Rainbow Girl

Good afternoon everyone I hope that you are all well Today I'm sharing an All Dressed up Stamps Design Team card using one of two freebie stamps we are giving away over at Kit and Clowder I hope you can take a look as these designs are suitable for kids as well as adults might be something to keep the kids amused for a little while.
This is my Design Team card using Rainbow Girl

Close Up

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Stamp is Rainbow Girl from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Navy card is from Michaels in Florida 

Spot card is The Hobby House

Square and Circle Stitched dies

Cloud dies are Memory Box 

Sky edge is Poppy Stamps

Sun die is from eBay

Sentiment stamp is Lili of the Valley no longer available

Twine is Brenda's lace and  ribbon specials sadly closed

Smile button my box might have come from Whitby Crafts

Some Wink of Stella on her wings and  the red hearts 

This is a copy of the other free stamp over at Kit and  Clowder Hope you can pop over and get these two great freebies

Rainbow Girl

Rainbow Dino

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone as best you can.Stay safe sending love Carole x

70th Birthday card for my Special Friend

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers .Today I'm sharing a card I should have shared with you all on the 25th September as it was one of my close friend Barbara's 70th birthday. Unfortunately I gave it to her for her birthday then realized I had not photographed it . My friend has now kindly photographed it for me so finally I can share it with you all..Better late than never.

The Box

Card and Box Recipe

8x8 Blank card

Stamp is Sweet Pea from Stamping Bella from Dies to Die For painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils 

Pearlescent paper embossed with an embossing folder that came with my ebosser machine
Paper for the flowers is Maja Design Celebration- Jubilee

Die is LDRS Gilded Oval set

Flower dies are Poppy Stamps Poinsettia 

Large Organza flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts

Small Organza flowers are from Hobby Craft

Pearls leaves and  flower pearl string The Hobby House

Resin Heart is Melisa Francis from Live and  Love crafts now closed.

Heart sentiment I made on the computer

Lace is from Whitby Crafts

Box

8x8 box from Mad Hatter Crafts at Ross Papercraft show

Sentiment I made on the computer 

Flowers and  papers to compliment the card

Pearl string The Hobby House

Barbara is one of my golden girl friends and we celebrated her birthday with a lovely afternoon tea at Brockley Hall at Saltburn by the Sea .

Enjoy the weekend everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

White on White Christmas

Good morning to all my special friends and  followers. My post today is a card I started at our last craft group meeting of 2017. I didn't get it finished and have just finished it this week. I do like white on white so this will be my first Christmas card for 2018 not the last in 2017. Our craft group was due to start again yesterday but because of the very bad snow we had yesterday it will now not start back till next week.

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Snowflake embossed card from Jelly Bean Crafts

Dies are Poinsettia flower is Poppy stamps

Pine branch and Ivy leaves are from Marianne dies

Holly branch is Joycraft

Sentiment die came free in a magazine ages ago

White flower pearl string is The Hobby House

Well I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend we still have snow so I hope it goes quickly. I have some food shopping and errands to do today. I'll be doing more work on the blinds later today and tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend everyone and keep warm if you have this bad weather. Love and  hugs Carole x .

Wedding Day Two

Good morning everyone I hope you are all looking forward to a lovely weekend I posted the first of these Wedding Cards a few days ago.So today I'm sharing the card I made for the Brides Grandmother.

I used another Lili of the Valley Rubber Stamp called Mr and Mrs sadly its now only available as a Digital Stamp

Close up

The Box

Card and  Box recipe

8x8 Blank Card 

Papers are Mr and Mrs from Best Creation Inc.

Stamp is Lili of the Valley Mr and Mrs painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Dies are Joycraft Heart border die 

Heart die eBay

Flower die is Poppy Stamps

Resin shapes Jelly Bean Crafts painted with Grey acrylic paint

Other flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Pink lace is Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop

Pearl string The Hobby House

Sentiments made on the computer 

Box is from Mad Hatter Crafts

Pearl Hearts also Jelly Bean Crafts

Well I hope you like these cards I really enjoyed making them and I know they all had a fabulous Wedding Day. Enjoy the weekend love and hugs Carole x

On My Farm

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers tonight sees the launch of our new monthly challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge blog As always our theme is Anything Goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp. If you would like to enter and  don't have an image take a look at the freebie images on the blog .We  randomly pick a winner to receive 3 images of their choice, and the Design Team will chose the top 3 creations.

I always tend to go for Wendy's gorgeous girlie images but she also has some great designs for children so I decided for my Design Team project this month to do something in a very different style.  I really enjoyed making this so I hope you all like it as well.

Close up

Card Recipe

6x6 Card

Stamp is  On My Farm from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Coloured card is Tim Holtz and  Bazzil 

Stitched Landscape dies are Poppy Stamps

Cloud die is Memory Box

Sun and  Rainbow die is from eBay

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

Blue Distress Ink

Well I hope you can grab an All Dressed Up Stamp and enter our challenge this time. I certainly enjoyed making this card with such a cute image. The challenge runs till the 14th May so plenty of time to enter.

Enjoy the rest of the Easter holiday I hope you all have some nice things planned.Our Son, Daughter in Law and Grandson Miles are coming tomorrow for a couple of days so we are looking forward to that. We have an Easter Egg hunt in the garden planned for Sunday so hope its dry.  

Happy Easter Love and  hugs Carole x

 

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Time To Shine

Good evening everyone I hope everyone is set for Christmas not many sleeps left now. Today sees the launch of the last challenge for 2016 over at All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge. The theme is Anything Goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp . If you don't have one then there are some lovely freebies on the Challenge Blog page. The prize for the winner is three stamps from the All Dressed up Shop.
For my Design Team card I used a lovely stamp called Time to Shine

The Stamp

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is All Dressed Up Stamps Time to Shine painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design from Live and  Love Crafts

Frame die is Joycraft

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Poppy stamps poinsettia die

Lace is from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon specials Facebook Shop

The corrugated paper I made with my crimping machine

Bark stars are from Live and  Love crafts

The clock embellishment was from The Works it was metal and I painted the edges with white Gesso and then inked them

Pink pearl gems

Pink Twine I bought in Walmart in Florida

Distress ink 

Well I know its a busy time but I hope you can popover and take a look at he challenge and  maybe enter a project this time. Enjoy the rest of the week and I'm hoping your Christmas preparations are going well. I'm still chasing my tail but slowly getting there. Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Noor Designs Challenge Sparkle

Hat Tipping Snowman

Good morning everyone and  yes it is that Wednesday again and the Design Team at Crafting by Designs are back with our challenges after our Summer break. So today we are starting with our very popular Get Ready for Christmas Challenges. They are a great way to keep ahead making a stock of Christmas cards.and  projects.

We have one sponsor this week

Fred She Said

Prize - $10 Gift Certificate

For my Design Team project I used a great stamp called Hat Tipping Snowman  from Fred She Said he's fab especially if you love snowmen. For my Design I decided to make a Christmas Wall Hanging.

Close Up of the Snowman stamp 

Wall Hanging Recipe

Oblong wall hanger from my local garden centre comes with the jute string hanger.

Stamp is Hat Tipping Snowman from Fred She Said painted with Copic and  Promarker pens then fussy cut.

Papers are a Lili of the Valley pad no longer available such a shame I love this pad.

 Memory Box Frostyville border die

Poppy Stamps stitched landscape dies

Marianne Snowflake die and  Alphabet die 

Coming Home for Christmas Ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons

I hope everyone is enjoying the week and  can find time to join in our challenges again after our summer break. Love and  hugs Carole x

Little Star

Good evening to everyone I hope that you had a great weekend and  are looking forward to a great week. My post today is to launch the new Anything Goes Challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps.
The theme is always Anything Goes and all you need to have on your card is an All Dressed up image if you don't have any then they have some lovely Freebies on the blog you can use.

For my design Team card I decided on a very pretty stamp called Little Star

Close up of the Stamp

Card Recipe

7x7 Blnk Card

Stamp is Little Star from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Copic and Promarker pens

Pink spot paper is LOTV sadly no longer available.

Dots embossing folder is Die'sire from Crafter's Companion

Spellbinder Fleur De Lys die and square die

Memory Box precious  star die

Poppy stamps flower die

Lili of the Valley Sentiment tags

Grey Pearls  my stash

Lace from Dainty Crafts Washington I think

Well I hope you can pop over and  enter the challenge I just love working with these gorgeous stamps. Love and hugs Carole x

Winter - Glitter - Sparkles

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers Its Wednesday so another challenge is starting today over at Crafting by Designs. The theme for this weeks challenge is Winter,Glitter ,Sparkles
Our Sponsor this week is

Prize - $12 credit to store

For my Design Team card I used a Sami Stamps image called Winter Cocoa

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Sami Stamps Winter Cocoa painted with Copic Pens

Poppy stamp stitched landscape edge die

Grey spot ribbon and pink lace are from Crafty Ribbons

Metal Sentiment is Tim Holtz from Michael.s Florida

Diamante look string and pink card are from my stash

Pink rhinestone sparklers are by The Hobby House I bought them at Whitby Crafts

Wink of Stella on the image

Dots embossing folder

Well I hope you have time to dig out all your bling and enter this weeks challenge.  You could win the generous prize.

Have a great week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this in Sami Stamps Challenge Add Some Glitter

Poinsettia Fairy

Good morning to all my friends and  followers and wishing you all a Happy Wednesday.As its that Wednesday again then its the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs and the theme this week is add Three of Something.
Our sponsor this week is

Ike's Art   

Prize - $20 credit to store

For my Design Team card this week I decided on the fabulous Poinsettia Fairy image, My card is predominantly white with some pale blue and red I saw this colour scheme on Pam Simpsons blog loved it and decided to give it a go on this card.Thank you Pam your cards are so inspiring. I also really enjoyed colouring this image.

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Pale blue paper is LOTV

White card embossed with dots A4 Diesire embossing folder

Image is Ike's Art Poinsettia Fairy painted with Copic and  Promarker pens

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

Poppy Stamps Small Luxe Poinsettia dies

Holly die is Joycraft from Noor Designs Shop

Sentiments are from Lili of the Valley Christmas Sentiment Tags set

Blue Pearls my stash 

Smooth white card from Ross Papercrafts 

My threesome are three poinsettia. I hope you find time to enter the challenge this week . Enjoy the rest of the week Love and  hugs Carole x