Challenge #42

Happy Sunday,

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend, it's time once again for another challenge at Lovely hAnglar and Sweet Magnolia, yes that's right over at Lovely hAnglar Only we now want to see your Magnolia creations too. This fortnight the prize available is a £10 voucher over at Quixotic Paperie. We want to see your creations were the image is in black, white and grey and everything else is in colour.

Here's my card,

I've coloured this cute sailor girl in with Black Soot Distress ink, carefully cut her out and then went around the cut edge with a black pen, I find this finishes it off nicely and hides any bits that you've not cut quite right.

The papers are from Maja design, again, I can't get enough of these gorgeous papers lately. The flowers are from Wild Orchid craft and the twine is from the ribbon girl. The shell charm was a gift. The corners are from a discontinued quickutz die and the swirl is a doohickey die.

Pop over to Lovely hAnglar and Sweet Magnolia and have a look at the gorgeous creations the rest of the team have made.

Hugs,



Cake Glorious Cake!

Here's my second GDT card for Lili's Little Fairies, I'm half way through my GDT spot here, I've only got two more cards to make.

This week there is a fab sketch to follow, by Jacque, here's my take on the great sketch,

I've coloured Cake Glorious Cake in with distress inks. I love this stamp, comes with the sentiment too, and be honest, who doesn't like cake?? I certainly do, probably one of the reasons I'm round, lol. I've gone overboard with the glamour dust, but to me wings need to sparkle.

Once again I've decorated the inside to co-ordinate with the front, I am going to endeavour to do this more often. The papers are from Maja Design (Thanks Sandra) and I've distressed the edges with Walnut stain. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the gorgeous ruffled ribbon is from the Ribbon Girl. The fab oval die is from Dies to Die For.

Pop over to Lili's Little Fairies and show us your take on the sketch,
Hugs,

Tilda With Floating Hearts

Hi everyone,

It's time for another challenge at Midweek Magnolias, we have an open theme this week and would love to see your creations. Please remember though, you can only combine this challenge with up to four others, making five challenges you enter your creation in in total. It's a shame that some fantastic cards cannot be included in the draw.

Here's my card,

I've coloured Tilda With Floating Hearts with distress inks, and added glamour dust for some sparkle. The papers are from Bildmalarna, and I've distressed the edges with Victorian Velvet.

The flowers and pearls are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I think the lace is from the Ribbon Girl.

Pop over to Midweek Magnolias and see the gorgeous creations the girls have made for your inspiration.

Hugs,

The Great Outdoors

Time for my last challenge at My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges, this week we're sponsored by Pollycraft. I've decided to step down from the DT, it was a hard decision though, I'm also on the DT at Midweek Magnolia's and as they both go live on a Wednesday I don't feel that I can do justice to both challenges. My cards heavily feature my Magnolia Stamps, so I decided to go with Midweek Magnolias. I'll always be grateful to MMCS as they were the first DT I became part of, and I wish all of the girls well.

This week we want to see your cards with the theme of 'The Great Outdoors'.

I've coloured Explore Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection with distress inks. The papers are from Magnolia, I've used Tim Holtz's distress tool to distress the edges and sewn them using Top Stitch Thread from The Ribbon Girl.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and used Diamond Stickles on them. The lace is from The Ribbon Girl. The border die is a doohickey die.

Pop over to MMCS and have a look at the gorgeous creations my teamies have come up, I am going to miss working with them all.

Hugs,

Tilda In Stitches

Hi, Sunday again, where are these weeks and months going??

It's time for another challenge at Totally Tilda and we want to see Tilda in stitches, we're sponsored this challenge by Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

This is one of the Tilda's from the club kit, as yet I don't know her name. I have a paper pad from Maja design with sea type designs on, and was I spoilt for choice as to which paper to use. Can you see the anchors on there too? The whole pad is just divine. If anyone knows where I can get more of these pads, please, please let me know, I must have more, lol.

I've coloured her in with Distress Inks, I've actually just received my Distress Markers, but as yet have not had time to play with them. I've used one of the doohickey border dies, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts with the lace and the top stitch thread coming from the Ribbon Girl.

Pop over to Totally Tilda and check out the absolutely stunning work my teamies have created, and also join in our challenge.

I'm also entering this card in the challenge over at Just Magnolia and Hanglar Stanglar.
Hugs,

News

Hi Everyone,

I don't have a post today, well not yet anyway, but I have some great news that I'd like to share with you all. I've been asked to join the team at CLP Challenge Blog, I was thrilled when Chelsea e-mailed me, I love following a good sketch and every month there is always a fantastic sketch here.

My fellow newbies are:

• Anne
• Corry
• Debbie
• Pop
• Sandy

We join the team, who are:

• Bonnie
• Chelsea
• Dunja
• Elise
• Eulanda
• Lori
• Stephanne
• Tanja

There's still time to enter the current sketch Sketch #46, and it's a beauty,

here's my card that I actually entered into the challenge,

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all of their kind words about my creations, it really does mean a lot. Sandra, aka Craftynan, you weren't nagging, lol. I was brought up to be quite unassuming, in fact one of my Mam's sayings was 'Self praise is no recommendation'. I've been blogging for just over a year, and when I first found card blogland I was blown away by the talent of everyone out there, and it was only in my wildest dreams that I ever dared imagine I'd reach anywhere near the upper echelons of talent. I love making my cards, I especially love colouring, and I am grateful for the escape it has given me (those new to my blog, my story in a nutshell, my dad was admitted to hospital on December 14th last year, both my mam and dad had been a bit poorly for a while, on December 22nd they were both diagnosed with cancer, my mam died on January 3rd and my dad on the day of her funeral on January 13th).
I am so honoured, and humbled, to have been asked to join such great DT's and I've now been GDT at two great challenge blogs, 6 months ago I looked at the DT work and drooled and I am now rubbing shoulders with, as a crafty friend put it 'crafting celebs'. Sandra, I promise I'll (try) to start believing in myself.

I hope you all have a great day,

Hugs,

Becky xx

Diamonds and Pearls

Happy Thursday everyone,

Two weeks ago Lili's Little Fairies were asking for a GDT, I entered my card into the challenge and applied for the GDT spot. They were having trouble picking two (they eventually chose three) so the list wasn't up till later in the day. I kept checking to see who the lucky ladies were, never expecting to be me and I was so shocked and pleased when I saw my name on the list. So I'm one of the GDT for the next 4 weeks, YAYYY!!!

The theme this week is 'Diamonds and Pearls', and here's my card.

I've coloured Positively Pampered in with Distress Inks, and covered her wings in Glamour Dust. I've used glossy accents on the mirror to make it shine. The flowers, pearls, lace and seam binding are all from Wild Orchid Crafts, the Diamond swirl is from The Ribbon Girl.

I've used Pion paper and distressed the edges with walnut stain, I've used one of the new doohickey border dies too. I've decorated the inside of the card to match the front, not something I do often enough as I think it really makes the card special.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the girls over at Lili's Little Fairies for asking me, it really did make my day.
Hugs,