Kitty arms full of flowers...

Good Afternoon...
Hope you are all well and crafty! I have another WRS card to show you...this time with my favourite stamp from the very first range, this time teamed with new floral papers.
An abundance of blooms, very William Morris.

I matched up the colours with my promarkers, punched lots of flowers and added some small paper ones.


Lots of jewels added to the centres which were sparkling in the sun.

Just a couple of challenges...
Southern Girls Challenge...Flowers
Stamping vacation...Animal Applause...Animals with arms

It has been very mild recently and the kids have been playing outside in the park after school...summers coming!
Please pop back soon as the cards are mounting up on the system...lots of lovely cute images and papers and some more easel cards...a bit of a trend on my craft table at the moment cause they look so special!
TTFN...xxxx

Say Hi to Mia..new WRS cutie.

Hello there...thanks for visiting me and my new friend Mia from Wild Rose Studio.
Isn't she cute and such a party girl! I have had a lovely time stamping and colouring her in an making some Easel cards...

I decided that I really need to get a move on and start making more than one card at a time. They are slightly different, just moved a few elements around...

Ice cream colours this time...darker reds coming later. Lots of prettiness with daisies and sparkly jewels...


and some challenges...
1. Simon Says Stamp....'Anything goes!'
2. Charisma Cardz...'An Easel card'
3. My time to craft...'Jewels'

Have a great Sunday...
Please pop back again soon!
TTFN....XXX

A couple of displays to show...

Good Evening peeps...
My cold is gone now...just a little bit of a sore throat left.
I have been cardmaking and have a few to show you this weekend but first just wanted to share some of the displays that I have been keeping me very busy at school.







World Book Day is in the planning stage and more Pirates...oh yes they ARRGH!!
See you back here soon...xxx

Daffodil delight....

Good Evening all..
I have a head cold so not too much typing for me this evening...I am sneezing all over my laptop! Here is a card order for one of the teachers at school...

Her gran will be 93 later this month and she loves Daffodils. I saw a photo of some stickers in docrafts new magazine and copied them basically using different coloured yellow and gold card. My favourite Penny Black Stamp is this little honey bee.

Finished with some blue gingham ribbon.

The sun was really strong coming through the window...
and here are the challenges...
1. Papertake weekly...Lemon/yellow zingy
2. Stampin for the weekend...Springtime
3. Delightful Sketches...Welcoming Spring
4. Crafty Calendar...Spring
5. Lexis Creations...Flowers
6. Cute card Thursday...Signs of Spring
7. Alphabet challenge...R is for Ribbon
8. Paper crafting journey...Wings
9. Pile it On...Up, Up and away

Last picture for you today...My pancake with yummy maple syrup...

Hope you enjoyed your pancakes today...
Back soon, cold free!
TTFN...xxxxx

Just hanging in the blossom tree...

Hi there...
I have had an inset day today so I spent a nice few hours in my craftroom and the sun was shining! Playing with another Wild Rose Studio stamp...this time it's the kitten's turn.
The background paper is from the new 2011 Cherry Cupcake range and goes perfectly with this image of the kitten and his little bird friend...

Even though this stamp is from last years range, all of Dulcie's paper pads co-ordinate with each other and the new gingham pack is just what we have been waiting for! I have been using my new little jewel wheel quite a lot as I love seeing them in the centre of flowers.

The sentiment is taken from a special cat greeting stamp set, also from WRS so you always have a special cat saying to go with the cat images.

Some challenges...
1. Die Cut Dreams...'Spring Garden scene'
2. Charisma Cardz...'Four legged friends'
3. Creative Belli...'Animals'
Thanks for dropping by ...please visit me again as I have lots more cards and chat and some school displays to show!
Hope you have a good weekend planned.
TTFN...xxx

A doggone great Birthday....

Hello! Hope you are all having a lovely relaxing Sunday...
I have been inking up my new Wild Rose Studio stamps and I have to tell you they are uber cute! Cherry Cupcake will be here soon but first how about this little pup to brighten your day...

I have used my new WRS Gingham paper pad and decided on a traditional Chocolate dog with lovely yellow and lemon flowers and butterflies.

I added little jewels to the flower centres on the image and buttons to the flowers around the card...

The Ribbon is DCWV and the doogie sentiment is also Wild Rose Studio...

and so some challenges...

1. Little Red Wagon...'Animals'
2. CES Challenges...'Flowers and Flutterbys'
3. Flutterby Wednesday...'Anything goes'
4. One Stop craft challenge...'Spring flowers'

Could just do with a drop of yellow sunshine outside as well now...
I'm back to work tomorrow so I guess it will come then!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and come back again soon....xxxx

A Bouquet of spring flowers...

Hello there all...
It hasn't been very Spring like today...more torrential rain with a few minutes of sun. Still practising the CAS (Clean and simple) look. This time I punched out lots of little daisies from some off cuts and used little gems in the centres.

I hand drew the stems and leaves and coloured them in with a leaf green promarker then made a vase for them to to be displayed in.

Please excuse the wet glue showing...I really wanted to get it photographed.

A touch of white organza ribbon and then mounted onto a white card...very simple but I really like this one.
Some Challenges...
1. Stamping Vacation...CAS Challenge...Flowers.
2. One Stop challenge...Spring Flowers
3. Wags'n Whiskers...Use a punch
Off to do a little bit more crafting now, just a few finishing touches and then a tidy up before 'Take Me Out' starts...
Have a great Saturday Night!

A Spring Walk...

Good morning peeps...
Well, after a lovely sunny day yesterday that was spent out with my girlies and a friend and her children, doing a bit of shopping and a bit of lunching...it is raining again! So good job I had begun to make some cards with spring themes. This is a digi image from the Digistamp Boutique called 'A Spring walk'.

..the background paper is printed off from the Wild Rose Studio Spring CD and the image is coloured in with my Promarkers. I have just begun to run out of my pastel colours so I spent a few pennies this week and am waiting for some new colours to arrive!

and a card is never really finished without a swish of ribbon!
Some challenges...
1. Simply Create...'Bold and Bright'
2. Allsorts...'Inspired by Nature'
3. Crafts and Me...'Spread your wings'
4. Paper crafting journey...'Anything Goes'
5. Really reasonable ribbon...'Spring Theme'

I have a few more display things for work to finish off today and this week I have also worked on some cards and tags for a friends recruitment company...a week off is never really a week off is it?
I'll be back soon with more cards and chat. Thanks for popping by...xxx

Grrr...Dinosaur!

Hello all...
It's half term so I am getting in lots of cardmaking and finishing off some school display work...and yesterday we went to see 'Gnomeo and Juliet'.
I am still making some boys cards as I really needed some in my stock.
This is a great digi image but I must confess I don't remember where I got it from!

Coloured with promarkers and cut out then layered. The patterned paper is DCWV.
I have a Mothers Day Pamper evening at a local Nursery school coming up and I seem to recall selling lots of childrens cards last year especially dinosaurs and pirates.

Finished off with a few buttons...
Some challenges..
1. Passion for promarkers...'One for the boys'
2. Easy craft projects...'Something for the boys'
3. Crafty catz weekly...'One for the boys'
4. Craft your passion...'A Male project'
5. One Stitch at a time...'No Square cards'
6. Pixie Dust Studio...'Don't be square'

Hope you are all having a good week! See you back here soon, I hope!
TTFN..xxx

I was tagged....

Hi all...
I was tagged in the week...sorry it has taken so long to post it up..I find it so difficult to decide who to pass them on to.

1. You have been tagged...Do you want to accept? I sure do!
Create a post on your blog and post the blog photo.

2. Link back to the person who gave you the award...Thank you Racheal!

3. Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs and link these in your post and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.

As the aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light try not to tag people with thousands of followers.

Right so the tricky part was that I had to trawl around as quite a few of you have already received this award....but here are the lovely ladies I would like to pas this on to....
1. Mandy at crafty-angel.blogspot.com

2. Jacky at scrappyjackylive.blogspot.com

3. Lucy at hedgehogsandladybirds.blogspot.com

I'll be back soon with some more cards and chat!
TTFN...xxxxx

Going around in circles...

Hello there peeps...
I needed some boys cards in my stock so here is a new one...using a digi image from the Digistamp boutique..

Coloured with promarkers. Circle paper is DCWV. Buttons from Stash.

This fits in with a couple of challenges..
My time to craft...Going round in Circles....Paper, buttons and sentiment!
Stamping vacations No! No! challenge...No Flowers!

Half term next week so I'm hoping to start some Mothers day and Easter cards.
Also got a new DT package from Wild Rose Studio with a new beautiful Gingham paper pack...so watch out for those being used!
Spring is on the way...we had lots of sunshine today and it was warm enough to have the outside classroom door open...Wonderful!
I got a lovely blog award today and will post it up tomorrow in a separate post once I have sorted out who to pass it onto...
Thanks for dropping by...xxxx

A New Home card.....

Good Morning all...
Well, I didn't find any time this week to make any cards and the ones I made last weekend sat waiting to be photographed but with the gloomy weather we have had..it has been too dark before work and too dark by the time I got home.
Any how as you can see from my Award...I made the top 5 at Cupcake Crafts! The theme was old McDonald had a farm and I used a very cute Penny Black Stamp with the chubby little pony! Thank you Ladies!

So I do have a card...taken under a side lamp, the flash on my camera kept going off so the close ups were not possible but you get the idea.
No colouring in this time...just stamped the image and distressed the card with chalk...
I love this new Home stamp from Crafty Individuals..

I made it for a work colleague for her daughter. I used some Wild Rose Studio backing paper from the Spring CD...which has a lovely colour and pattern selection.

Finished with flowers and skeleton leaves...
I haven't had time to look through any challenges...anyone seen any that would fit?
Can't decide whether to go out shopping today...weather seems ok at the moment!
Come back soon and check out some more card and chat...

Love....forever growing!

Evening ladies...
Not sure why, but for some reason I have made another Love/Valentines card.

I've used lots of little punched hearts in reds and pinks and made them into the shape of a tree...just added a brown tree trunk.

The letter tiles are from K&Co. I'm sort of going a bit folky and rustic...I like it!

The Challenges as you would expect are all love based.

1. Papertake weekly...'Have a heart'
2. A spoon full of sugar...'Let's see some love'
3. Oldie but a goodie...'Have a heart'
4. Cupcake craft...'Seeing Red'
5. Allsorts...'It must be Love'
6. Crafty Calendar...'Love'
7. The Crafty Pad...'Love is in the air'

I'm amazed these photos came out...I took them early in the morning again, underneath a side lamp in the living room!
I have lots of work to do this evening...cutting out letters for the displays at school and laminating.
Thanks for popping by to see my card.
TTFN..xxxxx