Summer Breeze

Good evening to all my lovely Friends and  followers tonight my post is to alert you to a free All Dressed Up Stamp from Kit and  Clowder The details are below.

FREE STAMP FOR EVERYONE 🎉
I have a little present for you all this week from All Dressed up Digital Stamps! You are all getting a free stamp and a 20% coupon off to their store here: https://etsy.me/2UJCUhl (code: ADUKC2019 )!
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🎉HOW TO CLAIM FREEBIE🎉1️⃣️Please Join the All Dressed up Digital Stamps FB Group as a thank you for this freebie 🙂 2️⃣Leave a comment below with your dream vacation spot - your comment helps our post get seen 3️⃣️ Then, head to www.kitandclowder.com/free, fill out the details, then press Submit to go to the download page!🌟 I'd love if you would consider sharing this post or tagging a crafty friend to spread the word - it helps us to be able to do more freebies 😀 thank you! Ends May 5

This is my Design Team card using this very lovely stamp 

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Papers are Lili of the Valley Country Lady now retired

Image is Summer Breeze from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Chipboard frame is by Wycinanka and  I bought it from Live and Love Crafts sadly now closed

Organza ruffle trim is from Walmart in Florida

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

Pearl string from my box

Small flowers made using a petal die I bought at Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft Show

Small lace hearts cut from a piece of lace trim I bought at Dainty Crafts Washington

Stitched square dies from eBay

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Postage stamp set sadly no longer available

Some clear Wink of Stella on the Stamp and  Flowers

I hope you enjoy using this very lovely stamp and there is also a discount if you want to buy any more of these beautiful stamps from the ETSY shop

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Get Ready For Christmas

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers  its Wednesday so the launch of our new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs . Our theme for this weeks challenge is Get Ready for Christmas this is our first for this year. We will have one every month now till December

Our sponsor for this weeks challenge is

A Day for Daisies    

Prize - $8 gift certificate to store

For my Design Team card I used a gorgeous stamp called Holly Dance

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Papers are Little Red Robin Docrafts and Lili of the Valley Woodland Wishes no longer available

Stamp is Holly Dance from A Day for Daisies painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Square ans  Circle stitched dies

Holly die is Joycraft

Holly leaves are from Wild Orchid Crafts

Frosted Berries are from eBay

Holly shaped button was from Whitby Crafts 

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Christmas tag stamps

Green twine Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon specials Face book Shop 

Clear Wink of Stella on the wings  and berries

I hope you can pop over and  take a look at our challenge this week and  kick start those Christmas cards. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Wedding Balloon

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and are have had a great Easter . My post this evening is to showcase the April new release stamps from All Dressed Up Stamps.. As always they are all fabulous designs.  I'm always amazed how Wendy can always keep coming up with more and more fabulous designs.each month. So here they are and they are now available in the Etsy Store here

Happy Easter

Little Butterfly Girl

Pretty Lashes

  
Wedding Balloon

For my Design Team card I used the fabulous Wedding Balloon

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Card Recipe

Heart shape card made from a Dutch Doobadoo stencil

Stamp is wedding Balloon from All Dressed up stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Paper is Maja Design Summer Basics

Hearts are cut from part of a Heart corner die I have 

Grey pearls string I bought from Hobby lobby in Florida

Flowers are from The Ribbon Girl, Ross Papercraft and Wild Orchid Crafts

Hickory Smoke Distress Ink on the edges

Some Wink of Stella accents on the Bride, Words ,Ribbons and  Banners  

Wooden Love sentiment from eBay painted with Dolphin Grey Apple Barrel Acrylic paint from Walmart in Florida

Grey Pearl Hearts Jelly Bean crafts

I hope you can take a look at these new stamps they are all so lovely . I hope that you have all had a great Eater Weekend enjoying the fabulous weather .  Love and  hugs Carole x

Deer Family

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers  tis Wednesday so the launch of our new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs . Our theme for this weeks challenge is to use three colours from the colour palette below .

Our sponsor for this week is

 Sparkle N Sprinkle, they have the most adorable images. Please click on the link below and show them a little love. 

Sparkle N Sprinkle    

Prize - $15 gift certificate to store

For my Design Team card I used the lovely Deer Family stamp

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card 

Deer Family Stamp painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Square stitched dies 

Papers are Little Red Robin from Docrafts

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Tree die is Joycrafts Pine Trees

Button is Docrafts matches the papers

 The green twine Brenda's lace and Ribbon Specials now closed

Wooden Merry Christmas is from Hobby Craft

I hope you can pop over and  take a look at our challenge this week  Enjoy the rest of the week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

My Easter Bunny

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers This is the launch of a new Monthly Challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps . Our theme as always is Anything Goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp in your design. If you have just discovered these stamps and don't have any there are some fab Freebies HERE to get you started.

The prize for the winner is three digital stamps of their choice and we also pick a top three one of whom is asked to be a Guest Designer the following month.

For my April Design Team project  I used a lovely stamp called Easter Bunny   There are also more fabulous creations from the rest of the Design Team to inspire you all over on the challenge blog.

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Stamp is Easter Bunny from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Coffee In the Arbor White Daisies

Stitched square dies

Frilled die I bought from eBay

Blue Pearl string was from a stall at Ross paper craft show

Flowers are all Wild Orchid Craft

The small hinge die is Joycraft from Crafts U Love

Wooden bob tail bunny is from Boyes Stores

Tiny blue pearls my box

I hope you can take a look at the challenge and maybe join us this month Have a great week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Easter

Good morning to all my friends and  followers its that Wednesday so the start of a new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs, Our theme for this weeks challenge is Easter.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Lunagirl  

Prize - $15 gift certificate to store

The Design Team used a lovely collage sheet Victorian Easter and  I used one of the images from that sheet to make my card

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Card Recipe

6x6 Cream scalloped card

Image is from the Victorian Easter collage sheet from Lunagirl

April Paper is from a Graph it 45 paper pad

Green card is Tim Holz

Stitched square die

Art Deco style dies I bought recently the Art Deco style really caught my eye so different 

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Well I hope if you have been making Easter cards you can join in our challenge this week.

Enjoy your week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Parchment

Good morning everyone I hope you are all having a great week . Today I'm sharing a parchment design card I made a couple of weeks ago at the Craft Group I go to. Its ages since I did any parchment work and  I really enjoyed doing something different. I'm no expert at it but I think this parchment design has made a really pretty card

Card Recipe

6x6 blank card

Paper is Craftwotk cards

Parchment design is traced from an All Dressed Up Stamps freebie butterfly digital stamp free on the challenge blog page if you wish to download it

Parchment paper and  Pergamano white gel pen

Embossing tools and  mat

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

Pink alcohol marker pen to colour the reverse of the design

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch to make the parchment butterflies

Pink and white flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Pink pearls and string my box

With love sentiment I think is also Spellbinder 

Tim Holtz paper distress tool

Pink brads from my friend Carol who was running the class that day and  is very good at parchment work 

 I'm sorry I've not been around much recently I went out last Monday for afternoon tea with my Golden Girl friends. Some of you will know that I have Coeliac Disease  and  unfortunately I was extremely ill after having a very bad reaction to what must have been a non GF tea it took me most of last week to get myself back to normal . Sadly this is the risk I have to take when eating out you can only trust people when they tell you yes its all GF.

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone hope you have some nice things planned Love and  hugs Carole x

Rudolph Cute Reindeer

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers its Wednesday so the start of our new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs and our theme is Anything Goes and it is also our Annual Blog Hop.

This is your chance to get to know our fabulous designers a little bit better, 

and be inspired by all their fabulous creations.

That's not all, our Blog Hop a Mini Anything Goes Challenge is

 sponsored by the fabulous:

Oddball Art by Lizzy Love   

Prize - 3 digi images

We are also joined for the Blog Hop by the Design Team from Odd Ball Art!

So what must you do?

Visit all the fabulous blogs and make sure to leave some love, we appreciate that.
Then come back, all inspired and link your project, easy, peasy!

Here is the list:

Crafting by Designs Design Team

Rene from Life in the Craft Lane  (links to)

MariLynn from Mississippi McGyver   (links to)

Pam from Mustang Creations   (links to)

Isobel from Isobel Creations   (links to)

Carole from The Things I Love   (links to)

Julia from Paper and Scrap Creations by Julia   (links to)

Laura from Laura's Craft Closet   (links to)
CraftyGirl from Crafty Girl Cards and Crafts   (links to)
Sharon from Danny and Petey's Mom   (links to)

Guest Designers from the Odd Ball Art Design Team
Penny from Busch Creations   (links to)
Susan from Calling All Crafters   (links to)
EK from EKGormanDesigns   (links to Crafting by Designs )

For my Design Team inspiration I used Rudolph Cute Reindeer 

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Card Recipe

Star card is made from a Dutch Doobadoo stencil as are the paper layers

Stamp is Rudolph Cute Reindeer painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils .

Papers are Docraft Red Robin Christmas paper pad

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Dies are Scalloped oval die

Tree die is a Joycraft die

Winter die is also Joycraft.

Wooden star from Ross Papercraft Show 

Twine from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon specials now closed

Forest Green distress ink

I'm sure you are all inspired by these lovely creations!

Now it is your turn.

Visit all the lovely blogs and be inspired!

Remember to leave some love!

You have until 2 April 2019 to link your project

Well that's a lot to take in but I hope you can find time to take part in out Annual Blog Hop they are fun and don't forget to enter your lovely project to the Crafting by Designs blog 

Have a great week everyone Love and hugs Carole x

I've entered this into Graphit Designs challenge and  Winter Wonderland Challenge 

Llama

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and are have had a great week . My post this evening is to showcase the March new release stamps from All Dressed Up Stamps.. As always they are all fabulous designs.  I'm always amazed how Wendy can always keep coming up with more and more fabulous designs.each month. So here they are and they are now available in the Etsy Store here

Busy Street

Llama

Pretty Blooms

 Time for Tea

For my Design Team card I used the fabulous Llama

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Stamp is Llama from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Lili of the Valley Shabby Shack pad and  Dovecraft Back to Basics True Blue

Square stitched dies and circle stitched dies

Heart button die was from eBay

Wooden Love sentiments large from Dunelm small from eBay

Twine is Brenda's lace and ribbon specials now closed

Navy button my box

Cute as a button sentiment I bought from Hobby Craft a couple of years ago

Paris Blue Memento ink pad

Some clear Wink of Stella on the hearts on the stamp

I hope you can take a look at these new stamps they are all gorgeous. Enjoy the weekend everyone.  Love and  hugs Carole x

Silver Bells

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers its Wednesday so the start of our new weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs and our theme is flowers.

Our sponsor this weekly challenge is

Beccy's Place  

Prize - $10 gift certificate to the store

For my Design Team card I used a lovely Christmas stamp called Silver Bells.

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Card Recipe

Scalloped card I made from a Grand Nestabilities die set its a very recent purchase from Anne's destash .I also bought a set of Grand Nestabilities Circles.I'm so pleased with them both .

Stamp is Silver Bells from Beccy's Place painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

The layers I made with the scalloped dies

Spellbinder circle die

Maroon card is from Ross Papercraft 

Silver Mirra card is Jelly Bean crafts

Rose flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts

Centre stamen and silver string from The Ribbon Girl 

Frosted berries from eBay

Silver bells are from Whitby Crafts

Sentiment tags are Lili of the Valley

Maroon glitter on the berries, centre of the flowers and the edge of the tags

Aged Mahogany distress Ink

Well I hope you are inspired enough  to come and join in our challenge . Enjoy the rest of the week everyone.

I'm having a catch up week with crafting, jobs in the house and a bit of relaxation.I think this is the first week since Christmas we have not had any hospital appointments. 

Enjoy your week everyone. Love and  hugs Carole x

Pretty Bonnet

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers This evening is the launch of a new Monthly Challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps . Our theme as always is Anything Goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp in your design. If you have just discovered these stamps and don't have any there are some fab Freebies HERE to get you started.
The prize for the winner is three digital stamps of their choice and we also pick a top three one of whom is asked to be a Guest Designer the following month.

For my March Design Team project  I used a lovely stamp called Pretty Bonnet  There are also more fabulous creations from the rest of the Design Team to inspire you all over on the challenge blog.

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Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Stamp s Pretty Bonnet from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Lili of the Valley Timeless Victorian paper pad now discontinued but I also have a download of it from Raspberry Road as its still one of my all time favourite paper pads wish they would bring it back. .

Scalloped oval die

Picket fence die is from Crafty Sentiments Designs

Small butterflies cut from a butterfly corner die

Lace was from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials shop now closed

Flowers are The Ribbon Girl and Boyes stores

Sentiment is from LOTV Spring set not sure if its still available 

Wooden Bunny with pom pom tail from Boyes Stores.

Tim Holtz paper distresser tool 

Lavender Viva pearl pen

Milled Lavender Distress Ink pad

I hope you can find time to enter the challenge this month have a great evening and weekend everyone. Love and  hugs Carole x