Pictures of my boys and I

I went to a Sealed Knot (17th Century Reenactment) party over the weekend and I dressed my sons up, as they looked really really cute, I wanted to share with you a photo of each of them.

Sarah Kay Challenge - Sketch

Yet another card I am not sure about - doing well this week aren't I?! It is my favourite image (along with Rosie's Garden). I have used Laura Ashley backing papers. The lace and ribbon are stash. The flower is a papermania one as is the brad. I feel like it needs something else but I am not sure. I am not going to enter it just yet but wait and see if I can come up with something better.

Blue and White Tilda

This was the card I made for the blue and white tilda challenge on tilda and co and never got round to publishing as it did not quite gel to me. I am still not 100% sure of it. The papers are a mixture of anita's blue christmas, the blue and white Cathy gave me so not sure where it is from. Tilda is the new patchwork dress one, the flowers are prima and the ribbon is papermania.

First of my personal challenge charity cards

This is using a stamped image that I have had in my box for ages, which I love but never had used. I actually painted it up months and months ago, but it got buried.

The paper is papermania, the flower is prima, the jewels and lace are stash. Hope you like x

Whiff of joy blog candy

Inge one of the whiff of joy DT is giving away a precious Whiff of Joy stamp and some of other candy - please nip over and check out her blog x

A Challenge

I have been sorting out my craft box and realise that I have over an inch high pile of images coloured ready to use and an entire box of papers. There are some in there I had completely forgotten about as I have been loving my sarah kay and sweet ebonies so much with K and Co papers. One of my friends is chair of his local rotary club this year, so I have decided that I am going to make a load of cards for him to sell towards his personally charity goal from all of them - so look forward to lots of cards on here that don't belong to a challenge competition. I was talking to my husband last night and showing him some of the magnificent cards on the blogs and how sometimes I feel I can just not compete and feel like mine aren't good enough, so I have decided to make cards again for me and fun not purely as competition entries.

An award

I have received the award from Lynsey (thank you hun).

I would like to pass it on to the other DT Members of ABC

Cathy
Steph
Kerry

and Donna who is sadly leaving us, but look out for an exciting challenge coming up, in which the prize is to join us on the DT.

Amazing Tilda Candy

Angelo is offering the most amazing blog candy on her site, I really hope that I am lucky enough to win. I recommend everyone nips over and views her blog as her cards are fantastic as well.

A Treat

I have just treated myself to 3 of the new stamps from Whiff of Joy -

• Willow with Lantern
• Willow with hot chocolate
• Oakley in bathtub (as he looks just like Edward)

Infact Oakley looks so like Ed I should send some of his madcap pictures to Katharina to use as images!

I can't wait for them to arrive!!!!

Stamping with Sarah Kay Challenge

This is my entry for this weeks Stamping with SarahKay. Please excuse the quality of photo, I think that it is noticable that the dark evenings are drawing in as I cannot seem to get the light right. I think I may invest in a daylight bulb to help with my painting and crafting this winter.

The image is Rose's garden - the number one stamp on my wishlist. Cathy kindly gave me this stamped image. I have used K and Co papers to follow the sketch and added prima flowers, with glitterglue holding small pearlised beads in the centre. The lace is from my stash as is the dark green card backing. I have fauxed stitched the elements too to tie in with the lace. I hope that you like it x

abc - gift

I was stuck with this theme so my friend who glass paints Paula, offered to give me a hand and this is what we came up with a photo frame. The little boy is my youngest when he was only a few days old and is one of my favourite photo's. I hope you like it x

Edwards Birthday card for Beth - cute card thursday

Cathy's youngest Daughter Beth is 2 on thursday and Edward has made this card for her raiding my scrapbox so I am sorry but I cannot begin to tell you what paper is what! The ribbon and name tag I had made ready for my own card for her but he pinched them straight away as witht he prima flowers - so I need to start my own card for her again. Tilda has been coloured with felttips, unfortunately no embossed papers were used so I cannot enter it into the tilda and co challenge! I hope she likes it!

eta - I have entered this in the Cute Card Thursday Competition which is pink this week as I think it qualifies beautifully!

The sketch with Sarah Kay that wasn't - a card of disastors

This was meant to be my entry into the sketch with Sarah kay, then I realised I had the elements the wrong way round - doh and I had already stuck them down! I then decided to use this sugar nellie image on the card instead only to finish the card and notice there is a smug on her hand - I can't win at all. So a card that started off nice and went pear shaped!

Tilda and Co - Embossing

Ok I decided to try something different and not use any faux stitching although my hands were desperate to get my cutterbee bugs out. Tilda is green purely because I still had my green papers out from trying to decide what to use for the Sarah Kay challenge! All the papers are K and Co which I adore at the moment. The flowers are prima and I have added a little gem on them. The sticker motive is stash hope you like x

Sarah Kay Challenge - Purple and Green

I should say thank you to my best friend Cathy for this card as most of it was made with RAKs from her. The base of the card is dark green card from papermill, which I have also used to mount the image. The backing paper is papermania from their amythest range. The green ribbon is a bit from my stash which was originally an offcut. The lace ribbon is my favourite at the moment and I wish I had brough more, but it looked nothing in the bundle but I adore it. The swirls were done for me by Cathy on her clutterbug. The flowers and brad are papermania. I have watercolour penciled the image then used my blending pen on it, still not sure about the pen though.

I hope you like x