A Happy, Happy Birthday Card ...

Oops, almost forgot to share my Papertake Weekly card! I love this card, it's been sat on the shelf above my craft desk for ages because I din't want to put it in the card box

The challenge this week is to use a sketch

I used:

Stamps (Image and sentiment)  - Lili of The Valley (cloured with Copics)

Papers - The Sweetest Thing digital kit by Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Dies - Spellbinders

Pom Pom trim and heart pins - Ribbon Girl

Other - distress inks and sewing machine

Pretty Pastels ...

The prompt over at Papertake weekly is pretty pastels so I seized the opportunity to use this beautiful digital kit by Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Hanglar stamp, lace, ribbon and pearl swirl from Ribbon Girl, digital papers from this kit

By LORi Designs Blog Hop ...

Today is the release of new digital stamps from Lori Boyd. They can all be found here at the By LORi Designs shop.

I've used George from the Tammy and George set for this card

(papers by Crystal Wilkerson can be found here)

You can visit the rest of the Design Team, leave a comment on each blog and you will go in the draw to win the new releases

Lori

Andrea - that's me :)

Arielle

Hannah

Jane

Jayne

Linda

Sheri

Sherryann

Tanja

Vera

I've also been playing with a few of the stamps from previous releases

(Cat stamp from here, papers by Zoe Pearn from this kit and a Papertrey sentiment stamp)

(Ladybug stamp from here, ribbon, bakers twine and button from the Ribbon Girl, stamp from Papertrey)

(Stamp from here, lace from the Ribbon Girl and lots of flowers and stickles to make everything sparkle)

A Decorated Gift Box ...

Cutting it fine I know, but I finally finished this decorated gift box for a wedding we are going to tomorrow! It started off life as a pink and blue patchwork effect heart shaped box with a leaf pattern all over it - it really was as dreadful as it sounds - so I changed it.

The papers are all from a digital kit by Zoe Pearn called Serenity

I used these gorgeous pearls from 3DJean, I love that in one pack you get all the different sizes which was just perfect for this project as I wanted to use lots of different sizes

All the ribbons, lace, braid and rose flower are from the Ribbon Girl.

A Pretty Card ...

This card was intended for a sketch challenge at Twisted Sketches but, as is the way with these things, I took too long to take it's photograph and missed the end of the challenge. Oh well, it's a pretty card and it is currently winging it's way to a friend.

It's a really pretty girly girly card and I used on of Zoe Pearns new digital kits (also a new line from MME) and a Hanglar stamped image. I spritzed the flowers with Shimmerz spray from Jean's shop and the ribbon and pins are both Ribbon Girl

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 80

This is a new challenge for me which I came across after blog hopping through the week. It's a lovely sketch for a card and this is what I created

I used Zoe Pearns new kit Summer Days, ribbon from the Ribbon Girl and that gorgeous felt flower is made from some of my Papertrey felt (that I have been hoarding as it's so nice)

Zoe Pearn Designs ...

Zoe Pearn released 2 new digital kits this week - both fabulous - and both the digital versions of her new My Minds Eye releases from CHA

Alphabet Soup for Boys

Alphabet Soup for Girls

And these are the cards I made using them both

I loved this orange spotted ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, it went perfectly with the touches of orange in the paper and stopped it being 'blue' overload

CPS 176 ...

2nd post of the day, I know just like buses - weeks go by without any posts then they all come along together :lol:

Anyway, I had time this morning to play with the latest Zoe Pearn kit Monster Mash (because I love that little blue monster so much) and I teamed it up with this weeks CPS challenge

Sweet Shoppe Designs ...

Carrying on with my 'catching up spree' this week.  These projects were all made with some of my favourite Sweet Shoppe Designs products

(A Whimsical Garden by Kristin Cronin Barrow)

(Juicy by Kristin Cronin Barrow)

(Born In The Heart by Melissa Bennett and Meg Mullens)

(Monster Mash by Zoe Pearn)

(Light Up The Night by Dani Mogstad)

(Happy Go Lucky by Zoe Pearn)

Winter Mini Book ...

I loved those photographs that I took of Haggis playing in the snow and from when we went for a walk in the beautiful snowy countryside so decided to make them into a mini album. It's more of a tag book than an album as I've added bits and pieces into it and printed my photographs back to back to create phototags.

My album base is a set of 3 wooden houses from Craftshapes which I covered in a selection of papers from Zoe Pearn's Winter Wonderland kit

I added some of the elements from the kit - journalling block, tree and snowman - that I trimmed and covered the backs of to make tags and I completely covered them in ultrafine white glitter.

I added some KaiserScrapbook rubons that I had left over from another project to the journalling blocks before covering them in the glitter and they work brilliantly and look just like those chipboard elements you can buy to go with some makes of paper. I used my Cropodile to punch holes in all the tags as well as some wooden snowflakes that I painted silver and they got the glitter treatment too.

I turned my photographs into tags by printing them wallet sized (nine to a page), trimming them and glueing them together back to back before punching a hole and adding them into the book. I joined it all together with some ball chain that I pinched from some of my Maya Road chipboard albums and then I added lots more glitter to the edges of all my wooden shapes just in case there wasn't enough and also went a bit mad with my new purchases of the Zva Creative pearl and sparkly swirl and snowflake stickers :lol: