Mr Blogger's Off With My Friends Again!

I know for sure it's not just me but I feel left out as Mr Blogger has gone off with my friends!

I would have liked to say Hi & a big wave to my latest follower but as they've all gone down the pub to party & I'm here alone I can't! 

I do hope they're back soon! lol!

Poppies!

Morning all,  hope you are well? I just had to share this with you!

I've been working on a Poppy project lately & lo & behold if Jak Heath isn't giving away these little beauties

To get these for yourself, just pop on over to her blog. Poor Jak has caught the office cold so if you do pop over, wish her well & let her know I sent you!

Have a happy Thurday!

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Crafty Pad Designs Specials!

The Lovely Deborah Moore over at  The Crafty Pad Designs has an

ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE CRAFTY PAD DESIGNS are now having a regular SPECIALS offer. There are images for 49p on offer this week. It will run every week starting either Sunday or Monday, so don't forget to go and have a peek. Also, most of the images have been reduced in price, so you get lots more yummyness for your money.

Another fab excuse to go grab yourself a few digi's & play along with our 

"Stripes" Challenge over at The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog!

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A Little Bit Of An Attitude!

Evening all!
I have a little card I made just for fun!
 I needed a bit of light relief & thought I'd do something nice & simple! 

I decided to follow the Digi's with Attitude! Sketch

Now as I was following their sketch, I thought I'd best play along with one of their images too!

Meet Bruiser

 I've had him printed off for ages & never got round to colouring him up!

I've been a bit naughty & made him sit on a girly card! lol

The base card was as the sketch suggested a rectangle! I used a white A4 sheet of cardstock which I folded in half to give an A5 card.The papers I have used are from Southfield Stationers as is the light cardstock I used to mount the image & the buttons on! 

I was given a few bits by them a while back to play with & the quality is superb. 

I do love theses colours too!

The image was coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 you I think! 

The little flower gems are Papermania I think, I've had them in my stash from when I first started making cards! They just seem to last forever! lol

I'm not sure the pics are very good but I took them quickly before  left for work this morning & the light wasn't quite right! It's worse now as it's pouring with rain! lol!

Thanks for stopping by!

I will of course be entering this card in the challenge at

Digi's With Attitude! Let's Get Sketchy (again =))

I'd also like to enter the following challenges

A Spoonful Of Sugar Here Comes Summer

Tuesday Throwdown Animals

Cupcake Craft Things With Tails

House Of Gilli Use Buttons

Crazy Amigo Challenge Summer

Party Time Tuesdays Summer Birthdays

Scrappy Frogs Birthdays

Send A Smile 4 Kids Cats & Dogs

Stamps R Us Pets 

It's Not All Just Black & White..............

Good morning all!

 Today is the day for the My Grafico DT ladies to post this weeks projects! 

Don't forget it's a new challenge at My Grafico this week so make sure you pop over & join in! 

It's ALWAY'S Anything Goes @ My Grafico! lol

Here's my card

The DT were given this lovely set to work with this week

It's the The Mod Linear Florals Collection by the very talented Cheri Wenger

I went for a monochrome card this week & I used just one of the flowers from the collection which I merged around this sentiment, from the lovely Anne @ Raindrop Echo Designs.

I printed the image out 3 times & cut out some of the flowers.

 I then layered them up using pinflair glue for dimension.

 I opted not to colour them this time around as I liked the effect that was created. 

I used a white square card blank for the card base then I added a layer of silver mini dot holographic paper, this is from the Southfield's Bits'n'Pieces range

I then added the striped DP which was from my stash.

(I'm making lot's of effort to use up all that stash that I've had for ever!) 

I wrapped a piece of ribbon around, threaded a silver charm on & knotted, before attaching to the card

The image was mounted onto black card then a layer of the holographic paper.

I used a corner die to cut out the decorative corners which I stuck on using a quickie glue pen. The glue pen is ideal for this kind of intricate shape!

Lot's of layering on this project!

To finish off I added a ribbon bow which was attached with a little heart pin!

Simples!

I hope you like it!

Do make sure you join in the Challenge, nothing could be simpler than Anything Goes!

If you have time stop by & give the other DT ladies a little love too!

I'd like to include this card in the following challenges

Card Cupids Use More Than 3 layers

Paper Sundaes Sentiments From the Heart

Just Some Lines Monochromatic

Marks Finest Papers Flowers

Guylou's Inimitability Monochromatic

Little Miss Muffet Challenges Metal Embellishment

Card & Scrap Flowers

Creatiive Craft World Use More Than 3 Flowers

Diva's By Design Florals

Anita Be Stampin Layer It On Me

UPDATE! My Grafico are having a give away! 

Just follow the link below to check it out!

http://www.mygrafico.com/promotions/info_60.html

Oh My Gosh Is It Sunday?

Morning all!
Just stopped by to share with you my DT make for The Crafty Pad Challenges this Week!

Shame you didn't seem to like the 123 Recipe Challenge last week but you should find this one a lot easier!

This weeks Challenge #124 is Stripes! We want to see what "you" can do with stripes!
This week we are kindly sponsored by Letraset who are offering a fab set of 5 Promarkers!

A girl can never have  enough Promarkers right?

Here's my project!

It's a Tie Shaped Gift Box! I saw this on a friends blog &just  had to make one!

With Fathers Day looming, I'm sure many of you will also be thinking about what to make for your Dad!

To make this little box,I used the fab Rosette from Deborah Moore's 

Father's Day Images, over at The Crafty Pad Designs 

Debbie did a great tutorial here, on how to make a ribbon rosette, so I had a go at that too! 

I don't have a hot glue gun so I did my best with high adhesion double sided tape.

It's far from perfect, I think that's because I used the tape, but I know my Dad will love it anyway! lol

As Debbie suggested, I attached a safety pin to the back & attached the rosette to the box with low tack tape. I'll be making sure my dad wears his rosette with pride on Father's day! (Tee hee)

Here's the rosette without the ribbon rosette on top!

I coloured the rosette with  promarkers you cant really see it in the pics but I used a darker shade on the shadowed parts of the rosette!

The striped paper I used was from the Two Peas In A set & I printed it straight onto heavy cardstock.

Now, who say's you can't add bling to a man's card/pressie? 

I made a "tie pin" using a silver peel off border strip & added a few gems!

Inside the box is empty for now but shhhhh, I'm going to add a Toblerone 

(One of my Dad's favourite's) & a voucher for afternoon tea for two at a nice venue!

You can find the template & the fab tutorial for the Tie Shaped Gift Box here.

I'd like to enter my Tie Shaped Gift Box in the following Challenges

Catch The Bug Anything Goes

Craft Your Days Away Father's Day/Special Man

ECP For Dad

World Play Weekend Challenge Anything With A Tail (lol my rosette & tie!)

Fairy Tale Challenge Anything but a card

Guylou's Inimitability Monochromatic

Simply Create Fathers Day

Stamp Man Boys and Men

Papercradfting Journey Anything Goes

Samuel Taylor's Challenge Male

Some Odd Girl Masculine

Come & Get it Challenges Father's Day

Creative Inspirations Father's Day

Creative Inspirations Paint Dad

Sparkles Forum Father's Day

Thanks for stopping by to look at my little box! I hope you'll find time to join in the Stripes Challenge at The Crafty Pad this week!

Saturday & a Reminder

Good morning all! 

Just had a few minutes so I thought let you know about the fab
Corner Book Mark Tutorial
made by my fab friend & DT teamie Ali on The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog it's a great tut & easy to follow! Here's an example!

Pop on over to check it out!

I'd also like to remind you that it's Saturday & you still have time to enter the Crafty Pad Challenge #123 it's simple,just follow the recipe 1 flower 2 ribbons & 3 DP's!
Have a fab day whatever you get up to!
I'm off to let people see the flat & then it's the races this afternoon! Yay

Kimono & a New Follower!

Hi all, I'd like to say a big Hi & a wave to Debs, my newest blogging buddy & follower!
Debs has candy, see my side bar for details & check out Debs blog while you're there!!
I also wanted to share this little ATC with you!
 I made it for a personal swap on the 

Cardmaking Downloads Forum

It was a fairly simple make! 

For the base I used red card stock then a matt of black. Next I ran a layer of red through the Big Shot in a Wood grain Embossing Folder (this was as close as I had to bamboo!)

I then attached the origami kimono. (I'd like to say I folded it myself but not this time!) This was mounted using foam tape. I then surrounded it with little punched leaves. Not sure who the punch is by but I got it at Southfields & it has 3 different sized leaves on it! I then simply finished with a silver oriental character peel off & some gems. This ATC has been in my head for a while & I finally got it out! Yay!

It's in the post so I hope it gets there tomorrow!

Hope you like it & if you'd like to join in the swap pop on over to the forum & add your name to the ATCswap list! (The swap is simple, there aren't really any rules as such! All you have to do is  make one ATC & swap it with someone else! It can be any theme, something new or something already created the choice is yours! 

Not sure what an ATC is? See Tina's explanation HERE

If you'd like any more info just holler!

I'd like to enter this little ATC in a couple of challenges

Moving Along With the times No Designer Papers

Fab 'n' Funky Whateva & DT Call

The Pixie Cottage Sketch &/Or Anything But a Card

Delicious Doodles Challenge Texture

Fairy Tale Challenge Anything But a Card

Steampunk?

Happy Monday all! 

Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to work for me! 

I know a lot of you will be having a lie in as I believe it's a bank holiday! 

At least I'm not back to my normal work place, I have a bit of a later start as I'm on a course!

Anyhoo!!! 

As you all most probably know, Monday is the day that the My Grafico DT ladies post their cards.

Here's Mine!

This week we were given the fab Steampunk Style Digital Stamps Set

from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff to work with.

I printed off the bicycle (A Penny Farthing) image, cut it to shape, sponged with Distress ink in antique linen then & matted & layered onto black & white paper.. 

The base card I used was a square cut from an A4 sheet.

The Vintage Sheet Music DP I have used was a freebie

also from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff

I added Bicycle text (the words from the Queen song) to the paper using a font called 1942 Report. It looks like it's been done on an old typewriter. The font was free to download & I found the link for it on 

 Lyns blog. Spyder's Corner (check it out she has tips freebies tut's & more!)

 I used the same font for the sentiment!

As I added the typed text, I thought I should add the typewriter too!

I simply cut it out with a scalloped circle nestie then matted onto a larger circle.

The typewriter & the sentiment were mounted using foam tape for a bit of dimension.

The only other additions were the two buttons, threaded with string.

Thanks for looking! 

I hope you like it & I'm sure you'll find time to enter the Monthly Challenge (at least once) over at 

My Grafico, where it's ALWAY'S Anything Goes!

Hmmm talking of challenges! I'd like to enter my card in the following:-
Craft Your Passion What a Guy
KB Cute Monday Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations Father's Day or Men's card
Make It Monday Anything Goes
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central Masculine
Crafty Ho's Twine
Here Come The Boys Masculine
Paper Sundaes Vintage/Shabby Chic