Fifi Bubbles

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers its Wednesday so its the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs and the theme this week is Pink Pretty and  Girlie. I'm sure a few of you will enjoy that I know a lot of you are big pink fans.
Our sponsor this week is

Crafty Sentiments Designs 

 Prize - choice of 3 single images

For my Design Team card I used a lovely Girlie image called Fifi Bubbles

The inside

Card Recipe

Flower shaped card from Craftwork cards

Pink Papers came free in a magazine

Stamp is Fifi Bubbles painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Die is Marianne Circle ,Leaf and  Flower

Lace, Ribbon and  Pearls are all from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook shop

Flowers are Wild Orchid Craft

Resin frame is Melissa Francis from Live and Love Crafts I made it into a mirror by adding a piece of silver mirra card to the back

Sentiment is from Lili of the Valley Everything's Better set 

Some clear Wink of Stella on the Bubbles

Corner rounder on the sentiment

I was a bit disappointed with my background idea I tried to get the impression of steam but not sure it came out the way I thought it would. 

I hope you can pop over and  enter the challenge especially all you Pink fans Have a great week. Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into  In The Pink What's New Challenge my new goodies are the stamp Fifi Bubbles, the lace and ribbon and the LOTV sentiment stamp. 

Aurora Wings Flower Ballerina

Good morning to all my very special friends and  followers. I'm quite pleased today to be sharing a card I have made that isn't for one of my Design Team challenges. I was asked last year by a friend to make a 65th card for her . The recipient loves the theatre and ballet so I decided to use this Aurora Wings digi stamp I have had for ages and never used its a beautiful stamp called Flower Ballerina and  I loved painting her. The ladies birthday was yesterday so I'm safe to be sharing it with you today.

 

Close Up of the stamp

 

The Matching Box

Card and  Box Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Stamp is Flower Ballerina from Aurora Wings painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Shall We have Coffee Two Ladies and Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics all from Live and  Love Crafts

Butterfly dies are Joycraft

Square matting dies are Tonic

Lace is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon specials

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. Boyes Stores. Pearl flower is The Hobby House.Purple bead stem Live and Love Crafts and the pearl leaves my stash

Resin Frame is Melissa Francis and the sentiment computer generated

Dark Cream Cabouchon I bought at the GNPE Harrogate

Tag sentiments are from Lili of the Valley

8x8 box from Stella Crafts

Small pearl hearts Jelly Bean Crafts Ross Papercraft Show

Box sentiment I made on the computer

Well I hope that you are all looking forward to the weekend and  have some nice things planned . Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Noor Design January Challenge Anything Goes and The Ribbon Girl Any image Challenge

Anything That Shines

Good morning to all my friends and  followers its that Wednesday and the launch of a new Challenge over at Crafting by Designs our theme for this week is Anything That Shines. We have one sponsor this week

Sami Stamps  

 Prize - $12 credit to store

For my Design Team card I decided to use a pretty stamp called Blossom Girl.

Close up 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Papers are Pion Design Paris Flea Market Pink Fabric

Stamp is Blossom girl from Sami stamps painted with 

Copic and  Promarker Pens

Slver Frame is from my stash think they came in a card making kit I bought years ago.

Feather die is Hot of the Press Paper Artist might have come in a magazine.

Diamante trim was a gift from Julia one of my Design Team buddies.

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Grey Feather from some I was given.

Sparkly Flowers from Boyes Stores

Silver sparkler Dawn to Dusk Crafts

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley set Time to Party from the latest launch

Some clear Wink of Stella on the image 

Well I hope that you are all having a good week and  can find time to enter our challenge this week. I thought this was a great theme idea. Love and  hugs Carole x 

Love to Dance

Good evening to all my friends and  followers. Today is the launch of a new challenge over at All Dressed Up Stamps This will be our first challenge in 2017 and as always its anything goes as long as you use an All Dressed Up Stamp . If you don't have a one then there are some great freebies to be had on the challenge page HERE The prize for the random winner is 3 digi stamps in addition we also select a top three and one of those is asked to be a Guest Designer the following month.
For my Design Team card this month I've used a gorgeous stamp called Love to Dance

Close up

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

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

Die is Spellbinders Floral Oval

Papers are LOTV Timeless Victorian now retired

Fancy Border is Dutch Doobadoo

Net and organza flower trim are from Boyes Stores

Resin corner was from The Works

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts, Dainty Crafts and rolled flowers from Poundland 

Wooden heart is from Whitby Crafts

Pearl hearts my stash

Some Wink of Stella on the image and flowers

Pearl trim The Hobby House 

Well the challenge runs for a month so plenty of time to enter . Hope everyone has had a good weekend  Love and  hugs Carole x

007

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. Its that Wednesday again and the start of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs this week our theme is Inspired by a Movie.
Our sponsor this week is

 Alicia Bell

 

 Prize - choice of 3 single images

For my Design Team card I decided on a great fun image 007

The Stamp

Card Recipe

A5 card 

Stamp is 007 from Alicia Bell painted with Copic and Promarker pens then fusst cut.

Background paper was from the internet its a James Bond poster

Black and Silver Mirra Card both from Ross Papercraft Show

Film strip die is Sizzix from Michael's in Florida 

Mirrored embellishments from a pound shop in Liverpool

Gems from my stash the pearl ones are Kaisercraft.

Its ages since I made an A5 shaped card and quite enjoyed it for a change. The challenge runs for a week so I hope you can pop over and  take a look I always think these movie themes are good fun Hope everyone is well and having a great week. Love and  hugs Carole x

Christmas Candles 2016

Good morning to all my friends and followers I hope you are all well and  enjoyed the first week of 2017. Today my post has a Christmas theme as this is something I intended to post the week before Christmas but as I ran out of time they didn't get on here so better late than never. I'm sharing the candles I made to give as small Christmas gifts to some of my friends. I hope you still enjoy seeing them even though Christmas seems ages ago now.

Candle Recipe

Candles are from Tesco and  Homebase

Spellbinder circle and scalloped circles to form the base

Ribbons and lace are from Crafty Ribbons , Whitby Crafts , Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Facebook page and tartan from my Christmas ribbon box

Pearl String is from The Hobby House, Boyes Stores, Ebay and  Ross Papercraft Show.

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts Hobby Lobby Florida and Michael's Florida 

Berries Cinnamon Sticks and trims are from Live and  Love Crafts, Noor Designs, Boyes Stores and  Dainty Crafts Washington.

Marianne Pine Branch die

Jute String Whitby Crafts and Wooden Christmas Tags Boyes Stores

Well I hope you all have a great weekend I've got some crafting to catch up on today then we are out tomorrow for lunch as its my husbands birthday . Managed to get some commenting done this week but still a bit behind but getting there. You will all just have to slow down so I can catch up only joking I love seeing your fabulous creations. Love and  hugs Carole x

Happy New Year and Big Eye Bookworm Fairy

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers firstly I hope you all had a great Christmas and  I want to wish each and every one of you  a very Happy New Year for 2017. Secondly apologies I have not been around in blogland. My husband was taken into hospital the week before Christmas not getting home till Christmas Eve. I had the family arriving that day so with hospital visits preparing for the holiday it was a a very busy time for me. We had our grandson for 5 days which was lovely .I then had a friend staying for New Year so a very busy time but enjoyable .
Hopefully I can now get back to my crafting properly now all the festivities are over.

Well today would you believe it's that Wednesday and our first challenge over at Crafting by Designs for 2107. Our theme this month is Anything Goes and  we have a great sponsor

Odd Ball Art  

Prize - choice of 3 single images

For my card I decided on a stamp called Big Eye Bookworm Fairy bit of a different style for me can you believe no lace, ribbon or flowers oh I must be under the weather !!!

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Brick Paper was free in a magazine 

Stamp is Odd Ball Art painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils and  the lovely sentiment comes with the stamp

Green Birdsong filigree paper from Docrafts 

Tonic Square die

Wink of Stella on the image

Gems from my stash

Well I took the decorations down yesterday and  packed them away for another year . I hope I can get to see your lovely blogs very shortly. Don't forget to pop over and  take a look at the challenge it runs till the 25th January . Sorry about the photo of this card but its green my camera hates green and  the weather is very dark. Its much brighter than this. Enjoy your week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x