Just Magnolia & Hanglar Stanglar challenge ...

I always get excited when someone asks me to be a guest designer for their Design Team, even more so when it involves making really pretty things. Today I am one of the guest designers for Just Magnolia & Hanglar Stanglar challenge blog and the other guest designer is someone I know very well - my Mum! and we're sponsoring the challenge too with our regular prize sponsorship from the Ribbon Girl. The challenge this week is to create a card using doilies.

The tulle, ricrac, lace and pearl swirls are all from Ribbon Girl and I added little dots of liquid pearls on her ears and shoes to represent ear rings and buttons also from Ribbon Girl.

The gorgeous papers - and they are really gorgeous! - are from 3D Jean, I added a Papertrey Ink doilie die cut and the sentiment stamp is from Whimsy I think (I'm not sure about this though)

Thank you Just Magnolia & Hanglar Stanglar - I loved making my card for you and now I'm off to prepare for even more excitement because tomorrow morning I am teaching my first card class - so I am both excited and absolutley terrified at the same time!!

Beep Beep Beep ...

I love making shaped cards and when I saw the newest Nitwit Collections kit I knew that those diggers and trucks had to be made into shaped birthday cards for a few little boys that I know

I just used the Diggers 'n Dozers kit and added some stripey buttons from Ribbon Girl and numbers cut with Papertrey Ink number dies

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge ...

It is the 16th Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge today and the colours are pink, brown and cream.  If you would like to win this selection of loveliness together with a £10 voucher to spend at Lili Of The Valley then pop over to the Ribbon Girl blog and check out the challenge

This is my card, I used a gorgeous, new to me, Magnolia stamp together with lots of lace, silk ribbon, tulle and hat pins all from Ribbon Girl. The paper is Making Memories I think and is old but seemed to work well with this little Tilda

I am also entering this into Deep Ocean (pink and brown) challenge and Die-ing For A Challenge (anything goes with a die cut)

Short and sweet today, have to go and do a stack of school work ready for the new term starting tomorrow

Andrea xx

Minnie Mouse Birthday Card ...

February is a busy month for birthdays in our family and today's card is for little Faye who will be 2 tomorrow, she is having a Minnie Mouse birthday cake so I thought I would make her a Minnie Mouse card to go with it

I made the mouse shape with different nestabilities circle dies, the number 2 is a Papertrey Ink die and the ribbon, ricrac and crystal swirls are from Ribbon Girl

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

Playing with paper pieces ...

Over at The Ribbon Girl blog we have a fabulous joint giveaway from the Ribbon Girl shop and my lovely friend Jacque Larsen. Jacque creates fabulous paper pieces for digital scrapbooking, cardmaking and crafting.  I spent a very happy couple of years on Jacque's Creative Team and I had fun this last few weeks playing with some of her newer stuff. Jacque is looking for new cardmakers and crafters to join her Creative Team so check out the Ribbon Girl blog to find out more and enter the giveaway to win $20 giftcard to spend in Jacque's online store and a huge pile of ribbons, trims and embellishments from the Ribbon Girl online shop simply by leaving a comment

I had fun playing with paper:

10 Things number doodles by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Copics, sentiment stamp and kraft cardstock

Sunday Morning element pack by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Saddlestitch ribbon, charms and pins from Ribbon Girl

My Stick Family doodle pack by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Ribbon, twine and star charm from Ribbon Girl

My Stick Family doodle pack by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Ribbon and charm from Ribbon Girl

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

Ribbon Girl Pink and Blue Colour Challenge ...

Over at the Ribbon Girl blog there is a new colour challenge of Pink and Blue

We are sponsored as usual by the lovely girls at Lili Of The Valley

... and with a gorgeous prize from the Ribbon Girl

This is the card I created for the challenge, it's another of my mini cards and will be 'winging' its way (ha ha!) to a special friend for their birthday this week

Wool felt, pins, cluny lace, twine and Zva crystal swirl all from Ribbon Girl

Paper - Cosmo Cricket

Dies - Sizzix and Papertrey

Sentiment stamp - Papertrey

Embossing folder - Cuttlebug

Kraft cardstock, sewing machine and ink

I'm Lovin' It ...

I have been so excited today because I am one of the Guest Designers at Lili's Little Fairies challenge blog today and my Mam is the other Guest Designer! The Ribbon Girl is sponsoring the challenge as we do every month and the lovely girls at LLF asked us both to create a card for their challenge.  The new challenge that went live this morning is nice and easy - use your favourite Lili Of The Valley stamp.

I knew straight away which stamp I would use for my card, I love to use it as it always makes my cards look happy and cheerful, her hair reminds me of mine and that cutie patootie doggie looks just like my Haggis!

Those gorgeous papers are October Afternoon Sidewalk (a birthday present from my lovely friend) and I used ribbon, button and pins from the Ribbon Girl, tag and sentiment stamp from Papertrey Ink and dies from Spellbinders and MFT

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

Sweet Baby ...

The challenge for Just Magnolia and Hanglar challenge is to create a card using white plus one colour and I chose Lilac for my accent colour.

Papers are Melissa Francis, seam binding, lace and crystal swirl are from Ribbon Girl, tag die and sentiment stamp is from Papertrey and I attached the tag with a tiny safety pin that I've had in my supplies for years and years. Little Hanglar is coloured with Copics and extra sparkle on her wings is stickles.

Hopefully my post published when it was meant to as I am out celebrating my birthday with my crafty friends :)

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)

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge ...

The new colour challenge at the Ribbon Girl blog is red, black and cream as chosen by Vicky.

This is the card and box that I made, it's another tiny 4 inch card

I used:

Digital Papers - Joy To The World by Kristin Cronin Barrow at Sweet Shoppe Designs

German Glass Glitter - 3DJean

Laces, ribbons, pins, Zva crystal swirl and button twine - Ribbon Girl

Sentiment, kraft cardstock and tag die - Papertrey Ink

Distress Ink - Ranger

The challenge is sponsored by Lili Of The Valley and Ribbon Girl so well worth entering