Mother's Day Brittany 1920's

Good evening to all my friends and followers today-I hope your week is going well so far.
My first week back is going quickly thank goodness, it's always worse the first week somehow!
My card today is one I made during the holidays ready for my Mum's Mother's Day card. The image is one I won in a challenge and is by Art by Miran-I thought she was perfect for Mum!
I've cut her out on a die cut shape with a faux nestie, coloured her with Promarkers and layered her with papers from Marianne Designs. I added some punched and die cut shapes and some paper flowers and the sentiment is one of Nettys Designs -hope you like it:

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

Crafty Catz # 267 - special lady
Art by MiRan #26-anything goes
Passion for Promarkers # 285-alphabet (D for Die cut)
Tuesday Throwdown # 233-anything goes
The Paper Shelter # 192-make it digital
Crafters Cafe # 105-lots of layers
Scribble and Scrap # 38-anything goes
Inspiration Destination # 22- anything goes
Crafting from the Heart # 48- anything goes

Well, thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave. Enjoy the rest of your week and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Truffle with flowers

Hello to all my friends and followers today, I hope this finds you all well and enjoying a lovely weekend.
I had a lovely day yesterday as my sister treated me to tickets to the Elvis exhibition in London for my birthday. We had the best day together and it was wonderful to see so many things that Elvis owned. The highlight of my day was seeing the red car from Blue Hawaii, which is my favourite film. We also had lunch in Nandos and spent nearly two hours just chatting, which was lovely as we don't get to do that very often.

I have had lots of fun this week making a few cards during the holidays and have been asked to do a guest designer spot on a challenge blog so had loads of fun making a card for that too-I'll share that in a post in a few weeks.
My card today is made using a cute little image called Truffle and Flowers from Digistamp Boutique. I saw this cutie on a crafty friends blog and fell in love with him so of course had to get him!
I coloured him with my Promarkers, added glitter to the flowers and cut him out with a hexagon die. Ive used papers from a pack I bought in The Works and added some little butterflies and pearls to finish with my trusty paper flowers to finish.

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

Passion for Promarkers # 284-perfect pearls
Digi Choosday #7 - spring pastels
Fan Tastic #73 -anything goes-use a die
Papertake Weekly  - bingo (used punches, glitter, blooms)
Crafting for all Seasons # 96 -dies & punches
The Paper Shelter # 191 - animal magic
Cute Card Thursday # 361 -floral delight
4 Crafty Chicks - # 234 -things with wings
Open Minded Crafting # 30-up in the air
Digistamp Boutique -February challenge

Well thats all from me for today, thanks so much for stopping by and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Have a fab week and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Cherri Love Blossom pink

Good afternoon to all my friends and followers today I hope this post finds you all well.
I am so far having a lovely week off school, it's been so nice to have a few lie-ins and be a little bit lazier than normal.
Having said that I did 'puppy sit' for my daughters dog Evie yesterday which was quite hard work-she is such a good and adorable little thing but it's more of a worry when they are not your own. We had lots of play times (and a little nap time together too!)
I spent some time Monday making some cards and this one came about because I decided to go down my list of challenges and make a card to fit them all if I could so it kind of designed itself really!!
I decided to follow the sketch over at Sketch Saturday and chose this image which is my current favourite from Lacey Sunshine and coloured her with Promarkers. I added glitter to the flowers on the image and also on the butterfly.  I used Lili of the Valley papers from the Country Meadow pack and added some paper flowers, a die cut butterfly, some gems and a die cut corner:

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

Sketch Saturday -sketch # 348
ABC challenge -D for die cut
Come and Get It -Birthdays
Robyns Fetish # 251-square card
That Craft Place -film inspired (pretty in pink)
Glitter n Sparkle challenge # 124-gems and glitter
Corrosive challenge # 218-things with wings
Whimsie Doodles February challenge -all about the ladies
Lacey Sunshine # 52-things with wings
Digi Choosday -wk 7 -springtime pastels

Enjoy the rest of your week and thank you so much for stopping by to see me today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge 4

A very warm welcome to all my friends and followers today-I hope you are all well and have had a lovely Valentines Day.
This post is to let you all know that challenge number 4 has started over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends today - I can't believe we are up to challenge four already, where does the time go???
The challenges are always Anything Goes so why not pop on over and take a look here.
Our lovely sponsors for this challenge, who deserve huge thanks, are:

Sammi Stamps

Prize: $12 Gift Certificate

Lemon Shortbread

Prize: 3 Images of winners choice

Michele R Designs 

Prize €10 gift voucher

I was given this adorable paper called Butterflies & Hummingbirds from Michele R Designs to work with and I just love it. I decided to team it with this lovely image from Paper Makeup Stamps called Danni Fairy and coloured her with Promarkers. I decided to make a criss cross card and layered the image and the paper with silver mirri card to give it a bit of a shine. I cut out the little postcard and made a pocket for it to sit in so that it can be removed to write a message on the back. I double die cut a butterfly from patterned paper and mirri card for the front and added two paper flowers and a little ticket. The ticket and the sentiment are from the elements set and I added some gems and lots of glitter to finish it all off:

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

City Crafter # 248 -you matter
Crafty Gals # 6-anything goes
Simply Create Too # 79-anything goes
Digi Designs-lots of embellishments
Creative Moments #61- anything goes
Inspiration Destination # 20-anything goes
Creative Fingers challenge # 67- anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut -February challenge patterned paper
Sister Act challenge # 93 -anything goes

The rest of the DT have all been very busy making some beautiful cards to inspire you so why not take a minute to pop over to the Lil Patch and take a look at their gorgeous work and maybe enter a project into the challenge?

Well that's all from me for now, thank you so much for stopping by and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Until next time.

Dotty Heart

A very good evening to all my lovely friends and followers, I hope this finds you all well.
I have been having a busy time of it lately and haven't spent as much time as I would like on my crafting-there just always seems to be so much else to do. Twice the other evening I had just sat down at my table to start some crafting and then one or the other of the family wanted me for something else-I just gave up in the end!!
I'm hoping that I can find myself some time during the holidays next week but between visiting, shopping trips, dog sitting and the regular housework jobs my week is already filling up!
My card today is a little different from my  usual style and isn't something I do so often but I bought this stamp set in Hobbycraft and felt it might look nice with a more CAS style.
I stamped straight onto some Lili of the Valley papers and cut out the heart then decoupaged the ribbon with plain white card. I layered the image on a scalloped circle with a faux nestie and then layered it with the same paper and all I added was a little pink button. As I said, not my usual style but I think I'm quite pleased with how it turned out:

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

Melonheadz -love/hearts
Dream Valley # 99-valentines day
Just Inspirational February challenge-love
One Stitch at a Time # 230-anything goes with love
Glitter N Sparkle # 123-love is in the air
Robyns Fetish # 250-valentines
Come and get it - love is in the air
Digi Choosday - love is in the air
The Pink Elephant # 285- be my valentine

Well thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Enjoy the rest of your week and until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

Melody Fairy

Hello all, I hope this finds you all well and having had a lovely weekend.
I have had the best time, we went up to London yesterday to see Mamma Mia, I'm a huge fan of the film and have been wanting to go for ages. We had a lovely day, visited Covent Garden and then had dinner after the show and it was just fab, and have been singing all the songs in my head all day!! If you get the chance to go I highly recommend it.
I am sharing a card today that I made using a lovely Paper Makeup image. I wanted to keep her with a 'soft' feel so decided on a mint green shade with lots of white and coloured her with Promarkers. The papers are Papermania Eau de Nil and I die cut a white heart and a leafy shape and added some mint pearls and lots of glitter to her wings:

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

Creative Card Crew # 80 -glitter
Crafts Galore Encore -digi/stamp
Addicted to Stamps # 97-lots of layers
Dies R Us challenge # 19-hearts
Crafty Sentiments -use a heart
Moving along with the Times -pastels
4 Crafty Chicks # 232-hand coloured image
Open Minded Crafting # 29-no pink or red

Well that's all from me for today, I am off to have my dinner in a minute and then do all the normal Sunday jobs to get ready for tomorrow!
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

Party Time Tuesdays new challenge begins

Hello to all my friends and followers today, hope you are all well.
This post is to let you know that there is a new challenge beginning today over at Party Time Tuesdays. The theme is always Anything Goes and our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Crafters Companion.

As it's not far till Valentines Day, I decided to make a little gift box instead of  a card and thought it would make a cute present filled with some sweets.
I used a Sizzix die to cut the box shape from some Forever Friends Love papers and coloured a cute Wee Stamps image with Promarkers and then cut out the image with a scalloped circle die. I added lots of glitter glue to the heart and added some punched butterflies and flowers. On the sides I added some die cut shapes and pearls:

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments # 124- love/valentine
Little Miss Muffet # 103 -all you need is love
CRAFT # 296 -valentines/love
Simply Create Too # 78 - valentines/hearts
Butterfly challenge # 23-V for Valentine
Fun with Shapes # 175- valentine
Natalie and Amy # 29- all about the love
Challenge up your Life # 7- box
Love to Scrap challenge # 47- love is in the air

The rest of my team mates have made some gorgeous projects to inspire you so why not take a peek at their lovely creations and maybe enter the challenge while you're there?

Thank you so much for stopping by today and for any comments you may wish to leave-they really do mean so much to me.
Until next time.
Aloha
Andree x