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!

I'm Getting Married In The Morning....

Well actually, no I'm not! I did that a long time ago! lol

The song just came to me when I began to write this post so I thought I'd make it my title!

Okay, so you've probably guessed by now, 

I have a Wedding Card to share with you today!

I used a scalloped square card blank as the base for my card!

The Image is from a collaboration kit at Stitchy Bear Stamps!

I got this free when I spent over a certain amount!

I didn't expect it to be very exciting but when I had a look through, 

I was pleasantly surprised! There's lots of lovely stuff in there!

The paper I have used is from my stash & has been in there for a long time! 

I decided to use this one as the bride is fond of poppies!

The plain paper is not quite as vibrant as it looks in the photos!

The layout is from my sketch folder.

I coloured up the image with promarkers, cut out with a nestie then inked 

around the edge with a promarker before adding lots of 

Diamond Sparkles to the edge & to the image!

The flowers are from Sweetpeapolly's Crafty Things & the leaves

are punched out using my woodware leaf punch.

The sentiment was made on my pc & treated in the same way as the image.

I added a home made posh pin & a little ribbon bow

I don't know why, but I didn't take a close up pic of the image 

so I apologise for that but if you click on the pics, they should enlarge for you!

I added a few little gems just to finish it off!

As you can just about see I've decorated the inside of the card

to match!

Because the flowers made it difficult to fit the card in an envelope,

I made a little box for it! 

I lined the box with tissue paper, added a little matching tag & 

a little flower detail to the top!

Thank you so much for looking!

I hope you like it!

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

Paper Crafting Journey Die Cuts and or Punches

Shelly's Images Tic Tac Toe (I did the diagonal Flowers Free Bling)

Crafts & Me #54 Flowers

Celebrate The Occasion Any Occasion, must use ribbon

Crazy Amigo Challenge The Letter R (Romance)

Paper & Such Design Recipe

Bows and Berries Glitter

Heart Song Inspirations Ribbon &or a tag

Oh La La Creations  Punches or Dies

Squigglefly Floral Fantasy

Aly's Sunday Challenge Bows

Corrosive Challenges Punches or Dies

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Use favourite colors

Feline Thankful Blog Party Comment Winners

Good Morning all!

Yay, it's finally time to announce which of you lucky people, 

who commented on my blog during the 

Feline Thankful blog hop,

 have won the Sponsor prizes up for grabs.

So, let's have a big drum roll while I draw the firts prizewinner from the hat...........

The lucky number is 

#64 Sammibug

Samantha, you have won the GDT Spot at

UnstampaBelles

& a goody bag

A second drum roll if you will........

The lucky number is

#105 Tessa en  Anke

Tessa, you have won

The Stitchy Bear

$10 Gift Certificate

Congratulations ladies!

 To claim your prizes, please email 

felineplayful@gmail.com with "Feline Thankful Comment Winner" as the subject.

Let them know where you've come from & the prize you have won.

I'd like to say a very big Thank You for all the lovely comments on my blog & for those 

of you who have very kindly decided to follow my blog!

 I'm so very happy you've joined us!

Can't wait till next time can you? lol

It's Dude Time Doodles New Release Hop Time!!!

Morning All!

It's Wednesday & that means a new card for the 

Dude Time Doodles Design Team!

As it's time for the new images to be released into Dudeville &

we have a little blog hop to showcase them for you!

If you arrived here from NanaConnie you're on the right track! 

If not don't worry, there's a list of the hop order below!

As ever, the hop is a circle hop with no true beginning & no true end so you can jump in anywhere!

Here's my card!

This is Babe Watcher! 

An Adonis of a lifeguard! lol

You can see by the cut of his jib, he fancies himself as a bit of a ladies man!

I used an A5 card blank & added a matt of brown craft paper.

The digital papers I have used are from My Grafico, Two Peas In A... Set

I love these papers & use them a lot! 

I tend to print them out onto light weight matt photo paper as I like the results I get.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut out with a nestie & matted onto craft paper.

I added some 3D Glaze to his sunglasses.

The sentiment was made on my PC using the Beach Type Font, 

which you can download free here!

Embellishment wise, I added some Raffia, a couple of tiny sea shells

 & this fab anchor button.

This is the inside of the card!

So, after all that, you'll want to hop on to Lynn  

Here's the hop list should you want it!

Anne 

Cleota

Michelle

Ruth

NanaConnie

Dawn (That's me!!)

Lynn

Linda

Tammy

Ginny

Dude Time Doodles

Thanks for stopping by & don't forget to leave comments on all of the 

Dudette's Blogs as there is a mystery hostess with a little prize 

for one lucky commenter!

"A little reminder too, that this is the last day to pick up your Halloween Images

 from the Dude Time Doodles Store at bargain prices!"

Many of them will be retired tomorrow!

I would like to enter my card for a few challenges

Tuesday Throwdown Thinking of You

Cards For Men Sports (Lifeguard/Swimming)

Digi Makeover Challenge Size Matter's (Resize your Digi's, I made mine fit my nestie)

Oh La La Creations Punches/Dies

Paper Creations Ink Buttons Or Bows

Simon Says Stamp & Show Man Card

Dream Valley Challenges Buttons

Here Comes The Boys Bingo Raffia, Blue Paper, Die Cuts & Buttons

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Favourite Colours

Moving Along With The Times Recipe

My Lovely Flowers!

Last week I received a parcel in the mail!

It contained these little beauties!

A whole host of different hand made flowers!

Awesome are they not?

I never seem to have the time to play about & learn how to make my own flowers! 

So, having seen some of Lee's fantastic creations on her blog 

A Wee Bit Of Crafty Loops, 

I asked her if she'd kindly make some flowers for me. For a small fee of course!

I'm afraid the photo just doesn't do them justice but I didn't want to start taking 

them all out of their packages as that's when they get dirty or damaged!

Some of you may have already seen one of the flowers on my DT card for 

The Crafty Pad Stitching Challenge this week!

I just couldn't wait to use it!

I can tell you it has already been well admired!

Each flower is hand made from scratch by Lee. They are all beautiful 

& so very well made! I also received far more than I expected! 

Thank You so very much Lee!

Look out for them on my projects!

I will let you know when I use Lee's flowers & add a  link back to 

her blog whenever I do. The best news is that she has a candy give away 

running right now, so you can enter & try to win 

some of these little beauties for yourself!

If you make your own flowers there's also something in the bundle for you!

Check out her awesome blog, candy & tutorials here!

Mid Way Reminder!

Just a little reminder that the Challenge over at Dude Time Doodles this week is "Hero's"

We want you to showcase your hero!

Here's the rules:

1. Use the photo / color inspiration and Dudette creations above to get your mojo moving.

2. You are not required to use BDD images although it would make us really really happy and 

giggle a lot if you did!

3. MUST be a masculine themed card, you can use humor, innuendo, be a little naughty, 

sarcastic, but it has got to be for a DUDE!

4. Be sure to use the InLinkz below to submit your creation.

Now it's your turn.  Showcase your heroes.  Tell them thank you and show them how proud of them you are!!

Now there aren't many entries in there yet!

 So if you can play along, you stand a good chance of winning!

Pop on over & check it out!

There are also a few little tips from the DT on how to tackle cards for men!

I Sew Hope Your Sunday Will Be A Good One!

Good Morning Beautiful Bloggers!

I do sew hope your Sunday will be lovely!

This week, challenge #140 at The Crafty Pad is

"Stitching"

We want to see stitching on your card!

Real Stitching, Faux Stitching, or Sewing a Button On !

That's the challenge! Now it's up to you!

Here's my card!

We The Crafty Pad DT were given the fab Sewing Machine Image, Elements & 

Sentiments to work with! You can check these out here!

I printed off the sewing machine & ticket sentiment & was trying to decide 

what to do with them when a black square card blank fell in front of me!

I kid you not, it jumped from somewhere out of the jumble that is my stash as

 I sat there on the living room floor, my crafty space!! lol! Karma!!

I already knew the papers I wanted to use, I've had them in my stash forever 

& have used tiny bits of them here & there!

I cut them & matted & layered, adding some lace around the outside of the 

second layer & added some faux stitching. 

Next I added a round doily which I inked with distress ink.

I fussy cut  the sewing machine, cut out a second bobbin for the top of the

 machine, wrapped some cotton thread around it before mounting it with 

pinflair glue. Once the glue was dry I took the thread around the rest of the 

machine as if it was actually threaded ready to sew! 

I then faux stitched around a scalloped circle diecut, 

Next I cut out a little bit of fabric & did some tiny hand stitches to look like the machine was actually stitching.

I also added a little posh pin I made, using the tutorial by the lovely Leesa here

It's not clear in the photo but I lightly inked the sentiment ticket with 

the same distress ink & attached with pinflair glue

finally apart from the images of course, the piece de resistance 

The Flower! Yes, it is handmade but no, not by me I have to admit!

It's made by a crafty friend of mine Lee & I'll tell you about it in another post!

So, thank you so much for sparing the time to look at my little card!

I hope you like it & you can find time to join in The Crafty Pad Challenge this week!

I did also decorate the inside of the card to match the front but unfortunately 

I forgot to take a photo of it I'm sorry!

This card was made with the following challenges in mind

My Sheri Crafts Sew Simple

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Use favourite colours

Totally Gorjuss Birds of a Feather

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Lot's of Layers

Our Craft Lounge Patterned Papers

Wags n Whiskers Lace

Art Impressions Stamps  For The Girls

Shopping Our Stash No Colouring

The Stamping Boutique Recipe

Critter Sketch Recipe

Cupcake Craft The Dark Side

Digi Makeover Challenge Use Fabric

Incy Wincy Distressing