It's Pink

Happy Sunday to all my special friends and  followers. I hope that everyone is having a great weekend and  doing some nice things. Today I'm sharing another sample card I made for the ladies at the Craft Group to make this week . They asked to do embossing and use some nice dies . So this is what I  made for them. I did mine in pink but the ladies made some gorgeous cards using some other pastel colours with the white.

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card

Pink card embossed with a Die'sire Dots embossing folder

Dies are Joycraft Lacey Square Frame

Spellbinder Moroccan Accents

Magnolia Doo Hickey Scroll and Leaf and  Doily Flowers

Pearl String is The Hobby House

Sentiment Craftwork Cards

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone. Before I go I also want to say a big thank you to you all for all the lovely comments you kindly left on my posts last week . Love and  hugs Carole x

 

Be My Valentine

Good evening everyone, well I'm back with a second post today and this is to showcase the February release of stamps from All Dressed Up Stamps these are the four new stamps. They are all gorgeous and just right for this time of year Valentines, Anniversary's and  Weddings so many other uses as well.

Be My Valentine

Little Birdie

Love Heart

Some Bunny Loves Me

For my Design Team card I used the gorgeous teddy Be My Valentine

The Inside

Close up of the Stamp

Card Recipe

Heart Shaped card and layers made form a Dutch Doobadoo Stencil from Noor Designs

Stamp is Be My Valentine from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers and heart paper border are Maja Design I Wish Santa would fill my Stocking 12x12 sheet from Noor Designs

Kraft Card is Crafters Companion, Red card my box.

Heart border Die is Joycrafts

Heart Banner die is La La Land 

The love wooden sentiment comes backed with red felt was from a pack I was given by a friend

Small red hearts are from the banner die.

Well I know its a bit late for Valentine's day but this would make a great birthday card as well just needs a new sentiment . I do love this teddy he's so cute. I hope you find time to pop over to the shop and take a look at Wendy's great stamps. There is also some further inspiration on the All Dressed Up Stamps Blog from more of the Design Team Dressy Girls

Enjoy the rest of your evening. Love and  hugs Carole x

Raspberry House Wall Hanging

Good morning to all my special friends and followers you guessed its that Wednesday again and  another challenge over at Crafting by Designs and our theme for this week is It's Almost Spring quite apt for this week in the UK when we have had some warmer Spring weather. However I feel its a bit premature to pack away the winter woollies and boots just yet looking at the forecast for the next few days.
We have a great sponsor this week

Beccy's Place:

Prize - choice of 1 set

This is a great Australian company with some beautiful stamps and they also have a great selection of freebies as well on the Beccy's Place Blog so generous.

For my Design Team project I decided on a stamp from the Raspberry House Set. I  resized it and made it into a wall hanging. Its a bit different so hope you like it.

Wall Hanging Recipe

Stamp is Raspberry House Digi set from Beccy's Place backed onto 300gsm card and then fussy cut. .I then painted it with Derwent Inktense Pencils it did take quite a while to do.

The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts cream Cherry Blossoms painted with Inktense pencils and Copic pens to match the flowers I painted on the stamp

Butterfly punch is Martha Stewart 

Papers for butterflies are Craftwork Cards

Bird brad was from a pack from Jelly Bean Crafts at Ross Papercraft Show

Home Sweet Home letters are Tim Holtz

Ribbon Hanger is Martha Stewart ribbon from Michael's in Florida

 Green pearl string my stash

Well I hope you can all join in our challenge this week I think its a lovely theme Its Almost Spring and I just hope it is. I'll be back this evening with another post so hope to see you all again soon. Love and  hugs Carole x 

I Love My Puppy

Good evening everyone well I'm back with my second post of the day This is so unusual for me two posts in one day. Its so like the buses they all  come along together.
Tonight  is the launch of a new challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps as always its an Anything Goes Challenge  as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp . If you don't have a one then there are some great freebies to be had on the challenge page HERE The prize for the random winner is 3 digi stamps in addition we also select a top three and one of those is asked to be a Guest Designer the following month.
For my Design Team card this month I've used a gorgeous stamp called I Love My Puppy

Close Up

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is I Love My Puppy from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Spring Basics

Card is Tim Holtz Milled Lavender

Summer Border die cut twice and layered and the Iron Gate die are both Memory Box

Frame die is Leane Creatief Classic Rectangle from Buddly Crafts

Butterfly punch Martha Stewart

Lace is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop

Yellow Rafia Bows on string are also from Brenda's shop

Pearl String is The Hobby House

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley sadly another one no longer available

Cream Viva pearl pen to make the small pearl dots on the image, butterflies and sentiment.

The challenge runs until the 14th March so plenty of time to get crafting and enter your fabulous cards. Just remember to use an All Dressed Up Stamp.Enjoy the rest of your evening everyone.Love and  hugs Carole x

Polka Dot Birthday Elephant

Good morning to all my friends and followers I hope everyone is well. Its that Wednesday so its the start of another challenge over at Crafting by Designs Our theme for this weeks challenge is Polka Dots. We have one sponsor this week giving a great prize.

Bugaboo Stamps   

Prize - choice of 4 single images

For my Design Team card  I used a lovely Bugaboo stamp called Birthday Elephant he's so cute.

 Close up

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Birthday Elephant from Bugaboo painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Blue spot Kanban, Red Spot from my box and Yellow Spot is Echo Park

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle die

Star Die is Die'namics

Stitched edge Balloon die came free in a magazine

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Postage set no longer available

 Bakers twine is Docrafts

Red spotted wooden elephant button is from Whitby Crafts

Well I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines Day yesterday and you all enjoy the rest of the week The challenge is open till the 21st February so I hope you can join in. Love and  hugs Carole x

Embossing and Dies

Happy Saturday everyone I hope that everyone is well and  keeping warm its freezing here but thankfully we have no snow at present. Today I thought I'd share a card with you all that I made as a sample for the ladies at the craft group I go to on a Thursday to make this week. They asked to do an embossed card with dies so this is what I came up with. Its a fairly straightforward design as we have different levels of ability in the group.

Card Recipe

I made the A5 cards from a sheet of 300gsm card

Purple card and the smooth white card are both from  Ross Papercraft show 

A4 dots embossing folder is Die'sire from Crafters Companion

The medallion design A4 embossing folder came free with my Ebosser

The centre die is Spellbinders from the Moroccan Accents set I bought it in Michael's in Florida

Spellbinder Circle die for the sentiment

Leaf die is Joycrafts

The flower dies are Poppystamps dies  

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Post Mark stamps sadly they no longer have this in either rubber or digi. Such a shame as its a sentiment stamp set I use a lot.

Pearls and ribbon from my stash 

Corner rounder used on the bottom of the banner strips 

Some of the ladies found matching the strips and  getting then placed evenly a bit of a challenge but everyone got there in the end and everyone got finished in the two hours we have.

Well Michael is going to football this afternoon the first time he's made it this year so I'm crafting and catching up on a couple of phone calls in the warm !! Enjoy the weekend everyone love and  hugs Carole x

Amore - Love and Romace

Good morning to all my friends and  followers well another week gone and in a flash its that Wednesday again so another challenge over at Crafting by Designs as its getting very close to Valentines Day our theme for this week is Love and Romance.
Our sponsor for this week is

All Dressed Up Stamps  

Prize - choice of 2 single digis

For my Design Team card I've used an image called Amore

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Papers are Docrafts very old pad.

Stamp is Amore All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Kraft Card is Crafters Companion

I made the crimped heart from some packaging I got in a parcel at Christmas edged with some white gesso and cut from a Dutch Dobadoo heart Shape Art Stencil from Noor Designs

Heart lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington

Red pearl string from Whitby Crafts

Red Hearts cut from a Quickutz die

Love Ticket is Tim Holtz edged with gesso

Wooden hearts from Whitby Crafts

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and rolled flower Poundland

Sentiment Stamps came free in a Magazine recently
White Wink of Stella on the hearts

Well I hope you can find time to enter our challenge they seem very popular with everyone at present. Have a great week hope you can all find time for nice things and some crafting as well. Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into In The Pink Challenge Love and Romance just hope its got enough Pink. 

Hearts and Roses

Good morning to all my friends and  followers and  a special welcome today to  my latest follower Kelly thank you for following my blog,
Its that Wednesday again today so its the start of a new monthly Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafting by Designs,
We have a couple of great sponsors this time;

Melonheadz

Prize - choice of 1 bundle, b/w or colored

Fred She Said 

Prize - $10 gift certificate to store

I decided to use a lovely stamp called Hearts and Roses from Fred She Said for my Design Team card, I also made a heart shape card using a Dutch Doobadoo stencil I got at Christmas. The stamp is the whole heart shape not just the flowers so it fit really well on the stencil

Close up of the stamp
 

The Inside

Card Recipe

Stamp is Fred She Said Hearts and  Roses fussy cut and painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Heart card made with a Dutch Doobadoo stencil from NoorDesigns

Papers are the heart one an old Docrafts pad and the Roses paper is Simply Floral from Papermania

Pearl String The Hobby House

Pink twine from Walmart in Florida

Sentiments are from a Lili of the Valley Simply Sophisticated set

Pearl hearts from a Ross Papercraft Show

Glamour Dust on the edges of the flowers

Well I cannot believe that its the first day of February already what happened to January over in a flash.  I hope you can all find time to enter our challenge you have all been making some amazing cards recently. Thank you for the lovely comments you all left on my last couple of posts so kind Enjoy the week everyone love and  hugs Carole x