Benson Bear With Love

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers its that Wednesday again it seems to come
around so fast, so its the launch of our new weekly challenge over at  Crafting by Designs and the theme is once again Anything Goes

Our Sponsor this week is

Crafty Sentiment Designs     

Prize - winner choice of 3 digi images

The Design Team all used a lovely stamp called Benson Bear With Love

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Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card

Stamp is Benson Bear With Love from Crafty Sentiments Designs painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are from a Docrafts Back to Basics pad I bought at Harrogate show last year

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Wonky stitched rectangle dies

Hessian trim I bought in Spain last year from The Chinese Supermarket

Wooden teddies are from Whitby Crafts

Happy Birthday button is from Ross papercraft

Purple and  white twine is from Michael's

Craftwork Cards card candi

 Wink of Stella on the heart balloons

I hope you find time to enter the challenge. Anything Goes is always good. Enjoy the rest of the week  and  hte lovely sunshine.Love and  hugs Carole x

I've entered this into Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge

Little Ladybird

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and have had a great week..My post today is to showcase the July 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 

Little Ladybird

 Mermaid Rock

 Prom Princess

Summer Bird   

For my Design Team New Release card I used the gorgeous Little Ladybird

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Stamp s Little Ladybird from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Lemoncraft Gossamer Blue and  Maja Designs A Gift for you Cause you're my Angel from Crafteeze and Mad Scrapper

Oval Frame die I cut it twice to make the border

Stripped Nasturtium flower die

Leaf die is Joycraft Vintage Flourishes

Ladybird ribbon is from Crafty Ribbnos

Ladybirds are from a Pound shop ages ago

Sentiment tag stamps are Lili of the Valley

Pearls my box

Turquoise Crisp Net wide ribbon  is from Boyes Stores

Aged Mahogany Distress ink on the edges

Well I hope you all like this new release and also managed to get the recent All Dressed Up Stamps freebie on Kit and Clowder . Have a great week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Baby Elly's Birthday

Good morning everyone its Wednesday so the launch of another weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs .Our theme for all of our July challenges is Anything Goes.
We have one great sponsor

Sasayaki Glitter  

Prize - 1 non-colored image

For my Design Team card I used an adorable stamp called Baby Elly's Birthday

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Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Baby Elly's Birthday from Sasayaki Glitter painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Spot papers are all from some 12x12 sheets I bought last year in Michael's in Florida they are their own make Recollections

Die is Marianne Circle leaf and flower die

Square stitched dies

Letter banner dies I bought from eBay

The number one is a digi image from Pinterest

Silver and  white twine is also from Michael's

Wink of Stella on the stamp

Well I hope you can enter the challenge this week its a lot easier when its Anything Goes to add a project. Have a great week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

Butterfly Wings

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 July Design Team card I used a lovely stamp called Butterfly Wings 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 Butterfly Wings from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Fika Soders Hojder

Heart border is from a Pion Border sheet My Precious Daughter I bought both of these when Live and  Love Crafts was closing and I still miss that shop.

Spellbinder Squares and  Fleur De Lis dies

Lace and  Lace Butterflies are from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon specials Facebook shop

Sentiment is from a Crafters Companion set

Purple flower Cabochon I think was from Michael's in Florida but not certain

Well I hope you can take a look at our challenge and  maybe enter i know a lot of you picked up the freebie from Kit and  Clowder so this would be a good chance to use it . Sadly I've not been around much for comments but my husbands hospital treatment is taking up a lot of my time at the moment. I'm just about keeping my head above water at present with my Design Team crafting

Hope you have all had a great weekend. Love Carole x
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I'm entering this into Crafteeze June Summer Challenge

Sweet Sugar

Good morning to all my friends and  followers its Wednesday and  the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs our theme for all our challenges in July is Anything Goes .
Our sponsor this week is

Odd Ball Art Co by Lizzy Love  

Prize - winner choice of 3 digi images

The team were given an image called Creepy/Sweet Sugar to use I used the sweet one for this card

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Sweet Sugar from Oddball Art painted with Copic Pens

Black gloss card and  Heart Embossed card are both from Jelly Bean crafts

Stitched heart die from eBay

Black crisp ribbon from Whitby Crafts

Black ribbon Boyes Stores

Sparkly hearts my box

With love sentiment is a Spellbinder die

Black hearts I cut from a heart corner die I have

I decided to use Copic pens for a change as I wanted to use a very white card and  unfortunately most of the good quality watercolour stamping card is always off white.

Well l hope you can enter the challenge this week its so easy with Anything Goes.

Enjoy the football semi final  this evening everyone lets hope they make it to the final. We've been invited to our friends to watch it on their new 55 inch telly now that's a big screen. Enjoy your week .   Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Oddball Art July Challenge

Summertime and The Living is Easy

Good afternoon to all my friends and followers my post today is to alert you to a great give away by All Dressed Up Stamps on Kit and Clowder. Some of you may be aware that Kit and Clowder have 20 days of giveaways to celebrate reaching 20,000 followers that's a lot of followers.
Our giveaway is to celebrate Day 8 is Summertime and  here it is.

If you want a copy of this stamp this is the link to the Kit and Clowder Giveaway Event page there are also lots of other great giveaways if you've not been on the page already'

For the event the Design Team have been making cards using this stamp and  this is mine..

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Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card 

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

Papers are Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour Grandma's old Porcelain

Blue card isTim Holtz

Stitched square dies

Frame die I bought on ebay

Border die is Memory Box Summer border

Butterfies are from a Dutch Doobadoo Paper Art sheet
The small butterflies I cut from a butterfly corner die I have
Pearl string from The Hobby House
Sentiment I made on the computer
Viva pearl pen

I hope you can all pop over and  grab this great freebie. There will be more of our Design Teams inspiration on the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook page and  Kit and  Clowder over the next couple of days. There are some fabulous designs. There are a lot of gorgeous beach scenes and I agree it does scream beach so to put a different slant on it I used mine to make a Summer garden scene . Its just right now though given the fabulous weather we are all enjoying in the UK.

Have a great day everyone. Love and  hugs Carole x

I Love Camping

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers it's Wednesday and  the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs. Our theme for all of our July challenges is Anything Goes.

Our sponsors this week are

The PaperShelter 

Prize - winner choice of 3 digi images

and 

Scrap N' Dipity:

Scrapndipity   

Prize - winner choice of 3 digi images

We got a lovely set from The Paper Shelter for all the team to use. I would have normally gone for the digital stamp but I really liked the colours on the pre- coloured topper and  matching papers so for a change no colouring this time..

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card

Paper and Topper I love Camping from The Paper Shelter

Card is Tim Holtz 

Die is from eBay

Happy Camper Ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons it was perfect with this design

Sun die

Card Candi Craftwork Cards

The plastic flower I found in my box but its a perfect match for those flowers on the paper I thinkit came attached to a clothing tag 

Well I hope you can enter the challenge its so easy with Anything Goes. I've been enjoying this lovely weather and spending lots of time in the garden I spent a lot of time this year getting it right and now sitting back and enjoying my efforts usually with a nice glass of G&T perfect. . Enjoy the rest of the week everyone I'm hoping this glorious weather lasts all Summer. Love and Hugs Carole x

 

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