A Card and some exciting news....

Hi Everyone,

Still no snow,I'm feeling really leftout here,or though with all the driving maybe it's for the best...

Right do you all want to know what my news is, well as you know my candy will be finishing on Wednesday so if you  haven't entered now is the time,just go to the top of the page...

I will be doing another candy but this time only until the 14th Dec I will be offering Promarkers as a prize for this candy.....
Then on the 15th Dec Letraset will be sponsoring my candy for the month with the prize again being the fabulous must have promarkers how great is that.......

But not only that now pay attention because this is brilliant from Wednesday 1st Dec for one week Letraset have decided to run a RAK gift with me,I will be hopping around all the blogs one's I follow,one's I don't if you have made a card coloured with promarkers you are in with a chance of winning some promarkers you don't have to do anything other than these two small things that letraset would like...

Take this Letraset picture put it into your sidebar with a link to Letrasets website....

Here is the Link you will need http://www.letraset.com/

Then do a post saying about this great chance to get your hands on some must have promarkers with a link  back to my blog,

if you would like to become a follower that would be great as you will be able to see when we do something new,but it's not a requirement...

 

then that's it,continue making your cards coloured with those fab  promarkers and wait and see if your the lucky person who will receive the RAK from Letraset I will annouce that persons name here on my blog on Wednesday 8th Dec...

Please don't feel leftout if you don't own any promarkers yet just make sure to come back for the other candy and you never know you may just win some and then you'll be able to play along in the next RAK..
Leave the Letraset logo in your sidebar as we will be doing this again...
Also don't forget letraset have their own blog why not popover and check it out...

Now I have a card for you....

I have used a super cute stamp from Stampavie called Mistletoe and Mice,I  got it from The Glitter Pot when I was on holiday...I have coloured the image with Promarkers and the colours I have used are..

Mice....Ivory,Vanilla,Sandstone,Caramel,Dusky pink

Clothes......Pastel green,terracota,Sepia

Mistletoe.....Pear green,Moss Green

Ground & Shadow .....Pastel Blue,Warm Grey 1,Warm Grey 3, Cool grey 1

The papers are echo park wintertime and magnolia...The card and ribbon are from my stash and the sentiment is from catslife press brought from Crafty Emmas Store....The flowers are a mixture of Magnolia,Wild Orchid and Mulberrry crafts....

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.....

Christmas Card Challenge - Sketch

Fab n Funky - Anything Goes

Inketegrity - Anything Goes

2 Sisters - Non-Traditional Christmas Colours

Totally papercrafts - Un-Traditional Christmas Colours

Creative Cottage - Un- Traditional Christmas Colours

If you would like to leave a comment here telling me you like and use promarkers you never know I just might be coming pass your blog.....

Take care....



Pink Gem DT Card....

Hi Everyone,

Hope your all well....Well we have no snow here at the moment which is great although all the kids in our cul-de-sac keep saying why not,where is it...I know some of you have a few inches so I hope it's not making life to complicated for you all.....Can I say another big thank you for the lovely cards I keep receiving for my cousins it cheers them up so much ,and some of you have e-mailed and asked how they are well Betty is still quite poorly in hospital,I'm really worried about her and Ann-Marie has been moved on Wednesday to a community hospital as they wanted the bed on the stroke ward,it makes it even more difficult as you have to go 15 miles to the hospital that betty's in then drive 15 miles to the next town to the hospital Ann-Marie is in then still drive home again..So I'm sorry if I'm taking a long time to come and see you all and comment but I will get there eventually PLEASE PLEASE bear with me while this situation keeps on..

.Anyway here is my DT card for Pink Gem Designs......

I would like to enter the following Challenges....

Ellephantastic - Red & green

Marks finest paper - add a bow

One stop Craft- christmas Cutie

Christmas stampin - Christmas anything goes

I have used Santa Kaya coloured with polychromos pencils again,I have cut her out and put her onto a mat made by putting white card through a snowflake embossing folder then cutting it out with my nesties and cutting a scalloped mat to put it on...The paper is MME  lost and found and the red card has been punched again with my MS cherish punch and ribbon tied round...

The holly has been punched out with a MS holly punch...The sentiment is also a Pink Gem Designs one...

Don't forget to popover to the website as Janet has some fabulous offfers on at the moment such as nesties with a £1 discount so they are £15.95 great value and you must see the most gorgeous new digi image she has of baby Jesus and you get a free bonus sentiment digi with him....

Enjoy whats left of the weekend...take care....

Truly Scrumptious Challenge 46.....

Morning Everyone,
Time for another challenge over at Truly Scrumptious, we have fabulous sketch for you to follow with the optional extra of "Think Pink"......

We are delighted to welcome back Crafty Individuals as our sponsor for this challenge. If you haven't had a browse around their store you really should as they have some fantastic stamps, papers and other crafting goodies.
I decided to make an easel card for my Great Nieces 3rd Birthday today...I have used one of the new LOTV images coloured with polychromos pencils blended with sansador....I ran a piece of white card through the swiss dots embossing folder for the base,layered onto pink card from my stash...Then I used my new cherish punch which the lovely Christina from A Maze of Memories got for me,I love i..it's so versatile....I used it to make the pink mat for the sentiment and to hold the easel card open...

The sentiment is also one of the new LOTV......The ribbon and gem brads are also from my stash....

I used a woodware flower punch to punch the flowers and a leone Em punch for the middles,then I added a gem to the middle of each flower.....

Obviously as she is only just 3 I had to be careful of what embellishments I could use.....

Anyway hope you all have a great day...Take care...

Card for my Friend....

Evening Everyone,
Just a quick post tonight as I 've got a friend coming round she wants me to make some cards for her for Christmas,but I think with everything that's going on at the moment I'd say Clinton Cards are a bettter bet than me,unless she means Christmas 2011 then I'm sure I'd have them made....This card is for Katy to give to her Godmother my best friend......

I would like to enter into the following challenges.....

Wild Orchid Crafts - Blue Christmas

Fussy & Fancy - Christmas no red or green

Totally papercrafts - Snow and snowflakes

Incy Wincy designs - Blue and white

Scrappy Frogs - Christmas

Totally Gorjuss - Non -Traditional Christmas

A spoonful of sugar - Anything goes

I have used one of the fabulous new images from Magnolia,coloured with polychromos pencils blended with sansador....I have then used my MS snow flurry punch to make the frame,poppd some pads onto the back and then layered it onto silver mirri card....all of the ribbon,card and gems are from my stash...

The snowflakes are puched out of blue and white glitter card with my MS punch and I've put a gem dew drop in the middle......The sentiment is a catslife press stamp....and I've decorated the inside which is something I don't do very often,usually I just add an insert....

Well I think that's everything....See you all tomorrow for the Truly Scrumptious challenge.....

Cards for Men Challenge 24.......

Morning Everyone,

Hope you've all had a great weekend.....As some of you told me if I didn't slow down I would pay for it,well I did I haven't been very well since Wednesday evening and then Katy went down with it Friday so we have both had a few PJ days and been looked after by Hubby...I started to feel a bit better yesterday and I knew I needed to finish my Cards for Men DT card... Our Challenge this time is Merry Christmas so as long as it's for a Boy/Man then you have lots of scope anything goes.... we are sponsored this time by the fabulous Bunny Zoe Crafts

Here is a little bit about them......

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is a family run online Craft store who ships worldwide. We provide friendly and efficient customer service, with quick processing and dispatch of orders. We sell a great range of Rubber Stamps from around the world, Digital Images, Personalised Stamps, Designer Papers, Stamping Essentials, Copic Ciao's, Distress Inks, Dies, Flowers, Ribbons & Lace, Buttons. Charms, Flat back Pearls and many, many fabulous card making goodies.

The prize is a £10 voucher

I had started my card earlier in the week and as time is at a premium I decided to make the Christmas card for my Father-in-law who loves Christmas,Red and winter flowers so I've used the gorgeous Magnolia Santa.......

I've coloured with my polychromos pencils blended with sansador........The papers I got from A Maze of Memories but I've cut the name off sorry....The card,Gems,Ribbon and charm are all from my stash.....

The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts except the Hellibore which is from Wild Orchid Crafts they have been spritzed with pearl glimmer mist then sprinkled with glamour dust...The sentiment is from Crafty Emmas Store.......

Challenges I'd like to enter.....

The Creative cottage Challenge - Someone Special

Hodge Podge Shop - Anything Goes

Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes

Our Daily Bread - Holiday

One Stitch at a Time - Season

I'm off now for a lemon drink helps my throat...Catch you all later.....

A Lovely Day.......

Hi Everyone,

What a great day I've had today...It's the first day I've had for a few weeks where I haven't been out,I've been nice and toasty in doors and managed to make a few DT cards and projects and I've also made this card for a few challenges....... 

The challenges I'd like to enter are....

Just Magnolia - Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle

Flourishes - Christmas

Paper playtime - About love/Something you love

Everybody Art Challenge - Monochromatic Brown

A spoonful of Sugar - Distressing

Pollycraft challenge - Glitery Christmas

Stamps R Us- Sparkle and Scallops

Magnolia Down under - Shabby Chic

I've followed the sketch over at Just Magnolia and used one of the new Tildas coloured with polychromos pencils blended with sansador.....The DP is MME lost and found the pic doesn't show it up very much but it is glittered and I've distressed, inked and glittered the edge of the DP and card...The card is all from my stash.....I've used my MS vintage lace punch to do the border...

The lace is from my stash.....The sentiment is a catslife press from Crafty Emma's store and the flowers are from Mulberry Crafts and I've sprayed them with irridesent gold glimmer mist and then sprinkled glamour dust on so lots of sparkle the leaves have had the same treatment they are punched with a Leone Em punch....Anyways I'm off for a soak in the bath and an early night I'm so tired,I'm cold even though the heating is on and I'm sneezing so not sure if I'm going down with something or all my running around has caught up with me and an early night will help....I'll come visit all of you tomorrow....Take care...

Pink Gem DT card.....

Hi Everyone,
My goodness it's so cold here the fog hasn't lifted all day,not a day for being out and about,but needs must so this morning I've been to make sure my Mum and Dad were alright always worries me as we get to the cold weather in case of a fall,then it was home for a quick cuppa and then to hospital to visit,no change with Anne-Marie and Betty has started her 1st lot of chemo....Anyway with time being at a premium at the moment I made my Pink Gem Designs DT card on Thursday to post on Friday,but Thursday night when I was in the bath my neighbour came to the door to see if I had a special Christmas card she could buy Hubby showed her to my box but sitting on the desk was my DT card,yep you've guessed he sold my DT card and I hadn't taken any pics so here is version two.........

I have used one of the newChristmas digi sentiments over at Pink Gem Designs enlarged it then put one of the new Christmas images in the middle it's penguin with pudding,I've coloured the image with my polychromos pencils and blended with sansador and then the outside is coloured with promarkers,I've glittered the front of the penguin,the top of the pudding and the stars around the outside...I've used gems for the snowflakes around the penguin....I've put a piece of white card through a snowflake embossing folder layered it on to red card.....and then picked out the middle of the snowflakes with a gem..and I've finished off with a ribbon bow......

I would like to enter the following challenges.......

Crafty Calendar - Winter and optional snowflakes

crafty pad - Christmas Sparkle

I did Creations - Traditional Christmas Colours

2 Sisters - Christmas

Bee Crafty - Digi Stamp & Christmas

Crazy 4 Challenges - Christmas

Ellephantastic - Christmas-

Sweet Stampin - Snowflakes

Stamp Something -Use something digi

Creative inspirations - Christmas/Winter

Stamp with Fun - Square

Cute card Thursday - Anything Goes

Wow it's been so long since I did a challenge hadn't realised how much I miss doing them....Hope to be back tomorrow with another card...Take care....

Truly Scrumptious Challenge # 45.........

Morning Everyone,

This will have to be a short post as I'm off to teach my monthly class this morning,I'm really looking forward to it as we have so much fun and life hasn't been much fun lately...Anyway today see's the start of the new challenge over at Truly Scrumptious,for this challenge we have the following sketch for you to follow.....

And the optional extra challenge is to make a birthday card.........

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Janet from Pink Gem Designs.

Pink Gem design and stock a wide range of cute and whimsical clear polymer craft stamps and downloadable digi stamps and also stock other crafting essentials including acrylic blocks, inks, Promarker pens, nestabilites, stamping packs and embellishments. At the moment they also have £1 off all their Nestabilities and 10% off ProMarkers until 2011.

The lucky winner of this challenge will receive this gorgeous stamp as their prize

Here is my card.........

I have used a LOTV image it was a RAK from Loz who sent me them it was so lovely of her and so appreciated by me it cheered me up so much,Thank you so much...

I have coloured with my polychromos pencils blended with sansador......The DP is from Doodlebug and the card is all from my stash....The white card has been put through an embossing folder to give texture...

The border I punched with an EK success punch.....the stars are punched with a woodware punch and the ribbon is from my stash.....The sentiment is from my stash I have had them for years so can't remember where they came from....

I don't have time at the moment to see if it fits any challenges but will do that this afternoon......

Before I go please don't forget there are some great challenges going on over at the following with great prizes......

A Gem of a Challenge..... prize .2 Pink Gem Stamps & a pack of promarkers

Cards for men........ prize. A Stamp from Hope Jacare plus a free digi for everyone who enters

Crafter companion.....prize .A £30 voucher to spend on the Crafters Companion Website.....

Sparkle Dreams Challenge.........prize .2 Christmas Magnolia stamps and a chance to be Guest designer for Challenge 4

.Have a lovely day....

Cards for Men challenge # 23 & A Gem of a Challenge # 10

Morning Everyone,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend...Can I say a really big THANK YOU to all of you for your lovely comments and offers of cards for my cousin and her daughter (see post below)...There is no big change at the moment except Anne-Marie has got a little speech back so some improvement there,but not with her right side paralysis..

Anyway this morning sees the start of Challenge 10 over at A Gem of a Challenge and Challenge 23 at Cards for Men......

Over at A Gem of a Challenge

we have the following Sketch for you with the optional extra of a non traditional Christmas card no red or green......

Here is my card for A Gem of a Challenge......

                                                                

I have used Milly on reindeer coloured with my polychromos pencils blended with sansador....The DP is Cosmos Cricket Winter Mitten I've used both sides,the card and ribbon are from my stash....

The snowflakes have been punched out with a woodware and MS snowflake punch then layered together and a Gem Dew drop put into the middle...The sentiment is also from Pink Gem Designs......

Please pop over and join in with us as we have changed the rules and now you can enter with any image you like and you will all be entered to win 2 Pink Gem Designs stamps (subject to availability) and for this challenge Janet has also very kindly added these promarkers for the winner.

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Now my card for the Cards for Men Challenge......

For this challenge we are sponsored by

Here is a little bit about them.......Claire said

"I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgow School of Art and I love all things handmade, but especially papercrafts. I love to doodle ... and my doodles are available to purchase as digital images through Shop Handmade."

The winner will get a rubber stamp from Claire's first release......

Also Claire has very kindly said that we can give this free digi image to everyone who enters,.....Our lovely Donna the boss will sort this out for you all.....

The Theme we have for this challenge at Cards for Men is ANIMALS and the DT got to play with some of Claires  images...

I used Callum Cockerel coloured with polychromos pencils...The DP and card are from my scraps box and don't have the name on...I have used an EK success punch to do the border........

The buttons and raffia are from my stash...I have made a small bundle of twigs tied with raffia as an embellishment....And the sentiment is from Catslife press from Crafty Emma's store.....

Please try and join in with the challenges,as the DT's all love seeing your cards....

Hope you all have a great day.........

Morning,I'm here at last.........

Morning Everyone,

I've finally got to do this...Wow what a week,as you all know we were away last week,when we got back my Mum told me that my cousin Betty wasn't very well....On Monday unfortunately my cousin found out that she has cancer,but we are hopeful that it's treatable as if that wasn't bad enough the next bit is heartbreaking,her daughter Anne-Marie who is 35 was staying with her to look after her but on Tuesday morning my cousin heard a big bump from Anne-Maries bedroom so she managed to get in to see what was wrong and Anne-Marie was on the floor unconcious,to cut a long story short she has had a stroke and is now in hospital paralysed down her right side and her speech is also affected..Her Mum my cousin is now waiting to go into hospital for more tests and chemotherapy but the sad thing is they will be in different hospitals so will be unable to see each other,it's just over a year since my cousin's husband died so there's just the two of them to look after each other...I know we all have aches and pains and problems but my heart goes out to my cousin and her daughter at the moment makes my aches and problems seem insignificant ....I am so looking forward to 2011, this year has been horrendous for my family with problems,death,illness etc so here's to a better year in 2011 for everyone.....
.I know crafters are the kindest and caring so if any of you have a spare card to send to them to cheer them up please e-mail me, the address is in my sidebar....
I have been making cards this week but they are DT ones so you will get to see them later,I might have something over the weekend to show you......Hope you all have a fantastic weekend.....Take Care.....

Crafters Companion Challenge # 6 and Sparkle dreams Challenge # 2

Morning Everyone,
Well that's the last of the holiday's over for this year only Christmas to look forward to now...We had a lovely break and rest but the weather was awful,never mind at least it was nice and warm and cosy in the caravan....I know I still have the picture to show you of my lovely new crafty things I got from the Glitter Pot will do that tomorrow couldn't get a good one last week..Anyway onto the challenges....Today is my first card for Crafter's Companion Challenge we have a lovely sketch by Jacqui for you to follow with the optional extra of "One for the Girls"....

I used one of the new SWALK stamps,thy are so sweet..I've coloured with copics for this one...

The card,gems and ribbon are from my stash..The flowers are all from Mulberry crafts and the leaves are punched out...The DP is from the SWALK 2 CD as is the sentiment

Please pop over to the Challenge and checkout my fellow team members gorgeous cards and join in with us...Sara has kindly given a £30 voucher for the Crafters Companion website a lovely prize to win.....

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Now on to Challenge 2 over at Sparkle Dreams Challenge...Firstly we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who joined us for our first challenge we would also like to let you know that we have decided to move from monthly to fortnightly so this challenge will end on Nov 14th..We have a lovely sketch for you to follow from Solance with the optional extra of "Autumn colours and leaves".....

I've used one of the gorgeous Apples and Cherries Magnolia stamps for both of my cards .....These are available to buy from Sparkle Dreams....

The first one has the twins coloured with polychromos pencils blended with sansador....The DP is MME laundry Line

The flowers again are from Mulberry Crafts..Leaves are punched out with my McGill punch...The ribbon is from my stash...The sentiment is from a set but unfortunatly I can't find the packet to tell you who they are by,I will keep looking and edit later....

For my second card I've used Tilda and Edwin together again coloured with polychromos pencils and cut out with my nesties....The DP has no name on sorry but I know I got it from A Maze of Memories....The flowers again Mulberry Crafts...Gems from my stash...the sentiment is again from the same set as before I just thought it was perfect for the image.....

Please try and join in with us for challenge 2 as we love seeing all the fabulous card you all make and visiting your blog.........

Wow... if your still with me after an extra long post well done...I'll catch you all later,I'm off to jump in the shower now....