Wizards, bears and christmas all in one day

Hi everyone

Firstly can I thank all my lovely followers for their fab comments and welcome any new ones.  I am still new to this and really appreciate all your lovely comments.

I have had a crafty few days, but have only just managed to get round to photographing them so here they are:

Forever Friends Christmas Bear

I love these cute bears and this one is stamped and then coloured with promarkers and glittered with Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue.  Then mounted onto Papermania Glitter Card.  The backing paper is forever friends and the embossed strip was done using my cuttlebug.  To finish I added a FF sticker sentiment and three card candies which I then finished with glossy accents.  Quick and simple but quite effective.  

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Paint- Embossing

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Southern Girls - Boys/Men

Teddy Bea - this is the first Teddy Bea image I have used and I am thrilled with the results.  I have always admired them and have finally taken the plunge.  I think she looks gorgeous in pinks and lavenders.

Bea was of course coloured with promarkers and then matted and layered using pink papermania cardstock and a candy stripe pink paper from Craft Creations.  The other two ink papers were from the First Edition Sweet Owl collection.  I made the double bow using ribbons from my stash.  The LOTV sentiment was stamped and then coloured with promarkers, the circles were then cut on the cuttlebug using nesties and layered.  Anitas gems were used to finish this off.  The final touch a few co-ordinating card candies.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge

Paper Sundaes

Craft your passion

Tuesday Throwdown - Think Pink

Crafty Boots

Creative Inspirations - Friendship

Papertake weekly - get in shape 

and last but not least a child's birthday card.

Wizard  This little chap is an LOTV stamp.. I love this one.  What do you think??????

The outside

The inside

Purple cardstock used as a base, then spider web orange ribbon, black and white dotty papermania paper, which I coloured orange.  LOTV image coloured with promarkers, cut using X-cut dies, layered onto papermania glitter card.  The word "Wizard was cut using the Cricut.    The inside was stamped again with the LOTV image and a happy birthday sentiment. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - Orange, Green and Purple

I love promarkers

Cupcake Craft - Halloween

Paper Creations: Black & Orange

Cupcake Inspirations

Scrap Creations - Halloween challenge 

Well it's wet and horrible here in Somerset today, kids out with friends, hubby off working, so I have the perfect crafting day.  Spent a fantastic day yesterday at Monkton Elm Garden Centre, at a Docrafts Craft Demonstration with Sue.  It was brilliant.  Did I come away empty handed........... no of course not.  Also got my new Heritage cartridge for the Cricut.  So excited, can't wait to try it out.

Anyway here is a card I have made for the Mil. Its their friends anniversary so a card was needed.  Something nice and sunny .............

So here's tilda in all her summery colours.

The yellow papers are from the Papermania colour capsule range, the oranges are from Stampin Up.  Tilda has been coloured using Promarkers.  I have then inked the edge of the image using Papermania Mini Ink Pads.  The sentiment is LOTV and I used my Nesties to create the shape.  The swirls are Tim Holtz.  The roses are made from sprirals of torn paper.  The verse and flower are from the Docrafts Digital Designer Cd.  The edge of the insert was punched with a Martha Stewart Punch.

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges:

• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge
• Scrapbook Sisters
• CES Challenges - Embelish Me More
• Our Craft Lounge - Challenge OCL83
• By The cute and Girlie - September Challenge
• The Crafty Ribbon Challenge No 2 - Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 182 
• Flutterbywednesdays - Challenge 171

The autumn is coming, the leave are changing colours and the trees are putting on their autumn finery.  I love the colours in the countryside at the moment and these have inspired my card.

The image is LOTV, coloured with promarkers.  The postcard is an LOTV stamp as well.  I used Do-Crafts nesting dies to cut the shape.  The roses are handmade from cardstock and then edged with glitter glue.  The backing papers and the message stickers are from Bo Bunny.  The leaves for the roses were cut on a Cricut.  The card was finished with some card-candi.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges

Lili of the Valley - Thursday challenge No 111 - Missing You
Crafty Your Days Away
Craft Your Passion
Lexi's creations Challenge 48 - Autumn
Sentimental Sundays - Autumn

Good evening.

How are you all?  Thanks for dropping in to see what I've been up to.......

I have some lovely new LOTV images to play with and decided that although I was too late to enter their sketch challenge, (closed last night) I would play along and see what I came up with.

My card is made using Kars Christmas papers, the nativity lotv image coloured with promarkers and a doily from Papermania cardstock cut on my Cricut.  The fab sentiment is a Hunky Dory one.  The pink Cored'inations paper is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 51.  Ho Ho Ho

Charisma Cardz challenge 36.  Inspired by a song

(my song is Away in a Manger)

Crafty Creations Blogspot challenge 135 - Anything but Square

Fresh Brewed Designs - challenge 63 something New

My Mums Craft Shop - Layer it up challenge

The Paper Shelter - Challenge 30 - Embossing 

My first blog challenge - here goes nothing ............

Well I've read the instructions on how to do this and have found a challenge to enter.


I've made the card and hopefully will manage to link to it.


This is my card.  It's for the LOTV challenge - Thank you.

I coloured my LOTV image with promarkers - colours used are

Soft Peach, Pastel Yellow, Rose Pink, Pastel Blue,Moss, Vanilla, Ivory and Baby pink

I made my flower using the Tim Holtz Tattered florals die, together with a Papermania flower and a small pink sequin.  The lace edge is made using an X-Cut Border Die. The background was coloured with Dovecraft chalks - pastels and shimmers. The paper was a present from a friend.

1. liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge challenge 109a thank-you

Sunday's crafty makes

Hi everyone and thank you for looking at my blog.  


It's been lovely here today, have had a great day, out to lunch with the out-laws, a gentle stroll along the canal - not too far mind and in between some lovely peaceful crafting.  Below is what I have come up with today.  


LOTV card.  This was a challenge I set on the Docrafts forum.  The theme - I love you, colour white on white with a ribbon, a bow and three embelishments.  I have made my flowers using my new Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and some stickies glitter glue.  Great Fun.  The image was coloured with Promarkers.

This is a childs birthday card.  I used my x-cute nesting die to cut out the balloons and the party image.  The papers were from the Birthday goodie bag bag in April.

 Birthday Girl and Happy Birthday cards . Again these papers were from the Birthday Goody Bag in April.  The design is for the Monday Sketch Challenge on the Docrafts Forum.  The balloons were cut and embossed with my Nesties and the tag is stamped with a LOTV image.

The tatty ted image is has been framed using a nestie die and then mounted onto tatty ted papers.  Hougie Board flowers made and adhered along with card candy and a ribbon.  The backing paper is Hunkydory.
The sentiment is Tulip.

Thanks for taking the time to look. x