Pick Up A Penguin!

Evening all! 

Here's another little Christmas card I made!

I have made similar cards using similar images from 

The Crafty Pad Designs,

This one is Penguin With Mug

But I just had to share this little penguin with you!

I used an A6 landscape card base this time around.

To make an A6 landscape card, fold an A4 piece of cardstock in half to give an A5 card blank then cut in half from the folded edge.

This is another simple little creation in traditional colours.

I added a peel off sentiment which was matted onto some green card.

I coloured the  image with promarkers & matted onto some mirror card.

I then added a matt of green card & some self adhesive gems

& a green bow!

I used Woodware Fluffy Stuff to give a bit of dimension to the 

froth on the cup & the fur on the penguins hat!

I soooo love that stuff for Christmas cards! lol

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you're all having a fab Friday!

Now, I'd like to enter this card in a few little challenges if I may!

Aud Sentiment Challenge Any Winter Holiday Sentiment

Crafty Purple Frog It's Cold Outside

Crafty Ribbons Traditional Colours For Christmas

Crimbo Crackers Embossing ( Fluffy Stuff)

Forever Friends It's all Christmas

Hanna & Friends Winter Card

Meljens Designs Use Green

Moving Along With The Times Last Minute Christmas

Paper Crafting Journey Christmas

Create Me Pink Christmas Colours

Creative Belli Winter Christmas

Christmas Cheer!

Hello all!

I'm going to bore you with some of the Christmas cards I made! 

Don't worry, I won't show you all of them! lol

This is my first very simple little offering!

The image is Cheerleader Grumpy Gretchen from Digi's With Attitude!

Oh how I love those images!
As  you can see the colours are traditional but the image isn't!

I used a black A6 size card blank as the base.

The sentiment is hand written.

I coloured Gretchen with Promarkers & added lot's of glittery highlights with a

Sakura Clear Star glitter pen.

I cut her into a pennant shape & added a matt of red card behind!

I added a little parcel accent sticker at her feet.

Just perfect for the Cheerleader in your life for Christmas!

The holly leaves are also a little peel off accent sticker which  coloured with glitter pens

Thanks for looking! I'm glad you stopped by!

I'd like to enter this little card in the following challenges

Ai Factory Something Red

Aud Sentiment Challenge Any Winter Holiday Sentiment

Colour Create Red White & Green

Digistamps 4 Joy Christmas, no animals

Penny's Paper Crafty Merry Christmas

Scrapbook Sisters Christmas

Heart Song Inspirations Christmas &/or Red Green & White

Kaboodle Doodles Christmas Colours

Love is In The Air

Morning all,

It's Wednesday already & that means it's time for a new challenge at 

Dude Time Doodles! 

Yay!!!

This week we'd like you to 

"Show us Your Holiday Spirit for December!"

Now you can interpret that anyway you  choose to!

Just make a card for a dude showing your holiday spirit!

Here's my card!

If any of you were on the ball, you may have caught this little freebie image 

Bloodhound Christmas

which was on the Dude Time Doodles blog just the other day!

It's superb is it not?

If you missed it you can now buy it in the store!

Love is always in the air around Christmas time & I suspect

that is the case with this rather unusual couple! 

Hence my sentiment! lol!!!

(I added the sentiment before I printed out the image.

The font  used is White Christmas & you can find it here free!)

I have a feeling that one of them may be a little more enthusiastic than the other!

This card is for a young man I know who is being pursued by a certain young lady!

I hope he see's the funny side!!!

I used the sketch from  Sketch Saturday for my layout

I loved the layout & just had to use it!

I wanted to keep the card simple so as not to detract from the image,

so I didn't add any other embellishments

The image was coloured with my trusty Promarkers

The papers are Papermania, the punched section is vellum & the 

base card is made using red linen textured card.

Thanks for stopping by & don't forget to join in the Holiday Spirit challenge at 

Dude Time Doodles this week!

The rules? Simply follow the theme & make a card for a dude!

You have one week to do so!

Don't forget to check out the other projects from the DT, they are awesome!!!

Now to make it even more interesting for you this week,

we are sponsored by

The Glitterbabe

AKA Steph

Who has  kindly offered a prize of 2 digi's for the winner or 

3 if you have used one of her images on your project!

Brilliant!!!

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges

Create Me Pink Challenges Traditional Christmas Colours

Creative Card Crew Tis the Season

Tuesday Throwdown Celebrate The Season

Cards for Men Number Two (Two Characters)

Crafty Bloggers Network Shades Of Winter

Crafty Boots Anything Goes

Creative Stamp Friends Scene

Heart Song Inspirations Christmas &/Or Red Green White

Kaboodle Doodles Christmas Colours

House Of Gilli Add A Touch Of Red & Gold

Lexi's Creations One For The Lads

Pollycraft Christmas Fun

Card Cupids Winter

One Stitch At A Time Be A Square

Secret Crafter Photo Inspiration

Sparkles Forum One You Love At Christmas

So Artful Challenge Tis The Season

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Holiday Card

Bah Humbug Cute Critters

Fussy & Fancy Photo Inspiration

Paperworks Photo Inspiration

I Have A Winner!!!

I have just drawn the winner of the My Memories Software give away on my blog!

Drum Roll please before I announce the lucky winner...............

I wish I knew how to add the pic of the Random No. Generator 

to the post but alas, it escapes me!

Okay okay so you want to know!!!

The Lucky winner is comment no. 7 

That is you Alethea!!

Congratulations lucky lady, drop me an email  & I'll get you sorted out with your prize!

For those of you who were interested, don't forget

you can use my code to get $10 off the software.

Here's my code!

STMMMS2864

Don't forget to copy & paste it in the appropriate place to avoid any errors!

I'll pop it on my side bar to if anyone want's to use it another time!

Thanks to all who played!

A Bit of A Punch Up!

Good Morning Campers!

It's Sunday & I'm finally starting to get over the nasty icky cold that 

my dearly beloved hubby so kindly shared with me!

It is of course time for a new challenge at The Crafty Pad

This week for Challenge #150 the theme is

Give It A Punch!

We want to see at least three punched shapes on your project!

Here's my card, a simple little affair!

The team were give the cute Rodney & Robin Image to work with!

I chose to make a side stepper card this time!

It's ages since I made on of these!

The image was coloured with Promarkers &

I added some accents with Glamour Dust 

(Rodney's nose! Remind you of anyone???)

& a white gel pen!

I added loads of little punched snowflakes & 3 punched Christmas trees!

The only other Christmassy punch I possess was a snowman & I 

just couldn't find anywhere suitable for him on my card! lol

I used 3 colours of bakers twine at the bottom & added

a little bow of each colour

I also used one of Debbie's fabby Sentiment Tickets 

which also happened to feature the same little Robin!

Here are my trees! I added a little self adhesive gem to each one!

Thanks so much for dropping in! I hope you like it!

I hope you can find the time at this busy time of year to join us!

Our Sponsor this week Crafty Emma's Store

who are offering a £10 voucher to spend in the shop!

(please note this does not include P&P)

Now, I'd like to enter my little card in the following challenges!

2 Sisters Punches & Or Dies

Craft Your Days Away Buttons Or Bows

One Stop Craft Challenge Let It Snow

So Artful Challenge  Tis The Season

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Holiday Card

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Winter Wonderland

Clearly Inspired Christmas

Totally Papercafts Let It Snow

By The Cute & Girly Let It Snow

Joanna Sheen Christmas Wishes

Lia Stampz Challenge fancy Folds

Scrappin Chic Anything Christmas Goes

Through the Craft Room Door Happy Holidays (Use 3 different embellisments)

Crop Stop Punches/ Holiday Project

Delightful Challenges Let it Snow

Forever Friends It's All Christmas

Shelly's Images There's no business like SNOW business

Cards und More Snowflakes

Deep Ocean Challenge C as...... Christmas

Going Grey With Scrap Creations Christmas

Sassy Cheryl's Winter

Cards For Men Fancy Folds

Craft Your Passion Tis The Season

Lexi's Creations One For The Lads

Pollycraft Christmas Fun

Scrapmasters Paradise Colour

Another Reminder!

Evening all!

Have you hopped around the 

Dude Time Doodles New Release Blog Hop yet????

If not, there is still time!

I can totally recommend it!

The Dude & Dudettes have outdone themselves this time around!

Hop around, leave comments at all the stops &

you could be in with a chance of winning a digi of your choice!

The new citizens of Dudeville are well worth checking out!

You might even get more than you bargained for 

*wink* *wink*!

You can start from my card here or 

hop on over to Dude Time Doodles & start from there!

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday!!!

Don't Forget To Enter!

Hi all,

Just a little reminder that there is just one day left to enter the

My Memories Suite V3 give away on my blog!

See the post here!

There aren't many entries yet so if you do enter now, you're in with a good chance of winning!

Hope you find the time! I'd hate for you to miss the chance!

Hop to it Santa!

Good Morning all!

It's the last week of the month so that means it's 

New Release Blog Hop time at Dude Time Doodles!

Each of the DT members will showcase one of the new images along the hop!

I promise you you won't be disappointed!

If you arrived here from the lovely & very talented Michelle then you're on 

the right track if not, don't worry, it's a circle hop &

you can jump in at any point!

If you need to see the order of the hop, pop on over to the 

Dude Time Doodles Challenge Blog & take it from there!

Here's my card!

The image I have used is called

Welder Wenceslas!

All of the new releases are now available at the store

Welder Wenceslas is just perfect for my brother in law who does a bit of welding!

Now if you're anxious to get on with the hop, I'll tell you where to go next in a 

second but can I just remind you that there will be a 

mystery host/hostess along the way so don't forget to leave 

a comment for each of the Dudettes & Dude along the way for the chance 

to win one of the fabby images!

Oh & if you haven't already, make sure you leave a little bit of love for CG

our latest Dudette! It's her first hop on the team!!

Here's a closer look at Welder Wenceslas!

To get on with the hop. jump on over to visit the wonderful Ruth

 who I promise has something awesome for you to see! 

If you want to know a bit more about my card then read on!

I made an easel card using the sketch from CraftyAnn's

I used the sketch on both the front & the base!

I coloured my image with Promarkers.

The papers have been in my stash for ever & although not specifically 

Christmas papers, I think they do the job just fine!

The sentiment was computer generated using the font Santa's Sleigh

which you can download free from here

The ribbon is from Lidl Christmas Collection. 

I find some of their crafting goodies to be fab value & good quality!

I also added some Card Candi!

Thanks for stopping by & don't forget to leave some comments along the way!

Now, onto challenges!!!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

City Craft Challenge Santa

Deep Ocean Challenge C is for... Christmas

Everybody Art Challenge Santa Claus

Going Grey With Scrap Creations Christmas

Tuesday Throwdown  Masculine Holiday Card (Sponsor DT)

Card for Men  Fancy Folds

Craft Your Passion  'Tis the Season

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Christmas

Lexi's Creations One For The Lads

Paper Creations Ink Christmas

Pollycraft Christmas Fun

Stamp & Create Easel Card Or Centre Stepper

Victorine Originals Ribbon

Addicted to Stamps Christmas Card

Gingerloft Winter Or Christmas

Here Come The Boys For The Man/Men in your life (my BIL)

One Stitch at a Time Seeing Red

Stampacular Sunday  Anything Christmas

Just Some Lines Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon Digi Brad, hoping my card candi counts as brads!)

Marks Finest Papers Make It Masculine

Crafty Ann's Sketch

Fairy Tale Christmas

Patties Creations Christmas

Simply Create Too All About Christmas

Stampin With The Dragon Anything Goes For Christmas

Totally Papercrafts Christmas 

C.R.A.F.T. Unusual Christmas

Crimbo Crackers Santa (DT)

Rainbow Lady's Cards For Men

Awesome Give-away!

Good Morning all!

Exciting News!

I have another fantastic giveaway for you this week!

I have been lucky enough to have been given the chance to play with 

My Memories Suite 

which is a Digital Scrapbooking Software programme.

This software is so simple to use that even you techno-phobes out there 

will have no trouble at all in making Scrapbook Page Layouts, Photo Books,
Cards,Videos & More, just let your imagination guide you!
I'm a real rookie at this sort of thing but,

I had a little play & here's what I came up with!

My niece & her fiance got married earlier this year & these pics are among
 my favourites of the day! They are so natural!
The wedding took place in a ruined castle, we then went to
the beach for cocktails, before heading in to
the golf club for the reception!
This took hardly any time to create! Just minutes in fact & I'm not the
quickest person at picking these things up!
Too many other things going on in my head! lol
I haven't tried it as yet but you can use the digi papers & elements that you already have!
You're not just tied to those produced by the company!
 (Athough it's a good excuse to go shopping!!! ,lol)
No need to worry if you're not experienced in these things as
Technical Support is never far away,
 should you ever need it!
There is a My Memories Facebook Page & a
My Memories Blog that you can also follow.
Both of these give hints, tips & tutorials as well as lots of Freebies!!!
We all love a freebie right?
If that's not enough for you they are on Twitter too! lol


If you'd like a chance to win this software, simply go to the
 My Memories Website  pick out your favourite kit, layout or whatever,
come back & leave me a comment saying which is your fav!
If you follow the Blog or the Facebook Page, come back again,
& let me know for another chance

I will draw the winner on the afternoon of Sunday 4th December
If you can't possibly wait that long, you can visit the
website, & use my code below!
(copy & paste into the appropriate place to avoid mistakes)


STMMMS2864

This will give you an awesome $10 discount off of the software!

As well as getting $10 off when you buy the software,
you get another $10 voucher to spend on
whatever you fancy to get you started!

I haven't even spent my voucher yet as I've been playing with some of the
many wonderful freebies on the website! lol

The best news is that Version 3 of this software has just been released
so you will be getting the newly updated version of the software!
I can't begin to tell you how exciting I find that!
I wish you all good luck!
Here's another little page that I threw together, just some pics of
Edinburgh from a recent day out!

Hope to see you back with your comments soon!

3 is the Magic Number!

Good Morning all!

I have to say I almost forgot to do this post!

I've spent the last few days coughing & sneezing in no particular order 

& my head has just been full of cotton wool! lol

Okay, so now that I have remembered!!!

This week, for Challenge #149 at The Crafty Pad,

we have a recipe for you!

The theme is a Recipe of 3's!

We'd like you to use 3 papers, 3 Buttons or Brads & 3 Ribbons

Our Sponsor this week is 

Crafty Sentiments

The prize?

 Yep, in keeping with the theme, 3 digi's of the winner's choice!

Here's my card!

The image I have used is Holly Mouse Hanging Stocking from 

The Crafty Pad Designs!

She's just adorable & she's on SALE for just 59p right now!

  You can grab her & some of the other fabby Specials Here

I made my card with a 5" x5" card blank.

The DP's I have used are from Papermania.

Holly was coloured with Promarkers & for Health & Safety reasons,

I was careful that the fire was not lit while she was hanging her stocking!

I added some glittery accents but I'm not sure you can make 

them out in the photo's

Holly was the mounted onto some mirror card.

I added 3 tabs of ribbon from my stash.

I added 3 snowflake brads which have been in my stash for years.

I also added a ribbon which I knotted with two other short lengths.

I tried to add some faux stitching around the edge of my card 

by piercing then joining up the dots with a glitter pen.

Perhaps I should have used a darker pen as it doesn't seem to 

show up very well in my photo's!

Thanks for stopping by & I hope you'll find some time to play with us at 

The Crafty Pad this week!

Don't forget to stop by the Challenge Blog to see what the other 

uber talented DT ladies have done!

I promise you won't be disappointed!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges

2 Sisters Holiday

Hiding n My Craft Room Holiday

Just Some Lines Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon Digi Brad)

Delicious Doodles Hairy Legs

Fabulous Friday Metal

Fairy Tale Christmas

Our Craft Lounge Critters

Patties Creations Christmas

Poodles Parlour Christmas

Simply Create Too All About Christmas

Stampin with the Dragon Anything Goes- Christmas

Totally Papercrafts Christmas

4 Crafty Chicks Snowflakes

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Animals

Digi Stamps 4 Joy Colour Tic Tac Toe (Cool Blue Natural Neutral Red Hot)

House That Stamps Built Christmas + Snowflake

I love Promarkers Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon Christmas

Penny's Paper-Crafty Tie One On 

Scrapbook Sisters Christmas

Ribbon Carousel Holiday Hoopla

Forever Friends Christmas is Coming