Crafty Calendar Challenge - New News!

Happy New Year! This is my first post of the year as its been a busy few weeks. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. We had a great time but Carrie was ill from Christmas Eve and it lasted for over a week. I thought she was never going to get better! It was such a shame, once she had opened all her presents she just lay up and hardly touched a thing for days! Her stocking was untouched, The Little Mix cd that she "had to have" lay in its case and her dolls hardly got a look in. When Carrie gets ill, she really gets ill because of her being on the immune suppressants. She just doesn't have anything to fight it off. She is much better now and almost back to her normal self.

Anyway onto why i am here. Its time for the new challenge over at Crafty Calendar to start. 

This month we are looking for your

"NEW NEWS"  -New baby, job, home...anything new!

We have decided to add a optional extra in with our challenge theme. This months its.....

BUTTONS AND BOWS...this is your choice, not essential to join in.

Here is my DT card

Our sponsor is Crafty Sentiments this month and we were all offered images to use. I chose this adorable image. You can find Bobby Bear HERE. Here is a closer look at him, how adorable. The winner of the challenge will win 4 digital images from the store.

Card Recipe

Image - Crafty Sentiments Bobby Bear coloured with promarkers

Sketch - Seems a little sketchy challenge blog

Papers - My Minds Eye and Pale Pink Cardstock, embossed using the D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder.

Dies- Cheery Lynn's Fanciful Flourish Die

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Embellishments - Charms, ribbon, pearls, button from stash.

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges,

Seems a Little Sketchy challenge - Sketch!

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - New Beginnings

Crafty Ribbons - New beginnings

Fairy Tale challenge - Something new

Cute Card Thursday - Whats New?

Thats it from me. Off to try and get a few hours sleep before the kids are up!

Thanks for taking time to stop by!

Elphine House Australia Challenge - Around We Go!

Welcome to the last challenge of 2011 from Elphine House Australia!

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas! Today the weather here is awful, we have strong winds and rain. Just miserable. Its certainly a day for crafting!

So onto the challenge. Over at EHA the challenge this time is "Around we go". We are looking for projects with circles somewhere on there. Whether it a round card, or round mats and backgrounds, circular sentiments...you decide. As always you can use any Elisabeth Bell image from any Company. There are hundreds of EB fans out there so pop by and join in our last challenge of the year!!

For my project i have made a circular calendar using one of my favourite images of all time..."Dasiy".  I coloured her using Distress Inks. You can buy her here at the Elphine House Australia Store.

Here she is close up.

I used My Minds Eye paper for the top circle layer and the die circles are my Marianne design die. This was a very quick make but worked out great. The ribbon and gems were from my stash and the calendar is from Hobbycraft.

I would like to enter my calendar into the following challenges also,

My Mums Craft Shop - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Tied Bows

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Thats it from me tonight. I wish you all lots of love and wishes for 2012! I do hope you can pop by and join in our challenge!

Hugs,

Elphine House Australia Challenge - White on White!

Good Evening...how cold is it out there?? The wind is like ice and the rain makes it worse! At least the snow has gone! Well for now it has but we are due more soon i heard.

Anyway onto the Elphine House Challenge details. This time round its all about...

WHITE ON WHITE! 

I love playing with white on white cards. They make fab wedding cards and Christmas cards as well as every other occasion.

Here is my "white on white" creation with one of my favourite image from Elphine House Australia called Laura, Flower Girl. She is just gorgeous.

My Card Recipe..

Image - Laura, Flower Girl from Elphine House Australia.

Cardstock - White plain card.

Dies/Punches - Cheery Lynne flourish die and Marianne Design Circle Die.

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug floral folder.

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft.

Ribbon, gems and charm from my stash.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges also;

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Embossing.

Paper Creations Ink - Bling it up!

Paper Pretties - Ribbon.

Thanks for popping by. Hope you can join in with our challenge at the Elphine House Australia blog.

Have a great night!

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Cold and Frosty!

Just a quick one today, Well thats us had our first snow fall in Central Scotland. Sitting watching X Factor and the snow falling, hoping its not going to lie! The roads are quite wet from the rain today so fingers crossed it will just melt away

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Anyway, Its time for the new challenge from Crafty Calendar. This month the theme its Cold and Frosty. 

Our sponsor is the talented Ruth from A Passion for Stamps! You must check out her store, lots of fab images.

Recipe for my card:

Image ; Nellie Snellen -  Hokey Pokey coloured with distress inks.

Designer papers/card - Bo Bunny Snowfall, Teal and white cardstock.

Dies and Punches - Spellbinders ricrac edgeabilities, Marianne design die for frame and small snowflake. Large snowflake from Cricut potpourri cartridge.

Ribbon, gems, brad from my stash and i made the charm myself.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch..I love this one!!

One Stop Craft Challenge - Let it snow

Sweet Stampin challenge - Snowflakes etc

Fairy Tale Challenge - Christmas

Totally papercrafts - Let it snow

That all for now! Have a great Sunday..Its now pure white outside...go away snow!

In the Blue and New Promarker Storage!

Good Afternoon! I have just stopped in to share my very first attempt and colouring with Distress inks with you. I am really quite pleased with the results. I had tried previously but stopped after i had done the skin as my card was awful. I got my new Fabriano pad in the post yesterday so spent the day colouring. This thought was the very first try..just shows that anyone can do it!!

My Belles n Whistles stamps called "Patches and Braids" is new too. I had a bit of a shopping spree last week! She is so she cute and is a great image for all occasions i think. Looking close at my colouring i can see bits of shading that are not that great but overall i was happy with it. Practice makes perfect and oh my god, colouring with the inks is very addictive!

Card Recipe

Image - Belles n Whistles, Patches n Braids coloured with distress inks

Papers/cardstock - MME Lost and Found, Portobello Road and blue and white Cardstock.

Dies and Punches - Various Marianne design dies and TimHoltz "On The Edge".

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Embellishments - Charm, gems ribbon from stash.

Sentiment - Personal Impressions

I also got myself a new storage system for my Promarkers while on my shopping spree. Check this out... 

It looks impressive with them all set out like that. Its so easy just to  Only thing it it only holds 60 pens and i have over 100 so for now i have some in the wicker box beside my Flexmarkers. I am going to buy another rack the same but having the two of them will take up some room so going to need to get a shelf put up for them. I didnt realise i actually had so many. I dont think i have that many Promarkers left to get but i am in love with the Flexmarkers at the moment.
EDIT - Lots of people asking where i got the storage from. It was on Ebay. They do lots of sizes. Its a lady who's husband made her it because she couldnt find a storage system she liked and because its so fab they have started to sell them. Just Fab!

Back to my card... I would to enter it into the following challenges; 

The Sweet Shop - Sketch

Paper Sundaes - Beautiful Bows

One Stop Craft - Colour challenge - Blue

Totally Gorjuss - Swirly whirly!

One Stitch At a Time - Anything Goes

Thats me for now. I have got another card to share later tonight but for now i better get helping with dinner!

Hugs