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Good Evening All
We are back home but I have unpacked and done the washing an some of the ironing and I still cant find my mojo.

Here I am wearing my sunglasses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the ship we sailed on, and I think someone stole my mojo whilst on there.  I must get it back as I have a DT card to make before Monday.
xxxx
Wendy L

Fresh Brewed

Good Morning All
Time for this weeks challenge at Love to Create and we are sponsored by Fresh Brewed.  The theme this week is 'Lots of Layers' so it is a nice easy one.

                                            Both Image and sentiment are from Fresh Brewed



                                                                 This is the outside

                                     And this shows the way I have folded the 12 x 36cm card

 

I,m sure you will have lots of fun with this challenge and now that I am back from my hols I shall look forward to visiting your blogs to take a peek.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES --------
Squirrel and Fox Challenge # 29 - Use a Ribbon
Papercrafting Journey - Ribbon or Twine

Double Bubble

Good Morning All
I will be on the high seas when this is posted I hope.
As it is Monday it is a new challenge at Love to Create.  We have two sponsors today ---
Crafty Sentiments , who will give the winner 3 of their digis, and Floppy Latte Designs.  Floppy Latte will give the winner $10 worth of their designs.
The theme of the challenge it 'Pumpkins Pumpkins Everywhere' so my first card is made with an image from Crafty Sentimetns called  'Holloween'.

I've tried to make the ghost look like he is floating around holding beaded pins so I attached him to  a piece of acetate.

I used an orange 5x5 card blank, matted with black card and I used pumpkin paper printed from a site called 'Squidoo' where you can get lots of free papers.
Joanna Sheen ribbon
Homemade bead pins
Black corner is a Marianne Creatables.

My second card uses a Floppy Latte design called 'Purrcedes'.

I coloured the image with Promarkers
Used some black punched flowers with ornge brads at the centres, and some yellow and orange punched flowers too.
A different shaped bead pin
Used some pumpkins cut out from the paper I used on card above

I found this challenge abit challenging as Halloween was not a big thing in the UK when my boys were young but let me know what you think.
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES----------
Lexi Creations # 76 - Halloween  (1st card)
Sentimental Sunday - Halloween (2nd Card)
  

Trick or Treat

Good Morning All
If this goes out on schedule I shall be on the high seas somewhere around Italy.
It,s Monday morning so that is time for Love to Create Challenge and this week the theme is Trick or Treat OR Something Sweet. The sponsors this week are the great Sassy Studio Design, who will give a  winner 2 of their digis, AND
 Digi Darla Designs.

I chose a Sassy Studio design called Little Honey.  I coloured her with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir.  The silver card has spiders webs embossed on it and I have used a lovely glass new moon trinket hanging from the gorgeous deep red ribbon bow.  Felt flowers made with Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms and some punched flowers.  Homemade sentiment and a freebie ticket sentiment too. Black gems and a homemade bead pin completes my design for this weeks DT card, I hope you like it and will join in the challenge and have fun with this theme.
xxx
Wendy L

Autumn Colours

Good Evening All
This may be my last post until the end of October (except for 2  scheduled ones for Love to Create Challenge DT).
I am away on my hols on Friday for just over 2 weeks.

Very simple card using a 36 x 12cm cream card, folded at 6, 12 and 18cm from both edges and folded as shown.  A decoupage of autumn leaves mounted on terracotta and lemon Core-dinations card.  Afew peeloffs added (I know alot of folks don't like peeloffs but I do) and some twine.
xxxx
Wendy L

Fall Fun

Good Morning All
The challenge at Love to Create this week is Fall Fun, as this is an American saying 'Fall', we would say Autumn so I always think of harvest so I chose this gorgeous image from our sponsors this week called 'Harvest Basket'.  Eureka Stamps are looking after us this week and they sell both rubber and digi stamps, and will give the winner 5 digis of their choice.
                                            This pic is when it is closed and tied with a bow

                                          This is the inside with another bow and sentiment

You can see from these 2 pics where the folds are

                                                                                 

I made a sort of Trifold card this week and it is held closed with wide organza ribbon (from Aldi)
Paper inside from Create & Craft
Spellbinders scalloped circle die
Yellow card sent to me from a Docrafts buddy
Wooden button from ebay with twine
Gems from Papermania

I hope you all have fun with this challenge and all the DT girls enjoy visiting your blogs.
xxxx
Wendy L

Something Different

Good Morning All

I saw these on a friends blog and thought they looked so good.

I followed her link to the Youtube tutorial and here    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6XK9vYM6P8   it is.  They are abit fiddly but well worth it.  I used 3" squares so that makes a 6 to 7" size decoration.

I used double sided 'Me to You' paper so that all sides had print on them, it looks very pale in the pics and for Christmas they would look really good in bold colours.  I,m going to hang them on my glass doors at Christmas time.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ------
By Cute & Girly - October
Unstampabelles # 15 - Recycled or repurposed For these you could use any old bits of papers

Recycled Bits

Good Morning All
I was up ever  so  eary this morning as I could not sleep, so I made a couple of cards at about 4.30am!!!!  I sat looking at the drawers that I keep all my off cuts of card in, and there were so many small bits, so I thought this was a good way of using them.  I keep my card in colours - blue in one drawer, red in another drawer etc etc and each drawer has a small tray in with all the very small pieces, so I pulled one out and got a 5 x5 card blank and laid some pieces on and came up with these.

This is the first one I made - all shades of yellow, cream, brown, beige, rust and orange.  Then added afew buttons, ribbon, gems and a charm.

The same with this one in blues, I laid down the first layer then afew pieces matted on top with foam tape to give abit of depth.
I,m quite pleased with myself and shall be doing some more like this to use all my small bits up.
Please leave a comment and tell me what you think and if any of you use the same idea, hop back here and tell me and I shall hop over to your blog and take a peek.
xxxx
Wendy L
Going shopping today with my friend Susie.  First I am taking some more cards, Christmas cards, to a charity shop and then we are going to a new Primark that has opened here.  I must admit, I,m not a great fan of Primark in the UK but it wont harm to go and take a browse around.

CHALLENGES -----
Unstampabelles Challenge # 16 - Recycled or repurposed  1st card
Try it On Tuesday - Lots of Layers
Just Keep on Creating # 4 - Anything Goes
 

Taking a Nap

Good Morning All
Forever Friends Monthly challenge again and this one is a BINGO (see below for details)

                                                       Gems  -   Pink  -  Ribbon

We are sponsored by Di's digis

for the winners prize

AND
for Forever Friends Favourite is sponsored by Milk Coffee

My card is using a Milk Coffee digi 'Lizbeth Takes a Nap' isn't she a cutie? Coloured with Promarkers
I used green gingham paper  with pink  crinkled paper, both from stash
Punched flowers
Homemade bead pin
Freebie sentiment
Green doily cut up for corners
Stick on gems and pearls

BINGO table- to use accross, down or diagonally

Ribbon - Pink-       Gems

Glitter  - Buttons - Hearts-

Tag -      Lace-       Blue


See  FF challenge blog for all details and have fun
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Pin &  Tack # 2 - Anything Goes
Card Mania -Homemade flowers

Birthday Tilda

Good Afternoon All
Well we are back from our weekend away and we didn't get washed away in the rain.  We went on a coach trip that should have been a 3 to 4 hour trip and ended up 6 1/2 hours and we had horrible rain all day Saturday but Sunday was glorious again and today we are back to gorgeous Spanish weather again - lovely.  I've been up on the roof to empty all my plant pots of water, after the torrential rain  on Thursday and Friday.
Anyway, as we go away  for our annual holiday in a couple of weeks I will only be entering afew monthly challenges and I made this one yesterday to enter the Crafters Companion challenge for October (I was lucky enought to win the September - Whoopy).  They are celebrating their birthday soon so thay want a Birthday card but you have to use an item or items of theirs,

 

 

5 x 5 card blank

Tilda coloured with Promarkers and I have bought some Spectrum Noir pens after watching Christinas Tutorial at Card Making Magic.

I used my new Spellbinders which I bought when Cuddly Buddly had an offer on - Scalloped hexagons.

Flowers made from felt using Spellbinder blossoms and bitty blossoms

Blue speckled paper is Crafters Companion from a Christmas pack from 2010 that came with a magazine

Embossing on front corner, I used Crafters Companion Box board

Homemade bead chain

Ribbon from stash

Round sentiment - freebie

xxxx

Wendy L

 

CHALLENGES ----

Crafters Comapanion Monthly - Birthday

 Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes & Birthday

Just Keep on Creating # 4 - Anything Goes

By Cute and Girly - Birthday

 Use it Tuesday - Use your scraps I,ve used some  very old paper (2010)

 

 

Thinking of You

Good Morning All
Monday is the day for a new challenge at Love to Create.  The theme is Thinking of You and we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stampshttp://www.bugaboostamps.com/.
My card is a fairly plain, without much colour, easel.

The image from Bugaboo is called 'Love Conquers All' and I thought it would make a lovely Sympathy Card.  I just coloured the butterflies in pale pink and lilac. The round sentiment is a freebie from the lovely Annette at Nettys Cards.  I made the quilled flowers and the blue butterflies were given to me by Linda from Animal Aid.  The delicate white corners are Memory Box 'Macarena' and the trellis type corners on the bottom are Marianne Creatables LR0200.  Have Fun
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -----
Pin & Tack  # 2 - Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons # 36 - Things with Wings
Flutter-by Wednesday # 207 - Open
  
   

Basket of Apples

Good Afternoon All
We are getting ready to go on a short coach trip tomorrow for a couple of nights.  It is to a place called Marina D'or, which we have not heard of but there are quite afew Spanish people going so it will be good to practice our Spanish LOL.
I have just completed this card for a challenge at Sketch & Stash.

It is another Sarah Kay image coloured with Promarkers and cut out with Spellbinders scalloped Oval
Backing paper is Me to You 'Spring Chic'
Homemeade bead pin,  sentiment,  quilled flower and a ribbon rose described in an earlier post - this pale green satin ribbon is some I found in my old knitting/sewing box when I was having a clear out a while ago, I remember using some of it on baby cardigans when my boys were little (over 30 years ago)
Gems
Odds of card from stash
xxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Sketch and Stash # 97
Paper Shelter # 83 - Anything Goes

Sarah Kay

Good Evening All
Well my sister and BIL went back this morning and I was sad to see them leave.
But, back to crafting with a vengeance now LOL.

5 x 7 card blank
Sarah Kay (I love these images, so sweet) image coloured with Promarkers
Spellbinders edgabilities, I,m still practicing with these
Lots of embellishments --- homemade flowers, homemade bead pins, Mei Flowers butterflies (I won these), gems, bow & button
Round sentiment a freebie from Jak Heaths blog
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES----------
Joanna Sheen - So Sweet
Bearly Mine # 54 - Add a Sentiment
Card Mania Challenge~# 4 - Hand made Flowers
Paperplay Time # 84 - Punches and Sentiments
   

Golfer

Good Morning All
This weeks challenge at Love to Create is 'Anything Goes' so this is a nice easy one.
We are sponsored by QKR Stampede and they will give the winner 5 of their gorgeous digis. Pop over to their site, they really do have some lovely images, both digi and rubber.

I coloured this gorgeous image (Golfer Mouse) with Promarkers
A5 black card blank
Papers free in  Card Making magazine
Sentiments printed on computer
Golf club recycled from an old card
Homemade pin
Mini golf club recycled from an old card

Have fun

xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -------
Card for Men # 20 - Animal Magic
Challenges 4 Everybody # 3 - Anything goes
By the Cute and Girly  - Boys/Men inspiration

Green Ribbon Flowers

Good Afternoon All
I just wanted to show you this card, which I think is very pretty but fairly clean and simple.

The ribbon roses were made from watching this brilliant tutorial from Reasonable Ribbon and if you have any questions they will get straight back to you.  I did because I was pulling the ribbon all the way through and the flower was coming undone, so the secret is not to pull all the way, (you will understand when you watch)
I just added afew gems and a border punch which I chalked and a sentiment and I think it makes a lovely card.
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -------
Heck of a Challenge # 1 - Anything Goes
Ladybug Challenge # 1 - Anything Goes
Card Crafters Circle # 41 - Ribbon & Roses
 

Lilacs and Flowers

Good Evening All
We are having such fun with my sister and BIL being here, lots of outs for meals and drinkies etc etc.
Hardly done any crafting at all, but we have booked ourselves for a craft class on Monday afternoon, as my sister makes cards too.
I thought I would do a quick post tonight as they have gone to bed early.

This is an easel card and nearly everything is stash that I have had for ages.
Especially the 'Congratulations Paper'
Embossed silver card from Create & Craft ages ago
Large butterfly is Marianne die
Homemade bead pin
Spellbinders blossom die
Quilled white flowers
Ribbons, gems and pearls added
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -----
Crafting for all Seasons # 36 -Things with Wings
Fab N Funky # 139 - Things with Wings
Divas by Design # 53 - Lots of Layers
My mums craft shops# 75 - Hearts and Flowers
Card Crafters Circle # 41 - Ribbon and Roses

Ellie

Good Afternoon All
My sister arrived this morning so we had an early start but she had an even earlier one, so she is having a rest now before we go out for drinks and dinner this evening.

My card today is a CAS one and it is Ellie Blowing Bubbles  from Fairy Dust digis.

Coloured with Promarkers
Ribbon and star are Papermania
Sentiment made myself on Office Draw
To the Lake sentiment is a freebie
Black gems and papers from stash
I think she is a cutie dont you?
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Passion For Promarkers # 167- CAS
Craftspot challenge # 69 - Wild about you
Paper Pretties - PWC 224 - No patterned paper
Creative Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door # 36 -Anything Goes

Home Bird

Good Morning All
Time for another challenge at Love to Create, and the theme is 'Things with Wings'.  I have used this sweet image from Meljens Designs called 'Bird Table' with 2 sweet little chickies sat on the roof.

I think it is a really sweet image and was good to colour using my Promarkers, I cut it out using a labels die from Spellbinders and inked the edges.
Paper is cut-offs from stash
Sentiments were freebies
Metal tag from USA
Ribbon and buttons from stash too

Meljens will give the winner 4 of their digital images, so you could have great fun with those because they have some great digis on their site.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -----------------------
Squirrel & Fox # 26 - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs-Monochromatic Green
 

Fancy Fold

Good Afternoon All
I,ve been busy this morning as my sister is coming over on Tuesday and I am really looking forward to it.
Todays card is a sort of concertina fold but it is a great way of using up bits of card and paper as you need quite afew small pieces to mat and layer.

It is also a great way to use lots of embellishments that you may have lying around.  I,ve used butterflies, ribbons, bows, flowers, sentiments etc etc.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -------
The Ribbon Girl Blog - September Colour Challenge
Charisma Cardz # 36 - Shaped cards
 

50

Good Afternoon All
Just a quick card today and it,s a MAN one.

I,m still using some decoupage that I cut out whilst in the UK in August and I still love cutting it out.
Wooden buttons from ebay with blue twine through
Paper was sent to me with some goodies of blog candy
xxxxx
Wendy L


CHALLENGES------------
Saturday # 203 - A Milestone Birthday