Add a Bow - OLLCB DT

it's time for another theme over Ooh-La-La Creations, this time it's a really easy one as it's 'Add a Bow' I added a double bow with two different ribbons, I also used the lovely image and papers of Hickory Dickory Dock from the Nursery Times CD. To finish off I added some die cut corners and some flat back pearls.

Get Well Soon - CD Sunday DT

Today I'm showing a card I started a while ago, I finally got around to finishing it recently, this is my DT card for CD Sunday where we have the theme of 'Get well' . The image is from Sheena 's Paint CD Pansies are one of my favourite flowers so I enjoyed doing the layers on these flowers. I also used an MS punch for the ribbon band, inked some edges of the papers and finished off with some flat backed pearls.

Fashionista - OLLCB DT

Hello, it's time for another new challenge over Ooh-La-La Creations, and our theme is Fashionista.  I made my card for my step daughters birthday, she's into pink in a big way, I used a couple of die cut flourishes and some Kort and Godt pearls to complete the card. 

2/8 - 3D's Die Cuts, Decoupage & DL - CD Sunday DT

This week at CD Sunday the theme is 3Ds - Die Cuts, Decoupage and DL, mine is a birthday card for a special young lady whose birthday is in January, I've used Daisy and Friends CD from Joanna Sheen the little girl is decoupaged, I also added a die cut bow and teardrop shaped pearl to finish off. 

Garden Pleasures - CD Sunday DT

What a funny week it's been, we've had some terrific thunderstorms here most nights that have caused some quite substantial damage across the region, thankfully apart from several days without phones or internet we've been OK, but several friends have suffered badly.  Sounds daft but thunder here sounds so different from when we were in UK, the thunder just seem to rumble on for ages and shake the house, very few noisy bangs,  so we're hoping to catch up on some much needed sleep this week.

My card which is for the latest challenge at CD Sunday uses image and papers from two Joanna Sheen CD's Ivory Cats and Pam West, I also used dies from both Memory Box and Heartfelt Creations for the little bird, cat, frame, and the flowers and leaves, and some paper lace over my paper joins.

Challenges:
crafts 4 eternity anything goes
delicious doodles summer
sister act
charisma cardz make your own embellies (flowers)
happy campers summer
paper-crafting journey punches/dies

Turquoise & Brown - MTTC DT

We have a colour challenge starting today over at My Time To Craft, the colours are Turquoise and Brown my card is made with image and BP's from Frou Frou by Crafters Companion,  I also added some brown pearls to finish off.

Welcome Little One - OLLCB DT

A new baby card today for the latest theme over at Ooh-La-La Challenge, my image and paper is taken from Ooh-La-La's Everyday Occasions CD. This was a quite and quick and easy to do I added some ribbons and pearls to finish off.

Challenges:

crafty catz - Anything goes

inspire me Fridays - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. - Recipe

dutch dare - Beginning with B - Baby, Blue

polly craft - Anything Goes

craft lovin - Anything Goes

hobby house - Anything Goes

Buttons/Bling - OLLCB DT

Buttons/Bling is our theme for the latest challenge over at Ooh-La-La this time, my image is from their Dreams of Tranquility CD, I used some sparkle spray glaze from Crafters Companion to give it a sparkle, I also used an embossing folder with core-d'inations paper, finally added some pearls and roses for bling.

Challenges:
pennys paper challenge
aud sentiments challenge
365 cards
pink gem
5 simple Things

Fine Plumage - CD Sunday DT

At long last summer seems to have arrived here, we've had a lovely few days here topped of by a noisy thunderstorm this evening. 

This week our theme over at CD Sunday is 'Fine Plumage', my kinetic card was a unique one to start off with as I stuck the topper upside down, so it now has two toppers one top of the other, the image is from Joanna Sheens Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection, one of the first craft CDC's I bought having seen it on a channel (Create and Craft) .I landed upon surfing with a new digibox whilst on hols a few years ago , now I have several shelves full of craft cd's.

Challenges:
crafty calendar  - Things with wings
sister act - anything goes
totally papercrafts - punches/dies
bearly mine  Punches/dies
creative card crew - punches/dies
paper take weekly - anything goes
through the craftroom door - anything goes

Vintage/Nostalgic - Ooh-la-La DT

My card for this challenge features image and papers from Ooh-La-La's Yesterdays Memories CD just love those dresses, wish I had a figure to wear something like that, so elegant. I also used some purple mirri die cut with spellbinders, some flowers die cut from the BP and a few pearls for good measure, don't forget to pop over to the challenge and see what the other girls have made.

Purple Paradise - CD Sunday DT

Well I've spent several hours trying to add a photo to this post, but blogger will not play, hopefully I will be able to add it later, in the meantime if you want to see my purple creation pop over to CD Sunday where it is the 2nd card on display. This week the theme is Purple Paradise which you may or not have guessed was my choice, so I'm looking forward to seeing all your Purple creations.

Edit: it loaded at last - yay.

It's our wedding anniversary today and we've been married 13 years now, can't believe it's so many already, the time has flown by.

Anyway on to my card, the images and paper are from Eastern Treasures by Joanna Sheen, I do love the elegance and colour of Purple Irises, I also used some Purple Centura Pearl for the base and some lilac core'dinations for the die cuts and finished with a few purple pearls.

Art Nouveau - CD Sunday Dt

Morning all,  It's the first challenge of the new year over at CD Sunday, as it's also the first challenge of the month it's also a sponsored one, this time we have Peerless Designs as our generous sponsor and the prize is their Floral Jewels CD. The DT were given various images and papers to play with, I hope you like my little creation, it's not a great picture their is some pale lemon gingham ribbon down the right hand side and pale lemon BP behind the main image, I'll have to put it down to the awful light at moment, makes it so hard to get a decent picture of the lighter colours.  

Challenges:

atcs and cards with attitude

lady annes challenges

forever friends

All About Birthdays - CD Sunday DT

Hello, this is my last posting before Christmas it's for CD Sunday DT, the theme time  is 'all about birthdays'. my card is made with image and BP's from the Popcorn range by Crafters Companion along with using MS punches and finishing off with some pearls.xxx

Exotic Birds and Blooms - CD Sunday DT

Good Morning, I must aplogise to my followers who have left me lovely comments recently, with one thing and another I've not managed to visit and comment on your postings lately, life just seems to get in the way at every turn these days, it's as much as I can do to get my DT cards made, let alone much else, I do promise to try and improve over the next few weeks as things settle down and my health is less of a problem.

This week over at CD Sunday the theme is Exotic Birds and Blooms, So Joanna Sheens' Eastern Treasures CD to be the obvious lace to look for something suitable, and unusually I decided to go purple, the colours  jumped out me, I know it's my fav colour, but I do try to avoid making purple creation as otherwise they would all end up being purple.  Don't forget to pop over to my teamies blogs and see their creations.

Challenges:

ATC's and cards with attitude - anything goes

Clearly Inspired - Wings

crafty catz - anything goes

4 crafty chicks - up up and away

charisma cardz - flowers and fauna

digi doodle shops best - wings

Bingo - CD Sunday DT

Morning, I enjoyed looking at all your masculine cards last week, making it a hard decision to pick my top 3, so it's time for another challenge over at CD Sunday and this week our theme is Bingo, I selected the row with flowers, senti, gems, you can see the other choices if you pop over to the CD Sunday Blog.

My creation this week is using an image from Joanna Sheens' Precious Petals CD, isn't she so cute.  Hope to see your Bingo entries during the week.

Challenges:
2 sisters - anything goes
catch the bug - anything goes
challenge up your life - anything goes
simply create too - anything goes
corrosive challenge - Birthday
comea nd get it - Adult Birthday

Choc, cream and one other - CD Sunday DT

Not sure what happened to the 'comment' box on my last posting, sometimes it was there and sometimes it wasn't, how weird, so thanks to those whose tried to leave me a comment but couldn't.

My card this week for CD Sunday is not a great photo colourwise, it really is a creamy colour and not white as it looks here.  My CD bit is the flowery BP from BMD, such lovely BP's,  the dies were my latest purchase of spellbinders Morroccan dies set , the centre embellie was made using my epihany tool and added some pearl gems to the centre, the ribbon is an extra wide one from my stash.

Challenges:
crafty catz - anything goes
fussy and fancy - punches/dies
Inspire me Friday - anything goes
the poodles parlour - anything goes
delicious doodles - recipe (gems. dies, flowers)
4 crafty chicks - no stamping
deep ocean - punches/dies
paper sundaes - ribbon and pearls

Vintage - OLLCB DT

After yesterdays late posting I think I know what day of the week it is, mind you that doesn't mean I will get anything right !! I'm back to my usual routine of writing this the evening before, so it's dark outside now, it's been a lovely sunny day but chillier than of late due the breeze, more sunshine is forecast for tomorrow Monday.

This time over at Ooh-La-La the challenge is 'Vintage', not a topic i'm over keen on, but I found this lovely image on the Fleur d'imagination CD  in the 'Sunflower' folder, I love sunflowers such a cheerful flower and we have fields of them around here in the summer, the die used for my easel stopper is from Memory Box, and the flowers were also made using Crealie dies and finished off with pearl gems.

Challenges:

the secret crafter saturday - shaped

chocolate coffee & cards - folds

crafty purple frog - anything goes 

fairy tale - anything goes 

MIM - anything goes 
Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes For Girls( Feminine and Bling).
bunny zoes crafts - vintage 

Fairies & Blooms - OLLCB DT

Another fortnight gone again, cannot believe we are half way through March already.  It's time for another challenge over at Ooh-La-La Challenge Blog and this week our theme is 'Thank You'.  My card this time is made from images and papers from their latest CD Fairies and Blooms, lots of fabulous images and papers to choose from, my image is just right for this time of year with the lovely spring colours, if you fancy a further look at what's on the CD click on the link above. Additional bits and bobs are ribbon, pearls and card candi from Joanna Sheen, the flowers were die cut with Marianne dies from the flowers paper on the CD, much neater and quicker than me handcutting the shapes !!

Challenges:

allsorts - three in a row 

flutter by wednesdays - for a child 

paper sundaes - photo inspiration 

make it monday - anything goes 

marianne design divas - spring 

OSAAT - Girly 

send a smile 4 kids - wings 

one stop craft - handmade flowers 
my grafico crafts - easter or spring 
joanna sheen - spring 

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge – Spring!

Sparkles  Forum – Spring Or Mother’s Day.

really reasonable ribbon - spring 

Spots n Dots - CD Sunday DT

This week our challenge over at CD Sunday is 'Spots n Dots',  mine is a birthday card I made for a special friend of mine, she loves yellows, and daffodils, hope she likes it.  The image is from CC Fairyopolis Spring/Summer, the wings and dress have glittered accents on them by using my sakura glitter pens, the BP's I've had for a while now, not sure where I got them from. I finished off with a bow made with my mini bowdabra and some lovely pearls.

My chest pains from the Pleurisy are almost gone, just keep niggling now and then, I still have earache, sorethroat and cough but as I've had it since before christmas I'm not expecting it to rush off and leave me, still haven't been in the craftroom, that's coming up for three weeks now, but hope to be able to remedy that this week

Challenges:

2 sisters - spots n dots

all sorts - three in a row

cup cake craft-going-dotty

crafty ribbons - birthday

cute card thursday - birthday

delightful challenges - someone special

crafty anns - spring

frosted designs - wings

stamping with dragon - wings

crafting for all seasons - yellow n green

divas by design - citrus colours

the sisterhood of crafters - birthday

crafters companion - spring 
joanna sheen - spring
gingerloft challenge - birthday 
crazy 4 challenges - use some green 
 emmas cards uk - stripes
crafters cafe - ribbon and/or lace 

Sparkles  Forum – Spring Or Mother’s Day.

really reasonable ribbon - spring

 

A La Mode - CD Sunday DT

Goodness!! February already, and as it's the first challenge of the month it's a sponsored challenge over at CD Sunday, this month we are so lucky to have Ooh-La-La Creations back as our sponsor, who are offering a CD of your choice to the lucky winner, the DT were given some wonderful images from their latest CD - Shoes in Bloom 2 to work with.

My card this week is a waterfall card, they always look so difficult but they are actually very easy to do. I cut my shapes for my waterfalls using nesties dies, added a bit of layering, some ribbons and pearlsand there you have it.

Challenges:
Shelleys Images - all tied up
craft us crazy - anything goes
crafty sentiments- punches/dies
delightful challenges - punches/dies
divas by design - anything goes
do you stack up- anything goes
lollipop crafts - anything goes
paper pretties - ribbon
the crafty pad - spring colours 
cupcake inspirations - photo inspiration