bits & pices

I have had a busy few days.
Got a few cards done, hope you don't
mind me posting them all at once.
I am entering several challenges with them too.

First one is a house mouse sketch card.
The papers are beautiful.
It was hard to cut the one with the text on it !
I used a glue pen to add some glamour dust
to the word love, it is going in the post
to some one special soon. x

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My pal Mairi has sadly lost her fantastic wee dog Ben
he was an important wee man to both Mairi
and her mum, so I made them matching cards.

I kept them simple and non fussy.
The black card has the same paw print stamped
on with versa mark.
I used silver embossing on one paw print only.

Inside I printed my message
which included this text.

It's hard when you loose a much loved
furry family member.

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This card is made using Sammi's dove image
that she designed just for me for my Birthday!
How cool is that!!!

I am entering it in ABC challenge
who want it to be orderly.
So that means if you have one bit of ribbon
you must balance it with another one.
I am also entering it on A spoonful of sugar
who want a celebration card.
what better celebration than a marriage.

I love these pair of love birds!
I have layered them on black card
and put that on red paper I embossed.

My time to craft are looking for love & marriage
so thats just perfect for this card !

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As you know I am loving this flower stamp
very much just now, I am trying to make my
sister several cards with her fave Love is passage.

So I came up with this......
I stamped the flower using brown stazon,
coloured with distressing inks.
Used the same stayzon to stamp
the love is onto acetate.
Held it in place with brads.

The flowers are green vellum
with wee pearls in the centre.

I am entering it in Once stop challenge as effort
of a vintage card. Vintage is not my normal
at all, I am not sure it is vintage enough.

so that's me, a mixture of friendship, love,
sadness, and birthday wishes....

hope you are well.
much love teen xxx

promarkers Challenge Candy!!

the new challenge blog Passion for Pormarkers
starts up on Tuesday!
And they have some amazing sponsors!
who are offering amazing prizes!!!

Go check them out!

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!!!

Blog Candy & Fun!

Debbie over at Passion for Crafts
is celebrating her birthday & has some cracking Blog Candy to celebrate!
Debbie's work is beautiful & very vibrantly coloured!

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Stampin Out Alzheimers

Susanna Boyd (the founder of Papercraft Planet ) and Jen Tapler are hosting a charitable event called SOA (Stampin out Alzheimers) to raise money to fight this horrible disease. This huge event will take place from May 25th - June 1st.

Whiff of Joy will also sponsor this wonderful event and our event coordinator Jacqui will host a challenge with the chance to win a great prize. Please visit Papercraft planet for further information.

Susanna and Jen have teamed up with a group of generous sponsors and challenge hostesses to create a temporary online community where members can take part in a variety of challenges, contests, classes and workshops, and download several free products (a special digital kit, a printable 3-d template, tutorials, etc) in different papercrafting categories (stamping, cardmaking, paperscrapbooking, digi scrapping, hybrid, etc). All this for a suggested donation of $5. 100% of these funds will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association to help with their efforts to provide and enhance care and support for all those affected by this heartbreaking disease.

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NEW CHALLENGE BLOG!

This new blog looks exciting! they have blog candy on offer,
and are looking for DT team members! go have a lookie!

The Next Level is the exciting new concept of Dawn (All Pink Girl) and Ann (Madgesty - Love to Create) probably better known as blog name Madge. Our aim in designing this new informative style of blog is not only to produce really creative Weekly Challenges that are not tied to any specific brand, but also to explore new avenues, ideas and techniques with a completely fresh approach.

Go on and nip over to see what they want you to do to be in with a chance of wining this candy or getting a place on the DT team before they launch on 1st June!!

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And lastly.....Gayle is celebrating her birthday so offering blog candy until 31st May!!
she dose the most amazing craft work! go have a look and see!

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 Pad # 22 ~ Shine

Its Crafty Pad time again!

This week we are looking for you to

shine!

As in sunshine, shiny cards, metallic or glitter

You may use any stamp,
any embellishments/ribbons/brads etc. :)

If you use a Crafty Pad stamp your
name will be entered twice for the prize.:) :)

If you DO NOT use a Crafty Pad stamp

then your name will be entered once for the prize. :)

The prize is any single Crafty Pad you would like.

So this week all the Crafty Pad team
are all using the Butterfly set.

I have made a sun catcher.
Not the easiest thing to try to photograph though!

I started with felt flowers,
added orange sequins on both sides
to each petal & an orange button to the centre

Beads were knotted on along the fishing line,
I really must ask my dad, how to tie better knots
on fishing line so they look neater!

Using stayzon to stamp the large butterfly
onto acetate and coloured using glass markers.
I used stickels and liquid pearls


It ended up with a nice crackly effect against the sun

I hung a butterfly charm at the bottom
this helps add weight to the sun catcher
and helps it hang straighter.

I hope you come on over & see
what the lovely DT girls have made,
including Pascale who joins us as our guest DT.

Fancy joining in with us this week?
Have you seen Crafty Pad has a sale on too?