Make a scene

The two craft fairs at the weekend went really well. In fact so well I am a bit short of stock for the last two in two week's time so I will be busy making more. Some of them are quite simple cards and these are proving very popular with customers. For this one I used a Die-namics snowdrift die and a new MB die. The sentiment is a Marianne die and stamp set and I used an old Cuttlebug embossing folder with sanded Core'dnations and added lots of stickles.

Challenges

ABC Christmas W for Winter Wishes 

Aud Sentiments Any sentiment 

Delicious Doodles No designer paper 

CCAYR Winter Wonderland

Thank you so much to all those of you who leave me such lovely comments. I am doing my best to keep up with commenting. A warm welcome to my new followers too.

Just a few days left to enter my candy.

That stamp from two days ago

Yes it is the same stamp that I used on my white card on Saturday, compare the two cards and it shows how versatile these stamps are. The cards are nothing alike. This one is much more fussy.

Sentiment stamp - Woodware

Papers - Trimcraft 'Tis the Season (forgot I bought these, oops)

Dies - Memory Box holly vine, holly leaves ad deer trio (minus one)

Other - DI frayed burlap and vintage photo used on the deer,

 hessian, raffia, pearls from The Hobby House, white souffle pen

Challenges

Bearly Mine Red and green and die cuts 

Everybody Art Kraft 

ABC Christmas W for Winter Wishes 

Here come the boys Sentiments only 

Bunny Zoe Shabby chic/vintage 

Crafts and Me Vintage Christmas

Penny Black and More at Allsorts Anything Goes 

Sparkles Animals
Totally Papercrafts Add a bow
Charisma Christmas
Crafts-Too Challenge You Vintage Christmas - polychromatic

More Roses

Another early start for me today at another craft fair so I have scheduled this post and will link it later. It's another card using products from a Hobby House pack. The only things not in the pack were the flowers which are from Wild Orchid and I punched some rose leaves with a MS punch.

Challenges

The Hobby House Pearls 

Divas by Design Make it Pretty 

Fab n Funky Anything Goes 

Aud Sentiments Any sentiment 

Simon Says Great sketch

White on White with a touch of red

I love White on White cards and I sometimes think a little touch of colour really sets them off. I used another of my new Woodware stamps. I doodled inside the numbers to match the border and added frantage and Viva Decor pearl pen drops to the sentiment. I used a Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, velvet ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, flowers from stash and ruby pearls from The Hobby House.

Challenges

Crafty Sentiments Christmas

  TTCD Anything Goes 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' White on white 

Little Claire Christmas 

Live and Love Crafts Photo inspiration 

Oldie but a Goodie CAS Christmas (old embossing folder and flowers)

The Ribbon Girl White
The Paper Shelter Christmas is coming
Charisma Christmas

I am at a craft fair this morning so will catch you later.

Don't miss this

Hi Everyone,

Time to share some news with you all..... Over on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog we are going to be having another one of our fabulous events,yes it's time for our Christmas Advent Event which will run from 1st December through to the 24th December........

Each day we will be highlighting a different Craft Company or Shop, the Design Team will be posting cards/projects on  the Inspiration blog and on their blogs each day there will also be a prize from the highlighted Company up for grabs that's 24 prizes  in total and you can enter each day,only one entry per person per day to make it fair,so make sure to become a follower over at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog   and remember the Christmas Advent will start at 8.30am (GMT) on the 1st December the Design Team hope you will all join in the fun and countdown to Christmas with us....... 

To kick off our new event we are offering a fabulous surprise ribbon candy......

 If you would like to win this fabulous ribbon surprise,then all you need to do is go over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog and checkout the post about the Christmas Advent Event..

Please scroll down for my Winter Wonderland card and up to enter my candy.

Santa in his workshop

We have a photo inspiration this week at Winter Wonderland and our photo is of a jolly Santa. Any card/project is eligible with a Santa image. We are sponsored this week by

who are offering 4 of their gorgeous images for the winner.

I have gone for a CAS card to really show off this gorgeous Scribble and Scrap Santa which has been coloured with Copics. The sentiment was made with a MB die and Centura Pearl card. The sage green backing paper is from the Nitwits Woodland Wishes pack from LOTV. I almost left it there but in the end just had to add some ruby pearls from The Hobby House.

Challenges

Scribble and Scrap Anything Goes 

Without Words Getting ready for Christmas 

Vintage Stamping Traditional Christmastime 

The Hobby House Pearls 

ABC Christmas Winter Wishes (use a sentiment) 

Send a Smile 4 Kids Anything Goes 4 Kids 

That Craft Place Sentiment
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Indoors

Jumper

This is my second DT make for today. Our challenge at Crafty Little Fairies this week combines 2 of my fave products, lace and pearls. We are sponsored by Live and Love Crafts. This is the Birthday card I made for a very lovely lady, Debby recently I know that Debby loves Saturated Canary so I chose to use this cutie for her card. 

Image - Saturated Canary Jumper

Medium - Copics

Papers - MME Collectable

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Fence - Memory Box die

Butterflies - Cheery Lynn dies

Pearls from stash

Challenges

Totally Gorjuss 3 patterned papers

Have you entered my candy yet, see post above?

Alice in Wonderland

It's my second and final GDT make for the lovely ladies at It's all about the vintage and beauty. This fortnight the sponsors are Delicious Doodles and Villakeiju. Yes, it's another bookmark. I love the vintage images from Nicecrane and was delighted to use this which is from the original book drawings. Bit of a challenge to colour as there is so much black shading in the picture but I am pleased with the way it all turned out. I used another of the large Prima tags, a Papermania diecut, dictionary page including the word curious, some mini playing cards from a cracker, ribbon from stash, a Tim Holtz clock rubon and DI Vintage Photo.

Challenges

Crafty Catz Not square

 Di's Digis Girly 

Bizzy Becs Tag it 

Bunny Zoe Shabby chic/vintage
Allsorts Make a gift (bookmark)
Sweet Stampin' Use tags
Songbird Your favourite song (I have so many but I love White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane)
Simon Says Monday challenge It's a Mystery ( I have always been fascinated by Alice in Wonderland, very mysterious story)

I'll be back shortly with my DT card for Crafty Little Fairies.

Two more penguins

Not one but two penguins for you today. I adore this image which is a digi from Sugar Nellie from Funky Kits. It was a rubber stamp but I think you can only get the digi now. I bought some 7x7 card blanks at the NEC and this is the first one of these I have used. I really like the size.

Image - Sugar Nellie

Faux stitching - TH stamp

Medium - Copics

Papers - Nitwits for LOTV

Sentiment - Die-versions die

Snowflakes - TH on the edge snowflakes, Fiskars small snowflake

Other - Stickles, sanded Core'dinations

Challenges

The Sugar Bowl Sparkle and Shine
Let's Craft and Create Glitter 

ABC Christmas Winter Wishes 

Crafting for all seasons Stitching 

ALBC Sparkle and shine 

CCAYR Winter Wonderland 

Crafty Blogger's Network Christmas
Little Claire Christmas

Have you entered my candy yet, post above?

Penguin Lamplighter

I do love a penguin image and Janet at Pink Gem has produced some gorgeous new images so I just had to buy a couple. I have been back to colouring some images for my next cards on my blog and have been enjoying it so much. I have made several traditional coloured cards lately but it was fun to use one of my fave colour combos on this one.

Image - Pink Gem

Medium - Copics

Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes

Die - Marianne icicles

Other - sentiment and snowflakes from stash, Stickles, Sakura clear star pen

Challenges

AGOAC Purple and turquoise 

Sketch Saturday Great sketch which I rotated

Squirrel and the Fox Violet 

ALBC Sparkle and shine 

CCAYR Winter Wonderland  

One Crazy Stamper Christmas 

Stamping Sensations Christmas
Addicted to Stamps and More Anything Goes

Roses

This is my second card today.

Well I don't seem to be showing many cards I have coloured at the moment but as I have been trying to build up my stocks again after selling so many cards these gorgeous precoloured Wee toppers make much quicker cards. Everything on the card with the exception of the MB die cut flower and the WOC roses is from a Hobby House pack. I just had to add a little colouring for the floor on the image.

Challenges

The Hobby House Pearls 

Fab n Funky Anything goes
Paper Shelter For someone special

Back to Copic coloured images tomorrow.

Banners and Stars Joy

A clean and simple card today, which I am really pleased with. I am enjoying the challenge of making some very different styles of card. I cut three banners from Craftwork Cards Christmas Post papers and inked the edges. The sentiment is from the same pack. The stars were die cute with MB traditional stars dies and I added some pearls to the centres.

Challenges

Creative Card Crew Pearls 

ABC Christmas W for Winter Wishes (add a sentiment) 

Creative Moments Anything Goes/CAS 

Delicious Doodles CAS 

Totally Papercrafts CAS 

Dream Valley Clean and simple
Totally Gorjuss 3 patterned papers

Have you entered my candy yet, see post above?

Snow

I have been wanting some of the Woodware word stamps for a while and bought this and the Baby one at the NEC. I can see it being so useful and is great for paper piecing as I have done here. The papers are Echo Park Winter Wishes and I added an MS punched snowflake, pearl and some MB die cut penguins using black glitter card. I added loads of stickles ot the word too. The let it snow sentiment is also part of the stamp set, which I know I shall be using again soon.

Challenges

Crafty Cardmakers Paper piecing 

Crafty Sentiments Blues 

Papertake Snow and Ice 

TTCD Anything goes 

ABC Christmas W for Winter Wishes (add sentiment) 

Divas by Design Something Snowy 

A Creative Romance Winter Blues 

Crafty Blogger's Network Christmas

Pink Easel

Last week I sold 3 of my different shaped cards so I thought I needed at least one more for today's craft fair as I only have 2 left and they look so pretty in front of my card stand.

Image - LOTV Art Pad

Papers Nitwits Antebellum from LOTV

Sentiment - Grunge sentitment from LOTV

Die - Tim Holtz on the edge butterflies

Rhinestones - The Hobby House

Other - DI Tattered Rose, sanded Core'dinations, stickles, spider's web stuff from Dreamees stand at the NEC

Challenges

The Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili - Sparkle 

Lili of the Valley Pink and white 

Crafty Catz Not square 

Penny's Add a sentiment 

Creative Knockouts Make it Sparkle 

Creative Creations Sparkle and shine

The craft fair today is one of my regular ones which finishes at 1pm so I will be home this afternoon to link up and catch up with some blogging.

My first calendar

I was asked at a recent craft fair if I had any calendars so I thought I would have a go at making some. I bought the calendars and the chipboard heart at the NEC. I usually look at things like this and wonder what to do with them but I was determined to give it a go. I covered the heart with some new paper from Dovecraft, Cupcake Boutique. and inked the edges. The birdcage is a MB die and the butterfly Joy. I added some lace and ribbon from stash and some Wild Orchid roses.

Challenges

Wild Orchid Ribbon and lace 

Scribble and Scrap Anything Goes 

Crafting Musketeers Pretty pastels

Sewing Bookmark

You may have noticed that I love making sewing cards though I don't sew nowadays. I used to like embroidery, patchwork and cross stitch before I discovered cadmaking. I thought a sewing bookmark would be fun for my DT make this week for the anything goes with ribbon at Crafty Ribbons. I stamped various sewing stamps which were a mag freebie, using Memento Rich Cocoa and then used DI tattered Rose. The diecuts are Tim Holtz and I used ric rac and tape measure ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. The bows and baker's twine are from stash.

Challenges

Bizzy Becs Tag It 

Crafts 4 Eternity Anything but a card 

Scribble and Scrap Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe Shabby chic/vintage

Mittens

Back to cute again today and another of my new stamps bought at the NEC. 40% off who could resist him?

Image - Penny Black Cozy!

Medium - Copics (the scarf and mittens are less red IRL)

Papers - Nitwits Woodland Wishes from LOTV (also new)

Punch - MS holly border

Die - MB precious mittens

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Other - stickles, pearls

Challenges

ALBC Sparkle and shine 

CCAYR Winter Wonderland 

Crafty Calendar All Things Christmas 

Penny Black Sparklers 

Penny Black and more at Allsorts Anything Goes 

Creative Knockouts Get punchy 

Craftyhazelnut Outdoors 

Sweet Stampin' Christmas is coming 

Sunday Sketch and Stamp Great sketch

I'm off Christmas shopping, hoping to get it finished today.

Christmas Post

Saw a very nice specialist yesterday about my back and he explained that the fracture has healed but unfortunately one of my vertebrae is compressed which is what cause the pain at times. I have some exercises to do and in time the pain should get less and the compression will ease but it will never fully recover. I am so relieved that I don't have to have surgery. Thanks for all your good wishes.

When I went to the NEC I was so disappointed that Craftwork Cards did not have a stand as these shaped cards and the Christmas Post papers were on my wish list (along with a lot of other things). I found the card blanks on Little Claire's stand and about an hour before I left spotted a Christmas Post pack with not only the gorgeous papers, but flowers and tags and candi. I adore this pack and will be using it a lot, the vintage look is fabulous and goes so well with my new Inkylicious stamp which I stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa onto some new linen card I bought at the NEC. Everything else is from the pack except the bow which also came from the show.

Challenges

Fab n Funky Traditional Christmas colours 

Sister Act Anything Goes 

Sweet Stampin' Christmas is Coming 

Crafts and Me Vintage Christmas 

Crafty Calendar All things Christmas 

One Crazy Stamper Christmas 

Vintage Stamping Traditional Christmastime

First play with some new dies

I have so much lovely new stuff to play with and so many ideas whirling round in my head for some different Christmas cards to the usual cute images. I am still loving my cute images of course but as I had another good craft fair on Saturday I am glad to have lots of ideas for non coloured cards as they are quicker and I need to build up my stock.

I decided to make an almost white on white card, just having a small amount of blue in the First Edition Silent Night backing paper. I was so pleased that the Memory Box deer trio cute from Centura pearl fit perfectly inside my floral oval diecut from white (yes it is white!) glitter card. I used the negative from a new Memory Box die for Christmas and Hapy is a new Britannia die which came with Christmas and Birthday dies so they will be very useful. I also used a MB snowflake die and added a couple of pearls.

Challenges

Papertake Anything goes option Christmas 

ABC Christmas V for Vixen (reindeer) 

Simon Says Clean and simple 

Cute Card Thursday Animal Magic 

Delightful All that glitters 

Totally Papercrafts Glitter

  Allsorts White Christmas 

Craftyhazelnut Outdoors

I am off the hospital this morning to find out what they can do to help my back injury so will catch up with you later.

Have you entered my candy above?

Where am I?

I was lucky enough to win a Little Clare set of stamps from a Facebook competition. I was so pleased to win as there are several stamps in the set and perfect for guys. I made this for a friend who loves the Lake District and as it was his Birthday yesterday I can now share it with you. The signpost is so useful as it is blank for you to write on, stamp on etc.

Image, signpost and sentiment - Little Claire The Great Outdoors set

Medium - Copics

Papers - Papermania Capsule and MME Wild Asparagus

Dies - Memory Box tree, Die-namics snowdrift for the hills, Sizzix grass

Challenges

Crafty Sentiments For all the guys 

Through the Craftroom Door Anything Goes 

Natalie and Amy For the boys
Crafty Creations Autumn colours
Charisma Anything Goes

My lovely new goodies

As promised here are the photos of all my lovely new stash from the NEC Hobbycrafts show. I had money from my recent Birthday and some money from craft fair sales saved and I even came home with £5! This fist pic are all the essentials. 

Lovely new paper pads, LOTV art pad and all sorts of pretties including some gorgeous ribbon and buttons from Crafty Ribbons.

The stamps. Only 2 cute ones, one of the new LOTV girls and a PB hedgie which had 40% off. I am really enjoying making some non cute cards and was so pleased to find the ones I wanted at the show.

10 gorgeous new dies, some at amazing prices. We also had a 10% voucher for Oyster Stamps so some of them were even cheaper.

I am going to ave so much fun creating with all this. I haven't forgotten my lovely loyal followers either and there will be a little Christmas candy post up later so please hop back and enter.

I am at a craft fair this morning so will catch you later. Enjoy your weekend xx

Candy Cane

I had a fabulous time yesterday at the NEC Hobbycrafts show with my good friend Lynsey. We like so many of the same things and we both came away with loads of new goodies, will be sorting them out today and will share some pics tomorrow.

I am hosting the challenge at Winter Wonderland and we are looking for Christmas makes for a child. We are sponsored by Pink Gem who are offering 3 of their gorgeous digis to the winner. The DT were lucky enough to be given some of Janet's digis to play with.

Image - Pink Gem

Medium - Copics

Papers - Carte Bella Winter Wishes

Punch - MS zigzag border

Die - Memory Box

Let it Snow Button - Crafty Ribbons

Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments

Challenges

AGOAC Christmas is coming
Totally Gorjuss Anything goes with snow
  Send a smile 4 kids Happy Holidays 4 kids
Crafty Calendar All things Christmas
Stamping Sensations Christmas
  One Crazy Stamper Christmas 

CCAYR Winter Wonderland

Papertake Anything goes option Christmas

Divas by Design Use a digi 

A Creative Romance Winter Blues

Vintage Guest Designer

This is my second card today, please scroll down for my Crafty Little Fairies DT card.

I was thrilled to receive a lovely email from Sande inviting me to be a guest designer for November at It's all about the vintage and beauty. The theme this week is fancy edged scissors/punches.  I only recently discovered this challenge and as I love making vintage cards I will be playing along regularly. My sewing cards sell so well that I thought it ime to make another. I don't usuually leave mt buttons naked unless they are tiny ones but somehow these looked right this way.

I stamped the Kaisercraft with Memento Rich Cocoa and teamed ith my fave papers of the moment, Prima Lyric. I distressed the edges with my TH tool and DI Vintage Photo. The embellishments are all from stash.

By the time this publishes I will have made several purchases at Hobbycrafts at the NEC.

Another CAS Robin

Today's challenge at Crafty Little Fairies is Christmas in November and we have a great prize this week of a £10 voucher from

Now for those of you who know me and know Squirrel as well will realise that Squirrel must have had quite a shock when she saw I had chosen to go with a CAS card rather than something more fussy and fancy. I loved making the last CAS one with this image so much I was determined to try another in a different style. The layout came about when I was tidying, something I do al the time I am crafting, believe me I am one of the world's tidiest crafters. These paper strips were lying beside the trimmer and I thought how good they looked together, rather than in the bin. Both my robin cards sold last Wednesday so I want to make some more. I am really enjoying making some cas cards at the moment as well as my usual fussy and fancy style.

Image - Sheena Douglass

Medium - Copics

Sentiment - LOTV

strips of paper

Challenges

(which I shall link up later or tomorrow)

Without Words Getting ready for Christmas

  Allsorts Christmas cheer 

Totally Gorjuss Anything goes with snow 

Stamping Sensations Christmas

Papertake Anything goes option Christmas
Simon Says Keep it clean and simple
Let's Craft and Create Clean and Simple

 If you are reading this today then I am in Birmingham, stayed last night at The Hilton and looking forward to a great day at Hobbycraft today, shopping and chatting. I have a long list, some essentials and some must haves, money from my Birthday and craft fair sales so will share pics of my new goodies at the weekend.

There will be a second card publishing at 11.30, a guest designer spot.

Congratulations

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments. I have an appointment at the hospital next Monday morning abut my back so hopefully I will know more after that.

When I ordered some goodies from Dies to Die For Tracy sent me a few diecuts with the order and the sentiment was one of them. I decided to use it for a simple card for a new baby. The backing paper is Docrafts Forever Friends Kraft notes, Memory Box banner with pearls and a few buttons to finish.

Challenges

Creative Craft It's only words 

Creative Knockouts Banners and pennants

Waiting for Santa

How cute is this little dog patiently waiting to open his pressies. These diecuts from LOTV are so useful for quicker makes. I have used some old Papermania Henbury Lane paper, a Cheery Lynn diecut, LOTV sentiment, wooden Christmas tree and bow from stash.

Challenges

One Crazy Stamper Christmas 

Crafty Blogger's Network Christmas
Allsorts Christmas cheer
Simon Says Anything Goes
AGOAC Christmas is coming
The Squirrel and the Fox Animal antics

I am off for a massage and visit to the dentist this morning. Guess which one I am looking forward to, lol. I had the results of my back Xray and I have a compressed fracture so am waiting for a referral to the hospital to see if anything can be done. Thankfully it doesn't hurt all the time but sometimes it presses on a nerve and that it is very painful.

Gorjuss Time

Of the three craft fairs last week, two were great, one was disappointing. In fact of the two good ones, one was my best ever fair. In total at the three fairs I sold 55 cards, some tags, notebooks etc and some craft stash.  My stock is rather depleted now so I shall be working to replenish that as I have four more fairs this month.

Here's something you don't see on my blog much, decoupage. It is popular with customers and as I needed to make some quicker cards last week to build up my stock again thought I would use this image I found already made up in my stash.

Image, ppares, buttons, bow - Docrafts Gorjuss girl

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Challenges

Docrafts Anything Goes 

Simon Says Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl Stripes

Thinking of you

I was recently asked at a craft fair if I had a card suitable to give somebody who had just found out they were seriously ill and I had nothing suitable. I love these images from Digistamp Boutique and thought this would have been a suitable card or could be used as a sympathy card. I teamed it with the gorgeous Prima Lyric paper, Craftwork Cards sentiment, MB die cut Chloe Stem with Centura Pearl and some small pearls.

Challenges

Disgistamp Boutique 

Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes 

Addicted to Stamps and MoreClean and Simple 

Simon Says Anything Goes

I am at my third craft fair of the week today so will catch some of you later, enjoy your day.

It's a Boy

2 Craft fairs this weekend, today's finishes at 2pm and tomorrow's at 4pm so please forgive me if i don't get a chance to visit your blog. I don't use my Forever Friends bears oftn enough but when I do I always think how very cute they are.

Image - Forever Friends

Medium - Copics

Paper - Papermania capsule

Dies - MB Precious Hearts, Spellbinders hearts circle

Velvet Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Sentiment - Computer generated

Other - doily

Challenges

Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes 

Creative Card Crew Teddy Bear's Picnic

Simon Says Anything Goes 

Creative Moments Anything Goes

Docrafts Anything goes

Enjoy the Journey

It's another bookmark for the men today. I am really enjoying making these. They are such fun and a chance to use all those fab Tim Holtz products and various dies.

Tag - Prima

Stamps and rubons - Tim Holtz

Bicycle die - Marianne

Moustache and Umbrella dies - Memory Box

Other - DI Black Soot, ribbon from stash

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp Monday Anything Goes 

TTCD Anything Goes 

Scribble and Scrap Anything Goes
Simon Says Anything Goes
Charisma Anything but a card
  MAWTT No papers
  It's all about the vintage and beauty At Least 3 stamps (Enjoy the journey, NY ticket, arrow)

We are out this evening with a friend, meal and then theatre to see the new musical Save The Last Dance.