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

Mo's Feeling Blue...

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

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!

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 !!!

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

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!

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

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!

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

 

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