Flowers Flowers Flowers with The Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Tonight sees the next exciting challenge at the

Emerald Faeries Garden Challenge Blog

still thrilled to be saying that..............................

but before I move on, I would like to say Thank you for all your kind "get well wishes" feeling better already :)

so back to the job at hand and the 

the fabulous theme of

Flowers Flowers Flowers

just my cup of tea, could it get any better, yep I get to play with these fabulous images :) This image is called Boo and Snookie and is available here at the Emerald Faeries Garden, home of the Emerald Faeries.

So here is my design team inspirational piece

An Easel Friendship card.  The base colour and contrast is a green pearlescent card, with some gorgeous papers from Bearly Mine called Fairyland Dreams.  The edge punch used is an MS small daisy and the dies are from Marianne Designs.  The flowers in the main are from Wild Orchid with a few from stash and the pearls are from the Hobby House.  The sentiment sits on a nestie tag.

Do pop over and take a peek at the rest of the teams gorgeous inspiration.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 500 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, and thank you to Feline for advertising my candy for me :)

Totally awesome, you guys are amazing................thank you so much :) 576 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) 

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Catch the Bug - Animal Antics

The Stamp Man - Circle It

Whimsy Inspires - punches/die cuts

Bearly Mine - Easel Does it

Woodware - Anything Goes

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your weekend

Kate

xxx

White and One Other Colour for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Now you would have thought that as I had most of last week off, that I would have posted more than I have, unfortunately I spent my week catching up on the housework and making boxes for cards :) you see I love making the cards but never actually get around to the boxes for them, so spent a good two days making boxes....................."mental note to my altered ego 'Bridget'.......must make the boxes as I go from now on.

Although with this horrid cough making boxes was the easier option, must also avoid standing near people that are coughing horridly, to avoid catching nasty bug yuk!!!!!

On another point hasn't blogger been a nightmare for commenting this week, wish he would sort his act out.

So with that off my chest (sorry could not miss that one out), not that it is a big chest at all would not want to give you that impression..... we move on swiftly to the next challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

with the fabulous theme chosen by the very talented Wendy aka the boss of

White and One Other Colour

Pop over and see who has joined us in the Design Team and go show them some love :) along with checking out the rest of the design teams inspiration, which is as always fabulous

So trying to avoid the waffling, here is my design team inspirational piece for this week

I made a friendship card with my favourite little critters.

The base colour and contrast is white, with some of those gorgeous Papermania Mono papers from the Heather range I believe (have so many of them I do forget)

The image is of course House Mouse and the layers have all been distressed and glittered up, a girl can never have enough glitter.  Marianne Dies used for foliage with the Wild Orchid flowers which have been distressed as has the image plate with Tim Holtz mulled lavender and some fabulous diamond stickles. The sentiment is a matching pair from My Sentiments Exactly.

Here is a quick close up of the image, just what a friend is for don't you think?

Don't you just love those gorgeous Violet copic colours.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 400 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, and thank Feline for advertising my candy for me.

Totally awesome, you guys are amazing................thank you so much :) 575 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) 

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

and with the assistance of Feline I would like to enter the following challenges

Totally Gorjuss - Flowers, swirls and bling

Colour Create - Lilac white grey

Paper Shelter - Animals

Crafty Boots - Zoo or Animal

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your day

Kate

xxx

Bow's and Buttons with the Stampin with the Dragon DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the new challenge at

Stampin with the Dragon

with the Theme of

Button and Bows

we are sponsored this week by the fabulous, Stamp Fairy

with a fabulous prize of $10 GIFT CERT FOR STAMP FAIRY

but before I move on I would like to thank the ladies at Bow's and Berries for my top three placement

 and

the ladies at the Crafty Purple Frog for my top three placement

so moving on to the challenge at hand, as I must go to work today :(

Here is my design team inspirational piece for this challenge

This is  a wall plaque, painted in gesso and then airbrushed with B97 copic to create a night time scene.  The sentiment is made from little cork tiles, behind this is a doily and behind the image plate some cheesecloth.  The heart MS punch creates a layer a the bottom which covers some gorgeous ribbon pearls.  Flowers are Wild Orchid and the little pearls are from the Hobby House.  The feather is from a local department store and the little clock is one from a doll's house set.  The silver butterflies are made from metal ribbon. The bow and buttons from stash.

please pop over and see the rest of the gorgeous creations from the Design Team.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 400 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, 

Totally awesome, you guys are amazing................thank you so much :) 570 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) 

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Divas by Design - buttons

Ruby's Rainbow - Cute and Cuddly

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Use it Tuesday - Metal (Metal ribbon, the husband brings me it from work and I hoard loads of it, I do share to )

Crafty Card Makers - Anything Goes

Digi Make Over - Anything but a card

Hooked on Crafts - Anything but a card

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Things with wings (metal butterflies)

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your day

Kate

xxx

Die Cut Dreams GDT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today I am thrilled to be able to tell you that I am a Guest Designer for the challenge at

Die Cut Dreams

with the theme of

A Poem as the main focus

Now I am usually an image sort of girl so this was a real challenge for me, but it is great to work outside of your box so to speak.  So here is what I created for my inspirational piece.

It is an easel card.  The easel itself has covered with a POTP square.  The base colour and contrast is a deep burgundy pearlescent card.  The papers are from a Papermania stack of mono papers.  The poem located on the good old world wide web and the inner sentiment is from My Sentiments exactly.  The ribbon from my stash, wrapped around the base of the easel and a double bow added over the top.  Another POTP square holds the sentiment.  Little pearls added to the centre of the daisies and an array of flowers from Wild Orchid and some from stash.  I used the stem's from the flowers to twirl around my tent peg and added some large pearls to the return.  The edges of the poem and sentiment have been airbrushed with W7 and if you can just see it I have used a stencil to create the little rose using a R59 for the rose and the W7 for the stem and leaves.  The whole creation has been over sprayed with crafter's companion glitter lacquer.

Please do pop over to the challenge blog to see the Design Team's wonderful creations

I would also like to say thank you to the ladies at the Allsorts Challenge blog for selecting me as one of their top 5 this week.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Card Cupids - decorative punch

I did it Creations - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Stampin Sisters in Christ - Anything Goes

Crafty Emma's - Seeing Red

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 400 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, 

Totally awesome, you guys are amazing................thank you so much :) 548 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) 

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your day

Kate

xxx

Anything Goes with Sparkle at the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

and the first of my holiday days from work, whoop whoop !!!!! 

so onto the theme this week set by the very talented Tracie of

Anything Goes with Sparkle

Thought  I would try to avoid the glitter on this one, so found some gorgeous sparkly papers, however I sort of put so much on the card that you could not see it hehehehehe :) so had to add extra glitter to the image.

awwwwwwwwwwww okay I know it is pink!!!! but thought it went so well with the burgundy.  These papers are the Me 2 You, small stack available at Grimsby Crafts, the image is Nellie Snellen also available at Grimsby Crafts.  The base layer and contrast is a silver mirror card.  I have added cheesecloth behind to soften the card and the large burgundy ribbon was crying out to be made into a bow to sit beautifully on the corner.  I added flowers distressed with spun sugar and icicles stickles, the flowers are from Wild orchid, the pearls from the Hobby House and the little snowflakes for the extra added touch.  The sentiment is from the six pack of round sentiments from Wild Rose (and yes Janet love the Wild Rose papers and obviously these stamps)

I added glitter around the image plate and sentiment as well as some on the image, here is a close up of the double burgundy bow, scrumptious. You can just see how I have over stamped the sentiment with a snowflake in the spun sugar distress ink.

Here is a close up of the image

coloured with copics with added stickles for snowflakes and liquid appliqué for falling snow.

Please don't forget to hop over and see all the other gorgeous creations by my teamies, all created especially for your inspiration.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of Layers

Sassy Studio - Think Pink

Fab N Funky - dies / punches

Scrapbook Sisters - Christmas Flowers

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling

Link up For Breast Cancer - Pink

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes and Ribbon

The Crazy Challenge - Think Pink

Cutie Pie challenge - Flower punch ribbon (bingo)

The ribbon Girl - Christmas and Ribbon

enjoy your weekend, as I just know I will, that is because I am off to post a parcel before heading off to the Hobby House for a craft shop

Hugs

Kate

xxx

The Colours of Autumn for the Winter Wonderland Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at the

Winter Wonderland

with a fabulous theme chosen by the very talented Linda of

Use the Colours of Autumn

So with very little waffle from me today, here is my design team inspirational piece

This is my little snowy, a new edition to my Penny Black stamps and a very welcome one.  I have created another extended card to allow for the POTP MS holly which is the base colour of deep brown.  This is also the contrast colour for these gorgeous Papermania Mono oranges. The sentiment is from a set of Wild Rose clear stamps available at Grimsby Crafts.  Behind the sentiment is a die cut nestie snowflake in white.  The pearls have again been airbrushed as has the sheer ribbon using an orange copic.  Little snowy has also been coloured with copics.  Isn't he adorable.   

Now don't forget to hop over and see my teamies gorgeous creations, so inspirational.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

will link up when I get home from the weekly shop, as mobile blogging is being such a pain at the moment.

PaperPlay - Autumnal Colours

Stampavie and More - Autumn Colours

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes plus Ribbon

House of Gilli - Fall / Autumn

ICopic - Fall / Autumn (colours)

Stamps R Us - Autumn / Fall (colours)

enjoy the rest of your day, I know I will as I have four days off for crafting next week

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Sam The Vamp comes out to Play from Stampin with the Dragon

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees my return to a little normality.  I have as you know taken a two month break from Stampin with the Dragon, but today I am back, although not in my full capacity but at least I am back and thrilled to be back

but before I move on I would like to thank the ladies at Inky Impressions for selecting me as one of their top three

and for the redraw at House Mouse from their blog hop as I have been selected to win

A fabulous gift from Pizazz a Plenty

thank you ladies :)

Today I get to introduce you to one of the fabulous new images just perfect for this time of year.

This is Sam the Vamp 2 and is available from the Home of the Dragons, the Dragon's Lair Designs, along with lots more fabulous pieces.

So here is what I created with this fabulous image

A spooky/eery Halloween card. The base layer is black and the contrast is bright orange and purple.  The papers are Papermania mono collection.  The image plate and surround is made with the smaller of the Grand Nesties.  The ribbon from stash and the pearls airbrushed to perfectly match.  The webbing (metal ribbon) airbrushed in black used to look like a spiders web.  A little silhouette of Sam hiding under the web at the bottom left and a hand made sentiment at the top.

Here is a close up of the sentiment and the black wire mesh ribbon, which has been stretched.

and here is the image, the background has been airbrushed in purple tones, copics have been used to colour the fabulous image and I added a little clear glitter sakuro pen to the spooky tree.

I hope you like it, do please pop over to the shop to see all the other gorgeous image, papers, and all the new decoupage sheets.

Now don't forget the current challenge at

Stampin with the Dragon

with the fabulous theme of

Fall into Colour

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafts and Me - Use a Digi

Little Darlings - Halloween

More than favours - Purple green orange and black

The Paper Shelter - Halloween

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Silhouette

Tuesday Throwdown - Halloween 

Karen's Doodles - Halloween

Charisma Cardz - Black and Orange

Crafty Ribbons - Halloween Projects

Delightful Challenges - Dimensional

Meljens Design - Halloween

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

Kate 

x

A Right Fishy Birthday Card

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Last night I finally managed to finish yet another male birthday card for another member of the family that just happens to like fishing

and on that note I just have to say how thrilled I was to be one of the lucky winners from Marianne's mega candy, which arrived on my door step today 

just look at all these cuties, please note the fishing themed one top right, think that may be one of the first I open :)

thank you Marianne xx

So here is the first fishing male card I have created, I am still colouring the other up

This is an 8 x 8 mega card, using the next to largest oval and scallop oval grand nesties.

The base colour and contrast colour is a pearlescent green. The papers from the same Making Cards magazine.  The sentiment is computer generated.  I added a ribbon down the centre with a double bow at the top and a little fish charm.  The tiny pearls are brown and from the Hobby House.

Which reminds me again to say sorry for the delay in my 500 candy but I am off on holiday next week, so I am going shopping for my candy at the Hobby House...............cannot wait :)

This is a close up of Sam and Dylan Fishing Digital Image from Make it Crafty, this is one fabulous image and great to colour, took me a good couple of nights to finish.

Well another two days left at work, so will love you and leave you for the day.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Deep Ocean - Happy Birthday

Digital Tuesday - We like to Party (Birthday Celebrations)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Cards for Men - Sports

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes with Ribbon

The Crafty Pad - One for the boys

enjoy your day

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Wedding Creation with Sugar Nellie

Hello all in the land of blog

This card was a request from Hannah, for another one of her friends who is getting married.  She is not overly girlie so tried to stay clear of the girlie colours but you know me with the embellies, could not help myself :)

I decorated the inner and the back of the front on this one, like I normally do for special cards.

The base colour and contrast is a cream pearlescent paper, with Wild Rose Wedding papers on top.  Two smaller panels at the top and one larger one at the bottom with the ribbon running behind the image to tie at the side and scroll down the side of the card.  The grand nestie circle and scallop was used the smaller of the set.  Small pearls and large pearls from the Hobby House and flowers from Wild Orchid and my stash.  Flowers distressed with Tim Holtz antique linen and stormy sky and image plate air brushed on the outer edge with E53 and around the image with B01.  The image plate was rolled in glue and then in the fine antistatic glitter and ice stickles was added to the flowers.  The sentiment on the front is from My Sentiments exactly.

The tied bow and scrolled ribbon from the Hobby House, I adore this ribbon, must go get myself some more :)

Those lovely roses from Wild Orchid

The fabulous Sugar Nellie image coloured in copics with some flower soft for her bouquet and head dress.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Anything Goes - Die cuts and punches

Bearly Mine - 3 designer backing papers

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes plus ribbon

Crafty Card Makers - Anything Goes

Heart Song Inspirations - Anything Goes

Lawnscaping - Layers and dimension

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Woodware USA - Anything Goes

Card Cupids - Anything Goes

PanPastel - New Beginnings

enjoy the rest of the day

Hugs

Kate

xxx

21st Boys Birthday Card

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

I was asked at short notice if I could create a 21st Birthday card for a male.  Oh my!!!! not my usual thing as you know it is so hard to create a card that does not contain flowers lol xx

So a while back I had purchased a Making Cards magazine for the male papers, so I had a quick flick through this got an idea and quickly produced this little number, thank  you to the ladies at Making Cards for their inspiration.

I love the colour scheme, just perfect I thought.

The image and the papers were out of the magazine, the Happy Birthday wording is black peel off's (oh I know, but I sometimes think they are so useful) The Red Letters are from my 12 x 12 alph/numberic sheet coloured with R39 and the little starts are actually bling stars, placed on upside down to match the silver mirror card base colour. Not bad for a 20 minute card.  My son says it is great and the person will love it.  Phew one male card down and two to go.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafty Card Makers - Anything Goes

The Crafty Pad - One for the Boys

One Stop Craft Challenge - Just for Men

Penny's Paper Crafting - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow - for a boy

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Well off to colour up my next image, a fabulous new one from Make it Crafty, cannot wait

Enjoy the rest of your evening

Hugs Kate xxx

400 follower candy WINNER!!!!!

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

So sorry for the delay, but I finally have geared up Mr Random, to choose my 400 follower candy winner and he selected

Congratulations, Teresa, if you would like to mail me, with your snail mail address I will get this in the post at the earliest opportunity, and get the goodies on their way to you :)

Thank you again to everyone that entered and I will be shopping shortly for my 500 follower candy

Enjoy your evening, what ever you have planned

Hugs

Kate

xxx

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge prepares for Halloween

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Firstly I would like to apologise for the lack of posts and creations from myself recently, the new job role, is very demanding and it is taking me a little while to get into the swing of it, but I am relishing the challenge.

With that in mind, the new challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 

is on, and I chose the theme this week, which is

Halloween

Here is what I created for my inspirational piece

Now the inspiration for this card totally revolved around the fabulous Tickled Pink Digital Image called " Lil Haunts Vampire Lilith" and wow is she fabulous to colour.  

The base colour and contrast on this card is black pearlescent.  The papers are freebies from assorted places around the world wide web, sorry forgot to take the page details for you all and thank you to those that created them.  I used my MS corner punch on each of the corners and the edge punch along the edge of the green panel.  The Oval die and Oval Scallop die are the smaller ones from the Grand Nesties.  The flowers are from a variety of places some Prima, Wild Orchid and a local department store.  The pearls were air brushed with copics to match.  The flowers have a little platinum stickles on them and the cheesecloth on the left has been airbrushed with the lime green and the wire ribbon has been airbrushed in the orange, thought both gave a web feel to the creation. The sentiment I created myself using my photo package and the amazing brush sets within it.

The flowers pick up the colours used on the card

A silver pumpkin charm has been coloured in purple copics

This is the close up of the wire ribbon airbrushed and shaped to look like a web.

The image has been coloured in copics with a little airbrushing for the background and the over stamping to make her look as if she is in a creepy place.  A white gel pen has been used to add extra highlights.

I love this creation and although I don't normally do Halloween, will most definitely be creating with her again.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and thank you along with all my regulars for all your lovely comments, which makes blog land such a lovely place.

I will be back later on today with the winner of my candy, and yes I know I must go shopping, as so many people have noticed that I went over the 500 mark which means "more candy to follow"

Today I would like to say thank you to 

FELINE

for choosing me as a grand prize winner on their recent fabulous blog hop

and 

thank you to Sheri's Crafts for my recent award

and now courtesy of Feline, and their fabulous work on our behalf, I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Allsorts - Flowers

Crafty Calendar - Spooky

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything Goes

Forever Night Challenges - Edgy and Dark

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes

Art Impressions Stamps - Halloween

Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of Layers

Crafty Ribbons - Pretty Spooky

Moving Along with the Times - Spooky Halloween

PaperCrafting Journey - Die cuts and punches

Stampin B's - Halloween

Crafts and Me - Flowers

Inky Impressions - Punches or Dies

Little Darlings - Halloween

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Marianne Design challenge - Bingo (charms, flowers, diecuts)

think that is me about done.  Well the sun is out and the heat is up, came out of shopping last night and thought I was in Teneriffe :)  now in the shorts and will quickly do the hoovering before running up to the Beach Hut to create a little number or two, so that after my hair appointment (new woman thing) will be able to sit on the hammock colour with my copics and get a fabulous top up on the oh so white legs :)  (don't try to imagine that as it will put you off!!!!!

hope you all have a fabulous day and weekend

Hugs 

Kate 

xx