Little Girls - Swing Time

Hope you all have had a good weekend, sorry I haven't been around much, I'm having a new bathroom put in and its surprising how disruptive it has been. It poured with rain most of yesterday and I wanted to craft and most of the things that were in the bathroom have been put in front of the things I wanted to craft with. Still I managed it in the end. The bathrooms almost finished so things can get back to normal. I have used my new embossing folder (I love this, think I shall be using it lots) and a lotv stamp, its one of the first that I bought and I haven't used it for ages. It reminds my of when my sisters and I were little, trying to take the dog on the swing, trouble was the seat wasn't that wide!!!

Ingredients:

image - lotv 'little girls - swing time'

embossing folder - couture creations 'tied together'

papers - first edition 'sweet owl',  bazzil card/silver mirri

ribbon - from stash

pearls (part of blog candy won from Teresa, thanks Teresa)

sentiment - craftwork cards

coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash - challenge #69 'embossing it'

In the Pink - challenge #4 'embossing'

MAWTT - 'girly, girly, prim and proper'

Simon Says Stamps - 'emboss it'

Craft Room Challenge - 'childhood memories'

Totally PaperCrafts - challenge #135 'for a child'
C.R.A.F.T. - challenge #173 'children;

Stamptacular Sunday - challenge #182 'bling it on' (I hope pearls count as bling)

Merry Christmas Penguins

Hi, hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend. I've just finished work for today, just tomorrow morning to go and then I can relax. Quite a few challenges are asking for Christmas cards at the moment and I have been looking for an excuse to use one of the other LOTV stamps that fell into my basket the other day. I found my card quite hard to photograph today  (too little light in the back garden and too much in the front). This image is quite large so I was struggling with a layout until I remembered some cards that I bought from Hunkydory.

Ingredients:

image - lotv 'merry christmas penguins'

cuttlebug embossing folder - 'polka dots'/'snow dots'

marianne poinsettia die 

spellbinders nestabilities

micro beads

bazzill bling

stickles - 'frosted lace' (+loose glitter)

coloured with promarker/flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Lili's Little Fairies - embellishment bingo (flowers, gems, glitter)

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - WOW

J & C Creations - September Challenge - 'cute christmas'

Cute Card Thursday - challenge #234 'christmas in september'

Papertake Weekly Challenge - 'things that make you go awwww'

LEJ Designs - challenge #20 'winter wishes'

Sparkles Christmas - challenge #20 'sparkle and bling'

CSAYL - challenge #28 'snowy'

Forever Friends - challenge #44 'embossing'
Willow Sketchie Challenge - (sketch or) 'things with wings'
Anything Goes - challenge #75 'early christmas'
Creative Harmony Challenge - 'almost white' (hope this isn't too white Linda)

Golden Wedding

Hi everyone, hope you are all well. I would like to say hello to my new followers and apologise for not having been around much last week. I will try and catch up with you all later. Bit of a change in the weather today, after such a fabulous weekend. I took my grandsons to Legoland on Sunday and the weather was glorious - the boys even went in the splash pools and fountains. My card today is one that I made for a friends wedding. Her colour scheme was gold so I made her card to match. This was the first time that I have tried inking the embossing folder, before embossing the card, I was quite happy with the result and it made the embossing look totally different. As I didn't have any wedding stamps when I made the card I used a LOTV die cut square mounted on gold card.

Ingredients:

image - lotv

cuttlebug embossing folders

gold card/ribbon from stash

sentiment - lotv

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

J & C Creations  August Challenge - 'something a little bit different'

One Stop Craft - challenge #198 'no floral embellishment' 

Crafters Companion - challenge #28 'gold'

Forever Friends September Challenge- 'ribbon'

Forever Friends - challenge #44 'embossing'

Allsorts Challenge - week #171 'layers'

The Poodles Parlour - 'here comes the girls'

Cute Card Thursday - challenge #233 'autumn gold'

White on White Christmas

Good afternoon all, hope you are all well. I hope all the rain that we are having at the moment is not affecting anyone. I would also like to take a moment to say hello to my new followers.
My card  has been inspired by the challenge at Winter Wonderland, I think I had only ever made one white on white card before I started blogging, but I have found that I like doing them. My card today is totally white, the only colour is from the glitter around the edges.

Ingredients:

centura pearl card

cuttlebug embossing folders 'winter scene' /'snow dots'/'snowflakes'/'polka dots'

memory box die 'snowflake corner'

cheery lynn die - 'holly flourish'

marianne creatables -poinsettia'

stickles - 'frosted lace'/icicle

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - 'white on white'

Crimbo Crackers - challenge #19 'buildings'

Christmas Card Challenge - week #31 'monochromatic'

Christmas Cards All Year Round - July challenge

Holly Jolly Christmas - 'acrostic challenge' (h - holly, s - snow/snowflakes/sparkle)

Crafters Companion - challenge #26 'ho ho ho christmas'

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - challenge #99 'christmas in july'

Lollipop Crafts - challenge #84 'christmas in july'

The Squirrel & The Fox - challenge #21 'christmas in july'

Ladybug Crafts Ink - 'christmas in july'

TCCC - challenge #1 'deck our blog with boughs of holly'

Hooked on Craft - challenge #22 'christmas in july'
Cheery Lynn Designs - Challenge #35 'christmas in july'

Christmas Crackers

Hope everyone is having a good weekend, its been a bit overcast and grey and not very warm, but at least its not raining.
My card this evening has been inspired by a couple of challenges - Winter Wonderland where the theme is 'embossing' and Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge who want to see 'A touch of the blues'. I have also used the sketch at Sketch Saturday .

Ingredients:

pearlescent card  embossed with polka dots/stars

image - lotv 'james bear christmas cracker'

stickles - 'stardust'

ric rac from stash

coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - 'embossing'

CHNC - challenge #73 'a touch of the blues'

Sketch Saturday - week #208

Lili's Little Fairies - 'bear essentials'

I Love Promarkers - challenge #117 'anything goes'

Emerald  Faeris - challenge #24 'embossing'

Cute Card Thursday - challenge #217 'a touch of sparkle'
Pan Pastel - challenge 19 'pastel colours'

That Craft Place Challenge - 'monochromatic'

Fishing Buddies

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, Bank Holiday tomorrow, but I've got to work. I've managed to find time over the weekend to make another Christmas Card - my collection is growing, at this rate I might have enough ready and wont need to panic make at the last minute. My card has been inspired by the ABC Christmas challenge where the theme is 'icy', the snowflake doily and the ice have been painted with glamour dust glitter paint and they are a lot more sparkly in real life. I decided to stay with the white theme and emboss the greeting with white embossing powder which doesn't really show up in the photograph.

Ingredients:

papers - white card embossed with cuttlebug 'swiss dots/snowdots

papermania 'snow flurry'

image - lotv 'fishing buddies'

sentiment - lotv

marianne creatable die - snowflake doily

stickles gilitter - 'icicle/frosted lace'

glamour dust glitter paint - 'iridescent'

coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

ABC  Christmas Challenge - 'I is for icy inspiration'

Lili's Little Fairies - 'anything goes'

MMCS - challenge #55 'embossing'

Passion for Promarkers - challenge #147 'bright  & light'

Craft Room - 'Emboss It'

Jingle Belles - 'embossing around the christmas tree'

Christmas Stamping All Year Long - challenge #9 'glittery'

Pan Pastels - challenge #17 'anything goes'

Papertake Weekly - 'anything goes'
Stampin for the Weekend - 'at least 4 layers'