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

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

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

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

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

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

Delicious Doodles _ Cute and Cuddley

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

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

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

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

The Crafty Purple Frog - Swirls and Pearls

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

Here is my card for the  Crafty Purple Frog Challenge.

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

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


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





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

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

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

Thank You xxx

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

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

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

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

Operation Day x

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another Scrapbook page!

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

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

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

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

Crafts and Me - Bling it up!

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

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

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

I also made a tag as my journalling.

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

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

Crafts and Me - Use a stamp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CES challenge - Saturday Night at the Movies!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My first real attempt at a Scrapbook page!

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

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

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

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

Simon says challenge and Crafters Companion challenge

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

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

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

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

Delicious Doodles - Fathers Day

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

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

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

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

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

The Crafty Purple Frog - "Favourite Things"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge - Sketch

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

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

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

Delicious Doodles Challenge - Texture

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

Monochromatic Sweetpea's

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pretty Flowers in her hair....

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 !!!!

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

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...!!!

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

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

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!

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

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!

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... !!!

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....!!!

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....

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

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

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 !!!

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!

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!

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!!!

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!!!

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