sweet sounds of summer

Good afternoon everyone, well have i had a busy day with all of my grandchildren here but at least it didn't rain so we could at least get out in the garden, now they have all done so its time to chill out a bit lol.



Its Saturday so its time for another challenge over at One Stop Craft, this week it's our lovely Kathryn's turn to set the challenge and she would like to see patterned papers, we are also being sponsored by wink wink ink and they very kindly gave us some images to use and i've used Little Bird isn't it such a sweet image i have coloured it with copic markers, the papers are papermania summer bloom, I've used the plaid patterns, Martha Stewart butterflies the leaves are a Mirianne design creatables classic flowers the flower i made myself using wired ribbon this time.

Don't forget to check out all the other fabulous DT cards for more inspiration.

I am also entering my card into some other challenges
Charisma Something with a tail
CreativeFriday Things with wings
Daring Cardmakers
Dutch Dare Anything goes
Paperplay Anything goes
Sunday Sketch and stamp Sketch.

I hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by and any comments you leave, have a lovely weekend.

Fairy Kisses

Good morning peeps, wow what a fantastic response to our last challenge 222 of you entered it so thank you each and everyone of you and it's now time for a new challenge over at Craftalicious and this time it's my turn to set the challenge and i would like you to make your own flowers, they can be made of anything you like ribbon tissue paper the choice is yours.


For my card we were given sum images from Stitchy Stamps as they are our sponsors this week and i just love this cutie she is Berry Fairy! i am also entering some challenges with my card i've used a mixture of papers, the flower i made myself from ribbon, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, gems and ribbon from my stash.

Creative Inspirations Anything goes
Crafty Catz Material girl
Digi Tuesday Dazzle
Flutterby Wednesday Angel fairy or butterfly
One stitch at a time Black white and one other colour
Simon Says Stamp Going dottie.

Love Fairy

Hi everyone sorry i've not been about but my keyboard decided to pack up on me,but Terry has been out a bought me and new one, it's a bit different to my old one and i keep hitting to wrong keys lol, anyway onto my card this is using one of the new gorgeous stamps that Teresa at Crafts and Me is now stocking, its a new designer that Teresa has discovered her name is Sara Burrier the stamps are exclusive to Crafts and Me and there is also a 10% discount for registered news letter readers so why not pop over and register for the Crafts and Me news letter.
Here's the card, i made this one up rather quickly just to have a play lol as you do, this one is called Love Fairy Blessing, i hope you like her.




The rest of these stamps are gorgeous too why not pop over to Crafts and Me to have a look for yourself Teresa has lots of new stock and the service is fantastic too.
I am also entering this card into The papertake weekly challenge which is the fab sketch, the flowers i made myself using odd bits of ribbon.

Thanks for popping by and any comments you leave.

Sweet Baby Girl

Good evening or i should say good morning everybody lol, well its been a hot day here in Essex we still haven't had any rain yet either and heaven knows my grass needs it still never mind. Its been a busy week backwards and forwards to the vets as one of my cats has been bitten on the tail and has an abscess where the bite is, but it is much better today so hopefully Tuesday will be the last visit. Right onto my cards that i have for you, well one was for last weeks Friday Sketchers and yes you guessed it i missed it lol,



so i have made another card for this weeks sketch which is also my DT card for Crafts and Me lol, i am also entering some challenges with these cards the beautiful whiff of joy image Willow holding baby can be found Here atCrafts and Me, these two cards are not really my normal style of cards either but the young lady that they are for doesn't like all the frills ect, so i just hope that they are ok.




Just to let you know that Teresa at Crafts and Me has some fabulous new stamps in stock if they aren't there yet keep checking back it's another new designer called Sara Burrier so the stamps are exclusive to Crafts and Me plus there is lots of other new stamps and restocks in now.

Challenges i'm entering are
Friday Sketchers
Papertake Weekly Anything goes as long as its CUTE
Allsorts Baby or Child
Create4fun Use Flowers on your card
Totally Gorgeous Congratulations mine a baby.
Stamp Something Flowers
Creative Inspirations Anything Goes.

Well i think that's it for now i hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Take care and thanks for visiting and any comments you make.

Crafts and Me challenge * 9 *

Good morning peeps i hope you are having a good week so far, anyway on to this weeks challenge over at Crafts and Me and it challenge no9 already where are the weeks going lol, well this week its our lovely Trish's turn to set the challenge she has done a fab sketch for you to follow.



We are Sponsored The Greeting Farm this time around and this is what one lucky person will win.



For my card i've used ching chou kuiks spring luna avalable here at Crafts and Me and i've coloured her with copic markers the papers are from DCWV the whimsey stack, the leaves are a Marianne design creatable Open Flower - Classic, butterflies are Martha Stewart punch, gems flowers tulle are from my stash.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DTs blogs for more inspiration.

I'm off to bed now as its 1.30 in the morning and i have scheduled this post so fingers crossed it works lol.

Thanks for stopping by and any comments you leave and i hope you have a lovely day.

Butterfly Keeper

Good morning all you lovely peeps out there, well the sun is shining today here in Essex and i hope its shining for you too.

Its Saturday so it's time for a new challenge over at One Stop Crafts and its our fabulous Janet's turn to set the challenge and she choose a colour theme of Pink Blue Green and a splash of Red and flowers and bling here a photo to help,


for my card i've used one of the gorgeous new stamps that Teresa now stock's over at Crafts and Me, this one is a Hannah Lynn design called the Butterfly Keeper isn't she gorgeous i've coloured her with copic markers and the gorgeous papers are from DCWV called madly in love the butterflies are Martha Stewart punches and the rest is from my stash.



Challenges i'm entering
Crafty Calender Summer
Totally Gorgeous Thinking of you
Allsorts Summer days
Creative Friday Teenage dreams
Stamping for the Weekend Recipe
Charisma Pink
Flutter By Wednesday 3 layers or more
My Time To Craft Butterfly Bliss.

Well that's it for now thanks for popping by and any comments you leave and i hope you have a lovely weekend whatever your doing.

Craftalicious DT Card

Hi Everybody its time for another challenge over at Craftalicious and i must say a big thank you to all that entered the last challenge, we had 340 entries wow how fab is that.





Anyway this challenge has been set my our lovely Carly and Carly would like to see birthday cards and we are being sponsored by Karen's doodles this time and boy has she got some fab images. Karen very kindly gave all images to play with too.

Well onto my card i made the card in my previous post for this then realised it had to be a birthday card, see my heads in the clouds again so i had to make another one so here it is as i said before we have lots of boys in our family and the little fella this is for is footie mad lol. Don't forget to check out all the other DT cards for more inspiration.

Challenges
Paperplay Sketch
C.R.A.F.T challenges Babies or Children
Creative Inspirations Sport Themed
Crafty Cardmakers Photo inspiration

Items used

Summertime boy soccer from Karens Doodles
Copic markers
Making memories Just Chillin papers
Button string and sentiment from my stash.

Thank you so much for stopping by and any comments you may leave.

Happy Anniversary

Good evening all you lovely peeps out there, i want to know what's happened to our gorgeous weather? hopefully we will get some more sunny weather soon.
Sorry my cards are a bit thin on the ground but having mil here is coursing us some problems but hopefully they will get sorted out soon, it is a strain on us having to change our lives around completely as you can imagine, mentally and physically.





Anyway i have a card for you this evening see i even got this wrong!this was supposed to a DT card for one of my challenge blogs but for some reason i made an anniversary card so its no good for that challenge lol, good job i can still laugh at myself if i didn't i would burst into tears.


Any way the image is from Karens Doodles its such a gorgeous image too, i'm also entering this card into a few challenges.

ABC Y You and Me
Creative Inspirations oldest thing in your stash Papers
CReatalicious Anything three d
Everybody Art Holiday
Project Tuesday Easel card
Tuesday Taggers Anniversary

Items Used

Here comes the Bride image fro Karens Doodles
Papers i don't know i've had them for ever lol
Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts
Leaves are from one of the Marianne D Creatatables
Pin,charm,gems and ribbon from my stash.

Thank you for popping by and any comments you leave, not long now till the weekend.

Hiding fairy by Molly Harrison

Good morning peeps, its still very hot here in Essex, not much crafting being done as its just too hot up in my craft room even with the fan and cider lol, but at least i'm getting my DT cards done just about lol! but i'm not complaining cos i love the summer but it doesn't last long enough for me.



Onto my card this is my DT card for Crafts and Me, i've used one of the new Crafts and Me stamps this one is a Molly Harrison called Hiding and she is just gorgeous, i'm so loving using these stamps i think Teresa has done a fab job getting these and the new Hannah Lynn stamps, both of which are exclusive to Crafts and Me.

I am also entering a couple of Challenges

Friday Sketchers
Allsorts Have a heart
Stamp something Recipe

Items used
Molly Harrison stamp available from Crafts and Me
Kay and Co papers
Martha Stewart butterfly and Hydrangea punches
Leaves are Marianne design Open Flower - Classic
Ribbon and gems are from my stash.

Thank you so much for stopping by and any comments you leave, i hope you have a lovely day.

Michelle your Swell

Good evening all you lovely peeps out there, what a gorgeous day we've had again, the only problem i have with this weather is my mil sleeps down stairs still at the mo as we are waiting for a stair lift to be fitted and she goes to bed at 9pm so the patio doors and windows are shut leaving us roasting as she doesn't feel the heat and even has the window shut lol.

Anyway back to my card, this one is the card i shall be sending to Michelle, who as most of you know by now had a terrible accident a couple of weeks back.



I am also entering a couple of challenges with my card.

Sketch Saturday Fab sketch
A Spoonful of Sugar
Dutch Dare Photo inspiration
Simon says Photo inspiration

Well that's it for now, i have just had a phone call asking me to make wedding invites and they would like a couple of samples, i best get cracking lol, i now have a lovely fan on me and a nice cold cider, well i needed something as my craft room get the sun all afternoon lol.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever your doing and thanks for stopping by and any comments you leave.

Crafts and Me DT card and exciting news

Oh my have we got exciting news Teresa has some delish stamps lined up for you all, so you best get over to Crafts and Me to check them out. Teresa has worked very hard getting her very own range of unmounted rubber stamps by the wonderful artists Hannah Lynn & Molly Harrison, they are such superb quality thick rubber too and we are all sure you will love them.

Here's a card that i made with one of the Molly Harrison stamps, our challenge theme this week at Crafts and Me challenges was picked by our lovely Teresa and Teresa would like you to use Pink Black and white this week on your projects.



Please pop over to the Crafts and Me blog and tell Teresa what you think i'm sure that she will be delighted to hear from you, and dont forget to check out the other DTs fab work to.

Challenges i'm entering

The Pink Elephant Sketch
My Time to Craft Angelic
Flutterby Wednesday
Charisma Metal Mickey Pin
By The Cute and Girly Summer
Pile it On Favourite things mine are fairies and flowers

Items Used
Molly Harrison stamped image available from Crafts and Me
Just chillin papers from making memories and papermania Capsule
Martha Stewart Butterfly and leaf punches
Flower from wild orchid crafts
Ribbon pin and gems from my stash.

Oh i nearly forgot our sponsor this week is Stix


Thanks for stopping by and any comments you leave,enjoy your day and take care.

One Stop DT

Morning peeps well its still hot and sunny here in Essex, i have all my grandchildren here today and their mummies and daddies so i will be playing catch up again this evening and tomorrow.



Anyways on to my card for this weeks One Stop Crafts challenge was my choice so i would like to see some distressing and to think i never used to like distressing lol.
Don't for get to pop over and check out all the other DT cards for some great inspiration. This weeks sponsor is Dew Drop Crafts i wish i could enter lol, i love their images.

Items used

Dew Drop crafts image Beauty and the Beast
MME Bella papers
Ribbon from crafty ribbons
Martha Stewart leaf punch
Woodware heart punch
flowers and pearls are from my stash.

Challenges
Creative card crew Easel card
Digi Tuesday Summer
ABC Extra Dimention
Sweet Sketch Sketch
Dare to Digi the great outdoors
Crafty Catz Distressing
Corrosive Flowers.
Crafty Cardmakers Ink stains or mists

Well i think that's it for now and i would also like to thank for your support with comments and your encouraging words they really do mean a lot, enjoy your weekend.

Good evening i'm late with this post we've had a nightmare couple of days but i wont go into details,its time for another fortnightly challenge at Craftalicious, this time it's our fab Tracy's turn to set the theme and Tracy would like to see "Cute" so plenty of ways to interpret that one.

We've got another wonderful sponsor this week - Crafty Sentiments who very kindly provided us with some images.


A small online company that offers high quality photopolymer stamps for cardmakers and scrapbookers. We offer sentiments and cute character stamps for you to enjoy.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DTs blogs for inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and any comments you make.