Darcy's Day and Day 14 of The Best of British

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well decorating nearly done carpet coming on Saturday yay i cant wait, living room is empty apart from the tv which is on the wall and our sofa! everything else is in the bedrooms and kitchen and its driving me flipping NUTS lol.

Any way its time for another challenge over at Darcy's Dairies here's the new Graphics for you.

The theme this time is a little different its a MENU here's how it goes.

Starter - Lilac and Turquoise, Pink and Green, Navy blue and Red
Main - Birthday, Thank You, Anniversary
Dessert - Ribbon - Lace - String
You may also pick two side dishes from - Gems, Pearls, Swirls, Charms, Glitter, buttons, tag, flowers, Stitching (real or faux), butterflies.

Here's my Card

Darcy Image No 53,

Starter Lilac and Turquoise

Main Birthday

Desert Ribbon

Side Dishes Pearls and Flowers

Copic Markers to Colour

Bearly Mine Papers

Flowers from Mulberry Crafts

Now our lovely Jill reacons i've gone a bit greedy with the sides lol

Its also Day 14 of the Best of British over at Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspiration HERE

pop over and check it out as there is a fabulous prize up for grabs, our sponsor today is Dies to Die For.

Challenges i'd like to enter
Divas By Design Anything goes
Fab and Funky Celebrations
Penny's Challenges Anything goes
Scrapbook Sisters Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Anything goes
Craftroom Birthday
Papertake Weekly Sketch
Totally Gorjuss Something new Papers image and the die cut corner

Well that's it for now peeps i hope you have a lovely day

Day 13 of The Best of British

Good Morning folks its Day 13 of our Best of British event which you all seem to be enjoying.

Quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs – all made in England.... IndigoBlu is a web based Company who supply their fabulous stamps and products to lots of Brick & Mortar shops...It is based in Retford,Nottinghamshire and is run by a Husband & Wife team....

Indigo Blu have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

Please checkout their fabulous stamps on their IndigoBlu website

We are still in a mess here with all of the decorating that's going on and i hate everything being dusty and untidy, still it will be worth it in the end, i cant wait till Saturday when the carpet is being fitted yay then i can relax lol.

I promise i will get around to visiting you all soon.

Well that's it from me for today folks, hubby got on ok at the Hospital yesterday he doesn't have to go back for six months lucky thing, i'm back there tomorrow to do my first injection as the nurse did it last week but showed me everything i have to do and i even have a folder lol.

Best of British Day #12#

Good Morning folks i hope you all had a fab weekend we did! we popped away for a few days to make the most of the gorgeous weather and we had a fantastic time.

Anyway back to what i'm here for today its Day 12 of our Best of British over at Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspirations HERE today our fabulous Sponsor is





A unique craft centre specialising in scrapbooking and card making workshops, for both adults and children based at Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire UK. We have loads of fantastic supplies, equipment and materials. Every thing you need to enjoy your creative time out!
Please visit our centre to be “amazed” at all we offer. Check out our web site further for more detailed information.


A Maze of Memories have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win...

Here's my card i really enjoyed making this as i haven't crafted for a few days the image is Darcy Dairies No 19 A Gentle Touch the papers Meadow Lark and the butterfly and swirl are Memory Box Dies, the flowers are from Mulberry Crafts the Ribbon is of course from Crafty Ribbons

Challenges i would like to enter.

Bunny Zoe Crafts Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Baby
Crafty Boots Anything goes with a bow
House of Gilli Punches and Die cuts
Ooh La La Make it Girlie
Stamp and Create One for the Ladies


Well that's it for now hopefully Mr Blogger is behaving and posted this as we are at the hospital today for hubby though not me.
Have a lovely day whatever your doing.

Easel Cards at Crafty Ribbons and A Mid Way Reminder at Darcy's Dairies

Good Morning folks i'm going to make this as quick as possible as i'm in a bit of pain tonight well this morning its 1.35am lol, it time for a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and a mid way reminder over at Darcys Dairies and its also Day Seven of our Best of British Event.

Our Sponsor today is Crafty Ribbons

“Welcome to all ribbon lovers...."
Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none.
Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths.
Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects, Go on, have a try... It's worth it !
Tony & Ali

Please checkout all the fabulous ribbons over at the Crafty Ribbons website so many gorgeous ribbons to chose from....

Today is Ali's Birthday and the date is the 24th so she has given one of you lucky people a £24.00 voucher to spend on gorgeous scrummy ribbon over at Crafty Ribbons.....

Anyway Here's my Card

Items Used

Darcy 47

Copic Markers

Ribbons Crafty Ribbons

Memory Box Butterfly and Elegant Scrollwork Die

Tour of London Papers from NitWit's

I would like to enter the following Challenges.

Cup Cake Any sentiment
Delightful 5 or more flowers
Moving along with the times Celebrate but no birthday
Southern Girls Dyeing to diecut or punch
Divas by design Flourishes
Paper Pretties Bright and bold
Creative card crew Dimension
Deep Ocean Swirls
PaperTake Weekly Use your national colours


Well i think that's it for now as we are getting ready to pop away for 3 days to get a break from all the dust from rubbing walls down ect as i have a dust allergy and its driving me mad at the minute lol.

Anyway i hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Fabulous Flowers at Crafts and Me & Day Six of The Best of British

Morning all you lovely peeps i hope you are all well, well its Wednesday so that means it time for a new challenge at Crafts and Me and our lovely Amy choose the theme of Fantastic Flowers for you play with this week. and its also Day Six of the Best of British at Crafty Ribbons Inspirational Blog

Have you got your gorgeous Zindy Nielsen stamps yet I've used one today just to tease yer lol, this one is called Night Time Fairy you can get her HERE and she is just so pretty dont yer think.

Here's the other items i Used
Copic Markers
Memory Box Tree Die
Memory Box Vivian Butterfly Die
Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork Die
Flowers from Mulberry Crafts and Just Tracy's Crafts
Ribbon From Crafty Ribbons.

Challenges i would like to enter

Lets Ink It Up Bling
Stamptacular Sunday In the Garden
The Crafty Pad Bingo Bottom line
CMC Copic's Challenges Anything goes
Sweet Stamping Fairies or Angels
Card Crafters Circle Sparkle
Crafts 4 Eternity Wonderful wings
Crafty Catz Girly
Fairytale Things with Wings

Thank you so much for stopping by and all the lovely comments you leave they are always very much appreciated.

Bearly Mine #Anything Goes#

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well and had a fab weekend, we had a busy one but it was good.

Anyway its time for another challenge over at Bearly Mine and our theme is anything goes so i guess we'll be busy commenting lol, and our Sponsor - I Am Roses - $35 Gift Voucher wow what a fab prize.

Well here's my card

Items Used
Darcey's Dairies Image No 38 Bubbles
Copic Markers to Colour
Tim Holts on the edge Butterfly
Memory Box Swirl Die
Memory Box Butterfly
Flowers from Mulberry Crafts
Pearls from Bobbityboo on Ebay
Pin i did myself

Challenges i'd like to enter

Cr84Fun Photo Inspiration
Scrappy Frogs Tag It
The Hybrid Chick Caravan Flowers
Crazy4challenges Birthday
Di's Digis Show us your Bling
ATC's and Cards with Attitude Butterflies and Blooms
Simply Create Mother day of Feminine.

Well that's it from for now i hope you like my card, thank you for all your lovely comments that you leave me too.

Best Of British Day 5

Good morning folks its now day 5 of the best of British over at Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspiration BlogHERE

Today our fabulous Sponsor is Stamposaurus

and they have this fab prize for one lucky winner.

Well that's it this is just a quick post so you don't miss out on any prizes, my brother should be here any time now to start my decorating i'm at the hospital having a fasting blood test so with a bit of luck they will have started by the time i get home lol.
Any way have a lovely day and i'll catch you later.

Day 4 Best of British

Morning folks just a quick post from me today as we are clearing our living room hall stairs and landing ready for my brothers arrival tomorrow to decorate them for us as we aren't able to do it our selves.

Anyway that's enough of my decorating its day 4 of The Best of British at Crafty Ribbons Pure inspiration Blog HERE

Our Sponsor today is Crafty Individuals

Crafty Individuals is an exciting venture into the creative world of arts and crafts for business partners Jean Hardy and Malcolm Noble, who both come from an arts-based background.
Jean Hardy is a practising artist with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, as well as a teaching certificate.
Malcolm Noble is a professional commercial photographer who has been operating in the North East for the last 20 years.

Crafty Individuals have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

Well that's it from me i best get on with the packing lol, hope you all have a lovely day.

Day Three of The Best Of British

Good Morning folks its day 3 of our Best Of British Event at Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspiration.

Today our Sponsor is Crafty Ribbons oh and dont forget FREE P&P when you spend £7 at Crafty Ribbons.

Welcome to all ribbon lovers....

Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none.
Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths.
Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects, Go on, have a try... It's worth it !
Tony & Ali

Please checkout all the fabulous ribbons over at the Crafty Ribbons website so many gorgeous ribbons to chose from....

Ali & Tony have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

A Fabulous selection of these brand new ribbons....

Here's my project i made a couple of cute little gift bags.

Well that's all i have for you today but i do hope that you'll all pop over to Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspiration Blog HERE.

Have a lovely Day whatever your doing.

One Stop Crafts DT and Best of British Day 2

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well and its the weekend yay busy one for me though.
Anyway its day 2 of The Best of British Event at The Crafty Ribbons Inspirational Blog and also time for a new challenge at One Stop Crafts and our theme this week is Wedding or Wedding Anniversary and we are sponsored by Lili of The Valley.

Here's my card i really enjoyed making this one i hope you like it too.

Items Used
Lili of The Valley image
Flowers from Mulberry Crafts
Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons
Memory Box Butterfly Die
Memory Box Swirl Die
Memory Box Grass Die
Copic Markers to Colour

Challenges i'd like to enter

There's Magic in the Air Sketch
Love to Create Bingo Bottom line
Craft Your Passion Colour challenge
Tammy's Scrapping Corner Flowers
Paper Pretties Glitter

Hooked On Crafts Flowers
Fashionista Challenges Wedding or Anniversary
Bunny Zoes Anything goes

Our Sponsor today for our Beast of British Event is Mulberry Crafts

MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business run by Bev . Who juggles caring for her family and running this business from home.
At the moment we are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too. Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than ordinary paper and it provides a sustainable income for people in the cottage industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials which is not related to mulberry paper.

Bev has very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

That's it from me for now i'll be back tomorrow to catch up with you all until then take care and enjoy your day.

Best of British Starts Today

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well.

Today is the first day of our BEST of BRITISH EVENT... over at Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog HERE...Over the next 16 days we will be highlighting some of the Best British Craft Companies.....

Today our Sponsor is

Which Craft UK pride ourselves on creating new and unique Quality Card Blanks

'For your inspiration'

( If you are going to spend time creating a special card then we
believe you need a high quality blank canvas as your starting point)

We are known in the Card making industry for using Only the Highest quality Card gauge -

throughout the complete 'For Your Inspiration' Collection - where many of our colleagues

use our designs to show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products

Our Designs can be seen on Create & Craft used by many of our Craft colleagues

to also show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products..

Paula has very kindly given us the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

Pop over to Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog HERE to find out more.

Oh i nearly forgot if you place and order at Crafty Ribbons while the best of British Event is running you wont pay P&P just enter BOB in your order.

Have a good day everyone

DArcy's Day Challenge *6*

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well, it's time for another challenge over at Darcy's Dairies and the lovely Gayle asked me a few days ago if i'd like to stay on the DT permanently and of course i said yes as i absolutely love these images, anyway our theme for this fortnight is Pennants now you can make an actual pennant or pennants on your card its up to you.

Here is the fab new release for this fortnight and what fab images for your graduation cards.

Here's my Card

Items Used

Darcy's Dairies 046

Copic Markers to colour

Prima Nature Garden papers

Memory Box Swirl Die

Pennant Die is from Whiff Joy

I would also like to enter the following Challenges.


Cards For Men Kicking Back
Lolli Pop Crafts Just for him
Quirky Crafts Masculine with blue and brown
Allsorts a card for a man or boy
Totally PaperCrafts No Girls allowed
Crafty Creations Male card
Desert Island Crafters Pick 3 from the list 1, 8, 10.
Mad For Markers Masculine Colours
Dutch Dare Shaped Cards
Moving Along With The Times Keep It Real No Fantasy
Southern GIrls All about boys

Well that's it from me for now folks but i will be around to catch up with you all later once i've dropped mother in law off at her club.

Best of British starts Friday

Good morning folks just a quick reminder about the Best of British event that's coming up on from Friday for two weeks at Craft Ribbons and there will be prizes every day woo hoo yep that's right folks prizes every day so pop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspirational Blog HERE cos that's where its all happening.

Watching It Fly

Good Evening folks i hope you've managed to stay dry today lol i just cant believe this flipping weather its all right if you've got webbed feet.


Anyway i thought i would just show you another of the Gorgeous Zindy Nielsen stamps that are being released at Crafts and Me
very soon this one's called Watching It Fly isn't she gorgeous i love Zindy's work she is an amazing artist.


Here's the sample card i've made for the show so not as much going on on my card as there normally is lol, anyway i hope you like it.



Items Used

Copic Markers to colour
Marianne Dies Butterfly and the leaves down the side
Watching It Fly image
Memory Box Dies the Swirls and Corner from Crafts and Me but out of stock at the mo
Clouds memory Box die
The little flowers are a Martha Stewart punch


Lexi's Creations Black plus one other colour
Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything goes
Stamp and Create One for the girls
Addicted to Stamps Black White and ? i've used blue
Let's Ink it Up Bling
Stamptacular Sundays Butterfly Kisses

Well that's it from me for now i'm off to catch up with you all now.