Madcap Manor

  The Challenge will last until 11th January 2022.   Hiya, all! Christmas seems to be coming faster and faster now! It's the last challenge of the year at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge.   I have used items from 'Oh Santa!', the November 2021 card kit by Love from Lizi. Unfortunately the kit has sold out but check out the Christmas goodies in Lizi's shop! Everything came from the kit, including the cute Santa image and the pretty ribbon bow. I used an old sketch from Mojo Monday: the challenge blog has closed, but Julee now has a sketch challenge on her blog, Poetic Artistry.   Check out my teamies work and enjoy your Christmas crafting!  Stay safe and well and - merry Christmas!  Thanks for looking! love Mags B x

Hi, guys! I hope your weekend is going well. I have the excitement of changing the sheets to look forward to: it's not easy stuffing a duvet into its cover when both are longer than you are tall!!!!! In the meantime, here is my card for the new Challenge at My Time to Craft which has the theme Oriental . Go and see the amazing work done by my teamies if you need some inspiration, they have excelled themselves! :) The lady flirting with her fan is from an old Woodware set by Francoise Read, Oriental Ladies , and the butterfly embellishment and the sentiment are from the same set. The papers are from an old Dovecraft paper pack, 'Eastern Promise.' I used a Martha Stewart doily Lace punch, and a Fiskars Scalloped Sentiment punch to make the scallops. The butterfly has been stamed 3 times and all layered together to look like chipboard, and then covered with Glossy Accents. The ribbon is cut from a pair of pink pyjamas lol!!! I am entering a Challenge! Mojo Monday ...

Hi, guys! I hope you're all having a good weekend! I am getting back into what my Mum called 'the rhythm of things' - a more elegant phrase than 'back to the old routine' though that's what she meant! Just before Christmas my daughter announced that she was leaving Waterstone's bookshop, where she'd worked for 4 years, at the end of December. As you can imagine, that was a bit worrying! But she immediately got online and within a week she had a new job! It's office work, with office hours and every weekend off! So of course I had to make her a card! This hard-working mouse is by The Greeting Farm, he was the first of their stamps I bought, about 3 years ago. He's coloured in Speccies (list below.) The papers are all Snippets, mostly Nitwits but the blue strip is Pink Petticoat. The Spellbinders corner (from the Parisian Accents set) uses a snippet of pearlised card. The lilac jute ribbon and the spotted ribbon are from stash. I added a ...

My hubby was late home tonight so I've had a nice evening in the craft hovel and this is the result! The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is 'The Young Ones' ie a card for a child. This hedgie sitting on a parcel is an acrylic stamp from the 'Party Time' set. I love Margaret Sherry's animals, they are so perfect for children's cards! The sketch is from Mojo Monday isn't it nice? I used papers from a Daisy and Dandelion pad called 'Some bunny loves you' and also embossed some of the blue matting card with a papermania folder (which I've left upstairs and I'm too lazy to go and find it but I'll add the name later. Actually, there's no name, but it's a Triboss chequerboard with hearts.) I smeared a bit of stickles on the embossed hearts though mostly they're covered by the image! Ribbon and round stickers are from stash. The number is a T!m Holtz grungeboard jobbie, coloured with Broken China Distress Ink and then Glossy Acce...

My friend Julia's twin girls have just turned 24! I made them each a card, using this week's Mojo Monday sketch. This one is for Clare: The image is one of the Tickled Pink Fashionette stamps (their site is down for maintenance so I can't link directly!) The papers were free with a magazine, they have a lovely vintage feel. The sentiment was also a freebie! The nestie shape is embossed with little hearts, and distressed with Shabby Shutters, and stickled. I used Martha Stewart's doily lace border punch, a Magnolia Doohickey die for the leaf stems, and an EK Success Retro punch for the flowers, which I coloured to match the ones on the bp, then slathered with Glossy Accents. The round stickers are Paperchase (so useful!) This one is for Sarah: Except for using Basic Grey 'Origins' papers, slightly different colours and a different TP image, this card is identical! I embossed the nestie shape and swiped a Shabby Shutters ink pad across it, instead of distressin...

The theme at the Pollycraft Monday Challenge is 'pastel colours' which seemed ideal for a spring-time card. The image is a Pollycraft digistamp. The papers are MME 'Bloom and Grow.' The sketch is from Mojo Monday - I like sketches that show off pretty papers and this one is perfect for that! The lace is backed by a shimmery organza ribbon, to give more definition, and irl it sparkles when the light catches it, but the bow is the lace au naturel. 'Lace and pearls' is the theme for The Corrosive Challenge It's another grey, dank day today. Thank goodness we can make cards in pretty colours to cheer us up! Thanks for looking! luv, Mags x Promarkers: Vanilla, Honeycomb, Satin, Pastel Pink; Canary, Henna; Mint Green, Pear Green, Pastel Green, Buttercup. Nesties and Woodware Daisy Punch