Not an easy card to make

I know you will think I'm mad when you see the title of this post and then you see the card, but I don't think sympathy cards are ever easy to make no matter how much you care for the person who has suffered a loss.

From working in hospital for quite a few years in my past I always associate purple with death and for a change wanted to use a different colour for my sympathy card as I like to think that although we are sorry for the family and loved ones of those who have left us we should celebrate their lives and try not to feel sorry for ourselves but cherish all the happy memories we have. I know that this does eventually follow as part of the grieving process but wouldn't it be good if we could just bypass all the painful bits of that grieving process.

Boy what a deep and morbid way to start a weekend, sorry if I've deepressed anyone.

My card is for a couple of challenges:-

Charisma cardz- sympathy card
Paper star-photo inspiration


I used moonglow embossing powder for the sentiment, and stamped onto rigded embossed card, which I put into a hammered card aperture card base. The flowers I wanted some blue hydranger flowers which I didn't have so I made some from mulberry paper scred them and coloured the centres with chalk. I love the simiplicty and clean look, no frills just a heart felt message.

Onward and upward to a fab weekend to you all and have to say at the mo we have sunshine outside so that makes you feel good to be alive even if it is blooming cold,heating on today me thinks. Have a great weekend.

Rockin recycling christmas

I always like to make my son and hubby a spaecial card at Christmas but as the years have gone by and my son has got older, now 16 I am finding it harder. He no longer appreciates the cute cards, or ones with Santa on, he isn't into Manga type cartoons or games or gaming cards as so many of his friends are, he would rather save his money and but big expensive or small and more expensive electronic gadgets. I found this fab image that I might add is a freebie on Dude time challenges. I knew as soon as I saw it what I was going to do for his christmas card. He loves 80's music and especially, the songs form the Top Gun film which he bought himself on dvd and watches that often could take the part of any of the cast as he knows the script word for word. He also likes which gives my hubby an excuse to indulge heavy rock ACDC in particular, it's wonderful blaring through the house at 6:30 in a morning, all you can hear up stairs is thud, thud ,thud and the 2 of them once my son gets up is singing along , a little off key. Thank heavens we live in a detatched house and have a big gap between houses, is all I can say.

So now you have the explanation, the colours are my sons favourites he loves turquoise, he had a pair of turquoiise trousers a couple of years ago and when he started to look like sport billy as they were half way up his calfs I had to make them into shorts and we had to go hunting for some more fabric to make another pair. Most of his other trousers are navy or black but if these are clean he will wear his turquoise ones, not so much in winter as they are a bit light weight. I just wish he would stop growing then I won't have to look for more when these start to look daft from being too short again.

The papers are from DCWV roskstar stack that the last time son was craft shopping with me he picked as he loved the papers but as yet I hadn't used them as I hadn't found an appropriate image, have now though. I added confetti snowflakes for a more christmassy feel. The image I coloure with promarkers and sakura glaze pens. I added stickles and more smaller confetti snowflakes. I mounted on some ancient turquoise mirri card that I have had so long I have no idea where it came from , wish I did as I love it and am now down to just a couple of sheets. The ribbon is from my stash and the charm I got from the garden centre in the summer.

Oops for got to say the recycling bit, the sentiment 'Rocks' I cut from the front of the paper stack, well it just seem to fit just right.

Think thats everything. I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Bee crafty-christmas using digi image
Simon says-price charming
dude time doodles-use freebie image
The Corrosive challenge-black and blue, hope you don't mind some silver too)
Sketch and stash-layout
Digidoodles shop best challenge-don't forget our men (have just finished posting this when I found your challenge hope I'm not too early)

Fluffy snow, the nice white kind.

My son decided this morning that he would really like it if it snowed from now until february. I asked why as he really dislikes the cold as he gets severe cramps , a side effect of his cerebral palsy and pains in his hips and ankles from all the metal work pins plates and screws he has had used on his joints to try and relieve the pain he was suffering from misalined joints. He informed me that he would love to be home schooled again so he didn't have to put up with the idiots that still messed about in class, and he actually felt he learnt more. He said it would be fine if he didn't have to go out in the snow as he thinks its pretty to look at when it's all clean and white. I think it probably stemmed from his old maths teachers asking if he would be willing to resit his maths papers, I asked if it would be the higher level paper that we had originally asked if he could sit. He told me that it would be the same paper, to which he had told the teacher there was no point as he had the highest mark he could get. Apparently they had told him they wanted him to do it as he had got such a high mark, no further explanation. Me thinks they think he cheated, as they didn't teach him for best part of 2 terms and suggested he would get a much lower mark, and are trying to justify this. I can catergorically say he didn't cheat as he not only had a scribe but another teacher from school sat watching to ensure only things Andrew said were written down. Shame on them.

Edit-my son told them basically that he was happy with his results and no thankyou he would not do the exam again so tough-good of him I say , and no more has been said!
Moan over and onto my card. I used an image that was sent to me in a rak, love this image and it is on my wish list and has been for some time, I just never seem to get around to buying it, probably as I get most oppourtunity when I get birthsday money in august and there aren't too many christmas stamps around then , nor does my brain think christmas.

I added some liquid applique to the snow areas and sprikled with glitter before puffing , it doesn't show too well on the photo, probably as its so dark tipping it down with rain and when I put the lights on it looks just as bad. The image is coloured in promarkers and sakura pens and the paper was a magazine freebie. Now what have I missed telling you, the base card is gold pearlised and the silver is pattered mirri board from jtf. The confetti snowflakes are a mix from not sure where. The sentiment is a stamp from the stampman embossed in silver powder, yep think thats everything, please shout out if I missed anything.

OOps just seen the gems , they are from Kanban.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

A spoonful of sugar-snow and or snowflakes
Tuesday taggers-colour combo, gold, silver and purple
Stamp with fun-layout
Penny black-let it snow
Pennyblack at allsorts-It's begining to look alot like christmas
Cute card thursday-anything goes
Fab n funky-circles
Creative belli-something,old,new, borrowed or blue pick 2(mine are old papers and mirri card and borrowed an image I was give as a rak borrowed as I don't yet own this stamp but it's on my wishlist)

Blow away the cobwebs

Mum always use to say that, when you're feeling sluggish and a bit off colour , a good brisk walk in the cool autumn or winter air blows away the cobwebs . I suppose there's alot in old sayings as cold air doesn't do bugs and viruses much good so if its the start of a cold it might just kill off any cold viruses  having a few lung fulls of cold air, though no jumping in the freezer!

Now you are all totally confused and thinking my brain is definitely more fuddled than usual but there is method to this mad rambling, and that is to show you all my DT project for Penny's craft challenges this time. We have a challenge of something altered so time to have some real fun recyling or crafting up those little christmas and holiday gifts. This was the first thing I've conciously altered for a challenge though I'm sure in the past I've changed the appearance of picture frames etc and just not realised that it was an altered project. I decided that I wasn't keen on the blue tissue box I had in my living room, my walls are off white as is my sofa and I have beige and pale blue scatter cushions so dark royal blue stood out like a sore thumb. Not anymore as this is now what it looks like, and isn't Tilda blowing bubbles adorable. She was coloured with promarkers and stickled for sparlke, one for each of the long sides of the box and a bit of ribbon and all toned in.

Now its your turn can't wait to see what you come up with. For more inspiration hop on over to Penny's and see what the rest of the DT came up with.

 

Reminds me of matchmaker chocolates.

Funny how some things remind you more about christmas than others. You would think that as a child it would be special presents that would stick in my mind and remind me of bygone childhood christmases, but it tends to be silly things like when I see matchmaker chocolates and toffifee think thats what they are called. It must be some thing to do with the fact that as children we never had loads of sweets not that I was bothered as I don't really have a sweet tooth,but these were the sweets along with chocolate oranges and satsumas that we always got in our christmas stocking.

I remember my brother buying mum a huge box of thorntons chocolates withone of his first wage packets, he'd not been working long and as there was just the 3 of us as mum and dad had recently divorced and we weren't that well off as my sister stayed with our father he really wanted to treat his mum for everything she had done for him during the bad divorce. We had at the time a poodle and a german shepherd dog, both were wonderful and the german shepherd was getting on but the poodle kept her happy as when her mum had died she had pined and she needed a new friend. Susie the poodle was so placid, she let me do daft things like dress her up in shorts and scarves and would quite happily sit to have her photo taken. The chocolates were wrapped and for some reason my bro put them under the tree for mum on christmas eve. I'm sure you can guess what happened, the following morning the chocolates were gone box and all. Total mystery. Susie kept laying by the sofa and pawing at one particular spot, we thought she had lost a toy but when we looked we found the chocolates all perfectly unwrapped but not opeded. We never did find the wrapping.

Sorry digression again , my card, I used another rak, really must get this image and this time I've followed another colour challenge of mint, black, gold and cream. The check paper I printed off a freebie disk ages ago, not sure who by or where the disk is either , pity as I quite like it. The gold card is recycles from a card sent to mum, which she thought I'd like. The ribbon from y stash and the sentiment stamp from the stampman. The image is coloured with promarkers and sakura pens once again.The brads are from craftworks candy.I sprayed the cream card for the sentiment with moonglow spritz just to keep with the colour scheme.The gold paper I think is kay and co. Sorry for the disjointed list but it's only as I see what I've used that I remember to tell you.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Colour create- colour challenge
Just Magnolia monthly challenge-anything goes
Totally papercrafts-tag it
Magnolia stamp lovers-layout
ABC challenge-H for holidays
Stampavie and more-tag it
The creative cottage-for some one special at christmas(2 special people)

So not my colours

I am so not a red and yellow or gold girl, gold the real thing maybe but not yellow and red together but as I tried to make a conscious effort to steer away from blue I looked for a different colour challenge and found red and red and gold.

I used another sugar nellie image this time a manga image I was sent from a rak and coloured her with promarkers and sakura  pens. I thought I would stick with the bauble theme for my embelishment and shape of my image too. Still not sure that I like red and gold/yellow together but this card is growing on me.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:-
Totally gorjuss-sketch layout
Secret crafter saturday stamper-red and gold
Easy craft challenges-red

Pointsettia christmas

Do my flowers overpower my image, I can't decide, but I think they might just a little bit, but either way it's too late as this card is already on its way to a new home.

The pointsettias are from hobbycraft and i couldn't resist the sparkle but still think they might be a bit big should have gone to wild orchid but I bought these before I went in to hospital and as I can't drive for at least another 3 to 6 weeks and realised I had to get this card done at the last minute I had to use what I had.

The image is another sugar nellie, got to love 'em all they are just so fab, coloured with promarkers and stickle sparkle too. I added some clear glaze to the holly too.

The wrap thingy on the bottom is vellum that I used a brass stencil to emboss, I tried doing it on white pearliesd  card but the stencil was so fine that the tool just couldn't put enoughpressure on to form the image so I went with the vellum and think that bit works quite well, the edge is punched.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:-

Sweet stampin-colour challenge, think I got them all

One stop craft challenge-embossing

Raise the bar-curves

Cute card thursday-gently does it

Paperplay challenges-circles

A pocket full of posies-winter bouquet

The sugar bowl-layout

Paper Sundaes-let it snow

One stitch at a time-winter wonderland

Starlight so bright I make a wish.....

Morning all and hope it's a bright and cheerful one for each and everyone of you and I don't mean weather wise though that would be good too.

Now we had a fab time celebrating over at creative craft challenges for our 1st birthday, don't forget to pop over and check out if you were one of our lucky winners too, and while you're there you can check out our challenge for this time too.

I know as I myself am doing many of you are getting christmas cards made, some of us (the unorganised ones anyway leaving it this late) and our challenge this time will mostprobably help you along with that too. This challenge is called starbright and as you've probably guessed we want to see stars, in the nicest possible way and not from a sock in the head cartoon style.

So, confetti stars , glittert stars, star paper,star buttons, star stamps the possibilites are endless and it doesn't have to be a christmas card as you will see from the vast variety of inspiration from our fab design team Come on pop over here for a sqizzy.

OOps nearly forgot my card.

The backing is some foil I bought years ago for my son when he was of an age that he liked to mess, not sure what he thought or I thought we'd do with it but I eventually found a use, but there is still loads left!.

The image is a medallion stamp that I layered and glittered some time ago and it's been sat sparkling at me on my desk, it just screamed out to be used when I saw this challenge, and the sentiment, well yet another christmas card to make crossed off the list.

No challenges to enter this into at the mo but occassionally its good to be different.

Card for Gran

This is a birthday card for my mum from my son, he picked the stamp and said it had to be autumny colours, hope he and mum approve.

I used this fab LOTV stamp my son has good taste and coloured with promarkers. Mum loves chrysanthamums so thought I'd try and colour this daisy like a bronze one, not perfect but I am quite pleased with it.

I added a double daisy also coloured in promarkers and a ribbon ruffle center I made for more of a 3 d effect. The papers I think are K and co but I thought they were quite autumy too.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Digi doodles shop best challenge- fall/autumn
LOTV-one for the girls
Teddy stampers-birthday
Stamping for the weekend-layout sketch and a butterfly
Lollipop-birthdays

Let it snow !

My brother lives in Shropshire about 10 minutes drive from the  Welsh border and if you want to upset any of his family especially his in laws just say they live in Wales, don't know why but they are very touchy about it. It has fab advantages for the kids though as there are some fantastic sleding runs which they greatly utilised last year and so I thought James sledging would be an ideal image for my 6 year old nephews card. I seem to be making alot of blue christmas cards of late, unless I consciously go for red and green I end up with blue, maybe its just that I have a few papers that are blue I'm not sure but I would class it as one of my favourite colours so it might just be a comfort zone thing.

I coloured this cute ted with my promarkers and kept the design simple, I think when you have fab images there is no point in not having them as the focal point on your card. I mounted him on matt silver card and then on a drinks coaster and then on snowflake paper. The embelliskment was from a challenge prize I think not 100% sure but it just seemed to be right and the sentiment I embossed in sapphire powder. Hope he likes it and doesn't think it too babyish, they grow old so fast these days.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Crazy 4 challenges-square card
Crafty calendar-winter/snowflakes
Fuzzy wuzzy- an animal and a season
dude time-fab sketch love the simplicity
The stampman-christmas
Whoopsi Daisy-christmas
Cards for men-animals

Now where's the baby gone?

I just love these cute nativity stamps from LOTV and am so trying to save pennies for them all but they keep adding new sets and then I want them as well and then sugar nellie bring out new ones too and then they fight to be top of the list and so it goes on the game of compromise and rationalisation and how much will hubby think is too much for rubber stamps, not that he ever complains so I must be judging it right.

Anyway this is one that made it home and I made it for mum to give to her 2 youngest grandchildren. She wanted something that might be relavent to them other than gifts well they are only 2 and 4 and both at nursery so thought a nativity might be just the thing, thats when nativity plays seem to be done , so everyone says ahh don't they look cute.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:-

Moving along with the times-layout

Meljen-use 3 different shapes(star, square and funny fleur de leiu punch shape)

Winter wonderland- sing a christmas carol-while shepherds watch

Polka doodles-quick and easy christmas card

Hopefully , eventually all white

I can't believe how many times and different ways I tried to make this snowflake on my card. I had some acetate from the lid of last years crackers and thought a big snowflake would look good , so I stamped in versamark , sprinkled and very gently embossed. I was so pleased as the accetate didn't loose shape, I half expected it to curl like shrink plastic but it didn't. Success, I thought until I put it on my white card and it was a wonderful beigy smoky colour, strike 1.

I cut another piece and got out my glue pad that have to admit I've only used once since buying last year, new idea , I have a pot of polar white flower soft on my desk again unused so stamp with the glue and spirikle, leave to dry. Next day cut it out and as doing so all the flowersoft drops off, strike 2.

Final try if this didn't work I would change tack as mum wanted the card, again I used the glue but this time glitter, that's what they demonstrated with. Again I was patient and left it to dry and thankfully it dried. I didn't take any chances and stuck it to my card glitter side down and finished with a gem.

The rest of my card have to say went quite straight forward. I used manga santa from sugar nellie coloured with sakura glaze and promarkers, gotto love that sheen. I mounted this onto some pearlise white card that I used a fiskars embossing board to add snowflakes , man have I got to get more bits for my sissix bigshot embossing would be so much easier. I then mounted this onto an embossed quilted look card and attached some white confetti snowflakes that were from a challenge prize last year too. The sentiment just a peeloff. No more fancy embellishments as it's for one of mums grandsons, either 6 or 9 whichever she decides on and they are so not into flowers and bows.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

The creative cottage-embossing
Craft your days away( if not too late)-all white except for the image
Pollycraft-chill
Lollipop-embossing
Sparkle dreams-fab sketch layout
Simon says challenge-all white except for the image
CRAFT- dry embossing
Patties-christmas card or creation

More for Christmas

Mum asked if I could do some cards for my brother and his family for christmas by this weekend as they are coming up to stay and she wanted the cards not to get ruined or squashed in the post. I have done my bro's and sis-in-laws and you will see that one later next week , it's what I've done as a DT card, mum saw it and wanted it, so that one was easy. My nephews were a little harder, one is still in the works so to speak but here is the other. She wanted something traditional but not that the boys 6 and 9 would think of as babyish and similar, so after a chat we decided on sugar nellie mangas. Love these and I was lucky enough to win them from sugar nellie a while back. I did originally think they would make fab teenager cards but as yet hacven't run that by my son but have to say I really enjoyed colouring them in.I used Sakura pens and promarkers and love the shine you get. The santa card I got from a computer fair ages ago and the green paper I think from docrafts. The rub ons were from a rak I think last year and the gold cord from my stash as are the gems. Have to say I'm quite pleased how it's come together, hope mum is too.

I'd like to enter it for the following challenges:-

Charisma cardz- with love at christmas( what could be more love than a gran to grandchild)
One stitch at a time-christmas , modern or traditional( I think this does both modern traditional)
Crafty creations-fantasy and fables
Magical monday-sketch
Paper Sundaes-for the boys

Don't miss out

DON'T MISS OUT!

I can't believe that with a theme as wide as anniversarry we have only had 23 entries so far for our birthday celebration AND there are5 fab prizes.

Come on where is all that creativity in interpretation what is an anniversary if not something celebrated on a regular basis be  it monthly or yearly? It could be the anniversary of you meeting your beloved, gaining another year on your age, your wedding day or even giving up smoking. I'm sure each and everyone of you could come up with an anniversary of some kind and if your anniversary is a little obscure from the norm just explain to us but please do share your project and join our celebration. 

There are 5 chances to win and at the moment the odds are less than a 1 in 5 chance of you winning one of the fab prizes, so come on increase the odds for those already entered you never know lady luck may shine down on you, I'm only sorry I can't join in as those prizes are fab.

Here's where you go

CREATIVE CRAFT CHALLENGES

Hope it's not really a blue christmas

I decided as mum has asked for some special cards for family ans that I have only made 2 or 3 christmas cards so far I ought to make a start. Mum needs 6 granddaughter cards, one is 2years old and the others are all 16 + so I thought Tilda would be suitable , well what teenager doesn't secretly like cute.


I am still not back to full power so decided to have a look through what challenges are around so I could use these as a frame to build on. I started off with the layout from Just magnolia, hence Tilda, the colour scheme is from really reasonable ribbons as I had a piece of snow flake wired ribbon on my desk and they happen to have a blue white and silver colour scheme. I bought a mini sewing machine before I went into hospital and decided to have a play with it, my lines were rayther wonky and the thread broke a few times so I guess I need more practice sewing paper together, any tips greatfully received.

I coloured Tilda with my promarkers and the pressie and highlights with sakurs, which their glitter pen I used to add sparkle to the snow flakes on the white paper. The papers are both forever friends. I used blue mirri card for mounts and silver peeloff 'granddaughter' and finished with some fab snowflake brads that I think were a prize from a challenge last december/january, but thought they just finished the corners off. The ribbon was a prize from I think a ladybug blog hop (Lisa mess 2 magic) I think so thanks it works perfectly.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:-

Just Magnolia- sketch
Really reasonable ribbons-blue,white and silver plus ribbon of course
Crafty cardmakers-stitching
A spoonful of sugar-relish to embellish
E-A-C- untraditional christmas(non traditional colour scheme)
For fun challenges-use metal (brads and mirri card)
I love promarkers-snowflakes
Elephantastic-blue

Mum's favourite season

My new sugar nellie country cousins stamps just seemed perfect for my mum's birthday card, and even though it is the first of december I decided to use them and colour it to her favourite season autumn. I think it will definitely brighten what usually proves to be a cold dull day weather wise, and hopefully by then I should be nearly back to being able to drive and start to get out and about and start thinking about some christmas shopping, although not sure what to get evryone. I find it really hard getting hubby anything as if he finds something he wants he just goes and buys it. Last year we got our son a camera which he loves but he did say he really didn't want anything and told me not to bother putting up the tree or any decorations as he really wasn't that bothered as he was 'just happy that he would be spending time with family , which afterall mum that's what christmas is about.' I think I need some divine inspiration this year as he's just bought himself a new phone and says there is absolutely nothing he wants, just some money to put towards a new laptop when his present one konks out, but for now its ok for school. He won't let on which he has in mind so we can't even go and get it for him, sign he's growing up I suppose. Gone are the 4 o clock early christmas mornings, in fact when it got to 9;30 last year I was the big kid who told him he'd got to get up as I wanted to open my presents that he'd bought me, reluctantly he got up, where has my baby gone?

Anyway sorry for sentimentallity getting in the way, back to my card.

I made a tr-ishutter card and it took me ages to get all the folds right, I thought it would be easy as last time I made one it was so straight forward so heaven only knows what I was doing wrong this time, but I did succeed eventually.

I used some basic grey papers to cover the sections, not sure what set they are from as they were a rak but I thought they were quite autumny. I stamped the little oak sprig from the autumn sugar nellie set around the cream card I used for my writing sections and added some images I'd coloured with promarkers, as with the other images too. I thought these images were perfect as mum gets quite a few squirrels in her garden and she spends loads of time watching them pinching things from the bird table, though she does get a little cross when they dig up her plants to burry things. Last sprig she found several  hens eggs burried, not fun when they've been there all winter and you dig into it and especially when you thought it was walnuts the squirrel had burried.

I finished my card off with a few simple peeloff sentiment stickers. Have to say initially I wasn't sure I liked this card, probably as I'm not keen on reds and yellows together but it is growing on me, just hope mum likes it. Now to put it somewhere safe that I'll remember!

I would like to enter this card into the folowing challenges:-

Lexis creations-anything goes

 Digi Doodle- anything goes

Incy wincy-anything goes

7 kids college fund-birthdays

Getting back in the swing...

...with a christmas gift. Now hopefully my neighbours daughters won't see this as it's a christmas gift for one of them, I have to adnmit I'm never sure what to get them but like to give them a small gift and as one is nearing 10 and I think the othe is 13 or 14  and I like to give them something similar I am finding it harder as they get older.

I decided on a note book and bookmark set especially since my sassy stamps were waiting for me when I came home from the hospital,I can't believe how long it's taken me to make this but am quite pleased with the outcome. I used the hippie chick from the new sugar nellie artist and they are a dream to colour.I used a combination of promarkers for the skin tones and sakura glaze and glitter pens for her clothes, love the shine they give almost enamelly.

 Chloe use to be an all pink girl but recently had her bedroom redecorated and her mum was complaining she had expensive taste as she picked a teal set from next, or was it laura ashley not sure but my fav colour anyway, so I think she's got good taste. With that in mind I decided to use both pink and teal/turquiose. The note book I covered was a bargin but from Asda 3 for £1 and I thought it would make a good base.

The papers were scraps from my stash so not sure of the make ,think they might be k and co. I added pink glitter glue to the red flowers on the pink paper and sakura glitter pen to the outlines on the blue paper for extra girly spakle. The fibres were from various raks and the beads on the charm from a set my son was given when he was about 3 so these are old as he's 16 now.
I coloured the middle flower with turquoise promarker and recoloured some pale blue glitter paper with the same promarker for the letters of Chloe's name so it would all match.

I thought adding a book mark was an added bonus, I made one for my son in this style as he reads loads and wanted another bookmark as he had 2 books on the go at once, don't know how he doesn't get confused, and he said it was a much better style than a slot in one as it stays put. I tried to keep the design fairly flat so it doesn't distort the book too much even though I did think about adding a matching flower cluster, I decided not to as I thought it might be a bit too bulky.

Hopefully I'll soon be back up to speed as I still have a few birthdays between now and christmas and mum has asked for some personilsed christmas cards for the grandchildren and my siblings and step siblings so thats 9 grandchildren , 5 couples cards, one for husband and then there are more couple cards for their close friends. Then I have all my christmas cards to make and however many my son and hubby want for work and school, gosh didn't realise there was so many. Well plenty of excuses to craft!

I would like to enter my project into the following challenges:-

A spoon full of sugar-punches or dies ( I used corner punches and letter dies too)

Simon says- puches or dies

YNS-bookmark

Papertake-sparkly and bright

Charisma challenges-matching set

Totally papercrafts-Bling it on

Truely Scrumptious-fab layout, options of petals,pearls and pins, well I have plenty of petals.

Abc challenges-G is for glitter

Digi doodles-anything goes

Stamp something with some pink- use pink on your project

One stop craft challenge-anything goes

wow I can't believe I found so many challenges in my book that my project fits maybe I'll be lucky and get randomly picked as a winner with all these challenges, if not I'm still very happy with what I've made, just hope Chloe will be too.

Are you ready...

For something spooky?

Our challenge this time over at Penny's is a colour challenge of orange, black and purple. Now not saying you have to do something halloween themed but if you have any last minute things to do for halloween these colours sure lend themselves well to the celebration don't they.

We have a 2 fab sponsors this time so 2 fab prizes, (wish I could join in too) and I'm sure you'll agree as it's..., no I'm a spoil sport I think you'll have to go over to Penny's to find out so joyfully whiff across in a puff of smoke and find out all those important deets right here.

For my project I made a shaker halloween card with an image I was given in a rak and am sorry to say have no idea who this cutie is by. She looks all cosy and wrapped up warm for her halloween party outing though with her bright pumpkin . The shaker has witches and ghosts in and the outer edge is suppose to be the outside of a pumpkin, hope you can tell.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with, and how many of you make halloween things too.

There are quite a few other halloween challenges around at the moment so I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

CRAFT-spooky
Crazy 4 challenges-halloween
Drunken stamper-halloween
elephantastic-halloween
Baby Bud Designs-halloween
The Corrosive challenge-halloween or orange and black
Cowgirl sunday challenge- halloween
Raise the bar-colour challenge
Creative inspirations-halloween
Pear tree designs-halloween
Tuesday taggers-halloween including purple
Crafty goings on candy-a coloured in image

It's a celebration

'hey hey come join our party, celebrate come on'. In the words of Lionel Richie well something like that anyway, we are having a celebration.

Creative craft challenges is one year old and we have lots of prizes to go with our party celebration, and you have to be in it to win as they say. These 'theys' have alot to say for themselves don't they, but we have some fab prizes lined up and plenty of them too so please come on over and join in the funand meet our new design team members too, so loads more inspiration for you all and now there's sure to be a style to suit everyone.

My cards are made with just some of the fab stuff our generous sponsors gave us to play with, firstly Meljen gave us some digi images to play with and this just shouts Party so I stuck to bright colours and added some forever friends party papers and mirri card topped off with some swirly buttons and sentiment. Meljen is offering not one but 3 prizes.

My next card is made with another sponsors generous offerings, digi papers and fun image too and a fab sentiment. These are from stichy bear who are offering a fab prize too.

We have other prizes too from crafty ribbons,  some odd girl,imag-e-nation, lili of the valley,whiff of joy and funky kits too, as well as from some of our design team members. It really is worth popping across here. With all these fab prizes on offer I wish I could join in, wonder if the rest of the team would notice?

A quick christmas card

Quick as it was one I made last christmas and never got around to posting on here or using, though have to admit that was because I added glitter to the shaker acetate and didn't like it as it just stuck to the image and looked a real mess, loks better now honest.

The card is made with Kanban stamps and card and I just added colour in promarkers and stickles glitter, now all I've got to do is sit long enough on the computer to find some suitable challenges to enter, but I suppose it will break up the monotony of the afternoon or morning depending on when I get around to it, so who knows when this will get posted. Hubby and son are both on holiday for half term so I guess I won't get as much time to be bored as they are being wonderful and caring at the moment,though I did hear my son say this morning he couldn't wait for me to be back on my feet again as Dad doesn't know what he's doing, nice to be missed sometimes.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;-
Lollipop crafts-winter play
Sarah Hurley-christmas but no red or green
Moving along with the times-use promarkers/anything goes sponsored by letraset
Fussy n fancy friday-winter wonderland
paper garden projects-holiday cards