Tulips

Good Evening All
A quick post before I go to bed.  Shopping trip to Ikea was a success and I got some brackets for my craft room to put on the wall, which hold little plastic buckets and baskets that can be removed and swapped around.  I thought I could put bits & bobs in them.  Will have to get the drill out tomorrow!!!!!!!

A card I finished off this afternoon for a challenge

A6 deckled edge card blank
Pink card embossed with Cuttlebug folder
Diecut white card square
Punched and inked flowers with pearl centres
A quilled flower
Diecut leaf
Wide organza ribbon
Metal tag
Sentiment from stash


Challenges----------------
I Love Promarkers # 114 - Flower Power
Chocolate Coffee & Cards # 11 - Bingo
Passion for Promarkers # 146 - Diecuts
Paper Sundaes # 118 - Ribbon & Pearls

Soft & Sentimental

Good Morning All

Going off shopping to Ikea today with 2 of my neighbours.  I want to buy some deep picture frames to put some of my parchment cards in, to put on the wall in the hall.  Ordinary frames are no good as there are flowers on so they are quite thick, if you  know what I mean.  I have a lovely one with `Welcome` embossed on it, I will post on here when framed.

Anyway, back to today.  I have made this card using some free papers that came with a magazine and they are gorgeous.  I have used some before but this card is made  totally from them.  The sentiment reads - May Love, Happiness & Joy surround you today` isn,t that lovely?

A6 Card blank
Hot off the Press - Soft Nostalgia paper
Brown and Pink card from stash
Punched flowers, inked and  gems at centres
Flourish diecut

Challenges -------------------
Hiding in my Craftroom # HIMCR44 - Mothers Lets honour them

Bird Easel

Good Morning All

It is a gorgeous morning here in Spain, not a cloud in the sky and just a nice soft breeze.  It has been very cloudy the last few days and so windy.

Todays card is yet another easel made from a 6"  square blank.

Gorgeous bird decoupage (I think it looks like a finch of some sort)
Spellbinders flowers
Gems
Satin Ribbon
Green card from stash
Spotty paper to match colour of bird
Used the negative of circle cut with Spellbinders - red card
Pearls on wire from jewellery making stash

Challenges ------------

Cropstop # 69 - To the Birds
Joanna Sheen - Flower Power
Little Scrap Pieces - Use a Bow
Crafty Catz # 130 - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday # 214 - Animal Magic

Double Easel

Good Evening All

Not done alot today except craft.  Had my hair cut this morning ready for our visit to UK next Friday.

Todays card is a double twisted easel.  The flowers are images from Crafty Ann, part of my prize  when I won a challenge on her blog.

Matted and layed onto silver mirri and black card
Images from Craft Anns shop cut out and decoupaged
Quilled flower
Die cut label


Challenges------
Craft Us Crazy # 26 - Inspire Us
Move Along With The Times - Garden or Flowers

Just For You

Good Morning All
We have taken Mothers back to the airport, been out for breakfast (piggies that we are) and the beds are stripped and washer on full blast!

Back to crafting full time again!!!!

                     Todays card is a gorgeous cute Tilda with her ice cream cone.

6" Pale blue card blank

Coloured with Promarkers

Quilled flowers

Gems - blue, green and white

Blue pearls

Cream mottled card with ribbon stuck on

Cream mottled flourish

Lemon Doily

Sparkly buttons  tied with fine cord

(I bought the buttons from the local market for 1 euro for a large bag and they all have sparkle on them - gorgeous)

Sentiment mounted on mottled card again and matted onto flourescent greeny/blue card

Challenges---------

Fab `n` Funky Challenge # 118 - No DP

MAWTT - Garden or Flowers

Incy Wincy Designs  - Sketch Challenge

Tuesday Throwdown # 95 - Sparkle

Creative Inspirations # 160 - Anything Goes

Get Well

Good Evening All
I made this card using a freebie from a lovely lady that lives in Greece.  Her blog is When Scrap hits the Fun and she has some inspirational work aswell as some great freebies.

I think this is a cute image which I coloured with Promarkers
Punched flowers with pearl/gem centres
Checked yellow ribbon
Die cut circle using Spellbinders and Cuttlebug
Distressed edge of circle with Tim Holtz ink
Forever Friends Paper
Fabric flowers and leaf
6" sq card blank Paper Mania

Challenges-------

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge # 129 - Stripes or Checks
Whimsey Stamps Challenge Blog 36 - Distressing
Divas By Design Challenge #32 - Buttons and/or Bows
Truly Scrumptious #79 - Distressing and die cuts or punches

Christmas

Hi again
Although I am posting this tonight it is meant for tomorrow (I have still got to learn how to schedule a post).

I am a member over on the Docrafts site and I play along with Snoflake to make a Christmas card every week, so this is my card for next week.

Believe it or not, it is another easel card

Forever Friends Diecut decoupage

Forever Friends paper

Organza & Tartan Ribbons

 Gems

Challenges-------

Moving Along With the Times - Christmas

Crafting When We Can # 16 - Just the two of us

Fairy

Good Evening All
My card for today is from a pack from PaperMania `Enchanted Fairies of Little Venice`.
I was lucky enough to be featured as Star Letter in Creativity Magazine for March and as such I received £50 of goodies.  They were sent to my sisters address in the UK and when Mum arrived last week she brought them with her.  Wow, it was like Christmas arriving early, all that stash to play with.  There were afew of these packs of diecut decoupage so I have been making quite afew cards for my charities and this is one of my favourites.

Once again it is an easel card

Papers are `Hot off the Press` Soft Nostalia

Punched flowers inked in shades of brown, with gems at the centre

Punched flowers in pink

Ribbon and pearls from stash

Challenges----

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards # 11 - Bingo

Hiding In My Craft Room Challenge # 43 - April Showers Bring....

Envelope

Good Morning all
Hope you had a lovely weekend.  We managed to get out a little with Mothers but my Mum doesn,t walk very well so it,s difficult.  We are going to a lovely place after lunch called `Lo Pagan`.  It is on the coast and there is a walk way that cuts through the sea and on one side people go in for a mud bath , they plaster themselves in the mud (which stinks) at the sides of the water, then let it dry and then wash off and swim in the other side.  It is meant to be very theraputic.

Onto crafting- I made this over the weekend, I was just fiddling about and wanted to do something a little different.

It is just something for abit of a change.  I stuck butterflies and ladybirds (mariquita in Spanish, isn,t that a lovely word) inside the litlle concertina book inside.  Heat embossed a Forever Friends image on the black but you cant see it  very well on Pic.  I threaded ribbon through to keep it all fastened together.  Once again I used the Marianne flower dies on hand made paper with gems for centres.

Challenges -

Divas by Design # 31 - Anything but a Card
Tuesday Alchemy  #10 - Spring sweetness
Lexis Creations # 63 - Punches & Dies
Whimsey Inspires # 35 - Punches or Diecuts
Forever Friends Monthly Challenge - Embossing
I Love to Create Challenge # 12 - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy # 25 - Happy Mothers Day and/or Flowers

Twisted Easel

Good evening all
I completed this card afew days ago and I think it looks pretty cute.

It is another easel one but twisted.  An A6 deckled edge card blank, scored diagonally.  Pink card cut just slightly smaller than the A6 front.  Flowers are hand made paper die cut with Marrianne flower dies with a blingy gem for the centres.  Tiny pearls on the corners of the peeloffs.

I am entering this into -
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards -11 -  Bingo - pearls punches flowers
Fussy & Fancy Friday # 61 - Punches & Dies
Stampin for the Weekend # 8 - Sparkle & Shine
I Love Promarkers # 112 - Lets go Shopping