Champion Dad

Good Morning

It's Wednesday so time for a new challenge over at Fab'n'Funky where this week our host is the lovely Anne-Marie with a challenge of:

"Father's Day or for the Men in your Life"

We have a great sponsor this week:

The Paper Shelter

The Prize is a fantastic $20 to spend in their Store.

I still haven't got around to any crafting since my holiday so for my card I have one I made a few weeks ago:

Card Recipe:

Image - Lili of the Valley

Papers - Joanna Sheen and stash

Rosette - laser cut with rub on in the centre

Computer generated sentiment, card candy

Christmas in Blue and White

Good Sunday Morning to You,

The sun is shining and it looks like another nice day is on the agenda.  It's the first of June so time for a new challenge at Sparkles Christmas Challenge where this month our challenge is brought to you by our lovely Jo and she has chosen to challenge you to choose your:

Favourite Colour Combo

We have a super sponsor for you this month:

   Marianne Designs

With a prize of 2 dies or 1 die and 1 stamp

For my card I have used a favourite colour combo of Blue and White, the papers are from my stash, the snowflake circle is a Joycrafts die, I added a sentiment, snowflake charms, ribbon and Glamour Dust.

Come and join us and get ahead with your Christmas cards, there's some great inspiration on the Challenge blog.

A little bit of Doodling

Good Morning,

Hope everyone is well, I have been on holiday in the Cotswolds, had a lovely time visiting places I have never been before including Stonehenge, Bath, Castle Coombe to name but a few.  I have been back for a few days but am finding in hard to get back into crafting and blogging, luckily I had my card made for today's challenge before I went away and hopefully I will get around to visiting you all this weekend.

On to the challenge today at My Time to Craft where the challenge is:

"No Design Papers"

(so ink it, emboss it, stamp it but no DP)

Image - Sherrie Baldy

Colouring Medium - Copics

Memory Box - Wildflower corner die

Nesties - Frame

Sentiment, Pearls

Doodled square around the edge

Do take a look at the great inspiration from the DT on the challenge blog.

Challenges entered:

Left of Centre challenge - Girly

A Creative Romance - Girly

Stampin for the Weekend - For the Girls

Sweetstamps challenge - No Designer Papers

Squigglefly - Square cards

Let's Dance

Good Morning,

Oooh turned a bit cold, wet and windy these last few days here, let's hope the sunshine returns soon, in the meantime we have a new challenge over on My Time to Craft, our challenge this week is:

A recipe

Please choose three items from the following list and use them in your project:

2 images

stripey design paper

3 or more eyelets

double bow (ribbon, twine, cord etc)

gate fold

easel card

blue

3 flowers

3 buttons

I have used - Stripey paper, Blue, 3 Buttons

Image - Wendy Burns

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Papermania

Memory Box Corner die, cut out twice in white and blue

Used the white as outline and filled the flowers with the blue

Sentiment, buttons, pearls, adhesive stones

Challenges entered:

Paper Crafting Journey - Spots and/or Stripes

Southern Girls Challenge - Dots and spots

Little Red Wagon - Spots

Crazy Challenge - Stripes

Pretty Hair

Good Morning,

Hope you are all well and that you enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend.  

We have a new challenge starting for you today over at Fab'n'Funky, it has been set for us by our lovely teamie Pat K who has chosen:

Pretty Hair

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Lacy Sunshine who allowed the Design Team to pick some awesome images to play with and who is giving a super prize of 3 digis to the winner this week.

My card will be for my daughter Lorna's birthday which is on Thursday and

 I chose this gorgeous image Annie's Tulips available here

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - My Mind's Eye

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Leaves - Sue Wilson die, quilled leaves

Butterfly die - Cheery Lynn

Dragonfly charm, lace, ribbon, sentiment, pearls

Do take a look at the challenge blog to see the fabulous creations by the Design Team and hope to see your entries.

Challenges entered:

Cutie Pie Challenge - April showers bring May flowers

DigiMakeover - Anything Goes with a Digi

Love to Create - Say it with Flowers

One Stitch at a Time - Ribbon or Lace

The Ribbon Girl - Flowers

 Moving Along with the Times - Pretty Pastels

Art Deco

Good Morning,

Hope you are all well and looking forward to the Bank Holiday weekend, looks like the sun will shine so I hope you all have a good time whatever you have planned.

To start the weekend we have a new challenge over at My Time to Craft where the challenge this week is:

Art Deco

Do pop over to the blog and take a look at the fabulous creations by the Design Team.

Image - Free Debbie Moore download

Papers - First Edition

Sentiment - See D stamp

Ribbon, Pearls, Doily, Feather

Baby It's Cold Outside

Good Morning,

Oh my goodness first day of May, where did April go?  

Well as it is the first of the month it's time for a new challenge over on Sparkles Christmas Challenge where this month our theme has been chosen by our lovely Brenda and she has chosen:

Baby It's Cold Outside

so let's see Hats/Scarves/Gloves/Boots etc

Image and sentiment - LOTV
Colouring medium - Copics
Papers - My Mind's Eye
Star label, string, ribbon glamour dust

Challenges entered:

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon
Paper Crafting Journey - Spots and/or Stripes
My Perfect Life - Merry & Bright
The Glory of Christmas - Bows
52cct - Glitter

Our fabulous sponsor this month is:


Marianne Design

with a great prize for the winner