crafty Muse ~ black , white & 1

Sammi over at Crafty Muse
has some beautiful new images for sale
and the theme is marriage.




So this week as we introduce them
we are hoping you will join us in
a wee challenge.
The prize for the winner of the challenge
are these fab downloads
ready for you colour!

So the challenge.......
Is black, white and one other colour!

So here is mine...

I love black, white & red.
I have kept it really simple
and love the end result.
The image is using my sisters fave verse.

Pop on over and see us at crafty muse.

flowers from me to you!

It's half way through the working week already!
Plans for today include quiet house work
but no hovering till later on as Andrew
is sleeping off a night shift.
Need to finish off something I started at class
last night and get another card finished.

But here is one I made earlier!

This image is another one of Sammi's new marriage images.
I love this beautiful flower display.
Stampin Up circular stamps to make a wee button.
Distressing inks and sukura pen to colour
with a wee sprinkle of glitter on the flowers.
The beautiful pink ribbon is from Poppicrafts.

Now for my brown eyed girl!
She has a toy that we use for playing fetch at her puppy class.
She is not ment to have it apart from at dog class
so she stays interested in it when we use it.
Guess who found it !!!

Guess who loves it!!
She keeps bringing it to me in exchange for a treat!


She does give it up,
but then takes it away
so she can bring it back again!


You are given this toy ,
even if you don't want it
or are busy!!!

black, white & red all over.

My lovely bloggy mate Sammi
over at Crafty Muse has designed
some beautiful new marriage images
which will ready for sale on Friday.



This lovely wee image
is a collection of words
" Love & Marriage
Bride & Groom "

I am entering it as a minimal card
for Creative Card Crew

I took the colours from a Wedding Favour
sweetie bag which was a red bag,
and sliver wrapped chocolate hearts.

I have used it to make this Wedding Card
A place setting at a wedding feast.
A tag for a sweetie bag
which was given as a wedding favour.

I am entering it as a set in
Allsorts new blog challenge.
who want SWEETS as their theme.

So, if the rain stays off
I am off to plant in the garden...

if not....more crafting for me I think!

Crafty Muse ~ Mayday

Over at Crafty Muse the next challenge
will be a MayDay Creation ...
love, flowers, romance!

So we are looking for cards or makes that celebrate
the start of May, Spring or Beltene.
It is the time of year when warmer weather begins
and flowers and trees start to blossom.
It is said to be a time of love and romance.
It is when people celebrate the coming of summer
with lots of different customs that are
expressions of joy and hope after a long winter.

Beltane marked the beginning of the pastoral summer season
when the herds of livestock were driven out to

the summer pastures and mountain grazing lands.

There is a prize for this Challenge.
The winner can pick a download package
and
there will be new download packages available soon !!


Now....using vellum. and acetate.
combining it with crap lighting....
makes good pictures hard to get!

So I used Angelique and coloured her
like a sparkly daisy!
The flowers are vellum punched out
with wee green gems.
Acetate was stamped with my fave flower
stamp using white stayzon.
Cutting out the window with my nestie.
I also cute the same but smaller in yellow
and used it inside to cover the acetate edges.

Inside is another piece of green vellum
with flower peel offs coloured with sukura.

Angelique was given some sparkle
with glamour dust to her wings & petal skirt.
Come on over, join in & see what the other
DT girlies have made this fortnight!

love teen xx

Crafty Muse.....Spot the dot!

New challenge over at Crafty Muse.

LOTS OF SPOTS!!!

So thats whatca got!

I am continuing to use the same
"Love is stamp" as part of the planned gift
for my sister's Birthday in June.
I am planning to make several cards
all with this stamp on it as it is her fave passage.

I have used two crafty muse images on this card.
I have used Angelique here on the front....

I am also still loving the brown, pink & cream combo.

I have continued the circles inside...
the left hand panel is larger than the right
the same as the card I made in card class last night.
I think I will be using this quiet a bit just now!

And I also used Millie inside,
who has a spotty dress on.
I dont know who makes these papers.
They were on special in packs at local craft store.

I added a white circle inside the card
so my sister can write her message in it.
it is layered up using my nesties.

I used 3 different sized punches to cut out the circles.
I must admit I am not keen on dots and spots
but I enjoyed this card.

Sneaky Peek Spot!

Sneaky peekies for your eyes!
New Challenge is out soon over at Crafty Muse.

Got it done but need to get
better daylight picture of it.

I really need to get a daylight bulb.

Busy evening at work....
am back in early tomorrow morning,
home after 2 and then
back out again to work the clinic at 5....

Andrew has the day off,
well he has the day off from work,
I am leaving him a list of things to do....
Mow the lawn,
Hoover the house,

lets hope he don't them the wrong way around!

Good Friday

Over at Crafty Muse we are looking for
you to do a thank you or a good luck card,
I have used Angelique on a Cupcake.

I made the diggie download to fit inside the card.
The base card is a lovely shimmery pink.

She is coloured using promarkers
and i have added glitter to the cupcake and her wings.
The buttons are from my stash and the leaves
were from my lovely blogger pal Dawn.

where did this week go?

Been a quiet week here
Have been laid up with a dreaded
chesty type lurgy.

My hubby has been on holiday from work
but spent it looking after me!!
He came home yesterday after getting
the shopping with my favorites
chicken noodle soup
& a lemon muffin for me ....
and these beautiful red roses!!!

I got up feeling better today
to discover I was ment to have
my Crafty Muse DT card
to Sammi ....erm...yesterday!
It is posted on the blog tomorrow!!!
Here is a wee sneaky peek.....

Thought I had better get my Crafty Pad DT card done too.
Debbie has been busy with new
stamps for us to play with!

So that's me up to date....
Have lots of new stamped images
I swapped with Amanda
But haven't done anything with them yet.
Am back to work tomorrow
planning some crafting this weekend.

Hope you are all well!
much love teen xx

bunnies and dragon eggs~ crafty muse

Easter challenge

Well it's ALMOST Easter and over at
Crafty Muse we would like you to:

create an EASTER project :)

We have not had a freebie image for a while and so it's about time right ...
The only condition of you taking the image??
Please use it to enter our current challenge
(oh and please mention on your blog
where it came from)
so Hop on over to Crafty Muse
and pick up your freebie today!

I have used two of the free images on this card,
Angelique and Millie as bunnies on an egg hunt!
I used promarkers and glitter.
Am loving these soft pastel spring color just now.

And for my Friends Nan & Paul who celebrated Oestra
with the Spring Equinox last week
I used the Dragon download from Sammi
To make this card.

The base card is a cream leather effect
so I spritzed it with metallic paint
And hope it looks like dragon hide!

The green dragon's eggs are a
shimmery green pearl card.
I love the poem on it,
It sums up spring to me.

rainy days & puddles

I haven't been around much for a couple of reasons this last week or so,
thank you for all my emails asking where I have been!
I have just had this yucky cold again and then my laptop went and died on me.
I am lucky enough to have another computer in the house
but TBH I do most of my surfing while I am watching TV
downstairs in the evenings, and it's been a bit cold up here!

I am also finding that I am quite tired in the evenings after work,
and my evening class and one late shift a week
is seriously getting in the way of my crafting mojo!! LOL

I have managed to get a few bits done.
Have finsihed two Dt cards for Sammi for Crafty Muse
which will be shown here tomorrow.

Have started my Crafty Pad one for Sunday.
And started sorting my stuff to go see Amanda for some crafting on Thursday!!! woooooooohooooooooo

Here is a card for a lassie who is feeling a wee bit down in the dumps just now....


i am also entering it for this challenge at
Colour Create #8 as this week it is navy, turquoise & lime!
The image is Maggie and the sentiment is Hobby Art.
I have used distressing inks to colour it and am happier with how it is coming along!

here are two wee sneaky peakies of my crafty muse cards for tomorrow.....


This one might be more of a huge peek than a sneaky one!!!



Card class tonight and I am off all this week so I have plans to do some serious crafting .....

Much love
teen xxx

Crafty Muse ~ change of seasons

Time for a new challenge over at Crafty Muse.
and seeing as we have just had a change of season
Spring or Autumn depending on which side of the world you live on
then we would like you to make a project based on that theme:

Change of Season

So since I am enjoying the start Spring this is what I made
using Angelique holding flowers.

I used the same design from card class on Tuesday.
The image matting overhangs the front page.

Papers are Bo Bunny which I love just now.

I love Spring, The promise of new life in nature.
The warmer weather.
It's all good baby!

Crafty Muse ~ Mum's or Girfriends

Time for this fortnights challenge at Crafty Muse.

This time we would like to make something for a mother...
yours or someone else...
It's Mother's Day in the UK on 22 March

OR

you could make a card for a friend (but it must be for a female) :)

I actually started this one with my Sister in mind.

But I am gonna send it to crafty ribbons challenge
Don't tell my sister!!!! LOL
Sammi's cupcakes are just what I needed
to go with these ribbons.
Angelique is one my favourite of Sammi's girls.

Cupcakes ...6 different ones are the prize for a lucky winner!!
AND!!!!
We have two guest designers for the next few challenges!!
am away to go have a wee look at what the girls have done!
You don't have to use a Crafty Muse image to join us
But we would be delighted if you do,
and they are only available from Crafty Muse.
And there are some free down loadable images from Sammi !
Wait till you see what she has done for Easter......

want a wee sneaky peekie?






gonna have to come back another day for
a proper look!!!!

xoxoxox

DT with Ice

I am a terrible DT'r!!
I got it into my head that my Crafty Muse card was due tomorrow,
and it was due.....yesterday!
Sorry Sammi!

Ok so here it is.
It's a nice and easy one this week....
We want you to use your favourite colour on a creation.
Now a lot of the time I say my fave colour is Purple.
But just now I think it is Green.
I wear a lot of green, in this bleak time of year
I can't wait till the new growth is showing back on the plants and trees.

Anyway, here is my card.

It is using Princess Amber holding a chain of stars,
I always see her in green, and with reddish hair,
an Irish Fairy Princess.

I was going to stamp some small stars on the green base card,
I have a slightly smaller star stamp than the one I used to emboss
olive green on the cream square.
I can not find that stamp in the chaos known as my crafting area!
Will add them on tomorrow.

Come on over and join us at Crafty Muse.
You can use any image you would like,
but we would be delighted if you use one of Sammi's images.

Also * If you would like to join us in a Guest Design spot please
put a GD in your comment this fortnight! :) *

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The snow is almost gone,
but there is a lot of slush & the ice is slippy.


Poppy too ages to get this lump of ice out of a pot in the garden.

So she started off by licking the ice lump.....

Pushed it round the garden a bit....

Then lay down and started nibbling it!!!

And started chewing pieces off the side of it!!!!!

I must admit.....that makes me shiver !!!

Saturday stuff

Had planned to go to Inverness
to see my folks and do a bit of shopping
but Hubby has the cold....
Thankfully, its not the dreaded man flu,
so am very relieved by that!
Due to my mum's respiratory problems
we never go near her when we have sniffles.

It gave me a chance to catch up on stamping images for
swaps & blogging about goodies folks have sent me!!

From the lovely Amanda...

From my amazing friend Sammi
a lovely card and news stamps!
Angelique and Princess Amber
who are available to buy on her Crafty Muse site!

As well as an ATC card
she also made me a
Handmade by Tina stamp!
Thanks babe!!

Did you know she can makes stamps
from your own designs for you,
or ATC stamps or handmade by stamps...
go have a wee look!

Talking of wee....

Here's three wee moo's she sent me too!
So cute!

And from the lovely Dawn

And this gorgoues 4 x 4 she made for our DT blog
Crafty Pad ussing a Faith stamp

Who also gave me this beautiful award.
That I want to pass on to Amanda & Sammi.

Talking about Crafty Pad.....
here's a wee sneaky peak for tomorrow's challenge!

Crafty Muse sketch challenge.

So yesterday I got caught up with life stuff.....
Was a good day all round!!

but here is the Crafty Muse DT card I made as take on Sarah's sketch.

Gonna come over and join us?
take a peep at the new images Sammi has!!! Once Upon a Time.

I love the Dragon

You can also get your art work made into stamps just for you!!!

Sammi !!!

Check out my lovely friend Sammi's blog candy!
and while you are there go look at the amazing digie downloads she has on offer!!!

Crafty Muse ~ New House!!

I am such a naughty DT member!!!
I thought I had put this to post....and hadn't!!!


Anyhooo............. Over at Crafty Muse....The theme this fortnight is

~~ Something New~~

Sammi says...

"Something New" .... for example a new year, new baby, new home, new job .... Make a card or project based on this theme
Remember that you do not have to use a Crafty Muse image but you'll receive 2 entries into the draw if you do.

The prize for this fortnight is something new too - it will be a free download bundle (to be released in a fortnights time ... I'll give you a few sneak peeks next weekend when I get back from holidays - 9th Jan)."

So here is my something new, a new home card. Using Angelique at her new home.