Simon Says ... CD Sunday Challengexxx

Hi there I am popping in to say hi and to say that I am real proud of my little strawberries today who all participated in their first school sports day and were on the winning relay team I am very proud of them. I am a little sad today as a friend who is like family to me confirmed that she is emigrating in 2 years to Canada. I am really happy for them as a family but boy I will miss her so much and my boys will miss her boys so much xxx

I applied for a website to transfer out of London today as when she goes I will need to be nearer my family. More news on that as we hear it xxx

Okay after all that I have been creating to relax xxx I have been designing on My Craft Studio I love this program as it is a fool proof graphics package and has some great images on the CD roms. I used the gorgeous Countryside Gardens for this project. The big climatus flower is from Paper Flower expert kit as are the leaves and the other flowers are from  strips of backing  paper rolled up. I am entering the project into two challenges Simon Says Stamp Lavender and Lemon and CD Sunday Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Inspired to get out a really old CD rom...

Good Morning hope you are all enjoying this fab weather. We went to Joey's housewarming barbeque on Saturday. It was lovely to catch up and she has a lovely house and Martin is a fantastic barbeque chef.  Hoping to get over to see them lots in the summer. 

I  cannot go out in it too much as I live in London and my chest is tight so have to be careful with the smog. I am sitting by the balcony door writing this on the computer though.

I was watching Jayne Nesterenko on Create and Craft over the weekend and I loved her new release from Crafters Companion the lovely Summer Adorables collection. I dug out my Cute Companions CD rom Summer Stories to make these scrappages I had so much fun and didn't need anything but photo glue, double sided tape, foam pads and some cardstock to make them. I used the Outdoor stories CD rom to make my pages. 

I used photos from our week away in Butlins in Bogner 2009. I hope you like them. I am entering a few challenges today Crafts and me they are looking for stitching on our projects. Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge is Here Comes Summer.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Delicious Doodles _ Cute and Cuddley

Hi there crafters I am just stopping by to tell you about the Delicious Doodles Challenge this week. We have a fab theme for you all  of " Cute and Cuddley" Teri has a lot of cute images over at her store! I chose to use the Baby and Bear image for this baby card.

I used some papers from My Craft Studio Paper Flower Expert Click Print Go Cd rom. I love these bold floral prints so useful. The Floral embellishment is also from the papercraft kit that came with the CD rom. I added a brad to it and a ribbon. I coloured the cute bears with promarkers and copics and I stamped a sentiment.

As always Teri is offering prizes and the DT have some wonderful inspiration so please check out the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

The Crafty Purple Frog - Swirls and Pearls

Hi everyone, I am so quiet and not getting onto the PC much I manage to get on my mobile to see my facebook and that is about it. Jimmy is much better he has been up and about and appears to be healing well. I hope to be more with it next week. xxx

Here is my card for the  Crafty Purple Frog Challenge.

Now onto this week and we have chosen a theme of pearls and swirls. You can have as many or as few pearls and swirls on it as you like as long as their is at least one of each.
And the prizes up for grabs are.....

1st prize is a surprise from (check out the challenge blog for full details)


2nd prize - your choice of 3 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads
3rd prize - your choice of 2 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads
4th prize - your choice of 1 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads





I made the card using Ocean Dance Decoupage available HERE  .
I loved the oriental feel about the image so teamed it with some papers which I think are Dovecraft. They are from my stash so apologies if they aren't. I used some pears and punched flowers to create swirls. I added stickles to the image and to the flowers. The diecut matt is from nellie sneddon.

The DT have once again produced some beautiful cards with this brilliant decoupage and pyrimage so please take a look at their blogs xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Thank You xxx

Hi there I am just a wee bit late posting my Delicious Doodles DT card but you have until Thursday to join us in the  Challenge. Great news too our boss Teri is now selling stamps at Sweet Pea Stamps check out her first plate over there it is magical xxx

I just want to say a huge thank you for all the messages regarding Jimmy and his operation. It is so lovely to have such wonderful support in times like this xxx He is doing really well. He was in surgery for a good 3 hours and recovery for a good 3 hours too xxx He went to a ward that was not the ENT ward but one that deals with renal and urology. So the next day the ENT doctor went home without visiting him. Sunday they did visit him and fortunately he was discharged xxx He is doing well. In the light of some two really tragic pieces of news I have received since Friday I feel truely blessed to have him home xxx

Okay you want to hear about my card right. I made this after watching Debbie Moore on Create and Craft. I knew this image was perfect for this type of card. So I printed out the image as large as I could onto a sheet of A4 card. I did a bit of technical stuff and paperpieced onto the image too. I then coloured with promarkers and copics. I added some stickles to the image too. I then made the card using Debbie Moores hints that she gives on Create and Craft TV.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Operation Day x

Hi Everyone I am scheduling this post as we had to be at the hospital for 7.00am xxx I have left the kids with a friend at 6.30am. I will hopefully be able to let you all know how it went this evening if not then tomorrow xxx

Okay this is my DT card for our great Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge blog! I love this weeks theme of Swirls of Summer because it gives us so much opportunity to get creative. Okay the weather is more like April Showers at the moment but hey the crops and plants need it xxx

For this card I used my new Karen Middleton " Light Yellow" stamp from  Sweet Pea Stamps.  These are just so cute and  such fun to colour. I used AquaMarkers to colour and kept them quite pigmented rather than watered down. I added some stickles to the wings and flowers for a bit of sparkle. The DP's are from two MME kits and the flowers and swirls are cut from my Cricut.

This week we are sponsered by The Crafty Purple Frog  where you can find the most magical Digital Decoupage. 

 We are are really excited this week to be introducing our newest DT members. Welcome girls hope you have lots of fun with us here xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale
Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Another Scrapbook page!

Hi there in a bit of a GRrrrr mood today. Time of the month and a few other things.... IYKWIM xxx I have made this today for my big Princess to cheer her up it is another scrapbook page and I am entering it into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge. They have a bingo on this week I choose Shape,Ribbon,  and Sentiment as my Bingo! 

She had a tough day at school yesterday as she was given two male parts and only 5 lines in the Year 6 school play  and the other children were teasing her. She is the most girlie girl I hang around with and certainly shouldn't be playing one man let alone two xxx Her best school friend got the lead female role (as she does in every production they do).... so she is feeling a bit ropey today xxx

I took this picture about two years ago when we went for a Pizza after going to the British Museum and thought it was lovely for this page. The image and the sentiment and the paper ribbon are from Debbie Moore Crafts "Secret Garden" CD rom. The flower, ribbon and cardstock are from my stash xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Crafts and Me - Bling it up!

Hi there well two days to go until Jim's Operation I am getting nervous for him now xxx I have been busying myself with crafting and I must say mainly scrapbooking. I have made this page in the last two days and I must say it fits the theme over at Crafts and Me perfectly. They want us to "Bling it up".

I have used the wonderful My Craft Studio graphics programme to make this scrapbook page. The CD rom that I used is called Floral Fantasy. 

I created a layout using lots of the fantastic features. I chose this picture of Bradie my youngest daughter and her best friend Elsie. I used the new scissors feature to create the effect of the image being colour and the background black and white. I also  used the part that I cut out to fade into the background to make it unique. I made the frame by  cutting and pasting and turning a floral corner three times. I blinged up the frame with some gems and some stickles I added to the flowers that I added around the frame.

I also made a tag as my journalling.

Bradie is sleeping over at Elsies on Thursday the night before Jim's op so she is going to give her this memory photo of a day out we had in a lovely park in Summer 2010.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Crafts and Me - Use a stamp

Hiya I have been lost for a little while as to how to develop my crafting to maintain my mojo so I made a decision last week to start crafting for me as and when and how I want to get the most fullfillment from it.

I love watching Create and Craft on TV and gain a lot of inspiration from this programme. So inspired by Stephanies Weightmans fab One stroke painting and Sheena Douglas's idea of paint fusion I bit the bullet and today I created an altered notebook using acrylics, gesso and some really old stamps and a few tricks I learnt from the girls xxx

I firstly got the notebook which I have had in my stash for ages and I used a flesh coloured acrylic to coat it. I then mixed my gesso with some  paint and washed over the flesh colour. I then dried with my heat gun. 

I don't own any of the paint fusion stamps but I love the idea of it so having watched the demo's on the telly I created this little layout with my leaf stamps and my THUMB and TOP OF THE PENCIL RUBBER (blackberries). I am loving this one stroke folkart style of painting and must admit it is very addictive.

I used a promarker to create a bit more definition. The Sentiment is stamped in Distress ink which I added to the edges of the notebook too. My First attempt but I am quite chuffed with it x

This is a gift for a teacher who came with me to a paediatric assessment just to thank her for her help xxx

I am entering the Crafts and Me Challenge to stamp something x

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

CES challenge - Saturday Night at the Movies!

Hi there everyone I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Weathers a bit tempramental but never mind love the excuse to stay in and play xxx

I have made a little Scrapbook page again. They are extremely addictive and I think this is going to be my new passion.

I have used this picture of my youngest Daughter. It is one of my all time favourites of her I have cut away the background in my Serif Craft artist programme. I have to say that I have altered this before and did a close up and made it black and white. It is in my living room on the sideboard.

I then thought how could I scrap it. In the real life photo she is in a Swanley Park under a willow tree so it is quite enchanting. She is always asking me "Who is that for?" when I am playing with fairy images. So I decided to add some images and DP from My Craft Studio " Another Walk In Wonderland". I decoupaged up these elements. I made some paper flowers using the DP and sprayed with Crafter's Companion glitter. I also added some stickles.

I am entering the challenge over at CES challenge blog which is " Saturday Night at the movies"!

The movie that inspired this scrapbook page is "Fairy Tale a True Story" (1997). It is all about the Cottingley Fairies remember the ones that the girls photographed in their garden in 1917.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

My first real attempt at a Scrapbook page!

Hello again if you saw my earlier post you will see that I said I would be back with a Scrapbook page yes a scrapbook page. I have always wanted to get into scrapping and have decided to get well and truely hooked as I have oodles of photos on disks and to digitally update so what better excuse then to combine my two real passions Crafting and my precious little family xxx

So the Totally Papercraft girls  want us to use Summer on our creations so I have chosen to do this scrapbook page featuring the Summer of 2009 when our family went to Butlins for a week. Yes my daughter is playing on Bogner Regis Beach and it was 31 degrees every day we really had fantastic weather xxx

I have used this beautiful Decoupage Full Moon Magic from  The Crafty Purple Frog. 
I created the background using Craftartist by Serif and also images from My Craft Studio Papercraft Library 7 Finest Filagree. I created depth by layering the background. So this really is a hybrid Scrapbook page.  Let me know what you think especially if Scrapping is your thing. I would love some useful critique xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Simon says challenge and Crafters Companion challenge

 Hello what a rainy day here in London. My children have an inset day so I was quite sad when I saw the rain. Oh well gave me a chance to create this card for the Simon Says Stamp "Get Fruity" Challenge  I also am entering the monthly Crafters Companion Challenge   which is Here comes Summer xxx

My Humphrey stamps arrived this week and I must coo over them they are so so adorable as is my CD rom xxx You can get yours at Crafters Companion. I used this one as it is what I love to do with friends and family in the summer eat ice cream. Reminds me of our family holidays in the South of France where we used to eat Chocolate Legois which look a lot like this ice cream. I coloured with promarkers and copics and I used DP's from the Humphreys corner CD rom. I made paper flowers from one of the DP's and I made some glace cherries to match the one on the ice cream as a corner embellishment.

I am gonna be back later as I have done a scrapbook page for another challenge. Something I think you will be seeing heaps more of on my blog as I loved doing this one and it suits my current love of hybrid crafting xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Delicious Doodles - Fathers Day

Hi there, well not long now until Fathers Day so we would love to see your creations for Fathers Day this week over at the Delicious Doodles Challenge. It is going to be a rather odd Fathers Day for us as we are going to be visiting Jimmy in the hospital as he will have his operation next Friday to remove the rest of the Cholestema in his ear.

This week we've got a fab sponsor Crafts 4 Eternity

 I have made my card using Cogs and Chain Frame and Vintage Norton MotorBike .
One of my favourite techniques is using digital images in a different way. So I used my graphics program to create a background making the Cogs and Chain Frame into PNG and using it like a digital stamp over my background I created using my My Craft Studio "Men-y Happy Returns" CD rom.

I then made the Vintage Norton Motorbike into a more sepia looking image and decoupaged it up. I hope you enjoy what I have done. This one will be off in the post to my Dad who used to be a biker xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

The Crafty Purple Frog - "Favourite Things"

I hope you are all having a great week. A bit of a washout weatherwise boo but hey lots of time to craft :0) xxx

This week over at The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge we have a lovely new challenge for you all to join in with.
 We have chosen a theme of your favourite things. It can be your favourite colours, embellies, image what ever you are loving right now as long as you let us know what it is it is all good by us.
And the prizes up for grabs are.....

1st prize is from Crafty Emma's Store
2nd prize - your choice of 3 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads
3rd prize - your choice of 2 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads
4th prize - your choice of 1 The Crafty Purple Frog downloads

I have used this gorgeous new Release " Scent of Beauty" available at The Crafty Purple Frog.

My Favourite things are combining lots of techniques, the colours Black, Silver and Purple. I made an aperutre card using a frame from a Hunkydory set. I then created a dangly embellishment using "Scent of Beauty" isn't she just stunning. I made up both decoupage images from the sheet and placed them back to back and dangled them with some jump rings. I added ribbon another of my favourite things and a sentiment also from my Hunkydory kit xxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge - Sketch

Hi there hope you are all having a great weekend. We are chilling today getting ready for the return to school tomorrow xxx I have made this card for the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge! This week they have a brilliant sketch to follow and the chance to be a GDT in July xxx

I have made my card using Little Umbrella which I have coloured in Sepia tones using promarkers and copics. I then used a Websters pages DP which I distressed with brush courdroy distress inks. I mounted Little Umbrella onto a die from Nellie Snedden which again I distressed with distress inks. I added some ribbons and some embellies from my stash.  The sentiment is from a Greeting Farm set.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Delicious Doodles Challenge - Texture

Good Evening, it has been a gorgeous day here in London and we have been on a long walk around a local eco park and then along the Thames River path back home. It is such a joy to be out in this beautiful weather.

Just stopping in to share with you my DT card for the brill Delicious Doodles Challenge. The theme we want to see you use on your creations this week is " Texture" we want to see all your touchy feely projects.

I have made a card using the Vintage Spitfire image from the Delicous Doodles Shop.

I used promarkers and copics to colour the image. I then used a 3D glaze over it to create texture. I also used the glaze on the buttons, the hinges and the sentiment that are all elements I printed using the MCS Papercraft Library 6 "Men-y Happy Returns". 

This weeks winner will be able to choose 5 images of their choice from the shop!!!

 

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Monochromatic Sweetpea's

Hello I hope you are enjoying the sunshine. Here in London it is back hurrah!!! We have to take my youngest daughter to the opticians today to get her eyes tested as she may have uncontrolled movement which is making it hard for her to read. Hoping for some success in answers for that today xxx

Here is my DT card for the Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge! This week one of my favourite themes of Monochromatic tones. I love using limited colour pallettes on cards as it is a challenge to do but the results always work out well.

I chose green for my colour.  I coloured Caron Vinson's blushing rose fairy with promarkers and copics. I added some sakura pen to her wings for some sparkle. I added lots of flowers,ribbon and stickles from my stash. The DP was created using Craftartist by Serif software. The punch is Martha Stewart.

This week our prize is 3 stamps from Sweet Pea Stamps. Lynette has lots of new sheets available and lots of offers so please hop on over I know you will love what you see!

I am entering the challenge over at In a sweet Pea Dream challenge they want to see WINGS on our creations.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale