Sugar Bowl challenge 100...

Good morning sugar fans and it's time for a brand new challenge over at The Sugar Bowl.

The challenge for the next 4 weeks is "anything goes"...that's right...no sketch and no theme just make whatever you like!!

Please remember to use a Sugar Nellie stamp...rubber or digi to be eligible!!

As always the prize for one lucky winner picked at random is 4 Sugar Nellie stamps from FunkyKits...

...over 100 entries then that prize increases to 6 Sugar Nellie stamps....but wait as it's challenge 100 Karen has decided to double the prize, so that means 2 winners both receiving 4 stamps...now what a fab prize!!

In addition, Gayle and Elaine will also be awarding Eye Candy to some lucky entrants so pop back to the Sugar Nellie blog next Thursday to see if you have been spotted!!

For my card I have used papers from MME - Dilly Dally.  I layered them onto bazzill card.  The stamp is No 1 Fan from Sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics....I love this little dude so much!!  BTW this image is also available in digi format. The buttons have been cut from my die-namics button die...but I have a new button die which I can't wait to use.  i finished off with a couple of gems and some card candi...hope you like!!

If you haven't already seen the new Official Sugar Nellie Group on Facebook...then pop over to join in the fun!!

supplies:
stamp - No 1 Fan - Funky Kits
papers - MME - Dilly Dally - My Mum's Craft Shop
die - die-namics button quartet - My Mum's Craft Shop
copics - My Mum's Craft Shop
gems/pearls - stash
card candi - stash


challenges:
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - anything goes
Stamptacular - gents & gems
A Gem of a challenge - gingham/checks
One Stop Craft Challenge - anything goes
Jellypark - button up
Hannah and Friends - anything goes

Aw.....cute as a bug...

 

Good morning folks....yes I know it's unusual to get a post from me today but I am on holiday from work for a few days.....yay cardmaking...maybe some housework too!!

I was at a loose end last night so I sat and coloured this little image, the stamp is called Sympathy Bugs from Whimsy Stamps.  I coloured it with copics and shaded with polychromos.  The papers are from MME - Lost and found Oliver.  I distressed each of the layers of paper aswell as the layers of card...something a bit different for me.  the flowers have been cut withvarious die-namics rolled rose dies and I have also added in a Prima flower...think it's made from resin and then I added some stickles...hope you likey.

Bunny Zoe - anything goes

Stamptacular - sketch

Allsorts - dies & punches

Totally Gorjuss - spots

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

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Teddy Christmas....

Next post today is this little creation I made following Dena's tutorial on Facebook on the Lili of the Valley Virtual Christmas party page.  I did get lost a bit however when I saw Dena's finished card i knew where I was going and finished the card today.

I have used papers from Carta Bella - winter Fun, edged with lace, the stamp is from LOTV which I coloured with copics and glittered a bit, I punched some snowflakes and glittered them up and I cut out the tree and glittered that up too.  I added pearls to the centres of the snowflakes to finish off.

This is what the inside looks like although it's not a brill photo but can get the gist of it and you can get full instructions from Dena here.

Lili's Little Fairies - anything goes

Colour Me Creative - non traditional colours

Little Claire's - christmas

Christmas Cards all year round - fancy folds

Christmas Stampin' all year long - to die 4

Wags 'n' Whiskers - christmas

Crimbo Crackers - anything goes

Dutch Dare - fancy folds

Bearly Mine - snowflakes

ladybug Crafts - snowflakes

Stamp & Create - lace

Dream Valley - non traditional Christmas

Stamptacular - winter bliss
One Stitch at a Time - fabric, ribbon or lace

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Christmas hugs

A quickie before Strictly comes on....what do you think of Louis?  Isn't he just great??  Anyway this one is of my buys at the SECC last weekend...isn't she cute.  This is snow queen from LOTV which I have coloured with copics and glittered.  The papers are Echo park - Winter Wishes which I layered onto Bazzill card.  The snowflake is punched and then glittered up, the tag is from LOTV too...and finally the tree has been cut from ahnother of my buys...It's from Distinctively Dee's snow covered tree...need to practice the snowy edges.

Stamptacular - sketch

Crafty Hazelnuts - 3 papers

Christmas Stampin all Year long - anything goes

Totally Paperecrafts - twinklw twinkle christmas Star (on my image)

Divas by Design - festive

Lili's Little Fairies - snow is faling

By the Cute and girly - twinkle twinkle

Whimsy - sparkly

Anything goes - anything goes

Hooked on Craft - christmas with no red/green

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It's Halloween at Sweet Stampin'...

Good morning sweet stampers and her we are with another challenge over at Sweet Stampin'.  So I suppose you can guess what the theme is by my card....that's right it's Halloween.

Our sponsor this week is letraset who are giving away a set of promarkers to one lucky winner and of course we have our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen is giving away a £10 voucher to her store.

For my card I have used papers from MME - Mischevious collection, I layered each of the papers onto bazill card and distressed the edges. The fence is a TH fence which I inked up for a more spooky look.  The stamp is Witches Cauldron from Sugar Nellie which has been coloured with copics.I added a couple of buttons to finish.

Crafting for all Seasons - spooky
Divas by Design - something spooky
Fab 'n' funky - black & orange
Simon Says Stamp - eerie
Sassy cheryl's - orange & black
Aud's sentiments - halloween sentiment
Little Miss Muffet - halloween colours

Saturated Canary - colour combo
Papertake weekly - Fright Night...Boo!

Lexi's Creations - Halloween

The Cutie Pie challenge - Halloween
Stamptacular - Bootacular
Dream Valley - Halloween
Joanna Sheen - AutumnBreeze/Halloween
Crafty Calendar - spooky

Fi

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Sugar Bowl Challenge #90

Good morning sugar fans and welcome to my scheduled post. Well looks like the sun has disappeared from Scotland and we now have been having torrential rain!! Just typical!!


The challenge over at The Sugar Bowl this fortnight is the fabby sketch below...



....and of course the optional extra of "love and romance".

As always the prize for one lucky winner picked at random is 4 Sugar Nellie stamps from FunkyKits...

...over 100 entries then that prize increases to 6 Sugar Nellie stamps.

for my card I have used "Knitted with Love" from Sugar Nellie and although this is a Christmas stamp, I felt that i could make it work as a luvvy one...I coloured the image with copics and added lots of glitter. The papers are from Bo Bunny - Crush Collection. i added some doodling around the edges of the image and the sentiment and finished with some pearls and a little love heart button...

if you haven't already seen the new Official Sugar Nellie Group on Facebook...then pop over to join in the fun!!

Cute Card Thursday - bling
In the Pink - pink plus wings
Divas by Design - anything goes
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Created with Love - 3 of a kind (pearls)
Stamptacular - girlie


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When you Wish upon a Star....

...makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires, will come to you....yes we all know that song very well..don't we??

Since I tidied my my wee craft room last night, I came across some rubber that needed a bit of love and re-inking ( I don't want to talk about the ones that have gone walkabout) so here we have "Wish upon a Star" from Sugar Nellie. I coloured this little cutie with copics, the papers are from Bo Bunny(not sure of the name, it says back to basics on the thingy but not sure that is the correct name of this collection). I added some snowflakes punched with my MS snowflake punches...then added lots of glitter and pearls....hope you likey!!

Sketch Saturday - sketch
Creative Inspirations Paint - Christmas in July
Stamptacular - wings and bling
Color Me Creative - dark/navy
Divas by Design - Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon - Christmas in July
Whimsy Inspiration - monochromatic(mine is mainly blue but feel free to delete if it is not monochrome enough)
Crafty Sentiments - christmas in July
Hooked on Crafts - christmas in July
The Pink elephant - christmas in July
Crafters companion - Ho Ho Ho
Creatalicious challenges - Christmas in July


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Sugar Bowl Challenge #84

Good morning sugar fans and my scheduled post....I am still trying to get used to my new Monday to Friday shift. Being off at the weekend is good though as my friend and I had a wee unexpected visit to the House of Sugar last Saturday which was really fab. The scenery on the way up and down was simply breath taking and if I can work out how to get the photos from my phone to the PC then I will let you see the snow covered mountains. We met Karen and her daughters and Erika and Kate, they were all so lovely. Karen even gave us the guided tour of the shop and where Mark , our Funky Kit man does his online orders...I would so love to work there. Now if any of you are in the area and feel the need to pop in to the House of Sugar...omg you will be spoilt for choice, Karen has such a variety of products on sale....

Today's challenge over at The Sugar Bowl is "anything goes" so you can use whichever layout and theme you like but you need to use a Sugar Nellie stamp.

As always the prize for one lucky winner picked at random is 4 Sugar Nellie stamps from Funky Kits....




....but if over 100 entries then the prize increases to 6 stamps.

For my card I have used Butterfly Girl from sugar Nellie which I coloured with copics, the papers from MME - On the Sunny Side, the flowers have been cut with different rolled MFT dies, I also cut a little dinky flouish out too and added a couple of pins behind. I added some ribbon and a charm to finish off...

Pop back tomorrow to check out my birthday candy!!

Stamptacular - butterfly kisses
Cupcake Inspirations - colour combo
Colour Me Creative - anything goes
CES - anything goes
Crafty Catz - birthdays
Hotshot Crafts - die cuts
Crafty Ribbons - flowers
Dutch Dare - birthday
Do You Stack Up - flowers
Truly Scrumptious - anything goes
Whimsy Inspiration - anything goes
Joanna sheen - happy birthday
Bearly Mine - dies
Bunny Zoe - anything goes



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Better late than never...

Good morning my fellow bloggers....well all I can say is that it's better late than never!! I can't believe how forgetful and mixed up I got last week with my timings for cards!! Last week was my second week at work on my new shift, Monday to Friday and it totally threw me!! I normally had a Thursday an Friday off so that was when I did most of my DT work....well I forgot!!

This week's challenge over at Sweet Stampin' is to use more than one ribbon....easy peasy!!

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Ribbons who are offering this fab pack of ribbons as the prize to one lucky winner....


We also have out monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen...

...who is offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher for her online store.

For my card I have used papers from Echo Park - Hello summer, The stamp is a Mo Manning design from Penny Black called You are a Peach which I coloured with copics. I added a couple of ribbons and some flowers cut with my MFT flower trio die and then finished with some pearls and doodling...oh the sentiment is from Stampin Up.

Color me Creative - yellows
Fairy fun Friday - flowers
Fussy & Fancy - punches/dies
Bronte & Bella - flowers
Creatalicious - butterflies and flowers
Simon Says Stamp - sketch
Whimsy Stamps - punches/dies
Craft Your passion - punches/dies
Lexi's Creations - punches/dies
Penny Black and more - cute
Stamptacular - loaded with layers


Fi
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Sugar Bowl Challenge #82

Good morning sugar fans....and I know what you're thinking but yes it's my first Christmas card of the year...I am normally rushing around late in the year getting those made but I am going to be totally prepared this year!!

Today's challenge over at The Sugar Bowl is the fabby sketch below..




...and as always the optional theme of "scrolls and swirls".

Once again one lucky winner picked at random will win 4 Sugar Nellie stamps from Funky Kits...



...and as normal if there is more than 100 entries, the prize goes up to 6 Sugar Nellie stamps....so get those entries submitted...

For my card I have used Knitted with Love from Sugar Nellie, which you can buy here from Funky Kits and I coloured with copics, papers from Fancy Pants - Hot Chocolate, the snowflakes have been punched from a Martha Stewart punches, the swirl is from MFT, I added some gems to finish.

Papershelter - wings and things
Whimsy Stamps - punches/die cuts
Craft Your Passion - die cuts/punches
Lexi's Creations - punches/dies
Paper sundaes - anything goes
Stamptacular - anything goes


Fi
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Springtime.....

Good morning Saturday bloggers....yes scheduled but my last weekend of working!! I'm on holiday from Wednesday and then I start on my new Monday-Friday shift and in my new role as a Senior HR Co-ordinator and I have a wee fab team reporting to me!!

Today's challenge over at Sweet Stampin' is "Anything goes"...how easy can that be!! We have our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen...




and we have a new weekly sponsor A Day for Daisies...


I have used this cure little digi - Ducks in a Row from A Day for Daisies, I coloured the image with copics. The papers are Springtime from Echo Park which have been layered onto bazzill card. I cut a scalloped border with my SU scallop punch and added a matching ribbon, button and pearls....forgot...there's glitter in there too!!

Deconstructed sketches - sketch
Paper Sundaes - photo inspiration
Stamptacular - button
Crafts & Me - spring
My Mum's Craft Shop - use a digi
Pixie Cottage - spring
Joanna Sheen - spring
Sassy Cheryl - think spring
Crafters Companion - spring
Dream Valley - easter
Moving Along with the Times - spring
Paperplay - spring
Crafty Catz - spring is in the air
Fairy Fun Friday - spring fling
Hotshot Crafts - ribbon
Simply Create Too - spring
Sweet 'n' Sassy - spring
My Craft Spot - spring scallops


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aah...little chickie...

Good afternoon folks...I know it's unusual to see a post from me on a Sunday but I am holiday from work this weekend. I have been having a wee play with some of the goodies I bought at the SECC and I although I'm not really in to Easter cards, I just couldn't resist this little cutie...I think it's an adorable stamp...
..so the stamp is from LOTV and I coloured with copics and did a bit of shading with polychromos, the papers are Springtime from Echo Park. I layered each piece on to bazill card and stitched and distressed the edges, I even managed to stitch around the message. I am entering the following challenges...

Stamptacular - sketch
Joanna Sheen - spring is in the air
Crafters companion - spring
Crazy 4 challenges - spring
Crafty Calendar - spring
A Gem of a Challenge - perfect pastels
2 sisters - spring colours
Truly Madly Crafty - colour photo
Totally Stampalicious - spring
Deep Ocean Challenge - spring
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
My Mums Craft Shop - spring
Gingerloft - spring
That Craft Place - anything goes


Fi
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Check out these faeries...

Good morning Saturday bloggers and my scheduled post. Well it's a bit frosty this morning...brrr!!

Today's challenge over at Sweet Stampin' is "glitter, shine, bling"....plenty of choice of shinyness out there.

We have our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen...

...who is offering one lucky winner a £10 gift certificate.

and our weekly sponsor Emerald Faeries..

who are giving one lucky winner 2 of those gorgeous digis!!

For my card I have used Fancy Pants - Winterland papers, which are new!! The image is Isabella from Emerald Faeries which I coloured with copics and then glittered up her wings. To finish I added the message and a few flowers.

Stamptacular - sketch
Totally Papercrafts - spots & stripes
Moving along with the Times - spots & stripes
Simon Says Stamp - spots & stripes
anything goes - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - anything goes
Truly Madly Crafty - anything goes
Birthday Sundaes - birthday

Fi
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Papertake Weekly GDT card..

Good morning folks....oh isn't it freezy....brrr and more snow on the horizon here in bonny Scotland!! So today I have my second GDT card for Papertake Weekly. The theme this week is "I'm dreaming of a {favourite colour} Christmas...now I have to say I do like blue amongst a few other colours!!

So for my card I have used some scraps of paper that were in my stash, they are from Heidi Grace - Frost Boulevard. The stamp is from Sugar Nellie - Christmas Garland....and wait for it, coloured with promarkers. I punched a couple of snowflakes and added a pearl to the centres and then glittered them and the snow people up!!

Stamptacular - Christmas glitz
Pile it On - bling it up
Dream Valley - Christmas
Addicted to stamps - snowflakes
Totally gorjuss - let it snow
Craft your Days Away - snowmen
2 Sisters - Christmas
Ruby's Rainbow - monochromatic
The Pink elephant - snowflakes & sparkles
Willow sketchie - sketch
Paperplay - snowmen
Delightful challenges - blue christmas



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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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Sugar Bowl Challenge #72

Good morning sugar addicts......brrrr isn't it baltic?? So nothing better than an icy challenge over at The Sugar Bowl this week. All you need to do is follow Gayle's sketch below using a Sugar Nellie stamp, which you can buy from Funky Kits.

Of course as always the optional theme is "ice and snow" and for one lucky winner chosen at random...4 Sugar Nellie stamps but if we get more than 100 entries that prize goes up to 6 Sugar Nellie stamps...so what are you waiting for...pop over to The Sugar Bowl and check out the inspiration from the rest of the sweeties!

For my card I have used papers from MME - 12 Days of Christmas, the stamp is of course from Sugar Nellie which you can buy here from Funky Kits. I coloured these little cuties with copics, punched a couple of snowflakes, added glitter and added a message...oh and I flipped the sketch around.

Before I go...remember the Simply Sassy blog Hop on Saturday at 8am....you don't want to miss it!!



Craft Your Passion - let it snow
Hooked on Crafts - something punched
Stamps R Us - bling it on
2 sisters - anything goes
Stamptacular - punch it
Cuddly Buddly - feature 2 characters
Wags n Whiskers - christmas
Totally Gorjuss - christmas Traditions
Moving along with the times - let it snow


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It's Bella...

Happy Friday....it's almost the weekend but I am working!! I haven't really done much blogging or crafting this week. We got bad news on Tuesday that my auntie who lives in Italy died. Some of the family are flying over but my dad can't go due to his health problems, he can't fly so it's kind of hit him a bit hard I think because he can't go and because he is 15 years older that my auntie...a bit of a nightmare waiting on information coming from Italy. Anyway ....I felt like a bit of crafting this afternoon and I thought since it is baltic outside, what better than a card with that frosty feel so here we have Snowboardabella, I think that's her name!! I have used Fancy pants - wintertime papers and I have coloured Bella with copics.


Stamptacular - sketch
Crafters Companion - let it snow
By the Cute & Girly - christmas girl
Creative Insipirations - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge - W - winter sport
Delightful Challenges - snowflakes
Dutch Dare - punches/dies


Fi
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So what....

So what...the sound of a teenager!! Did I tell you I am holiday from work this week?? Quick post before I organise tea.....slimming world recipe but don't tell hubby..he won't know!!

I coloured this little cutie the other night and it took me ages. The stamp is from Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy - So What which you buy here from Funky Kits. I coloured her with DI's...they do take that bit longer but I love them and I also got my new DI's yesterday so another post with those may be up tonight, anyway back to this one..I have used a mix of MME papers - Hattie and So Sophie. I cut the flowers with my MFT flower trio die and added a ribbon and bow and finished with some buttons and twine...hope you like!!

Willow sketchie - sketch
Stamptacular - anything goes
Totally gorjuss - bingo(flowers, buttons, bows)
Cupcake Craft Challenge - buttons and bows
Pollycraft - girls, girls, girls



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Paper Sundaes DT card

Hi all my Sundae bloggers and my scheduled post but I'm not working but thought I would just schedule incase I got caught up in other stuff!! Today's challenge over at Paper Sundaes is "texture".

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



I have used papers from MME - Stella Rose collection which I have layered and stitched. I added a scalloped edge with my giant sizzlits die. I made the flower by punching 4 circles of bazill cardstock and then I separated the layers to give me 8 cicles, I spritzed them with water and then scrunched them into little balls. Once dry I opened up the circles and attached them all together with a brad in the centre and then I teased the layers back into the scrunchy shape...first attempt at that. I also added some button twine, ribbon and some gems. I embossed the scalloped edge aswell to give more texture. I coloured Lady Tilda( which you can buy here at Simon's store) with copics and layered her onto the card.

Crafts & Me - ribbon
Papertake Weekly - truly dimensional
Just Magnolia - happy birthday
Your Next Stamp - texture
The Crafty Purple Frog - touchy feely
Catch the Bug - 4 or more layers
The Stamp Man - embossing
My Partner in Crafting Crime - layer it up
Stamptacular - Magnolia stamp
Sqigglefly - fabric/stitching



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Dandelion clock

Here's another of my new stamps...I am just loving these LOTV stamps...they are so gorgeous!! I made this card this afternoon as I had some free time...Holly went swimming with her friend...no not in the back garden, although they could have with all this rain...they did go to the leisure pool. I used some scraps of paper from October Afternoon and Basic Grey, coloured this fabby little fairy with copics, added some gems and a couple of flowers which I made from the sizzix 3d flower die...oh and yes to finish I added some stickles...not sure if you can see that in the photo.

Fab 'n' funky - chocolate and blue
Papertake Weekly - anything goes and flowers
Top tip - girly
Magical Monday - flowers
Sketchy colors - brown/blue and white
Delightful Sketches - wings
Paperplay - stamp it out
Stamptacular - whateva
Totally Gorjuss - as you like it
Pear Tree Designs - flowers
Flutter by Wednesday - fairy


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