Guest Designer at One Stop Crafts Challenge

Kenny K Downloads  is sponsoring

  One Stop Crafts Challenge this week
and its a privilege to be given the task as Guest Designer for the challenge.


The Theme at One Stop Crafts Challenge is:


Easter.

I've used Bodacious Bev along with the Ear's,Egg's,
Bow and Basket from the "Easter Accessories"

I think she looks pretty cute in pastels!


Today's other challenges are:


Dream Valley, Anthing Goes Challenge, Cute Card Thursday, Delightful Challenges, Paper Play ,
  Charisma Cardz ,  Card Crafters Circle, Polka Doodles and Oldie But a Goodie ~ Easter.
Simon Say's Stamp ~ Anthing Goes.

Ingredients:

Pink Petticoat ~ PP.
Papermania ~ CS
Digi Stamps ~ Kenny K Downloads.
Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.
Marvy Le Plume Liquid applique.
Copic's & stickles.
Pearls from stash.

Sketch Saturday ~ # 201 with The Craft Barn.

Today at Sketch Saturday we have The Craft Barn 

back for their regular monthly sponsorship spot.

This weeks prize is a generous Gift Voucher to spend at The Craft Barn

Here's this weeks Sketch from Jo!

Today's other challenges:

Dream Valley, Anthing Goes Challenge, Cute Card Thursday, Delightful Challenges, Paper Play ,

  Charisma Cardz , Card Crafters Circle, Polka Doodles  and Oldie But a Goodie ~ Easter.

Simon Say's Stamp ~ Anthing Goes.

Ingredients:

PP & Digi Stamp ~ Pink Petticoat

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pearls from my stash.

Punch ~ Martha Stewart.

CS ~ SU!

Stickles & Copic's.

A Heather Ellis Day

Well you don't see her day's and then she appears with three cards all at once!

I was lucky enough to win these three Heather Ellis Digi Stamps 

and today was the perfect occasion to use them.

Easter Wishes.

The Crafty Pad ~ Sketch with "Some Bunny loves You!"

The Cutie Pie Challenge ~ Pink with a Rabbit.

Dream Valley, Anything Goes Challenge, Cute Card Thursday and Paper Play ~ Easter.

Paper Sundaes ~ Spring Blossoms.

City Crafter & Creative Card Crew ~ Spring.

Papercraft Star ~ Easter with an Egg. 

Swing into Spring!

Creative Inspiration ~ Sketch.

Bearly Mine Challenges ~ 3 PP, 2 Butterflies & 1 Image.

The Pink Elephant & Rainbow Lady ~ Butterflies.

Paper Pretties ~ Bling.
Stamptacular ~ Blue, Butterflies and Bling.

Here comes Nursey!

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketch.

Truly Scrumptious ~ Lace.

One Stop Crafts Challenge ~ Clean & Simple.

Simon Say's Stamp ~ Anything Goes.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Digi Stamps ~ Heather Ellis.

Punches ~ SU & MS.

Dies ~ Spellbinders.

Roses & Buds ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon, Lace, Gem's & Pearls from Stash.

Kenny K Krafty Girlz ~ Fun & Games!

Before we go on this week bring's another fabulous

set of realease's  from Kenny's Anime Manga collection!

Kenny has given 5 Digi Stamps of the winner's choice as a prize for this week and 

Crafty Emma also has a gift voucher of £ ............for her online store!

This weeks Theme is "Fun & Games"

To go with this weeks new releases the with this theme.

We'd like to see projects using an  image of someone doing something Fun!.

My son loves his Drum Lesson's so thought this one would be perfect for his birthday earlier this week!

This video shows the Action Wobble in "action"

Other challenges for today's card are: 

Paper Pretties ~ New Technique { using Wobble Springs}

Ingredients:


PP ~ Pink Petticoat.
Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K.
Action Wobble Spring.
Number's ~ AC Thickers.
Die's ~ Spellbinders.
CS ~ Core'dinations.
Coloured with Copic's.

Sketch Saturday ~ #200 with Bugaboo.

This week at Sketch Saturday we are joined by one of my favourites Bugaboo!

and here's what you could win!! 

Fantastic eh!!

Here's this weeks fabby sketch, the possibilities are endless!

I flipped the sketch on its side this week!

Our sponsor very generously gave us some fab digi's to play with I chose to use Gus " Recount"

Other challenges for today's card are:

Totally Papercrafts ~ Humour.
Totally Gorgeous ~ Spots & Stripes.
Fun with Shapes ~ Stripes.
Whimsy Inspirations, Creative Inspiration, Stamping For The Weekend &
  Cute Card Thursday ~ Anything Goes!

Ingredients:

PP ~ We Are Memory Keeper's.

Digital Stamp ~ Bugaboo.

Die's ~ Whimsy & Spellbinder's.
White Gel Pen & Glossy Accents.

Coloured with Copic's.

The Crafty Purple Frog ~ Anything Goes!

Today bring's a new challenges from the me and girls at The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge

and this fortnight it's everybody's favourite.....

Anything Goes!!

Today's over challenges are:


Whimsy Inspirations, Creative Inspiration & Cute Card Thursday ~ Anything Goes!
Basic Grey Challenges ~ Girlie.

Ingredients:

Enchanting Gold Decoupage sheet from The Crafty Purple Frog.

PP ~ Basic Grey " Marjolaine".

Perfect Pearls & Stickles.

Ribbon & Pins from Stash.

Happy 10th Birthday Aiden!

Well its that time of the year again when my youngest makes me feel old!!

It hardly seem possible that 10years have gone by!

This the beginning of this year Aiden started Kuk Sool Won which is a Korean Martial Art similar to Karate.

 I used this as inspiration for this years birthday card.

Today's challenges are:

Fun with Shape ~ Stripes.

Totally Papercrafts ~ Male card.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Happy Birthday.

Delightful Challenges ~ Someone Special.

Ingredients:

Stamp ~ LOTV.

Sentiment ~ Computer Generated.

Rosette ~ Jenni Bowlin.

Ribbons from stash.

Core'dinations.

Coloured with Copic's.

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Time.

This week at Crafty Cardmakers the challenge is set by J and we are sponsored by

Di Digi Downloads 

Di Digi Downloads is giving a fabulous $10.00 Gift Voucher.

and also we have The Stamp Man.

Our second prize winner will receive a wonderful £10.00 Gift Voucher from The Stamp Man.

The Theme this fortnight is:
"Time!"

Today's challenges are:

Creative Card Crew ~ Vintage
Whimsy Inspiration ~ Embossing.
Bunny Zoe Crafts ~ Shabby/Vintage.
Incy Wincy ~ Things with Wing's

Ingredients:

I've used backing paper from Bearly Mine Designs with Core'dinations Cardstock.

Tim Holtz "Pocket Watches" Embossing folder with lots of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Lot's of Stickles & Perfect Pearls with some chain and beads from a 

broken old necklace and some lace from my stash.

Kenny K Krafty Girlz ~ One for the Boyz!

Its Team A's turn to set the challenge this week, Thank you to everyone who played along with Team B's "Going Green for Mother's Day"! 

This weeks sponsors are Kenny K Downloads of course

Kenny has 5 digital stamps of the winner's choice as this weeks prize 

Also sponsoring us this week is Crafty Emma Store and the prize is a voucher to spend in their store.

After last weeks girly theme this week it's that "Ole favourite!" 

One for the Boyz!

Lucky Green!

Happy St Patrick's Day to All my Irish friends.

Its been another one of those week's everyone in this house has something wrong with them Aiden was off from school for a week went back for a day and was poorly again!! Then James came home from work with Manfluenza! If thats not enough Laurie comes over for the weekend and then spends it in bed after vomiting this morning!! Well I'm off to work this evening so they can keep their germs to themselves!

Today's Card is for a mountain of St Patricks Day Inspired Challenges!

Card Crafter's Circle ~ Pot of Gold. {Gold Stickles}

Raise the Bar ~ Four Leaf Clover.

Sweet Pea Stampers ~ Luck of the Irish.

The Naughty Step,  Rainbow lady  &  Crazy4Challenges  ~ St Patrick's Day.

The Sweet Stop ~ Sketch # with Green.

One Sweet Challenge & Dare to be Sassy ~ Monochrome. 

Allsorts ~ 3 in a row.

Kaboodle Doodle, Papercraft Star & Simon Say's Stamp ~ Green.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Bearly Mine Designs.

Decoupage ~ The Crafty Purple Frog.

Stamp ~ Dovecraft.

Ribbon & Gem's from stash.

Shamrocks cut on Silhouette.

CS ~ Core'dinations.
Gold Ice Stickles.

Rockin Dude!

It's my Little Dude's Birthday next week {Well ok not so little at 10 but he's still my baby} and it's got me in the mood for "Boy" cards!

Today's make is for challenges at:

Quixotic Inspirations ~ Sketch.

Scrapology ~ Use a Digital Image.

Polka Doodles ~ Boy's & Men.

Anything Goes Challenges ~ Boyz 2 Men.

Crafts & Me ~ Circles.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K.

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Die's ~ Spellbinder's.

Card Base cut on Silhouette.

Action Wobble springs.

Coloured with Copic's.

And here's the ActionWobble Spring in "Action"! 

Hooked on Crochet ~ Mum's Summer Shrug.

First is a Shrug I've made for my Mum's Mother's Day Pressie. 

Mum doesn't have internet access so  know she won't see this!

Pattern was bought from a lady on Craftsy. 

You can fond her pattern's here  LazyTCrochet.

and a Matinee Jacket for a work friends bump made using pattern from Purple Linda Crafts.

Wool used for both project is Stylecraft Special Double Knit in Cardinal & Lemon.

Size 6mm hook for Shrug and 3.5 & 4mm hooks for Matinee Jacket.

Buttons from stash.

Kenny K Krafty Girlz ~ Going Green for Mothering Sunday!

March is my favourite month of the year, spring is well on the way and all the flower's baby animals are starting to appear, it makes me feel all warm and cuddly!

Thank you to all those who played along with "Bloom & Grow"  last week.

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz are back this week with another Krafty challenge for you.

Our first sponsor for this week is of course Kenny K Downloads 

and as alway's our prize from Kenny is 5 digital stamps of our winner's choice.

This weeks second sponsor is Marianne design.

Here's what you could win from Marianne Design.

This Fabulous Stamp and wonderful set of dies too!!

Going Green for Mothering Sunday.

Your challenge is to make a Mother's Day Card using green as your main colour!

Today's other challenges are:

Raise the Bar ~ Go Green.
Craft Your Day's Away & Dream Valley ~ Mother's day.
One Stop Crafts ~ Mother's Day with Ribbons.
The Crafty Pad ~ Mum's the word!

Ingredients:

Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K Downloads.

PP & Alpha's ~ Pink Petticoat.

Flower's ~ Prima.

Ribbon ~ eBay.

Gem's ~ Papermania.

Coloured with Copic's.

Sketch Saturday ~ # 198 with Simon Say's Stamp.

Simon Say's Stamp are back with us for another Fabby sketch at Sketch Saturday.

As ever their generosity knows no bounds and the prize is a fabulous 

$25.00 gift voucher for their online store.

Jo's made us a super sketch for this week!

and here's my make for this week.

Today's other challenges are:

Creative Inspirations ~ Green & Cream.
Totally Papercrafts ~ Favourite Things {Pink Petticoat Paper's}
Raise the Bar ~ Go Green.

Ingredients :

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Digi Stamp ~ The Saturated Canary.

Raindrops.

Coloured with Copic's.

Frantage Glass Glitter.

I did it again! I made Top 3 at Dilly Bean's for the second week in a row!
How Chuffed do you think I feel?!!!

Feelin Fine!

I've been having a wonderful week!

 With 4 Fabulous wins and a Top 3 at Dilly Beans. As well as my crafty appreciation, I've managed to get back into a size 16 which is one hell of reason for the fact that I'm feeling on top of the world! Although now I need to spend more money on clothes instead of craft stuff ;0S.

Today's first card is for challenges at,

Charisma Cardz ~ Ribbon's.

Moving Along with the Times ~ Cute as a Button.

Saturated Canary Challenge ~ Doillies.

Stamp with Fun ~ Pink & Green.

Basic Grey Challenges ~ Spring Colours.{ Sweet Threads PP}

Mojo Monday ~ Sketch #231.

Papercraft Journey ~ Anything Goes.

Next is my Mummy's card, I can put it on here because she doesn't 

have internet and probably doesn't even know that I have a blog!!

Outside :      Teddy Bo ~ Blue & Cream, Flower's & Butterflies, Stitching & Glitter.

Simon Say's Stamp  ~ Mother's Day.

The Pixie Cottage ~ Sketch #111 & Thing's with Wing's.

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes with Shrink Plastic.

Inside:   CPS ~ Sketch #255.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat & Basic Grey.

Digi Stamps ~ Teddy Bo & The Saturated Canary.

Velvet Ribbon ~ May Arts.

Lace, Ribbon & Pearls from stash.

CS ~ Core'dinations & Papermania.

Shrink Plastic ~ Shrinkart.

Punches & Die's ~ SU & Marianne's.

Rose's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Coloured with Copic's.

Stickles.

The Crafty Purple Frog ~ Pink & Girly!

Today at The Crafty Purple Frog we've gone all..

PINK &GIRLY

so lets see lots of prettiness!

Today's other challenges are:

Crafts & Me ~ Things with Wings.

Whimsy Inspirations ~ No Sentiment.

Stampavie & More ~ Easter or Spring.

Ingredients:

Carnation Fairy Decoupage Sheet ~ The Crafty Purple Frog.

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon, Charm & Pearls from stash.

Stickles.

Blooming Spring!

Well you would think it was spring the rotten weather we've had the last couple of day's! 

Monday didn't spot raining all day Yesterday was just grey and grotty but at least it didn't kill my Mojo!

Today's not much better either, Zumba this morning has at least allowed me eat a slice of Coffee & hazelnut cake I made yesterday without feeling guilty!!!! {Sshhuuushhh ,Its HEALTHY cake, nuts are good for you!!}

Peaches & Cream.

Lili's Little Fairies ~ Peaches & Cream.

Dutch Dare ~ Pearls, Bling & Pastels.

The Deconstructed Sketch ~ Sketch #41.

Stampin For The Weekend ~ Ribbon, Glitter & Flower's.

Spring Glory.

Cupcake ~ Yellow & Red.

Willow Sketchie ~ Sketch & 2 PP's.

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

March Winds.

Crafty Calender Challenges ~ Spring Clean.

Delightful Challenges ~ Spring Colour's.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Signs of Spring.

PollyCraft ~ Spring is Sprung.

My Time To Craft ~ Circles.

Kaboodles Doodles ~ Spring.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp ~ Sketch #96.

Ingredients:

Stamp ~ Sweet Pea & LOTV.

Digi Stamp ~ The Saturated Canary. 

PP ~ Pink Petticoat & MME.

Die's ~ Spellbinder's.

Pearls from stash.

Gem's ~ Anita's 

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pin's ~ Jenni Bowlin.

Ribbon ~ eBay.

Coloured with Copic's.

Stickles.

Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch # 154 with Bugaboo

Today's sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches is sponsored by the Fabulous Bugaboo!

and the super prize on offer is a fantastic 7 digi's of the winner's choice!

Here's this weeks sketch for you to play with.

Today's other challenges are:

Crafts & Me ~ Pretty in Lace.

One Sweet Challenge ~ Monochrome.

Really Reasonable Ribbons ~ Monochromatic Green

Secret Crafter & Paper Sundae ~ Green
Paper Pretties ~ Going Green.

Incy Wincy & Paper Play ~ Something Old (Crocheted Lace), Something New (Stamp)

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Stamp ~ Sweet Pea Stamps.

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Lace & Gem's from stash.

Coloured with Copic's .

Stickles