Stampin up Girl

This is my latest DT card for Friday Sketch Challenge.  This challenge runs until Thursday the 22nd November.   For this challenge our sketch is: 

and we are being sponsored by Noors Design  

For this card I used the following:

Image from Stampin Up

Promarkers

Red card and paper from stash

Papermania embossing folder

Snowflakes - Marianne Die

Cheery Lynn corner die

Buttons from stash

Flowers for Ida

Hi everyone, this is my DT card for Friday Sketch Challenge, we have another week of this challenge should you wish to take part.

For this card I used the following:

Card from stash

Embossed card from First Edition called Spring Drop

Image from Line Art Digital called Ida

Flowers from stash

Pearls from Papermania

Nestabilities Oval and Oval Scalloped dies 

Tonic butterfly punch

Thanks for taking the time to look at my cards.

Shirley

Coffee with friends

Well last night in my wisdom I decided to use the apples from my tree in the garden, this is a bramley apple tree, I completely forgot as I haven't made any apple deserts for over a year that I have a problem with apples.   I only have to get a bit of apple near my eyes and they go red and close, there I was making the desert and then I realised my eyes were sore.   I ended up taking an anti-histamine but this morning they are still extremely sore, I will have to go out and get some eye drops.   What an idiot I am, last night was a complete right off and I ended up going to bed early just to give my eyes a rest.

Just been watching the news on the television, amazed how much damage they have in the USA, it must be sole destroying to see your home destroyed. The fact that it covered such a large area is going to be a nightmare to get sorted.  It was especially sad to hear of the number of lives lost.   I have a penpal in Pennsylvania and she emailed this morning to say that it wasn't too bad were she lived.  Kathy said that the power went out for a time and the wind had thrown stuff all over the place and a lot of roads are flooded.  My thoughts are with all of you who are in the areas that have suffered.   

My DT card for the latest Challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge.

For this card I used the following:

Image from SK digis called Coffee and Cookies
Promarkers
Papers and card from stash

Thanks for looking.
Shirley

Snowman and Friends

This is my DT card for Friday Sketch Challenge, our challenge started  yesterday and runs for two weeks, so look forward to seeing the lovely cards produced by those that enter. Our sponsor this challenge is Live and Love Crafts.

 

For this card I used the following:

Stampin Up set called Flaky Friends

Sentiment from Daisy and Dandelion set of clear stamps

Promarkers (which I love)

Paper from DCWV Christmas pad

Card from stash

Papermania embossing folder

Memory Box Snowflake border die

Nestabilities oval and scallop oval dies

Glitz glitter glue

 

 I do hope you will join us this challenge.

This is my second DT card for the current challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge.  

 

Image from Dearie Dolls - freebie

Papers and card from stash

 

Scarecrow card

I have been so busy trying to get this house into some sort of order that my blog has unfortunately been missing out.   My loft was about to cave in, still have tons to do up there but at least a start is being made.  This is my DT card for the latest challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge.  Garden Digi Stamps and Flonz Stamps are our sponsors for this challenge.     I would also like to remind everyone that our DT call is running until the 7th October.  

For my card I used the following:

Image from Garden Digi Stamps called Patches the Scarecrow
Coloured with Promarkers
Orange card from Papermill
Paper from pack Pocketful of Posies
Leaf die from Whimsy

Hope you all have a good day.

Cards and cards

I haven't been doing much in the way of cardmaking over the last month - these are just a few that did get made.  Been trying to sort out my loft and cupboards in the house, need the room desperately as I seem to be spending my time moving things from once place to another and it is totally driving me nuts.  I need a bigger house or things have to go in the loft, but unfortunately the loft is bursting at the seams and until I sort that nothing goes up.  So just wanted to say that I intend to be looking at your blogs and trying to catch up on all the lovely cards you have made and catch up on your news.

For this card I used the following:

Image - Saturated Canary
Promarkers
Card, gems and ribbon from stash
Paper from magazine
Whimsy die for leaves
Tonic punch for butterflies

For this card I used the following:

Image from Little Claire Designs
Coloured with Promarkers
Papers from stash

 

For this card I use the following:

Image from Cuddly Buddly

Ribbon and card from stash

Snowflake die from Memory Box

Image is Ida from Line Art Digital
Coloured with Promarkers
Papers from magazines (I have a stash of these lying around)
Card from Papermill
Flowers and ribbon from stash

For this card I used:

Image from Bugaboo
Coloured with Promarkers
Patchwork papers from penpal in the USA
Ribbon, brad and flowers from stash

Birthday Present

This is my card for Friday Sketch Challenge which finishes thursday evening, come along and join in.  This Challenge we have two lovely sponsors Make it Crafty and Flonz Stamps. 

For this card I have used:

Image Magnolia
Promarkers
Heart die by Cheery Lynn
Papers, card from stash

Roxette

For Friday Sketch Challenge and I using a lovely digi supplied by one of our Sponsors Make it Crafty, this cute image is called "Rocker Roxette".   I hope you will join in our challenge this fortnight, we also have Flonz Stamps as our other sponsor.

For this card I used the following:

Image from Make it Crafty called Rocker Roxette
Promarkers
White and black card from stock
The music bars came from a Inkadinkado wooden stamp (which was kindly purchased by my lovely penpal Kathy who lives in the  USA)
Red star from corrugated card (from stock)

Flonz Girl

My second DT card for the Friday Sketch Challenge which has another week to go.  Come along and join us we have two lovely sponsors for the challenge which are :
  

and

 

For this card I have used Flonz Craft Gibson Girl image which I have coloured with Promarkers.

For this card I have used the following:

Image - Gibson Girl and sentiment from Flonz Craft
Papers K & Company Classic K Bailey
Card from stash (Papermill shop)
Flowers and gems from stash

Boating Jenny

We have another Challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge and this week - once again - we have two fab sponsors!

The first one

Tickled Pink are offering us 3 fab digis from their collection!

And our second sponsor is our regular:

Flonz Craft is offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the other winner of this challenge.

All competitors that take part in this challenge will also receive a special 12% discount code for their shop.

Here is this fortnights sketch from Shirley:

This is my DT card.  


I used the following to make this card:

Image - from Flonz (Jenny boating)
Promarkers
Sentiment from See D's
Papers from Paper Cellar called Wedding
Card from stash (Papermill shop when they were open)
Spellbinder oval die, butterfly die and edge die
Gems from stash

Jack's Jungle

I made this card for my grandson's birthday.  

 

For this card I used the following:

Images - Woodware stamps

Sentiment - computer 

Promarkers

Paper and card from stash

Whimsy flower girl

I made this card using a lovely Whimsy stamp, I coloured her with promarkers and used some lovely paper which was part of some blog candy I received a little while ago from Mandy of  Crafty Fox Cards have a look at her site and you will see some gorgeous cards.

For this card I used the following:

Image Whimsy stamp
Promarkers
Paper - not sure of company
card from stash
Memory Box die
Spellbinder die

Gibson Girl

It is half way through our Friday Sketch Challenge and would like to remind you that there is still another week for you to join in.   We have two sponsors 2 Cute Ink and Flonz Stamps.  I made my first card for this challenge last week featuring a  2 Cute Ink card using a digi called "Alligator Swim" and this week I have made my second DT card for this challenge using a Flonz Stamp.

                 

2 Cute Ink are offering 2 digis to one lucky winner this fortnight. 

Our other sponsor Flonz Craft is offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the other winner of this challenge.

As a personal prize, they are also offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the best vintage style card that is submitted.

All competitors that take part in this challenge will also receive a special 12% discount code for their shop.

Our sketch this time has come from the lovely Carole:

For my second DT card for the Friday Sketch Challenge  I have used a stamp from our Sponsor  Flonz Stamps and this stamp is from a group called Gibson Girl.

For this card I used the following:

Image from Flonz

Sentiment Woodware 

Papers - K&Company Classic K Bailey

Card, candi and ribbon from stash

Distressed ink Frayed Burlap and Whispers Straw Mat

Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares

Come and join in the challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge - it runs until next Thursday 19th July. 

Alligator party time

My DT card for Friday Sketch Challenge .  For this card I used an image from 2 Cute Ink who are one of our sponsors this challenge.  
They are offering 2 digis to one lucky winner this fortnight. (Our DT have used 2 Cute Ink images for their cards this fortnight).

 

Our second sponsor is:

Flonz Craft is offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the other winner of this challenge.

As a personal prize, they are also offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the best vintage style card that is submitted.

All competitors that take part in this challenge will also receive a special 12% discount code for their shop.

For this card I used the following:

Image from 2 Cute Ink

Promarkers

Papers, green card and gems from stash

Come and join in the challenge.

To Paris with Love

I saw this image on Free Vintage Digital Stamps and had to use it.   I used the Sketch from Friday Sketch Challenge   Lovely prizes for this challenge if you are interesting in entering a card, there is another week to go so plenty of time to enter.

There is something very romantic about the Eiffel Tower.  I remember going up to the top of the Eiffel Tower and looking out on Paris, it was a lovely clear day and you could see for miles.

I have finally got a new laptop and I am busy taking everything off the old one and putting it on this one, of course everything was in a mess on the old one so I am trying to be more organised by putting them in folders (not sure how long that will last).

 

For this card I used the following:

Image and Coronet paper from Free Vintage Digital Stamps
Heart die - Cheery Lynn Designs
Background paper from SandyLion "On top of the World"
Blue card from stash
Sentiment from stash
Button - Sizzlet die

Texting Teen

Just putting up my second card for the Friday Sketch Challenge and want to let you all know that we have two great sponsors this month. So come on folks and join us.

Our first sponsor is:

If you haven't seen her work yet go and check her out, her images are beautiful.  You can find her shop by clicking the above image.  For our challenge this week Mayzy Art is offering a fabulous 5 digis to one winner of this challenge.

Our second sponsor is:

Flonz Craft is offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the other winner of this challenge.

As a personal prize, they are also offering a $20 coupon in their shop (with free shipping) to the best vintage style card that is submitted.

All competitors that take part in this challenge will also receive a special 12% discount code for their shop.

What more could you ask for?!

DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT.   

For my card I used the following:

Image - Mayzy Art "Texting Teen"

Promarkers

Blue card and orange card from Papermill

Patterned card from Studio Basics 101 

We also have some lovely cards produced by Guest Designers from Mayzy Art plus our own DT.

I hope (fingers crossed) to finally catch up with all your lovely blogs, lately I have been so busy that crafting has take a back seat.   

I cannot believe it but its absolutely bucketing down again, since my husband bought those water barrels it hasn't stopped.   We could have filled a hundred plus with the volume of rain we have had.  

Have a good weekend everyone.

Flower power

This card is my DT card for Friday Sketch Challenge.  The stamp is from Polka Doodles and is a lovely image.  If you would like to join us for this challenge the winner will receive 3 lovely digi's from Spesch Designer Stamps.
I am not sure what on earth is happening to the computers in this house but I am about to scream.  It has almost been impossible to get a single thing done without something going wrong.   Whatever program involved with my blog it goes down.  I am having a screaming fit this end.

I have used the following for this card:

Image by Polka Doodles
Flowers and papers from stash
Buttons and candy from stash
Green card from Stash

Strawberry basket

I would like to say hello to my new follower and hope you enjoy looking at my blog.  Some news to tell, I have just joined Friday Sketch Challenge as a member of their design team.  I am very excited as this is all new to me.   If you are interested in taking part in the challenge which has about 10 days to run then pop over and join us.  I was  unfortunately too late for this challenge to obtain a digi from the sponsor so there is no card from me yet.  The good news is that there are three digi stamps up for grabs from  SimplyBstamps.net    they have some very lovely digi's and you can see an example of them from the DT members on the challenge or go straight to their website.

Last night I made this card with an old Stampin Up set.

Inside of card

For this card I used the following:

Image from Stampin Up
Sentiment from Woodware stamps
Promarkers
X cut square die
Red card and gingham paper from stash
Ribbon (actually got this from M&S last week, it was wrapped around my new pyjamas) and just couldn't waste it.

Baby and Hearts

Hi again everyone, this is my second card for the day.  This one using a Meljen freebie that I have had for some time.

For this card I used the following:

Image by Meljen
Promarkers
Papers, flowers from stash
Baby die from Provo Craft

Birthday Boy

Hi everyone, hope you all have a good weekend.  I have finally managed to make a card, Yippee.
I am entering this card in the Friday Sketch Challenge - they have a sponsor this challenge and the prize is a lovely stamp from All that Scraps, so pop over and join in the challenge.

For this card I used the following:

Image by Molly Bloom
Promarkers
Brown card, patterned paper, ribbon, buttons all from stash

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:
Friday Sketch Challenge - #17 by Samantha
Southern Girls Challenge - Challenge #44 --About the Boys!
Desmet Designs  - May Challenge

BT HAVE DONE IT AGAIN

After having all that trouble in February with BT they have managed again to mess up my line.  Had no internet or telephone on thursday last week.  My husband telephoned them and was told that it would be fixed next tuesday before 5pm, when he queried about their policy of dealing with problems within three days he was told that they couldn't fix things over the weekend.  He then calculated that if you have a problem on monday or a tuesday that would enable you to get it repaired within three days, if you have any other day then you will have to wait five or six.    This has been the final straw with BT and their lack of interest in their customers and  providing absolutely rubbish service. 

On a brighter note I heard the telephone making a noise about 11pm and found that it was back on although the line sounds like someone is scratching something.  I assume that someone somewhere pulled out a plug or something and that have realised what they have done, or as we suspect the local box has not been replaced, we were told that it was full of water after the last episode, so we are assuming it has not been fixed and that was part or all of our problem.  So until we change from BT we are hoping it doesn't keep raining.

As the internet was down I decided to finally catch up on things around the house, this was disasterous as I ended up clearing out the small bedroom which we use as an office, there were boxes of all sorts of things, including my collectables which had been boxed up as we had no room for them and things being dumped in there which were on route to the loft as well as craft stuff all over the place.  It has taken me days to go through everything and putting the collectables on ebay in the hopes that some will sell and I will have more money for crafting.   I have also been trying to catch up on my housework after being ill the week before.  I have honestly  seen enough washing and ironing to last me the rest of the year.  On closer inspection I realised that every room in the house could do with a good spring clean and I am putting myself on a schedule of cleaning out cupboards and washing down walls etc ready to do some painting when the weather is better, in this weather the paint never seems to dry.

We could have filled about 40 water butts in the last few weeks - if I had the land I would be building my own reservoir.   So I hope all those water companies out there are catching all this rain. 

I am hoping to finally get some cards made over the next couple of days. 

Well I hope everyone is well and will be catching up on blogs today. 

Hearts and Rabbits

Been a little under the weather this week so terribly behind in everything including crafting.

The weather is still miserable but on the bright side my water butts are full.  The garden is like a blog but not to worry according to the water authorities it is the wrong type of rain.  Well I hope they are transferring the water in the rivers which are steadily rising and putting into the reservoirs.  I do feel sorry for all those who have been flooded out, what a nightmare.  It will take months of work to repair all the damage to their properties.

For this card I have used:

Image from bodil's scrappeverden  (free digi) 

Promarkers

Spellbinder circle die with hearts

Xcut die - square

Ribbon, flowers, button and heart from stash

Pink dot paper from Papermania

Green card, pink and blue card from stash (believe this was from the Range)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge

The Shabby Tea Room challenge Week #112 'Spring is Love'

Tea Party

First I would like to thank Mandy for the lovely candy which I was lucky enough to win the other week, I shall enjoy using them, thank you again Mandy.

I would also like to say hello to my three new followers, I hope you will enjoy visiting my blog. I am looking forward to having a look at your blogs this evening.

Yesterday morning my hubby went off to pick up some narrow water butts, as he is a keen gardener and loves growing some of our vegetables.  It had started to rain before he went and it never stopped the whole of yesterday, he was disappointed as he couldn't get out to fit them to the guttering.  This afternoon it cleared up and he finally attached them to the guttering, of course it hasn't rained since.

Finished a card last night and realised that I didn't have that many flowers to go with the colours.  So will have to invest in some different colours.

The paper pack I used for this card is called Kitschy Kitchen, I was out shopping with my daughter Kent Crafter and we decided to split the pack as we had both spent too much on craft goodies that month.

For the this card I used the following:-

Image from Beth Gunnell

Promarkers

Blue and pink card from stash

Pattern paper 

Memory box corner die 

Whimsy vine die

X cut die

Buttons

Flowers and ribbon from stash

I would like to enter this card for the following challenge:
The Shabby Tea Room challenge #111 'April Showers' colours in the photo, lace/ribbon and flowers

With Love

I made this card for my friend Kathy in the USA, she has just gone through two awful months after being diagnosed with a serious illness, she had major surgery two weeks ago and has finally received her results which thankfully were good.

I used the following for this card:

Image from Saturated Canary
Promarkers
Sentiment from Doodle Pantry
Memory Box leaf die
Spellbinders oval die
Flowers from stash
All card and papers from stash

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

Simon Says Challenge - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Week 151 Sketch
Creative Inspirations Challenge 160 - Anything Goes

Hippee Girl

Would like to say hi to my new follower, thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

I was expecting nothing but rain this weekend but have managed to get quite a bit of washing  out and dried.  My electricity bill arrived Friday and I was shocked at how much it was, admittedly we have had the heating on quite a bit and had to use the tumble dryer or else we would have no clothes to wear, but even so it was terribly high.   With my husband being made redundant some time in the next few months I will have to think of ways to cut down on bills, worse thing would be crafting items - silently screaming and stamping feet.

I am not sure how I found this site, but through looking at one thing and another, I ended up with this image called Hippee from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.  The site has some really lovely images.

For this card I used the following:

Image from Stitchy Bear
Promarkers
Papers from Making Memories Simply Fabulous Collection
Memory box die
Tonic butterfly punch
Sizzlet corner punch
Flowers from stash
Glitz glitter glue
Papermania pearls

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:
DYSU Challenge #68 stripes

Molly's Present

I was very pleased to see that I had been given an Honourable Mention from The Shabby Tea Room for my card.  Thank you very much.


I have decided to finally have a sort out of my craft items and use all the papers and stamps that have been bought or been free with magazines and use them.   I am just running out of space.  I have lots of odd paper that I am now determined to use up so apologies for not letting you all know what company they are from.

I had this stamp which came with a magazine about a year ago, it had this cute image along with a boy, cupcake and three sentiments, so decided it was time to actually use them. I used Glitz glitter glue on the butterflies but it is not very clear in the picture.

For this card I used the following:
Image and sentiment from Molly Blooms
Promarkers
Pink card and patterned card from stash
Memory Box Leaf die
Tonic Butterfly punch
X cut oblong die
Papermania pearls
Kars pink pearls
Glitz Glitter Glue on butterflies

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #129 Stripes or checks

Sassy Cupcake

I would like to say hi to my two new followers, I hope you enjoy looking at my blog.

Unfortunately last week there didn't seem to be enough time to get things done and so it was off to Tesco's, Iceland and Wilkinsons on Sunday, it was the fastest I had shopped in years, managed to do it all in 1hr, unfortunately it took me two to get it in the cupboards.  That meant no crafting till the evening and then it was interrupted by ironing.   Of course it didn't help that they didn't want jacket potatoes for dinner, so eventually had to cook the Sunday roast.   My husband appears to prefer dinner to crafting - honestly men.

On this card I used some patterned card from Papermania, this was an excellent buy last year from the Range, for £9.99  you got a 12 x 12 plastic box and 60 sheets of double-sided card.  That made it only 17p a sheet and  a free box.  A bargain.

On this card I used the following:

Image from Bugaboo called Cupcake Girl
Promarkers
Patterned card from Papermania
Red card from Stash
Red ribbon - given to me by my daughter
Red spotted buttons from Stash
Doily from Stash
Pearls from Papermania
Glossy accents for cherry and shoes

I would like to put this in for the following challenge:

The Crafty Pad Designs - Bounty of Buttons Challenge # 166

Time for Cake

Well back again, I have made another card using the same cupcake image as my last card.  I am making a few cards for my sister who likes to have a few in the cupboard for emergencies.

For this card I have used the following:

Cupcake Image design by Beth Gunnell
Promarkers
Sentiment from Papermania
Blue and Pink card from stash
Pink Gingham from Papermania
Blue Gingham from DCWV Nana's Kitchen
Flowers and gems from stash
Spellbinders circle and scallop circle dies
Cheery Lynn corner die

I would like to enter this for the following challenge:
The Shabby Tea Room Challenge Week #109- 'Birthday Bash'

Cupcake Delight

Hi everyone, finally had a morning making my card, but if it could go wrong it did.  Finally after throwing things away and screaming I made this card.  The paper with the ribbon attached has been in my cupboard for about two years, I opened the pack on buying and then put it away now I have no idea what company it is from. The image was from a set of stamps I had from a magazine which I had not got around to using, I think it was Quick Cards Magazine and they were designed by Beth Gunnell.

For this card I used the following:

Image designed by Beth Gunnell
Promarkers
Sentiment from magazine freebie
Patterned paper from Nana's Kitchen DCVW and from stash
Blue card from stash
Spellbinders circle and scalloped die
Cheery Lynn corner die
Ribbon from stash
Glitz glitter glue

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:
Sketch 'n' Stash - Sketch #85
Wishcraft - Waste Not Wednesdays Week 14
Scrapbook Sisters - Challenge #79 Anything Goes