Naughty Girl ....

.... not me, I hasten to add!! Look at my new stamp, it's from a Canadian company called Kraftin Kimmie Stamps. I just love this girl, she looks like she is up to no good!!

Kimmie has a new challenge blog, Kraftin KimmieStamp Challenge Blog, and this week's challenge is called "Merry Christmas, Happy Winter", so I'm entering my card in that.

I've used this week's lovely sketch on Friday Sketchers. I'm also entering it into this fortnight's challenge on Basic Grey Challenges - which is called "Glitz and Bling". I've used BG Periphery, and I've stickled the edges of the image and the snowflake and popped some gems on too.

Sorry the photo is so dark, the weather is so bad here at the moment that skies are always grey. Bad time of year for good photos.

Thanks for looking!

Read ....

.... All About It!!! That's the name of my challenge this week on PaperPlay Challenges, and it's quite apt really. I had great intentions of making lots of things, but I got into a bit of a reading frenzy instead and spent several evenings sitting on the couch in front of the telly, book(s) in hand.

Anyway, back to the challenge:

"I want you to use some form of booktext, for example: vintage booktext, script background stamp, newspaper text."

Here's my DT sample:


I didn't have time to do any colouring, so went for some solid stamps, which I heat embossed with gold sparkly powder. Then I went mad distressing everything!!!

I'm also entering it into this week's Daring Cardmakers, the challenge this week is "scraplings", in other words, cards made with narrow off-cuts from scrap cardstock.

Thanks for looking!

Done and ....

.... dusted. Yup, got the teenage nephew's card finished!!!

It's for this week's PaperPlay challenge, set by Kate, and it's a recipe:

For this weeks challenge I'd like you to use this recipe for your project:
2 Patterned Papers
1 Ribbon
3 buttons
Add some creativity and mix it all together!

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I'm ashamed to admit that, yet again, I didn't read it properly, and I only have two buttons on mine. Can't think why this keeps happening - in real life, I'm a dotter of Is and a crosser of Ts!!!

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I'm also entering this card in this week's Daring Cardmakers - they're looking for cards using kraft cardstock (which I love!!).

And also Quixotic Challenges, this week they're looking for stitching. All my cards these days have stitching, I love the look it gives on cards. I really need to get into machine stitching, though, 'cos all that hand-stitching takes so bloomin' long!!!

Back soon with ..... cards for girls!!!! Woohoo!!!!

Thanks for looking!

November ....

.... Birthdays. We have a lot of family birthdays this month, one of the first is my husband's. Then we move on to the difficult teenage nephew card - heaven help me!! Here's the card I made for DH:


I used a lovely sketch from a few weeks back on Friday Sketchers, I didn't get the chance to use it at the time though.

I'm entering this into a new challenge blog, Quixotic Challenges, which, very conveniently this week, is looking for birthday cards!!

I'm also entering this in this week's Basic Grey Challenges, which is to use the following interior photo as inspiration:

Nice room!! I used Basic Grey Wassail papers, Doodlebug brads and Pink Paislee rub-on.

Thanks for looking!!

Oops ....

.... nearly forgot to post last week's DT entry for PaperPlay Challenges.

Elisa set the challenge, it's called "Parlez Vous":

"French or Spanish, Greek or Japanese, Irish or Catalan, use any language other than English."

As happens way too often, I read it way too quickly and made a little mistake, in that my card does have a little bit of English on it, but hey, there are enough other languages in there too to get away with it, I think!!

It's not quite my usual, and I'm not sure if I really like it, but it fits what I needed it for to a tee!!

My teenage daughter was away in Belfast with her school for a few days recently, at a conference. The card was made for her team to give their teacher as a thank you for giving up his time to bring them away and supervise them (rather him than I!). Her team were representing Indonesia, so the first two words, "Terima Kasih", are "Thank you" in Indonesian. As Indonesia is a Muslim country, I thought the BG Marrakech papers were particularly appropriate. I hand-stitched the "thank you" (sorry, Elisa!!!) to make it stand out and that was a fiddly, awkward job and a half!!! Won't be doing that again in a hurry!!

The kids had a wonderful time, the teacher loved the card, so we're all happy!!

Thanks for looking! Hope you get a chance to join in this challenge - and I'm dying to see who gets the new DT positions on PaperPlay - all will be revealed later this week, I think.