Snowy Days

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers today 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 October  Design Team project  I used a lovely stamp called Snowy Days  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

Card Shape is made from a Dutchdoobadoo stencil from Buddly Crafts 

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

Maroon card is Ross Papercraft

Paper is Maja Design Joyous Winterdays Cozy Inside from Ctafts U Love

Stitched Circle dies

Stat circle die is Joycrafts

Sentiment is from the paper

Small trees are from The Works

Twine is Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop now closed

Bells are from Live and Love Crafts

Aged Mahogany Distress Oxide Ink 

The stars are the waste from the circle die

I hope you can find time to enter our challenge just remember to use an All Dressed Up Stamp if you do.

Enjoy the rest of the week Love and  hugs Carole x

White on White Christmas

Happy Sunday everyone i hope that you are all well and  enjoying the weekend . Thought today] I would share a card I made recently for the ladies at the Craft Group I go to to make last Thursday. I do enjoy making white on white cards so hope you all enjoy this as well

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

White smooth card Ross Papercraft

Spot embossing folder is Die'sire from Crafters Companion

Poinsettia dies are Spellbinder 

Merry Christmas die I bought from Anne's destash 

Fawns and branches dies are Cottage Cutz  

I made the hills from the circle waste

Pearl string and pearls my box

Enjoy the rest of the day its pouring with rain here so after catching up on ironing I will be crafting this afternoon Love and  hugs Carole x

Snow Family and Birthday Hat

Good morning everyone today sees the launch of our new monthly Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafting By Designs .
We have three great sponsors this month

 Dr Digi 

Prize - choice of 2 digis

 Twinkle Lane Designs 

Prize - choice of 2 single digi images

Hetty Clare 

Prize - 2 digi images

For my Design Team cards I used images from Twinkle Lane Designs Snow Family and  Hetty Clare Birthday Hat

Snow Family

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 Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card 

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Square stitched dies

Snow paper and Background scene paper both came free in a magazine

Stamp is Snow Family from Twinkle Lane painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils and fussy cut.

Let it Snow sentiment is from Crafty Ribbons

White button stars are from Whiby Crafts

Some Wink of Stella on the Snowmen

Birthday Hat

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Papers are from The Works Make and Create Romantic Escape 12x12 pad great value at £3

Stamp is Birthday Hat from Hetty Clare painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Oval wonky stitched dies are from Creative Dies

Heart Dies are Memory Box 

Sentiment is Presscut

Flowers are the Ribbon Girl and  Wild Orchid Crafts

the rafia flower trim and pearls are from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Specials Facebook shop

Well I hope you can enter our challenge this month Have a great week Love and  hugs Carole x

Christmas PoinsettiasRectangle Blank Card

Good morning everyone hope everyone is well and  had a good weekend it rained here all Sunday so a good day for me to catch up with some craft commissions.The card I'm sharing today is one i made last Thursday at the craft group I go to It was lead by Andrea who brought this lovely design for us all to make.

Card Recipe

Rectangle Blank Card

Red layer is made by inking the edges with a pen

Stitched edge rectangle and red embossed rectangle  not sure of the make as it belongs to Andrea

I edged the red embossed card  with glitter

White poinsettia die is Spellbinder 

Floral holly flourish is Sue Wilson 

Sentiment tag is edged with glitter and  the sentiment heat embossed with silver embossing powder
White pearls on the flower centres 

I really enjoyed making this card  the dies are lovely. i struggled a bit with the watermark as I've just got a new laptop and  the latest version of GIMP I got it sorted but not without some frustration yesterday still a couple of things to sort out but getting there.

Have a great week Love and hugs Carole x

Little One

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and have had a great weekend. My post this evening is to showcase the September 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

Beret Girl

 Floral Wellie 

Little One

See-Saw

For my Design team card i used the adorable Little One

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Stamp is Little One from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent inktense Pencils

Papers are The Hobby House Green Yellow and  Pink.Blue spot is Craftwork Cards

Postage edge rectangle dies

Square stitched dies

Alphabet banner dies I think I bought these in Florida a long time ago might be MFT but not certain I've not used them for ages

Love wooden sentiment from eBay and  painted with Cracker Barrel navy acrylic paint from Walmart

Bakers Twin my box its Docrafts

Small paper hearts from the waste of a heart corner die I have 

Well I hope you can take a look at these new stamps they are just great I had a lot of fun making this  card 

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

Party Frock

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers today 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 September  Design Team project  I used a lovely stamp called Party Frock  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

Paper is Pion Design Scent of Lavender Preserving the Scent I bought them from Live and  Love Crafts now closed . I still miss this shop especially the range of lovely papers she stocked.

Stamp is All Dressed Up Stamps Party Frock painted with Derwent Inktense  Pencils 

Perfume bottle stamp is a Hobby Art stamp set Perfume Bottles

Die is LDRS Creative  Gilded Oval die

Lace Bow and  lace are from Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Specials Facebook shop now closed

as are the lavender pearl bows

Sentiment tags are Lili of the Valley Stamps still available as a digi set I think 

I hope you can find time to enter our challenge just remember to use an All Dressed Up Stamp if you do.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend Love and  hugs Carole x

All Dressed Up Stamps See Saw Freebie from Kit and Clowder

Good afternoon everyone hope everyone is enjoying a nice weekend. My post today is to tell you about the free All Dressed Up Stamp called See Saw you can get this weekend from Kit and  Clowder This is the link to the Facebook page Kit and Clowder

This is my Design Team card using this gorgeous stamp

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Card Recipe

Go Kreate Frilly 10 dies to cut the card shape and  papers

Papers are an old Lili of the Valley pad Country Lady

Stamp is See Saw from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Fired Brick Distress Ink around the edge and  image

Cloud dies are Memory Box 

Small bird die is from a Marianne Ivy die set

Flowers are The Ribbon Girl Hobby Lobby Florida 

Hessian flower I think was from Ross Papercraft

Leaves my box

Wooden Dream sentiment is from The Works

Well I hope you can visit Kit and Clowder and  get this fabulous freebie stamp . Love and  hugs Carole x

Anything Goes Going Home and Rudolph Cute Reindeer

Good morning everyone and  welcome  to Crafting by Designs Anything  Goes Challenge our first challenge since our Summer break. . Before I post my designs I wanted to let you know that we are no longer having weekly challenges but in future we will only be having one Anything Goes Challenge at the start of each month. For each of those we will have several sponsors and  lots of Design Team inspirations to inspire everyone so sadly no more "It's that Wednesday again."

Our sponsors for this month are

Leann's World 101

Prize - winner choice of 2 digi images

Ike's Art  

Prize - $20 gift certificate to store

Lunagirl 

Prize - $15 gift certificate to store

Oddball Art  

$10 gift certificate

For my Design Team projects I used images from LeAnn's World 101 Going Home and Oddball Art Rudolph Cute Reindeer

Going Home

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I'm entering this into Leanne's World Challenge Leanne;s world 101 Challenge

Rudolph Cute Reindeer

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Card Recipes

Going Home

7x7 Blank card

Stamp is Going Home from LeAnn's World 101 painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Green card my box The papers I bought on my recent trip to Florida from Hobby Lobby just perfect for this stamp.

Square stitched dies 

Wonky stitched circles are Creative Dies from Craft Stash 

Pine branch die is a Creative Expressions Sue Wilson die

Twine is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop now closed

Sentiment was free in Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine last year

Rudolph Cute Reindeer

7x7 blank card 

Stamp is Rudolph Cute Reindeer from Oddball Art painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Papers are Maja Design Joyous Winter Days Blzzard from Crafts  U Love

Square stitched dies 

Wonky Stitched Rectangles are MFT

Wooden star is from Ross Papercraft 

Wooden Sentiment is from Hobby Craft

Hessian trim is from my box might be Whitby Crafts 

Silk ribbon from a Craft Show in Newcastle years ago

Pine cones are from Hobby Craft

Frosted Berries eBay

Well that took a while writing all those products down !! I hope you can join our monthly challenge this time you have until the 25th September to enter. we always look forward to seeing your entries.

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone. Love and  hugs Carole x

  

Miles First Day at School

Good afternoon everyone thought I'd share the card I made for my Grandson Miles Alexander for his first day at big school he is just four/ I've also added a couple of photos of him in this new uniform on his way  to school.

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Stamp is LOTV Back to School Boy painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Card is Ross Papercraft and Tim Holtz

Chalk board paper is a download from Pinterest

Stitched square dies

Frame die is MFT  

Metal alphabet tiles are from Studio Cards years ago

Card Candi Craftwork cards 

Sentiment made on the computer 

Miles on his way to Big School Gatley Primary 

What happened to those four years. I hope you enjoy this post he is such a gorgeous boy and we love him so much. Love and  hugs Carole x

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Love to Shop

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and have had a great week. My post this evening is to showcase the August re release stamps from All Dressed Up Stamps.. These are images that have been re added to the ETSY shop and have not been available for a while.They are all fabulous some of you may have them already but if you haven't these are all worth having  So here they are and they are all  now available in the Etsy Store here

Flowers for You

Full of Grace 

Love to Shop

Party frock

For my Design Team card I used the fabulous Love to Shop and made a Dutch Doobadoo Present Card with it

The Card

The Inside

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Card Recipe

Stamp is Love to Shop from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Card is made from a Dutch Doobadoo Present set Stencil

Papers are two sheets from a Flowers Blooming 12 x 12 paper pad from The Works. Great quality and double sided 

Spellbinder Fleur de Lis die

Square stitched die

Joycraft Banner die

Joycraft Vintage Flourishes die

Pearl string Ross Papercraft show

Rose flowers The Ribbon Girl

Small flowers Dainty Crafts Washington

Happy Birthday die is from The Works

Inside image printed and painted then fussy cut

Well I hope you can find the time to enter this weeks challenge I know a lot of you enjoy making girly cards and these stamps are just perfect.

Enjoy the rest of the week Love and  hugs Carole x

I;ve entered this into Polkadoodles Challenge