Christmas in July.....

Here is a card I made for the One Stop Challenge, this weeks theme is Christmas in July.

I have used Anya Angel, coloured her with promarkers and the wings covered with glamour dust. I cut the image out using nesties, the papers are papermania, small snowflakes are a ribbon and the large snowflake is a sizzix die. The sentiment is doodlebug.

Anyone for Anyas?

***UPDATED - I have just learnt how to link to the pic, the pic should now take you to the scrummy new challenge! Far to bigger lunch today! ;) ***

Anyone For Anyas????? Great news, there is a new challenge blog coming soon dedicated to The Greetings Farms's Anya and her friends, sooooooooooooooo excited - a reason to buy more Anyas! lol

Dawny P has a fab sketch which you can follow if you want to be considered to be part of the DT. Hop over and take a peek.

Hope your all having a good weekend. x

My Blog Candy

******Open until 9pm Tuesday 4Th August 2009*******

In order to celebrate! my birthday this weekend, and my up coming wedding thought I would put together some candy to say THANK YOU to everyone who has visited/followed or just popped by to say hello, and left lovely comments.

I have made some lovely friends since I started blogging, and picked up lots of hints, tips and techniques along the way.

Last year when I was quite poorly it was blogging & crafting that kept me same!

You can enter as many times as you like, all you need to do is spread the word in blogging land by posting the candy on your blog and link back to me - and leave me a message to say you have done it - simple.

All my SBS23 sisters and followers are automatically entered.

The winner will be picked at random on the evening the candy closes, I will make contact with you.

I have included a few things from my favourite brands (I have many lol)..... All items are brand new.

Four 6 x 6 K & Co pads 36 pages in each pad.

The Greeting Farm Ian skater rubber stamp

Funky Kits - Porridge Pig rubber stamp

CC Design - Bitzy Bugz Bling Bride rubber stamp

Cuddly Buddly round 2 sentiments rubber stamps

10 lengths of spotted ribbon

5 lengths of gingham ribbon

6 reels of ribbon

Papermania Birthday embellishment

5 Hello Kitty silver Tibetan charms

3 Made With Love silver coloured heart charms.

Bag of mixed buttons

9 flower brads

Mulberry paper flower embellishments

Pot of pink flowers

4 in 1

Well I have stretched this card as far as I can! lol 4 challenges in one........

Firstly this weeks Lili of the valley & The Pink Elephant are both Animals - hope my cute stickeroo counts, I love them ;) A Spoonful of Sugar is swirls, (I have some very subtle swirls in the die cuts! lol) and Penny Black Saturday Challenge is soft & sweet.

Image: Penny Black Stickeroo

Card: Bazzil
Flowers: Prima

Other: Cuttlebug swiss dotts embossing folder, cuttlebug corner die, sparkly gems.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment so I can visit you too. x

At last a card!

Whooooo...... Finally, I have a card I can enter all be it by the skin of my teeth! Blogger appears to be working better - not 100% but noticeably better which makes me :)

I made this card last week for the Passion For Promarkers challenge, the theme this week was gold & ruby. Today I finally remembered to pick up new batteries whilst out! So at last a card.

The stars are red glitter card - but due to the light fading they don't sparkle in the pic - never mind hay?

Image: Funky Kits

Medium: Promarkers

Papers & Card: DVWV

Sentiment: Craft Work Cards

Blogger probs

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh has anyone else being constantly kicked when visiting blogs??? I visit and a pop up appears stating operation aborted! I hate it, I have to find other ways in to visit - then it takes forever to load, its been like this sine my last card was uploaded.

Saying that it has been a bit better the last couple of days. I have a couple of cards to upload in the next few days, but I've put my camera in a safe place - well timed as I didn't have it for my hen weekend! Which was brilliant :) I'm so lucky to have so many lovely friends.

Apologies for not leaving comments - I have been trying and admiring your work from afar as a follower.

In the mean time I have seen some fab candy in Natalie over at Crafting Fun (who's crafting style I love) is celebrating 500 posts, and is giving away some lovely Popcorn stamp sets.

Win $1,000 at TheCuttlebugSpot.com!

I have just discovered that The Cuttlebug Spot is having a contest - "The Journey to 1,000"! They are trying to reach 1,000 followers by the end of July and need your help. To enter all you have to do is go to their site, sign up as follower and complete a few easy steps and you could win a $1,000 gift certificate to Custom Crops (www.CustomCrops.com)! GO NOW and check it out at www.TheCuttlebugSpot.com

Lots of dots

DOTS is the theme over at Stamp With Fun this week. I have used a Stampin Bella image - which I saw, laughed & brought! I don't know why but it tickled me........

Cut out the image with nesties, coloured with promarkers, mounted with 3d foam onto bazzil which was embossed using cuttlebug swiss dots folder, flat back pearls added for extra dottiness......

Passion for ProMarkers

Cutting it fine here lol here is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge, where the theme is Cinnamon & Pumpkin, I used a Sugar Nellie stamp, coloured it with ProMarkers added a brad to the star & covered it in sparkling glitter. Papers are DCWV, mounted onto bazzil

OCC

Over at Our Creative Corner the theme this week is **BORDER PUNCHES** so I have used one! 1 still counts right??? lol I used my good old trustee Fiskars punch - my Mather Stewart doily punch may take a trip out the window, as it working on its terms only.............. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh lol

Sparkle Card

Over at One Stop Craft Challenge this weeks theme is **SPARKLE** every one loves a bit of sparkle. lol.....

I just love this happy cat image available from Sally-Ann at DigiStamp Boutique, coloured with promarkers, stickles added to the flowers and mounted onto some sparkly DCWV paper.

Pink, Brown & white

is the theme over at Pink Elephant this week, and the prize is two scrummy down loads from The Greetings Farm :)

Here is my entry.

Image: Gorjuss Girl - Funky Kits

Medium: ProMarkers

Papers: DCWV

Other: Bazzil & Quickutz, Nestabilities.

Just Christmas & Birthdays

This weeks theme over at Just Christmas & Birthdays is a great sketch, as always I have kept it simple!

Image: Anyas - The Greetings Farm

Medium: Copics & Promarkers

Sentiment: Craft Work Cards

Flowers: Prima

Ribbon, Gems, Glitter = Stash.

Lili of the valley challenge

Here is a super quick card I made last night I found this Penny Black stickeroo all stuck down and cut out, I had some Pink Petticoat papers printed, so cut them out.

I have entered this card into this weeks Lili of the valley challenge, I was inspired by the lack of grass on our back lawn! lol, if only our lawn was as green as this card....... It had sooooooooooooo many weeds we have treated it, now its a bit of a mess while in the in between phase. We need it sorted as I would love to have a garden party as part of my hen do! Pimms on the lawn anyone? ;)

Not sure that I am happy with how this turned out, but it can go in the B/F box at his work, and the money will go to Help For Hero's.

Where does the time go?

Cor blimey - how has sooooooooooooooooo long passed since my last post???? Oh well, been rather chaotic here, but I have been visiting & admiring blogs from afar.

I cant believe my wedding is only a few weeks away - and were just sending the invites out now - I've had them made ages! Oh well, everyone knows the date & the details. I thought I would share a piccy of what I made, they are on smooth white card, a silver scalloped heart cut out using nesties, I used a font from the computer (cant remember the name sorry!) and cut that out to with a nestie, them mounted them with 3d foam pads. I added an iridescent sparkly ribbon to the side.

The pic has not come out that well, its a wet rainy day here in Somerset today, hoping those over cast clouds shifty along soon.

I have missed crafting and was so excited to have some spare time last night. I have had a huge clear out and sold many a stamp on EBay recently, in my sort out I have put my big shot some where!!!!!!!!! How safe place can I have put that, its not that small! lol

While looking at the new challenges last night Stamp Something their challenge was something old - something new! Anything wedding, so I have entered my card! Hope everyone is well, look forward to visiting you all and leaving comments very soon. x