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.