Simon Says Challenge - Card for a Child

Welcome to another Simon Says Challenge ! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our challenge last week, we had lots of many wonderful entries from you all ! This week, our challenge is CARD FOR A CHILD. The DT will be supporting and sending their cards to Post Pals. You can find all the details of this fantastic cause on the Challenge Blog ! We do hope you can join us and bring a smile to a child's face. As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too !!!

The DP's are by Trim Craft "First Edition Paper" called "Animal Antics", just perfect for this card !

The image is by The Greeting Farm and is called "Happy Day". This cheeky chappy has been coloured with ProMarkers and Copics.

The ribbon and button are from my stash.

The rest of the DT's cards are just amazing, please check them out and leave them some love !

We look forward to seeing your amazing cards and projects !

Have a great day and thank you for your visit !

PaperPlay Challenges - Critters Galore !

Another bright and sunny morning ! I could get used to this !

Here we go with another PaperPlay Challenge for you ! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our challenge last week ! This week's it is Team B's challenge and our challenge for you this week is "Critters Galore"

We are being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will win $15 to spend in their store !

The DP's are DCWV "Sweet"

The image is by Lili of the Valley.

The "Birthday Recipe" stamp is also from Lili of the Valley and this has been stamped onto my new Doohickey label die that my lovely girlies also bought me for Mother's Day !

The flowers I picked up from the NEC and the ribbon is from my stash.

The DT have made some fantastic cards for your inspiration so we hope you can play along with us and we can see your critters galore !

Have a great day and thank's for your visit !

Simon Says - It's Time for Spring !

What a beautiful morning we have here.

It looks like the weather is picking up again and that makes me a happy bunny !! Welcome to another Simon Says Challenge ! Yes, its Wednesday again and we have a super duper challenge for you.

This week we would like you lighten and brighten things up, hopefully Spring is on it's way for most of us and we would like you to use Spring colours or an Easter creation if you celebrate Easter.

This week the Design Team have all featuring Magnolia ! The Simon Says Stamp Store sells an amazing range of Magnolia products including papers, doohickey dies, flowers as well as the stamps and now, just in are the NEW Magnolia Mini Stamps- check them out ! If you have any Magnolia stamps, we would love to see them but if not, we would still love you to join us !

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too !!!

The DP's are Prima "Annalee"

The image is of course by Magnolia and is "Tilda with newly hatched egg". She has been coloured with a mixture of Copics and ProMarkers.

The ribbon and flowers are from my stash. I also found the Easter egg brad amongst all my bits and pieces too.

The butterflies were punched from a Martha Stewart butterfly punch

We hope you can join us in our challenge this week. The rest of the DT have made some amazing cards for your inspiration. Hop on over and leave them some love !

Have a great day and thank's for your visit.

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes !

Welcome to another Papertake Weekly ! This week our challenge is very simple ANYTHING GOES ! but we do have an optional extra of to use something new (now that shouldn't be difficult either !!!).

This week we are being sponsored by Lili of the Valley and the lucky winner will win a £10 voucher for their store !

The DP's are My Minds Eye "Gertie". These have all been hand stitched

The image is my new Lili of the Valley image I bought from the NEC (among many others !!).

This cutie has been coloured with Copics and ProMarkers.

The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley's new clear sets.

Also new is the Magnolia Doohickey dragonfly that my darling girlies bought me for Mother's Day.

Take a peek at the rest of the DT's cards, they are fabby !

Have a great day and thank's for looking !

BasicGrey Challenges - More Than One Fold !

Good morning ! What a wet and miserable one it is too, just right for a day locked away in the craft room !!

Thank you to everyone who joined in with our challenge of using something recycled, it great to see many entries and such fabulous projects.

This time, our challenge is MORE THAN ONE FOLD.

As from this challenge we are inviting Guest Designers to join us for two challenges. Our Guest for the next couple of challenges is Julie. Please hop over and give her a friendly BG welcome and take a look at her amazing card.

As always, there is a super duper shopping spree of $25 from our sponsor, Simon Says Stamp !

Now, I really didn't think I was going to get anything done for this challenge, time was not on my side (when is it ?!!) and when I saw inspiration for this post-it note cover in Craft Stamper magazine, I knew it was just perfect as it fits the challenge and was quick and easy to make and I actually rather like it. What a lovely quick pressie for someone to put on their desk/craft table or for work ?

The DP's are BasicGrey "Curio", aren't they gorgeous ? This is the first time I've been brave enough to use them !

The image is a digi by Tickled Pink called "Lil Fashionette - 20's Evie". You need to be quick as I don't think Kellie is going to be selling these as digi's for much longer. If you miss the opportunity to buy them as digi's you can of course buy them in rubba !! She has of course been coloured with a mixture of ProMarkers and Copics.

The lace is from my stash. The letters are little alphabet stickers I bought from the NEC last year. The "bling" is some Prima "Say it in pearls"

I am going to enter the following challenges :

Tickled Pink Stamps Challenges #13 - Blinging It Up

Paper Romance Challenge - Bling

Charisma Cardz - Bling and Sparkles

The rest of the DT have made some amazing cards for your inspiration - hop over and go and see !!!

Hope you have a great day !

Simon Says Challenge - Domi's Sketch

Good morning and welcome to another Simon Says Challenge ! This week we have a sketch for you designed by our very own Domi !

The DT were lucky enough to receive some images from Penny Black for this challenge and the team would like to thank Penny Black for their kindness and generosity. If you have any Penny Black stamps we would love to see you use them but if not, you can still play along with us.

As usual the lucky winner will win a $50 spending spree in the Simon Says Stamp Store !

The DP's are Prima "Jack and Jill"

Some of the flowers are also Prima "Jack and Jill" The image is from a Penny Black clear stamp set called "Betsy Bluebell" and this has the cutest stamps you have ever seen in there ! The sentiment also comes from this set. I have also used the lacey square nesties with kraft card.

The butterfly is from a Martha Stewart punch with some blue pearls

We hope you can join us in our challenge this week. The DT have made some amazing cards for your inspiration.

Have a great day and thank's for your visit.

Papertake Weekly - Sketch #54

Good afternoon ! I'm running a tad late this afternoon with my Papertake Weekly card. My lovely hubby has just taken me out to lunch - wasn't that kind of him ? We get very little time on our own so when he has the day off, we make the most of it and treat ourselves !

Well, we have another one of Dawny's sketches over at Papertake Weekly Challenges this week, very simple to anyone can join in !!

It was an absolute pleasure to spend the day with Dawny on Saturday - thank's for making the day so special chick - mwah !

The lucky winner will win a $20 shopping spree around the Simon Says Challenge Store !

The DP's are Graphic 45 "A Proper Gentleman".

The image and sentiment are from a stamp set called "Grand Tour 1" and they are made by IndigoBlu. I picked these up at the NEC as they are lovely, so vintagey !! It was only when I went in search of IndigoBlu's website that I found out that they are a brand new stamp company and their stamps first outing was at the NEC. They are only currently for sale in Samuel Taylors

I stamped the hot air balloon on some linen effect card. The sentiment was stamped onto some sticky backed canvas.

The hardware is by Tim Holtz called "Sprokets, Gears and Watch Parts"

The rest of the DT's cards are just gorgeous. Please pop over and have a look and we hope you can join us in our challenge this week.

Thank you for your visit and have a great day ahead !

Ahoy There Me Hearties !!!

A late post for me today ! I've been busy, busy all day and decided to spend the evening crafting away seeing as I have some new goodies to play with !

I had a fantastic time on Saturday at the NEC and met lots and lots of fabulous crafting buddies, some new ones and some old ones but we had so much fun ! I do have a photo of some of us but its sooo dark. I'll see if one of the others has a better copy !

Well, I've been playing with some Tickled Pink digital images I bought last week and I've been itching to use them. Tickled Pink Challenges has a challenge "One For The Lads" running at the moment so I thought I would print this handsome chappy off and combine it with making a birthday card which is needed in a couple of weeks.

The DP's are Basic Grey "Eerie" which have been manhandled and dabbed with a gold marker pen.

The Tickled Pink digi is "Pirate Frankie" and he has been coloured with a mixture of ProMarkers and Copics.

The background map stamp is an old stamp I bought ages ago from e-bay. The stamp says its made by Creative Stamping. This was stamped with distress ink and then had the full works with ripping, the distresser and loads of distress ink !

A bit of corrugated card which was treated in the same way as the papers and a piece of that cream lace stuff everyone was using a while back with the fancy bits cut off the sides to make it look more manly and then the same treatment again as the papers !

The "treasure" I found at the NEC ! The sentiment is part of a Tim Holtz stamp which has been stamped onto sticky back canvas (my new love !), edges frayed and scrunched up and distress inked !

Great fun was had making this card I can tell you !!

So, I am entering this card into these challenges :

Ticked Pink Challenges - One For the Lads

Sisterhood of Crafters - Let's Hear It For The Boys !

Stampavie and More - For a Boy

Stampin B's Challenge - Make a Masculine Card

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

See you back here tomorrow for Papertake Weekly (yes, already !!).

PaperPlay Challenges - Distressing

Good morning ! Very foggy this morning but lets hope it turns into a beautiful day !

The doors open at the NEC today and I'm so excited to be going on Saturday. I just hope the shoppers who are going today and tomorrow leave some stuff for me to buy ! I'm more excited about meeting up with my lovely friends again, some I have met year after year and some I shall be meeting for the first time.

I was thrilled when my fellow teamie on BG Challenges, Sandie, asked me if I would like to join PaperPlay Challenges and the lovely talented ladies on there.

The challenge this week is DISTRESSING !

We are being sponsored by Bunny Zoe Crafts and the lucky winner will win a £10 gift voucher for her store !

I have had this photo frame hanging around forever and always had good intentions to do something with it ! It's a Papermania frame designed for altering.

I covered the edges with Tim Holtz tissue tape (Traveler), inked it over with Vintage Photo distress ink and then added some smudges of gold Adirondack acrylic paint dabber.

The flowers are a mixture from my stash. I also added a couple of strip of Tim Holtz film strip.

On the inside of the frame I stamped a piece of K and Company paper with stamps from a couple of Tim Holtz stamp sets, Urban Tapestry and Good Thoughts. I added some Platinum Stickles to the flowers. I just love the colour of these Stickles, they look so old and are perfect for that aged look. I also inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.

The butterflies were punched from the same paper, inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and I added more of the Platinum Stickles to them

The other DT members have made some stunning examples for your inspiration and we hope you can come along and play with us this week.

Hope you have a great day and have fun in whatever you are doing !

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

Simon Says Challenge - Mother's Day/Girlie

Whooo hooo just look at that sunshine ! It's the first time I have been out this year without a coat on and it feels sooo good ! I'm also looking forward to Saturday at the NEC but spending my time running around like a headless chicken making sure the Hubster has everything he needs to look after the girls on his own !! Men hey ?! Simon Says Challenge has come around again and this week its a Mother's Day/Girlie week. As always, we have a super prize of a shopping spree in the Simon Says Stamp Store !

I know my card perhaps looks very similar to last week's card but I had this cutie stamp by CC Designs and it seemed very rude not to use her too ! Now it looks like the store may have sold out of this stamp at this moment in time but I am sure that a new batch is winging its way as we speak !

The papers I used are BasicGrey "Cupcake". I stitched all the layers together with my new sewing machine !

The ribbon is from my stash.

The bingo card is by Jenni Bowlin. We had well over 400 entries in our Happy Birthday Challenge last week, lets see if we can top that number this week ! We look forward to seeing all your amazing cards and presents !

The DT have made some amazing cards for your inspiration.

Thank you for your visit. Have a great day and enjoy the sunshine !