Get Ready For Christmas

Good morning to all my Friends and Followers. Today sees the launch of Crafting by Designs weekly challenge Get Ready for Christmas We have one sponsor

 

All Dressed Up Stamps

Prize - 2 digi images

 

 

They have some great stamps so try to pop over and take a look. I decided on Happy Christmas Little Star its a gorgeous stamp

 

 

 

 

 

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Spellbinders die floral oval

Stamps Happy Christmas Little Star All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Promarkers and  Copic pens

White Frantage

Glamour Dust

Papers Lili of the Valley Woodland Wishes

Flowers ,berries and  holly leaves Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon , pearl stars and  lace from my stash 

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Sentiment LOTV Christmas Wishes

 

I really love this stamp its just so pretty and I was pleased with the finished card . I hope you find time to pop over to the Crafting  by Designs Blog and enter one of your Christmas projects.

 

Enjoy your week  Hugs Carole x

 







Happy Birthday Barbara

Good morning to all my lovely friend and  followers . Today is my friend Barbara's birthday and this is the card I have made to give her. It was my first decent attempt with Inktense pencils. I used on of the latest fairy release stamps from LOTV Flower Dance.

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Papers LOTV Timeless Victorian

Stamp flower Dance LOTV painted with Inktense pencils and  sprinkled with Frantage

Sentiment stamps LOTV Pretty Grunge Good Times

Birdcage covered in Blue Frantage from Craftwork Cards

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft and my stash

White seam binding ribbon Live and Love Crafts

Ruffle ribbon Boyes stores

Birdcage charm The hobby house

Pearl Hearts Dawn to Dusk Crafts

Pearl string and  heart pin from my stash

Sewing Machine and  white topstitch thread

I hope you are all enjoying a great week doing some really nice things and  lots of crafting.

 Happy Birthday Barbara have a Great Birthday Hugs Carole x

 I'm entering this into the ribbon girl challenge pretty pastels and LOTV September Challenge pretty Papers.



Childhood Memories

Hello to all my great followers and  friends and a special welcome if you've arrived from Crafting by Designs.
Today sees the launch of the new weekly challenge at Crafting by Designs and the theme this week is Childhood Memories bet we all have a lot of those !!. We have two sponsors this week each giving generous prizes

A Day for Daisies

Prize - $12 gift voucher to the store

 

LunaGirl

 

Prize - gift voucher to store

 

 

I've chosen an image from the Lunagirl Retro Illustrations and it features a vintage school room .

 

 

 

 

Card Recipe

Blank 6x6 Kraft card

Red, blue card and chalkboard papers from my stash

Image Lunagirl from the  Retro Illustrations sheet

ABC Ribbon from Whitby Crafts

Wood Scrabble tiles and chalk board bubbles free in Docrafts magazine a while ago.

Letters from a Pion Cut Out Sheet

Button and twine from stash

 



 

I hope this brings back some fond memories and inspires you to make a childhood memories card. As well as the normal design team projects we have two designers from Lunagirl joining the challenge. Hope you find time to go over and take a look.

Enjoy the rest of the week and I hope you all have some nice things planned.

 

 





 



Pretty in Pink

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. Today is the launch of a new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs its Pretty in Pink and don't we all love this theme must be a favourite with us crafters. We have one sponsor and a great prize of three images from the Milk Coffee Store some of the images are just so cute .

 

MilkCoffee

 

Prize - 3 images from store

For my image I decided on a real girlie one called Michelle in her Ballet Recital. Hope you like her.

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Scalloped card Craftwork Cards

Papers from Fairy Belle Collection by Jodie Lee Designs

Dot embossing folder on white card

Pink Tim Holtz card

Image Milk Coffee Michelle in her Ballet Recital coloured in Promarkers and  Copic pens

Roses Wild Orchid Craft as is the pink seam binding ribbon crushed by spritzing with water

Rolled flowers a Spellbinder die

Sentiment tags LOTV

Card Candi stamped with alphabet stamps.

Viva pearl pen pink.

Some Glamour Dust on her skirt

 

I hope you all are well and  having a great week . It would be great if you can find time to pop over and  take a look at the challenge and maybe make a pretty in pink card.

 

 



 

 

 

 

 



Snow Queen Aurora Wings

Good morning all you lovely crafters today sees the launch of the very popular Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafting by Designs We have three sponsors this month so lots of great prizes to be won from these three great sponsors

  Beccy's Place

 

Prize - 6 single images or 1 set

Aurora Wings

Prize - $10 credit to store

I decided on a design from Aurora Wings called Snow Queen for my Design Team card she's just fabulous.

I've added a close up of the stamp so you can see the detail. I loved colouring this gorgeous image .

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Silver mirra card

White card Tim Holtz

Tim Holtz paper distress tool

Papers LOTV Frosty Christmas

Image Snow Queen Aurora Wings coloured with Promarker and Copic pens I used lots of Glamour Dust and Twinklets Diamond Dust on the image as well

Show flake die Marianne covered in Twinklets Diamond Dust

Silver snowflake charm and silver star ribbon from my stash

Snowflake edging made from some die cut borders I bought on ebay

Cheese Cloth Wild orchid Crafts with white gesso and  sprinkled with Glamour Dust

Sentiment LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages heat embossed in silver

I hope you enjoy this post I thought this was a fabulous stamp. The Aurora wings stamps are very impressive so you might want to take a look and I hope you can find time to make something to enter into the challenge this month the prizes are great. If not please pop over and see the fab DT cards.

Enjoy your week whatever you have planned Hugs Carole x