May Flowers

Good Morning All
Dont forget, today is last chance to enter candy above, as the draw will be done tomorrow.

Back with my second post today and this is for Charisma Cardz Challenge and the theme is 'May Flowers' .
So afew flowers with twirly stems, butterfly, sentiment and mostly white on white.

This is the embossing die I used, I love it, so pretty.  It cuts little butterflies out aswell as embossing them too.

We have two sponsors this week

The Paper Shelter

and

Stamping Chef

xxxxx
Wendy L

I Heard It On The Radio

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Moving Along With The Times Challenge time again and the theme this week is 'I Heard It On The Radio'.

Theme is a Song you heard and is really catchy!!       (like Walking on Sunshine = Sunny happy card) 

The other day I heard a song I had not heard for a long time 'Love is Like A Butterfly' sung by Dolly Parton.

This was the theme song for the TV Sitcom 'Butterflies' with Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer and takes me back to childhood.

I used a music sheet background and Spellbinders Papillon die cuts.  I printed the words from the song to use as the sentiment with a pink ribbon and a pearl.

I decorated the inside using  some peeloffs and card.

I put  sentiment label on the bottom as, by the time this post goes live, I will have had my stall at the craft fayre, and it will go for sale there.  I thought it would be suitable for a 'Wife' as the butterfly sentiment is quite 'lovey'.

Great choice for the challenge chosen by Hazel, the boss lady.  Should be fun.

And we have a prize this week,  Mellow Yellow 
  by Donovan.

xxxxx

Wendy L

                                                  CHALLENGES 

Crafty Ribbons - AG + Ribbon

Green

Good Morning All

I am on my way tomorrow to UK to be there for Mum and house sit and dog sit for one of my sisters.

So looking forward to it all, seeing everyone, especially Hollie and Noah, and Noahs Christening too.

I am taking laptop with me so will be keeping up with everything.

 I really like this card, quite simple, but nice.

The flower is made following the tutorial at the page at the top of my blog.

xxxxx

Wendy L
CHALLENGES
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power

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We went for a really long walk yesterday at Guadamar and here are afew pics of the harbour.

This is where we keep the weekend Yacht!!!!!!

This looks like a heron keeping watch or maybe just waiting for a fish to swim by for his lunch.

This is the gateway to the harbour.  Below is as we walked round the harbour to the end where all the fisherman sit on the rocks and fish.  This is the view back towards the boat harbour.

Different Fold or Shape Card

Good Morning All

Hope all is well in your part of the world.
I have some news for you all today.
We are having a BLOG HOP in 2 weeks time for   Allsorts Challenges Birthday.

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Saturday means it is time for the Allsorts Challenge and this week it is my turn to host and I want to see something different, a shaped or fancy fold card please.

Afew photos to follow to try to show the fold and the dimention of the card.

I borrowed a Tattered Lace die from my  friend Lin at the Craft Meet Class on  Thursday.

I kept it all pinks and silvers.

The corners are Cheery Lynn.

This is the inside using paper from Docrafts and a die cut from Marianne in a gorgeous pearly pink card.  A little strip sentiment.

I hope you like it.

I am looking forward to seeing what creations people come up with for this challenge.

I do try to choose a theme that stretches people abit and may give me some ideas along the way too, abit cheeky what!!!!!

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xxxxx

Wendy L
PS.  I had a lovely lunch with Carol Yesterday, I would like to thank Tina from Joanna Sheen for putting us in touch through my readers letter. xxxx

CHALLENGES
Crafts Galore Encore - AG
Crafting Musketeers - Not Square
Feeling Crafty Challenge - Girly
Flat Friends - Dies Punches
Speedy Fox & Friends - Punches (Butterfly punch)

Humphrey & Chicks

Good Morning All

I was lucky to have my letter printed on Joanna Sheens News Letter this month and through that a lady who has lost her husband last week to the awful Pancreatic cancer got in touch with Tina and asked to be put in touch with me. (I lost my fiance to this dreadful disease in 2006).  This lady, Carol, lives in Spain also, so I  emailed her  and we have been having  a cyber chat this week.  Anyway, afew emails on and we are going to meet up on Friday afternoon.

Isn't it surprising who you meet through blogs etc, that is how I met my friend Val who comes to the craft meet on Thursdays.

Todays card is another Humphrey.

Such a sweet image with the little chicks.  I kept it simple, with shades of blue card and paper, matted onto  Swiss Dots embossed card.

I put the same image, but smaller, inside the card.

xxxxxx

Wendy L
CHALLENGES
Papertake Weekly  Anything Goes
Lexi Creations - Man or boy
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Penny Black & More

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This is my card for the guest DT spot at Penny Black and More, this comes about as being in the Allsorts team we do a guest spot over there too.

I used this gorgeous Penny Black stamp and coloured it with Promarkers.  Homemade sentiments and tags.  Different types of ribbon and bows and a lemon doily.
I have started decorating the inside of my cards, partly to use up smaller pieces of  card and paper, so if I cut a card up for the matting and layering on the front, I have apiece left, I try to use it on the inside, as I have done here.

xxxxx
Wendy L

 CHALLENGES

Crafty Calender - Sunshine and flowers

Suzy Bees Challenge  - AG

We Do Doobadoo Challenge - Lots of Layers

Dream Factory - # 7 Gone with the Wind

Photo Inspiration for Hobbycutz

Good Morning All

This week at Hobbycutz Challenge Elaine has chosen the theme and it is a photo  so use this as inspiration for your creations.

  

I used a sweet image from the sponsor called 'Spring Enchantment' and coloured her with Promarkers.  I found the gorgeous butterfly ribbon in our local China shop in the perfect colours for this challenge, yellow and purple.  Hobbycutz lasercuts on the edges to prop the easel with, I love these lasercuts, there are some beauties on the web site HERE and they can be painted or spritzed or even coloured with your pens to match your colour scheme.

Sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter

xxxxxx

Wendy L
PS  ---   I have been chosen as Readers Letter of the Month on Joanna Sheens Newsletter and through that have been put in touch with a lady here in Spain whose partner has just passed  on with the same horrific cancer.  Hello Carol if you read this. xxxxxx
CHALLENGES -
Crafting At The Weekend - AG

Butterflies

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge this week is 'Butterflies' so that is a great theme and I,m sure there will be lots of entries. 

As you know I adore butterflies on my creations so here goes.
This is the second card I made for this one because we were given some gorgeous new images from Nicecrane and this is one of them and I love it.

I kept it nice and bright to match the butterflies.
Homemade sentiment attached with a button, leaf embellishment from Hobbycutz.  The large white flower I made using the technique on the  tutorial at the top of my blog HERE and that's what the easel props behind.
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CHALLENGES
A Little Bit Crafty - Flowers

Die Cut Divas - Use at least 1 embellishment

For this one I used this beautiful kingfisher  image from one of the sponsors 'Nicecrane'.  I have only ever seen one once in my life and it was a gorgeous summers day walking by the river.  So when I saw this image it reminded me of summer and therefore, butterflies.  I used oranges, yellows and pinks.  All the butterflies are cut with Marianne dies and the backing paper was free in a magazine.

I used another Marianne die to cut this for the inside and put another butterfly in there too. 

Sponsors this week are ---Nicecrane and Digistamp Boutique

xxxxx
Wendy L

Favourite Embellishment

Good Morning All

My second post this morning is for Ladybug Crafts Challenge and this month Samantha has chosen a great theme of 

Fave Embellishment.

Wow, so easy for me 'cos that has got to be Flowers -Handmade, punched, bought, die-cut - whatever, any shape or form, I love flowers.

All the flowers I used on this one are bought.

In fact I  have used most of my fave embellishments on this card - ribbon, bead pin, crochet flower, charm (says 'Friend')

The picture is recycled from some bits and bobs given to me by Linda (Animal Aid).  I have used them before on my cards and I love the 'Vintage' look of them.

The paper is 'Spring Chic' Me to You, mounted on peachy coloured card.

Pop over to the Challenge blog and have a go with this nice easy one.

xxxxxx

Wendy L
CHALLENGES
Creative Knockout 35 Flowers Galore
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power
CRAFT Challenge 257 - Make your own Embellishment ( crochet flower)
Crafty Ribbons - AG + ribbon

Pretty Pastels

Good Morning All

Moving Along With The Times this time is Pretty Pastels chosen by Kelly.
This is up to your interpretation really, so long as it is pastel colours.

I chose to do an unusual fold card, as the next two pics show, I hope.

Cheery Lynn roses die cuts for flowers, punched butterflies.
Just under the first flap is a butterfly peeloff negative stuck onto white card.
Pastel coloured peel offs for corners and down sides with large gems at other corners.

A Nellie Snellen Scalloped square die cut for  inside.
I hope you like this card, a little bit different I think and I enjoyed making it too.
I shall be back later with my Ladybug Crafts DT card.

xxxxx
Wendy L
CHALLENGES
In The Pink 43 - Fluttering By
Crafting For All Seasons - Lots of Layers
Pennys Papercraft - Pastels
Sisterhood of Crafters - Things with Wings