Sunday Sketch & Stamp Birthday Blog Hop!!!

Morning! I hope you've all remembered that the clocks went back an hour last night - I never like losing an hour but at least the night's will be a bit lighter now and that means that summer's coming!!!
There's a new challenge today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and because we've reached the huge milestone of 200 sketches, we decided to have a bit of a celebration with a blog hop, some special guests and lots of prizes.
We've made cards using any of the past sketches and I used Sketch # 195:

and here's the card I made with it:

The sketch is there - under all those embellies! I've used a Magnolia image (watercoloured with DIs) and papers, a Whimsy sentiment stamp, the lace, charm, envelope and corner are all from Live and Love Crafts, the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and I've used two Magnolia Doohickey dies, and an Impression Obssession die as well as the usual Spellbinders, plus gems, etc from my stash. Hope you like it!

Now for those of you taking part in the hop, you should've arrived here from the wonderful Pops, (if you didn't, you need to go back to the challenge blog and start at the beginning). Make sure you leave me a comment in case there's a prize hidden here and now you need to carry on hopping over to:

LOUISE

Enjoy the rest of the hop and the rest of your weekend. Bye for now.................xx

In the Pink

Morning! There's a new challenge starting today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it's a great sketch by Francesca - here's my card (and if you don't like pink, look away now LOL!)

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia and DCWV cardstock.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Rub-on Lettering from DCWV, Crafts Too Hearts Embossing Folder, Pearl Hearts from My Crafty Heart, WRMK Distressing Tool and Gems from stash.

What do you think of my watercolouring with Distress Inks? I've been practising, so expect to see more images coloured this way - I actually love sitting colouring in this way, I find it really relaxing but it takes such a long time - or it does me anyway!! I've coloured Tilda with one of my newest coloured 'Picked Raspberry' and think it's lush!!

I'm also going to enter my card into the following challenges:

• In the Pink - Challenge #12 Distressed.
• Crafty Calendar - Love and Marriage.
• 2 Sisters Challenge - Challenge #129 White and Red and/or Pink.
• Creative Corner - Challenge 5 Love and Hearts.
• Card Makin' Mamas - Love.
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Love is all around.
• My Time to Craft - Challenge #207 'Love is in the Air'.
• Inspire Me Fridays - Always Anything Goes.

Don't forget to hop over to Sunday Sketch and Stamp and check out my teamies amazing cards and join in with the challenge, of course - I can't wait to see your take on the sketch! Bye for now..............xx

A Very Purple Christmas!

Morning! How are you enjoying your weekend? I went to the cinema yesterday with Sam and my dad to see 'Skyfall' - it's a fab film if you like action movies and a bit of Bond obviously!! It's the first Bond film I've seen with Daniel Craig in the title role and I have to say that before I'd seen the film, I couldn't really see his appeal but after watching him in the role, I can certainly see the attraction!!!
Anyhoo!! It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it was my turn to design the sketch, so please play along!! Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia.

Ribbon - American Crafts.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Dies - Ornament Border, Frosty Border and Crystal Snowflake - all Memory Box.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Gems and Lace from stash, Whitewash Coredinations.

This is another image that I coloured in last year and didn't get around to making into a card, so again - don't look too closely at my colouring!! I'm also going to enter my card into the following challenges:

• Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge # 6 Anything Goes.
• Come and Get It Challenges - Monochromatic Colour Scheme.
• Lovely Hanglar and Sweet Magnolia - Challenge # 55 Girls Only.
• That Craft Place - Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon, Lace, Dies or Sentiment, Lace, Border).
• Cardmakin Mamas - Anything Goes.

 OK - I think that's about it! Hope ya like it and don't forget to join in over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp - we've got a DT call going on over there too if anyone's interested! Bye for now............xx

Tilda with a Candy Cone

Evening everyone. Another Christmas card to share with you - I'm really on a roll now, eh?! And I'm getting back into this blogging lark! Woohoo, is good to be back among friends!

Ingredients:

Image and Papers - Magnolia watercoloured with distress inks.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Metal Corner and Pin - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Flower - Duck Pond Crafts.

Other - Lace and Red Cabochon from stash, Red Card - Bazzill Basics.

Don't look too closely at my colouring! This is one of the images that I coloured for last Christmas but then didn't get round to using on a card and when I was going through them the other week, this one was one of the more passable ones but certainly nothing to write home about ;-)

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

• Hanna and Friends - Challenge #156 Sketch.
• Through the Craft Room Door - Challenge #41 Anything Goes.
• Oh La La Creations - Challenge #116 Christmas Sentiment.
• Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge - Challenge #54 Ribbon or Trim.
• Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Challenge #24 Stitching (the paper is faux stitched hearts - hope it counts).
• Tilda's Town - Challenge #23 Merry Christmas.
• Totally Papercrafts - Challenge #139 Christmas 9 weeks and counting....

And I think that's about it! Off to do some visiting now, in between a bit of telly watching. Thanks for popping by, see you sooooooooooon..........................xxx

Autumn Colours

Evening! Sorry I've not been around for a bit, I've been a sickly child! I won't go into it too much, but it involved an infection and some IV antibiotics.
Here's a card I made to join in with the sketch challenge over at Sketch and Stash Challenge:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

Papers - Raspberry Road.

Die Cut - Leafy Branch by Memory Box.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment - Whimsy Stamps.

Other - Twine from WRMK, Leaf charm from Duck Pond Crafts, Brown card - Bazzill Basics, Leaf punch and pearls from stash.

I hope you've all been keeping well, I'll get round to visit you over the next few days. Back tomorrow...........xx

You Give Me Wings....

Evening! Sorry that I'm posting this a wee bit late - when I was typing it up last night, I thought I'd scheduled it but I don't know what I did! I must've been more tired than I thought LOL!! Anyways, there's a new challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp today and this week, it's been designed by Uma. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda coloured with Spectrum Noirs and stickles on the wings!

Papers - Echo Park 'Victoria Garden'

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment - Kraftin' Kimmie.

Other - Square frame cut using Slice machine, Scalloped Border MFT Die-namics, Marianne Designs Flourish, Pearls from stash.

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• Craft Your Days Away - Challenge #52 'Farewell Challenge, Anything Goes'. (I'm gutted this challenge is closing down, I've entered it lots of times while it's been running).
• The Poodles Parlour - Winged Things.
• Stampin' for the Weekend - Challenge #16 Pearls and Swirls.
• In The Pink - Challenge #2 Lots of Pink and Winged Things.
• Inspire Me Fridays - Always Anything Goes.

After moaning about the holidays in my last post, we've had a great last few days - on Thursday, we had to go and get Sam's new school uniform cos he goes up to Secondary school in September and he's starting at a brand new school that's just opening. He looked so smart and grown up in his blazer - it nearly brought a tear to me eye...sniff, sniff. And then on Friday, I took Sam and a couple of his friends to Smyths toy shop near us because The Miz (a WWE Superstar for those of you like me who aren't fans!), was making a personal appearance and my son is THE biggest wrestling fan!! He couldn't believe he was holding the actual championship belt and meeting a wrestling star, bless him, he was soooo excited. And that's my news! Back down to earth now - it's a bank holiday here in the UK tomorrow, so we'll probably have a family outing somewhere. Hope you've had a good weekend, wherever you are. Bye for now...................xx

Summer Flower Tilda

Morning! It's a bright new day and hopefully a new beginning for me (please check out last night's post if you want to know what I'm on about?!)........ and a new sketch challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp. This week, it was Gry's turn to set us to work and indeed she did! Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda coloured with Spectrum Noirs with stickles on her wings!

Papers - Nitwits 'Petal Fresh'

Flowers and Seam Binding - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Other - Bazzill Basics Kraft card, Shapes cut with Slice machine, Pearls from stash and butteflies cut with my new tonic punch!

Hope you like it! I finally got around to using one of the hundreds of magnolia stamps I've got. I seem to have a bit of an addiction to buying crafty stash and then not getting around to using it - if it just me or is it a general crafting afflication?!? I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• Magnolia-licious Challenge blog - Photo Inspiration challenge.
• Totally Tilda - Challenge #53 Tilda using Kraft card.
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge - 'Things with Wings'.
• Inspire me Fridays - #71 Always anything goes.
• Clearly Inspired - Challenge #57 'Things with Wings'.
• Hanna and Friends - Challenge #151 Summer card.
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes.

OK, I think that's about it for now. I hope I've still got some visitors left, I really appreciate you sticking with me - Sam's off to his aunt's for a few days tomorrow, so I'll have all day to craft and come round and visit you all, uninterrupted ;-) Bye for now..............xx

J'adore L'Amore!!!!!

There's a new release over at Cupcake Cards and Crafts - the collection is called L'Amour and it's all different shades of pinks and reds. It is perfect for valentine's day but it could also be used all year round and if you ask me, it's absolutely gorgeous!!! You can also win the collection by taking part in the February challenge at the Cupcake Craftroom, where the theme is 'Love and Romance'. The card I posted earlier was made using these papers and here's another couple of cards I've made using them:

The first card was really easy to make but I really like it cos that paper is so striking. All I did was cover the bottom half of a square card blank with some pale pink Papermania card, I then covered the top half of the card with the Cupcake's paper - cutting the bottom of this piece at an angle then I covered the join with lots of different coloured pink hearts that had been cut with my Slice. The sentiment is also from the paper collection.
The second card features Magnolia's Edwin watercoloured with distress inks (another one from the new collection) - this really is my favourite medium for rubber stamping, I just love the effect. As well as the papers from the L'Amour collection, I've also used some grey Papermania card, which I used my Slice to cut a scalloped heart outline for Edwin to stand upon, Gems from my stash, the ribbon is from Papermania too and lastly, a couple of flowers from Hobbycraft.
I'm also entering my card/s into the following challenges:

• Sketches by Carly - Sketch #22 (The Edwin one).
• Mojo Monday - Week 176 (The one with all the hearts!)
• Karen's Doodles - Challenge 48 Love (Red, Pink and White).
• Lexi's Creations - Challenge 32 Valentine's.
• Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central - Valentine's.
• The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Challenge #10 Be My Valentine.
• Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog - Challenge #6 Love is in the Air.
• Paper Sundaes - Challenge #54 Valentine's.
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog - Challenge #96 Whateva'
• Totally Gorjuss - Challenge 65 As you like it.

OK - I think that's about it!! There are sooooo many valentine's type challenge's going on at the moment! By the time it comes around I'm gonna be as fed up of making cards with hearts on as I was with Christmas cards!! Have a good day, everyone. I hope you'll leave me a comment. TTFN!