I'm Back!!...

Soooooo, did you miss me??  Lol!!  We had a lovely little holiday, although the weather wasn't great but unless you're going far away I think the weather is pretty up and down everywhere isn't it!  Nevermind though, we still had fun!  I hope you're all well and have been having fun whilst I was away?  I'll be catching up with you all to see what you've been up to!...

My card today is my Sketch Saturday DT card and I made it for my friend who's turning 40 next week.  We've had a few 40th's this year as Hubby and his mates are all turning the big 4 - 0!  I love rubbing it in that I still have 5 years to go, lol!!  But hey, age is just a number right and an excuse to party, lol!!  Here's my card...

A close up of Penny Black's 'Primp'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Here's this weeks fabby sketch, thanks Jo!...

And we have a brand new sponsor this week, iCopic, who are donating a pack of Copic Ciao's in Primary Colours,  WOWZERRRRRRS!!

They're also offering all Sketch Saturday subscribers $5 off and Free Shipping for spending $75 - perfect timing as I NEEEED some more Copics, lol!  Head over to Sketch Saturday to join in the fun with us this week  :o))

Have a good Saturday!

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Totally Gorjuss ~ Challenge 94 ~ Cute And Cuddly

Allsorts Challenge Blog ~ Week 117 ~ You've Been Framed (Does the mirror frame count?!)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Week 165 ~ Shabby Chic

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, MME Fine and Dandy 'Tickled Pink'

Stamps / Images ~ Penny Black 'Primp', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ N/A

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, Sentiment is computer generated

Other ~ Faux Stitching, Cotton, Silver Mirri Card and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Fur ~ C5, C3, C1, C0, R20, R00;  Bow ~ R29, R27, R24;  Other ~ Y15, YG03, W5, W3, W1, BG10, BG0000, 0

Pollycraft Meets Cupcake Craft Challenges!!

Hiya!

Well I'm due back from my holidays today so normal service will be resumed shortly!  Did you miss me, lol?!

Here's my Pollycraft DT and Cupcake Craft Challenge GDT Cards, 2 for the price of 1!!  The Pollycraft challenge this week is

DISTRESSING

and over at Cupcake we have a 

SKETCH

for you to play with!...

A close up of the gorgeous GORGEOUS!...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

A close up of his glasses, can you see the glossy accents?...

Here's the Cupcake Sketch...

You like?  You could play along and join the two challenges together like I have!  Head over to both Pollycraft and Cupcake for some more inspiration if you want too...

See you soon peeps  :o)

Much love,

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill BLing, MME Stell and Rose 'Gertie Papers'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Gorgeous, Papermania 'Happy Birthday', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ N/A

Embellishements ~ Card Candy from Craftwork Cards

Other ~ Glossy Accents, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin(!) ~ B05, B04, B02, B000, B0000, YG03, YG11, YG00; Glasses ~ R37, R35;  Other ~ W5, W3, W1.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Indigo, Green, Deep Red

Sketch Saturday #168

Happy Saturday to you all!!

I hope you've had good weeks?  I'm still on my jollys at the moment but cleverly scheduled my Sketch Saturday DT card before I left!  Hopefully Mr Blogger is playing nicely, lol!

Here's this week's card, I made this one for my Little Bro's birthday...

A close up of Elzybells image...

Inside of my card...

And a side view...

Here's this weeks fabby sketch, thanks Jo  :o))

Fancy playing along too?  Need some more inspiration?  Head over to Sketch Saturday to see my teamies creations!

Much love,

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations Aquarium, MME Lime Twist 'Fly a Kite' and Stella and Rose 'Hattie' paper packs, Memory Box 'Jubilee' paper stack

Stamps / Images ~ Elzbells (no longer available), Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ N/A

Embellishments ~ Sentiment from Craftwork Cards, Twine from The Ribbon Girl

Other ~ Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  SKin ~ E21, E01, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E31;  Clothes ~ BG01, BG0000, R29, R24, R17;  Car ~ C7, C5, C3, C1, C00;  Other ~ W5, W3, W1, 0, B000, B0000.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Black, Electric Blue, Deep Red

Pollycraft Challenge # 105 - Recycle!

Coo-ee,

Me again and I'm back sharing my Pollycraft Challenge DT creation.  This week the challenge is.....

RECYCLE

.....and boy did I struggle with this!  But as I sat at my desk with everything in it's place I thought hmmmm, I wish I had something to store my double sided tape, rubber and foam pads in as these are always lose on my desk as I use them on pretty much every card!  And it came to me.....I could recycle this.....

as it would perfectly store my tape with the other bits in the middle!  So that's what I did...

The top view...

A close up of Pollycraft Sonny Honeycloud 'Sonnys Party'...

And housing my tools...

On my desk...

What do you think?  Head over to Pollycraft to see what my talented teamies made and why not join in too.  Once I started thinking 'outside the box' I really had a fun time!

I'll catch up with you all next week when I'm back from my hols but until then I hope you all have brilliant weeks and I'll see you soon!

Much love,

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations Bon Bon, MME Fine and Dandy 'Tickled Pink' and 'Quite Contrary' paper pads and 'Pretty' paper

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Sonny Honeycloud 'Sonnys Party'

Dies / Punches ~ EK Success Binding Edge Edger punch, X-Cut Small Butterfly punch, Cricut George and Basic Shapes Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Lace from The Ribbon Girl, Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, Buttons from Doodlebug and Papermania, Staples from Woodware

Other ~ Dairylea Box!, Cricut Create machine, Woodware Stapler, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E01, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E27, E25, E23;  Clothes ~ R85, R83, R81, YG11, C7, C5, C3, C00;  Other ~ G21, YG11, E42, E40, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Black, Dark Brown, Pale Brown, Green, Deep Fucshia

Cupcake Crafts GDT - Cupcake 154 Sew Mad!

Morning All!

Hope you're having a Happy Monday?  I am as I'm going on holiday today, wahooooo!!  We're off to France for a family holiday with my Father-in-Law, Sister-in-Law, Brother-in-Law, Nephews and Niece so it should be lots of fun  :o))  So this is the first of a few scheduled posts for you, lol!  This is my Cupcake Crafts GDT card and this week the challenge is.....

Sew Mad

Create a project that includes stitching, real or faux!  Now I don't do real stitching so mine is all faux, lol!  Here's my card...

A close up of the front panel of the card.  As you can see I made it for my Niece Maisy who'll be 5 next Sunday whilst we're away...

The back panel of the card, she loves horses!...

A close up of LOTV's 'Me and my Pony'...

Inside of the card...

And a side view...

Maisy also loves swimming hence the Pollycraft Mermaid!  Head over to Cupcake Craft Challenges to check out all the fabulous inspiration and to play along too!

See you in about an hour!...

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, Best Creation Inc 'Basic Glitter Paper', Doodlebug 'Berry Pink' and Wild Rose Studio 'Gorgeously Girly Gingham'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Swings and Slides Enchant and Explore 'Mermaid', LOTV 'Me and my Pony', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ Die-Namics Big Scalloped Border Die, Sizzix Smart Guy Alphabet Dies, Woodware Circle Punch, X-Cut Retro Flowers

Embellishments ~ Pearl Gems from The Hobby House, Sentiment from Craftwork Cards, Ribbon from Stash

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Faux Stitching, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50; Mermaids Clothes ~ R85, R83, R81;  Jockeys (!) Clothes ~ E42, E41, E27, E25, E23, R85, R83, R81, RV00;  Horse ~ W5, W3, W1;  Other ~ E23, E33, E31, E25, YG03, YG23, YG11, B000, B0000.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Pale Brown, Deep Fuchsia, Green, Steel Grey, Dove Grey, Pink Lavender

Sketch Saturday #167 - Terry's Sketch!!

Morning All!

Hope you're all good and have had good weeks?  Mine has been spent making cards and playing netball - wahoo!!  We're on holiday next week so I've been busy trying to get ahead with all my DT Cards for the week.....I'm nearly there lol!  And I've had 2 games of netball this week - the first one which was the Summer League Final, very nerve wracking but my confidence grew as the game went on, I was sooo scared of falling over!!  And the second one my shooting was deffo getting back to normal service, wahoo!!  Lots of fun  :o))  Yesterday I spent the day with my friend and craft teacher Lisa B at her monthly Paper Crafting class.  I helped out in the first class as we were using the new Spectrum Noir pens and I'd had a play with these at Lisa's demo day.  I got to actually play in the evening class, although I did help out a bit and only managed to make one card - I think that's mainly because I was too busy chatting though lol!  All good fun and what a great way to spend the day  :o))

My DT card today is for Sketch Saturday and this week it's my lovely teamie Terry's turn to host the challenge and she's created a fabby sketch for you all to play with too!  I made this card for our close friends little boy who's one today, Happy Birthday Ethan!  :o))

A close up of Pollycrafts Super Star digi image...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Here's this weeks fabby sketch, thanks Terry  :o)) 

I do hope you can play along too with us this week!

Right I'd better get busy as we're off to our friends to celebrate Ethan's birthday and then I still have my packing to do, lol!  Have a brilliant week and I'll catch up with you all when I get home from my jollys, hopefully tanned right up, lol!!

Much love,

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations Aquarium, MME Lil Robots 'Nuts and Bolts' and Lime Twist 'Fly a Kite'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Little Stars 'Super Star', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles and Scalloped Circles, Cricut George and Basic Shapes Cartridge and Don Juan Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Ribbon by Celebrate from Hobbycraft, Buttons from Doodlebug and Papermania

Other ~ Cricut Create, Sizzix Big Shot, Doodling, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E01, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Clothes ~ B04, B02, B00, B000, B0000;  Bear ~ E51, E50;  Other ~ C5, C3, C1, C00.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Electric Blue, Iced Blue and Pale Brown

Pollycraft Challenge # 104 ~ Paulas Sketch!

Are you bored of me yet, lol!

Here I am with my final post today (3 of 3!) with my Pollycraft DT card.  The challenge this week is a Sketch and I must say it's a cracking sketch too!  Here it is...

The card I made is for friends of mine who've had just the best news!  Here it is...

A close up of Pollycrafts Little Stars Sent from Above...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Cute huh!  I love these Little Stars!!  The prize up for grabs this week is 10 Digi's from the Pollycraft Shop - fabaroony or what!!  :o))  See you there!!

I'm feeling a bit excited / nervous today, well very nervous actually!  My netball team made it through to the finals of the Summer League ~ whoop whoop, go Dakotas!!  The final is tonight but obviously it's holiday time so some of the squad are away which means.....I'm playing aggghhhhh!!  I wasn't going to play, I've had the green light from the physio so that's all good but I wanted the summer to practise and build my strength back up ready for the winter league in September.  We had a full team ready to go, but then one of the girls turned her ankle whilst out on Friday night so it's either play with 6 (when you need 7!) or I play.  I know I'm gonna love it, I had 20 minutes on court last week and thoroughly enjoyed it.....but this is the finals ~ talk about pressure!!  I'm not really match fit yet, my shooting and passing doesn't feel as strong as before but I guess it'll be the best way to get back to it, in at the deep end or what, lol!  Well I am the captain so you gotta step up haven't you.....wish me luck!!

Ok, I think you've probably all heard enough from me today so I'll leave you to enjoy the glorious weather and see you all soon!

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Truly Scrumptious ~ Challenge 62 ~ Buttons and Bows

CES Challenges ~ Challenge 47 ~ Feeling the Blues

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations Gemstones 'Sapphire', Pebbles Inc 'My Baby Boy Star', Craft Creations Ltd ~ 'Blue Gingham', Doodlebug 'Up up and away'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Little Stars 'Sent from Above', Elzybells 'Welcome Little One' and 'Pitter Patter'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles, George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge, Die Namics Clouds #1, Woodware Corner Rounder Punch

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, Buttons from Papermania

Other ~ Big Shot, Cricut Create, Bow Maker, Weathered Wood Distress Ink, Doodling, Cotton, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Clothes ~ BG01, BG000;  Bear ~ E51;  Basket ~ E42, E41, E40;  Star ~ Y11, Y00, Y000.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Pale Brown, Electric Blue, Deep Cadmium

Cupcake Crafts GDT!!!

Morning All!

Happy Monday to you, wow can you believe it's the 1st August already?!  Scary stuff ay, lol!

So, this is my first post today (1 of 3!) and yep you've guessed it.....I'm a GDT for Cupcake Craft Challenges wahoooooooo!!

I was actually booked in to be a GDT in  April, but cleverly broke my wrist so the lovely Faye let me postpone my GDT slot to August, thanks for having me hon  :o)  

This week the challenge is How Old so we want to see birthday creations with a number on them.  My God Mum asked me to make her friend a card who would be celebrating her 70th birthday, the brief was she loves to cook and loves James Martin, lol!  So I thought this would be the perfect card for my GDT card today, here it is...

As it's a 70th birthday I thought she deserved a special fold card!  Here's a close up of the front fold.  I tried to make another picture frame, this time using heart dies...

And a close up of Chef Tilda...

The back part of the card...

And another close up!...

The inside of the card...

And a side view...

A nice and simples challenge for you this week!  Head over to Cupcake for some more inspiration and welcome Maarit to the team too  :o)

See you in a bit peeps!...

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Stamps R Us ~ Happy Birthday Challenge

Simon Says Stamp ~ Shaped Cards / Creations

Just Magnolia and hAnglar sTanglar ~ Week 117 ~ Buttons, Bows and Blooms (hope the buttons on Tildas shoes count?!)

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations 'Raspberry', Doodlebug 'Square Dance', Magnolia '50s Cherries' and Craft Creations Ltd 'Turquoise Gingham'

Stamps / Images ~ Magnolia 'Chef Tilda', 'Baking Tilda with Wooden Spoon' and 'Kitchen Sideboard', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties 'Hearts' and 'Big Scalloped Circles', George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge (70 and Circle)

Embellishments ~ Doily from eBay, Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, Ribbon from The Glitter Pot

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Cricut Create, Versamark Pen, WOW Glitter Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Bow Maker, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair, Shoes and Sideboard ~ E27, E25, E23, E33;  Clothes ~ E41, E40, R27, R24, R17;  Other ~ C3, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Black, Dark Brown, Pale Brown