Sunday Sketch & Stamp #14

Check out Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge to see their gorgeous new challenge.

Here is my entry:

Check out great competition at The Crafty Pad

Quirky Craft Challenge15

Over at QC, Challenge 15 has just got started and I'm really excited because it's my choice this week. I had to choose pink so went for a recipe card:

1 ribbon
2 shades of pink
3 eyelets

Click HERE to have a look -hope you'll join in too.

As a sneak preview here is my entry:


I just adore my cupcake stamps and love colouring then highlighting with stardust pens on shrink plastic as per the right hand cupcake. The 'Imagine' is a much larger stamp also done on shrink plastic and I thought I'd see what happened if I fixed an eyelet first before shrinking - It seemed to have worked and was the third of my three eyelets.

My little mug (always filled with hot chocolate of course) was from Stamp Addicts and went with their range of cake stamps but I thought is was just so cute and look at it shrunk down too!!

And here is my second card (as we seem to be into two or three cards at the mo!). I put light pink card through my Sizzix and then highlighted the raised flowers with a bright pink chalk ink which exactly matches the ribbon and border pink.



With a close up..........

Quirky Craft Challenge14

I can't believe I forgot to put a post up about the new challenge over on Quirky Crafts (I knew me and blogging wouldn't go together!). Any way, we're up to challenge 14 and there is a gorgeous prize this week:

Doesn't that lace just look so scrummy?

The theme this fortnight is Halloween or for the rest of us without kids it's also Autumn. So click on my DT link on the right hand side of my blog to pop along to the forum and post your entry and check out the inspiration from the DT.

For a little taster here is my entry:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #13

Pop over to Sunday Sketch & Stamp to see their current sketch challenge. There are some gorgeous cards from the DT.

Here is my entry - still working on those Christmas cards.


Why does gold mirricard always look black when scanned? Anyway the red paper was free from a magazine and mounted on gold mirricard. The rudolph stamp was from a set I bought last year but had never used this stamp.

Crafty Pad Challenge 41

This weeks challenge on Crafty Pad is a recipe challenge:

1 Ribbon
2 Papers
3 Brads
and a swirl

Here is my entry - another Christmas one done!

Craft Stamper ATC

ATC for the Craft Stamper Romance swap. The word 'LOVE' is stamped in chalk ink onto Shrink plastic.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #12

This was a layout challenge, checkout the link down the right hand side of my blog. I have made this card for this challenge with a friend's birthday in mind and I adore pink and green together - a welcome change from red and green (Christmas).

Crafty Pad Challenge 40

Challenge 40, on the Crafty Pad is a sketch challenge and here is my entry, actually this is my second attempt at this sketch partly because is it such a 'useable' sketch but also because the first one has turned out to be what I will enter for my DT entry for a future Quirky Crafts challenge. No good giving the game away by using it on another blog where I know it will be seen.

So I thought I'd better get on with my Christmas cards and came up with this one. I do like this layout, as it uses quite alot of those odd scraps that are just too big to be thrown out! I can see me using it over and over - thanks Debbie.

Cheats card

Here is a quick Christmas card I made yesterday. I am a big fan of certain crafting magazines and Making Cards always has lovely quality papers from Nancy Watt. I actually got round to making one using the toppers etc which come in the magazine, I feel as if I have cheated abit as it really is a case of cutting out and sticking, no stamping, no colouring - which felt a bit odd. But I like the effect and it will come in useful for the stall at Mum's Christmas fair.

Jane's 30th Birthday card

My first proper posting on my new blog is to show off the birthday card I have just made for my dear friend Jane's 30th birthday. She is the last of my friends to reach the big 3-0 and has received alot of stick for it!!

I always have to think long and hard about Jane's cards as she is not a pink fan (or wasn't until she had a little girl earlier this year), so I thought this year I would try monocrome with a hint of colour. I loved this black/white/grey paper with scribble flowers on and knew I had a stamp to match for decorations and decided to use silver and this scrummy turquoise mirricard to jazz it up. I also used my Cute Companions numbers which I had previously won in a competition, heat embossed in glittery silver on black card.

I am very pleased with it, let me know what you think.

Ok, ok, I have given in and created myself a blog!! I'm not sure how often I will get a chance to update it, but will give it a go and at least have a blog to link to when I do challenges.

Thank you for looking and I hope you'll call again when there is something a little more interesting to look at.