A CHRISTMAS CARD FOR NEXT YEAR!

Hi there!

Did you miss me?

I have been absent for a while but I'm back today with a Christmas card:

I used:

House-Mouse Triple CD (pre-coloured image) and sentiment

Nitwits paper

Glossy Accents

Ribbon and buttons from stash

I feel a shift in my crafting at the moment and I am using more CD Roms which make life so much easier - especially when Mr Mojo is on holiday!!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

House-mouse challenge anything-Christmas'

CD Sunday challenge 'Twas the night before Christmas'

Brown sugar challenge 'anything goes'

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge 'anything goes'

Word art Wednesday 'anything goes'

Inspiration destination challenge blog. 'anything goes'
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge 'anything-goes- Christmas'
Ribbon girls 'any-image-challenge'

Thanks for visiting me today and best wishes for 2017.

Eve

HOUSE-MOUSE CHALLENGE 'CHRISTMAS'

Hello again!

I'm back with my House-Mouse challenge entry 'Christmas' :

I used:

House-Mouse Triple CD (pre-coloured) image

First Edition 'New Bloom' papers

Papermania 'Contemporary Christmas' papers

Pink Petticoat sentiment

Glossy Accents and Wink of Stella

I would also like to enter: Simon Says Stamp blog Monday challenge 'shine bright like a diamond'.

Thanks for stopping by - Friday tomorrow almost the weekend...Yay!

Eve

CD SUNDAY - FATHER CHRISTMAS

Good evening all.

Today's card is my entry for CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE - FATHER CHRISTMAS:

I used:

Crafter's Companion Raymond Briggs 'Father Christmas' CD,

Stampin' Up! Snowflake, gem and paper,

Trimcraft paper,

LOTV sentiment,

Glossy Accents and Stickles

I am really enjoying using CD's to make cards at the moment but there are so many CD's now on my wish list - sigh!

Thanks for visiting me and I will be back shortly with my House-Mouse card!

Eve

HOUSE-MOUSE TRIPLE CD COLLECTION

Hello there!

I have a very quick and easy House-Mouse card today:

I used:

House-Mouse Triple CD Collection (pre-coloured) image and sentiment

Docrafts Papermania Country Life paper

Flowers from stash

Challenges:

cd Sunday challenge 'country living' - hope my gingham paper fits the bill?!

House-Mouse challenge 'branch out'

as you like it challenge 'favourite flowers'    - I like both but bought flowers are so much easier!!

Must dash as one challenges ends in seconds!

Hope you have a fabulous weekend and thanks for visiting.

Eve x

HOUSE-MOUSE AUTUMN

Good evening crafty friends!

I have a House-Mouse card to share with you today:

I used:

House-Mouse Triple CD Collection

Spellbinders Fall Foliage Dies

Buttons and twine from stash

Challenges:

House-Mouse challenge 'autumn'

Creative Corner challenges 'Autumn'

Crafting from the Heart challenge 'anything goes'

lil patch of crafty friends. 'anything goes'

CCC Digi Creations 'three of a kind'

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a fabulous weekend

Eve x

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADU

Hello all!

Something a little different for today's card:

I used:

FREE IMAGE FROM ALL DRESSED UP ' HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADU'

Promarkers

SU Dazzling Diamonds, punches

Pink Petticoat sentiment

First Edition 'Bella Rose' papers

Glossy Accents (which wasn't quite dry at the time of taking the photo!!!)

CHALLENGES:

Cutie Pie challenge #103 '5th birthday'

All Dressed Up challenge 'anything goes (all dressed up image)'

Brown Sugar challenge 'Balloons'

Passion for Promarker challenge 'clean-simple-cas'

Simon Says Stamp blog Wednesday challenge 'clean and simple'

Crafting from the heart challenge 'anything goes'

I enjoyed making this card and trying something different also it was so nice to use a FREE image!

Thanks for visiting.

Eve x

PENNY BLACK 'LABOUR OF LOVE'

Hi there!

I have a Penny Black card to share with you today:

I used:

Penny Black 'Labour of Love' 2363K

Promarkers

Stickles

retired Stampin' Up! butterfly die

Challenges:

Polkadoodle 'anything goes'

Penny Black Saturday challenge 'nature'

Pixies-snippets-playground 'use snippets'

Sweet Stampin challenge 'cute-cuddly'

Promarker challenge 'favourite colour combo' (mine is pink & grey)

Creative Inspirations. 'anything goes with sketch option'

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day!

Eve x

SWEET GINGERBREAD HOUSE

Good afternoon all.

I have a Christmas card for today:

I used:

Digistamp Boutique 'Sweet Gingerbread House' pre-coloured image

papers were free with a magazine ages ago!

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Wink of Stella

Challenges:

Digistamp Boutique August-customer-competition

August-rudolph-days-challenge
Simon Says stamp blog Wednesday challenge
Word Art Wednesday
Inspiration Destination challenge blog
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge
Creative Inspirations

I must dash as one of the challenges ends in minutes!!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

                

Candy Doodles Cupcake

Happy Saturday to you and what a scorcher!

Something a little different today - a cupcake card:

I used:

Polka Doodles 'Candy Doodles' CD

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Challenges:

CD Sunday challenge

Polka Doodles 'anything-goes'
Penny's Paper-Crafty

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

              

Long-Stem Cuties

Good afternoon all!

Here is my card for today:

I used:

Penny Black Long-Stem Cuties 1648K

Promarkers

Tinker N Co paper

Clearly Besotted sentiment

Stampin' Up! Tag Topper Punch

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday

Penny Black Saturday challenge

Short and sweet for me today!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

                  

Penny Black Mighty Wishes

Good morning from a very drizzly Devon :-(

It's back to Penny Black today:

I used:

Penny Black 'Mighty Wishes' 2074J

Promarkers

Forever Friends Kraft Notes papers

Martha Stewart border punch

Stampin' Up! punches and candy dots

Stickles

Pink Petticoat sentiment

Challenges:
Stamping Sensations 'feature a creature'
Penny Black Saturday challenge 'birthdays'
Avenue 613 'anything goes'
lil patch of crafty friends. 'anything goes'
Penny's Paper-Crafty challenge 'anything goes'

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day!

            

House Mouse

Hi there! I'm back with a House Mouse card:

I used:

House Mouse Triple CD Collection

Glossy Accents

Martha Stewart border punch

Forever Friends Kraft Notes papers

Challenges:

Glitter n sparkle challenge 'Flower Power'

CD Sunday challenge 'lets go lilac'

House Mouse Challenge 'something-old nothing-new' (my backing papers are very old!)

Crafty Catz weekly challenge 'get-ready-for-summer'

I used to think that it was in some way cheating to use CD's for card making until I saw Pauline's stunning work and realised that it is not just a matter of printing things off and sticking them down but you can do so much more with them. So I say embrace the CD's and print away!!

Thanks for stopping by!

                  

Harvest Mouse

Happy Monday - I hope that you are enjoying your Bank Holiday weekend and the sun is shining for you!

Here is my card for today:

I thought that I would have a change from Penny Black and I used:

MFT Harvest Mouse stamps and dies

MFT Blueprints 14

Stampin' Up! retired papers, twine, punches (for the sentiment) and wooden embelishments

Promarkers

Pink Petticoat sentiment

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp blog 'anything goes'

Bunny Zoes crafts 'lovely-layers'

As you like it challenge 'favourite big or little bows and why'  as a rule I like little bows as big bows are too bulky to fit in an envelope!

Sparkles forum challenge 'animal-magic'

Fussy and fancy challenge 'dies and or punches'

Strawberry planting is on the agenda today so hopefully in time I will have lots of lovely fresh strawberries to eat - yum!

Hope you have a fabulous day.

                 

Penny Black Floating Dreams

Hello there.

I hope that you are having a lovely weekend.

Here is my card for today:

I used:

Penny Black 'Floating Dreams' 1645K

Promarkers

Stampin' Up! Papers, twine, rotary stamp (for the sentiment), candy dots and Crystal Effects

Martha Stewart border punch

Glamour Dust

Challenges:

Glitter n sparkle challenge 'anything goes'

Penny Black Saturday challenge 'masculine'

Passion for Promarkers challenge 'spot or stripes'

I love Promarkers 'anything goes'

Pixies Snippets Playground 'use snippets'

Allsorts challenge 'Happy 7th Birthday Allsorts'

I have had a very productive day today - digging over the (very small) veg patch and planting my runner beans, cleaning and lots of washing on the line drying. Life is so much better when the sun shines!!

Thanks for stopping by.

                     

Watercolor Words

Hi there!

As promised I have a change from Penny Black today!:

I used:

Stampin' Up!:  WATERCOLOR WORDS SENTIMENT, English Garden DSP, card stock, twine and ink,

Die-namics Blueprint 14 (JULES made me buy it.....well she didn't actually MAKE me but I was persuaded after seeing it on her blog!!!)

Challenges:

Avenue 613. 'anything goes'

Simon Says Stamp blog. Wednesday challenge 'flowers'

lil patch of crafty friends. 'anything goes'

Chocolate coffee cards. 'just-us-girls'

Cuttlebug mania 'may-flowers'

So that's my card for today. Right I'm going to squeeze in one more card before Posy (my puppy) wakes up!!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a fabulous day.

Dazzling!

Happy Saturday and a glorious one it is too!

Here is my card for today:

I used:

Penny Black Dazzling! 2362J

Promarkers

Stampin' Up! Punches, Crystal Effects and oval die

Stickles

Papermania Happy Birthday to You papers

Glamour Dust

Challenges:

SKETCH SATURDAY

PASSION FOR PROMARKERS

PENNY BLACK SATURDAY

AS YOU LIKE IT (favourite patterned or embossed paper) mine has to be patterned as there are so many beautiful patterned papers to choose from!

PENNY'S PAPER CRAFTY CHALLENGE

BUNNY ZOE'S CRAFTS

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Oh! and just in case you are totally bored of Penny Black hopefully my next card will be something different!!

Penny Black Winter Snuggles!

Hello there!

I have another Penny Black card to share with you today:

I used:

Penny Black 'Winter Snuggles' 2999J

Promarkers

Crystal Effects

LOTV paper and sentiment

Stickles and Glamour Dust

Snowflakes from stash

Die-Namics Blueprint 8 (Friend die)

chalk around the image (thank you Jules for that tip!!)

I am really enjoying using my Penny Black stamps again - sorry if you are bored of them!!

Thank you for visiting me today.

Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra  'anything goes Christmas'

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas 'anything goes Christmas'

Stamping Sensations  'anything goes' (3rd entry)

Penny Black at allsorts.  'anything goes' (3rd entry)

Penny Black Saturday challenge.  'April showers'

Sketch Saturday:  (I rotated it)

Penny Black Strawberry Jam

Good morning lovely blog people and happy bank holiday Monday!

I have a Penny Black card to share with you today:

I used:

Penny Black 'Strawberry Jam 4254J'

Promarkers

Die-Namics Wonky Stitch Rectangles

Stampin' Up! Sweet Li'l Things papers and Crystal Effects

Pink Petticoat sentiment

Ribbon from The Ribbon Girl (I think!)

My puppy Posy is getting easier to look after now so when she has her morning nap I try and get some crafting squeezed in. It really is like having a newborn baby!!

Thanks for visiting me today and I hope you have a lovely extra day to your weekend.

Challenges:

PENNY BLACK AT ALLSORTS  'ANYTHING GOES'

ALLSORTS CHALLENGE  'WITH A CHERRY ON TOP' (FRUIT OR BERRIES)

SIMON SAYS STAMP CHALLENGE  'ANYTHING GOES'

PASSION FOR PROMARKERS 'MAKE IT DIGITAL' (MY SENTIMENT)

FUSSY AND FANSY  'FEMALE BIRTHDAYS'

THE CUTIE PIE CHALLENGE BLOG  'WOODLAND FRIENDS'

AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE 'FAVOURITE ANIMAL AND WHY' out of all the Penny Black animals it HAS to be hedgehogs as they are just so cute!

CRAFT YOUR PASSION  'ANYTHING GOES

THE RIBBON GIRL  'ANYTHING GOES'

SKETCH SATURDAY:

Snowy Postbox

Hi there, I have a Christmas card to share with you today:

After making my card I decided to add some Stampin' Up! Crystal Effects to the Postbox:

Looks a lot better don't you think?

I WANT TO LIVE IN THAT HOUSE!!!!

I used:

Delicious Doodles 'Snowy Postbox'

1 Promarker!

Stampin' Up! Crystal Effects

Glamour Dust

Pink Petticoat sentiment

Challenges:

The Ribbon Girl challenge 'April-any-image'

Creative Inspirations '2 favourite things' (mine is Crystal Effects and Glamour Dust)

Glitter 'N' Sparkle 'red and white'

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge 'anything goes Christmas'

It seems a bit weird making a Christmas card when there is gorgeous sunshine outside but it is one less to make nearer the time!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a lovely day.