Have a Happy Retirement Phil

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope you are enjoying the weekend its been quite sunny here but lots of rain overnight My post today is a male retirement card I made just before my holidays. Its for a great guy Phil an ex colleague of my husbands who retired at the end of September. They worked together as Forensic Trainers and I spent a great two week holiday with his lovely wife Lesley in Singapore when my husband and Phil were working out there. We all had such a great time. He also loves caravanning and has a static van in Northumberland. So I decided to find an image to reflect that. I found this on Pinterest not my usual style image but I thought it was just right for him.



 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Papers LOTV Enchantment ( I won them in one of the daily candy draws )

Image from Pinterest painted with Promarker and Copic pens

Spellbinder scalloped circles and circle dies

LOTV sentiments, Sentiment Tags and For You Round sentiments

Hessian ribbon from Hobby Lobby Florida

Twine and clock charm from my stash

Newsprint Candi Craftwork cards

Metal corner Wild orchid Crafts

 

My husband was out for lunch with Phil and his New Tricks group (all retired colleagues) last week and I know Phil loved his caravan card !!.

 

Well today I'm again catching up on ironing my washer broke last week and sadly could not be repaired so I had to wait till Friday to get the new on fitted. So did lots of catch up washing yesterday that now needs ironing. This afternoon I'm going to start on my DT projects for November. I cannot believe November is so close, this year seems to have gone by much too quickly. How I ever found time to work full  time I will never know.

 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend I hope you are doing some nice things today. Love and  Hugs Carole x

 



Wedding Acceptance

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers and  a big thank you for you kind comments on my 18th Birthday card. You are all aware I am making wedding stationery and  I received the invite I made for the Wedding on the 22nd December just before my holiday .It was weird receiving my own card.
Today I'm posting the acceptance card I've made to send to Rosie's Mum and Dad. To be honest I think this is the first time I've actually made a Wedding Acceptance card.

 

Its a long time since I've used a Tilda image but I thought this Wedding Tilda was just right.

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank white card Craftwork Cards

Image Wedding Tilda painted with Copic and  Promarker pens sprinkled with Shabby Pink Frantage from Live and  Love Crafts

Paper is Timeless Victorian from LOTV my favourite I bought another pad at the GNPE

Spellbinder Opulent oval die

Photo stamp LOTV Old Romance Background Bits

Silver sequin ribbon from Whitby Crafts

White rose ribbon from Boyes Stores

Butterflies from a Pion cut out sheet from Live and Love Crafts sprinkled with Shabby Pink Frantage and  edged with white gesso

Silver bead string from my stash

Sentiments computer generated

White card and paper distress tool Tim Holtz

 

 

Well I hope you are enjoying the week its been freezing here and I'm really feeling the cold after a month in Florida.

 

I enjoyed the GNPE on Saturday but a bit disappointed with the number of stalls a lot of my favourite stalls weren't there and LOTV only had a small stall compared to usual they normally had two . The new hall is much smaller so I think this restricts the numbers allowed . I got some of the things I wanted but the die I wanted I've had to order on line as One Upon a Stamp was not there his dies are such a good price. On a positive note I got to meet up with Sue one of my lovely followers it was so nice to see her and chat . I also spoke for a while with Ann from LOTV she's is lovely.

 

Well I'm off to hospital shortly to see the dietician to see how I'm doing with my GF diet then back to catching up on my crafting and the ironing.  Love the crafting hate ironing.!!

 

Have a great week Love and Hugs Carole

 

I'm entering this card in The Ribbon Girl Glitz and Bling http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/october-card-challenge.html Crafty Little Fairies Use one Design Paper

 http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/october-only-one-dp.html and Crafty Sentiments Designs anything Goes http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/anything-goes-good-morning-sweet.html

 

 

 

 



 



 

 



18th Birthday

Good morning to all my lovely followers and  friends. I'm back home from Florida and  feeling very relaxed we had a great month so laid back just love the life style and the heat. I'm now home and back to all the catching up. I'm sorry I didn't get any comments done but had to rely on wifi when I could get it so never had chance for any long spells sitting at my iPad. A special thank you to those of you who commented on all my scheduled posts they were lovely and so kind of you all. I must say I have missed my crafting not doing anything was hard but I bought some lovely craft goodies to compensate.
Now a bit about my post today. This is an 18th birthday card and box I made before my holidays for my friend Val to give to her grandson Kieran. The image is a McLaren sports car and the reason for this choice is he's just got an apprenticeship with them and  started this month what an opportunity for him he's a delightful young man.



 

 

 The Box

 

 

Card Recipe

8x8 blank card Craftwork cards

Image from the internet

Grey card and  black mirra card from my stash

Yellow card Tim Holtz

Die cut letters and  numbers

Spellbinder circles

Star shapes

Cogs from Michaels USA

                                                           Twine Live and  Love Crafts

Charm my stash

Box Stella Crafts

 

 

Its taken me a while to do this post Blogger was definitely having a Monday morning mood it was a pain trying to upload the photos .

 

I've not spoken to my friend yet since my hols so not heard if Kieran liked the card I hope he did.

 

If any of you are going to the GNPE at Harrogate tomorrow I'm going with some friends from Craft Group so if you see me please say hello.

 

I'm hoping to get round all of my followers blogs in the next few days to see what you have all been creating I know they will be wonderful and to say hello.

 

Enjoy your weekend whatever you have planned Love and Hugs Carole x

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 

 

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







Christmas Candle

Good morning to all my lovely crafty friends and followers I hope that you are having a great weekend especially as the weather seems to be improving again. I also want to welcome my latest follower Marianne thank you for following my blog and I hope you continue to enjoy visiting my blog.
My card today is a Christmas card I've made using LOTV Christmas Candle stamp it's one of the older LOTV images but one that I like very much.



Apologies for the photo my camera just didn't like this green at all as you can see I even put it against a white background to try and improve it as I normally use black.

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Stamp Lili of the Valley Christmas Candle coloured with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers LOTV Woodland Wishes

Sentiment Stamps LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages stamped in Forest Green ink

Green Lace from my stash

Cream lace from a gift shop in Whitby

Flowers, berries and  leaves Wild Orchid Craft

Spellbinder Floral Oval

Wooden Star buttons Whitby Crafts

Charm I think Wild Orchid Crafts

Twine Docrafts

Pink shabby Frantage, Glamour dust and Twinklets.

 

 

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend. I'm going to the hairdressers later, then tomorrow its finishing packing as we are going to our Apartment in Florida on Monday for a month. I'm a bit better organised than usual so have got some posts scheduled for each of the weeks I'm away. I'm generally Ok for wifi so hope to keep up with all your gorgeous creations while I'm away. I'm looking forward to the sun and the relaxation and might even fit in a bit of Craft shopping can a duck swim !! I will be craft shopping.
 

 Thank you for the lovely comments you have all left recently so kind Hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge Christmas in August and A Creative Romance Challenge Use Kraft

 





90th Birthday Card

Good evening everyone today I'm posting a commission card I have just made for a 90th birthday. I decided on lovely lilac colour papers from the LOTV Timeless Victorian pad lots of dies and  pearls.

 

This is the matching box

 

Card Recipe

8x8 Blank card Craftwork Cards

Papers Timeless Victorian LOTV

Marianne Anja's Quadrate Set

Marianne Garden Branch

Flowers roses Wild Orchid Craft

Fabric Flowers and  Ribbon with pearls local craft store Boyes

Pearl embellishments Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Paper Craft Show

 White Viva pearl pen

Sentiment computer generated

Box Stella Crafts

White card Tim Holtz distressed with Tim Holtz paper distress tool

 

Some of you will remember I went to a beautiful wedding in London in May well the groom's Mum has just sent me this lovely official photo of the groom and his brother who was the best man. Michael and I were just sat behind them in church and this is one of the moments when the Vicar made one of his funny remarks he was a great guy and made the ceremony very special and personal for them. Its a lovely photo of two great boys..

 



 

I hope you enjoyed the Bank holiday wasn't the weather awful. We had our Son and  Daughter in Law staying with us and had a lovely evening out on Saturday to celebrate their Second Wedding Anniversary. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the week whatever you have planned.

Thank you for all the fabulous comments on my recent post you are all so very kind. Hugs Carole x

 

I'm entering this into Divas by Designs Pretty Pearls Challenge and The Shabby Tea Room Celebrate Challenge

 



Rock Around The Clock

Hi everyone today sees the launch of the new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs the theme this week is Rock Around The Clock and we are very lucky to have two sponsors

Dr. Digi 

Prize: winner choice of 2 digis

and

QKR Stampede  

Prize: 5 digis

 

 

My choice for my Design Team card was an image from Dr.Digi called Metal Mick this is a real fun image and I enjoyed making the card but as I'm sure you'll all agree not quite my normal style. However it's always good to do different so hope you enjoy him and it makes you start signing Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and The Comets certainly takes me back a few era's to my youth club days.

 

 



 

Card Recipe

7x7 card

Card Tim Holtz

Paper a 12x12 scrapbook sheet by Echo Park Paper Its a Boy's Life

Spotted paper is the reverse side

Image Dr Digi Metal Mick edges heat embossed with silver embossing powder and  coloured with Promarkers and Copic pens

Twine for my stash might be Docrafts

Guitar Charm Whitby Crafts

Sentiment cut from the paper

Die cut stars and metal stars from my stash

Die cut letters around the edge

 

 

I hope you have a great week and that you can pop over and join in the challenge get out those bobby socks and get rocking Hugs Carole x

 

 





Happy Anniversary

Good morning to all my fellow crafters and  a special welcome to my new followers Sally, Vicki and  Lucy on Google  + I do appreciate you taking the time to follow my blog and  I hope you continue to enjoy my posts.
Today is our Son and  Daughter in Laws second Wedding Anniversary those two year have just flown by just seems like last week when I was making all the beautiful stationery for the wedding . So today I'm posting the Wedding Anniversary Card and Box I have sent to them. The second anniversary is cotton so have added lots of cotton lace to the card .

 

 

 

 

The Box

 

Card Recipe

 

A5 Cream Deckled edge card from Hobby Craft

Papers some cream pearlescent flower card I've had for ages

Selection of lace from Boyes,  Dainty Crafts Washington and my stash.

Pearl string in white and  cream from Hobby Craft

Cheesecloth from Wild Orchid Crafts

White Ribbon from Live and Love Crafts

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft and my stash

Spellbinder Opulent Ovals die

Sentiment made on my computer

Love charm from Dawn to Dusk Crafts

Magnolia Do Hickey tag

Sewing Machine and  Topstitch thread

Box from Stella Crafts

 

This is the first time I've used these bead flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts but they are very pretty.

 

We are seeing Martin and Fiona at the weekend they are coming to stay so we are all going out to dinner to celebrate their Anniversary on Saturday

 

I'm a bit behind with my comments as I've been away all weekend to Poole visiting some friends they live in a lovely part of England and very very close to Sandbanks Oh for that lottery win !! For those I follow on Docrafts as well please be patient I'm still getting my head around the new Blog setup.

 

Thank you all for your lovely comments recently they are all treasured.

 

I hope you all have a great week but what happened to the sunshine I hope it comes back soon.

I'm entering this into Divas by Design Challenge Charming

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polka Dots

Good morning to all my lovely followers and friends today sees the launch at Crafting by Designs of the new weekly challenge today the theme is Polka Dots and our sponsor is

Lacy Sunshine 

 

and this weeks prize is a winners choice of 3 Digi stamps.

 

 

For my Design Team card I decided on Emily's Monarch Butterfly. I coloured her in monarch butterfly colours not a colour I normally use but quite liked it when I'd finished it.

 

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamp Emily's Monarch Butterfly from Lazy Sunshine Stamps painted with Promarker and Copic pens

6x6 blank card

Black mirra card Orange papers from my stash I think one was originally a computer download

Spellbinder floral oval

LOTV sentiment Everyday Grungy Messages

ribbon around the image and the orange spot I won in a candy prize ages ago from Jacque's Sweet Stuff  Sunday

Leaves Marianne die

butterfly Martha Stewart Punch

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft

Pearl String from my stash

Viva pearl pen on the background of the stamp

 

 

I did a Dior bow on the card for a change I've been making loads of these as they are on the design for the Wedding stationery I'm making.

 

Hope you find time to go over to the challenge and enter one of your fab creations. Hope you all have a great week. hugs Carole x

 

I'm entering this into Crafty Sentiments Designs Anything Goes  and Papertake Weekly Challenge Spots and Dots

 

 



 

 

 

 

 



Craftwork Cards Christmas

Hi everyone hope you are enjoying a great weekend. I want to welcome my latest follower on Google + Vicki thanks for joining my blog you are most welcome I hope you continue to visit and enjoy my posts.
My card today is a simple Christmas one. I was given a Craftwork Cards Christmas kit a few weeks ago and have made this Christmas card Its a simple design for me but I think it looks quite stylish the papers are a pretty design and  match so well. I folded one of the large flower die cuts inwards to create this rosette flower. Still a lot of things left in the kit so may make a few more cards with it.

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Kraft card

Red dot embossed card

Everything else was in the kit except the Candi but all the products are Craftwork Cards except the red card

 

 

I think thats my shortest ever Card Recipe. I have been working on other cards some for my DT and  some I cannot publish yet so will be back later in the week with one for my DT.

 

The rain has just started so I'm going to craft this afternoon. Its a real change from yesterday it was a lovely day and we went to Northallerton Market and had tea in Bettys lovely. Have a great week and I hope the weather improves for everyone take care if you get the tropical storm .

 

 

 

 

Time Flies

Good morning to all my fantastic friends and  followers. Firstly a special welcome to my new follower Julia I hope that you enjoy following my blog.
 My card today is one I've made for a friend who is 70 shortly. I've used one of the LOTV stamps I bought from the last fairy release but had not got round to inking up. I loved this release and this stamp Time Flies was one of my favourites. I have another first today as well I bought a set of Inktense pencils a couple of weeks ago and  have now coloured two images this is the first to get posted. I have to admit I made a real mess of the skin on my first attempt and that is now well and  truly in the bin!!. They take a bit of getting used to but I have to say I love the finished result. I want to thank Becky her tutorials on skin and hair have been so helpful. I do love making this style of card with lots of embellishments.

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Papers Timeless Victorian LOTV

Stamp Time Flies LOTV painted with Inktense pencils onto Derwent watercolour card

White Frantage

Glamour Dust

White card Tim Holtz

Sentiment LOTV Everyday grungy messages

Butterflies cut from a Pion cut out sheet from Live and  Love Crafts and  painted with gesso and  sprinkled with glamour dust

Mesh ribbon is from my stash left over from my son's wedding invitations.

Pearl band from Whitby Crafts

Pearl string stash.

Flowers WOC , Local craft store Boyes and  the ribbon flower was from Hobby Lobby in Florida. I've painted the flowers mostly with gesso and added glamour dust the ribbon flower was originally a dark purple

The time flies and 70 today sentiments I made on the computer.

Stitching around the edges and on the sentiments done on my sewing machine with white topstitch thread

Rhinestone sparklers on the flowers The Hobby House

Spellbinder floral ovals

 

 

 

Gosh I have used a lot of embellishments taken me ages to list everything. I hope you enjoy looking at this as much as I enjoyed making it.

 

Have a great week the sun is back today so lets hope it stays the rest of the month.

 

Thank you to everyone who left comments I say it every time but you are all just so kind and  lovely.

 

To end I want to tell you that I won two Papernest Dolls stamps in a candy draw over at Crafteezee blog. Thanks so much Tracy for the chance to win if you've never seen her cards pop over they are fabulous

 

I'm going to enter this card in Live and love Crafts Challenge Stitching, Whimsy Stamps challenge Summertime  Crafty Sentiments Designs Anything goes and Bunny Zoes Challenge Bingo Flowers, Pearls, Lace, Sentiment, die cuts,stitching