Thursday, 31 March 2016

Wedding Tag

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers today is the launch of a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge and the theme this fortnight is Create a Tag. As always the lucky winner will receive a great prize from The Crafty Ribbon Store
For my Design Team tag I used an MDF tag shape and a stamp from All Dressed Up Stamps and  lots of Crafty Ribbon goodies.



Tag Recipe

8 inch MDF tag from The MDF Man at York Show ( used to be GNPE ) painted with white gesso
Digital papers from All Dressed Up Stamps
Ribbon ,Lace and  Love tag are all from The Crafty Ribbons Store
Stamp is the Gorgeous Bride from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Copic and  Promarker pens
Sentiment is Lili of the Valley
Hearts are cut from a Joy craft Heart Border die
Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash
Pearl hearts the pound stall at Ross Papercraft show

Well I hope you find time to pop over and enter the challenge tags are always fun to make..

Hello....yes we are having a DT call 

Crafty Ribbons have a Design Team call out at present this is the link if anyone is interested its a great team and you get lots of gorgeous ribbons to play with .If you love ribbons this is the Design Team for you. Crafty Ribbons Challenge Design Team Call


Enjoy the rest of the week everyone love and hugs Carole x


Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Design Team Call Crafting by Designs

Good afternoon everyone thought I'd share this with you in case any of you fancy joining our lovely Design Team

DESIGN TEAM CALL


Hi everyone, Doris here. Crafting by Designs is looking to add a few creative people to our Design Team. We're looking for people who like to be creative, have fun, and sometimes create outside of their comfort zone - is that you?  
We don't have many requirements but as a member of the
Crafting by Designs team you'd be required to:

  • Prepare a project for at least two weekly challenges per month and follow the theme of each, but you can play along with every one if you like
  • Meet our weekly deadlines for posting challenges and comments
  • Use a digital image if supplied by a sponsor, and link back to their store or blog
  • Host at least one challenge, theme of your choice, every 8 to 10 weeks
  • Be willing to jump in when necessary to help out a fellow DT member
  • Comment on assigned number entries every week
  • Have an active blog and be willing to promote Crafting by Designs and our weekly sponsors by displaying a DT badge and links back to CBD and the sponsor
  • We have a DT group on Facebook, so participation is preferred but not required
  • Not be afraid to try something new and outside your comfort zone
  • Love to have fun with a very friendly and talented group for at least a 6 month period 
  • International applicants welcomed! We currently have members in the US, Puerto Rico, South Africa, England, and Sweden
If this sounds like fun to you, please drop us an email at craftingbydesigns@gmail.com that includes a little bio about yourself, a link to your blog as well as a link to 3 of your favorite recent projects.  Prior DT experience isn't necessary, we all have to start somewhere :)  The deadline to submit applications is April 15 and those selected will be notified by April 20.  We look forward to hearing from you!!

Hugs Carole x

Fairy Land

Good morning to all my lovely crafty friends. Its that Wednesday again so I'm here to launch our ever popular month long Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafting by Designs.
We have a fabulous new sponsor this month Melonheadz and if you've not seen the stamps before its well worth taking a look so different and great value.



Prize -  

For my Design Team card I used some stamps from the fabulous Fairy Land set.





Card Recipe

Elegance shaped card from Craftwork cards
Papers are Lili of the Valley no longer available
Stamps are from the Fairy land set I used one of the fairies and the fab toad stools they are painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils 
Spellbinder Floral oval die and circle die
Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Fairy Sentiments
The brown leaf ribbon was a gift from my friend Barbara
The cream hearts are brads I've had ages I think from Michaels in Florida years ago.
Wooden fairy I got in a pack at Ross Papercraft Show
Ground Expresso distress ink on the edges

I know a lot of you enter this challenge so I hope you will join in with us again this month.  
I hope everyone had a good weekend we managed a bit of gardening in between the rain a couple of things still to do on the next dry day.
Have a great week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x




Friday, 25 March 2016

Easter Parade Blog Hop

Happy Easter everyone today I'm here to launch an exciting Easter Bonnet Parade Blog Hop over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge The Blog Hop is running Friday .Saturday and  Sunday you need to visit all of the Design Team sites each day to be in with a chance to win. There will be eggs hidden on some of the blogs each day and you need to find all of them The prize is a generous £10.00 voucher from the Crafty Ribbons Store

This is my Design Team Easter Bonnet card.


Close up of the Stamp


Card Recipe

6x6 blank card
Dutch Doobadoo stencil from Noor Designs
Easter Bonnet Stamp is free from Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps Painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Card is Tim Holtz 
Papers are Trimcraft Riverbank Revels
Ribbons and lace are all from Crafty Ribbons
Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Greetings Postmarks
Easter Bunnies are from Hobbycraft
Fluffy lamb was from a candy prize from Jacqui's Sweet Stuff Sunday a couple of years ago
Gems my stash
Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

This is how you take part in our EASTER PARADE


You will need to visit our Design Team members' blogs and leave a comment on the Design Team creations which they have made for the parade each day  
There is also an egg sitting on a few of the girls blogs which you will need to take note of and then link up on Crafty Ribbons Challenge that days post and tell us on whose blog you found the egg.
if you take part every day and linkup with the correct name on each day you have extra chances of winning in the random draw from all three days.
if you only want to join in one day that's fine too!!

FRIDAY's links
                    CAROLE You are here
now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link 

SATURDAY's links
now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link 

SUNDAY's links
LEAH
MARG
CHRISTELLE
now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link


I've added the links for each of the days but you will need to either pop back here or go to the Crafty Ribbons Challenge blog each day as the Design Team posts are only available on each day.
If anyone gets stuck just leave a comment and  I'll point you in the right direction. Have fun joining in and I hope you all  have a lovely Easter Weekend. Love and hugs Carole x






Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Daisy May Sewing

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers its that Wednesday again so I'm here to launch another weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs and the theme this week is Three or More Layers

Our sponsor this week is


 Prize - choice of 3 single images


For my Design Team card I decided on a delightful image called Daisy May Sewing.




Card Recipe

6x6 blank card
Papers are from a pad called Sew Pretty by Aspire Crafts that came free in a magazine
Image is Daisy May Sewing from Angie's Cards and Digis painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
All the ribbons including the zip ribbon and label are all from Crafty Ribbons Store
Wooden bobbin was from Michaels in Florida
Die is Lawn Fawn stiitched rectangles
Wooden Icon lovely sentiment by Prima Marketing from Hobby Lobby in Florida
Sew stamp was a magazine freebie 
Buttons my stash
Small piece of heart lace Dainty Crafts Washington
Card is Tim Holtz

Well I hope that you all have time to pop over and enter this week challenge. Have a great week everyone. Love and hugs Carole x




Saturday, 19 March 2016

Adorable Twin Boys

Happy Saturday to all my friends and followers I hope you are all well and  enjoying the weekend. My post today is Twins and I'm sharing two cards I made this week to give to my close friend Barbara and her Granddaughters family. Her Grand Daughter Emma had twin boys Thomas and  George on Monday. Emma is one of my followers .

First the Great Grandsons card for Barbara




Card Recipe

6x6 card
Papers are Maja Design Vintage Baby from Live and Love Crafts
Stamp is Lili of the Valley Twice as Nice painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Dies is Spellbinder Floral Oval
Clouds are Memory Box
Organza flower lace is Wild Orchid Crafts
Blue pearl string is Crafty Ribbons
Heart lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington
Ribbon and  pearls my stash
Edges inked with Ground Expresso distressed ink pad
Twins sentiment comes with the stamp the other I made on the computer


This is the card for Mum and Dad









Card Recipe

6x6 blank Card
Papers are Maja Design Vintage baby pad from Live and Love Crafts
Stamp is Lili of the Valley Twice as Nice painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Dies are Marianne Flower Leaf and Circle die
Spellbinder Circle die
Tim Holtz Bracket die
Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Sentiment tags
Heart Lace is from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon
 Pearl string  from The Hobby House 
Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. Boyes stores and  the hessian ones are from Poundland
Teddies are from Whitby Crafts originally wood coloured but I painted them with white Gesso
Wink of Stella on the image

I've never made twins cards before and really enjoyed making these that stamp is lovely. Finally the most important photo I'm sharing is a picture of the twins Thomas in the Blue hat and George in the White hat they are both adorable.


Sorry this is a long post but I'm sure you will all enjoy it everyone loves a new baby and its not often you get two !! Love and  hugs Carole x







Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Good Witch / Bad Witch

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers its that Wednesday and another weekly challenge starting over at Crafting by Designs The theme this week is Good Witch or Bad Witch We have one sponsor this week.

Nikki Burnette      

Prize - 3 images


For my Design Team card I decided on  an image called Lissa from our Sponsor Nikki Burnette 






Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card
Papers are from a Lili of the Valley pad no longer available
Image is Lissa from Nikki Burnette painted with Copic and  Pro marker pens 
Lace is from Whitby Crafts
Die is Lawn Fawn stitched rectangles
Flowers are mainly from Wild Orchid Crafts
Butterfly is cut from butterfly lace trim from Brenda's Ribbon and Lace
Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Fairy Sentiments
Small purple gems my stash
Glamour Dust on the wings



Well I hope you can pop over and take a look at the challenge it will be interesting how everyone interprets this theme.
Hope you are all enjoying the week.  Love and hugs Carole x





Monday, 14 March 2016

Thinking of You

Happy Monday everyone I hope that you are all well and  enjoyed a lovely weekend it was lovely to have some nice weather for a change. We had a great weekend in Manchester with our Grandson it was so nice to spend time with him. We went to watch his water babies swimming class on Saturday afternoon that was a lot of fun.
Onto my card well actually a tag. This is another one of the samples I made for Crafty Ribbons using the new release of ribbons this is a lovely ribbon and each of the panels are a different colour with a different message they very pretty and  versatile.





Tag Recipe

Tag shape made from a template
Papers came free in a magazine 
Tulip Message Ribbon Lace and Fait Par Moi label are all from the Crafty Ribbons Store
Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts
Die is Marianne
Pearl String is The Hobby House
Pearl Hearts my stash


This is a picture of the ribbon on the Store Website it gives you a better idea of the panels


Hope you all have a great week doing some nice things. Lots of catching up to do with being away so hope to visit your lovely blogs very soon  Love and  hugs Carole x







Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Heart Flower Wreath

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers as its Wednesday I'm her to launch this weeks challenge over at Crafting by Designs and our theme this week is monochrome
We have two great sponsors this week

Prize - 4 images


Prize - 3 images

For my Design Team card I used a pretty stamp called Heart Flower Wreath from Eureka Stamps


Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card
Stamp is Heart Flower Wreath from Eureka Stamps painted with Copic and  Pro marker pens.
Embossing folders are Sue Wilson Lattice Hearts and the heart one is from a Magazine
Pink card is Tim Holtz
Organza flowers are from my stash may be from Florida
Other flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Simply Sophisticated set. 
Pearl String The Hobby house
Lace bow cut from a lace trim
Wink of Stella on the flowers

Well I hope you all find time to enter the challenge I've seen a lot of monochrome cards around recently in blog land they seem popular. 
Before I go a bit of an apology I'm a couple of days behind with commenting and that's because I've been out the last two days School Appeals Monday and a training course all day yesterday so I'll get round to all your lovely blogs as soon as possible. 
I thought I'd share my latest photo of Miles with you all in the meantime. This was him in the restaurant with his Mummy on her first Mothers Day.



He's growing so fast we are seeing him at the weekend so excited and looking forward to lots of cuddles. Enjoy your week everyone Love and hugs Carole x






Monday, 7 March 2016

Wedding Cake

Good evening to all my lovely followers and friends I hope that everyone is well and enjoyed a lovely weekend. My post this evening is to showcase one of the new stamps being launched today over at the All Dressed Up Store Wendy has released a series of beautiful stamps with a wedding theme just in time for all the spring and summer weddings.So if you have a wedding card to make these are some of the prettiest wedding stamps they are stunning.
For my card I used the fabulous Wedding Cake stamp






Card Recipe

7x7 blank card
Stamp is All Dressed Up Wedding Cake and the small charm is made using To Have and To Hold painted with Copic and  Pro marker pens
Papers are also from the All Dressed Up shop just gorgeous
Dies are Spellbinder Opulent ovals and  Alphabet letters are Marianne from Noor Designs UK 
Wedding Day sentiment is Lili of the Valley Postmark Sentiments
Metal charm was originally silver and  painted with white gesso to match I got the charm when I was in Spain at a Chinese Supermarket.
Organza flower ribbon was from Boyes Stores
Heart Lace and pearl and lace flower are from Dainty Crafts Washington
all the other flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls my stash
Wink of Stella on the cake


I hope you have time to pop over to the shop and take a look at the new stamps also there are some more Design Team  samples on the  All Dressed Up Challenge Blog. Enjoy your week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

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Thursday, 3 March 2016

Fluttering By

Good morning to all my lovely followers and friends I'm back today with a card to launch a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge the theme this fortnight is monochrome and as always there is a great prize of a £10 voucher to spend in the store.

For my Design Team card I decided on sepia tones to compliment the lovely vintage ribbons and lace I used.


Card Recipe

6x6 blank card
Stamp is Lili of the Valley Fluttering By painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Dies are Spellbinder Floral Oval and Joy Craft Butterfly dies
Papers are Lili of the Valley Country Gent no longer available
Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the small white ones from Michael's in Florida
Pearl string and cameo are from The Hobby House
Sentiment is from a Crafters Companion Kimono stamp set

Well another challenge for you all to enter I hope you can pop over and take a look.  Enjoy the rest of the week.  Love and  hugs Carole x



Wednesday, 2 March 2016

A Cuddle Makes It All Better

Good evening everyone I'm back today with a second post ( a twofer as one of my followers calls it !!)it's to launch the new challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps as always the theme is Anything Goes but YOU MUST USE AN ALL DRESSED UP STAMP if you don't have any don't worry they have some lovely freebies available on the challenge blog. The prize for the winner is three digital stamps from the All Dressed Up Store

For my Design Team card I decide to use a lovely stamp called A Cuddle Makes it all Better.


Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card
Image is All Dressed Up Stamps a cuddle makes it all better painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Brown spot paper is Lili of the Valley
Blue paper is Maja Design Summer Basics from Live and  Love Crafts
Dies Marianne Flower Leaf and  Circle die and La La Land Heart Banner I used the heart centres to decorate 
Lace is from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon
Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts
Small sentiment wrap is made with a Lili of the Valley Greetings Postage Sentiment
Brown pearl string I've had ages I think it came from The Hobby House when they went to GNPE
Sewing Machine and  White Topstitch thread

Well I hope you can enter this challenge the stamps are just adorable. Enjoy your evening everyone love and  hugs Carole x





Spring Flower Hair

Good morning to all my friends and  followers you guessed its Wednesday and  I'm here to launch the new Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafting by Designs this is a monthly challenge and always very popular.

We have three great sponsors this month each giving generous prizes

Prize - $12 gift certificate to the store


Prize - 2 digis


  Alicia Bel  

Prize - 3 digis

For my Design Team card I decided on an image from A Day For Daisies called Spring Flower Hair


Close up of the stamp



Card Recipe 

7x7 card
Stamp is A Day for Daisies Spring Flower Hair painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Papers are Maja Design Shall We Have Coffee Two Ladies from Live and  Love Crafts
Cream card is Tim Holtz
Die is Spellbinder Opulent Ovals
Organza and Lace flower trim and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts
Pretty lace and cabouchons are from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon (Thanks Sue for telling me about this site love it )
Sentiment stamps are Lili of the Valley Sentiment Tags
Pearl string and seed beads my stash 
Wink of Stella

I hope that you are all enjoying a great week and finding lots to do. I know a lot of you enter this challenge so I hope you find time to enter this time as well. Love and  hugs Carole x