club last week with my Winter Wonderladn DT card. Thanks girls.
Candy closes on June 6th and the winner will be announced on June 7th.
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The image is Buzzcraft, main papers are Kate Knight, flowers are Wild Orchid. I used my new MS PATP punches for this one again and my Sizzix swirl.
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Firstly welcome to my lovely new followers. Wow, I can't believe there are so many of you and not all of you have entered the candy either so you must have joined just because you like my work, thanks so much.
What a beautiful day today, I think Summer finally arrived yesterday. My antibiotics seem to be kicking in and I am feeling a little better, thank goodness, though not quite as good today as I did yesterday. I hope you like my new look blog. I do like to keep changing the background and wanted to celebrate my anniversary on Saturday with some hearts. I can't believe the number of entries for my candy. If you haven't joined in the fun yet you only have another 3 days to enter.
There are a lot of fun in the sun and beach challenges this week so I chose these colours to represent sea and sand. Anya looks like she has spent too much time in the sun here. At least she protected her face with those great sunglasses. You might need yours on for this card. I covered her glasses in glossy accents, left them to dry and then when I looked for the image found I had laid another one on top. I don't recommend it! Luckily I managed to unpick the card from her glasses and add more glossy accents. They now look perfect again. Main papers are K&Co Hopscotch and Papermania Hampstead. Flowers are Prima.
