MY CRAFTY HEAVEN

Winter Wonderland...

2012-01-20T16:20:00.001Z

Hello hope everyone is well I have been busy looking after my poorly Max this week with his chest being full of horrible cold. There are a lot of nasty germs around this January. I also celebrated yesterday another year of getting closer to the big 40 eek that will be next year... !!!

This is my DT card for the brilliant Delicious Doodles Challenge Teri has some amazing images out for release this week so please check out the shop HERE!!

Our theme for the challenge this week is to be inspired by a WInter Wonderland. I chose a frosty morning and the very subtle hues of blue remind me of the ice and the subdued sympathy card reminded me of how we feel on a frosty morning. I created a scene using my My Craft Studio and added some stickles as a frosty glaze.

I coloured the stunning Fallen available in the shop I used copics and promarkers and added some feathers to embellish her.

Have a great week I hope to be back sooner rather than later xxx

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

Delicious Doodles Challenge

2012-01-06T09:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone and a Happy New Year to you all. I have had a bit of a having a little break from blogland and reviewing my committments as my real life has changed and I needed to get myself focused on all that was happening there. I am back and I am hoping to be posting more regulary now and sharing some of my projects I have been doing in the past couple of months.
I am kicking off with this 80's revival inspired card for the brilliant Delicious Doodles Challenge. You must check out the teams cards they are totally amazing. We have a great theme for this challenge as it is the first of the New Year we want to see anything New on your cards. Could be an image, stash, technique it is completely up to you.
I had to use the beautiful new emo Image "I'm no Goth" from the shop she is so beautiful and she reminded me of how I was in the eighties so I used the eighties revival to inspire my card. I used lots of flurescent colours and punked her up with some lace and a safety pin charm. I made the sentiment on my graphics programme and added some funky feathers. The design papers are two I designed last year. She is coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.

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

Hairy Legs anyone!!!

2011-11-26T17:03:00.001Z

Good Evening everyone!!! Life again this week took lots of twists and turns. I was on my business course on Monday and Friday lots of exciting things happening there xxx I was in hospital midweek with my youngest daughter Bradie as she had a meningitus scare. There have been some cases in our area recently so the GP was on red alert. She had a headache for a day or so so I took her to the docs on Tuesday and then on Wednesday morning a non blanching rash appeared on her arm I was really scared so straight to the GP who told me that a school had a case recently so I was to go straight to A&E so we spent the night there and she had two lots of intravenous antibiotics and I had a sleepless Wednesday night. Glad to say she is well again now xxx

So Hairy legs I hear you shout why are you on about that on a card making blog!!! Well as you know my boss Teri over at Delicious Doodles Challenge asked us to set some themes and Ruthie looked at her legs and decided to choose "Hairy Legs" as one I thought it was a great idea. You can choose to interpret it as you wish. It could be Hairy legs on an animal, a man, a women you decide!!!! As always Teri is offering up some great prizes and as long as you follow the rules and the theme you can enter!!!

I chose animal hairy legs and went with the gorgeous image Christmas Stocking Rudolph. I used him 9 times to make all of Santa's reindeer to keep him company I added a sentiment and drew in some string. I coloured with Promarker and copics. I kept the layout very simple as I wanted the focus on the design. I hope you like what I have chosen to do xxx

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

News and the Paper Pad Challenge!

2011-11-19T09:00:00.000Z

Hello Everyone I hope that you are all keeping well there are lots of nasty bug around at the moment and I wouldn't want anyone to have them xxx I am just hopping in to say hi and please check out my free Christmas papers over at my Free Paper Challenge Here! I hope you like them.

I have been a bit busy again so sorry for my absence but I have this news to share xxx Next week I am starting a course to learn how to run my own business so again I will be limited to the amount of crafting I can do so I apologise for my limited blogging of late xxx

I really do appreciate those of you who have stuck with me and I promise once life settles down again a bit I will be around more to comment and to blog xxx

Here is one of the four freebies that I am giving away this week xxx

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

Goddess

2011-11-15T12:11:00.001Z

For a while now I have lacked the drive to create so when I came across this fabulous blog The Butterfly Effect I was inspired to create my very own Ancient Goddess! They give us 8 steps to follow to doing this. I hope this represents the theme in the right way.

I decided to create a beautiful Love Goddess. I have yet to give her a name. I was inspired by the Greek Goddess Aphrodite. During my research on Goddesses I found I was hugely drawn to the Earthly Goddesses too so I used Earthly colours in one of my coloured pictures. I coloured her with prismacolour pencils and added some white gel pen. The other one is very much trying to keep to the Aphrodite and Greek Goddess feel of clean and simple. She is coloured with alcohol pens xx

I drew a pencil drawring and then traced with a black pen. I then scanned into the computer and turned her into a digital image. I added a frame and some hearts. I wanted her to become a more modern take on the Greek Goddess.

Thanks to the challenge for inspiring me to get out my sketch pencils and to create I really enjoyed it xxx

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

2011-11-12T09:00:00.000Z

Hello hope you are all having a fantastic week! I love icy blue at Christmas time so here are some FREE PAPERS that will allow you to use Ice Blue in your Christmas creations. I look forward to seeing what you come up with using my Paper Pad Challenge Freebies!!! xxx

Here is a card I made using the free papers!! I used two of the papers to make a background. I added some kraft card stock across the middle. I added some seam binding and some faux stitching to add texture. I used my sihouette cameo to create cut out the JOY peel off sentiment. I then used this cutie pie from the Delicious Doodles shop called Baby Rudolph. I coloured it in with spectrum noirs and promarkers.

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

Delicious Doodles _ Remembrance

2011-11-11T11:25:00.000Z

Hello this week at Delicious Doodles Challenge we have a REMEMBRANCE challenge to interpret as you wish too. I choose to make something with Poppies as this is a real symbol of Rememberance. I LOVE poppies too so it was fun for me. There are prizes to be won and if you use one of Teri's images the chance to get spotlighted !!!!

I made this gift mug into which I will put some teabags and coffee and hot chocolate sachets for the teachers at Christmas.

I used a overlay template from the most recent Encyclopedia of templates from My Craft Studio. I then choose a paper to decorate the whole mug template. I then used Teri's two images to decorate the mug. I used Poppy and Poppies I coloured Poppy with promarkers and copics. I made a matching tag too.

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

CPF Challenge - Use Orange

2011-11-10T09:00:00.000Z

Hello everyone hope you are all having a great week. I am having a great week as my early Christmas/ Birthday present arrived my Silhouette Cameo and am I so in love with it xxx It is super cool. I am still adjusting to using it so have had a few trial and errors and a few things in the bin LOLxxx :0).

I am sharing my CPF challenge DT piece with you all. I cut the bag using my Sihouette. I love it the design is so so cool. I added the Autumn Breeze Pyramage and the leaves to decorate. I added some mistletoe and some Holly so it can be used for Christmas. I also added some ribbon and raffia for a bit more texture.

Hop over and check out the wonderful DT creations and the full prize list and deets for the challenge. We would love to see you there xxx

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

Sweet Pea Stampers _ Remember

2011-11-04T09:00:00.000Z

Morning all, hope it is not so dull and dreary where you are today. I have had another week full of appointments. I had to see the educational pyschologist on Wednesday and the Paediatrician on Wednesday and I am happy to say that they have given a diagnosis of Developmental Co-ordination Disorder for my little princess Bradie which in basic terms means she has problems with organisation of her gross and fine motor skills, thoughts, understanding, planning and organisation. She also has Speech and Language issues it is a vastly underecognised disability that I believe needs promoting as many children go on to suffer juvenille deliquency and pyschiatic problems xxx Rant over have contacted my MP. I am going to fight her corner too as this has been prescribed by the doctor xxx

Okay now onto my first card for today. I have made this DT card for the Sweet Pea Stampers challenge where we want you to "REMEMBER"! The prize this week is 2 Digital decoupage sheets from The Crafty Purple Frog!!!

I used the ever so gorgeous Sweet Pea stamps image from the Ching Chou Kuik range for my card. Poppies are a beautiful flower and one of my favourites. I used some papers from the Paper Flower Expert CD rom that is available from My Craft Studio. The poppy embellishment is also from this CD rom too. I used some spellbinders dies to create the pretty border, frame and corners and added some sparkle too.

I hope you like my card and can join in this week.

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

Crafts and Me - Inspired by a song

2011-11-03T18:23:00.001Z

Hiya just hopping in to share with you a card I have made for the Craft and Me Challenge they want us to " Let the music move you". The first record I ever brought was " The Land of Make Believe" by Bucks Fizz I love it to this very day so this is a card that is inspired by it xxx

I am so happy that we got some gorgeous stamps from the new range of Janna Prosvirina stamps from Crafts and Me in our goody bag on the A Crafty Weekend Away that I went on in October. I used this gorgeous stamp called Clematis. She is coloured with Flexmarkers of which I purchased having tried them at the weekend away. The papers are also from the goody bag as is the sentiment. I added some cosmic shimmer twinkles and a floral arrangement from my Paper Flower expert CD rom from My Craft Studio.

I have lots of news to share but will share that with you tomorrow xxx

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

Paper Pad Challenge - Polka Dots

2011-10-29T11:10:00.000+01:00

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 ...!!

2011-10-28T15:33:00.001+01:00

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

2011-10-27T16:01:00.002+01:00

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

2011-10-22T11:44:00.000+01:00

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!

2011-10-21T09:43:00.002+01:00

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...

2011-10-18T15:29:00.002+01:00

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

2011-10-14T09:00:00.000+01:00

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

2011-10-13T14:45:00.001+01:00

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

2011-10-08T12:35:00.000+01:00

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...!!!

2011-10-02T15:04:00.000+01:00

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

The Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of Layers!

2011-09-29T17:22:00.002+01:00

Good Afternoon to you all, it has been another chaotic week here with my youngest son starting nursery so lots of settling in and the end of another segment of my life with no more babies to look after all day at home. I am so sad! I have not had time to craft this week with the settling in period taking place but hope to be able to visit you all more often and of course do more crafting. I have also applied for a part time job but not going to spill any beans on that as I have to be shortlisted for interviewing first.

Okay this is my DT for the great challenge at the Crafty Purple Frog! Amy has lots of fab prizes to giveaway and there are some previews of the really stunning new releases that are coming out!

I used one of the older images to make this bookmark for my gorgeous youngest daughter as she always asks who are you making that for when I make anything. She has a Specific Learning Disability called Developmental Co-ordination Disorder along with a speech disorder and Hypermobility and Hypotonia. She has finally received some help and will be having 3 sessions at school with the occupational therapist so they can advise on how to make her daily life better. I am also going to a course in the new year with her.

This is made using the gorgeous Exotic Ocean Fantasy Decoupage the layers on these decoupage images has so much depth. I layered up some cardstock and some DP's and made some gorgeous layered flowers that I made with my paper flower expert CD rom from My Craft Studio.

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

FREE Papers over at my New Challenge Blog

2011-09-24T09:36:00.000+01:00

Hiya I have a new challenge blog starting today and I am giving away 4 FREE papers. So please check out the new Paper Pad Challenge HERE!!!

I have a sketch to follow and some Autumnal papers so an Autumnal theme. I hope you can join in as I have some great themes lined up and lots of papers to give away.

I am off to a local festival today with my croaky throat I hope that you are all doing something fun and please come and join in the fun at the Paper Pad Challenge !!!

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

Sneeky Peeks all round

2011-09-23T17:45:00.002+01:00

Hi again I am just hopping in to tell you about the Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge which this week is " FALL COLOURS".

Well they happen to be my favourite colours. I have used this soon to be released image from our sponsor this week The Crafty Purple Frog. She is called Enchanted Gold Decoupage and will be available at the end of the month. Great for all those Autumn cards.

I am also giving you a sneeky peek at the the further 3 papers I am giving away at my new Paper Pad challenge tomorrow ! Please come and join me there is a great sketch (it is like this card) and autumnal theme and of course the chance to grab yourself 4 FREE papers.

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

New Challenge starting

2011-09-22T21:12:00.001+01:00

Hi there hope you are all looking forward to a nice weekend and have lots of plans. I am stopping by to announce a fun new Challenge blog. I hope you will be able to join me. Their is a prize for everyone as I am giving away FREE papers every week!!!

I love designing papers and I thought it would be fun to share them with you all and see what you can create with them. So on this challenge you can only use the free papers I have designed.

Every Saturday I will post some FREE papers and a theme over at the Paper Pad Challenge. I hope you will be inspired by the papers to create something and join in the fun. I would love it if you could spread the word too.

I am trying to create a banner but Blogger is not letting me upload it so will try again tomorrow. In the meantime here is 1 of the 4 papers I have for you to grab on Saturday!!!

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

Sweet Pea Stampers DT card

2011-09-16T20:00:00.000+01:00

Hi there again I am showing you my card for the comments Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge. The Challenge is to use your favourite Colours. I have too many favourite colours so I choose Teal and Brown for this challenge. I used this fab Joanna Schemp from Sweet Pea stamps set of images to make my gatefold tent card.

Thanks for stopping in to see my card I hope you like it. I am having technical problems so I have now downloaded Google Chrome to use blogger with xxx

Delcious Doodles fun!

2011-09-16T08:58:00.002+01:00

Good Morning everyone I had a lovely couple of hours at our school quiz last night and our team came a very respectable 3rd. I came home and watched the brill Torchwood a great twist at the end loved it !!!

I am just hopping in with my DT card for the Delicious Doodles challenge which this week is to be " Cute as a Button" so we want to see something cute and at least one button on your projects.

I have made this card using the wonderful the gorgeous Ivy Corner which I used to make a frame for the Poinsetta. I then used both images to create a background. I coloured the Poinsetta with promarkers and added a button to the centre and some sparkle. My Cute is the bow I always think they add a cute element to a card. 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 - Fall into Fall

2011-09-15T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello it has been another long week here for me as I have had an appointment for my daughter who has several hidden disabilities. She has DCD (developmental Co -ordination Disorder) and she has Hypermobility (double jointedness) quite severely so gets very tired trying to keep her posture and writing as her joint have to work exceedingly hard to do what she wants them too and combined with her DCD even harder. She also has problems with her visual perception so she does not see the midline this makes reading and writing across a page very hard. So huge apologies for being and absent blogger xxx I have my partners check up with ENT today so hoping that goes well xxx

Here is my project for the Crafty Purple Frog Challenge where we want to see you "Fall into Fall" this could mean using a Fall image or Fall colours you choose. I decided to make these 3 D Halloween baubles using the beautiful Perfect Pumpkin Pyrimage. I love this image so pretty and delciate. I bascially printed out the base image of the pyrimage 6 times folded in half and pasted together and added beads and ribbon to embellish.

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

Christmas Wishes

2011-09-10T14:14:00.002+01:00

Hi there everyone a busy week here for me as I had my youngest sons introduction to nursery at the beginning of the week, although he does not start until the end of this month. I also had my eldest daughter start secondary school. Much to my delight she is very happy so far. I also had my middle two start new classes with new teachers and both seem to be happy too.

So here is a Christmas card I have made and I am entering it into the ABC Christmas challenge. There letter this week is R and they want us to Recycle and use ribbons or Rhinestones. The kraft cardstock is made from recycled paper pulp and I use this fab stripy ribbon on my card to hold the bunting sentiment. The papers and embellishments are from"My Craft Studio" CD roms Christmas Paper Flower. The image is from Crafters companion and coloured with Spectrum Noirs. So I am entering the Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge the theme is Christmas wishes.

I hope you like it and hope you all have a lovely weekend xxx

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

Fresh Start at Delicious Doodles... x

2011-09-02T15:15:00.000+01:00

Hello again come and join us over at Delicious Doodles Challenge we are having a "Fresh Start" with a whole lot of talented new DT members and a new set of challenges. I am sharing my card I have made with you.

We have a great prize of 5 Delicious Doodle images for the winner so please join in the fun.

I love rosette making so at the moment they are on a lot of my cards as is bunting and I got a great CD rom from My Craft Studio called Embellishment Attic so I used this to create the bunting and rosettes and pleated ribbon.

I also used the graphics program to manipulate some of Teri's designs. I created a frame with Steampunk Corner I colourised it too. I then added the image Tattoo and Feather I then created two backing papers by colourising and tiling the Steampunk Paper. I made an easel card.

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

. Hugs Pascale

Sweet Pea Stampers

2011-09-02T09:28:00.001+01:00

Hi there I am just stopping in to tell you all about the brilliant challenge we have over at Sweet Pea Stampers which is "Heard It's Your Birthday" ! We have a grab bag of 3 Sweet Pea Stamps for the winner!

I have chosen this gorgeous image Secret Garden by Katerina - Koukiotiss I coloured her in with Spectrum Noirs. I then used the gorgeous papers from My Craft Studio paper Flower Expert CD rom. The Leaves and flowers are also from this CD rom.

Back later with my Delicious Doodles Challenge DT card

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

2011-09-01T17:47:00.001+01:00

EEk using blogger with the new interface...I am quickly blogging my DT card for the Crafty Purple Frog Challenge. This week we would like to see "BIRTHDAYS" featured on your projects. I am in the last throws of school holidays Xxx

Here is my card made using the very gorgeous Exotic Ocean Fantasy decoupage which I surrounded with flowers that I crafted from My Craft Studio Paper Flower Expert CD Rom. The backing paper is also from this. The bunting is from their Embellishment Attic CD rom.

Join us over the challenge for lots of prizes and fun xxx

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

Mo's Feeling Blue...

2011-08-21T17:58:00.000+01:00

Hi there I am just stopping in with my entry for the DP2 Challenge who are all "feeling Blue". I have made this card for the challenge using a bit of pink and brown too. The backing papers, flowers and leaves are from an My Craft Studio CD rom called " Paper Flower Expert". The backing papers on this CD rom are divine and the flowers are so versitile I highly recommend it. I have coloured in my image with Promarkers, copics and spectrum noirs. The banner is from a free download at the MCS club. I am entering the CES challenge who want " Banners, Flags and bunting".

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

Sweet Pea Stampers Fly me Away

2011-08-19T09:00:00.000+01:00

We have an fantastic challenge for all you Sweet Pea Stampers this week. "Fly me Away" is this weeks theme.

This week we are sponsered by the amazing Sweet Pea Stamps hop over and see the amazing choice of stamps!

The prize on offer this week isof your choice 3 count grab bag of rubber stamps.

For my card I used a 5.5 by 5.5 kraft card which I directly stamped to the cardstock this beautiful stamp. I then coloured with copics and promarkers and added a white gel pen to the image too. I added a holly embellishment from My Craft Studio Klever Konstruction range. The sentiment is paperartsy.

The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Red Hot!

2011-08-18T09:00:00.002+01:00

Well it is mid August so you would expect it to be RED HOT out there but sadly not the case here in the UK. However why not transfer this thought to paper and card and join us at The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge.

I have made this notebook for the challenge it cost 10p and I added some backing paper from a free Poppy download from the My Craft Studio Club. I used the beautiful Fields of Poppy Pyrimage from The Crafty Purple frog shop. I added some ribbon too from my stash and made some poppies too.

As always there are lots of prizes so please join in the fun xxx

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

Back again with some Kraft Cuteness !!!

2011-08-14T20:14:00.000+01:00

Hi there this is such a gorgeous image I had to find some time to play with her. So I decided to go with Krafty Cute as I have a bit of a thing about Kraft card at the moment. She is available to buy at the wonderful Delicious Doodles shop HERE! She is called "Sniffing Daisies".

I printed directly onto Kraft card and coloured with promarkers, copics and spectrum noirs. I then added a sentiment.

Challenge I am entering is The Crafty Pad Cute and Girly xxx

I hope you like what I have done!

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

Playing with my My Craft Studio and Mo's image xxx

2011-08-14T15:57:00.000+01:00

Hi there I have been struggling to get to my computer but I have been creating lots of crafty stuff to sustain my Craft Addiction. I have taken a bit of a breather from blogging to spend some quality time with the family as the beginning of 2011 was a traumatic time for all of us.

I have made this notebook for my eldest daughter who will start secondary school in 3 weeks to say Good Luck.

I used a free download from the My Craft Studio Club I love the bunting isn't it just so sweet. The Design paper is also from this freebie. The sentiment is from the freebie too. I added some ribbon to hang my bunting from and the flowers are from the Paper Flower Expert Click Print go CD rom. I adore the three dimensional fuschias from this CD.

I used this cute image from Mo's Digital Pencil and I coloured with promarkers and copics. I have been colouring with my spectrum noirs over the weekend but I have a limited colour pallette for the moment. I enjoyed colouring with them but need to practise as they require a different technique to promarkers and too copics so need to perfect that a bit xxx

I am entering my notebook into the " Anything but a card " challenge over at the DP2 challenge.

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

A Krafty Day!

2011-08-06T18:11:00.000+01:00

Hi there everyone I have had a great Krafty Day and so I am sharing some of the fruits of my labour with you. I have made two cards for Delicious Doodles Shop. I hope you like them I am quite chuffed with how they turned out.

I'm already thinking about Harvest time and the summer is barely upon us, well hop over to the Shop to see some gorgeous new releases with a harvest feel!! I used the gorgeous Autumn Fall paper to make these two makes. I decided to make tea bag folding paper adn both cards have no digital images they use simply paper.

The first card is one that I think is great for the season of Thanksgiving that will be upon us before we know it. I used the papers and changed the tone slightly to make two contrasting backing papers. I simply resized the original image to 2 inches squared and tiled to make the tea bag papers. I love this technique so theraputic.

I added some vellum to the top half of the papers and a ribbon. I then mounted onto kraft card and I added the stamped sentiment. I then added the finished tea bag folding and a decorative button. I also cut out some of the leaves to embellish the card too.

The second card is made using 5 squares of tea bag tiles to make the cross. I then added a button to decorate the cross. I again used a contrasing colour of backing paper by using my graphics program to change the colour. I added vellum,a ribbon and a stamped sentiment to complinent the cross. I also added some cut out leaves to the design.

There is still time to enter the DT call so hop on over to the Challenge blog for full deets.

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

Sweet and Bright ... x

2011-08-05T19:55:00.000+01:00

Hi there this week over at Sweet Pea Stampers we are going weekly with Team A taking the turn this week. We are having a challenge of "Sweet and Bright " this week. I decided to make a 10p notebook a bit more funky and fun using my stamp from the Karen Middleton sweet pea stamps. I used copics and promakers to colour having stamped the image direct to the notepad. I added some ribbon from my stash for some more zing.

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

Gosh I am so behind... Kids on Hols!

2011-08-05T10:16:00.000+01:00

Okay apologies for posting this a day late but I am so behind with the kids being on their holidays and a few other home life crisis. I hope you can join us at The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge where this week we are wanting to see "Anything but a Card". Amy is offering lots of prizes so there are lots of opportunities to win xxx

I have made a jewellary box for my daughter using the wonderful image Peacock Blue Decoupage to decorate the box which I made using the wonderful My Craft Studio Encyclopedia of templates. I added some brads ( a bit wonky but my daughter didn't mind) and I added some flowers from a kit also from My Craft Studio.

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

Sweet Pea Stampers DT card

2011-07-29T10:52:00.000+01:00

We have an fantastic challenge for all you Sweet Pea Stampers this week.

We want to see you *Button it up*!!!

This week we are sponsered by the amazing Sweet Pea Stamps hop over and see the amazing choice of stamps!

The prize on offer this week is 3 count grab bag of rubber stamps.

Without further ado here are the wonderful and inspirational DT creations from the gorgeous DT girls here at Sweet Pea Stampers xxx

I have used this fab stamp by Joanne Schempps called Skull which i stamped with Distress ink. I created all of the other elements of my card using My Craft Studio. I used my "Alfie " CD rom for everything but the scroll which comes from the Christmas Flower Frame Klever Konstruction CD rom. I used paper buttons that look really 3 D and are on this CD rom.

I hope you are able to join in the fun xxx

CELEBRATION CANDY

2011-07-22T17:46:00.001+01:00

Hello I hope you are all having a great day! I am popping back with my CELEBRATION CANDY. I hope you caught the shows at 12.00 and 3.00 on Create and Craft tv they have a great Pick of the week. Mind you over quarter of the stock has already sold out. It is the My Craft Studio CD rom Christmas framed flowers with 10 Klever Konstruction sheets

I made samples for the shows and it was a pleasure and an honour to do so. As a celebration I am offering a My Craft Studio CD rom which includes a graphics programme and a stamp from Crafters Companion Humprey range. You can shop for My Craft Studio goodies HERE! Crafters companion goodies can be found HERE!

So to be in with a chance of the candy simply follow the rules:

1.Link your blog in the inlinkz below

2.Put a photo of the candy in your sidebar with a link to this post

I will announce the winner next Friday 29th of Julyxxx

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

Check out the Create and Craft Pick of the week

2011-07-22T13:03:00.000+01:00

I am so happy and excited to tell you all about the Pick of the Week over at Create and Craft it is from the awesome My Craft Studio. I was lucky enough to be chosen to make samples for the shows and I have to say the products are totally amazing to work with. It is a CD rom called Christmas Framed Flowers Klever Konstruction and you get two CD roms and you get the Klever Konstruction sheets.

Here are a couple of the samples I made and I will share some more with you over the coming days. It is a traditional CD rom with some contemporary twists. I highly recommend this CD rom as the graphics programme is so user friendly whether you are an expert or a beginner with CD roms. Also the artwork on this CD rom is so varied there is something for everyone xxx I will be back later with some more of the samples I have made and some CANDY to CELEBRATE xxx

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

My Craft Studio Pick of the Week and CANDY Alert!

2011-07-21T19:17:00.000+01:00

Hi there I am just stopping in to tell you all about tomorrows Pick of the Week on Create and Craft TV. I have been sitting on my fingers waiting to share this with all of you.It is a CD rom called Klever Construction Christmas Framed Flowers from the wonderful My Craft Studio! I was so excited to get the opportunity to make some samples for this wonderful CD rom. The shows launch at 12 o'clock tomorrow so make sure you take a peek xxx

I will also share some of my samples with you xxx

I am celebrating by giving away some candy so pop in tomorrow to see what I have to give away. Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Toilet paper embellishment ... x

2011-07-21T08:35:00.000+01:00

Hello hope you are all well and having a great week. I have been busy as my daughter is finishing primary school this week so lots of events to attend at the school.

I am really happy to bring you this card as my DT card for the Crafty Purple Frog. We want you to be inspired by WATER this week. I used Serif Craftartist to create my Design paper. I cut out the centre of the porthole to place my image behind and put acetate in front of her. She is called Radiant Butterfly.

I added some glitter to the design paper. I then made an embellishment inspired by stamps away Ali on Create and Craft. I used wet toilet paper in a plastic starfish mould. Once it was dry i painted with some silver acrylic paint and added some glitter in a sand colour. The folded corner I created with Serif software and I added a brad for extra effect xxx

Please hop over to the challenge to find out about the great PRIZES on offer you can find it HERE!

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

Sweet Pea Stampers

2011-07-16T11:23:00.001+01:00

Hiya I am so sorry I am late posting my DT card for the Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge! This week we have an ANYTHING GOES theme. As long as you use a Sweet Pea Stamps image xxx

I have had a busy week I have been attending lots of Year 6 activities as it is their last year in Primary school so apologies for this quick post. My Daughter got her SATs results and she did brilliantly so I am really proud her in achieving what she did xxx She is level 5 for reading and she is level 4 for Maths, English and Science. As she does not have a tutor or any extra coaching in school I think she did exceedingly well as she goes rather unoticed in school xxx

I am proud of my other two childrens school reports too. I am so lucky to have such kind and well behaved children. I went on the whole school trip, in a friends car, to the beach yesterday and I must say my children are a great bunch of kids whom I really cherish xxx

I made this easel card using an image from Sweet Pea Stamps from Elaine Cox. The papers are from a My Craft Studio CD rom Finest Filagree. I coloured in the image with prismacolours and added some stickles to the image.

I hope you can join in the fun and please hop over to our Amy's shop which is sponsering us this week you need to go to the Crafty Purple Frog xxx

I am entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts - Girly Girls

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

Delicious Doodles DT Call

2011-07-11T11:40:00.000+01:00

Hi hope you are all having a nice week xxx Just hopping in to share some exciting news check out the info below xxx

Delicious Doodles

DT CALL

We are seeking FOUR new members to join our wee gang here at Delicious Doodles.

Do you love Delicious Doodles images?

Are you interested in joining our Team?

Are you confident using Digital Images?

Do you have an active blog?

Can you contribute to our Challenge Blog every other week with a project (not necessarily a card) and take turns in hosting a Challenge?

If the answer to all these questions is a 'YES' then apply now!!

All you have to do to apply for the DT posts, is make a new project reflecting your preferred style and personality, and post about it on your blog. Then add your post link to our Blue Froggy on the Challenge Blog for us to come visit you, couldn't be simpler, huh? LOL

(If you want to combine it with challenges at the same time, that's fine by us)

What do you get out of it?

You get to play with any Delicious Doodles image you want!

You also get to play with new images before they are released into the store!!

You get to be part of a lovely easy-going Team, no stress or pressure allowed!!

This DT Call will be open through our summer break, and will end on Friday 19th August at noon UK time,

so be sure to get your application in before then folks!

Successful applicants will be informed as soon as possible after that so we can get you on board and ready for the new challenges in September.

What are you waiting for folks! Off you go, get creative!

Good luck to all of you!

Teri and the girls on the DD Team

xxxx

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

Lets Get Digital...!

2011-07-08T18:20:00.000+01:00

Hi there as we are on a break over at the Delicious Doodles Challenge blog . There are so many Delicious Doodles to choose from at the Delicious Doodles Shop so I have been playing with this image. I love this image called Sexy Goth Girl she is so mesmerising I thought she would make a great extra in Twilight she has that vibe about her. For all of you who love the darker side she is a must have.

I have used my My Craft Studio "Tattered Lace" CD rom to create the Layout and the flowers and I decided to keep Sexy Goth Girl as she comes in this fantastic sketch format. I just decoupaged her for some depth to my card. The CD rom is a current favourite of mine the backgrounds are divine xxx

Keep your eyes peeled over at the Delicious Doodles Challenge blog for the DT call that Teri will be running over the holiday, we are all really excited about some new DT members joining us xxx

Challenge entered -

Crafts And Me - Favourite Stamp or image

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

Crafters Companion and Totally Papercrafts

2011-07-08T11:21:00.000+01:00

A warm hello on a wet and dreary Friday here in London. I am minding friends little boy as she is going on a school trip with one of her other boys. He is good company for my Max. I made this card yesterday and it fits two challenges Totally Papercrafts Challenge who have a theme of "The Beach" and Crafters Companion Challenge " One for the Boys" challenge.

I would like to thank the lovely girls at Crafters Companion Challenge for picking me as a Top Three I will get my badge onto my blog as soon as i can xxx

I used the Adorables CD rom to create the beautiful decoupaged scene and added the wonderful Adorable collection stamp to it. I matted onto yellow cordinations cardstock with 3D foam. I coloured the image with copics and promarkers.

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

GRRR Internet Explorer...!!!

2011-07-07T13:19:00.000+01:00

Fingers crossed I am here and able to blog my DT post for the fabby Crafty Purple Frog Challenge! This week there is a DT call on too so please hop on over for all the deets there are some amazing 4 prizes on offer so please take a look xxx

I love our theme it is Summer Fun. For me who lives in a flat it is all about getting out in a garden somewhere and relaxing so this was the inspiration for this card. I also adore fuschia's hense the amazing paper flower I created from my MCS Paper Flower Expert CD rom. I also used my CD rom for the backing papers. I have used the amazing Love is gone decoupage from The Crafty Purple Frog! I used some flowers that are also from MCS and leaves. I added some stickles to the fairy wings and the flowers and a hunkydory sentiment xxx

I am extremely busy with it being the end of term and a new exciting DT opportunity arising in the last few weeks so huge apologies for being MIA xxx

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

Better Late than Never....!

2011-07-03T14:33:00.000+01:00

Hi there I am so sorry but I am only just able to post my DT project for Delicious Doodles Challenge. I have had a really hetic week...xxx Topped off with a visit last night to Casualty because my little princess swallowed her penny,,,xxxx

Okay a special person in my life celebrated her birthday this week so here is the card I made her and the necklace and the box. I used papers from my craft Studio and the bling frame with the flourish is from a Hunky Dory set I have. Our theme is flourishes and Bling.

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I just need to let you all know that this will be our last Challenge before we all take a Summer Break.
Most of us will be spending the summer period on holls, with the family, along with other projects and things, so we thought it only fair to postpone our challenges until the end of the school holidays.

BUT

Throughout the summer break there will be a DT Call running!!

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Now, we have a lovely sponsor this week, in the shape of:

Flourish with a Bling

Our winner will get this fabulous package of goodies:

You don't have to use Delicious Doodles images for your creations, but if you do, you can enter yourself twice in the Blue Froggy!! For your first entry put your post link, 2nd entry use your blog link and pop '2nd entry' after your name

Don't forget, in the interest of fair play:

only THREE entries per person allowed please.

You can still enter as many challenges as you like.

Floral Watering Can

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

Sweet Pea Stampers - Wings

2011-07-01T11:00:00.000+01:00

Hi there I am just popping in a bit late as so many things happening today I am not sure if I am coming or going.

We have an fantastic challenge for all you Sweet Pea Stampers this week. We want to see WINGS on your projects!

This week we are sponsored by the amazing Sweet Pea Stamps hop over and see the amazing choice of stamps and all the latest deals and boy will you find some amazing deals!

The prize on offer this week is 3 count grab bag of rubber stamps.

I used this gorgeous Karen Middleton image from Sweet Pea Stamps who just happens to be the featured artist there this week. I coloured with Aquamarkers and used papers from My Craft Studio Papercraft library. I decoupaged the paper and added stickles to the edges for a little sparkle.

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

Simon Says ... CD Sunday Challengexxx

2011-06-29T20:04:00.000+01:00

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...

2011-06-27T09:44:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-24T10:54:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-23T08:20:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-20T19:16:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-17T08:57:00.001+01:00

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!

2011-06-15T17:59:00.000+01:00

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!

2011-06-15T10:53:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-12T16:31:00.000+01:00

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!

2011-06-11T11:40:00.000+01:00

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!

2011-06-10T15:12:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-10T14:54:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-10T09:00:00.002+01:00

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"

2011-06-09T08:00:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-05T15:46:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-03T18:22:00.000+01:00

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

2011-06-03T08:12:00.000+01:00

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

Pretty Flowers in her hair....

2011-05-28T10:50:00.000+01:00

Morning today the weather is a bit dull but I am happy to be showing you a couple of challenge cards I have made this week xxx

At Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge they want to see flowers and pearls on our cards. I used the Flower Girl image from Mo's Store and I coloured her with copics and promarkers. I then cut her out using a nestie. I then mounted her onto a Websters Pages DP. I added some flowers from my stash and some pearls. The sentiment is from The Greeting Farm.

For my second Card I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is to include Stars and Stripes on your project. I made this card using my new CD rom "Humphreys Corner" available from Crafters Companion! I love this little elephant xxx I used a stripey Websters Pages DP and a star button from my stash. All the other elements are from the CD.

We are having a quiet weekend so I may get some more crafting done you never know... xxxxx
Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Blogger Grrrr !!!!

2011-05-27T09:11:00.001+01:00

Hi there I am posting this from firefox as Internet Explorer will not let me into Blogger. I am a wee bit fustrated today xxx

This is my card for the superdouper Delicious Doodles Challenge! A lovely challenge this week we want to see lace on your creations. I have run out of lace so I decided to use some digital lace. I used my Papercraft library Finest Filagree CD rom from MCS to create this digital card. I used it in my Craftartist package from Serif software.

I then copied and pasted the Hydrangea image from Teri's store Delicious Doodles and decoupaged it. I coloured the image with promarkers, and white gel pen. All the other elements are digitally produced.

I am entering the Totally Papercrafts challenge who have a theme of pink and girlie this week xxx

Thanks for stopping by please visit the challenge for all the prize details and lots of stunning DT inspiration xxx

Things of Beauty... xxx

2011-05-26T08:52:00.000+01:00

Good Morning to you all. I have had a busy busy week this week. Jimmy had his pre op on Monday that all went well. On Tuesday Barack Obama came to visit a secondary school about 10 minutes walk from where we live it is a school with a bad reputation so hopefully this will do something to improve this. Yesterday we went to see the Neurology Consultant and he was so nice and he is really pleased with Jimmy's progress. So much so he is not requesting to see him again. He is to remain on the Epilepsy meds for at least three years. The good side to this is that he may be able to drive sooner than we were thinking. Now it is a wait for the ENT operation and the outcomes of that.

Enough about ailments onto my DT card for The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge! The theme is a lovely one this week. It is " Things of Beauty" so I chose this very beautiful sheet called The Legend of the dignified Peacock for my card. I decoupaged her and added some stickles to it.The papers are Websters Pages. The sentiment is from Hunkydory. I added some flowers from the stash and some ric rac ribbon.

Please hop on over to check out the stunning DT work and the prizes for this weeks challenge are:

1st prize - 3 downloads from The Crafty Purple Frog

2nd Prize - 2 downloads from The Crafty Purple Frog

3rd Prize - 1 download from The Crafty Purple Frog

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

Humphrey is adorable...!!!

2011-05-23T15:39:00.000+01:00

Hello I am so excited to share this card with you!!! He is from a new collection of stamps and a CD rom from Crafters Companion and is called Humphrey's Corner. I downloaded the freebies from the downloads section of the store to create my card.

I have made the card for the Crafters Companion Challenge blog who have a theme of "Birthday Girl"!!! I used a bit of ribbon from my stash and added some faux stitching to compliment the design otherwise everything else is from the freebies. I loved playing with Humphrey and look forward to seeing him on Create and Craft and Ideal World tomorrow xxx

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

Delicious Doodles sneeky peek... xxx

2011-05-22T20:43:00.000+01:00

Hi there I hope you all had a great weekend. I have been to a friends for a barbie this afternoon it rained for a moment but we managed to enjoy our food from the Barbie. We watched the football too how exciting was that the bottom three changing throughout the match.

I have made a card for the CES Challenge they want us to " Embellish it" they want us to use at least 2 different types of embellishments on our projects.

I have used this image from Delicious Doodles it will be released on Wednesday and it is called "Lily of the Valley Frame". Once again I created the layout on Craftartist by Serif. The papers are also from one of the digikits.

I made the embellishments from the digikit too. I decoupaged the flowers and added stickles to the centres. I also made the buttons using the kit. I added some gloss to make them more real. I added a real ribbon as my third embellishment.

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

CD Sunday - Die Cuts/ Yee Haw

2011-05-21T10:22:00.000+01:00

Hi there I found a new challenge during the week and as some of you will know I love hybrid crafting so this challenge is perfect for me x The Challenge is CD Sunday and this week they want us to use die cuts or Yee Haw on our projects and of course one of our craft CD roms.

I decided to use My Craft Studio Volume 6 Many Happy Returns part of their papercraft Library collection. I created a back drop for my die cuts and printed it out and then I used my cricut to die cut the sentiment ROCKER and the Guitar image. The Guitar itself is cut out of a backing paper I created with the CD.

I am not doing much this weekend as we are potty training a bit unsuccessful at the moment... xxx Have a lovely weekend xxx

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

Delicious Doodles - Let the Sunshine!

2011-05-20T19:24:00.000+01:00

Hi there, DD is home safe and sound and hugely excited. I am on load three of the washing...!!! I am just hopping in to share with you my Delicious Doodles Challenge DT card.

We want to see you show us how the sunshine inspires you. I chose to use this image from the store called Deckchair.

I wanted a very clean card. I created a scene using Serif Craftartist platinium and I digitally cut and pasted the image ontop of the scene. I coloured the image with promarkers and copics I added a glitter frame and the sentiment is from Serif Craftartist. This card is totally flat and shows you how I would like to relax on a hot sunny day.

I am entering it into Totally Papercrafts Don't be Square Challenge.

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

A long week and Sweet Pea Stampers - Lace and Pearls

2011-05-20T10:08:00.000+01:00

Good Morning to you all I hope Mr Blogger behaves this Friday. I am just hopping in to show you my DT card for Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge.

I have had a busy week with my eldest daughter Georgina going to her first school trip so lots of worrying there.

Also my youngest daughter has some learning difficulties there is a worry about her vision and how she tracks and also she is dyspraxic so she has difficulties with planning and thought processing. I was really happy though because the paediatrician recognised her intelligence which I have never doubted xxx There will be a big struggle ahead as the real battle will be to maintain her self esteem xxxx

I have made this card using one of the beautiful sheets of digital decoupage available at The Crafty Purple Frog. It is called Silk Dance Decoupage.

I used Websters Pages papers to which I added stickles. I added some lace and pearls from my stash and some decorative headed pins. The sentiment is from The Greeting Farm.

The prize this week is once again some fantastic stamps kindly donated by Sweet Pea Stamps check out the shop for all the latest artist releases and sales x

Challenges I am entering are:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Anything Goes optional kraft

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Shine

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

Mo's Digital Pencil - Distressing!

2011-05-19T13:10:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone just stopping in really quickly today to show you my card for the Mo's Digital Pencil Too Challenge! Luckily for me they have put on an upcoming challenge list so I don't need to miss a week now as I can pre plan my card for the challenge date. Great idea thanks lovely DT ladies xxx!

The theme this week is distressing. I chose to do a completely digital card bar my colouring in of the image. I used So for this weeks challenge I chose the gorgeous Perfection! Whom I coloured with promarkers and copics.

I used my computer graphics package Craft artist to design this card. I hope you like it.

The Front

The Middle or inside

The Back on top of the Envelope

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

I've had the Glitter out today... !!!

2011-05-15T18:05:00.000+01:00

Today I have been playing with my digital craft stuff and have made a couple of hybrid cards using images from Designs by Charli. The first card is made using the fantastic image "Ash the Penguin". I have also made a card using the "Easter Chick" Image available at Squigglefly. I changed it into a robin.

Okay I designed the background on my graphics package Craftartist Platinium from Serif. I then used the cutout feature to cut out my image from the white background so he became a part of the scene. I printed and added glitter and some dimentional white glue. The sentiment is The Greeting Farm stamp and I added a brad to the top of the tree.

I am entering this card into Winter Wonderland who have a present challenge this week.

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

Here Comes The Summer....!!!

2011-05-14T19:11:00.000+01:00

Hi there another busy day today! My daughter Georgina is going on her first ever school trip Monday. I have been purchasing all those bits and bobs they require you to take but you don't really use today.

I had time to make a card or two and I am showing you this one I made for the super Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge! I love the theme which is " Here comes Summer". There is also a GDT call this week so take a peek at the challenge for all the deets x

I had just finished colouring this gorgeous image"Little Smooch" for my card. She is coloured with promarkers and copics and sakura stardust pen. I cut out an icecream with my cricut and I added a sentiment with my cricut. Both are from the Cricut Cartridge called " Straight from the nest". I added some faux stitching and I added some gems. The DP is Basic Grey. Apologies for the picture light not too good xxx

Off to enjoy some Saturday night TV xxx

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

Delicious Doodles - Inspired By....

2011-05-13T17:47:00.000+01:00

My goodness no blogger for a whole day...I wonder what happened there as long it was not those nasty Hackers I think it will be okay xxx I am bringing you my DT card for the challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenge. The theme this week Inspired by!

Well as some of you know I recently got engaged and so I have been inspired by The Royal Wedding Flyover. Mental note include as stunning airshow at reception. Other Mental notes don't be upstaged by the Bridesmades bum, Get a few saplings from the park to decorate the church. No in all honesty I loved the wedding it was classy and elegant and they are so in love it was adorable.

This card was made using the Vintage Spitfire image from the Delicious Doodles Store I coloured with promarkers and sakura stardust pen and added a glossy accent to it. I used my Hero Arts stamp for the sky. I added a ribbon from my stash and used my xyron runner for the sentiment.

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

Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Monochromatic

2011-05-12T13:34:00.000+01:00

Afternoon crafters I have been trying to get on here since 7.00am and finally it has let me xxx I have a wonderful DT challenge card to bring to you today from the Crafty Purple Frog challenge. This week our theme is monochromatic. I chose Red!

The image I used is the gorgeous Red Hearts Pyrimage from the Crafty purple Frog store .

I have used some papers from Websters Pages amd MME. I made some flowers using my cricut and some stickles I added a hunkydory sentiment some faux stitching and I used a Martha stewart punch and stitched ribbon as a border. I also added some embellies from my stash.

There are lots of gorgeous prizes this week as usual so please join us to be in with a chance of winning xxx

Challenge I am entering are :

Crafts and me -Punches

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

Scissors, Paper and Glue what a great afternoon xxx

2011-05-07T15:30:00.000+01:00

It has been a long time since I indulged in a crafty session so I thought today would be the day. I have made this card for two challenges.

The image is from The Crafty Purple Frog she is called Night Glimmer. I totally adore the colours Ching Chou Kuik has used to paint her. So this has been the inspiration for my favourite colour combinations for the CES Challenge.

I used 2 Websters Pages papers. and 3 different embellishments (ribbon, heart gems and a flower. The challenge at Totally Papercrafts this week is a recipe 1 Image, 2 Papers and 3 embellishments. I added some stickles to the tail of the mermaid and I used some gold mirricard to layer the image. The sentiment is from my stash 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 - Monochromatic and GDT call !!!

2011-05-07T13:33:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone hope your all having a relaxing weekend xxx I am crafting!!! I am here to show you my card for the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge. The challenge is to make a Monochromatic card using a Mo Manning image of your choice.

I wanted to enter the Pink and Girlie Challenge last week but as always real life ran away with me so I decided to use Pink as my colour. I say real life ran away with me. We went to the hospital and Jimmy still has a significant amount of disease in his ear so now they are concentrating on getting the disease erradicated rather than getting the hearing saved. He will need all the disease removed to prevent meningitus or more brain abscesses occuring. He will also need his ear cleaned for life. The more happy real life events were visiting my daughters new secondary school. I am delighted with my choice.

Okay to make my card I used Mo's gorgeous image you can find a selection of gorgeous digital stamps HERE! which I coloured with promarkers and copics. I then used my cricut sampler cartridge to make the babyvest to which I adhered the gorgeous baby. I then tied a bow and added a saftey pin with two charms on it. The charms are a heart that says Made with love and a nappy pin. I hope you like my card.

The challenge is also looking for Guest Designers on a regular basis to participate for a whole month with the chance to choose 4 free images to make your Guest DT cards with so take a peek!!!

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

Sweet Pea Stampers Shower of Flowers!

2011-05-06T15:33:00.000+01:00

Spring is upon us and such a glorious one weather wise this year! We have an easy challenge for this week. We want to see a "Showers of Flowers" on your projects over at Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge!

This week we are sponsered by the amazing Crafty Purple Frog hop over and see the fantastic May releases they all rock! Lots of gorgeous ching chou kuik digital decoupage to choose from and you will get the choice of 3 digital sheets of your choice if you are the winner of this weeks challenge.

I have used this Meredith Dillman Image available at Sweet Pea Stamps. Please hop on over to check out the amazing deals that Lynette is currently offering. I watercoloured the image and I used a beautiful digital Websters Pages paper. I used my cricut to create the swirl and the flowers.

Challenges I am entering are:

Crafts and Me - Swirls
In a Sweet Pea Dream Challenge - Anything Goes

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

Designs By Charli, Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes!

2011-05-03T10:13:00.001+01:00

Hello the kids have gone back to school and I am on my third load of washing it is only 10.05 I have also spruced up there bedroom too. I kind of took a little break over Easter to enjoy the lovely weather and my beautiful family. Just need to arrange a proper little holiday away from London for a week or so now xxx

I have a card to show you using this gorgeous Teddy Bear designed by Designs By Charli I coloured him with promarkers and copics and I used some nellie snedden dies cuts to mount him onto. The paper is basic grey. The ribbon and button are from my stash and the sentiment is hunkydory.

Off to unload the machine ROFL Have a lovely day!!! xxx

I am entering the Papertake Weekly Challenge they have an Anything Goes Challenge x

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

Happy Bank Holiday!!!

2011-05-02T16:22:00.000+01:00

Last day of rest for the children today we have to send them back to school tomorrow. Awww I think we will miss all the noise and our days out as a family lots and lots xxx I have lots to do next week. I have to go to a meeting at my daughters new secondary school, Jimmy has a check up with Ear, Nose and Throat, I have to vote in the referendum, and I have a meeting about my daughters first ever school trip!!! There is lots more to do I am sure!!!

Here is a card I have made today using my wonderful Cricut machine which I must admit was a great purchase I only wish I could affort an cricut create,expression or imagine. Anyhow I have been able to expand my creative abilities heaps with this little beauty. I have recently purchased some Doflex to make my own embossing folders and templates so cannot wait for that to arrive.

I have made this card for two challenges the CES Challenge which has an amazing photo inspiration to follow. The second challenge is the Fantabulous Cricut Monday Challenge who would like to see 3 or more flowers on your card or project.

So how did I make my card. I used some Websters Pages DP's that I brought on their website digitally. I then decided to go for a quilted feel as the photo is of a bedroom. I used my Cricut George and Basic Shapes cartridge to create a layer of cream card with floral cutouts to go ontop of the red Websters pages DP. I then added some gingham ribbon to the border. I adhered to the blue Websters pages DP and faux stitched around the edges. The sentiment is from Hunkydory. I then made the rose flowers (George and Basic shapes) and the leaves (Straight from the nest). Finally I added some stickles (a bit of a favourite on all my cards at the moment). Excuse me for being impatient and not letting the glue dry before I took my picture xxx

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

New Digital Decoupage Sheets Available today!!!

2011-05-01T18:51:00.000+01:00

Good Evening I have had a busy day, Church followed by a friend coming over to play and lots of bits and bobs to do. I am just stopping in to tell you all about the May releases from The Crafty Purple Frog! There are five new designs to choose from in Decoupage and Pyrimage so hop on over to see these gorgeous sheets.

I have used The Elegant Moment decoupage sheet for this card which I am also entering into the Totally Papercrafts Challenge which is "Glitter" ! I added some stickles to the decoupage and I used some glittered papers from MME. I used a glitter border from a HOTP kit and I added some ribbon from the stash. The flowers are Prima and I added some stickles to the centre. I also added a hunkydory sentiment.

Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday not sure what we are doing tomorrow yet.

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

Congratulations to the very happy couple...!

2011-04-29T17:45:00.000+01:00

Hi there I am a bit late posting my DT card today as I have been really enjoying watching the Royal Wedding. I am so happy to see this gorgeous couple tie the knot finally. How beautiful did Kate look I loved the lace and I loved the trees in the Abbey. I have of course been noting down bits and bobs for my own big day LOL xxx

I am showing you my card for the Delicious Doodles Challenge which this week are sponsored by the brill Kenny K Downloads! Click on the link to find some amazing images. We were kindly given some images to have a play with. Our theme is "Teenagers". I am entering this card into the Kenny K Challenge who have a Springtime theme. I am off to enjoy some more festivities xxx

The image is coloured with copics,promarkers and sakura glaze pen. I used a cricut cartridge Princess Rock for the phrase and the skull. The Rose I created with Straight from the nest cartridge. The papers are DCWV and HOTP and I added lots of stickles xxx

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

Happy Birthday Georgina !!!!

2011-04-28T09:55:00.000+01:00

My beautiful baby girl is eleven today and I cannot believe where the time has gone. I remember so clearly I was still waiting right now to go and have my C-section as she was breech and refused to turn around!!! I was so relieved that she arrived safe and sound and she made me chuckle when she wee'd all over her Daddy as he was first to hold her. I was being stitched up and was shaking and when you have to keep your arms in a certain position it is damn hard to hold a baby. Still 45 minutes after she was born I got to hold her xxx

Anyhow enough reminiscing for me time to show you my DT card for the super duper Crafty Purple Frog Challenge! This week is a great theme of "PURPLE AND LACE". I decided to use this decoupage sheet called "Eglantine in Dawn" she is so pretty. I added some stickles to the image although my photo does not show this very well. Papers are MME and card stock is from stash.

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

Crafts and Me - Vintage/ Distressed

2011-04-27T15:26:00.000+01:00

Good afternoon another card today from me this time for the brill challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenge Blog. The challenge is to use Vintage/ Distressed in your style!

I have used Bella Bella Papers by MME as I love the vintage vibe they have. I used some cream card to create a frame and some flowers both of which I cut using my Cricut ( George and Basic shapes for flowers and Graphically speaking for the frame and Straight from the nest for the leaves and flourish).

I used this gorgeous Meredith Dillman image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I decided to cut away a lot of the image to leave just the lady as I think she looks vintage cowgirl. I then coloured her with watercolours. I also coloured the papers and the cardstock to create a distressed vintage feel. I finally used a acrylic dauber around the card base to continue the theme.

The Sentiment is Hunkydory.

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

Designs By Charli - BLOG CANDY!!!!

2011-04-27T12:24:00.000+01:00

Hi Everyone well the sun is still shining in London just about... I have had a glorious weekend. I went to Hampstead Heath for the first time ever and it is such a fantastic place I loved it. Didn't spot any stars though so a little disappointed. Perhaps they were hiding behind their sunglasses hey!!! I am having a crafty day today. Jimmy is going to take the kids to the local farm here in the inner city!!!

I am just popping in to show you how you can win this gorgeous little fellow "Drew the Dragon"!!!

Here is what Charli would like you to do to win this little fellow.

What you have to do

Post a link and image in your sidebar telling people about the candy.
Become a follower of my blog if you're not already.
Post a comment on this post telling me that you'd like to be entered into the draw.
Blog candy ends on 7th May and the winner will be announced the following day.

It's that simple!

And if you want an extra chance to win one of my digital stamps, please make a card with the theme of FANTASY and link it in your comment! You could use dragons, fairies, mermaids, magic, etc.

Here is a card I have made with Drew the Dragon which you can buy over at Charli's brilliant shop!!!

I am entering the following challenge CES Challenge which is "Spring Colours or Image".

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

Happy St George's Day!

2011-04-23T10:06:00.000+01:00

Hello there I hope you are all having a gorgeous Easter! I just wanted to wish you all a Happy St George's Day and I wanted to show you one of the gorgeous new images from Designs By Charli !

Charli has some new exclusive images released today over at Squigglefly including this gorgeous little Easter Chick!

I coloured him with promarkers an Copics and I decided to enter the spot and stripes challenge over at Papertake Weekly too.

Have a lovely Day we are off to a park today.

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

Sweet Pea Stampers - Recycle

2011-04-22T20:18:00.000+01:00

Hi Everyone just got back from the barbie and I am posting my second DT card of the day I am going to be quick as lots to catch up with today. I am posting my card for the Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge . In honour of earth day this week we want to see you recycle something.

I recycled a wrapping paper roll into a backing paper. I added some water colours to it and then I added some mica powder. I stamped over it with a corner stamp by Clarity stamps. I then added a sentiment. I then distressed with distress inks. I stamped onto the image my beautiful image and coloured with prismacolour pencils.

I hope you like what I did.

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

Delicious Doodles challenge - Anything Goes!

2011-04-22T10:00:00.000+01:00

Hi there a very good sunny morning to you all. I am off out for a barbie at a really special friends house today. She is also hosting an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. She was my rock when Jimmy was poorly and I have made her this gift to say thanks. I handmade the bracelet so I decided to wrap it in a special giftbag and that is my DT piece for the Delicious Doodles Challenge "ANYTHING GOES"!

I used the gorgeous Leaping Dolphins available at Teri's store Delicious Doodles!!! I used a background and a template from Craft Artist by Serif software. I coloured my image with promarkers and copics and I attatched it to the bag. I then added some ice stickles and some flowers. I made some ribbon handles and added some cute charms with a seaside feel xxx

Here is a close up of the bracelet too ...

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

Meet Drew the Dragon...!

2011-04-19T17:13:00.000+01:00

Hi there what a glorious sunny day!!! We had to get Jimmy's bloods done this morning at Guys Hospital so we decided to stop at Tower Bridge where there are some fabulous fountains for the kids to splash in, on our way back. We ended up staying for a good few hours. We also treated ourselves to a takeaway Margerita Pizza which was yummy. We stopped off at a small local playground and then made our way home. It was really a lovely day.

I made this card to show you this darling image from Designs By Charli. It is called Drew the Dragon. I wanted to give it a big cuddle when I saw it. I coloured with promarkers and copics and I made a background with Basic Grey paper and some cardstock die cut with my cricut and some images from Straight from the nest. I added some detail with a sakura stardust pen.

I hope you like him I love him and if you want more inspiration and a chance to design for Designs By Charli hop over to her wonderful blog HERE!

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

Just to say Congratulations to all those who ran in the London Marathon today!

2011-04-17T19:00:00.000+01:00

I am so proud to be a part of the Community of London today. I watched the London Marathon as we do every year and I must say I am so proud to say our city hosts one of the most Outstanding charity event in the world. Each and every runner is a true hero or heroine and I will one day try and enter myself. Today I watched able bodied and disabled men and women pounding the streets of London to earn money for a multitude of worthy causes around the world. I hope they are immensely proud of themselves. No card today I just wanted to share these words xxx

This is a scrap page I have yet to finish but kind of gopes with the theme. You can get the raven at Delicious Doodles

Mo's Digital Pencil - Want to see "the start of Something New"

2011-04-16T13:14:00.000+01:00

Hello there what a beautiful spring day we are having here in London. I hope it stays like this tomorrow as I will be up on Jamacia road watching the London Marathon. This is a little tradition in our house. I have two friends I used to go to school with in sussex who are running so I am hoping to say hi to them.

I have had a bit of time to get crafty again so today I am sharing with you a card I have made for the brill Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge. They want to see "the start of something new..." in our projects. I decided to make a New home card with this Home Tweet Home image. I coloured them image with copics and promarkers. I used some Websters Pages papers some gold Mirri card and some ribbon and a flower to embellish. The punch is from Martha Stewart.

Have a wonderful day I hope yours is as Spring like as ours xxx

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

I love the springtime!

2011-04-15T17:40:00.000+01:00

Hi there today we have been for a long spring walk through Southwark Park to the shops and back. I love the park in Springtime as there are tulips, blossom and the most cutest baby ducks. It inspired me to create this card for several challenges today.

I got my Cricut out and made this card using it. I have recently brought this cartridge " Straight from the nest" I adore it as it has corners, borders, and great designs on it. All I did was add a bit of stickles to parts of the design and I added a bow and floral detail.

I am entering the Fantabulous Cricut challenge they are having a Spring Fling which is there take on a blog hop. There are lots of fab prizes and inspiration along the hop. If we enter a project with one cricut cut image and pink, Green and Yellow on it then we can win a grand prize.

I am also entering the card into the Totally Papercrafts challenge who have a " Springtime" theme. I hope you all have a fab Friday and hope to be back over the weekend with some more creations xxx

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

Black Beauty....

2011-04-15T08:45:00.000+01:00

Morning everyone, hope you are all okay and to those of you who are feeling a bit poorly I hope you get well soon xxx

I am just popping in to show you a card I have made for my sister who celebrates her birthday next week. We both used to go Horse riding when we were young and both love horses so I thought I would use this gorgeous Mythical Pegasus from Teri's shop for her card. I was singing the theme tune to Black Beauty as I coloured this gorgeous image with my Prismacolour pencils and a tiny touch of white gel pen.

This card is also for my DT card at the brilliant Delicious Doodles Challenge! This week we are getting "All stitched Up" I used some gorgeous MME papers and I cut a filagree panel and some gorgeous corners on some gold Mirri card using my cricut and the straight from the nest cartridge. I added some faux stitching with a fineliner.

As always there is a great prize on offer so please check out the challenge and the fantastic creations from the DT!

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

DT call over at Designs By Charli

2011-04-14T15:35:00.000+01:00

I was really excited when my friend Charli asked me to be a part of her DT on her new adventure designing Digital stamps. Charli has a brand new store called Designs By Charli her images are fantastic and so much fun to work with. Charli is also searching for a new DT check out this post on her brilliant blog!!!

I couldn't wait to get started so today I have made this card to showcase to you one of her gorgeously cute images. This gorgeous image is called Cheeky Monkey. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. I have also made this card for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge who want us to make a card for a child.

I used my Craftartist graphics package from Serif Software to create the background. I used the cutout feature to cut out the monkey from the white background. This is something i really love to do with Digital stamps. I copied, pasted and resized twice so it looks like there is a family of monkeys. I coloured the monkeys with copics and promarkers and added a layer of Basic Grey paper. I also added a button and ribbon embellishment.

I hope you like what I did and I am looking forward to meeting the rest of the new DT so please check out Charli's Blog for all the details.

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