A few family piccies for you

I thought it had been a while since i shared some piccies with you, so here are a few for you to have a nosey at, i hope you will like them,

Here is my kyle he is 2 now,the cheeky mare nicked the biscuit barrel lol.Alex(5) and kyle(2) at mama's
Me and my mum at one of our bbq's My hubby dan doing the bbq on his new toy that cost us a small fortune and apparently was worth every penny!!
Me and my dad on a nite out on the townMe and dan havin a cuddleKyle doing his sportacus moves bless him, Alex and kyle, arent they just beautiful? of course im biased but i think they are smashing, I hope you have enjoyed looking at them, i thought it was time to share something besides my crafty stuff.

Off side

I got a new digi from jenni "AKA" the cardmadfairy, isnt he fab, as ive been asked for a few male cards of late i thought id better make a start on some and this is one of them,I left it fairly plain as i do most of my male cards, to give it a bit of bling i glittered the edges with my stickles,

challenges*

1. dream valley - old and new (papers are old digi is new)
2.osaat - anything goes

3.passion 4 promarkers - teen

recipe*

6x6 card blank

papermania papers

digi from cardmadfairy

stickles

dovecraft cardboard embelly

craftworkcards sentiment

dovecraft brads

oval plain an scalloped nesties

promarkers

Ive a few cards to share with you see be sure to pop by and have a nosey lol

Take heart

Ive got the most lovely stamps cant remember the brand !!!

but i thought they looked nice just on a plain embossed card, what do you think? I used a 6x6 scalloped card blank and embossed the sides with my funky purple embossing board, popped some satin white ribbon on and used my green glitter sakura pen, then i found out some old pale green gems for the corners,

The sentiment was stamped using versafine ink in yep greem again lol.

The text says " take heart....all will be well in time" as you cant see it all that well despite a million attempts to get a good photo,

Challenges

* craft your days away - white plus 1

*charisma - under the weather

Today ive got a friend of mines daughters birthday party to go to, im quite looking forward to it,

so when the other half gets out of bed i think we shall go out for a bit with the boys then ill have to find out what to wear and try do something with my hair lol.

Have a fabby weekend guys xxx

cardmadfairy's digi days ~ One for the boys

This time over at cardmadfairy's digi days we are looking for male themed cards, so its aptly named "one for the boys"

here is my card using one of the new digi's over at cardmadfairy digi days shop.Our sponsor is meiflower and she is giving us a £10 voucher

I would like to enter this into a frw challenges,

* Passion 4 promarkers - card for a teen
*Cards for men - someone special

*Crafty creations - anything goes

*Secret craft sat chall - Dust of your old stash (blue gems been hidden away for least 12 months)

*Here come the boys - anything goes

eye eye captain

I am in real need of some male cards and as im lacking in the male type papers i thought id make one like this with my textured card stock, The centre image is from the kanban range and looks fab,

Its a very simple design,mainly using my sakura pen, martha stewart punch and some coloured card stock, sentiment and candy from craft work cards and my distress inks for the edges.

Challenges for this card are:

Penny's challenge 53-anything goes

Crafts and me - punches

Crafty creations - anything goes

My time to craft - scallops

Pollycraft - boys to men

Papertake weekly - fancy a punch

I really enjoyed making this card, now it doesnt have a stamp on but still lovely i think lol

Distressed/vintage

Gosh how time flies, we are onto yet another challenge over at creative craft challenges, this week hosted by the lovely aly,

Pop over and see if you are our lucky winner or one of our top 3.s !!!

Our theme this week is as it says on the tin lol

DISTRESSED/VINTAGE now you can do one of those or be brave and do both, we dont mind.

Here is my dodgy attempt lol, i used the lace heart from our digi sponsor meljen designOur prizes this week are

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Meljen designs


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Lily of the valley

with a £10 voucher to thier store
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And crafty individuals

And a digi from doodle pantry for each of our top 3

How fab is that!!!!

going purple crazy

I made this card for a young friend of mines 18th birthday, she likes to think she is a goth bless her, me being 30 now i consider myself a little old to know whats what with teenage fashion and hype lol.
I know she loves black and have heard her talk about purple so here we are. the recipe for this as you can see was very simple, No pretty papers were used, just some black shiny pearlescent card and some purple linen paper. I inked up the flowers into black and purple but they look a bit grey in piccie :-(
The layout i designed myself rather than my usual way of following a sketch, and the sentiment was from craftwork cards. brads of course were dove craft and voila.

There are a few challenges i want to enter this into if i may,

DYSU - purple
Creative inspirations - digi day
Fab n funky - put those papers away
Papertake weekly - anything goes
ABC - T for two images
Pear tree - free for all
dream valley - flowers
By the cute and girly - MAY chall, anything goes
One stop _ in stitches

B.I.N.G.O

Here is another card that was ordered from me the other day, Yep ya guessed it they wanted bingo!!!

To be honest my mojo had up and done a runner so i struggled as any card maker will probably tell, but as they werent they loved it lol,*Recipe*

flippin stamps

promarkers

bingo card printed of pc

red gala dobber lol

glossy accents

brads

sakura pen

papers from tea house stack

green card stock

6x6 card blank

*Challenges entered*

1.i love promarkers - song title (B-I-N-G-O) lol

2.ABC challenges - T for 2 or more images

3.Papertake weekly - anything goes

male 21st card

I was asked to make this card for a friends brothers 21st, the requirements were cars and guitars, an if poss beatles as in the band, as you can see i couldnt get hold of
a decent image of them to use so stuck with the first 2 option,

I was in a bit of a dither wandering what to do, and was running out of dst, but i remembered my coloured staples i bought ages ago so got them out instead, so holding all the papers on are bronze coloured staples and they held excellently if i do say so myself lol,

Here is my card:

And a close up of my stapling work of art lol,Recipe*
patterned card from a friend
ribbon from craft central
staples from home bargains
digital image from stamping dragon designs
car from sheet of die cuts
stickles peel offs and glossy accents
black and blue card stock
oval plain and scallop nesties

Challenges entered*
Pear tree - free for all

Pollycraft - anything goes

Cupcake craft - something beginning with C(car)

Here come the boys - anything goes (first challenge)

Craft your days away - music an dance (guitar) (they are also having a dt call at the moment)

and want to see an old card already been on your blog that you consider one of your faves,

This is mine, not sure really if picked right one i just love the colours and the sparkle,

So thats an offering for today, hope you like it

ATC challenges first ever challenge

It is their very first challenge over at atc challenges, and to make it easy they have chosen anything goes, now im a complete novice on atc's and this is only the 2rd in almost 3 years ive ever made,
but to get me into it a bit and give them some extra advertisement i thought id have a go!!!!
so here it is!!!!
what do you think? i kept it simple as i dont really know what to do with space that small lol,

Recipe*

red card stock
die cut butterfly
silver liquid pearls
stickles
sakura pen
stamp from stash

so thats it, i hope to have more practices with these little blighters lol, pop over to atc challenges and have a go yourself.

cardmadfairy's digi days ~ Weddings

The success of our new challenge blog cardmadfairy's digi days has been fantastic, in part because of all our fabulous sponsors and entrants but also because of jenni's amazing digi's.

The challenge this time of course has to be no other than

"wedding"

Any brit will no why and maybe lots of others too,I got to use a digi from our sponsor "whoopsi daisy"

And isnt she a beauty!!!!!Ive tried to show you the lovely sparkle on her dress but it still hasnt shown to great, i used lace stickles and my promarkers to add some very pale pink to give the dress a slight bit of colour,
I would very much like to enter this card into several challenges if i may,

Challenges**

crafty sentiment-royal wedding

crafts and me-vintage/distressed

A spoonful of sugar-a right royal knees up

incy wincy-buttons and bows

stampin for the weekend-wedding

totally papercrafts-glitter

crafty catz-congratulations

Recipe**

dovecraft wedding paper pack

digital image bride from whoopsie daisy

digital image sentiment from cardmadfairy

white grossgrain from stampin up

dovecraft brad

pink card

woodware button

silver twine

white sakura pen for faux stitching

stickles in lace

I hope you like it, and be sure to pop over take a look at the dt's work

A bit of bacardi

I was asked to make a card with bacardi and a music theme from a wife to her husband and i must admit i was a little scared!!! as in all the craft shops ive ever been in ive never seen anything bacardi lol, so it was of to google to have a nosey round, to be honest i never thought it would look any good but thats what she wanted, so i tried my very best to do something decent and this was the result!!Here is a close up of the front, i put a little heart charm on it for that emotional element, and the wording was copied word for word from what she waanted written and printed off my laptop

I am entering this card into the following challenges

1. 
   
   Cards for men - Circles


2. 
   
   The crafty pad - Circles


3. 
   
   OCC - Easel cards

Recipe**

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  Dovecraft papers for men


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  oval nesties plain and scallop


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  whie sakura


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  A5 card blank


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  white grossgrain from stamping up


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  die cut piccies from craft central


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  blue/gold shimmer card


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  card candy from craftwork cards


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  metal heart charm from meiflower


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  fiskars ribbon border punch


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  sentiment computer generated


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  silver/grey pearl paper


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  jump rings


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  bacardi piccie of google

And there you have it! what do you think? i hope you like it as its turned out much better than i imagined lol

Recycle it !!!!!

Its abother challenge over at creative craft challenges and we are going green, no i dont mean the colour lol i mean recycle,

Our embossing challenge was a hit and we are hoping to see similar again guys.

Here is my recycling project, which is a pair of earrings made from several other bits of old or broken jewellery,

Our sponsors for this challenge are crafty ribbons and they are offering that lovely bundle of ribbons And some odd girl who are giving 3 digi's

we are offering a 1 month GDT spot also

And our lovely aly is offering a small embellishment pack to the winner of our top 3.

Pear tree and colourful

Ive not been around much lately have i !!!!!!

with easter holidays hubby has been home, and he is a misery when it comes to my crafting :-o he doesnt feel the crafting love as i do, so ive not made anything for almost a week, and i can tell you im having serious withdrawals lol,

I thought id pop in briefly and show you this bright bracelet i made for my mum, she loves bright stuff espesh oranges.

I thought id enter it into the pear tree challenge as well as the theme is bright

i used cracked glass beads for this, all of which i got from ebay lol

bye for now happy crafters xxx

Easter sale on digi's at cardmadfairy creations

jenni aka the cardmadfairy has an amazing sale on starting midnight thurs 21st till th 25th april, all her wonderfull digi'd are buy one get one free, and seeing as they are only 99p in the first place thats pretty fabulous, have a nosey here and see her lovely digi,s and remember if you use them in her challenge blog you can enter as many times as you like,

lots of layers for cupcake

Wow havent we had a lovely weekend, well we have here in derbyshire anyway lol, we walked to my mums for dinner yesterday, its about 2 mile each way, so that was lovely but alex (5) found it tiring lol.

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Anyway here is todays offering for you, another decoupage card, ive found these style go down very well at the local where folks keep asking for them.

A close up of the embossed card, i absolutely love the swirls folder, and hopefully you can see whare ive put my fave glossy accents on the lights and the models piccies in back ground, and glittered up the ladies dress.Challenges**

1. Cupcake......lots of layers(decoupaged)


2. Incy wincy......bright and bold ( i think it is as ive got lots of bright colours on green/yellow/pink etc)


3. craft your passion......use dots (gems/liquid pearls/accented lights)


4. Cute card thurs......weather inspired ( now you may wonder why i think this is weather inspired but let me fill you in,most of us ladies inc myself start to feel the need to look extra good when the sun is shining dont ya think, like getting your hair done hence my interpretation lol)


5. Crafts and me.......ribbon


6. Papetake weekly........truly dimensional

My recipe**

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  swirls cuttlebug folder


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  grossgrain ribbon


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  glossy accents


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  decoupage sheet ?


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  liquid pearls


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  green pearl gems


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  yellow and green card green inks