Butterfly Background

Another clean and simple for this months challenge at Clearly Besotted - Stamp your own background.  I'm sorry about the bad photo but I can't seem to download the better one and sorry there isn't a link to Clearly Besotted I can't seem to get that to work either today so here it is the long way... http://stampingsharing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/clearly-besotted-challenge-4-stamp-your.html

Seeing Spots

Long time no see! My first challenge card for absolutely ages is for Clearly Besotted Challenge #2 - Seeing Spots. I'm into a more simple style of card at the moment which I think is reflected in this card.

The butterfly stamp and die is from Clearly Besotted and the Happy Birthday die is from Britannia Dies.

Cute Kitties

Today I thought I would share with you one (or seven!) of the things that have been keeping me busy lately. Having lost my beloved cat, Oliver, at aged 18 earlier in the year the house seemed too empty without a cat so in April we had a trip to the local Cats Protection... and came home with Lola who was expecting kittens! A week or two later six little bundles of fluff arrived and for the following ten weeks we watched them grow into beautiful bundles of mischief.  Lola, Lily and Maurice are staying with us and are keeping us on our toes!

Pink Tulips

Two cards in two weeks, i'll give myself a clap ;) This one is for Sketch Saturday #216, I Love Promarkers #125 - Circles and Passion for Promarkers #157 - Ginghams/Checks.

Penny Black Saturday

My first blog post in ages, no excuses I've just been lazy! This card is for the Penny Black Saturday July Challenge which is 'Summertime'. I'm also entering Stampalot July Challenge which is 'Whats your Crafty Passion?' and my favorite thing has to be colouring with my Promarkers.
Flowers, leaves and sentiment Petal Party from Penny Black, coloured with Promarkers. Paper and Candi from Craftwork cards.
If there is still anyone out there still looking at my blog I hope you like my card and fingers crossed there may be some more. :)

Mellow Yellow

One of my favourite colours is yellow, I love everything yellow - daffodils, ducklings, lemons, the sun and of course yellow roses - so I really enjoyed making this card. I'm entering it into two challenges - I Love Promarkers #73 - Clean and Simple and Passion for Promarkers #107 - Tie a Yellow Ribbon.

I've used... Kanban Stamp...Promarkers...Joy Crafts Ribbon.. Papermania gems and card

Enjoy your evening.

xxx Carol xxx

Sunny Monday

Happy Monday everyone, hope you all enjoyed the sunny weekend, we spent quite a lot of time outside and managed to pick up a bit of a tan as well as making headway in the garden.

My card for today is bright and cheery to match the weather! I'm entering it into the following challenges... Colour Create #74 - Fushia, Green & White... I Love Promarkers #72 - Flowers... Digital Tuesday #117 - Flower Power... Stamp Something - July Digi Challenge... Fussy and Fancy #40 - Sketch... Sir Stampalot July Challenge - Anything Goes.

I've used... Some Odd Girl Digi Stamp... Wild Orchid Flowers... Free Magazine Papers... Promarkers... Unknown Digi Ticket... other bits from stash.

Enjoy your day!

xxx Carol xxx

Skateboard Dude

Happy Sunday everyone, hope you've had time to enjoy the glorious weather (could it be too hot!). We (thats a royal 'we' I actually mean hubby) are still slogging away in the garden trying to get this pond sorted but seem to be cursed with leaky pipes. For the sake of my sanity I escaped to make this card for the following challenges -Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #140 - Embossing, I Love Promarkers #71 - Anything goes, Passion for Promarkers #105 - Park Life and Cupcake Crafts #147 -  Sketch.

I've used a another fab freebie digi from Sliekje coloured with PMs. Red cardstock is WRMK embossed  using a Crafts Too folder and green DP is Pebbles inc. Ticket digi stamp was a freebie but I'm not sure were from and sentiment is Papermania.

Enjoy your evening.

xxx Carol xxx

Cute Panda

This cute little panda is a free digi stamp from Sliekje Digi Stamps, he's coloured with Promarkers and printed on Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock, I love using this with my PMs - makes a great change from smooth card stock, the DPs are also Papermania and the green (yes it is green not brown, I seem to be having a real problem with the colour balance on my camera) card is punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges; I ♥ Promarkers #70 - Black, white and one other colour, Truly Scrumptious #59 - Sketch and Digital Tuesday - Get out the gingham.

xxx Carol xxx

WOYWW

This is my first ever participation in Whats on your Workdesk Wednesday. I've noticed quite a few other bloggers at it but as my workdesk is actually my dining table there tends to be very little to see, but I thought I'd share this little collection of yummy goodies that arrived on my doormat yesterday from Sew Sweet a new online shop selling felt, fabric and haberdashery. Although the photo doesn't do them justice the ribbons are all gorgeous pinks, greens, chocolates and crisp white. The little bag is full of zingy orange and yellow buttons which were a little freebie (thank you). Pins are a new thing for me and I'm a little unsure how to use them on my cards so if anyones got any tips?

xxx Carol xxx

Pollycraft Freebie

This gorgeous little bird is one of two new freebies available now at Pollycraft and having found him I just couldn't wait to colour him in and get creating! I'm entering the card into Pollycrafts latest challenge - Ribbons and Flowers and they also have a DT call (you can enter by using one of the free images) which I'm tempted to enter - what do you think? Should I/Shouldn't I? - may have to sleep on it!

Aside from the Pollycraft digi stamp, coloured with PMs obviously, the DP is once again a magazine freebie (I found loads of great papers when I was sorting through my magazines the other day), the lilac card is Bazzill I think and ribbons etc from stash, plus a bit of machine stitching (I must practise going round circles!)

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

xxx Carol xxx

Edited to add - I've been very brave and entered the Pollycraft DT call, wish me luck!

One for the men

Two cards in two days I am on a roll! Todays card was a request from my hubby for him to send to a friend who's into fishing and it fits perfectly with these challenges; I Love Promarkers #69 - Sketch, Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #138 - Male Card, Stamp Something - Something Punched and Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Man or Boy. The paper is from Juunkitz, the stamp from Stamps Happen coloured with Promarkers and border punch is Martha Stuart. Image is cut with a Nesti and the sentiment is from Craftwork cards.

I hope you are all having a good weekend so far, been a bit of a strange day here with beautiful blue sky followed by buckets of rain. Hopefully it will be a better day tomorrow and we can get some sorting out done in the garden, we've been redoing our fish pond and it is taking forever - I think it was about September when we started it and there are still trenches across the lawn - but fingers crossed it will be finished in the next week or so.

Long time no see!

Hello there bet you'd thought I'd gone for good? Well I never went away really, I've been keeping up to date with everyones blogs and I've even made quite a few cards and one or two scrap pages but I've just never got round to posting on my blog - sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day! But now I'm back with a mid year resolution to be a better blogger - *** the housework!!!

For my first card I've used a digi stamp and digi greeting which are both freebies from Doodle Pantry, coloured with Promarkers. The DP is an old magazine freebie and the brown card is from Papermania. The leaves are cut with a Sizzix die and the image is cut with a Nestie. Flowers and gems from stash.

I've entered this card in the following challenges, Passion for Promarkers # 103 - Blue/Brown, Digital Tuesday #114 - In The Garden/Outdoors, Cupcake Craft Challenges #145 - Things with Tails.

Well I hope you all have a 'Tweet' day and I'll be back soon, I hope to post at least once a week from now on (I thought trying for every day may be pushing it, but every week is a lot better than every 6 months!)

Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #26

I'm back today with a Scrapbook page for Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #26 who have a theme of 'Childhood'. I've been trying to do less card making and more scrapbooking lately but all thats happened is that I've done less of everything! When I saw Ella's theme I decided I really should pull my finger out and get something done. I thought this photo of my girls on our recent holiday to the New Forest fitted the challenge perfectly and there was only one choice for the papers - my favourite Basic Grey collection, Archaic. It's one of the few collection packs that I've nearly used up which is strange since I've got girls!

Have a great weekend.
xxx Carol xxx

I'm Back!

After rather a longer absence than I anticipated I am at last back with a challenge card and a few other cards I made last weekend while my hubby was away and I had more time to play. I apologise for the naff photography!

My first card is for 3 challenges;
1. Friday Sketchers #122 - Sketch
2. Crafty Catz #52- Child Birthday plus Sparkle
3. Die Cut Dreams #67 - Teady Bear Birthday

And these are 'just because' cards I did at the weekend.

I also managed to do a Christmas card for each of my girls using some stickers and papers I bought last year from QVC and never used!

I also did a few scrapbook pages which I will share with you another day.

Apologies!

Just a quickie to say sorry for not posting for a while. Basically I've not made anything of note for ages (anything I've started recently turns into bin fodder!) so have nothing to show you and also I have only just got my laptop to link up to the internet properly without lots of turning on/off and a fair bit of bad language.

I'm going down to the New Forest in a few days with DH and the girls and I hope to get lots of fab photos so when I get back I can do some scrapbooking and have a little rest from card making, which will hopefully kick-start my creative mojo.

Enjoy the rest of your week, and I'll see you after my jollies!

xxx Carol xxx

Pollycraft Flash Your Feebies Part 2!

This is my card for part 2 of Pollycrafts 'Flash your Freebies'. Everyone who entered part 1 was sent this fab turtle digi to use in part 2 with the challenge of being 'green' and for entering part 2 you get to choose another free digi, so I'm going straight over to Pollycraft now to browse.... enjoy your Sunday xxx Carol

Two Challenge Cards

I managed to make two cards yesterday for several challenges but run out of time and energy to get them blogged so luckily my router is working this morning!

The first card is for Stamp Something - Digital, Friday Sketchers #111 - Sketch and Mo's Digital Challenge # 40 - Masculine. I've used a Mo's Digital Pencil image coloured with PMs, paper is K&Co, card is WRMK and Bazzill, sentiment is Papermaniaand finished with a few gems.

The second card is for Colour Create #49 - Warm Pinks, Chocolate and White and Pink Elephant Challenge #76 - Brown. For this one I've used an image from Meljen Designs, as always coloured with PMs. Paper is SEIand card is WRMK and gems are Anitas.

The sun is back out today so I'm off for a potter in the garden! enjoy the rest of the day.  xxx Carol

New Challenge Blog & DT call

Sorry for my lack of posts these last few days but I'm having connection problems. Just changed to a 'better' (ha ha) package and guess what, its not better! It took me about an hour to get on line last night, turning the router on and off and restarting the laptop many times so when I did get on all I did was check my emails then went to bed! Only took about ten minutes this morning so a little better but I think I'll leave the laptop on so I don't have to go throught it all again tonight.

Anyway back to the main reason for my post, I've found a new Challenge blog - The Photo Synthesis Challenge - they've got some fab candy up for grabs for spreading the word and also a DT call.



Enjoy the rest of the day and I might see you later if I manage to get anything created.

Promarker Puppy

Todays card is for 2 Promarker challenges.

Passion for Promarkers #60 - Animals
I Love Promarkers #23 - Sketch and Dogs.

Dotty paper is Doodlebug, unknown blue circle paper, both cut with nestabilities. Image is from Pollycraft coloured with PMs and sentiment is one of my own. Ribbon and gems from stash.