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

Ahoy Matey (and a Proud Mum Moment!)

Evening! It's time for my second GDT post for Paper Cupcakes and this week, there's a fab freebie image to work with (it's only free til Wednesday though, so make sure you hop over and grab it quick!) and it's a recipe challenge - 1 embossing folder or dry embossing of some sort, 1 or more die or punch, 1 ribbon, twine, string or something of the like, 1 or more buttons and use glitter or some sort of sparkle. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - 'Ahoy Mate' by Paper Cupcakes coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

Papers - Rusty Pickle.

Dies - Tim Holtz 'Weathered Clock' die and MFT die-namics 'Mini Flag' dies.

Other - Docrafts embossing folder, Vintage Photo distress ink, Eyelets, Crop-a-dile and Twine, Black card and Pirate coin buttons - all from stash. For the glitter part of the recipe, I also used my sakura stardust pen to highlight the writing on the flags but I don't think you can see it very well in the pic!?!

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

• The Crafty Pad - Challenge 188 Autumn Colours.
• Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C154 Anything Goes with an Autumn twist.
• Digi Design Challenges - Use more than 1 Die Cut or Punch.
• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Autumnal Colour Scheme.
• Fun with Shapes and More - Challenge 117 Cards with an Animal.
• Raise the Bar - Challenge 111 'I believe I can fly' Anything with Wings.
• Our Craft Lounge - Challenge 134 Use Twine.
• Digi Haven - Fins or Feathers Free digi challenge.

Phew! I think that's it. Don't forget to hop over to 'There's Magic in the Air' with Paper Cupcakes and join in!!
Before I go, I just wanted to share my 'proud Mum moment' with you - my son, Sam started secondary school today and of course, I couldn't let him leave this morning without the obligatory photo shoot! Here's my handsome boy in his new uniform:

(Sorry, I can't get it to appear the right way up - if anyone can tell me how, I'd love to know!) Just turn your head sideways for now ;-)
Hope you like my card and piccie. Thanks for visiting..............xxx

It's My Birthday, It's My Birthday!!!!!!!!

Whoop, whoop - can you tell I'm excited?!? And I'm not going to tell you how old I am!! And so - apologies for my post being a wee bit late but as it's my birthday, I think you can cut me a bit of slack lol!! And so, onto my post - there's a new challenge starting today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it's a fab sketch from Barbara. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Hanglar watercoloured with Distress Inks, Papers - Magnolia, Red card - Papermania, Flowers (cherry and sweetheart blossoms), Lace and Heart Pin - All Wild Orchid Crafts, Sentiment - Craftwork Cards, Die - Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations and Cuttlebug, Other - Beaded chain from stash.

Yep, I finally inked up one of my many Hanglar stamps - and used it on a card!! I spent some time watercolouring lots of images with DIs over the last few days, so expect to see them on my cards over the coming weeks.

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

• CES Challenges - Challenge #65 A Traditional Christmas.
• Crafty Hazelnuts - Challenge 50 Traditional Christmas.
• One Stop Craft Challenges - Week #161 Traditional Christmas Colours.
• Cardmakin' Mamas - Challenge #35 Christmas.
• Stampin' for the Weekend - Challenge #22 Christmas.
• Colour Create - Challenge 85 Red, White and Green.
• Crafty Ribbons - Challenge 8 Traditional Colours for Christmas.

 And I think that's about it! I don't know if you saw the post from me the other day about this darned computer and all the problems I've had with it. It's really not been right for months now and it's really been getting on my nerves - to the point that I don't even want to use it at times - well, by the end of the week my problems should be solved cos I'll be taking delivery of a new 'puter!!!!! So - expect to see me back to my blogging and commenting best very soon - and I hope I can win back all of the crafty friends that I seem to have lost!! Bye for now....................xx