Ginger Dancing

Hello all, I do hope this finds you all well.
I can't believe that I only have a few days of the half term left-I haven't done very much but it's been lovely not having to go to work and do what I want instead!
I have been making some cards with some lovely images from Time for Tea that I won in a recent challenge. This one is called Ginger Dancing and I just love her-I've coloured her with my Promarkers and I've used papers from both Paper Cellar and Marianne Designs Twinset and Pearls.
I had a bit of a eureka moment with this card-
Since the Papermill closed I have been struggling to find decently priced coloured card lately-I bought two packs from Amazon recently but when they arrived they were not the right shade at all-I was so disappointed. Then when I made this card I couldn't find any darker green card that matched this image in my stash and I suddenly had the idea to colour the edges of white card with my Promarkers in the same shade as my image-easy right!!-just why hadn't I thought of it before??
I added a little wooden heart and some coloured paper flowers, some card candi and sequins. The sentiment is computer generated:

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Fan-tastic Tuesday -# 59 anything goes -monochrome
Quirky Crafts challenges - # 22 charades (dancing queen)
Just Inspirational - occasions
Crafty Boots - music
Party Time Tuesdays -# 187 anything goes
Inspiration Destination - # 5 anything goes
Divas by Design - anything goes
My Time to Craft - # 264 hobbies

Well I'm off now to sort out some pumpkins for carving ready for Friday.
Enjoy the rest of your week. Thank you for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Dad in Jumper

Afternoon all, I hope this finds you well and enjoying a good start to your week.
I have had a busy day, doing the 'snagging' from decorating the kitchen turned into then painting the top rail of the stair bannisters and then the window ledge and part of the skirting in my bedroom! After that I decided to treat myself to a few hours in my craft shed as I wanted to make a couple of cards and some Halloween treats ready for Friday.
My card today was made for my daughters boyfriend-he's into music but I've done that on his cards SO many times I thought it was time for something different. I received this fab Time for Tea image from a recent challenge win and thought it was perfect for making his card.
I coloured the image with my Promarkers, cut it out with my xcut die and made a faux nestie. The papers are from Papermania's Craft Christmas pack. I stamped a sentiment and die cut a backing for it then punched a couple of stars to finish off:

I followed the sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday which is this one:

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday -sketch 32
Passion for Promarkers challenge 270-lets get krafty
Sister Act challenge # 80-anything goes
Chocolate, coffee, and cards challenge # 76 -for the boys
Scribble and Scrap challenge # 30- anything goes
Sisters of Craft -October anything goes challenge
Crafty Cardmakers and more challenge # 126 -cut it out

Well thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Have a lovely week, and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Jacque with Lily

Hello dear friends and followers I hope you are all well today.
I can't believe I have already had one week off work, just where does the time go? At least I have another to look forward to, and a big family get-together on Friday too.
My card today is using a gorgeous freebie from Art by MiRan, I've had her coloured for a little while but just hadn't got round to making up the card yet. I got the idea for the paper patterning from something I printed at work and I thought 'ooh, now that would make a good card'!!
I used Wild Rose and Parisienne papers from Papermania, added a couple of paper flowers, a die cut flourish with some little gems and a sentiment:

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Art by Miran challenge # 17-anything goes
Anything Goes with a Twist challenge # 4-touch of pink
A Creative Romance challenge - pink
Sweet Pea Stampers challenge - think pink
Die Cutting Divas challenge # 188- think pink
Paper Makeup challenge # 163 -think pink
Digi Choosday challenge # 42-happy birthday


Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Have a lovely weekend.
Until next time
Aloha
Andree x

Cheer Girl!

Hello all, I hope you are all well.
I am so far having a lovely half term-doing lots of lovely crafting and a little housework inbetween!
I'm off out to lunch tomorrow with my sister and Mum and Dad so I'm really looking forward to that!
I was busy yesterday making this card with a lovely image I won on the Meljens Designs challenge blog-I couldn't resist choosing her, she's so cute!.
I coloured her with my Promarkers and layered her with some red and black card. The star paper is from a Fizzy Moon christmas pack I got in the sales last year for about 50p in Wilkinsons and the gingham paper is from my stash.
I drew round the image with my Xcut shape cutter frames and used my deckled edge scissors to cut them out.
I added some punched stars and little gems and the sentiments are computer generated.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Inky Impressions challenge # 182 - checkmate
Digi Choosday challenge # 42-Happy Birthday
Crafty Sentiments challenge - use a sentiment
Inspiration Destination challenge # 4 -anything goes
Papertake Weekly challenge -black and white (and red)
Ruby's Rainbow challenge #90-use your prizes/freebies
Delightful Challenges -3's not a crowd
City Crafter challenge # 234 -piece of sky
Paper Pretties challenge # 333 -Happy Birthday

Well that's all from me today, thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Take care and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Loli and Shellie

Hello to all my friends and followers today and I hope your week is being kind to you so far.
I spent a large chunk of yesterday in my craft shed because I really wanted to make a card with this gorgeous little image. I was so lucky to have won her in the giveaway on Sylvia's blog page-I just love Wee Stamps and was so excited to see my name picked. I just know you'll be seeing lots more of her in the future!
I wasn't sure at first what colours to go with but there was some of this paper on my desk while I stamped her and I thought the flowers on the paper really went well with the style so pink it was!!
The paper is from the Marianne Designs Twinset and Pearls and I've coloured in Loli and Shellie with my Promarkers. I used my Martha Stewart doily edging punch and punched a butterfly too.
I've added a little glitter under Shellie and finished off with a little punched heart and some pearls.

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

Love to Scrap challenge # 40 -seeing dots
Addicted to Stamps challenge # 89 -anything goes
One Stitch at a Time challenge # 222- anything goes with a butterfly
Suzy Bees Blooming challenge # 51- anything goes, add pink
Ruby's Rainbow challenge # 90- use freebies or prizes
Passion for Promarkers challenge # 270 - Get Krafty
Party Time Tuesdays challenge # 186- anything goes

Well I hope you enjoy your week and you manage to see some sunshine wherever you are.
Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Little Owls - Anniversary

Hello to all my crafty friends today.
I hope you have had a wonderful weekend.  I've had a really busy one painting the kitchen! Why does decorating one room make the whole house end up in such a mess??
Hopefully it will all be back in it's usual place by the end of today and I must say I'm really pleased with how it looks.
I'm sharing this card today which was made recently for my Mum and Dad's anniversary. My Mum just loves owls and I'd seen this cute clipart image online and thought it would be perfect for an anniversary image.
I cut it out with my xcut circle shape cutter and layered it with a die cut scalloped circle.
I wanted to try and keep this one a little more CAS than normal. I added a dotty embossed panel and some layered punched hearts and die cut a swirl to carry through the branch effect. As my Dad's favourite colour is green that had to play a part too! You can't really see from the photo but I decoupaged the girl owl's head. A few little pearls finished it off.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Digitally Sweet challenge # 110 - your hero (my mum and dad are my big -time heroes)
Hiding in my craft Room challenge #170 - embossing
Allsorts challenge # 281- embossing
Papertake Weekly challenge - superfly
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge # 199-anything goes
Crafting from the Heart challenge # 40- anything goes
Creative Fingers challenge # 53-anything goes

I am going to sit down and do some colouring up of some of my new digi images for the evening while watching my favourite shows-Downton Abbey and Hawaii 5-0 -just heaven!!.
Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments that you may wish to leave.
Have a lovely week, until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Parisienne Lady

Evening all, I hope your week is a good one so far.
I'm counting down the hours now till half term-6 and a half to be precise!!
I am planning lots of craft time (yay!!) but before that comes decorating the kitchen (boo!!) this weekend-I really don't like decorating at all but hopefully it is only a case of splashing a bit of paint around. I don't know why our jobs always start out as 'quick jobs' and somehow manage to turn into major epics!!
Well onto my card, I've been using so many digis lately I thought I would dig around my old stamps and use one for a change. This one I got such a long time ago from Oyster stamps-there were a few in the series at the time and I've always wished I'd bought more as I do love this one. She's coloured with Promarkers and I tried to keep it a bit simpler on the layout. The paper is from my new Marianne Designs pack called Twinset and Pearls. I coloured a paper flower to match, added a little glitter to her dress, a couple of card candi and that's it!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments challenge - something beginning with G
Pennys Paper Crafty challenge - anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays -anything goes
Inspiration Destination challenge #3- anything goes
Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes
Suzy Bees Bloomin challenge - anything goes with a twist, stipes
Crafty Hazelnut - patterned paper
Sassy Studio Designs challenge # 251-back in black

Enjoy your Friday and have a lovely weekend!
Thank you so much for stopping by today, until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Wee hopeful

Good evening all,
I hope this finds you well and so far having a good week. Countdown now to school holidays-my school has a two week half term so I'm looking forward to a lovely rest!
I have been having a little play with another one of my Papermania pads this week and decided to use this gorgeous image from Wee Stamps, coloured as always with my Promarkers.  The pad is called Parisienne Blue and I just love its gorgeous shades. I'm thinking of trying to mix all three of the pads that I have and see how it turns out-maybe one for the holidays when I have time to play around.
These pads are costing me a fortune in Promarkers though-I bought three different shades trying to match this paper and am still not sure about it-I may well try to darken her dress down a little but am not sure what colour to go over the top with-any suggestions gratefully received!
I added some paper flowers, sequins and card candi and punched out a little heart to finish:

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Party Time Tuesdays challenge #185- anything goes
Melonheadz challenge - lots of layers
Inspiration Destination challenge #2 - anything goes
Scribble and Scrap challenge #29 - anything goes
Addicted to Stamps challenge # 89- anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - letter G (girl)

Well, thank you for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Rosy cheek Emma

Good afternoon to all my friends and followers.
Firstly I would like to say a big 'hello' and 'welcome' to my new followers -it's so nice to have you with me and I hope you enjoy my blog.
Can you believe it's Friday again?? I've had a really busy week as the school I work at had it's Open Evening yesterday and you wouldn't believe the work that makes-it's been non-stop crazy for about a fortnight now. Still, the up-side was that we got to have a short day today which was lovely and so nice to be home just a little bit earlier on a Friday!
This week I've been colouring in a new image I bought from the Art by Miran store-I really love these images and really enjoyed colouring her. I had a design in my head for the card but then when I came to make it somehow it turned into this which was nothing at all how I'd planned!!
I used both my new Papermania pads together, the Wild Rose and the Eau de Nil as I love these colours together and it's turning into a bit of a favourite of mine too. I used Kraft card to back everything which gave it a bit of depth.
I cut the image on an oval using my fancy scissors and used more fancy scissors to cut the edges on the corners. I added some coloured flowers and pearls and die cut the butterfly adding some liquid pearls to the wings. I punched a little envelope to put the sentiment in so it tied in with the image and here she is:

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

Art by Miran challenge # 16- anything goes
Milkcoffee Designs challenge - lots of layers
Whoopsi Daisy challenge - things with wings
Passion for Promarkers challenge # 268- favourite colour
Sister Act challenge # 78 - anything goes
Catch the Bug October challenge - anything goes

Well I hope you all have a fab weekend wherever you are, thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Exciting News

Hello to all my friends and followers today.

I hope this finds you all well.

I have just popped on to share my exciting news with you all.

I recently applied for a DT position on a new challenge blog called Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. 

Much to my huge surprise I had an email to say that I had been successful and I was asked to join the lovely ladies over on the challenge which begins on January 4^th 2015.

Huge thanks to Denise and Amy for asking me to be part of this lovely group-it’s going to be so much fun and I feel so honoured to be asked. I can’t wait for the challenges to start and am so looking forward to it.

So make a note in your diaries and on your calendars for January 4^th and make sure you come over and join the fun and in the meantime why not pop over to the challenge page here and become a follower and grab a badge for your blog too.

Well that’s my exciting news-am off to make myself a well earned coffee after a very exhausting day at work!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your week. I’ll see you all soon.

Aloha

Andree x

Emma and Rosey

Good evening to all and I hope this post finds you well and managing to keep yourself warm-boy, how cold has it turned?? I very nearly gave in and put the heating on last night!
Since my daughter moved out last week and my son has started uni I am finding the house very quiet-I guess I will get used to it but it is very strange after so many years of noise and mess!
I finished this card at the weekend and used a digi stamp from Fred She Said that I won in a recent challenge. I just loved this gorgeous image as it reminded me of our old dog so I had to colour him in the same colours. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and used a freebie paper pack from a magazine. I used my new X cut paper punch to make a fancy edge along the middle strip and I coloured some flowers to match and added some gems. The sentiment was from Netty's cards and I punched some little butterflies to finish off. I just love this shade of mint and went out and bought myself some new Promarkers in these shades so I think you will be seeing rather a lot of it in the future!!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Meljens challenge # 230- friends forever
CCC digi creations challenge # 10- digi/borders
Whoopsi Daisy challenge -things with wings
Glitter n Sparkle challenge # 105 - things beginning with B
A Creative Romance challenge - in the garden
Crafting from the Heart challenge # 39- anything goes
Passion for Promarkers challenge # 268- favourite colour combo

Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you wish to leave-I so love reading them.
Enjoy the rest of your week and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Wee Peggy

A very good afternoon to all my friends and followers today. I hope this finds you all well on this lovely sunny Sunday!
I have had the day all to myself so got my jobs out of the way early and then have spent a few hours in my craft shed finishing off this card. I started it in the week but it just needed some tweaking today.
 I used a sheet of A4 card and folded to meet in the middle, then cut out and folded back the front bit to make a little window for my image to sit in. I used a Wee Stamps digi image and coloured her with my Promarkers. The papers are from Docrafts called Tilly Daydream which I got recently in Hobbycraft. I coloured some flowers to match and added a sentiment, pearls, punched hearts and a die cut butterfly using my new Wild Rose Studio die. I am quite pleased with the fold so have started making a card using this style for my nephew who just loves Star Wars lego-so will post that one later to show you too.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

ABC challenge - U for unique
The Paper Shelter challenge # 176- pearls
Crafty Hazelnut challenge - October challenge patterned papers
Pinspirational challenges # 125- anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle challenge - use something with B (butterfly)
Emerald Fairies challenge # 60 -things with wings
Passion for Promarkers challenge # 267- make it feminine
Crafty Catz challenge # 249 - all sentimental

Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments which are always so gratefully received.
Have a wonderful week and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Emma and the Cake

Hello to all my crafty friends and followers. I hope you are all having a good week.
Between trying to help my daughter move and help my son settle at uni I feel like my head is in too many places at the moment. I'm sure things will settle down but I do hope it's soon!
I am looking forward to the weekend as everyone is going to be busy doing their own things I am planning a huge chunk of craft time just for me. I have a couple of ideas for cards and just want some time to experiment. I saw a lovely pattern on something I had to print at work the other day so want to try and incorporate that into a card-will let you know if it works!!
My card today is using a gorgeous image from Fred She Said which I won in a recent challenge-I've never used any before but feel I may just have to be buying a few more!
I used my Papermania Wild Rose papers again, don't laugh but I love these so much I had to go out and buy the Eau de nil pack yesterday-I may just have to get a second job at this rate! I've coloured her with my Promarkers,adding some spots with a white gel pen and die cut her out, using a faux nestie behind. I thought she could do with some birthday banners but as I don't have a die cut set I had a go at making my own and was fairly pleased with how they turned out. I found a cute cupcake chipboard shape in my box and finished off with some flowers and gems:

I would like to enter her into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps challenge # 88 - white + one other
Glitter n Sparkle challenge # 104- use flowers
Whoopsi Daisy challenge -use 2 or more papers
The Pink Elephant # 270- anything goes
Paper Makeup challenge # 160 - favourite colour
Crafty Sentiments challenge - bingo (digi, die cut & gems)
Passion for Promarkers challenge # 267 - feminine

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week. Thank you for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x