Tilda Thursday

I love sketches so if I see a sketch challenge that would be the one I'll try and enter, So this Sketch and Stash looked perfect for this cute Tilda. They do have an optional extra of Clean and Simple but I already had the idea to use Tilda.
The papers are American Crafts, which some have been easy to use but the funny colour aqua blue has been a pain to match with my both sets of pencils I have. Love my Martha Stewart Cherish punch it was used at the weekend for a layout punch and DD used it for some of her pages too definitely a best buy. Craftwork cards sentiment and EK success flower punch, the centres are with a 1/4 punch from Stampin up.

Wednesday's Scrapbooking and WOYWW

 So my desk this WOYWW is looking its usual state. I do tidy it up roughly before going on to make something else. Things like tools go back to their home cos I get so annoyed if I can't find them. The papers are put back in their baggie ready for the next card. Eventually the mug goes back to the kitchen cos its taking up valuable desk space.

 Some more Scrapbooking, these were laid out at a crop but they didn't have their finishing touches on like Titles.

 The foam letters read Conservatory but you can't quite see them but it fine in RL. Recognise the flowers, their the Hero Art ones Igot from Simon Says Stamps. Nice to be using the larger size flower, its too big really for adding onto a card.

I may be in trouble with this layout. I used the map in the travellers guide, I know its not acid free but I'm not too hung about it but I do use acid free glue. The reason I'm in trouble in my son is going to Vegas on a stag do this summer he may be wanted to use the map!!!!!

Happy Birthday

WOW amazing amount of entries of Simon Says Stamps Challenge not quite 1000 but knowing our team leader her plan now will be to get that exclusive amount. Wonder if our challenge this week will do it of Happy Birthday, a perfect challenge especially with it being Lorraine's Birthday today.
For a change I've used a Magnolia  RomanticTilda, Simon Says Stamps has an amazing collection of Magnolias even some really fab older ones that are difficult to get you hands on and now they're stocking the Doohickeys cutting dies including this fabulous swirl. Now I know its not cheap but I've use it constantly.
The papers are Prima Sweet Fairy, now they are value for money the 6in pad is really thick and good quality and so pretty.

Now don't forget to check our the DT and we welcome Melissa our latest DT member and don't forget also you have to join in to be in the draw for the fab prize of.

Yesterday I met up with the lovely Lorraine our DT team leader, I never thought we would actually be able to meet but it was such a treat. We managed to talk constantly for a good couple hours non-stop if Lols didn't have to go and see her other half we would still be there nattering. We managed to drag the poor waitress to take our photos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORRAINE

EAC Sketch

We have a fabulous sketch for you over on Everybody Art Challenge, not sure I've done it justice. I think my PB Hedgie is a bit tiny and then so it would fit in the punched out square I cut it down even more!

The papers are English Rose from Kaiser, beautiful papers that are hard to cut into and hard to cover up with images.
Of course the borders are a Martha Stewart around the page punches and the swirl is from Magnolia and roses probably from Wild Orchid.
Do pop over to the challenge blog and check out what the rest of the DT have made using the sketch.

Fly away Butterflies

I may not of brought the new LOTV but I did buy a couple of the WOJ girls and they so easy to colour and layer.
Using Friday Sketchers sketch this week, which I think is fab and will have to use again and the papers from Kaiser, I think it all worked out well.
The only thing I didn't like the about this image was some funny bug looking things she was reaching/letting go.
So I cut her out and there were bugs no more and I use the tiny butterfly punch that I've had for ages.  The corners are from a cuttlbug die set and the roses are probably from Wild Orchid.
A successful weekend scrapbooking but worked out still got a lot more do for my Vegas book.

Flowers For Sunday

What a great challenge this week on LOTV (Lily of the Valley) FLOWERS and what better flowers than using my punch ones. Out comes the EK sucess funky flower punch and the really tiny ones are in fact a Do-crafts one and its so itty bitty tiny and temperamental.
I've used an older LOTV image and the papers are Echo Park Little Girl, certainly getting my moneys worth out of them.
Having a scrapbooking weekend while Hubby is working with BIL.

Vegas Scrapbooking

I have another blog that I upload my scrapbooking and mini book too, this allows me to load them as one post so you're able to view the whole book.
But this blog is for all my crafts and when I do them and even though I linked to my Vegas Scrapbook on All in One Place I didn't show them on this blog. So sorry if you seen them before.

Froggy Saturday

My head must still be with last weeks multifold challenge, certainly a few folds on this tri-shutter card. The challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Green. Green means frogs and if you have one frog why not have a few.
The papers are My Minds Eye and the EK Sucess funky flower punch was working over time.

Just add some faux stitching and the sentiment I made on the PC, were all the embellishments I used not even a bit of ribbon. Oh but I did use some googly eyes can't have frogs without googly eyes.

But what a nightmare to photo but love how it shows off my froggy PB stamps.

Thanks to everyone who joined in last week and would love to see you again this week. So why not pop over to see the fabulous DT creations.

Shabby Chic Friday

See I can do shabby and distressing when I put my mind to it. I blow off the dust on my Tim Holtz distressing tool and distress every bit of card stock so I can enter my card in this weeks A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge. 
The papers are Prima Madeline which I think it possible the best pad of the few I've brought lately. The lace is already gathered and brought it off E-bay, would be my card if there was a bit of ribbon somewhere. The flowers are from Wild Orchid but I even distress them would some ink.
My image is a Sarah Kay  from Stampavie but I forgot to use a  clean wet paper stump over her eyes and mouth to clean off any coloured pencil, so may have to retake the pic.

Sketch Saturday on Thursday

I can't believe how good I've been and didn't buy one single new LOTV, of course when everyone gets theirs and do fab things with them, I will want them. But for now I will settle for one of the oldies like this cute bear. I've used the Sketch Saturday sketch this week and Echo Park Little Boy and cos its more for a Man/Boy card kept it quite simple.
I threaded the buttons together which made it tricky to stick them down and I used the 1/4inch circle punch for the false brads in the corner. I used Martha Stewart zigzag punch which always seems to get used when a mans card is on the cards.
Now I may not have got LOTV stamps but finally my Postie brought me some WOJ (please don't let me start about the new system Guildford PO are doing but I now have days of no post and following days stacks of it, so I'm pretty certain they're not delivering every day)

Clean and Simple

This could be a long post, its Anything Goes over on Simon Says Stamps Challenge and the DT is showcasing Unity Stamps. The set I brought was Insightful Meadows and seeing Clean and Simple cards are in vogue at the moment I thought I would give this is a try. First I made a drawer and you can just see the front panel of the drawer, this is repeated all the way round. I used the Distress Inkpads, Tumbled Glass and Broken China. I did wonder if I left too much white.

I then make some Clean and Simple Cards to go inside the drawer. I made a chart of all the Distress Inkpads I had and then worked out which would work together. I've used Nestablilities for some cards.

Here our some close ups of the cards I made. Its amazing how just three brads make all the difference.

I used a score board to make the the embossed stripes, another simple way to finish off a card.

I was running out of ideas so just a touch of ribbon to finish.

This time I use some black pearls and found these words in a Penny Black Transparent set.

This was a huge stamp but I was trying to use all the same size card so another with ribbon to finish.

Now looking at the last two they seem quite busy and the last one I need to move the pearls. To make the cards I use two different techniques. First one is to stamp and embossing with white embossing powder then blend the ink round them. The second I've use a circle as a mask and then blended the ink round and finally stamp the images.
When I had finished I had to lie down in a darken room, this was totally out of my comfort zone.
We would love for you do join us at Simon Say Stamps Challenge and theres an amazing prize for someone of

Don't forget to pop over and check out the Dt too.

Going Green

We're going Green this week over on High Hopes Challenge, this could be the colour or to recycle something for you card. I pretty much tick both boxes, you can't get greener than a Dustin Pike Dragon and love this one with all the tools. So he will need somewhere to put them and thats where I torn up a box and painted it green and laced some thread.
While making this I wasn't convince this would work but actually it doesn't look half bad especially in RL. I even filled the little dots with a silver pen so they look like nails but again that more obvious in RL too.
Do pop over to the challenge and check out the Divas  there some gorgeous creations to inspire you.