Good Vs Evil ...!!

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

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

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

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

All Sparkley at The Crafty Purple Frog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paper Pad Challenge - Christmas Carols

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

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

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

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

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

Sweet Pea Stampers - Halloween!

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

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

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

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

Sharing some Crafty Weekend Away makes...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delicious Doodles _ Halloween but NO ORANGE

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

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

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

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

One More day to go xxx

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

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

g soon to be released White Peacock Dryad

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

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

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

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

Spooky...!!!

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

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

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

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

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

The Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of Layers!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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