A Cutesy Day At The Zoo

Good morning everyone - here's another card I made during my Saturday craftathon. I really do think this Wild Rose Studio stamp is totally adorable :-) Unfortunately the light wasn't great when I was taking the pic so it is a little dark ... but I guess that's winter for you!

I have been entering the Penny Black At Allsorts monthly challenges since they started, and have spotted that they have now opened up the challenges to other makes of stamps ... so I am entering this card for the November challenge. Feels really weird entering a card that doesn't have a Penny Black stamp on it ... but as they allow three entries per challenge I'm sure I'll be back with a PB card before the month is over !! ;-)

Stamps: Wild Rose Studio "Pickle With Sledge";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Dovecraft "Jolly Happy Christmas";

Supplies: gems from The Hobby house; sentiment by Craftwork Cards; ribbon from my stash;

Tools: Cuttlebug "ice crystal" cut 'n' emboss set; Crafts Too "Snowflakes" embossing folder.

Challenges:
Penny Black & More at Allsorts (November) - All Creatures Great & Small

Passion For Promarkers #124 - A Day At The Zoo

Fun With Shapes & More #95 - Animalistic Christmas
CES #60 - Song Or Film
("March of the Penguins")
Charisma #44 - Cutesy!

Card Makin' Mamas #32 - Cut It Out (die cuts)
Cuttlebug Spot - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + bling (3rd entry)

Thanks for looking!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Just a quick post this morning as I'm going to be out and about all day. Yesterday I managed a fairly mega crafting session and made a grand total of 4 cards which is mahoosive for me (yep ... I'm a very slow worker lol!).

This is the first one, which I made to catch the end of two challenges - Wild Orchid Crafts and Sketch and Stash. I know there are those who may say that Santa isn't a teddy bear, but here's what I say ... I don't have much in the way of stamps with an old fashioned Santa on, and in any case when it comes to Santa it's a matter of what you believe lol!! .. and last but not least, if you look very closely you will see that one of the images on my background paper is actually Santa (he is just about disappearing off the edge of the paper, and his little helpers must be hiding behind the other papers  :-)  lol!)

Stamps: Forever Friends Santa bear; LotV Christmas Sentiment Circles;

Media: Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Copics, glamour dust on coat and ground;

Papers: Dovecraft "Jolly Happy Christmas";

Supplies: Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts; Ribbon by Papermania; pearls from The Hobby House.

Challenges:

Wild Orchid Crafts #35 - Santa Claus is Coming To Town!

Really Reasonable Ribbon #35 - Christmas

Sketch & Stash #73 - Sketch

(old stash is the stamp and ribbon, new stash is the flowers)

Gotta dash - enjoy the rest of your weekend :-)

Penny Black Saturday #176 - A Christmas Theme

Hi there, and welcome to aother Penny Black Saturday Challenge. Thanks to everyone who entered last week's challenge - brilliant interpretations of Nat's sketch :-)

This week we are starting the countdown to Christmas, with the first of a month of Christmas-themed challenges. So no excuse not to press ahead with your Chrimbo cards ... and this week we are kicking off with

Silver + Snowflakes

As always you can interpret this however you choose, so long as you use a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of our project if you would like to be entered for this week's prize.

And we have not one but THREE prizes this week for lucky randomly drawn winners.

Firstly - from

One cute stamp each for two winners:

and

and from

this yummy Snowflake ribbon kit



So what are you waiting for? The other ladies on the team have made some beautiful samples this week .. here is my effort.

Stamps: Penny Black "joy hope" (3898F); Snowflake swirl edging by Inkadinkado;

Media: stamps embossed with silver embossing powder;

Papers: Craft Creations;

Supplies: gems, silver ribbon and large sparkly brad from my stash;

Tools: Spellbinders "Make a Flake 2" Shapeabilities; Martha Stewart "eyelet lace" PATP.

Challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Make Your Card Sparkle
Corrosive #136 - With A Flourish

Stamptacular #136 - Borders & Frames

Craft Your Passion #82 - Bingo!

(Punch / Sentiment / Bling)

Stamp With Stampavie #155 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + bling (2nd entry)

Pollycraft Monday #117 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley #19 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz #107 - Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers #1 - Anything Goes
Hope you can join us this week - have a great weekend.

Girly Christmas

After I finished my DT work last night, I managed to make an addtional card with one of the images I pre-coloured last week. I chose this particular image as the colours tied in with some old BasicGrey paper I sought out especially, so that I could enter this fortnight's BasicGrey Challenge!

Stamps: LotV "Shine A Light";

Media: image coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, and decorated with glamour dust;

Papers: BasicGrey "Figgy Pudding" (background snowflake and poinsetta papers); Magnolia (songsheet):

Supplies: sentiment by Craftwork Cards;  flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts (decorated with Stickles); dark red gems from The Hobby House; ribbon from my stash.

Challenges:

By The Cute & Girly (November) - Christmas Girls

I ♥ Promarkers #90 - Glitter & Glitz

Creative Inspirations #136 - Lashings of Sparkle

Crafter's Companion #18 - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

A Gem of A Challenge #33 - Cold & Frosty

ABC Christmas - V is for Vintage

Crafts & Me #59 - Let The Music Move You!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + bling!

BasicGrey #56 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes

That's all for now - thanks for visiting.

Christmas Candy - We have a winner!

Good afternoon all, and thanks so much to everyone who took the time to enter for my Christmas candy. I have spent the last half hour fiddling around with random.org to pick a winner .... I can do that easily enough, but alas I have to say that displaying the selection widget and results online has proven to be too challenging for me, even after googling how to do it as best I can (any advice welcome for future occasions!)

So .... unfortunately you will just have to believe me when I say I used random.org and have generated the following number ....

29

and that's you Tracy!

Congratulations!

Please email me hun to claim your prize within seven days and I will get it in the post to you; otherwise I will draw another winner.

Thanks again for all your entries.

Hugs

Penny Black Saturday #175 - Nat's sketch

Good morning, and welcome to another Penny Black Saturday Challenge. Thanks as always to everyone who entered last week - how adorable were your spooky cards??

We know you all love sketches, so this week we have got a brilliant one from our teamie Nat.

Plenty of scope for you to make some fabulous creations with this one - can't wait to see what you create!

This week's prize for one randomly drawn winner is 4 rolls of ribbon of the winner's choice from Fantastic Ribbons - woo hoo!

Don't forget to be eligible for this yummy prize you need to submit a new piece of work with a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as its main focus.

All the rest of the DT have really rocked this sketch - this is what I did.

Stamps: Penny  Black "Cheesecake Wish" (1652J); Whimsy ticket from "Friendship sentiment tickets" set; sentiment from Penny Black "Party Critters" transparent set;

Media: Copics (fur); Promarkers (flower); stickles on image and flowers;

Papers: ??

Supplies: flowers from Hobbycraft (large rose); Wild Orchid Crafts (cherry blossoms); Sweet Lilac (the rest); lace from The Ribbon  Box; pearls from The Hobby House;

Tools: small, large and lacy circles nestabilities; Marianne D creatables dies LR0130 "Designer Doily" and LR0150 "branch forest"; cuttlebug embossing folder "birds and swirls" (on doily).

Challenges:

Marianne's Design Divas - Dying to Die Cut

Totally Papercrafts #90 - Glitter It!

Simon Says - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Scrapbook Sisters #58 - Anything Goes

Charisma #43 - Anything Goes

Have a great weekend, and hope you can join us this week.

WRS Candy Showcase - and a reminder

I'm currently offering some Christmas candy until midnight Saturday (details of how to enter are here) ... so I thought I would make a card using my version of the adorable Wild Rose Studio Pickle stamp (my candy winner will of course get brand new one!)

I actually coloured a few images from this stamp - he suits both contemporary and traditional colour schemes. Here he is in a vibrant funky colour scheme of lilac and green (made specially for the Ribbon Girl colour challenge !! :-)  ).

Stamps: Wild Rose Studio "Pickle with Sledge"; LotV Christmas Sentiment Circles;

Medium: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; Pickle's hat decorated with Polar White flowersoft mixed with glamour dust;

Papers: Bo Bunny;

Supplies: sparkly gems from The Hobby House; ribbon from my stash;

Tools: Memory Box "Snowflake Border" die from Dies To Die For.

Challenges:

The Ribbon Girl - Jingle All The Way To Christmas!

The Ribbon Girl #12 - Lilac and Green

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Sparkly!

Ooh-La-La #91 - Let It Snow!

Secret Crafter #157 - Wrap Up Warm

Christmas Card Challenge #47 - Recipe: 2 DP's 1 ribbon and a bird

Simon Says - Anything Goes
(with optional use of Bo Bunny)

Here's a close up of my fabulous new Memory Box die - when I bought it last week I also received some little die cuts of others in the range (no doubt to tempt me to further purchases lol!) and they really are amazingly intricate. This pic also tries to capture some of the sparkle of the glitter card ... the whole card is very sparkly but alas the poor light hasn't shown that up at all well.

And talking of candy .... Charmed Cards and Crafts is giving away this absolutely AMAZING mega candy here .... you don't want to miss this!!

They are asking people to follw their blog and link back to one of your own projects where you have coloured an image - well this card shows an image of mine coloured using my latest pens - I'm quite pleased with the blending :-)

That's all for today - hope you will hop over to my candy post and enter. Thanks for visiting. 

A little Christmas Candy

This candy is now closed & a winner has been drawn - thanks to everyone who took the time to enter.

About a month ago I offered a little candy as part of the Oldie But A Goodie blog hop. I wasn't able to select my winner immediately at the end of the blog hop as I was on holiday, but did so in my next OBAG post when I got back.   Unfortunately the prize wasn't claimed ... and I have now left the OBAG DT due to some upcoming family commitments.

So ... I have decided to offer this candy again - it consists of

1 * Wild Rose Studio stamp - Pickle with Sledge

1 * Dovecraft Christmas paper pack

2 * packs of Christmas poinsettas by Sweet Lilac

The rules are quite simple ....

1. Mention my candy on your blog (sidebar is fine) with a link back to this post

2. leave your name in Mr Linky

3. leave a comment and/or become a follower if you like what you see on my blog (but this isn't necessary to be entered in the draw)

I will leave this candy open for 1 week, until midnight GMT on Saturday 29th October.  I will draw a random winner on Sunday 30th October.

Good luck!

Seeing Stars With LotV

After I had finished my DT work on Thursday night, I managed to make a Christmas card with this adorable image that I had coloured earlier - it is one of the two LotV stamps I bought at Port Sunlight

 :-) 

It struck me as being particularly appropriate for this week's Passion For Promarkers challenge theme of Stars, so I piled on the star patterned paper, teeny star gems and these gorgoues little sparkly wooden embellishments I found when I was out shopping in John Lewis (they also had li'l Christmas trees in store, and when i have just been onto their website there are all sorts of other dinky Christmas embellishments on there as well!!)

Stamps: Lili of the Valley "Little Trumpet";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; angel wings and stars dusted with glamour dust;

Papers: Forever Friends Christmas; white pearlescent card embossed with Cuttlebug "Christmas stars" folder;

Supplies: star embellishments from John Lewis; "Joy" charm from The Hobby  House; Papermania teeny star gems; ribbon from my stash.

Challenges:

I used the gorgeous sketch from this fortnight's A Gem of a Challenge #32 (rotated 90 degrees)

Lili of the Valley #117 - Bingo! (Gems / Charms / Emboss)

Charisma #42 - Embossing

Simon Says - Inspired by Rhymes / Fairy Tales

 ("Twinkle Twinkle Little Star")

Passion For Promarkers #122 - Stars

I ♥ ProMarkers #88 - Ain't It Cute!

Top Tip Tuesday #56 - Layer It

ABC Christmas - U is For Unused Stash

(brand new stamp and neglected starry paper)

Totally Gorjuss #103 - Pastel Christmas

Our Creative Corner - Fabulous Faces

Flutterby Wednesday #176 - Open Challenge

 (with fairy, angel or  butterfly)

I really do need to get down to some more serious Christmas card making ... if I could make about 40 more like this I'd be well on the way lol!

Penny Black Saturday #174 - Too Cute To Spook!

Woo hoo! ( or should I say woooooooh!!) It's Saturday, and that means that it's time for another Penny Black Saturday Challenge! Thanks as always to everyone who joined in last week's challenge - adorable entries as always!

It's coming up to that time of year when ghosts and ghoulies are out and about, so we thought we should have a theme to make you hide behind the sofa ... but then we decided to be kind so this week's theme is

Too Cute To Spook!

So it's time to bring out all those cute Hallowe'en stamps and take them over to the dark side lol!

This week's prize is this totally adorable and apt stamp - "Frightful Flight"

Aww!

Don't forget to be eligible for this bundle of cuteness you should submit a new project that features a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stckeroo as its main focus.

The other DT ladies have produced the most adorable selection of not-at-all-scary Hallowe'en cards ... here's mine.

I do struggle a bit with Hallowe'en cards as I don't have a great many supplies (3 stamps to be exact, and no specialist dies or punches) ... so I tend to keep them simple. But as luck would have it, earlier in the year I spotted this scrumptious paper in a nearby craft shop and just knew it would be perfect for a Hallowe'en card - I was well chuffed!! :-) The paper is double sided, so I used the plain side as my outer square and background stamped it with a rather large PB spider's web!  I don't have any Hallowe'en sentiments, but luckily I had this one stamped out from last year, sent to me by the lovely Domi!

Stamps: Penny Black "Witchy Mouse" (2253K), "halloween web" (3902K), "Trick or Treat.." (1906E);

Media: Copics (fur), Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: The Robin's Nest;

Supplies: pearls from The Hobby House; sparkly lace, ribbon and spider's web peel offs from my stash.

Challenges

Sparkles #22 - Hallowe'en

Dream Valley #18 - Hallowe'en

Stamp With Stampavie #154 - Hallowe'en

Allsorts #126 - Hallowe'en

Paper Sundaes #91 - Hallowe'en or Fall

Craft your Days Away #31 - Hallowe'en Colours

PaperPlay #42 - Use Black

Papertake Weekly - Spooky Hues

Hooked on Craft #10 - Something Spooky!

Stampin' For The Weekend #19 - Spooky!

Creative Card Crew - Spooky Fun

Crafty Cardmakers #54 - Cute With A Dark Twist

ABC - B is for Boo

The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that I have managed to find 13 challenges for my card to enter - now that really is spooky! Let's hope it's lucky for some lol!

Hope you can join us this week - have a great weekend!

Sorry to leave :-(

After giving it much thought over the past couple of weeks, I am very sad to report that I have decided to step down from the DT on An Oldie But A Goodie challenge ... I have really enjoyed working with all the lovely ladies on the team and I think it is a brilliant challenge concept; but I have a bit of uncertainty coming up in the next few weeks due to close family health issues, and I'm not sure how much impact that might have on my availability for crafting. That being the case I have decided to scale back my commitments for the time being, so I can concentrate during any craft time I do have available on getting any necessary birthday and Chrimbo cards done, using in quite a few cases (whisper it quietly!!) a few stamps that are less than six months old lol!

I will still be on the DT for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge as that was my first love .... but I will really miss the OBAG girls and wish them all the best with the challenge and their own crafty projects {{{group hug }}}.

That's all for now.
Hugs
Pauline x

Penny Black Saturday #173 - On The Move

Good morning and welcome to another Penny Black Saturday Challenge. Thanks to everyone who rocked our age challenge last week - brilliant entries as always, and don't forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you are a winner.

This week's challenge is

On The Move

Perhaps you will want to show an image that includes transport (cute critter with cars, bicylcles etc!), or perhaps a card with a moving part - or even a New Home card. You can interpret the theme however you want, so long as you include a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of your new project.

This week's prize is an adorable PB stamp from our lovely former teamie Carole, called "Roses on the Run".

The rest of the team have really got moving this week ....do go check out their lovely projects.  I felt as if I w as running along behind as I struggled a bit to work out what I would do (I don't have any cute PB critters in cars or riding bicycles!!). Eventually however I settled on a New Home card, and chose this sweet image of a hedgie peeping out of a plant pot which he has quite clearly moved into lol!  As it so happens a lady I'm friendly with in work moved house last week, so I was able to find a new & good  home for the card straight away :-). It now turns out that our teamie Beth is also getting the key of her new house today - that's either a spooky coincidence or synchronicity lol!

Here's the result of my efforts.

Stamps: Penny Black hedgies from transparent set "hugs"; LotV sentiment circle;

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Prima "Botanical" (includes the sweet little postcard!);

Supplies: flowers by Sweet Lilac and Wild Orchid Crafts; pearls by Wild Orchid Crafts; key charm from Quixotic Paperie; lace and ribbon from my stash;

As you can see, having remembered I had these gorgeous key charms to give Nat the "key of the door" last week, I got on a bit of a roll and decided to give the recipient of this one the key of the new door!!

Challenges

The Paper Shelter #35 - Animals

The Stamp Man - Circle it!

Totally Gorjuss #102 - Bingo! (Lace / Ribbon / Bow)
One Stitch At A Time #83 - Anything Goes

Hope you can join us this week - have a great weekend!