Be prepared to be dazzled!

Hello there.
As my blog titled says today's card is a dazzler!
Ready?

 Told you!!
Here is another angle:

I used some fabric paper that I bought from a craft show and stitched it to my card - the less said about my stitching the better!
The butterfly was heat embossed with white embossing powder. The sentiment and butterfly is from Clearly Besotted called Butterfly Wishes.

I have mentioned on my other blog about problems with blogger, well there seems to be on going issues my latest is that I can't see the blogs that I follow - weird!

I hope that you are having a lovely day and thank you for stopping by.
Eve x
Challenges:
Case this Sketch  (1 day left)
Fusion Card Challenge   (1 day left)
Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge   'Monochromatic' (7 days left)
Clearly Besotted Challenge 'Anything Goes'  (1 day left)

Penny Black 'Teed Up'

Good morning lovely blog people!

I have been neglecting my PB hedgies and all my other non Stampin Up stamps lately so I thought that I'd better put that right. ( Juggling two blogs is hard to get a balance.)
Anyway here is my card for today:

I used:
Penny Black 'Teed Up' stamp
ProMarkers
Glamour dust
SU candy dots, sentiment and word punches
Sizzix EF
LOTV 'Candles & Cake' paper

Well my youngest exams are all over - YIPEE!!  But it does seem very strange now that I haven't got any more 'children' in school! College is the next step for him after a long summer break.

I hope that you are enjoying the lovely weather we are having and thanks for visiting today.

Eve x
Challenges:
Penny Black Saturday challenge 'Boys, Boys, Boys'  (11 days left)
Sketch Saturday 'follow the sketch'  (4 days left )
Stampin Sensations  'Animal Antics'  (9 days left)
Bunny Zoe's Crafts blog June-challenge-layers  (20 days left)
My Mums Craft Shop Challenge ink-it-up  (7 days left)
The Tiny Blue Butterfly Birthday Candy  (29 days left)

Too Much Pink?!!

Hello there.

You may need sun glasses on for today's card   - ready?!

Told you!!

Now I'm not really a pink person as purple is my colour so I'm not sure about this one!

I used IndigoBlu 'Love Is' stamp with SU butterflies and embossing folder.

It's been a very busy week as I have a craft stall on Saturday so I've been making things for that. Also stress levels have been high as my youngest son is taking his GCSE's but he finishes on Friday - YIPEE!

On the 'chicken front' they have all settled now but have been laying soft eggs :(
Hopefully this has been resolved with a calcium supplement - it's a complicated business chicken keeping!!
Anyway I hope you have recovered  from the glare of my card today and thanks for stopping by!
Eve x
Challenges:
Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge  'Butterfly Bingo' ( mine is PINK!, butterflies and dry embossing. ( 6 days left )
IndigoBlu blog challenge 'monochromatic'  ( 8 days left )

Cute Baby Christening

Good afternoon!
I bet you didn't expect to see me back so quickly. Well I thought that I'd better come back a bit more 'card happy'!
So here is my more happy card:

I think that this is a bit more my style and yes you might even say that I'm happy with it - Yay!!
I used:
DigiStamp Boutique 'Cute Baby Christening' image and sentiment
ProMarkers
Gel pen
Docrafts 'New Arrival' paper
SU word punches
MS border punch
Doodlebug 'Paper Frills' which I bought ages ago and seem to last forever!

So that is finally it from me today - I will moan no more!!
Eve x
Challenges:
DigiStamp Boutique blog customer competition  ( 2 hours left )
Sketch Saturday  'any sketch from 215-311'  mine is # 249   ( 6 days left )
Simon Says Stamp blog challenge  'anything goes'  (3 days left)

To bin or not to bin - that is the question!!

Good morning lovely blog people!
I am not sure whether today's card is worthy of showing - I will let you be the judge.
The reasons being:
 I have cased it from the super talented Jennifer McGuire and it went a bit wrong! Here is a link to her card and video
As you can see the fold is not write and mine looks a bit rubbish!!
The second reason is that someone who has entered the same challenge at Clearly Besotted had the same idea and also cased Jennifer's card and hers looks amazing :(

Here is the card in question!

I used the Clearly Besotted stamp set and dies. (Bravely cutting the sentiment in two!)

There seems to be a problem with my 'card happiness' at the moment - hopefully things will improve soon!
Thanks for visiting my blog today and putting up with my moaning!
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Eve x

Happy Man Birthday!

Hi there!
I have not made many male birthday cards so I made this:

Let's play spot the mistake on today's card -
I smudged the white gel pen on the right hand side so I covered it with some gems but you can still see a bit if you look closely. Ah well!

For this card I used:
Nitwits LOTV 'Candles & Cake' paper
Die Versions Happy Birthday die

Isn't it just so frustrating when you get to the end of your card and muck it up?!
I think that I might have to put something over the top.

Thank you for stopping by today and hopefully I'll be back soon with a card that I am happy with!

Challenges:
Less Is More  'use a die cut'  1 day left 
Simon Says stamp blog challenge  'anything goes'  5 days left

Beach Cottages

Hello everyone.

I'm back with another card here although I do feel a bit bad about neglecting my other Stampin Up! blog - will have to rectify that shortly.

For this card I used:
Pink Petticoat papers and image 'Beach Cottage'
ProMarkers
Wink of Stella pen (a little too heavy handed!!) I'm thinking of renaming my blog 'Cards & Criticism'!!
Stickles
Sequins
Ribbon

Well my house martins seem to have 'moved on' as they weren't back this morning. I can't say that I am disappointed - mean I know!! Let's just hope that they have found another 'happy home'!!

Well thank you for stopping by my blog today and hope that you have a great rest of the week.
Eve x

Challenges:
Sketch and Stash challenge   'follow the sketch and state which new or neglected item used' my new items are the image and papers - I bought them a while ago but have only just got around to using them so I suppose you could say that they are also neglected!!  (19 days left)
Simon Says Stamp blog challenge  'Vacation/Travel'  I chose vacation!!  (18 hours left)