Birthday Blues!

Here is a birthday card I have made for a male. I find it so difficult to make cards for men becuase I love covering my cards with lots of embellishments (especially pretty flowers!). I had a go and here is what I have come up with. My stamp is one of the cuties from The Greeting Farm (*sigh!* how I love The Greeting Farm stamps!) and he is from the 'my guy Ian' set. I have coloured him with copics and added some sparkly spicas as well (I could not make a card without some form of sparkle!). I used a Martha Stewart punch-around-the-page for my background paper and added some metalic 'masculine-looking' brads to the papers as well.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- Anyone For Anya? Recipe challenge; 3 papers, 2 embellishments (I have used brads and ribbon), 1 image 

- Fashionable Stamping Challenges Challenge #14; make it a guy thing
- Stampalot Challenge January Challenge; monochromatic
- Shopping Our Stash Challenge #36; winter blues

Beary Bright!

We are now onto challenge #16 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our theme is "something bright". Now I love bright colours and bling so this was a nice and easy one for me! I have used one of the gorgeous little bears from Hooked On Craft called 'honey bear with flower' and I have coloured him with copics and added a little glitter to his flower. My cute bright flowers are also from Hooked On Craft as is my sentiment on my tag. My swirl is a Magnolia doohickey and I embossed my pink co-ordinations paper with my cuttlebug then added some bling (of course!).


Please join us for our latest challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's bright creations!

Snails In Love!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. It is now time for challenge #15 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and the theme this fortnight is 'try something new'. I recently purchased distress inks and distress re-inkers (I accidently found myself purchasing every colour, but my excuse it that I got them on sale!). I have never tried to colour with distress inks so I thought this challenge was a perfect opportunity to have a go. I actually found it quite difficult to do, but I had fun so i'll definitely keep practicing! My cute stamp is called "two snails on a heart" and is from Hooked On Craft. My gorgeous flowers and leaves are also from Hooked On Craft and are new items! I love the quality of the flowers and these new ones are stunning (especially the flower buds!). My background hearts were cut out with Spellbinders and my birds and small hearts are Martha Stewart punches.
Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'try something new' challenge! Can't wait to see what new things you all come up with!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- The Paper Players. Challenge #77; all you need is love
- Delightful Challenges. Have a heart

Hearts For You!

We are now onto our January challenge for Bizzy Becs Challenges and the theme this month is "anything goes"; how easy is that? For my card I have used another of the beautiful girls from the Gorjuss Stamps range called 'I found my family in a book'. I coloured her with copics and surrounded her with little hearts which were left over cut-outs from my Spellbinders 'heart circles' die. My butterfly border was created using a Martha Stewart 'punch around the page' and my little green butterfly and the swirl are 'Magnolia doo hickey' dies.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- Simon Says Stamp New Something; (My spellbinders 'heart circles' die is new)

- Totally Gorjuss Challenge #112; happy 

- Victorine Stamps. Challenge #24; punch challenge

Happy 96th Birthday Pop!

This friday will be my Grandfather's 96th birthday; happy birthday Pop! I have made a card for him using my Cricut (my pink Cricut of course!). My numbers were cut out using 'Hello Kitty font' cartridge and my background shape was made using 'elegant edges' cartridge. My circle shapes were all cut out with Spellbinders dies and the light blue circle shape was embossed with my Cuttlebug. My birthday sentiment is a free sentiment from Bizzy Becs Store Blog.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Sweet Stamps. Challenge #47; celebrate
- Tip Top Challenge. Challenge #66; anything goes
- Anything Goes Challenge Blog. Challenge #57; the color blue and one other color

Christmas Gingerbread Houses!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

I can't believe it is Christmas day! I hope you are having a wonderful day where you are!


Every year I make gingerbread houses and I would like to share some pictures with you.

Gingerbread ingredients; lots of butter and sugar!:

Mixing together to form the gingerbread dough:

My gingerbread house pieces cut out and baked, then coated in chocolate on one side to make the house stronger:

House stuck together with more chocolate, all ready to decorate!:

Decorating the house (the fun bit!):

I would like to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year!

Much love to everyone xxx

Christmas Telescoping Cards!

Here is some Christmas cards I made using a 'telescoping' card design which is a fun expanding card (I followed a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers for this design). I used a whole heap of gorgoeus Christmas themed stamps from Pink Cat Studio for my cards which are cute and fun to colour too! For my Christmas cards that I give away I like to make the one design and then just change the stamps and colours to save time. I made 14 of these cards!

Hope you like my telescoping cards!

I am entering my cards into the following competitions:

- Charisma Cardz Challenges Week 50; anything goes

- Creative Inspirations. Challenge #143; anything goes

-  My Time To Craft. Challenge #169; winter pals

Here is a couple of pictures of all of my telescopic cards together: