Candy and ... news

Hello hello everyone, how are you? Hope you are all well and having a nice weekend. Here I am finally with my candy.. to celebrate my birthday ..... woops woops I did take a long time to do this as my birthday was last week, but anyway, better late than never!!!! ... but now in the meantime I am celebrating something else too. Yes, I am joining the girls at the

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog

as one of their new DT woot woot :) I am so excited :)

This is a new Weekly Challenge Blog and I am going to be on Team 4, so will be posting my first DT card at the end of June and as you can see on the badge above, there is a fabulous candy on offer too. So don't forget to go check it out too, you definitely don't want to be left out!

So back to my candy now, here it is. 

There are two stamp sets, a chipboard pack, doilies, one Magnolia die and designer papers too. I hope you like it and join in. As always, my candy is open to my followers, new followers can join in future candies. Just leave your name with Mr Linky below and I will pick a winner at the end of next month.

Anything Goes

Hello everyone .. I'm back .. woops ..finally!! I said I would come back on Saturday, on the day of my birthday with my birthday candy and umm I didn't ..I was out and about all weekend long, starting Friday and of course, I just didn't have time! Really sorry, but getting to the age of 45 needed celebrating and pampering a bit more so that I could get used to this number!! Anyway, will of course get it this week, better late than never I think, but for today I have my DT card for the new challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers

The theme for this week is an easy ANYTHING GOES so you can do anything you like just as long you use our favourite markers .. ProMarkers, FlexMarkers, TriaMarkers or AquaMarkers.

For my card this week I used digi papers from Nitwits (the  plasters and bottle pills were also in the set).. and a digi image from one of our sponsor Dr Digi, as this week we have yet again two sponsors

Dr Digi and HobbyCutz

 

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Paper Playtime 10 - BUTTONS or BRADS

Bearly-Mine Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Passion For Promarkers 199 - ANYTHING GOES

The ABC Challenge - N for NOT JUST ONE

and I also have some exciting news now as I just found out that I did a 

Top 5 at AUD Sentiments with this card woo hoo :) 

 

Thank you for looking

xx

It's A Girl

What a day yesterday .. and today another longish day again... in fact I just returned home now and am so tired that we decided to get a take away for dinner he he and so glad I decided to take tomorrow off ... and hubby too :P We will first take our son for his A Level exam in the morning and then we are going to spend the day as we please :)  I like to do this once in a while and tomorrow seemed like the perfect day since Saturday is my birthday! So keep a look out as I want to get together some candy :)

Anyway, thought I would share this card today, which is an extra large one, 8x8!

I had never made such a large card before but this person wanted it large so I was really pleased I got this Forever Friends stamp, as it is quite large too.. so just perfect! There are three large gorgeous clear stamps in the set and also other small ones. This is the first one that I am using.

The DP are from Stamp Fairy, the leaves are Marianne Creatables, the flourish is Memory Box, while the cute bib is a Whimsy Shapeology Die.

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Forever Friends 61 - PASTEL COLORS

Eureka Stamps 39 - BABY or PREGNANCY

Bearly Mine - LUCKY DIP (lace, diecuts and flowers)

Whimsy Stamps May - ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Challenge - FLOWER POWER

Fab 'n' Funky 171 - FAVE EMBELLISHMENTS (flowers)

The ABC Challenge - N for NOT JUST ONE

Totally Gorjuss 183 - BINGO (lace, ribbon, flowers)
AUD Sentiments 80 - BABY or MOTHER AND CHILD

Thanks for looking today

xx

Simply Does It

Hello, good afternoon everyone. A quickie post today as I have to be out soon. Got an appointment in Sliema and then I am going to visit mum, pick up a birthday cake which I will be taking to the office tomorrow... as it's my birthday on Saturday :P .. back home to prepare dinner and then finally go to Bokwa tonight!!!! Wow busy busy Wednesday.

So better get it on then .. yay .. so since it's Wednesday it's time for another challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers

The theme for this week is

SIMPLY DOES IT

I didn't usually like doing these cards, and normally found them quite difficult, but now I really do like them .. you just need a gorgeous image and you can't go wrong :) 

So I decided on one of my Tilda stamps, which I don't use that often unfortunately .. and of course I coloured it with my promarkers. The butterfly die cut is Memory Box, I just embossed around the white card, three gems, sentiment .. and that's it!

This week again we have two fabulous sponsors

J & C Creations and also Hobby Book

      

Prize from J & C Creations is a £10 voucher while from Hobby Book is 5 digi images.

I am entering my card in these challenges today

Creative Inspirations Wednesday 214 - MAGNOLIA MADNESS

Everybody-Art-Challenge 236 - PURPLE

Crafty Ribbons 45 - NO DESIGNER PAPER

Moving Along With The Times - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Totally Papercrafts - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

2 Sisters Challenge 143 - MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking

xx

Add A Charm

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good week. Yesterday I managed to hop along to say hello to some of you my friends.. but of course I didn't manage all, so I'm really hoping to find some more time this week. I'm not as busy now as last week, just a few Holy Communion cards now .. and that's it !

Anyway, onto my card now and today it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Sentiments.

This week the theme is to

ADD A CHARM

I liked this theme as do have quite a few charms which I've had for quite some time but always forget to use them ha ha :P .. so there is my charm .. a little golden colored sun which I attached to some twine...thought it would be perfect to go with this gorgeous image, Beach Life.  

I coloured the image with my promarkers, and then just popped it up on this fun Summery DP which was a magazine freebie. I really love how it turned out.

The prize for the winner this week is this gorgeous stamp.

I am entering my card in these challenges today.

Stamp and Create May - A Color Challenge

Oldie But A Goodie - INSPIRED BY A SONG (Club Tropicana-Wham, Oldie is the charm)

Papertake Weekly - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (inspired by same song above :))

Joanna Sheen Challenge - MUSIC & LYRICS (as above)

.. thought I'd also share the video of the song Club Tropicana.. one of my faves when I was young :P

And I also got some fabulous news now

I won the challenge at The Corrosive Challenge with this card woo hoo so exciting :) 

Thank you for looking

I'm off now to take my son to a private lesson.. taxi mum here I come :P

xxx

Holy Communion

Today I was busy doing two commissioned Holy Communion cards. This is what I came up with.. ..

I decided on a clean style with no DP. The arch window is from Memory Box, the leaves are Die Namics, while the sentiment die is Spellbinders. Underneath the window I put a piece of clear vellum paper.

The gorgeous images are from Karen's Doodles, and I colored them with my promarkers.

The cross is an EK Success Dimensional Stickers to which I added a peel off.

Some embossing with my hougie board on the side and a bow and two pearls to finish it off. Wasn't sure about these for the boy card, but then I didn't know what to put instead, so I did them too.

Entering my cards in these challenges today.

Totally Papercrafts - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Moving Along With The Times - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Crafty Ribbons 45 - NO DESIGNER PAPER

Dream Valley 56 - NO SQUARES ALLOWED

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Papertake Weekly- ANYTHING GOES

Penny's Challenges 126 - DIECUTS and/or PUNCHES

Thank you for looking

xx

A Mother's Day Card

Good morning everyone and a Happy Mother's Day to all the mummies out there :) It's Mother's Day here in Malta today and we are having lunch at home, bringing our elderly parents over... they prefer this instead of going out... and I don't mind too.. as long as I'm not cooking and eating something good that includes fish :P

Anyway, I thought I would share one of the Mother's Day cards that I did this week.. a totally different one from the cards that I usually do.. no coloring .. no DP.. just clean and simple this time.

To do my card this time I used.. again.. stuff from my new goodies :) yay .. There is the Memory Box butterfly die, using this one for the first time, and the Die Namics daisies die again

I cut a circle with my spellbinders die and then stuck on the daisies over it, leaving blank spaces and just sticking the daisies together from the tips. Underneath I also added a sheet of nice vellum paper.

I printed the sentiment on my computer and I did the two embossed lines with my hougie board. Three pearls to finish it off and that's it.. but of course, it wasn't a quick one as I inked all the butterflies and daisies from the edges and then had quite a long task sticking the butterflies from the centre. .. 

Entering my card in these challenges today.

Totally Papercrafts - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Moving Along With The Times - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Crafty Ribbons 45 - NO DESIGNER PAPER

Dream Valley 56 - NO SQUARES ALLOWED

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Simon Says - THINGS WITH WINGS

Craft Your Passion 161 - FLORAL DELIGHT

Papertake Weekly- ANYTHING GOES

Divas By Design - ANYTHING GOES

Penny's Challenges 126 - DIECUTS and/or PUNCHES

Whimsy Inspires 59 -ANYTHING GOES

Flutterby Wednesdays 239 - OPEN

2 Sisters Challenge 143 - MOTHER'S DAY

Thank you for looking today

xxx

A Wedding Dance

What a busy week this was.. besides the Mother's Day cards, this week I also had a wedding card to do... of course not to mention the non-related crafty stuff!!! 

Anyway, on checking out the challenges, I came across the Kenny K one, which reminded me that I had the Wedding Dance image which I could use.

Louise's gorgeous card especially inspired me, since she was using this image and also for the doily die.. so I used my new Quick Kutz doily hearts die too :) I hadn't yet used this one, so I was really pleased that I did :) Thanks Louise.

The other dies that I am using are the leaves die from Marianne Creatables, swirl from Memory Box and again .. my new daisy die from Impression Obsession... woops love this one :)

Designer paper is a real oldie Papermania one from my stash.

Love how it turned out.

Entering my card in these challenges today.

Kenny K 142 - FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS

Craft Your Passion 161 - FLORAL DELIGHT

Papertake Weekly- ANYTHING GOES

Divas By Design - ANYTHING GOES

Penny's Challenges 126 - DIECUTS and/or PUNCHES

Whimsy Inspires 59 -ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Catz 182 - ANYTHING GOES

Some fabulous news now yay :)

I just found out that I was a winner at Crafty Catz this week with this card.

  

Woo hoo what a fabulous way to start the day :P

Thank you girls

Thank you for looking today

xx

Crafty Sentiments new release

Good morning everyone. It's time for another new release at Crafty Sentiments. This time we have ten new gorgeous stamps and here I am with a card that I made using the stamp Summer Time.

She is really so pretty and so sweet I think. I really love this one.

 Today I decided to do some paper piecing and coloured the rest of the image with my promarkers. 

Using more new goodies to make my card today.. and those are the gorgeous daisies dies... I'm so pleased I got these dies. The one on the left are Impression Obsession, the leaf is Marianne Creatables and the other daisy die is die Namics. .. hope I didn't mix them up! Sentiment stamp and die cut shape for the sentiment are from Crafty Sentiments .. and the rest of the stuff is from my stash.

All the new stamps are up for sale now from the shop and you can have a peek at some more cards at the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog. There is also a Mystery Candy here and also a blog hop here where you can win some of the new stamps...lots going on at the moment!

Entering my card in these challenges today

By The Cute and Girly May - FLOWERS

Bunny Zoes's - FAVE COLOR COMBO (purple, yellow, green)

Craft Your Passion 161 - FLORAL DELIGHT

Kaboodle Doodles 170 - FOR THE LADIES

Papertake Weekly- ANYTHING GOES

Passion for Promarkers 197 - BIRTHDAYS

Crafts & Me 132 - LACE

Simon Says - THINGS WITH WINGS

Delightful Sketches - STASH IT

Thank you for looking today

xx

Thank You

Good morning everyone. I hope you are having a good week. Sorry I haven't been hopping around lately but I'm a bit busy with Mother's Day and Holy Communion cards, besides of course the usual stuff. I should be ok of course, hopefully by the end of this week

Anyway, today it's time for a new challenge at

I ♥ Promarkers

and this week the theme is

THANK YOU

For my card I decided on this gorgeous stamp that I had but had never used. It is from In 2 Stamps, Daisy with Flower. I have of course coloured it with my promarkers. 

For my card this time I have again used my new fence die from Die Namics, the grass die is also Die Namics while the flowers are Memory Box. The sentiment is LOTV.

Finished it off with the cute kitty cat from Papermania ... he he love these :)

Our sponsor for this week is Polka Doodles with this fabulous prize.

Entering my card in these challenges today

Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

One Stop Crafts 227 - FLOWER POWER

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge 126 - DIE CUTS and/or PUNCHES

Thank you for looking today 

xx