Pretty In Pink ...

Today I'm sharing a pretty card made for a lady I work with - she wanted pink, sparkly with a number three on it and it fits perfectly with the monochromatic theme for todays Papertake Weekly Challenge. I love that little Ballerina from Lily Of The Valley :)

Summer has arrived ...

Summer seems to have arrived in my part of the world, the clocks changed on Sunday and I am enjoying the lighter evenings, the fact that we've had wall to wall glorious sunshine for the last 4 days has just made life even sweeter :)

Today I have two cards to share

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Both of these cards were made for the Papertake Weekly Challenges (this weeks and last weeks)

A Girly Get Well Card ...

I love this little bear (technically he is a boy bear but I wanted to use him for a girly get well card so he's had a bit of a sex change!) and I seem to be addicted to making easel cards at the moment.

Stamp - Stamp Fairy

Papers - Sweet Shoppe Designs

Ribbon, lace and Perfect Pearls - Ribbon Girl

This is for the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is sponsored by Stamp Fairy this week

Birthday Wishes ...

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is create a card for an anything goes challenge with the option of adding a heart. I am still in mini card production world and so I am sharing another one today. 

Those gorgeous papers are by Pion (we have a slight addiction!) and the twine, lace, felt, pins and crystal swirls are from Ribbon Girl. The teeny tiny heart tag is from Papertrey Ink, love those little tags and the big heart and wings are Sizzix

Birthday Card ...

I was given 4 new Sugar Nellie stamps as part of my Christmas present and I've used one of them for my Papertake Weekly challenge card this week.

I love her folded arms attitude and her little froggy pal!

The challenge at Papertake Weekly is a sketch and is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

Buttons, Bows, Bling and Blooms ...

The new challenge over at Papertake Weekly is:  Buttons, Bows, Bling and Blooms and it's sponsored by The Ribbon Girl. The design team have created some wonderful projects so pop over to the Papertake Weekly blog to check them all out.

I used one of my favourite Magnolia stamps for my card

Ribbon, button, twine and pins from Ribbon Girl

I created another of my little packets to house the card and finished that with a tiny tag cut with a Papertrey Ink die, grosgrain ribbon and a pretty blossom flower from the Ribbon Girl

How cute is this little bear? He is a digital stamp from The Stamp Fairy and I just adore him! He is my design team entry for Papertake Weekly this week which is sponsored by The Stamp Fairy, a new stamp store for me but I'll definitley be shopping more as there are tons of stamps that I fell in love with :)

The challenge at Papertake Weekly is Die Cute and I used my new spellbinders frame die as well as October Afternoon papers and a ribbon, pins and bee charm from Ribbon Girl

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope you all had a marvellous Christmas and New Year. I had a great time but can't believe I had to go back to work already! The first day back after Christmas is always difficult but actually I was so busy that it was hometime before I knew it and now I'm back home snuggling with my little doggie on the sofa and listening to the horrible wind outside that is blowing a gale.

A new year means a new challenge at Papertake Weekly and also a whole new site design at Sweet Shoppe Designs with lots of lovely new kits to choose from :)

This is my card for the anything goes with the option of a new theme (new baby, new house, new stash etc.) challenge and I used a fabulous new kit from Zoe Pearn for my New Baby card

I used:

Papers - One For The Boys digital kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs

Cardstock - Papermania

Glass glitter - 3D Jean

Lace, ricrac and pins - Ribbon Girl

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

 This card is a didi 4 inches square and instead of making it a box I used one of these fab glassine bags to create a little packet for it to go into. I used another sentiment from Pink Pettocoat (printed onto Safmat) as well as trimming the top with pinking shears and adding a few lengths of lace a ricrac and tying up with a ribbon bow (all from Ribbon Girl). The tiny tag and sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink and the safety pin is an ancient Making Memories pin that I've had for years and years

All in all I was really happy with how this turned out, shame the lighting here has been so poor even through the day - very grey and gloomy

I am entering this card into:

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Out with the old, in with the new (I used old sentiment stamp and new papers)

Allsorts Challenge - New Beginnings

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

A Birthday Card ...

The final challenge of the year for Papertake Weekly is a sketch and this is my interpretation

I used my newest paper flower die from MFT to make the roses and the leaves are punched from my Mam's MS punch.  Lace, button twine and pompom trim are all from the Ribbon Girl and the sentiment and number stamps are Papertrey. I added a few Kaiser pearls to the centres of the roses and that sparkly/fibery paper stuff was something I picked up from the florists wholesalers last week (not sure what a florist would do with it but I liked it behind the paper roses)

Not Exactly Playing With Paper ...

It seems like a long time since I updated my blog but I have been very busy - buying a house! My first house :) There is a lot of work to do - new kitchen, new bathroom, new doors and windows, knock walls down, build walls up, move walls, new fire and fireplace, plaster all the walls and ceilings, paint everything, new flooring. That's where I've been then - not exactly playing with paper but playing at being a builder :)  I have made a few cards though:

This was the card that I made for last weeks Papertake Weekly challenge which was to add a touch of bling.

I added stacks of bling to this card! The mermaid stamp is a Hanglar Stanglar stamp, coloured with Copics and her tail is covered with Stardust Stickles - my absolute favourite type of glittery sparklyness! The papers are all Cosmo Cricket and I've embossed the pieces with a couple of different Cuttlebug embossing folders, distressed and stiched the edges and then applied more generous amounts of Stickles. The pearl swirl has been coloured with a Copic marker to change it's colour - I love to do this with pearls and crystals - before I stuck it to the card. Even my ribbons are sparkly. I've used wide silver lame that I coloured with the same Copic marker as the pearls and over the top of this I've used gold glitter mesh which also got the Copic treatment. To finish I added a couple of metal embellishments from Stampin Up and a starfish charm and knot of button twine

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

... and down came a spider

The challenge over at Papertake Weekly this week is to use spooky hues so I made the cute spider card.

I added black dewdrops to his feet to make them look a bit like shoes!

Papers and that cute spider - Jeepers Creepers digi kit

Ribbon and dewdrops - Ribbon Girl

Computer sentiment - Leftovers font

A baby card ...

I made this card for my friend who has a new baby boy, it was perfect for this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge which is to use 3 shapes - I've used a square, rectangle and star shape

Papers and alphabet - Baby Boy by Lliella Designs at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Lace, twine and baby charms - Ribbon Girl

Martha Stewart border punch

Lots of machine sewing and white cardstock

Happy Birthday Papertake Weekly...

We're celebrating our birthday over at Papertake Weekly this week and we're doing it in style with a prize filled blog hop.  We have prizes from Dies to Die For, Sir Stampalot, Lili Of The Valley and Ribbon Girl as well as a few other prizes hidden around our blogs so you'll just have to hop around leaving comments and see if you are a winner!

This is the card I made for this weeks anything goes (with the option of adding something punched) challenge, a step card that I made with a lot of help from my friend Jan.  I wasn't a very good student and making the card was accompanied by several swear words and raised eyebrows. Jan - I think I'll go back to ordinary square cards!

Paper - October Afternoon

Robot - Kate Hadfield Digital

Punch - Stampin Up

Button - Ribbon Girl

Font - Leftovers

Now you need to hop onto Angie's blog and then add your card to the Papertake Weekly challenge

Bzzzzzzzzzzzz...

The current challenge over at Papertake Weekly is to use something with wings and this is my card

Hanglar stamp coloured with Copics

Echo Park dots and stripes paper from 3DJean

Magnolia swirl

Ribbon and charm from Ribbon Girl

Finally - a card ...

Good grief, considering that I am on holiday there is a lack of craftyness going on in this house but here I am with a card to share, I might even share two!

My first card us made with my new favourite Nitwit kit, From The Sea and is for the current Papertake Weekly challenge - to use dies. Last week I spent ages sorting out all of my nestabilities and other dies, some I had forgotten about and some that had ended up in the wrong drawer but now they are all neat, tidy and organised.  On this card I used MFT and Papertrey border dies

My second card was made for The Ribbon Girl using the new super sparkly and gorgeous glitter organza as well as a Lori Boyd digi stamp and a few other Ribbon Girl goodies

It's Tuesday so it's Papertake day again and this week the challenge is to play 3-in-a-row from the gameboard Dawny had created. I chose to play on the diagnol and picked lace, ribbon and a free square which I turned into charm.  All my papery stuff came from a gorgeous Nitwit Collections kit called Thimbles n' Threads. I love all things Nitwit and have done for a long time, Mary Fran is so creative and always comes up with ideas that are just perfect for cards and hybrid papercrafts

The silk ribbon, pompom trim, cluny lace, pin and charm all came from Ribbon Girl

Baby cards ...

My lovely work colleague left us to have a baby last week and this is the card I made her - I need to make another card now as I had a text from her this moring to say she'd had a baby boy today so I will be getting the blue ribbons out :) This is also my Papertake Weekly challenge for this week which is an anything goes challenge with the option of using something metal on your cards - I use pretty pins and baby charms

Papers are from this pretty digital kit

Ribbon, charms and pins from The Ribbon Girl

Fonts from here

... did you join in with the Ribbon Girl birthday blog hop - there is still time to leave a comment on this post to win a prize :)

Cute Cards at Papertake Weekly Challenge

The challenge this week at Papertake Weekly is to create a cute card and this is mine :)

I used one of my favourite little Hanglar boy stamps from my huge stamped image pile, the papers are some of the new My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pads from 3D Jean and the button twine and polka dot button are from the Ribbon Girl. The sentiment was in my latest Hanglar kit but I wanted to use a different font so printed it on my computer onto Safmat

I am also entering my card into:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Free and Easy

Friends ...

There is a new Papertake Weekly challenge today and it's an easy-peasy challenge of Anything Goes with the option of using buttons. I used a new Lili Of The Valley stamp for my card, lovely red polka dot buttons from Ribbon Girl and my new Prismacolor pencils :)