Work in progress....

Thought i would share with you my latest work in progress...I bought this set of drawers from a charity shop te other day for £2.50 and then yesterday i went to Craft Central with my friend Elke and amongst other things we bought some decopatch papers. Now those of you that know me will know my craft room is black and white so the papers i bought are black and white!!!! These are the piccies of the drawers before i attacked them with paper and glue

and here they are after i have been playing this afternoon but you will have to wait til later in the week to see the finished article.

Right off for my shower as we are going to my daughters for dinner this evening Enjoy the last remaining bit of your weekend Sylvia xx

Very special card for SIL

Hi bloggers Thought i would share a very special card with you...especially for my SIL - she is going in hospital on Thursday for a major operation as part of her cancer treatment. This will be the biggest one of many and she will be in ICU for a while once the op is over. She lives in Newquay Cornwall and for those that know the area will know that there is a beach with lots of lovely brightly coloured beach huts on. Our children played on these beaches and now their children do the same. I loved this sentiment and felt it was just what i needed to say....

The stamp is a brand new one from Michael Powell and i bought it today on a shopping trip out with my best friend Elke. I coloured it with promarkers and then just added a simple bow and flower. Off to play some more now as i have the downstairs to myself as everyone else is having an early night...lol Sylvia xx Challenges..Paper Pretties

Anything Goes.....

Good Morning followers and welcome to my blog post for today!! This week over at Poodles Parlour, our challenge is really easy..............anything goes We are being sponsored this time by Stamp n Doodle

and we had some lovely cute digis to use including this lovely wee girl on her bike... I love this idea of a Double Dutch fold and may just use this idea again..here is the link over at Splitcoasters if you wanted to give it a go. Let me know if you do and i will come and pay you a visit I do hope you will come and join us with your great projects Until then Love and hugs Sylvia x

CRAFT Challenge DT card

Good morning and its that time of the week again... CRAFT Challenges time

Our theme this week is Animals so anything at all with an animal on it is fine by us...it may be cute...scary....big....little...furry...feathered (like mine) whatever we don't mind.

I got to use this super duper image from Hope Jacare - swirly owl branch which i just fell in love with. I used papers and chipboard shapes from the Sugar & Spice Range from dovecraft and obviously coloured with my promarkers to finish off..



We shall look forward to all your lovely projects and to popping over to nosey at your blogs..

Until next time

Take care and do be crafty...

Sylvia x Challenges DYSU - inspirational flowers.......The Paper Shelter.....Passion for Promarkers.....Creative Craft Challenges.....Sentimental Sundays

Changes are afoot at Nutcrafters!!!

Good evening followers - bet you wondered where i was!!! Oops sorry about the late post for my DT card for the Nutcrafters challenge it must be all the excitement of the new changes we have... We are opening the rule book this week however and mixing things up a little. If you would like to enter our challenge but don't have any Nutcrafters images to use, this week we will accept your entry and you will be entered in to win our second prize of your choice of Nutcrafters digi stamp or digi stamp set. All cards or projects with a Nutcrafters image will automatically receive an additional entry into our main prize draw, so that's twice the chance to win! No excuses now for not entering the great challenge and a chance to win either the digi or the voucher. Anything goes...yes absolutely anything and i have used some funky card blanks i got from Kanban at the weekend and my backing papers are from a lovely little pad "Webster's pages" which were free in simply cards and papercraft and they are so yummy!!! My digi is a new one from nutcrafters and there's more but you will have to wait and see what they are...may just give you a sneek peak at the weekend!!!! Good luck in the challenge and chat soon but i have to dash now as we are going out for dinner for a chinese with a very special friend... Challenges for this card Paper Pretties..... The Stamping Boutique..... The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog..... Love and hugs as always Sylvia x

Wedding/Anniversary CRAFT Challenges..

Yoo hoo only me with another challenge DT card for our weekly challenge at CRAFT Challenges

This week we would love to see your cards/projects following a wedding or anniversary theme



For my card i have used a Meljen Designs digi and what a cute couple they are too...I shall be giving this to one of my daughter's best friends when she gets married later in the year...the papers are from a brand new pack of papers from Flair designs petite range and they are such yummy papers.

Challenges DYSU... The Stamping Boutique... Sentimental Sundays... Papertake Weekly... Do come and join us as we have some very special prizes for the lucky winners this week.

Sylvia xx

Circles !!!!!

Round and round in circles...Poodles Parlour Challenges would love to see your projects with circles as the main theme...

I found this great circles paper amongst the paper pack from dovecraft called Sugar & Spice so with a couple of embellishments from the same range and some ribbon...voila !!! there is my ever so quick and easy card.

I shall look forward to seeing your lovely work when out visiting the blogs and good luck to you all ...

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

Inspirational Picture Challenge

Good morning followers..

A beautiful inspirational picture is the challenge this week at CRAFT Challenges and wow have the team got some great projects to show you.

Pop on over, have a look have a look at our work and then come and show us yours !!!! As always there are some fab sponsors and prizes including Bugaboo which is where I got the digi for my 1st card - called beautiful blocks - live love and laugh (seems like good advice to me)




now because i loved the piccie so much i made a 2nd card but this time using a Stitchy bear image of this fisherman...




So come on then, fish the mojo out of the drawer and lets see your projects

Challenges
A gem of a challenge (flower card)
OSAAT (fisherman card)
Cupcake craft challenges (flower card)
Papertake weekly (fisherman)
Paper pretties (fisherman)
Willow Sketchie Challenge (fisherman)

Until next time lots of hugs

Sylvia xx

Birthday boy

It is my daughter's boyfriends birthday tomorrow and as he loves car-racing and computer games i thought this LOTV image was just perfect. I have let LOTV do the colouring this time and given my promarkers the day off..LOL.. I have used some backing papers that were free in a mag from ages ago, a Kanban sentiment and then finally finished off using my new star punch. I have bought him a 2 hour snow-boarding lesson for his birthday treat so just hope he doesn't come home "plastered"....

Challenges...
Paper Pretties
Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Papertake weekly Challenge
Off to get my ironing done now..enjoy the rest of your evening

Sylvia xx

Project for the craft group

Well last week at Creative Craft Group it was my turn to provide the "goodie bag" and as the group will tell you i don't do normal...lol

I love the girls to try something different for a change!!! so this week i printed onto some yummy Kanban card so that they could make .........................

Bird - Houses




Well we all had a great time and mine is hanging up in my craft room (don't really want any birds nesting in it though)....

The idea came from a CD i have from Polka Doodles and i think i may just make some more ready for the next craft fayre i do!!!

thanks for popping by...

Sylvia xx

Morning crafty people!!

Good morning to you all...another scheduled post from me as i shall be sat at my desk whilst you are reading this...the good news is that i shall finish at 4 and then have 4 wonderful days at home with my hubby, daughters and dogs...

Now then on to the post..the challenge this week at CRAFT challenges is Spring/Easter and i was lucky enough to get to use this lovely little image from the stamping boutique

I love the summertime but my favourite season has to be spring, all those beautiful daffodils and tulips flowering and lots of new shoots and buds in the garden, birds singing...bliss


So do come and join us and let us have a look at your great creations as we have lots of great sponsors which of course means great prizes for you peeeps..

Challenges..
Digi Doodle Shop's Best (new digi and papers)
I love Promarkers
Papertake Weekly

Look forward to seeing you all soon

Happy Easter

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

Spots and dots

The challenge over at The Poodles Parlour this time is spots and dots... and if you go check out the challenge blog you will see lots and lots of them...my teamies have made some fab projects using some of the great images from bugaboo our very kind sponsor

Here is my card




I used a great little bugaboo image and coloured it with my promarkers, i went for the CAS idea for a change this time.

Do come and join us, would be lovely to see your creations

Until next time

Sylvia xx

Good morning followers

Hello crafters and followers

Well for a change whilst you are reading this i shall be on my way to Bridlington with my hubby for a well-deserved day out!!!! Hopefully the sun will still be shining when we get there as i really am looking forward to a wee paddle....fish and chips in the harbour and a yummy ice-cream too...

So what do we have in store for you at CRAFT challenges this week

Well we would like to see your projects following the theme of "Things with Wheels"

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I have made a double slider card using an image from The Stamping Boutique (as you can see i can't link cos Mr Blogger has thrown his dummy out of the pram AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Have a great day and we shall look forward to seeing your wonderful creations and have a peek around your blogs

Challenge for this project...Shelly's Images

Sylvia x

Afternoon...

Good afternoon to you all on this lovely sunny day...well the sun has obviously gone to my head (must be sat in that stuffy office all day wishing i was elsewhere)...guess who forgot to post their card today...Yep that would be me!!!

so here it finally is using one of the new "travel" digis...i just love this little cutie pie...so what is our challenge this time ???? "Ready for Summer" and think this weather is hopefully getting us ready for a great summertime.

Do come and join us for this times challenge at Nutcrafters the prize is of course a £10 voucher to spend in the Nutcrafters store...full of yummy goodies too

Oh no !!!! what is the matter with blogger now...having another paddy is he...he won't let me link to the nutcrafters site...silly blogger...sort yourself out!!!!

Right off to jump in the shower and make myself pretty as i am off out with my friend and some of her work colleagues ...yummy chinese/indian buffet i can't wait.

Catch you all later

Sylvia xx

Flowers....for my friend

Good morning to you all








Over at CRAFT Challenges this week our theme for the challenge is handmade flowers. We have as always got some fab prizes from our great supportive sponsors, and this week i chose to use the oh so pretty digi from Aifactory.

I have added some pearls to the image and then the papers are from Charcoal prints from Dovecraft including the ones i used to make my flowers with...The punch is one of my favourite from woodware and love how in one punch you get 4 different lots of petals..perfect!!!!

Do come and join us with our flower challenge will be lovely to see your creations

Challenges

Papertake Weekly (Diagonal - gems - free - lace)
OSAAT
One Stop Craft

Love and hugs as ever

Sylvia x

Anything Goes over at Poodles Parlour...

Good morning to you all my treasured followers...

How about this for something different (from me anywhooo)



I decided to do a bit of distressing for this card. The DPs i found when i was looking for some brown card!!! not sure how they got in that box????? but glad i found them as the colours were just perfect for what i wanted and matched my colours of the jumper and the boat....PERFECT!!!! i love this twine too. Now the image and the little sentiment tickets came from "The Digi Garden" this one is called Joe in his boat. Coloured with my promarkers as usual

Oh did i mention i have just treated myself to a few more...well 20 odd...but that will complete my set.....yeah until they bring new ones out...lol

Ok off to get some jobs done now...have a fabby dabby weekend...I certainly will

I'm off to Harrogate with my very best friend Elke tomorrow and we are going on the train so what a great day out it will be. When we get back the men are taking us for a meal (not sure if we told them that though yet) ha ha ha ha

Challenges

I love Promarkers (I really really do!!!)

Totally Papercrafts

Digi Doodle Shop's Best

The Paper Shelter

Sylvia xx

CRAFT challenge...

Good morning followers




This great image is from Digi Doodle Shop and they are one of our fab sponsors this week for our CRAFT Challenge.

I have used some lovely floral backing papers that were a freebie in a mag this week, then coloured the image with my promarkers and then added a sentiment that was also a freebie from a mag...

We have so many great prizes this week you really do need to go and have a nosey...enter our challenge and then you could be one of our winners. Good luck !!!

Challenges

SweetStamps Blog challenge
Shelly's Images

Sylvia xx

I'm a winner !!!!!

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Woo hoo

Look who won this weeks challenge at The Paper Shelter

I was over the moon and got to choose 3 of their fab digis as my prize.

Clare if you are reading this please don't laugh after what i said last night at craft club lol

Sylvia xx

Bingo!!!

Well how about this for something new over at Nutcrafters ...??

A bingo challenge...

I have chosen to use one of the new "travel" range of digis, this little boy looks just like my great nephew and he was so lovely to colour with my promarkers.

I chose the top line of the bingo card...diecut/punch - ribbon - gems/pearls

I shall look forward to coming to visit you and see your creations during the next week or two...good luck with the challenge you never know this time it could be you winning the £10 voucher!!!

Oh don't forget there is a mega sale on and fantastic prices on the nutcrafters stamps...grab a bargain..

Challenges

I love Promarkers
The Paper Shelter

Sylvia xx

Ta dah !!!!!

I have made a new pen pot for my craft room and an "S" for my wall....

I painted the MDF shapes with black acrylic paint, then when that was dry i stamped some flowers, butterflies and a sentiment using white acrylic paint. When it was all completely dry i covered it with stage 1 crackle paint (twice) and then finally added stage 2 crackle paint.

Well i love them...bit of shabby chic in my craft room, I have also painted some MDF hearts but they are no where near finished yet and now i have to finish making hubby's dinner!!!

Challenges

Craft Room Challenge
The Pixie Cottage
Totally Papercrafts (for my "favourite" room)
The Paper Shelter
Papertake Weeekly

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

Sunday afternoon playtime!!!

Well for a change (apart from the dogs) I have had a day to myself, so once i had scrubbed the kitchen floor and cleaned the bathroom and made a cake....it was time to play in the garden....




Here are the piccies of my goodies and later today or maybe tomorrow you will see what i made with this lot!!!!

I did have lots of fun and it was a little messy but hey ho we have plenty of soap and water!!!

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Have a brill Saturday evening

Sylvia xx

Born to be Wild....

Good morning followers

Here is my latest DT card for the challenge over at CRAFT Challenges. The theme this week is "Inspired by a song" so i have chosen to use this great Bugaboo Image, she is called Ruby Tidbits - Tequila and my song is Born to Be Wild. I have made it especially for my friend as this is exactly what happens to us if we hit the tequila..we end up on the floor!!!!

I have coloured her with my promarkers and used some Kanban card for the musical background. the sentiment comes with the digi so just perfect... I do hope you can come and join us this week as once again we have great prizes on offer from our very generous sponsors.

Challenges

The Paper Shelter
Papertake Weekly
Totally Papercrafts

See you all soon

Sylvia x

"Birthdays"

Now this is a challenge that won't take much thinking about...Birthdays is our theme over at the Poodles Parlour challenge blog.
This card was made using a great little digi from Milk Coffee Digi Stamps, coloured with my promarkers and i used DCWV papers and my new die from spellbinders, the stars are from the same die set and as you can probably tell from my recent cards i love it!!!

challenges...
The Pixie Cottage
My Time to Craft

Ok must dash as hubby is calling....

catch you all later

Sylvia xx

C.R.A.F.T.Challenge card

Good Morning

Hope you are all well, i have finally recovered from my cold and chest infection so feeling much more myself!!! Thank goodness for that...

Well it's that time again so here is my latest card for the C.R.A.F.T.Challenge. The theme this week is Mother's Day but my card is actually for my mum's birthday. I know she will love because she has a beautiful cat that just loves to lie in or on her flowerpots, so I'm sure she will have a little giggle at this image.

We have lots of lovely prizes up for grabs from our fab sponsors this week so come and join us for our weekly challenge.

This time i have used some pepper and friends goodies with some free papers from papercraft essentials.



Look forward to visiting your blogs

Challenges

Cutie Pie challenge blog
The Pixie Cottage


love and hugs

Sylvia xx