Little Festive Christmas Robins!

Can't believe we are already onto another challenge at Hooked On Craft! Our challenge this month is "Christmas". For my card I have used one of the beautiful stamps from Lili Of The Valley called 'little festive robins' and I have coloured it with copics and added glossy accents to the robins. My stamp and postcard are from Whimsy Stamps and my doily is a die from Cherry Lyn. As always my stunning flowers, buds and holly leaves are from Hooked On Craft.
Come over and join in our 'Christmas' challenge at Hooked On Craft challenges!

Inside of my card:

Purple Christmas!

Hard to believe but I am now starting to make Christmas cards! Wow, the year has flown by! We are onto another challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our challenge this time is 'Christmas - no red or green'. I have made a card for a friend who loves the colour purple, so I have made a nice purple and blue themed card. My image is one of the gorgeous stamps from La-La Land and she is called 'Christmas Elf Marci'. I have coloured Marci with copics and added lots of glitter and glossy accents. My 'wish list' is a stamp from Whimsy Stamps and I embossed it with pretty purple embossing powder. My corners are also from Whimsy Stamps and I cut them out with glitter paper (can't get enough glitter on my cards!). As always my beautiful flowers and rose buds are from the fabulous Hooked On Craft.

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'Christmas - no red or green' challenge!

My card:

Inside of my card (I kept it simple):

Side view of my card:

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- La-La Land Customer Gallery 

- The Crafty Pad Designs. Challenge #194; Christmas is coming

- One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog. Challenge #137; make 1 for Christmas

- Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog. Challenge #77; Christmas in October

- Just Keep On Creating. Challenge #4; anything goes

Trick Or Treat!

Hard to believe it but October is already here and we are now onto another challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges! Our theme this month is "halloween". I love Halloween and all the awesome images and colours! For my card I have used one of the gorgeous images from Saturated Canary and I have coloured her with copics and I added some glossy accents. My banner, spooky house, grave and fence were cut out on my Cricut. My flowers and rosebuds are all from Hooked On Craft and they started off white and I spritzed them with Glimmer Mist to get those 'halloween' colours!

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our Halloween challenge!

My easel card:

 

Close up of the top of my card:

Close up of the bottom of my card:

Side view of my card:

I am entering my card into the following competitions:

 - Simon Says Stamp. Anything goes

- The Corrosive Challenge Blog. Challenge #159, something wicked this way comes! Villians and monsters 

- Craft us Crazy. Challenge #27; Halloween and/or anything goes

 

Happy 30th Birthday!

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges! All the entries were wonderful! Now, onto our new challenge; our theme this month is 'cards for men'. I find making cards for males really challenging becuase I just want to cover everything with glitter and flowers! For my card I decided to not use an image but to make a feature of the sentiment and patterned paper. The bling on my card (I couldnt resist using a little bit of bling!) is from Hooked On Craft.


Please join us over at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'cards for men' challenges!

Here is my card:

Inside of my card:

I sent this card with homemade gingerbread cookies and a matching tag:

Close up of my tag:

Let's Celebrate!

We are now onto our next challenge for Hooked On Craft Challenges and our theme this month is 'let's celebrate'. For my card I have used one of the gorgeous girls from Saturated Canary called 'Lala' and coloured her with copics and added some spicas for sparkle! My bud and bow ribbon, mini bow, gorgeous angel charm and beautiful flowers are all from Hooked On Craft. I cut the corset, lips (on the inside of my card) and tag (on my homemade gingerbread cookies) out using my Cricut.

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'let's celebrate' challenge! Can't wait to see all your creations!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Saturated Canary Challenges. Challenge #22; black and white + one (I have used black, white, pink)
- Simon Says Stamp. Anything goes
 

My card:

Inside of my card:

I sent this card to a friend with some homemade gingerbread cookies and matching tag:

Close up of my cookie tag:

Christmas In July!

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges and congratulations to our winner and top 3! Our challenge this month is "Christmas in July" and I adore Christmas so this was lots of fun for me! I used one of the cute bear stamps from 'Forever Friends' and coloured it with copics and added some glossy accents. My handmade angel charm, snowflake charm and beautiful flowers are all from Hooked On Craft. My butterfly border punch, 'noel' and '25' die cuts are made using Tim Holtz dies, and my sleigh border punch and holly flourish are from Cherry Lyn Designs.


Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'Christmas in July' challenge!

I am entering my card into the following challenge:
- Cheery Lyn Designs. Challenge #35; Christmas in July  

Easter Bunny!

We are now onto challenge #19 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our theme this month is 'Easter'. This can be anything to do with Easter, such as bunnies, eggs, chocolate, chickens. For my Easter card I have used some of the cute digis from Pink Cat Studio; Itty Bitty Betty Bunny Piggyback and Bunny Hugging Egg and I coloured them with copics. All my gorgoeus flowers are from Hooked On Craft. I cut my egg-shaped card out on my Cricut using 'create a critter' cartridge.

Here is the awesome prize on offer this month:

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our Easter challenge!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Anything goes
- Made Especially For You. Easter card using a digital image
- Paper Sundaes. Challenge #114; happy Easter
- Craft Your Days Away. Challenge #42; Easter
- Aud Sentiments Challenge. Challenge #51; happy Easter
- Charisma Cardz Challenges. Challenge #12; Easter
- Cute Card Thursday. Challenge #210; happy Easter

My Easter egg card:

The egg cracks open to reveal a bunny inside!:

 

 Top of my Easter egg card:

Bottom of my card:

Flower Handbag!

Congratulations to the winners from our last challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges! I just love visiting people's blogs and seeing all the awesome creations. This month at Hooked On Craft Challenges our theme is 'more than one fold'. This is always a fun challenge as I love cards that are different from the norm! For my card I have made a cute little handbag card. All my gorgeous flowers, my sweet little butterfly charm and bling are from Hooked On Craft.

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'more than one fold' challenge! I can't wait to check out everyones designs! 

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge Simon says anything goes!
- Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Challenge #14; text me
- Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge #4; bingo. I have used flowers, polka dots and die cuts
 

My handbag card:

Side view of my hand bag card:

Valentine Hearts!

It is now time for Challenge #17 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and as it is coming up to Valentine's Day our theme is 'hearts'. We want to see all your craft projets that involve love! For my card I have used one of the gorgeous stamps from Hooked On Craft called 'Valentine Bear' and I coloured him with copics and added some glitter to his heart and some glossy accents. All my beautiful flowers, leaves, buds and trinket pin are from Hooked On Craft. 

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Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our Valentine's 'heart' challenge!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge Animal antics
- Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog Challenge #58; love is in the air
- Come And Get It Challenges Love
- Sentimental Sundays Challenge #88; feel the love
- Squiggle Stamps Blog All loved up

My easel-style card:

Close up of the top of my card:

Close up of the bottom of my card:

Side view of my easel card:

 

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

Jingle Bell Ride!

Last month I was thrilled to win a challenge at Try It On Tuesday and i was even more thrilled when they asked me to be a guest designer! Our challenge this time is 'anything goes'! Being the Christmas season I made an easel-style Christmas card featuring one of the gorgeous horses designed by Crissy Armstrong called Jingle Bell Ride. I coloured my stamp with copics and added some glitter for added sparkle. I embossed my tag (on the bottom half of my card) and my background green core-dinations paper with my cuttlebug then I sanded the embossing back to reveal the core of the paper and added bling to the holly leaves. My red background paper was created with a Martha Stewart punch-around-the-page (love Martha Stewart punches they are the best!). My pointsettia flowers are from Hooked On Craft.

Please join us at Try It On Tuesday for our 'anything goes' challenge! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's creations!


I am entering my card into the following competitions:
- Sundays With Crissy. Anything goes
- Stampalot Challenge. Bingo; I have used punch, tags, ribbon
- Bling It On. Christmas

My easel card:

Close up of the top of my card:

Close up of the bottom of my card:

Side view:

Christmas Time!

We are now onto challenge #14 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our challenge this fortnight is "Christmas" so you can enter with any papercraft involving Christmas. I hope everyone is working on all their Chrismas cards! For my card I used a gorgeous Christmas bear stamp from Hooked On Craft and I coloured him with copics and added some glitter to his star. My flowers, holly leaves and bling are also from Hooked On Craft.


Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our Christmas challenge!

 

 

Winter Wonderland In A Snow Globe!

We are now up to challenge #13 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our theme for this fortnight is "winter wonderland". I am so excited that it is nearly Christmas, so I made a Christmas card featuring a snowglobe! My cute stamp is 'reindeer in sleigh' from Hooked On Craft and I coloured him with copics (how cute is he??!!?!!). I cut my snowglobe out using my Cricut and 'christmas cheer' cartridge. Over the top of my globe I cut out transparent paper to give the effect of glass and added some white coloured glitter at the top for 'snow'. My goreous poinsettias, holly leaves, bling, trinket pins, and sweet little snowflake charm are all from Hooked On Craft. I added candy cane stickles to the poinsettias to give them a glittery Christmas feel and I added diamond stickles to the edges of my snowglobe for added sparkle.


Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'winter wonderland' challenge! Can't wait to see everyone's papercrafts!

 

Criss Cross Card!

A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges; your Halloween creations were wonderful! Congratulations to the winner and top 3! We are now onto Challenge #12 and our theme this fortnight is 'something punched'. You can use all your favourite punches (Martha Stewart are my favourites!) and die cuts for this one. For my card I created a 'criss cross' card where the centre pulls out. I found a tutorial for this style card here and thought I would give it a go. For my stamp I used one of the gorgeous birds  from Hooked On Craft and coloured him with copics. I cut the frames behind my stamp out with Spellbinders 'beaded ovals' and embossed one with my cuttlebug and sanded the paper back to highlight the pattern. My punched border is a Martha Stewart punch and I inked the edges of my papers with Distress Ink in 'walnut stain'. All my flowers, leaves, buds and berry head stamens are from Hooked On Craft. They started off white and I coloured all of them with my favourite Glimmer Mist (love, love, love Glimmer Mist!) in 'peacock', 'creme de chocolate', 'dragonfly' and 'dazzling diamonds'. My cute little key charm hanging off my ribbon and my bling are also from Hooked On Craft!


Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges, can't wait to see everyone's punched papercrafts!

I am enterring my card into the following competitions:

- Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog. Challenge #53; Floral frenzy
- CES Challenges. Challenge #61; Roses and ribbons
- Drunken Stampers. Challenge #78; Up in the air
- Dutch Dare Card Challenges. Challenge #138; Punch time
- Cooking It Up With Katie. Challenge #83; Fold some fancy flowers

My criss cross card:

My card with the insert removed:

My insert (where you can stamp a sentiment and write a message):

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Today is the start of Challenge #11 at Hooked On Craft Challenges and the theme this fortnight is 'Halloween'! I am so excied for Halloween and I just adore all the Halloween themed stamps at Hooked On Craft. For my card I have made a spooky graveyard scene! I used my Cricut and 'Happy Hauntings' cartridge to cut out my Frankenstein, graves, and skeleton. My background house was cut out on Cricut as well with my 'Pumpkin Carving' cartridge. I inked my edges with distress ink in 'tea dye' and 'walnut stain' to give it a kind of darker feel.


Please join is at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'Halloween' challenge! Can't wait to see all the fabulous creations!

Hope you get to eat lots of lollies and chocolate today! (Well, at least I will be! At the bottom of this post is a pic of yummy Halloween cupcakes I made!).

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- Secret Crafter. Challenge #158; Spooky or whimsical
- Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge. Challenge #106; Halloween
- Glitter Geeks. Challenge #21; Ghosts and ghoulls. spiders and spooks

Background of my card with a spooky house in the distance! Watch out; that house is number 666!:

Cute little bat bear with glittery wings!:

Wizard cat relaxing on a grave:

Frankenstein!:

Cute ghosts:

Side view of my step-style card:

Here is a pic of some Halloween cupcakes I made too! They have spooky yucky body parts in them like ears, feet, teeth and fingers! Don't worry though, they are made of sugar so I still have all of my limbs! They are white chocolate mud cupcakes with mango icing; yummo!: