The Paper Shelter: Winter Blues …. My first DT card!!

Morning guys, what an exciting day it is for me – I am thrilled to have my very first card to share with you all for The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. There are a few other newbies on Team A too so I hope you pop over and give them all a big welcome too.

Our theme this week is Winter Blues. I am glad to say it is finally getting a bit milder here and the last snow melted yesterday. I am sure there will be a few more cold days before Spring arrives though.

I have used this beautiful image called ‘A. Mucha Influence – Winter’  and I think she is so pretty and was a dream to colour with my copics. The sentiment is by Whiff of Joy and I think I have had it forever. I tried something new on this card and I am pleased with how it turned out – I inked up my little flourish stamps with 2 different inks, blue and brown, and stamped them around the edges of the image. I think it helps tie the papers in nicely with the stamp. I will certainly try it again.

I love all the faces on the gorgeous images by The Paper Shelter – they are just so sweet.

To complete my card I have used flowers, lace and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts – just had a delivery of new stash – woop woop, lol.

I am entering my card for the following challenges:

Oldie But A Goodie – Lace (lace, sentiment, flowers, pearls and punch)

Creative Inspirations – Brown, Blue & Cream

Stampin’ For The Weekend – Photo/Colour Combo

Stamptacular Sunday – Pearls and Lace

I hope you get chance to join us this week. Don’t forget about my candy which is on the post below ….. good luck!!!!

xxx

Blog Candy Alert ......

Hi everyone, ooh I am so excited to be able to bring you some fabulous candy. I have just had an email from Sara at Crafter's Companion offering one lucky winner a signed copy of the brand new Spectrum Noir DVD. It is going to be launched as Pick of the Day tonight on Ideal World at 9pm. The DVD will be signed by both Sara Davies and Leann Chivers so it really is a must have for all you Crafter's Companion fans.

Here is a card I coloured using the Spectrum Noir pens - they are so easy to use and you get fabulous results every time ...

I made this card using one of Sheena Douglass' beautiful stamps and coloured it with the Spectrum Noir pens...

 Here is a little preview of the dvd...

All you need to do is add your name to the blue froggy linky tool below with a link to your blog, Facebook or Twitter and if you could help spread the word that would be great too. I am on nights tomorrow so I will draw a winner on Thursday morning when I get home ...... good luck everyone and thankyou Sara for this fab candy!

Show times:

Tuesday 14th - 9pm and 11pm

Wednesday 15th - 8am, 10am, 12pm (C&C), 1pm, 3pm (C&C), 4pm, 5pm (C&C)


Challenges for my card:


Kaboodle Doodles - Male/Masculine Card
Creative Card Crew - Masculine

A little bit of love…… <3

Good evening guys …. well it is your resident blonde here. Oh yes, I have really done it this time. I am here with my DT card for Sundays with Crissy where our theme is Birthdays! Now you may notice that my card looks more like a Valentines’ card and who could blame you. All I can say is I have been on nights for the past 2 weeks and I didn’t check what the theme was before I made my card. I think I just got so excited at this gorgeous ‘Cute Cupid’ digi by Crissy and just had to get all inky!

Isn’t he adorable!!!!! All I can say is that I love my hubster every single day and therefore it is more than suitable for his birthday card …. honest <3

I have coloured my image with my trusty copics and added just a little stickles to his wings ….. even cherubs need a little bling!

 

A little bling to the flowers too which are from Wild Orchid Crafts – ordered a load more last night …. love their pearls and blooms.

Ok, so I dare say I can enter this for a few challenges so here goes…….

Lexi’s Creations – Love

Stamp with Fun – Love

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge – Love You

Creative Card Crew – Fantasy Creatures

The Pixie Cottage – Red

Crafts & Me – Use a New Image

Whimsy Stamps – Love themed

Creative Inspirations – Lots of Love

Truly Scrumptious –Love and Hearts

Charisma Cardz – Things with Wings

Crafty Catz – Valentines’

Crafts 4 Eternity – Raspberry Delight

Fussy and Fancy – With all my Heart

Totally Gorjuss – Lurve

CRAFT Challenge – Valentines’ Day

Hanna and Friends – Be my Valentine

Paper Crafting Journey – Fairies/Angels

Crafting for all Seasons – Love is in the Air

My Mum’s Craft Shop – It must be Love

Party Time Tuesdays – Valentines

Sassy Cheryl’s – Be my Valentine

iCopic – Heart Challenge

Stamp and Create – Valentines/Love

Have a great weekend and don’t forget there is all week to enter Music Saves My Soul …. would love to hear what you are all listening to xxx

Music Saves My Soul Saturday

Good morning world ...... wow, I have just had a fabulous sleep and I now feel ready for the weekend! I have even made it in time to post Music Saves My Soul this week. I have been on nghts all week so I haven't heard much music to be honest so I decided on an  oldie!

So here is my choice .... love Annie Lennox's voice and I thought The Eurythmics were fab .....

So if you fancy joining in just post a video on your blog and then leave a link on the little blue froggy below.

Have a great week xxxxxx

I’ve had an Epiphany …..

…… or should I say I have got an Epiphany! That’s right, one of the fabulous new tools which is now available from Crafter’s Companion. So what is all the fuss about – well I have to be honest and say I thought the same thing – until I got one!!! OMG I love it. Basically there are different shaped punches which you can create your own embellishments with. You place your card etc that you want, add an epoxy sticker over the top and then press the tool. Out pops a fab embellie. There are beautiful extras to place these into such as flowers and charms which are all gorgeous. You can view them all here on the Crafter’s Companion Website. You can also view the launch on Sunday on Create and Craft TV.

Here is a sample I made using one of the beautiful Flower Fairy stamps. The papers are from the Fairyopolis CD-Rom.

Here is my epiphany embellishment placed inside a flower centre, made from the backing paper to coordinate perfectly ….. all products are below on picture links so just click the pic to be taken to the page on the website for further details on that product.

So here is what I used:

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz – Things with Wings

Craft us Crazy – Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey – Fairies/Angels

Hope you visit the website to have a look at this great new product and make sure you visit the other DT blogs for lots more examples xxx

Crafter’s Companion Monthly Challenge

Good afternoon,here I am a little later than planned with this months card for Crafter’s Companion Challenge Blog. Our theme this month is Anything Goes and there is a £30 gift voucher to spend online at Crafter’s Companion if you win!

I have used one of the gorgeous SWALK Winter Cheer stamps and the papers are from the coordinating CD-Rom. I love these images because they are perfect for winter birthdays etc. The sentiment is a fie cut message from Craftwork Cards – I use loads of the little sentiments, they are so handy and cover so many occassions.

I will be back later this week for some more cards showing you the brand new tool that Crafter’s Companion will be stocking. It is the Epiphany tool and it is blumming fab!!!! There are lots of different shapes available – I have posted a video about them below. It will be launched on Create and Craft on Sunday. Pop over to the news and inspiration blog for plenty of sneak peeks,

Challenges:

Celebrate The Occassion – Anything Goes/Birthday

Creative Craft Challenge – BINGO (bottom row)

Oki doki, so that’s it from me, see you tomorrow xxx

Simon Says … Love is in the Air

Hi folks, how are you all? Half way through the week for most and half way though this set of night shifts for me! Just a quick post today because I really need my sleep and cannot wait to get into bed.

We have a brand new challenge for you all again this week at Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog  and our theme is ……

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

The design team are all using scrummy products from Prima …… delish!!!!  Can we also welcome the wonderful Jacqui (Cat’s Whiskers) to our design team – I am so happy that she has joined us!!!!

I haven’t used this stamp in ages – I do love her so much and it is always great colouring her with different colours. She is so beautiful.

 

I still like using stickles as a ‘floor’ for my images to sit on, just love the sparkle from Startdust Stickles – perfect for fairy wings too!

How lush is the Prima lace and pearl detail – link is below for this – sticks like a dream and so simple to use …. I must get more of this for my stash, loving it.

A great big thanks to Heidi for another week offering a $50 spending spree at Simon Says Stamp Online Store – thanks hunny x

Products I used….

Challenges:

Crafty Sentiment Designs – Let’s Get Girly

Creative Card Crew – Fantasy Creatures

Deep Ocean Challenge – Love You

Oldie but a Goodie – Lace (my stamp is my oldie this week)

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes: Option of love

Shopping Our Stash – Hearts, Valentines and/or Lace

Bunny Zoe’s Crafts –Picture Inspiration

The Crazy Challenge – Fairies

The Pink Elephant – Pink

A Gem Of A Challenge – Fairies

Allsorts Challenge – Free and Easy

CES Challenges – Give me Wings

One Stop Craft Challenge – For the one I Love

Totally Gorjuss – Sketch

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards – Thinking of You/Missing You

Fairytale Challenge – Love, Love, Love

Hot Shot Craft – Flowers

The Poodles Parlour – Anything Goes

Oki doki, thats it for now – have a great day xxxxxxx