Paper Pad Challenge - Polka Dots

Hello there hope you are all well and warm this wee. I had a lovely evening last night I went to Leicester Square with three friends to Haagen Daaz for some ice scream mmmmm!!! I am just showing you the card I have made for my challenge, The Paper Pad Challenge.  I decided to offer some FREE Polka Dot papers for you to play with. I used some manly colours and some feminine colours so you have a choice of which you would like to use.

 I made this card for some inspiration! I used the Kenny K image I got on my Crafty Weekend Away. It is coloured with flexmarkers. I  added some faux stitching and left it without sentiments and embellishments to give it a fresh and clean feel xxx

The Kenny K Challenge is to Get Dotty so I am entering my card into this challenge xxx

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

Good Vs Evil ...!!

Hello everyone I am a bit late posting again today for the Delicious Doodles Challenge this week. I have been to a taster session with my housing association, run by a company called Aspire who help you set up your own business and I want to go to the course now, right now!!! I will have to wait until the course in November and that is if I get invited.

I have made a card for our challenge theme which is Good Vs Evil in celebration of All Hallows Eve  and All Saints Day. The choice is yours as to what you choose I chose to use Good and Evil for this card. I used Dark Valentine (she is a vampire but reminds me of an angel too.) I used Devil May Care too both from Teri's shop HERE!

I love the song which I took the sentiment from and I used papers from My Craft Studio embellishment Attic CD rom. The images are coloured with copics and promarkers.  I thought it made a great divorce card... !!!

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

All Sparkley at The Crafty Purple Frog

Hi everyone hope you are having a great week. It is half term here and mine has been jam packed this week with wild things happening....!!! 

I had to take my youngest to the A&E department on Saturday as he had respiratory problems he ended up being given steriods and an inhaler regime. We came out of hospital at about 2.00 am so I am still catching up on my sleep... xx 

I also was approached in the street to participate in a market research event which I did but it was all so bizarre. I am not allowed to give away too much and unfortunately will be unable to be in the advert that it was for as the girl I was with mentioned the product prior to us testing it... grrr...!!! Still got enough money to pay for a haircut for me and Georgina and to go Haagen Daaz tomorrow xx

I have been cleaning today so just got around to posting this as it was a big job...!! I have a DT card to share with you that I have made for The Crafty Purple frog Challenge we want to see Sparkle this week. I chose this beautiful decoupage image which will be available on the "Flight of Fancy" this will be released really soon. I added some cosmic shimmer twinkles to the snow and parts of the image but it is not that clear on the photo :0( .

I used some mirri board to add some extra sparkle too. The papers are from the CD rom I added some seam binding, some feathers and embellishments from my stash xxx

I am entering the challenge over at Crafts and Me  Winter blues xxx

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

Paper Pad Challenge - Christmas Carols

Hello well I am a very happy mummy this morning as I have my beautiful Georgina home. She wasn't that impressed with this outward bound trip. It was cold, very wet, rubbish food and no heating in there barn. She did not like her instructor either. He was very boot camp threatning to send them back to London with bruises. I am not impressed by that in the slightest. She has a numb toe too from the mountaineering. Lots of cuddles in order me thinks xxx

I have some FREE papers to give  away over at the Paper Pad Challenge! I decided to make some traditional but contempary papers and thought Christmas Carols would be a great theme. I hope you can join in the fun and grab the freebies xxx

I used "The Holly and The Ivy" as my inspiration. I used two of the FREE papers which I resized to fit a 6" by 6" card blank. I cut them diagnally  and used as my background. I made a rosette using a My Craft Studio Embellishment attic click, print, go CD rom. The rosette topper I designed my self. I added some embellishments from the Christmas Paper Flower Expert click, print, Go CD rom.

I am really looking forward to seeing your designs with my papers.

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

Sweet Pea Stampers - Halloween!

Hi there I hope everyone has had a good week. I have been lonely as my gorgeous daughter Georgina has been on an outward bound trip in the Lake District with her secondary school.  She is back this evening phew I am not sure how much more missing her I could do. She has had lots of fun too by the sounds of things on the school trip blog. Night time hikes, jumping in lakes, mountaineering in hail.... LOL xxx

I have a box to show you all today that I made for my DT piece for Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge! We are celebrating Halloween so we would love to see your Halloween creations too.

I used a template from the Advanced Papercraft Encylopedia CD rom from My Craft Studio to make the box. The paper is a Halloween freebie from my challenge blog  The Paper Pad Challenge. I distressed it with and acrylic paint dauber. I added some seam binding (a fave of mine at the moment) I then added some feathers and made a shrink plastic embellishment with the gorgeous Elaine Cox image available at Sweet Pea Stamps!

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

Sharing some Crafty Weekend Away makes...

Hi everyone I have just had the most AMAZING weekend away thanks to the very lovely A Crafty Weekend organised by the even more lovely Amy and Chris. It was such a fun weekend filled with oodles of laughter  and wonderful people some familiar, but now all familiar. I am revving myself up for our re-union weekend next year already xxx

There were11 crafty girlz crafting away all weekend ,well nearly all, there was also lots of yummy meals and wine and chocolate and giggles had along the way too. We were given a MAHOOSIVE goodie bag with brilliant products to play with from a number of suppliers (so please go to the tab at the top of my blog to see the sponsors.) Here are a few of the makes that I made. I made some jewellery something I have not done for few months and it has reignited my passion for beads xxx

This first bracelet is one I made to wear out for our pub dinner that we had during the weekend away!!! It is made using the very lovely starter kit we got.

The second bracelet I made for my niece who will be 21 next week. She loves these colours at the moment.

The third bracelet is one I just needed  to make to have a play. I liked the colour combo of the gold with the green.

Here are two cards I made with some of my goodies they are both made using Crafts and Me stamps from my goodie bag. The card bases, the embellishments and the papers were also from my goodie bag.

I coloured in the images with promarkers, copics  and the Flexmarkers that  were kindly donated to A Crafty  weekend  Away by Letraset!!! I have had my arm twisted and  purchased some as they were so amazing to work with I have mainly promarkers in my colouring case but favour the paintbrush effect of the new flexmarkers and the pigmentation is second to none too xxx

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

Delicious Doodles _ Halloween but NO ORANGE

Hiya well I will be on my way to the crafty weekend away now so I am hoping Mr Blogger co-operates with me and posts my card for the Delicious Doodles Challenge which this week has a theme super theme. The theme is to make a Halloween card using "NO ORANGE" !!!

I love black and white so decided to go Monochrome with my card. I used some MME papers and made a couple of rosette flowers with buttons. I coloured the image with Spectrum Noirs. The image is the very lovely In a pumpkin Patch!!!

Come and join in the fun as usual there are prizes to be won and loads of super inspiration xxx

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

One More day to go xxx

Hi there I am just stopping in to show you my DT card for the The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge. The Challenge this week is to show us your Thank you inspired creations. I am very thankful this week to be going on a Crafty weekend Away with some awesome crafty girlies xxx I need this so much as this week emotionally has been very hard. I have had a lot going on that some of you will know about and others won't xxx
I have decided to create this card with one of the beautiful Autumnal sheets available HERE! I love these sheets and it was really really hard to pick one to use.The papers are my own and can be picked up for free over at the paper pad challenge! The flowers are from My craft studio click print go CD rom Paper Flower Expert and I used seam binding for the ribbon embellishment xxx

There are lots of prizes on offer, of your choice from The Crafty Purple Frog so please join in the fun xxx

g soon to be released White Peacock Dryad

oupage Image and Bird Paper from soon to be released CD ***

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

Hello just quickly stopping by to show you one of the freebies you can pick up over at my challenge blog. If you hop over to the Paper Pad Challenge you will find some more to wet your appetite. The theme for this week is Steampunk. I have made a card but not had time to photograph it as this week has again been a hetic one with nursery, secondary school functions and a poorly OH xxx
I will try to post the card later in the week. Please hop over and grab the other freebies and I would love to see your makes xxx

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

Spooky...!!!

Hi another long week here my daughter is very emotional with her DCD and although she did extraordinarily well this week at school getting a certificate, a superheroine cape and a headteacher award she came home every evening in bits and pieces that I had to gently put back together... xxx I am however reading a great book called " The Out of Sync Child" and it is really a great read for me to understand how to make things easier for her. My son also had a blip after a great start to nursery on Friday I had to stay with him xxx

Okay I am late showing you my combined DT card for Delicious Doodles Challenge and the  Paper Pad Challenge Sorry!!!! The Delicious Doodles Challenge is to create something for the Theme "tales of the unexpected" and the Paper Pad Challenge is to create something "Spooky" using my FREE papers!!! 

So my Tale of the Unexpected was to use the super cute "My Cute Kitten" from Delicious Doodles Shop! However my twist was I drew a witches hat onto some metallic card and put it on the little girls head and made the kitten black. So the super cute image became a more spooky Halloween image.

The free papers are from the Paper Pad Challenge I made this easel card which I hope you like xxx

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