Dottie's World party

Dottie's World are having a week long party with lots of games and prizes to celebrate their relaunch and first birthday. There's some amazing blog candy too which finishes May 31st.

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge No.1

The new challenge blog C.R.A.F.T. has now gone live with our first challenge. There is a fab prize worth at least £50. The challenge is to create something to do with 'new'. It can be new home, marriage, baby, job etc. It's up to you how you interpret the word 'new'.
For my DT card, I've done a new marriage theme.
I've used HOTP dp, wedding stamp I think is Anita's, Heidi Grace swirl stamp, Prima flowers, rosebuds from Wild Orchid Crafts, lace and pearls from stash.

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge starts Thursday, great prize!

The challenges start on Thursday over at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge blog. Hope to see you all there with your entries. The 1st prize is fantastic - worth over £50, so definately worth an entry.

The first sponsor is Just Tracys and the prize is:

A full A4 sheet of the Bonny Baby range of stamps retail value £19.99, 9 sheets Laura Ashley papers 8 x 8, Laura Ashley sticky ribbon pack, Laura Ashley flocked rub-ons, Laura Ashley 3D alphabet stickers, fabric brads and flocked brads, 4 reels of Laura Ashley ribbon. A pack of 6 x 6 LLB Retro Rose Papers. 3 packs of paper flowers in 3 different sizes, a pack of lilac sticky gems, a pack of sticky pearls. 2 packs of dimensionable stickers, a pack of decorative bling, a pack of sugar coated brads, some wooden labels, a wooden mini album and some wooden numbers. To top it off we have a 5 metre reel of 3mm white ribbon and a glue pen.

This whole Prize retails over £50.00

Thanks! and LLB!

Thanks to everyone who has sent me cards and messages after my op. I'm starting to feel a lot better now, and am hoping that no news about the biopsy is good news. I may have to have another op, but I'll face that if and when it happens.

I have been doing some crafting behind the scenes. I've been working with the Laurence Llewelyn Bowen Venaissance range for Trimcraft. I will post some examples of what I've made soon. If you're wondering whether it's worth buying or not, go for it. The papers, ribbons/lace, feathers and beaded tassels are all absolutely gorgeous. You can expect more beaded tassels on future projects as I've fallen in love with them.

Minor Op

I'm in hospital tomorrow for a minor op, so will be back blogging towards the end of the week. I better get to bed as I've got to be up at 5.30am. Speak to you all soon. x

Award!

I've received an award from the lovely Debs. Go and take a look at her blog as she has just been picked for the Allsorts design team. Well done Debs, I'm really pleased for you.

New Challenge Blog C.R.A.F.T. I'm on the DT.

Hi everyone, I want to tell you about a new challenge blog called C.R.A.F.T. Started by Trimcraft forum members, so originally stands for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies but more apt, Can't Remember A Flipping Thing.
This is a new challenge blog open to all crafters out there.
It's a weekly challenge taking place on Thursdays, varying from sketches, shopping lists, colours and many more, from week to week.
You can use any technique you wish, so decoupage, parchment, stamping, embellishments are all welcome (unless the challenge is a specific one). It can be a card, layout, ATC, altered item, anything goes.
The challenge will start running on Thursday, 21st May, 2009.
Tracy is spotlighting the Design Team to let you know a few things about each person, and showcase their work over the next few days, so go check it out. Plus I'm on the DT, so I look forward to seeing everyones creations. There will be prizes most weeks, so see you there on the 21st!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

The challenge this week at Stamptacular is to use a charm on your card, and of course stamping. It's called 'Charmed I'm Sure'. For this challenge I'm entering a card and bookmark set I've made. The bird stamp is by Inkadinkado, stamped with sepia versafine and heat embossed. The corner stamps are by Prima, again embossed. Dp is K&Co, mounted and layered on bazzill card. I've added ribbon, flowers and a pearl charm to embellish. I followed a fab sketch by Karen from Craftbubble.

Cupcake Craft Challenge

The challenge this week at Cupcake Craft Challenge is to add 5 different embellishments to your creation. You can use more than one flower or brad for example, but it will only count once. I'm going to enter a flower tag. The 5 different embellishments are flowers, rik rak ribbon, eyelets, a brad, and a butterfly metal charm. I really enjoyed making this. I cut my own flower out of chipboard, stuck PM flowery paper on, added Prima flowers, a Dovecraft brad and a butterfly on a petal. I punched eyelets into the ends of all the petals and added some rik rak ribbon into one of them. Shaded the ends of the petals with sepia versafine.

Stamp Something Challenge

Before I add my entry to this challenge, in my last post I put that it was my first challenge win. I was wrong, I forgot that I won the Trimcraft ATC challenge ages ago. I'm getting old, my memory is going!
The Stamp Something Challenge is 'Something with Showers or Flowers'. I've made a large card with flowery umbrellas. I stamped some umbrellas all over Anna Griffin dp in black. I then stamped extra umbrellas that I decoupaged onto 2 of them, giving them a curve. The topper is the same stamp, coloured a bit more, layered onto white card stamped with a flower stamp in green, and glittered, then onto brown paper put through the cuttlebug, sanded, then inked in red over the top. Added a ribbon. Card, ribbons, gems and a sentiment 'Under the weather' added on right hand side. This card was done as an experiment really, playing about with different techniques, then all put together.

My First Challenge Win!

I'm thrilled to have won Challenge 18 at The Crafty Pad with my Just Ted pocket card. This is my first challenge win and has made my day.
Debbie at The Crafty Pad has some blog candy up for grabs - the A5 stamp set of Butterflies and Verse. Ends 2nd may.

WOJ/Elisabeth Bell Summer Stamp Kit Candy

Katharina is giving away 2 summer stamp kits. The draw is open till Friday May 1st. I so want to win these.

The Crafty Pad Challenge and One Stop Craft Challenge

I've made this card for 2 challenges. Firstly, the Crafty Pad's Challenge 18. This week it's a recipe, 1 pocket, 2 brads, 1 ribbon. You can also add extra ingredients if you wish, so i added an extra pocket outside and an extra one inside. One Stop Craft Challenge 26 is "Something New" - to do a new technique you've been meaning to try, or a new product or new stamp. The double pocket card with inside pocket is a new technique to me, and also the images of Just Ted are new.
I can't remember the name of the card I used, but the images are Just Ted from Debbie at The Crafty Pad. I've used a brad as the flower in Ted's hand and a brad that doubles up as a ribbon slider. The tag is by Bazzill with another Just ted image. I've added Stickles to the edge of the heart. Inside, I've made a pocket to fit some ribbons to send to a friend.

Awards!!

I've really been neglecting my blog the last couple of weeks, but been so busy with school holidays. Everything should be back to normal soon.
I've received some lovely awards. Firstly from Trimgym who has some really nice projects and tutorials on her blog. Secondly from Trish, who hasn't been blogging for long, but already has some fab cards posted. Last, but not least, from Jude, who has lots of lovely projects on her blog, as well as her own challenge blog here. Thanks to all of you for thinking of my blog for the awards, I'm thrilled. I'm not very good at passing awards on, as there are so many fab blogs out there, so please can all my followers take these awards for their blogs as I really enjoy visiting them all.

Cupcakes

I made this card using a gorgeous freebie download from Funky Fairies. I coloured the cupcake with pro-markers. The chipboard tag is from Trimcraft's Smirk range, attached with a Basic Grey brad. Sentiment and gems are from K & Co. I added Stickles to the sugared pieces on the cupcake and a little yellow ribbon round the base. All on green Bazzill cardstock.
I'm entering it into 3 challenges. Firstly, the Willow Sketchie Challenge on Craftbubble, which was a sketch with a bit of bling (Stickles on sugared pieces). Secondly, Cute Card Thursday, where the challenge is bright creations this week using the colours hot pink, lime, lemon and orange! (You are allowed to use some or all of the colours!) . Then, last but not least, Daring Cardmakers where the dare this week is to put a piece of fruit on your card (the strawberry on top of the cake!)