Ching Lan

Morning Folks!

This fortnight at Lexi's Creations we'd like to see your ORIENTAL creations. We have a great prize from Letraset on offer too!

I have used Lexi's Ching Lan image with papers from a Trimcraft oriental pad and a sentiment from Craftwork cards. Hope you can join us!!

A new Sheriff in town

Howdy Folks!

Here's my card for the new challenge over at Here Come the Boys!

This fortnight, we'd like to see you using

BROWNS AND ORANGES

We have a great Stampin Up prize on offer too!!

I couldn't resist using this Sheriff Bear image from The Clipart fairy, isn't he cute!!

This is an 8" x 8" card so there was room to add a string lasso!!

The Howdy Message is computer generated using a free font on to a brown envelope and then inked and distressed.

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join us at HCTB!!

Tessie Turtle

Morning Folks!

It's time for another challenge over at Lexi's Creations and this time we'd like to see you create something using the following recipe:

1 image

2 flowers &

3 papers

I've used the adorable Tessie Turtle from Lexi's shop Fairy Dust crafts, if you are our lucky winner this time you could win some of Lexi's digis too! She was so fun to colour with the trusty promarkers, of course!! The papers are a combination of MME and Imaginesce too!

Now I have to admit that I've only just realised that technically there are more than 2 flowers on my card - I was only counting the embellishment not the image and the extras on the paper too - whooops!!

Hope you can find time to visit the rest of the design team to see their fantastic creations !!

I'm trusting blogger to post this for me while I am away for a few days so I hope he behaves himself!! Thanks for looking today,

Toadily!!

Happy Sunday everyone!!

You know I can't believe that it is time for another challenge over at Here Come the Boys - where is this year going to??

This time we'd like to see your projects with

CRITTERS

That is anything from the animal kingdom but don't forget we are looking for masculine projects!!

We are sponsored this time by the lovely Lynne at

Check out the main blog for all the details and don't forget to sign up for our fantastic Cricut prize too!!

For my card I have dug out a trusty old Penny Black stamp, this image just makes me smile everytime I see it and it is a dream to colour!!

The papers are a mixture from my scrap box, I'm not totally sure but I think the striped background is MME and the others are by Daisy Bucket.

Hope you all have a great rest of the weekend and that you are actually able to read this, I'm trusting Mr Blogger to do the honourable thing while I'm visiting my family!!

Happy Anniversary!

Morning Folks!

What happened to the summer?? We've had a few days of glorious weather and now it is grey and raining again ...aaarrrggghh, if only I could move to somewhere hot!!

Never mind, I guess it might mean more time to do some crafting!!

This week at CRAFT our challenge is

ANNIVERSARY

so perhaps you'd like to join us, we have two great prizes on offer from our sponsors

Crimson Cloud

& 2 cute rubber stamps

I've used a favourite old Penny Black stamp for my card this week which incidentally is going to be for my husband a bit later this month - we are celebrating 16 years together!!

The cute dog is coloured with promarkers and cut out with nesties labels dies and I've added a little heart shaped brad to his letter. The papers are more scraps from my box, Forever Friends if I remember correctly!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Penny Black at Allsorts: Free & Easy

Challenge up your life : Anniversary

Time for cake.....

Afternoon Folks,

I just wanted to share my card that I finally managed to finish this morning for the 100th House Mouse & Friends challenge and blog hop. I coloured this cute Gruffies image on Monday night but it has taken me the rest of the week to get the card finished - I think I must be the slowest crafter in the country!! The speed wasn't helped by the fact that I didn't the right width of ribbon for the bottom until I went shopping yesterday. My husband couldn't believe that despite having a huge ribbon collection, I didn't have something 'that would do' - I was trying to explain that the idea that 'something will do' doesn't work for me - it has to be how I want it to look!! Not sure he got my meaning but he is very tolerant and didn't roll his eyes too much when I left the shop with more ribbon!!

Here's a closer look at the image called Beary Nice Celebration, isn't he so cute stuffing his chops with cake!! I've coloured him with promarkers and added stickles to the frosting and candles to make them sparkle - wish the picture was a bit better so you could see the glitter on the image and the papers properly.

The finishing touch is a few ribbon streamers - I love the internet, I googled ribbon twirls and found this great tutorial on how to bake grosgrain ribbon!! Yes, my husband is now certain I have lost the plot after I removed a baking tray of cooked ribbon wrapped around wooden spoons from the oven!!! I'm really pleased with the finished effect though!!!

Thanks for looking I'm off to complete the House Mouse blog hop.

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

The Crazy Challenge - Ribbons

Hooked on Crafts - Cute and cuddly

Forever Friends - Pastel colours

Passion for Promarkers - Animal Crackers

Top Tip Tuesday - Make it girly (hope this is suitable??)

I love promarkers - Anything goes

Truly Scrumptious - Buttons and Bows

Stampin for the weekend - Paws for thought

Crafts and Me - Ribbons

Wags n whiskers - Buttons & Bows

Card Makin Mamas - Food and drink

Charisma Cardz - 4 legged friends

Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - Bling it up (glitter paper, stickles and pearls)

Simply Create - Favourite Animals (it has to be bears!!)

Edited - Lucky winner at:

& lucky blog hop winner too:

and a lucky winner at

Fairytale bookmark

Morning Folks!

Hope your week is going well!!

It's time for a new challenge over at CRAFT, the theme is

FAIRY TALES

We are sponsored by Glitterbabe, and the prize is a $10 gift certificate for her shop.

I have used Glitterbabe's Unicorn digi to make a corner bookmark. I have seen these around blogland but hadn't made one myself before now, but they are great fun to do and not too time consuming!! I followed the tutorial here. Still using up scraps from my box and coloured with gold glitter pen and promarkers. Hope you like it !!

The book of course is Paddington -LOL!!

Thanks for looking today, see you soon!!