Sketchie Challenge at Papertake Weekly

Evening all!

Today's my last GDT card for Papertake Weekly! Thanks ladies for having me, I really enjoyed being part of the team :)

This week there's a 

Sketchie Free For All

So you can pick this week's sketch

 or any of Papertake Weekly's sketches from their archive.

I chose to use Sketch #68 from the archive.

The sponsor this time is the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp store, 

who are providing a massive $25 voucher for the lucky winner!

I was asked for a card for a soccer-mad girl's 21st birthday, so this is what I made :)

Ingredients

Mo's Digital Pencil Bethany

LOTV Grungy Sentiment

Computer generated sentiments

Papers from stash

Ribbon from stash

Pink gems from Ribbon Girl

Stickles and Glossy Accents

It's not very clear but the LOTV sentiment is heat embossed with silver embossing powder

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Challenges - Colour Inspiration

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Spots and Stripes

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Mo's Digital Challenge - Lots of Layers

Ribbon Girl Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin for the Weekend - Birthday

Crafty Little Fairies - Sport

Thanks for looking :)

Tanya xx

Papertake weekly - New Stash

Hi Everyone!

This week's challenge over at Papertake Weekly is

New Year, New Stash

We just want you to use something new that you may have got for Christmas, or to use something in your stash that you haven't ever used before.

The sponsor this week is

Whiff of Joy

and this week’s up for grabs prize is ...

I sew adore you - Henry Mouse

So here's what I made :)

I usually use the same image for every new home card I make haha, but this card was for someone who's actually already had a new home card from me in the past, so I had to change things up! I treated myself to this adorable digi from Tiddly Inks :)

Ingredients

Home Sweet Home by Tiddly Inks

Key charm, ribbon and pink Liquid Pearls from Ribbon Girl

Sentiment by Lili of the Valley

Coloured with Copics

Stickles

Papers from Me to You pack from last year

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Something New

As You Like It - Favourite Colour (pink, I'm a girly girl and love it)

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - Use Ribbon

Tiddly Inks - CAS

Stamping Sensations - Ribbons/Buttons/Bow

Inky Chicks - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Tags xx

Papertake Weekly GDT - Anything Goes/Something New

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year, and best wishes for 2014 :) 

Papertake Weekly is back in action after the Christmas break, and this week the theme is 

Anything Goes

with the OPTIONAL EXTRA of celebrating something new.

This is sponsored by the wonderful 

who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 gift voucher to their beautiful store :)

I made a new baby card for a girl :)

Ingredients

Image and Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder

Embossilicious Lattice embossing folder

MS doily border punch

Ribbon and lace from Ribbon Girl

Shabby pink frantage powder

Gem from WOC

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Stickles, Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley Challenge - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Something New

Crafty Little Fairies - Starting Over

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New

As You Like It challenge - Favourite colour (pink - I have more pink embellishments, ribbons, flowers etc than any other colour so it's always the first colour i reach for when crafting)

Oldie But a Goodie - new beginnings

Stamping Sensations - Ribbons/Buttons/Bows

Totally Gorjuss - Ribbon

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

White wedding card

Hi everyone :) 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! :D :D

This week over at Papertake Weekly there's a Pick of the Year challenge - you can choose ANY challenge theme from during the year and make a card to go with that :)

Please don't use the same card though me darlins, it has to be a new one!!

The challenge will close at 8am on January 7th so you have 2 weeks cos we are having a Papertake week off  :)

We are sponsored by the lovely peeps across the pond at Simon Says Stamp so we have a fabulous $20 voucher to give away !!

Woo Hoo !! :-)

I chose the theme from August - Occasionally :) 

I made a wedding card for a friend, and here it is :)

The groom is big into music so it had to include something to do with music on it.

Ingredients

LOTV I Do

Embossilicious Petit Dots and Spellbinders Music embossing folders

LOTV Simply Sophisticated sentiment in silver embossing 

Pink gems and lace from Ribbon Girl

Coloured with Copics and Promarkers

Ribbon from stash

MS border punch

Stickles

I'm going to bed now but I'll add my list of challenges to add it to in the morning :)

Sweet dreams and have a lovely christmas :)

Tags xx

Jingle Bells

Evening everyone! I'm a couple of days late with my GDT card for Papertake Weekly, oopsie! I was travelling home from holidays all day Tuesday and Wednesday so didn't get a chance to post. I'm sooo tired now and my body clock is all over the place haha! Just so glad that airports and luggage and buses and all that jazz is done with, but I am rather missing the Florida weather I must say :P 

So for everyone who's been asking, here's a picture of my ring :) I love it so much haha :)

Anyway, back to crafty business, over at Papertake Weekly this week, the theme is

Last Christmas….Card of the Year!

So any festive/Christmas card please :)

Our sponsor this time is the wonderful

Ribbon Girl

who are providing our very lucky winner with the fabulous prize of 

to spend on beautiful goodies from their store :)

So here's what I made!

Ingredients

Meljen's Designs Prancer image

LOTV Grungy Christmas sentiment

Bo Bunny papers

Memory Box Precious Stars

Gold Pearls, ribbon and red lace from Ribbon Girl

Gold embossing powder, gold Stickles, Stickles

Coloured with PMs and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

As You Like It - Fave Christmas Stamp (I have lots of favourite Christmas stamps, I love this one for kiddie cards and fun cards - he has attitude!)

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - Ribbons and Pearls

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Party Time

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Last minute Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bling it on

Stampin for the weekend - use some red

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Something Old (papers are from last year)

Thanks for looking :)

Tanya xx

Snow Cute

Morning all

I'm in sunny Florida right now, weather's beautiful and I'm a happy camper!! 

It's been a rollercoaster of a week! Literally and figuratively. I've gone on some CRAZY rides in Universal Studios, I literally thought I was going to die on the Hulk rollercoaster. No joke. 

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is just…indescribable. It is the most magical place on earth, and I never want to leave here haha, just wow! 

And to top the wonderful time we spent in The Wizarding World, my boyfriend got down on one knee outside of Hogwarts Castle, and asked me to marry him…Needless to say, I SAID YES!!! :D 

We're both massive Harry Potter fans, and it was a Very Harry Potter Proposal haha, he presented me with this:

For any non-Harry fans, this is a Snitch. It is a huge part of the Harry Potter story, and very symbolic, and it's just the most amazing way to be proposed to ever. I cried like a baby. It was just before closing time in the park, so it was very quiet, just the two of us… so romantic :) i couldn't have asked for a more perfect proposal! 

We went ring shopping the following day, I chose a beautiful white gold ring with three stones, it had to be resized though so I don't actually have it just yet, when it's on my hand I'll put up a picture ^_^ I'm the happiest girl on the planet right now :) And the luckiest one! 

Anyway onto crafty matters. 

Yesterday (yes I'm a day late, sowwy!) the Papertake Weekly challenge for this week opened, and here's the info for this week's challenge :)

The theme this time is

Christmas Creatures

and quite simply we just want you to include a creature on your Christmas card or project :)

We are so pleased to welcome Whiff of Joy

and this week’s up for grabs prize is AWESOME cos we have not one but 2 of the new digi images for you.

So this is what I made :) Hope you like it!

Ingredients

LOTV Snow Cute

LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiments

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia

Me to You papers 

Hobby House Self Adhesive Pearls

Hobby House Pearl Brad

Pink ribbon and button from stash

Pink baker's twine from Ribbon Girl

Glossy Accents, Glamour Dust, Stickles

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

Card Makin Mamas - Christmas/New Year

Ribbon Girls - Ho Ho Ho Christmas Challenge

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Ribbon

Pile it on - P is for… (penguin, pink, pearls, poinsettia)

Passion for Promarkers - Include a sentiment

Partytime Tuesdays - Winter Wonderland

Incy Wincy Challenge - Let it snow

My Mum's Craft Shop - Winter Wonderland

Deep Ocean Challenge - Santa is coming

Thanks for looking, and head on over to Papertake Weekly to see the inspiration and enter your own projects :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Clean and Simple

Morning all!

I'm a day late with my Papertake Weekly GDT card this week, because I was on an aeroplane all day yesterday - I'm writing this post from sunny Florida! :D :D I'm in Orlando with my wonderful boyfie :) Two weeks of sunshine, I'm so excited :D We're having a chill out day today to prepare for the madness of Universal Studios tomorrow, eeeee :D 

Anyway, back to challenges, the theme at PTW this time is

Anything Goes

theme with the optional extra 

to do a clean and simple (CAS) or less is more card.

But remember this is only an option and if you don’t want to use this theme then you don’t have to. The main thing is to let loose your creative stuff and make a card that pleases YOU :)

The sponsor this time is the wonderful 

Lili of The Valley

who are providing our lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their beautimous store :)

So here's what I made, I went for very clean and simple :)

My lovely neighbour who always orders lots of cards off me asked for a load of simple Christmas cards, so this is one of those :)

Ingredients

LOTV Simply Sentimental sentiment

Memory Box Snowflake Die

Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

Gems

Glitter paper

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Deep Ocean Challenge - Santa is coming

Totally Papercrafts - Ho ho holidays

Totally Gorjuss - Snow's the way to go

Ribbon Girls Challenge - ho ho ho christmas challenge

Stampin for the weekend - feeling festive

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Winter/Christmas

Divas By Design - Feeling Festive

Thanks for looking, and head over to Papertake Weekly for some fabulous inspiration from the DT :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly Sketchie Sketch :)

Evening all

Today over at Papertake Weekly,  we have a fab new sketch for you to follow, and here it is….

It's a Sketchie Free For All - which means you can choose any of the Papertake Weekly sketches, which can be found on the blog :) 

The sponsor is the loverly Simon Says Stamp, who I'm about to make a massive order with, and spend all my money…so I wish I could enter to win this prize hehe ;) 

The prize is a $20 voucher to spend in their fabulous store :)

So here's what I made, hope you like :)

Ingredients

Meljen's Designs Bitty Christmas Tree Bears

Bo Bunny papers (I think)

Memory Box Precious Stars

Ribbon from stash

Charm and red lace from Ribbon Girl

Pearl and pearl brad from The Hobby House

Fluffy Stuff, Stickles

Coloured with Promarkers

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Add a Bow

Totally Gorjuss - Child's Christmas

Crafty Little Fairies - Lace and Pearls

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Favourite Colour Combo (red and green for Christmas!)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Countdown to Christmas

Stampin for the Weekend - Feeling Festive

Thanks for looking, and head on over to Papertake Weekly to look at the fabulous inspiration from the lovely DT ladies :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly - Thanksgiving

Evening everyone,

I meant to have this up earlier but somehow it got left in drafts. Today over at Papertake Weekly, the challenge theme this time is 

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is 28th November so a card or project for that this week please or you can just make something that says 'thank you'.

The sponsor this time is the wonderful ladies over at

The Ribbon Girl

who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their amazing store :)

So here's what I made. My niece just had a lovely week recently at a horse-riding camp, and asked for a thank you card to give them, so I made this. I kept it super-simple!

Ingredients

LOTV Me and My Pony

Coloured with Promarkers

LOTV Simply Sophisticated Sentiment

Satin Ribbon and pearl from Ribbon Girl

Stickles and Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanksgiving/Thanks

Totally Papercrafts - Clean and Simple

Pile It On - With Thanks

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Autumn Colours

I Love Promarkers - Red and Green

Dream Valley Challenge - Clean and Simple

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Favourite Colour Combo (red and green is one of my favourites especially at this time of year!)

Crafty Little Fairies - Top of the Pops (America - Horse with no name)

Thanks for looking, and do head over to Papertake Weekly and look at all the fabulous inspiration from those wonderful ladies over there :)

Tanya xx

Papertake Weekly GD card - Snow and Ice

Hi everyone :)

I'm Guesting Designing for Papertake Weekly for the next three months! I'm so excited about that, there is so much talent on their Design Team, so it was a complete surprise that they're letting me anywhere near that hahaha! 

So onto this week's challenge and our theme is

Snow & Ice

and quite simply we just want you to use  blue or 'cold' colours on your card or project or you could also include snow / ice somewhere. Or both :)

Whiff of Joy are sponsoring the challenge, and providing a fabulously festive rubber stamp for the winner, check it out on the Papertake Weekly posting :)

Here's what I made, for a Christmas card order that I received from a friend :)

Ingredients

LOTV Snow Family

LOTV Frosty Christmas Papers

LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiment (looks black from this pic, but is actually silver and heat-embossed!)

Memory Box Snowflake Die

Hobby House Pearl Brad

Pearl/Diamante Embellishment from WOC

Ribbon and pom pom trim from Ribbon Girl

Glossy Accents, Red Liquid Pearls, Glamour Dust, Stickles, Fluffy Stuff, Silver Embossing Powder

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Pumice Stone Distress Ink around the image, stamped with memento tuxedo black

Closeup of the shiny :D

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Winter Blues

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

Crafty Little Fairies - Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Winter

I Love Promarkers - All that glitters

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Got Ink?

Ribbon Girl Challenge - Add Sparkle…LOTV

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Christmas Is Coming

Thanks for looking, and do pop over to Papertake Weekly to look at the fantastic creations the Design Team have come up with, as always they're beautiful!

Tags xx