THROUGH THE PURPLE HAZE - CHALLENGE NO 98 - FLOWERS

Good morning everyone out there - here I am posting my next card for the TTPH challenge and this time we want you to use 'Flowers'!  Now as you can see from 'some' of my previous posts I just adore flowers so this was a very easy one for me to do .. and ..  I was given this absolutely amazingly beautiful digi to use.  Isn't she cute?

 Check out the embossing on the side of my card - I found my chalks!!!  I usually use DI's but wanted a very soft look so, after a bit of a hunt around, I found my chalks - on the shelf where I'd stored them - duh!!  There's just a faint smidge on the flowers and a little more around the edge of the silver matted layer.  I made the three central flowers using 'hydrangea' petals from WOC (the stamens were in my stash from years ago).

Ingredients

7" x 7" white card blank - Anna Marie Designs
6" x 6" embossed card front from Craftwork Cards
Digi - Whimsical Rose Sprite from Aurora Wings
Pink Paper - Patterns of the Rainbow from Aspire
Decorative Labels Eight die - Spellbinders Dies
Olive Branch die - CC Designs Dies
Floral Vine die - Memory Box Dies
Dovecraft Decorative Chalks
Copic Markers
Flowers, and Hydrangea petals - WOC
Pearls, velvet ribbon and sentiment - Hobby House Crafts

We are really looking forward to seeing your creations  - our sponsor for this challenge is Aurora Wings and they are offering the prize this time.

Lots of big hugs to you all and take care.

Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Aurora Wings Challenge No 25 - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations Challenge No 17 - Anything Goes

Cre8tive Hands Friends Challenge No 3 - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Challenge No 418 - To Die For

Jades Sparkling Butterfly Challenge No 15 - Anything Goes/Die cuts/punches

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge No 30 - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards Challenge No 30 - Anything Goes

Our Crafty Corner Challenge No 7 - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft Challenge (March) - Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps Blog Challenge (March) - Anything Goes

OSAAT DT - CHALLENGE NO 257 - ANYTHING GOES WITH FANCY BORDERS

Good afternoon everyone out there in blogland!  I'm here again to post my DT card for the OSAAT Challenge.  Our theme this time is 'Anything Goes with Fancy Borders!  There's so much scope with this theme 'cos you can do absolutely any sort of border!

 For once I made a rectangular shaped card because I thought the image would look nicer with the borders underneath in layers.   I can't remember when I last made a card this size!

The prize for our challenge is a $10 gift voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet!  Definitely not to be sneezed at! 

Ingredients

A5 White Card blank - must have been in my stash for yeeeeears!

Digi - Sunflowers by Barb Jensen at Stitchy Bears Digi Outlet

Pastel Textured Cardstock - DCWV

Long Classic Rectangle Large die - Spellbinders Dies

Long Classic Scalloped Rectangle die - Spellbinders Dies

A2 Scalloped Borders 1 die - Spellbinders Card Creator Dies

'Annabel' A4 Embossing Folder - Tonic

Copic Markers

Sentiment - Clear Impressions Stamp free with magazine

Gems - Stash

I do hope you can find the time to enter our challenge, it's open for two weeks and there's that brilliant prize for the winner!

Lots of big hugs to you all and take care in this bloomin' cold, wet and snowy weather!

Love Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Crafty Friends Challenge No 26 - Floral

Creative Moments Challenge No 88 - Anything Goes plus a Sentiment

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Use 2 or more dies

Gem of a Challenge No 164 - Spring

Hiding in my Craft Room Challenge No 241 - Spring Colours

Just us Girls Challenge No 333 - Flowers

Pencil Cases Challenge No 14 - New Blooms/Spring Flowers

Simply Less is More Challenge - Colour week - Citrus

Star Stampz Challenge - Include Embossing

CRAFTY CALENDAR - MARCH - MOTHER'S DAY/SPECIAL FEMALE

Hi there - sorry to have missed blogging some cards recently but February has been one of those months for being poorly!  Yuk!!  I've only managed to do the bare minimum of my card stuff - so I'm feeling totally guilty!  Hopefully March will now start to improve the problems I've been having and the blood tests I've had may help.  

Anyway enough of my boring stuff, today I'm posting my next card for the Crafty Calendar DT and our theme this month is ... Mother's Day/Special Female so we'd love to see your creations.  I'll just post my card and then tell you about the sponsors.

We are so lucky to have two sponsors this month - so that means two prize winners!  Just take a look below 

 A Day for Daisies  are offering 3 digis of your choice

                           

Wild Orchid Crafts are offering a £10 voucher for you to spend in their store

Fantastic prizes!

Ingredients

7" x 7" White card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Digi - 'Delivery Bonnet' from A Day for Daisies
'Promises' Paper Pad - LOTV
Bazzill Bling card - stash
Opulent Ovals die - Spellbinders Dies
Timeless Rectangle die - Spellbinders Dies
Lace and bling - Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Supplies
Copic Markers
Flowers and foliage - WOC
Pearl bits - Anna Marie Designs
Sentiment - LOTV

I'll pop orf now 'cos I have another card to post - just remember our challenge is open until 28 March, you can enter three creations AND there's two prizes to be won so I do hope you'll join us.

Big hugs to you all - oh and a really warm welcome to my two new followers - I do hope you enjoy my blog - I'm sure I am almost back to normal so my blog posting will be back to normal too - but many of you know that 'normal' is different on my planet!


Love Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following 10 challenges -

A Day for Daisies Challenge No 142 - Add Dimensional Flowers
Allsorts Challenge Week 353 - International Women's Day/Feminine card
Cardz 4 Galz Challenge No 17 - Woman or Women
CCC Digi Designs Challenge No 44 - Let's get Girly
Crafting with Dragonflies No 52 - Girly Cards
Creative Moments Challenge No 88 - Anything Goes plus a sentiment
Cute Card Thursday Challenge No 415 - Mother's Day
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Use 2 or more dies
Just us Girls Challenge No 333 - Flowers
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Feminine and Fancy 

CRAFTY CALENDAR - FEBRUARY - 'LOVE IS IN THE AIR'

Good afternoon peeps, here I am blogging and it's so miserable and wet out there it's enough to persuade me to hibernate!  I'm having lots of trouble trying to make cards or even get onto the 'puter just lately.  Apart from the system playing up - I've recently lost both printers off the laptop (thank goodness for the maestro 'cos he put it right for me!), I've just lost another follower (because of blogger) so I'm lookin' a right Billie No Mates!  If anyone thinks I've 'unfollowed' them, it's not true - please contact me to let me know and I'll re-follow just like I did for Mrs A.  Oh and Biscuit has decided to be a 'mummy's boy', he insists on lying across my desk - or across my chest if I let him.  He also likes sitting draped over my shoulders - and his favourite place to play with his toys is ... wait for it ...  in the bath (empty of course) - boy have we been adopted by one weird cat this time!

Inside my card ...

Ingredients

'Bee with Flower' digi - Bugaboo Stamps
6" x 6" White Card Blank - Papermania
'Willow Bee' 6" x 6" paper pad - Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Hexagonal Layer dies - Tattered Lace Dies
Stitched Fishtail Flag Stax die - Die-namics Dies
Embossing Folder Extra (Folder plus die) - Marianne Designs DF3404
Flexmarkers
Wink of Stella pens
Flower/Foliage punches - ? Nellie Snellen
Sentiment - Typed and then foiled using my Minc machine
Pearls - Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Specials


Now the first winner of our challenge will win 7 digis donated by the wonderful Jodie from 

The second winner of our challenge will receive 3 digis of their choice from the fantastic

Can't wait to see your creations - you have a month to get them on the blog!

Anyway - must pop orf now and try to get some colouring sorted - whilst they are all having a nap - and yup I'm including the maestro in the bunch!!!

Hugs to you all out there and please take care!

Love Sue xxx

I'm hoping to enter my card into the following challenges -

Art by Miran Challenge No 51 - Anything Goes

Craft for the Craic 2nd Birthday Challenge - Something to make you smile

Craft Rocket Challenge No 8 - Valentine/Love

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge No 50 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge No 102 - Anything Goes

Gem of a Challenge No 162 - Love is in the Air

Morgan's Art World Challenge No 3 - Add Flowers

Pattie's Creations Challenge No 119 - Love is in the Air

Simply Create Too Challenge No 102 - Love or Valentine's

That's Crafty Challenge - First Love 

THROUGH THE PURPLE HAZE - CHALLENGE NO 94 - THINGS WITH WINGS

Hello there!  We've had some changes on the TTPH blog this year, the team has been split into two and our challenges are now fortnightly.  So here's my first contribution for Team Bubbles where our theme is 'Things with Wings'.   We've been sponsored by 'All Dressed Up' and they are offering 2 digis to our challenge winner so come on let's see your creations!

Wendy Burns who owns the shop, lives in Nottinghamshire - just like moi - and she has some absolutely super images to choose from.

Ingredients

7" x 7" White card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Image - 'Fairy Magic' from All Dressed Up Stamps
Lace Edger die (SD 007) - Joanna Sheen Signature Dies
Ribbon Banners LG die - Spellbinders Dies
Pippi Butterfly die - Memory Box Dies
Pin Point Scalloped Circles die - Memory Box 'Open Studio' Dies
Pin Dot Circles die - Tattered Lace Dies
Patterns of the Rainbow paper pad - Aspire Crafts
Promises pad - LOTV
Flexmarkers 
Sparkles pens - Spectrum Noir
Pearl flower embellishments - Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Specials

I do hope we see your creations very soon.  

By the way - we are having a very busy week trawling around catteries - yup we've decided we're going on holiday and don't want to leave three terrors alone in the house - goodness knows what sort of things they'd get up to - orgies, parties, disco's, smoking catnip - oooh you name it!  So we've been out and found a lovely place and the 'rooms' are really big - of course we'd need to have one for each cat 'cos they never sleep in the same room - well they are divas of course.  Having said that, Donny is being left at home because he is so timid and frightened of his own shadow that it would be too stressful for him and our neighbour will take care of him for us.  Just got to sort out our insurance now - that's an hour or three on the 'phone because they need to know 'the in's and out's of Meg's backside' as my old uncle used to say - bless him.  They have to know all about my medical bits and bobs but we don't care as long as we are covered.  I had a week all planned out but we suddenly decided to do this so everything went haywire!  Oh well - just looking forward to that sun and if Scottie can beam me up and transport me without the aid of an aeroplane, I would be more than grateful.  Ooops just remembered - need to go to the Travel Agents now to book the holiday - duh!!!

Take care all of you - I hope you are keeping well and dry.

Hugs to you all.


Love Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Crafty Addicts Challenge No 7 - Anything Goes/Elegance

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge No 156 - Punches and/or Dies

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge No 56 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge No 26 - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew Challenge No 105 - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers Challenge No 301 - Anything Goes

Inky Impressions Challenge No 282 - All about Borders

Lemon Shortbread Challenge No 7 - Anything Goes

Our Crafty Corner Challenge No 5 - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge No 278 - Anything Goes

OSAAT DT - CHALLENGE NO 253 - ANYTHING GOES BUT NOT SQUARE OR RECTANGLE

Good afternoon fellow bloggers - as I'm posting this one there's a little ray of sunshine peeping through the window - not sure how long it will last so I thought I should mention it 'cos I'm always whingeing about the wet weather.   Anywoo this card is for the OSAAT challenge this fortnight and as you can see above you can make anything you want to as long as it isn't a square or rectangular in shape.  Simples.

You can win gorgeous digi images and a paper pack so it's well worth entering our challenge.  Come on peeps - let's see your creative juices flowing!

Ingredients

7" x 7" White card blank (cut into hexagon shape) - Anna Marie Designs
Digi - 'Sianne' by Kaz Kraftz at the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

Patterned Card - My Mind's Eye 'Lost and Found 3' Ruby Glittered Pad (New)
Black card - stash
Tattered Lace Dies - Hexagon Nesting dies (New Dies)
Creative Expressions Dies - Frames & Tags Pierced Flags by Sue Wilson
Spellbinders Dies - Sentiments 5 by Die D'Lites
Signature Dies - Mirror Pairs Mini Leaf Flourish by Joanna Sheen
Pearls - stash

Whilst I'm here I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year - just in case I missed anyone - let's hope it's a good one for everybody.

Big hugs to you all and I'll catch you up on Biscuit's health problems later on.


Love Sue xxx

Oooops better late than never - I'd like to enter my card into the following 10 challenges

Ching Chou Kuik Challenge (Jan) - Something New

Crafting Musketeers Challenge No 33 - New Beginnings

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge No 25 - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge (Jan) - AG with patterned papers

Doodle Pantry Digi Challenge No 13 - Anything Goes

Karleigh Sue Challenge No 8 - Anything Goes

Live and Love Crafts Challenge No 43 - Something New

Scrappers Delights Challenge No 51 - Anything Goes

Sisters of Craft Challenge (Jan) - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge No 07 - Anything Goes

CRAFTY CALENDAR - JANUARY - SOMETHING NEW!!

Happy New Year everyone - I'm hoping for a healthier and positive year for all of us.  Mind you this bloomin' weather isn't very healthy at the moment and I really am thinking about all of the poor families out there suffering because of the floods.   Take care!

I'm now posting my very first card for 2016 as a member of the Crafty Calendar Challenge DT - our theme this month is 'Something New' - now that could be anything - new home, new baby, new crafty item, new fur baby (just had to get that one in!!) so the scope is endless.

We have two sponsors this month - All Dressed Up, who are giving two digis as a prize and Wild Orchid Crafts, who are giving a £10 gift voucher!  The digi I've used is from All Dressed Up - Wendy Burns who drew this gorgeous image lives in Nottingham just like me - woo hoo!!!   I've used a new die (ooops, just spilt the beans to Winnie)  and a new doily for my 'Something New' items on my card.

Ingredients

Digi - Little Skater from All Dressed Up
7" x 7" White Card Blank - Anna Marie Designs
DCWV - 8" x 8" Citrus Stack pad
Grand Scalloped Square die - Spellbinders Dies
Classic Scalloped Circles Large die - Spellbinders Dies
Curlicues die - Tattered Lace Dies (NEW)
Snowflake SDD007 - Sweet Dixie Dies
Snowflake punches
Copic Markers
DecoArt Glitter
Cosmic Shimmer Clear Varnish Lacquer
Square paper doily - NEW from Ebay

I haven't popped a sentiment on this one 'cos it's going to be the first one in my 'card stash' box this year and I didn't use typical winter colours either because she's at the Nottingham Ice Skating rink!  Ta da!!!

Anyway I just hope you can do a little bit of crafting and enter our first challenge of 2016.  

Lots of big hugs to you all - 


Love Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge No 279- Anything Goes

As You Like It Challenge - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge No 344 - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge No 25 - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew Challenge No 103 - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Challenge No 406 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge No 5 - Anything Goes

A Snowflakes Promise Challenge No 13 - Winter/Christmas

That's Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps Challenge No 89 - Anything Goes Winter