To Someone Extra Special

Hi all
I hope you all have had a good week. What a day yesterday with the weather I don't think it stopped raining all day.. plus we had snow.
For Christmas I was lucky enough to receive Tim Holtz stamping platform, and I have been having a play with it using my Altenew layering stamps.
This is the first card I created using the beautiful day stamp set.

 A very simple and clean card using a variety of purple inks. I added some glossy accents as pearl drops and the sentiment is from Phill Martins chalkboard collection.

Well I am another year older today... although I still feel 21 lol... 
Yesterday I celebrated with the family and we all went out for a lovely lunch. I met my friend for lunch today it was great to see her and catch up.

I am entering this card in the following challenges
MAWTT- # 63 CAS
Cardz 4 galz - # 63 anything but square
lil patch of crafty friends # 74 ATG
seize the birthday - ATG

Snowflake Flurry

Hi Everyone

Are you all set for Christmas - are all your cards done yet?
Not long now until the big day. Another Christmas card for today's post .

I masked off the wavy middle and stamped a selection of Phill Martin's snowflake stamps in a variety of blue colours. I  used a WOW embossing powder randomly over the snowflakes I can't remember which embossing powder it was but it is a sparkly one. The wavy sentiment is from Apple Blossom All Occasion Collection - Wavy sentiment stamp set.
I completed the card with some bling in the middle of some of the snowflakes and added matting and layering.
A flat card that is perfect for posting and great for batch making and I created them in purple too.  

I hope you all have a great week and thanks for taking the time to stop by at this busy time of the year. 
I am entering the card in the following challenges:
Lets Craft and Create # 132 -Anything Christmas
Christmas at sweet stampin challenge Anything Christmas
Christmas cards all year round- ATG
CHNC challenge 364
Allsorts challenge week 46 - Cold & Frosty Colours

Bauble Mask

Hi Fellow Crafters
Wow the weeks are just flying by.. we are now into September.
I need to get cracking on my Christmas cards. .. Here is this weeks offering.

Just a quick blog this week.
A mixture of stamps from my stash and a xmas bauble mask, teamed with Tim Holtz distress inks.
I think I may add bow to the top of the bauble it seems to be lacking something.. but a quick card to do. I may create another one and bling it up more..

Take care until next time and have a good week.
I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:
christmas card challenge #20
Crafting With Friends Challenge 49
avenue 613 challenge 201anything goes

Altenew- Best Wishes

Hi All

I hope you all had a great weekend my husband mowed the lawn on Saturday.  It was a good job he did as it rained all day yesterday and then we are back to sunny skies today, what a mixture of weather we do have here in the UK.
We had to take one of our cats to the vet as he came home limping. Were not sure what he has done the vet said it was his elbow area, it is all swollen. Anyway he is on painkillers and bed rest -if there is such a term for a cat.
 Anyway on to today's card  which is just clean and simple.
I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then teamed this up with the Peony stamp from Altenew - A beautiful day, using Tim Holtz distress inks in various shades of pink.
The rest of the card is just matting a layering using SW double pierced dies  and is completed with pearls in each corner.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
I have entered this card in the challenges below
crafting with an attitude - ATG
the crafty addicts - challenge-34 - CAS/ATG
cards in envy - keep it simple

Lighthouse Porthole

Hi All

I made this card for my daughter's boyfriend.  His birthday is tomorrow.

 I dug out my old Kanban stamps and decided on this light house on,  along with some  papers found in my crafty stash.
I created a water colour effect using Tim Holtz distress inks with weathered wood and salty ocean and then I stamped the image over the top.
I created the 'port hole' effect by using two of my SB circle dies in dark blue card.
The sentiment is from CE cut out with a Justrite die.

Thanks for stopping by.
I have entered this card in the following challenges:
simon says monday challenge - transport
addicted to stamps - 229 clean and simple
Moving along with the times- for a man

Warmest Wishes

Hi Everyone

I hope you all had a good week.

I made this card with an older Creative Expression stamp - the fantail dress  I still adore this stamp.
 I coloured it in with pinks/lilacs from Tim Holtz distress inks I mixed them together to create my own colour.
I made a frame from SW noble dies. I used SW complete Camellia die and inked through them while the card was still in the die and seated it on ribbon.
I finished the card with pearls.

We  collected our daughters from Heathrow on Saturday evening as they arrived home from Iceland.They had a wonderful time, they went on the trip to see the northern lights  unfortunately they were not visible. But they went on other trips and they really enjoyed the blue lagoon.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
crafting from the heart challenge 43
brown sugar challenge 233 anything goes
Crafting with Friends- challenge 34

Snow Globe Penguins

Hi Crafty Friends 

Here is today's card, the penguins from Hobby Art -Poles apart stamp set.. a wonderful set.

 Aren't these penguins so cute...
I started by stamping the image in Watering can Archival ink which I embossed with clear embossing powder. I coloured the image with my promarkers. I have a snow globe mask which I placed over my image and embossed. I then hand cut the snow globe out.I masked off the penguins and created a snowy scene by using two different sizes of polkda dot masks. I inked through them with tumbled glass disagree ink.
For the sentiment I used one of Phil Martins stamps and curved it to fit into the bottom of the snow globe. I heat embossed in clear then coloured over with ink which makes it pop.
For the background I embossed a piece of white card with a snowflake mask then added versamark to the embossed snowflakes which I covered with clear embossing powder. I think you can see the shine in the photos.
I then created a frame from dark blue card.




Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
I have entered this card in the following challenges
all sorts feature a creature
crafting from the heart ~challenge 35
craft your passion ~ anything goes ch 338

From my craft stash...

Good Morning 

This card was created from me playing with my distress inks.
I was using them as a wash on some cardstock - I can't even remember the colours as I was using as it was a while ago, Once it was dry it was relegated to my odds and ends box.
 (We all have one of those!!).
Well mine is overflowing so I decided I had to use some bits up. The aperture (also from the box) happened to fall on top of the colour wash card, so all I had to do was decide which stamp to use ..  this one from Kanban.

I completed the card with some ribbon.
A quick and simple card ... now what else is in my box...... lol

Thanks for stopping by..
have a great week.
I have entered this card in the following challenges
alphabet challenge -q for quick
Stamping Sensations - autumn
penny black at allsorts - Autumn

Spirelli mask

Hi bloggers

 I started this card with the background I used light blue foundations card and used the Stamps Away Spirelli mask and spread CE Polar White texture paste through it. Once dry I mounted a piece of white card over the top out of which I had cut SW Noble die- Ornate Pierced Design I mounted this on to light blue card.

 The stamp I used is CE Regal Blossom inner frame which co-ordinates with the Heraldic die and the sentiment is from John Lockwood's Daisy set. I heat embossed with CS silver detail embossing powder.

 The flowers are die cut from Heartfelt Creations and  I inked through  the die and then I added glue and sprinkled CS  Glacier ice and and finished with a handmade bow.
This was all mounted onto white card which is embossed with CE quilted flower folder.

Thanks for popping by.
I have entered this card in the following challenges:
penny black - anything goes with a stamp
Stamping Sensations - stamp and ribbons
crafting with dragonflies - # 62challenge anything goes
abc challenge L for lots of Layers
Crafting from the heart - anything goes

Altenew Parchment Flowers

Hi Bloggers

Here is todays card
I have combined the Altenew Stamp Beautiful Day with parchment.

I stamped the outline image and heat embossed it with CE detailed white embossing powder. I then embossed the flowers and coloured them with a combination of peach/orange inks. Once dry I fussy cut each flower.
The back ground is from two of SW embossing folders which is mounted on to a piece of white card that I put Graceful Peach gilding wax on from Phil Martin.

The stamped sentiment is from the Altenew set.
I finished it off with a black ribbon bow from my stash.

I have entered this card in the following challenges
altenew blog - June inspiration
cardz4galz challenge-24-summer-fun
penny black -June -flower power

Father's Day

Hi Everyone

As Father's Day is just around the corner I thought I would share this card with you.

It was quick and easy to do.
I stamped the mini from Stamps Away on to a piece of milk coloured card with black Archival and embossed it, and cut it out with a Spellbinders rectangle die.
I matted it on to some card from my stash and added the sentiment which I stamped on some scrap paper I had.

I have entered this card in the following challenges
crafty calendar challenge.-fathers day or male

Glitter n sparkle - fathers day

Green butterfly

Hi all
A quick post today as I am feeling under the weather, I hope it doesn't turn into anything worse.

I had a great day at Ally Pally yesterday meeting the creative expressions team they are great people and the samples were wonderful.  I also bought the Groovi starter kit  from Clarity - I just hope I will be able to do it!!!

On to today's card green for my Mum as it was her favourite colour, who sadly passed away 13 years ago.

 For the background I've inked through the floral mask with a distress ink  then embossed with the CE star swirls classic adorned noble die in green and backed it with white, which I glittered with ice snow.
The happy birthday was from a mask and I used Glitzcraft silver embossing paste through it and cut it out with a Justrite die and inked through with distress ink.
For the finishing touches I used a Spellbinders butterfly which I gilded too and some CE ribbon finished off with my own hand made dazzler.

Have a great week and thanks for visiting.


I have entered this card in the following challenges:
BSCB #193 anything goes
Crafting with Friends Challenge 18
crafty calendar anything-goes
CDB36

Pink Mini

Hi all

Here is todays offering

This card was first started with the background. I coloured a piece of white card with Spun Sugar Distress ink and then placed a mask (I cannot remember the name) but it is from Ali Reeves That Special Touch of ..
and inked through the mask with a slightly darker pink - again I cannot remember which ones. I was on a roll and created a number of backgrounds at the same time (lol)
 I then stamped the mini from the Stamps Away Pilkington Transport set.
I die cut the white card with the Majestic Labels 25 from Spellbinders  to create a frame for the mini.
I then matted and layered it up as shown,
I really like the way it turned out.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
BSCB-192 - anything goes
lil patch of crafty friends - CHALLENGE #31: ANYTHING GOES
addicted to stamps-Challenge #187 - Make Your Mark
glitter n sparkle - challenge #182 Use A Punch/Die
house of cards add-script-and or-color inspiration

Two fer one

Morning Bloggers

What a  beautiful cold crisp winter morning.
Only a few more weeks until Christmas so I thought I would show you two more Christmas cards.
The are very similar just different colours

 I inked through a holly mask and added Sue Wilson New York collection dies behind the main focal element the stamp is from my stash (it could be DoCrafts) The ribbon is from my stash and I finished the cards by adding CS twinkles ( I think it was the aruora ) around the edge of the card.

Thanks for popping by.
If you have time please let me know which one you prefer ...


I have entered these cards on the following challenges:
Crating with Dragon Flies #48 christmas/add ribbon
BSCB-173
Creative fingers challenge #98
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions anything goes
crafting with friends challenge 11