sewing challenge

Happy Monday!

I hope you had a good weekend, I was dancing on a salsa weekender most of the weekend so now need to catch up on a bit of sleep!

There's still time to enter our current challenge on A Passion for Papertrey - it has a sewing theme this time round. In desperate need for inspiration I was searching through my PTI sets when I stumbled upon two sets that I haven't used in years - Studio Style and Quilter's Sample that both had sewing-related images. I had a lot of fun making this card and it came together in a snap - perfect!




Card Details:
Stamps: Studio Style/Quilters Sampler (PTI)
Card: Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Ink: Raspberry Fizz/Summer Sunrise/Hawai'in Shores/Basic Black (PTI)
Other: Corner Chomper/Small Labels Die (PTI)

Hugs,

with sympathy

It's been a sad week for me as two very dear friends lost their dad to cancer.  Making and sending a card can't do much but at least they know we're thinking about them.

Card details:
Stamps: Think Big Favorites 3/Turning a New Leaf/Harvest Berries
Card: Sweet Blush/Spring Moss/Simply Select White
Ink: Spring Moss/Sweet Blush/Dark Chocolate
Other: Spring Moss & Sweet Blush buttons/ Hibiscus Burst ribbon/Edgers 1 dies/Mat Stack 1 die

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,

simply stripes

Happy Friday!

I hope you're all keeping warm - well if you're here in the UK that is, if you're somewhere like California you probably won't be going to bed with a hot water bottle and wondering if you'll wake up to snow like us!

So have you played along with your new challenge on A Passion for Papertrey yet? There is plenty of time if you haven't... it's a stripey challenge this time round. Here's my card - one for the boys! Check out the blog and to see what you could win!

Details:
Stamps: Chevron Stripes/Fillable Frames 1
Card: Basic Black/Kraft/Vintage Cream
Ink: Basic Black/Pure Poppy/Spring Rain
Other: Fillable Frames Die 1/Border Punch



I hope you have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Mini Card Monday

Happy Monday all!

I haven't posted for a few weeks, but I wanted to thank those of you who sent me such lovely birthday wishes and cards two weeks ago. I had a lovely weekend filled with friends and family, aren't birthdays great!

So after so many lovely treats I, of course, had to make some Thank You cards. Somehow I've let my stock of white card stock get threateningly low (not that I'm panicking!!) so I'm making smaller cards than normal, but I love their sweetness - so here are a few cards for Mini Card Monday:

Card Details:
Stamps: Sew Lovely/Many Thanks (Lawn Fawn)
Card: Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Ink: Memento black
Other: Adhesive gems/Copic Markers

 Have a great week!

Thinking of you

Much as we love this hobby of ours, making sympathy cards is something we never like to do - I made these in the run up to Christmas.. which somehow made it even worse. As little as I like purple (sorry Purple fans!) it always seems fitting for a condolence card...

 

Card Details:

Stamps: Round & Round (PTI)

Card: Rustic White/Plum Pudding (PTI)

Ink: Plum Pudding/Basic Black (PTI)

Other: Corner Chomper/Circle dies (PTI)

Card Details: (all PTI)

Stamps:Harvest Berries

Card: Rustic White/Plum Pudding

Ink: Plum Pudding/Basic Black

Love is in the Air!

So Christmas ends and Valentines is already around the corner! I know that we Brits don't celebrate Valentines as much as our US cousins do but I think the idea of sending cards to friends and family on Valentines Day instead of just the object of our desires (!) is a nice one.

So to get you in the mood, over at A Passion for Papertrey we have dedicated our new challenge to a Valentines card, check out the blog for further details and to see what you could win;)

Here's my sample - a CAS that will soon be winging its way to a friend...



Card Details: (All supplies PTI unless stated)

Stamps: Heart Prints
Card: Stamper's Select White
Ink: Raspberry Fizz/Hawai'in Shores/Basic Black
Other: Adhesive gems (Hero Arts)/Corner Chomper

Hugs,

Pool Party

Before Christmas my lovely friend Emma sent me a sample of the new SU colour 'Pool Party' and I instantly fell in love - she knew I would!

I quickly sent off for ink, ribbon, card (anything I could get my hands on!) and have been using it a lot - it's the perfect colour, inbetween PTI's Hawaiin Shores and Aqua Mist - thank you SU!

Here's a simple thank you card I made with it, and the beautiful Manhatten Flower embossing folder... a fab Christmas present from a fab friend;)

Card Details:
Stamps: Thank You Messages (Hero Arts)/Little Labels (PTI)
Card: Stamper's Select White (PTI)/Pool Party (SU)
Ink: Pool Party (SU)
Other: Manhatten Flower Embossing Folder (SU)/Corner Chomper/ Little Labels Tag (PTI)



Hugs,

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope 2012 brings you everything you could wish for!

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so it ends

Greetings all! Well that's Christmas over for another year... after all that prep it really flies by doesn't it?! I had a lovely few days with friends and family and hope you did too.

So is it too late to share a few last Christmas cards?!

I made several square cards with the same design but different colours and different images from Tiny Treats: Christmas, here are a couple:

 

And one final card made with the beautiful PTI snowflake die and Aqua Mist felt...yum!

 

Enjoy the last few days of 2011!

Hugs,

Christmas Eve Eve!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve everybody! Surely it's not this long since I last blogged?! The last few weeks have flown by, and now today finally it's time to kick back and relax!

Even though the final posting date was Tuesday I was still making the last of my cards yesterday morning...oops! They just might get there.. maybe?!

I've had great fun playing with PTI's Holiday Lights set, so many possibilities! Here are a few I made:

Card Details: (All supplies PTI)
Stamps: Holiday Lights/Think Big Favourites 8
Card: Stamper's Select White/Rustic White/Pure Poppy/Aqua Mist
Ink: Spring Moss/Aqua Mist/Pure Poppy/Basic Black

I'm sure I'll have a few more cards to share tomorrow, enjoy your evening!
Hugs,

Christmas and vampires

Happy Friday all! We've been having some internet problems recently, does anyone else go into a mild panic when they can't go online for a few days?!! All sorted now (fingers crossed) so I wanted to share my card for our current challenge on A Passion for Papertrey. We've chosen a nice easy Christmas theme for this challenge - a way to kick start your festive card-making if (like me!) you've barely thought about it!

I went for a clean layout of traditional Christmas colours, nice and easy to re-produce:)

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Wreath for All Seasons/Think Big Favourites 8Card: Stamper's Select White/Pure PoppyInk: Pure Poppy/Ripe Avocado/Basic BlackOther: Scallop Die/Ripe Avocado Twill

This afternoon I'm heading off for a girly weekend with Caryn and Aimes... any guesses about what film we're getting just a bit excited about seeing?!!

Be still our racing hearts!!

Have a fun weekend whatever you're doing, and for all the Twilight fans - enjoy the film!

Hugs,

A colour challenge

Happy Friday all!! Just popping in to share my card for the new challenge over on A Passion for Papertrey - a colour challenge this time round:

Not too scary we hope!! Here's my sample - I inked up my new Harvest Berries set which I LOVE!!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Harvest Berries/Think Big Favourites no 2
Card: Vintage Cream/Dark Chocolate (PTI)
Ink: Melon Berry/Ripe Avocado/Dark Chocolate (PTI)
Other: Corner Chomper/Pearls/Copic Markers


Have a safe bonfire weekend if you're in the UK - I'm off on a salsa dancing bootcamp this weekend! (Not, as my housemate joked, a weekend of dancing in boots!)

Hugs,

Mini Card Monday

Well it's not exactly ice lolly weather here, but today's Mini Card Monday cards use an adorable lolly stamp from My Cute Stamps that lovely Aimes lent me, thanks hun! Just a reminder of summer on this cold, windy autumn day!

Stamps: My Cute Stamps, Hero Arts, Card: Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, Other: Copic Markers

Hugs,

Mini Monday!

Happy Monday everyone! I'm developing a little love affair with mini cards - when you're short of time, or mojo, they're so easy to whip up, and so super-cute. So to share my new addiction I though I'd share them with you on 'Mini-card Mondays'!

Here's one I made for my dad who had a bad cold recently - I'm not sure if you can see from the picture but I used a teeny piece of real tissue to come out the top of the tissue box :)

Recipe:
Stamps: Feel Better (Kim Hughes)
Card: Kraft/Vintage Cream (PTI)
Paper: Bitty Dots (PTI)
Ink: Antique Linen Distress Ink/Memento black

Hugs,

Geometric challenge

Hi all! I'm just getting back into the swing of things after a fabulous salsa holiday in Mallorca last week - throwing 260 salsa dancers together in the Spanish sun, dancing all day and night makes for a very fun  holiday. Lots of laughs, lots of happy memories... dancing is the best thing for the soul!

So when I was away I didn't get to post my card for the latest challenge on A Passion for Papertrey. I had a lot of fun making my card, breaking out my Tranquility Trilogy set and dies for the first time. I die cut and stamped the triangles, then arranged them to make a hexagon.

Recipe: Stamps: Tranquillity TrilogyInk: Ripe Avocado, Versafine black Card: Stamper's Select White/Ripe AvocadoOther: Double Ended Banner Dies/gems

 So if you're stamping this weekend and have some PTI supplies to hand why not join our challenge?!

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Hugs

 

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Happy Monday everyone! Yesterday morning saw me dancing around my craft table in my pyjamas to the Rocky Horror Show soundtrack, I'm sure much to the annoyance of my neighbours. Next week I'm off on another Salsa dancing holiday in Spain and the fancy dress night is a Rocky Horror theme so I was just getting in the mood!

I still haven't worked out my RHS costume (don't worry, I won't share any pictures of me in fishnets here!) but I did have a productive crafty morning. I haven't shown my Waltzing Mouse Stamps any love for a while so I grabbed my Frame It set and made a card combining the following two challenges:

Color Throw Down challenge:  

 Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge:

Resulted in this card:

Recipe:
Stamps: Frame It (Waltzing Mouse Stamps)
Cards: Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate (PTI)
Ink: Memento black
Other: Bitty Dots Paper (PTI), Circle Nestabilites, Double Ended Banner Dies (PTI), Copic Sketch markers, Argyle Impression Plate (PTI)

Have a good week!
Hugs,

Miraculous

Well, this is a minor miracle. I have made a Christmas card in September! That, I'm sure is a first. Now to keep them coming instead of waiting until the middle of December as I normally do!

This is my sample for our current challenge on A Passion for Papertrey - to make a card featuring a tag. I went for on of my favourite festive colour combos - red, cream and kraft.

Recipe:
Stamps: Tiny Treats Christmas, Fillable Frames 9
Card: Kraft, Vintage Cream
Paper: 2008 Bitty Dot Basics
Ink: Memento black, Vintage Cream
Other: Fillable Frames 9 die, Pure Poppy button, twine, Corner Chomper, Copic markers

Got to dash, Downton Abbey is about to start - I'm a sucker for a good costume drama!

Hugs, 

Remembering

Inspired by...

Is it really Friday already? I can't keep up with how fast these weeks are flying by! I've had a cold all this week so everything seems to be taking that bit longer to get done, including this blog post!

Firstly a big cyber hugs to my lovely ladies Aimes and Caryn who I shared a wonderful girly break with last weekend - we hired a cottage near Stratford-upon-Avon and had a fabulous few days chatting 'til the early hours, long lunches, evenings spent stamping and lots and lots of giggles!!

During the weekend we all made our cards for this week's challenge on A Passion for Papertrey - it was so fun stamping together! The challenge this time round is to make a card inspired by a member of the PTI Design Team.

If I ever need inspiration I always head straight for Maile Belles' blog - I love everything about her style. This is the card that I chose for inspiration:

And here is mine:

Card Details:
Stamps: Aloha
Card: Vintage Cream/Dark Chocolate
Ink: Memento black, Dark Chocolate
Other: Vine Die, Argyle Impression Plate, Copic Sketch Markers, Corner Chomper


Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

 

Happy Friday all! I hope you've had a good week and are all set for the weekend! I've just about recovered from a fun fun fun few days last weekend.... can I share a few pics with you?!

So Friday we set off on the Eurostar from London to Paris:

 

Wandered around Montmatre, and visited the Sacre-Coeur:

Then headed to...





... to see The Foo Fighters who were amazing!!




What a night! (well apart from being trapped in a broken lift for an hour back at the hotel!!!)

Saturday was spent exploring the beautiful city - I just love to walk, walk and walk some more when I visit cities. I also made a pilgrimage to...

...home of the best macaroons in the world. Oh and the prettiest, hmmm and probably the most expensive but hey look at this beauty:

.. I stared at it for way too long before I could bring myself to eat it!!

On Sunday we hopped back on the Eurostar (ok, missed the Eurostar but caught the next one!!) back to London, and headed for Reading Festival. Those who know me will know that I am just a bit of a Muse fan, so by this time was getting (unbearably so I'm told lol!) excited!

And finally - the highlight of my weekend, my beloved Muse live at Reading!!!!

Amazing, amazing, AMAZING!!!!!

Ok, deep breath!!!


...and finished off the weekend with a trip to the Notting Hill Carnival:

 

This weekend is going to be a bit quieter! Whatever you're doing have fun!!

Hugs,