Sugar

Good morning everyone I hope you are all well. As its that Wednesday again its a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs its or very popular month long Anything Goes Challenge

Our Sponsor this time is

Prize - choice of 3 single digi images

I decided on a lovely puppy image for my Design Team card called Sugar he's so cute

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Sugar from Angie's Digital stamps painted with Copic and Promarker pens

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle die

Paper is from my scrap box 

Fluffy trim is from Boyes Stores

Sentiment tag is Lili of the Valley

Dog button from Crafty Ribbons

Wooden bone was painted with a Copic pen to make dark grey it was from Whitby Crafts

Twine 

Well I hope that you all are having a great week and  can enter the challenge its always so popular Love and  hugs Carole x

80th Birthday

Happy Monday everyone I hope you have all had a great weekend. The card I'm sharing today is a one I made a while ago for a commission. My friend Val asked for a male 80th with a garden theme as the man loves his garden. I didn't want to post it earlier but as the birthday was yesterday I'm sharing it with you now. I bought the lovely Potting Shed stamp from Lili of the Valley which I thought was just perfect.

Close up of the Stamp

The Box

Card and  Box Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Kraft Card is from Crafters Companion 

Papers are from a discontinued Lili of hte Valley Pad Enchantment

Stamp is The Potting Shed from Lili of The Valley painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Seed Packet Stamp is Docrafts 

Willow green Hessian is from Ross Papercraft Show

Red Ribbon my stash

Jute String from Whitby Crafts

Lawm Fawn Stitched Rectangle die

Slider die is Whimsy stamps I won this is a candy draw from Bev Rochester

Garden Charms are from my stash

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Vertical Sentiments

The 80 tiles are from a local Garden Centre might be Docrafts

The Box is from Stella Crafts

The Box sentiment I made on the computer

Cork dots are from Michael's in Florida

Quite a lot of stuff on this one but I enjoyed making it its always a bit of a challenge doing the male stuff but at least I started with a theme.

Well I hope you all have a great week.I'm going to Liverpool with my Golden Girl Friends tomorrow for three days We are gong to Chester on Wednesday to meet with another of our friends who now lives in the Wirral. I've left hubby a list of possible jobs!! to keep him busy while I'm away and some nice meals in the freezer!!

Not likely to do much blogging or facebook for the next few days the gossiping and wine will get in the way..So will catch up with you all on Friday. Love and  hugs Carole x

Foxy Mushrooms

Good morning everyone and  a Happy Saturday. This morning I'm sharing another of the samples I made recently for Crafty Ribbons using the new Gnome Ribbons-Mushrooms Thes are great ribbons such fun designs

 For a change I used a topper that I spotted when I was looking for some matching papers,

Card Recipe

6x6 Kraft card with the corners rounded

Gnome Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

The topper and  mushroom papers are from an old Docrafts pack called Woodland Wishes

Die is MFT Die- namics stitched inside outside rounded square

Green card is Tim Holtz

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Postmark Sentiment no longer on the website

I made the small tags

Mushroom shapes fussy cut

Inside outside corner rounder

Well I hope you all enjoy a great weekend and have some great things planned Love and  hugs Carole x

We Are Celebrating

Good afternoon everyone my post today is to make you aware of a celebration freebie being given away by All Dressed Up Stamps to celebrate reaching 3000 followers on the Facebook page If you are not already a member then it is a lovely Facebook page to join the members post some amazing cards and tips. To get your free stamp then you need to pop over to the All Dressed up Stamps Challenge Blog. There are some fabulous cards as well from the Design Team to inspire you.

This is my Design Team Card using the free stamp.

Card Recipe

Shaped card is Craftwork Cards

Papers are Maja Design Summer Basics from Live and  Love Crafts

Stamp is All Dressed Up Stamps 3000 painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Sparkle Centres are from Dawn To Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft Show

Ruffled Lace with Diamante Trim is from Hobby Lobby Florida

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Sentiment Tags

Organza Tassel charm from Michael's Florida

Diamante Trim and gems my stash .

Well I hope you all enjoy this free stamp and can pop over to the blog to take a look at the Design Team cards. Have a great weekend everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

From One Chick To Another

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers Its that Wednesday again so another weekly challenge over at Crafting by Designs Our theme this week is Farm Life so you can get out all those cows and ducks and sheep stamps or images you didn't know what to do with !!

We have a great Sponsor

The Stamping Boutique

Prize - choice of 3 single digi images

For my Design team card I used a stamp called Farm Chick .

Card Recipe

6x6 scalloped edge blank card Craftwork Cards

Papers are from a Trimcraft pad Riverbank Revels 

Stamp is Farm Chick from The Stamping Boutique I reversed one of the images and printed them both onto the patterned paper.

Chicken wire mask art is Dutch Doobadoo from Noor Designs 

Love you Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Postmarks sorry but I can no longer see them on the web page such a shame they are so usefiul

The One Chick To Another sentiment I made on the computer

Red gingham ribbon from my stash might be Boyes Stores

Tim Holtz Distress ink Hickory Smoke

I hope everyone is having a good week and  finds time to pop over and enter this weeks challenge. Thank you everyone for the lovely comments you have left on my recent posts so kind such lovely Blog friends. 

Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Crafty Sentiments Challenge Animals

Cup Cakes and Bunting

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. Today I'm sharing something a bit different and something I've never made before.
 When my Daughter -in Law was pregnant with Miles she attended an NCT class and made friends with a lovely group of ladies who were all expecting around the same time. The babies have all turned one just recently and  yesterday they held a joint birthday for all eight children in The Cafe in Didsbury Park .
I was asked if I could make some Cup Cake Toppers and  Bunting with pictures of the babies on. Something they had seen advertised. So a new craft talent has emerged I'm now officially a Bunting and  Cup Cake Topper maker !!! I thought you might enjoy seeing them even if its just to admire the lovely babies.

Cup Cake Topper Cake

The Bunting

I used scraps of paper and Tim Holtz card for the hats and the Pom Poms and  Ribbon are from Boyes Stores. Straws from Poundland.  I needed 8 got 250 in the pack !! The  pegs and heart trim are from my stash. I made the templates from white card. 

Finally a photo of the babies 

Well I hope you are having a good weekend and  like my new craft talent and this fun post love and  hugs Carole x

Fairy Swing

Good evening everyone I know this is  strange time to post but I wanted you to be aware of a fabulous event going on over on the Kit and Clowder Facebook Page this weekend They are having a birthday celebration after achieving 10,000 followers with lots of prizes freebies and  fun.
All Dressed Up Stamps are giving a free Digi stamp over the weekend to support the event.The link above  will take you to all the fun.just follow the Kit and  Clowder link

The Design Team have been given a sneak preview of the gorgeous freebie All Dressed Up Stamps are giving Fairy Swing and  this is my Design Team card.

Close up of the Freebie Digi Stamp 

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card 

White Card is Tim Holtz

Lili of the Valley Country Lady papers now discontinued

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

Lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington

Organza trim from Walmart in Florida

Flowers are mainly Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace Butterfly is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook page

The wooden sentiments are from The Works 

Pearl Hearts and  Pearl String Ross Paper craft Show

Well the event is runnig all weekend 23/24 the July so I hope that you can try and  pop over but if you are doing stuff or away you can access the events in the pinned posts for the nest week.  Enjoy and please make time to get this great stamp she's gorgeous. Have a great weekend everyone Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Noor Design Challenge 20 Anything Goes Add Chipboard

Pink and Girly

Good morning to all my friends and  followers today sees the launch of a new weekly challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge and the challenge theme this week is Pink and Girly.
We have a fab prize this week aren't they lovely ribbons.

jam pot ribbons

For my Design Team card I decided to use one of the recently released Lili of  The Valley Seasons Girl Stamps Summer I loved painting her.

Close up of the stamp

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Papers are Maja Design Summer Basics from Live and  Love Crafts

White card is Tim Holtz

Stamp is Lili of the Valley Summer painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Background lace paper overlay is by Heidi Swapp from Joann's in Florida

Lace is from Crafty Ribbons

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

The pink bead trim is a charm from Michael's in Florida

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley sadly I can no longer see them on the site maybe they will bring them out as a Digi !!

Wink of Stella on the flowers dress and  butterflies

Well I hope you all enjoy the rest of the week and you find time to enter the challenge. Everyone seems to love making pink and  girly  Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into In the Pink Challenge Get out your Rubber

F

New Friends

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers as its that Wednesday I'm here to launch a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs and  today its our very popular challenge Get Ready For Christmas I hope you've all been playing along since April and are building up  a nice selection of Christmas cards..
Our sponsor this week is Beccy's Place giving the winner a lovely prize.

Beccy's Place

 Prize - 3 single digi images OR 1 set

For my Design Team card I decided on the black and  white version from the New Fiends set.

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is New Friends from Beccy's Place painted with Copic and  Promarker Pens. The fur is sprinkled with Twinklets

Papers are from Lili of the Valley now discontinued

Kraft Card is Crafters companion

Lace was from a gift shop in Whitby

Pom Pom Trim Michael's in Florida

Tree dies are Marianne and  Joycraft all run through a Die'sire dots embossing flolde

Wooden snowflakes my stash

Spellbinder Stately Circles die and  Circle die

Sentiments are Lili of the Valley Christmas Wishes Set

The other sentiment was from a stamp set I was given sorry but it had lost its packet when it arrived so not sure of the make!!

I hope everyone is having a great week and  find time to make a Christmas Cardd to enter into our challenge  Love and  hugs Carole x

The Gnome Potting Shed

Good morning everyone and Happy Monday Today I'm sharing another of the samples I made recently for Crafty Ribbons using the new Gnome and More Collection of Ribbons The ribbons are all such fun to work with so I  had a play and  came up with this Door Hanging called Potting Shed

Hung on the Door 

Door Hanger Recipe

MDF door hanger The MDF man at  York Craft show

The Tree Paper was from Do crafts free in a magazine

I made the Potting Shed  using Maja Design papers from The Summer Basics pad from Live and  Love Crafts

The gnomes in the windows are cut from the Gnome Ribbon 

Gnome Ribbons are all from Crafty Ribbons

Fence die is from Crafty Sentiments Designs

Die cut letters are a Marianne alphabet die from Noor Designs

Garden tool charms,twine and  heart buttons from my stash

Well I hope everyone has had a great weekend enjoy the week Love and  hugs Carole x

Flowers and Lace

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers as its that Wednesday its the launch of a new Challenge over at Crating By Designs and our theme this week is Flowers and Lace a perfect theme for me this week.
We have one sponsor giving a fab prize

Lacy Sunshine

Prize - choice of 3 single digi images

For my Design Team card I  decided on an image called Rory's Prom. Lacy Sunshine have some gorgeous images and  its hard to single one out. If you pop over to the Challenge page you will see some more gorgeous images that the Design Team have used.

Close up of the Stamp
 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Rory's Prom from Lacy Sunshine painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Lili of the Valley a discontinued pad and  the Pink paper is Nitwit free recently in a magazine.

Dies are Joy craft Border Die and  matching Frame and  Corner die

Small Sentiment die is Spellbinder. Opulent ovals

Gorgeous large Lace Applique is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials Facebook page.

Lace bow cut from lace trim I think I got from Whitby Crafts.

Pearl Trim and Pearl Flowers my stash

Sentiment made on the computer.

Edges inked with Ground Expresso Distress Ink

Well I hope you are all having a good week and can pop over and  enter in our Challenge this week. I've got one more day of School Admission Appeals  on Friday then I'm hopefully finished for a while. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into In the Pink Challenge All or Nothing mine is definitely All Fussy and Fancy

White on White

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers .This morning I'm sharing a sample card I made for my craft group friends to make a couple of weeks ago.
Its a white on white design which I always think look very classy. The design is similar to one I saw on Pam Simpson's blog a while ago and  as I had the embossing folder which came free in a magazine decided to make this card. Thank you Pam for the inspiration it was perfect for our ladies who have varying abilities. They really enjoyed making it.

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Smooth white card from Ross Papercraft Show

Embossing folder free in a magazine

Flower dies are Magnolia Do Hickey Doily Flowers and  Joy craft Square Flowers

Ivy  is Marianne Bird and Ivy die

  Joycraft.Vintsge florishes leaf die

Heart stick pins and pearls from my stash

Sentiment die was from a magazine

Well I hope that you are all well and  have some nice things planned for the weekend. For me its a bit of relaxation, crafting and catching up on your lovely Blogs I've have been doing School Admission Appeals all week and  they have been very challenging I forget what its like to get up and  go out early every day how I ever worked full time I  never know. Retirement certainly slows your pace. I've got two and a half days still next week then finished for this school year.

Enjoy whatever you are doing Love and  hugs Carole x

Things With Wings

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers today sees the launch of a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Our theme this week is Things With Wings.
We have a great prize for the winner

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For my Design Team card I used a lovely stamp called Bumble Bee from Lili of the Valley sadly now retired and  the newly released Gnome Ribbon - Bees from Crafty Ribbons

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Papers are from a Lili of the Valley pad no longer available

Stamp is Bumble Bee from Lili of the Valley painted with Copic and  Promarker pens

Ribbon is Gnome Ribbon- Bees Lace is from Crafty Ribbons Chantilly Cotton Lace - Amour

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

Spellbinder Scalloped Circle die

Sentiment is from a Whimsy stamp set

Beehive button from my stash

Small sparkle hearts from a Chinese Supermarket when I was in Spain

Well I hope you are all well and enjoying the week. This is a great challenge so hope you can pop over and  enter . Love and  hugs Carole x

Night Houses Box

Good morning to everyone and  Happy Tuesday. Today I'm sharing one of the samples I've made recently using the new release ribbons from Crafty Ribbons They are all lovely and  such fun to work with I'll be sharing a few more samples over the next couple of weeks.

I decided to make a box with this ribbon I just love the colours on it .This ribbon is called Night Houses

Box Recipe

Small Heart box I bought 6 on Ebay

Ribbon is Night Houses from the new Gnome Ribbon Collection and  Lace White Volcan Viscose Lace all from the Crafty Ribbons Store

Stamp is Home Sweet Home from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Copic and  Promarker pens

Twine and  butterfly charm are from my craft stash

Pearl string The Hobby House

If you love ribbon you definitely need to take a look at this new release.

Well I am doing school admission appeals all this week so quite a busy week. I hope you all have some nice things planned. If not keep crafting.  Love and  hugs Carole x

Dreaming of Summer

Good evening to all my wonderful friends and followers This evening sees the launch of a new Anything Goes Challenge over at All Dresssed Up Challenge Blog as always you must use an All Dressed up image.  If you want to join in and don't have an image then there are some great freebies to be found on the blog page,

You could win your personal choice of 3 All Dressed Up digi images, be selected as one of the Top 3 or be chosen as a guest Designer for the next Challenge.

For my Design Team card I used the lovely Dreaming of Summer stamp at the time it seemed like a good idea but given our terrible summer maybe not but we can all hope and dream !!

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Image is Dreaming of Summer from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Fika Shall we have Coffee, Flowers on the table and The Height of the South

from Live and  Love Crafts

Joycraft Flower edge die cut twice and overlayed

Tonic Squares die

Frame is Wycinanka Sweet Dreams 3 from Live and  Love Crafts

Purple Doily is from Michael's in Florida

Flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and  Love Crafts

Small ribbon spray from my stash

Butterfly Lace is from Brenda's Lace and  Ribbon Specials facebook shop

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley Fairy Sentiment Set

 Well I hope you are having a fab weekend even though its definitely not much like Summer here you just have to make the best of it. I've done a bit of shopping today and  I bought some hanging baskets yesterday so a bit of gardening tomorrow if its dry . I'm then going to do some more of the wedding stationery I'm doing for September..

I hope you can enter the challenge the All Dressed up Images are all so gorgeous Love and  hugs Carole x

I'm entering this into Live and Love Crafts Challenge Sprinkles of Summer and Noor Designs Anything Goes with Chipboard