W for Whiskers

Good Morning All,

Well less than a week to go so hope you have finished all your Christmas preparations.

We have the last challenge of the year for you over on Alphabet Challenge where this week we are up to the letteer W and it is my choice so I have chosen:

W for Whiskers

Image - Mo's digital

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers ; LOTV, American Crafts

Sentiment - LOTV

Santa Charm - All About Beads

Ribbon, Glamour Dust

Charmed I'm Sure

Well here I am back with my second post of the day this time for My Time to Craft, where our challenge this week is:

Charmed I'm Sure

(let's see a charm on your project)

Card Recipe:

Image - Lacy Sunshine

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - LOTV, MME, Papermania

Tree Charm & small snowflake charms - All About Beads

Silver Webbing, Ribbon, Sentiment, Glamour Dust

Christmas Cheers!

Good Morning,

Here again with my second post of the day for our challenge at "Sparkles Christmas Challenge".  Our challenge this month has been set by our lovely teamie Sandra and she has chosen:

More than three embellishments

Our fabulous sponsor this month is:

Crafty Ribbons with a prize of a £10 voucher

Image - Di's Digis

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Kaisercraft

Poinsettia die - Marianne

Background die - Joycrafts

Stocking charm - All About Beads

Sentiment, Adhesive Crystals, Pearls, Ribbon, Glamour Dust, Card Candy

Blue Christmas

Good Morning All,

Hope everyone is well and enjoying some of the sunshine which seems to be around at the moment in between showers.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Fab'n'Funky and as it is the last Wednesday of the month our challenge will be:

* * *  Christmas  * * * 

Our fabulous Sponsor this week is

Lacy Sunshine

The Winner gets to choose 3 digi's from their Store.

The DT were so lucky to be able to choose their own digi's to play with and I chose:

 Snowflake Quality Control

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Papermania, LOTV

Frame - Nesties

Snowflake charms - All About Beads

Cheery Lynn Die - Snowflakes

Ribbon, sentiment, glamour dust

Challenges Entered:

Shopping our Stash - Heavy Metal

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Blue and White

Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute with Spots and Dots

Kaboodle Doodles - Use Ribbon

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Monochromatic

Lexi's Creations - Monochromatic

Brown Sugar Challenge - Use a Charm

Cut it Up - Winter Fun using Blue and White

Patties Creations - Spots or Dots

Christmas Blog Challenge - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Love/Valentine

Good Morning,

I do hope you are all well and keeping dry, the news of all the flooding in the south is dreadful and my heart goes out to all those people who are having to deal with this terrible situation.  We have no flooding around here but had a mixed bag of weather yesterday, most of the day was sunny then late afternoon we had thunder, lightening and hail!!!!!!

On to today where we have a new challenge starting for you over on the Fab'n'Funky blog, this week our host is the lovely Dawn and she has chosen the theme:

Love/Valentine

Our sponsor this week is:

The Paper Shelter

and the winner will receive a $20 Gift Certificate

Do take a look at the blog to see some lovely creations made by the Design Team using some fabulous images from The Paper Shelter which we were lucky enough to play with.

Card Recipe:

Image - Kisses by Paper Shelter
Colouring Medium - Copics
Papers - First Edition
Sentiment - LOTV
Heart dies - Memory Box
Heart charm - All About Beads
Flower - Wild Orchid
Ribbon, punched corners, punched leaves

Challenges Entered:

The Paper Shelter - Be My Valentine
Fantastic Tuesday - Romance
PaperMinutes - Love is in the Air
Papertake Weekly - With a Heart
Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Valentine
Kaboodle Doodles - To My Sweetheart
LexisCreations - Valentines Day/Love
Ooh La La Creations - Use a Heart
That Craft Place - Valentine
A Gem of a Challenge - All you need is Love

Happy New Year

Good Morning and a Happy New Year.

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve and that 2014 will be a happy and prosperous one for you.

As it is the first of the month we have a new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge where this month our challenge is brought to us by our team member Helen N:

More than One Fold

Our sponsor this month is the super Di's Digis with a prize of a $10 voucher.

Hope to see you joining in our challenge and making a start on your Christmas cards!!!!!!!!!!

I decided to make a stepper card:

Image - Lili of the Valley

Colouring Medium - Copics

Paper - Papermania

Large Tree die - Marianne

Smaller Trees - Punches

Snowflakes and Snowman charms - All About Beads

Sentiment, Glamour Dust and Ribbon

Challenges Entered:

Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas
Crafty Boots - Snow and Sparkle
Get Inky - Winter Snow
Ooh La La - Winter Wonderland
Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas
Di's Digis - Anything Christmas
A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

Anything but a Card

Good Morning

Before  I get on to today's DT project I would like to tell you about a fantastic SALE which has started on my daughter's website, fabulous beads, findings, charms etc, all with great discounts, why not pop over and take a look you won't be disappointed.

ALL ABOUT BEADS

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Now as it is the 1st October it's time for the monthly challenge at Sparkles Christmas Challenge Blog where today's challenge is:

Anything But a Card

(Don't forget though that it must be a Christmas project)

Our Sponsor this month is:

Di's Digi Downloads
with a prize of $10 to spend in her digi shop

I decided to make a Pillow Gift Box, I used a piece of Kanban card, an Anna Griffin template, cut the Poinsettia in Mulberry paper with a Marianne die, added some ribbon and a sentiment from Hannilie (Desert Diva)

Challenges Entered:

Totally Gorjuss - Traditional Christmas Colours

Little Miss Muffet Challenge - We Wish You a Merry Christmas

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a card
Whoopsi Daisy - Anything but a card
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Do You Like Beads?

Do you like Beads?

Do you like making your own jewellery?

Then this is for YOU.

ALL ABOUT BEADS

My daughters new Website is now up and running, lots of gorgeous beads, bead mixes, lampwork beads, findings, charms, watch faces everything for your jewellery making needs and some items can be used in cardmaking.

If you visit the site and add yourself to the mailing list you can get 50% off your first order, and UK p & p is only £1.90 per order. Offer closes on 31st May 2012.