Time for Tea

Another sample for Stamposaurus, this time using the new cute teatime set. The teapot and cup are plain so I decided to doodle some flowers on them.

Stamp set - Stamposaurus

Medium - Copics and Sakura blue star and rose star pens

Paper - Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique

Other - doily, DI Victorian Velvet, card candi

Challenges

AGOAC Anything Goes 

The Squirrel and the fox Anything goes 

The Paper ShelterAnything Goes 

Creative Inspirations Anything Goes

Tomorrow I will be sharing my five favourite non Christmas cards from 2013. I will also be having some candy in January including some of the above papers.

Let's Fly

I hope you are enjoying the change from so many Christmas cards. I do plan to keep making them all year though so expect to see them in between all the other cards all year.

Image - The Crafty Pad (digi)

Papers - MME Blush and Prima Lyric

Die - MB swirly tree

Punches - MS rose leaf and fern, bird border

Roses - Wild Orchid

Butterfly - Prima

Challenges

Sweet Stampin' A little bird told me 

Papertake Pick f the year (July Die-ing for a Punch) 

Bunny Zoe Wings 

Crafts - Too Challenge You Natural world inc any winged creature 

Crafts and Me Anything Goes 

Creative Knockouts Anything Goes 

Cute Card Thursday Anything Goes

Gorjuss Christmas

This is my second post today. Please scroll down for today's card.

I thought I would share this photo with you off all the Gorjuss Girl goodies my lovely hubby bought me. One calendar for downstairs and one for my craftroom, a diary, mouse mat, luggage tag, magnet, coaster and tins. 

I had some lovely crafting items too from friends a £15 LOTV voucher, paper, pearls and a stamp. Hubby bought me some toppers and decoupage I wanted for quick makes to sell, a £10 Hobbycraft voucher and amazingly he chose two First Edition paper pads for me.

I hope you all got some new crafty stash, leave me a comment and let me know what you got.

New Sewing Stamps

Something different from Christmas cards today. As some of you know I make samples for Stamposaurus for their new stamp launches and they have 6 new stamps out. This is the sewing set. I have coloured them with Copics and teamed them with some tape measure ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and Marianne Design's papers, Michaels border punch, baker's twine and a Tim Holtz stitch stamp. Check out the website for the full range of new stamps. I will be bringing you some more samples shortly.

Challenges

Stamping Sensations Free and Easy 

Crafty Creations Anything Goes 

Allsorts Brown with blue, aqua or turquoise (any combo)
Creative Card Crew Anything Goes

My Favourite 5 Christmas cards of 2013

Every year Debby asks us to choose our favourite 5 Christmas cards for the year. Always so difficult to narrow it down to just 5 but I have managed it.

The first one is my Hubby's card. I really enjoyed colouring these little cute creatures and making a vintage style card with the gorgeous Craftwork Cards Christmas Post papers.

This one was only on my blog on Boxing Day. Another gorgeous LOTV stamp, loads of layers, frantage, lace, sharms. In fact lots of my favourite things here.

Regular readers will know I used this new Woodware stamp in a few different ways and this is my favourite. I paper pieced it and made a many layered card.

I love Delicious Doodles scene digis and teaming this one with some raffia lace and diecuts made a striking card, traditional yet modern.

My final choice is one of, if not my favourite Christmas stamps of all time. Here she is in my favourite colour combo with some of my fave lace on one of the shaped cards I have loved using this Christmas.

Well, that's my five. I look forward to checking out some of the entries.

My favourite Christmas stamp (probably)

I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas. This is probably my favourite all time Christmas stamp coloured in my fave colour with my fave lace. I love the amount of white on this card too.

Image - Whiff of Joy

Medium - Copics

Papers - Echo Park Winter Wishes

Lace - Wild Orchid

Die - MB traditional star

Card blank - Craftwork Cards

Challenges

Sweet Stampin' White plus one 

Dream Valley Christmas 

Kaboodle Doodles Christmas 

As You Like It Favourite Christmas stamp and why (I love Elisabeth Bell images and this one is so beautiful. I love her dress and it is such a challenge to colour.) 

Southern Girls Christmas wishes 

Charisma Anything Goes 

Divas by Design Anything Goes 

Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards or any not shown
Papertake Pick of the year I chose Last Christmas card of the year

I will be back tomorrow with my favourite 5 Christmas cards of 2013.

Jingle Bells

I hope you have all had a lovely day ysterday. This is the Christmas card I made for my good friend Lynsey (and Will and their little girl Grace of course). Lynsey actually bought me the stamp as part of my Birthday present so I knew she liked it and I know how much both she and Grace love fairies and pink.

Image - LOTV

Papers - Nitwits Woodland Wishes from LOTV

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Gauze - LOTV shop

Other - wooden sentiment and embellie, stickles, frantage, vintage tag and number from NEC, baker's twine, bell charms, TH distressing tool, DI Victorian Velvet

Challenges

Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards/any not shown 

That Craft Place Anything Goes 

Ali-Craft Christmas 

Bunny Zoe Wings

In the Pink Pink Christmas

 CCAYR Christmas Stocking 

Heck of a Challenge Colourful 

My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas 

Stamping Sensations Free and Easy 

Crafty Blogger's Network Girly

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve

Well here we are on Christmas Eve and I thought this an appropriate card to post today. I hope Santa brings you lots of goodies on his sleigh.

Image - Penny Black

Medium - Copics

Embossing folder - Crafter's Companion with sanded Core'dinations

Stars - Woodware punch and crimper

Die - Spellbinders floral oval

Other - Stickles, DI Frayed Burlap

Challenges

Penny Black Christmas

Natalie and Amy Cute and Cuddly Christmas

BizzyBecs Christmas 

Live and Love Crafts Stardust

Sketch Saturday Any sketch after 215

Which I rotated

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 23

Sorry my posts have been a bit short but they have all been scheduled as we have been without a laptop for almost a week so I haven't easily been able to add the more personalised bits to my posts as I would normally do. Trying to do it on an iPad is such a fiddle.

Can you believe it is already 23rd December and we are almost at the end of our fabulous advent calendar event on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. Today our sponsor is

This is the card I made for my Mum's husband to give her.

Images - LOTV

Medium - Copics

Papers - Nitwits Woodland Wishes from LOTV

Sentiment - LOTV

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Die - Tatterd Lace ivy

Other - charm, Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen, baker's twine

Challenges

Ready-Teddy-Go Contemporary colours

Papertake Last Christmas card of the year

 Bearly Mine Anything Goes 

Aud Sentiments Christmas 

Cute Card Thursday Celebrations 

Delightful Celebrate 

Craftyhazelnut Last minute cards/ any not shown

Fairy Tag

I made this tag for my friend Lynsey's Christmas pressy. I used one of thePrima tags with a large LOTV diecut and fussy cute the image. The papers are DCWV Winter combo, ribbon Crafty Ribbons. I used an MB snowflake die and MS cherish border punch.

Challenges

Sparkles Anything but a card

Totally Gorjuss Quick Christmas
Crafting from the heart Anything goes

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 21

Day 21 of the Advent Calendar has arrived and Christmas will be here before we know it. I hope you are playing along at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where today our sponsor is Crafty Individuals with a fabulous prize.

I have made a simple card today using a Tim Holtz reindeer diecut coloured with DI Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain with added white souffle pen dots. The papers are Bo Bunny Rejoice and the gorgeous owl ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons of course. The sentiment is one of the LOTV grunge sentiments with a little red glitter pen added.

Numbers

My DT card today is for the challenge of numbers at Winter Wonderland. Today we start our option of non Christmas makes for just a few weeks. We realise that you may not have any Christmas makes left to create so you an choose to make something for Christmas or not as long as you follow the theme. We have a wonderful sponsor again

Teresa is very generously offering a £10 voucher.

I have used Craftwork Cards Christmas Post papers,sentiment and candi with a lovely Delicious Doodles digi. I just coloured a few bits of the image with Copics and added stickles. I love these shaped card also from Craftwork Cards and will have to invest in the Go Kreate dies to make them myself.

Challenges

Creative Moments Anything Goes/Winter Wonderland

Crafts-Too Challenge You Natural World, any winged creature

A Creative Romance Sparkle at Christmas 

That Craft Place Christmas
Dream Valley Christmas
Bunny Zoe Wings
Crafting from the heart Anything Goes

Don't forget to hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 20

I normally use the ribbon that you buy specially for gift wrapping but how much nicer to use the beautiful Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. I have used 3 different ones to wrap 3 presents together and also on my tag which I made with Spellbinder and Marianne dies and Bo Bunny Father Christmas papers.

Hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog to see what the rest of the DT have made and enter for today's prize sponsored by 

I will be back at 9am with my Winter Wonderland DT card.

Crafty Little Fairies and Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 19

A lovely easy challenge for you this week at Crafty Little Fairies, anything goes. As long as you use a stamped or digi image you can play along. I have made another calendar using a sweet Penny Black stamp which has been coloured with Copics. The paper is First Edition Dreamcatcher. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and I have used 2 Joy dies with sanded Core'dinations.

My calendar is also featured on Day 19 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar which I hope you have been playing along with. You can find all the details on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog.

Challenges

Bunny Zoe Wings

Crafty Catz Aything Goes 

Sparkles Anything but a card

Hubby's Christmas Card

Hubby's Christmas card always seems to be one of the last I make. I am glad it was as I bought a few more LOTV stamps when they recently had a 20% off sale, well it would have been rude not to I thought. I have fallen in love with these cute animals and knew he would appreciate the image. He likes the vintage style too and I wanted to make a card which wasn't girly. It's an 8x8 card so plenty of room for embellishments.

Image and grunge postcard - LOTV

Medium - Copics

Papers - Craftwork Cards Christmas Post

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Dies - Memory Box snowflake, Dee's Christmas trees, Cheery Lynn Santa

Other - Wooden snowflakes, DI Frayed Burlap, Stickles

Challenges

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Last minute Christmas makes 

A Creative Romance Sparkle at Christmas 

Sweet Stampin' Last minute Christmas 

Totally Gorjuss Special Christmas wishes 

Here come the boys Anything goes for boys 

Sister Act Anything Goes 

Delicious Doodles Hairy Legs 

That Craft Place Christmas

Natalie and Amy Cute and Cuddly Christmas

Papertake Last Christmas Card of the Year

Have you entered today?

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 17

Here we are at Day 17 of the Advent Calendar at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. That means this time next week will be Christmas Eve. I hope you are all ready for Christmas. Today we are sponsored by

Image - Di's Digis

Medium - Copics

Papers - Echo Park Winter Wishes

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Dies - Memory Box

Other - pearl, Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen

Challenges

Simon Says Let it Snow 

Divas by Design Anything Goes

Penny's Feminine with a sentiment

Hop over now and enter for your chance to win.

Simply a Snowman

I made this card for my Mum to give her husband. It's an 8 x 8 card which allowed me to use 2 of the stamps from the Stampendous stamp set. I have kept this a simple layout to show off the image which has been coloured with Copics. The papers, hearts and candi are Craftwork Cards Christmas Post . I added a wooden sentiment and snowman coloured with DI Vintage Photo.

Challenges

Without Words Nearest and Dearest (Christmas)

Simon Says Let it Snow 

Creative Inspirations Traditional Christmas colours
Bizzy Becs Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Whatever is urgent to make
Sweet Stampin' Last minute Christmas

 I really appreciate all your visits even more at this very busy time of the year. We seem to be out and about even more than ever this year. This week is a whirl of visiting and meals. I think I may meet myself coming the other way one day! 

Please see above from my Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar post

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 16

Welcome to Day 16 of the Advent calendar at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where our sponsor is

I made some bottle tags to sell at my last two craft fairs and was pleased to sell 3 of them. They were so easy to make but look very effective. I used the large Prima tags as these are nice and heavy duty. I cut off the top with the tiny hole and diecut a larger hole with a Spellbinder and then scored across. The ribbons are all from Crafty Ribbons of course and I used some Little Claire's toppers, Memory Box and Cuttlebug dies and MS Snowflake punch.

Challenges

Crafty Catz Anything Goes 

Sparkles Anything but a card

I will be back shortly with a card.

Guest Designer at Marianne's Design Divas

I was amazed and thrilled  to receive an email recently asking me to be a guest designer at Marianne's Design Divas. I thought I would make a Birthday card for a change as I need to build up my stock ready for next year's craft fairs. I love making card using various dies and all the dies are Marianne Designs. I used 2 squares from a set I won from Shirley, my favourite parasol, mini butterfly with comes with the topiary tree and 2 flower dies. I love the embossing on these diecuts and used sanded Core'dinations with them. The paper was also in my candy win, sentiment, finding and pearls are from stash.

Challenges

TTCD Anything Goes 

Crafting From the Heart Anything Goes 

Crafty Blogger's Network Girly

Don't forget to hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 14

I hop you are all playing along with the fabulous advent calendar at Crafty Ribbons. You can enter once every day and today we have another fabulous prize

So hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and check out the work from the DT before entering.

Image - LOTV (a Birthday pressy from Lynsey)

Medium - Copics

Papers - Christmas Time from Whimsy

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Snowflakes - MS punch and MB die

Other - Stickles, Viva Decor pearl pen

Challenges

Send a smile 4 Kids Winter Fun 4 Kids 

Ali-Craft Christmas 

Crafts and Me Anything Goes
That Craft Place Christmas
Papertake Christmas Creatures
Kaboodle DoodlesNon traditional Christmas colours

Simon Says Let it Snow

Fab n Funky Snowflakes

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 13

Here we are at Day 13 of the advent calendar and today we have another fabulous prize for you

so hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and enter every day for your chance to win.

This is another of the calendars I made for my craft fairs. I bought a Papermania chipboard album to make them and I have used Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique paper. The image is from one of the LOTV Art pads, roses from Wild Orchid, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and I used a MB banner die.

Challenges

Lili of the Valley Anything but a card
Allsorts Anything but Christmas
AGOAC Anything Goes
Crafting when we can Countdown/calendar

Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar Day 12

Welcome to Day 12 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar. I hope you are playing along every day to win great prizes. Today Crafty Ribbons are offering a fabulous prize and you can find all the details on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. I have used that Woodware stamp again and paper pieced it with some Bo Bunny Father Christmas holly paper and added some pearls. Everything else on the bag is from the Craftwork Cards Christmas Post pack.

Challenges

My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas 

One Crazy Stamper Winter or Holiday 

Penny Black and More at AllsortsTraditional Christmas colours
Totally Papercrafts Anything Christmassy but a card
Dream Valley Anything but a card
Sweet Stampin' Ribbons
That Craft Place Christmas
Creative Card Crew Holly or poinsettia

Crafty Ribbons advent Calendar Day 11

Yes we are up to Day 11 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar. I hope you are playing along at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. Today we are sponsored by Delicious Doodles. I have used this gorgeous image and just coloured the post box and front door with Copics. The fence is a Doohickey die and the tree Dee's with added Hobby House pearls. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons of course.

Challenges

One Crazy Stamper Winter or Holiday
Delicious Doodles Christmas
Stampin' for the weekend Use some red
My Mum's Craft Shop Winter/Christmas
Sweet Stampin' Ribbons
Ali-Craft Christmas
Incy Wincy Let it Snow
Crafty Sentiments Christmas