Addicted to Stamps

I can't believe it's only 2 weeks to christmas!

Our youngest son decorated our tree the other day and I have to say he's done a grand job of it,

you know what it's like you let them do these things for you, then you think I'll put it all right after he's gone out but it looks perfect I didn't change a thing. 

I think there's nothing quite like the warm glow of the fire, the sparkling christmas tree lights, a nice bar of chocolate and a little drink when you're sat watching a christmas film on an evening.... yes that's what hubby and I did last night, eldest son was at work and youngest son at his friends, it was really quite romantic & christmassy! aahhh!

... oh well back to the job in hand lol

Today is Addicted To Stamps new challenge and this time it's all about the snowflakes

I'm not sure if we will see any snow this christmas so it will be lovely to see them on your cards

here's my snowflake card...

For this card I've used those gorgeous Maja papers I won in Elaine's blog candy (thank you Elaine)

Tim Holtz weathered clock

large white snowflake (Michaels)

Magnolia Tilda with teddy

cute envelope (sizzix die) with removable tag (Magnolia)

Martha Stewart punched snowflakes covered in twinklets

snowball trim (The Stamp Basket) 

white sparkling lace (Michaels)

Magnolia 'Santa is coming to town' sentiment

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

have a lovely Sunday, keep warm

and see you later, luv & hugs

Joanna Sheen ~ New Ribbon Winner!

Well a week has gone by and sadly I have not heard from our ribbon winner...

 so I have to pick another winner.....

......

......

and it's number 101

and that's you

Wendy (Craftypixie)

Please contact me within 7 days for your prize

my email is in the side bar

The Stamp Basket DT Card

Good morning dear bloggers,

I'm back to show you a card I made for The Stamp Basket and to ask a little question, my question is have you given this little elephant a name yet?

This gorgeous free digi stamp is called ‘Love came down at Christmas’ but we need a name for this little fella, (also featured in the blog header) you can make a donation if you wish to a fundraiser for a little boy name Brandon, you can read all about it here and also get your free digi stamp.

Now for my card

Isn't he a cutie?

I've used Craftwork cards

Love came down at Christmas  free digi stamp

stickles, gold and star dust

2 buttons from the Christmas buttons mix

Have a great weekend & keep warm

Luv & hugs 

xxx

Great news!

Hello all, 

I have some great news for you

Starting this Saturday 10th December we will be having a

WEEKLY BLOG CANDY GIVE AWAY

On the Official Joanna Sheen blog

Joanna has very kindly donated some wonderful goodies for the followers of the Joanna Sheen Blog.  

 All you need do is become a follower !

You don't have to have a blog to enter. 

All the details will be announced on Saturday 10th December.

  The first weeks candy is12 pro markers 

  extra fine pro marker nibs and 30 sheets of Elegance satin paper.

 Remember all you have to do is become a follower to enter.

 So pop over to  The Joanna Sheen Challenge blog
Luv & hugs

 

Tilda with wooden spoon

Good morning dear bloggers,

Wow what a busy weekend that was, fun but busy!

Today I want to share this card with you...

when I bought this Tilda many moons ago (it was my first Tilda) it was called Tilda with wooden spoon but now I see it called Kitchen Tilda???

I wonder why?

Anyway....this is a close up of this little cutie!

and the base with removable tag, cookie cutters and rolling pin

As you can see I've used those delicious iced cookies again

cookie cutters

rolling pin

Magnolia papers

paper doily

Magnolia stamps ~ Tilda with wooden spoon, snowflakes, a gift from the heart

other stamp ~ Seasons Greetings

pretty poinsettia & holly

Hope you like it... :o)

CHALLENGES;

SIMPLY MAGNOLIA ~ SKETCH

SIMON SAYS STAMP ~ ANYTHING GOES

STAMPALOT CHALLENGE ~ BINGO ~ BRADS, FLOWERS & RIBBON

BLING IT ON ~ CHRISTMAS

DREAM VALLEY CHALLENGES ~ SPARKLE

Another busy day for me today but I will get round to visiting your blogs later I promise, I've got to stop for coffee sometime :o)

 xxx

Totally Tilda DT card White on White

Good morning ,

     Today is Totally Tilda day, we have a new challenge for you, it's White on white, the only colours you can use is for Tildas hair & skin,  no other colouring or shading is allowed. 

So onto my card...

This is Tilda with christmas bauble, sitting on the Magnolia bow and I've used the Magnolia sentiment 'Santa is coming to town'

other embellishments are white card embossed with the swiss dots folder

large snowflake (from Michaels) decorated with cherry blossom & white berries (from Wild Orchid Crafts) string pearls, glittered leaves.

the gorgeous white lace was from Hobby Lobby and I've used lots of stickles stardust on Tildas clothes & bauble. 

That's it from me! I have a very busy day planned with family today so I'll be back hopefully this evening, enjoy your Sunday.

Luv & hugs 

 xxx

SWEET CHRISTMAS TILDA

Hello dear blogging friends, 

   Last night I watched my first christmas film of the year and now I'm eating my first mince pie with a cuppa, luvly jubly!!!

Now I've warmed my hands up on my cuppa I can type lol

here is my card for today

Below is the close up of this lovely Sweet Christmas Tilda

 ...a Tim Holtz ticket this time for the base with gorgeous ribbon & pearls

Magnolia Stamps ~ sweet christmas tilda & 24th December 

Tim Holtz weathered clock & tickets

lace & ribbon from Michaels

loads of stickles gold

Magnolia papers, distressed & sewn

Kort & Godt pearls

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges;

BUNNY ZOE'S CRAFTS ~ ANYTHING WITH PEARLS

CRAFTY CATZWEEKLY ~ THE COLOURS OF CHRISTMAS

TRULY MADLY CRAFTY ~ INSPIRATION PICTURE

SOUTHERN GIRLS CHALLENGE ~RIBBON MADNESS

DYSU ~ RIBBON OR ANYTHING YOU CAN TIE

CUTE CARD THURSDAY ~ IT'S JUST A NUMBER

CHARISMA CARDZ ~ SPOTS

Thanks very much for looking, enjoy your weekend and keep warm

luv & hugs 

Winter Tilda

Good evening, gosh where has the day gone?

it scares me every time I look at the top of my blog and see those days to christmas disappearing so quickly, I still have shopping to do, not to mention everything else on my list!

Anyway I've been busy making cards (no surprise there eh?) and this is one of the results of it...

Pretty little Winter Tilda in red & white easel card

and a close up of the base

 my recipe for this card is

Kraft card background

Magnolia papers

Magnolia stamps ~ Winter Tilda & 24th December

white paper doily

loads of sewing

Michaels gold lace, poinsettias, berries & holly leaves

lots of stickles star dust & gold.

CHALLENGES~

TOMIC ~ VINTAGE & LACE

JUST MAGNOLIA ~ ANYTHING GOES WITH SPARKLE

THE DUTCH CHICKIES MAGNOLIA ~TICKET

IT'S A MAGNOLIA CHALLENGE ~ PUNCHED/DIECUT

SIMON SAYS STAMP ~ ANYTHING GOES

That's it for now and my tum's rumbling so time for dinner me thinks!

Have a lovely weekend

luv & hugs

Away in a manger

Good morning all, 

I'm here again to show you my card for The Stamp Basket and today it's this sweet Nativity scene called Away in a manger
I would like to apologise for the bad colour of my photo but it's the morning sun coming into the conservatory and as we haven't had much of that lately, I'm not going to moan ;o)

Stamp ~ Away in a Manger ~ Stampavie 

Papers ~ Bo-bunny Father Christmas (with 20% off all papers packs & pads till 6pm Saturday 3rd Dec)

Martha Stewart Snowflake punch

Glamour dust ~ Crystal

Beautiful vintage ribbon ~ moss green

SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE ~ The Nativity

Thank you for looking, I'll be back later with another card...

Luv & hugs 

American candy winner!

New Joanna Sheen blog DT card & Winner!

It's here....yeah!!!

The day we've all been waiting for :o)

It's the first challenge of The official Joanna Sheen Challenge blog

and 

Our very first challenge is

  'Christmas Wishes'

here's my card using the Joanna Sheen stamp called 'Santa arrives'

I love this one it's a gorgeous stamp set

(plus you see the Red cardinal bird by Santa I've been within a few feet of one of those in America, they are so beautiful...)

and added red jingle bells onto thick gold lace with tan colour lace below that.

This piccie shows the lovely sentiment you get with the stamp 

'Not long till Santa arrives'

...and the base

I tried to make this the traditional vintage type christmas card

so I used...  

Stamp set ~ Santa arrives (Joanna Sheen)

kort & godt half pearls (also from Joanna Sheen)

tan cotton lace & thick gold lace 

dewdrops for berries

holly leaves

spellbinder die set - tags

stickles gold glitter

flower soft christmas papers layered & sewn.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges~

CITY CRAFTER CHALLENGE ~ Santa is coming!

SIMON SAYS STAMP ~ Anything goes

I hope you will join us over at the Joanna Sheen blog for our first challenge

there is a wonderful £30 Voucher to spend at Joanna Sheen online store, what a fab prize for the challenge winner!

Now onto my ribbon winner for the Blog hop...

Thank you all for entering...

No. 43 Rita 

You are the winner!!!

Please can you contact Paula at  Cheeky_monkey_24@hotmail.com for your prize.

You have only 7 days to contact me so please hurry :o)

as we have to re-draw a new winner after this time.

Don't forget to check out the other DT members blogs to see if you are a winner!

Paula

Suzanne

Jane

Sandra

Carol

Wendy

Natalie

Suzi

See you over there...luv & hugs 

 xxx

Back again...

Hello it's me again, 

well actually I'm scheduling these two posts so hopefully I will still be in the land of nod :o)

...oh come on it's Sunday and I don't lay in bed usually, this is a one off for me...

Anyway...here is my other card because today is also the Addicted to Stamps Challenge 

and we are making Christmas cards yay!

How easy is that eh? would you like to come and join us? 

Here is my card ...

The base

and if you need some inspiration the other DT ladies over at Addicted to Stamps have made some  real beauties!

For this card I've used;

Magnolia papers, layered & stitched

Tan lace, holly leaves and poinsettia from Michaels

Magnolia doo hickey dies ~ cat, lovely fence & lamp post

the lovely snowball trim is from The stamp basket (see sidebar)

Martha Stewart snowflake border punch (I actually just used the tiny snowflakes)

Distress ink edges ~ Antique linen

Distress paint ~ picket fence

and lots of stickles stardust

Challenges;

TOMIC ~ Animal Mania

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge ~ more than one fold

That's it for now, thanks for any comments and close the door quietly on the way out :o)

 (I'm hopefully still sleeping lol)

See you later, luv & hugs

Fizzy Moon ~ with love

Good morning,

     You know the trouble with my card making is I just don't make many cards for the men, I love making girls/womens cards all the time, so I am so thankful to be on the DT for Here Come the Boys! at least it kicks me into making cards for the males in the family, todays challenge is making a card For the Man in your life, so I have used this cute Fizzy Moon stamp 'with love' I won in a candy (Thanks Liz)

Are they cute or what? 

Don't forget to pop back to Here come the Boys to see if you are a winner from last week.

I've used Basic grey papers Jovial

stickles gold & stardust glitter glues

the sentiment is from the 'with love' pack and the matching brads I also won in a candy.

I hope you can join us in this challenge at Here come the boys

the DT have made some fantastic cards for your inspiration.

Challenges;

Thank you so much for looking and for all your kind comments, I do appreciate them.

luv & hugs

                                          xx

Winter Tilda

Hello all, 

I just popped by quickly to add this card I made yesterday, it's Winter Tilda

I have to give credit to my dear friend Jane for inspiration she gave me in doing that spotty background behind Tilda, I know I haven't quite got the knack yet but I'll get there, thanks Jane

(below)The base

The recipe;

Magnolia papers layered & stitched onto kraft card

Magnolia Tilda ~ Winter Tilda ~ coloured in copics with stickles glitter added

sentiment stamped on kraft card & cut & glittered with gold stickles

white paper doily

holly leaves & poinsettia from Michaels

postcard & brad from stash

little envelopes from Hobby Lobby

dewdrops from Crafts4you

Dies used ~Spellbinders oval & Magnolia Tilda lace

cheesecloth

Tim Holtz distress inked all edges with vintage photo

CHALLENGES

Magnolia Stamp Lovers ~ Red & white

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge ~ Vintage or distressed

Bah Humbug ~ Fabric (cheesecloth)

2 Sisters Challenge blog ~ Holiday

Totally Gorjuss ~ Sparkle

Sparkles Forum Challenge ~ Vintage Christmas

Simon Says Stamp ~ Tag you're it

The paper Shelter ~ Red, green & gold

Hope you like it, see you later over on your blogs.

Luv & hugs 

Fizzy Moon Snow

Hello and a very good morning to you

 yes it's Friday already I bet you are looking forward to the weekend too eh? I must tell you I placed an order at The Stamp Basket on Tuesday and it arrived yesterday (Thursday) morning, what great service!
we do love our crafting goodies parcels delivered quickly don't we?

Anyway here's my card for today Fizzy Moon Snow

All the items listed are available at The Stamp Basket

Craftwork card blank

beautiful flat lace

Vintage ribbon Limoges

cute polka dot turquoise button 

Stickles star dust

and this gorgeous Fizzy Moon stamp called Snow

hope you like it, enjoy your weekend

luv & hugs  

 xx

Joanna Sheen blog hop!

Good Morning and welcome to the

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog Hop!!!

Our blog hop is to celebrate the launch of the

 Brand New Joanna Sheen challenge blog!!!

If you have landed here from Wendy's blog then you are hopping in the right direction - If not then you need to pop over to the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog to begin, starting with Paula.

Our DT have had a great time creating with loads of fab Joanna Sheen images for our first challenge which starts on Thursday 1^st December.

As there is a week before our first challenge starts we have decided to do a blog hop where we have some scrummy prizes up for grabs!!!

Each DT member has a fab prize of pretty ribbons to be won so there are 9 – Yes… 9 chances to win!!!

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is become a follower of the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog here and then leave a comment on every member of the DT’s blogs on their blog hop post.   

On 30^th November each DT member will pick a winner by random.org from their comments and announce their winner on their blog on the 1^st December when the 1^stchallenge goes live so don't forget to check back on all the blogs to see if you're one of our lucky winners.

From here you need to go to the next blog, which is Natalie to continue the hop!!! 

Hop, hop, hop!!!! 

Good luck everyone!

Going for pink! ....Sugar Nellie Lizzie

Good afternoon folks,

This is Sugar Nellie Lizzie

Well I was going for pink and girly! have I gone over the top? What do you think?

below: Close up of the beautiful glittered organza ribbon

and the arrangement of roses, pearls & charms

Hope you like it. 

Recipe;

Tim Holtz papers, layered & sewn

White large paper doily

Pink sparkly ribbon from Michaels

All pretty roses from Wild Orchid Crafts

Fan charm from ebay

pretty flower charm and white pearls from Hobby Lobby

I can't believe I nearly forgot to come back and link up my challenge, this little cutie I made for THE RIBBON GIRL CHALLENGE ~ PINK & WHITE

Hope you are having a good day.

Luv & hugs

Tilda ~ A surprise for you

Hello dear friends, 

I hope you are all well today,

I've just popped on quickly to upload a card for a few challenges. 

This is the ever so cute Tilda ~ A surprise for you

I love this one (here I go again, I love all of them lol)

The base

Hope you like it!

The challenges I'm entering this card into are;

MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS CHALLENGE ~ Photo inspiration

JUST MAGNOLIA ~ Ribbons

THE DUTCH MAGNOLIA CHICKIES ~ Christmas card

WINTER WONDERLAND ~ Aww what a cutie

That's it folks!

See you later, luv & hugs 

 xx

Sugar Nellie Rebecca

Hello and good evening

Well I said I'd be back if I got my housework finished and here I am...

my dear hubby has just returned to work today after bad health problems and although I've missed him (and I have) it has been nice to return to normality and turn the house upside down cleaning!

He's a lovely hubby ♥, I love him to bits and he's very helpful too but you must know what it's like ladies you just want to clean like mad when they are not in...I have hoovered, mopped, dusted, washed and even ironed...in fact in the right light you can see the house sparkle from down the street lol

Right my card...

it's Rebecca this time, I adore these images I really do.

Close up of the flowers, holly & charm

I made this card using papers from the Rosewood pad again

I used the icy mesh lace

all flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts

charm from ebay

pearls are Kort & Godt

and the gorgeous glitter snowflake is from Michaels

Challenges;

The Sugar Bowl ~ Gayle's Sketch (Ice & snow)

DYSU ~ A splash of blue

Crafty Catz weekly ~ Snowflakes

The ABC challenge ~ D for dazzle

The Paper Shelter ~ Snowflakes

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges ~ baby it's cold outside

Charisma Cardz Challenge ~ Lace & pearls

Dream Valley Challenges ~ Stitching

well that's it for now, keep warm and see you soon, luv & hugs 

Sugar Nellie Victoria

Hello again, 

I'm back with this Simply Adorable Victoria

Isn't she lovely, I've coloured her in three different colours so far and this was my favourite at the moment, so I made up this card yesterday.

Sugar Nellie Victoria digi image coloured in copics

I've used papers from a pad called Rosewood

dark tan colour lace 

Cherry blossom from Wild Orchid Crafts

leaf die is a spellbinders Foliage set

Challenges;

Dream Valley ~ Stitching

Crafting when we can  ~ Female Birthday

That's it!  I'm off to get my housework done and I'll see you over at your blogs later.

Luv & hugs 

 xxx