Strawberries and Cream

well 2 blog challenges this week have the same theme of strawberries and cream so joining them together seemed sensible! They are secret crafter and winter wonderland. Well as you can tell by y blog Christmas is nearly here!! (yeah I know its not eve July yet!!) so I thought I would make another Christmas card! The red and white spotty paper totally went with the theme and the forever friends stamp I just love!!! I also covered the card with glitter spray just to make it really sparkly!!

recycle a pink card!

Well I really haven't had much time to craft this week (I can't believe its Wednesday already!!) so I've actually joined 3 blog challenges with this card! On cute card thursday the theme is recycle or reuse, so the piece of ribbon that I have used is from a set of jammies that I have bought recently. The second challenge is from pollycraft monday challenge and the theme this week is pink and the final one is on the Bunny Zoe blog and the theme for this one is girly. Well I have had so much fun following sketches I started to try and do my own this one is my first attempt so I thought I would keep it nice and simple, let me know what you think.

let us shine :)

Over on Crafty Creations Challenge blog the challenge this week is let us shine. Which means any glitter, stickles, ribbon etc. The design team creations as always are fantastic and you can see them here. For my card I have layered some glitter paper over a card blank, used a large background stamp (which i bought from ebay a few years ago and I just love it - its was a great bargain too!!) and used one of my foam stamps from QVC and coloured it with my watercolour pencils, then covered it all over with glitter spray.

Truly Scrumptious challenge

This week on truly scrumptious challenge is a sketch and I'm really getting into these as they are so different from anything that I would normally do. Check out the sketch and the designs team creations here. I do love this forever friends stamp its so simple but effective, and I stamped the background in a small cupcake stamp (that I actually forgot that I had!) and stamped the greeting that came from a Popcorn bear stamp set.

A child's Christmas

another Christmas card today (i know what your thinking it been a gorgeous day outside but inside I've been surrounded by snowmen and snowflakes!!) and this time its for the Bah Humbug challenge blog which theme this week is "A Child's Christmas." You can see the amazing samples from the DT here. Now usually I don't buy big kits from QVC cos I really dont normally use them, but I have bought this Patchwork Pals kit for 2 years in a row - I just love it!! The images are so cute and good for kids cards. I have put some flock on the hat and covered the whole card in glitter spray.

white festive tree

ok first blog of the week is a joint challenge :) over on Winter Wonderland the challenge this week is festive tree, the DT samples are amazing and you can see them here. Well Christmas wouldnt be Christmas without a tree so I thought that I would combine with the challenge on Die Cut Dreams Christmas challenge which is All White Christmas and the DT samples are great also. I found this one really difficult because although I do use a lot of white I do use a lot of colour too. For the challenge you can use a small amount of colour so I used some red glitter to highlight the lights. I hope you like this :)

Lets have a sing song

On the Polly Craft Monday Challenge the theme is songs, so I thought that this would be an excellent chance to make another Chritmas card (if I keep going at this rate I'm going to have them all done by the end of July!!!!) Well my favourite Christmas song ever is "Let It Snow" so this card is layered snowflake paper, then embosed foil card with the sledging embossing folder from Cuttlebug with stickers from Poundland last Christmas and snowflake brads.

Not forever friends

ok final one for today, the challenge on the forever friends blog challege this week is "not forever friends." As they are being sponsored by Joanna Sheen they have decided that we can use any cute stamps that we may have, check out the great samples the design team have made with Joanna's Lofty stamps here. Well I have decided to use one of my Cuddly Buddly stamps. I love them and have so many but i think that the image that I have used is my favourite (well at the moment, this changes on a regular basis!) as it the one I come back to time after time.

Embossed!

Wow another challenge completed today, that must be a record for me!! lol! Anyway over on Crafty Catz the theme this week is embossng you can see the design teams great creations here Now if you have been looking through my blog recently you will have noticed that I just love my cuttlebug! (I've not had it very long so its still a bit of a novelty to me) So I thought that I would make a baby card as my step sister and her hubby are due to have a baby girl in September! I used the baby love cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, layered on foil card is a image of baby feet (that I really love but do not have a clue where I got it from!!) I hope you like it :)

One for the boys

On the cupcake craft challenge this week the theme is "one for the boys" as its fathers day on Sunday. I always struggle with cards for my dad (i fact any male cards in general!!) but this year I thought I would take a generally thought of girly image and try to make it more manly! lol! Well I hope I have succeeded! its another black base card, with a forever friends stamp image(which I think is a christmas stamp).

Totally paper craft Challenge Winner

A couple of weeks ago I was picked as the winner for the totally paper crafts winner :) anyway this morning my prize from Simon Says Stamps arrived this morning. It was a gorgeous stamp made by "the greeting farm." I just love it and I have already made a card with it :) Thank you so much to both Totally Papercraft and Simon Says Stamps :)

Anything but square!!

I'm quite late blogging this card for Cute Card thursday but I really could not find my crop o dile and its been driving me nuts this week!! lol anyway i found it today. As you can tell from my blogging I've been really into Xmas cards just now so heres my Xmas pud!!

Im so tired!!

why is it when you have a day off work you cannot lie in but when you know you need to get up for work you just can't!!! Anyway I was up at 6am this morning so I'm in the process of making a card but also watching the TSV repeat on QVC. So there should be a few cards made today :) I know I've been on a huge blog challenge hop but I just think that the inspiration that the design teams give me is amazing and I'm especially liking the sketches because its not something that I usually do so I'm liking the challenge. Anyway I'm off for a cuppa and I'll be back soon!

L xx

W is for Weather

Ok another Christmas card today, over on the ABC challenge blog the theme is W for weather. I thought I would take the opportunity to make another Christmas card and nothing is more Christmassy than snow. I love this snowman image, its so cute! I layered him over some glittery vellum with small snowballs scattered. I hope that you like it.

a traditional christmas flower

as you may have noticed I am really getting into Christmas cards at the moment, I like to be organised (but normally this doesnt happen!) so this year I thought I would make an early start. This challenge is from Winter Wonderland challenge blog and this weeks challenge is "A traditional Christmas Flower" you can see the design teams great examples here. I have used a poinsetta I hope you like it :)

some saturday sweetness at passion for crafts

Debbie at her Passion for Crafts blog is giving away the penny black stamp set "in the garden." She is really talented crafter and I get quiet a lot of inspiration from her blog, check it out here

Creative Catz and ABC Christmas

I'm going to link 2 blog challenges with this card. As I've said I am really loving black base cards at the moment, so the Creative Catz challenge of Black and Red was perfect for me. The design teams cards are great as always and you can see them here. Also on the ABC Christmas challenge blog is "L is for Lights." The design teams are great also and you can see them here.

This cuttlebug embossing folder I just love and I have a feeling a lot of my Xmas cards are going to be made with it, I love the detail with it and think it works really well with this foil card. The "lights" are made from sticky jewels from Poundland. A very simple but effective card.

Dazzle Us!!!

this weeks challenge on Cupcake challenge is "dazzle us!" Now those of you wh0 know me will know that glitter is my most favourite crafting product (I'm such a girl!! lol!) the DT have some great samples (as usual) and you can see them here.

I'm loving black base cards at the moment (as you have probably noticed!!) and this one i jut love. the glitter paper came from Dunelm Mill and the image is from Dufex decoupage. I hope you like it as much as I do.