Blue Card....

Here is a blue card I've made for the Artygirlz challenge.... which this week is to make something mostly "blue".
I've used my favourite "Majestic Keepsake" board for this one and this card is made in "book" style.
I hope you like it !

I've Gone Crackers.....!

The theme for the "Tag You're It" challenge this week is to make an unusual shaped tag. I have made a cracker shaped one to hang on a bottle.

.....Hope you like !

Dans Ma maison il y a.....

Here is my house for "Dans ma Maison il y a..." which this week is "an angel".
I hope you like it !

Awards !

I have been overwhelmed with three lovely awards...thank you so much x
I was given the blogging buddies award by the lovely Dawn ...thanks hon...and I am passing it on to Faye...Trudie...Hermine...Heather...and Carole  Thanks for your friendship guys x
Please pass on your awards to 5 other buddies x
I was given the Stempel Award by Beryl who as you know makes the most beautiful cards. Thank you so much Beryl....what a wonderful surprise. I am in turn awarding it to five people who inspire me when I visit their blogs. Thank you also for coming to visit me.  I would like to give it to Rosie...Dawn...Hilda ...Sandy... and Char ...Love you  guys !
Please pass on this award to 5 people who brighten your day x
The Wylde Women award was very kindly given to me by Cynthia ...who you all know as "Rainbow Lady" This award can be passed on to one person...or a hundred ....and is for being generous (for instance with your ideas or time) towards other crafters. Thank you so much Cynthia. I would like to give this award to you all ....
....but I will award it to Annette....Voodoo Vixen... because she has encouraged me from the early days of my blog with her lovely comments and her witty remarks.
Annette...Please put a link to Tammy Vitale so that she can come and visit your wonderful blog and you hers x
Tammy Vitale initiated this award to thank other women for their inspiration,love and support. Please visit her blog for a mind blowing experience. You should be able to get there by clicking on...."women, Art, Life, Weaving It All Together" which is in "my favs" I'm sorry I don't know how to put a link on here.
Footnote...(I have been trying to work out how to do a link since Monday and will keep trying.....)

Exotic Birds

Here are my "exotic birds" for the "Layers of Colour" challenge this week.
It's taken a while to dry as I've put two coats of pva glue over it as it looked a bit stark.
Hope you like it !

Flowers

The "Theme Thursday" challenge today is "Flowers" so here is my piece for this challenge.
I chalked the dress to match the flower so I hope you think it worked !

Christmas Tag Card

Rainbow Lady has challenged us to make christmas tags this week.
I have made a Christmas "Tag" Card and also two tags.
I shaped the top of an ordinary card with large scallop scissors to make the tag card and used Brenda Pinnick papers,chipboard and ribbon.
I hope you like what I've done...I certainly enjoyed making them !

"Circle of Love"

We celebrated our wedding anniversary last Saturday so it seemed nice to commemorate it with a poem in a little church.
I would like to add this to my other piece for the challenge on "Dans Ma Maison il y a ..."
Hope you like it !

(Pease click pic to enlarge )

Layers of Colour....Lavender

I finally got to do the "Layers of Colour" challenge which this week is "Lavender"
I cut some sprigs of lavender from my own garden for this one so I hope it drys out OK so that I can keep the piece !
I think you can guess how the rest was done ... (I used my fav pearlised water colours again)
I hope you can manage to "take time" to enjoy the flowers and the lovely weather we are having at the moment.

Rose Cottage 2

Here is my "house" for "Dans Ma Maison il y a..." which this week is "poem"
I am a bit late as I forgot how long it takes for fabric paint to dry so I had to leave it over the weekend.
I used cocktail sticks for the thatch ...but you already guessed that I expect....!
Hope you like it !

Fairy Tag

OK.....It's safe to take your sunglasses off now! No more Orange....I promise...Lol !
Here is a fairy tag for the "Tag You're It" challenge (fairies )

I haven't got any fairy stamps or pics so I did what I could with what I've got.
It was nice to join in this challenge as I like doing pink girly stuff !

Thanks for looking and hope you like it.....!

ATC...Orange !!!!

I am a bit late with my challenge pieces this week as I've been away for the weekend. (It was glorious weather and soooo relaxing ...!)

Here is an ATC I've done for "Rainbow Lady's" challenge which is Monotone... If you want to do any stamping you can only use black.
The idea is to go through all the colours of the rainbow and eventually end up with a little book. I really like this idea but I found this a huge challenge and this is my third attempt! (My house looks like it's been "tangoed" ...Lol ...and there's no denying this ATC is certainly orange ...!)

I hope this simple ATC will be OK....!

"Hearts" Card

Here is a card I've made for a special wedding anniversary. I haven't put any words on it yet as I don't want to give away who it is for !!!
I thought I would put it forward for this weeks challenge on "Theme Thursday" which is "Hearts"
It was made using the "bookatrix" and the "tall story" keepsake boards. I extended the size of the base card and scalloped the outer edges so I could marry up the two boards.....I hope you like this one !

4x4...." How Does Your Garden Grow ? "

The SBS 18 challenge this week suggests we get out our favourite floral and garden stamps...so I have had a good time making this 4x4 !
I stamped with Stazon and used pearlised watercolours.
I hope you like it !

Tri-Card With Envelope !

Here is another triple card ...made this time for the "Created By Hand" challenge which is "envelopes"
I must say that making this took me back to when I first started making cards and I used to put a little card and envelope on the front of nearly everything !
I have used peel offs on the front so that I can also enter it in the DCM challenge.(which is to make something which uses peel offs )
Hope you like this new card !

The Eiffel Tower...

This weeks challenge for
"Dans Ma Maison Il y a...."
is the Eiffel Tower.
Here is my house
...and a bit of oo-la-la...!
Hope you like it !

BTW....I forgot to mention that I made the arched "window" to copy the shape of the base of the Eiffel Tower and put the word Paris in there because I figured that's what you'd see !

Tag....

This is a tag I've made for the "Tag You're It" challenge. I hope you can manage to stand on your head and read the poem !
The Challenge was to use cream, red and brown colours. Mine looks a bit pink in the pic but I think that is because I sandpapered the life out of it to make it look old !
Hope you like it anyway....!

Another Oriental Card

I seem to be into making cards at the moment so here is another oriental one. I have entered this in "Rainbow Ladys" Challenge this week which is "Oriental"
The circle top right holds the corner to keep the card closed (if that makes sense!)
Once again...I hope you like it !

My Love....

I have done a 4x4 for a change. I hope you like it.
I've entered it in this weeks Theme Thursday Challenge
which is "Love,Romance and Weddings"

Pastel Card

Here is another layered card but without the need to weight the base card as the bottom of all of them are lined up.
I made this for the "Pastel" challenge on "Created By Hand"
(The fronts of the cards were stamped with versamark and embossed in white)
Hope you like it!

Oriental Card

Here is an oriental card I have made following the sketch for the Arty Girlz challenge. It is three cards in one and they all open (the top two cards are tied together).
Sorry its not a very good pic as the gold card kept flaring, so this is the best of a bad bunch I'm afraid !
Anyway...I really enjoyed making it so I hope you enjoy it too!

Brother and Sister

Heres a piece I made for the TGIF challenge.
The theme this week is "Brothers and Sisters"
I have made the background using the cuttlebug but I have used the debossed side and filled the pattern in with gold gel. I have used the same gold to do the dotty border on the bottom. The photo has been inked, then gessoed and the edges were burned using the lemon method. ( Lisa Vollrath's blog gives details)

"Rose" Cottage !

Here is my house for "Dans ma maison il y a..."
This week the theme is "Pink"
The crackled background stamping is from the "Artefacts" cube by Judikins.
Hope you like it !

Pic From the Weekend ...

Here is a pic of what I made over the weekend. I thought I would make something different to hang on my books.
By the way...if you want to make your own jump rings (for jewellery or card making) it is really easy....you wind some wire quite closely round a pen until you have about an inch or two...then slide it off the pen and it should look a bit like a coiled spring. Take some wire snips and cut through the top part of the "spring" and hey presto...you end up with a pile of jump rings !

What a Weekend .....!

We've been down to the caravan and we fully intended to make a start on the wonderful(?) garden we have planned for outside but it has been absolutely foul weather so we sat in the caravan listening to the wind howling, the sea roaring and the rain doing taps on the roof ! Still, it didnt matter too much with it being so cosy inside the van.
We left in torrential rain, after waiting a couple of hours hoping it would stop, so it was pretty hairy driving back...especially when we ended up in what seemed like miles of flood water. The police were there, thank goodness, and it was reassuring to hear a young one say "just take it nice and gently and you'll be OK" My DH is my hero today because I dont mind admitting that I was having kittens, but he drove us through it all as calm as you like.
The weekend hasnt been a complete washout though (!) as I just happened to have about my person a few jewellery making items so I have been playing with something different. I will post some pics tomorrow...I hope you've all had a crafty weekend.

4th of July

Good wishes to all American crafters today...the 4th of July.
Here is my tag to commemorate this day. I hope you can read the poem on it (please click pic to make it larger )
It is entered in the "Tag You're It!" challenge(4th of July) and also the "Layers of Colour" challenge(flags)
I didn't have any matching ribbon so my rosette is made from the card and paper that the tag is made from.

Favourite Flower

This week Rainbow Lady has asked us what our favourite flower is. Mine is the rose.
Here is a card and a book, and I would like to enter them for this challenge.

Wings....

This week Theme Thursday is "Wings"
Here is my effort for the challenge !
I hope you like it!

The background daisy stamp is on the Judi-kins "Carols Cube"
and the piece is 4x4.

How Lovely...

Beryl gave me an award last night .....isn't that nice of her ?
I have to nominate 7 People to pass the award on to so here is my list of favourite people whose blogs I visit regularly for inspiration and to brighten my day...
Annette,Rosie,Cynthia,Stemplechaotin,Vintage Wil,Helen and Lisa

I believe we all have to show the award icon on our blogs and I have to put links to your blog on mine and vice versa.
Everyone has to nominate 7 people of their choice to give the award to.
I hope you will all be pleased and know what to do as I havent got a clue...but Beryl is helping me out. (Thanks Beryl )
Happy Crafting everyone !

Just Wondering ....?

I've been tidying up and was wondering what I can do with the challenge pieces I've done so far ( put them in the bin probably...lol ) I haven't seen any ideas anywhere on the blogs I've visited up to now and the only thing I can come up with is a box under the bed !
I've just been having a chuckle to myself because now the challenges have generated a challenge all of their own !