This one took me ages....

A flying visit from me today....I have to say although I like this stamp, it took me ages to colour and I wasn't really sure what to do with her hair. Originally I set out to make a card to fit the challenge on the sugar Nellie Facebook page with spring like papers and colours however it went completely up in the air...so the stamp is Entangled from Sugar Nellie which I stamped onto kraft and coloured with polychromos. The papers are MME - Lost and found which are really lovely and layered onto kraft and bazzill card which I distressed. I added some raffia, ribbon and button twine to which I attached a flower and button, the flowers have been cut with my favourite die...MFT flower trio die and I used felt and kraft to do that and then added pearls to the centres. The message is from Personal Impressions. It's a bit different but hope you likey...

Papertake Weekly - sketch
Scrapalicious - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Make It Monday - anything goes
Cutie Pie challenge - flowers
2 Sisters - anything goes
Pixie dust Studio - buttons
Raise the Bar - twine
Phindy's Place - distressing
Stempelsonnen Challenge - a flower for you


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Fifi goes shopping...

Good morning folks, well the snow from yesterday seems to have disappeared for the time being although it's very frosty and baltic!!

Well you know it would only be a matter of time before Fifi would be on my blog and here she is...I love Fifi just as much as her pal Pippi..they are best pals on my desk!!

For my card today I have used a mix of papers from First Edition - Up and Away and Jillybean soup - Apple cheddar Soup...one of my favourite colour combos. I have layered them onto kraft, seems to be my thing at the mo, oh and my other thing is the doodles. I distressed each of the layers..the stamp is Fifi goes shopping from sugar Nellie which I have coloured with copics. I added some glitter to the furry bits on her boots and jacket. The flowers have been cut with my MFT flower trio die which also doodled, the felt flower has been cut with the same fie and I threaded some twine and a button on to it....finished with a message and some gems.

My Mums Craft Shop - favourite colour combo
The Kraft Journal - stamp it pretty
Squigglefly - button it up
The Pink elephant - favourite colours
Truly Madly Crafty - anything goes
Crafty Purple Frog - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - buttons, boes, bling and blooms
Pixie Dust Studio - going dotty
Totally Papercrafts - make your own flowers
Paper pretties - glitter
Paper sundaes - past challenge - #89 lots of layers
Crafty Catz - buttons and bows
Joanna Sheen - celebration


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A little snow angel....

Good morning sweet stampers...over at The Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog we have another challenge for you...this time it's "snow" or "snowmen, people....something with snow!!

This week our sponsor is Crafty Emma's Store, who is offering up this fab paper pad to one lucky winner.....


For my card I have a little snow angel which is from Inky antics. I coloured this stamp with promarkers this time so that I could join in the promarker challenge as the sketch is just fab!! The papers are Echo Park - Winter Park which I also layered onto kraft card, I added some button twine, punched a snowflake and added a button to the centre...then of course glittered it up.

Now pop over and see what the other sweeties have to show you.

Passion for promarker - sketch
I ♥ promarkers - snowmen/flakes
Stamptacular - Christmas
Simon Says - anything goes
Cards & More - snowflakes
Creative Craft - free for all
Craft your passion - tis the Season
Make it Monday(The kraft Journal) - Christmas
Dream Valley - sparkle
Paper sundaes - Winter Wonderland
By the Cute and Girly - let it snow
Delightful sketches - let it snow
Totally papercrafts - let it snow
Fairy Tale challenge - Christmas
Patties Creations - Christmas
Simply Create Too - Christmas
Wags n Whiskers- angel or fairy (does my snow angel count)
OSCC - let it snow


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There's a Halloween thing going on...

Good morning Saturday bloggers and my scheduled post...back at work!! Today's challenge over at Sweet Stampin' is "Halloween".

Our sponsor this week is the fabby Bugaboo and are giving 7 digs to one lucky winner.

For my card I have used Stella Calendar month - October from Bugaboo and I coloured her with copics. The papers are from MME - Mischievous collection and are perfect for those Halloween projects. I cut the pumkins with a sizzix die however I had to cut the them down to size as they were just too big for the card...

A Gem of A Challenge - sketch
Paper sundaes - Halloween
CYDA -Halloween colours
Crafty Boots - Halloween
Make it Monday with the Kraft Outlet - spooky stuff
The Stamp Fairy - Halloween
Papertake Weekly - use black
Divas by Design - spooky
Delightful Sketches - Halloween
Allsorts - Halloween
2 sisters - pumkin patch
CMC Copic challenge - halloween

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Whooooo...

Well here is the next one and there may even be another card today depending on how much housework I decide to do!! I thought I would make a wee Halloween card...I just love Halloween and all the bits and bobs that come with it!! so when the lovely Abi sent me a little surprise package the other day....well of course I had to use them!! The papers are from MME - Boo to You, the tree and massage is from the set Creepy - Personal Impressions, I layered the papers onto kraft card, added a picket fence which I cut with a TH sizzix die, I tied a piece of twine around the card and added a pumpkin charm...hope you like.

CLP - sketch
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - To die cut for
Cute Card Thursday - tree-mendous
Fussy & Fancy - halloween
Cupcake Craft Challenge - halloween
Creative Card Crew - spooky fun
Crafts & Me - use orange
Simon Says Stamp - halloween
Hanna & Friends - halloween
Sarah Hurley - halloween
2 sisters - halloween
Phindy's Place - halloween
Alphabet Challenge - S soon to be halloween


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The Sugar Bowl Challenge #68

Good morning sugar fans and I hope you are all raring to go with our new challenge over at The Sugar Bowl. This fortnight's challenge is Kiki's sketch below....



....and of course the optional theme which is "autumn". As normal there is the fabby prize of 4 Sugar Nellie stamps but if we get over 100 entries then the prize will be 6 stamps...woo hoo!!

For my card I have used papers from Jillybean Soup - Apple Cheddar Soup collection...they are yummy!! The base layer is kraft card which I am loving at the minute and I have stitched each of the layers and also distressed each layer with my TH distressing tool. The stamp is called "Apple of my Eye" from Simply Sassy at Sugar Nellie which you can buy here from Funky Kits. I coloured this little Sassy with Distress Inks....I reckon this one took me about 4 hours in total to colour as I did it over a few days but I am well chuffed with this one. I added a couple of flowers that have been cut with my MFT flower trio die and then I added a button ans a little itsy silver apple charm!!

Delicious doodles - cute as a button
Make it Monday Kraft Outlet - use kraft and autumn
Anything goes - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - dies/punches
Paper Shelter - anything goes
Creative Inspiration Paint challenge - charm
Dream Valley - buttons
OSAAT - punch it
Kaboodle Doodles - lots of layers
Ooh La La - punches
Paper Pretties - fall inspiration
Scrapbook Sisters - autumn colours
Hannah & Friends - anything goes
Marianne's Divas Designs - bloom and grow
Delightful sketches - happy fall
By the Cute and Girly - all things bright and beautiful
Creatalicious - anything goes
4 Crafty Chicks - celebrate fall

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Birthday celebrations...

Good afternoon my Sundae bloggers....well today over at Paper Sundaes we are celebrating birthdays...so all you need to do is make something with a birthday theme e.g birthday card, gift bag, banner etc, the choice is yours. It's the lovely Christine's birthday this week and she is celebrating 40...40 I hear you say...yes I know she only looks 21!!

Shana is having a birthday candy draw for Christine, so check out her blog for the details.

I have used papers from Fancy Pants - Happy Together collection..they are so pretty!! The image is from Heather Ellis - Pure Innocence which you can buy here, I coloured her with copics. The flowers have been cut with my MFT flower trio die...but wait til you see my next flowers....mmm!! I have also added stitching to this card and a little ribbon bow.

Our sponsor this week is the one and only Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a $15 gift certificate to spend online in their store.

I have entered the challenges below.

Fab 'n' Funky - buttons and bows
Make It Colourful - dotty background
Sew many Cards - anything goes
Mami Doodles - spots and/or stripes
Crafty Sentiments - buttons
Moving along with the Times - 2 things beginning with " B"
Make it Monday - anything goes


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I love a cuppa...

Morning everybody and another gorgeous day!! I thought I would get this card posted asap and then I can get on with some housework. I think this image sums me up...as I have umpteen cuppas in the morning!! I know...too many isn't good for you...anyway...I have been colouring this image over the past few nights and practicing colouring with DI's...this is my first attempt. I have to say..it's very therapeutic but does take much longer. The lovely Elaine sent me some card to use which is 100% better than the card I was using so may need to treat myself!! The papers are from MME - So Sophie which I cut into squares and then added some stitching to make a patchwork effect. I didn't want to add anymore layers as I thought it was busy enough with papers. I couldn't help myself...I had to stick on some of those flowers. I thought I would enter the Sugar Nellie Challenge on Facebook with this one as it's squares. I was also swithering about entering the Simply Sassy Banner competition too but I'm not sure if the colours are cold enough to match Elaine's....I'm going to give it a bash anyway!!

Don't forget there's still time to enter the DT CAlls at Sweet Stampin Challenge blog and Paper Sundaes Challenge blog.


OSCC - in stitches
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Make It Monday - anything goes
Pollycraft - anything goes
Oldie but a goodie - flowers(I did buy this stamp about 6 months ago so hopefully that's fine)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Ladybug - going dotty (on brown paper)
Top tip Tuesday - anything goes
Simply Sassy - banner competition
Divas by Design - anything goes
Moving along with the Times - anything goes


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