Simon Says Challenge

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Thank you to all those people who entered our Oriential challenge. It was so lovely to see so many of you joining us in a challenge which for a lot of people was "a challenge".

This week, we hope we have made things easier for you. We have a receipe to follow :

1 image
2 papers
3 embellishments

A fabby prize of a $25 shopping spree with Simon Says Stamp is on offer this week.

We also have a fabby, dabby "Designer in the Spotlight" this week. I jumped for joy when I heard that my super, duper talented BG teamie Martine was joining us this week and wow, she is showing us her best this week - what a card !!! Please visit Martine at her blog and welcome her this week and tell her how fabby that card really is !!

Here is my card for this week's challenge

The base card is white Bazzill.

The DP's are Papermania "Sweet Nothings".

The creamy/yellow card is Core'dinations.

The image is of course Tilda from the recent Magnolia kit and she has been coloured with my brand new ProMarkers ! Oh yes, I decided to treat myself to the whole set as I knew I would end up buying all 56 new ones at some stage and my, they do not disappoint. Such fabulous colours. Thank you Letraset !!!

Colours : Skin - ivory, blush and Copic E01. Hair - tan and chestnut. Hat, dress and shoes - antique pink. Top, stripes and socks - buttercup. Spoon - tan and chestnut.

The lace, button, flowers and brads are from my stash.

The buttons are from the My Mind's Eye, Bloom and Grow button box.

The sentiment is a K&Co. Brenda Walton clear stamp.

We look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you have managed to cook up with our receipe !

Thank you for visiting and for any comments you leave - I am so grateful.

Have a great day and see you back here later for the Quixotic Blog Hop !!!

Quixotic Paperie Blog Hop !

Just to let you know that Quixotic Paperie is having a blog hop starting tomorrow with a fantastic prize on offer ! To find out how to take part and what this fabulous prize is, please check back here tomorrow at 1pm to find out !!

Look forward to seeing you all !!!!

Quixotic Paperie GDT Card and Challenges

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Top of the morning to ya ! Well, its afternoon now I'm publishing !!

Thank you all very much for your kind Birthday wishes for Ski. She had a fabulous Birthday and loved the card I made her !

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I was chosen by the lovely Elaine of Quixotic Paperie to be one of her Guest Designers. I am Designer for part September and part October and here is my first make with my fantastic DT kit.

For some reason I can't seem to get a decent photo today so sorry if its not looking its best.






I also made this cd folder card for the following challenges :

Cute Card Thursday - pink and green
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Stamp Something - favourite embellishment - has to be flowers on cards !
Stamp with Fun - cd case

All the linked items can be found for purchase in Quixotic Paperie. Elaine provides a fantastic service which is professional, friendly and best of all, very quick !!!

The DP's are the gorgeous My Mind's Eye Laundry Line. These are such yummy, glittery papers. The pink card is Core'dinations.

The image is by Helz Cuppleditch/Stampavie "Teddy Say It With Flowers". It's a gorgeous clear stamp that stamps so clearly and is such a pleasure to colour - I love it and wouldn't hesitate to buy some more in this range. This cutie has been coloured with ProMarkers.

Colours : Teddy - cinnamon and cocoa. Face - blush and Copic E01. Flowers - pastel pink and rose pink. Leaves - marsh green. Butterfly - cool aqua, cyan and rose pink.

Here is the crochet ribbon.

The flowers have been punched with EK Success retro flower punches, edges inked with brown distress ink and these gorgeous half pearls put in the centres.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts, Clear Design Anytime Messages which I purchased from Quixotic Paperie. I stamped this is Memento brown ink.

The tule is from my stash.

Thank's for looking ! I hope you have a great Saturday. We are going to have a cinema afternoon with a new DVD and lots of nibbles and popcorn as Ski didn't have a party this year and this is how she wanted to celebrate her Birthday ! I'm looking forward to putting my feet up - its a good excuse !

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave - they mean so much to me.

Hugs,

Colour Create Challenge

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Sorry again for the delay in writing up my post for this morning. It's Ski's 8th Birthday today and so its been a mad morning of card and present opening, school drop offs and visitors all morning with even more presents and cards ! What a lucky girl she is !!

This week's colour combo challenge on Colour Create was my choice and I chose Neon Green and Black with the extra option of leaves and charms. I made a card a while back with this colour combo and loved it. I'm not sure that the DT were too keen but my goodness, they have certainly come up trumps and their creations are amazing ! Some of them have even made two or even three projects with this colour combo this week !!!

This week's sponsor is Whiff of Joy and they have given us the Willow cathing Leaves stamp from their Fall Kit as a prize !

I gave my card to Ski for her Birthday today and she loved it !

The DP's are all BasicGrey. Lime Rickey and Lemonade.The image is the Manga Girl from Funky Kits and she has been coloured with ProMarkers.

Colours : Hair - mustard, sandstone, gold and cinnamon. Skin - ivory, blush and E001 Copic. Clothes - Lime and black. Boots - warm grey 5 and black. White gel pen for highlights.

The flowers are Bo Bunny ones (I think !). The little black flowers were orginally the same green as the black ones. I didn't have any black so coloured them with a black ProMarker.

The brads are Kaiser brads from Simon Says Stamp.

The leaves have been punched with a Woodware punch.

The tag I made myself and the sentiment is a Melissa Frances transfer from the birthday set also available at Simon Says Stamp.

The charm/coin I believe is a Tim Holtz charm. It says "wonderful" on it. This was sent to me by my mate Lorraine. Again, these are available to buy at Simon Says Stamp. The twine I also coloured black with my ProMarker.

The ribbons are from my stash.

The button was from my local craft shop and was originally black and cream until I attacked it with a lime ProMarker !!!

I also decorated the inside.

I hope you can join us this week. We can't wait to see your creations !

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave.

Simon Says Challenge

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Sorry for the delay in writing up my post this morning I had an urgent mission of some shopping to do after the school drop off this morning !

This week on Simon Says Challenge we want to see a taste of the Orient so the challenge this week is ORIENTAL.

The winner of this week's challenge will receive a $25 P&P free spending spree in the Simon Says Stamp Store.

The DP is DCWV Far East "Fire". I can't believe how far this one piece of 12x12 paper has gone ! I need to buy some more just in case another Oriental challenge comes up !!

The gold card is from my stash.

The image is a Simon Says Stamp Exclusive set called "Oh Happy Day Asian Flair" I have of course coloured them with ProMarkers. The dots on the girl's dress I have highlighted with a Prisma gold metallic pen which makes the dress look really pretty. The light I paper pieced and also highlighted this with the gold metallic pen. The text stamp was from this month's Craft Stamper magazine.

I made the paper beads myself from the same DP and then edged all the edges with the same gold pen. Wow, these look fantastic in real life and I shall definately make these again, they are so easy and look so good ! The rest of the beads and gold braid are from my stash.



I had so much fun making this card. It's not usually my cup of tea but the more I got into making it, the more fun I had and I love this card.

The rest of the DT have done an amazing job again this week. Please hop over and see them and leave them a comment or two. There is also some hidden candy on offer to on some of their blogs !

Looking forward to seeing your fabby creations. I do try and get round to see as many of your entries as I can and I'm so sorry if I don't reach you.

See you tomorrow for Colour Create !!!

I have also just this minute received my DT pack from Elaine at Quixotic Paperie ! My goodness, what a pack - full of such scrumptious goodies ! I can't wait to get started. I am "Miss September running into October" so I hope to show you something very, very soon.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you leave - they mean the World !

BasicGrey Blog Candy # 3

THIS BLOG CANDY IS NOW CLOSED !

I am sorry for the delay in posting this candy. Better late than never hey ?! I don't think you will be disappointed ! Here it is :






Those scrummy papers are the brand new, not even released yet BasicGrey Nook and Pantry Line - be the first person to get your hands on these beauties !

The brads are gorgeous epoxy brads by Kaisiercraft called "Blossom" and these co-ordinate beautifully with those scrummy papers !

So, what do you have to do to win my candy ? Some of you will be used to it by now but for those first timers, here goes :

Well, there are no strict rules and the comments I make below are not compulsory to enter this draw but it would be nice if :

You could give your support to Simon Says Stamp, BasicGrey Challenges and myself by becoming a follower if you are not already.

Add my blog candy to your sidebar and please feel free to "take away" my blinkie !

Join in with us at BasicGrey Challenges and also Simon Says Stamp's challenge blog, Simon Says Challenge ! You can combine challenges with both of these challenge blogs which is great news !

This blog candy will be open to everyone Worldwide (including all DT members of both challenge blogs) until Saturday 19th September when I shall draw a winner with a random number generator and post a new fabby blog candy for you to enter.

I would like to give a huge thank you to both Heidi and Amber of Simon Says Stamp for giving me this fantastic candy again for you to win.

Good luck !

Winner of Blog Candy # 2

What a fantastic response I had to my second BasicGrey blog candy. You are obviously very impressed with the new range of papers, Indian Summer.

Well, I am sorry but there can only be one winner and that is.......

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers: 102 - Simone

Timestamp: 2009-09-05 19:38:33 UTC

Many congratulations Simone. Could you please email me with your home address and I will ask Heidi to post these fantastic goodies onto you !

Don't forget to come back soon to take part in my blog candy #3 which will be arriving shortly.

Thank you for your visits and for entering my candy. Good luck next time !

Hugs,

BasicGrey Challenges

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Welcome to another BasicGrey Challenge ! This week we have an Inspiration Challenge for you.

Take a look at this gorgeous photo. We would like you to take inspiration from it, so it can be anything from patterns, shapes, colours even textures, let your imagination run wild and have fun interpreting the photo.

I took inspiration from the colours in this photo and the warm, cozy, clean feeling of it BUT I did end up earning myself the title of "Numptie of the Week" with my card ! Can you see why ?

When I saw the photo I knew exactly what papers I would use for this card and also which image. I have just bought these papers and I've been dying to use them and this project was perfect. I also adore this Sarah Kay image, I just find it so warm and cozy.

I made my card and was thrilled with the end result, took a photo and loaded it onto my computer only to remember that my card was my DT card for BasicGrey Challenges and the only item of BasicGrey that appears on this card is the Wassail button I used and that was only a fluke because it was the right colour !!

I suppose in the end it turned out to be a good thing because it hightlights the fact that you only need to use one item of BasicGrey on your creation no matter how small it is so no excuse to join our challenge ! hehehehe

The DP's are Cosmo Cricket "Everafter" and I got my sewing machine out for this one too. Still need lots and lots of practise !!

The image is by Sarah Kay "My Sweet Lili" and she has been coloured with ProMarkers, cut with label nesties and the edges inked with Antique Linen distress ink.

Colours : Skin - ivory, blush, Copics E00 and E01. Hair - cinnamon, cocoa, umber. Dress and bow - apple and forest green. Bear - cinnamon and cocoa. Bear's dress - gold and pastel beige. Ball - cornflower.

The flowers are Hero Arts and the leaves are punched with a Woodware leaf punch. The pearls are from my stash.

The lace and jute are from my stash.

The button is a BasicGrey Wassail button.

The sentiment is by Penny Black.

The rest of the DT's cards and layout are absolutely amazing and you must hop over to BasicGrey Challenges to have a look at them and if possible, leave them a lovely comment.

We look forward to seeing what inspiration you take from this gorgeous photo.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you leave. I am sorry for my lack of blogging over the past week or so. I am slowly getting myself together after my holiday and after a few extra days of rest, my mojo is also making a come back (little tinker wouldn't unpack its case no matter how much persuasion !!).

Have a great Saturday and thank's for looking !

Simon Says Challenge

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This week at Simon Says Challenge, we have an extra special challenge for you. Heidi is celebrating her birthday tomorrow "Happy Birthday Heidi !!" and to celebrate, Heidi sent all the DT and our guest designer this week, Mina, a box of goodies for us to use and chose a sketch created by our fabulous DT member, Iris, to work from. This week's challenge is "Heidi's Choice" !

Here is the sketch :

Heidi is also offering this amazing prize to the winner of this week's challenge. Just feast your eyes on these beauties !!!

This is the list of goodies you will win :

There are 3 of the BRAND NEW copic marker colors and glitter markers which have just arrived in stock.

Magnolia papers

A Magnolia stamp - Tilda puppy

A Simon Says Set (Heidi's fave frogs jumping for joy!)

A Martha Stewart punch

Holtz alcohol inks and

Some pretty purple prima flowers.

We would like to thank MINA for agreeing to join us and be in our Designer Spotlight, I am sure you all know her and her fabulous work but if not you really should go and see her fantastic blog, her work is amazing and she has made 2 wonderful cards for us to show you !! The DT have made some amazing creations this week too. Go to visit their blogs for more details of how they made them and of course there is hidden candy on at least one blog !!

Heidi also has more surprises up her sleeve it seems ! We received an email this morning saying that the Birthday girl herself has requested that if we manage to get 200 entries and above she will give her DT a special present herself to thank us for all our hard work ! Just how wonderful is that ?! So, please, please, please support us and get your entry in and not only will it help us get to our special prize but also you will be in with a chance of winning that amazing prize !!

Here is my take on Iris' sketch :

The base card is from The Papermillshop.

The DP's are DCWV papers "Sweet" and they are gorgeous. I really love this set. They are all glittery in real life and those cakes look so yummy !

The image is from a Hero Arts set that Heidi sent me in my box of goodies called "Tea" and I have stamped these in Brilliance Cocoa.

The sentiment is also from the same set and I stamped it onto a tag which is from a sheet of tags which I acquired from somewhere and I can't remember where - sorry.

The flowers are Quickutz Doo Dads.

The brads are BasicGrey brads.

The ribbon is a gorgeous Martha Stewart ribbon which was in my goodie box too.

I still have loads more goodies to use and hope to make something else very soon to show the rest of the goodies to you which I received.

I hope you enjoy your tea and cake on your Birthday Heidi !!!

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you leave. They mean so much.

See you soon !

Fantastic News !!!

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Firstly, I would like to apologise for being such a bad blogger and leaving you all to fend for yourselves ! I've been on my hols in Cornwall for a week and arrived home on Saturday night to mountains of washing and mountains of school clothes to iron and label before school started today. Anyway, I'm back and hope to be back at my craft table very, very soon.




Now onto my fantastic news ! I have been asked by Elaine of Quixotic Paperie to be a Guest Designer for a month ! Just how fantastic is that ?! I feel so honored to be asked to be part of such a talented bunch of ladies and can't wait for my month to come up !!


Elaine herself makes the most stunning cards and her online store, Quixotic Paperie is just full of the most amazing goodies a girl can feast her eyes on !

So, I will be joining Kim and Carole along with the new permanent DT members who are Judy Laing and Rowena aka CraftyPagan

and five other Guest Designers who are :



** Martine ** Kathy ** Rosette ** Dawn ** Kim **

Many congratulations ladies and I look forward to working with you all again and thank you so much Elaine for asking me, I am thrilled !