Mini Mouse

Afternoon Folks!

Just wanted to share a card I made last night after I found this cute Penny Black image in my scraps box, aww poor little chap! I love the way the balloon is almost as big as him!!

I kept the card quite CAS and again tried to use up some odd scraps of card stock and made it more interesting with some embossing and die cuts.

I'd like to enter Mouse into the following challenges: 

The squirrel and the fox - Furry Friends

Totally Gorjuss - Embossing

Inky impressions - Punches and die cuts

Crafty creations - no patterned paper

I love promarkers - pastel colours

The cutie pie challenge - CAS

Oldie but a goodie - girly (PB stamp is one of the first I bought!!)

Penny Black Saturday challenge - Sketch

Image - PB Well wishers

Cardstock - DCWV and kraft

Embossing folders  - Swiss dots and magazine freebie

Sentiment - Stampin Up Itty bitty Banners

Dies  - Spellbinders and SU

Bakers Twine

Big smile on my face - I made the top 5 at The Cutie Pie challenge:

Little Boy Blue ..

Evening Folks!

I'm running very late today, have been in the garden since this morning trying to tame the jungle and completely forgot about my post for Here Come the Boys.. oops very red face!!

This time we'd like to see your 

LITTLE BOY BLUE CARDS

i.e. cards for little boys with a monochromatic blue theme - you can use skin and hair tones but the papers and the remainder of the card must stick to the blue theme. 

Here's my card using a sadly neglected LOTV image, coloured with promarkers. The papers are a recent bargain purchase from the local garden centre (!) and I think they are papermania . The sentiment and card candi are from Craftwork Cards.

Here's a closer look 

I hope you can join us at Here Come the Boys this fortnight, please check out the rest of the design team inspiration on the main blog and we also have this fab prize of a bag of charms on offer:

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Natalie & Amy's Challenge - Monochromatic

Creative Craft World - Blues +/or Browns

2 Sisters Challenge - Blue +/or Green

Totally Papercrafts - Monochromatic

Crafty catz - One for the boys

Daring Cardmakers - Childs play

Cards for men - Anything goes

House Mouse Spring

Afternoon Folks!

Just wanted to share a House mouse card I made over the weekend but have only just managed to get photographed, why do camera batteries always die at the critical moment?

I was brave and cut into some Basic Grey Kioshi papers that I have been hoarding for a while!! I've been making a few masculine cards lately for DT commitments, so I had a good old dig through my flower collection and came up with these which I think are a mixture of prima and doodlebug but I've had them yonks! I also went wild with the pearls and embellies and also took my new spellbinders D-lites die for a test drive!! 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch

House Mouse & Friends - Springtime

Papertake Weekly - Bingo - Blooms Ribbons gems

Joanna Sheen challenge - Spring into spring

Divas by design - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp - April showers / Spring flowers

Stamp & create - Use at least 1 die

Penny Black & more - April challenge

The Pretty Little ribbon shop - Spring is in the air

Celebration Time, this card was the daily talent spot at Joanna Sheen 18/04/2013

Thanks for looking!

Sweet baby bear

Morning Everyone!

Hope your weekend is going well!! It's time for a new challenge over at Here Come the Boys and this time we have a great sketch for you from our lovely Woo:

Here's my take on it, a mixture of a very old Popcorn bear stamp combined with a recent purchase, the Stampin Up itty bitty Banner sentiment and die! The papers are all quite old too, mainly Forever Friends I think and some kraft card.

Here's a closer look at this adorable bear, I think this set was designed for birthdays but the way he is hugging his blankey always makes me think of a baby!! 

Thanks for looking today and I hope that you will find time to play with the sketch and join us at Here Come the Boys!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Papertake weekly - Anything goes + kraft option

Ready Teddy Go - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes

MAWTT - Let's get krafty
Stamping Sensations - Special Occasions 
2 Sisters challenge - Anything goes

Another Christmas card ...

Afternoon Folks!

This is something of a first for me, 2 Christmas cards made before December!! I'm usually finishing the last ones off on Christmas Eve! Perhaps it's the snowy weather that inspired me to have another sort through my Christmas stash!! Today, I came across one of the first clear stamps I ever bought, this cute little Polar bear is from Spiral Whisper and is no longer available but I think there is a very similar digital version over at Pink Gem. I love the CAS look but I do find them quite difficult because there's no where to hide any mistakes lol!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star

A Gem of a Challenge - make it cute

Ready Teddy Go - Anything goes (with a bear)

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Sparkly

Crafts 4 Eternity - Cute as you like

A bit different....

Afternoon Folks!

Grabbed the chance to have a quick play in my craftroom this morning and this is the end result!! I found a couple of sizzix and cuttlebug snowflake dies that I had forgotten about (oops!)  They didn't look right all layered up in silver so I found a strong contrast of raspberry pink glitter card in my scraps box, I'm not usually a pink girl but I think it kind of works although I'm not 100% sure!! 

Thought that as I was going girly I should bling the snowflake up a bit so I raided the gems box too!! sentiment is from LOTV and heat embossed with glittery embossing powder. Background is a swiss dots embossing folder, the cuttlebug has been put through its paces!!

My camera isn't very keen on taking a decent picture today - the card is actually quite sparkly in real life but I can't seem to pick that up. One day soon the weather will improve...

Thanks for looking!!

I have managed to find a few challenges I can't resist entering too:

52 Christmas card throwdown - Ribbons and bows

Winter wonderland - Pretty in Pink

Divas by Design - Use metal

& Crafts and Me - Pretty in Pink

Blast from the past!!

Afternoon everyone!!

Finally I am back in blogland after moving house almost a year ago and I have to say I'm really excited to be crafting and posting again. The new house has taken a lot more time and effort than we originally thought and crafting definitely had to take a back seat for quite a long time while I have been tackling bigger projects!! Good news though, we all love the new place so it's worth the effort AND I have finally begun to move into my new craft space, or should I say take over the spare room, and unpack my craft goodies. It's been a bit like Christmas unpacking all the stuff that has been in boxes for 10 months and there have been several things I had completely forgotten about - shhh, don't tell hubby, he already thinks I have too much craft stuff !!

Anyway, enough waffle from me, I'm here to share my card for today's new picture challenge over at Here Come the Boys , drum roll please ..... only the second card I have made this year: 

and here's the picture Inspiration for this challenge

I choose to use the vintage car and blue and green colour scheme as my inspiration. It also gave me the perfect excuse to play with my new Crafty Individuals stamp (an ebay bargain) and to get inky with distress inks. I was good and used up some scraps of paper from my bits and pieces box (yes, it moved too!!), I think most of them are Basic Grey but I'm not 100% sure. The sentiment is also a recent purchase from Stampin Up (another addiction) called 'Perfectly Penned' and I think the vintage style suits this card quite well!!

I hope you will have time to pop over to the main Here come the boys blog to see all the wonderful work from the rest of the team who have been so kind and welcomed me back - hugs to you all!!

  Looking forward to seeing your entries too!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Emma's cards UK - Vintage

One Stop craft challenges - Anything goes

Sentimental Sundays - Anything goes

Penny Black & More - One for the boys

& Delightful challenges - One for the boys