Happy Christmas

Good morning, hope your having a good week so far... Today is the first of the month, which means a new challenge over at SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE....our theme this month has been chosen by Sandra and she has chosen DISTRESS IT...IF You pop on over  to Sparkles Christmas I am sure you will find loads of lovely inspiration there.. 

 I have used a stamp from liliofthevally coloured with Promarkers, I have distressed the edges of all my papers, added a couple of trees, snow flake  and a snowflake boarder all the dies are  from M.B...happy christmas stamp is a hero arts...

                                                                       
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Winter friends...

                   hello, the weekend is here again and I am so excited, our friends from Home
                    Are coming to stay with us for the next two weeks before we head on back to 
                    England for a short time, catch up with the family and a bit of christmas
                       Shopping where has this year gone..
                 

                                                  

           

               Today I have used another Penny Black stamp I have coloured it with Promarkers and then I added glitter to there hats to give them a frosty feel.... both oval dies are from tonic the other dies are from MB..the little jewels are for putting on your finger nails but I have found a better use for them..the little stars are from some other die I had cut out before...

              I would like to enter my card into the followering challenges

Moving along with the times Hat & Scarves movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.pt

Fab n Funky Cute Critters and /or christmas fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.pt

A Snowflake Promise Christmas/Winter a snowflakespromise.blogspot.pt

                                 

                                                                     

You're Sew Special

Hello hope you all have had a lovely weekend

Today I have made what I think is called a lever card, one of my lovely followers gave me the recipe to make this shape card and I have really had fun making it...

I have used some papers I have had for a while to use as my back ground, all the images I asked a friend if she would mind stamping and sending them out to me which she very kindly did so, so thank you Joan..  the buttons are from my sewing box..I coloured the images a bit with my brown ink pad to try and make them look a bit old or vintage looking...

                             I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Stamping Sensation  sew Special. sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.pt

Crafty friends challenge Anything goes craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.pt

Simply papercraft challenge anything goes simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.pt

Baby Hammock

Morning, the weather here today in Portugal is a bit over cast with a light drizzle of rain, but the blue sky is starting to come through...

For my card today I have used the sweet Baby Hammock stamp from Penny Black..I just love there stamps.. I used a couple of water pencils and a couple of promarkers pens to colour with.. My background papers are from lilyofthevalley..nitwit collection bonnets & bowties...the pink spotted piece of paper was just a scrap piece I had left over from another card I had made..the buttons ribbon and the little jewels are from my craft box..the balloon die was a freebie with one of the craft mags...I am entering my card into the following challenges

                                                                         
allsorts challenge Buttons allsortschallenge.blogspot.pt
Pennyblack and more anything goes pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.pt 
Pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge use three or more pattern papers pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.pt

Let it SNOW...

                hello, welcome to my blog, I hope you all are having a fab weekend..

Well all my family went home to England this last week, its been very quite here and I must say I have really missed not having them around, but on the other hand, it means more time for card making...

today I have made a swing card, it's a long time since I made one and I really enjoyed making it.

The snow flake stamp was a freebie from a craft mag, which a very dear friend sent me, she also sent the stamped Penny Black image too, along with a few more stamped images, seeing that I left a load of stamped images back home in England..it's about right for me lol..

Penny black stamp

Memory box star 

Snow flake stamp a craft mag freebie

Let it SNOW..stamp freebie too

The little gems I got from a Chinese shop, they are ment to go on your nails..lol

Glue pen and glamour dust...

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Winter wonderland  anything but a square  christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.pt

Christmas Stamping all year long Anything goes christmasstampin.blogspot 

Penny black at alsorts Anything goes pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.pt

O Christmas Tree

Hello, hope you all are having a good week...There is  a new challenge starting over at sparkles christmas challenge... Our theme this month is  O Christmas Tree.. chosen by Caz one of our DT members, i am sure you will find plenty of inspiration from the DT creations there..  Our sponsors this month are Bugaboo Digi stamps and Di'sDigi Stamps

                                              Bugaboo digi stamps are offering a prize of
                                                7 of there digi stamps
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                                                          Di's digi Stamps are generously offering
                                                               a $10 voucher
                                                                http://www.disdigistamps.com

Happy birthday

Hello and thank you for visiting my blog..i would just like to say hello to my latest follower kellie...I had not realised its been a couple of weeks since I last posted..how time flies..I have been so busy making my granddaughters wedding stationery but it's all done now, but as much as I have loved doing it I don't think I would do it again...

i am back in Portugal for the next couple of months but I could really kick myself I had stamped a load of images to fetch with me, how disappointed I was when I discovered I had not packed them...but I had a few stamped images here to put me on, and my best friend is going to send me some....
I love lilyofthevalley stamps and this is one I stamped a while ago, 
I used spectrum noir to colour
Oval shapes are from Tonic dies
The border die was given to me by a friend
Happy birthday sentiment is from craftwork cards
Backing paper came free with a craft magazine
Ribbon and the little bird sticker came from my craft box
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Crafting with friends. Anything goes crafting-with-friends.blogspot.pt

Simply papercraft anything goes simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk

Crafty gals corner  lots of layers  craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.pt

Winter wonderland

Hello, welcome to my blog nice of you to pop in for a visit..I love this old christmas stamp from hero arts called Snow People Border, look how happy they all look...I have not used it in years...I stamped it twice so I could paper pierce the snow lady with the pinnie on....I distressed the edges added a bit of ink and then added glitter to the edges
I have used
5x5 White card
Gold card
Memory box edge die Frostyville
Memory box die Straviaflake 
Winter wonderland stamp inkylicious
Promarkers to colour
I am entering my card into the following challenges

Sparkles christmas challenge  No Designer Papers sparklesforumchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk

Happy little stamper SPARKLE  happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk

Winter wonderland christmas carols/songs  christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk

Stamp avid and more christmas in summer stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.co.uk

summer

Hello and welcome to my  blog, hope everyone is having a lovely weekend....

I have used the lovely Poppy fields stamp from penny black, I do love there stamps, my granddaughter visited me today and brought me a bunch of beautiful flowers, and I had bought this cute stamp a couple of weeks ago and I have not used it yet so I thought, with the theme being, inspired by summer, over at Allsorts challenge it inspired me to make this card,...I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Penny black saturday, Hot summer colours pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk
Penny black and more, summer flowers pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.co.uk
Alsorts challenge, inspired by summer  allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk

flower girl

Hello , hope everybody has had a lovely weekend, despite the weather..for my card today I have used a freebie image I got off the Internet,  I think she is lovely and rather cute don't you!!! I am not very good at colouring hair still need to practise more.. I have coloured her with Promarkers , and cut out two oval dies to mount her on to..the little flower die came free with a craft magazine..everything eles is from my craft box...

I would like to enter my card in to the following challenges

Stamping Sensation Anything goes  sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk

crafting with friends  Anything goes  crafting-with-friends.blogspot.co.uk

Crafters cafe  add some buttons. crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk