I am sooooooooooo happy !

My son and his girlfriend have just become parents , thus giving me my first grandchild- a beautiful baby boy !
He does nt have a name yet but he weighed 6 lbs 11 oz and was born today at 1.20 pm . i will post pics and update with his name as soon as i have them .
I am so very happy for them .
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL !

POLKADOODLES - Back to nature new cd

The challenge for you over at POLKADOODLES is to use the brand new Polkadoodles Back to nature cd .
I have used the cute little family of owls which are already designed so that they can be easily decoupaged without having to worry about which pieces to cut off !
I made mine into a stair step card .
I have to say there are absolutely tons of images on this CD and i think it is my favourite one so far i had great difficulty in choosing which one to use first .

thank goodness i've finished the Christmas cards !

I dont know about anyone else ,but i have well and truly had enough of making Christmas cards !
I started in August and have made over 200 cards and all are individual one off designs . I did nt even scan a quarter of them so i dont have a record of them all.
I have just finished my last ones today and i did remember to scan them- thes were really challenging ones ,the first had to have my friend and her husband drinking mulled wine infront of a Gluvein hut ????? well i did nt know what one was either so i used artistic licence and made it a gingerbread house !
the next was for a spiderman fanatic- how on earth does one make spider-man christmassy i ask myself .I Used polkadoodles halloween paper added some stickles,I drew spider-man and addded blingy webs to him with a gel glitter pen and i used a sizzix die to cut the string of lights that he is swinging from.

then for the same young man i had to do Merlin from the BBC programme - something i had never seen so i had to go googling !i used PDDU cart to make their clothes and accessories and i was secretly pleased with how it turned out .

Im a polkadoodle-doodler !!!

I want to share my fantastic news with you all - I was picked to be a new design team member for Polkadoodles !<3
I'm not sure what our real name is -i will have to check that out but a polkadoodle-doodler sounds good to me !
I am just thrilled to have been asked to join them and have been on a high all week ,just bursting to tell !
I joined in with this weeks challenge which was to use an envelope and a new years theme . I used papers and numbers from the jinglejangles cd and I used some foiling on top to highlight parts of the design ,and to tie the bottle in .
The bottle is cut on the cricut and the envelope is in fact a fake one i made myself after spending hours trying to cut the perfect one and not liking anything i came up with.It would nt stand up to anything actually being put in it the front is only glued on around the edges .
My photography is not too hot i'm afraid so you cant really pick out the foiling on the paper- but it looks quite lush to the naked eye !

run run as fast as you can . . .

and catch yourself a gingerbread man ! (groan )-SORRY!
These are a few cards i made using the latest release from lily boos
they are gorgeous and calorie free too !
thankfully you dont have to pick which one to eat -sorry i mean use first as you get all six designs in the set for just £1.99

Mo's digital pencil challenge #6

I am feeling a bit sorry for myself today , ive got a cold and am feeling a bit rough . I have lots of cards on order to make and am not really in the mood to make them . I made this one yesterday for the 6 th challenge for Mo's digital pencil,
i have made several others which i will probably put on here later if i feel better

cooking it up with Katie and Mo's digital pencil challenge

WHOO HOO ! I MADE THE TOP 5 AGAIN ! My snail mail card has won me the PASSION FOR PROMARKERS passionista blinkie again !!!
Anyway thats enough own trumpet blowing for today heres my latest creation , this time i am entering it in 2 challenges because they both have a sparkly theme
. I am entering it in Bella and brontes challenge blog
and also in design team colleague Katies challenge blog "cooking it up with Katie"
The image is from Mo's digital pencil and i have coloured it with my favourite pens -Promarkers !
i love how the colours on the bauble all blended together to give it a mother of pearl effect. i have also given it a wash with a sakura glitter pen so it looks really pearly in real life . The photo just does nt do t justice at all (oops im trumpet blowing again ) - but trust me it is really pretty

Dotties world challenge

I made this this week for a colleague to give to her best friend who is going to be 60. She is off to celebrate with a safari in Kenya ( lucky devil) , anyway i remembered i had this image from charmed crafts so i printed and coloured it twice and layered it up with a hand drawn frame around it and matted onto some leopard skin effect paper. I added a little 60 ,camouflaged under a bush so that it is nt prominant on the card and my colleague was thrilled with it . Apparently this looks just like her friend !
whilst looking through my bloglist ,i saw that the latest challenge at dotties world is to make a card with a foreign theme , so this card was just perfect for it as the image is one of theirs

POLKADOODLE CHALLENGE

DUH !i just realised that i am now too late to enter this in the challenge , i was so excited about my win at i love promarkers that i forgot to upload this one for polkadoodles ! any way it was for a friend to give to her husband's friend for his 50 th and seeing as mens cards are so awkward to do , i thought i would show it anyway . I hand cut the car using a photo of Pauls car as the template , he loves the car more than his wife i am told ,so he should lke it !

woo hoo ! i won a challenge

i am in shock this morning as i have won a challenge !
It was the "I love promarkers challenge #4" i saw a few days ago that i was one of the finalists and i have been on tender hooks since then waiting to see who 's card letraset had chosen as the winner , now i am grinning like an idiot :)

Passion for promarkers challenge

The challenge this week over at Passion for promarkers is to use the colours canary yellow and grass , This is probably a bit out of my comfort zone as the colours are not my favourites by any means , but i thought i would give it a go anyway .
I have had this image for a while and thought it would be a good one for a "sorry i forgot your birthday" , but with the current postal issues i thought it might be good as a "sorry its late "instead

Lily boos 3 rd challenge

The third challenge is up and running at LILYBOOS and we have opened the challenge right up to let as many of you join in as possible - You can do any thing you like , use any image you like and any theme you like as long as it is PURPLE !
I have made an easel card and replaced the front panel with acetate so that the snowflakes look like they are freefalling . The image is the cute penguins circles from lily boo , i have coloured him with promarkers and added a bit of glitter from a sakura glitter pen and stickles . the large snowflake is the shapeabilities build -a -flake

Willow sketchie challenge

The challenge this time around over at willow sketchies is to follow a set sketch and you are able to use anything in your stash so you dont have to use a willow design if you dont want to . here is my little effort - papers are all from kay miller downloads

Blog candy give away !

Just thought you should all know about the chance to win some fabulous blog candy over at GOING BUGGY .
There are different sets of candy for Enfys' US and UK friends

Mo's digital pencil challenge #2

I wanted to try out one of the easel cards that i had been seeing a lot of recently , I could nt believe how easy they are and how effective they look when complete .
I have done this one for Mo's digital pencil challenge . You had to use Fall colours and one of Mo's images and no more than 2 different types of embellishment .

cooking it up with Katie challenge

Katie's cooking it up challenge this week is to use an image of something that is cooked or that can be cooked , use buttons and have something on the inside of the card .
I used an image of Mrs Claus baking buns , i did a bit of doodling and added the buttons as holly berries , there is one more half eaten bun on the inside !

POLKADOODLES CHALLENGE 21

I cant believe that the polkadoodles challenges are up to number 22 already , i have nt joined in for ages . I saw that there is still time to join in for last weeks challenge so here 's what i have come up with

Passion for promarkers challenge

This weeks challenge over at Passion for Promarkers is to use a sketch , there are no specific colours to use so any will do .I have used another of Mo's images because i just love 'em ! I have added extra sparkle to this one again and i think i have even managed to capture it in the photo for a change !

Skating - for a challenge or two

Another of these fabulous images from Mo's digital pencil .These are my current faves for colouring which i find so relaxing , reminding me of childhood when i always had a pack of felt tip pens in my stocking on christmas morning !
I have got all the new colours from promarkers to look forward to this year . Hubby bought them for me a while ago but i have nt been able to get round him yet and get him to let me have them early ,I must be losing my touch !
Any way i did this one for a challenge blog that i stumbled upon called a spoonful of sugar
whilst checking my dashboard this morning ,i found another challenge blog called
crafty creations which wants something in shades of blue so i am going to enter it there too

I love this one !

I absolutely love this picture , it just conjures up childhood memories of playing in the snow ,- not that i ever had a sled, but i'm sure it would have been great fun !. This one is nt an order or a challenge or anything special , it was just for fun .x

mo's digital pencil 1 st challenge

I wondered last month what had happened to the i love promarkers 3 rd challenge . I had saved the page in my favourites and i kept checking back to see when the new one had been posted ,but all i saw was the page showing last months winner , I remembered something about not being able to post on face book so assumed it was something to do with this . Yesterday i happened to see on my dashboard that the 4th challenge had been posted . I was mortified ! how had i missed the 3rd one ? Ha ! instead of saving the home page i had saved the post !! what a numpty !

So not much chance of winning that one - so i have made my card for the 4 th one early so that i dont forget. I have had trouble photographing it too . The embellishments were too thick for it to scan properly so there is a shadow cast over the pic .
I have also used the card in the very first challenge over at mo's digital pencil where you have to use a mo's image and the colour purple .

I MADE IT TO THE TOP 5 PASSIONISTA !

!!!!!!!!!WOO HOO !!!!!!!!!!


My entry for the passion for promarkers challenge made it to the top 5 and i am so chuffed - I have added the blinkie award to my sidebar already :)
just incase you did nt see my entry ,here it is again

Oh baubles !

I just realised that i did nt post my sneaky peak for the brand new collection of christmas images over at lily-boos
they are gorgeous little baubles ,a collection of 6 for the amazing price of just £1.99 !
my favourite is the snowman , but anyone who knows me will tell you i just love snowmen !

here is why i did nt get any challenge cards done last week

Here are some of the commissioned cards i had last week ,the reason why i didnt get time to do any challenge cards .

lily -boo too's 2 nd challenge

The first lily -boo challenge has come to an end and the winner is to be announced shortly ( when we have come to a final decision ) That was not an easy thing to do , the entries were fantastic .
Of course this means that the next challenge is underway , there is a sketch to follow and a freebie to use if you dont have a lily boo image yet . ( i say yet because you will have one soon if you are anything like me and want them all ! )
I used the fairy and the sketch , but you only need to use the sketch and any other lily boo image .

passion for promarkers -apricot and cool aqua with flowers

i ve been so busy with card orders lately ,i have been neglecting challenges, but i had to join in with this one as my favourite colour combo at the moment is cool aqua and apricot . The image is by mo's digital pencil

Jack's birthday again

I cant believe its been a year since i made a card for Jack , i just got a subscription notification from the cricut MB , somebody had commented ont the card i made for him last year i had forgotten all about it this is the one i made for him for this year

ITS BEEN A WHILE ...

Since i made any of these fold out cards and this week i had to make two ! the first was a bit tricky , for a man ! the second one was much easier it was for a nine year old girl .
My mojo had been missing all week and i really needed it for these !
Thankfully it came back this afternoon after i threatened myself with having to do housework if it did nt !
These cards are very difficult to photograph due to their size and they dont fit in the scanner either - so i am sorry for the dodgy camera work.Thank goodness i dont live in a bungalow - i need the stairs to take this pictures on !

scrapcard in a tin

I made one of these a while ago for my daughter's 18 th and a friend of mine saw it and asked if i would do one for her daughter, Portia's 21 st.
I made it and then forgot to get a picture of it .Ihad to wait for her birthday and ask her to take a pic and send it to me. I am rather pleased with it ,and thankfully so was Portia

Passion for promarkers polka dot challenge

The challenge over on Passion for Promarkers is to use any colours and Polkadots .
I have had this image for a few weeks now , i cant remember where i got it from , it was a freebie. If anyone knows would they please tell me so that i can give the credit where it is due. I just love the expression on his face (it actually reminds me of my dear hubby but dont tell him i said so ! )

PS Thanks to Deb i now know where this fabby image comes from - He was a freebie at the digi shack

I've been on a blog hop !

there is the most amazing prize up for grabs for one lucky person- the whole set of 56 new promarkers colours from letraset .
Get over to passion for promarkers join in the fun and it could be you -(I HOPE ITS ME )
this was my first bloghop and i got to see some fabulous work by the DT for passion for promarkers

Quilted wedding

i used the FQB" with this ring " collection from nitwits for this one . i have layered and padded the chapel and i gave it a quilted feel by using my tracing wheel to make stitch marks. i cut the charms with my sizzix dies from thick tin foil (recycled again from my milk tins ).
I added the date with tiny peel off stickers

a NEW BABY GIRL

My boss asked me to make a new baby girl card to give to her friend , then i went and forgot all about it . Yesterday at work she said "have you done the baby Chloe card ?" aaaah !!
Any way Chloe is now 3 weeks old ! .
she said go ahead and make it anyway so here it is , i dont think i'd better charge her for it !
Of all the people it could have happened to it had to be the boss did nt it !

willow sketchie challenge ,

Another challenge card, this time for willow sketchie

The challenge is to use this little fairy and a sketch
Her name is precious and i just love her !
The background papers are by Kay miller and i added some rub on faux stitches - she is of course coloured with promarkers .(i cant wait for the new colours to come , my DH has bought them all for me for Christmas )
I'll just have to get round him so that i can have them early ! I usually get my own way , thats why he called me a craftybugger in the first place !

Glittery girly Promarkers challenge

I had been asked by a good friend to make a card for her daughter 's 40 th birthday , she wanted something glittery and girly and surprisingly this was the theme for this week's Passion for promarkers challenge

I used this image from Charmed crafts as i think she is just beautiful .The background paper is from DCWV - all dressed up collection .I also used a glitter pen on top of the promarkers to make her dress and feathers shimmer. I i coloured and thentriple embossed chipboard numbers and added a final coat of glitter embossing powder , they looked as if they were made of enamel when they were finished . Her Name was cut from SCAL - i am just loving this now even if i am still on the basics !

BOO !

Remember that sneaky peak ? well here it is in full , the new Halloween collection has just been released over at LILY BOOS BOUTIQUE .
Pop on over there and take a look , there are lots of fabulous designs and they are all very reasonably priced, i have made a card and a calendar page for next year, I am going to do a page for each month ,showcasing one of lily boos designs on each one , I used Scal to cut out the bats and the wording on the calendar all images are coloured withmy fabby promarkers