Cruella de Vil

Good morning to my lovely followers and friends. Today is the launch of another weekly challenge at Crafting by Designs the theme for this week is Inspired by a Movie  Our sponsor this week is

 

 AliciaBel

Prize - winner's choice of 3 single digis images

 

 

This is a Spanish Company based in Valencia and they have great themed and fun images something a bit different. As it was inspired by a movie I picked Cruella de Vil so my card is based on 101 Dalmations. She's just fab and I loved finding all the right embellishments..

 

 

 

 

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card Craftwork Cards

Red Mirra card my stash

Dalmation spot paper and photos of the pups from the internet.

Image Cruella De Vil from AliciaBel painted with Promarker and Copic pens sprinkled with Glamour Dust

Spot ribbon from a haberdashery shop in Northallerton

Film strip I found in an very old packet of photos from the pre digital days !! Showing my age now .

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

Picture Wheel Die Tim Holtz

White Alphabet letters and numbers

Candi Craftwork Cards

 

Well I hope you enjoyed my movie theme card and if you have a favourite movie then pop over and  enter your card. I always love doing these the research is great fun .

 

Have a great week hugs Carole x

 

 

 



Some Exciting News

Good morning everyone I hope that you are all well. This is a very short post to announce some good news.
Last week I was asked by the lovely people at Crafty Ribbons to join their DT and  I am delighted to say I have accepted . As I'm away at present I won't be starting the challenges till the beginning of March . I am very excited as the store has some exquisite ribbons available..Thank you so much Marianne for telling me about the DT call.
If you want to take a look then they have a great Challenge starting today. This is the link Crafty Ribbons Challenge Anything But a Card  I'm so proud of my DT badge and  really looking forward to getting started in March.



Hope you are all well and  can find time to look at Crafty Ribbons Challenge hugs Carole x

Sick Little Bear

Good morning to all my lovely friends and Blog followers. and also a warm welcome to anyone who have visited from Crafting by Designs. Today sees the launch of Crafting by Designs Challenge Get Well/Under the Weather Our sponsor this week is

 

 

 Meljen

Prize: 4 single non-colored images

 

They are giving a very generous prize with 4 single images. They have some gorgeous stamps in the shop and it was hard to chose one finally I decided to use Sick Little Bear he is just so so cute.

 

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card Craftwork Cards

Papers LOTV Bonnets and  Bowties

Kraft Card Crafters Companion

Image Sick Little Bear Meljen's Designs painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Lace and ribbon from my stash

Twine/button flower Michaels Florida

Small medicine bottle from Whitby Crafts then filled with pink seed beads

Put your feet up sentiment LOTV Greetings Postmarks

Love is sentiment is a Lillibet sentiment stamp set from Trim craft

Flowers and  twine from my stash might be WOC

Sewing machine and white topstitch thread

 

I hope you can pop over and take a look at this challenge it runs for one week. Get well cards are always useful to have in reserve. Enjoy the rest of the week whatever you plan but I hope it includes some nice things and craft time. Hugs Carole x

 



80th Birthday Card and Box

Good morning to all my lovely followers and  friends and  a special welcome this cold January morning to my two new followers Murielle and  Kate. I'm so  glad you are following my Blog and  I hope you visit often and enjoy my posts.
My card today is a commission I have just made for one of my friends. Her Aunt is 80 very soon and asked for a special card for her. I decided to use dies on this card rather than my normal painted image so the main focus of my card is Spellbinder Opulent Oval dies..

Card and  Box Recipe

8x8 card Craftwork cards

White card Tim Holtz

Peach card my stash

Pearl flower trim The Hobby House

Spellbinder Opulent Oval die

Scalloped lace Whitby Crafts

Resin frame Melissa Francis petite frames Live and  Love Crafts

Pearl Hearts Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft show

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash

Sentiments on die made on my computer

80 in resin frame from a Pion Cut out sheet

Box Stella Crafts

I apologies now for the photos its been so dark here and the colours look like they aren't all the same but in fact they are .

This will be my last post for a little while. I'm going away on Monday on a five week holiday to New Zealand and the Cook Islands its a holiday of a lifetime and one from our retirement bucket list of things to do. We are looking forward to some warmer weather but not the long flight .

I've got some posts scheduled for when I'm away and will try to keep up with all your gorgeous blogs if I can . . I'm just finishing all the packing a huge task for 5 weeks. 

I hope you all keep well and warm while I'm away and also have a great weekend. 

Thank you all so much for all the great comments on my Snowman card you are all so kind.Hugs Carole x

Country Snowman

Good morning to all my friends and brilliant followers.Well I know what you are thinking a Snowman card when Christmas is over well yes it is. This is this weeks theme at the Crafting by Designs Challenge Snowmen I do hope you enjoy the challenge we have two great sponsors.

 Sami Stamps

Prize - $12.00 credit to the store

and
Stitchy Bear

Prize - choice of 3 digi images up to $10

 

I  decided on an image from Stitchy Bear called Country Snowman. I went for a more CAS design stamping the background card and fussy cutting the image. Not sure I'll ever be able to do true CAS style !!

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

White Tim Holtz card

Silver mirra card

Tree stamp Docrafts several years ago heat embossed with silver embossing powder

Stamp Country Snowman coloured in Promarker pens and  fussy cut

Shabby White Frantage

LOTV sentiments

Narrow tinsel tied with ribbon from my stash

Wooden snowflakes Whitby Crafts

Tim Holtz paper distress tool

 

The more I've thought about this theme I suppose its OK because if we get snow in January we would build snowmen well not me personally !!

 

If you love snowmen then this is just the challenge for you hope you can enter something. Hugs Carole x

 

 

 



70th Birthday Card

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope that you are all well and  keeping warm I just hate the winter weather I'm definitely a sunshine girl.
On  New Years Day it was my friend Lyn's 7oth birthday and this is the card I gave her. She lives part of the time in Malta and I gave her the card before Christmas to take back with her. I spoke to her today on the phone and it reminded me I hadn't put it on my blog. She did say the weather was lovely in Malta so I was a bit jealous.
My card is using a Lili of the Valley stamp Time Flies one of my favourites .

Card Recipe

7x7 card

Papers LOTV Timeless Victorian

Image Time Flies LOTV painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Organza rose ribbon Boyes stores other lace from my stash

Sentiments LOTV Pretty Grungy Good Times

Flowers WOC and my stash

Small metal frame Michaels Florida

Butterfly die Joy Crafts

Pearls The Range

Sewing Machine and topstitch thread

Shabby blue frontage Live and  Love Crafts

Cut out letters Pion sheet Live and  Love Crafts

 

I know that Lyn loved this card and I hope you all do as well. It was my husbands birthday yesterday and we had a lovely meal out last night at Café Lilli in Norton one of our favourite restaurants the food was great. Enjoy the weekend whatever you are planning and  I hope you do some nice things .

I also want to say thank you for all the lovely comments you have left on my recent posts I say this every time but you really are such special kind people .Hugs Carole x

I'm entering this in Graphit markers Shiney and New Challenge my shiny and new things are this new Joy Craft butterfly border and the small metal frame I've used both for the first time. I also think the gorgeous bead flowers would cover the shiny aspect, A Gem of a Challenge Something New  Joy Craft butterfly border and small metal frame. Winter Wonderland Challenge things with Wings and Dragonfly Dreams Challenge Favourite colour and  mine is purple/lavender.

 

 



 

Emma and the cake

Good morning everyone I hope you are all having a great week and getting back to normal after the holidays.
Today sees the launch of Crafting by Designs Anything Goes Challenge we have two sponsors

Fred She Said

Prize: $10 gift certificate to the store

Smeared Ink

Prize: 15 credit to store

For my DT card I decided on Emma and the cake from Fred She Said Designs hope you like her.

 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

Papers LOTV Shabby Shack

Core donations card

Image Fred She Said Designs Emma and the Cake painted with Promarker and Copic pens image sprinkled with glamour dust and Shabby Blue Frantage.

Spellbinder stately circles and circle dies

La La land heart banner

Square doily

Sentiment from LOTV cake glorious cake stamp set

Ribbon and  twine from my stash

Brad I think do crafts several years ago

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearl string Boyes Stores

 



I wasn't so keen on my face colouring because the stamp has three black dots on the cheeks and I think it makes it looks a bit smudged when its not .

 

I hope some of you might find time to enter a card into this challenge which runs till the 25th January. Good luck if  enter something. Hugs Carole x



 

Christmas Festive Lantern

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers. Firstly I want to wish you all A Very Happy, Healthy and  Peaceful 2105. I'm slowly getting back to normal after all the holiday visitors. My card today is the last Christmas card I made and the one I made to give to my Husband. Its a LOTV image called Festive Lantern that I bought at the GNPE back in October.

 

Card Recipe

7x7 blank card

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Red paper Lili of the Valley Twas the Night paper pad

Blue scene paper just seen is from a Pion sheet

Stamp LOTV Festive Lantern painted with Inktense pencils and sprinkled with Shabby White Frantage

Memory box Country Landscape die

Marianne tree die

Spellbinder circle die

Small white trees cut from some die cuts I bought on ebay last year

Sentiments LOTV embossed with WOW embossing powder

White Pom Pom trim and twine from my stash

White gesso on background and trees

Glamour Dust and Twinklets

Husband sentiment cut from a Pion cut out sheet

Small gold stars from a shop in the Grassmarket Edinburgh

 

 

I hope you have all survived the holidays and are now getting back to some crafting. I'm catching up with some design team stuff and have a couple of commissions to do in the next two weeks. I am also behind with comments so apologies to everyone but hope to get caught up very soon with all your gorgeous blogs.

 I 'm now going to finish packing up the last of the Christmas decorations and then some crafting if I get time. The house looks so bare and  I always hate putting the tree out for the recycling. 

Before I go I wanted to mention that I was delighted to get a top three in the Graphit markers challenge with my lavender Aurora Wings Icy Snow Queen card .

Enjoy the rest of the weekend hugs Carole x



 

I'm entering this into Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog Anything Goes 

 

 



 

Christmas a Time for Love

Good afternoon to all my great followers and friends. Today I'm posting the Christmas card I made for my Son and  Daughter in Law I only gave them it on Christmas Day so couldn't post it before they had seen it.
I used the LOTV stamp Christmas Kisses. Sorry the photo is a bit dark it was a rubbish day when I photographed it.

 

Card Recipe

7x7 card

Papers LOTV Twas the Night

Stamp LOTV Christmas Kisses painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Kraft card Crafters Companion

Hessian Chatsworth Christmas market

Lace my stash

Trees Marianne die covered in Wow embossing powder and pearl string

Fence die Crafty Sentiments Designs snow is made with Wow puff white embossing powder

Spellbinders floral oval and  scalloped circle dies

Sentiment LOTV

Burgundy organza rose ribbon Boyes Stores.

Shabby white Frantage around the image and sentiment

 

 

 I hope that you are all enjoying the Christmas holidays and  getting some time now before New Year to relax. My friend Val is arriving for New Year today so going shortly to pick her up from the train. Thankfully the East Coast trains seem to have got sorted
Enjoy New Year whatever you have planned. Also a big thank you for the wonderful comments you have all left on my Wedding post. Hugs Carole x



Happy Christmas and a Winter Wedding

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers. I hope that you have all enjoyed a very Happy Christmas and Santa brought you some lovely surprises.
My post today is a bit photo heavy but I thought I would do a wedding theme so I'm showing you the Wedding Stationery I made for the wedding ,the Wedding Card I gave to the Bride and Groom and finally a photo of Rosie and Scott as they arrived at Durham Castle. Those of you who have been following my Blog all year will know I have been making this stationery for several months.

Wedding Invitation

Evening Invitation

Order of Service

Wedding Stationery Recipe

Hammered Cream Card Paper Craft Washington

 Bazzill dotted Swiss embossed cardstock Salt

 Berisfords ivory double sided satin ribbon Boyes Stores

Wording computer generated

Diamante Hearts ebay

 My Wedding Card for Rosie and Scott

 

 Wedding Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Papers Lili of the Valley Timeless Victorian

Stamp Lili of the Valley Bride and Groom painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils sprinkled with Shabby Pink frontage.

White flowered ribbon Whitby Crafts

Heart lace Dainty Crafts Washington

Rose white organza ribbon Boyes Stores

Pearl flowers Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearl String The Hobby House

With love for you stamp from my stash

Forever heart from a gift shop in Didsbury

Pink twine docrafts

Love Charm Dawn to Dusk Crafts Ross paper craft Show

Sewing Machine and white topstitch thread

Heart punch and computer generated sentiment

 

 

 

Rosie and Scott arriving at Durham Castle



We had a beautiful day on Monday at the wedding the weather was kind to them Rosie looked so beautiful, the service and venue just amazing. . Durham Castle was so romantic we were welcomed with mulled wine and canapes followed by a Wedding Breakfast in The Grand Hall it was superb with gorgeous food it looked so pretty in the candlelight. .
I was very proud in the church when I looked around to see everyone holding my Order of Service it made all those hours of making them so worthwhile.
I hope you have all enjoyed the Christmas holiday and are getting ready to enjoy the New Year celebrations. I  hope you enjoy my wedding post today even thought it is a bit long !! . Hugs Carole x

 

 

 



I'm entering my Wedding card into Crafty Sentiments Designs anything Goes



Cameo Boxes

Good evening to all my lovely friends and  followers. I hope you are all ready for Christmas its not long now. I'm just about there and I have to be as we are going to a Wedding on Monday not home till Tuesday afternoon. I'm icing my cake tomorrow and still some parcels to wrap.
My post today is some boxes I made for my girlfriends and I gave them to them yesterday at our Christmas lunch . We had a lovely afternoon at Wynyard  Hall and I just love making something to give to them they are very special friends.
So these are the three boxes I made they are all the same. I hope you like them my friends certainly
did.

The Box

The Lid

All Three Boxes

Box Recipe

Wooden Boxes from The Works

Tim Holtz white card

Lace Whitby Crafts

Pearl flower String Whitby Crafts and The Hobby House

Cheesecloth Ribbon from my stash

Cameos Wild Orchid Crafts (sadly they no longer stock them)

Flat back pearl string Hobby Craft.

Marianne die tinys flower one trimmed to fit.

I put a small Nottingham lace lavender bag inside each box so when it was opened the wood would give the scent of lavender.

I'll be back before Christmas and may even have a wedding photo to show you along with the photo of the Wedding Stationery. I think I'll be really proud when I see everyone in the church on Monday with my Order of Service.

Enjoy the last few days before Christmas and please take time to relax hugs Carole.x
I'm entering my boxes into Dragon fly Dreams Challenge Vintage



Pure Innocence

Good morning to all my lovely fellow crafters and  friends. Today sees the launch at Crafting by Designs of our last challenge of 2014. The theme this week is embossing. We have two sposors each giving generous prizes.

Bugaboo Stamps 

Heather Ellis etsy store  

 

Prize - winners choice of 3 digis

For my DT card I am using an image from Heather Ellis its called Pure Innocence 037. It is just so cute and I loved making this card. As the theme was embossing I used a spellbinder die that I embossed around the edges and I sprinkled the image and sentiment tags with Frantage and heat embossed.

Card Recipe

Shaped card from a friend at Craft Group

Covered with Pion Paper Wintertime in Swedish Lapland Northern Lights from Which Craft at GNPE last year. The edges are painted with Gesso and  sprinkled with Glamour Dust

White net cut to fit over the card from Boyes Stores

Spellbinder Opulent Oval die

Image Pure innocence 037 Heather Ellis painted with Copic and Promarker pens

Flowers and berries Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash

Lace is very old think it might be Boyes but not certain

Shabby White Frantage Live and Love Crafts

Sentiments LOTV Christmas Wishes  I stamped two Christmas Angel then cut into two to fit the side of the card

Bird cut from Kraft card and  painted with Promarker pen is from a Marianne die set Ivy, birdhouse and bird

Resin Angel Wild Orchid Crafts

White Gesso on flowers and sprinkled with Glamour Dust

Well I hope you can find time to pop over to the challenge and enter one of your cards. It's very close now to Christmas so I hope you are all prepared for the big day. Hugs x

I'm entering this into Graphit Markers Challenge Festive Wishes and Divas by Design Anything Goes



 

70th Birthday Card

Good evening to all my lovely followers and  friends. I hope that you are all coping in the run up to Christmas I feel its sneaked up on me this year and I've still got stuff to do. I've got the decorations up, the cards done and  posted today. So I have now just got food shopping and wrapping up to do also some cards and  commissions to finish before Christmas.
Anyway I'm sure it will all get done it does every year . So onto my card this is a 70th I made recently for a commission.  I have used the Lilacs LOTV stamp that I used recently on a retirement card in slightly different shades of lilac so I hope you like it the person I made it for certainly was very pleased.

 

 

Card Recipe

8x8 Blank Card Craftwork cards

White card Core donations cardstock

Papers Pion Studio of Memories Rose and  Ocean Roses Live and Love Crafts

LOTV stamp Lilacs painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Spellbinders floral oval die

Organza Ribbon from my stash

Lace Dainty Crafts Washington

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts , Boyes Stores and my stash

Resin frame and 70 numbers from a Pion cut out sheet both from Live and Love Crafts

Cameo from The Works

Sentiment Tags LOTV

Box from Stella Crafts

Large pearls from The Range

White topstitch thread and sewing machine

Box sentiment made on my computer

 

 

I hope that you all have a great weekend.  Hubbie is at the football tomorrow so after collecting my door wreath its some house jobs then crafting for me . I say this every time but I really appreciate all your kind comments hugs Carole x


I'm entering this in A Creative Romance Anything Goes and The ribbon Girl Anything Goes

 



 





Silver and White

Good morning to all my lovely followers and friends. Today sees the launch of a new weekly challenge at Crafting by Designs and our theme this week is use Silver and White. Our sponsor this week

Oak Pond Creations 

 

 

 

Prize - winners choice of 3 single digis from Etsy store

 

For my DT card I decided to use an image called Three Trees. Its quite a plain image but I've added a lot of sparkle so hope you like it.

 

 



 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 blank card Craftwork Cards

Image Three Trees by Oakpond Creations lightly coloured with cool grey 1and 2 Promarkers then glittered with silver glitter

Silver Mirra card and silver star vellum

White ribbon from Hobby Craft

Tree charm GNPE

Flowers Magnolia Doo Hickey die doily flowers cut in silver mirra card and the vellum which is edged with silver glitter

Silver berries and  metal corner Wild Orchid Craft

Silver lace from a haberdashery store in Ashbourne

Narrow silver ribbon and bells from my stash

Mother of pearl star buttons Whitby Crafts

Sentiments Whimsy Stamps Holiday Circle Pennants from The Hobby House stamped in silver ink

 

 

I hope you are having a good week and are enjoying doing some nice things. I know its getting close to Christmas but if you have time to pop over and take a look at the challenge that would be great, better still enter a card . I apologise for the photo very difficult getting all the sparkle perfectly !!

 

I'm entering this into Crafty Sentiments Designs Christmas Challenge 

 



Christmas Candles 2014

Good morning to all my lovely friends and  followers I hope that you are all well and enjoying the preparations for the Christmas holiday. I'm doing Ok and I say this every year now how did I ever do Christmas when I worked full time I'll never know.
For those of you who have been following my Blog for a while you may have seen this design of candle last year. I've made them for the last two Christmas's and they are always popular I think I made about eight last year for commissions. Anyway I've made these three this year to give as small thank you gifts. I hope you enjoy looking at them especially if you haven't seen them before.

 

 

Candle Recipe

Six inch ivory candles from Tesco but I have had them from Homebase they are normally about £2

Spellbinder poinsettia die

Spellbinder circle and  scalloped circle die for the base  

Wild Orchid Crafts magnolia flower, holly leaves, white, silver and red berries

Gold and  silver leaves  and some of the trimmings from Boyes Stores the rest from my stash

Sentiment stamps Christmas Grungy Messages LOTV heat embossed in gold ,silver and red.

Papers are silver snowflake vellum and the gold paper and holly paper are both Kaiser craft.

I put the candles in cellophane bags with tags and matching ribbon but it doesn't photograph well so this is before they are bagged up .

 

 

I get a lot of visitors on my Live Traffic feed Feedjit who visit my blog specifically to look at my Gold and Red candles I made last year so for those of you who come to look at the candles I hope you like this years version as well.

 

Well I'm going out shortly to do some food shopping and pick up a couple of small presents then I'm in all weekend writing Christmas cards, ( I love making them, love getting them, but hate writing them) putting up decorations ,finishing some cards and baking so that should keep me busy I'll have to think of something for my spare time it might involve a glass of wine!!

 

Thank you all for the gorgeous comments on my Aurora wings card they are all so lovely . 

 

Enjoy your weekend and  find some time to relax as it can be a hectic time Hugs Carole