Hooked On Crafts Challenge 16....

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend,we spent it shopping for a prom dress for my daughter,so not much time for anything else....Today is time for a new challenge over at Hooked on Craft we are also having a Design Team call,why not check both out here.....Our theme this time is......

SOMETHING BRIGHT!

This challenge will run from 23rd of January until the 4th of February...

With this challenge we want to celebrate summer  in Australia. It could be using bright colours, anything to do with the beach, summer etc...

I've used a cute little bear stamp from Hooked on Craft coloured with promarkers and I've glittered the icing and used glossy accents on the cherry.....

The paper is from an S.I E pad called flourish......The flowers,gems and decorative pin are from Hooked on Craft........The ribbon is from my stash....And the sentiment is from a LOTV set....

And here's a little peek at the inside.....

Hope you can pop over and check out the rest of the teams fabulous cards....

Take care...

Mandy x

A Gem of a Challenge .....

I'm hoping that Mr Blogger has played nicely and published this for me,as we have to be out early this morning....It's time for a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge and this time my lovely team mate Lisa has this fabulous sketch for you all.....

Oh no I can hear you saying another easel card........

I've used  Faye with dandelion  from Pink Gem Designs coloured with promarkers........The papers are from my scrap box,I'm trying to use them all up.......

The ribbon,gems,butterflies and pearl brad are from my stash.....The sentiment is from a whimsy stamps set....The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts....

And as before I've decorated the small bit inside and added a tag to write on....

I'll look for some challenges when we get back....

Have a lovely weekend...

Mandy x

 

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 11......

A wet miserable day here and very windy as well,a day to stay in and craft,but yet another Doctor's appointment this morning,but maybe when I get home I'll be able to do something....Today is a new Crafty Ribbons Challenge,this time my team mate Carol is hosting and she has the theme of.....

LOVE IS RED & BLACK...

And the team have come up with stunning inspiration for you all.....I've again used a neglected Tilda coloured with polychromos pencils blended with sansador.....

Yes another easel card,told you I had a passion for them again....The papers and cards are all from my stash....

The heart punch is a MS one and I've used my nesties to cut two small hearts,glittered them and attached them to the black ric rac and then to the ribbon,both ribbons are available from Crafty Ribbons......

The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts.....The sentiment is from a Whimsy stamp set....The little red hearts and the pearl brad from my stash.......

I've decorated the small piece inside added another sentiment and a tag to put your greeting on....

Challenges I would like to enter....

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations -  Valentine 

Ruby's Rainbow  - Valentines/red and black  

Make sure to go and see if you were one of the lucky blog hop winners over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge......

Take care......

Mandy x

Truly Scrumptious Challenge ....

Middle of the week already,and time for a new challenge over at Truly Scrumptious....This time my team mate Bente has chosen the theme of......

SOMETHING FORGOTTEN.......

use something from your stash that you haven't used for a long time or that your forgot that you had.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Katharina from Whiff of Joy who is offering one lucky winner a gorgeous stamp of their choice.

 

And for my card I've used a Tilda stamp that I had forgotten I had....

I've coloured Tilda with polychromos pencils this time blended with sansador...The papers are from Echo Park and the gingham and spot is from my stash...

The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts and the ribbon and gems from my stash.........The sentiment is one from a Kaisercraft set and has been stamped onto kraft card and cut out into a banner... 

Finally just a sneek peek of the inside....

Challenges I would like to enter......

Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes 

Cupcake Craftroom -  Anything Goes

Stamp and Create -Anything Goes 

Take care....

Mandy x

CANDY................

Time to start a new candy,but first the winner of my last one .........

Here are your random numbers:

114 

Timestamp: 2012-01-17 06:14:14 UTC

So that's you.......

Lisa aka Myran 

Please can you e-mail me with your address, please put candy winner as the title.... 

if I don't hear from you with in 5 days I'll draw another winner.....

Now on to my new candy...... 

This time I have ........

A little bit about the three disc set...

There are twelve fairies from each season and these are included as decoupage, pyrimage, toppers and more. One Fairyopolis disc covers Spring and Summer Fairies and the second covers Autumn and Winter Fairies. Each of these Fairyopolis CD's has twelve designs sets which include coordinating backing papers, envelopes, notepapers, inserts, tags and pillow boxes, plus they include coordinating papers, borders, alphabets, decoupage, toppers, frame cards and more, giving a total of 4000 elements per CD.

The Fairyopolis project disc includes twenty projects in total, with five projects each for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These projects cover beginners, through to intermediate and onto advanced papercrafting.

So what do you need to do,just the following........

Be a follower or become a follower of my blog....

Add your name to inlinkz

If you don't have a blog that's fine you can still enter but you MUST be a follower...Just add your name to Inlinkz

(I like to give to my followers for being there and supporting both me and my blog...) 

Post a picture in your sidebar

This candy will run from 8.00am 17th January 2012 until 6.00pm 24th January 2012.

 when the winner will be drawn by random org...

And announced soon after......

Good luck everyone..

Mandy x  

Cards for Men challenge....

I still say one of you is taking my weekend,because I'm sure I'm not getting one.....Today is my daughter's 16th Birthday she's all grown up now and I can't believe where the time has gone,yesterday was lovely as it seemed to be open house for us with friends and family dropping in with pressies for her for today......Anyway enough whittering from me,today is time for a new challenge over at Cards for Men and our theme is......

BOYS & TOYS......

We are sponsored this time by....

"I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgw 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 Stitchy Bear Stamps" 

Prize:  3 digi stamps

The team were lucky to get some images to use and for my card I've used "Rafe Robot"...he's coloured with promarkers.....

The paper is both sides of a piece of October Afternoon paper....The card,screw brads and ribbon are all from my stash.....

I've used a woodware punch for my sentiment tag and a Happy Birthday stamp from a  Woodware set.....

The corrugated card is a piece from a box and I've used an EK success punch for the edge of the red card....I've also done some faux stitching around the edges....

Just a little peek of the inside..

Right that's me done off to town to get some bits for dinner tonight,Katy has some friends coming and then they are going out next weekend to celebrate properly......

Please checkout the rest of the teams fabulous cards...

Mandy x

  

Truly Scrumptious Challenge ....

Another late DT card today,and it's for Truly Scrumptious the theme is......

SHABBY PASTELS & PAINT.....

But guess who just didn't see the shabby part,yep me so mine is just pastel & paint....lol....I'm sure I've been on another planet since Christmas........

I went with an easel card,have a passion again for them at the moment.....I've again used papers from my bits box and used some paint around the edge....

Sweet Tilda has been coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers....I've used a MS punch for my borders....Ribbon from my stash and the flowers from Mulberry Crafts.....

As you can see I've decorated the little bit inside,just to finish off....

I've made a little pocket and then added two little mats for your message.....The sentiment is from a LOTV set....

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

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenge -  Anything Goes

Catch you all later.....

Mandy x

Cards for Men challenge....

Here is my card for the latest challenge over at Cards for Men,I know I'm late but you know what they say better late than never....

The challenge this time is.......

RECYCLE........

Our sponsor this time is........

At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discount card making and cardmaking craft supplies.We are always adding to our range of craft supplies which are ideal for making handmade greeting cards, do-it-yourself invitations scrapbook pages, altered items and much more.

Our card making craft supplies include free UK postage* and our popular discount scheme and quick service means our customers keep coming back for more.

Our prices are very competitive and this makes us an ideal place to buy your cardmaking supplies online.

Prize £10 voucher

Website: http://www.onestopcardcrafts.co.uk/

For my recycling part of my card I've used some corrugated card from a Christmas present box and some ribbon from a set of pyjamas that Katy had for Christmas......

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

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Anything Goes

Pile It On - "Manly Cards"

The image is from Make it Crafty coloured with promarkers.....The papers are from my scrap box,I must have had two sheets of each and cut bits out of all of them so there was enough to do the inside as well......I've used an EK success punch for the edge of the corrugated card....All the card is from my stash....

The buttons and the raffia lace are from my stash also and I've tied some bakers twine through the buttons...

The sentiment is from a little Claire's set.....

Got to dash as I'm having my hair cut this morning....

Catch you all later....

Mandy x 

Hooked On Crafts Challenge 15.....

Monday already,I'm sure I'm not getting a weekend,right own up which one of you keeps taking my weekend...lol...Didn't get half of what I wanted to done,never mind another week maybe this week I'll catch up....

Today see's our new challenge over at Hooked On Craft ....This time we would like to see...

TRY SOMETHING NEW!

This challenge will run from 9th of January until 21st of January...

With this challenge try a new technique you haven't done before and explain this in the post. It could also be using new tools,a new card shape, etc... (Perhaps you got something new for Christmas?)....

I've made a new card shape for my something new,I first saw these being made by Christina at A Maze of Memories a few weeks before Christmas and loved the idea,just didn't get round to making one then,so thank you Christina for the inspiration......

I've used one of the cute images from Hooked on Crafts called cupid sitting with a heart,coloured with promarkers and the heart and wings glittered...

I've used go-kreate dies to cut all my layers and mats,the papers are MME called Love Me.....The flowers are from Hooked on Crafts....I also made a stand for the card and just punched the corners....Here is the card fully opened....

I've used a Hooked on Crafts sentiment for both the front and the inside...

I've used another image from Hooked on Crafts for the bottom called Cupid thinking....I've used perfect pearls around all the edges in each scallop...

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

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges -  Anything Goes

Gingerloft -  Anything Goes 

Mandy x

Just Tracy's Craft Challenge......

I'm back with the first of my late DT cards,this one is for the new Challenge over at Just Tracy's this time we have the theme of....

 LOVE IS IN THE AIR

And our winner this time will win,this £15 voucher....

For my card this time I've used one of the fabulous images from Make it Crafty called Geeky Love.......Coloured with promarkers...

The papers are from a cosmo cricket pad,card from my stash.....

The ribbon is one of the new ones from Crafty Ribbons here,they are great to use as sentiments...And the gems in the corner are from my stash...

Hope your all having a great weekend....I'm slowly catching up with all my commenting from when I didn't have a laptop,so I'll be by soon.....

Mandy x

Candy.....

At last I'm here with the winner's of my last candy,so here goes.......

The winner of the main candy is........

Here are your random numbers:

18 

Timestamp: 2012-01-07 17:31:53 UTC

So that's you.......    Mags  

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Winner number 1 of a small candy is.........

Here are your random numbers:

44 

Timestamp: 2012-01-07 17:34:32 UTC

so that's you.............    sarahwrightdesigns 

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winner number 2  of a small candy is........

Here are your random numbers:

46 

Timestamp: 2012-01-07 17:36:29 UTC

so that's you.......     Tanya Phillips

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Winner number 3 of a small candy is.........

Here are your random numbers:

114 

Timestamp: 2012-01-07 17:38:34 UTC

so that's you.....           Pink Dandelions

Please can you all e-mail me with your address, please put candy winner as the title.... if I don't hear from you with in 5 days I'll draw another winner for each one I don't hear from....

Now on to my new candy......

I think another surprise one......

So what do you need to do,just the following........

Be a follower or become a follower of my blog....

Add your name to inlinkz

If you don't have a blog that's fine you can still enter but you MUST be a follower...Just add your name to Inlinkz

(I like to give to my followers for being there and supporting both me and my blog...) 

Post a picture in your sidebar

This candy will run from 6.00pm 7th January 2012 until 6.00pm 14th January 2012.

 when the winner will be drawn by random org...

And announced soon after......

Good luck everyone..

Mandy x  

   

       

A Gem Of A Challenge 37

Today see's the first challenge of 2012 over at A Gem of a Challenge and for this one the lovely Rebekah who is hosting has this gorgeous photo inspiration for you all......

I've used one of the new release digi's from Pink Gem Designs called Teddy with roses.....Coloured with promarkers...

The papers are from a Daisy & Dandelion pad,the card is from my stash......I've used a string of small pearls round the image and the bottom is punched with a MS punch....

The sentiment is also from Pink Gem Designs I've just coloured and glittered every other one of the hearts....

The flowers are from Mulberry Crafts and the ribbon from my stash...I've also glittered the heart on his sweater and the roses in his bouquet.....

I'll be back later with the winner of my last candy and to start a new one.....

Have a lovely weekend......

Mandy x

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 10 & Blog Hop.....

Morning Everyone,

Happy New Year,I'm back with a shiny new Samsung laptop and getting back to normal....I have lots of DT cards for you over the next few days as I'm behind due to no computer,but today it's time for Crafty Ribbons......

Can you believe Christmas is over and we are into January which means it’s time for the sales and Crafty Ribbons started their mega sale on the 3^rd January

 where there are lots of fabulous ribbons at fantastic prices so to celebrate we’re having a blog hop with lots of prizes available.

We also have a new challenge this time,Gina is hosting.....She has the theme of.........

New Beginnings

but it DOESN'T have to be a New Year card it can be a New Baby - New Home or Job or even School etc,

 We'll draw a random winner for both the blog hop and challenge and we’ll have the top 3 as usual. You can get all the details and lots more ideas from the Design Team over at the Challenge.

Here is my card

I've used one of the gorgeous Mo Manning images coloured with promarkers on my easel card.......The paper is from a pad but unfortunatly the cover is missing so I don't know who it's by.....

The sentiment ticket is from an Emerald Faries digi set......The lace and gems from my stash......

I've used one of the new words ribbon from Crafty Ribbons for the Congratulations sentiment on my card stop and also on my greeting tag which you can just see poking out of the side,check them out here

 

Also, we are having a Blog Hop.

The Winner of the blog hop chosen by Random Org will win

.......Think of all those lovely ribbons you could buy.....

  

You can get the full list of blogs over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. At each stop there'll be a word to collect and a candy draw. I've got these gorgeous ribbons to give away

To be in with a chance of winning this you just need to leave a comment at the end of this post. Saying your joining us on the blog hop... 

Each stop will have a word which you should collect to make a phrase.You should have arrived here from 

ALI'S

 My word is....

 GET.

At the end of the blog hop you should have 12 words, work out the phrase and leave it in the comments back at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. The blog hop will run until 6pm on 18th January 2012 and the winner and the winners of each of the Design Teams Candy will be announced with the start of the New Challenge on the 19th January

Your next stop is.....

 PINKY'S.

If you lose your way you can go back to Crafty Ribbons Challenge to get the full list.

Good luck everyone.

Mandy x