Myrtle's Flower

Good Morning to all my blog friends and  followers and  a special welcome to my new follower Scrap Carole I hope you enjoy my blog. I'm just so glad to be posting something at last I've been crafting but most of it is for DT work and not yet due to be posted but hopefully I've now got caught up so more posts I promise in the next few weeks.
Today sees the launch at Crafting by Designs of the new weekly challenge the theme this week is flowers with a die cut or punch.

We have one sponsor this week

Prize - winners choice of 3 single digis 

For my DT card I decided to use Myrtle's Flower and  here she is.

Card Recipe

6x6 blank card

Image Myrtle's Flower Lacy Sunshine Stamps painted with Promarker and  Copic pens and  sprinkled with blue frantage

Papers Lili of the Valley Snow Princess

Marianne die circle ,leaf and flower

Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

Organza ribbon and  lilac lace Crafty Ribbons

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and  Dainty Crafts Washington

Flower pearl string The Hobby House

 LOTV Sentiment  tags

Flower button my stash 

Tim Holtz paper edger

Well I hope you are all having a great week and enjoying some nice things. It would be great if you could find time to pop over and take a look at the challenge. I  know you all love using flowers and  dies. on your cards.

Thank you for the great comments on my last couple of posts I really appreciate and love every one.of them hugs Carole x

Jukebox Jive

Good morning to all you lovely blog friends and followers . Today sees the launch of another challenge over at Crafting by Designs and the theme this week is a masculine card. I can hear the groans not our favorite thing but I have to say once I push myself to make one I do enjoy them especially if like this one I have to search the internet for the right papers and embellishments.

We have two sponsors this week

Dr Digi

Prize - winners choice of 2 single digis

and

Oakpond Creations

Prize - winners choice of 3 single digis

I selected this Jukebox image from Dr Digi for my card today.

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Jukebox image from Dr Digi painted with Promarker and Copic pens I fussy cut the image and  highlighted the image with a silver fine liner.

Paper and  record images from the internet

Music Ribbons are from Crafty Ribbons

Silver stars I bought ages ago in The Range

Guitar charm Whitby Crafts

Die cut letters

Card is Tim Holtz

I hope you find time to go over and take look at this weeks challenge and it may spur you on to make a man card and enter this challenge.

I hope you are all having a great week mine is much less hectic than last week. Hugs Carole x

Good Evening and a Wedding Card for our Craft Group

Good evening to all my lovely blog friends and followers. A special welcome this evening to my new followers Kelly, Linda and Carole. I hope you enjoy my blog and  come and visit often. I'm so pleased you are all following my blog.
Before I tell you about my card a small apology I've not been around much this week as we got unexpected visitors on Tuesday and they were with us till Friday. So most of my craft plans went out of the window. I did get to the GNPE at Harrogate on Friday and got some nice goodies. Its definitely not the show it was its so much smaller and a lot of the regular sellers no longer go. If any of you were there on Friday sorry I missed you.
My card today is a sample card I've made for the people at our Craft Group to make on Thursday. It has to be a little simpler than I normally make as there are all abilities. We are using images from a LOTV Art Pad True love and the theme is Wedding/ Anniversary. I've chosen a Wedding image but the design will be suitable for all of the images the others decided on a couple of weeks ago .

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

LOTV Art Pad True Love

Silver Shimmer card A Touch of Craft

Embossed card dot embossing folder

Spellbinder circle and  scalloped circle dies

Marianne heart die

Sentiments LOTV Simply Sophisticated

Ribbon, lace and  flowers from my stash

I spent most of yesterday afternoon cutting all the things and putting them all together into packets ready for Thursday thank goodness for my ebosser. I hope they all enjoy making my card design on Thursday.

Hopefully this week will be back to normal and I will manage some more posts. Thank you all for the gorgeous comments on my last post Time Flies so kind. Have a great week. hugs Carole x

Time Flies 60th Birthday Card

Good Morning to all my blog friends and followers I hope that you have all had a great weekend doing some lovely things. I've just about got all the catching up done since getting home and its pretty much back to normal. Its been hard after such a great holiday to get back to doing the normal everyday things and its cold!!.
So onto my post today. Its a commission I was given from a friend for a 60th birthday card. I decided to use LOTV Time Flies for my image but really pushed myself to use a different colour scheme As I always go to the lavenders and blues first when I paint this image. See what you think.

The matching box

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card 

Papers LOTV Country Lady

Stamp LOTV Time Flies painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

LOTV sentiment Greetings Postmarks

Cream organza flower trim from Walmart in Florida

Lace bow panel and wooden flower The Works Outlet shop in The Peak District

Pearl string The Hobby House

Flowers Wild orchid Crafts, Boyes Stores and  Dainty Crafts Washington

Lace and small pearls from my stash

Time Flies Sentiments made on the computer

Sewing machine and  white top stitch thread

Pearl Hearts Dawn to Dusk Crafts Ross Paper craft show

7x7 Box Stella Crafts

Tim Holtz paper edger tool

Glamour dust on her wings

I'm glad I pushed myself to do a different colour as I quite liked it when it was finished. I  hope my friend who commissioned it does too.

I've got a really busy week with lots on so will have to make sometime in amoungst it all to craft as I still have some DT posts to finish.

Thank you all for the lovely comments on Pom Pom and the warm welcome home I missed  all your blogs while I was away. Have a great week whatever you are planning but I  hope that it involves some nice things. Love and  hugs x .

Pom Pom

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers.Today I am posting my first card for Crafty Ribbons Design Team. The theme this week is pearls ,ribbon and charm how could I go wrong some of my favorite crafting materials.
As you can see from my title I decided as it was my first challenge to use the first stamp I ever bought from LOTV she's Pom Pom and although they retired her last year she's still one of my favorite LOTV stamps.
I've used some fab Crafty Ribbons and Lace on my project .They stock some amazing ribbons, lace and lots of exclusive products as well. I certainly recommend you take a look.

Card Recipe

6x6 blank card Craftwork Cards

Stamp LOTV Pom Pom (now retired ) Painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers Pion Studio of Memories Photo Frame and Anemone PD1901 Live and Love Crafts

Lace, Organza Ribbon and  Fait Main ( French for Handmade) Label Crafty Ribbons

Pearl string The Hobby House 

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and Boyes Stores

Fairy charm Whitby Crafts 

Marianne Die, flower ,leaf and circle

Card and paper edger Tim Holtz

Glamour dust on wings

Sentiment LOTV Fairy Sentiments

I hope I've inspired you to take a look at the Crafty Ribbons Challenge and shop this is the link.

I also hope you are all having a great week keeping warm and doing the things you love the most. Hugs Carole.

Hello I'm home and a Football Card

Hello everyone it seems like a lifetime since I last wrote a post but it feels good. Well I'm back from my holidays now and what an amazing time we had. We did some wonderful things and it definitely was a holiday of a lifetime. We stayed in 15 hotels, did 6 flights, one helicopter flight, 2 trains, one ferry, a river jet boat, a gondola to a skyline restaurant ,a cable car, a glowworm cave, numerous small boats and loads of things I'll have forgotten already.
Well its back to reality now and  I've just started crafting again. Today I'm posting a birthday card I made for my husband for his birthday in January before we went away. Its not very exciting as its a football card themed around his favorite team Sunderland. He loved it at the time but they are playing really badly right now so he definitely needs to keep calm!!

Card Recipe

Papers and toppers from internet images
Black mirra card

Ribbon and  twine from my stash

Candi Craftwork cards

Hope you enjoy it if you like football My husband certainly does!!.

I thought I'd end the post with a couple of photos from the hundreds we took in New Zealand and the Cook Islands The first one is me on the snowline at the top of Mount Cook you can just see the helicopter in the corner I was terrified but what an amazing experience.

This second photo is from the beach of our hotel in the Cook Islands. What a fabulous place the hotel had only 30 bedrooms and is an adult only hotel. The weather as you can see was fabulous 30 degrees this is the lagoon in the coral reef and the small island across from the hotel beach.

Well as I said earlier I'm back crafting as I have design team projects to do so hopefully I'll get caught up over the next week or so . Big apologies to everyone as I'm weeks behind with comments but will get round to all your fabulous blogs as soon as I can I know you will all have been making stunning creations as always. Good to be back crafting and I hope you are all well Love and  hugs Carole x

40th Birthday Card

Hello to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope you are all doing Ok. This scheduled post is a card I made before my holiday for my Friend to give to her son who was 40 last week. He is a great snowboarder so I found this image on the internet and  printed it onto photo paper. I always enjoy making these cards as I love the research to get just what I want. I hope you all like it I know men cards are never our favorites..

The Box

Card and Box Recipe

8x8 card and Candi Craftwork cards

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Blue card and ticket sentiments Tim Holtz

Red mirra card from my stash

Hessian Ribbon from a stall at Chatsworth Christmas Market

Banner die La La land

Black peel off letters

Metal charms from Hobby Craft jewelry section

Sentiment made on my computer

Twine Docrafts.

Box Stella Crafts
Corner rounder on the brackets
SON charm dawn to Dusk Crafts Ross Papercraft show

I was really pleased when I found the shield charm in my box as it has the year 1975 on it the year her son David was born.I made the edge brackets myself. I must apologize for the box photo I really struggled to get a good image because of the mirra card, without either my reflection or my Ipad .

I hope you are having a great week what ever you have planned Hugs Carole x



Cruella de Vil

Good morning to my lovely followers and friends. Today is the launch of another weekly challenge at Crafting by Designs the theme for this week is Inspired by a Movie  Our sponsor this week is

 

 AliciaBel

Prize - winner's choice of 3 single digis images

 

 

This is a Spanish Company based in Valencia and they have great themed and fun images something a bit different. As it was inspired by a movie I picked Cruella de Vil so my card is based on 101 Dalmations. She's just fab and I loved finding all the right embellishments..

 

 

 

 

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card Craftwork Cards

Red Mirra card my stash

Dalmation spot paper and photos of the pups from the internet.

Image Cruella De Vil from AliciaBel painted with Promarker and Copic pens sprinkled with Glamour Dust

Spot ribbon from a haberdashery shop in Northallerton

Film strip I found in an very old packet of photos from the pre digital days !! Showing my age now .

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

Picture Wheel Die Tim Holtz

White Alphabet letters and numbers

Candi Craftwork Cards

 

Well I hope you enjoyed my movie theme card and if you have a favourite movie then pop over and  enter your card. I always love doing these the research is great fun .

 

Have a great week hugs Carole x

 

 

 



Some Exciting News

Good morning everyone I hope that you are all well. This is a very short post to announce some good news.
Last week I was asked by the lovely people at Crafty Ribbons to join their DT and  I am delighted to say I have accepted . As I'm away at present I won't be starting the challenges till the beginning of March . I am very excited as the store has some exquisite ribbons available..Thank you so much Marianne for telling me about the DT call.
If you want to take a look then they have a great Challenge starting today. This is the link Crafty Ribbons Challenge Anything But a Card  I'm so proud of my DT badge and  really looking forward to getting started in March.



Hope you are all well and  can find time to look at Crafty Ribbons Challenge hugs Carole x

Sick Little Bear

Good morning to all my lovely friends and Blog followers. and also a warm welcome to anyone who have visited from Crafting by Designs. Today sees the launch of Crafting by Designs Challenge Get Well/Under the Weather Our sponsor this week is

 

 

 Meljen

Prize: 4 single non-colored images

 

They are giving a very generous prize with 4 single images. They have some gorgeous stamps in the shop and it was hard to chose one finally I decided to use Sick Little Bear he is just so so cute.

 

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card Craftwork Cards

Papers LOTV Bonnets and  Bowties

Kraft Card Crafters Companion

Image Sick Little Bear Meljen's Designs painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Lace and ribbon from my stash

Twine/button flower Michaels Florida

Small medicine bottle from Whitby Crafts then filled with pink seed beads

Put your feet up sentiment LOTV Greetings Postmarks

Love is sentiment is a Lillibet sentiment stamp set from Trim craft

Flowers and  twine from my stash might be WOC

Sewing machine and white topstitch thread

 

I hope you can pop over and take a look at this challenge it runs for one week. Get well cards are always useful to have in reserve. Enjoy the rest of the week whatever you plan but I hope it includes some nice things and craft time. Hugs Carole x

 



80th Birthday Card and Box

Good morning to all my lovely followers and  friends and  a special welcome this cold January morning to my two new followers Murielle and  Kate. I'm so  glad you are following my Blog and  I hope you visit often and enjoy my posts.
My card today is a commission I have just made for one of my friends. Her Aunt is 80 very soon and asked for a special card for her. I decided to use dies on this card rather than my normal painted image so the main focus of my card is Spellbinder Opulent Oval dies..

Card and  Box Recipe

8x8 card Craftwork cards

White card Tim Holtz

Peach card my stash

Pearl flower trim The Hobby House

Spellbinder Opulent Oval die

Scalloped lace Whitby Crafts

Resin frame Melissa Francis petite frames Live and  Love Crafts

Pearl Hearts Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft show

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash

Sentiments on die made on my computer

80 in resin frame from a Pion Cut out sheet

Box Stella Crafts

I apologies now for the photos its been so dark here and the colours look like they aren't all the same but in fact they are .

This will be my last post for a little while. I'm going away on Monday on a five week holiday to New Zealand and the Cook Islands its a holiday of a lifetime and one from our retirement bucket list of things to do. We are looking forward to some warmer weather but not the long flight .

I've got some posts scheduled for when I'm away and will try to keep up with all your gorgeous blogs if I can . . I'm just finishing all the packing a huge task for 5 weeks. 

I hope you all keep well and warm while I'm away and also have a great weekend. 

Thank you all so much for all the great comments on my Snowman card you are all so kind.Hugs Carole x

Country Snowman

Good morning to all my friends and brilliant followers.Well I know what you are thinking a Snowman card when Christmas is over well yes it is. This is this weeks theme at the Crafting by Designs Challenge Snowmen I do hope you enjoy the challenge we have two great sponsors.

 Sami Stamps

Prize - $12.00 credit to the store

and
Stitchy Bear

Prize - choice of 3 digi images up to $10

 

I  decided on an image from Stitchy Bear called Country Snowman. I went for a more CAS design stamping the background card and fussy cutting the image. Not sure I'll ever be able to do true CAS style !!

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

White Tim Holtz card

Silver mirra card

Tree stamp Docrafts several years ago heat embossed with silver embossing powder

Stamp Country Snowman coloured in Promarker pens and  fussy cut

Shabby White Frantage

LOTV sentiments

Narrow tinsel tied with ribbon from my stash

Wooden snowflakes Whitby Crafts

Tim Holtz paper distress tool

 

The more I've thought about this theme I suppose its OK because if we get snow in January we would build snowmen well not me personally !!

 

If you love snowmen then this is just the challenge for you hope you can enter something. Hugs Carole x

 

 

 



70th Birthday Card

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope that you are all well and  keeping warm I just hate the winter weather I'm definitely a sunshine girl.
On  New Years Day it was my friend Lyn's 7oth birthday and this is the card I gave her. She lives part of the time in Malta and I gave her the card before Christmas to take back with her. I spoke to her today on the phone and it reminded me I hadn't put it on my blog. She did say the weather was lovely in Malta so I was a bit jealous.
My card is using a Lili of the Valley stamp Time Flies one of my favourites .

Card Recipe

7x7 card

Papers LOTV Timeless Victorian

Image Time Flies LOTV painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Organza rose ribbon Boyes stores other lace from my stash

Sentiments LOTV Pretty Grungy Good Times

Flowers WOC and my stash

Small metal frame Michaels Florida

Butterfly die Joy Crafts

Pearls The Range

Sewing Machine and topstitch thread

Shabby blue frontage Live and  Love Crafts

Cut out letters Pion sheet Live and  Love Crafts

 

I know that Lyn loved this card and I hope you all do as well. It was my husbands birthday yesterday and we had a lovely meal out last night at Café Lilli in Norton one of our favourite restaurants the food was great. Enjoy the weekend whatever you are planning and  I hope you do some nice things .

I also want to say thank you for all the lovely comments you have left on my recent posts I say this every time but you really are such special kind people .Hugs Carole x

I'm entering this in Graphit markers Shiney and New Challenge my shiny and new things are this new Joy Craft butterfly border and the small metal frame I've used both for the first time. I also think the gorgeous bead flowers would cover the shiny aspect, A Gem of a Challenge Something New  Joy Craft butterfly border and small metal frame. Winter Wonderland Challenge things with Wings and Dragonfly Dreams Challenge Favourite colour and  mine is purple/lavender.

 

 



 

Emma and the cake

Good morning everyone I hope you are all having a great week and getting back to normal after the holidays.
Today sees the launch of Crafting by Designs Anything Goes Challenge we have two sponsors

Fred She Said

Prize: $10 gift certificate to the store

Smeared Ink

Prize: 15 credit to store

For my DT card I decided on Emma and the cake from Fred She Said Designs hope you like her.

 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

Papers LOTV Shabby Shack

Core donations card

Image Fred She Said Designs Emma and the Cake painted with Promarker and Copic pens image sprinkled with glamour dust and Shabby Blue Frantage.

Spellbinder stately circles and circle dies

La La land heart banner

Square doily

Sentiment from LOTV cake glorious cake stamp set

Ribbon and  twine from my stash

Brad I think do crafts several years ago

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearl string Boyes Stores

 



I wasn't so keen on my face colouring because the stamp has three black dots on the cheeks and I think it makes it looks a bit smudged when its not .

 

I hope some of you might find time to enter a card into this challenge which runs till the 25th January. Good luck if  enter something. Hugs Carole x



 

Christmas Festive Lantern

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. Firstly I want to wish you all A Very Happy, Healthy and  Peaceful 2105. I'm slowly getting back to normal after all the holiday visitors. My card today is the last Christmas card I made and the one I made to give to my Husband. Its a LOTV image called Festive Lantern that I bought at the GNPE back in October.

 

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Red paper Lili of the Valley Twas the Night paper pad

Blue scene paper just seen is from a Pion sheet

Stamp LOTV Festive Lantern painted with Inktense pencils and sprinkled with Shabby White Frantage

Memory box Country Landscape die

Marianne tree die

Spellbinder circle die

Small white trees cut from some die cuts I bought on ebay last year

Sentiments LOTV embossed with WOW embossing powder

White Pom Pom trim and twine from my stash

White gesso on background and trees

Glamour Dust and Twinklets

Husband sentiment cut from a Pion cut out sheet

Small gold stars from a shop in the Grassmarket Edinburgh

 

 

I hope you have all survived the holidays and are now getting back to some crafting. I'm catching up with some design team stuff and have a couple of commissions to do in the next two weeks. I am also behind with comments so apologies to everyone but hope to get caught up very soon with all your gorgeous blogs.

 I 'm now going to finish packing up the last of the Christmas decorations and then some crafting if I get time. The house looks so bare and  I always hate putting the tree out for the recycling. 

Before I go I wanted to mention that I was delighted to get a top three in the Graphit markers challenge with my lavender Aurora Wings Icy Snow Queen card .

Enjoy the rest of the weekend hugs Carole x



 

I'm entering this into Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog Anything Goes