BasicGrey Blog Candy # 16 - WINNER

Many thanks to all of you who entered my BasicGrey Blog Candy. Unfortunately there can only be one winner and that lucky person is......





Many congratulations SOUTHERN SCRAPS

Please email with your details and I will arrange for Steph to post your prize to you !

BasicGrey Challenges

Good morning and welcome to another BasicGrey Challenges !

This week we have a gorgeous colour combo for you

There is also a fantastic prize kindly given to us by Simon Says Stamp. A whole BasicGrey 12x12 Kioshi Collection Pack !

I like everything on this card apart from the flower. I think it was a mistake putting it on but its too late now. I feel a bit out of my comfort zone when adding these types of flowers, they always look so wrong on my cards and I don't know why !

The DP's are BasicGrey "Granola" and a sheet of 12x12 Christmas paper, BasicGrey "Figgy Pudding" for the yellow.

The image is by Stampavie, Penny Johnson "Looking Chic" and I have coloured her with ProMarkers. I inked the edges with antique linen distress ink and then went round the outside edge with a gold leaf pen. I added some pearls to her coat.

The ribbon is from my stash. The button was once a wooden button until it was attacked by a gold leaf pen.

The yukky flowers are from my stash but I do love the flower centre which was sent to me by my lovely and extremely talented "her flowers always look so wonderful" Dena !!

We hope you can join us this week in our challenge. Please hop over and have a look at my teamie's cards, they are amazing and a real inspiration if you are struggling !

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

Don't forget to enter my blog candy. I will be drawing a winner shortly and putting a new one up - how exciting !

Have a fantastic weekend and hope to be back soon !

Tilda with three flowers

Happy sunny Friday afternoon !

Well, I said yesterday that I had managed to make two cards the other evening so this is the other card I made and my first attempt at using my sewing machine !

The DP's are My Minds Eye "Quite Contrary" but I'm unsure which ones as I can't find the bottom of the paper !

This yummy Tilda has been coloured with ProMarkers.

The flowers are from my stash and I added a crochet flower with a button and the usual raffia ribbon.

The sentiment is by TPC Studio "Playful Expressions" and has been stamped in Strawberry Fool ink from Elzybells.

I would like everyone to do a Magnolia dance for me (whatever one of those might be, just make one up) as I want my Spring Kit to arrive. Looks like the rest of the Country and even World (apart from a couple of others I have managed to find) have already received theirs and have even managed to make a few cards ! No doubt they are now going to be stuck in the dust cloud and arrive in May !!

I am entering my card in the Stamp Something Challenge which this week is Something Layered.

I will be back tomorrow with the BasicGrey Challenge.

Have a fabby Friday afternoon and enjoy the start to your weekend.

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

Don't forget my blog candy !

Love 'n' hugs,

Pure Innocence - Happy Mail

Last night was crafting night well, apart from the night before which I had set aside and was determined to make a card and have a little bit of "me time" but it all went horribly wrong and I ended up throwing my efforts in the bin and stomping off to watch the TV !!

My efforts last night were successful so successful in fact, I made 2 cards AND I got my sewing machine out !

Steph at Simon Says Stamp emailed me to say that "Pure Innocence" had landed on their doorstep and she had featured the card I made a while ago on the Simon Says Stamp Blog - how fantastic is that ? Well, I am on their DT but its still nice to be "showcased" isn't it ? If you want to see that card, then see it on their blog just here !!

Anyway, I was dying to make another card with one of these cutie patooties ! You can see and buy the full range at Simon Says Stamp right now !!




The DP's are BoBunny Double Dot "Shittake Dot" (very unfortunate name !!).

My Mind's Eye, Quite Contrary, Little Miss Muffett "Isn't She Lovely" - Lovely Lines paper - phew !!

The postcard is from the lovely Tammy's blog.

The image is Pure Innocence "Happy Mail" and you can buy it here at Simon Says Stamp. She has been coloured with ProMarkers.

The ribbon is from my stash and the button I bought from the NEC last year.

As you can see, I also stitched all the layers. I really enjoyed myself and couldn't stop !

I've had a hop around blogland and I can enter my card for the following challenges :

Cute Card Thursday - Touchy Feely - I think the wooden button and silky ribbon are touchy feely

Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie

Stamp Something - Stitching

Crafty Angels - My Favourite Things - I love receiving post !

Our Creative Corner - Bows

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave, its so kind of you and always means so much.

Don't forget to enter my BasicGrey Blog Candy. Just click on the picture on my sidebar which will take you directly to the post.

Take care and see you soon.

Simon Says Challenge - Let's Go To The Movies and Dry Embossing

What a bad, bad blogger I have been and I do apologise. I have had a fantastic time these last couple of weeks with the girls being off for the Easter holidays and the weather has been gorgeous so we have made the most of it. Hubby has been at home too so we have been out and about most days lapping up the Spring air.

It was also Izzy's 3rd birthday on Monday so we had a very busy day and she was truly exhausted by the end of the day - I don't think she could "birthday" any longer !!! I can't believe she is 3 already - where does the time go ?

Anyway, back to this week's challenge over at Simon Says Challenge. We are having a "Let's go to the movies" theme and some dry embossing thrown in for good measure ! Take a look at the wonderful creations by the DT - they are amazing and not all the names of movies either ! Very inspiring.

I have been wanting to make a shaped card for a long time and finally bit the bullet especially when I had these new Magnolia stamps to play with from the NEC !

This card is also very spooky ! Spooky because I made it and then went on a bit of a blog hop and what did I see ? Nearly the same card looking back at me ! Jodie of Oz had made one very similar a few days before and I honestly hadn't seen it before I made mine !

I had to blow the dust off my Cricut to make this shape as the blossom nesties aren't large enough.

The DP's are DCWV "Nana's Nursery".

The heart doily I bought from the NEC.

Tilda is coloured with ProMarkers and I have added some Stickles to her wings. Simon Says Stamp has the new range of Magnolia stamps in store for you to buy along with 1,000's of others too !

The flowers are from my stash and the jewels are by Magnolia which I bought at the NEC. You can also buy these from the Simon Says Stamp Store.

I added some liquid pearls around the outside of the card.

We hope you can join us for this fantastic challenge this week too. There is a $25 spending spree in the Simon Says Stamp store prize on offer too !

Don't forget my blog candy which will finish on Saturday. If you click on the picture in my sidebar, it will take you directly to the post.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave, they always mean so much.

Hopefully I will get back to crafting soon ! School starts back on Monday and all the usual activities and so we will gradually get back into a routine. Enjoy the rest of the holidays if you are still at home too !

Simon Says Challenge - A Card for a Child

Good morning ! A quick post from me this morning as I'm off out for the day.

This week on Simon Says Challenge......

The challenge is to make a card for a child.

"The Design team have all used stamps by Boefjes on their creations. You don't have to but we would like to see you use them if you have them :-)

The Design Team are also sending their cards to a child through Post Pals or Make a Child Smile. All the children on these sites have life threatening illnesses and are so courageous. All they ask is that you send a child a card to bring some joy into their lives and smiles on their faces. If you have a similar charity in your own Country then please send your card to them. I know they will appreciate it.

Heidi will be giving away a $25 shopping spree to the Simon Says Stamp Store and she will pay for the shipping too :-) There are lots of new products in store too, so many in fact it is difficult to keep up with them ! Every day gorgeous new stuff is arriving :-)"

The DP's are BasicGrey "Granola"

The map stamp was a bargain I picked up from e-bay - a whole 99p !!! I stamped the image onto card, tore around the edges and then distressed it with lots of brown and black distress ink.

The gorgeous little Pirate is Luuk from Stamps by Boefjes and he has been coloured with ProMarkers. You can buy a gorgeous range of these stamps at Simon Says Stamp. Just follow the link I have given.

The sentiment is from a set by Woodware and I have used Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Fancy Tags" and added some distress ink to it and a gold marker pen around the outside edge.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave. I am so grateful to you.

Don't forget to enter my new BasicGrey blog candy. Just click on the picture in my sidebar and it will take you directly to the post.

Magnolia Wedding

I hope that you are enjoying your Bank holiday and had a super, duper Easter weekend ? We had a lovely day yesterday, lots of laughing, joking, egg hunts, chocolate and nibbles and we had a thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing day and to make things even better, the sun was out (although it was very cold).

I made this card just after I got back from the NEC as I used the new wedding stamps. I just needed to finish the back of it and add some wording before I send it off. It's not actually a proper card, its a sheet of A5 card so it has no fold. That was the requirement. I've received a number of cards like this myself and they are great. The only down side is that they don't stand up on their own, obviously !

Enough waffling......

The DP's are a gorgeous silvery, grey colour and are glittered. They are Best Creation Inc "Mr & Mrs" and I bought them from The Hobby House stand at the NEC. I think I might buy some more of these to keep in my stash "just in case" !

The image is Tilda and Edwin by Magnolia. These two stamps are sold separately although they do have a Tilda and Edwin bride and groom stamp (if you know what I mean !!). I just loved Tilda's bouquet on this stamp.

I decided to try my hand at distress ink painting for this card and don't think I did a bad job although the skin needs more practice !

I inked the edges of the image with antique linen distress ink and then stamped a flourish stamp around the edge and then added some gold stickles. I also added stickles to Tilda's crown and flowers.

The "Day to Remember" stamp is by Cats Life Press and this has been stamped in walnut stain distress ink.

The flowers are all from my stash.

I made the scrolls of paper and tied them with some raffia.

I loved making this card. Just a shame I don't get to make them very often !

I'm now off to watch a DVD with the others and tuck into some popcorn !

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave. I am so grateful to you.

Don't forget to enter my new BasicGrey blog candy. Just click on the picture in my sidebar and it will take you directly to the post.

Have a great Bank Holiday and enjoy the rest of the week.

BasicGrey Blog Candy # 16

THIS BLOG CANDY IS NOW CLOSED !

Well, here we are again with another fantastic BasicGrey Blog Candy courtesty of Simon Says Stamp ! Just look at these amazing goodies you could win !

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 17th April when I shall draw a winner with a random number generator and post a new fabby blog candy for you to enter.

To make it much quicker for me to choose a winner, I am going to start using Mr Linky but there is a catch !!! Every fortnight I shall ask you a question and I would like you to answer that question after your name. It will be a one word answer so not difficult.

For example, you would type your answer as Jo Nevill (boy's cards)

This fortnight's question is : What type of card do you have the most fun making ?

I think mine have to be boy's cards ! I don't know why, I just love them !!

Anyone not leaving the answer to my question in Mr Linky will have their name deleted to stop spammers and also people only entering for the sake of it (if you know what I mean and I don't wish to be rude in anyway).

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

BasicGrey Blog Candy # 15 WINNER

It is that time again to draw the winner of my BasicGrey Blog Candy. The winner is.....

Many congratulations to VALENTINA ! Please email me with your full name and address so I can arrange for your goodies to be sent to you.

A new blog candy will be announced very soon !

BasicGrey Challenges

Happy Easter ! Looks like that poor Easter bunny is going to get a soaking this year poor chap. We went to an Easter party at a friend's house yesterday afternoon and the kids got soaked on the egg hunt. Still, they enjoyed it and the chocolate went down very well !

Sorry I haven't been around much. Life is still hectic and Fizzy hasn't been well again this week. I'm hoping she is now on the mend. I have been doing a small amount of crafting but I have to keep them secret at the moment which is a big shame. I'm also itching to get my hands on my NEC goodies for a play. Can you believe that most of my stamps remain untouched ?

Anyway, we have a gorgeous sketch by Martine for you to play with over at BasicGrey Challenges this week.

This is my take on Martine's gorgeous sketch :

I don't think I could have used anymore BasicGrey products if I tried on this card !!

The DP's are BasicGrey "Green at Heart".

The image is a Claudia & Company stamp called "Puddle Jumpers - Emma" and she has been coloured with ProMarkers.

I had a bit of a spending spree in the Simon Says Stamp store when I saw all these new gorgeous BasicGrey embellies to go with the new papers and they are, self adhesive ribbon, the little buttons, the canvas tag, the felt and material flower and I also bought some stitched brads but I couldn't find a place for these on this card !!

The rest of the DT's cards are amazing. You must hop over and go and take a peek.

Don't forget my BasicGrey blog candy. This will be coming to an end later today when I shall post the winner and post another one for you to enter. To enter, just click on the photo in my sidebar and that will take you directly to the post.

Have a fabulous weekend and break and I hope the sun starts to shine to put a smile on our faces.

Thank you for your visit and for any comments you may leave. They always mean so much especially when I'm struggling to find the time to play.

Don't forget the children's challenge over at Simon Says Challenge especially if your little ones are getting bored of the school holiday's already !

Take care and hope to see you soon !