A Wee Reminder!

Happy Friday all!

Just a quick reminder that there's just one week left to enter the candy over at Lee's Blog, 

A Wee Bit Of Crafty Loops!

It ends on the 21st October!

Now I'm sure she's added much more to this candy since it started!

This photo is just a fraction of what she has listed now!

Her handmade flowers are to die for!

I can say this with confidence as I was lucky enough to have some made for me!

If you haven't already signed up, go over & check it out!

Enjoy your evening!

New Challenge Blog

Good afternoon all!

Just been doing a little bit of blog hopping & came across a new challenge blog 

Just Inspirational Challenges

which will post it's 1st challenge on 3rd November!

The Challenges will start on a Thurday morning & end on the following Wednesday evening!

It will be mainly Inspirational Photos with the odd sketch flung in!

Check it out when you get a minute!

To celebrate, they have a launch candy

This opened today & will run until 3rd November when the challenge begins!

Happy Freebie Wednesday! Only Real Men Can Wear Pink!

Good Morning all!

It's the second Wednesday of the month & it's Freebie Challenge time over at 

Dude Time Doodles! 

The prize? 

You could be a guest designer with the Dudettes for a whole month!

Oh what fun you'll have!

I can tell you the freebie is amazing!

Here's what to do!

Stop by the challenge blog, collect the freebie & create something 

awesome with it.
Don't forget to add a little pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
No pressure then! lol

Link up your creation via the linky tool!

You have one week to do it!

Send your friends to the challenge blog to collect the freebie too & add to the fun!

Without further ado, here's my card

It's a napkin fold card. I apologise for the photo quality but 

the lighting was poor!

The colours look a bit off but they are actually really nice!

I see my folds are not quite as crisp as they could be either! lol

The base is made using a sheet of 12 x 12 double sided design paper.

This particular paper came from Lidl!

I use their plain craft paper a lot for matting & layering.

The quality is quite good & it's great value!

The wrap to hold it together is cut from a sheet of plain paper, 

just a little bit bigger than A4 & is secured at the back with DST 

I then tied two strands of bakers twine(pink & green) 

around & finished with a bow.

This is the card open! Eyegor is reavealed!

You may notice I'm really keeping to the Pink theme for October, 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Did you know that men get Breast Cancer too?

300 men per year are diagnosed in the UK alone!

Here's a bit of a closer look!

I coloured the image with Promarkers & matted him onto a layer of silver mirror card 

then another pink design paper from Southfields

Another silver layer, then the white is actually a square card blank!

I wanted to do it that way so I could write the greeting inside!

An even closer look at Eyegor the handsome devil that he is!

I printed the sentiment directly underneath. The font I used is Jack Lantern BB

& you can download it for free here

This pic is of the other side of the DP & The base of the card!

I took the inspiration for this card from my new friends over at

 The Crafty Bloggers network on Facebook!

So many talented ladies!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hope you can all come & play at Dude Time Doodles this week!

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

Link Up For Pink Breast Cancer Awareness

Creative Card Crew Spooky Fun

Everybody Art Challenge Halloween

Going Grey With Scrap Creations Halloween

Tuesday Throwdown Think Pink

Cards For Men Make us Laugh

Cupcake Crafts Halloween

Cupcake Inspirations Photo Inspiration

Lexis Creations Pink For Boobies

Squigglefly Yipes Stripes

Stamps & Fun = Creativity Halloween

Victorine Originals Halloween

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Sparkles Forum Halloween

2 Sisters Halloween

Crafty Calendar October Spooky Birthday

My Sheri Crafts Think Pink

Card Makin' Mama's Fancy Folds

Gaylou's Inimitability Breast Cancer Awareness

Art Impressions Stamps Stripes

Crafty Purple Frog Lots of layers

Crafty Ribbons Pretty Spooky

Heads up for a freebie!

Good evening all!

Thought I'd give you a little heads up about tomorrow's freebie over at Dude Time Doodles.

There is a challenge to create a card for a dude using the freebie & if you enter, you could win a 

Guest Designer spot for a whole month with the Dudettes!

Awesome!

Here's a sneak peek at the freebie!

I can tell you it's fab & the Dudettes have had some fun with it!

Stop on by tomorrow for more details!

A New Blog Award & A Promise of Candy!

  Woo Hoo! I've passed the 200 followers mark!

It came as a bit of a surprise but I'm delighted!

I promise I will get a little candy together when I get back from my hols!

Watch this space!

Now I haven't received a blog award in a while but when I had a message from 

Leanne to say  there was something on her blog for me, this is what I found!

How lovely is that! I will wear it on my side bar with pride whenever I have completed the requirements!

So the rules of this award.........

To accept this award all you have to do is these 3 things....

1) Link back to the person who you received this award from. 

Done

2) Answer the following 10 questions 

Favourite colour?         Purple

Favourite Song?          Changes Daily, today it's I Want To Break Free!

Favourite dessert?       Sticky Toffee Pudding

What worries you most at the moment?      Getting organised for my hols

Favourite pet?              My buddy Sammy the cat

Black or white?           Oh Black

Your biggest fear?       Heights

Everyday attitude?      Up & at 'em!

What is perfection?     Friday night in with a bottle of wine & chinese food!

Guilty pleasure?          Chocolate

When you're upset you?   Tend to hide

3) Pass the award on to 10 of you crafty blogging buddies.       This is a hard one! I have lots of new buddies but lots who have been with me since the start of my blogging journey! Let's see now????

1) Ali

2) Lee

3) Diane

4) Victoria

5) Helen

6) Stef

7) Natali

8) Carol

9) Becky

10) Lynn

Hope you like it ladies & can share the love with some others!

Vintage Sunday!

Morning all & A Very Happy Sunday to you!

This week at The Crafty Pad for
Challenge #142 Vintage

We want to see your Vintage Projects!

Now Vintage isn't a thing I do very often but I did have fun with this one!

When I started, I had something totally different in mind but hey ho, that was not to be!

Here's what I came up with!

It's a simple little A6 white linen card as the base.

 I added a matt of brown craft paper them a matt of the text paper,  

which I had scrumpled up then attacked with some distess inks in 

Antique Linen & Fired Brick!

I added a diagonal cut section of Core'dinations cardstock.

I then added a section of design paper from Papermania

Next was the netting which I let hang over the edges of the card as I like the effect! 

I cut a little slot in each side to allow the ribbon to be threaded through!

 This week we were given the Dress Form Trio set to work with!

These are fab images & are great fun to work with!

I have to say this card is truly vintage as the text paper I have used is from a 

Complete Works of  Shakespeare book which is very old!

I did check before I used it that it's not a valuable book!

I printed out the dress form on to some Core'dinations cardstock 

then tore around the image. I fixed it using foam tape for a bit of dimnsion.

The With Love sentiment ticket is from The Crafty Pad Designs also!

The fab fluffy flower is one of the selection I got from Lee AKA A Wee Bit Of Crafty Loops!

Isn't it beautiful!

Sorry Lee I attacked it a bit with distress inks to tone down the colour al little!

I must remind you all Lee had awesome candy on her blog!

I added a little ribbon detail behind the flower as well as a couple of feathers & home made stick pin!

A few little pearls in two of the corners to finish off & it's done!

I was very pleased with the results!

I hope you'll have time to join in the challenge & show us your vintage makes this week over at

  The Crafty Pad!

Need more inspiration? 

Pop right on over to the challenge blog & see the awesome work of the other DT members!

We obviously enjoyed this one & I hope you do too!

We have a wonderful sponsor this week

Creative Craft World

One lucky winner will win a £10.00 voucher to spend in the shop!

Now, I'd like to enter this card in a few challenges

Fairy Fun Fridays Girly

Fussy & Fancy Fall/Halloween

Sew Many Cards Colour

Stampin For The Weekend Autumn Colours

Stamping With The Dragon Fall Colours

Wags N Whiskers Handmade

Paperworks Photo Inspiration

Delightful Challenges Make it Dimensional

Digi Doodles Shops Best Distressing

Do You Stack Up Brown/ Photo Inspiration

Cooking It Up With Katie Fabulous Fun & another F word Feathers!

Crafts & Me Use a Digi

Wowsers! New Followers!

Good evening all!

I had just to do a quick post to say  a big Hi & a wave to all my new followers & blogging buddies! 

I'm amazed at how many of you want to follow my little piece of blogland!

Thank you all so very much! I'm truly honoured!

I know some of you are very new to the blogging world so if there's anything 

I can do to help you just give me a shout! 

I'm not saying I know everything there is to know about blogging 

Oh No Sirree but if it's something I don't know, we can have fun finding out together! lol

Oh yeah,don't forget tomorrow's Friday so get out your party shoes in readiness!

In The Pink??

Good Morning all!

It's Wednesday & as you know, that means a new DT card from me for the

 Dude Time Doodles Challenge Blog!

The theme this week is 

Think Pink!

 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

 Many people are unaware that Breast Cancer can affect men as well as women!
300 men a year are diagnosed with Breast Cancer in the UK alone!
Early detection leads to early treatment & a better survival rate!

To help raise awareness,

we want to see your Dude's cards featuring Pink!

Here's my card!

As soon as I heard the theme, I knew exactly what I wanted to do!

A Christmas, Tri Shutter Card, featuring the wonderful 

Santi Beaches 

image from the Dude Time Doodles Store

I used a sheet of Pink A4 card stock for the base of my card!

The design paper I have used is by Elaine Hayhoe & is part of a download from 

Card Making Downloads 

I love the colour combo of this paper!

 

I coloured Santi using my Promarkers, in similar colours to those in the paper!

I used Woodware Fluffy Stuff on his beard & on his hat!

His sunglasses & cocktail glass have been given a coat of 

Anita's 3D Clear Gloss Liquid Embossing

I then just cut the image to shape & mounted on a piece of silver mirror card.

I added a few little peel of sparkly dots to the corners on the image

On either end of the card, I added some silver elastic twine & a 

silver pink & white poinsettia with a white glittery brad centre.

I made a circle sentiment in my graphics programme.

Which was cut out with an inverted scalloped circle nestie

& this too was mounted on silver mirror card.

Additional embellishments on my card are mirror card punched 

Christmas trees, pink ribbons white card candi & a few pink gems.

There is also a Merry Christmas sentiment

I hope you like it & that you can find the time to enter the 

Dude Time Doodles Think Pink Challenge!

My Card has been made with the following challenges in mind:
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Christmas card for a male

Link Up For Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness

Anything Goes Challenge Die Cuts Punches or Both

Celebrate The Occasion Breast Cancer Awareness

Digital Tuesday We Like To Party

Party Time Tuesdays Shaped Cards +/Or Breast Cancer Awareness

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes + Ribbon

Heart Song Inspirations Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs Think Pink

Lexi's Creations  Pink For Boobies

Make It Monday Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge Think Pink

The Ribbon Reel Pastel Colours + Ribbon/Lace/Twine

Woodware USA Anything Goes

Christmas Inspirations Flowers or Birds

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi

The Ribbon Girls Christmas

Crafters Companion Pink & Green 

Emerald Fairie Garden Punches or Dies

2 Sisters Fancy Folds

A Gem Of A Challenge With Love At Christmas  (include a heart)

Hiding In My Craft Room Pink

Marks Finest Papers Use Polka Dots

My Sheri Crafts Think Pink

One Stop Crafts Just for Men

Cardmadfairys Digi Days Too Early For Christmas?

Card Makin' Mamas Fancy Folds

Raise The Bar Hat's Off

It's Sunday Tick Tock!

Good Morning all!

It's Sunday already & time for an exciting new challenge at 

The Crafty Pad! 

I hope you like the theme this week, 

it would be great to see lot's of entries!

So with out further ado, you may have already guessed it but ,

this weeks theme for Challenge #141 is One For The Boys!

The ladies of the DT were given Debbie's awesome 

Pocket Watch & elements from 

The Crafty Pad Designs 

to work with!

I have to say, this one had me puzzled for a while, 

I knew what I wanted to do but it took a while & a couple of tries 

before I got it right! 

Then I had a job getting decent photos! lol!

Here's my card!

It's a free standing acetate pop up card!

I apologise for the reflection on the acetate, I just couldn't get any pics indoors that looked any good 

& it was a bit breezy outside so the acetate was a bit wavery! ROFL!!

I printed out the image on Core'dinations card stock, cut it out & slightly distressed the edges before inking with Distress Inks in Antique Linen & Weathered Wood.

On the reverse, I again used the pocket watch image, but edited it in my graphics 

programme to add some of the cog elements. 

My idea was to make it look like the inside of a watch!

I added Anita's 3D glaze to the front of the watch. 

I tried to distress it by cracking the glaze but I ended up with just one 

big crack on one side! lol!

I added a pendulum which was actually part of a decoration which was on a candle!

The base of the card was made again using the Core'dinations card stock.

 I used a Hougie board for the measurements, then distressed with the same inks as before.

The paper was from my stash. it was part of a blog candy that I won so 

I have no idea where it is from but it worked perfectly for this project!

It too received the distressed with ink treatment.

I added two ticket sentiments from The Crafty Pad Designs, one to the front

& one on the reverse!

The buttons I added were from a Woodware selection bag of  buttons! 

There are all sorts of fab buttons in there!

This is the card closed! 

As you can see I tried to keep both sides very similar!

The only other additions are a strip of card stock along the top of the 

acetate section & some sisal string which my Mum got from the local market!

I love that string, the more you touch it the fluffier it becomes!

(Thanks Mum!)

The greeting can be written on the bottom section of the card 

so it will be invisible when the card is open!

I hope you like it!

I hope you have plenty of time to enter the challenge at

  The Crafty Pad this week! 

Pop on over & check out the other DT examples!

 I know you won't be disappointed!

Now before you go I must let you know who this weeks sponsor is!

This week we are lucky to have the wonderful

Crafty Emma's Store 

who are offering a £10 voucher to spend 

(please note this does not include P&P)

I'd like to enter my card in a few challenges:

Altered Alice Celebrating the Mad Hatter with Twinkles

Creative Inspirations Paint Buttons

Dream Valley Challenges Monochrome 

Here Come The Boys Wheely Nice

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi

Card and Scrap Distressing/Embossing

Drunken Stampers Get Well/Thinking of you

2 Sisters Fancy Folds

One Stop Craft Just For Men

Sugar Creek Hollow Shabby Chic/Vintage/Primitive Trash to Vintage Treasure

Card Makin' Mama's More Than One/Fancy Folds

Delicious Doodles Tales Of The Unexpected

Play Date Cafe Colour + Photo Inspiration

Crafty Creations CAS

Truly Scrumtious CAS

Tuesday Throwdown Thinking of You!

Evening All!

Good evening all!

Just been doing a bit of blog hopping & looking for some candy to share with you all!

At Sandra's Crafty Corner, she's celebrating 21000 hits!

The photo above is just a part of what's on offer!

Make sure to pop over & check it out if you haven't already!

You have until the 18th October to enter!

Good Luck!