Dream Valley Challenge 1

Woohoo, it's arrived, our first challenge and it's a lovely easy one of Anything Goes!  So no excuses for you not to be entering, not that you'll need any encouragement when I show you the prizes, sponsored this week by Melly...

1st Prize £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley

 2nd prize is Fashionista and Dude Simply Sassy set

and 3rd prize is wee Windswept Simply Sassy

How fantabulous are these?  I'm actually jealous of you all, being able to enter for such a lovely prize...

But anyway, on to my creation for our first challenge

I decided that an Anything Goes challenge was a great excuse to make some jewellery, and this was the result:  The pendant has been recycled from another necklace, and the beads are a collection of 10-15mm beads.  

We're looking forward to seeing all your entries over at Dream Valley Challenges, so happy creating!

Paper Pieced Bella

I LOVE paper piecing - it's a great way to use up some scraps and the results normally look fab.

So, this is Bella Bunting and she's been coloured with Promarkers, paper pieced using scraps from my fabulous Basic Grey Oliver paper pad and some Diamond Stickles details have been added.

The background paper is a collection of some more scrap strips, stuck and mounted onto a larger scrap of lime paper, with the short scrappy bits of peel off lines.  The flower is actually NOT made from scraps (various flowers and a pearl from stash), but the heart leaves have been punched from scrap lime paper.

I'd like to enter:

Fussy and Fancy  - Embossing and / or Paper Piecing

Totally Papercrafts - Paper Piecing

I love the Simply Sassy stamps for being able to colour the eyes, and this one's hair is reasonably easy to colour too.  I've definitely got my eye on some of the new Sassys coming out soon, as well as the new animal LOTV, new Gorjuss stamps, older Sassys, some circle nesties, some lovely new paper, glue, .............Getting all shaky at the thought of window shopping (and MAYBE buying) some new stuff!

Anyway, I'd also like to remind you all that the first challenge for Dream Valley starts on Sunday and the prizes are awesome.  Yes, I did say plural prizes!  Fantabulous!!  Please come and join in.

My first Design Team Position - Celebration!!

Woohoo, I am now part of Melly's new challenge blog, Dream Valley Challenges!!   This is my first DT position and I am so chuffed, especially as it's for my first ever Docrafts and bestest crafty buddy, Melly.

Our first challenge will be this Sunday, and I'm sooooo excited!  (Cue lots of grinning and happy dancing!!)

So, I hope you'll be able to join myself and my other talented DT colleagues on Sunday 27th February. 

Have a lovely day, peeps. 

Sugar Bowl Challenge 53

At last, I've managed to enter the Sugar Bowl again - it feels like forever since I last entered!

I've used the Mary Hall image Circle of Love for this baby card, but I can't wait until the Simply Adorable baby becomes available - such an amazing drawing and super cute....Here's Judy's card to show you what I mean.   

Circle of Love has been coloured with Promarkers and I've used the fab sketch from the Sugarbowl.  I almost stuck to the colours in the photo too, but decided that some orange flowers would look rather nice and completely forgot that I was trying to stick to the colours too!!  The papers are a mix of the fabulous Memory Box Spearmint, FF checked freebie and Swiss Dots embossed.   And I found a piece of blue checked ribbon that was JUST the correct size - meant to be! 

And here are a few more baby cards that I've made over the last couple of weeks:

LOTV - The Girls

As you can see, my obsession with Lili of the Valley continues!  This set of cards are for the girls.  The first is using Born to Shop and is fab to colour. As you can see in the majority of my cards, I LOVE my simple layouts, especially when the images are so cute!  Born to Shop has a mix of the Basic Grey Oliver (red spotty) paper and Papermania Birdsong papers, with some ribbon and buttons to finish.  Think I'll add some gloss to the sunglasses.

It's My Party has so much attitude!  And with this sentiment, I thought it could be for an adult who's not too happy about birthdays!!  The background is a collection of scraps from the Basic Grey Oliver pad - decided these boyish papers actually suited her quite well.  She has some Platinum Stickles on her tiara and shoe laces and around the image - not normally brave enough to use the darker stickles to edge the images, but I really liked it.

I adore Fairies - On Tiptoe!  I decided to try a different colour combo for her AND used turquoise glitter glue on her wings.  I thought the Papermania Birdsong paper was too pretty to cover up, hence the hardly there layout.  I chose the flowers to mirror the colours I'd used in the image, but maybe the card looks a bit autumnal now.  Think I might try the same colours of fairy with blue papers and see the effect....

And finally, Rosie with Presents. 

LOTV - The Boys

It would appear that I'm starting to have a bit of a problem with Lili of the Valley images - I can't stop using them!  They're so cute and great to colour and seem to suit children AND adults! 

Anyway, the first set are for boys or men, using Lazy Afternoon, By the River, Deckchair Dreaming, Big Present and Balloon Bunny.  I've used the fabulous Basic Grey Oliver and Papermania Birdsong papers.  

And there's loads of girl ones too.  Hopefully get them on later.

If I get some more computer time, I'll see if there are any challenges I can enter...Have a good day.

Last Week's Stall

Hello everybody.  Sorry it's been so long since my last post.  I've been really busy crafting jewellery and cards AND starting Euan at Playgroup, but not had enough computer time to blog my creations!!

Last Friday, I took a stall at my daughter's school Pamper Evening, organised by the Parents Association.  It's only the second time I've done something like this (the first being Clare's Toddler Group), but I'm glad to say that it went well.  I quite enjoyed myself and took some money and an order, which meant that I could give £14 commission to the association, not a lot, but something!!  And I got loads of great experience.     Not sure sure yet how much has been raised. 

As you can see, I had to be inventive for the display as I didn't want to spend loads on special display stands.  I'd had the option of borrowing a card stand, but unfortunately that didn't happen due to illness in the family.  The gorgeous writing sets were created by my bestest friend, Susan.  Her blog is here.