Born To Run!.....Or Is It Leap?

Good Morning all!

Happy Wednesday all! 

Are you ready for a  Blog Leap?
As it's the 29th of February, we've decided to Leap instead of Hop!

Yep, it's time to show off the newest arrivals in Dudeville Hollow!

AKA Dude Time Doodles 

Meet Jon Jogger! 

He ran all the way from the UK to Dudeville 

& he never looked back!!!
Wonder what he was running from???
Do you think it might have been an unwelcome proposal???
It is the 29th of february after all!!! lol

When I was colouring Jon up, I was singing Bruce Springsteen's

Born to Run!

Personally, the only running I have ever done is for a bus! lol

If you've landed here from the wonderfully talented Anne, you're on the 

right track for the Leap! If not, just keep Leaping & you will 

get around all the blogs! It's a circle Leap with no beginning & no end.

So now. if you're anxious to get on with the Leap, pop on over & visit 

our Kevin, the only Dude among the Dudettes!

Before you rush off though, don't forget about the mystery host!!!

Make sure you leave a comment each time you Leap as one of us 

will have an image to give away to one lucky commenter!

Here's a bit more about our man Jon!

Although now resident in Dudeville Hollow, 

Jon is still flying the flag of his homeland!!

I made an A6 Easel Card. The Design Papers are from Southfield Stationers.

I coloured Jon with my Promarkers & I added some Anita's 3d Glaze to

his eye & the beads of sweat. Shame you can't really see it on the photo!

I threaded some ribbon through the card & made a little rosette out of 

seam binding & buttons from my stash which I stuck to my card using 

pinflair glue to give some dimension. 

The stop is the front section of the base which was raised 

also using pinflair glue

I added some ribbon and a Sentiment Ticket to the stop. 

This was also coloured with Promarkers

Here's an angle view just to let you see the construction!

Thanks for stopping by! 

I hope you have time to Leap round all the stops!

If you get a bit lost, pop on over to the challenge blog & take it from there!

Oh yes, forgot to say, when this post goes live I'll be snuggled up 

getting my beauty sleep! Goodness knows I need all I can get!!!

I'll change the links when I get up in the morning so they take you 

directly to the Blog Leap posts & not just the blogs!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiments Shaped But Not Square
Creative Craft Challenges Boys Will Be Boys
Going Gray With Scrap Creations Pop It
Stamp n Doodle Embossing (liquid embossed sweat & eye)

Creative Stamp Friends Inspired By Your Favourite Song (Born To Run)
Cupcake Craft Challenges Boys & Their Toys
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Colour Your World (No Brown or Black)
Kaboodle Doodles Shades Of Purple
The Corrosive Challenge Another Dimension
Dream Valley Challenges Just For Men
Opus Gluei  That's The Ticket
Pan Pastel UK Challenge Use Ribbon
Pile It On Fun Folds
Robyn's Fetish People
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Manly Card
Sweet Stampin' Challenge It's A Man Thing (Masculine Card)
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Don't Be Square
Crafty Ann's Bold & Bright
Fabulous Friday Shape It Up x3 (Rectangles)
Hot Shot Crafts One For The Boys

DT Announcement!

Hi all!

Whoop Whoop!

Just thought I'd let you know that the new DT members have been announced over at 

The Crafty Pad Designs!

Hop on over to say hello,congratulate them & check them out!

I've been promoted too!!!

We now have two teams, Team A & Team B

Woo Hoo look at me with my new badge! lol

I'm so looking forward to working with the lovely new ladies!

I'm sure you're going to be amazed with some of their creations too!

Flutterby Butterfly!

Hi all,

I have a different kind of card to share with you today!!

It's an acetate stepper card!

I can't claim all the glory for it as I saw a tutorial here & basically cased the idea!

I am rather pleased with it, as it the recipient

I made it for a variety of reasons which I won't go in to

but the main purpose was to raise a smile & let someone know 

I am thinking about them!!

The card, butterflies & sentiment are all Hunkydory.

The Acetate is 220gsm

If you look closely, you can see that the butterflies all have acetate wings.

The ribbon was from my stash & I tied a triple bowin the best

Jak Heath stylie!

A side view for a better look at the construction!

Thanks for looking!

As this is a kit card I don't think I'll enter it in any competitions 

but I just wanted to share it with you all!

Something Recycled!

Hey all!! It's Sunday!

Hope everyone is well & raring to go with the new challenge over at
The Crafty Pad

The Theme for Challenge #159 is 

Use Something Recycled

Here is my card

I used Sammy Scarecrow one of my many favourite images from 

The Crafty Pad Designs

He's just so cute & I thought he was perfect for a recycled theme!

Just look at what he's wearing!!!

Now, what have I used that is recycled?????

My base card is made from a sheet of black card which was 

inside the box my hubby's posh shirt came in at Christmas.

I scored & cut it down to make a 5x5" card 

My image & ticket were printed onto a piece of card from my scrap box,

it has a DP printed on the reverse.

The beanstalky type panel is part of a box which contained

 one of these posh room sprays.

Finally the fantastic button is from the button box that I was given 

by a friend & was labelled

"Wool Jacket"

I'm so delighted with that box of buttons!!!

I coloured the image up with my promarkers, then cut him out with a nestie!

As it was the largest Nestie in the set, I traced around the outside to make a matt.

There's a fair bit of distressing going on around the edges & some faux stitching!

The Design Paper is from Bo Bunny Ad Lib Collection

Here's that fab button!!

I added some baker's twine which I tied in a bow after 

threading through the button

The Happy Birthday Sentiment ticket is from The Crafty Pad Designs too 

& is another one of my faves!

I decorated the inside of the card with some leftover scraps!

Just a final little photo of my card from the side!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

I hope you like it & I hope you like the 

Challenge this week at The Crafty Pad!

To make it even more fun we have the lovely

Joanna Sheen

(Did You see her on C&C Yesterday???)

As our sponsor this week!

You could win a £10 voucher to spend in her store!

I do hope you can play along!

The DT Call is now closed at The Crafty Pad & I guess some of you are sitting on 

the edge of your seats waiting to hear who the lucky applicants are??

We had so many talented ladies apply!!

The announcement will be on the Challenge blog soon so keep watching!!!!!!

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

Creations BY Gill M Colour/Inspiration Challenge#

Hiding In My Craft Room Bring On Some Spring

Make It Colourful Autumn Colours/Inspiration

Card Makin' Mama's Happy Birthday

Crafty Catz Something Beginning with B ( Bird, Blue, Birthday, Button,Bow!)

Scrapbookaholic By Abby Birthday

Auds Sentiment Challenge Include A Sentiment With Happy In It

Delightful Challenges Use Patterned Paper

Do You Stack Up Distress

Southern Girls Distressing

Crafts & Me Shades Of Spring

Colour Q #125

Inky Impressions Dies/Punches

Paper Pretties Punches/Dies

Sisterhood Of Crafter's Use a Digi

The Stamping Boutique Stitching (mine is faux)

Sassy Cheryl's No Embossing

The Crazy Challenge Use a Die Or a Punch

The Pink Elephant Print It

I have to Share!

I've just found this fab Scrap-booking site which has some great 

 Free Digi Papers & I had to share it with you all!

Happy Crafting

300+ Candy Winner

Woo Hoo!!!

It's time to announce the winner of my 300+ Followers Candy Draw!

First, may I say thank you to all you lovely followers of my blog!

I love & appreciate having you around & making my day 

with your kind comments!

Thanks to all the new followers of my blog also!

Welcome to my little corner of Blog Land

So, now on to the winner!

At precisely 8:01 this morning I got on to 

Mr Random Number Generator

The result was number 30!

That's you Nikki C

Please email me by Wednesday 29th Feb for details of your prize

300+ Followers!!! A Little Candy???

This is a sticky post & will remain at the top until 25th Feb! 

Scroll down to fins my latest posts!

Oh My Giddy Aunt!!!

Evening all! I can't believe that my blog  now has over 300 followers!

Wowsers! Thank you all so much for being there!

In the time that I've been blogging I've made many online friends who have helped me out, inspired me & shared the fun! 

Thanks for that, you all know who you are!!!

So, I'd like to offer up a little blog candy!

As I have been caught unawares, I'm afraid it's going to be a bit of a mystery again!

What the heck, we all love surprises huh!!!!
It will be worth entering though!!!

So, all you need to do is share your name with Mr Froggy!

I'd like it if you were already a follower & that you share it on your side bar to let others know 

but it's not compulsary!

It starts now & ends on the 25th Feb at 8am! I will pick the winner that morning

probably about 8.01 as I'll be so excited!!!

Are You In???

Good Morning all!

I love Friday's don't you???

Just a little reminder that there's just one more day to enter
my candy draw here

 if you haven't added your name to 

Mr Froggy yet do it now before you forget!!!

Also,the DT call at The Crafty Pad ends tomorrow! 

If you haven't applied yet, you still have time but be sharpish!!!

No more will I won't I! 

Now is the time!

Finally, a reminder about the 

Link Up For Pink Giveaway

I'd hate you all to miss out!

Have a fab Friday all, I'm off to work shortly!!!

    Good Evening all!!!

Just wanted to share the new 

Link Up For Pink

monster giveaway!!!

Make sure you get over there & check it out as it ends on the 4th March!!!

Happy Crafting, have a lovely evening & don't forget I have candy too!!!

Vintage/Shabby Chic & Not For A Dude!!!

Good Evening All,

I have a ladies card to share with you today!

I made it a little while ago, but I couldn't post it at the time as the 

recipient hadn't received it yet!

It was made for someone associated with a 

Theatre Group Costume Department

Hence the Shabby Chic Theme!

.

The image I've used is one of the Dress Form Trio images from 

Deborah Moore at The Crafty Pad Designs.

It's so versatile & suitable for many occasions!

The sentiment was created in my graphics program.

The base card was a brown 5x5 square card blank.

I added a matt of Cored'inations card which I tore around the edges

& rubbed with some Distress ink in Antique Linen.

Next I added a page from a very old book of 

"The Works Of Shakespeare" 

(I checked it's not valuable before I started to tear out the pages!)

This page is from The Taming Of The Shrew!

It was also subjected to the distress ink treatment after 

being crumpled then flattened out again!

I added a little piece of lace edging which was also distressed with ink.

The flower is one of a big package I received from Lee aka Crafty Loops

a while back! Her flowers are absolutely fantastic!

You'll see them popping up on my projects from time to time!

Just under the flower is a little metal measuring tape charm

I also added a pair of scissors with a tiny safety pin & a couple 

of buttons just to finish the card off!

I hope you like my card! 

I was really chuffed that the person I made it for was delighted!

Since you've stopped by, don't forget to enter my candy draw here

As ever, I'd like to enter a few challenges:

Celebrate The Occasion Thinking Of You

Sassy Cheryls No Embossing

Stamp-N-Doodle Lace & Flowers

Crafty Bloggers Network Shabby Chic

Creative Monday's Anything Goes

House Of Gilli Pearls Swirls Lace

My Grafico Flowers

The Cutie Pie Challenge Flowers

The Pink Elephant Print It

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi Or No Image

Pile It On  Sending Happiness

Stampacular Sunday Challenge Charm Me

Drunken Stampers Texture

Sweet Stampin Challenge 3 In a row ( Both diagonals Lace, Buttons Charms & Pearls Buttons Flowers)

Totally Gorjuss Lace

Gaylou's Inimitability Girly Girl Lace & Pearls

Poodles Parlour Mother's Day/Female Card

Stamp Man Texture

4 Crafty Chicks Double Down, Use 2 of something (Charms & Buttons)

Crafty Purple Frog Flower Power