Anything Goes

Oh boy what a week, I am so hating the snow right now! It looks so beautiful when it first falls, but now it is causing nothing but chaos. Ended up booking the rest of this week of work as I wasn't due to break up until Christmas Eve, but as it has been so quiet I couldnt see the point of fighting my way into work everyday so have got a couple of un-expected days that I can do some crafting hehe :)

Not really had chance to enter many challenges over the last few weeks, but I made this card last week for my son to give to his friend last Saturday for her Birthday as it happens he ended up not going to the party as we were hit with 10 inches of snow. Hopefully we will be able to drop it round if this snow ever clears!! This week at I ♥ Promarkers the challenge is for Anything Goes. Have used my new stamp from LOTV called Rosie with Presents and coloured her with promarkers. The senitment is also from LOTV. Not sure what the backing paper is as I have had it for ages.

Wishing everyone a fantastic Christmas and New Year and looking forward to entering lots of new challenges in 2011 :)

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WOYWW 80

I cannot believe it's Wednesday again! Where on earth do the weeks go and my gosh what time do you ladies get up in the morning, was on here first thing while at work and there were already at least 50 posts!

Anyway here is my desk for today, I did actually give it a bit of a tidy yesterday so it's not looking to bad at the moment.
I finished making the box the other day so wanted to show you that and used my new Whiff of Joy, Fancy shape on it, which I am loving and using where ever I can hehe. I am in the middle of finishing off a new baby card for someone at work and I had some new stash arrive today. Orderd the Forever Friends Black and Gold cd ages ago from Create & Craft, which finally arrived today. And LOTV sent me an email yesterday advertising their new stamps coming out in January and as I was a little bored at work had a quick look round at some of their other stamps and ended up ordering For You Circular Sentiments stamps, Calendar Stamp and Rosie with Presents stamp and can't believe they came today! Thats what I call a service hehe.

Off to make a card now for my son to give to his friend on Saturday for her birthday, think I will use my new Rosie with Presents :)

I will probably be bored again tomorrow at work so will come looking at everyones work desk. Have fun and enjoy the rest of your evening.

A Christmas Carol

This week at I ♥ promarkers the theme is 'A Christmas Carol/Song'. I brought this fab stamp a while ago from LOTV and not had chance to use it, so thought it was definatley time it was inked up!
Have used memento ink to stamp the image onto Neenah Classic card and coloured with promarkers. Glittered the image up with diamond sparkles. Used my fab new die 'Fancy Shape' from Whiff of Joy and stamped it with one of their season's greetings. Papers are by Papermania, which Osbornes were selling off so brought two packets :) Punched out the flower, leaves and snowflakes and added a bit of sparkle and a couple of gems.

Followed another fab sketch from Friday sketchers, which I realised when editing the photo for the website, I have stuck two of the back papers round the wrong way so you cant really see one of the layers - oops

Anyway thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

Monochromatic

Over at Kenny K's this week the challenge is Monochromatic. Well this is totaly new to me and to be honest I found it a little daunting. I pondered for a long time over what colour I should go with and decided in the end to stick with grey promarkers.
I used Mrs Claus for this card (she was one of my freebies for winning the challenge the other week - hehe). Sparkled her up with some glitter and mounted her on black and silver mirror card. The backing paper is from the Mono Paper Pack from Papermania and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, which I sprayed with a bit more glitter :)

For my first attempt at colouring in this style i'm pretty pleased and will definatley be trying this again, maybe with a colour next time :)

Thank you for stopping by today and dont forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

Oh Christmas Tree

This week at I ♥ Promarkers they are after Christmas Trees, I hope this lovelly lady from Bugaboo counts as she is wearing a Christmas tree on her head hehe.
The image is DeDe from Bugaboo, which I have coloured with promarkers and the rest of the bits are from the stash.

Thank you for stopping by and dont forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

WOYWW - 77 or is it 78

Not had chance to do any crafting since last Wednesday, have been dieing to play with some of my new stash but life just keeps getting in the way! Haven't even managed to enter any new challenges so far this week, roll on the weekend...........


I did manage to make some labels though for jars of sweets for my sons Christmas Fair and my lovelly mother brought me some bunches of flowers from the pound shop (which I did wonder how the hell am I going to use these!!) and then realised that they worked wonders if you take them apart and now I have hundreds of flowers hehe.

Have also been experimenting with boxes as I love buying jewellery as gifts but can never find nice boxes to present them in, so had best get on and finish at least one!

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday (I know not much of it left), will have to try and visit some of your fab workspaces during my lunch break at work wont get any crafting done at all if I start blog hopping now hehe

WOYWW 77

I have been dieing to have ago at the WOYWW but my desk is always so boring, but today is my birthday (21 again haha) and look at the lovelly presents I got off my partner and boys. Still got a couple of things to get from the boys as some of the bits are on back order.
At last I have got some spellbinders and i loved the look of the Wiff Of Joy seasons greetings stamps with the fancy shape die cut and at last some decent glue! Anyway I will have a look through everyones work desks but for now I have got to go play with my new bits, Am sooo excited hehe.

Tag It

This week at Kenny K's the challenge is Tag It. I keep finding ideas for these little bags, which at I am enjoying making (think i'm just trying to avoid making Christmas cards!) Any way I found this bag on the Whiff Of Joy Tutorials site.
Have used a Kenny K image and coloured her with promarkers, used a glitter gell pen on her fur trim, but I can't get the photo to show the sparkle.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

Snowmen & A Sketch

This week at I ♥ Promarkers the challenge is for Snowmen. I used my one and only snowman stamp for last weeks challenge and didn't really want to use it again so had to go hunting for another image. Luckily Charmed Cards & Crafts came to the rescue and I remembered I had Dottie & George Christmas collection.
I used the fantastic sketch over at Friday Sketchers, coloured Dottie and her snowman in with promarkers (used a white glitter on the snowman - makes him look fluffy in RL hehe) The papers are from Nitwits, but were free with a magazine :)

Am also going to enter this card into the 2 Sisters Challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

Red Challenge

Dottie's World are running an anything goes - red challenge with a fantastic magnolia stamp as a prize! I have admired these stamps for a while but as yet have not purchased any (may have to put a couple on my christmas list :) )

Anyway wasn't sure what image to use for this challenge, I knew I wanted to use a Charmed image but which one. I ended up downloading their new collection called Santa's Little Helpers and I'm really glad I did as they are all just gorgeous. I used All Wrapped Up and coloured her with promarkers and then got stuck with what papers to use, I just couldn't get anything to work. I ended up just putting her in the middle of a blank white card in frustration to look at it later and thought that works! So ended up going all white :) Hope you like her.

Am also going to enter this card into the Creative Inspirations Challenge as they want anything Christmassy/Winter :)

Thank you for stopping by and dont forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :

Icy Colours and A Sketch

This week at I ♥ Promarkers the challenge is for Icy Colours and I followed another great sketch from Friday Sketchers.

Dug out a really old stamp for this card, which I brought years ago when I first took an interest in card making, but was never able to stamp it up properly until now. I love using digital images but there are so many beautifull stamps out there, which I have recently been buying, and through trial and error i can now, fingers crossed, get these stamps to work for me. I must thank Rachel Jakes, who makes the most stunning cards, who uses Neenah Classic card and Memento Ink to stamp her images. So off I went to The Hobby House web site and purchased myself some of this card and all I can say is WOW, it work wonders, soooo I have been having ago with all my stamps old and new :)

Anyway back to the card, snowflake paper was a freebie with a magazine, probably from last year and the sentiment is from TLC. Oh and the image is coloured with Promarkers :)

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment as I love reading them :)

Anything but a square

This week at Kenny K's they wanted anything but a square, so I decided to make a little gift bag. I found the tutorial for this bag on the Wiff of Joy Inspiration blog, think I will be making a few of these for the girls at work :)
Used the fab Mistletoe from Kenny K's Chritmas collection and coloured her with promarkers, the trim of her dress, hat and boots I used a glitter gel pen and used the same pen to colour the snowflakes. Paper is another freebie from a magazine.

Am also going to enter her into this weeks challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers, which is for snowflakes, I hope purple ones count! hehe.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Anything Goes and a Sketch

This week the challenge at Catch The Bug is 'Anything Goes'. Sooo I have been dieing to use JJ from Bugaboo Stamps, which I won a couple of weeks ago for coming in the top 3 :)

Here she is coloured with promarkers. Used a fab sketch from Friday Sketchers. The papers are a freebie that came with my Quick Cards magazine yesterday. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, managed to stick them down better this time as well (Thank you Paul for pointing me in the right direction :))

Thank you for stopping by.

Whirling, Swirling, Twirling Autumn

The Catch the Bug Challenge this week is for a Whirling, Swirling, Twirling Autumn, which I really do struggle with as I dont seem to have anything that says autumn. I did actually start this card on Saturday for halloween on Sunday, but only just managed to finish it. Hope its Autumn enough :)

Used a Halloween witch from Bugaboo Stamps with some other images from TLC and photo shopped them together. Coloured with promarkers and copics with papers from Papermania.

Halloween

This week at I ♥ Promarkers the theme is 'Spooky Goings On/Halloween and a fab sketch.
Bugaboo Stamps have brought out some fab new images called Fancy Bonnets. This little witch is so cute, which is coloured with promarkers. Papers I have had for ages from 7gypsies.
Thank you for stopping by :)

Autumn

I am so late with this card for the I ♥ Promarkers challenge, just do not know where the weeks are going. This week the challenge is Autumn, which I struggle with as I just dont have bits and pieces in autumn colours, well I thought I didn't, managed to find some ribbon, flowers and some orange gems :)
Used one of the lovelly images from Charmed Cards and Crafts from the girls about town collection and coloured her with promarkers. Am also entering this card into the Dottie's World challenge, which is for anything goes. Couldn't enter their challenge though without using one of their fab images :)

Thank you for stopping by today :)

A good cause & A sketch

This week at Catch The Bug Challenge they want a card for a good cause. I know to many people that have fought breast cancer, thankfully most have survived but some have sadley lost that fight.
I got my fab prize off Tammy the other day and I had picked one of the pink ribbon gals Twyla so just had to use her for this card. Used another fab sketch from Friday Sketchers, papers are from Dovecraft and freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft.

Make it Christmas

Kenny K has just brought out some fantastic new Christmas digi's and this weeks challenge is to 'Make it Christmas'
I have used 'Mistletoe' for my card and coloured her with promarkers and copics. I used glitter for the trim of her outfit (just wish I could get the photo to portray how much it sparkles) The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, this is the first time I have used them on a card and any hints on how to stick the damn things down would be appreciated, ended up using superglue! Papers are from the stash.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Think Pink and a Sketch

This week over at I ♥ promarkers they wanted PINK as it is Breast Cancer Awareness month.
I found this kitten in my digi downloads folder and had no clue where I had got it from until I went over to check out the Friday Sketchers challenge and there it was! A free digi from Motivet. So I decided to use the image for the Friday sketch challenge.
This image reminded me of my little cat Molly when she was a kitten, have coloured her with promarkers and used Forever Friends papers.

This is a picture of my very spoilt cat Molly.

Thank you for stopping by today :)

Harry Potter from Bugaboo

What can I say about these fantastic new digi stamps from Bugaboo...... the minute I saw them I had to buy the lot!!

This is the first time I have used Bugaboo images and they are truly wonderful. I love the simplicity of these drawings.

I wanted to keep this card very simple and make it all about the image ( I did have to get a bit of sparkle on it though hehe)
This image is called 'Chosen One' and I coloured him with promarkers and copics. I used some clear gloss finish on his glasses, which has creased the paper slightly tsk - haven't used it before - anyway this card will be going off to my nephew at the end of the month :)

Thank you for stopping by :)

Pearls & Swirls

This week over at I ♥ Promarkers they wanted "Pearls & Swirls" and Kenny K are after "Bling". Two of my favourite things, although after I had started making this card I realised I didnt have any pearls in the colour I wanted! Anyway here is my card....

Used the fab Kitty Katastrophe (again! really must dig out some of my other images) and coloured her with promarkers. Wanted to get away from my usual colour of blue (everything I have made seems to be blue lately). Papers were free with my cuttlebug from Create and Craft.
Thank you for stopping by :)

Friday Sketchers

This is the first time I have made a halloween card. I thought this image was cute but no idea where I got her from, downloaded it from somewhere hehe.
Followed another fab sketch over at Friday Sketchers and coloured her with promarkers. Papers are from my stash.
Thank you for stopping by :)

Friday Sketchers

Followed another great sketch over at Friday Sketchers for this card.
I actually dug out a very old Penny Black stamp for this as I all my cards recently have been made with digi downloads. I brought the swirly embossing folder today so had to use that :) Thank you for another fab sketch.

White on White

This week over at I ♥ Promarkers everything had to be white apart from the image. I have never done anything like this before so this was a bit of a challenge. Anyway here is my attempt.

Used the fab Kitty Katastrophe from Kenny K and coloured her with Promarkers. I made the little white flowers and added some punched leaves, butterfly and swirls.
Thank you for a fab challenge.

I ♥ Promarker Sketch

I am sooooo late with this for the I ♥ Promarker challenge which this week is a sketch. I am also using this for the Dottie's challenge, which I am even later with, they wanted a Christmas cards but with no traditional Christmas colours.

Have used a download from Charmed Cards and Crafts and coloured with Promarkers. The papers were free with a magazine :)

Embossing and a Sketch

This week I am really late entering the Kenny K challenge, I do not know where this week has gone!
The Kenny K challenge wanted some embossing and as I only brought myself a Cuttlebug last month everything is getting the stippled effect :)

For this card I followed another great sketch over at Friday Sketchers, used the fab Delores D'ammage from Kenny K and coloured her with ProMarkers. Papers were free with my Cuttlebug.
Thank you for stopping by :)

Travel & a sketch

This week at I ♥ Promarkers the theme is travel. I used a Charmed Cards & Crafts download from the Mikey collection and as my nephew has just put in for his driving test I will hopefully be able to use this card for him :)

Mikey is coloured with promarkers and the papers are from K&Co. I am also entering this card into the Friday Sketchers challenge as I used their sketch to make this card.
Thank you for stopping by :)

The Great Outdoors

This week over at Dotties World the challenge is to make a card with an outdoor theme. So after spending the weekend in the garden as it had been so lovelly, when I actually got round to making this card it was pouring down with rain!

I used Holly in the Garden for this card from the Holly & Madison collection and coloured her with promarkers. The papers are from English Paper Company (I couldnt resist going back to Osbornes and buying a few more of the £1.99 bargains). The sentiment is from Create with TLC. Thank you for stopping by :)

Swirls & Pearls and a Sketch

This week over at Kenny K's the challenge is for Swirls & Pearls, I also found a sketch challenge (while lurking on Tines blog) at Friday Sketchers so thought I would have ago at that as well.
Used one of the fab Kenny K's downloads Kitty Katastrophe, papers were a freebie with a cardmaking magazine. Rest of the bits are from the stash.
Thank you for stopping by :)

Myth & Magic

Oh wow what a theme. I could have made so many cards for this challenge at I ♥ ProMarkers but unfortunately I just do not have the time. Charmed Cards & Crafts recently brought out a new collection called 'Once Upon a Time' which fitted perfectly for this challenge and I have been dieing to purchase them so today I did :)

This is the first time I have made an easel card and struggled a bit trying to fit pieces in, but i'm pretty happy with the end result
Discovered easel cards aren't the easiest to photograph so took a few from different angles.

Images and sentiment are from Charmed Cards & Crafts and coloured with promarkers. Everything else is from the stash. Thank you for stopping by :)

On the Beach

This week over at Dottie's World they wanted a beach/vacation card so here is my attempt......
Have used one of the images from the Boy oh Boy collection and paper from the English Paper Company, which I brought yesterday from Osbornes for £1.99 for 24 12x12 sheets, Bargain!! Bits and pieces from the stash.

Charming

Where does the time go...........work has kept me very busy over the last few weeks so have not had chance to make any cards never mind take part in the fab challenges. As its bank holiday Monday I decided that today I was going to put some time aside to actually sit down and make at least one card and here it is........

Am entering her into the I ♥ Promarkers challenge, which this week they wanted a charm included and the Kenny K challenge, which this week their theme is music to coincide with some fantastic new images they have just released.

The image I have used is from Kenny K and coloured with Promarkers and used bits and pieces from the stash. The charm I think was from The Works (have had it a long time).

Frame It

The challenge this week over at Dotties World is to create a card with a frame and some dots. I brought a set of the fab Pixie Chicks last week so have used one of these beautiful images for this weeks challenge.

Coloured her with promarkers and copics and used some sparkle on her wings. Made the flowers, papers are from Papermania and a Forever Friends collection, words from tlc.
Hope you like her and thank you for stopping by.

Kenny K challenge No:4

I am very late with this challenge this week, been busy with the kids as I took an impromptu week off work. Anyway the Kenny K challenge is 'On the dark side' am also going to enter her into the I ♥ ProMarkers challenge, which was a sketch and no more than 3 colours (which I have only just read - oops - not sure if a couple of shades of pink is classed as one colour) Anyway I hope you like her.................. The image is from the new Kenny K collection, Gothic Angels, and shes called Kitty Katastrophe. Coloured her with promarkers and added some sparkle, which I can never get to show in photos. Paper is from Papermania, made the flowers and heart buttons, ribbon I think was off a box of chocolates :)

Can't wait for the next challenge!

Manly with a twist

This week over at Dottie's World, Adele wants a manly card and the twist being it had to have ribbon.

Most of the cards I make for my boys usually include a bit of ribbon, so here is a card I made for my sons 16th this year......

Used the fantastic Mikey coloured as always with promarkers and copics, papers were a freebie with a magazine from a while ago (am a magazine addict so no clue what magazine it was) and the rest of the bits are from the stash.

Kenny K challenge No: 3

I Love these Kenny K images so thought I would have a go at this weeks challenge.
The challenge was set by Donna with a sketch and here is my attempt.....
Have used the 'All that' image and coloured her with copics and promarkers. Papers are from a Bits and Pieces Crafty Book, flowers and gems from the stash.

Have only purchased this image so far! Can definitely see more of these images making there way into my shopping trolly :)

Thank you for a great challenge - this is the first time I have followed a sketch and I really enjoyed making this card.

Lets go to the movies

The challenge this week over at Dottie's World was to use a Charmed Crafts download and relate it to a movie. Well this had me stumped so had to ask my other half for help and he actually gave me loads of ideas. I ended up going with Mary Poppins and 'Lets go fly a kite'.

I hope you like her.................
A very simple card just using one of the girls from the Sugar and Spice collection and just a few bits and pieces from the stash.

Kenny K

I first came across these images on Rachel Jakes's blog and thought they were absolutely stunning. I have only purchased this image........................so far :)
Coloured her in with copics and promarkers.

Background paper is from the Vintage Heaven cd by Debbie Moore the other papers Ihave had for years so not to sure what they are. Sentiment is from TLC. Flowers and gems from the stash.

I will be giving this card to another girlfriend at work for her birthday in August. I hope she likes it.

Lady in Red

Made this card for a girlfriend at work for her birthday - she actually asked me to make her a red card as this is her favourite colour.
The image is from My Craft Studio Deco Follies, I just adore these ladies, coloured with copics & promarkers and the papers are from the Vintage Heaven CD by Debbi Moore, flowers and gems from the stash.

My friend loved her card.

That Summer Feeling

The challenge this week over at Dottie's World is to make a summery card but something different than you would usually make......pretty much everything I'm making at the moment is different :)

I love this image of Dottie and George getting married and have wanted to use the reverse of this image for a while. A work colleague had asked if I could make a card for her son to give to his brother on their wedding day (which was Saturday) so this is what I made............
Used the pre-coloured image from the Love & Marriage collection - papers were a freebie with a magazine. Sunburst image is from Istockphoto. Flowers, gems and ribbon from the stash, sentiment from TLC. Used acetate to cover the circle cut from the middle of the card.

And here is the inside...........

This is the first card I have made for someone else to give and apparently brother, bride and groom were chuffed and I got a bottle of wine for making it :)

Thank you once again for a fab challenge.

Vintage Style

The Sunday challenge set by Gunn over at Dotties World was for Vintage Style. Wasn't sure if I could do vintage but here's my attempt.

Used one of the very pretty Sugar and Spice girls and coloured her with promarkers - think I need to look at using a different paper for printing the images on to as I am getting bleed issues especially with the darker colours. Papers are from K&Company that I have had for absolutely years and have never known what to use them for. Paper roses from stash, which were actually white and coloured them with promarkers.

I even did an inside for this card inspired by Karen (which is why I didnt post last night - took longer than expected :))

Sentiment is from TLC

Thank you for a fab challenge, I am actually making cards now just because I can rather than having someone in mind. Plus I am getting to use alot of my stash that I have been collecting for years and not really making the most of :)

Hot it Up!

I am so late with this again! Another challenge from Dottie's World where they wanted to see HOT colours.

I hope this is hot enoughUsed one of the fab images from Holy & Madison World Tour collection and used the paper piecing again from last week and coloured her with copics. Papers were a freebie with a scrapbooking magazine. Made a couple of quilled orange roses. Text is from Create with TLC (what a fantastic site that is) and added the must have sparkle. The orange roses have been glittered as well but i dont think it shows to well in the photo. (Have given my fella the challenge of taking photos of my cards and still show the sparkle!)

Thank you for yet another brill challenge. Am now off to look at this weeks challenge although i'm not sure I can do vintage, but I will give it ago.