Tatty Christmas

Nephew asked me to make a card for his girlfriend yesterday. He picked the image, I recoloured it in Docrafts Digital Designer to match the colour of the papers....his girlfriends favourite colour is purple. Got to use my new MS punch too!

Recipe :
Base Card (for matting and layering) - from stash.
Patterned Papers - Both from DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas.
Image - Me To You CD recoloured.
Flourish - Quickcuts Flourish Die Antique.
Snowflakes - Cut with Cricut then put through Xyron Sticker Maker and glittered with Hobbycrafts Glitter. Sentiment - Freebie from When The Scrap Hits The Fun.
Outer Edge - MS PATP Aspen.

The last of the birthday cards - phew!

Managed to get all the cards done on time and am really pleased with how they came out. I especially like the two Spongebob cards made using my trusty Cricut and the Spongebob Squarepants cartridge.

Birthday Cards

Have been asked to make a few birthday cards this week. Didn't get a start on them at the weekend as we were at BATON competition Sat/Sun down in Clacton to watch Stepdaughters. Troupe won a few prizes and youngest stepdaughter (Morgan) got first for Mascot in the Freestyle Twirling section - WD hun, your dad and I are really proud of you! xx.

Anyway this is the first of the 8 I have to do, hope they like it!

Recipe for this one :
Printed Papers/Image - Forever Friends Collection CD
Sentiment - From Stash
Flourish - Marianne Creatables
Border - Martha Stewart PATP
Leaves - Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliage
Flowers - Handmade
Cardstock - Papermania Textured Cardstock.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :
Ladybug Crafts - Challenge 42, Circles, Pink & Chocolate
My Time To Craft - Challenge 162, Punches & Dies
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Challenge 123-57

At Last A Start On My Christmas Cards

I normally have 70+ Christmas Cards to send out and this year decided not to buy any in the January sales and make them myself....today I eventually got round to starting them!! (Only another 60 odd to do lol). The first batch is from the Me To You CD (no surprise there then!). All based on the same layout/design but used different papers and images.

Card Recipe For This One :
Matting Card - from stash
Christmas Papers - Dovecraft Winter Wonderland and DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas (Don't know if still available, I bought them last year!)
Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiments - Freebie from Internet (Thank you)
Snowflake - Cut using Cricut When It's Cold Outside Cartridge (ran through Xyron and then glittered using Hobbycraft Iridescent Glitter).
Diamante - Hobbycraft

Fantastic Candy To Be Won!!

There is a huge candy treat over at Charmed Cards And Crafts to be won. Don't think I've ever seen such a fantastic prize so thought it deserved a post of it's own. Pop over, you won't be dissapointed!! xx

This is what you could be winning :

Autumn Is Here!

Well looks like the weather is changing - it's Hull Fair this week so no surprise really that it's cold and wet!! Did this card for a friendship swap and think the colours definately suit the weather outside - Autumn is here for sure!!

Most of the items came from my stash so afraid I can't give a recipe for this one.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges :

Anything Goes - Challenge 51 Die Cuts/Punches or both
ABC Challenge - A For Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times - Challenge 119 Autumn Leaves
Paper Play Challenge - Week 40 Autumnal Colours
Fussy And Fancy - Fall Or Halloween
One Stop Craft - Week 152 Anything Goes

Long Time No Post!

Well it's been a while since I've posted, still been making cards but also had a couple of weeks in Alcudia to recharge my batteries. Will have to try and get back to regular postings. Have a few cards to add today which I've done since my last posts. The first one was for a fellow D/C'r who was getting married on the day of my anniversary and the two after that were for other D/C friends who also share the same anniversary

The next one was done for a wedding we were at a couple of months ago that I didn't get round to adding on here and there are also a couple of belated birthdays that I missed while we were sitting in the sun!

Whatever did I do before the release of Docrafts Me To You (Tatty Ted CD) lol.

Thank You

Just wanted to say a big thank you today to Mandy who did a draw last week which I won. This is the prize (two gorgeous stamps from LOTV and some fantastic and very beautiful Pins):

Mandy had an appeal on her blog and asked if people could send cards for Lyndall (whom the appeal was in aid of). This is the card I sent :

I'm hoping to have a go with the stamps at the weekend and will post the cards as and when I get them done.

DRUM ROLL - Blog Award

Well it's been a week since Lee gave my my first ever blog award and now it's my turn to return the favour. Underneath you'll see the seven bloggers I'm giving the award to, they all have blogs that I love to visit.

THE RULES FOR THE AWARD

When you receive your award, you can take a copy and save the above picture and place it in your side bar to show off your award, you can place a post up announcing your award and then thank the person who nominated you in your post. In a weeks time you then nominate 7 bloggers to give the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award to.

Without further ado my seven nominees are :

1. Karen @  Redrottie Cards & Crafts  Her blog is sooooo funny with lots of tales of Kayla the Rottie.

2. Kathleen @ Kookaburracrafts. She has some fantastic tutorials on here and is always sooo helpful to everyone on the docrafts forum.

3. Jackie @ Jackie's Card Corner. There are loads of fab cards to look at on Jackie's blog....and sometimes some very funny stories from her granddaughter Ruby, well worth a read.

4. Vicky @ . Sticky With Icky  Again some fantastic cards and other items that are well worth a browse through.

5. Meeshka @ . Meesh's Place Check out some of her designs coloured with promarkers. And a fabby tutorial at the side to show how it's all done.

6. Malin @ . Majamelon There are some fabulous creations on Malins site. Not just limited to cards. Lots of beautiful tilda's to be seen.

7. Karen @ . KJs Summer Wine Korner  Karen has some gorgeous cards on her blog. Her layouts and designs are fantastic. Always sooo neat and organised.

So ladies hope you all enjoy your blog award. Although I don't comment very often on your blogs I love to visit, look forward to seeing many more of your creations.

Friday Again!

What a quick week this has been...think it's cos I've so much coming up this month, it's just going to fly by!

Having a quiet day today again. Nothing much happening at work...which is good cos it gives me plenty of time to play! Only made this card but I'm killing time till 4pm so who knows what I might get done lol.

Card Recipe :
Image - Pre printed LOTV Cute Square (again! lol) bought couple of weeks ago.
Paper - We R Memry Keepers from stash (purchased in a pack from TK Maxx).
Sentiment - New item from Goody Bag Swap.
Metallic Button Brads - Also from same goody bag swap.
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Old Paper from stash.

I'm entering this one into the following challenges :
Pollycraft - Challenge 104 Paula's Sketch
Sketch n Stash - Challenge 67
Papertake - Anything Goes
ABC - A Is For Auburn
Crafts And Me - Anything Goes