Wow - I won a challenge at incy wincy designs and a blog award from Gemma

Hiya Everyone!

I have had an absolutely fab weekend. It was my friend Carolines' birthday so a large group of us went to the casino for a 3 course meal package which included £10 of chips each although we bought £10 extra too. Anyway, we decided to play roulette and we ended up playing for about 2 hours and winning £70. Not bad considering we had £30 of chips to start with and it was only a bit of fun! It was really special as it's the first time me and my hubby have been out since Tayla was born. We only got home at about 1am which was late considering I was expecting to be home for 11.30pm - at least my mum and dad were ok with it!

I got home this evening and find that I have been given a blog award by Gemma at Gems little creations and that I won a challenge at incy wincy designs so I have won 7 bugaboo digi stamps!

Maybe I should go out more often Lol!

Thanks ever so much for thinking of me and I accept it with honour :o)

This special award, which is aimed at bringing unknown good blogs to light and in accepting the award I have had to agree to the following conditions;

1) You have been tagged, do you want to accept? YES! then create a post on your blog and post the love blog photo.
2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.
3) Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.


As the aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light, please don't tag somebody with 3000 followers.

It was very difficult to decide who to give this award to but I've decided to choose these very special people in no particular order:-

1. Sarah at clarabellecrafts
2. Teresa at Craftingallday creations
3. Meesh at Meesh's House of cards
4. Elaine at Craft my life
5. Rachel at Crichley Creations

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula.x

Pink petticoat new baby card!

Hiya Everyone!

I've got a new baby card that I made today to share with you that I have made from my new Pink Petticoat stuff that I won. I have used the baby giraffe image and the doodle dots papers in the colour blossom. I made it for a friend and used a sketch by sweet sketch wednesday. I coloured parts of the image in with my baby pink promarker and paper pieced the bow. I used my sizzix oval scallop die as I haven't got any oval nesties yet. I went around the edges of the papers with some spun sugar distress ink and I have added a bit of white ribbon and some light pink diamantes. The buttons have white paper thread attached to them. I was going to add some flowers but I just don't think it needed them so I didn't bother. I did the sentiment on the computer - font is Bearz.

I hope you like it - thanks for looking!!!

I will enter it into the following challenges:-

Fuzzy wuzzy challenge - Animal anything goes
Tellens place - Dots
Stamps R us - Animals
Craft your passion - 2 patterned papers
Everybody art - My favourite thing (my daughter)
Sweet sketch - Sketch
Sisterhood of crafters - Anything goes
Simon says stamp - Animal antics
Scrapbook sisters - Add a little friend
Pennys challenges - Anything goes
Fab n funky - Use a digi
Creative craft world - Cute and cuddly
Belli challenge - P for pink
Crafts and me - Monochrome
Paperplay - Layer it up
Do you stack up? - Patterned papers
Crafty sentiments - My favorite things (my daughter)

Paula.x

New Summer Driggs Free kit out today!!!

Hiya Everyone,

I've had a lazy couple of days as I've been at my mums overnight with Tayla to give my hubby a break and (hopefully) a night of uninterupted sleep so I haven't a new card to share with you. I did just notice that Summer Driggs has brought out a fab new kit out called "Dance with me" - it's fab!!! Lots of reds, greys and black. There's some fab lovey sentiments/toppers too - ideal for valentines day! I cannot wait for her to bring out a new kit (usually every 4-8 weeks or so) and was dead excited when I saw this one which I downloaded immediately! Go check out her great blog and other fab kits here.

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Post pals - send a card to a sick child

Hiya Everyone,

A friend reminded me about this charity recently and I just thought I would share the information just in case you weren't aware of it. Basically, you send a child of your choice that you pick on the site a letter or card which is great as us crafters usually have spare one (or ten) knocking about all the time! I have found a few cards suitable for children that I intend to send out.

Some of these children are sick and will eventually get better but some are terminally ill. Receiving something through the post is a nice way to put a smile on a childs face. If, like me you have something to give, spare a thought for a poorly child and click on the link below.

There's no money involved, just a card and a few kind words.

POST PALS

Thanks for looking!!!

LOTV White Vintage Wedding card

Hiya everyone!

I thought I'd try something a little bit different with my new LOTV stamp "I do" available here. I coloured the image with my promarkers and went around the edges of my nestie with stickles frosted lace glitter glue. I haven't used any papers at all as the whole card is made from white linen card. I have used my textile embossing folder and my new Martha Stewart eyelet lace punch. I inked all the edges in Tim Holtz antique linen distress ink.

The fab sentiment ticket is a new digi download from the Crafty Pad Stamp Designs (here)- there are loads of designs and are only 50p each! The flowers and pearl spray are from Wild orchid crafts and the pearl heart things were from the works. The bits around the edges are vintage letters and postcards which I got from google images and just printed out.

I will enter this into the following challenges:-

Bunny Zoe's crafts - Love is in the air
Magical monday - Flowers
Woodware USA - Anything goes
Let's ink it up - Anything goes (not a digi)
Stamping sister in Christ - Vintage
Catch the bug - Mainly Whites
Craft your days away - Love
Crafty calendar - New beginnings
Ellephantastic challenges - New beginnings
A gem of a challenge - Pearls and lace (pearl spray/hearts and eyelet lace punch)
Really reasonable ribbon - Hearts (and ribbon, obviously Lol!)
Phindy's place - Lace and pearls
Raise the bar - N.E.W (nestie/embellishment/white
Simply create - Use your punches (MS eyelet lace punch)
The Stamp Man - Distressing
Stamp something - Cute somethings
Totally papercrafts - Add a heart
Ai factory - Anything goes
Crafty purple frog - Distressing
Crafty sentiments - Vintage
Hodge podge - White on white
Paper crafting journey - Wedding, lace and pearls
Stamp insanity - Use your favourite colour and go monochrome
Crafts and me - Go monochrome
Fresh brewed - Love or valentines
Penny's paper crafty - Anything goes
Simon says stamp - Bingo (lace/flowers/embossing)
Creative card crew - New beginnings
Papertake weekly - Ribbons and pearls
Promarker challenge - All you need is love
LOTV thursday challenge - Sketch

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Very quick Wedding cards

Hiya Everyone,

Just a quick post before I nip out to the post office. I just thought I'd share some really quick and easy Wedding cards with you. The first is made using that fab scriptina font which is a free download from here. They can be made in virtually any colour and once you have your sentiment "set up" it's just a case of printing, layering up and adding a few diamantes. Simple, but very effective. I am going to try and make more CAS cards as I'm more of a "throw everything at it" kinda girl but I do realise that less is sometimes more Lol!

The second is made with the fab harrington font which is a free download from here. Again, it is just a case of printing it out in whatever colour you want, layerering it up and adding some diamantes. On mine however, I did go over the Mr & Mrs in glossy accents which was a little fiddly - a sakura clear glaze pen would have a similar effect and I think would be much easier too.

I made these a while back as I was doing a craft fair and I needed some more basic cards that I could make quickly and easily and that I could sell as cheaply as possible by not adding too many embellishments etc.

Thanks for looking!

Paula.x

Guest DT position for Crafty Pad Stamp Designs

Hiya Everyone,

I hope you've all had a good weekend - I've had a lazy one myself. I tidied up my craft room (a bit) and removed the ribbon off about 60 reels of ribbon that were just bunged in a bag. I now have a bag of ribbon bunged in a bag till I can be bothered putting it in the right boxes. I haven't got a card to show you today but I do have some interesting news. I have been asked by Debbie from the Crafty Pad Stamp Designs to be on their design team. Due to various commitments I declined a more permanent DT position but agreed to a guest DT spot with scope to return. Debbie has some fab designs - I especially love the new ticket sentiments that have just come out. They are in digi format and only cost 50p each - Bargain!!!

Go and check out her fab stuff here or check out her challenge blog here.

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x