Dream Valley Challenge 41 - Celebrations

Hiya!

It's time for another challenge at Dream Valley and this time we want you to share your Celebrations with us :-) What a fab challenge! I love this one :-) It could be a birthday, wedding, anniversary... There's loads to choose from but what could be more of a celebration than a new baby???

Paul's work colleague and his partner have recently welcomed their new little bundle into the world and this is the card I made for them....

The image and sentiment are, of course, LOTV and then I personalised it with a little bit I printed myself.

The papers are from the Tatty Teddy range - gorgeous for little ones :-)

Please pop over to Dream Valley and find out what the rest of the DT are celebrating :-)

Love 'n' hugs,

Just for Roo x

Hiya!

I'm sending a parcel of goodies to my brother's with a mixture of birthday and Christmas goodies so I needed to get my nephew's birthday card made in plenty of time.... It's not his birthday for a month yet! My nephew's name is Richard but we all call him Roo so this is Just For Roo! :-)

I've been searching through all my crafty stash and found my Tatty Teddy stuff that I've barely used since I got it - naughty, naughty! So I thought I'd make good use of it for this card....

The hidden tag completes the sentiment....

A close up....

And a better piccie of the image....

I used:

Image - Tatty Teddy, Me to You

Promarkers

Papers - Me to You

Peel offs - Me to You

Sizzix tag die

Buttons - Papermania

Cord - Stash

Challenges:

CRAFT - Stars in your eyes

Sarah Hurley - Buttons

Sketch 'n' Stash - Fab sketch (neglected stash: Me to You range)

Whoopsi Daisy - Colours of Winter

Right, I'm off to visit your lovely blogs while listening to the fab concert for Children in Need!!! Brilliant so far. I sold all my Pudsey Bear calendars by the way - all 40 of them! I'm quite pleased with myself :-) I hope they raise lots of money!!!

Love 'n' hugs,

A shoebox.....

Hiya!

My good pal Lynn asked me to decorate a shoebox for her children to take into school. The boxes are going to be filled with goodies and given to disadvantaged children for Christmas - awwww! How could I refuse???

We had such a laugh - and chocolate chip muffins, yummy!

I started by covering it in brown parcel wrap....

A view of the lid....

A close up of the tag....

 And a wierdly angled piccie so you can see all the glitter :-)

I used:

Image - Me to You

Promarkers

Glitter glue

Brush marker for faux stitching

Kraft card

Papers - Papermania, Henbury Lane

Velvet ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Snowflake dies - Marianne

Snowflake punch

Gems and ribbon on tag from stash

Challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. - Cute

Charisma Cardz - Cutesy

Crafty Ribbons - Anything but a card

Creative Inspirations - All stitched up

Forever Friends - Something old (shoebox), something new (snowflake dies)

Passion for Promarkers - Kraft and 1 other colour

Wags 'n' Whiskers - Christmas themed

Whoopsi Daisy - Tag it

Busy day today - need to do some shopping and then I'm making Pudsey Bear calendars for Children in Need to sell at school next week.... Piccies soon!

Have a fab weekend :-)

Love 'n' hugs,

A new baby....

Hiya!

I'm really not getting the hang of blogging my cards at the mo. I think the phrase "bitten off more than I can chew" was made for me! I'm up to my eyeballs with cards and wedding preparations, allotment veg and my new secretary role while still trying to do all my usual Mom, girlfriend and "me" stuff...... As a result, I'm awake at.... oh dear, 2:20am, writing this post cos I can't sleep with all the things buzzing round my head.

Anyway, I made these cards last week and it's about time I showed you :-) They're just some quick simple ones following a sketch from Meljen's challenge (missed the deadline aaaages ago!) I thought as I was cutting my paper into triangles, I may aswell make 2 cards and keep one for my box. This is actually intended for a good pal of mine, Becky, who had little baby Lewis a couple of days ago. Congratulations, Becky!

The image, papers and sticky letters are all from the Me to You range....

Then I just added a few pearls, a star cut using a quickutz die and embossed with a crafts too embossing folder.....

A close-up of the image coloured with my promarkers.....

And the sentiment.....

Challenges:

Sarah Hurley - Colouring

Totally Gorjuss - All about boys

Right, I'm going to put the kettle on. Maybe ovaltine will help me sleep! Night, night!

Love 'n' hugs,

A Little Tatty Teddy :-)

Ooooh! I've looked forward to these - the Tatty Teddy range from Docrafts :-) Went to a faaaaab demo on Sunday and went over my budget despite a special 20% off.....

The image and papers are both from the Tatty Teddy range - so cute! I used the dark grey Tatty Teddy ink to stamp with but he blurred a bit when I coloured him. Not sure if it's the ink or the paper I've used - I'll have to experiment.....

I used some silver flowers and pink sequins that I've had since I first started crafting about six(?!?) years ago in the corners and added a few pearls to the centres. Now I'm usually a fan of faux stitching (and you can still see some of that on the corners and the sentiment tag....) but I've been admiring Amanda's hand-stitching for aaaages and really thought I'd better give it a try..... Don't laugh - it's a bit wonky....

I used my usual leafy lace border punch at the corners and added some ribbon that comes from around the card blanks I always used to use - Anita's, I think they are.... I added some blue gems from last year's blue papermania capsule collection and then stamped a Tatty Teddy sentiment onto a tag with some more ribbon stapled in place. More faux stitching, some glitter glue and a doodled border in white gel pen....

Challenges:

PaperPlay - Show us your style

Secret Crafter - Dust off your stash

Sketch 'n' stash - Fab sketch

I'd better link these up - I've only got 20mins before the paperplay challenge closes - eeek! Then I'll be updating my allotment blog again - if you fancy, you can pop over and have a giggle at the things I've been trying to build for my veggies :-)

Love 'n' hugs,