Teddy Stampers GDT

Good morning

Just a quick post with my Teddy Stampers GDT card because I am off to work shortly.  This fortnight at Teddy Stampers there is a fab sketch and I decided to use this cute Forever Friends stamp which I bought last Christmas but never got round to inking up.  I love traditional Christmas colours but for a change I decided to make a non-traditional Christmas card in Pink & Brown. 

Image ~ Forever Friends

Papers ~ ? from my scrap box

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Challenges

Forever Friends ~ Easel Card

Just Cute Bears ~ Pink and Brown

Aud Sentiments ~ Anything Goes

Tanda Stamps ~ Beautiful Borders

Now off to link the challenges and then i'm off to work.

Have a great weekend!

Christmas Wishes

Good evening

Hope you are all well and having a good weekend.  Chloe is having a sleepover with the Brownies tonight.  She isn't far from home because they are having the sleepover in the village hall which is just round the corner from our house lol!  Chris has been busy entertaining Jamie in the garden and they are now putting foortball stickers in Jamie's world cup album.  Not sure who is having the most fun lol! 

Anyway this meant I had a little crafting time so decided to make another Christmas card so I could use my new Memorybox papers that I bought from Crafty Emma's Store (link in sidebar). 

Image ~ LOTV 'Christmas Candle'

Papers ~ Memorybox 'Spiceberry'

Flowers ~ Prima

Holly Leaves ~ Not sure

Pearl Brad ~ The Hobby House

Pearls & Ribbon ~ Stash

Challenges

LOTV ~ Bev's Sketch

Cupcake Craft ~ 2 Papers, 2 Ribbons and 2 Flowers

ASFOS ~ Christmas in August

Charisma Cardz ~ Die Cuts
The Pink Elephant ~ Ribbon & Sparkles
Crafts and Me ~ Petals & Pearls
Kaboodle Doodles ~ Add a little metal
My Time To Craft ~ Glitter & Glitz
Stampavie and More ~ Christmas in Summer
Stampin' for the Weekend ~ Anything Goes
The Creative Cottage ~ Christmas

PS:  I have added some new items to my Craft Sale Blog

Christmas Angels

Good afternoon

Well the sunshine didn't last :o(  It's wet and windy here today which is typical because we have the week off to go out and about.  Hopefully it might dry out later so we can go to Wells-next-the-Sea for a walk along the beach.  We will definitely have to wrap up warm!

This morning Chris and Jamie were playing racing games on the Playstation and Chloe was on her DS so I had some crafting time :o)  I decided to make a Christmas card ~ think the weather was my inspiration!  In fact once I got going I made two cards and matching tags.  I used some LOTV die cuts which are perfect for making quick and easy cards. 

Image ~ LOTV die cuts

Papers ~ Dovecraft

Pearls ~ Stash

Sentiment ~ Craftwork Cards

Challenges

ABC Christmas ~ Q is for Quick and Easy. 

(I have also done the optional extra which is to

make more than one card using the sketch provided)

Winter Wonderland ~ Tag it!

Bah! Humbug! ~ Angels and Fairies

Lili of the Valley ~ Four seasons (I chose Winter)

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Good morning

For the month of August I am the Guest Designer at Teddy Stampers.  This week the challenge is Teddy Bears' Picnic.  It does not have to be a stamp of teddies around a picnic - it could be a teddy with some food, bringing it to the picnic or it could be a teddy bear doing something after the picnic like fishing or taking a nap under a tree etc. 

When I saw this week's challenge details I immediately thought of the Teddy Bears' Picnic song and that got me thinking back a few years to when my daughter Chloe used to do ballet.  One year when Chloe was about 5 her ballet group put on a show and Chloe and a few of her friends were dressed as teddy bears and they danced to this song.  They were so sweet :o) 

Image ~ Penny Black 'Kickin'

Papers ~ Papermania 'Rose Garden'

Flowers ~ Prima Caboodles, Mulberry Crafts & Wild Orchid Crafts

Butterflies ~ MS Punch

Pearls & pearl sprays ~ Stash

Sentiment ~ Papermania element sticker

Challenges

Sunday Sketch & Stamp ~ Sketch

The Pink Elephant ~ Summer Fun

Creative Card Crew ~ Cute & Girly

ABC ~ A is for August

Charisma Cardz ~ Easel card

One Stop Craft ~ Summer Fun

Tuesday Taggers ~ Sunshine

By the Cute and Girly ~ Animal Antics

Craft Your Days Away ~ Favourite things (Teddies and Flowers)

Flutter By Wednesday's ~ Open theme

Crafty Catz ~ Animals

TGIF!  I am off to work shortly but only until lunchtime today :o)  I am looking forward to tonight and next week.  Tonight I am going out with the girls from work for a meal and a few drinks and next week Chris and I are off work so we are going to spend a few fun filled days with the children :o)  I only work 2 days a week but it's still great to have the whole week off.

Hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you have planned.

PS:  Just in case you are interested I have blog candy here!

'Around the World'

Good morning

It's the first Friday of the month so a new challenge has been set at the Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month we have a fab sketch designed by Laura and the added option is 'Around the World'.  Our GDT's for this month are my daughter, Chloe, and Donna's daughter, Sophie.  If you get time please hop over to their blogs to check out the gorgeous cards they have made ~ I am sure they would appreciate any comments you leave :o) 

Laura's sketch

I have gone with an Hawaiian theme for my card using this cute Fleur Anya image.

Image ~ Fleur Anya

Papers ~ DCWV 'Mango Frost'

Flowers ~ Can't remember (will add later)

Leaves ~ Mulberry Crafts

Ribbon ~ Stash

Gems ~ Prima

Challenges

Quixotic ~ Life's a beach (I can just imagine cute Fleur on the beach in Hawaii)

The Crafty Pad ~ Ribbon & flowers

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Punches

Allsorts ~ Dressing up

Sir Stampalot ~ Bring on the bling

Exciting News Candy!

Good morning

I have some exciting news to share with you today.  There is a new challenge blog starting on Tues 7th Sept and I have been invited to be on the DT.  The challenge is called Oldie But A Goodie and the idea is you have to use a stamped image and the stamp must be at least 6 months old.  I am sure we are all guilty of buying new stamps and neglecting the older stamps in our collection.  I know I am!

The challenges are starting on Tues 7th Sept and will be fortnightly.

There are already 4 DT members but we need a few more people to join us so we are running a DT call from today until 20th August.  The new DT members will be announced on 27th August.  So if you would like to dust off your older stamps and join our team please check out the challenge blog for all the details. 

I am giving away some blog candy to celebrate my new DT position. 

Penny Black 'You are the bestest' slapstick stamp
Papermania 'Summer Bloom' 6 x 6 paper pack
Papermania 'Henbury Lane' A5 paper pack
2 rolls of Anita's Everyday ribbon
Papermania Capsule Collection Petals
Papermania 'Henbury Lane' brads
2 packs of flowers
2 packs of self-adhesive flat beads
Papermania glitter pots

So for you chance to win the above candy all you have to do is:

1)  Add the candy picture and link to this post on your sidebar
2)  Become a follower of Oldie But A Goodie
3)  Enter via Inlinkz below
4)  Check back on 7th September to see if you are the lucky winner.

Crafters Companion GDT Card

Good morning

Today I am showing you my first GDT card for the Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge using one of Bev's fab sketches.  It is not necessary to use Crafters Companion products but you must use an Image from the great range of Crafters Companion CD'/Stamps or any stamps sold on the website (that includes ALL stamps not just Crafters Companion).  As this is a monthly challenge you have plenty of time to enter so hope you can join us.

Here is the sketch

I have just noticed that I didn't follow the sketch exactly (I have a layer missing) but think you can still just about see the original sketch. I had to place the sentiment at the top because there wasn't enough space at the bottom.

Image & Sentiment ~ Crafters Companion Bundle of Joy stamp set 

Papers ~ Craftwork Cards 'Sugar & Spice'(spotty) and

Papermania 'Summer Bloom' (plaid)

Ribbon ~ Stash

Flowers ~ Wild Orchid & Mulberry Crafts

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp ~ Going Dotty

One Stop Craft ~ Patterns (spotty paper)

Secret Crafter ~ Hot Wheels

Paper Play ~ Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations ~ Animals