santa cheer

Hello crafty friends, I've made this card for a couple of christmas challenges 

the first challenge I wish to enter my card for is 52 Christmas card throwdown challenge they run a weekly challenge which has a prompt to follow every week, this weeks promt is fussy cutting

 this is my card, i'm not great at fussy cutting I usually have the help of my scan and cut machine to cut out my stamps, but for this mug I cut out by hand, I used my cutter bee scissors I find these great to use for fussy cutty

the next card I wish to enter my card into is the Jingle Belles challenge this fortnightly challenge has a photo inspiration photo 

I have used the candy cane and the santa on the fireplace as inspiration for my card, I would also like to enter this into the ABC christmas card challenge I have gone for A anything goes .... I hope you like it 

Squish Friends

Hello crafty friends, today I'm sharing a valentines day card that I made for my Daughter, she's not keen on colour, black is her favourite so I decided to make her a black and white card, I love how it turned out. 

I am entering my card into a few challenges the paper funday challenge which is anything goes with an optional twist of monocrome ( I know it's not truely monocrome with the pop of red) and another entry for the shopping our stash challenge which is glitter me happy and  AAA clean and simple challenge follow the leader (although I think I might be pushing my luck with my card) 

here is my card, hope you like it 

I've used the MFT stamp set called squish friends, the die cuts and sentiment are  lawn fawn, the backing paper is from creative fabrica, coloured of course with my copics 

Bubbly Butterflies

Hello crafty friends, today I've made a card for my best friend, she is always there for me even though we live many miles apart, I've made this card with the verious challenges in mind, first challenge was a sketch from try a sketch on tuesday this is the sketch to follow, and to their sister site double trouble 3-2-1 recipe

secondly the colour pallet for my card was taken from the AAA colourful challenge

I also want to enter my card for the shopping our stash challenge which is glitter me happy, I have used star dust skickles and also faux glitter paper from Honey bee stamps. I would also like to enter my card in to lil patch of crafty friends challenge which is anything goes and to paper funday which is anything goes with an optional twist of monocrome 

here is my card I hope you like it 

I've used MFT bubbly butterflies stamp set and coloured them with my copics 

merry moose

 hello crafty friends, today I'm sharing a card I made for the 52 christmas card throwdown challenge which is Wild Animals, I used the adorable set from my favorite things called Merry Moose, I also followed the sketch from the reinstated 

mft sketch challenge , I would like to enter my card into is the holly and ivy christmas challenge which is anything goes and critter crazy challenge blog that is also anything goes (include a critter)  also the ABC christmas challenge  which is A for anything goes or B for building i've chose A

here is my card .. I hope you like it 

my favourite gnomie

Hello my crafty friends, today i'm bringing you a card i've made for my dads birthday. i've played along with the inspired by challenge the inspiration challenge this week is Gnomes and /or follow the sketch, I've used my favourite things stamp set called happy birthday to my gnomie, as you can see I've used gnomes and followed the sketch 

I'm also entering my card in to the male room challenge which is clean and simple 

here is my card .. I hope you like it 

Guest Designer again

I was lucky enough to be chosen again for the 52 christmas card throwdown challenge.. These are very special as your cards are voted by the other designers so always feels a privilege to be chosen.. this week's challenge is a colour scheme challenge and the chosen colours are 

Now, when I first saw these colours I was rather stumped luckily I had some bronze coloured cardstock had a rummage through my dies (thank you Tim Holtz) and out of somewhere I came up with this design 

I would also like to enter this card into the ABC christmas challenge  which is A for anything goes or B for building i've chose A ...Hope you like it 

fast foodies

Another day another challenge, I found a wonderful blog that lists loads of challenge blogs, I feel this could be my new best friend and certainly deserves a shout out so thanks to all the people at paper playful that work so hard bringing card challenges all in one place 

Now back to my card I have made this card using again the sketch from Atlantic hearts sketch challenge

I would  like to enter my card into the the male room challenge which is make a clean and simple card for a male,and critter crazy challenge which is anything goes with a critter, as it's my sons birthday next month I thought I would play along so here is my take on those challenges 

Now I'm not sure if it completely follows the clean and simple rules due to the patterned paper but thought I would give it a go 

stamp set is called fast foodie from clearly besotted 

I coloured the images with my copics

and patterned paper is from My favorite Things 

fabulous flamingos

Hello crafty friends, I've been searching for some craft challenges and happened to come across this challenge blog called Atlantic hearts sketch challenge I thought I would play along with this weeks challenge 

Here is my take on the sketch using My favourite things stamp called Fabulous Flamingos.

I would also like to entre this into the critter crazy challenge which is anything goes - with a critter 

Hope you like it 

Guest Designer

It's been a long time that I've posted on my blog,  but I'm back as a guest designer on the 52 Christmas card throwdown  challenge this is the first challenge of the year and the challenge is follow the sketch. I would also like to enter this card into the cut it up challenge anything goes -use a die cut

Using lawn fawn die set string of lights this is the card I made 

I used my copics to colour the bulbs and added some stardust stickles and used some my favorite things pattered paper .. hope you like it