Sunday afternoon card...

sorry followers but yes another LOTV card...i just love her little Maisie and she is soooo good to colour in with my promarkers. I was having a sort out and came across these freebie papers so challenge of the day was to make something with them. A very pink girly card for a Sunday afternoon

challenges for this one are....

One Stitch at a time ...flowers

Dream Valley....summer theme

Little Claire's Monthly Challenge...things with wings

Totally Papercrafts Challenge...girly girls


Simon Says stamp challenge..anything goes

Hope you have all had a great weekend

Sylvia x

Sketch Saturday Challenge

What a great sketch it is over at Sketch Saturday, so just the opportunity i needed to use my new LOTV stamp and try out their nesting templates.

This is Maisie and i love her she is a real cutie, coloured with my trusty promarkers, backing paper is from kanban and finally prima flowers and a ticket from the crafty pad

Will enter this one into a few challenges....

Sketch Saturday...of course!!

One Stitch At A Time...anything goes

Dream Valley....summer theme

Papertake Weekly...hot hot hot

Allsorts Challenge... free and easy


Simon Says stamp challenge..anything goes

Hope you have all had a great start to the weekend despite the weather...off to play with my new goodies i bought today when i was out and about with my friend Elke

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

Blog award !!!!

Came home from work to find i have been given this scrummy blog award by my super crafty friend Tracey

I am truly honoured to be given a blog award by such a fantastic creative person as Tracey...you really do need to go over to her blog and check it out she makes the most fabby projects. Huge thanks for this hun, you made my day!!!

I shall now bore you all with 7 facts about me

**I have been married for nearly 32 years

**I have 3 grown-up daughters (only 1 at home now though)

**I love to cross-stitch as well as papercraft

** I walk for miles most days with my dogs Sophie and Bumble

**I prefer wine to water

** I am a chocolholic (not at the minute though as i am following slimming world)

**I met by bestest friend through crafting

ok so who am i going to give this award to

Elke ...because she is the bestest friend you could hope for (and a great crafter)

Monica...she makes some stunning cards and contributes so much for charity she deserves this award and more

and finally...

Janet..who has a truly inspiring blog

Hope you will find time to visit their blogs and maybe even become followers

Thanks again Tracey...xx

more baby cards

for the boys i think....

These papers are from one of my favourite sets from DCWV "nursery. I have both the boy and girl packs and i think they are so scrummy and sooooo touchy feely.

at least now i have a few baby cards ready for the new arrivals...think my friend's son and his girlfriend should be 1st..."Come on Charlotte we have waited long enough lol"

Right off to make some more goodies but before i go don't forget that if you were a follower over at Creative Craft Challenges we have had to move "addresses" due to some numpty deleting all our posts, you can find our fab new challenge blog here and also to let you know we have lots of fantastic sponsors coming up not only for this year but also next..which means great prizes for the lucky winners

Have a fantastic weekend guys and gals

Love and hugs

Sylvia x

Goodie Bag card ....

Goodie bags at craft club again this week and this time it was my turn to provide them so i gave them lots of choices but the images, sentiments and backing papers were all from a yummy cd from polka doodles called "back to nature" i them gave them lots of flowers, brads, buttons to add on as they wished. If you pop over here you will see what the others came up with.

saw these photo corners in a mag and decided to have a play...i think they just finish the card off nicely.

challenges

Papertake weekly...anything goes
Allsorts Challenge...free and easy

Thanks for popping by

Sylvia x

Oh Baby....

I seem to know an awful lot of peeps that are expecting the pitter patter of tiny feet very soon, so at craft group after making cards with our goodie bags (will post about that later) i decided to make some baby cards

this one is all pink and girlie, i love the embellishments which i got from Mei at Meiflower. I made this for my daughter's really good friend April who knows she is having a little girl later this year. I thought the lovely little rocking horse charm finished it off perfectly...

challenges

Papertake weekly...anything goes
Allsorts Challenge...free and easy

Sylvia...x

Creative Craft Challenges DT card

Hopefully it is Tuesday morning and the new blog is up and running ...as many of you will know we have had many many problems with our challenge blog, for some unknown reason the posts were being deleted. We are not sure whether it was Mr Blogger to blame or some saddo with nothing better to do than to try and destroy our challenge blog. Well whichever it was, it wil take an awful lot to get rid of us.lol

Anyway here is my DT card and we got to work with another fab digi from Meljen Designs...if you have never seen these digis??????what are you waiting for they are fantastic. I used a frame over the digi which i coloured with promarkers and then added lots of glamour dust. The frame is from craftwork cards and another of my favourtie stash items.

Have a great day, i'm at work but i do have craft club to look forward to this evening and don't forget we always welcome new faces

Love and hugs to all my followers

Sylvia x

update for our challenge blog

Ok guys just to let you know about the new details for the Creative Craft Challenges...please please become a follower, if only to show whoever it was that thought they could trash our challenge blog that they can't.....oh and we have a pretty new badge you can pick up too!!!

this is the new link


thanks for reading my 3rd post of the day!!!!

Enjoy your week ahead

Sylvia x

2nd post of the day!!!

I'm like a bus today...none and then 3 come along...well 2 in my case

ok this is the 2nd card i started at craft club last week, very sparkly magnolia with her princess dress on!!!

I used DCWV backing papers, borrowed my friend Elke's punch to make the fancy edges, image coloured with promarkers and glamour dust to make her sparkly

Challenges

Dream Valley Challenges...ribbon

Craft Room Challenge...summer birthdays

My Time to craft challenge...yes, here comes summer

Allsorts Challenge Blog..Free and Easy

th moment you have all been waiting for ....lol

Well it's Sunday almost 4 o clock and i have still only just gotten round to taking piccies of my cards. Got a bit waylaid in Trimcraft, but bought some super goodies, then came back here and sat chatting with Elke about our new stash.

Never mind i'm here now so what have i been making, well one of them you will have to wait until Tuesday as that is for the Creative Craft Challenge Blog (oh yes we're still going) it will take more than deleted posts to stop us DT girlies.

Okay so this is the 1st one i started at craft club last week, DCWV backing papers, pearly gems, craftwork cards sentiment, ribbon from stash and the super cute image coloured with my promarkers. I have fixed her onto the ribbon using a quite thick foam pad so the card is 3 dimensional.

Challenges....

Dream Valley Challenges...ribbons

Peartree Designs...stamp something

Lexi's Creations...a bug's life

Craft Room Challenge...Summer Birthdays

My Time to Craft ....Yes, here comes summer

Allsorts Challenge...Free and easy

Keep your eyes peeled now for my next post!!!

Sylvia x

AWOL....!!!!

huge enormous apologies for not being around this week, been one of those when time just seems to fly by. It seems as though i have not had a minute to myself, until today and then just as i started to enjoy the peace and quiet my eldest daughter turned up. We decided over a cup of tea to pop over to Byrkely Garden Centre and what do you think they have there...well yes a craft shop and a very good one too. We also had a cream tea for 2 and it was absolutely delicious. We did both buy some plants for our gardens and i even bought a couple of Christmas presents!!!!

Tomorrow i am off to Trimcraft for a bit of a shopping spree with my friend Elke and then i shall show you some of the lovely cards i have made recently.

One final thing i need to let you know about...hello is anyone still with me..lol...over at "Creative Craft Challenges" we have had major problems with the challenge blog. At 1st we thought Mr Blogger was being a silly billy but now we are not so sure, maybe a low-life with nothing better to do but whatever ALL our posts since February 2010 have been deleted and that's a lot!!!!!! Not only is it all the DT's fabby work gone there is also all the great projects that the followers have taken time and trouble to produce.

Sandra one of the DT members is in the middle of creating another blog and hopefully this will be up and running very shortly, but until then please don't you forget about us ....song by Simple Minds . Once the new blog is up and running i will let you all know

Until tomorrow

nite nite followers

Sylvia x

Creative Craft Challenges DT cards

Well after a major blip over at the challenge blog, we are up and running again...

Sincere apologies for the disappearance of the posts, links, dt works and most of all your beautiful entries...We were so frustrated by the whole thing but hopefully some of the cleverer DT members have sorted it out now and normal service is now resumed.

So what is the challenge ...a very different one this time..make your own backing papers i was a bit daunted by this challenge at 1st but do you know what i loved it and wait til you see the fabby prizes on offer but you will have to go here to check them out!!!!

I have used a superb background stamp from "rainbow studios" lots of lovely flowers and a huge butterfly..the sentiment was a stamp i borrowed from my lovely friend Elke for my 1st card and for the 2nd card I used a digi from "Some Odd Girl" called Snuggles (Tiny Tia) i love her!!! coloured with my promarkers and the backing papers were made using a freebie stamp from craft stamper magazine, and an inkadinkado flourish stamp "thoughts for the day". Flowers were made using my martha stewart punch.

Do hop over and have a look at the lovely work the others have made you really will be inspired.

Look forward to seeing your entries soon

Challenges entered for the brown card

OSAAT..things with wings

and the purple one....

papertake weekly challenge...here comes the sun

Aly's sunday challenge...all about kids

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

Card Organiser

Saw this idea over here at Elephantastic Challenges

It is not perfect by any means but for my 1st attempt i am quite pleased with it. The image on the front and also the bunting are from the molly bloom collection. Coloured this time with ...no not promarkers... i got my copics out and had a play. The embossed card i got from a demo at Doncaster last Sunday from a lovely lady on the "once upon a stamp stand". They are a new set of folders that cut and emboss at the same time!!! They are called Marianne Designables "Fantasy Flourish"... Me and my friend Elke loved them. The front cover was plain cream cardstock inked with brilliance ink using my inkylicious inkdusters.

Right off to write all the birthdays down in my new organiser

Sylvia x

ps no sentiment on this project so perfect for Lexis Creations Challenge...no sentiment

and also here at Aly's Sunday Challenge...all about kids

2 x very quick kanban cards

Managed to make 2 more very quick cards from the Kanban set before hubby came in from work.

off now to get ready to go to a friends house and then off out for a meal for his birthday

Sylvia x

last one for today..........................

This card was inspired by a swop going on over at Trimcraft organised by Kim...it's a tag swap . I had bought some tags from inkylicious after seeing a fabby demo at one of the craft shows but never actually got round to using them, so when i saw the swap i decided to dig them out.

I used distress inks to cover the tag and then stamped a superb stamp from crafty individuals CI - 302, then finally added some ribbon and raffia from my stash

The card is for my husbands friend whose birthday it is today, we are off out for a meal with him tonight...talking of which i need to go and do something with my hair...wish my neighbour was a hairdresser!!! lol

Cupcake Craft Challenges...Boy oh Boy oh Boy

Papertake Weekly...Dad's and Lad's

One Stitch at a Time ...tag it!!


catch you soon folks

love and hugs and HUGE thanks for popping on by

Sylvia xxx

Kanban card

This card is from the same Kanban set i made the father's day card from. I have 3 daughters so won't be used by me but i have lots of friends that have sons so may just make a sale with this one!!!

I made 2 slits on the crease of the card to feed the ribbon through but other than that a very simple card

Challenges for this one are

Cupcake Craft Challenges ...Boy oh Boy oh Boy

Papertake Weekly...Dad's and Lad's

Sylvia x

Father's Day

This is the card i made for my youngest daughter to give to her Dad. I bought the Kanban set from peartree yard last week after i had been to the chiropractors. Shame that.. I have to walk through the craft shop to get to her and then back again and unfortunately temptation was in the way lol

Only thing i have added is some super wide gross grain ribbon and a few stick on stones (i bought these on a whim and had no idea what i was going to do with them...now i use them all the time..i have blue ones too)

going to be entering the following challenges with this one

Dream Valley Challenges...Father's Day

Peartree Designs...Father's Day

Cupcake Craft Challenges...Boy oh Boy oh Boy

Papertake Weekly...Dad's and Lad's

Top Tip Tuesday...open challenge

Have a great weekend followers (despite the rubbish weather...if you're in Britain of course)

Sylvia x

and now for something different!!!

well different for me anyway...

I was lucky enough to go to the stamp magic show at Doncaster on Sunday and whilst there i was amazed by the work of Barbara from Clarity Stamps and also a lovely girl from Lavinia stamps.

So i started this card at craft club on Tuesday and as hubby has vanished down to Reading for a few days i decided this evening to have play.

The coated card is from clarity stamps, the main image is from crafty individuals and the stamp up the sides is one i borrowed from my friend Elke...I used some liquid pearls to highlight some of the flowers and then sprinkled with glamour dust (as demoed by Lavinia stamps) and finally craftwork cards sentiment.

Top Tip Tuesday have an open challenge so have popped this one on their challenge blog

Hopefully will get to play with some more of my goodies including the most fantastic stamp but not going to tell you about that just yet lol..

See you all soon and Mr Blogger if you're reading this ...BEHAVE!!!!

Sylvia x

sketch Saturday Challenge

Saw this sketch this morning and knew i just had to make a card lol... I already had the digi image coloured ...another "some odd girl" image coloured with my promarkers, i used a craftwork cards sentiment..the frame was from a fellow trimmie(Tazzy) given to me as blog candy..coloured with some pearly chalks and ribbons and papers from my stash.

Obviously the 1st entry will be to Sketch Saturday challenge
2nd one is over at Peartree Designs...summer delight
3rd will be A Spoon Full of Sugar..Here comes Summer

Right must go now as i have a hungry hubby on his way home from work and i have to pack my bag for tomorrow.... I am off to Doncaster with my lovely friends Elke and Sandra in the morning so will need some pennies, a bit of lippy, some comfy shoes and a bit of plastic lol

Catch yous laters

Sylvia xx

"Snuggles"

Oh how i love these super duper digi images from "some odd girl" this one is "Snuggles...tiny tia"

This card is on it's way to my friends grand-daughter she is just the cutest bundle of cheekiness you have ever seen and i love to give her a snuggle and a hug.

I have coloured her with my trusted promarkers, used a sentiment ticket from the crafty pad and made the trim using one of my many martha stewart punches.

I am going to enter this one into the following challenges:

Pear tree designs...summer delights

craft room challenge...anything goes

a spoon full of sugar...here comes summer

papertake weekly...anything goes

Moveable Parts !!!

!!!! what i hear you ask is she blogging about...

The challenge this time over at Creative Craft Challenges is to make a project (doesn't have to be a card) with a Moveable Part on it....Now there's something different for you to think about!!!

I got to use a fab digi from Floppe Latte so using an aperture card decorated with some punched flowers from some of my favourite papers from DCWV I came up with this idea, you can't see from the rubbish photo but i have used a tri-fold card and i have covered the inside with lovely DCWV sparkly glittery papers.

Please pop over at have a look at the fab prizes we have up for grabs this time...NO i am not going to tell you what they are you have to go and have a nosey at the challenge blog..but i promise you won't be disappointed. Do join in the fun, and get your thinking caps on for our great challenge

See you all soon and hope you have a great Tuesday

Love and hugs

Sylvia xx

notebook from a sketch

Papertake weekly have a great sketch for their challenge this week so instead of making a card i thought i would make a notebook. We were using our bind it alls at craft group last night so armed with the sketch some lovely papers (no idea where they came from) some of my favourite prima flowers and some card and binding wires....voila here is the notebook......

i shall also enter enter this one into the folowing challenge

A Spoon Full of Sugar...flowers

Birthday Surprise

Another card using the tulip design, this sentiment and image is from the decoupage sheet...

This one will be entered into A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge...flower power

as well as the brand new challenge over at Craft-room-challenge..anything goes

The lovely pink paper was from a swop over at Trimcraft by my lovely friend Tracy (yes the one with the pink leg) lol, i then added some card candy and some faux stitching and a doilly i bought a while ago, lost and then found...lol

Forever friends...65th

I made this card yesterday (1st crafting i have had chance to do since i came back off my hols)!!!!

It is for my very good friend's hubby...he will be 65 tomorrow, and honestly he looks about 45!!! sickening isn't it but he is a lovely lovely man. I made him a jolly card cos he is a very young 65 and nothing like a pensioner at all...lol

I shall enter this one into the Charisma Cardz Challenges...boy oh boy

and also...Lexi's Crations...father's day or a man's card

See you all soon with some more goodies

Sylvia x

Better late than never!!!

I had a bumper session at craft group last time i went (think it was because i knew that i wouldn't be doing any crafting for a while).

I had bought some of the new Tulip range from docrafts last time i was at the craft shop in little eaton...i love this new range with the lovely pastel colours, so just had to have a play!!!

Will post some more piccies in a little while

Catch you soon

Sylvia x