HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE 45!

Hello well i managd to have a play with my new pique-nique paper's they are gorgeous and teamed with this mega cute HH's image.Their chllenge this week is to use your favourite HH's stamp!This was one of the hardest challenge's as i love ALL my HH's stamps... so how do you choose???

IMAGE - High Hopes

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - Pique-Nique

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLISHMENTS - Prima flower's,PM brad's and Handstitching

Thanks for looking xx

ONE CARD THREE CHALLENGES!!!

Well this is a first for me I have actually managed to amke a card that combines 3 challenges lol.

The first is ANYONE FOR ANYA which is to use funky flower's.The paper's ive used are full of flower's but you can't see them as they're all covered up lol which you will see it on the inside of the card.

The second is PAPERTAKE WEEKLY which is a fab sketch love Dawny's sketches always so much fun to work with!

The third is the CREATIVE CARD CREW CHALLENGE which is to decorate the inside of your card which i try to do in all of my card's as it just finishes the card for me.

IMAGE - Anya(TGF)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

SENTIMENT - Stamps away

PAPER - Dovecraft

EMBELLISHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops, tulle and Handstitching.

Well the postie bought my prize that i won from silly monkey crafts the whole Pique-Nique collection! It's yummy can't wait to have a play! :)

Oh yes before I forget I just want to say WELL DONE to my eldest son Kian for doing me so proud today in his assembly.He played the role of Vincent van gogh so well bless him! :)

THE SUGAR BOWL CHALLENGE 19

Evening!Second post today!This card is for The sugar bowl challenge which is a fab sketch by Marlene!And to qualify for the prize you also had to use the colour's pink and brown...one of my fave colour combo's! :)

IMAGE - Flower girl (Sugar nellie)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

SENTIMENT - CCSR Sentiments

PAPER - DCWV Nana's nursery(i think???)

EMBELLISHMENTS - Robin's nest dew drops, PM brad's, X-cut flower punches, sizzix tag die and Handstitching!

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you leave :)

JUST MAGNOLIA MEETS SIMON SAYS!

Hello!Here's a double challenge card from me today.Over at Just Magnolia there is a fab sketch by Bev!And over at Simon says the challenge is to use stitching on your creations.Well you should all know by now how much i love to stitch on my card's lol.So I just had to enter this week! I've used an 8x8 card as i did'nt want to cover up these gorgeous magnolia paper's

IMAGE - Tilda

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

SENTIMENT - Stamps away

PAPER - Magnolia

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Sizzix swirl die, poppicrafts ribbon,MS border punch and Handstitching

Thanks for looking and for any comments you leave :)

ROP CHALLENGE 21 - STITCHES!

Well you know how much I love stitching on my card's!Can't seem to make a card without it these days lol.So when I saw this week's ROSES ON PAPER challenge I just had to enter and it gave me a great excuse to show off this little beauty from the Belles'n'whistles range. Is'nt she adoreable!!

IMAGE - Belles'n'whistles

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - Basicgrey Lemonade

SENTIMENT -Craftwork cards

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Sisal from bunnyzoes, Prima flower's,PM brad's and Handstitching ofcourse!

Well best get the tea dished out...Have a lovely evening and thanks for stopping by!

FRIDAY SKETCHERS MEETS COLOUR CREATE!

Morning!Well mr postie bought my cute stamps so i just had to colour some up and here's one of those cuties!I love these new CC Designs Halloween stamps.I just love halloween themed things lol.When i saw the COLOUR CREATE colour combo which is NEON GREEN and BLACK I knew straight away i wanted to make a halloween card and then today i saw the FRIDAY SKETCHERS sketch and just had to combine them!I've used some of my gorgeous new Bo bunny halloween paper's too

IMAGE - Emma witch (CC Designs)

COLOUR MEDIUM -Polychromos pencils

PAPER - Bo bunny

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Flower's are woodware and papermania, brad's are papermania, sizzix web texture plate, leone elm leaf punch,ribbon from poppicrafts,oval nestabilities, black stones from stash and handstitching!

Thanks for looking xx

STAMPIN' CHIC SKETCH CHALLENGE DT CARD!

Morning!Hope you're all enjoying your friday?Here's my DT card for this week's Stampin' Chic challenge which is a lovely sketch!I decided to go with a christmas theme as I was dying to play with my FF stamp again I love this image.And to keep in with the theme I decided to replace the scalloped circle on the sketch with the snowflakes.. I thinks it look's rather pretty?So if you have one of clare's products please pop over and have a go there's a prize up for grabs this week!Also check out the other DT's card' they're fab!

Products used:Forever friends stamp,CCSR The Big One stack and Sentiment,Papermania textured cardstock,X-cut snowflake punch and Papermania adhesive stones.

Thanks for stopping by today!I'm waiting impatiently for the postie to bring me some rather cute stamps i'm just itching to ink lol!

Hope you all have a fab weekend!

JUST MAGNOLIA - EMBOSSING!

Afternoon.I made two card's for this week's Just Magnolia challenge as I just love my new Tilda's,absolutely love colouring these.These card's are also rather simple not sure i'm happy with them but they're all stuck down now so it's too late to change anything lol.I hope you can see the embossing?

IMAGE - Magnolia

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - DCWV AND MAGNOLIA paper's

SENTIMENT - Studio g and craftwork cards

EMBELLISHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops, cuttlebug swirls and swiss dots embossing folder's, MS punch and Handstitching ofcourse!

Thanks for looking and for taking the time to leave a commnet :)

TWO CHALLENGES

TRULY SCRUMPTIOUS CHALLENGE 15
This first card is for the Truly Scrumptious challenge which was a fab sketch!
IMAGE - Elisabeth Bell(SN)
COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils
PAPER - MME
EMBELLSIHMENTS - X-cut flower and circle punches,robins nest dew drops and Handstitching

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS CHALLENGE 26

This second card is for Creative Inspirations which was another fab sketch and I decided to make a christmas card for this one.

IMAGE - Miss snow anya
COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils
SENTIMENT - KARS
PAPER - DCWV Christmas stack(last years)
EMBELLISHMENTS - Poppicrafts ribbon,robins nest dew drops and Handstitching

Thanks for looking,hope you're all having a fab monday! xx

SKETCH AND STASH CHALLENGE 18

Well i'm cutting this a little fine as the dead lines tommorrow but I just had to have a play with this fab sketch over at Sketch and stash!My new stash is my Sugar nellie stamp 'windswept' i just love her hair lol and my neglected stash is these gorgeous Bloom and grow paper's from MME.Had them ages and only just started to cut them up!

IMAGE - 'Windswept' (SN)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - MME Bloom and grow

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLISHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops, Nestabilities snowflakes set 1, x-cut flower punch,Pm brad's and Handstitching.

Thanks for looking and for taking the time to leave a comment :)

STAMP SOMETHING CHALLENGE

Hi just a quick post while the adverts are on cuz ive got to get back to me X factor lol

This card is for the Stamp something challenge and this week the theme is favourite embellishments.Well I have so many but my fave embellishment at the moment is punched flower's because you can match to your paper's exactly.I have actually used one of the new spellbinders nestabilties snowflake die's to create the flower's on this card along with an x-cut flower punch layered on top.

IMAGE - SN

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - DCWV Green stack

SENTIMENT - Studio g

EMBELLISHMENTS - Nestabilities snowflake die set 1,x-cut flower punch,robins nest dew drops,sheer ribbon from stash and Handstitching,

Thanks for looking xx

PAPERTAKE WEEKLY

Hi just a quick post to show you my card for this weeks PTW challenge which is a fab sketch i shall use again for sure

IMAGE - Diane Duda (SN)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - MME

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLISHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops and Handstitching

Thanks for looking off to make the most of this lovely weather we're having, enjoy your day whatever you're doing :)

HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE 43

Evening! The challenge this week at High Hopes is 'Fall into autumn' so i just had to dig out 'Tidy up Tillie' and these provocraft paper's ive had years! I just love these colour's.

IMAGE - High Hopes 'Tidy up Tillie'

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - Provocraft

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops and Handstitching(you probably think i'm mad but i find it extremely therapeutic lol)

Well thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to leave a comment :)

FRIDAY SKETCHERS #68

Another fab sketch over at FRIDAY SKETCHERS I just could'nt resist having a play with!And I finally got round to using my Heidi among flowers stamp too with yet again these gorgeous MME paper's...prepare to get get bored of these as i've coloured up more images to match them lol.

IMAGE - CCDesigns

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - MME Bloom and Grow

CARDSTOCK - Core'dinations

SENTIMENT - Studio g(new from Hobbycraft and a bargain at 99p!)

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Robins nest dew drops and handstitching

Thanks for stopping by today and taking the time to leave a comment :)

JUST MAGNOLIA -WK 21

I just had to play with the Mina's fab sketch this week,too good not to!Plus it gave me a reason to use this mega cute stamp!And I finally used my MME Bloom and grow paper's!I've had them ages and can't believe it's taken me until now to use them!

IMAGE - Magnolia

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - MME

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Snowflake nestabilities, x-cut flower punch, Robins nest dew drops and handstitching.

Thanks for stopping by xx

SENDING YOU HUGS

Evening all! I made this card using the fab sketch from last week's stamp with fun challenge.Eventhough i was too late to enter I just had to have a play with this fab sketch and ofcourse I needed a sketch to go with the gorge new sarah kay stamp that fell through my letter box today :).Is'nt she lovely? She went perfectly with these new MME paper's I've got.

IMAGE - Noel Joy(Sarah Kay)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - MME

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLISHMENTS - Snowflake and oval nestabilities, x-cut flower punch,Leone elm punch, ribbon from stash, robins nest dew drops and handstitching

thanks for visiting today and for taking the time to a leave a comment :)

WOULD ANYONE LIKE THESE???

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!
The person chosen by Random.ORG was number 34 which is MONI! Congratulations Moni if you could e-mail me your address i'll get it sent out to you!Thanks to everyone who entered :)

Hello everyone!I've been having a sort out and thought I might aswell send these to a good home as I don't use them.

All I ask is that you put a link to this candy in your sidebar and it would be really nice if you became a follower but it's not essential.

I will pick someone at random a week today (sunday 13th september).

Whats included;

Cut-n-Dry stamp pad felt

Copic bleedproof marker pad(A4)

6 Promarkers(Cinnamon, Ivory, Dusky pink, Satin, Blush and Magenta)

10 Copic ciao's(Golden yellow, Forest green, Coral, Prussian blue, Chamois, Pale grape, Skin white, Pinkish white, Dull ivory and Blush)

Hugs Amanda xx

STAMPIN' CHIC DT CARD - GLITTER!

Evening!This week over on the Stampin' chic blog it's technique week and this week we'd like to see you use glitter on your card's!Here's my attempt and please check out the other DT's card's as they're fab!

Products used: Papermania(TM)CCSR The Big One stack,Papermania(TM)textured cardstock,Anita's(TM) everyday ribbon and Doodlebug(TM)sugar coated adhesive chipboard letters

Thanks for looking!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE!!!

Well my baby turned 6 today at 12.13pm to be exact (after a gruelling 0 minutes of labour!...he was delivered by c-section lol). You can't beat that feeling of hearing your baby cry for the first time :)

So as you've already seen the card I made him from me and his dad, his older brother kian made him three!will have to pop them on here to show you...he would be trhilled :)

I thought i'd share the card's i'd been asked to make for him from my aunty and Nan.

He loved all his card's btw :)

If you want to know what any of the products just ask! :)

Thanks for looking and for any comments you might leave.xx

THE SUGAR BOWL!

Hi just a quick post to show you my entry into this week's Sugar bowl challenge which was another fab sketch and the added extra of button's.

IMAGE - Leanne Ellis

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

SENTIMENT - SN

PAPER - Craftwork cards

EMBELSIHMENTS - PM heart buttons, Anita's ribbon, various nestabilities, PM adhesive shimmer dots and handstitching

Thanks for looking xx

COLOUR CREATE #26 MEETS ROSES ON PAPER #19

Me again!I have'nt played along with Colour create for a while so thought it was time i did as it's one of my fave challenges!I'm also entering this card into thr Roses on paper challenge as their challenge this week is to use punches with another challenges sketch and i've used my woodware leaf punch on this card.The colour theme this week over on Colour create is Ruby,Cream and Gold and thought this miss anya suited those colour's perfectly!

IMAGE - Anya (TGF)

COLOUR MEDIUM - Polychromos pencils

PAPER - DCWV Luxury stack

SENTIMENT - PM CCSR Sentiments

EMBELLISHMENTS - Woodware leaf punch, PM & Poppicrafts flower's, Poppicrafts ribbon, Robins nest dew drops, Oval & rectangle nestabilities and Handstitching

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave :) xx

BASICGREY - WK2 BROWN,YELLOW & PINK

Hi here's my effort for the Baiscgrey challenge which is a colour combo and a yummy one at that!

IMAGE - Basicgrey

INK - Staz on timber brown

PAPER - Two scoops

EMBELLSIHMENTS - Various nestabilities, maya road ribbon, craftwork card's candy and sentiment and handstitching

Thanks for looking :)