Bloom Beautiful

I'm back to my gorgeous Craft Consortium Bloom Beautiful paper pad again today.

The papers and sentiment are from the paper pad.  I have used pale blue card stock and white card stock to layer everything up.

I also created the rolled roses from the pale blue card stock and die cut some flourishes.  The ribbon is from my stash.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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Beautiful Blooms

I have used my Craft Consortium Bloom Beautiful paper pad to create another card.

I have used one of the beautiful floral papers and cut the bird topper from another of the papers using my Sue Wilson stitched squares die.

I created the flowers with a Spellbinders Becca Feeken die called Cinch and Go Flowers, I used Core'dinations card stock - I quite like the effect when you spritz them with water and scrunch them up.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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It's A Girl

I've made a couple of new baby cards using a Darice Embossing Folder and some Core'dinations card stock.

I heat embossed an American Crafts sentiment with white embossing powder and cut it out.  The knotted ribbon is from my stash.

and one for a Boy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers - E is for Embossing

Crafty Catz Challenge 320 - Monochrome

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 359 - Clean & Simple

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge 20 - Use An Embossing Folder

Thank you for calling today, your company is much appreciated - make sure you check out my Birthday Candy HERE.

Pauline
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Scandinavian Christmas

It's time for a new challenge at Winter Wonderland and the theme this week is:

Scandinavian Style

 (hearts, reindeer, snowflakes, red and white)

I have used a Papermania topper from their Classic Christmas paper pack and papers from the Christmas in the Country paper pack.

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I have added a sentiment that I found in my stash layered onto some Core'dinations card stock, I punched the corners and added little hearts cut using a Mama Elephant die, I also added some 3D Crystal Lacquer to the hearts.

We are sponsored this week by Oyster Stamps who are offering a fantastic £10 voucher to the lucky winner.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs September Challenge - Anything goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge 193 - Anything goes

Dream it Up Challenge - Christmas and the Holidays

Krafty Girls Challenge 26 - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge 73 - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Challenge Week 35 - Get Organised for Christmas

CHNC Challenge Extra September Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Make sure you pop over to the Winter Wonderland Challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Scandinavian Christmas challenge.

Thank you so much for visiting me today, I always appreciate you taking the time to pop in.

Pauline
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Football Nut

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and we have a Bingo Board for you this week.  I have made a card using a brilliant image called 'Nuts about Sports - soccer' from Bugaboo our sponsor for this challenge.

I have coloured my image with a combination of FlexMarkers and ProMarkers and then masked it to create the cloud background, the card stock is Core'dinations and the papers are Echo Park.  The sentiment that accompanies the image said soccer, so I computer generated one, the star button and twine are from my stash.  I die cut the edge of the green card stock with my Ric Rac border die.

This is the Bingo Board, I used Buttons, Digi Image, Ribbon/Twine.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo

and the prize is 7 digital images

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge 85 - Two Words
ABC Challenge - Q for Quite A Few
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 174 - Let's hear it for the Boys
A Gem of a Challenge 87 - Lots of Layers
Allsorts Challenge Week 214 - Favourite Things (Echo Park Papers and Buttons)
My Time to Craft Challenge 228 - Masking (I masked the image in order to ink the cloudy sky)
Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Punches and/or Die Cuts
Here Come the Boys Challenge 55 - Use a Digi Stamp
Cards for Men Challenge 14 - Bingo (Die cut, Digital image, Twine)
Nutcrafters Challenge 47 - One for the boys!

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT projects, we would love for you to join us for our 'Bingo' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline

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Hedge Word

Good morning everyone, I had a great day yesterday.  It was my youngest son's birthday - he was fifteen, my eldest son passed the theory part of his driving test and we have, at long last, found a nursing home for my father.  Dad moves in tomorrow and he will be nice and close to both me and my Mum so hopefully, as soon as he is settled, life will get back to some sort of normality - it will never be quite the same again, but we should at least be able to get back into some sort of routine.

Anyway, as I said, it was my son's birthday and this is the card I made for his brother to give him.

I saw this Penny Black stamp on a blog sometime ago and I just had to get it, I think it's ideal for male cards.  I have coloured the cute little hedgehogs with ProMarkers and used some Echo Park papers that I have had for ages.  The card stock is Core'dinations and I used my Spellbinders Ric Rac die to cut the bottom edge.  The string and button are from my stash.

I have decorated the inside of the card using the same papers and layout as the front.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday June Challenge - Masculine

Polka Doodles Week 26 - Animals

My Sheri Crafts Challenge 113 - Birthday

Come and Get It Challenge - Masculine
Simon Says Stamp &  Show Challenge - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge 48 - Boy/Man
Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 107 - Cute as a Button
Hobbycutz Challenge 9 - Anything with 'H' (Hedgehogs)
The Paper Nest Dolls challenge 7  - Animal Love
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anythings Goes, Option: include animals/creatures

Thank you so much for visiting me today.  Hopefully, as soon as we get Dad settled into the nursing home, I will have more time to craft and will be able to come and visit everyone a little more often.

Pauline
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These boots .....

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and our theme for you this time is 'Make it Girly'.  I have made a card using a fabulous image called Honey from Saturated Canary our sponsor for this challenge.

I have coloured her with a combination of FlexMarkers and ProMarkers, the card stock is Core'dinations and the papers were free with Quick Cards.

I punched the border and die cut the corners and flowers, the pearls are from my stash.

Our sponsor this week is Saturated Canary

and the prize is 2 digital images

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge 177 - Pastel Colours
Platypus Creek Digitals Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
My Heart Pieces - Use a digi stamp
Crafty Sentiments - Girl Power
Digi Haven - Flowers
Send A Smile 4 Kids - For the Girls
That Craft Place - Flowers
Red Carpet Studio Challenge 42 - Going Digital
Divas by Design Challenge - Pretty Pearls
Passion for ProMarkers Challenge 204 - Name that Tune (These Boots are made for Walking)

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT projects, we would love for you to join us for our 'Make it Girly' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline

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Skateboard Andy

It's time for our Monthly Challenge Midway Reminder at Forever Friends and this month our theme is - PAPER PIECING.  I have made two cards this month and this is the second one using a fabulous image from Pink Gem Designs one of our sponsors this month:

I have paper pieced his top and kept everything to just two colours. The papers are Echo Park and they have been layered onto Core'dinations card stock.  I used an X-cut die for the stars and the sentiment banner is a Spellbinders die cut along with a Studio Light stamp with a little distress ink to highlight.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and design as the front:

Here are the details about this months sponsors - pop over the the Forever Friends Blog for more details

The Ribbon Girl are sponsoring the 

Randomly Selected Winners draw 

They are offering a £10 voucher to spend in their web-store

and

Pink Gem Designs are sponsoring the 

Forever Friends Favourite draw

They are offering 3 single digi images of the winners choice from their web-store.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Ruby's Rainbow - Happy Birthday
Stampavie and More Challenge 191 - For a Boy
The Crafting Cafe - Let's Celebrate
City Crafter Challenge 154 - Birthday Card
Digital Tuesday Challenge 205 - Boys
Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Toddlers, Teens and In Betweens
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 98 - Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge 41 - Inspired by a Song or Movie (Skater Boy - Avril Lavigne)
Inky Impressions Challenge 105 - Paper Piecing
Moving Along with the Times - Inspired by a Song or Film (Skater Boy - Avril Lavigne)

Make sure you pop over to the Forever Friends Challenge Blog and take a look at the fabulous DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for this months 'PAPER PIECING' challenge and don't forget there is still time to enter the Monthly Give-Away.

Thank you for joining me today.

Pauline
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Sending Special Wishes

This is my card for the Fortnightly Challenge over at the Forever Friends Challenge Blog.  I don't quite know if I am a Guest Designer from Bearly Mine Designs or a Monthly Forever Friends DT member joining in with the Fortnightly Challenge - I am a member of the Bearly Mine Designs DT and Donna is sponsoring the Forever Friends Favourite for this challenge.

The theme is Die Cuts and Punches and this is the card I have made:

I have used a gorgeous Forever Friends image from the new Kraft Notes collection and the papers are from the Bearly Mine Designs Designer Extreme CD and the Mini Dots collection.  Everything has been layered on dark brown Core'dinations card stock and I have used my current favourite Fiskars border punch.  The butterfly is a Die-namics die cut and the ribbon and gems are from my stash.

I have decorated the inside of my card with the same papers as the front:

The random winner is sponsored by Michelle Perkett

and the Forever Friends Favourite by Bearly Mine Designs

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Lexi's Creations Challenge 87 - Punches and Dies
Ready Teddy Go Challenge 21 - Anything Goes
Natalie and Amy's Challenge 8 - Monochromatic
Paper Crafting Journey - Monochromatic
Shelly's Images TTT Challenge - Use Scallops
Card Crafter's Circle Challenge 69 - Bugs (Butterflies)
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 158 - Anything Goes
2 Sisters Challenge 138 - Anything Goes
Card Mania Challenge 18 - Punches and/or Die Cuts
Digi Sketch Challenge - Butterflies and/or Roses

Make sure you pop over the the Forever Friends Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Die Cuts and Punches Challenge.

Thank you for visiting me today, please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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Growing a Flower

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and our theme for you this time is 'Floral Delight'.

I have used a fabulous image from A Day for Daisies who are sponsoring us this fortnight.

I have coloured her with my ProMarkers, cut her out with my Spellbinders Big Scalloped Ovals and inked the edges with distress ink.  The patterned papers are from the My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline collection and the yellow is from Pink Petticoat.  The card stock is Core'dinations and the flowers, button and twine are all from my stash.  To complete my relatively simple card I have stamped a LOTV sentiment tag.

We are sponsored by A Day for Daisies for this challenge



Prize:  £10 gift voucher

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge 35 - Flowers
Clearly Inspired Challenge 71 - Anything Goes
Digi Haven Challenge - Spring
Sweet 'n Sassy Challenge 98 - Think Spring
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Flower Frenzy
Sweet Stampin' - Oh So Girly
Clear It Out - Theme: Spring, Stash: Flowers
Passion for ProMarkers Challenge 192 - Fantasy
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps Challenge 111 - Spring Pastels

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT projects, we would love for you to join us for our 'Floral Delight' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline

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All Dressed Up

As another new week begins it's time for a new challenge at Ooh La La Creations, our theme for this fortnight is - Green and Orange - you don't have to use an Ooh La La Creations product but we love it when you do.

I have used a fabulous image from the Ooh La La Creations  - All Dressed Up CD, you've probably noticed that I like this CD rather a lot - you can purchase it from the Ooh La La Creations online shop.

The image and green patterned paper are both from the All Dressed Up CD and the orange paper is from another Ooh La La Creations CD - I'm sorry I've forgotten which one.   I have layered them onto Core'dinations card stock and punched a border along one edge.  The ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is LOTV, I have also added some hand made card candy to the top left hand corner but it doesn't show up very well.

I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and  layout as the front.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 200 - Mother's Day/Female
Shelly's Images Challenge - Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room Challenge 91 - Freestyle
PanPastel Challenge 13 - Anything Goes
House of Gilli Challenge 51 - Anything Goes with Flowers and/or Ribbon
Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge - Anything Goes
A Little Bit Crafty - Anything Goes
Sketch N Stash Challenge 110 - Sketch (neglected stash ribbon and sentiment stamp)

Make sure you pop over the the Ooh La La Creations Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our 'Green and Orange' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline

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Puppy Love

It's the beginning of a new week and time for a new challenge at Ooh La La Creations, our theme for this fortnight is - Four Legged Friends - you don't have to use an Ooh La La Creations product but we love it when you do.

I have used a fabulous image from the Ooh La La Creations  - Yesterday's Memories CD - you can purchase the CD from the Ooh La La Creations online shop.

The image and  papers are all from the CD and I have layered them onto Core'dinations card stock.  My only embellishment is some brads that come from my stash along with the sentiment.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and layout as the front.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 258 - Something Old (brads and card stock)
Simply Create Too Challenge 32 - St Patrick's Day or Green
Great Impressions March Challenge - Going Green
Delightful Challenges - 3's A Charm (3 layers)
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 153 - Green
The Paper Shelter 101 - Animal Magic
Whimsical Designs - Going Green
Card Makin' Mamas - Green
Scrappy Frogs March Challenge - Green
Craft Your Passion Challenge 152 - That is Odd!

Make sure you pop over the the Ooh La La Creations Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our 'Four Legged Friends' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline

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Snow Scene

This is one of the cards I made for the Create and Craft Launch of the Ooh La La Creations Yesterday's Memories CD a while ago, I just remembered that I had never blogged it.

The Pyramid Decoupage image and the papers are from the Vintage Artwork Sets and I think this card  is suitable for both male and female recipients.

The card stock is Core'dinations and the card candy has been made by punching some small circles and adding a coat of 3D Crystal Lacquer, the only other addition is some ribbon from my stash - I don't think you need many embellishments with the quality of these images.

I have decorated the inside of my card with the same papers and  following the same layout as the front.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cards for Men Challenge 4 - Wintertime
Digi Darla Challenge 51 - Make it Masculine
Here Come The Boys Challenge 46 - Lots of Layers
Joana Sheen Challenge - Layer It Up
Allsorts Challenge 195 - Animals
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 109 - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter Challenge 101 - Animal Magic
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Christmas Goes
Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge 51 - Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon/Digital/Snowflakes)

Thank you for calling, have a lovely day.

Pauline
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Spaceship Henry

Good morning everyone, this is my entry for the Seize the Birthday challenge this week, I'm cutting it a bit fine this time - the challenge ends at noon:

I have used another fabulous image from The Digi Stamp Boutique called Spaceship Henry, I love their children's images and I am gong to enter this card into the February Customer Competition.  The papers are Echo Park and the card stock is Core'dinations.

This is the sketch that I have followed from Seize the Birthday:

I cut the image out and layered it onto a Spellbinders Standard circle die cut which in turn has been layered onto a dark blue Pinking Circle die cut.  The sentiment is computer generated and I have die cut some dark blue stars with my X-Cut star die and added some 3D Crystal Lacquer to them.

The inside of my card has also been decorated following the sketch and using the same papers.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday Challenge 6 - Sketch and Masculine Birthday Card
Created with Love Challenge 29 - Things that Fly
Digi Makeover Challenge 76 - Anything Goes
Frosted Designs Challenge - Be Bold
Alphabet Challenge - A for Anything With Wings
Bloggers Challenge - Cut It Out
Card Makin' Mamas - It's Birthday Time
My Time to Craft Challenge 209 - Men Only
PanPastel Challenge 7 - Just Two Colours

I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my new followers, thank you so much for joining me, I do hope you enjoy your visits to my blog.  Thank you to everyone for calling - any comments that you leave are very much appreciated.

Pauline
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Blue Christmas

Good Morning everyone, it's time for a new Challenge over at The Crafty Pad and the lovely Dawn has chosen the theme - Christmas is Coming - so we would love to see all of your Christmas related projects.

I seem to be having a bit of a colour theme with my Crafty Pad DT cards at the moment the last one was Pink Butterflies and this time it's Blue Christmas, I have used the delightful Crafty Pad image Christmas Tree Trio and this is my card:

I printed the image out three times onto some pale blue papers from the Bearly Mine Designs Christmas Wishes collection and added the brown with my Cocoa ProMarker, as is usual with me I have cut the images out to create some decoupage layers.  The base paper is also from the Bearly Mine Designs Christmas Wishes collection and my card stock is Core'dinations, the only embellishment is some Ice Stickles added to the snowflakes on the image.

I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and a smaller image:

Our wonderful Sponsor for this challenge is:

who is once again offering one lucky winner a brilliant

£10.00 voucher to spend in her online shop

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Willow Sketchie - Christmas in October

Crafty Ann's Challenge 77 - Christmas in October

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 31 - Christmas

Card Makin' Mamas - Anything Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - U for Up to You

I Love ProMarkers Challenge 140 - Christmas is Coming

Creative Craft Challenge - THREE (three trees)

Stamp and Create October Challenge - Winter Wonderland

J & C Creations October Challenge - Contemporary Christmas

Make sure you pop over the The Craft Pad Challenge blog, check out the DT projects and join us for our 'Christmas is Coming' Challenge.

Thank you for calling today, I hope you are having a great weekend.

Pauline
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Dearest One

This is my card for this weeks CD Sunday Challenge - Poetry Corner, I decided to use this cute little House Mouse image from Joanna Sheen's Just the Two of Us Decoupage set.  The CD part of my card is the papers - they are from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Inserts CD, the base has large hearts on it - I've been quite successful at covering them up completely and the smaller hearts are from one of the inserts on the CD.

You would not believe the problems I've had trying to post this card, first when I downloaded the photographs I had taken, because of the angle I had taken the shots at, the little mouse looked like he had four ears and then when I tried to insert my watermark it kept coming up really huge, almost obliterating the entire image, even though the settings were all the same as usual.  So back to the drawing board and start again.

I followed the sketch from Sketch 'n' Stash, I really like this sketch and this is the second card I have made using it.  My card stock is Core'dinations and the sentiment tags are LOTV, I used my Fiskars edge punch on the central border and corner - the buttons and twine are from my stash.

This is a close up of the little poem for those of you who have not seen it before:

You can see the inside of my card and a little of the decoupage layers in this photograph:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The CD Sunday Challenge - Poetry Corner

Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge 99 - Sketch (House Mouse Decoupage and buttons are both old stash)

Charisma Cardz Challenge 42 - Don't be Square!!

The ABC Challenge - Z is for Zoo

Southern Girls Challenge 56 - Animal Crackers

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 144 - Animals

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge 99 - Ribbon and/or Buttons (heart shaped buttons)

Stamp N Doodle - Ribbon/Twine (twine in buttons and tags)

Ladybug Crafts Challenge - I need a P! (pink, poem, punching)

Pan Pastel Challenge 41 - Animals

Well I got there in the end - minus the watermark - a job for hubby this evening!   I wish you all a lovely weekend - yes, it's nearly here!

Pauline

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Winter Homes

This is my card for the Ooh La La Challenge, the theme this fortnight is Christmas Sentiment.  I chose this fab Pyramid image from Christmas Presence called Winter Homes, there are so many gorgeous images on this CD it was difficult to choose which one to use.

The papers are also from the CD and the card stock is Core'dinations.  I have kept the embellishments quite simple again - just some card candy from my stash.  The sentiment is from the LOTV Simply Sophisticated collection.

I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front, you can also see the Pyramid layers in this photograph.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Ooh La La Creations Challenge 116 - Christmas Sentiment and DT call
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 139 - Christmas 9 weeks and counting
ABC Christmas Challenge - U for Up To You
The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge 201 - Anything Goes
Let's Craft and Create Challenge 56 - Dimension
Christmas Card Challenge Week 47 - Christmas Card (optional Bows)
Pile It On Challenge 43 - Holiday, any Holiday

That's it from me for today, thank you for calling - I'm off to do some more sorting through my crafty stash - I'm beginning to wonder if decorating my craft room was a good idea!

Pauline
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