Chibi Snowman

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers its Wednesday and  the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs Our theme for this week is Get Ready for Christmas.

Our sponsor for our challenge this week is

Bugaboo Stamps   

Prize - choice of 4 digi images

For my design team card I used a lovely stamp called Chibi Snowman

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Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card

Stamp is Chibi Snowman from Bugaboo Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Square stitched die

Papers are Dovecraft Little Red Robin from Printable Heaven

Frosted berries from ebay

Wooden Holly leaf from The Works

Merry Christmas sentiment Hobbycraft

Button is Dovecraft Little Robin from my local Garden Centre 

Some Glamour Dust on the berries on the stamp

Well I hope you can join us again this week. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone. Love and  hugs Carole x 

Season to Sparkle

Good evening everyone I hope you are all well and are having a great week. My post this evening is to showcase the November 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

Mistletoe & Kisses

Monster Dino

Season to Sparkle

Snowy Day

For my Deign Team card i used the fabulous Season to Sparkle and  as i have a friend with a 60th birthday soon I thought this was the perfect stamp to use.

Close Up

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Stamp is a Season to Sparkle from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Celebration- Flower Giveaway from The Mad Scrapper
Stitched Rectangle die is Lawn Fawn
Star Frame Die
Organza flower trim was from Boyes Stores
Large Organza flower from Michael's in Florida
Ribbon my box
Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Time To Party Stamp set stamped and  heat embossed in Gold
Number die was free in a magazine
Some white Frantage on the background
 Clear Wink of Stella on her tiara and  belt

I hope you can take a look at these new stamps they are all gorgeous Enjoy the rest of the week everyone. Sorry I've not been around bet we have been away on a short break to our Son's and then to the Peak District the weather was awful but the hotel made up for that. So I'll be catching up you all soon. Love and  hugs Carole x

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Little Angel

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 November Design Team project I made a Christmas Wall Hanging. I used a lovely stamp called Little Angel 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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Wall Hanging Recipe

Bell shapes are made using a Dutch Doobadoo Stencil from Buddly Crafts

Stamp is All Dressed up Stamps Little Angel painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Silver Mirra card Jelly Bean crafts

Paper is Maja Design A Gift For You - My Dear Friend from The Mad Scrapper

Stitched circle die 

Joycraft Winter wishes Circle Star die

Bell die is Joycraft from Crafts U Love 

Silver Mesh ribbon and silver bells Whitby Crafts

Large Bark star Ross Papercraft 

Merry Christmas sentiment from the Maja paper 

I hope you can take a look at the challenge this time . Have a lovely week everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Crafteeze Challenge Anything but a Card

Isabella

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers its Wednesday and  the launch of a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs Our theme for this week is Give Thanks or Fall Colours

Our sponsor for our challenge this week is

Sparkle N Sprinkle

Prize - $15 gift certificate to store

For my Design Team card I used a lovely Art Deco image called Isabella

Close up

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank card

Papers are from a V&A Docrafts pad I've had for a very long time

Teal card is Tim Holtz 

Stamp is Isabella from Sparkle N'Sprinkle painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Square stitched dies

Marianne Circle leaf and  flower die

Magnolia Do Hickey swirl and  leaf die

With love sentiment is trimmed but is a Spellbinder die

Large Flower is Prima and I bought it in Florida ages ago.

Small Orange flowers are also from Florida from Michael's

 Fabric flowers are from Boyes Stores

Cameo is from my box I think it came from Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls my box

Gold viva pearl pen on her necklace dress trim and hat flower

I hope you can enter the challenge this week we are having a tremendous response to our Anything Goes challenge this month which is great.

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone. I'll be back tomorrow with another post 

Love and  hugs Carole x

Anything Goes - Marvellous

Good morning to all my friends and followers and a special welcome to my two new followers Tammi and  Pops  I hope you can visit me often It was great to get two new followers as blogger does seem out of favour just now.
Well its Wednesday and the beginning of the month so its the launch of our very popular Anything Goes challenge over at Crafting by Designs

Our sponsor for this months challenge is

MHK Designs  

Prize - choice of 3 digi images

The Design Team all used the same stamp set called Marvellous for our Design Team projects this month and  this is mine I'm always amazed at the different designs everyone comes up with using the same stamp set.

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Card Recipe

6x6 blank card

Stamp is from MHK  Marvellous stamp set painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Frilly edge die I bought from eBay

Square stitched die

Sentiment is from the stamp set

Green metal square was from my box no idea when or where I got it.but I did have two !!

Twine is from Walmart in Florida

Small hearts are from a Joycraft die 

Some Clear Wink of Stella on the flowers

Pink card is Tim Holtz

Well I hope everyone is having a good week and can find time to enter our challenge this month. Before I go I'm leaving an apology I'm way behind with blog commenting its been a hectic week but as always I will eventually get round to seeing your lovely blogs  

Love and  hugs Carole x

Stitched Snowflake

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers today I'm sharing something a bit different last week at Craft Group  we did these Stitched Snowflake cards. we have done stitched cards  before but not for a long time and  I really enjoyed doing it at class and also finishing it at home so relaxing. I made it into a card using the card design from Craft Group . Thank you Carol for the loan of the lovely snowflake embossing folder..

We were given two snowflake designs so I might have a go at the other one sometime .

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card 

Form -A-Lines Stitching cards Snowflake 2-Christmas 2 Pattern

DMC Bronze Metallic thread 

Cream card

Bronze Mirra card 

Stitched square dies

Merry Christmas die came free in this months Papercraft Essentials Magazine

Pearls my box.

Embossing Folder is Crafter's Companion Nordic Christmas Frosty Morning 

Sadly the metallic thread and  Mirra card have not shown that well in the photo its much more sparkly than the photo shows.

Well I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend I'm planning to do some more work on the last curtain at some point and some more Christmas shopping..

Finally I thought you would all like to see Miles in his Pumpkin Halloween outfit he's so cute especially that Hat !!. 

Love and  hugs Carole x