Hoot!!

Morning Folks!!

Well I don't know about you but I definitely feel that autumn has arrived, the mornings are freezing!! Autumn is also the theme for our new challenge over at CRAFT which starts today.

Here's my card using an image called Hoot from Some Odd Girl who are one of our sponsors for this week:

Very simple card, coloured image onto acetate window which has been cut out with nesties. The paper is by My Minds Eye.

Thanks for looking today and please come over and join us at CRAFT!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

My Time to Craft - punches and dies (nesties)

Paper Sundaes - halloween or Fall

Crafty Emma - Forever Autumn

Stamptacular Sunday - You choose

DYSU Challenge - Trees

Totally Papercrafts - Use acetate

Fussy & Fancy Friday - Fall / halloween

Daring Cardmakers - Include a bird

The corrosive challenge - Flying things

& Lollipop Crafts - No sentiments allowed

Thank You Teacher

Morning Folks!!

As lots of you are bracing yourselves for the long school holidays ahead, we have a very appropriate challenge for you over at CRAFT this week:

THANK YOU TEACHER!!

I consulted my son on his teachers possible likes and dislikes and the best he could come up with after giving it a moments thought was "Something pink and girlie". After that incredible brief here's my card:

I'm still trying to be good and use some of my older neglected stamps and paper scraps. I think most people like the Forever Friends bears so I figured this was a safe bet. The brown stripey paper is a scrap of Doodlebug bon bon stripes and the pink dotted one is from the Dovecraft Piece of Cake collection. I've used quite soft pastel promarkers to colour the image and a Marianne die for the background frame. The dust was also blown off the MS Doiley lace punch for the border!!

I wasn't very keen on the plain kraft inside so I decorated that too and then just as I was finishing this, Lynne at Sentiments 4 you posted the perfect freebie sentiment to finish it off. Thanks Lynne!!

Our sponsors for this challenge are Lauretta's Digital Stamps

& The Stamping Boutique 5 images of your choice

so please head over to the main blog to join us!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge - Get punchy

Cupcake Craftroom - Polka Dots

Forever Friends - Stripes

Allsorts - Free & Easy

Stamptacular Sunday - Animal Antics

Everybody Art - Dots

Papertake Weekly - Getting Cute

Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration

(I've used the colours as inspiration and also daisy flowers)

Fab N Funky - Animal magic

Crafty Creations - Seeing double (mirrored borders)

MAWTT - Cute & Cuddly with a punch

Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes

All boxed up!!

Morning Folks!!

I am in such a good mood today - it's the first day of the Summer holidays for me - no work until September - woohoo!! I am planning on settling back and doing a bit of crafting later, the only snag is my craft area looks like a bombsite and I haven't seen more than 6 inches of my desk for the last fortnight!!!! Will have to get myself organised after another cuppa!!

This weeks challenge over at CRAFT is

BOXES

so get out those templates, scoring tools or ready mades and join us!!

We are sponsored by Toucan Scraps this time.

I got to play with this cute box from Angela called 'Hannahs wedding floral Box' which is a bargain and really quick to make!!

I love yellow and for some reason as soon as I saw the shape of the box made up, I immediately thought of using one of my favourite Penny Black stamps on it - Bah Quet.

The little sheep has been coloured with promarkers and the face has been stamped twice and cut out and mounted on foam pads to give it a bit of depth. Ovals cut out with nesties but somehow a scalloped oval nestie didn't look quite right so I went for an oversized Heidi Swapp flower for a background frame instead!

I added a bit of wild honey distress ink to the edges for a bit more definition, a few butterfly gems and some green and yellow ribbons to tie it shut.

I'm really quite pleased with the finished result, especially considering how quick it was to make!! Thanks for looking and please head over to the main CRAFT blog to see the rest of the DT's lovely creations!

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Penny Black at Allsorts - Flower Power

Totally Papercrafts - Bingo - gems, flowers and die cuts!

Crafty Catz - Colours of summer

Allsorts challenge - Free and Easy

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Desert Island stamp (it's nearly impossible to choose a favourite PB stamp but I think any of the sheep ones would be at the top of my list!!)

Sparkles Forum - recipe 1 image, 1 flower, 2 ribbons

Craft your passion - anything goes

Papertake weekly - Anything goes

Creative Craft challenges - Pretty blossoms

Passion for promarkers - tie a yellow ribbon

Get Creative - Green, orange and yellow

Delightful Challenges - On the farm

Edit : Made the Top 3 at Sparkles !!!

In the garden

Morning Folks!

We have a new challenge for you over at CRAFT, this week it's

IN THE GARDEN

Not a place you're very likely to find me, I hate gardening and the only green fingers I've got are after playing with inks - LOL!!

This week we have 2 sponsors: The Crafty Pad

who have provided some fab images for the DT to work with and who are giving away 3 images to our winner &

Our second sponsor is Crimson Cloud who are giving a lucky winner 3 packs of diecuts.

Hope you like my card and can find time to join us!

Paddington Fan

Presley the Pirate

Morning Folks!!

It's Thursday again, so time for another challenge over at CRAFT,

this week we have a recipe for you:

1 tag

2 Circles and

3 squares or rectangles

Here's my card for this week using 'Presley the Pirate' from our sponsor

Digital Delights

The image has been coloured with promarkers, the papers are from The Creative Cottage and the charm is from Ewe2can craft.

Thanks for looking and hope to see some of you entering the challenge!!

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Totally papercrafts: Dies and punches (used nesties!)

2 sisters challenge: For a guy

Simon Says stamp and show: Use metal

Tuesday Throwdown: Masculine

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT: Use Red

ABC challenge: X marks the spot - Pirate theme

I love promarkers: Anything goes

My Mums craft shop: One for the boys

Pink Princess

Morning Folks!!

Hope you are all OK, just a very quick post from me today to tell you that the challenge at CRAFT is to

INCLUDE STITCHING (real or faux)

We are sponsored by Aifactory

who are giving our winner 2 digi stamps.

I was lucky enough to get to play with this fab image from them called 'Princess' which brought on another pink moment!! Strange thing is I don't really like pink, I just use it on cards a lot!!

I had to think about how to include stitching on this and then I had a light bulb moment - a very rare and quite surprising event! - I decided to stitch some beads on her dress and crown.

Then added some sequin flower embellishments, again stitched together. Finally I gathered up a piece of ribbon with a simple running stitch to add some texture to the bottom of the card.

Thanks for looking today!!

I'd also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crazy Challenge: Monochrome

Paper Sundaes: Girly girl

2 sisters: 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (beads, ribbon, flowers)

Bee Crafty: Birthdays for little ones

Craft your Days away: Monochrome

Pollycraft Mondays: Ribbon and Flowers

Card Makin Mamas: For a child

Hooked on crafts: Anything goes

Relax & enjoy!!

Happy Thursday Folks!!

It's time for another challenge at CRAFT and this time our theme is:

FATHER'S DAY

which is fast approaching, so a good time to get your card made!!

I've had this Gruffies decoupage in my stash from Joanna Sheen for ages and I must admit I'd forgotten about it until I was having a bit of a tidy up!! Can you have too much stash I wonder??!! Anyway I decided this would be a perfect image for my Dad, who has a reputation for falling asleep as soon as he sits down on the sofa!! I had also forgotten how long it takes to do decoupage...it took forever to cut this out and I nearly gave up!!

As the finished image is quite big I decided to keep the rest of the card really simple with just some matting and layering. The sentiment is a bit hard to read in the photo but it says 'It's a hard life'

Isn't he so cute...

Side view of the layers:

Finished the card off with this resin sunflower which I have also rediscovered, I bought this in a Craft Central closing down sale, probably 2 years ago - I knew it would come in useful.....eventually!!

Hope you can join us at CRAFT this time, we are sponsored by Some Odd Girl

so you could be the lucky winner of 3 images .

I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy Friday: Card for man / boy

Creative Inspiration: Card for Dad

Sparkles Forum: Father's Day

Paper Sundaes: Include a sentiment

Craft your passion: Anything goes

The Crazy challenge: Father's Day

Pear Tree design : Summer delights

Wedding Bears

Morning Folks!!

I swear this week is flying by faster than normal - it's Thursday already!

This week at CRAFT we'd like to see you create something with a wedding / love theme. I made this card a few weeks ago for my cousin and his new wife who got married at Easter but didn't get around to blogging it! It's my first attempt at a white on white card. I've often admired them and I think they look especially stylish for weddings so I got out the cuttlebug folders and nesties and gave it a go!!

Here's a closer look at the Forever Friends decoupage, I haven't used any decoupage sheets for ages and I'd forgotten how much fun they can be!! The sentiment is from a Craftwork cards goodie bag. The picture doesn't show it too well but the card is a lovely white pearlescent one so it does have a nice sheen to it in real life!!

Thanks for dropping by today. Hope to see your romantic creations over at CRAFT - you could be the winner of a $10 voucher for

Hoot the Owl Notebook

Good morning Folks!

Thanks to everyone who joined us over at CRAFT for our blogoversary celebrations last week, don't forget to check my last post to see if you won a fab prize!!

Our new challenge this week is:

ALTER / RECYCLE

I really enjoy altering things and I had the perfect recent purchase in my stash which I picked up in wilkinsons a couple of weeks ago for about 40p. A lovely battleship grey hardbacked note book, not exactly inspiring....

but I have turned it into this:

I've used "Study Owl" from Meljens who are also our sponsors this time - you could be the lucky winner of 4 digi stamps

The backing paper is by Doodlebug and the stitched ribbon is from my stash. The dark brown textured ribbon for the corners is recycled from a posh box of chocs!!

Hope you like to transform things please try to join us at CRAFT this week!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges too:

Patties Creations designs: No, no, no cards

Polka Doodles: Anything but a card

Crafty Catz: Anything goes

2 sisters: Use a digi

Cupcake Craft Challenges: bookworm

Challenge up your life : recycling (ribbon corners)

DigiDoodle Shop: Anything goes

Truly Scrumptious: Anything goes

Fresh Brewed: Anything but a card

Creative card crew: Anything goes

Creative craft challenges: Blue, brown and cream

& A spoonful of sugar: Things with wings

We're celebrating at CRAFT!!

This week at CRAFT Challenge we are celebrating our 2nd Blogaversary in style. Our challenge this week is Happy Birthday! (to Us) to fit in with this celebration. Please link your project to InLinkz as per usual.
To celebrate we will also be doing a Blogaversary Blog Hop with many sponsors and prizes on the way. To be in with having a chance of winning these prizes, you will need to leave a comment on our (G)DT's blogs, a winner will be chosen randomly at each stop.We will also leave a word at each stop, with which we would like you to form a sentence. So, don't forget to collect a word on each stop as well! After you have collected all these words, form a sentence with them and enter your sentence in a comment on our CRAFT Challenge blog. We will obviously not allow comments to be posted during this week to stop any cheating, lol!
You should have started at CRAFT Challenge and come from Gemma's blog. If you did not, please go back to the stops before that you have missed.
My word is: fun

My sponsor for the blog hop is Meljen's Designs, and the prize you can win on my stop is 4 images of choice from her shop. Here's my card for this special week using ' Birthday cake mouse' from Meljens - isn't he (or she??) so cute!!

Just as a reminder, here is your route to follow for the blog hop. You should start and end at the CRAFT Challenge blog.
CRAFT Challenge
Jo's digistamp blog
Carol
Claire (GDT)
Gemma
Jacky (you're here!)
Jo
Karen
Kerry
Kevin
Kim
Nikki (GDT)
Sharon
Tigerlover (junior DT)
CRAFT Challenge

So, join in with us this week to be in with a chance of many prizes and we hope you enjoy the journey! Your next stop is Jo. Don't forget to leave a comment if you want to have a chance of winning the prize on my stop!!

I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Diva's by Design: One for the girls

I love promarkers: Animals

Truly Scrumptous: Anything goes

Pixie Cottage: Pink & Girlie

Paper pretties: Include flowers

Creative card crew: Cute and girly

Critter sketch: Hip to be square

A spoonful of sugar: Anything goes

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central: Birthdays

Kaboodle Doodles: Tic Tac toe(I used a digi, die cut and glitter on the candles)

Paper Sundaes: Birthdays

Dream Valley: Old and new (old flowers, new image)

Corrosive challenge: Birthdays

Addicted to stamps: Pink and brown

Sweet stampin: Spots, stripes and sparkle (gems and glitter)

One stop craft: Ice cream (strawberry and chocolate)

Craft us crazy: something new (image) & fav embellishment (flowers)

Stamp something: Anything goes

Pennys Papercrafting: Anything goes

By the cute and girly: Anything goes

Sundays with Crissy: Flowers

Charisma Cardz: birthdays in Pink

Little spaceman

Gosh folks, I can't believe it is Thursday already!!

I haven't had much time to craft this week but I have managed to finish my DT card for CRAFT where our new theme is:

ALIENS and SPACE

I have used an image from Digital Delights, who kindly sponsored our 'Star of the Month' for April, it's called Billy and Rocket 2.

I've coloured the image with promarkers and then added glossy accents over the face to make it look like a visor. The paper is an odd sheet from DCWV and the rub on super star sentiment was a free gift from a magazine years ago!! It's finally come in useful!!

The prize for this challenge is a gift voucher from Truly Madly Crafty . I do hope you can join us this week and a quick shout out because next week is going to be extra special:

Thanks for looking !

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Stamp something: Use a digi

Sweet stampin: Childhood memories -

making rocket models with lego and old washing up liquid bottles!!

Challenge up your life: travel - I hope space travel counts!!

Saturday Challenge: Dust off your stash -

the paper, brad and rub on are practically antique!!

The Crazy Challenge: Anything goes

Pollycraft Monday: Boyz to Men

Martini Girl

Morning Folks!

Hope you are all OK!!

Quick scheduled post today to let you know that it's time for another challenge over at CRAFT. This time we are sponsored by Digi's with Attitude who are offering $10 CAD of digi images as a prize. This weeks challenge is to use the following sketch:

I used 'Martini' from our sponsors, not my usual style but I think sometimes it is good to get out of the old comfort zone! Here she is, love that expression, think we have all seen that at some point in our lives!! "Just one for the road" sprung to mind!!

Here's a closer look at the fab charm from Ewe2 can craft

Thanks for looking today, I do hope you can come over and join us at CRAFT, incidentally we are celebrating our 2nd Blogaversay in a couple of weeks which will be extra special !!

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft your passion: Anything goes

Cupcake Craft Challenges : Something beginning with C (cocktail, charm cheers!!)

Ooh la la: Tres Chic

(Think this lady was looking chic at the beginning of the evening!!)

Pear Tree Designs: Free for all

I love promarkers: Song title - Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh

Divas by Design: Anything goes

Rainbow lady: Lady in red

Have a great day,