Raindrops keep falling on my head.........

We popped out in the car this morning and while it was quite nice listening to Jeremy Vine playing "Raindrops Keep falling on my head" and singing along, much to James' amusement I can't say I'm too impressed with the constant real wet stuff pitter pattering on my craftroom roof. Its not so bad in the summer when its hot but its just so cold, I've had to put the heater back on!!! 

Michael and his train.

Secret Crafter ~ Male Card.

Here Come the Boys ~ Tiddly Peeps.

Our Creative Corner ~ Boy's and their toy's!

Addicted to Stamps ~ Birthday's.

Simon Say's Stamp ~ Sketch.

This one is for my Nephew who takes his 'Thomas the Tank' to bed every night!

April Shower's!

Scrapology &  The Saturated Canary ~ April Showers.

Basic Grey Challenges ~ Spring Colours.
Stampavie & More ~ Spring.
Paper Pretties ~ Girls Card.

Allsorts ~ Buttons & Thread.

Crazy4Challenges ~ Buttons.
Bunny Zoe Crafts ~ Ribbon & Twine

Dutch Dare ~ Buttons & Bows.

The Crafty Pad ~ Bounty of Buttons { more than 3 buttons the little flower is a button too!}

One Stop Crafts ~ Three Circles.

The Cutie Pie Challenge ~ Circles.

Sketch & Stash ~ Sketch.

Ingredients:

PP ~ BasicGrey "Picadilly" & "Oliver"

Digi Stamps ~ The Saturated Canary & Sugar Nellie.

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Rose's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Lace, Buttons, Ribbon and flower button from stash.

Twine ~ Jelly Bean Soup

Tom Holtz Tiny Attacher.

Calico Studio ~ Number '3'

Cameo Necklace.

The challenge at Fun with Shapes this fortnight is to create a piece of 

jewelery using Stamps & Spellbinders Die-cuts.

I've used Large Scalloped and large ovals to create a three layered Cameo base with  cardboard from inside a boarded envelope and core'dinations white and black card. I stamped the Cameo image onto the smallest oval of the three then allowed the ink to dry before coating with pva and sprinkled with Frantage silver glass glitter. I then coated the whole of the front with Anita's 3D Gloss embossing liquid and sprinkled a little more glass glitter on top. after alowing this to dry completely I then repeated this for the back. When both sides were comepletely dry I punched a whole for the velvet ribbon with my Crop-a-dile and added a few Wild Orchid Crafts Rose's adhering with the embossing liquid. 

Today's other challenges my necklace cover are:

Crafts & Me ~ 3D.

Rainbow Lady ~ Vintage.

Totally Gorjuss ~ Bling.

Just Keep Crafting, Oozak, Stamptacular 

& Simon Say's Stamp & Show ~ Anything Goes.

Paper Pretties & Bearly Mine Challenges ~ Embossing.

Really Reasonable Ribbons ~ Black & White plus 1 other.

City Crafter ~ Hint of Pink.

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Recycle, Re-use & Re-new.

Also Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent,  who also have a bonus question which is.........

What’s the strangest thing you have been hoarding for the
purpose of using it in your art and how do you plan to use it?

My Answer is:

Bubble wrap to use for a painting technique.

Ingredients.

Die's ~ Spellbinder's.

Rose's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Stamps ~ Scrapagogo.

Glitter ~ Stampendous Frantage.

CS ~ Coredinations and inside a boarded envelope.

Momento Ink.

Velvet Ribbon ~ Dovecraft.

Embossing Liquid ~ Anita's

Kenny K Krafty Girlz ~ Recipe!

Good morning all! It's time for another challenge from

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz

Thank you to everyone who played along with "Diamond" last week.

 We had some wonderful entries!

This week our sponsors are Kenny K Downloads with a prize of 5 digi's of the winner's choice

and this week the winner will also receive from K-Design,

their choice of some amazing digital papers.

This weeks theme is:


Recipe,1image, 2 paper's and 3 different embellishments


So why not hop on over and join in the fun with the Krafty Girlz!!

Sketch Saturday ~ # 203 with Simon Say's stamp.

Simon Say's Stamp is this weeks sponsor at Sketch Saturday

and as generous as ever our prize is a fabulous £25.00 gift voucher.

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

Here's my make.

As you can see my card for this weeks sketch is so appropriate for this weeks weather!!
We've had nothing but rain this week!

Today's other challenges are:

Paper Sundaes ~ Lace & Diecut's.
Oldie but a Goodie {lace} , Papertake Weekly & The Saturated Canary ~ April Showers.
Papercraft Star ~ Umberella.
PaperCraft Journey ~ 3 or more Patterned Papers.
Paper Pretties ~ 2 or more Pattern Papers.

Ingredients:

Digi Stamp ~ The Saturated Canary.
PP ~ MME.
Stamp ~ SU!
CS ~ Core'dinations.
Lace from stash is my oldie!
Coloured with Copic's.

Sweet Pea Stampers ~ Recycled Birthday!

Here is my first DT make for Sweet Pea Stampers.

The theme of this fortnights challenge is:

Recycled Birthday

we would like you to make a birthday card with something you have recycled.

My card is made using fabric & lace from an old dress that was beyond repair!

Today's other challenges are:

One Sweet Challenge ~ Recycle

Sketch ~ Totally Gorjuss.

Paper Pretties ~ Lots of Layers.

Pollycraft  & 4 Crafty Chicks ~ Fabric.

The Pink Elephant ~ Flowers.

Anything Goes Challenge ~ Anything Goes.

Craft Us Crazy ~ Flower's.

Delightful Challenges ~ Stitching.

Moving Along with the Times ~ Shabby Chic.

Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent. ~ Anything Goes.

Also Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent,  who also have a bonus question which is.........

What’s the strangest thing you have been hoarding for the
purpose of using it in your art and how do you plan to use it?

My Answer is:

Bubble wrap to use for a painting technique.

Ingredients:

Stamps ~ Sweet Pea Stampers & Stampin Up!.

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Gem's from stash.

Coloured with Copic's & Stickles.

Fabric & Lace ~ recycled dress. 

Bombshell Stamps Sketch April '12.

I thought it was about time I told you all my news.

 I'm pleased to announce that I have been chosen as Ms July for Bombshell Stamps Design Team.

My first make for my 6 month term is using this months sketch from Kathi.

If you would like to play along with this sketch on the 

Bombshell forum, you can post your make HERE! 

Or you can play along on the Bombshell Blog HERE!

Today's other challenges are:

The Crafty Pad ~ Die-Licious.

Moving along with the Times ~ Va Va Voom.

Ingredients:

Stamps ~ "Man's Ruin" Bombshell Stamps

Ink ~ Momento and Distress Ink.

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Dies ~ Spellbinders.

Coloured with copic's

Glossy Accents.

Kenny K Krafty Girlz ~ Diamonds.

Good Morning all, The Krafty Girlz are back with with another challenge for you. 

Thank you to all who played along with  April Fools last week.

 This week Kenny K Downloads is our sponsor is giving 5 digi stamps for our winner. 

also we have Marianne Design

with this wonderful prize. I love these stamps, their so cute!

This weeks theme is:

DIAMONDS!

Today's other challenges are:

Dream Valley ~ Weddings.

Anything Goes Challenge and Papercraft Star ~ Anything Goes!

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes with Monochrome.

Paper Pretties ~ Monochrome.

Ingredients:

Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K "Happy Couple"

PP ~ BasicGrey "Little Black Dress."

CS ~ Core'dinations.

Flower's ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Gem ~ Anita's

Coloured with Copic Pen's & Stickles.