Anyone for Anya !!??

This is my first entry for the new and exciting Anyone for Anya Challenge blog I love the Anya stamps and this one I just treated myself too along with a few others ....well who can resist them they are just so cute !!! lol
As you will know if you have been reading my blog I have got a little bored with making cards so I have used the fab sketch over at the Anyone for Anya Challenge blog to make this little calender for next year .

I have coloured Anya with a mixture Copic markers and Promakers I also used K&Co Smitten paper , American crafts ribbon, and one of the new Sizzix embossing folders, all the other bits came from my stash.

I have had a great day today I was surprised and over the moon to be chosen to be in the top 5 in the Cupcake craft challenge and I got weighed at Slimming World to find I have lost 6.5lbs this week !!! And we have had a lovely afternoon /evening on the beach ...topping up my tan...........so life is sweet , hope yours is too

We have a Candy Winner !!!!!!!!!!!!

The winner of my last candy which ended at noon GMT today is

Joanne

My youngest son Woody drew your name out of the hat.

So please email me your address and I will get your prize out to you.
Don't be sad coz you didn't win everyone else as I will be posting up a new candy in the next day or so as its my blog anniversary I started my blog last August although I didn't really get into blogging until the beginning of this year and now I am totally addicted !! lol I don't know what I would do with all the spare time I would have if I didn't blog ...........and I have met so many lovely people since I started to blog hop who have made it a wonderful journey and I have learnt so much in the world of crafting as well.

So watch this space for the next candy , enjoy the rest of your day , xx

Allsorts Baby Girl Book

What a challenge this week at the Allsorts challenge blog !!! make a card or project but stamps are band !!! so I had to put my thinking cap on for this one, I could have just made a card from die cuts but that would have been to easy so I sat last night and made this book for a baby girl and not a stamp in sight !!
It has 4 pages cut from chipboard (by the lovely Garry !! thanks darling xx) I covered them with K&Co baby girl papers and decorated with loads of goodies from my stash; stickers, die cut, ribbons, silver plated charms, flowers, brads and embellishments galore !!! I bound the whole thing together with 2 hinged book binding rings and added lots of ribbon to decorate.

What a great challenge I really enjoyed making this, thanks for popping by to look.

DCD Summer Challenge

This is my second DT project for my other blog the Die cut Dreams challenge blog, I made this Summer note book using my lovely new stamps that I got from "Stamping up" I'm in the "Club 10" set up by "Stamping up" demonstrator Nicki who is fantastic !!!
Nicki sorts out all our Stamping up needs with the greatest of speed every month, so if you are in need of any SU products or need a link to the online catalogue Nicki is the girl to ask and I'm sure she will only be to happy to help.
The image and sentiment I have used here on this note book are both from the SU "Summer by the sea" stamp set I have coloured it with promarkers and layered it onto a die cut oval from my shop, added some card candy with double sided foam pads and glued the coloured image to the front of a note pad that I have covered with DCWV shell DP .....Makes a neat little gift don't you think ?! Have a great day

Candy Time

CANDY NOW CLOSED CHECK BACK LATER TO SEE WHO THE WINNER ISI promised Followers candy before the end of the month as I went over 600 followers and here it is.

This is to say a big Thank you for following and visiting my blog and for all the lovely comments you you leave me.

In this candy there is;

A DCWV card stack (which makes 20 5.5"x5.5" cards)

A pack of Doodlebug design Braddies

A large pack of special effect bubbles and borders stickers

A pack of Making memories eyelets

10 packs of Anitas outline stickers

a pack of papermania shimmer chalks

5 new wood mounted Anna Griffin vintage stamps

3 small Anna griffin vintage ink pads.

If lots of people enter (over 200) then I will add a nice second prize and maybe even a 3rd prize you know how I like to give away to my crafty followers don't you !! he he

This candy is only open to followers ; so if you are not a follower then you must become one before you can enter.

What you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is simple just pop the photo of my candy in your side bar with a link to my blog to help spread the word of my candy.

And then leave a comment on this post to let me know you have done that, but remember you must be a follower to enter.

If you don't have a blog that's fine just spread the word to your friends and become a follower to this blog and leave me a comment to let me know you have done that.

The candy ends at Noon GMT on Friday 31st of August when the winner will be drawn and announces that evening.

Good luck everyone

CANDY NOW CLOSED CHECK BACK LATER TO SEE WHO THE WINNER IS

Strawberry Tilda's forever !!!

This is one of my DT projects for over at Die cut Dreams challenge blog this week the theme is "Summer" and I though this little Tilda carrying a bucket of strawberries summed up a lovely image of a perfect English summer, so I turned it into a little book and added a silver plated strawberry charm and some pretty ribbons to finish it off.

A taste of ?????

Here is a little teaser for you just a small slice ... a hint ...a taste of this coming weeks challenge over at Die cut Dreams challenge blog, I am so naughty to you aren't I !!!lol
Can you guess the theme ??!
Have a good evening

Cute & Cuddly Circular Christmas with Penny Black Blog

This week at the PBSC challenge its Christmas and at the One stop Craft challenge this week the theme is "Cute & Cuddly" also over at ABC challenge the theme is "C" for circles, so I made this 5 inch scalloped circle book with chipboard covered covers and 8 scalloped card pages.
The image is Penny Black stamp Xmas Joy and coloured it with Copic markers.
I stitched & layered the image onto the cover and made a hole for the large hinged book binding ring with my big bite machine and set the hole with an extra large eyelet from weRmemory Keepers then added lots of ribbons from my stash to decorate the ring.
The Christmas flowers are from prima and I also added a 4"ball chain with a Christmas tree charm to finish it off .
Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday afternoon.

Take a card one step further

Just a quickie to show you how I recycled my last challenge card and made it into a calender to sell in my Die cut Dreams shop on eBay.

I made 2 holes at the top and set 2 large red eyelets with my Big bite tool and added some pink spotty ribbon from American crafts so it will hang up.

Then I added a layered die cut scalloped circle (available from my shop Die cut Dreams ) that I had stamped with a friends sentiment from Autumn leaves and finished off with a calender tab .....it makes a pretty neat gift don't you think, a bit like a card you can keep up all year round.

Smitten in love

There is a great sketch at theSugar bowl challenge this week and over at Copic creation challenge their theme is "Red & Pink with Hearts"
to make this I have used papers and the felt hearts from K&Co Smitten range , raspberry pink flitter glitter card ribbons from Poppicraft.
The cute Sugar Nellie I have coloured with my Copic markers in several shades of pink.
Hope you have a great Saturday

A Gift for a Friend

This week over at C.R.A.F.T challenge they want us to make a project with Embossing as you know I am bored with just making cards (and I have so many already made I don't know where to put them !! lol)
Anyway I have started to make other paper craft projects in a hope I can sell some in my eBay shop Die cut Dreams shop on eBay.
This little gift bag and memento book is completely handmade , to make it I used;
For the bag; 2 elegant rectangles 5" x 4" die cuts and run them through one of the new Quickutz embossing folders, cut out the oval handles with a punch and used a paper bag between the 2 die cuts to create the actual bag then I used distress ink around the edges and to decorate it I used some smaller die cut circles and stamps the Autumn leaves Friends sentiment on added a little more distress ink, I cut the butterflies from Bazzill card with the Quickutz butterfly die.
I finished the bag off with some ribbon and fluffy eyelash fibre, I was really pleased with it, but then I thought it needs something to pop inside so I made the small book from yet more die cuts punched a hole with my big bite machine added a 4" ball chain and a silver butterfly charm, it fits nicely inside the bag and it was quite a simple little gift to make a friend smile.
All the die cuts used are available from my shop
Die cut Dreams if you don't see the colour of size you want just ask we are always please to help.
Right I am off to the beach now have a great afternoon...........

Pamper day !!! Copic Challenge

This week over at the Copic colour challenge the colours to use are ; Not 3 colours I would normally put together so I struggled a little with this one, but I had a new stamp arrive from the USA yesterday its a cube stamp from "Art gone Wild!" it has 4 different stamps on it lipstick, nail polish, perfume (and a lovely handbag which I didn't use on this project) I stamped and then masked the perfume image so that the lipstick look like it was behind.
I coloured them using only the 3 colours required for the challenge and my blender pen, in fact I stamped it at home and then took the image with me when I went out yesterday and coloured it in while I was having a coffee in Costa coffee so I only took the 4 pens with me (I will colour anywhere !!! lol) when I got home last night I cut the pages and the chipboard covers to make my image into this little book which is bound together with 3 hinged book binding rings I then added ribbons from May Arts the stamped sentiment is from my favourite stamping lady Nicky at Stamping all day.
The glitter brads are from Making memories , flowers by prima, the shocking pink gems are from Kaiser and the cosmetic purse silver charm is from my shop Die cut Dreams, which I added to a little ball chain and hung from the top binding ring for a little extra bling !!
I hope you like it , Have a lovely day.

Cupcake Diva "Scrap it !!"

Over at Charismacardz challenge this week the theme is "Scrap it!!" Scrapbook creations, be it a page, an album, a mini album, or anything to do with scrapbooking!
I have used one of my new stamps from Stamping Bella (in Canada ) this one is really cute she is called "Addy-tude Cupcake diva", I have coloured her using a mixture of copic markers and promakers, I have bound the book with 3 hinged book binding rings and added fibers and ribbons to decorate.
Other things I used are ; Prima silk polka dot flowers, cupcake brad is from Doodlebug designs, the die cut cupcakes are from my shop Die cut Dreams.
Hope you all have a great evening

Precious Little Bundle

This is my entry for the ABC challenge they have the theme of circles this week and at PBC challenge the theme this week is stitching and over at Cute card Thursday challenge the theme is "New beginnings"
I have used a lovely Penny Black stamp, I really love this stamp its so sweet and coloured it with my promarkers cut it out and layered it onto some of my die cuts from my shop which I had stitched with my sewing machine and then onto one of my wall hangers , I added flowers and brads from Poppicrafts, extra large eyelets from WeRmemory keepers, ribbon from May arts.
The beautiful heavy silver baby shoe charm I bought from Hobby House and the little silk polka dot Teddy's will be available from my shop as soon as I find time to list them !!! lol
The sentiment stamp is one of Nicky's from "Stamping all day".
Hope you have a great day I am gonna take the ferry over to Gun Wharf Quays and have lunch with the family out in the sunshine .........have fun !!!

Ooh-la-la-creations/ Pink Elephant

I found a challenge blog that is new to me last night Ooh-la-la-creations challenge they have the theme Black and White Sparkly Christmas you should nip over and check out their great blog, then over at The Pink Elephant challenge there is a great sketch which I have followed .
To make this card I used midnight luscious black flitter glitter card , white sheer dotty ribbon cut out the White stamped bear image and 3D mounted it on some mat & layered card, I am not sure where the image came from as I have had it in my stash a while.
The sentiment stamp is one from my own range that I had made up.

A Date with a Fairy Princess !!!

I love this new stamp I bought last week from Pink Gem she is such a pretty fairy princess I have coloured her with my promarkers; lilac, lavender and a touch of amethyst all blended well with the promarker blender pen.

The flowers are Esprit from Prima and the brads, eyelets & silver princess charm are from my stash.

Ribbon is May arts, all the die cuts are from my shop Die cut Dreams.
I used my sewing machine to zig zag stitch the layers together and finished it off with a little calender tab.

This is my entry into the following challenges for this week;

La-La Land challenge Ask for Stitching on your project and over at the Polly craft challenge blog you are required to make a project using your favourite things and I love lilac & purple and fairies too. Then this week at Passion for Promarkers challenge
this weeks colour is purples.