Sunday 30 December 2012

My Favourite Five of 2012....

Hiya all...Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and now looking forward to seeing in the new year.
We had a fabulous Christmas over at my Mum and Dads, was really lovely to all spend time together just chilling out and catching up.I had  few new crafty goodies, so a happy bunny and have Christmas money to spend...now will I spend it on more crafty goodies or something else decisions, decisions lol...

I,m joining in again this year with the lovely talented Debby, to share My Favourite Five of 2012.


Can't believe how long this took for me to decide my favourite 5....Oops 6, sorry Debby just couldn't get it to 5.

Love the soft colours of these gorgeous My Minds Eye papers and these two little birdies are so adorable...Wee Stamps-Bird Swing... Original post here


Now I couldn't have a favourite 5 without a fab Digi Stamp Boutique image, was so hard choosing.
This one was made for my wonderful hubby for Valentines Day using the adorable Barney and heart..Original post here


If I had to chose my favourite stamp, it would probably be this  LOTV one called Never Too for a Hug, it's sooooo adorable and loving all the gorgeous First Edition paper pads, seem to have collected a few throughout 2012. Original post here.


I am so excited to have found Di's Digi Downloads, I have totally fallen in love with all of Di's gorgeous and adorable images and will be using lot's more throughout 2013.I love the colours on this one and was pleased with my clouds. Original post here


Another one using a Di's Digi Download called Mouse with love, pleased with the colouing on this one. Loving all the MFT Die-namics dies, this Pretty Posies flower die is one of my favourites. Orignal post here 


And  finally this one was a commissioned card, was asked to make a 70th Birthday card for someone who loves teddy's, but not too girly, thankfully it was loved. Orignal post here

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Wendy xx

Monday 24 December 2012

My Favourite Five Christmas Cards of 2012....

Hiya all...Christmas eve already that seemed to come round quickly, so looking forward to spending some relaxing time with the family, we are off to my Mum & Dad's in the morning...Can't wait.

It's that time off year again to join the lovely talented Debby in sharing our favourite five Christmas cards of 2012...This was a little easier this year for me as I didn't seem to make that many lol..



This one was made for my Mum and Dad, using a adorable image from Di's Digi Downloads called Snowman Carol...So love all of Di's images...Post Here.



Love this cute owl called Christmas Winston from Digistamp Boutique, this one I gave to my wonderful hubby...Post Here



Another fabulous Digistamp Boutique image called Percy and Snowman, just so cute and loved the colours on this one....Post Here



Made this one for a good friend of mine, love my fab new Marianne Tree die, will be coming back out next year too. Another one of Di's adorable images used called Ted's teddy Snownman....Post Here


Isn't she adorable, Christmas Angel..Love everyone's Saturated Canary cards I see around blogland using the very talented Krista's images but feel my colouring  is not enough, but was quite pleased with this one, love the fabulous papers and gorgeous snowflake which I picked up in Morrisons....Post Here


Wishing you all a Merry Christmas...hope you have a good one.

Hugs

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Fab'n'Funky DT card #152 ~ Add Ribbon and/or Lace...


Hiya all...Not long now then till the big day, can't believe it's only 6 more sleeps, the children are getting very excited and there's so much going on at school I'm having a job to remember what's happening what day lol... 

We have our last Challenge of 2012 over at Fab'Funky
This week our lovely talented Sue has chosen the theme...

Add Ribbon and/or Lace

Our fabulous sponsor is...


The lucky winner will receive a £10 Voucher

This challenge will end on the 30th December and we will be back with our first challenge of 2013 on the 9th January.

Yay! This is my last Christmas card of 2012 and is for my wonderful Mum & Dad, hope they like it.
Right next year I really MUST start my Christmas makes much earlier, had to sent out quite a few brought cards and never got the treat bags made that I had planned...had enough now!


I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
Anything Goes Challenge #82 ~ Traditional Christms Colours
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge ~All that Glitters
Digital Tuesday Challenge #91 ~ Layers
Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Pick of the Year.....(Anything Goes)
Sparkles Monthly Challenges #39 ~ Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges #47 ~ Christmas (3rd entry)

Items used
Di's Digi Downloads ~ Snowman Carol coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
Dovercraft Back to Basics Vintage papers, ribbon & gems
Martha Stewart border punch ~Aspen Snowflake
Snowflake dec from Morrisions
Nesties
Stickles ~Frosted Lace
Craftwork Cards sentiment
lace, string & charm from stash

Pop over to FNF to see my teamies gorgeous creations....Lot's of fabulous inspiration, can't wait to see your's.

Not sure if I will be doing another post now till after Christmas so would like to wish you all...

A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A VERY HAPPY HEALTHY CRAFTY 2013

Have fun!
Big hugs xx


Monday 17 December 2012

More Quick Christmas Cards....


Hiya all...Hope your weekend went well!

We have had a busy one celebrating Katie's 9th Birthday, we had 3 of her school friends over Friday night for a birthday tea, Dvd and playing on the Wii and all seemed to have a great time... phew!
And Saturday my friend and her two boys came to visit for the day, so lots more excitement and goodies to eat.

Please tell me I'm not the only one to be so NOT organised for Christmas, feeling really bad about sending out so many shop brought Christmas cards this year and not wrapped anything yet.

Here are a few quickly cards made using images already coloured from Digistamp Boutique ~ Simply for Christmas A4 set, great when not much time left ...like me. The fab papers are from Pink Petticoat ~ Christmas Kraft Organics , love these. Also loving my Josy Rose hot fix wand to add my Nail Heads.


I would like to enter this card ( top one) into the following Challenges
Charisma Cardz Challenge #49 ~ Christmas Makes
Inky Impressions #89 ~ Use Something Old...Ribbon (2nd entry)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #106 ~ Something New...Image & papers (2nd entry)

DigiStamp Boutique Customer Competition ~ December (5th entry)


I would like to enter this card (above) into Challenge
Stamping Sensations ~ Treemendous



Catch up with you all tonight, better make a start on my wrapping now whilst they are at school.

Thanks for stopping by xx 

Sunday 16 December 2012

Ready-Teddy-Go Challenge Reminder ~ Clean and Simple

Good morning all...Just popped on with a reminder of our great Challenge over at



Our theme this month is ...

Clean & Simple

Remember to use a teddy bear/bear as your main image and you can enter up to 4 times, so plenty of chances to win...Have Fun

Do hope you will play along with us this month, you could be the lucky winner of this fantastic prize from our fabulous sponsor...







Enjoy the weekend and thanks for stopping by.



Friday 14 December 2012

Totally Papercrafts DT card #147 ~ Lisa's Sketch.....

Hiya all...Sorry I have not been to visit you all very much this week, it's just flying by what with it being Katie's birthday and trying to get organised for Christmas....just not enough hours in the day.

 We have a great new Challenge for you over at
  Totally Papercrafts
This week our lovely Lisa has a fab sketch for us all.

Our fabulous Sponsor this week is...

DigiStamp Boutique

I was very lucky to be able to choose a Digistamp Boutique digi image to have a play with, couldn't resist Christmas Winston, just soooo cute. This card is for my hubby, hope he likes it, will give it to him after all Katie's birthday celebrations have finished.


I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
I Love Promarkers #47 ~ One for the Boys
Inky Impressions #89 ~ Use Something Old...Ribbon & raffia
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #106 ~  Something New...image & papers
Crafts and Me Challenges #114 ~ No Blues
Dream Valley Challenges #47 ~ Christmas (2nd entry)
Here Comes the Boys #42 ~ Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge ~ Snowflakes (2nd entry)
love to Create Challenge #45 ~ Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Ladybug Crafts Challenge #4 ~ Christmas and/or Winter (3rd entry)

Digistamp Boutique customer competition ~ December (4th entry)

Items used
Digistamp Boutique digi ~ Christmas Winston coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
Pink Petticoat digi papers ~ Christmas Kraft Organics & Organics Kraft Pack
Nesties
Josy Rose Nail Heads
Stickles ~ Frosted Lace
Cradftwork Cards sentiment & card blank
Ribbon & raffia from stash


Here is Lisa's fabulous sketch

Do hope you will play along too....Pop over to TPC to see my teamies gorgeous creations for lots of fabulous inspiration.

Hope you have a lovely weekend xx

Wednesday 12 December 2012

Divas by Design DT card #65 ~ Use Some Red........

Hiya all..It's my little baby's 9th birthday today, can't believe how quickly  those years have gone.Happy Birthday Katie...Love you lot's xxx

We have a great new Challenge for you over at Divas by Design
and the theme is....

Use Some Red

Our fabulous sponsor this week is...

Di's DigiDownloads

Love this cute little penguin called Percy from Digistamp Boutique, this card was made for my friend to give her little boy.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges
Stampin for the Weekend #23 ~ Snow
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge ~ Snowflakes
Cupcake Craft Challenge #222 ~ Merry Christmas
The Cutie Pie Challenge #33 ~ Cutie Christmas
Party Time Tuesday's Challenge #98 ~ Kids Christmas
Love to Create Challenge #45 ~ Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin ~ Dies & Punches
Dream Valley Challenges #47 ~ Christmas
Here Come the Boys #42 ~ Anything Goes
Sarah Hurley Challenge #75 ~ Christmas
Ladybug Crafts #4 ~ Christmas/Winter (2nd entry)


Items used
Digistamp Boutique digi ~ Percy and Snowball coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
The Clipart Fairy papers ~ a bit bit of red
Marianne snowflake dies
Whimsy Stamps Corner die
Martha Sterwart border punch
Nesties
Josy Rose ~ Nail Heads

Do hope you will play along with us...Pop over to Divas to see my teamies gorgeous makes for some fabulous inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by xx

Sunday 9 December 2012

Joanna Sheen Challenge ~ With Love at Christmas.....

Good morning all...Hello and welcome to my new followers, so pleased to have you join me :) Thank you... Hope your weekend is going well.
I  can't believe we now only have just over two weeks till Christmas...OMG and still not made all my cards, me thinks I will have to give in and send some brought ones...shame on me. We had our school Christmas Fair yesterday afternoon and our daughter was singing with the choir, was a really lovely Christmassy feel in the room and then Katie and her class played their Trumpets and Clarinets... bless them they have not been learning for very long, but they did really well.

Anyway I'm here today to let you know about our great new Challenge over at...
The theme is...

With Love at Christmas

This challenge will end on Thursday 10th January-as this is a month long challenge and seeing as it is Christmas the random winner of this challenge will receive a £30 Joanna Sheen Gift Voucher!

I was sent some of the Out of the Hutch Christmas Decoupage sheets, such adorable guinea pig images, you get 20 sheets of decoupage (2x10 Designs) for only £7.99, they are on a offer you save £2.00. The paper I have used is by Jennifer Ellory and called Berry Merry, it came free with a copy of Cardmaking & Papercraft and all the other bits are from my stash.

I am going to give this card to our daughter, she loves guinea's and has quite a collection in her bedroom, the soft toy kind not real ones lol...


I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
Cute Card Thursday #246 ~ Red and Green!
Charisma Cardz Challenge #48 ~ Christmas
Delightful Challenges ~ All about Christmas
Card Crafters Circle #52 ~ December Celebrations!
Craft Challenge #184~ Christmas(2nd entry)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #105 ~ Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Love to Create Challenge #44 ~ Holiday Cheer (3rd entry)

Do hope you will play along with us...Pop over to see the rest of the DT creations, such gorgeous projects and so much inspiration....This is our last Challenge for 2012, we will be back on Sunday 13th January with a fabulous new challenge for you.

Thanks for stopping by xx

Friday 7 December 2012

Totally Papercrafts DT card #146 ~ One for the Boys.....


Good morning all...It's time for a new Challenge over at 
And our lovely Sue has chosen the theme....


One For The Boy's

Our fabulous sponsor this week is...


The lucky winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to spend in store

I am still making Christmas cards, will really have to try harder next year to start them MUCH earlier.
This cute little penguin card is for our Son, just noticed it has no sentiment... Oops will add one.



I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
I Love Promarkers #146 ~ Anything Goes
Penny's Paper- Crafty Challenge #105 ~ Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenges #113 ~ Anything Goes
Craft Challenge #184 ~ Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges #46 ~ Non Traditional Christmas (2nd entry)
The Stamping Boutique #61 ~ Holiday Cards (2nd enty)
Love to Create Challenge #44 Christmas Cheer (2nd entry)


Items used
Digistamp Boutique digi ~ Percy Set - Percy Skating coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
The Clipart Fairy digi papers ~ a little bit of blue
Martha Stewart border punch ~ Cherish
Marianne tree die
Nesties
Josy Rose Nail Heads

For lot's of great inspiration pop over to TPC to see my teamies gorgeous makes..
Look forward to seeing yours.

Enjoy the weekend xx

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Fab'n'Funky DT card #150 ~ Non Traditional Christmas Colours.....

Good morning all...Thank you to everyone who joined us with our 3rd Birthday celebrations at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and congrats to all the lucky winners.

It's now time for a new challenge and our lovely Ciska has chosen the theme...

Non  Traditional Christmas Colours

Our fabulous sponsors this week are...


(Pop over to FNF for prize details)


The lucky winner will receive a $10 voucher to spend in store



I'm fast running out of time to make all the Christmas cards I need, so have used some cute already coloured images from DigiStamp Boutique, just added a bit of Stickles and made a few (8 so far) all the same style using three out of the 6 different images you receive from the Simply for Christmas A4 set. The snowflakes are made using Marianne dies and  had fun using my Josy Rose hot fix wand to add the fab Nail Heads.



I would like to enter this card (Snowman one) into the following Challenges
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge ~ Snowmen or Ladies
Digital Tuesday Challenge #189 ~ Non Traditional Christmas
Cute Card Thursday #245 ~ Snowflakes
Dream Valley Challenges #46 ~ Non Traditional Christmas
Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique #61 ~ Holiday Cards
Love to Create Challenge #44 ~ Holiday Cheer
Charima Cardz Challenge #47 ~ Christmas with a Twist
Ladybug Crafts Challenge #4 ~ Christmas and/or Winter
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge ~ Let it Snow (old things embossing folders & Snowflake dies)-2 entry



And two more, the same but not lol...



Pop over to FNF  to see my teamies gorgeous creations for lots of great inspiration...Look forward to seeing yours.

Thanks for stopping by xx

Saturday 1 December 2012

Ready-Teddy-Go Challenge DT card #17 ~ Clean & Simple........

Hiya all...Can't believe it's the 1st December already, where does the time go.....
I promised myself I would be more organised this year with my Christmas cards and I have failed miserably 
Oops going to have to buy some again.

We have a fabulous new Challenge for you over at...........



Our theme this month is ...

Clean & Simple

Remember to use a teddy bear/bear as your main image and you can enter up to 4 times, so plenty of chances to win...Have Fun

The adorable bear is Milton in Hat from Wild Rose Studio, coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers with some stickles added for a bit of sparkle.
I seem to struggle with CAS cards, I really wanted to add some snowflakes and a bow to this one...hope you like it!



I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge ~ Let it Snow...my old thing is stamp, embossing folder and ribbon
Lexi's Creations ~ Christmas
Cards For Men #24 ~ Merry Christmas
Crafts and Me Challenges #112 ~ Ribbon or Trim
I Love Promarkers #145 ~ Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamps ~ Anything Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #38 ~ Christmas is Coming (3rd entry)


Do hope you will play along with us this month, you could be the lucky winner of this fantastic prize from our fabulous sponsor...

The Hobby House








Enjoy the weekend and thanks for stopping by.

Wednesday 28 November 2012

3rd Birthday Celebrations at Fab'n'Funky......

Hiya all..Thank you all for your help and comments about my template problems, I have since found out my Nav bar is now in my sidebar, but I'm not too worried anymore as I now know other ways to get to my dashboard ...So panic over, well till next time I want to change my template lol..Oh  why did I choose one that says the words it says at the top, will need to change it again when spring arrives. lol

Just wanted to say a BIG thank you again to Mary J for helping me improve the quality of my photos, can not believe the difference...You can find Mary's fabulous tutorial using Picasa 3 to improve the quality of photos HERE

I had a fabulous night last night, went to see David Essex at G Live Guildford with my Mum, lost count now how many times I  have seen him, he was fantastic as always...Thanks again Mum, so enjoyed it, can't wait till next time xxx


 It's our second week of Birthday celebrations over at Fab'n'Funky and we have some fabulous sponsors with fantastic prizes on offer this week and all you need to do is play along with us by making a creation with....

3 of Something or Number 3 on your project

And you could be in with a change to win one of these fab prizes.

Our sponsors this week are

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Cult Pens

Who are offering a fabulous prize of
a £50 voucher
 to spend in their store
How great is that!

 Cult Pens are also  offering a discount of 10% in their store
to all you Fab'n'Funky fans - just use the code

 FNF2012 


It's valid right up until the end of December




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Who are offering
 a £10voucher 
to spend in store

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Who are offering
  $10 to spend
in their fabulous selection in store

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Flonzcraft

Who are offering
   a $20 voucher
 to spend in their store
 - with free shipping



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Who are offering
 a choice of 5 digis 
from the cute digis they have in their store

**********


I have used a Flonz stamp called Little Fairy with Magic Wand, she's so sweet and some gorgeous Nitwit Collections papers called Fairytale.



I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
The Cutie Pie Challenge #32 ~ Use Doily's
Digital Tuesday Challenge #188 ~ Girly
Party Time Tuesdays #96 ~ Anything Goes
I Love Promarkers #145 ~ Anything Goes

Items used
Flonz stamp ~ Little Fairy with Magic Wand coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
Nitwit Collections papers ~ Fairytale
Cheery Lynn die ~ English Tea Party
Whimsy Stamps corner die
Martha Stewart border punch ~ Doily Lace
LOTV sentiment stamp
stickles ~ StarDust
flowers & pearls from stash.

For lots of fabulous inspiration...pop over to FNF to see what the rest of the DT have made.
Look forward to seeing your's and good luck with the draw, going to be some very lucky winners.



Sunday 25 November 2012

Joanna Sheen Challenge ~ Anything Goes-Excluding Christmas.....

Good morning all..Hope you are all well and having a better weekend then me.

Thanks to everyone yesterday who tried to help me with my blog template problem, unfortunately I still can not see my design buttons (new post, design, sign out) at the top right hand side, but can on my other DT blogs, very strange...I have got in at moment by clicking on pencil on my last post and getting to my dashboard from there or clicking my profile photo :(((( I can see Navbar in my sidebar, wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Think the best thing I can do is try and change my template again :(  shame I like this one.... Oh really wish I had just left it alone. Sorry did not get around to visit you all yesterday, spend all evening trying to put everything back together in order in my sidebar,all my bits in the sidebar were all over the place too :(

Anyway, best get on with my DT post...I was panicking I would not be able to add this post for today.

We have a great new Challenge for you over at....
 Joanna Sheen Challenge...
This fortnights theme is...

Anything Goes excluding Christmas

The lucky winner will receive a £15 Gift Voucher to spend at Joanna Sheen.

I was sent  Wordy Rubber Stamps- Set 1 JS312, I decided to go with the balloons & paper pieced them using some Basic Grey papers called Cupcake and had a play with my new MFT Fishtail Flags dies.



I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
A Gem of a Challenge #60 ~ Paper Piecing
Stampin for the Weekend #22 ~ Use Some Texture
My Mum's Craft Shop #85 ~ Inspiration from a Song...Happy birthday to you...happy birthday to you

Items used
Joanna Sheen Wordy Rubber Stamps ~ Set 1-JS312
Basic Grey papers ~ Cupcake
MFT Dies ~ Fishtail Flags Stax & Stacking Stars
Nesties
Ribbon, buttons & string from stash.

Do hope you will play along with us this fortnight...pop over to see the rest of the fabulous DT creations for lots of great inspiration.


Saturday 24 November 2012

Blog template change..Now have a problem.. can anyone help....


Hiya all...Not having a very good day here :((

I have wanted to change my blog template for a long time now, but been to nervous to actually do it...This morning I finally decided to just go for it, but I can not see my new post, Design,  Sign out buttons at the top right hand side of my blog anymore...CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE...I have got in at moment by clicking on pencil on my last post and getting to my dashboard from there
:(( Oh why didn't I just leave it alone LOL...

Edited...just seen Navbar in my sidebar, wonder if this has anything to do with it! Also if I go to my other DT blogs I can see the button options, very strange.

Anyway what do you think of my new blog look, all the things in my sidebar need sorting out back in order ...are now all over the place :(

While I,m here... I have a Christmas card to share...I have had a play with my new toy, a Josy Rose Hot Fix wand to apply my Nail Heads, its really fab and I was very lucky to win mine (thanks again Jules x)



I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges
Ladybug Crafts #3 Monchrome/tonal (3rd entry)
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #38 ~ Christmas is Coming (2nd entry)

Digistamp Boutique Customer Competion

Items used
Digistamp Boutique digi ~ Percy Set-Percy and Xmas Tree coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers
The Clipart Fairy a bit of green papers
Marianne die snowflake
Memory box die ~ Primo Labels
Crafts-Too Embossing folder
Josy Rose Nail heads
button & twine from stash

Thanks for stopping by, will try and catch with you all tonight.

Hugs

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